Australia's $150 billion welfare system should be radically simplified to include just five primary payments, with upfront investment in people at risk of long-term unemployment, a major review has recommended.

The review, ordered by the Abbott government in 2013, also recommends personalised "Passports to Work" to tell welfare recipients how their payments will change if they start work or increase their hours, to reduce people's fear about taking a job.

The final report of the review conducted by former Mission Australia head Patrick McClure was released on Wednesday, noting that "many" people on the dole would be better off under the new system.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-report-calls-for-radical-welfare-overhaul-20150225-13nls5.html

It might just be a case of magical thinking – you know, if you wish really really hard then something will come true – or it might just be that for the right wing columnists in Rupert’s employ. the thought of a small ‘l’ socially liberal Liberal turns them into “bedwetters“.

And the two-faced doublethink is amazing from these Orwellian reptilians.

From what I can tell and with the assistance of Dr Google, the term “bedwetters” was introduced into the debate about the Liberal leadership by that model of decorum and good taste, Scott Morrison.

Both Morrison and Bishop attempted to minimise the latest round of disquiet – Morrison terming it “a bit of political bedwetting” and some “low-level rumbling trying to talk itself up.”

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/plugging-abbotts-leaks-bedwetters-in-the-newscorpse-bunker,7431

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It seems that Scott Morrison was the first dork to insult those with the affliction.

I have known some bedwetters in my life and, for them, the disease is as humiliating as annoying as depressing... Many afflicted kids became lonely and not very "sociable" despite support from their family. Their peer group, especially on overnight school outing, was savage. May we raise a statue to the bedwetters of the world and worship the ground upon which political leakers dump on Tony Turdy — but not that former PM, Rudd, who leaked with rancour, nastiness, anger and like a sneaky dog re-marking "his" territory. Sorry dogs, I did not mean to be derogatory.