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.

[bella_again]

Seems to me they are the ones who have a sense of entitlement.  They seem to get money thrown at them and get away with not paying someone left in a dire situation, yet no one bats an eyelid because of who they are.  Appalling, I think the age of entitlement needs to stop in Abbotts family, how dare they put that single lady in that position.

How dare they say the poor and vulnerable of this country are draining the tax payer! I hope the lady appeals it and wins. I can't believe that Francis has not understood something called personal responsibility, the very same principal that Abbott claims to be teaching under 30's with his new policies.

Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

[boris1gary]

Bella, yes I agree and no amout of tired screeching and divisive chatter from the LNP and its ever dwindling band of supporters will change our (most of us) sense of a fair go, although they will keep trying with their lies, fear and dodgy graphs.

Lifters and leaners: why the idea of equality of opportunity is a big con

During the First World War, Australian soldiers in London were abused by the officer class and the English as "verandah-post leaners". Cartoons suggest they were commonly found adopting that comfortable posture. Not only did the criticism from "above" fail to stop them leaning against convenient posts, they responded by leaning even more laconically. They weren’t leaning because they were lazy; they were leaning because, on leave from the Western Front, they had earned the right to lean. Leaning was a pointed demonstration to the English of colonial egalitarianism. As Australians, leaning was their right.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/lifters-and-leaners-why-the-idea-of-equality-of-opportunity-is-a-bi...

[icyfroth]

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

[boris1gary]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

[icyfroth]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

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But I was wasn't laughing! I was just politely showing my amusement.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

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But I was wasn't laughing! I was just politely showing my amusement.

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at the double standards 🙂

[boris1gary]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

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But I was wasn't laughing! I was just politely showing my amusement.

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at the double standards 🙂

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sure.

[polksaladallie]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

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I'd like to think that it wasn't a mistake, but deliberate.  Irony which the right isn't capable of understanding.

[icyfroth]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Bring on a double disillusionment. These people think that because they are rich and because of who they are they can trample over everyone else. It's wrong and it needs to stop.

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I think double disillusionment is already here judging by the last 2 posts

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Oh so is this one of those examples of an LNP supporter being "too polite" to laugh at another's little mistake....I understand now this wonderful veneer of "politeness".

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I'd like to think that it wasn't a mistake, but deliberate.  Irony which the right isn't capable of understanding.

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I'm sure you'd like to think that, polks lol.

[boris1gary]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/scott-morrison-refuses-to-halt-return-of-asylum-seekers...

Scott Morrison refuses to halt return of asylum seekers to strife-torn Iraq

The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has refused to rule out sending asylum seekers back to Iraq as the Greens attempt to move a motion demanding a moratorium on returning them while violence in the country escalates.

Morrison says the government will judge each case on its merits but said it would be “strange” to stop Iraqi asylum seekers returning of their own volition.

The Greens immigration spokeswoman, Sarah Hanson-Young, will move a motion in the Senate on Wednesday to put a moratorium on returning Iraqi asylum seekers and to allow those in offshore detention centres to apply for protection in Australia.

Under current policy no asylum seeker in offshore detention will be settled in Australia. Hanson-Young estimates there are 500 Iraqi asylum seekers on Manus Island and in Nauru and thousands more in the community on bridging visas.

Morrison said the situation in Iraq was “obviously very concerning” but the overwhelming majority of returned Iraqi asylum seekers did so by choice.

“We will continue to judge every single case on the merits and on the information available to us,” he told ABC Radio National. “...They themselves are the ones who say they wish to return to their own country and I think it would be a strange situation to detain them when they want to go home.”

Hanson-Young questioned whether people were really returning voluntarily or were doing so under coercion after being held in “terrible” conditions in indefinite detention.

“The government is on this chest thumping exercising and boasting about how many people they’re deporting, how many are opting to go home rather than sitting in terrible conditions on Manus, let’s be a little bit humane, a little bit more practical on Iraq,” she told ABC Radio National.

Hanson-Young said asylum seekers were in “limbo” and their processing needed to be quickened.

“There’s all these [Iraqi] people we have here in Australia already, clearly anxious about what’s going on at home, at the very least Australia could be offering sanctuary to those who are already here,” she said.

Figures are not available on how many Iraqi people have returned to the country after attempting to seek asylum in Australia.