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.
@monman12 wrote:A3: "The Abbott government has entrenched its impact on the High Court by appointing a judge with Coalition links who is so young she will be in office for the next 20 years."
"Only links to the Coalition " ?
The ALP were much more adept when It came to High Court appointments:
In February 1975, Whitlam appointed Lionel Murphy to a vacancy on the High Court of Australia when he was still a ALP senator, actually leader of the Senate.
Wow! 1975!!!!
You had to go back a looong looong looong way in time to find that one 
"The Defence Minister should be able to name the leader of the group with which Australia is at war, plain and simple"
'If our government believes Islamic State is a sufficiently threatening organisation that it is prepared to send Australian troops across the globe to help fight it, the prime decision-makers should have the essential facts about the terror group so readily at their fingertips that they do not have mental blanks."
'As the government prepared to commit more troops to confront the Islamic State, the precise nature of this complex organisation should have been foremost in the Defence Minister's mind. His mental blank suggests it was not.'
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Photo: AP
@debra9275 wrote:
@monman12 wrote:A3: "The Abbott government has entrenched its impact on the High Court by appointing a judge with Coalition links who is so young she will be in office for the next 20 years."
"Only links to the Coalition " ?
The ALP were much more adept when It came to High Court appointments:
In February 1975, Whitlam appointed Lionel Murphy to a vacancy on the High Court of Australia when he was still a ALP senator, actually leader of the Senate.
Wow! 1975!!!!
You had to go back a looong looong looong way in time to find that one
40 years!
He only served 11 years, Abbott's appointment has 20 years left.
haha! it is funny
would've had to have done a bit of research to come up with that one
