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Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:01pm
 
Bring it on.

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Centrelink recipients could soon be randomly drug tested by the Government and have their payments SCRAPPED if they test positive


Welfare recipients could soon be randomly tested for drugs under a proposal put forward by the Coalition Government. 

The government says all tests will be conducted in private by a 'suitably qualified representative' from a contracted drug testing provider and the results will not be shared with police.

The Turnbull government had hoped to drug test 5000 Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients across three trial sites in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia from January, but the plan was scrapped in December 2018 when the Senate rejected it.

However, new Social Services Minister, Anne Ruston, told Triple J that the government is still keen to pass the legislation.
 
'The drug testing trial remains Government policy,' Ms Ruston said.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7212423/Centrelink-recipients-soon-drug...

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Reply #1 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:13pm
 
How could someone on the dole afford drugs when they can't afford food?
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Reply #2 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:19pm
 
I would prefer to see politicians drug and alcohol tested. They can do way more damage and likely do.

Besides I object to paying the obscene wages bill for them to be asleep while on duty. A number of high profile politicians have later admitted to being drunk and sleeping in parliament.
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Reply #3 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:21pm
 
What a great idea to give the unemployed more incentive to break into peoples home to fund themselves.
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Reply #4 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:35pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:13pm:
How could someone on the dole afford drugs when they can't afford food?


Lots of unemployed meth addicts bobby, a lot of criminals subsidising the dole payments with crime.

Someone living with their parents doesn't have to pay rent those in Dept Of Housing only pay 25% of their dole in rent.
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Reply #5 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:36pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:21pm:
What a great idea to give the unemployed more incentive to break into peoples home to fund themselves.


Typical leftard reaction suggesting druggies should resort to crime instead of getting a job.

The centrists and those towards the right would say getting a job is the sustainable way to fund themselves.
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Reply #6 - Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:57pm
 
Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:35pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:13pm:
How could someone on the dole afford drugs when they can't afford food?


Lots of unemployed meth addicts bobby, a lot of criminals subsidising the dole payments with crime.

Someone living with their parents doesn't have to pay rent those in Dept Of Housing only pay 25% of their dole in rent.



or they sell drugs
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Reply #7 - Jul 26th, 2019 at 4:04pm
 
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It's just a populist policy designed to appeal to the loony right.

The cost of drug testing newstart recipients would be prohibitive especially if they are to be tested for all drugs.
It would actually be cheaper to pay them the pittance that is newstart.
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Reply #8 - Jul 26th, 2019 at 6:39pm
 
Negate them from the Dole and every Junkie and Alcoholic (and Aboriginal junkies/alcos) will resort to CRIME to fund their habits.

Taking away the Dole is not the answer.
More a 'cop out' by a Government (and Medical Industry for that matter - that hides away in Hospitals) that doesn't want to tackle drugs/alcohol 'abuse' directly.

Far easier to combat drugs/alcohol abuse in people - if they are not poor (accommodation, food, etc).

Plus - Govt Hospitals tend to let the Junkies/Alcoholics get away with 'violence' and only tackle it indirectly by personel from the Law & Security industries, NOT from the Medical.

Put em in a Privatised set-up with Medical personel who 'don't have to take their crap' and you watch how 'nice and obliging' they become.  Wink
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Reply #9 - Jul 27th, 2019 at 12:34am
 
Bobby. wrote on Jul 21st, 2019 at 10:13pm:
How could someone on the dole afford drugs when they can't afford food?


They don't afford it. They sell off the stuff they steal from other people to pay for their drug habit.
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Reply #10 - Jul 27th, 2019 at 12:41am
 
I have tested positive for drugs, upon submitting a blood test. I do not partake in drugs. I would be peeved if I lost payments due to getting found for one positive test.
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Reply #11 - Jul 27th, 2019 at 8:03am
 
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Wild Turkey swilling dole bludger attacks staff and random clients at his local Centrelink


A man who burned down four hectares of sugarcane in a field after he attempted to cook a snake he found slithering across his stomach has been jailed.
Scott Stoker, 32, was sentenced to two years behind bars after he went on a 12-hour crime spree which ended in Bundaberg, Queensland, on May 30.
Bundaberg District Court heard on Wednesday the extraordinary sequence of events started when Stoker became irate at a Centrelink staffer over his payment, the  Sunshine Coast Daily reported.

As he left the centre, he physically assaulted a stranger who walked passed him on the street.
'Don't bugger**g stare at me, front bottoms,' Stoker yelled at the stranger.
He then punched the man in the face and neck, before running to a nearby cane field on Rankin Road where he fell asleep.

Upon his arrest, he became violent with officers and even headbutted windows and pulled an officer's hair.

One female officer required medical attention after she was knocked on her head. 

Stoker was coming down from meth at the time, defence barrister Callan Cassiday said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7284511/Hungry-thug-tried-cook-eat-snak...



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