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.

[freakiness]

While the rest of the country has a campaign against punches the idiot promotes the same.

“As you know I’m a man of peace, but as the scrum broke up I gave him my best possible punch,” recalled Mr Abbott.

At the end of the game he came across Jake Howard, himself a former prop, who was awarding best-and-fairest points for a newspaper.

He told the young Abbott: “Tony, great punch, great punch. For that you’re getting one point in the best and fairest competition.”

“The point of the story,” Mr Abbott said today, “is that sometimes you’ve got to throw a punch to be the best and fairest.

[boris1gary]

bullies are often cowards....

Tony Abbott pulls out of Geelong university appearance ahead of planned protests

''I think the Prime Minister and his ministers are being a bit cowardly and trying to portray students as though they’re violent rabble-rousers who are out to cause trouble, which isn’t the case at all,'' she said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-pulls-out-of-geelong-university-ap...

[fourandsixpants]

                         WHEN this current government get KICKED OUT

     I don't even want them representing Australia in opposition

[freakiness]

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[boris1gary]

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[boris1gary]

dear me.......

  Libs take money off Mafia man

The suspected Mafia godfather of Melbourne helped bankroll a Liberal Party marginal federal seat campaign in the 2013 election, raising the prospect that the proceeds of crime have flowed into Liberal coffers.

The alleged crime figure's fundraising occurred despite Liberal politicians knowing of his suspected involvement in organised crime and in a previous political donation scandal investigated by federal police.

A Fairfax Media investigation can reveal the alleged Mafia boss helped host the "Bruce Campaign Fundraising Dinner", which a Liberal Party memo later described as a "very successful" event, at his Docklands reception centre on March 1 last year.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/libs-take-money-off-mafia-man-20140522-38rrq.html#ixzz32VyPiYPr

[boris1gary]

never mind.....who needs them anyway

Hundreds of science jobs to go, sparking brain-drain warning

Almost 1000 science and research jobs are at risk following funding cuts announced in the federal budget, according to Labor.

While the CSIRO will bear the brunt of the sector's job losses, with chief executive Megan Clark telling staff 500 jobs would go following the four-year $114.8 million budget trim, other agencies are slated to shed staff as a result of funding cuts announced last week.

Among them is the Sydney-based Australian National Nuclear Research and Development Organisation, where 64 jobs are likely to go, and the Canberra-based Geoscience Australia, which faces losing 96 jobs. Also affected are the Bureau of Meteorology, with around 58 staff job losses nationally, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, where as many as 150 jobs are at risk, and the National Health and Medical Research Council, where nine jobs are likely to go.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/hundreds-of-science-jobs-to-go-sparking-braind...

[fourandsixpants]

The truth is, the government had a range of choices to meet its quite reasonable fiscal objectives, and it chose things that hit the poor and the vulnerable the most.

And voters have figured it out.

[fourandsixpants]

Goodness once the rich had to pay a luxury tax of 33% on their BMWs. Now it’s 10%.

http://theaimn.com/2014/05/23/it-was-class-warfare-and-it-sucks-5/

[monman12]

"Goodness once the rich had to pay a luxury tax of 33% on their BMWs. Now it’s 10%"

Interesting comment P007, but a quick check could not confirm it,  and your source is hardly reliable.   All I could find was from the ATO, below  which included this:
"Last modified: 21 May 2014"

Cars with a LCT value over the LCT threshold  33%
25% for cars contracted before 7.30pm AEST on 13 May 2008

LCT thresholds     Fuel efficient vehicles   Other vehicles

2013–14                 $75,375                           $60,316 

Just a reliable reference would do, and dates for the introduction of the new rate.

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