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.
Answer the questions and produce some facts P007, because posting nonsense assures that all your posts will be viewed as such..
"Unemployment is chronic in Australia โ 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?
As for this NW it is breathtaking in its naivety:
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.
I think more jobs would be welcome, just ask the Toyota ex-employees who lost theirs because the AMWU were so pig-headed and short sighted in order to maintain an ideological stance, Oh yes P007, jobs need investment capital and that is what the share market (and investment bankers) represent.
Now answer the questions and produce some facts (sorry)
Paints, I suggest that it is better to politely ignore some posters, especially the highly skilled at button pressing
The new act in the Question Time pantomime: Federation and the GST
The Abbott Government has finally revealed what it has long denied: the Plan B to its savagely unfair Budget โ raising the GST.
As I predicted in what now looks like a remarkably prescient piece written within three days of the Abbott Government being elected, a rise in the GST was always coming. Despite being a clear broken election promise and still a vicious attack on the poor and underprivileged, it will nevertheless be used by Abbott as political camouflage as he works towards being re-elected in 2015.
In a way, having the Government change its tune โ even in such a predictable way โ is rather a relief, especially if you are one of the masochists inclined to suffer through Parliamentary Question Time.
Thatโs because every day Parliament has been in session since Treasurer Joe Hockey danced to โBest Day of My Lifeโ in May, Question Time has been a pantomime. A very bad pantomime โ with the same script, choreography and cast of cartoonish villains every performance.
Here is the plot
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Firstly, the Opposition will ask a question of the prime minister about some aspect of its โunfair and inequitable budgetโ, to which Tony Abbott will stand beneath his heroic combover, with an oily unctuous look on his heavily polished face, smack his lips together a few times and talk about how the Budget for this or that is going up blah per cent this year, blah per cent next year, blah per cent the year after that and then another blah per cent in the year after that.
He will then sit down with a content look and lean over and talk to Manager of Government Business Christopher Pyne while the next question is being asked.
This question will be from some anonymous Liberal Party MP in the cheap seats, who will haltingly read a Dorothy Dixer โ or should we say a Peta Credliner โ directed at Joe Hockey on the subject of "fixing the budget".
Hockey will rise and, with an insincere smile half mooned over his full moon head, lambast the Opposition and the previous Labor Government for its incompetence, hypocrisy and reckless spending. Often, he will regale his braying backbenchers with a personal anecdote โ perhaps a tale he concocted about some imaginary old age elderly pensioner whom he says he met or wrote him a letter; or some reminiscence about his family's small business; or some incident involving Bill Shorten in the last term of Parliament. He will mock, he will point at the Opposition, he will chuckle at his own jokes; he will, in short, ham it up like he is playing Ali Baba in a Christmas panto at Drury Lane.
At around about this time, the grim, scowling, beehive hatted Speaker will eject the first of many Opposition MPs under โStanding Order 94Aโ, which these days will pass by with barely a murmur.
The Opposition will then direct another question to the prime minister about the Budget, which he will answer after selecting the second page from his folder of Credlin cheat sheets. Abbottโs answer will consist of supporting Coalition policy by deriding some figure from the Opposition over their alleged previous support for the same, or a similar, policy position. For instance, should the question be about universities, Abbott will read something allegedly written by Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leighwhen he was an economics professor to suggest he supported university fee deregulation. If the question happens to be about health, Tony will read something apparently said by Nicola Roxon during the Hawke Government a few decades or so ago. And so on.
Once he has completed this ritual, Abbott will John Wayne walk back to his bench, a familiar smirk plastered all over his sand-blasted face โ the sneer he canโt resist revealing when he feels he has done something especially clever and sneaky.
Later in the day, after Question Time has been completed, whoever Abbott has so verballed will arise to correct the record with the Speaker, claiming to have been โgrievously misrepresentedโ. This, however, will make absolutely no difference, because Abbott will similarly traduce them or their colleagues in exactly the same way the next day, and the next, and the one after that, and the one after that โ and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on.
And Question Time will also follow precisely the same pattern every mind numbing, fist clenching, television screen endangering day.
The Opposition will ask its questions and Abbott and Hockey will answer them in the exactly the same way โ virtually word for word โ each and every time. Meanwhile, the most blatantly partisan speaker in Australian political history will rule innocuous questions out of order, make bizarre rulings to defend Government ministers and eject ALP MPs for fictitious infractions.
"Unemployment is chronic in Australia โ its hidden.
We have the worst unemployment in all of Asia and have overtaken the US."
one recent example: Thousands of local nursing graduates are desperately unemployed despite large numbers of international nurses being recruited under the 457 Visa Programme.
http://megaphoneoz.com/?p=8604
Graduates rally on the steps of parliament in WA calling for local jobs for local nurses July 2014
