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.
@debra9275 wrote:
he's a character
floating around somewhere is a petition calling on her to resign with almost 70,000 signatures
This journalist (who I have a lot of time for) says that a resignation is likely. Will be interesting to see what happens.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/07/bst_20150730_0755.mp3
@monman12 wrote:"hope you went and checked your portfolio
especially if you hadn't noticed a "crisis"
sorry if you only found out about it here'
Anyway the XAO appears to have missed ALL the crisis:
sooo funny and soooooo predictable.
Pulls out a graph every single time he's challenged :D:D:D:D:D:D
@gleee58 wrote:
@monman12 wrote:
"hope you went and checked your portfolio
especially if you hadn't noticed a "crisis"
sorry if you only found out about it here'
Anyway the XAO appears to have missed ALL the crisis:
sooo funny and soooooo predictable.
Pulls out a graph every single time he's challenged :D:D:D:D:D:D
It's a monman thing
"Pulls out a graph every single time he's challenged." Challenged ???, not within my lexicon.
"You're more wrong about the Poor Me insult you keep insist on using instead of bringing yourself to use her name.
Really, like this?: ""Sold her soul" is indeed a cliche, but where Wilke was concerned, sadly a fact., as was Gillard's deal with the devil-Greens.
"You're wrong. Gillard did not sell her soul where Wilkie or anyone else was concerned."
Wrong, Gillard (Poor Me) sold most of her soul to the Greens with her famous carbon tax reversal, and the remainder to placate Clubs Australia when she reneged on her written agreement with Wilke apropos poker machines.
"If there was any truth to the matter you would be able to provide examples of Gillard crying poor me. She never did once cry poor me."
Oh dear, the term Poor Me is a title, not a quotation.
"And you've never once been able to provide any examples."
I will chuckle at that, because the "misogyny speech" epitomised the oft used gender card as shown by its resonance with females, and loss of support from males.
As for Poor Me, she and her duo circus act with Rudd are gone. Does Women for Gillard still exist?, are there any echoes of woe is me, misogyny or sexism cries emanating from Canberra? How is Emily's List. managing?. Perhaps poor us would have been more applicable back then!
Germaine Greer,
"It’s hard not to see Gillard’s defeat as symptomatic of the predicament of female politicians across the globe. Germaine Greer, the veteran Australian feminist, says that, after all these years, women still “don’t get politics” because it’s a boys’ club with rules written by men for men."
I voted for her, I made a mistake, as she proved to be less than leadership material even allowing for the fact that a bunch of men controlled her destiny.
Gender card ? never.
"I don't believe for one minute that you voted for Gillard."
I am thus lying, here?, Why would I need to so do?
Thus endeth any normal debate. Chuckle.
"You can't even bring yourself to use her proper name."
"her" ???? Et tu G58.
PS
I even voted for Rudd, chuckle.
@monman12 wrote:
"I don't believe for one minute that you voted for Gillard."
I am thus lying, here?, Why would I need to so do?
Thus endeth any normal debate. Chuckle.
"You can't even bring yourself to use her proper name."
"her" ???? Et tu G58.
PS
I even voted for Rudd, chuckle.
What? you missed the name Gillard in the previous sentence?
