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.
in relation to an earlier story I posted about a complaint
The Liberal National Party (LNP) says a TV advertisement promoting the Newman Government was run without its knowledge, a mistake Labor says breaches the code of conduct.
myoclan, they secretly pushed lots of nasty things through just before Christmas
I had no idea that the 'stakeholders' consulted was the minerals council
how corrupt is that?? 
"myoclan, they secretly pushed lots of nasty things through just before Christmas"
Secretly? without the scrutiny of the Senate?
"I had no idea that the 'stakeholders' consulted was the minerals council" Research (sorry), do not accept unacknowledged C&P copy here.
"how corrupt is that??" Corruption nil (look it up)
You still have no idea, as the "stakeholders that were consulted were the big 4 audit firms, NOT the "minerals council"
MIC I would guess you have not read all of you unacknowledged C&P from the SMH because having copied:
"Only a week earlier, the government had back-flipped on a proposed tax avoidance reform (Section 25-90) entailing some $600 million in tax deductions that multinational companies could claim on interest on their debts in offshore subsidiaries", you conveniently omitted this from the article:
"In the lead-up to last year's federal election, the Coalition promised to kick off the "next wave of comprehensive" tax reform with the delivery of a white paper in its first term in government. This is expected to drop in the next couple of months, and it may surprise......"
(a back-flip always ends up facing the original direction)
As for long overdue overall taxation strategies the ALP/ACTU commissioned the Henry Tax Review which
produced 138 recommendations, most of which were ignored by the Rudd and Julia Gillard governments (they adopted 1.75 of its 138 recommendations, why?, because the bleating of the "gimme gimme" herd (both colours) would have increased by many dB, used as they are to hand feeding and not being prepared to walk up a hill to access greener pastures.
Tony Abbott and the dangers of cycling
MAMIL (middle aged man in lycra)
"Doctor's advice to Tony Abbott: give up the bike before you have an accident."
That was the headline in last Friday's edition of The Australian, in which Graeme Killer, who recently retired after being a physician to every prime minister since Paul Keating, warned the current PM that "one day he'll come off".
"I encourage exercise totally but riding a bike?" he was quoted as saying
Recently, Fairfax columnist Sam de Brito, pre-empting the PM's physician, asked "should endangered Mamils reconsider their sport?"
He [Abbott] takes his bike overseas and has been seen on rides in such diverse (and deeply enviable) locations as the Champs-Elysees in Paris and the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On the domestic front, in November he went for a spin with Mark Rutte, the PM of that most cycling of nations, the Netherlands. Britain's David Cameron, however, declined a similar invitation.
Yes, there are risks. But every day, hundreds of thousands of Australians get on their bikes and ride without incident.
As for Tony Abbott, the official response from his office was simply: "The PM has no plans to stop cycling just yet."
Nor should he.
