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.
@debra9275 wrote:allmost as good as you--- hope you've been reading the papers and keeping up with what's going on in our world
stuff happens
coming from someone who hardly posts outside of this thread or the RTR thread, and rarely, if ever, starts a thread of her own, that almost deserves the coveted five laughy-face award.
Almost.
it's true I don't post on a lot of threads and nor do I start endless threads every time I have a ''thought bubble" . I'm not really the attention seeking type does it bother you that I post on CS? I really can't see that it's any of your business what I do to be honest 
perhaps you should concentrate more on what you do, rather than what I do, just a bit of advice 
Gina Rinehart reduces minister Barnaby Joyce to a 'minion'
Barnaby Joyce had never even met this girl he tried to bully
The depth of mistrust between the Liberal leader and his deputy was starkly exposed.
Abbott told the meeting that, if ministers wanted to see it, he could have his office send around copies of the discussion paper. "We had been attempted to be duped," said a cabinet member speaking after the meeting.
Turnbull was incensed: "Here we go again," he told his Prime Minister in the meeting. "Talking about something as momentous as this and there is nothing in front of us. There's a discussion paper that only a few of us have seen. This is a shambles."
Turnbull asked Abbott directly if the Daily Telegraph had been briefed on the proposal for the next morning's paper, which would have meant the cabinet meeting had been pre-empted by the Prime Minister's press office. The Telegraph is a favoured Abbott outlet for signalling his moves in advance.
It had not, replied Abbott.
Yet the next morning the Telegraph carried a report saying that the proposal would be "included in the bill" that had been approved by the cabinet the night before. Oops.
The day after the meeting, Abbott told the media that the proposal was in a discussion paper, and not in the bill that he would be asking Parliament to pass.
interesting that.
so, for it were abbott Dutton and Morrison
against it and the way abbott tried to push it past them... so far Bishop, Turnbull, Brandis, Joyce and Pyne
how amazing that the Daily Telegraph knows what Cabinet is going to pass before they actually do 
@j*oono wrote:Unbelievable leaking from that cabinet meeting Deb. Do you think Abbott will survive to the next election or will it be a Turnbull Bishop team?
I see the cavalry's arrived
Joono, I thought it was even more bizarre that abbott goes to the Daily Telegraph and tells them what cabinet is passing- before they've even passed it
"hope you've been reading the papers and keeping up with what's going on in our world"
I would prefer the 'REAL' world rather than the ubiquitous "our world". However this did evoke a chuckle ;
" In one of the articles, I can't remember which one , it said that he has no power in cabinet and that's why he clings to Peta Credlin"
Does that warrant any degree of acceptance without the usual C&P/link?, and even those occasionally have been nonsense.
Good to see the lieutenants on relief duty and the tag team operating
