No contraception, no dole:
Tackling intergenerational welfare
Gary Johns
ISBN: 9781925138665
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158 pages
Price: $24.95
Publication Date: December 2015
Chapters
1. Some Australian women are cash cows
2. An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure
3. Intergenerational welfare
4. What happened to families
5. Stories from the front line
6. Many remedies … little progress
7. Blaming the poor and other trash talk
8. Opening debate
Start of chapter one:
1. Some Australian women are cash cows
This project started on 27 December 2014, after I read the horrible news that a mother had murdered seven of her children and one other child. The dead numbered three of the mother’s girls, aged 12, 11 and 2; three of her sons aged 9, 8, 6 and 5. The eighth victim, a 14-year-old niece, had been staying with them in their Cairns home. The woman had these children to different fathers. Her income came from you and me, taxpayers. Did anyone ever think to call a halt to this woman being used as a cash cow?
