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.
@idlewhile wrote:That fact about the Labor debt is 100% true but we can always rely on the ABC to skew it out of context and the left to lap it up.
I bet you read, the Australian, The courier mail and the daily telegraph 
@am*3 wrote:
"In witness protection" said a journalist on the Insiders.
ABC's Insiders this morning finished with a clip of Shorten (Leader of the Opposition?) at a caucus meeting announcing:
"We will fight to the last drop of our breath the brutal attack on the poor in Australia"
One could be excused thinking that after the years of bloodletting prevalent in the days of the Circus, that today there is none left to give.
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@debra9275 wrote:
@idlewhile wrote:That fact about the Labor debt is 100% true but we can always rely on the ABC to skew it out of context and the left to lap it up.
I bet you read, the Australian, The courier mail and the daily telegraph
You mean media that is not totally left biased like unfairfax and the Age and all the other Trotsky rags.
Well no, I read widely and comprehensively and I never take anything the ABC regurgitates as truth.
Funny how the left rage against any media that is not of the left. They did it through the hell of Rudd/Gillard/Rudd and now they are doing it with a different government in power. Never satisfied and the old mantra is tired and useless, comrades, get another rant, read from another song book it may lighten your life a bit.
