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.
Thanks Monman, Sponge Bob Square Pants is a fav of mine!! LOL
- how did you know?
You are a very smart person
sandshoe
Are your meagre $savings safe in BIG 4 banks?.....
.............or is this scaremongering and just another LNP 'AGENDA'?
Financial System Inquiry boss on ‘bail-in’:
Australia depends on foreign investment, so we must conform to foreign regulations
The banker Joe Hockey appointed to run the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) told a fiery public hearing in Melbourne late last week that because Australia depends on foreign investment, we have to conform to foreign regulations such as bail-in.
In response to a number of concerned audience questions about the bail-in law that Australia signed on to at the G20, under which depositors could have their savings confiscated to prop up too-big-to-fail banks, as happened in Cyprus in March 2013, FSI Chairman and former CBA boss David Murray initially downplayed the threat.
Murray claimed the FSI isn’t ruling bail-in in or out, but he asserted that bail-in means different things in different jurisdictions, so in Europe it has included seizing deposits, but, he surmised, in Australia bail-in will have to fit in with the existing Financial Claims Scheme (FCS) guarantee of deposits up to $250,000.
An unworkable guarantee, because the government only makes provision for $20 billion per bank, but about 80 per cent of Australian deposits are in the Big Four banks, which each hold around $400 billion.
But then Murray spectacularly contradicted himself, by declaring that Australia is dependent upon foreign investment, which means: “Now if we are dependent on foreign capital, we cannot go and say to the capital markets of the United States and Europe, and their regulators, that ‘don’t mind us, we are going to have our own set of regulations irrespective of what you say’.”
When the questioner interjected, “But does that mean we’re not a sovereign nation?”, Murray confirmed we are not: “Well, I’ve made the point, quite clearly, that we are dependent on foreigners for savings,” he replied. “If we want to change that dependency, we’d better run the economy in a very different way.”
Murray also spent the evening deflecting questions on the importance of going with a full Glass-Steagall separation of everyday retail banking from risky investment banking, to protect depositors, instead of his proposal that Australia adopt the watered-down British version called ring-fencing. Only bankers oppose full Glass-Steagall, because they know their financial gambling depends upon unfettered access to other people’s money...........
http://cecaust.com.au/releases/2014_08_18_FSI_Boss.html
....HHhhmmmmmmn...........maybe trying to convince us that Oz will collapse without foreign investment visa schemes......bringing in millions
and now we are being told there is "no budget emergency"" 
@debra9275 wrote:and now we are being told there is "no budget emergency""
so why does Abbott need the fire brigade to put out the economic fire?
Must be the obsession with big toys..
@karliandjacko wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:and now we are being told there is "no budget emergency""
so why does Abbott need the fire brigade to put out the economic fire?
Must be the obsession with big toys..
maybe trying a different tactic because the budget emergency one didn't fool anyone?
