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.
Regurgitating appears to be de rigeur lately, as the driving "habits" of Qld. MPs was covered some 350 posts ago, so it is my turn, not that I give a fig regarding Qld parochial politics
As history and BIG images are "in", I give you some Qld Alp driving history:
2007
A Queensland Labor MP has been stood down as a parliamentary secretary and told he will never be transport minister after details of his bad driving record were revealed.
Michael Choi was stood down as parliamentary secretary to the transport minister after Premier Anna Bligh was alerted to his long list of driving offences.
2007
Karen Struthers, the ALP parliamentary secretary to the state's health minister and MP for Algester, was arrested on Friday night after blowing 0.16 in a breath test while driving a government car.
2004
Queensland State ALP MP Gary Fenlon Member for Greenslopes — now the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport Trade Employment and IR was involved in a serious road smash on that State’s Sunshine Coast in 2004. Premier Anna Bligh said Mr Fenlon had accumulated several speeding fines over the past few years. His 2004 incident resulted from driving “without due care and attention” when he veered into a woman at a petrol station leaving her with life-injuries.
However the ALP parliamentarians are clear winners (and not just in Queensland) when it comes to criminal convictions, the child sex convictions are particularly disturbing
