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Australian reports show deepening social toll as pandemic continues
In the lead up to the May 11 Australian federal budget, reports produced by welfare agencies and charities have pointed to intensifying poverty and social pain as the COVID-19 pandemic continues around the globe.
Far from being exempt from the terrible impact of the failure of governments worldwide to contain the mutating coronavirus, Australia is experiencing a worsening social crisis as the ruling class exploits the pandemic to slash welfare, wages and working conditions.
Workers queuing outside an inner-western Sydney Centrelink office early last year [Credit: WSWS]
At the end of March, the Liberal-National government terminated its meagre JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme, on which some 1.2 million workers still depended for survival, and returned JobSeeker dole and welfare payments to sub-poverty levels of about $44 a day.