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.
Merry Christmas icy:)
As soon as voters got a look at what Hockey and his mates in big business had planned for them, the electoral fortunes of the Abbott government started to head south.
The beginning of the slide may well have been Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s backflip on the Gonski reforms, which happened late in 2013. Gonski, too, has an equity aspect: it is all about pulling up the performance of struggling students and schools.
But it was the Commission of Audit and the budget that crystallised public perceptions of a mean and inequitable government.
When faced with the most radical assault on Australia’s welfare state in a generation, voters have responded. 2014 was the year that Australian social democracy fought back.
https://newmatilda.com/2014/12/18/year-review-turns-out-we-were-listening-wrong-politician
BACKFLIPS all around us
