Steeleredux,
We all do but you can always donate more if you think it'll help ! It's due to leftist social engineering that we are at this deplorable stage. it's thirty years since Barlow & Chambers & ten years since the Bali 9 executions & young Australians are into drugs more than ever.
What do you suggest in lieu of drug testing ?

"I take 15 tablets a day, have been random drug tested often all clear every time". Wow Belly, you beat me, I only take 8, although there is a puffer thing to try to keep me getting oxygen. That 3Rd heart attack didn't do the lungs much good.

I only suggested pensioner testing to eliminate any stigma associated with testing others. If we are all tested it is a non event.

SR, if we can bulk bill for millions of doctor visits, & keep paying single mothers for the 3Rd 4TH & 5Th new kid, I think we can afford drug testing. Have to wonder at your resistance. Are you a drug Barron & a communist by any chance.

didn't do the lungs much good.
Hasbeen,
Try a turbo charger or an intercooler :-). On a more serious note, I know how that feels re the lungs. I'm getting way too short of breath these days. Too much Fibreglassing & sanding in the early days !

I went to the RSL today & watched a small army of Centrelink Soldiers attacking the pokies.
Was told that they're the actual life-blood of the Club.

Indy, welfare recipients should not be "going to the RSL" spending the tax dollars afforded them by the generosity of us tax payers, certainly not on the demon drink. You did say the last pension rise hardly afforded you an extra schooner, alcohol is a drug! Since you are a busy body wanting to know who is playing the pokies. How do you know who works for 'Centrelink', have they got it tattooed across their forehead, or something.

:"Was told that they're the actual life-blood of the Club." Now who told you THAT? Nothing better to do than sit in gods waiting room, drinking piss, narking the staff about who is playing the pokies. You "watched" I suggest you get a life, and move on from your failure as a public servant.

BTW its not uncommon for aged pensioners to be putting welfare through the pokies themselves. Maybe a cashless debit card for the old folks would be a good idea. Lets have it that you can't spend you welfare payment on alcohol, fags and other drugs, no gambling as well. Lets PO the $5.50 PBS for pensioners because 95% (your favourite number) are hypochondriacs who run to the doctor with all sorts of so called aliments, when its nothing more than the effects of old age, and past "good" living, demanding drugs because they are cheap as chips on the PBS, for them that is. Having a competition to see who can pop the most pills a day Hassy's on 15, or some such rubbish! How about you, can you top that?

Paul1405,
Are you vying for the presidency of the Git movement ?