The number of changes (legistlative) to the Social Security Act is
nothing short of mindboggling and regarding the requirements set out
one would need the advice of a solicitor, it is not only the disadvantaged who face difficulty there are many people who find it difficult to do any kind of paperwork and in how many households only one person does it all?
Anyway about mutual obligation centrelink has a lovely motto and it is "giving you options" in otherwords do it or don't get paid!
The Government strategy is simple, make it so hard and bothersome so
that people will move away from welfare and go back to the old system
of relying on family and personal wealth (retirement funds,homes etc)
There are 60 year olds selling their houses in order to get Centrelink off their backs, these are people who had jobs and paid
their taxes. The liberal motto is to make people give something back
to the community. Well where does all that welfare money go to? Not
under the mattress or the bank but back to the community. People who
are unemployed are so because the jobs simply are not there, a lot
of them have gone to CHINA for one, to secure a job now you need
connections, you probably already need to be employed, how many jobs
go to the bedhoppers? There is a very big cloud hanging over the Australian Community and that is discrimination,unfortunately it gets
in the way of people getting into jobs but that is well known by
everyone including the Government and it is the reason disability
recipients are now targeted.

I also need to say this to anyone who has played monopoly game board
don't play with John Howard and if you do, don't let him be the banker
he will change the rules everytime to please his own game and that
would mean probably everytime you pass 'GO '