Diary of our stinking Govt.

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.Woman Happy

 

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.

 

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Do you mean graphs? No problem with relevant ones 🙂


graphs are diagrams Smiley Happy

 

 

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@debra9275 wrote:

Do you mean graphs? No problem with relevant ones 🙂


graphs are diagrams Smiley Happy

 

 


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so are drawings.another form of diagram

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http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/unis-plead-with-abbott-government-for-resea...

 

Universities are pleading with the Abbott government to abandon its threat to axe funding for major programs supporting 30,000 researchers if the Senate refuses to support the deregulation of university fees.

 

Peak body Universities Australia warns in its budget submission that researchers on the verge of major breakthroughs in health, climate science and manufacturing will move overseas if funding for the Future Fellowships scheme and National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS) expires. 

 

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has repeatedly said that continued funding for both programs - which have been described as the "backbone of research in Australia" - is contingent on the government's higher education reforms passing the Senate.

"Given the profound significance of both programmes in underpinning Australia'™s research capability, Universities Australia strongly recommends that funding for both programmes be provided on an ongoing basis, irrespective of the outcome on the current higher education reforms," Universities Australia says in its submission. 

 

 

resorting to blackmail now?

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/federal-health-minister-refuses-guarantee-bulk-billing-savings...

 

Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says she will not guarantee savings from the Government's new bulk billing plan will go towards a medical research future fund.

 

The federal budget revealed the Government's plan to charge bulk billed patients $7 to see a doctor and put the proceeds in a new medical research fund.

 

 

 

isn't a future research facility the reason they said they wanted to introduce a co -payment?

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/data-retention-plan-could-cost-almost-400-million-a-year/61390...

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed the cost of the Government's data retention plan could be almost $400 million a year, and has warned if it is not passed it would be a form of "unilateral disarmament" in the fight against crime.

 

 

wow! $400 million per year? Woman Surprised

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If our wages are about 70% above the global average,then why are those other countries in dire straits?
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That report says company profits are right up,so there's no need to attack workers entitlements,right?

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/data-retention-plan-could-cost-almost-400-million-a-year/61390...

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed the cost of the Government's data retention plan could be almost $400 million a year, and has warned if it is not passed it would be a form of "unilateral disarmament" in the fight against crime.

 

 

wow! $400 million per year? Woman Surprised


and proved yet again that he has no idea what it is they are talking about.

 

"If we lose metadata there will be an explosion of crime"

 

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/federal-health-minister-refuses-guarantee-bulk-billing-savings...

 

Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says she will not guarantee savings from the Government's new bulk billing plan will go towards a medical research future fund.

 

The federal budget revealed the Government's plan to charge bulk billed patients $7 to see a doctor and put the proceeds in a new medical research fund.

 

 

 

isn't a future research facility the reason they said they wanted to introduce a co -payment?


It wasn't a good idea/plan to start with, there were growing concerns about it ever since it was announced.. rejection of having a  $7 co- payment fee plus objection to the $7 fee going to a medical research future fund.

 

Aug 2014

 

Coalition MPs are warning that the proposal is not helping to persuade voters to accept the $7 co-payment, while the Australian Medical Association sharpened its objections yesterday by declaring patients should not pay fees to finance future research.

 

Coalition MPs said they saw no need for the fund, were surprised by its announcement and could not be sure who came up with the idea. “If it was meant to be a strategy to help sell the Medicare co-payment, it is patently not working,” one said.

 

In a key problem for the government argument, the fund will not have any impact on the commonwealth’s gross debt or the $1bn in monthly interest expenses on bonds and other securities.

 

“The principal problem with the medical research fund is the way it’s funded,” Mr Burke said. “There is no merit in raising funds on the basis that people pay because they are sick.

 

AMA President -... even the researchers are embarrassed about the idea that we take money out of primary healthcare and put it into tertiary-level research.

 

The Australian

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"Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed the cost of the Government's data retention plan could be almost $400 million a year, and has warned if it is not passed it would be a form of "unilateral disarmament" in the fight against crime.

wow! $400 million per year?


and proved yet again that he has no idea what it is they are talking about."

Probably because he might be continuing the Circus data retention scheme of 2011 (sorry A3)

 

A  four-year-old briefing paper prepared by the Attorney-General’s department, when the ALP proposed data retention, is still on the table and seeks to scoop up much more metadata – the when/where/how long details – and iiNet’s chief regulatory officer, Steve Dalby, says that the government’s plan still lacks clarity in terms of what needs to be retained.

“If it’s only telephone billing information. It’s not a significant amount of data,” Dalby said. “The community has an expectation that data is kept anyway.”

“But the Attorney-General’s department has never retracted that 2010 briefing, so it’s a confusing message from different departments and the Prime Minister."

 

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