on โ20-04-2014 10:21 PM
As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed. The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.
This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.
and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598
Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says
The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.
Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.
"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.
on โ07-10-2014 06:00 PM
was just about to post the same thing - a RC into the LNP sounds like a better bet for catching crims.
on โ07-10-2014 06:43 PM
more about Debs post re: the scary sword, bit worrying if the coppers can't tell the difference between a plastic sword and a real "beheading" sword, seeing as one of them must have picked it up and put it in the evidence bag.
Media storm
In the wake of the raids, it was widely reported that AFP officers had confiscated a sword for forensic testing, with some stories picturing the ceremonial sword sealed inside a federal police evidence bag. In the context of an alleged plot to "behead" a random victim, ordered by one of the most senior Australians serving with Islamic State forces, Mohammad Ali Baryalei, the sword appeared to be a weapon.
The Daily Mail Australia linked it directly to the beheading plot under the headline: "Was this the lethal sword terror cell planned to use to behead an innocent victim on a Sydney street?"
The Daily Telegraph set the beheading plot claim beside the discovery of the sword.
Many articles by Fairfax Media described the sword as large and curved with a gold handle and engraved with Arabic writing. Police did not explain to the media at the time that the sword was plastic.
In the article "Sword taken from duplex", News Corp's Courier-Mail directly linked the object with the threat of beheadings:
"More than 1m long, the sword was carried from the home in a federal police evidence bag (right). Police believe its owner was one of at least 15 men plotting to kidnap an Australian from the streets and decapitate them."
on โ07-10-2014 06:45 PM
go team arstraya
Afghan Hazara asylum seekers to be forcibly deported from Australia
Refugee advocates say men would be at risk of persecution after two Hazaras with links to Australia were attacked by Taliban
At least seven Afghan Hazara asylum seekers are set to be forcibly deported from Australia, despite increasing violence against the ethnic minority in Afghanistan, and targeted attacks against those who have been in Australia.
on โ07-10-2014 07:00 PM
on โ07-10-2014 07:59 PM
View from the Street: Greg Hunt can use Wikipedia?
Expert advice is in the eye of the beholder
Environment Minister Greg "what's an environment?" Hunt has a difficult job. For a start, he has to do things like stand up in front of journalists and remember that his title isn't really Minister for Letting Private Concerns Profit From Exploiting The Environment Whatever That Even Is, despite that essentially being his brief.
After all, 2014 would be a stressful time to actually be responsible for environmental policy, what with the harshest predictions of the effects of global warming already coming to pass: intense storms all over the world, higher incidences of cyclones, flooding, sea level rise, the Antarctic melting to the point where the Earth's gravity has been changed and so on.
Fortunately Hunt doesn't let these sorts of things bother him, because you can't fear what you deliberately ignore.
After all, closing his eyes really really tight is how he stopped being scared of the monster in his wardrobe, and that's how he's dealing with evidence that expanding Queensland's coal shipping will poison the Great Barrier Reef.
But lest you think that he doesn't take his ostensible responsibilities seriously, you might recall that Hunt insisted that he'd consulted the planet's greatest experts on climate change - Wikipedia - befo....
on โ07-10-2014 08:12 PM
I found a new party and you're all invited
on โ07-10-2014 09:47 PM
@karliandjacko wrote:I found a new party and you're all invited
http://www.andrewboltparty.com/Home.aspx
wow. what a cramp that bolt is, really brings out his championing of "free speech", reminded me to post this great article from the Guardian
The Abbott government's 'freedom' agenda is breathtakingly hypocritical
By co-opting the language of rights to protect their own business and political interests, the Abbott government denigrates those rights most Australians actually value
on โ08-10-2014 11:50 AM
on โ08-10-2014 12:35 PM
hope this mob of liars gets kicked out
Napthine under fire over 457 visas for East West Link workers
The Napthine government has come under fire after one of the companies building the East West Link hired an immigration adviser to lodge 457 visas.
Before contracts for the $6.8 billion project were signed, Spanish construction company Acciona advertised for an immigration adviser to "collect required documentation and lodg(e) all 457 applications".
ACTU President Ged Kearney said it was "outrageous" for temporary workers to be brought in from overseas when unemployment was around 6.8 per cent in Victoria.
"It is extraordinary that just a day after Premier [Denis] Napthine promised thousands of new jobs for Victorians that the first job we've seen advertised is one to co-ordinate foreign workers."
on โ08-10-2014 12:37 PM
quite the opposite of Canberra, not Parliament House but the city itself
Attacks on Muslim women a 'sad indictment' on Brisbane
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/attacks-on-muslim-women-a-sad-indictment-on-brisbane-2014...