An
impersonal government
bureaucracy which is designed to punish and humiliate the unemployed, disabled, single parents and students in exchange for a few
paltry dollars assistance that is barely enough to keep them in food and shelter.
Mary's house burnt down in the recent
Victorian bushfires and she had nothing except the purple bikini she was wearing, but Centrelink insisted she must supply 100 points of ID before she could get emergency assistance.