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.

[fourandsixpants]

"In today’s money market, the price is imposed, to reward borrowers and punish savers. Central banks have decreed that there are too few of the former and too many of the latter, and see it as their duty to even things up by manipulating the price....."

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Tis a shame that the Banks have the final say but fact I agree.

Alan K is funny isn't he?! I liked tonight how he gave a tip ref. The World Cup (soccer) saying, whilst showing a graph of previous winners and correlated shares......buy shares of winning country and then sell a month later

[fourandsixpants]

Further dip in support for government, budget poll finds

Voters are maintaining their rage over the federal budget, a big majority  branding it unfair and believing it will increase cost-of-living pressures and  make it harder for the young to find jobs.

75% of voters do not believe the budget shares the burden of spending cuts, benefit changes and tax increases equally, says the Ipsos I-view  Omnibus survey taken in the past week. Just 19 per cent say the burden is shared.

82% believe the cost of living will rise as a result of the  budget, 8 per cent saying it will have no effect and 3 per cent predicting the  cost of living will fall.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's ratings have also dipped further from the lows  of the immediate post-budget polls, with Ipsos showing 66 per cent of voters are dissatisfied with his performance, compared with 62 per cent in the post-budget  Nielsen Poll and 60 per cent in Newspoll.

He also trails Opposition Leader Bill Shorten as preferred prime minister by  eight points, roughly the same margin as in the Nielsen Poll (nine) and Newspoll  (10).

Two out of three believe the measures affecting young people - including  the deregulation of university fees and the six-month delay in being able to receive dole payments - will have a negative effect on their ability to get into the workforce.

Sixty-nine per cent agreed that the budget measures were out of line with what was promised by the Coalition before last year's election.

Ipsos public affairs director David Elliott said the negative economic  sentiment was not overly surprising, saying Australians' concerns about the  economy had doubled over the past 12 months.

At the same time, national anxiety about unemployment had risen to 26 per  cent from 19 per cent, he said.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/further-dip-in-support-for-government-budget-p...

[cherry*135]

Infrastructure caught short.

MICHAEL PASCOE 2:45pm The "infrastructure prime minister" is going to be a year late and a few billion short.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/nonresources-investment-rising---but-thats-befor...

[boris1gary]

George Brandis accused of 'gagging' race discrimination commissioner Tim Soutphommasane over changes to race-hate laws

Labor Senator Lisa Singh has accused Attorney-General George Brandis of ''gagging'' race discrimination commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, while allowing ''freedom'' commissioner Tim Wilson to speak on the government's proposed changes to the Race Discrimination Act.

During Senate estimates hearings, Senator Brandis also clashed with outgoing disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes over the downgrading of Mr Innes' role.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/george-brandis-accused-of-gagging-race-discrim...

[fourandsixpants]

Budget Sell Turns Rancid

I heard Peppa Pig is being sent to the Abattoirs. They have gone mad....

the Education Minister is considering collecting HECS from the dead.........

miners....digging up dirt, our dirt, adding zero value, and putting it on a ship to China.  Then they have the audacity to send the profits overseas.

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/05/budget-sell-turns-rancid/

 

........apparently LATEST is that MT has saved Peppa Pig from the chopping block. Amazing how fast wheels can turn when the ire of the people is felt!

[boris1gary]

Tony Abbott is a liar: It's a mathematical truth

Do politicians lie?  Of course they do,  including, of course, Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Whether it's the manufacturing of a budget "crisis", or the systematic trashing of election promises, or pretending that taxes are anything-but-taxes, or lying about spying, or lying about lying, Abbott has demonstrated his disdain for the truth.

And Tony Abbott is not alone. The Prime Minister leads a fine cabinet of companion liars, including the Minister for the Destruction of Education, Christopher Pyne. A "unity ticket" on the Gonski education reforms? Nope, just some airbrushing of history and yet another lie.

The overarching lie is that Prime Minister Abbott is leading a conservative government. In fact, Australia is being pummelled by American-style, dog-eat-dog radicals. Far from being conservative, current Liberal Party philosophy is little more than adolescent-level libertarianism.

Yes, Prime Minister Abbott has arranged for the National Health and Medical Research Council to undertake a study of the health effects of wind turbines. Even though there is no scientific basis for the concerns, and even though study after study after study after study has demonstrated that wind turbines are safe. However one cannot be too careful and perhaps the National Health and Medical Research Council will discover something new. Perhaps they'll figure out how the thousands of wind turbines that have been in Denmark for decades have failed to kill everyone. Or anyone.

But it doesn't really matter if the Prime Minister is distracted by a little bit of cultish nonsense, just as long as the major scientific issue of our time is being addressed with care and honesty. Which brings us to global warming. Or climate change, if you prefer. Whatever. A withered rose by any other name is just as dead.

To be clear,  we have no intention of debating global warming. Why not? Because there is no debate. It is a scientific fact that global warming is happening. It is a scientific fact that humans are responsible, through the production of greenhouse gases. And the evidence very strongly suggests that the consequences are already occurring, and in the future will be extensive and bad. Or, if the world continues to do bugger-all about reducing carbon dioxide emissions, very very bad.

But what of Tony? Will he be remembered as a liar? Probably, but probably he'll be remembered for much more. Eventually, and more likely sooner rather than later, global warming will be undeniable. Truly undeniable.

Which means Abbott should go down in history as the Australian Prime Minister, the last Australian Prime Minister, to deny physical reality.  

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-is-a-liar-its-a-mathematical-truth-20140529-zrs5h.html#...

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[monman12]

"To be clear,  we have no intention of debating global warming. Why not? Because there is no debate. It is a scientific fact that global warming is happening. It is a scientific fact that humans are responsible.........and more likely sooner rather than later, global warming will be undeniable. Truly undeniable. "
That is bordering on an oxymoron.  It can not be a scientific fact and then: also "more likely sooner .....will be undeniable" !

The thrust  of the comments I am in agreement with, however, It is badly phrased, and I would assume B1G is a topic that you are not versed in, the Scientific Method.

It  is actually NOT a scientific fact....that humans are responsible,  but there is at least a 95% probability that global warming is caused by anthropogenic GHG emissions based upon the preponderance of scientific acceptance of the hypothesis.

The fifth IPCC report:  "It is extremely likely [95 percent confidence] more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together."

For SRBA and those deniers devoted to choosingselective time periods:  The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) requires the calculation of averages for consecutive periods of 30 years.

"Which brings us to global warming. Or climate change"  That sums up the article, they are actually different topics, one a single variable the other multiple variables,  but what else would you expect from an article from  two (good) mathematicians?
I notice B!G in their article they included: "Abbott now claims to believe in climate change"  which you "culled" for some reason?

By your C&Ps accuracy your are known,  I would suggest avoid science (with P007 and SRBA) well others C&P science !

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[boris1gary]

Christopher Pyne's pledge sparks fears public schools will be ignored

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has told Christian school leaders that his government has an ''emotional commitment'' to private schools, prompting fears the Abbott government will abandon public schools.

''I want to have a direct relationship with the non-government sector, as I believe we have had since 1963,'' Mr Pyne said. ''Having talked to the Prime Minister about this matter many times, it is his view that we have a particular responsibility for non-government schooling that we don't have for [state] government schooling.''

Mr Pyne assured the Christian schools he could not ''see those circumstances changing''.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/christopher-pynes-pledge-sparks-fears-public-s...