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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@vicr3000 wrote:
Am3

Well on the boats, they did. Very good job.

Stopped the boats, now less people and CHILDREN in centres than the previous Govt
And no deaths by drownings.

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That is not the point I made in my post though is it?   The PM is about to be ousted... LNP probably not win the next election.. stop the boats or the share prices isn't going to save him/them. Too many other things to consider.

As an example, you & mm think those two things are so important everyone is going to be happy with Abbott and the LNP... no way... the failed Budget proposals are a big sticking point, plus the broken promises, backflips, gaffes.. the list goes on.. about 50 things on it when I posted it a page or two back.

[debra9275]

Yes, of couse now as opposed to then. stinking hot govt. now. What's the title of this thread again? I forgot
Don't hang on to those shares for too long. What goes up must come down you know.

Medibank 20%. What's that about 40cents,?not much , no dividend either

[cherry*135]

Diary of our stinking, sinking Govt... amendment.

[debra9275]

Donna, I liked Strop, he was funny

[donnashuggy]

dead ringers eh?

[monman12]

 ABC Online‎

Pressure is mounting on Tony Abbott to allow his party colleagues a secret ballot on whether he should be ousted as Prime Minister.   A motion to spill the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister's positions will be debated in the Liberal party room meeting on Tuesday.

Whether a vote takes place – and whether it is a secret ballot or a show of hands – is up to Mr Abbott, the Liberal Party leader.

I guess as no red adverse comments,  the ABC is OK A3?

* Mr Abbott determines if it is a secret ballot or a show of hands"  News Limited  ( I could not resist that one)

Talking about:  "dodgy, sensationalised, biased reporting, can't be taken seriously.. unreliable source of information" rang a bell:

A3: " He hasn't been in the area he was in the last couple of days for 10 years.. coincidence he has a bike race at same time?"

SMH Aug. 20, 2013,

Mr Abbott pledged $25 million over five years during a visit to Anglesea, in the ultra-marginal Victorian seat of Corangamite, which Liberal candidate Sarah Henderson hopes to win.

SMH just can not help themselves with their  "biased reporting" !

[cherry*135]

The ABC comment was one you took exception to from another posters post.

The ones in red were ones you came up with by yourself. Pretty shady quoting the Herald Sun & 7 news and hypocritical to quote the Guardian.

Not of any great importance anyway... when you consider right now we have A GOVERNMENT IN CHAOS

[cherry*135]

The Guardian

Tony Abbott is in trouble because he never let the junkyard dog go

This week has proved that unlike his political hero, Churchill, the Australian prime minister did not grow once he had the power he scrapped and fought for

Tony Abbott has a memorable way of talking about himself as a dog.

Years ago when he entered parliament he told the world he was keen to be a “junkyard dog savaging the other side”.

He was, magnificently.

He talked dogs again while in exile on the backbench after the downfall of the Howard government. He warned ambitious politicians of finding themselves, “like the dog who catches the car. What do you do when you finally get that great office for which you have striven all these years?”

This week is proof positive that he never really found an answer to that question. True, there are things he wants to do, backers he has to satisfy and promises he has to keep. But when his survival depended on convincing Australians he was the leader for them, he delivered stump speeches about little more than averting economic catastrophe and dealing with terrorists.

Yes, of course. But what about the rest?

The failure which may carry Abbott out of public life on Tuesday is his failure to grow. In thoughtful interviews over many years he claimed to be so much more than the savage dog of his party. There were values, deep values waiting to be expressed once he had the chance to lead.

Twenty years of political brawling in Canberra didn’t touch Abbott’s romantic notion that he would grow once he had power. From childhood his heroes had been men like Churchill who transformed themselves when they came to office.

In the belief this would happen, a chunk of the electorate was willing to vote for this startlingly limited man in 2013. They took him at his word: that he would be able to dig down to his better self and be the leader the nation needed.

But it didn’t happen.

The junkyard dog united a shattered Coalition and proved himself the most resourceful leader of an opposition in 50 years. But no transformation followed. The prime minister’s problem is not the captain’s picks, not his failure to consult, nor the micromanagement of the cabinet by his office. He failed to grow.

Stopping things became his forte: stopping student radicals, stopping the republic, stopping Pauline Hanson, stopping Rudd and Gillard, stopping the boats. He is very good at it. His greatest boast at the Press Club was the list of all he had stopped.

And what’s it all for?

Read more

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/06/tony-abbott-is-in-trouble-because-he-never-let...

[monman12]

A3: " The Guardian: can't be taken seriously, leftie media outlet (not true actaully)"

So you then C&P  an article from it A3. ????

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/06/tony-abbott-is-in-trouble-because-he-never-let...

Do we then take your post seriously?

[debra9275]

The way some carry on, you would think it was only a handful of posters on CS that do not agree with this govt. and it's policies, but it's most of the country as can be seen by the polls. Why does it upset some people here so much that we discuss it? the same was done here when it was the labor govt. In trouble in the polls.,it was discussed profusely