They said that 50 per cent of welfare recipient’s payments will be rantined for spending on essentials items to ensure their payments are not being wasted on alcohol, drugs or gambling. Yet the working class who also get the F.T B for there children are not effected. They can support there habit, like alcohol, drugs, smoking or gambling, with out being effected. This is out right discrimination towards people who are unable to find work or able to work

So here, we have a family who is not working and have always done the right thing by there children over the years striving to give the best they can with the little they get to make sure there children do not miss out on what other children get. But now they are the targets by this government who knows they have failed in the NT but to stay face they want us to believe this is all about protecting our children? What a joke or children will be worse off not better off.

So if this bill is past we will need to say our children when they want to go out for day at the beach or with a friend for the day, and want have take away now and then, or go to the movie, Go on holidays, or if we want to hold a birthday party or even go to a friends party we will need to say sorry kids no more parties we are not allowed as we are on welfare and this is not an a essentials item sorry you will need to miss out. So now who is being affected? My children.

We go to the Supermarket, shops and so forth they will now know we are on welfare. This will be so degrading for us as a family If this government really cared for our Children’s welfare as they clam it would be applied to all Australians receiving any centerlink payments not just the ones who do not work..

I would like to know how it will work. When they say it is only to be used on essentials items how do you define what is classed as essentials items? What about when I go shopping and there is now only.30cents left over what then? I cannot spend .30cents on essentials items can I. A government who was so happy to at the last election happy to make us think they were out to protect the mums and dad out there already doing it tuff. Well guess what if this is how they are looking after us bring back the last government because since they been in power we have been finding living a lot tougher then before the last election. If we take a look around the world you will see this has not stop the drugs violence, poverty, It will not work. I hope it has not been past and I hope to see them voted out of office in the next election.