Submissions to the People's Inquiry have now closed.
Thanks to everyone who made a submission. We have received hundreds of submissions from individuals and organisations, and are currently working on analysing the submissions to produce a final report for the inquiry, to be released early 2017.
Mr Turnbull is determine to privatise our public services and give this control away to corporations for a profit.
Our public services should be for the benefit of Australian women and their communities not the corporate elite.
Everywhere in Australia and World wide quality public services are needed for women to fully access their rights and to live healthy fulfilling lives. Public services play a critical role ensuring that women have the social protection they need to live full and safe lives.
Privatisation has real effects and can eliminate good jobs for women in the public sector, eroding a range of public services designed in mind to support women. When these services are inadequate, women everywhere are the ones that are hardest hit more than men, filing the gap through unpaid care work.
I stand with women World wide and I do not want to see the health and well-being of Australian women being sold for a profit.
I am making a stand against the privatisation of public services in Australia and overseas. Enough is enough.
Yours sincerely
Theresa Martin
I found each of the employment agencies were just there to get funds from the Federal Government so they could continue in business. The employment agencies provided no assistance to this man to review his job applications. (I did that.) The employment agencies did not go through internet job advertisements with this person to help him identify jobs that might suit his skills and experience. (I sent a series of emails to this person suggesting possible jobs that he might apply for.)
The employment agencies provided some token generalised training for this person. They used the CV that I had helped him refine to show other trainees. The agency received funds from the Government for this course.
I was also involved in getting this person into Housing Commission accommodation. When I had finally achieved success, I found another private agency arrived on the scence and claimed success with finding accommodation.
My first hand experience with the private agencies revealed that they were a waste of public funds. They were in business purely to get Government funding for themselves. They provided no real assistance to getting this person into employment. In many ways, they were more interested in keeping this person out of a job as his disabilities meant that they got more Government funding for “helping” him.
I consider that the whole program of “support” services is largely simply propping up private companies that provide no real benefit. The payment structure is flawed.
In Victoria we experienced the effects of privatised transport, closure of government schools, loss of police, selling off our gas and electricity providers. Legal aid, free tertiary education, minimum work conditions and wages have either been abolished or hugely diluted. There are serious problems with private job providing agencies that seem to have become the toe-cutters for Centrelink. People looking for work are not being listened to and I’ve observed great distress and hardship when benefits are immediately cut. Those who’ve been forced to take jobs in industries that they were unsuitable for, or humiliated publicly by staff. I know these are difficult areas to work in but that’s the reason we need well-trained people working with those who have mental health issues or are vulnerable in some other way.
Aged care is something more of us are having to deal with and government needs to be involved at the very least to set out a high quality of care and state of the buildings. We are being left alone to try to understand the consequences of trusting private providers in too many areas of our lives. When we needed legal aid, when our children have enrolled in courses, the wait to see specialists, traveling on public transport at night, in-home help, trying to understand details of contracts with power or phone companies and getting help when things go wrong are some of the problems we’ve encountered. Not everyone has law degrees but you need them to know exactly what you’ve agreed to.
Public funded broadcasters are vital and so is funding for art, music, science, literature, innovation, film-making and other fields of human life that challenge and nurture us. With each government’s budget we see funds unevenly distributed and as a result Australia is losing
the qualities that make human beings civil and civilized. Foreign aid has been slashed so severely that I believe it’s at it’s lowest ever level. People have lost the capacity to understand the connection between all people of the world and the peace and justice that depends on wealthy nations that invariably prosper from exploitation of poorer countries giving financial and practical help without politicising it.
Since the recession of 2008, people who advocate for social and environmental justice are being ignored or dismissed even more than usual. A “Law and Order” platform is often a vote-winner, but tackling the causes of social dislocation, disadvantage, despair and violence should be a priority of government. The disparity between public service for all and for the privileged is growing and the outcome will not be pleasant. I’m genuinely concerned for many I know, and the many who are voiceless.
When will the majority of politicians get the message and start acting on behalf of all Australians an not just themselves, the rich and multinationals.
The election has quite clearly shown the government that its not trusted and the next steps could be very interesting if politicians fail to take note.
Start taxing the large corporate companies more.
Start taxing churches.
STOP taking so much money yourselves. You have one pension system for the likes of yourselves and another for the real people. You get a pension if you leave politics early. We have to work well into our later years.
Even a reasonable wage doesn’t allow the necessities to be paid let alone a health insurance.
You do not OWN Australia. You live here. You do NOT have the right to sell any part of it or its services.
It is intuitive that continuing privatisation will ensure that the Australian people will no longer need a government body because by removing the services a government should provide (like health, education etc) you are reducing the need for your existence.
Considering the current state of distrust by all levels of society toward each successive government I would say ‘stop privatising now’.
ALL FORMS OF PRIVATIZATION ARE AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC.
I, and other Australians, will remember those who ‘sell us out’.
You are our servant don’t exceed your post.
John Samphier
If the Federal Government privatise all these services are they going to pay back the Australian people for the taxes they have paid to fund them..? It seems this Government cant support and provide the services they are paid and elected to manage. this demonstrates extreme incompetency. They should just step aside and let us, the people, set up a system of competence and equality for all people .
Were require public services such as TAFE, medicare and childcare to remain public.
This rise in cost is obvious in other organisations which have been privatised, particularly those which give bonuses to their CEOs.
We need quality public services to fully access good health,education and childcare.
We have a RIGHT to services like medicare and TAFE to remain public.
I support quality PUBLIC health care , NOT privatisation.
We need quality public services to fully access good health,education and childcare.
We have a RIGHT to services like medicare and TAFE to remain public.
I support quality PUBLIC health care , NOT privatisation.
We have a RIGHT to services like medicare and TAFE to remain public.
I support quality PUBLIC health care , NOT privatisation.