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.

[j*oono]

It's dismal isn't it.  We now have the most powerless government ever in Australia with the most unpopular primeminister of all time and a treasurer that can't even speak in public anymore because he got everything so wrong.

Why did anyone vote for this government when Tony Abbott told us years ago that he can't be relied on to tell the truth in the heat of the moment?

[iapetus_rocks]

It's Labor's fault.

Well, largely Labor's fault for being so inept while in govt; and so divided. They got so much so wrong it's no wonder that the voters dumped them.

That said, people also  voted for this present govt because they have short memories. They didn't remember that the LNP coalition always screws the average worker. Always. and that they always give kickbacks to their maaates in Business. Always.

It's been said that leopards can't change their spots.

Can Labor get it together and act  as a cohesive unified party and actually get things done correctly?

Can the LNP come to an understanding that screwing the average working person and the disadvantaged and the halt and the lame is not a policy which will ever gain them longevity in govt  . .  if they ever win it back again in the next few decades?

They're both such a bunch of useless self-serving, dishonest, duplicitous cynics that it's a wonder that anyone votes for them at all.

Can the voters wake up from their apparent somnolent stupor and try to understand at least a little of what is going on in their own country and not fall for promises which we know the pollies won't keep?

and that brings me to the last point.

Why did anyone vote for this government . . . ?

Because the general level of education and sophistication of the electorate regarding political realities in this country is so abysmally deficient as to be dangerous to our collective public welfare.

There. I have apportioned the blame equally amongst all three. Can't be fairer than that.

I reckon we should vote "none of the above" until our politicians begin to understand that we demand honesty and fairness and a willingness to stand up for the majority of their subjects pawns dupes voters and stop pandering  to those who offer them personal inducements.

In short, we want honest politicians whose word can be trusted and who can be trusted to act in the interests of the country and of the majority of the people in that country  . . .

and what do we have?

we have pollies who only think and act in the short term because they are more interested in being re-elected and in advancing their personal fortunes than they are interested in advancing the collective fortunes of the Australian people.

a pox on them all.

[fourandsixpants]

.....and reassess all the retirement perk BS that all our pollies presently get...............

well said iapetus except for : Well, largely Labor's fault ....I disagree on this point. IMO the mess is caused by the heavy swinging that comes with one lot in then when the next lot get the reigns everything swings back to the opposite extreme.

This is not a good way to achieve a balanced economy. Not good at all

[iapetus_rocks]

Yes, I understand that we tend to give one party a fair go for a few terms and then give the other lot their chance, but . ..

Really, the labor party were their own worst enemy the last time they held government. They were just so divided, and so blunderingly inefficient with the administration of such obviously  ersatz, made-up-on-the-run polcies. Short term thinking. Populist. No courage. Lacking ability and insight.

Labor was gifted their term in govt courtesy of John Howard and his workchoices policy.

and they blew their chance. They're so inept and factionalised, I couldn't vote for them in good conscience. They didn't deserve it.

The LNP on the other hand are always so predictable and unified in their desire to make life tough for the average Australian while giving their business buddies all sorts of consideration.

It's their Policy. and it doesn't work.  Trickle-down economic theory is a deliberate falsehood. it's really a policy designed to trickle-up as many of our tax dollars and as much of our resources as possible to the wealthy end of town in the hope that those folks will trickle down some favour and help keep them in power.

We see what the Murdoch press did leading up to the last federal election. it has been rumoured that Murdoch et al are not happy with Mr Abbott and will soon engineer his fall and his removal and try to instal somone who can better serve their interests.

Democracy in action? Not when they are playing with multi-million dollar bribes and sophisticated media campaigns designed to hijack   our meagre 2 cents worth at the ballot box.

[fourandsixpants]

Yes. This Bipartisan era is hopefully coming to an end.

It has got damagingly and seriously ridiculous.

Many people are unaware that behind closed doors both sides actually wear purple ties and both camps are controlled by Rupert and the corporate likes.......we are all at the whim of all these greedy, self-serving parasites because we have allowed it, through complacency and apathy.

Many voters have had enough, much more than enough and the crackle and pops are starting to appear in the holographic spectre being initiated (thankfully) by solar soul flares :)............ a much welcomed new political awakening.

Bring it on

[aps1080]

The problem is in Aust, apart from a few independants, we have no serious third party.

I do not consider the Greens a serious third party as they are far too one dimensional, even Bob Brown said

that the Greens need to become more mainstream to be accepted.

[fourandsixpants]

Here is the link to the current and updated Register of Member's Interests for Abbott, The Hon Tony, Member for Warringah.

(as of 21st October 2010.....when declared by TA, of course)

.....top of page 2. 

"1. Shareholdings in public and private companies (including holding companies) indicating the name of the company or companies.......

Name of Co. .........

Self (being Tony Abbott)  - HANBORD COMMUNITY BANK"

.............err could someone please throw some light on this bank for me please ?

.............. I have never heard of it?

........does this bank actually 'exist' ?       

[fourandsixpants]

.....this must be the bank where Tony Abbott accidentally left his Application Form to Renounce his Dual Citizenship when in his wisdom he was making a suppository deposit 

[cherry*135]

Another promised target not met.


GENDER BALANCE GOES BACKWARDS UNDER PM

Women on Boards go backwards

He's the Minister for Women but under Tony Abbott's Prime Ministership female board representation is slipping.

The number of women on government boards has slipped below the 40 per cent target and a new report says men made up 75 per cent of new appointees within Tony Abbott's own department of Prime Minister and Cabinet this year.

The Prime Minister, who is also the Minister for Women, has assured voters that he is committed to the gender diversity target but the Opposition says the statistics should "set the bells ringing".

The annual Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards report says overall female representation slipped from its peak of 41.7 per cent under Labor in 2013 to 39.7 under the Coalition in 2014.

The report, prepared by the Office for Women which sits in the Prime Minister's Department, PM&C, said there were 639 new appointments to boards as of June 2014.

63.5 per cent of those positions were offered to men meaning 36.5 per cent went to women.

But Labor's Spokeswoman for Women Claire Moore said the results were "disappointing" but "not unexpected" and accused the Prime Minister failing for women in his capacity as the relevant Minister.

"When you start to fall behind that's when the bells start ringing, the real test is what happens next," she said.

Senator Moore urged the Prime Minister to take action especially within his own department.

"That is the Prime Minister's own department, ministerial appointments belong to the Minister," she said.

"The Minister and Assistant Minister have been silent on this issue," she said.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/women-on-boards-go-backwards-2014122...

[polksaladallie]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

what sort of degree did you get aps?

I think you may have been duped.

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It wasn't in English (sentence construction, grammar and spelling etc.).  That's for sure.