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.

[debra9275]

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/the-attack-on-triggs-is-an-abbott-stitchup-201502...

Australia is witnessing a political stitch-up of extraordinary proportions. Not by Professor Gillian Triggs and the Human Rights Commission, as the Prime Minister might wail and cry. No, it is clear what is going on. The Abbott government is cynically moving to de-legitimise certain institutions that perform vital roles in the democratic life of this nation.

Its attack on the president of the Human Rights Commission is designed to enfeeble the statutory institution that is vested with the important task of observing and critiquing how Australian governments and institutions abide by the international laws of human rights, laws that this nation proudly helped to formulate and which we demand other countries uphold.

It has been a brutal exhibition of Machiavellian manoeuvrings – by the Prime Minister from the floor of Parliament, by the sleazy antics of the Attorney-General in trying to force Professor Triggs' resignation, and through the brazenly partisan conduct of Coalition senators on the legal and constitutional affairs committee. But this government's morally bankrupt and desperately misguided effort to manipulate public opinion against the commission will prove to be an own-goal.

The unpopular Abbott government is apparently so threatened by the findings of a report into children in immigration detention – a report that delivers strong criticism of both the Coalition and its Labor predecessors – that it seeks to render impotent an independent, vocal monitor. It seeks to sow doubt about the commission's credibility, so it strikes at the top.

[vicr3000]

Labor has done the same in the past.

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbott-clutching-at-straws-in-attempt-...

Tony Abbott has taken on the character of a punchdrunk right-wing pugilist, furiously attacking the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission and disparaging Australian Muslim leaders.

It's no accident. It's his attempt to protect his remaining support base among the Liberal party's conservatives.

[debra9275]

Most of us don't live in the past, we're more concerned about what's hppening now

[vicr3000]

Deb

Are you taking over from that serial C&P pest, er sorry, poster ?

She'll be dissapointed that you have taken her thunder !

[debra9275]

[gleee58]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

Plenty of reporters oblige her on other things.

And why do you make it a man/woman thing, it's not.

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Yes, it is.

ANyone who watched for 5 minutes could see that it was.  And any reporter who is ever given information takes it without going into the speil about how it turned up.

[debra9275]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

Deb

Are you taking over from that serial C&P pest, er sorry, poster ?

She'll be dissapointed that you have taken her thunder !

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nice deflection but you're the one who does long C &P's like post 1615  too long for me to read , sorry!

[vicr3000]

Finally and with the greatest respect, we request that you take note of our deep concerns and that you address the matter.

In the interim, my office will be sharing our concerns with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and

with our ICC members."

Because if you dont, their is nothing we can do about it so "please adress them".

[vicr3000]

Something positive ?

Abbott government to move on country of origin food labels after hepatitis A outbreak linked to imported frozen berries

The Abbott government says it will act on country of origin labelling in the wake of the hepatitis A outbreak from frozen berries imported from China.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has asked Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce to prepare a submission for cabinet by the end of March.

"For too long, people have been talking about country of origin labelling. And nothing much has changed," Mr Abbott said

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-to-move-on-country-of-origin...