100 Days of broken promises, lies & deceptions

[boris1gary]

Well done LNP,

for the 123 broken promises, lies & deceptions

http://sallymcmanus.net/abbotts-wreckage/

http://theaimn.com/2014/03/28/tony-abbott-stuffs-it-up-again/

Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers

Cuts hundreds of jobs at the CSIRO

 Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny

Pays hundreds of indigenous workers in his Department up to $19 000 less than non-indigenous workers doing the same job

and cuts the budget for the representative body the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples causing two-thirds of the staff to lose their jobs

Scraps food grants program for small farmers

Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years

 Cuts the wages of Australian troops deployed overseas by almost $20 000 per solider

 Withdraws funding for an early intervention program to help vulnerable young people

Starts dismantling Australia’s world leading marine protection system . .

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[just_me_karen]

Yes!!! That's it! OMG I have had that on the tip of my tongue for so long. Thanks!

They do it by media, but also by policy, language and bribes. They reward the behaviours they see as "good". Conversely, they punish undesirable behaviours.

Dehumanising refugees
PPL
marriage counselling
Bribes for sport or certain regions
Punishment of insults to workers
Threats to critics
Insults to environmentalists
Etc

The only people they value are rich sycophantic fat men haha and their dutiful wives.

And Gina. She goes in the fat men category.

[small_creeps_friend]

Why are you surprised?  Labor is just as bad.  Doesn't matter who you vote for you still get a politician. 

[spotweldersfriend]

Funny you should mention Singapore. I somehow conjured up a link between the Singapore govt of the 70's and our current one, the other day.I think it was to do with those passport stamps-Suspected Hippy In Transit.

[boris1gary]

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@small_creeps_friend wrote:

Why are you surprised?  Labor is just as bad.  Doesn't matter who you vote for you still get a politician. 

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politicians are politicians - it's the policies, legislation etc  that are important.

The previous Government gave us.....

* Introduced Australia's first national Paid Parental leave scheme.
* Won a seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council
* Abolished WorkChoices.
* Steered Australia from being the world's 15th largest economy to
  being the world's 12th largest economy.
* Increased pensions.
* Delivered three lots of Tax Cuts.
* Achieved AAA credit ratings from all international ratings agencies,
  a first by any Australian government.
* Topped the OECD growth table for 2012
* Lauded by the IMF for its enviable economic performance.
* Increased Disability Pensions.
* Increased Child Care Rebates.
* Increased pensions for surviving POWs by $500 a fortnight.
* Stopped the rorting of the private health insurance rebate.
* Increased funding for health services ($16.4 billion).
* Increased funding for mental health ($2.2 billion).
* Withdrew Australian combat troops from Iraq.
* Abolished exit fees for mortgages when changing banks.
* Ranked third in the world on "Brave thinkers" list
* Introduced a carbon tax to tackle climate change.
* National curriculum
* Instrumental in replacing the G8 with the G20 as the pivotal body
for global economic policy co-ordination
* Stopped live cattle exports until welfare concerns were addressed.
* Postponing the budget surplus to 2013-14 to protect jobs.
* Apologised to the Stolen Generation
* Signed Kyoto Protocol
* Saw off John Howard.
* Saw off Brendan Nelson.
* Saw off Malcolm Turnbull.

And let's not forget that they steered us through the GFC to emerge out the other side as the world's miracle economy...

A trifecta of low interest rates, low unemployment and low inflation.

Together with the lowest government debt in the OECD

[just_me_karen]

And the labor government only told one lie (and I think it was more of a shift due to negotiations), compared to the current government telling outright lies, daily...100 lies in 100 days.

The big one is coming.

"No cuts to Medicare, abc, pensions"

[boris1gary]

http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2014/1634/01-assault-on-unions-steps-up.html

Assault on unions steps up

Govt sends in bailiffs to take workers’ homes

Anna Pha

In the past Australian governments have sent troops in to break strikes, jailed union officials, used the courts to impose massive penalties but never before have they sent in the bailiffs to seize the cars and homes of workers. Yet this is what the Abbott government began doing to 33 construction workers in Western Australia whose only “crime” was to take strike action to defend their rights. At the same time in Victoria, the Construction Division of the CFMEU was fined $1.25 million over protests against the Grollo construction company in Melbourne in 2012 and found guilty of “criminal” contempt of court.

Individual fines

Last September, the federal court found 117 construction workers guilty of “unlawful” industrial action under the Fair Work Act. The action was taken in 2008. The majority of the workers belonged to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and some to the CFMEU. They were employed by CBI Construction on the expansion of a Woodside liquid natural gas plant in the Pilbara. They had gone out for eight days in defence of entitlements under their union collective agreement to a redundancy payment and re-employment on the next phase of the project.

The dispute was resolved, work continued but that did not stop the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), renamed by Labor as Fair Work Building Construction inspectorate (FWBC), taking the matter to the federal court.

The court hit them individually with fines and penalties totalling over one million dollars. They were ordered to pay a total of $680,125 within 60 days. Payment of the remaining $387,875 was suspended but would become immediately payable if they breached any industrial law during the next three years. In some cases the fines were as high as $10,000 each.

The amount of fines outstanding when the FWBC sent in the bailiffs last week was $196,000. The FWBC is set to have their property confiscated and sold to pay the outstanding fines and the costs in collecting the money.

“Where we have been able to identify property, most commonly cars and houses, we have filed and served property search and seizure orders,” FWBC director Nigel Hadgkiss said. “Where we could not identify property we are going to require those workers to attend means examination in the Federal Court.

[boris1gary]

Two new whoppers were added to the list of the Abbott Government’s broken promises and blatant lies this week.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull welched on his pledge to deliver the national broadband network by 2016. And Tony Abbott lied about the Queen having amended the letters patent regarding royal gongs.

[spotweldersfriend]

Tony must've picked up a few pointers from that book Battlelies.

[boris1gary]

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Tony must've picked up a few pointers from that book Battlelies.

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yes, when it was read out loud to him.

[freddie*rooster]

If Tone's arms fell off he would be a mute.