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.

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@am*3 wrote:


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...

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  and  your point is?

Sussan Ley is a very intelligent hard working and highly qualified woman... Is this an issue for you?

Or are you highlighting her qualifications and just how intelligent and hard working this woman is

When Ley was 19 she enrolled in flight school and started to learn to fly. It made her extremely happy, she recalled years later, and she worked three jobs - the public service, cleaning department stores and waitressing - just to pay for the flying lessons.

She gained her commercial pilot's licence when she was 20 and later worked as an air traffic controller at Melbourne and Sydney airports. She liked air traffic controlling, but desperately wanted to fly. She applied for numerous flight positions with major airlines but kept getting knocked back.

"Although I was disappointed at the time not to get a job with a major airline, I can look back now and say how lucky I was," Ley told Parliament during her 2001 maiden speech.

Eventually, she got a job aerial stock-mustering in south-west Queensland. That's where she met her future husband, in the shearing sheds of Thargomindah, Queensland. They married and had three children, settling on her husband's family farm in north-east Victoria.

When her first child turned one, and while still working full-time on the farm, Ms Ley started studying a Bachelor of Economics.

After she completed that she got a job at the Albury tax office (she has also completed a Masters in Tax Law and another Masters degree in Accounting).

Ms Ley still holds a commercial pilot's licence

[debra9275]

http://www.downsyndrome.org.au/news/rejected_for_funding.html

Ten peak disability organisations including Down Syndrome Australia will be left with no choice but to either close their doors or reduce services, with seven organisations subject to drastic funding cuts by outgoing Minister for Social Services, Kevin Andrews.

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@am*3 wrote:
Scott Morrison's calculated cruelty is his legacy

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Alrteady been done at #4746 by debra, are you doubling up on posts now? 

[debra9275]

it was worth repeating

[aps1080]

Only because it highlights the hypocrisy of burnside calling morrison names and a hypocite.

At least the lnp didnt kill them

[aps1080]

#I'llridewithyou#

Required to be set up by christians to allow Muslims to feel wanted

It would be much easier if muslims just didn't terrorise everyone.

Why don't muslims start a #I'llridewithyou# for Chrstians ?

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-24/2014-26-stories-that-inspire2c-delight2c-amaze-or-amuse/598439...

2014 has seen its share of heartbreak, but there have been lighter moments too. Here, in no particular order, is a selection of stories that inspire, delight, amaze or amuse.

one of those included as inspiring is the I'llridewithyou campaign   

[cherry*135]

Look at our Prime Minister ( class clown?). Seriously what a way to behave at a media publicity shoot.

Photo: Andrew Meares

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You call it inspiring, some call it an unnecessary load of bs.

[icyfroth]

For Am:

Merry Christmas

(thanks She-el)