So it is all Labors fault?
Belly,
No, not all but the greater portion is. I'll never forgive the LNP for not doing anything about sorting out Centrelink. I just got an email from them asking me for documents & if they don't receive them before the end of this months they might stop the pension. Now, this is after I had already posted the documents last year. looks like I'm the one in trouble because they haven't got their system in order.
I used their website to upload documents & I tell you, it must have been designed by some rather mischievous web designers or perhaps they've been instructed by the Centrelink bureaucrats to make it so user un-friendly.

Governments are not there to solve everyone's problems
Center link is dysfunctional, it seems they are out to harm instead of help
Get in to them yourself, letter to your local member, another to the press one to the opposition
Then offer TV shows that love such stories your story, the squeaky wheel gets the grease

Belly,

Many become homeless because of drug dependence due to the huge cost of maintaining a habit and the difficulty in holding a job. While some develop a dependency after becoming homeless, I believe that it is overwhelmingly the former.

Secondly, with drug dependence as well as many mental health problems, the affected homeless find themselves evicted from housing because of their failure to pay even the most basic rent and/or because of the damage they cause to the housing.

Indy, save the taxpayer, tell em' about your 7.5%, maybe it just run out, they'll understand. There is always the bus shelter down the road, stinking hot in summer, and freezing cold in winter, I wont even mention what its like in the wet season.

Pensioners with computers. I'll be damned! Such largesse!

Once the government embraces my idea of a 'Seniors National Service' all will be honky dory for the old folks. You are going to enjoy sleeping out under the stars in all kinds of weather, after spending a 16 hour day clearing scrub. There will be no need for the Old Aged Pension, it will all be self funded (from the sale of existing pensioner mansions).

My new motto for the old folks is; "Treat em' mean, and keep em' lean."

Paul1405,
As usual, those with no retort resort to ridicule. The classic sign of juvenile ignorance !

Shadow Minister must meet you halfway in what you say there
Yes drugs are a very real problem, I think you will be aware in the 1970,s some very rich very important white Australian business men controlled the importation of drugs
We never really made any impact on stopping them
The lives destroyed while not all working class, mostly are
Drugs must be confronted head on, legalize Marijuana, it is a low impact drug compared to ice
But keep the laws against working driving and such with it in your system, others lives depend on it
Separate however housing for the homeless, it is a separate problem sometimes both exist
Now fairdinkum, even now, as it has been all my life, I would rather work, in any job, than sit around , willing to bet many who are on the streets would too