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Flat White

Enslaved by the welfare state: the tragedy of Australian ‘kindness’

17 October 2023

1:58 PM

17 October 2023

1:58 PM

It is not unusual for laws and policies, although well-intentioned, to have the opposite effect as that allegedly contemplated. Arguably, Australia’s worst sufferings and deprivations in our alleged free society have been greatly caused by the continuing implementation of welfare state policies.

Since the second world war, the Australian government has maintained and nurtured a burgeoning and expensive bureaucracy focused on the alleged welfare of the community.

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