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.
If you can't go back two pages in the SAME thread, then you will just have to miss out No secretarial service offered here.
@am*3 wrote:If you can't go back two pages in the SAME thread, then you will just have to miss out
Quite right Am. Attacking something he hasn't even read. Sounds familiar doesn't it.
@j*oono wrote:
@am*3 wrote:If you can't go back two pages in the SAME thread, then you will just have to miss out
Quite right Am. Attacking something he hasn't even read. Sounds familiar doesn't it.
Yes, it has a flow on effect from the PM down - attack mode..
Doesn't make a 'winner' though, quite the opposite.
@am*3 wrote:
@j*oono wrote:
@am*3 wrote:If you can't go back two pages in the SAME thread, then you will just have to miss out
Quite right Am. Attacking something he hasn't even read. Sounds familiar doesn't it.
Yes, it has a flow on effect from the PM down - attack mode..
Doesn't make a 'winner' though, quite the opposite.
I watched/listened to 2 Senate hearings yesterday. In both it was a case of "if Labor had tried to pull this garbage they would have been murdered by the press"
I hope someone posts the video to youtube again so it's more accessible. I saw on youtube videos of past hearings with a #comparethepair tag. The difference between the past and present is staggering.
Phil Higginson's (Honorary Treasurer) warnings
Mr Abbott's attitude ( not interested in greater transparency obviously):
Mr Abbott said the treasurer’s warnings were a “storm in a teacup” and rejected calls for action on the perception of a conflict of interest given Mr Loughnane’s marriage to Peta Credlin, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff.
The Australian - right wing bias
Liberal donors close wallets
A FUNDING crisis is threatening to deepen Tony Abbott’s political woes as donors hold back from supporting the Liberal Party amid new questions over its financial affairs.
The Prime Minister has been urged to fix the party following extraordinary warnings from its honorary treasurer, Philip Higginson, of a “lack of trust” with supporters because of the way the party is being run.
Throwing weight behind the calls for change, former party treasurer Michael Yabsley told The Australian last night that the Liberals needed to act on Mr Higginson’s concerns.
The dispute over the party’s direction is widening as Liberal MPs warn that the government’s political troubles have discouraged supporters, making it “very, very hard” to raise the funds they need to fight the next election.
Mr Yabsley comments follow a warning from Mr Higginson in two explosive letters to the party’s federal executive that were sent on Sunday night and revealed in The Australian yesterday
The Australian was told that Mr Higginson has been pressing for years for more financial transparency such as key facts about the party’s expenses including the salary of its federal director, Brian Loughnane.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/liberal-donors-close-wallets/story-e6frg6n6-1227237809756
Listen to Phil Higginson over transparency warns Turnbull
CALLS for reform to the Liberal Party have gained ground as Malcolm Turnbull backs the case for greater transparency in its financial accounts in the wake of extraordinary warning from the party’s honorary treasurer.
Mr Turnbull praised the party treasurer, Phil Higginson, and said the Liberal Party needed to “set a very high standard” by adopting the changes he set out in a leaked letter that has divided the party’s peak federal executive.
“Transparency and accountability are very, very important in any organisation,” Mr Turnbull said on Wednesday morning.
“From what I’ve read of the recommendations they seem pretty standard recommendations about corporate governance.
“Phil Higginson is an experienced director, company director, he is a corporate governance expert, he is regarded as an authority in that field.
“So I’m sure the federal executive will pay very careful attention to his proposals.”
Mr Higginson sent two strongly-worded letters to the 27 members of the federal executive on Sunday night to warn there was a “lack of trust” with donors and better controls were needed over the finances.
Three C&Ps without any accompanying comment A3, is this a record? Why not just link to the whole newspaper?
I am still intrigued by the use of the term "conflict of interest" appropos the " marriage of PM chief of staff Peta Credlin and federal director Brian Loughnane." I would have thought that both being Liberals, and in their respective elevated political positions, their interests and goals would be synchronised, not conflicting !.
If you want to "study" "conflict of interest" in political history (sorry A3) I would direct you to the past (and very ex) national president of the ALP Michael Williamson, whose "interest" in union funds have resulted in adding to add to the criminal jail hours, and total criminal offences that ALP parliamentarians have amassed, well ahead of their Liberal opponents.
It is people inside the Liberal Party that say Credlin's marriage is causing confilict... seems to be a common complaint?
Also Rupert says she has to go!!!
If Abbott wanted to sack Credling would it be her husband's job to tell her that?
So many articles speak of the dependency Abbott has on Credlin, so don't the others think he would just crumble if she wasn't 'in charge' of him.
