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 โ26-02-2015 09:34 AM
on โ26-02-2015 09:35 AM
@vicr3000 wrote:
I do like the first paragraph of that article.
"Late in the afternoon of February 11, a woman walked into one of the two Fairfax newsrooms in Parliament House Canberra, placed a document on the desk of a reporter, and proceeded to tell the reporter the highlights of a story she should write.
I noticed the visitor because she had such a proprietary attitude. She turned out to be Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of the Greens."
Just about sums her up nicely.
I also noticed yesterday in the hearings that she berated a Senator for something she had done herself.
She is a Hypocrit of the highest order.
No, the journalist who wrote that is the hypocrite. When men do the same they are more than happy oblige.
on โ26-02-2015 09:37 AM
โ26-02-2015 09:46 AM - edited โ26-02-2015 09:46 AM
The Greens do it, us Hunters and Shooters do it by using Social media of all types to get people to vote and win the poll.
So I take little notice of polls.
wrong again sorry...
"I thought you might like to hear a man's voice," Senator Barry O'Sullivan's voice boomed during a fiery Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday morning.
btw check out the poll bottom of the page
on โ26-02-2015 09:47 AM
on โ26-02-2015 09:49 AM
on โ26-02-2015 09:50 AM
guess you were out voted then
on โ26-02-2015 09:53 AM
Yes
At the end of the day, Triggs can write what the hell she likes, the Gov't doesn't have to take any notice of her
or the Commission, or any UN Childrens Rights conventions which she points out numerous times the detention
of children is in breech of.
And what is done about it ?
Nothing, because they are toothless tigers !
on โ26-02-2015 09:54 AM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/peter-slipper-wins-cabcharge-taxi-conviction-appeal/6262018
Former federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper has won his appeal against three dishonesty convictions
Mr Slipper has long argued he should have been able to pay back the money like Prime Minister Tony Abbott did after he used taxpayer's money to attend a former colleague's wedding.
well, well, fancy that, not that I particularly like the man, but I do have a sense of right anf wrong
on โ26-02-2015 09:55 AM