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@windrake wrote:

The disability pension has been corrupted by long the term unemployed being moved over to the DP to make the unemployment rate look better than it really is.

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Actually, that has happened under the Frazer government.  However, has been since mostly reversed and to get disability pension is extremely hard.  To get from the dole to pension (which is considerably more) is so difficult that when a young divorced woman I  knew, mother of 2 small children, was dying of cancer she was left on a benefit (dole?) that meant she had to queue up in Centerlink every fortnight right up to few weeks before her death!  Before she got ill she worked full time. 

Many long term unemployed cannot get a job becuase of medical and  mental issues, and some may end up getting DP.   getting bit more money is hardly "being used", it just means they can survive and hopefully deal with their problems, and some may even return to workfoce in the future.

I would love to not be eligible for the DSP.

The most vulnerable in this Country and those fleeing war and persecution were used to win the last election....and now have been tossed aside like they are nothing .

I see what people kudo and I often think ...Why do you have a problem with people giving a toss for people in you and/or your family's situation ? Wouldn't you have a problem if people didn't care ? How loudly would you be shouting out if no one cared ?

As a former aged care worker (RNDiv2) the concept of more privitisation (sp?) and less paperwork and governing is a concern.I've worked in placed where money rather than human life is the main priority.If that becomes more the case with our aged and the care of our children...we really should be concerned.

It breaks the heart of a good care worker not to be able to give the care or a party to a place which doesn't give the quality care people deserve .Less restrictions to meet standards ...the higher the risk of mistreatment.I left to care for people at home..in all honesty as a registered nurse in some places I didn't  always feel that I was able to meet the standards of nursing I was obligated to (and wanted to) in order to meet my own responsibilty according to the nurses code of conduct .

and for the money on top of those conditions ...I think working at Aldi (less the stress when you leave work) would have been preferable.

If we want people working there needs to be care.If we want our elderly,our disabled and our children to be as safe and as well as they can be...we owe it to them to do all we can to see that it is done.imo

Our Country has gone mad imo...when it's a disgrace to care for those in need

and it's seen as an honourable thing by our Government to use people like political tools to achieve their own 'Daddy always wanted to be PM" pleasure.

I can't  comprehend how some see it as right  and would defend these thing.Something seems so very wrong ..

edit..my previous post should read gain rather than pleasure though both seem fitting unfortunately 

I'm sorry.That sounds so wrong .No disrespect to the children of that Daddy intended. 

to achieve their own childhood dream    ...is more fitting for what I was trying to express.