SCROUNGERS PARADISE
A 58-YEAR-OLD sponger told Centrelink he was unable to take their kind job offer because it interfered with his golf game.
He said the job was hardly worth his while anyway because the pay was not much more than he was getting on the dole.
Another bludger, aged 19, refused a job because he wanted to "follow his dream" and become an actor. 
And a 32-year-old complained he wanted to stay on welfare handouts because he was "too busy" to start work.
An unskilled, unemployed 26-year-old woman refused a cleaning job because she believed it was "below her".
Welcome to modern-day Australia, a scrounger's paradise where the roads are paved with gold for welfare rorters, -illegal immigrants and the criminal classes.
In the Senate last week, Zed Seselja blew the whistle, reciting disturbing cases investigated by Centrelink.
He is the son of Croatian battlers who migrated to Canberra to escape the turmoil in their homeland. Senator Seselja was on a mission to expose fraud and waste.
He told the House a work-shy 25-year-old male refused a job because he was going on holiday.
A 22- year-old male refused full-time work because he only wanted part-time work so that he could continue with his flying lessons. A 33-year-old male refused a car washing job because it was "too difficult" and a teenager, 19, refused work after one day labouring saying he was too sore and wanted to concentrate on getting fit to apply for a job in the Navy.
Seselja stressed that not all jobseekers are bludgers but he says an anti-work culture was becoming ingrained.
"It's a real concern," he added. Too true.
Seselja channelled John Howard: "The best form of welfare is a job. "It is much better for an individual - where they can - to be working and to be earning a living rather than to be on welfare." He said people had to learn to look after themselves and stop relying on handouts.
It was a theme he echoed in his maiden speech in 2013 when he said: "I would like to put on record today my rejection of the nanny state." Seselja is right.
Freeloaders, criminals and flim-flam men and women are sucking this country dry. The welfare lobby is even paid to teach scroungers how to line up for free housing, free hospital, free medicine and free education, even subsidised public transport.
When will taxpayers revolt against this multi-billion dollar swindle? Alarm bells should have sounded last year when it was revealed jobseekers failed to turn up to for appointments or interviews no fewer than 215,000 times in a three-month period.
The Department of Human Services said more than 121,000 excuses given by jobseekers were rubbish. One in four jobseekers either slept in when they knew they had an interview with a job provider or employer, got the date wrong or forgot to attend.
More than 16 per cent did not want to participate because the scheduled time "was not convenient", they "did not see the value in attending" or "indicated that they did not care whether they attended or not".
Others feigned medical issues when they had none. Some said the jobs on offer were not interesting or simply didn't pay enough.
The scope of the scams reported by the Department of Human Services is breathtaking.
Frauds relating to Centrelink, Medicare and child support payments are increasing.
Even the well-to-do exploited loopholes that allow them to stay in public housing - and you are paying for it.
A special taskforce has been set up to uncover armies of thieves and beggars eager to fleece the system.
Taskforce Integrity hopes to claw back $1.7 billion from welfare fraudsters and perhaps another $3 billion in overpayments.
It has already had spectacular success in southern states. With much evidence of wrongdoing in NSW and Victoria to follow up it may not even get to Queensland for another three years.
The taskforce is working with the Australia Federal Police investigating everything from dole rorts to fake identities and undisclosed assets.
The lowest of the low would include the greedy child who steals benefits erroneously paid to a parent who has died.
Rorts cover everything from child-support frauds to forging prescriptions for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines.
Mothers have been caught claiming benefits for children no longer in their care. New figures show taxpayers are now funding 240 million welfare payments a year. Australia is on track to shell out a record $190 billion in benefits this year.
Eight out of 10 taxpayers go to work every day just to pay our welfare bill. Even those who view economics as a foreign language can now understand that thanks to welfare our budgetary position has become unsustainable.
Taxation receipts are unable to fund government spending. So every day we are pushing the Budget further into the red.
The boom-time mining royalties enjoyed by governments led by John Howard and Kevin Rudd have dried up.
Our great nation is being swamped by a flood of fiddlers stretching our resources to breaking point.
In some families close to Brisbane there are now three generations who have never held a job.
Welfare is like crystal meth to a sizeable slice of these bludgers. They couldn't imagine life without it.
The community has had enough.
It's time for the introduction of identity cards not just as a safeguard against potential terrorists and illegal immigrants but welfare cheats.
And we must not wait three years for Taskforce Integrity to get here. A hit squad has to be set up in every state.
And perhaps we could consider some of the recommendations coming out of Britain. There is a push to make fraudsters repay up to double what they steal. And cheats names would be recorded in a public register.It would be a good start.