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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@idlewhile wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Rowan Dean -  These days he is an advertising consultant and social media commentator

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Wrong again, he is the Editor of The Spectator.

http://mumbrella.com.au/rowan-dean-end-afr-marketing-column-appointed-editor-spectator-240973

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Wasn't wrong in the first place 

This is current on the ABC Site - whether it is out of date or not is not under my control. Panelist on the Gruen Transfer - which is about advertising.

These days he is an advertising consultant and social media commentator who regularly writes for The Spectator, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian.

This is from Deans Twitter page - social media commentary!!

Editor The Spectator Australia, Financial Review & Courier Mail columnist,Sky commentator, author 'Beyond Satire', creative

director, film director, copywriter

From the Aust Fin Review

Rowan Dean writes on Media & Marketing specialising in Advertising, TV, Publishing. Rowan is a columnist for the Financial Review.

Whatever, he is a loose canon, sounds a lot like Pickering, Bolt & Co from the limited amount of his diatribes I have read.

debra - Yes, he is a uni dropout, I left that out before, but I did see that on the ABC site.  Rowan dropped out of the Australian National University in 1978

[cherry*135]

Rowan can talk about anything from the hedonistic days of classic 80s advertising through to the bizarre and shocking world [what the?] of contemporary Australian politics. He is a keen observer and critic of the ever-merging worlds of PR gimmickry, political dishonesty and manipulative 'spin'.

He is pretty good at creating that himself

mm12 wrote

...without (believable) authentication I find it hard to believe I posted a Dean article. So I do not believe you. (ask the captain to search).

Even he seems embarassed to think that he may have quoted Rowan Dean.

[debra9275]

shorten isn't the man who wrote

"tanya is gagging for it"

that in itself is really "off" imo

[debra9275]

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/19/tony-abbott-backs-away-from-iron-ore-inquiry-after-l...

Tony Abbott backs away from iron ore inquiry after lobbying by BHP and Rio

Tony Abbott appears to have backed away from a government-supported inquiry into the iron ore market after a backlash from mining giants and some cabinet colleagues.

Last Friday the prime minister said “I think we do need an inquiry,” and on Monday he said: “I think it is important to get to the facts and an inquiry may well be a very good way of doing that.”

But in the wake of a lobbying effort by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto the prime minister said on Tuesday: “We certainly haven’t made any decision to have an inquiry … the last thing this government would ever want to do is interfere in a free market like the iron ore market.”

Distancing himself from the proposal, Abbott emphasised that the independent senator Nick Xenophon was the one who suggested an inquiry.

The government was considering backing an inquiry headed by a government member as an alternative to Xenophon’s original proposal, but the idea triggered cabinet divisions.

it looks as if we have yet another backflip here

[idlewhile]

Bill knows she’s snapping at his heels so maybe he could accomodate her ambitions.

[debra9275]

 

one term Tony has got  quite a few. "Snapping at his heels"

[cherry*135]

Abbott's 100 days of 'Good Government

That was 100 days ago on Wednesday this week. 

It sometimes takes a bit to get a motor going from a cold start.

A hundred days, however, seems excessive.

February 9

• After surviving a leadership spill motion, Prime Minister Tony Abbott declares that "good government starts today".
  
  
• The government's position on the multi-billion submarine project is further confused as South Australian senator Sean Edwards claims Mr Abbott promised him a "competitive open tender", contrary to previous policy. The Defence Department doesn't know what this means and ministers dodge questions, saying there will be a "competitive evaluation process".

February 12

• Veteran MP Philip Ruddock is sacked by Mr Abbott as chief government whip, after a perceived breakdown in communication leading up the spill.

March 3

• Health Minister Sussan Ley confirms the government has scrapped the proposal for a Medicare co-payment on GP visits.

March 10

• Mr Abbott calls Indigenous remote communities "lifestyle choices" and says taxpayers should not fund them, amid a debate about the forced closure of 150 communities in WA.

March 11

• Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane announces the government will continue automotive manufacturing subsidies, reversing their original decision to withdraw the $500 million (of which they expect to spend $100 million).

March 14

• Mr Abbott raises eyebrows by taking a bite from a whole raw onion.

March 17

• The government's university deregulation bills are voted down in the Senate for a second time, even after Education Minister Christopher Pyne split the original legislation and abandoned a threat to withdraw $150 million in research funding.

March 28

• NSW Liberals, led by Premier Mike Baird, are comfortably returned to government in what is also seen a test for the party federally.

April 17

• The government announces it will contribute $4 million to controversial climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg's 'consensus centre' at the University of Western Australia.

May 5

• Fairfax Media reveals that Stephen Brady, Australia's ambassador to France, offered to resign following a "bizarre" incident in Paris in which his partner Peter Stephens was asked to stay in the car when Mr Abbott arrived in the country.

May 8

• The University of Western Australia pulls out of deal to host the Lomborg consensus centre, embarrassing Mr Abbott whose office pushed the idea.

May 10

• The government announces a crackdown on paid parental leave "double-dipping", attracting criticism for framing the legitimate and common practice as a rort and fraud.

May 12

• The government hands down a budget that they promised would be "dull, fair and reasonable", seen as a contrast to last year's budget. It contains major small business and families packages, as well as pension changes and corporate tax and GST measures.

May 19

• After Tony Abbott said last week that he was partial to an inquiry into iron ore prices, Ian Macfarlane distances the government from the idea after mining bosses savaged it.

SMH

[idlewhile]

Missed it lol.

[cherry*135]

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@debra9275 wrote:

 

one term Tony has got  quite a few. "Snapping at his heels"

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J Bishop 

[idlewhile]

Confidence up, 3.6% up after the wide ticks of approval for the budget. lol