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.

[boris1gary]

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@pinau86 wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

 The myopics have their wish and still are not happy!   With apologies to the pink author of:  "Not really interested in what happened in the past ..........."

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Who or what is a pink author?

Who is myopic? Such an insulting term to use.

myopic

mʌɪˈɒpɪk/

adjective

1. short-sighted.

   "most myopic children can be fitted with glasses to correct their vision"

   synonyms:

   short-sighted; More

   • lacking foresight or intellectual insight.

     "the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending"

     synonyms:

     unimaginative, uncreative, unadventurous, narrow-minded, lacking foresight, small-minded, short-term, narrow; More

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yes...i now understand it is anyone who isn't paid by murdoch or anyone who isn't a conservative.

[monman12]

"Who is myopic?" : "lacking foresight or intellectual insight."  

SMH

Public has 'reality gap': Martin Parkinson

"Australians are suffering a ''reality gap'' over the state of the nation's finances, the head of Treasury, Martin Parkinson, has claimed.

Amid the ongoing backlash at the punitive first Abbott budget, Dr Parkinson highlighted what he believes is a failure by the ''political class'' to convince the community that the country's fiscal settings were unsustainable and spending would have to be cut."

''For the last three years I have been saying there is a gap between community expectations and what government can realistically do and there needs to be a frank and community-wide discussion to reset expectations,'' Dr Parkinson told a budget estimates hearing in Canberra.

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''Second thing I've been saying there is a gap between what citizens want from government and what they are willing to pay for that.

''There is a reality gap confronting the Australian public and unfortunately the frank conversation that has been required has not been held.

''I've been saying this, the governor of the Reserve Bank has been saying this, the head of the independent Parliamentary Budget Office has most recently said this last week. If the two most senior economic bureaucrats in the country are saying 'people we have a challenge and it's about time we had a serious community discussion' and the independent head of the Parliamentary Budget Office says the same thing, it's actually in the hands of the political class.''

Dr Parkinson, who will be replaced as Treasury Secretary by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, appeared to back the government's decision to target a range of groups in the budget, including pensioners, welfare recipients and students.

He raised the idea of a ''reality gap'' unprompted during the hearing of the Economics Legislation Committee, saying there was an ''interesting issue that needs to be put on the table''.

''If you agree that you have to engage in fiscal consolidation and your concern is that its outlays that have grown ahead of everything else, then, inevitably, you've got limited choices in the outlay space if you're going to cut outlays. And inevitably those groups in the community that get most of the expenditure are likely to bear the most significant part of the burden,'' he said.

Shortly after the budget, Dr Parkinson said Treasury was assuming another 10 years of economic growth and ever-rising income taxes but there was not a budget surplus in sight.

Earlier in Wednesday's hearing, Dr David Gruen, executive director of Treasury's macroeconomic group, said Treasury had consulted with a number of major banks but not identified any change in consumer spending patterns since the budget was handed down."

"yes...i now understand it is anyone who isn't paid by murdoch or anyone who isn't a conservative" Citizen journalist even?

Perhaps Cycloptic would be a better term,  not forgetting a propensity to view life  through a pink tinted monocle, and of course  in concert with "lacking (economic) foresight or intellectual insight."

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[boris1gary]

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbott-embarrasses-australia-abroad--a...

Abbott embarrasses Australia abroad — again

PM Tony Abbott is touring the world; meanwhile, Australians cringe, mortified, wondering what international ignominy he will bring upon their nation next. Alan Austin reports from France.

WITH PM TONY ABBOTT on a tour of Indonesia, Europe, Canada and the United States, the embarrassments for both him and Australia are mounting.

Few newsrooms here in France bothered to mention Abbott’s visit yesterday tocommemorate the D-Day landing 70 years agowith other heads of state.

One journal which did, Le Point, wrote scathingly of Abbott’s offensive D-Day speech, which allocated just 30 seconds to the historic military event. Then – enchaîne directement sur les intérêts économiques – linked this directly to his economic self-interest.

The journal hopes that Abbott regrette déjà ses paroles (will now regret his words).

Abbott’s tawdry effort – regurgitating election slogans to boost his failing career – contrasted starkly with U.S. president Barack Obama’s profoundly moving address yesterday at Omaha Beach in Normandy.

[boris1gary]

[monman12]

"PM Tony Abbott is touring the world; meanwhile, Australians cringe, mortified, wondering what international ignominy he will bring upon their nation next.  Alan Austin reports from France."

The same Alan Austin who once wrote:
"Fairfax media has ramped up its campaign against the Government — now abandoning any pretence of unbiased reporting. Alan Austin reports."
Now a quick glance at his past articles:    http://www.independentaustralia.net/profile-on/alan-austin,67    would indicate that he is more than conversant with biased reporting.   Which would come as no surprise from a B1G favourite media source: AIMN

However I think it insensitive B1G (tacky),  for Austin, and others,  to use the D-Day ceremonies for yet another of his  standard anti Abbott/Lib tirades, even if it is from a favoured C&P source.

nɥºɾ

[cherry*135]

From link in post 479 (boris)

The polls tell you more and more people are realising Abbott has not so much lost the plot as that he never had one.

..in power he and his ministers trudge through the smoking ruins of their policy flip-flops and broken promises, haplessly blaming their predecessors for the mess.

Abbott himself has not [changed]. Beneath those crisp white shirts and pale blue ties there still beats the heart of the campus bully. And Australians know it.

[pinau86]

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However I think it insensitive B1G (tacky),  for Austin, and others,  to use the D-Day ceremonies for yet another of his  standard anti Abbott/Lib tirades, even if it is from a favoured C&P source.

nɥºɾ

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I thought it rather tacky that he used the D Day ceremonies to have a go at Labor.

Did anyone see the speeches? He suffers from a complete lack of tact.

Did he really snub the French as the odd one out in a German car instead a French vehicle?

In that pic above, is he sleeping or praying?

[pinau86]

Gee. Murdoch sure has this old guy by the short and gray curlies.

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-08/australia-post-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-report/5508236

it seems lke more job losses for Melbourne

[boris1gary]

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@debra9275 wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-08/australia-post-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-report/5508236

it seems lke more job losses for Melbourne

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Yes and they have come to this conclusion with "private modelling"....paying the chief executive 4.8million. This is why they aren't selling it off to one of their mates yet, it will be gutted and made "leaner" and a better cash cow for future privatisation. I hope we get to see a different "modelling", one that has the public interest at heart.