on โ20-04-2014 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 โ17-02-2015 01:54 PM
Except those clowns you've added into your picture weren't taken in parliament like the others
the one of the right was.
โ17-02-2015 01:58 PM - edited โ17-02-2015 01:58 PM
on โ17-02-2015 01:59 PM
I can play that game too. I have plenty more if you want to keep playing
โ17-02-2015 02:01 PM - edited โ17-02-2015 02:01 PM
Adelaide's submarine makers are yet to receive details from the Federal Government on how to bid for a contract to build the nation's next fleet of submarines, a defence expert says.
looks like no-one knows what is going on
on โ17-02-2015 02:03 PM
on โ17-02-2015 02:04 PM
Elliotโs oped was probably intended as a piece of click-bait contrarianism. Weโre not likely to see his โbenign dictatorshipโ any time soon. But rest assured, if ever such proposals to abolish democracy and install โtough-minded professionalsโ start to get a serious hearing, weโll be assured that anyone who disagrees belongs to the unpatriotic elite.
last night on qanda newscorp's Gred Sherriden was pretty much complaining about democracy
โ17-02-2015 02:06 PM - edited โ17-02-2015 02:09 PM
No kidding (re photo with Shorten)? I thought the ones on the left were LNP MP's
Stating the obvious?
What is worth - gaping mouth or tongue flicking in and out?
PM Tony Abbott, current PM, stuck on a hamster wheel going round and round at present waiting for the axe to fall.
on โ17-02-2015 02:08 PM
not photo-shopped like yours Julia, but a really dumb pic
on โ17-02-2015 02:10 PM
I haven't seen that one before, debra. One that should have ended up on the cutting room floor!
on โ17-02-2015 02:11 PM
The United Nations has rushed to the defence of Gillian Triggs, urging the federal government to "respect the rule" of law in the protection of human rights and the Australian Human Rights Commission president's "high reputation".
The UN's working group on arbitrary detention has commended the work by the commission in its latest report, saying it considers the commission's statements on international law and human rights as "highly authoritative and their findings reliable".
Professor Triggs was heavily criticised by the Abbott government last week for its inquiry into children in immigration detention. Prime Minister Tony Abbott accused the commission of orchestrating a "transparent stitch-up" by releasing its report while the Coalition government was in power.
It was then revealed the government sought the resignation of Professor Triggs two weeks before it launched its extraordinary attack on the commission over its children in detention report.