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.
"Amnest International barred from Nauru detention centre."
"I don't know Joono, it's hard to believe a country like ours with such a good human rights record in the past doing things like this."
If one bothers to consider that Nauru is not an Australian external territory (country) it might be realised that as a sovereign nation it is the Nauru authorities that exclusively have the right of granting access to their country by any person or group.
do you think he got his facts wrong or made it up because it sounded good at the time Cros??
ooops thanks Cros I forgot to post the link..... I get into trouble for that here too 
(as well as if I comment or if I don't comment)
I think he tries to say what he thinks the electorate wants to hear, Deb. He can be very loose with the facts (and figures).
There's this bit from the ABC article:
'Writing in the same newspaper, Tony Abbott said he was "appalled" to learn that most foreign fighters had been on some form of welfare.
The following day, Mr Abbott was asked during Question Time about another report which claimed no foreign fighters had in fact had their welfare payments cancelled.
Mr Abbott told Parliament the report was incorrect.'
So he takes the Telegraph's report on welfare jihadis at face value and does no fact checking on it. He's then told about another report stating that none of them are on welfare. This one doesn't fit with his "tough on terror" agenda of stripping benefits, so he dismisses it out of hand.
Instead of looking into the matter and expressing relief that the foreign fighters weren't receiving taxpayer funds, it seems that he'd prefer that they were, so he can look like mister action man.
p.s - yes Deb, we get into trouble here if we don't have an opinion....also if we do have an opinion. 
