Diary of our stinking Govt.

[boris1gary]

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.

[cherry*135]

"At the moment, there is a $300-a-fortnight gap in the rate of payment between the Disability Support Pension and the Newstart allowance," he said tonight at a speech at the Sydney Institute.

"This gap creates an enormous incentive for people on unemployment benefits to test their eligibility for the DSP."

Not likely, that a fit, healthy person with no disabilities or serious illnesses would even bother to try that.

[cherples]

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@am*3 wrote:

"At the moment, there is a $300-a-fortnight gap in the rate of payment between the Disability Support Pension and the Newstart allowance," he said tonight at a speech at the Sydney Institute.

"This gap creates an enormous incentive for people on unemployment benefits to test their eligibility for the DSP."

Not likely, that a fit, healthy person with no disabilities or serious illnesses would even bother to try that.

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It shows up how pathetic he is by even spitting that slogan out.  

[cherry*135]

said tonight at a speech at the Sydney Institute

I wonder who the poor audiences are at those speeches?. Hockey was spouting this rubbish there, earlier this month.

"In other words the average working Australian, be they a cleaner, a plumber or a teacher, is working over one month full time each year just to pay for the welfare of another Australian.

Is this fair?"

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@am*3 wrote:

said tonight at a speech at the Sydney Institute

I wonder who the poor audiences are at those speeches?. Hockey was spouting this rubbish there, earlier this month.

"In other words the average working Australian, be they a cleaner, a plumber or a teacher, is working over one month full time each year just to pay for the welfare of another Australian.

Is this fair?"

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I saw an ad for ACA. They're spruiking a story about welfare recipients getting $55000 a year tax free, easy money for doing nothing while other families work for less.  The maximum payment with every allowance possible was used to support the figure the single parents get with no mention of the centrelink support the young family get in the I don't get that much and I work hard while little woman stays at home story.

[durruticolumna]

What they don't tell you is how many people were put on DSP's not because they 'applied',but they were called in by Centrelink and offered the DSP. I personally know 5 people who were transferred from unemployment benefits to a DSP by Centrelink during the Howard years.It's a convenient way to lower the unemployment rate.

[durruticolumna]

ACA.That and Today Tonight are like Alan Jones lite.If you want your prejudices reinforced then these two shows are your first ports of call. Dodgy tradesmen,the unemployed,single mothers,lousy tenants.Rehashed over and over and over.Do they actually investigate and report on big stories like the recent CBA scandal.Of course not.This bank provides a lot of their advertising revenue.Which bank?

[fourandsixpants]

I don't believe the reported 'unemployment' rate in 2014 in Australia.

I estimate it is actually somewhere between 20-25%.

My opinion. Stick the graphs LOL!

Then factor in the UNDERemployment issues and virtually zero manufacturing/value added indusrty base in Oz and - we have a REAL PROBLEM.

I watched Q & A tonight, torturous! Neo Libs refused to answer the question 'What jobs?'....all they kept spouting, whilst avoiding questions about future closure of car manufacturers was how they were going to spend half a million on retraining programs for the Geelong area - for what jobs?!

Psychologists call this behaviour: ‘cognitive dissonance’. New information which is at odds with previous experience or knowledge and is either ignored, disbelieved, or rationalized.....just keep on advertising what the banksters want us to perceive-yeah!

[fourandsixpants]

[fourandsixpants]

to bella-again ref.: (part of your post.....mainly to I.D. the pictured)

Photo: Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews. (Dean Lewins: AAP)

Related Story: Coalition demonising disabled people amid welfare review: Shorten

Related Story: Welfare review proposes payment cull, assistance

Map: Australia

Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has pointed to the higher rate of the disability pension as an "enormous incentive" for job seekers to seek eligibility for the payment.

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This is the same misguided neolib who strongly supported and passed and introduced WorkChoices under the Lib Govt/Howard back in 2005.

Not to be trusted IMO.....what a Dunderhead

[durruticolumna]

Look at the bright side paintsew007.If the umemployment rate was really 5.8%,then all those shopping malls around the country would be nearly empty.
I was told by a manager of a Job Network employment agency in 2007 that the unemployment in that region was over 12%.The official figure was less than half of that.