on 20-04-2014 10:21 PM
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.
on 27-12-2020 03:21 PM
on 28-12-2020 02:25 PM
13-01-2021 08:47 PM - edited 13-01-2021 08:48 PM
"There are some similarities between global warming and ghost stories. Both are supposed to be dangerous. Both are hard to see."1
That's the baffling stance the Centre for Independent Studies, a think tank renowned for championing right-wing politics and policies, takes on climate change.
But more baffling still: the Centre for Independent Studies receives tens of thousands of dollars of public funding each year to preach this propaganda.
Since 2006, the CIS and a similarly right-wing think tank The Sydney Institute are each paid $20,000 a year by one of our most important public institutions: the Reserve Bank of Australia.3
That's more than half a million dollars in public dollars going to partisan think tanks. Yet these covert funding arrangements have largely flown under the radar, buried in a single article published on New Year's Eve.
These revelations should shock all of us. The Reserve Bank's authority comes from non-partisanship, and continuing their ties to right-wing think tanks could discredit the integrity and independence of their decisions.
All Bank Board members are bound by a Code of Conduct6 that requires them to ensure the Bank acts in the public interest with independence and integrity. Shining a spotlight on these ties now would hold Board members accountable to this code and pressure the Reserve Bank to choose the public over right-wing propagandists.
The Centre for Independent Studies has ridiculed life-saving coronavirus lockdowns,7 dismissed the movement against police brutality as "emotional rhetoric",8 and even endorsed the reelection of hard-right US president Donald Trump.9
Meanwhile, climate denialism10 and anti-ABC rhetoric11 are the bread and butter of the Sydney Institute.
And while both think tanks decry government assistance and rail against "dependency",12,13 they gladly accept $20,000 every year from our central bank. It's hypocrisy at its finest.
In addition to promoting dangerous fringe ideas, these organisations clearly lack integrity — and ties to them erode public trust in our central bank. A parliamentary committee revealed these ties: now, a huge public push could cut them for good.
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As evinced on these boards, there are always people who will go with the straws that support their view, rather than established science, facts, commonsense...
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