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.

[debra9275]

They must go back and live happily ever after then aps, though you would think the govt. would be jumping out of their skins to tell us some good news stories wouldn't you? Why all the secrecy about what happens when refugees are returned? I don't know.... Can't understand it personally

[cherry*135]

"The unemployment rate has hit a 12-year high of 6.3%, fuelling talk of interest rate cuts in 2015.
November’s figure is up from 6.2% the previous month despite the creation of 42,700 jobs, a figure nearly three times larger than economists were expecting. However, only 1,800 positions were full-time."

Yes, that is shocking. Not many newly created jobs are full time. Which makes it even more not understandable why the current Govt has an agenda to make life worse for ALL unemployed people.

Example: a newly opened restaraunt had 50 vacancies, 400+ applicants. Part time work. A month after opening, when the rush to eat at a new place dies down, staff are told they will be advised next Monday who will be let go.  

Some are Uni students, some are young people wanting to work and earn enough per week to be able to live off their earnings.

50 people got part time newly created jobs, but a month later, some of them are back in the dole queue.

[Anonymous]

Why all the secrecy about what happens when refugees are returned?

why would people who had been 

granted  refugee status - be returned?

[debra9275]

Refugees are generally asylum seekers

I thought you knew that?

[Anonymous]

---

@debra9275 wrote:
Refugees are generally asylum seekers

---

you appear to be confused.

those people who have been granted

refugee status in australia, are not returned.

that is the whole point of becoming a refugee.

[gleee58]

People are being returned without the chance to prove they are asylum seekers.

[debra9275]

You seem to be the only one talking about people who've been granted asylum. If you have any more queries regarding the wording in anymore of my posts, you'll have to ask someone else. 🙂

Have a nice day, lol

[polksaladallie]

---

@*julia*2010 wrote:

---

@debra9275 wrote:
Refugees are generally asylum seekers

---

you appear to be confused.

those people who have been granted

refugee status in australia, are not returned.

that is the whole point of becoming a refugee.

---

No-one "becomes" a refugee.  They just are.

There are an estimated 42.5 million people displaced by persecution and conflict in the world. This breaks down to 15.2 million refugees, 26.4 million internally displaced persons and 895,000 asylum seekers.

[Anonymous]

---

@debra9275 wrote:
You seem to be the only one talking about people who've been granted asylum. If you have any more queries regarding the wording in anymore of my posts, you'll have to ask someone else. 🙂

Have a nice day,lol

---

ok

lets try again:

They must go back and live happily ever after then aps, though you would think the govt. would be jumping out of their skins to tell us some good news stories wouldn't you? Why all the secrecy about what happens when refugees boats are returned? I don't know.... Can't understand it personally.

hmmm...your question doesn't make

sense either way 

[***super_nova***]

---

@*julia*2010 wrote:

---

@debra9275 wrote:
Refugees are generally asylum seekers

---

you appear to be confused.

those people who have been granted

refugee status in australia, are not returned.

that is the whole point of becoming a refugee.

---

We have here people in detention for years while their status is being investigated.  Those people on the "return boats" were assessed in day or so  before they were sent back.  You cannot have it both way; either it takes months or even years to establish if a person is a "real" refugee, or it can be done in few days.  So, either we are sending back people without them being properly assessed, or we are wasting lot of money and time keeping people in refugee camps, who in majority do qualify for refugee status in the end.  And we are not told what happens to the majority of people on the returned boats.