Did somebody say function creep?

Start by acclimatising the children, so they never realise that once upon a time, the state trusted its citizens until it had good reason not to do so.

I heard Hockey harping on about doing the right thing by tax-payers earlier on. What a load of BS. As you pointed out Weez, what else can it be for other than serving the purpose of an ID card? Welcome to East Berlin, Australia!
Weez, are you one of the unfortunate people who fall under the new regulations of forcing some on disability pensions to work after July 1st?

I can’t believe those mealy mouthed b’s have 10 billion dollars ready to hand but still want to make disabled people work.

Is it just me, or is that Murdoch press peice seriously implying that an allegation should disbar relatives of the person concerned from their ordinary entitlements under the law? WTF?

But I’m with ya weez – screw downward envy. You must admit tho, its proving to be a remarkably successful political took for tories & their kin worldwide.

Flash, the ID card for pre-schoolers is just the Big Brother living end, innit? I won’t even use an E-Tag for the tollroads. If a toll road won’t take cash, I’ll drive around it (while I still can).

Dave, the ‘Welfare To Work’ scam specifically excludes people who had a DSP granted before implementation of WTW. Fortunately, I won’t be contending with the new limits. However, given the nature of my disabilities, I wouldn’t be deemed physically capable of working even 15 hours per week. I can’t even do my own grocery shopping anymore. Even if I were subject to the new rules, I’d still qualify for a DSP.

JT, the Liberals just couldn’t get by without tooting that bludger dog-whistle, could they? Please, anyone, come up with some new suggestions of people to demonise for the Liberals. Muslims and other brown people don’t count. They’re already targets.

Marcus, thankfully, most people in Australia are lucky enough never to have had to take a payment. Alan Jones hates those bloody bludgers, so those who parrot the Poofy Parrot himself happily hate them as well. Few tories do the research to find out exactly how much pensioners and unemployed people are actually paid. I wonder how many haters could get by on $250 per week in Sydney. I’ll clue ya, there’s a lot of reduce, re-use and recycle going on in this domicile.

I cannot believe Lincoln Wright can get away with suggesting that a family should be discriminated against because of the arrest of one member of their household.

Not only is there no presumption of innocence (he has appointed himself judge and jury) their wives and children are guilty by association & he implies it is an outrage that they be afforded some (legal) way of feeding their kids whilst on their own.

The author of that story and the website it belongs to should be put in gaol not only for contempt of court but for discrimination and vilification for being overly specific of the races of the partners and children of the accused.

ab, yes indeed… no court in the western world has the power to penalise the families of the accused. This is the domain of Chinese justice, though not theirs solely.

Lincoln Wright is one thing- Jack-also-known-as-Steve (JAKAS) Medcraft of ‘People Against Lenient Sentencing’ is quite another. JAKAS famously and regularly attacks blogger GuruAnn for no apparent reason other than the fact that he’s a certifiable nuthatch. If The Hun was looking for a reputable, reasonable and reliable comment, one would think that JAKAS would be about as far away from that as one could get.

[…] Health and Human Services Minister Joe Hockey ought to sell used cars or real estate. In the controversy plagued smartcard campaign, now dubbed the ‘Access Card,’ J-Ho has called the card just about anything but what it is, suggesting that user-available space on the card can be used for recipes, shopping lists or MP3 files- but dodging the core matter of the fact that the Access Card is still a national ID card connected to linked information databases, containing your personal medical and financial data. […]