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.
Thanks for the link debra, will read that.
Who said were are the emitter of harmful gases?" "Everyone? Oh"
'What do you mean, what do I mean? Stop trying to confuse me. Who are you again?'
Source: News Corp
hockey is such a goose, seems to be a LNP trait - everything true is "ridiculous" but their lies are supposed to be taken as fact with nothing to back them up but spin and bluster. Maybe they will try and hold an RC into The World Resources Institute...
Hockey brushes off climate claims
Climate experts have no doubt Australia has the highest per capita emissions in the developed world.
But Treasurer Joe Hockey disputed this as he was quizzed on Australia's climate action in an interview on BBC's Hardtalk program, which aired on Tuesday Australian time.
The interviewer said Australia was one of the "dirtiest, most greenhouse emitting countries in the OECD group of developed countries" and asked Mr Hockey what Australia was doing to clean up its act.
"The comment you just made is absolutely ridiculous," Mr Hockey said.
However, the most recent data from the World Resources Institute showed Australia remained the highest emitter on a population basis, just ahead of Canada, Estonia, Luxembourg and the United States.
Former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan says the fact that Australia is the OECD's highest emitter per capita makes it even more important for the nation to put in place an effective policy response.
"Yet again, Hockey's ignorance and ineptitude was on display for the world to see," he said in Sydney.
Mr Swan also told the Lowy Institute nations such as the US and Germany want climate change on the agenda for the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane in November.
"At best, Australia has gone from leader to laggard on climate change. At worst, it's gone from lifter to leaner," Mr Swan said.
He said including the issue of "energy efficiency" on the G20 agenda was a fig leaf "to camouflage the anger and dismay within the international community at Australia's stance as the first nation to go backwards".
