Rehctub writes, "no work no dole".

Hmmmm, so says the bludger who is not working whilst comfortably living off welfare himself ... his $120,000 a year superannuation income (he admitted that in a past post) full of OVERTLY GENEROUS TAX BREAKS (welfare), CONCESSIONS (welfare) and PAST EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS as he wasn't always self employed (welfare).

Yep Rehctub, on welfare himself, sits back in his comfortable lounge chair, with a stubby resting on his big, fat belly, furiously typing about these horrid people on Newstart living it up on $255.25 per week.

Nhoj, you can't even quote a person correctly. Seriously, why would anyone here take you seriously, you only really come here to hurl abuse at fellow posters. Nobody cares.

I did not say I was retired, just semi I am employed and work 5.5 months of the year. To me that's semi retired, because I was used to working six 10 to 12 hour days.

I'm not drawing on my super, not yet anyway,

Rehctub, I see you're taking lessons from "ToneLIAR".

You recently stated you have an income of 120 thousand dollars. Now you're saying you only work 5 months or so per year, and have no super income.

So, what are you doing for 20 weeks per year that provides you with your "claimed" 120 thousand dollars?

This should be good .......

"I'd be happy to support that. I would have no problem with that at all. It might make a few Greens MPs nervous but it wouldn't make me worry at all."

Greens MP Adam Bandt says he does not support testing dole recipients or parliamentarians for use of illegal drugs and asked whether MPs would agree to their alcohol consumption be monitored.

"I wonder whether the same people who are proposing these harsh measures for young people would be prepared to have every MP breathalysed before they go into the chamber," he said.

Tasmanian Palmer United Party Senator-elect Jacqui Lambie says drug testing politicians might help explain some of the policy decisions made in Canberra.

"Well we're going to see why we are getting all these sort of awful decisions coming out one way or the other, aren't we?" she said.

"Fair go ... you've got to practice what you preach - lead by example."

In 2007, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan challenged other federal politicians to set an example to the sporting and wider community and also submit to random drug testing.

Palmer United senator-elect Jacqui Lambi says the results of politicians' drug tests might help explain some of the policy decisions made in Canberra.

Well, on the day of the last State of Origin Match I had several cartons of beer, bottles of Rum & some bottles of Whiskey as fellow passengers on the plane. When I asked one of the recipients as to how can they afford to pay $240.- for a bottle of Whiskey or $120.- for a carton beer, the answer was "from the Government Child Support payment", it always comes in just before the date of the game.

o sung wu: What he, and you can include me amongst this group, do strongly object to, is these able bodied youngsters who leave school prematurely, before gaining a worthwhile 'basic' education in order to either, undertake a trade course, or matriculate to a university.

Oh I agree entirely. I belong to a "Men's Shed" & we had some of the wayward students three afternoons a week. 3 out of 4 weren't worth the trouble. We had to ban mobiles in the Work Shop. They complained & apparently "We" were out of line. Go figure. They all had intentions of being trades people. They couldn't read or write or even add up. They weren't even interested. They all said, "you just leave school, get an apprenticeship & make big money." No amount of explanation would convince them. What hope for these kids. Then they want to be supported on the Dole.