on 20-04-2014 10:21 PM
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.
on 02-02-2015 02:32 PM
on 02-02-2015 02:34 PM
How much income tax do you contribute, did you say?
Wasn't that a big fat zero?
Rather hypocritical to continue making out it's the families ripping the system off when you know it's not the truth of the matter and any family support they get is temporary.
on 02-02-2015 02:36 PM
am
In NSW, labor is just as corrupt. In fact the whole she bang stinks up there.
Almost as bad a Qld under Joh !
on 02-02-2015 02:37 PM
@gleee58 wrote:How much income tax do you contribute, did you say?
Wasn't that a big fat zero?
I know quite a few who's taxabale income is almost zero, they leave some just because it is an automatic audit if it is zero !
Minimising your taxable income is legally legit if done within the law.
02-02-2015 02:39 PM - edited 02-02-2015 02:40 PM
02-02-2015 02:41 PM - edited 02-02-2015 02:42 PM
A LNP foible? Always wanting to talk about the past?
The speech that cannot save the Prime Minister
Tony Abbott pitches for his political life but will it be enough?
But in looking to his own future, Abbott reached back to the past in a speech heavy with familiar slogans even as he confessed to political mistakes and promised to do better.reac
What Abbott's MPs will have been looking for were clear signs of a contrite prime minister with a clear plan – and the political courage – to set a new course for his government.
Abbott gave some of the necessary signals as he ditched the friendless paid parental leave policy and showed contrition for controversial "captain's calls" on that scheme and the knighthood for Prince Philip.
But after clinging to the PPL for so long, many MPs believe that decision was more about saving his prime ministership than setting a new and better policy direction.
The speech may not be enough to save Abbott's leadership but in reality, it is nigh on impossible for any political leader to "reset" and save themselves in a single speech.
Liberal MPs, already furious and fearing the federal government is headed for a Queensland-style electoral wipe out, will still be pondering how much has changed after a speech that was rarely inspiring.
Abbott's hammered time and again key messages from the years prior to the the 2013 election included the need to reduce debt and deficit, the Coalition's now-successful pledge to stop the boats and the axing of the carbon tax.
Abbott stressed that we are "all on a journey to build a better Australia".
At times, he appeared to get bogged down as he admitted the government needed to better explain its narrative.
More needed to be said about his vision for the future.
02-02-2015 02:57 PM - edited 02-02-2015 03:02 PM
D 9275 Um that's a bit old isn't it 2010?? even older than 2012 .
I have mentioned why the date before to you D9275, but I guess the past is (best) forgotten (sorry A3).
on 13-10-2014 11:24 AM I wrote:
Old graph - 2009-2010. Actually A3 if you research you will find that:
Every six years the ABS tries to figure out how much households at each level of income receive from or pay to government.
"different govt. too"??? How exactly does that alter the figures D9275, reference please.
A modern interpretation, I prefer the ABS figures though
March 2014 Australian.
THE degree of ignorance about the distribution of tax across households is remarkable, especially given that the truth is so easily and freely accessible. For politicians perhaps it is wilful; the facts suit neither side.
The Left typically tries to create the impression the “rich” aren’t paying their “fair share”. Consider former treasurer Wayne Swan’s attacks on “mining billionaires” and welfare groups’ continual prattling about the financial benefit of concessional super taxation to high-income earners.
The Right, meanwhile, evokes the ordinary, “battling” taxpayer, whose hard-won earnings, so the argument goes, are siphoned off to pay for inefficient or ineffective government programs.
But the overwhelming bulk of people in Australia pay no net tax at all. High-income earners have become a giant pinata that the majority hit for extra money to pay for whatever new social spending programs the political class proposes to stay in office.
"Meanwhile, the top 10 per cent of taxpayers - with taxable incomes of more than $105,500 - paid 46 per cent, up from 45.3 per cent a year earlier. The bottom third paid less than 5 per cent in both periods."
THE degree of ignorance about the distribution of tax across households is remarkable.
I agree.
02-02-2015 03:24 PM - edited 02-02-2015 03:25 PM
mm12 - what are your thoughts on the current PM's competency levels and the uninspiring speech he gave to the Press Club today? Those issues seems to be the main focus on peoples minds today, rather than graphs from 2009-2010 (sorry).
on 02-02-2015 03:45 PM
no doubt about The Australian. newspaper MM
best friends one day, enemies the next
on 02-02-2015 04:25 PM
http://acoss.org.au/media/release/a_small_business_tax_cut_is_not_a_jobs_plan_acoss
In responding to the Prime Minister Tony Abbott's National Press Club speech today, ACOSS has urged the Government to develop a national jobs plan with unemployment expected to increase to as much as 6.5% mid-year and the number of people unemployed long-term rising by more than 12% in the past 12 months.
"It's hard to see how a 1.5% tax cut to small business will help address the current revenue problem facing our Federal Budget or help those disadvantaged in the labour market to get a job," said ACOSS CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie.
"What we need is a comprehensive employment strategy not more ad hoc decisions, especially one to cut taxes at a time when we are aiming to restore revenue and are about to begin a review of the tax system