From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 03:42:55 MDT
Dwayne wrote:
> Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> >
> > Maybe all his friends are in Afganistan?
> >
> > I wonder if recruiting terrorists (or whatever it was he
> was alleged to be
> > doing, can't remember) would qualify as the 15
> hours-per-week minimum
> > compulsory work that people will soon have to perform on disability
> > allowance in Oz? Funny rule that... seems as though only
> people scamming the
> > allowance will still be able to get it.
>
> The what?
>
> My understanding of it was that if you were capable of doing more than
> 15 hours per week they moved you onto the dole, which pays
> less. What's
> this about compulsory work?
Well, you don't volunteer to be considered capable of doing more work, you
get volunteered. Who does the assessing is apparently not worked out yet.
> Are you sure you don't have this mixed up? I also noted
> today that they
> are, err, uhmmm, considering the whole scheme "still being worked out"
> so this might be dropped.
This could be true. Actually, I work in the same building as Amanda
Vanstone, so maybe I'll ask her next time we bump into each other :-)
>
> Mind you, I know several *times* more people who are scamming
> this than
> are actually too ill to work. You only need to spend 4 weeks
> per annum
> in Australia to qualify, so it's a really nifty way to travel through
> south east asia, apparently. While I have no problem with the dole, I
> find this beyond the pale, personally.
>
Yup. I've known a scammer of this pension myself. A classic bad-back guy.
> What I thought was *really* evil was hiding border security in the
> environmental funding. Yup. Environmental projects are being cut and
> people are being sacked to fund patrol boats. Which is silly when you
> consider there are 30,000 western australians prepared to fund and arm
> such an effort themselves (!).
>
> Dwayne
What is the story with this massive border-protection and defense spending
increase? Does the govt know something that we don't?
Emlyn
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