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 โ14-08-2015 08:47 PM
this came through on my twitter feed today and I thought it was pretty funny
on โ15-08-2015 11:59 AM
JO: " I love this line in your second article Deb.
"So it would seem the spin doctors and Ms Credlin are catastrophically useless at their jobs, because just when you think Abbott canโt get anymore bizarre, he goes and smashes all his previous records of stupid.."
I became quite excited at this "in your second article Deb" but on checking discovered that the status quo remains, not unexpectedly, and C&Ps still rule unabated. However in this case there is a little chuckle to be found as the source is that constantly turning ant-clockwise: AIMN, much absent since some lieutenants are AWOL.
Even though this article (C&P) is 6 months old, and the others even older, I have missed the AIMN "articles" from this self styled "independent" red rag and its "citizen journalists"
The question that now remains is why the sudden need to C&P old material from such a partisan source when plenty abounds today for the choosing, and to C&P at will ?
on โ15-08-2015 12:35 PM
yep, we are all laughing with you
on โ15-08-2015 12:40 PM
@debra9275 wrote:I'm still wondering how a man like him got a Rhodes scholarship Joono... You can see he's not a quick thinker every time he speaks
Mummy and Daddy + $$$$$$
on โ15-08-2015 12:57 PM
"I'm still wondering how a man like him got a Rhodes scholarship Joono... You can see he's not a quick thinker every time he speaks"
Perhaps he would thus be better suited to the world of forums and C&Ps !
on โ15-08-2015 01:05 PM
perhaps, he's not doing very well in his 'chosen role" is he
on โ15-08-2015 01:06 PM
like his daughter perhaps Polks?
on โ15-08-2015 01:14 PM
@nevynreally wrote:Some of you bang on about Abbot so much, are you all dyed in the wool Labour supporters, or bored and just posting for an argument? Both sides are only interested in themselves, neither side contains a closet Hitler. If you really want to change the world, or Australia, get out there and do it instead of trying to bash readers over the head with "your" views, over and over again.
Art least they have the courage to reveal "their views". We do not know what posters are doing to "change the world".
I have had time only once to hand out how-to-vote cards. They were not for Labor, or Liberal, or Nationals, or Greens. Care to guess?
on โ15-08-2015 01:55 PM
"Art least they have the courage to reveal "their views""
Actually via C&P of others views though, often without any individual thoughts, not that the AIMN really counts, or even the Jakarta Post.
on โ15-08-2015 02:16 PM
gosh, I have one poster complaining that I give views and another complaining that I don't
worthy of a chuckle really
while you are here, do I have your permission to post something from The Daily telegraph ( one of your favourite sources I've noticed)