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]

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/10/accountants-highlight-457-visa-flaws/

Accountants Highlight 457 Visa Flaws

Back in July controversy arose after it was revealed that the Abbott Government had chosen to keep accountants on a list of in-demand occupations for skilled migrants, going against the both the Department of Employment’s and the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency’s (AWPA) recommendations to remove accounting from this list due to significant labour surpluses and “deteriorating outcomes for graduates . . . relatively low pay rates for bachelor graduates and weak employment outcomes for masters graduates”.

It was understood that universities, which derive income from international accounting students, and two of the major accounting bodies, which charge foreign accountants fees for membership and ­evaluating qualifications for migration, supported keeping the occupation on the list.

The reasons are obvious: international accounting students are a cash cow for universities, ­making up a record 79% of the 17,600 enrolled postgraduate students in 2013, and some 55% of the 25,400 enrolled ­undergraduate ­students, according to The AFR.

Yesterday, Deakin University released a new report entitled Australian International Graduates and the Transition to Employment (summarised in The AFR), revealing that international graduates were finding it extremely difficult to find professional work in Australia, despite having qualifications in areas of supposed skills shortages, such as accounting, nursing and ­engineering, which are all on the Skilled ­Occupation List. Under the visa rules, such international students can obtain a 485 Temporary Graduate Visa and work in Australia for up to 18 months.

The report supported analysis by The AFR in September, which claimed that unemployment has risen significantly for post-graduates – to 15.5% for those with postgraduate diplomas and certificates and 17.9% for those who had completed a masters degree by coursework - with accountants amongst the worst affected.

Today, The AFR has revealed that the major accounting bodies have finally publicly conceded that international ­accounting graduates are having difficulty in finding professional work in Australia, contradicting their testimony to the federal government last year that there was a shortage of accountants, requiring them to remain on the Skilled ­Occupation List, prompting calls for changes to the visa rules:

Federal Labor member Kelvin Thomson said the “Coalition ­government should remove accounting from the Skilled Occupation List”.

“The government should also review the overseas student sector in ­conjunction with migrant worker ­programs, to cut the links that have developed between permanent ­residency, revenue-raising dependency by education providers, and reduced employment opportunities for young Australian graduates”…

The federal government said it would review the list early next year.

While I am a big supporter of increasing education exports – and see them as one of the few areas where Australia is internationally competitive – it should not be used as a back-door pathway to immigration.

The skilled migration program should be determined solely by a rigorous analysis of need, and should balance the benefits to business and the economy against the costs to unemployed and underemployed Australians.

Yet, to date, we have seen little evidence that the Abbott Government is taking such an approach. As noted above, it chose to ignore the advice of the independent AWPA and the Department of Employment – which both believe that Australia has a surplus of accountants – and has effectively flooded the market, placing the interests of universities and the major accounting bodies ahead of locals trying to get a job. It has also chosen to disband the AWPA – the body set-up the the former Gillard Government to evaluate what skills Australia has, what we should import and how to develop the necessary skills locally – thus removing one of the few checks-and-balances on Australia’s immigration system.

When added to the recently announced loosening of 457 visa requirements, the Abbott Government seems intent on making it systematically easier to import labour from offshore, while at the same time cynically tightening eligibility requirements for under-30s receiving unemployment benefits and raising university fees.

The Coalition’s approach will deprive Australia’s youth of employment opportunities, and is hardly a recipe for social cohesion.

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.........About 1 million temporary/457 visa/485s from countries that have ruined their own economies with a housing crash ...But oh no – soon it may start to affect the children of the well off and then they’ll have to do something- when little Johnny cant get a finance or law job after graduation and is still at home playing video all day.
The solution – increase fees for the “sandstone university” law courses to again exclude lower income people........

Unemployment is chronic in Australia – its hidden.

We have the worst unemployment in all of Asia and have overtaken the US.

.....the inner city 457s and students are great – they keep the rent up (according to the RBA !).....

.....Reskill at what? Go on - we are all listening......

.......Abbott just fired “science”......

