[Australia] PM blitz on addict welfare / The Australian, 19 November 2007
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22781102-601,00.html
Patricia Karvelas and John Stapleton
"CRIMINALS convicted of hard-drug offences will have their welfare payments quarantined for 12 months under a Coalition plan to stop government handouts being spent on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. As part of a dramatic expansion of John Howard's push to ensure welfare payments are not being wasted by recipients, convicted drug abusers and traffickers would only be able to spend their welfare money on necessities such as food."