on 20-04-2014 10:21 PM
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.
on 22-12-2014 04:27 PM
on 22-12-2014 04:32 PM
@debra9275 wrote:
Well MM12. Julie bishop has now overtaken JG in the poser stakes. Didn't you read about that?
And in hindsight and considering what we have now, JG looks a hell of a lot better to me now than she did back then
Besides, I thought everyone realized that TA is the new "Poor Me" as everything that either happens or doesn't happen, is apparently always someone else's fault.
abbott's of the wrong gender to be the target of the sexist.
on 22-12-2014 05:03 PM
merry xmas from murderson & his merry miserly govern for the 1% only crew - ho ho ho
on 22-12-2014 05:04 PM
sloppy sloppy sloppy
on 22-12-2014 05:05 PM
on 22-12-2014 05:19 PM
@debra9275 wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-is-a-liar-its-a-mathematical-truth-20140529-zrs5h.html
quite a well written article this and covers quite a few things....
Do politicians lie? Of course they do, including, of course, Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Whether it's the manufacturing of a budget "crisis", or the systematic trashing of election promises, or pretending that taxes are anything-but-taxes, or lying about spying, or lying about lying, Abbott has demonstrated his disdain for the truth.
There is no need to go into detail here since Mike Carlton has already documented much of the fibbing, ably assisted by Annabel Crabb and Laurie Oakes and Bernard Keane and ... well, pretty much every political commentator who isn't a Liberal Party shill.
aps, do you have a link to an article where she said that?? I really can't imagine her saying that at all
I doubt you will be able to find one. If you go the the Greens website the interview transcripts are there although if they're like abbott they'll edit all them.
Most of the memes featuring greens, labor or indies contain fabricated comments, unlike most of the abbott and friends memes. The Satirists are complaining that the govt has put them out of a job.
on 22-12-2014 05:21 PM
on 22-12-2014 05:24 PM
on 22-12-2014 05:24 PM
on 22-12-2014 05:30 PM
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P34_ABBOTT_Tony.pdf
and your point is? he is after all the PM and Julia spent as much in not more and we all know RUDD spent way more
So whats your point?