[monman12]

"Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is turning out to be an investment banker's best friend.   His center-right government is in the midst of an unprecedented push to build public infrastructure"

Australia for sale: Investment bankers cashing in on Tony Abbott's infrastructure push
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Perhaps you would suggest  the Libs adopt the ALP Circus method of funding infrastructure, government debt in the form of bonds paying annual interest?. Lets see :

Feb 2014

"$7 billion of government funds have been ploughed into the National Broadband Network to complete just 3 per cent of the rollout ".    OK ,10 year bonds are 3.23%, so currently we are paying $226 million a year for the ALP fiasco (just 3% of it). Of course the few customers connected will be paying, but I  will let you research (sorry) that figure.  All right then, as you do not understand "research" I will help: 

Apr2014

NBN Co has, so far, spent $4.4 billion in capital costs and $2.2 billion in operating costs. It has received $7.28 billion in funding from the federal government and $57 million from its customers.

What is wrong with infrastructure projects, or bankers? You can buy their bank shares or take advantage of the process.  I make a fair amount from Telstra  (thank you Conroy and the Circus)  loved the buy-back,  and  have ordered a chunk of Medibank shares.

nɥºɾ

[fourandsixpants]

What benefit are infestors to both the Australian economy and the future of our youth?

You may be making $'s from doing almost nothing. Guess you are fortunate to have so much available $cash to participate in this activity monman.

What Australia needs is more jobs and especially jobs where people are rewarded for using their hands and minds to actually make and produce tangible things that can be sold for a profit. Good quality things. 

[monman12]

"Unemployment is chronic in Australia – its hidden.

We have the worst unemployment in all of Asia and have overtaken the US."

Oh dear:  Oct 2014 "Australia's unemployment rate set to be second worst in Asia-Pacific, says IMF"

"About 1 million temporary/457 visa/485s from countries that have ruined their own economies with a housing crash "

Oh dear :  457 Visa Grants May 2014    show that the total number of 457 visa holders is at an all time high of 111,780. Whilst 485 visa applications are in a sharp decline with a current total of less than 25,000

From what countries?  What housing crash?

Some facts(sorry)  would be good, references better, and some research (sorry)

Is it something to do with Pink Myopia,  the inability to research or quote facts (sorry), or just plain political misrepresentation?. Please explain!

[fourandsixpants]

What benefit are infestors to both the Australian economy and the future of our youth?

The Coalition’s approach will deprive Australia’s youth of employment opportunities, and is hardly a recipe for social cohesion.

[nero_bolt]

@monman12 wrote:

What is wrong with infrastructure projects, or bankers? You can buy their bank shares or take advantage of the process.  I make a fair amount from Telstra  (thank you Conroy and the Circus)  loved the buy-back,  and  have ordered a chunk of Medibank shares.

nɥºɾ

OOHH dear monman12 you have mentioned the evil CAPITALISM on a socialist thread and talked about your shares..... 

This will now bring out the envious and the socialist  who will berate you (and me) for working hard and investing our money wisely and the envious and socialist will now spruik their usual mantra

MM12 I am still thinking about the medibank shares if I will apply... Not 100% sure yet on them..... 

 Oh MY

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@paintsew007 wrote:

What benefit are infestors to both the Australian economy and the future of our youth?

You may be making $'s from doing almost nothing. Guess you are fortunate to have so much available $cash to participate in this activity monman.

What Australia needs is more jobs and especially jobs where people are rewarded for using their hands and minds to actually make and produce tangible things that can be sold for a profit. Good quality things. 

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[fourandsixpants]

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/10/bull**bleep**-jobs-are-costing-the-economy/

Deloitte-Access Economics has released a new report claiming that excessive ‘red tape’ and compliance is costing the economy some $250 billion in lost productivity, much of which has been brought about by companies’ own internal rules.....

"The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger…

Personally, I don’t buy the argument that it is one great ruling class conspiracy, but rather a symptom of those within organisations and government either trying to make themselves relevant or increase their power base, and in the process dreaming up new pointless rules and regulations for others to follow."........

LOL

....imo great examples of bullshido jobs - a politician

                                                               - an infestor

[nero_bolt]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

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it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger…

LOL

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You apper to be living in the wrong country.... May I suggest somewhere like Venezuela to you or even North Korea as they appear be better suited politically and socially for you 

[boris1gary]

From the change petition - link below to petition - 2 more vids coming.

http://www.change.org/p/don-t-send-our-defence-forces-to-war-on-a-pay-cut-show-our-adf-the-respect-i...

Don’t send our defence forces to war on a pay cut! Show our ADF the respect it deserves.