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.
@am*3 wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:is the Canberra Times a 'lefty" paper too ?
I don't think so
Any paper that dares criticise the PM is definitely a leftie paper!
apparently so Am, how dare they criticize our illustrious leader ( and his stupid policies)
...and his gaffes and backflips, and poor judgement, and incompetency....
how dare they even be objective, they should all be toeing the party line 
Desperate and running scared.. of having a leader dumped so early in his PM'ship.
ABC
Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has declined to defend the Commission's embattled president Gillian Triggs.
Professor Triggs came under attack from the Federal Government last week, with the Prime Minister labelling her report into children in immigration detention a "transparent stitch-up".
It has also been reported the Government sought her resignation a fortnight before the report was released.
The Forgotten Children report found detaining children breached Australia's international obligations, and called for a royal commission and for the children in immigration detention to be released.
"I support all my colleagues," Mr Wilson said, when asked to support Professor Triggs at the National Press Club .
"I'm not going to get involved in fuelling the debate around this report."
Mr Wilson said while long-term arbitrary detention of children is not in anyone's interests, he supported the government's asylum seeker policy.
"Stopping the boats matters. So does stopping the deaths at sea. The follow-through is to make sure that children and families are let out of detention," he said.
"This is a consequence of a policy over 23 years, of all parties in government."
There are 252 children in immigration detention, with 116 on Nauru and 136 in Australian detention centres, according to figures supplied by the office of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Gosh this C&P sans thought is so very easy.
