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.

[myoclon1cjerk]

The government has now spent two-thirds of its emissions reduction fund but has only achieved 7% of the emissions cuts it would need to reach its 2030 target, according to analysts.
Today the Clean Energy Regulator announced the results of its third Emissions Reduction Fund auction, the centrepiece of government climate policy by which it pays polluters to pollute less.
In the auction, it bought 50.5m tonnes of carbon abatement for an average of $10.23 per tonne – a drop from $13.50 it paid in its first auction in April 2015.
“Our objective is simply to purchase as much abatement as we can with the funds available. All three auctions have exceeded our expectations in this regard,” said the chair of the Clean Energy Regulator, Chloe Munro.
Between the three auctions, 67% of the money has now been spent, leaving $816m left.
“This is an outstanding result,” the environment minister, Greg Hunt, said. “The policy is not just working and reducing emissions, but we are hitting our targets and tackling climate change without Labor’s electricity tax.”
To reach the government’s 2020 target of 5% below 2000 levels, the government would not need to cut domestic emissions. Instead it would rely on accounting rules for “carry-over” from an earlier period and international carbon credits. It estimated that avoiding just 186m tonnes by 2020 would be enough, leaving just another 43m tonne for the ERF after today.
But to meet its 2030 targets agreed to in Paris, which are 26 to 28% below 2005 levels, the Climate Institute estimated the three auctions amount to only 7% of the task.
But the 2030 targets themselves aren’t enough to keep the world under 2C. If Australia were to act on that objective, the auctions only account for 3% of the abatement needed by 2030, said the Climate Institute CEO, John Connor.
In the latest auction, the vast majority of carbon reduction came from vegetation projects such as avoiding land clearing and revegetation schemes – they accounted for more than 93% of the carbon abatement bought in the auction.
Recent analysis from the Wilderness Society showed that a land-clearing surge going on in parallel – particularly in Queensland – was completely undoing the ERF’s abatement work. That analysis came before the NSW government released a draft of its overhauled land-clearing laws, which aimed to cut red tape for farmers wishing to clear their land.
“At the current rate of tree clearing, the entire 98.5m tonnes of abatement from tree projects bought in the latest ERF auction will be wiped out in just under two years,” said the Wilderness Society national director, Lyndon Schneiders.
And Hugh Grossman, from energy analysis firm RepuTex, said national emissions were mostly rising as a result of the biggest industrial emitters, which weren’t engaging with the ERF.
“In isolation, it is doing a really good job – it’s doing what it’s expected to do and purchasing abatement,” Grossman said. “But what we’re seeing is that national emission are growing in parallel, despite the ERF.”
Munro said another auction was expected to be held before the end of the year, with details to be announced in the coming months.

[esayaf]

Jobs and growth. Thought we lost the three word moron.
Putting extra money into an employers hands will not create jobs. Only an unfilled capacity will create jobs. To create this capacity one must increase demand. Demand is dependent on those that require the goods or services. These are called consumers.
Unless all the employers start buying more items that Australia has demand will not increase in this country. As we don't make any high end products demand will be met by countries that do. Such as Italy with their Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. Their high end fashion houses and the like.

[debra9275]

I quite liked Shorten's ideas on growth in the renewable energy sector, manufucating turbine parts etc. seems a clever way to move the economy ahead. Mining is dead.

[debra9275]

am I wrong?? didn't the libs claim they don't do this stuff.. only Lab does  

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/branch-stacking-claims-rock-liberals/news-story/8c97fca78fc171e3b9a...

Branch stacking claims centred on the office of Kevin Andrews rock Liberals

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/05/abbott-a-well-known-millionaire-offered-me-500...

Abbott: a 'well-known millionaire' offered me $5,000 when I was a new MP

hmmm Fed ICAC needed for sure

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/damien-mantach-defrauded-liberals-of-155m-in-bid-to-salvage-marria...

Damien Mantach defrauded the Victorian Liberal Party of $1.55 million while he was state director, and used some of the money to try to salvage a disintegrating marriage, a court has heard.

Mantach, 42, fronted the County Court on Friday to formally plead guilty to 15 representative charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, related to pocketing 53 payments from Liberal coffers between May 2010 and January last year.

meanwhile,. most of us try to live within our means

[debra9275]

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/06/reserve-bank-slashes-inflation-forecasts-casti...

Reserve Bank slashes inflation forecasts, casting doubt on budget figures

RBA raises spectre of ultra-low inflation plaguing economy and feeds doubts about government’s ability to reduce deficit

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bureaucrats-finally-spill-the-secrets-of-tony-...

The commissioner has directed the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to release receipts, once heavily redacted, from bottle shops across Canberra, where Mr Abbott's staff bought $7340 worth of wine and beer in less than two months between February and April last year.

this guy, clearly hasnt been living within our means

2 months??  

cheers

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-06/imigration-department-offers-compensation-to-save-the-children...

The Immigration Department has agreed to pay compensation to Save The Children after some of its workers were removed from Nauru in 2014 amid allegations they were coaching asylum seekers to self-harm and inciting protests.

In a statement, the Department said it regretted its decision to remove the staff, and that payment of money was not adequate compensation.

It also acknowledged

it did not provide Save the Children or the employees with detailed reasons for the removal.

Two independent reports commissioned by the Federal Government dismissed the allegations and recommended the department offer compensation.

In initial negotiations with the workers, Save The Children's lawyers said they were hoping for a figure of just under $1 million for loss of income and consolation for pain and suffering, hurt and humiliation and damage to reputation.

I gues that's a 'secret' admission that all the claims made against these people were false all along

so many chickens are finally coming home to roost atm. It is at a large cost to taxpayers though

[debra9275]

http://www.afr.com/news/politics/election-2016-turnbull-government-makes-103-last-minute-appointment...

While many of the appointments and reappointments are entirely uncontroversial, the Coalition's enthusiasm for making so many appointments that will run during the life of whoever forms the next government – without consulting the opposition – will raise some eyebrows and runs contrary to the Coalition's own bitter protests about Labor making such appointments in the past.

In the current case, the appointments include appointing judges to the Federal Courts to fill vacancies that haven't yet occurred

103 last minute appointments before going into caretaker mode??

all Libs too

this is just so wrong

[esayaf]

Welcome to the regressives dictatorship

[debra9275]

http://www.afr.com/news/politics/malcolm-turnbull-named-in-panama-papers-20160511-gosvit

well, well  

haven't heard much in this morning's news about it, they seem to be concentrating more on this

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-11/labor-candidate-chris-brown-to-be-disendorsed-by-alp/7406100

He pleaded guilty to the 1985 assault charge, committed when he was 19, and received a 12-month good behaviour bond, but said he was the victim in an unprovoked assault by several men and had accidentally struck a police officer who had come to his aid after he had been king hit.

hmmm Arthur Sinodinis just said that MT named in the Panama Papers is "old news"

to quote him :

That is a dead horse being flogged, it’s a 20 year matter, it’s old news, they just want to run it because they can, the Fin Review on its front page should be debating policy instead of behaving like a downmarket tabloid.

meanwhile:

http://linkis.com/www.theage.com.au/fe/4ZUXS

Coalition's $840 million interns plan illegal: lawyers