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.
"The government's used the term 'Team Australia' a lot. I'm worried about the emergence of 'Team Idiot'." ~ Bill Shorten
"The ABC once used to mean the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It now means Abbott's Budget Cuts." ~ Bill Shorten
"[Tony Abbott] lives in a house with no mirrors because if he did, he'd see who should be blamed." ~ Bill Shorten
The actual reply was "pardon not granted"
care factor is still zero
@*julia*2010 wrote:"The ABC once used to mean the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It now means Abbott's Budget Cuts." ~ Bill Shorten
hey I like that one, it's really very clever
but careful Julia there are two whole pages of tony abbott gaffes. just going to get some for you now
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’
On Julia Gillard:
‘Gillard won’t lie down and die’ 
On homosexuality:
. ‘I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened’
. ‘If you’d asked me for advice I would have said to have – adopt a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about all of these things…
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I’m proud of that…’
There may not be a great job for them but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done’
‘It’s not goodies versus baddies, it’s baddies versus baddies’
and there is so much more, not sure which is my favourite amongst those
Tony Abbott considers changing the Australian flag. Turns out there's no point
Tony Abbott, as everyone knows, is a champion of the current Australian flag.
It comes as a something of a shock, then, to learn he is pretty relaxed about changing a bit of detail on it.
It comes as a greater shock to discover there's no point because he hasn't studied it in quite the detail you'd imagine - the detail that sits below the part that he seems most to cherish.
If he were to have looked at the big star below the Union Jack at any time in the last century or so, he'd have known how many starry, starry points it has.
"I'm not in favour of changing the flag, I've got to say," he said, unnecessarily. "Although I have to say that if the Commonwealth star was to be a 7-pointed star rather than a 6-pointed star, that's hardly a massive change. I would say that that is an evolution rather than a revolution."
Well, no. It wouldn't be any sort of change at all, let alone a revolution.
The Commonwealth star already has seven points. They have been there for some time
