From the article: A bipartisan parliamentary committee has found the Abbott governments proposed learn or earn budget measure would breach Australias human rights obligations if implemented. But a government senator [MATT CANAVAN - NATIONAL PARTY] has blasted the approach of applying human rights to budget measures and says it is a corruption of the very term human rights. The government wants to strip people aged under 30 of the dole for six months unless they are in training or in work, and raise the eligibility age for the higher-value Newstart payment to 25 from 22. But Parliaments joint human rights committee says the proposals are incompatible with the right to social security and the right to an adequate standard of living, and incompatible with the rights to equality and non-discrimination on the basis of age. The report, chaired by Liberal senator Dean Smith, noted that the Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews response does not provide any further information as to how young people are to sustain themselves during a six-month period without social security. The committee is comprised of Senator Smith and his Liberal colleague Ken Wyatt, two Nationals Matt Canavan and David Gillespie, four Labor members and Greens senator Penny Wright. The Australian Council of Social Service has seized on the report and said it is a final indictment on the flawed legislation which should now be dismissed by the Senate. ... Australia is a signatory to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Article 11 states that parties to the treaty recognise the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. ... gloucesteradvocate.au/story/2593342/governments-learn-or-earn-policy-may-breach-human-rights-warns-parliamentary-committee/?cs=12
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:18:34 +0000
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