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.