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.
That's shocking Debra. So much for the boats have stopped lie.
and what about what they were told about why they were sent back to Indonesia?? 
"here is something interesting I noticed last night"
This has echoes of BIG and the time when a comment was posted that came from a Tehran State run media outlet. It was very cathartic for the MYOPS, but nonsense.
"The illegal immigrants had reached Australia’s Christmas Island and stayed there for three days, an official of the Sukabumi Immigration office, Markus Lenggo, quoted the immigrants as saying."
So the source is: the immigrants via an official of the Sukabumi Immigration office via the Jarkata Post!. All of them would hardly be enamoured with the malodorous Australian government, but I am sure could easily be kissy-kissy with the rose coloured/smelling MYOPS.
3 days on Christmas Island and not a peep from the locals ?
3 days on Christmas Island and then the 15 were "deported" contrary to migration law?
"so have we 'stopped the boats' or not??"
It would appear so, if the desperate attempt to quote "dodgy" OS sources are but an example. However, some definitely have stopped research (did it ever commence?) together with any basic logic.
People who arrive without authorisation at an excised off-shore place (such as the Cocos Islands or Christmas Island) will be detained on Christmas Island or moved to off-shore processing centres in Nauru or Manus Province in Papua New Guinea.
"any asylum seeker arriving in Australia by boat after 13 August 2012 may be transferred to Regional Processing Centres (RPCs) in Nauru or Manus Island (PNG) for processing, subject to a pre-transfer assessment being conducted by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship."
I will see what BIG's ayatollah might have to say!
For those with memories: Durka Durka
Waste of money trying to 'sell' a dud budget
Taxpayers billed $20,000 for Joe Hockey's VIP flights to sell budget to Liberal Party faithful
Just days after delivering last year's deeply unpopular federal budget, Treasurer Joe Hockey billed taxpayers more than $20,000 for a series of VIP flights to spruik his economic plan to the Liberal Party faithful.
But Mr Hockey's office has said the 24 hours of travel – to address a lavish Liberal fundraiser in Melbourne and a Liberal National Party gathering in Brisbane – was fully in line with guidelines and entitlements.
Mr Hockey took 11 of his federal Coalition colleagues, plus staff, on the government's 737 business jet from Canberra to Melbourne on the evening of May 15 last year, shortly after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten delivered his budget reply speech to the Parliament.
The cost of the flight was $2640, in addition to the usual operating costs of the RAAF's so-called special purpose aircraft. The plane returned to Canberra empty at a further cost of $2310 the same night.
The main purpose of the trip was a breakfast speech Mr Hockey delivered to the Higgins 200 Club, one of the Liberals' most successful fundraising groups. The club was set up to support the member for the safe Liberal seat of Higgins, currently occupied by rising star Kelly O'Dwyer.
Mr Hockey told the 850-strong gathering that the budget was "right for the nation" and "right for the Australian people".
After the Higgins speech, Mr Hockey and his staff took another VIP jet – a smaller Challenger 604 - from Melbourne to Brisbane. The jet was pre-positioned in Melbourne at a cost of $3300, the cost of the flight itself was $6270 and the plane returned to Canberra empty at a cost of $5610.
That means the cost of getting Mr Hockey and five of his colleagues from Melbourne to Brisbane was $15,180. The total for the two stops was $20,130, in addition to usual operating costs.
