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Immigration Daily News Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018, and Modern Slavery Bill 2018Australian Immigration Daily News
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Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018, and Modern Slavery Bill 2018
The NARWP aims to ensure that migrants make provision to support themselves and their families when they first settle in Australia.
The Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-Sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018 (bill) seeks to increase the existing newly arrived resident's waiting period (NARWP) from 104 weeks to 156 weeks (two years to three years) for various social security payments, concession cards and farm household support allowances.
In addition, the bill seeks to introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for family tax benefit, paid parental leave, dad and partner pay, parenting payment, carer allowance, bereavement allowance and widow allowance.
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Is this "bill" predicated on bogus assumption that migrants will seek to take advantage of Australia's social welfare system and "sponge" off of "hard-working Australian taxpayers?"
Perhaps however is sponsoring this garbage can pay attention to real issues like enacting legislation to deal with climate change (yes it does affect Australia directly, see Queensland fires as latest evidence) and wake up to the reality that the vast majority of migrants are incredibly hard-working and sincere people who are seeking a better life for themselves and their children and are in fact a huge asset to Australian society?