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]

Check the LNP website and see if there's anything else you can hit us with 🙂

[cherry*135]

Australian Conservative - chortle

[cherry*135]

Sounds like the next budget is going to be a fail as well.

REPEAT

Echoing economists' strictures against "repressed inflation" in days past, the prominent American economist Lawrence Summers is warning against the prevalence of "repressed deficits", where governments engage in accounting tricks and false economies to hide the true costs and make budget deficits and debt look better than they really are.

Such as? Failing to properly maintain public assets, deferring the replacement of infrastructure beyond the end of its useful life, effectively paying higher interest rates to persuade private firms to hide government-initiated debt on their own balance sheets or, with similar effect, engaging in the sale and leaseback of government offices.

On the latter, the Howard government wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars doing that in its first budget. And now, I hear, Hockey is planning the same thing for the Treasury building. Not smart, Joe.

[cherry*135]

Tony Abbott pledged to be an "infrastructure prime minister"

How is that going? All they have appeared to have done is reannounce Labor projects (giving some new names) and that's it?

[monman12]

A3: " Asylum seekers 'turned back to Indonesia'

FIFTEEN asylum seekers say they spent three days on Christmas Island before being turned back to Indonesia."

Do you ever consider basic research? once an asylum seeker reaches land, the protocols are clear, even your C&P includes:

" We don't know for sure what happened, but that's what they say," Mr Irfan told AAP."

That would apply to the MYOPS here, but the story is also without confirmation.

Leaving aside the unconfirmed source, would you wish to return to Rudd's  removal of the Pacific Solution? or are you just grasping at anti Abbott  fodder for cathartic reasons?.

[cherry*135]

Dec 2014

Tony Abbott risks recession as his infrastructure pledge falters

...Treasurer Joe Hockey this week conceded things needed speeding up.

"These national accounts confirm necessity for the delivery of our plan to significantly increase infrastructure spending over the next few years," he told reporters.

He blamed the state governments, which have responsibility for building much of the country's infrastructure, for dragging their feet.

The federal government has to provide some of the funding, but with falling commodity prices blowing a hole in the budget, the pressure is to tighten fiscal policy, not to spend on roads and bridges.

The squeeze on funding was already visible in the May budget. When the Coalition boasted that $50 billion in infrastructure projects were under way, it turned out almost all had been launched by the previous Labor government.

The few new road projects were instead funded by cutting investment in public transport, making it a zero-sum game.

Along with roads, the government is looking at investing in nearly 30 irrigation schemes and reviving a long-stalled programme of dam building to combat growing water shortages, which are constraining agricultural production.

But with the tax intake under such pressure, analysts are wondering if the bulldozers will ever arrive.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/tony-abbott-risks-recession-as-his-infrastructure-pledge-...

[cherry*135]

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@monman12 wrote:

A3: " Asylum seekers 'turned back to Indonesia'

FIFTEEN asylum seekers say they spent three days on Christmas Island before being turned back to Indonesia."

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The article is very believable, hence why The Australian, SBS and other msm outlets published it.

I am not at all concerned if others don't believe it. The truth will come out one day.

Isn't it obvious the majority of the posters in this thread are anti-Abbott? Are we supposed to write that at the beginning of every post.. I think not.

[debra9275]

Whatever criticism you make of any articles printed makes no difference to me... I read them both. Perhaps we'll hear more if other media pick up the story

Any more propaganda for us from the The LNP sites?

[debra9275]

I did wonder whether we really have "stopped the boats" when I read the story in the Jakarta Post. It seems we haven't we're still turning them back.... Albeit.. Quietly

[monman12]

"How is that going? All they have appeared to have done is reannounce Labor projects (giving some new names) and that's it?"

You mean like the ALP/ACTU NBN?  Oh what a wonderful cash cow (for myself) that was (indirectly via TLS).  If/when they return to power,  I do wonder/hope that they will add to my coffers as they did before.