Act against cuts to the Disability Pension
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled.To the Honourable President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled.Petition re: Changes to the... continue reading »
"I just got back on to DSP after attempting to work full time, and after been working for 6 years, for a Commonwealth Government. The employer failed to provide support, I experienced bullying because of disability. I was told not to talk about disability."
"help us...... we are going under........."
"Disability pensions are designed to be minorly more lucrative than unemployment payments to acknowledge the additional costs and challenges that people with disabilities have to face. Any cut to these entitlements, which remain below the poverty line, are"
"Maybe if we stop paying so much to politicians who only know how to bitch about problems, rather than solving problems, we may be able to use that xtra revenue for those who need it more."
"I question whether it is responsible to disadvantage those that are most disadvantaged"
"I am a C5/6 quadriplegic and have been for the last 35 years. I think it is grossly unfair that people with disabilities have to go through this new procedure, whereas anybody on or applying for a blind pension do not have the same restrictions, and can e"
""Walk, be carried, be wheeled, a mile in my shoes" People do not choose to have a disability, my children did not have a choice this is how they were born. Its seems that the people making these decisions have not and will never know what it is like to li"
"25% of the average maile income is not a lot of money to survive on when you have additional costs due to a disability."
"Does this government care for its people! What a joke. How low can they get. How dare they! Remember, John Howard, you were given power by the PEOPLE, time you started representing them!"