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.

[cherry*135]

Not worth a response.

[monman12]

So why exactly did Poor Me fluster about attempting to introduce an East Timor solution, failed,   and then a Malaysian solution, failed?.

Why exactly did Rudd/ALP dump the Pacific Solution and as a result write for ever into history the   epitaphs of the very many drowned boat people/children?

[aps1080]

Am

It's hard when you come up against the truth that works.

Economic refugees are not refugees under the UN
And a lot who came are ER's

[fourandsixpants]

Now that the personnel changes have been made (Cabinet reshuffle before Christmas 2014), 2015 will be the year that propaganda war will move from demonising asylum seekers to demonising and scapegoating the unemployed and those “too lazy” to look for work.

The unemployed and discouraged workers will be blamed for the fall in living standards and for the budget blowout. Those targeted most directly will be the youth of Australia.

Microeconomic and structural reform will be put forward as the solution, any mention of inadequate demand will be dismissed.

Australia’s world beating and deep thinking journalists –those that still have a job because they were prepared to do a stellar job beating up fears around the budget emergency – will no doubt convince themselves and an anxious brain-washed public that this is the issue of the day.

[fourandsixpants]

Joe Hockey still claiming $200+/night on the taxpayer to stay at his ‘wife’s’ home in Canberra?
 
I seem to remember him stating that The Age of Entitlement is over !
 
.....I am sure that if any of us peasants queried him about this Hockit would reply with a dead pan expression on his face "Oh, this is a great example of efficiency and I your great Treasurer am leading you all by example"
There is nothing more hypocritical. It is a ridiculous entitlement.

[fourandsixpants]

to monman......Happy New Year may yours be an especially Prosperous one LOL

It's is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Its so hard to conceive that this govt is unable to see it is shooting itself in the foot, so many times.

They really seem to think they can sell all the fugly ideas in their Budget and as a winning notion at the next election.

I'm looking forward to the front page photo of Abbittsmissing after losing the next election, with the caption :

“What ?? We Lost ?? BUT WHY ?????”

next election day.........

[aps1080]

Paint

I notice you cut out the next paragraph from the article.
No wonder you ddn't provide a link to it.

THIS IS WHAT THE NEXT PARAGRAPH SAYS

To be fair to Hockey, the article does also note that many other MPs employ similar tactics, including Labor’s Anthony Albanese, Warren Snowden, Tanya Plibersek, Joel Fitzgibbon, Jim Chalmers, Mark Butler, Tony Burke and Doug Cameron.


You lot are getting very desperate.

[aps1080]

The left have resorted to lying

.....I am sure that if any of us peasants queried him about this Hockit would reply with a dead pan expression on his face "Oh, this is a great example of efficiency and I your great Treasurer am leading you all by example"

I would list all the LABOR Ministers doing it.


Btw, nothing illegal in what he is doing. Negatively gear a property.

[fourandsixpants]

which article do you refer Oh astute one that does not usually like truth? LOL

[aps1080]

The one about hockey.

I posted and quoted the next paragraph.

Showing all the laborites doing it as well.