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.
it always pays to read an article first before commenting imo
anyway
back to the real world 
another gaffe or a bit more confusion??
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made an embarrassing blunder, ridiculing his own government's investment in technology education.
During question time on Wednesday, Labor leader Bill Shorten asked the Prime Minister whether he would support coding being taught in every primary and secondary school.
The Abbott government has already invested $3.5 million in the coding across the curriculum package. While the program does not make coding compulsory, it will develop a suite of resources that support and promote best practice teaching across different year levels, including primary schools. Science and business leaders have long called for coding to be taught formally in schools.
Mr Abbott quickly tried to backtrack, telling question time, "We are doing it Madam Speaker, we are doing it"
"So it turns out that the NBN is making money from the slowed down original NBN and has a grand total of just under 70 connections on the super duper new faster cheaper MTM. "
And if you're wondering what happened to the manager in charge of the asbestos in Telstra pits issue he now works for NBN managing the Telstra pits issue. NBN are now also paying for the asbestos removal instead of Telstra, as part of the so called better deal. (not wondering actually)
I have this tendency to view with scepticism some posts sans any reliable confirmation , especially when it has a technical flavour, so where are the links apropos pits and the 70 connections (what speed up/down would that be?)
As for the NBN paying Telstra, what is new?, they promised, when the Circus was in town, and blackmailing them because their NBN was a ALP lemon then, to fork over $11 billion to Telstra (over time), which is why I bought a lot of their shares back then (Jun 2010.)
Dec 2014
NBN Co’s engineers will be perplexed in 2015 because they will look at the HFC networks and be determined to upgrade the HFC networks to provide 100/8 Mbps before the HFC networks are connected to the NBN. No doubt Telstra will want this outcome as well because it provides an opportunity to charge NBN Co for the upgrade and provide an opportunity to improve the infrastructure for Telstra’s business, mobile backhaul and Foxtel services that will continue to operate over the HFC network.
But for NBN Co an awful lot now depends on Telstra and there’s likely to be some frustration at NBN Co as Telstra continually reminds NBN Co staff that it is now in control of the NBN rollout and will move the process forward at its own pace and in such a way as to maximise the rivers of gold.
The real world out of the "pit":
And of course the yummy guaranteed dividends, The ALP were very good to me then!
this one is paywalled for me but it's another interesting article if you can read it
May 17, 2014 - JOE Hockey is perhaps the richest treasurer since Edward “Red Ted” Theodore of the 1930s, with property estimated to be worth well over $10 .million
no wonder he thought poor people don't drive cars
