Comments
When I read comments on Drum articles, I usually take the edge of afterwards by head butting a wall for 17 straight minutes. Take for example today’s article by Michael Brull on the NT Intervention and the racist and paternalist policies around income management and school attendance. This is a comment by ‘Lorraine’:
If you were a mother and your spouse drank, smoked and or gambled your money it would be a godsend to have some of it safe to spend on food and necessities. If the family does not have these problems they would also have cash to buy those items not allowed on the card. I believe all families on welfare should have a card for necessities regardless of race and then it would be a normal procedure at the supermarket.
A little embassement for those not needing the card’s protection is a small price to pay for those women and children who no longer have to go hungry.
Lorraine Gold Coast (pensioner)
But then there are moments of beauty. Like the reply by ‘Mulga Mumblebrain’:
Of course it should also apply to pensioners, eh Lorraine?
Glorious.
