Forget The Paradise Papers, This Dole Bludger Takes $470 Of Your Tax Dollar A Fortnight!

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

If you at home are shocked by the fact that multinational companies and super wealthy individuals are involved in tax avoidance and fraud to the tune of billions of dollars, well wait until you hear this!

Sean Stevens, a 45 year old divorcee and father of two from Ipswich is living off $474 a fortnight on government benefits!

In the wake of International Consortium of Investigative Journalism’s (IJIC) ‘Paradise Papers, comes this shocking revelation by the Daily Telegraph and A Current Affair, after a 3 day long investigation discovering  the latest dole bludger that people should hate.

The partnership between the DT and ACA, as part of the National Consortium of Shithouse Journalism (NCSJ) can confirm that Stevens, after working for nearly two decades in the construction industry is now claiming welfare that is coming out of your pocket!

Although the amount of tax that could be recouped from a concerted effort to crack down on tax avoidance could probably pay for most of the country’s social security bill, surprisingly the commercial media organisations aren’t interested in making it a national issue.

A Channel 9 executive, who didn’t wish to be named, told the Advocate, “That people don’t care about all this financial mumbo jumbo, they just wanna know about terrorists, sorry, muslim refugees and those bloody dole bludgers ripping our hard earned straight out of our pockets.”

People with noble hearts will tell you that the media is the “fourth estate.”  However, unlike the Betoota Advocate most of our countries journalistic establishments are owned by large media conglomerates or ‘magnates’, who unsurprisingly may have their own commercial interests first and foremost in their minds.

So in a way it its somewhat understandable that the nation’s commercial papers, radio and TV stations are unashamedly uninterested in reporting upon tax avoidance that could arguably be described as fraud.

Because, who wants to know about billions of dollars, of what’s effectively Australian citizens money being siphoned out of the country through offshore accounts and shell companies, when you’ve got local scumbag Sean Stevens bludging his way through life and rorting the social welfare system?