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.
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@outdoorhunting1 wrote:
1200 + dead,
And Julian has the audacity to call Morrison
"who has shown himself to be a hypocrite, willing to harm innocent people for political purposes."
So it's OK to kill them by his reckoning.Most people get smarter when they are older.
... then there's Tony
Already mentioned before here, but worth repeating. Just so those waiting for her book to be in the $2 bin or a Charity shop will know they will have to wait a lot longer for that to happen.
More than a year after she left the Lodge, former prime minister Julia Gillard clearly has no trouble drawing a crowd in Canberra.
Fresh from a rumoured six-figure advance and with the chance to give her side of the turbulent years of Labor government, Ms Gillard spent more than two hours signing copies of her memoirMy Story in Canberra on Tuesday.
Canberra Centre management estimated the crowd at more than 750 people, with a line of political junkies and Christmas shoppers crawling down City Walk.
Australia's first female prime minister was to sign more copies of the 450-page book at a Manuka bookshop on Tuesday afternoon.
Described by reviewers as candid and insightful, the book could eventually rival former prime minister John Howard's record autobiography Lazarus Rising, which sold 100,000 copies.
The book, published by Knopf, is already the best-selling political title of the year despite being described by leadership rival Kevin Rudd as a worthy "contribution to Australian fiction".
Crowds line up to see former prime minister Julia Gillard at a book signing at the Canberra Centre. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Someone who wouldn't disclose what shop it was that actually where they bought it from. 
It may have been less than RRP, but often the big booksellers do undercut others a bit, even on new releases.
