on 20-04-2014 10:21 PM
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.
08-04-2015 02:46 PM - edited 08-04-2015 02:46 PM
yesterday the STC former workers at Nauru wrote an open letter of complaint- they included the worker who quit.
Ms Vibhakar said she resigned in disgust because she felt her role as clinical social worker was "ethically compromised".
Shortly after she quit, the Immigration Department ordered her off the island along with nine other Save The Children workers amid allegations contractors had facilitated protests and fabricated sexual abuse allegations.
An independent inquiry by former Integrity Commissioner Philip Moss found no evidence of misconduct by Save The Children workers. (that is from an article in The Age which details the abuse)
this article from the Guardian also shows the letter within a link
in previous reports and articles, it was mentioned that one staff member quit which I thought gave the impression that the staff member had done something wrong
posting this again as it is a fairly big story that's getting a bit lost amongst some of the nonsense going on here
on 08-04-2015 02:53 PM
"I'll post whatever I want to post.. and I am sticking to to the title in the OP, posting articles relating to the current govt.
Re: Diary of our stinking Govt is the thread title, with no qualification as to which, though it does seem a little harsh besmirching a Circus, clowns and all.
on 08-04-2015 02:56 PM
Re: Diary of our stinking Govt is the thread title, with no qualification as to which, though it does seem a little harsh besmirching a Circus, clowns and all.
pardon??? i do think you're wrong about that... so I have repeated the whole of the opening post just so you can read it
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.
on 08-04-2015 03:00 PM
Joe Hockey may face Senate battle on ATO's multinational tax secrecy
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari will write to Senate Clerk Rosemary Laing to see what power the Senate has to appeal against the public interest immunity claim at the heart of an ATO decision to keep secret the names of mining companies accused of dodging tax by shifting profits offshore.
Senator Dastyari, who chairs the Senate Economics References Committee, is concerned that Treasurer Joe Hockey personally approved a decision to shield companies, which are se....
Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan said in a letter to the Senate committee into corporate tax avoidance that Mr Hockey endorsed his decision not to release the names of 10 resources companies that transferred a combined $31.4 billion to Singapore in the financial year 2011-2012.
Mr Hockey said the decision to disclose the information of taxpayers was entirely a matter for the Commissioner of Taxation as an independent statutory office holder.
on 08-04-2015 03:04 PM
Thanks for the reminder
Checks ..........
on 08-04-2015 03:08 PM
on 08-04-2015 03:09 PM
Re: Diary of our stinking Govt is the thread title, with no qualification as to which, though it does seem a little harsh besmirching a Circus, clowns and all.
pardon??? i do think you're wrong about that... so I have repeated the whole of the opening post just so you can read it
Sorry, but the title still is: Re: Diary of our stinking Govt, and there is no qulification. However, as you do not think it a little harsh I will asume the title is also indicitive of Diary of our stinking Circus.
on 08-04-2015 03:12 PM
ahh... of course, selective reading..or perhaps some would say MYOPIC
there is no circus more amusing than the current one
on 08-04-2015 03:28 PM
"posting this again as it is a fairly big story that's getting a bit lost amongst some of the nonsense going on here"
I agree, the real world and a comment, (but selected I guess because of its colour !!!)
Why did Poor Me open up Nauru? Not the failed Malaysian solution, really?
Sorry, that was the stinking Circus period.
oooooops, the date is within the stinking forbidden history period, sorry.
on 08-04-2015 03:31 PM
@monman12 wrote:"Undermine confidence in the tax system. Are they nuts? Protecting the rip off merchants who love to trash the rest of the citizens undermines more than confidence in the tax system. No doubt the super greedy Ms Rinehart is on the list and is behind the push for secrecy. She who demands lower wages of everyone else while avoiding her own obligations should have no right to set the policy agenda."
What nonsense G58.
For someone who suggests that I am a sexist.
I don't need to suggest you are sexist. It is an obvious affliction that you relish judging by your stupid attacks on select few posters day in, day out.
If you were not so busy acting the troll you would see that I did not mention Hancock Prospecting in the post you quoted.