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.
Who knows what traps you have fallen into
Another one of Abbotts 'besties who is also a prominnent journalist at The Australian who has joined the chorus of criticism re "Knightmare".
Prime Minister Tony Abbott close personal friend, The Australian newspaper's Greg Sheridan.
In 2012, Sheridan wrote that Mr Abbott was "my best friend at that time. We talked over everything. The meaning of life, the purpose of politics, who'd win the rugby league grand final, what girls we planned to ask out, petty squabbles we might have had with our parents".
Despite the pair being close, earlier this week Sheridan joined a chorus of criticism of the Prime Minister's "dismaying" decision to knight Prince Philip.
"It is wrong in principle, strategically mistaken and tactically disastrous," he wrote.
There's another (State) by-election in SA tomorrow - not as important as the QLD one, but it will be interesting after the recent Fisher by-election (won by Labor and giving them a majority in the lower House).
It's a safe LNP seat - the 2PP at the 2014 election was 58%LNP/42%ALP
The Fisher result showed there was a definite leakage from Federal issues into the State arena, and after a few more months of ineptitude by Abbott & Co. culminating in the Prince Philip fiasco we may see this trend continue.
If LNP doesn't win well, then the lame duck Leader of the Opposition (what's his name again ???) will be kaput.
LOL 
Boris LOL LOL LOL...................
Have you read this article?
PM may face a spill as polls hint huge upset
http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/pm-may-face-a-spill-as-polls-hint-huge-upset/2528110/
The LNP.....whether in Qld or WA or NSW or Canberra is just BAD POLITICS........
or this article?
Comrade Campbell To Lose and Launch Coup
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/01/comrade-campbell-to-lose-and-launch-coup/
Australian politics has reached a new level of sick now, surely.
Kleptocratic dictatorships by the criminally insane.
