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 used to be phone towers even mobile phones, power lines came in for "protests" with no idea between EM or ES radiation. Natural gas wells where protesters do not know the difference between CSG bores and "fracking" bores, and had no idea of the quantity and age of Qld's well established gas supplies.
Here in Melbourne a while ago we had a group of protesters fiercely opposing the "Bay" channel deepening, also quoting dire consequences which the costly extra scientific reports refuted and which did not eventuate.
The common theme is that mostly the protesters have very little scientific grounding, refuse to accept scientific research/past studies, and use biased/erroneous information, and knee jerks.
A good tactic would be to highlight actual problems encountered/caused by similar established mining activities, but that does not seem to happen. In the case of Port Phillip Bay protesters they were wrong, and have sunk with little trace, but cost the Victorian taxpayer many millions of dollars in extra studies, which were also rejected.
Oh gosh "near prime agricultural land" How near is near?
Apparantly her response was she "did it for the country". 🙂 As it was a liberal fundraising event there is no question it should be repaid. They certainly wouldn't allow the ALP or Greens to get away with it.
Mrs Bishop's total expenses for the period from July 1 to December 31, 2014 add up to just under $400,000, making her one of the biggest spenders in Parliament if you leave aside once-off office fit-out costs.
And $90,000 for a two-week European trip partly aimed at securing her a plum new job. Seems exessive for a job interview.
