Stop the Welfare Card for Disability Pensioners Petition

[nomadic]

Seems to again confirm my long held belief that HREOC is totally useless in real life. Seems they can legislate for murder if it was popular enough among the mug voters and nobody can do anything about it.

[shermos]

What do you all think are the chances this will pass the senate? It's certain the Greens will oppose it. What have the ALP and Nick Xenophon said?

[Banjo]

What the HRC said to us when we were fighting for DSP portability was that the legislation stated that the DSP was a residency based pension and could not be paid overseas; no law prohibited our freedom of movement per se, the government had the right to refuse to pay our pension offshore.

This caused us to redirect our efforts towards contesting their definition of residency which resulted in the current portability legislation.

[krystal]

You would think a "Healthy Welfare Card" would have something to do increasing the lifestyles of people who have unhealthy addictions that could benefit from this type of interjection.

But no, paint us all with the same brush. Even those of us that use to do the budget and costings for on a daily basis for one of the four big banks, so can manage our own budget, doesn't have a gambling or alcohol problem and never ever ever has been in a punch up outside a pub or landed in a drying out tank at a police station.

AS a person on Newstart, this is going to make by budgeting harder, not easier especially for those specialists I need to see that aren't going to accept this card.

[pete57ad]

Where exactly is the petition to sign ?
I tried following the links but get directed to "start your own petition"

[Deleted]

Petitions only run for a limited time pete57ad and this one would be well and truly wound up by now, given the OP is over two years old. Keep an eye out though, we post 'em when we find 'em. Cheers bear