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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@monman12 wrote:

"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?  

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No, I mean these (reannounced).  Abbott Infrastructure PM - another lie.

Anthony Albanese

Feb 2015

NorthConnex in Sydney, included in the 2013 budget and with an intergovernmental agreement for $405 million from each level of government signed by me and the New South Wales minister in June 2013, and re-announced by the government with a new name, pretending that the project is new; the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor upgrade, $840 million, announced on 7 December 2011 at Hornsby train station with the then New South Wales Premier, Barry O’Farrell—we were there for the beginning of that project, which has been underway for years—and re-announced by the government in November 2013, and re-announced again earlier this month; the Port Botany rail upgrade, of which the first stage was completed and the second stage commenced in 2012, re-announced on several occasions in 2013 and 2014; the M80 project in Melbourne, commenced early in 2009 and re-announced by this government, which did not make a big announcement about the cut to funding for that project, on 16 October 2013; the Western Highway duplication between Ballarat and Stawell, announced in 2009, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced by this government on 29 September 2014; the Clyde Road duplication, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 21 February 2014; the Princes Highway East duplication, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced by this government on 22 January 2015; the Princes Highway West duplication, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 15 December 2014; the Ballarat freight hub, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 13 May 2014; in Queensland, the Gateway North upgrade, the second stage of which was funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 30 January 2014; the Warrego Highway upgrade, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 9 October 2014; the Pacific Motorway, funded in the 2010 budget, re-announced on 31 October 2013 and re-announced again on 7 March 2014; Legacy Way, just about completed, construction having commenced in 2011, but re-announced as if it were new in January 2014 and re-announced again in April; Townsville Ring Road, funded in the 2012 budget and re-announced on 22 December last year; the Cape York infrastructure package, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 17 January 2014; Perth City Link, announced in 2009, commenced in 2011, just about completed, but re-announced by this government in December 2013; the Great Northern Highway, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced on 13 December 2013; the North West Coastal Highway, funded in 2013 and re-announced on 16 December 2013; the Swan Valley Bypass, renamed by the government and re-announced on 29 January 2014, even though it was funded in the 2013 budget; the Tonkin Highway and Leach Highway upgrades, funded in 2013 and re-announced on 6 February 2014; the Esperance Port Access Corridor project, for which WA Minister Troy Buswell and I turned the first sod and began construction in May 2012, re-announced in February 2014; the Midland Highway, for which $500 million was included in the 2013 budget, re-announced by the government on 23 October 2013 but with $100 million less; in Tasmania, the North-South rail line, the North East road package, the Freight Rail Revitalisation, the Brooker Highway, the Huon Highway and the Tasman Highway, all funded in the 2013 budget, all re-announced as if they were new on 3 February 2014 and then re-announced again on 22 May 2014; in the Northern Territory, Tiger Brennan Drive, Central Arnhem Road and the Regional Roads Productivity Package, all announced in the 2012 and 2013 budgets and re-announced by the government; and, of course, the Torrens to Torrens project on South Road in South Australia, funded in the 2013 budget and re-announced by this government, along with APY Lands upgrades, the Goodwood to Torrens project and the Dukes Highway in South Australia.

[debra9275]

this is kind of funny, I know it's been mentioned before but when you google abbott lies or tony abbott lies. so much comes up One of the links I posted earlier belongs to Bill Shorten

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/liberal-party-registers-abbottliescomau-to-beat-labor-to-d... (very right wing paper)

THE LIBERAL Party has embraced the unusual political strategy of registering the domain name “Abbott Lies’’ as a website address and redirecting all traffic to Liberal website promoting the May budget.

Stung by accusations that Tony Abbott has broken promises as Prime Minister, the Liberal Party decided to beat Labor to the punch and register the address www.abbottlies.com.au.

But the attempt by digital natives within the Coalition to get ahead of the game has backfired with Labor openly mocking the bizarre strategy.

Anyone who types in the address “Abbott lies’’ is now redirected to an image of Joe Hockey beaming behind a banner that urges readers to “lean more’ about the 2014 budget. The abbottlies.com.au web traffic is immediately diverted to www.liberal.org.au

According to domain registry documents the website was registered by the Liberal Party of Australia on May 13, the same day that Joe Hockey delivered his first budget.

the Libs registered that domain on the same day as last year's budget 

[debra9275]

for you and your clear protocols

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-05/immigration-minister-reports-incident-on-christmas-island/5138...

Group of about 25 asylum seekers arrives on Christmas Island without being detected

Updated 5 Dec 2013, 9:22pm

A search is underway on Christmas Island after the discovery of a group of asylum seekers who landed on a remote beach without being detected.

The ABC has been told a group of about 25 asylum seekers have been living on a remote beach on the south-eastern side of the island since their boat sank on Monday.

Christmas Island's shire councillor Gordon Thomson says the group was only detected when some of the asylum seekers were spotted walking along a main road into town earlier today.

"This morning eight or nine people walked up onto one of our main roads from Dolly Beach - the eight or nine people are probably Rohingya," he said.

"There are another 15 or 16 people still on Dolly Beach who are part of that group, so the total number is about 25.

"Their boat has sunk and they have been living on Dolly Beach since Monday.

"We're told that when offered water and food, they weren't thirsty and they weren't that hungry, so they seem to have survived quite well since Monday.

as i mentioned to you earlier, unreal as it may seem to you... it has happened before that asylum seekers have landed, undetected on Christmas Island  ( I did not make that up & neither did the abc, it was widely reported)

[monman12]

"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" Have you considered researching even immigration law ?

The Jakarta Post, circulation 40,000 Of course a reliable source of information?

However stopping,  or more realistically turning back  the occasional boat  would appear to be far more of an answer than the ALP's answer  of  learn to swim!

How about: Oct 2014 The Telegraph

ALP gets on board the boats turnback: Finally accepts Abbott government has succeeded

LABOR has been forced into an embarrassing backdown on asylum seekers as it finally ­accepts that the Abbott government has succeeded in stopping the boats — something the ALP failed to do.

Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles yesterday accepted the ­Coalition’s policy of turning back the boats has been a ­resounding success.

The Telegraph,  what would they know,  Jakarta Post give us your pink  "best".

[monman12]

"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" Have you considered researching even immigration law ?

[cherry*135]

x 5

[debra9275]

what have the circulation numbers of the JP got to do with the price of fish? you can try as many different angles on discrediting me or the news article I posted as you like, but quite frankly I just don't care 

[cherry*135]

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@debra9275 wrote:

what have the circulation numbers of the JP got to do with the price of fish? you can try as many different angles on discrediting me or the news article I posted as you like, but quite frankly I just don't care 

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Nothing.at.all.

The Jakarta Post also features both a Sunday and Online edition, which go into detail not possible in the daily print edition.

It is targeted at foreigners and educated Indonesians, although the middle-class Indonesian readership has increased.

Noted for being a training ground for local and international reporters, The Jakarta Post has won several awards and been

described as being "Indonesia's leading English-language daily". The Jakarta Post is a member of Asia News Network.

wiki

[debra9275]

that's what I thought lol

[debra9275]

though it probably has lowish circulation figures because it's in English ( maybe the only Indonesian one that is)

[cherry*135]

Peter Gelling, of The New York Times, notes that The Jakarta Post has been considered a "training ground" for local reporters, and offers apprenticeship programs. In 2009, six former The Jakarta Post reporters worked for Bloomberg.

In 2014 the Jakarta Post was behind Kompas in terms of online visits.

wiki

The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.