Further to Mr Grizz's comment:

You people don't see anything wrong with a young man, born in this country, of refugees who came to this country to escape war and strife and terror, an Australian citizen, drawing a disability pension, going back to that country to  fight against our armed forces?

You've chosen to ignore this bit at the bottom of the article:

Sharrouf was jailed in 2005 for nearly four years for possessing six clocks and 140 batteries connected to a terrorist conspiracy in which 18 men were convicted over plans to attack targets in NSW and Victoria.

Here's The Link Again In Case You Missed It First Time

This young man was born in Australia. What influences did he have growing up to make him turn against the country of his birth, is another question you might want to ask, before you trivialise this offence to a "few batteries" bought with his disability pension.

And are these infuences actively recruiting other young men like Khaled?

 

 

The quoted news story in the link and how it is presented (lacking facts and details) is what we are commenting on.

Being on a DSP and perhaps not being entitled to it, is not something that may apply only to convicted or suspected terrorists.

Icyfroth "This young man was born in Australia. What influences did he have growing up to make him turn against the country of his birth, is another question you might want to ask, before you trivialise this offence to a "few batteries" bought with his disability pension.
And are these infuences actively recruiting other young men like Khaled?"


Do you know what his disability is, icyfroth? If not google it.

The article you quoted is specfically about 'suspected' misuse of DSP payments to fund terrorist activities,not anything else.

Obviously you have never spent time in uniform.

 

Persons who are employed on combat operations require of level of physical and mental fitness far in excess of what is required of persons in the general workforce.

 

Therefore I simply can’t come to grips with the obvious tension between the facts that on the one hand he is so disabled that he can’t work at all, but at the same time he can survive in one of the most hostile environments on the planet (a war zone).

 

That is either he is incredibly lucky or he has a far great capacity to undertake strenuous activities than he had lead his doctors here to believe.

He's probably one of the few that have rorted the system. DSP recipients have been painted with the " financial burden" brush by the government and will be their next "target" in a couple of months time after the McClure Report is handed down.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/terrorist-khaled-sharrouf-went-to-jihad-on-welfare/...

 

The 33-year-old’s trial was complicated by his schizophrenia, which was ­described by a psychiatrist at his trial as “fairly disabling’’ and resulted in psychotic episodes when not controlled by anti-psychotic drugs.

I wish Newscorp would inform us about the TPP news instead of this continuous cycle of rehashing divisive stories that achieve nothing other than increased bigotry and racism.

Scott Morrison's - first part of his response to how a person could slip out of this country unnoticed on a false passport. Blame the Labor Govt, of course.

June 2014

Minister Morrison:
"The Customs and Border Protection Service had $700 million ripped out of them by the previous government and that left some weaknesses and we have been plugging those weaknesses. We have put $700 million back in over the next six years. So we are building it back up again and the service I think has responded very, very well."

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/terrorist-khaled-sharrouf-went-to-jihad-on-welfare/...

 

The 33-year-old’s trial was complicated by his schizophrenia, which was ­described by a psychiatrist at his trial as “fairly disabling’’ and resulted in psychotic episodes when not controlled by anti-psychotic drugs.

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so, that is an explanation in itself for what he has done and is doing.

Under normal circumstances a disability support pension can be cancelled if the recipient is overseas for six weeks.

Ms Payne said the law as it stood did not allow authorities to cancel the payments of Australians suspected of involvement in criminal or extremist behaviour.