Ricci had a powerful story, and a question no one could answer on last night's Q&A | NeilMcMahon
On Monday night’s Q&A, audience member Ricci Bartels threw political slogans into the shredder.Ricci Bartels was forced on to Newstart at the age of 62.Ms Bartels had a question - and a heartbreaking, powerful story - and no one on the panel really knew how to answer it. It was a question about welfare reform, but it might as well have been about climate change: an effective way to send our politicians into an incoherent muddle about what they might do and when they might do it.
One assumes the major party panellists - the Liberal MP Jason Falinski and Labor’s Katy Gallagher - were immediately feeling less than wonderful, given this was the opening question of the night. Heroically, they struggled on their heels with how to respond in the least dishonest way while still appearing empathetic.Falinski waffled that he was “sorry you’ve had to go through that”. He celebrated the government’s “high income mobility levels” ...
“Jason, with respect, you haven't answered my question. What do you suggest people like me, at my age or at a young age for that matter, how do they ‘have a go to get a go’? This is so important. Have a go, get a go. It is so divisive.”Falinski: “If the system has failed you personally ... I can only apologise for that. I'd love to know more and we'd love to create a system that makes sure that what has happened to you doesn't happen to others.
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