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.
It seems research is still not in favour BIG:
"It has remained a mystery as to why Ashby dropped the case when he could have had his day in court."
Try this:
"Mr Ashby says he is also dropping the case because of increasing costs in what he describes as "deep pocket" litigation.
"Confirmation of by the Minister of State, Michael Ronaldson, that Mr Slipper will continue to have taxpayer support for an unknown 'quantum' in funding makes this case financially very one-sided," he said.
"This gross imbalance in funding makes it unpredictable how long this case may run, and more importantly cost.
"This type of 'deep pocket' litigation, where one side has unlimited money, from the taxpayers, makes it fundamentally unfair for an ordinary person seeking justice."
I will translate for you if you wish!
Struggling a bit for posts to make you feel good and suppress the PPTSD?
The strange and suspicious case of Tony Abbott’s citizenship
....What started as an innocent enquiry has begun to morph into something quite serious — and perhaps sinister. Certainly suspicious.
What absolute nonsense, and initiated by a blogger (elsewhere) who would make a couple here look like rabid conservatives.
Obama went through the same sort of nut comments when he was elected.
Ninemsn reported it had contacted the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet seeking confirmation that Mr Abbott has renounced his British Citizenship. After a three-hour wait, the office replied with this single-sentence statement: "The Prime Minister is an Australian citizen and does not hold citizenship of any other country."
As for Abetz, he was being "hounded" by a nut, John Hawkins.
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Senator Abetz said that when he first became an Australian citizen in Hobart in 1974, aged 16, he was told the move automatically cancelled his previous German citizenship.
He says he also has documents to prove he took further steps to ensure his German citizenship had been completely relinquished before becoming a senator in 1994.
The senator, now leader of the Liberal Opposition in the Senate, promised last night to provide the Mercury today with a carbon copy of the letter renouncing his citizenship sent to the German embassy in 1993.
" Hawkins subsequently withdrew the petition to the High Court of Australia after receiving documentation of Abetz's renunciation of his German citizenship on 9 March 2010.
The "Independent Australia, of course, C&P sans independence, or thought!
