Your GP no longer allowed to assess for the DSP

Must be time to clobber the sick again. Now the gov has come up with a new bright spark idea. You see it thinks that someone who's in such an unfortunate circumstance as to have to apply for the Disability Support Pension, has hatched an evil dastardly plan with their GP to rip off the gov. So now the gov will make you see a gov appointed doctor, who presumably won't be so amenable to said dastardly plan and will see through your plot to get a pittance out of the gov. Something like that.

Family doctors will no longer be able to assess their patients’ disability claims, in a new policy aimed at cracking down on the misuse of welfare payments. 

Claims for the disability support pension (DSP) must now be assessed by commonwealth-appointed doctors, the social services minister, Kevin Andrews, announced on Friday. 

The move will apply to new DSP claims, starting from 1 January. more

Seems like a rather long way around to try and rip off the gov. How good of an actor would you have to be to fool doctors and specialists into you being dreadfully unwell, and how good of a bullshit artist would you have to be to reveal this plan to your GP and get him onside? Not to mention the doctor having a conscience and reputation to uphold. Doubt the GP would want the welfare cops at the medical centre FFS. And what about the applicant's integrity? Well us welfare recipients, see we're all evil rip off artists with no conscience or moral convictions....

Surely it'd be much easier just to invent a big company and enter into paying no tax? Much more reward there. And you can lie outright. The gov doesn't seem to give a shit about big companies paying no tax, even when it's all over the media. 

BTW, this I've heard through the grapevine with people involved in dealing with the likes of DSP recipients, that about 75% of all DSP applications are rejected now. The criteria that was bought in by Labor (I got granted it under said criteria) is having a huge impact on new applications. Apparently this isn't enough for team Abbott though.