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.

[monman12]

In this conversation, Windsor implies that Joyce has "been given permision" to seemingly oppose this mine in order to stay onside with his constituents and soften the government's stance.

I read about BJ's FB comments, and the first thing I thought was that it was fake outrage, so that wouldn't surprise me.  Think again

Does no one bother to research at all?

July 20, 2009
Outspoken Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce was slow to react to the issue but now he’s come down firmly on the side of the farmers: “I’m a great supporter of coal mining as our major export, but there are certain peculiar areas in Australia where the quality of the land is so exceptional that you should not be compromising that for coal.”

BJ has done well maintaining his "fake" outrage for 6 years, and Windsor has his own political misinformation  agenda which the MYOPS will quote, sans checking.

[debra9275]

if you haven't noticed the drop in the markets I suggest you go and check your shares 

a little recovery today though in line with China's rebound 

[debra9275]

residents believe that they were 'conned' by Barnarby Joyce  It is unforturnate that the mine is backed by both Lib/Lab.  the Nationals are traditionally  ( supposed to be)  standing up for farmers but it apprears that they are now just an extension of the LIb party.

Tony Windsor has spoken out and supported residents against this mine for a very long time

[debra9275]

https://twitter.com/tonyhwindsor

https://twitter.com/barnaby_joyce

[monman12]

'What on earth has the JKSE got to do with us??"

 "Something like 730 billion was wiped off the Asian markets today Icy..

First, Indonesia is part of Asia

Second, the Jakarta Composite Index is abbreviated to: JKSE, and I know how interested some here are in Jakarta news, and this information can be found in the Jakarta Post..

[debra9275]

hope you went and checked your portfolio 

especially if you hadn't noticed a "crisis"

sorry if you only found out about it here

[gleee58]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

Does  that mean you didn't bother listening to the interview?

He has stated on numerous occasions that he is not against mining. He's against mining inappropriate places and he considers the Breeza PLains inappropriate because it's prime agricultural land and because of the potential damage to the water supply.

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And what do you think his properties in Coonamble are?

"It's beautiful soil and any good soil on significant-sized blocks is improving in value," he [Tony Windsor] said."

Entire Article Here

Still a hypocrite with the hide to criticise Barnaby Joyce.

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Sure He is. The Australian says he is so he must be.   

On face value I would not trust anything written in the campaign to discredit Mr Windsor as part of the destroy the minority govt campaign.  

[debra9275]

Glee speaking of the UnAustralian. check out this sob story they put lout about Kathy Jackson a couple of weeks ago

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/industrial-relations/kathy-jackson-struggling-as-cl...

Corruption whistleblower Kathy Jackson has suffered another setback as she fights legal battles on multiple fronts, losing a backdated workers’ compensation claim that could have netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Ms Jackson based her unsuccessful claim, lodged late last year, on an alleged mental stress injury sustained three years ago shortly before she ceased her last paid job as a union official.

If her claim had been granted, she would have received workers’ compensation benefits backdated to 2012 and calculated at 80 per cent of her then $287,000 salary as the Health Services Union’s East branch executive president, capped at the maximum benefit of $110,760 a year.

The denial of her Victorian WorkCover claim is a significant blow as Ms Jackson seeks funds to cover substantial legal bills.

She faces a hefty penalty if she loses a further Federal Court claim against her resulting from a two-week hearing scheduled to start today, at which the HSU’s lawyers will allege she misused $1.4 million of union funds for personal expenses including holidays, shopping, gifts, entertainment, mortgage payments and part of a divorce settlement.

Ms Jackson shot to national prominence for exposing the large-scale corruption of now jailed HSU fraudster Michael Williamson. She is now facing scrutiny over her own financial dealings as a senior union leader, with the HSU’s current leadership claiming they were on a par with those of Williamson.

At a Federal Court hearing due to start today in Melbourne, possibly with a Sydney court videolink for Ms Jackson in Sydney, the HSU’s barrister Mark Irving intends to outline the case against Ms Jackson.

Ms Jackson, who has briefed a barrister for the hearing after unsuccessfully seeking to have the case thrown out as an abuse of court, is expected to defend vigorously her spending by arguing that it was legitimate and open to ­inspection by her then branch committee of management.

Besides Ms Jackson’s alleged big spending on union credit cards, Mr Irving is expected to focus on how Ms Jackson allegedly channelled $250,000 from the financial settlement of a backpay dispute with a Melbourne cancer hospital into her union’s general union accounts — and then into a personal bank account over which she had sole control.

The presiding Federal Court judge Richard Tracey is also expecte­d to rule during the hearing on an HSU application to freeze any sale or transfer of Ms Jackson’s assets, after it was ­revealed this month that she was attempt­ing to sell her current home at Wombarra, 65km south of Sydney, to her partner, Fair Work Commission vice-president Michae­l Lawler.

The HSU claims the proposed house sale was an attempt to put assets beyond the reach of the Federal Court if the union won its case against Ms Jackson.

The HSU has also referred Ms Jackson to Victoria Police based on a detailed submission alleging she fraudulently spent close to $1m of union funds.

As well, Ms Jackson’s behaviour as a union official is under investig­ation by the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.

It will issue findings later this year after declining to do so in an interim report in December.

A further potential legal headache for Ms Jackson relates to her association with David Rofe QC, a prominent Sydney barrister with advanced dementia whose $30m estate is eventually expected to be the subject of a significant court battle over inheritance.

Ms Jackson was written into Mr Rofe’s will as the potential beneficiary of almost $3m early last year — less than two years after meeting the elderly barrister.

Other potential beneficiaries who could dispute any claim by Ms Jackson include Rofe relatives, and an estranged Rofe friend, Nick Llewellyn, who has been financiall­y supported by Mr Rofe.

Mr Lawler, who knew Mr Rofe before 2002 when they were barristers at Sydney’s Wentworth Selborne Chambers, has also been involved with Mr Rofe since late 2012 in helping him with the management of his $30m fortune.

On Mr Rofe’s behalf, Mr Law­ler bought a $1.3m property last year next door to the Lawler-Jackson house at Wombarra in which the couple now lives, after a minor fire damaged their own home in January.

Mr Rofe lives at Woollahra, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, with full-time nursing care. Ms Jackson and Ms Lawler have made recent short visits to see Mr Rofe, including over the past week. With his health having deteriorated, supporters of Mr Rofe suggest he no longer recognises them, or others.

Lawyers for Mr Lawler and Ms Jackson told the Federal Court over the past fortnight about their shortage of funds available if money was needed to cover legal bills or penalties related to the HSU’s case against Ms Jackson.

Ms Jackson’s failed WorkCover claim against the HSU was based on an injury, due to stress, that she alleged occurred three years ago in her last paid job as a union official.

Ms Jackson has had no paid employment as a union official since mid-2012, when a Federal Court judge sacked her and other HSU officials as part of his decis­ion to put the union in the hands of an administrator to sort out its financ­es.

i've copied most of the article but there is a bit more

[debra9275]

http://wixxyleaks.com/limo-wreck-the-kathy-jackson-federal-court-case-to-continue/

[monman12]

"Tony Windsor has spoken out and supported residents against this mine for a very long time"

Sorry, I require some form of link/proof otherwise it is just anecdotal (codswallop)