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.

[aps1080]

I don't celebrate christmas.

But this one is turning over better than expected LOL

[nero_bolt]

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@aps1080 wrote:
Am3

We are commenting on current govt since someone posted about welfare and morrison. We are expanding on that.

So it is current affairs of the current government.

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 Debras post at #4746 is what I was responding to and thats what I saw you responding to as well.... Seems we are not allowed to respond.... 😞    debra at #4746 started the welfare flow with her post and its just gone from there is all I see... a flowing conversation....

[icyfroth]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
Inappropriate for Community Spirit board ebay related comments comments on a board for non-ebay related topics. This thread is about current affairs related to the current govt.
CS and this thread is not for comments to do with individual ebay sellers and how they manage their financial afffairs.

Nero_wulf and aps are trying to disrupt this thread with continued interpersonal false accusations about other posters - inferring they are dole bludgers and tax cheats etc.

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It was not inferring, It's just plain old school yard bully boy name calling.

And yes, you're right. There are a few trolls trying to get this thread locked and people booted.  Nice sort of Christmas spirit they are demonstrating.  

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as if this thread had any other spirit but mean

[cherry*135]

Appropriate board for ebay related seller topics
http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/bd-p/2500000010

Community Spirit is for:
Show your community spirit! Talk with fellow members about NON eBay related topics.

[aps1080]

Am

Tnat is what we are doing.

Talking about issues.

And as icy froth said, this threads spirit is all mean and nasty.

But its ok for you to do it.

[crusader-rabbit48]

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@aps1080 wrote:

I think i is so funny you lot never ending posts about the govt and watching you put your spin on it.

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Hillarious as 5/13 posts on this subject on this very page are your.s

Not doing much watching.

[cherry*135]

Sussan Ley: From punk rocker to health minister

As a high school student in Canberra in the 1970s, Ley walked around with no shoes, black lipstick, spiky purple hair, a dog collar, and a nose piercing connected to the razor blade in her ear.

But Ms Ley is no Canberran. She wasn't even born in Australia.

Australia's newest health minister was actually born in Nigeria, to British parents. When she was just a baby, her family moved to the United Arab Emirates where her father was attached to British intelligence. She attended school there until she was 10 and was then sent to boarding school in England while her parents remained in the UAE.

....But she hated high school in the nation's capital and her punk-rocker side soon emerged.

In her new health portfolio, it will be up to her to carry steer through a revamped but controversial GP co-payment.

"She's had a very diverse life, Sussan, before entering Parliament," Mr Abbott accurately noted.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/sussan-ley-from-punk-rocker-to-healt...

[aps1080]

She did better than me. I walked around with doc martins, spiky hair, sometime dyed, denim jacket with the usual punk carp on it, sex pistols badges and the like.

Oh they were the days LOL

The punk era was a very interesting time.

[cherry*135]

Scott Morrison's calculated cruelty is his legacy

He proved to be a callous Immigration Minister, yet he is given another portfolio that requires compassion.

Morrison's conduct as immigration minister is impossible to reconcile with his stated Christian beliefs. He visited the detention centre at Manus Island on September 26, 2013, and delivered a clear message that the transferees would remain at the centre until they went home or resettled in a country other than Australia. This stands awkwardly alongside a passage from Matthew 25:35: "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me", a message at the heart of the Christian teaching he claims to embrace.

All things considered, the immigration portfolio will improve by losing Morrison, who has shown himself to be a hypocrite, willing to harm innocent people for political purposes.

It will be interesting to see how much damage he can do to pensioners.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/scott-morrisons-calculated-cruelty-is-his-legacy-20141222-12...

[aps1080]

Harm.

I suppose that is better than killing them like labor did.

Burnside is such a hypocrite.