Mon, Jan 25, 2016
Plans are underway to expand testing of the Cashless Welfare Card. Trials so far have proven positive and has wide support in the community. The card is designed to eliminate unemployment benefits being spent on drugs, alcohol, and gambling by embargoing 80% of fortnightly payments onto a debit card system.
Wed, Feb 10, 2016
Australia's refugee welfare crisis. Millions of dollars of taxpayer money being spent. But is the system really working? Australia has borrowed billions of dollars and some of this money has gone into funding the refugee intake, but questions are being raised on how this is actually helping those in need. Refugees are costing taxpayers $100 million a year in welfare payments and have a 93% unemployment rate. After five years, more than 60% of refugees to Australia have failed to find work.
Wed, Feb 17, 2016
A convicted Sydney pervert has been banned from entering hardware chain Bunnings Warehouse after he was caught exposing himself and performing lewd acts in front of female staff. Self-employed homeopath Shonit Kumar Danwer, 49, entered the Marsden Park outlet six times in seven days, and on the day of his offence masturbated in front of a woman employee. Five years ago, Danwer was caught in a police operation exposing himself to an undercover cop at a Sydney school.