Wednesday 4 March 2015
Disability Support Pension: Graham Richardson doesn't bother to check his 'facts'
This was 'political commentator' Graham Richardson in The Australian on 27 February 2015:
Surely, though, there must be savings to be made in disability pensions. The number of recipients is growing at a phenomenal rate….
This was Professor Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, on the same day:
Data sourced from DSS Payment Demographic Data & Characteristics of Disability Support Pension Recipients: @WhitefordPeter
It would appear that truth has little value over at News Corp's principal Australian masthead.
Labels:
Australian society,
disability,
welfare payments
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