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.
A former Newman government minister has urged Queensland voters to beware the ambitions of sociopaths as he gave an extraordinary indictment against his former party in power.
Dr Chris Davis, who quit parliament in protest at his government’s “betrayal” of Queenslanders last year, features in a new TV advertisement for the Wilderness Society in which he recommends voters put the Liberal National party last on ballots in the upcoming election.
Davis said on Saturday he would not “be standing here today if the trust that people gave the Newman government in 2012 had not been broken”.
“We’re talking about betrayal of thousands of public servants, the winding back of political scrutiny and donor influence, contempt for the professionalism of doctors and judges, jeopardising our environment and sustainable farming and deception on vital issues such as employment and cost of living,” he said.
Davis said that citizens needed to have trust in leaders to “serve us rather than themselves or their powerbrokers”.
He took aim at the LNP’s key platform of privatising government utilities, saying “disposing of our assets to pork barrel the Newman government into power is certainly not in our long-term interest”.
Davis also said voters needed to “be particularly wary of sociopaths”. Asked if the character of the Newman government had been sociopathic, Davis said he left it to voters to “make up their own minds”.
Davis was sacked by Newman from his post as assistant health minister when he publicly disagreed with government policy around contract negotiations with doctors and its treatment of the parliamentary committee overseeing the corruption watchdog.
Goodness!!
Good idea to cut staff at the ATO (experience staff) wasn't it?. Now they don't have enough experienced staff to chase after corporate tax avoiders......
@am*3 wrote:
Good idea to cut staff at the ATO (experience staff) wasn't it?. Now they don't have enough experienced staff to chase after corporate tax avoiders......
It's all part and parcel of the LyingNP way, slash numbers in the public services so they are struggling to do their job and then sell them off bit by bit to their mates for budget prices - we get low quality service for a much higher price.
