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.
@paintsew007 wrote:Laugh away aps. In the not too distant future I see the Bi-Partisan system collapsing completely and yes some sort of Independent presence .
If Abbott and mob are an example of the best regards progress and forward thinking then I'm ready for the nunnery.
Are you sure they would have you ? 
Yes, make AP profitable them flog it off to the highest bidder ! 
AP is profitable already. It should not be sold, imo.
@paintsew007 wrote:I agree icy but the idiots in power atm-and this is what this thread is about, are absolute rubbish and need to go.
Put myself and a few others on here in C & S in control.....give us a few weeks and we will sort the mess out
It's not rocket science.
Yeah that's what Peter Garrett thought too.
Hockey would be the worst treasurer that Australia has had since time began.
The present rate f unemployment is the highest it has been since Howard, not Rudd or the Gillard government's but Howard. And it is going to go higher BECAUSE of the Abbott government's approach.
This government can't be trusted, they lied to the electorate and people have stopped listening to them. It wont matter what they serve up come budget time.
This government is all but terminal now, the hierarchy knows it.
If you can't be trusted are unable to and unwilling to negotiate then how on earth is anyone going to vote for them?
...LNP gotta go!
