$1bn cut from disabled, parents' welfare - National - theage.com.au

$1bn cut from disabled, parents' welfare - National - theage.com.au: "THE Government will slash $1 billion from welfare to single parents and the disabled over the next three years, it has confirmed just before the start of its new Welfare to Work regime today."

Make no mistake, the Government is spending $37 billion dollars on tax cuts for the rich, while robbing the poor. There is no need for these cuts which will create a deeper poverty trap for 150,000 Australians. The Government not only has the capacity to reduce poverty, but also the capacity to make a difference.

Instead, John Coward has chosen the path of poor bashing, and shown his true colours. The tragedy is that the Labour party has been silent in speaking out for the poor, instead focusing it's energy on bribing "middle Australia".

There is a way to make a difference, but neither major party has the political will or guts to claw back money from the rich to improve the situation of the poor by training, affordable education and bribing greedy employers to do what is morally and socially right.