Oh God! The wind must be blowing from the left again, SRs mouth is flapping again.

Dear Hasbeen,

I checked on your information: "$500 payments announced for Victorians."

What I found is: "Victorians CAN apply for $500 temporary COVID disaster payment".

They CAN apply for it if they want to diminish themselves to that level, but they do not have to - nobody is forced to receive this money, so what then is the problem?

So you're saying that if I make bad choices and screw my life up with crime and prison time, no matter what choices I make in life there will always be a motel waiting for me that other taxpayers are happy to pay for?

Wish they had those rules back when I needed a hand.

If you want to house them as part of an effort to prevent them committing more crime, then start and proper 'Inmates Housing Department'
- But don't take the houses away from the regular law abiding citizens.
- Or pack the criminals in with the decent people.
- No wonder housing commission unit blocks are the way they are.
- It's not right.

I've been homeless a few times in my life when I was young, and I was imprisoned for 11 weeks once a quarter of a century or so ago for being unable to pay $2200 in fines, but never once did I go asking for a house when I was in trouble, they wouldn't have given it to me anyway.
Single mums first.

Dear Hasbeen,

Mate, are you really that unoriginal? Come up with your own dig you plagiarising old bugger.

As to your mate over in SA here is another quarantine stuff-up just today.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/quarantine-hotel-guests-being-moved-after-toddler-case/100190122

At least this one wasn't allowed to walk out the door and add to Victoria's woes.

Get your mob back in line mate. They are really stuffing it up for the rest of us.

Hi there AIDAN...

The notion that former prisoners of the state should be treated as homeless when first released from gaol is laudable. And in some cases, fully warranted and justified.

Please understand, there is a small percentage of former inmates when they're first discharged from gaol, deserve a helping hand, with matters of accommodation, employment and transport etc., until they become more self-reliant.

However, most of 'em have a wide network of like-minded associates and so-called 'friends' who can provide them with the wherewithal while they're in the midst of planning their next criminal enterprise. To think otherwise is to view the entire judicial incarceration system through the murky lens of rose coloured glasses.

By and large, most criminals, when they're released from gaol, go straight back to the particular endeavour that got them arrested in the first instance. I'm not referring to crimes of passion - Those crimes occasioned against the person in the heat of the moment.

More those individuals who have spent their entire adult lives and teens thieving in the broader sense, from shop stealing, petty theft, and right through to armed robbery and everything in between. All from the community at large, big business, government agencies. And who've learned their trade well while in prison from other criminals and associates?

Here we are reading the rantings of the deranged, with Hassy leading the charge. There nothing which suggests that the Victorian Labor Government is to blame for the latest Covid-19 fiasco. A Covid-19 positive case is let out of quanentean in SA from unsatisfactory hotel with poor testing by the Liberal government of Marshmellow Marshall. With quanenteaning being a Federal Liberal government reasonability under the Constitution, we can't heap to much blame on poor old Marshmellow. Its a fact the Morrison mob have known for more than a year that hotels, are for tourists, and not pandemic sufferers, they were never more than a stop gap measure at best. Did the federal dim wits do anything about establishing new purpose built quanentean stations, of course not, they went to sleep at the wheel, just as they did with the vaccine roll-out, as usual ScumO' from marketing was big on promises, but a complete failure on delivery, with less than 2% of the population fully vaccinated. Then there is a fiasco with another ScumO' reasonability private aged care, the virus got into there and the federal lemons didn't have a clue as to who was vaccinated, and who wasn't, which staff had, had the jab and who had not, another Liberal stuff up. Morrison has got away with riding on the state Premiers coat tails, particularly Labor ones, but the truth is now clear, when the pandemic first hit Australia and Morrison said he was "off to the footy" he should have done so, and stayed there. Like his football team this season, Morrison is a failure!

Hassy, have you been vaccinated? If so with what, fuddy-duddy serum! Me thinks so.