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.
I am perplexed D9275 with your link/comment apropos the (US based) Council on Foreign Relations considering their stated aims include:
"The CFR promotes globalization, free trade, reducing financial regulations on transnational corporations, and economic consolidation into regional blocs such as NAFTA or the European Union."
I look forward to some of your posts endorsing some/all of the above, but suspect the other pink Myops herein will not be pleased if you do. However, you will be in "goodf" company as the CFC blurb indicates:
"CFR members, including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel, and Erin Burnett"
"When Labor came to power in 2007 there was zero net debt."
"If net debt is used as a measure, the average monthly interest payment over the four years of the forward estimates is $953 million.,
Using net interest payment forecasts set out in the forward estimates in the most recent budget, Australia's average interest burden is forecast to be about $953 million a month until June 2017.
Oh gosh a politician exaggerating, and to the point of inflating net debt from $953 million to $1000 million
When you are assessing your financial position D9275, do you rely on a net, or gross final figure? Did you ever see a dollar of the promised and promised and promised and promised Swan Budget Surplus (net or gross) ?
"How did Wayne Swan mess up.... the answer is in 3 letters GFC"
So why did Swan continually state, again and again and again, that he would produce a budget surplus post GFC?, which he NEVER did.
Human Rights Commission should congratulate Scott Morrison: Tony Abbott responds to report on children in immigration detention
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the Australian Human Rights Commission ought to be "ashamed of itself" over its children in detention inquiry, which he says is a blatant attack on his government.
The commission report - tabled by the government on Wednesday - called for a royal commission after finding there were 233 recorded assaults involving children and 33 incidents of reported sexual assault. It also reported there were 207 incidents of "actual self harm" and 436 incidents of 436 threatened self harm.
....Frankly this is a blatantly partisan politicised exercise and the Human Rights Commission ought to be ashamed of itself."
When asked whether he felt any guilt over the horrific findings in the 315-page report, Mr Abbott replied: "None whatsoever."
ATO puts the fox in charge of the henhouse
The winners in this imbroglio, as usual, will be the current government's 'mates'.
The Australian Tax Office is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to allow the country's largest corporations to audit their own tax affairs through the corporations own private sector financial statement auditors. The ATO previously performed this tax audit work.
ATO is now planning to delegate to the private sector financial statement auditors of a corporation the audit of the tax practices and operations of the corporation. To a very large extent this plan by the ATO is relying on the professional independence of the financial auditors of the major corporations.
While this reasoning and justification by the ATO is tenuous at best, and wonderful in theory, the "real world" practical commercial reality is that in many major corporations, the external financial statement auditors cannot reasonably be perceived as being totally independent of the policies, operations and management of the corporation they are auditing.
