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Post by praxidice on Aug 8, 2019 5:57:03 GMT 7
Jacqui has always been totally honorable in a number of issues I've brought to her attention, despite me being thousands of kilometers from her and certainly not in her electorate. For the benefit of those who haven't followed federal hansard, she has never supported LNP policies. It needs to be recognized however that she has limited resources to deal with matters outside her electorate. That situation isn't her fault. What other politician except Andrew Wilkie has ever done anything to bring DSS / Centrelink matters into question ? Certainly not poorlene / NoNotion or any of the other rats & mice parties / independents.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 6:56:13 GMT 7
Jacqui has always been totally honorable in a number of issues I've brought to her attention, despite me being thousands of kilometers from her and certainly not in her electorate. For the benefit of those who haven't followed federal hansard, she has never supported LNP policies. It needs to be recognized however that she has limited resources to deal with matters outside her electorate. That situation isn't her fault. What other politician except Andrew Wilkie has ever done anything to bring DSS / Centrelink matters into question ? Certainly not poorlene / NoNotion or any of the other rats & mice parties / independents. Here we've got a very good advocate in Greens Senator Rachael Siewert. Last week I had cause to email her on behalf of a member; had a personal reply inside 24hrs. Cheers bear
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 6:42:50 GMT 7
Anecdotal, but from Australian Welfare News and definitely worth sharing in this thread to show the need to Occupy Centrelink. Cheers bear Just when I thought I couldn’t cry anymore...
Across the last two weeks we have provided Centrelink with so much paperwork to try to get the only allowance available, Newstart, as we were told by both CL and the Social worker at the hospital. For days I have visited the CL office with the requested paperwork, the goal posts shift every day and they request more items. Finally yesterday reached the stage of : ‘Submit Application’. All that was left to do was a phone appointment today with ME between 2-3 to complete. Who gets the call? Mitchell in his hospital bed. The person on the phone sitting in front of the medical certificate that clearly describes the catastrophic injury sustained and the outcome in black and white: “Paraplegia”...“Lifelong”....“Acute Injury” ... “Rehabilitation Indefinite”... “Long term hospitalisation” ... asks him when is he expecting to go back to work...when will he drive his car again... when will you get out of hospital... when exactly will you resume your activities as a Carpenter .. ARE YOU SERIOUS!? ... Only to then tell him that Newstart is not set up for this little hospital stay... that this payment requires fortnightly reporting so if you are telling me you won’t be doing that then we need to investigate further your eligibility. You Mitchell will have to appear at an appointment at the Centrelink office next Tuesday at 12pm to re-describe your injury for us to further assess your work capacity. I’m gobsmacked... I’m beyond upset...I can’t breathe... that for the 100th time I am sitting back in the Centrelink office describing to yet another person that doesn’t give a &@$& and that can’t read the screen that my boy, my beautiful, strong, fit, capable, energetic, baby lost his existence as he knows it 31 days ago and he CANT WALK! HE CANT URINATE! HE CANT STAND! HE CAN’T BREATHE from the PAIN! HE CAN’T CONTROL his Bowel! HE CANT DRESS HIMSELF!!!!! HE CAN’T!!!!!!! How many times do we have to say it out loud!!!! I feel physically Ill every time I am forced to verbalise it. Paraplegia... Don’t they think he wants too!!!!!! All for $255 a week. Yep confirmed we have to make it to the appointment next week and they will have to talk to Mitchell to reconfirm his injuries even though I am nominated to act for him. “He can move his arms can’t he?” “ yes I replied”, “So there is no reason he can’t talk on the phone” was their response.... yep no reason ...only that HE DOESNT WANT TO AND SHOULDNT HAVE TO!!!!!At one point on the phone he was asked to provide a more detailed medical report but it needs to be from a doctor from the hospital... he said the Medical Certificate you are looking at that clearly describes I CANT WALK was written and signed by a doctor at the hospital because I am in the hospital! Literally ... c a n n o t b r e a t h e m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2457980714471948&id=1415019052101458
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 6:43:52 GMT 7
The lunatics ARE running the asylum! This families plight is proof positive.
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Post by nomadic on Sept 13, 2019 7:53:43 GMT 7
Once again this forum has been saying these things for years now and that it can't get any worse. YET IT DOES. And the media ignores it, for the most part, is what makes me swear rather than growl the most. There surely must be some other sinister reason behind this stuff as it cannot possibly be for the BUDGET only. It stinks of some nutter religious ideology to me, after all, I have heard over the years or Pol Pot type back to year zero stuff... F> F> F> F> F>. They are F-ing B C's. No apologies for the language on this one. WHEN WILL IT END? Makes Rainy day's case seem like a picnic. And it is Friday drinking day so I do not look forward to growling Monday as is usually worse. Actually, maybe this is fake news even? it really doesn't seem believable at all. RANT DONE!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 8:26:45 GMT 7
As I stated nomadic..... anecdotal; but I'd suggest AWN check their sources.
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