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]

Wow! How disappointing! I have met the man a few times & he 's done some good things for my community, but I have already decided, & I know a few votes have been lost here. A number of my neighbors won't be impressed either.

What's with the Vic.Libs anyway? It seems they've been infiltrated with the right to lifers these days. Very scary IMO.

[fourandsixpants]

"I don't understand this governments rationale in changing the FoFA legislation. I am also bewildered why more people are not up  in arms over these changes, they affect everyone who has superannuation or other investments....."

ref : Wind-back of financial protections proceeds.....

The government’s watered-down financial advice reform survives a vote in the Senate.

http://www.choice.com.au/media-and-news/consumer-news/news/wind-back-of-financial-protections-procee...

[monman12]

"The government’s watered-down financial advice reform survives a vote in the Senate."  Actually it is subject to "a range of new consumer protection measures" (also by regulation) which the PUP insisted be applied within 90 days.

So P007, what exactly do you find "wrong" with the FoFA regulations as amended by Palmer's regulations?

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[boris1gary]

Paints, this is a good article re: FoFA,  

http://www.chifley.org.au/financial-advice-the-most-unfair-liberal-lie-yet/

Financial advice: the most unfair liberal lie yet?

by Amit Singh

A good way of working out whether this repeal is good or bad for you is to see who supports and who doesn’t.

Here’s the group for this: big banks, listed financial companies, major investment houses, dealer groups, financial planners.

Here’s the group against this deal: the Government’s own expert Financial System Inquiry, National Seniors and Council on the Ageing who represent pensioners, consumer groups like CHOICE, industry super funds.

[boris1gary]

Debra, it is worrying - even to some in the Fiberals

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbotts-tea-party-and-australias-true-...

Abbott's Tea Party and Australia’s true political spectrum

Tony  Abbott leads the world's first Tea Party Government — something that simply does not fit into Australia's usual political spectrum, writes Cathy McQueen.

When Opposition Leader Bill Shorten likened the Coalition Government to "Tea Party Republicans" in his May Budget Reply, he neatly encapsulated the Abbott machine.

[***super_nova***]

🙂

[boris1gary]

today......love it

One more go.

Q: Doesn't Mr Abbott have a mandate for his direct action approach to climate change?

Shorten:

Direct action is a Clayton's climate policy designed for the audience of Internet trolls and shock jock radio announcers and climate sceptics.

It is a mandate from the flat earth society to give a lot of money to big polluters.

[boris1gary]

[boris1gary]

another right wing nut job....

http://wixxyleaks.com/excitable-what-truly-excites-the-coalition-senators/

  Excitable – What truly excites the Coalition Senators

Want to know what makes a group of Coalition Senators all stand up and applaud?

Sorry, there is no punchline here as sadly this isn’t a joke.

I’m also not referring to scrapping of the Carbon Tax or Scott Morrison ordering the further mental torture of Tamil women and children by holding them indefinitely at sea through our now disgraced Navy.

What got the Liberals and National up and clapping was the maiden speech of new Senator James McGrath of the Liberal Party.

James McGrath is the Queensland campaign director who was sacked for being the organiser and architect ofpolitical scandal in Queensland which was to pay a disgruntled former Labor staffer for dirt on sitting Labor MP’s.

Prior to that McGrath worked as an aide to London’s Conservative Lord Mayor Boris Johnson before being sacked for making a racist comment to a journalist regarding African-Caribbean people. Johnson’s decision to sack McGrath was praised by the current British PM David Cameron.

So what did James McGrath, a man previously sacked by two conservative governments for gutter tactics and racism have to say that was so appealing to the Liberal and National Party Senators?

Some of his key points were:

• Abolishing the Federal Health and Education Departments.
• Defending people rights to make homophobic comments
• The immediate selling off of the ABC’s youth radio network Triple J
• The privatisation of the ABC if it doesn’t shift its views to those on the right
• Support for the proposed changes to the Racial Vilification Act so that racists can preach hate without fear of persecution
• Taking the GST exclusions off things like fresh food and medicine so that the cost of remaining healthy skyrockets along with grocery prices.
• Increasing the GST to 15%

I will leave aside his efforts to stick up for the homophobes as I think we all know what they say about those who “protest too much”…

James McGrath’s maiden speech should be viewed as a wake-up call to any swinging voters, regional National Party voters or even any of the “Little L” Liberal voters.

McGrath would clearly like someone running the ABC that was a little more “centred” in his mind. Perhaps Cory Bernardi or Pauline Hanson?

It is also worth noting that James McGrath is a former Deputy Director of the Liberal Party, quite a senior role.

I think that someone who has come from such a senior role within a political party endorsing and promoting the wholesale breaking of so many election promises is astounding. Particularly given that he was part of the executive approval process of the promises and policies he seeks to break.

This should ring alarm bells all across the nation and we should make sure everyone who votes is made aware of it.

If this is how much respect the Liberal Party have for their supporters then I feel sorry for those true believers the Party has out there who are blissfully unaware the Party they support is happy to treat them with such utter contempt.

The reaction of Coalition MP’s should have been disgust and anger on behalf of every member of the public that this man has deceived with the policies and promises he helped signed off on and now seeks to ensure are broken.

Instead his speech was met with jubilation.

A celebration that a Political Party can lie its way into power and then achieve little more than broken promises.

My celebration will come the day James McGrath is sacked.

Once again.