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.
Wonder what our PM said there? Prince Charles looks alarmed.
AM, probably explaining his view on climate change
Blackout on green projects if target for renewables is axed
Peter Keatley is a sheep farmer. But the 59-year-old, whose property sits in NSW on the outskirts of Canberra, is also in the business of harvesting wind.
"What federal treasurer of a country says he would like to stop the investment of Australian public companies"?
The Keatley farm hosts five giant wind turbines, which are set to generate an inflation-adjusted $50,000 a year for at least 25 years.
This income will allow Keatley to pass his farm on to his son rather than selling out when he retires. ''I love them,'' the 59 year-old says. ''They've turned my life around.''
Their very construction, with huge cranes and machines, ''was the best period of my life,'' Keatley enthuses. ''I was like a kid in a lolly shop.''
The turbines on his farm are, Keatley points out, ''the very first ones you see'' across Lake George on the approach to Canberra from Sydney.
So it may have been these very turbines that Treasurer Joe Hockey was referring to when, in a radio interview last month, he spoke of the ''utterly offensive'' towers he has seen on his drive into Canberra.
In the interview, with Sydney radio presenter Alan Jones, Hockey added that, in the case of existing wind farms, ''We can't knock those ones off because they're into locked-in schemes and there is a certain contractual obligation I'm told associated with those things.''
It was a comment that alarmed Miles George, the managing director of Infigen Energy - the Australian Securities Exchange-listed company that operates the Keatley farm turbines and hundreds more across Australia.
''What federal treasurer of a country says he would like to stop the investment of Australian public companies?'' Mr George said. ''I still can't believe he said that.''
This week saw US President Barack Obama unveil the most ambitious policy in US history to cut greenhouse gas emissions - a requirement for 1600 power plants to cut emissions 30 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 - and news that China was also working on a cap for its greenhouse gas emissions.
Last week, South Korea announced plans to cap carbon emissions as part of a carbon trading scheme kicking off at the start of next year.
In Australia, however, the clean energy sector - which by its own count employs 24,000 people and has generated $20 billion in investment - feels under siege, amid government plans to dismantle climate agencies and uncertainty about the future of the nation's Renewable Energy Target.
The price of Large-Scale Generation Certificates (LGC) has plummeted, to the point where new renewable energy developments will not be viable and will struggle to get finance, according to industry figures.
@boris1gary wrote:
@monman12 wrote:"By all accounts chewing nicotine tablet, not regular gum."
Show us your "all accounts" A3
ABC (USA)
'The president, a former smoker, is known to chew nicotine gum to curb cravings. In the past year, he has been seen several times chewing gum in public and packets of nicotine gum have been spotted in the Oval Office.'
Examiner
President Barack Obama chomped and chewed on gum while attending a D-Day celebration in France on Friday. The president was working his jaw as Queen Elizabeth II was introduced.
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Even more tacky to be comparing your own country's PM to another country's village idiot lol
@icyfroth wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@monman12 wrote:"By all accounts chewing nicotine tablet, not regular gum."
Show us your "all accounts" A3
ABC (USA)
'The president, a former smoker, is known to chew nicotine gum to curb cravings. In the past year, he has been seen several times chewing gum in public and packets of nicotine gum have been spotted in the Oval Office.'
Examiner
President Barack Obama chomped and chewed on gum while attending a D-Day celebration in France on Friday. The president was working his jaw as Queen Elizabeth II was introduced.
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Even more tacky to be comparing your own country's PM to another country's village idiot lol
if you wish to post about the US President please start your own thread, thankyou.
"Seeing as social media users are the accusers, no need for me to show anything"
Actually it is more important A3, because you do not seem to realise that we here are also social media, including yourself, and often statements are made with no research, thought, or credibility, i.e. " I don't think anyone here has ever posted an article/ link from The Daily Telegraph".
However,show us a credible "tablet" reference regarding Obama.
"Yes, boris, tacky fake photoshopped photo as well." No, really? Like this one?
I noticed the British Labour Party Opposition leader Ed Miliband was also at the Bayeux ceremony, still looking for Shorten.
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@boris1gary wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@monman12 wrote:"By all accounts chewing nicotine tablet, not regular gum."
Show us your "all accounts" A3
ABC (USA)
'The president, a former smoker, is known to chew nicotine gum to curb cravings. In the past year, he has been seen several times chewing gum in public and packets of nicotine gum have been spotted in the Oval Office.'
Examiner
President Barack Obama chomped and chewed on gum while attending a D-Day celebration in France on Friday. The president was working his jaw as Queen Elizabeth II was introduced.
nɥºɾ
Even more tacky to be comparing your own country's PM to another country's village idiot lol
if you wish to post about the US President please start your own thread, thankyou.
I have no such wish.
My introduction of the US president's bubble-gum picture was in response to the comparison of our PM's deportment to that of the US president's during the D-Day ceremony, in another post.
So quite on topic with your thread title.
You're welcome.
