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.
r Abbott, also the federal Minister for Women, trumpeted the event as a triumph for feminism.
"This is just how wonderful this broad church that I lead is … obviously they've just broken down the last barrier and they've made the men-only club admit women," he said in a spirited response during question time.
"Admit women! Isn't that fantastic? At last, this bastion of chauvinism has admitted women and they've done it on International Women's Day because of the Liberal National Party.
"Good on the Liberal National Party, smashing the glass ceiling yet again. I say congratulations and thank God that bastion of old-fashioned chauvinism has finally collapsed like the walls of Jericho at the trumpet cry of the Liberal National Party."
Mr Abbott may have overstated the significance of the lunch, as its speakers remained ineligible for Tatts membership.
Queensland Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman appeared surprised at the move.
"Seriously? You can't make this stuff up," she said.
"It shows how out-of-touch the LNP are and their excuse of organising the event at short notice just doesn't stack up, because International Women's Day is held on the eighth of March every year.
"They would have had plenty of warning it was coming."
J2010 wrote: "notice the colour of the 'Report Inappropriate Content' link in that screenshot, oops " I did not, but will take it under advisement, and award you a personal 
However, I did notice this D9275, heading your very truncated excerpt from a Myop acceptable media outlet: The Guardian:
"The national accounts are prized open after the latest GDP figures released by the ABS saw the economy grow by a mere 0.5% in seasonally adjusted terms"
A good media proof reader would be highly appreciated, especially when they have prised open ABS data-sets.
@monman12 wrote:"Lost ANY argument if you have to deflect to Shorten's distant past" Really, "lost" you say A3 ?
Would it be like this sort of distant past A3?
" He hasn't been in the area he was in the last couple of days for 10 years.."
No, it was a test to see if you and others picked it up.
would you prefer this one?
or this one
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-05/intergenerational-report-to-be-released/6281598
or this one
or this one
or are they all too left wing for you?? 
the abbott/murdoch papers don't seem to have a story out yet, too busy discussing what miriam murgoyles said about israel and what journo said what about it 
Am I would believe the report as much as I believe anything else they've ever put out.
how strange that for a whole year they claimed that we had a budget emergency and since they decided to be 'nice' and 'decent"guys and desperately need to be 'liked'....the economy is coasting along
thought the growth rate of 2.5% is fairly low
