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]

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@monman12 wrote:

The original article (not the Australian) Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott includes:

Corporate tax reform was more important than ever given greater global competition. “Japan and Spain recently announced corporate tax cuts to boost investment and growth,” Ms Westacott said. “If we look back a decade, our corporate tax rate of 30 per cent was a little above the averages of the OECD and our competitors in the Asia-Pacific region – which were about 29 and 28 per cent, respectively. Since then, these averages have fallen around 5 percentage points while we have stood still.”

i.e. she is referring to our 30% corporate tax rate, or take. The above  quote was not part of  The Australian article though, you can't just add random quotes and say they are what an article refers to . 

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I quoted The Australian (did you read the WHOLE article)?

'The Business Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the nation’s corporate tax take was already the second highest in the OECD.

The following is in the article I quoted:

Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott said: “You can’t have a situation where sections of the business community are expected to pay for a broadbased childcare package.’’

She said there was a bipartisan commitment to lowering ­company tax, which was much higher than the nation’s trading partners.

“Countries in a lot more fiscal trouble than Australia have been lowering the corporate tax rate to drive investment and job ­creation,” she said.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree and looking for something that was never there. Mountain/molehill

[fourandsixpants]

Recent observations:

All is vewy vewy quwieut in the Hockey ablution block ......

The LNPers mouths and voices are saying Abbott have their full support but their eyes and forced smiles are not. i.e. Bishop, Pyne, Turnbull, Cormann .......

Tony Abbott is not normal.

Imo Tony Abbott is being chemically sustained.

[cherry*135]

Yeah, haven't seen any quotes by Joe... I wonder if he enjoyed his visit to the pre-school... pre election stuff (kissing babies, pretending they care about families) not 16mths in and disaster hits stuff.

Abbott Govt - reform the childcare subsidy ... PM's wife runs a childcare centre.

The government is also refusing to rule out making big business bankroll any changes.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/childcare-chewing-up-pay-packets/story-fn9hl...

The above is one of the points from businesses in The Australian article I posted that got side tracked unecessarily.

DAYCARE centres are demanding that big business bankroll the Abbott government’s childcare reforms, by paying a 1.5 per cent levy.

Community Child Care Co-operative chief executive Leanne Gibbs said large companies should continue to pay the 1.5 per cent “baby tax”, which was to have raised $2.5 billion a year for the now-axed paid parental leave scheme.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/big-business-must-pay-the-baby-tax-say-daycare-cent...

[iapetus_rocks]

How could he possibly have hoped to get away with lying to the electorate as he did and with introducing such inequitable policies and budgetary measures which favour the big end of town and hurt the average Aussie worker so much?

How could he ever have expected to get away with that? One surely has to question the man's sanity.

[cherry*135]

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Kate Carnell warned that the Abbott government would be seen as breaking an election promise to cut taxes, unless it axed the levy.

“If they keep the levy to pay for childcare, business would be justified in believing the Abbott government hadn’t delivered the corporate tax reduction promised to them,’’ she said.

The Govt  were going to reduce Company tax by 1.5% this July-  is that out now?... only a  cut of  1.5% for small businesses?

Now the Govt won't rule out a 1.5% levy for childcare... so companies will pay 30% corporate tax + 1.5% childcare levy?

Levy should be Abbot's middle name.

[cherry*135]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

I hope he gets shifted from Defence. No one likes him although the previous one was awful.

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Did they like the previous Labor Minister of Defence? I bet they did.

Somewhere you posted why Turnbull would want to be PM as he is so wealthy.

Power & Prestige?

Another Rhodes Scholar (1978) Graduating with honours from Oxford.

Turnbull made the BRW Rich 200 list for the second year running in 2010, and although he slipped from 182 to 197, his estimated net worth increased to A$186 million, and he continued to be the only sitting politician to make the list.  Turnbull was not listed in the 2014 list of the BRW Rich 200.

Nice digs

[gleee58]

 Is it just me or has some dodgy photoshopping taken out a leg?

Finally a day on court and no more adjournments, unless she comes up with something else by June.

A bit of irony with court mention today.

[vicr3000]

No am3, they didn't like the previous one either.

[fourandsixpants]

I refuse to pay subcriptions just to read an editors (The Australian) vetted viewpoint that is payrolled by a group of rightie corporists. If they have something worthwhile to say then make it accessible to the poor majority.....the poor are not illiterate in Australia-yet. Then we will have to be careful on our short driving trips that we can still read the road signs I guess.

[vicr3000]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

I refuse to pay subcriptions just to read an editors (The Australian) vetted viewpoint that is payrolled by a group of rightie corporists. If they have something worthwhile to say then make it accessible to the poor majority.....the poor are not illiterate in Australia-yet. Then we will have to be careful on our short driving trips that we can still read the road signs I guess.

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That's why road signs are in pictures, not words