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.

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-07/young-families-elderly-worse-off-under-gp-co-payment-study/557...

that nasty budget !

the new senators have been sworn in, should make for an interesting parliament this week

[fourandsixpants]

to boris who said:

Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser was also scathing of the government, saying handing asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka at sea was redolent of handing Jews over to the Nazis in the 1930s

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seekers-screened-at-sea-returned-to-sri...

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I agree.

Neo-Liberals and their very, very scary actions

[boris1gary]

The 2 newbies I find most disturbing (so far) are the family first bloke bloke and that other one - the liberal democrat (what a misnomer). Not one thing that would be considered putting families first has come out of his mouth - youth working for under award rates "if they choose " - what a stupid idea, they are already paid a pittance and the other flip - less regulations for childcare - those 2 will fit in well with the fiberals and there nasty government.  

[boris1gary]

nice to see the term rent seeker used properly....wonder why dolt didn't have this bloke on his "show"......

Inequality: Why Australia must not follow the US

There is growing concern about inequality, and rightly so. There is growing inequality in most countries - marked increases in some, with more and more of each nation’s income going to the top, more people in poverty, and a hollowing out of the middle class. But the fact that there is so much more inequality in some countries than others means that the degree of inequality is not just a matter of economics; it is the result of policies and politics. Each confronts the same laws of economics, the same global economic forces; but how they respond differs markedly. 

In the past few years, there has been a fundamental shift in our understanding not only of the causes of inequality, but also of the consequences. There are two ways to do “well”: to increase the size of the economic pie, and be justly rewarded for doing so; and to seize a larger share of the nation’s economic pie. The former is called wealth creation; the latter wealth appropriation or rent seeking. There is a growing consensus that an increasing share of inequality at the top arises from rent seeking - whether it takes the form of the exercise of monopoly power, taking advantage of deficiencies in corporate governance to seize an increasing share of corporate revenues, or using political power to get public resources at low prices or sell government goods and services at inflated prices. 

But such rent seeking erodes economic performance. It’s one of the reasons that countries with greater inequality grow more slowly and have more instability - countries pay a high price for inequality, as the IMF has been emphasising in recent years.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/inequality-why-australia-must-not-follow-the-us-20140706-zsxtk.html#ix...

[fourandsixpants]

to Debs re. new senators.

HHhhmmmmmn! This lil' Black Duck smells a rat! Too wierd so far!! ......Too contrived

[fourandsixpants]

.....even

[boris1gary]

remember hockey and his pathetic attempt at dividing us over welfare......

Taking average weekly earnings at approximately $1437 for a full time employer and multiplying this by 52, this means that the average taxpayer is paying approximately $12467 in tax each year.

So, the average taxpayer is working for 37 years to pay for the grant to build the Science Wing at the elite private school down the road.

The average taxpayer is working for 402 years to pay for the PM’s grant to Manly to build a new grandstand.

And finally, the average taxpayer is working for a million years in order to pay for the jets we intend to buy. Sorry, I forgot the money for this had been set aside, so it’s really no cost at all.

With commitments like these, I can see how I can’t possible spend a month working to support someone on welfare.

http://theaimn.com/fun-numbers-welfare-go-deserving/

[boris1gary]

[boris1gary]

Bella, I thought you might appreciate this...

http://theaimn.com/bigots-disabled/

Bigots or the disabled?

There could be no starker signal of this government’s intentions than the appointment of Tim Wilson as the Human Rights Commissioner for ‘Freedom’ at the expense of disability commissioner Graeme Innes.

In opposition, Senator Brandis was prepared to publicly criticise Mr Innes for advocating on behalf of Australians with a disability, blaming the ‘ideological culture’ within the Human Rights Commission.

The following biographies come from the Australian Human Rights Commission website.  I will leave it to you to judge who you feel is better qualified and able to make an important contribution to our society.

“Graeme Innes has been Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner since December 2005. During that time he has also served as Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner for three and a half years and as Race Discrimination Commissioner for two years.

[monman12]

Gosh the bucket must be dry, back to the AIMN  "citizen bloggers "  and their "independent" (and partial) blogs.

"The following biographies come from the Australian Human Rights Commission website.  I will leave it to you to judge who you feel is better qualified and able to make an important contribution to our society."

Would you/the blogger have said the same, when in the past:

" Libya was elected today by secret ballot to head the top United Nations Human Rights Commision "?.