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.
Number of student enrolments at NSW TAFE colleges now 'secret'. 
NSW
Enrolments at Dapto TAFE fell by more than 20 per cent last year in an apparent setting in of inertia at the once-busy site.
Queried in parliament, Education Minister Adrian Piccoli disclosed the enrolment number after months of speculation by unions and area Labor MPs, but added such data would be kept secret in future under the government’s incoming Smart and Skilled reforms, which will create new competition between public and private tertiary bodies.
‘‘The release of enrolment data for individual colleges under the new VET environment of Smart and Skilled could commercially disadvantage those colleges,’’ the minister wrote in response to the question.
Please provide a link to prove that Gillards work of fiction is number 1 on the book selling list
The picture of TA's book is a very poor example of what you are trying to slander but then thats expected and total lack of research is also par for the course
The TA book even the updated edition is now 4 years OLD
Battlelines: Tony Abbott: Second edition edition (January 2010)
Research is always advisable when you attempt to slander someone or make a poor example....
@gleee58 wrote:Julia Gillard, number 1 this week.
Julia is doing a book signing in town on the 10th of November, my daughter is super excited but we know that the line is going to be really long so we plan to get there really early.
lots of lovely graphs with this story
Tony Abbott’s call for GST reform smacks of hypocrisy
The government would have us believe they would redress any social burdens resulting from a change in the GST
While a mature debate is always welcome, the timing of Abbott’s call is rather interesting. I guess a debate could only be had after winning office because in August last year, when the (inevitable and accurate) suggestions that a Coalition government would seek to raise the GST were made, Tony Abbott responded by pledging, “let me be as categoric as I can. The GST won’t change, full stop, end of story.”
Not so much the end of the story as an intermission, it seems.
So was a mature debate on the carbon price or the mining tax never needed while Abbott was in opposition?
Similarly, we can dismiss calls by the prime minister, such as those he made in a speech to the Business Council of Australia when he invited “the Labor party, the state governments to join Team Australia and think of our country and not just the next election” as pure political posturing.
Tony Abbott was certainly thinking about the next election last August, and given that he is using the moronic work-shopped term “Team Australia”, which previously had only applied to national security, it’s abundantly clear he continues now to think only of the next election.
His calls for bipartisanship on terrorism seem to have shifted to a call for the same bipartisanship on economic issues.
But this hypocrisy and politicisation is not reason enough to dismiss the debate about the GST, neither is it the only problem the government needs to counter.
It must also prosecute Tony Abbott’s assertion that he believes in “lower, simpler, fairer taxes”. For low taxes are not necessarily fairer, neither are simpler ones, and fairness does not end with taxation – indeed it is just the start.
And given the government’s first budget was overwhelmingly targeted at hurting poorer households over wealthier ones, it appears that when the prime minister talks about fairness he’s not talking about equality.
I have written a number of times that we need to discuss changing the GST. Indirect taxes such as the GST are generally regarded as more efficient than income tax. But what you gain in efficiency you lose in equality.
Regardless of what you earn, you pay the same amount of GST on an item. And because poorer people spend more of their income on goods and services than do wealthier people, a GST is invariably regressive – it hurts you more the less you earn.
There are two ways to change the GST. The first is to just raise it. But this does nothing to make it simpler. The exemptions for certain foods would remain. It would also fail to alleviate the fact that we now spend more of our income on goods and services not covered by the GST than we did when it was introduced.
So any reform to the GST must involve broadening its base by including items such as fresh food, water and sewerage, and health and education expenses.
But the most recent household income and expenditure data, released earlier this month, shows that lower income households spend more of their income on these items than wealthier households do:
@nero_wulf wrote:
@iapetus_rocks wrote:Monman. Do you still pay no taxes on your income, or has your conscience re your obligation to help participate to create a great Australian society kicked in yet?
I am sure that mm12 is like me, we pay what our accountants tell us to pay within the tax law at the time in Australia
If thats zero or very little and its legal then so be it..
so part of the "leaners" then? I do remember the thread - was nerowulfs - yes?
Welcome to the welfare nation: Half of Australia’s families pay no net tax
The welfare mentality is alive and well in this country
