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.
@boris1gary wrote:
@am*3 wrote:
How embarrassing Pickering making a fool of himself in a Woolies Store over halal labels. Labels that were visible and clear before he purchased the items and took them home.I heard pickersickling is on the list of known shoplifters so I doubt his little story anyway.
Did you hear shoplifters or shirtlifters?
@polksaladallie wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@am*3 wrote:
How embarrassing Pickering making a fool of himself in a Woolies Store over halal labels. Labels that were visible and clear before he purchased the items and took them home.I heard pickersickling is on the list of known shoplifters so I doubt his little story anyway.
Did you hear shoplifters or shirtlifters?
mmmmm.......now you mention it.......
wonder how murderson will spin this, 
Unaccompanied child refugees on Nauru report beatings, death threats
Four unaccompanied boys living in the community on Nauru end up in hospital after assault on Sunday leaves one unconscious
Four child refugees released to live in the community in Nauru say they were physically assaulted on Sunday night, and threatened with death if they stayed on the island.
The boys – aged between 15 and 17 and without parents on Nauru – have told Guardian Australia they were stopped by a group of Nauruan men on motorbikes as they walked home in the evening.
“They said ‘who are you?’. We said ‘we are UAM [unaccompanied minor] refugees’,” one of the boys said. “They started swearing, they said ‘all mother-bleeper refugees, we will kill you, this is our country and no one can protect you, not even Save the Children or immigration’.
“Then they started hitting us by punching, kicking, and they [kept] threatening [us] and swearing.”
One of the boys was left unconscious during the attack.
Two of the boys escaped to a nearby beach where they hid behind a rock and used a mobile phone to call Save the Children staff, who act as carers for the child refugees without parents.
Nauru police were alerted, and Save the Children workers were able to find all four boys, who were taken to hospital.
