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]

Please leave any references to my id out of your posts. I  don't want to be associated with your posts in any way. Thank you.

[gleee58]

A rather spot on article by Janine Perrett

http://switzer.com.au/the-experts/janine-perrett/give-me-a-faceless-man-over-a-two-faced-man/

Labor Party coups are run by the faceless men. In the Libs it’s the two-faced men.

Given the scorn heaped on the ALP plotters, let's take a look at the dubious record of the ringleaders in the current Liberal fiasco.

Front and centre are the two unimpressive backbenchers from WA, Don Randall and Luke Simpkins, who started off the whole spill motion.

Most people had never heard of them and if you had it was usually for nothing good. From alleged racist rants (Simpkins), homophobic ones (Randall) to illegally crossing the Thai border to hang out with Myanmar rebels even though we supposedly support the Myanmar Government (Simpkins again) to boycotting Sorry Day in parliament (both) their media coverage raises questions of judgment from two backbenchers judging the PM's judgment.

And let's not forget that early in this government the same PM doggedly backed Randall over expense rort allegations involving a Cairns investment property.

But my favourite act of two facedness by the dreadful duo is that in their notice to bring on a spill to get rid of Abbott they claimed they had never seen their base so concerned since "we were being led to support the Rudd Government's ETS".

No irony then that their spill motion would help back to the Lib leadership the very same pro-ETS Turnbull they opposed.

Then we have the egotist Mal Brough whom the Libs were well rid of after his unimpressive turn in the Howard Government but then, desperate to get back into Parliament, he embroiled himself in the sordid Peter Slipper affair. If you want to know about his judgment, check the judgment of a judge in that case about Mal.

So this PM allows him back in the fold and at the first chance Mal knifes him at the world's worst press event........

cont...

[cherry*135]

Tim Wilson opens up over Gillian Triggs report

HUMAN Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has thrown his support behind his embattled president Gillian Triggs, refusing to give oxygen to the political attacks clouding the findings of her children in detention report.

Speaking today at the National Press Club in Canberra, Mr Wilson said he supported all his commission colleagues but also backed the Coalition’s border protection policies saying “stopping the boats matters’’.

“Let me make this clear, I support all my commission colleagues. I don’t want this to be a distraction,’’ Mr Wilson said.

He added he was not going to get involved in “engaging or fuelling the political debate around this report’’.

“Focus on what it says, focus on the research that’s gone into it and the human stories that have gone into it. That is what needs to happen because if we don’t then The Forgotten Children report will simply be forgotten and so will the lessons from it.’’

Mr Wilson conducted some interviews with those in detention as part of the evidence gathering process for the 315-page report which was tabled last week sparking controversy.

Tony Abbott launched a broadside, saying the report was a “stitch up’’ and a “blatantly partisan politicised exercise’’ and the HRC “out to be ashamed of itself’’ because it did not hold an inquiry when Labor was in power and thousands of people were drowning at sea and there were almost 2000 children in detention.

Professor Triggs’ position as HRC president also came under sustained attack from Coalition MPs who expressed a loss of confidence in her and questioned her impartiality.

Professor Triggs — who has denied the accusations of political bias — launched the inquiry into children in detention in February last year — four months after the Coalition came to power.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/politics-news/tim-wilson-opens-up-over-gillian-trig...

[monman12]

G58 I see you omitted the last paragraph of your C&P from Perrett, ????? :

And finally, of course, we the voters are the biggest hypocrites of all, for attacking the quality of our pollies and their policies when we do contradictory things like toss out first-term governments and elect congenital idiots to the Senate, thus ensuring chaos and enshrining dysfunction.

Can not dispute that,  here, or in the real world

[debra9275]

And right at the bottom of her article she says again, maybe better a faceless man than a two faced man, I agree with that 🙂

[monman12]

I notice that the UNHRC has sprung to the defence of Triggs.  Would this would be the same UNHRC? :

The UN Human Rights Commission elected the Libyan ambassador Najat al-Hajjaji its president yesterday, overriding a US objection that the country's "horrible" record disqualified it for the post.

The above was a long past article A3  I know  (sorry),  and herein below might be of interest and acceptable (Nov 12, 2013)

(Reuters) - China,  Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday won three-year seats on the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, the United Nations' top rights body, despite concerns about abuses and restrictions on freedoms in all four nations.

They will serve until 2016

I wonder if Triggs appreciates the company she is in?

[debra9275]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/selling-treasury-building-could-cost-taxpaye...

Selling the Commonwealth-owned Treasury building in Canberra could pit the Abbott government against previously damning evidence from an audit report and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in the long run in rent.

A 14-year-old audit report shows how the Commonwealth lost out badly when the Howard government sold the Department of Finance's RG Casey building in 1998.

Taxpayers have since been footing DFAT's above market rate rental bill which has now reached well over $20-million-a-year following a lease renewal in December. 

Treasury could be left in a similar position because like DFAT it needs to be located close to parliament due to its vital work and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a building of similar size near Parliament House. 

[debra9275]

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/18/tony-abbott-says-no-to-tougher-food-tests-labe...

Tony Abbott says no to tougher food tests, labels after hepatitis A outbreak

Prime minister says costs would be high and it is the responsibility of businesses to ‘not poison their customers

Tony Abbott has rejected a complete crackdown on food testing and labelling in response to the hepatitis A outbreak from imported berries, saying it was the responsibility of business “not to poison their customers”.

But the Liberal MP for Murray, Sharman Stone, who fought for the Australian fruit processor SPC Ardmona, called the outbreak a “wake-up call” for Australia and urged her government to implement stronger action to stop future outbreaks.

Stone said Australia’s food regulations had a “double standard” for local and overseas producers. She called for transparent country-of-origin labelling and more rigorous food testing for imported goods to meet national standards.

The agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, said the government was considering a review of testing on imports under Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) as another case of hepatitis A was discovered, the first in Western Australia. His department wrote to the Chinese government to ask for assurances on the food testing measures.

[gleee58]

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@monman12 wrote:

G58 I see you omitted the last paragraph of your C&P from Perrett, ????? :

And finally, of course, we the voters are the biggest hypocrites of all, for attacking the quality of our pollies and their policies when we do contradictory things like toss out first-term governments and elect congenital idiots to the Senate, thus ensuring chaos and enshrining dysfunction.

Can not dispute that,  here, or in the real world

As you are such an astute observer you should also note the "cont..."  at the end of the C&P, which most would understand suggests there is more to read.

There were about 6 more paragraphs that I did not include for reasons that should be obvious.

Why did you omit the last line in your haste to criticise my post?

And finally, of course, we the voters are the biggest hypocrites of all, for attacking the quality of our pollies and their policies when we do contradictory things like toss out first-term governments and elect congenital idiots to the Senate, thus ensuring chaos and enshrining dysfunction.

Maybe better a faceless man than a two-faced one.

Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2015

[debra9275]

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/politics/sophie-mirabella-desperate-to-run-again-in-indi-again...

One Liberal said Mrs Mirabella still viewed her loss as “a blip on the radar” and did not understand the resentment towards her in the electorate.

Mrs Mirabella was appointed to the board of the government-owned naval shipbuilding firm ASC after her election loss and was appointed public policy fellow at the University of Melbourne

OMG do not understand the resentment towards her in the electorate