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.
2014 was
Hottest year in NSW
2nd hottest in VIC
Hottest year overall in Australia
Hottest year on the planet.
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What will Abbott do?
Dec 2014
Tony Abbott appoints climate skeptic to “help” on environment
Bob Baldwin, a man who once compared the impact of Australia’s man-made greenhouse gas emissions to that of a single strand of human hair on a 1km bridge, has been appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of the environment.
In a speech in China in 2010, at the APEC SME summit, Baldwin said that the climate had been changing for millions of years – a favourite meme of the climate denier community – and even praised Rupert Murdoch as “the starting point for green innovation”.
"Coal companies lock up large regions of NSW"
"Mining accounted for just 0.1 per cent of NSW's land compared with 76 per cent for agriculture, a spokesman for the NSW Minerals Council said."
"Among the LGAs surveyed, the rich farmlands of the Liverpool Plains have so far seen only limited acquisition by the coalminers – at just 5038 hectares or about 1 per cent of the area. "
However, of the coal licences granted in the NSW Labor era this might be remembered (?):
NSW ICAC recommends inquiry coal licences at Mount Penny and Doyles Creek be cancelled.
