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.
@j*oono wrote:Barnaby Joyce on four corners over the Halal certification story.
I don't have to worry about what goes into my mouth and I don't have to worry about what comes out of it.
I beg to differ.
what he actually said was:
"It doesn't worry me that it's halal. It doesn't worry me if the Seventh Day Adventists did it. It doesn't worry me if the Buddhists, ah, br- brought forward some new curry.
It doesn't worry me if I go to an Indian restaurant and the chef is, the chef is Hindu.
It doesn't worry me because, even on the premise of my religion, I don't have to worry about what goes into the mouth: I only have to worry about what comes out."
(which is based on a bible verse)
"oh yes i'd forgotten that the economy=we've stopped the boats"
Ah the fragility of memory ! Understandable when one recollects that the ALP failed to stop the boats, or produce a budget surplus.
Remember what proved to be the ultimate economic Swan song, repeated, and repeated, and repeated, and repeated, and repeated? : "I promise you a surplus garden", "I promise you a surplus garden", "I promise you a surplus garden", "I promise you a surplus garden", "I promise you a surplus garden",
This has to be worth a 
Here is an OS article from the New York Times covering very recent politics in the UK and the election of Jeremy Corbyn to become leader of the Opposition Labour Party.
Correction that has to be worth
OK, perhaps only
"pfftt"
"one link to one article from Jakarta post does not constitute trawling OS newspapers, if you look around CS you'll see other articles about that have been taken from jakarta post and other OS papers"
17-07-2014 Jakarta Post link
"the Jakarta Post published this story today, so other countries are thinking about climate change at this point"
24-03-2015 Jakarta Post link
"here is something interesting I noticed last night"
09-07-2014 NYT link
"an article from the New York Times about our way of stopping refugees"
A week ago NYT link
"interesting article from The New York Times on our asylum seeker policies"
The last 2 OS links, though over a year apart, could almost be carbon copies of each other, but I do understand how attractive they might appear to some.
"one link to one article from Jakarta post does not constitute trawling OS newspapers," Really?
PS
"I hope everyone's reading the Jakarta Post, that's a good way to keep informed of what's really going on"
