Neoliberal reforms and ring-wing ideologies have seen the ideal of the social security ‘safety net’ take a hammering in the UK, USA and Australia. While the gap between rich and poor has widened, and demand for welfare payments increased, politicians, certainly in Australia, have generally neglected low income families, preferring to twiddle the economic dials affecting middle and upper income earners instead. Of course, tussling over who pays tax, how much, what constitutes useful expenditure, and who receives welfare services and benefits is not new – these questions have attended the modern welfare state from its inception. But the welfare safety net that most of us, grudgingly or otherwise, concede to be necessary for collective social harmony is no longer proving as effective as we would wish. Even with a battered and frayed, but still ostensibly functional systems of welfare payment and support offered in Australia, the number of people experiencing perpetual disadvantage is rising, with intergenerational poverty – its increase and impacts on children – of particular concern.

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遗漏：当前社会保障安排的代际影响

新自由主义改革和环形意识形态已经看到社会保障“安全网”的理想在英国、美国和澳大利亚受到重创。虽然贫富差距扩大，对福利金的需求增加，但政客们，尤其是澳大利亚的政客们，普遍忽视了低收入家庭，宁愿玩弄影响中高收入者的经济表盘。当然，关于谁纳税、多少、什么构成有用支出以及谁获得福利服务和福利的争论并不新鲜——这些问题从一开始就伴随着现代福利国家。但是，我们大多数人或多或少地承认对集体社会和谐是必要的福利安全网已不再像我们希望的那样有效。即使是饱受摧残和磨损，