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]

asI said yesterday polksa, i think it's disgraceful that someone can contract blood poisoning from a cut on the foot these days It does prove poor medical aid.

[nero_bolt]

Kevin Rudd unveils 'hard-line' PNG solution for asylum-seekers 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/kevin-rudd-to-unveil-manus-island-expan...

KEVIN Rudd has vowed to send all new asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea under a regional resettlement deal, declaring future boatpeople will have "no chance" of staying in Australia as refugees.

The Prime Minister said he would impose the changes as soon as possible as he signed the agreement with the promise that there be no cap on the number of asylum-seekers being sent to PNG's Manus Island detention centre.

“From now on, any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees,” Mr Rudd said in Brisbane at a press conference with PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/kevin-rudd-to-unveil-manus-island-expan...

[debra9275]

his hard line wouldn't have been as hard line as this current regime,  .... having to walk through sewerage etc, they probably would've had proper medical care as well

[polksaladallie]

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@debra9275 wrote:

asI said yesterday polksa, i think it's disgraceful that someone can contract blood poisoning from a cut on the foot these days It does prove poor medical aid.

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Sorry, I was away.  I'll find your post.

[nero_bolt]

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@debra9275 wrote:

that's off topic

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Is it? How

I always thought that the opposition was part of the government and has members in both houses and get to vote on policy so that would make them by definition part of the government,  or are you trying to  tell us  that the Labor party isnt part of the government

[boris1gary]

is Kevin Rudd back in govt?

[***super_nova***]

Yes, it was a bad decision, but considering that TA claims that it had no impact on the boat arrivals, why did he keep it?  ALP only just started to set things up. and did not get the chance to build the accommodation they planned.   The present government is now responsible for Manus Island.  After a year you cannot blame the previous  government for the lack of basic medical care available for these people, now, after 12 months.

[tall_bearded01]

So we’ll do it your way. All asylum seeks to Long Bay, Pentridge and Yatala. All crimes to Christmas and Manus Island.  Somehow I thing the traffic will all be one way.

Anyway spare a though for the hundreds of thousands of people in rural communities, some of whom have to travel up to a 1000 KM a week, at their own expense, to get medical treatment for chronic conditions.  Oh yes that right they don’t count.

And let's not forget the reason why the East Timorese Government decided not to accept our invitation to set up a processing centre there -  “The people in the camp will have a higher standard of living than most of the local propulsion could ever hope for”

[debra9275]

Polksa I posted the full article when it broke yesterday, on the end of a detention centre thread

[boris1gary]

I think time is running out for no morals morrison

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/04/asylum-seekers-family-mourn-son-declared-brain-dead

from todays Guardian, it's a disgrace, there are also over 100 Iraqi's in our detention camps - abbotts humanitarianism is a load of rubbish.

Asylum seeker's family mourn 'sensitive, lovable' son declared brain dead

Hamid Kehazaei’s family say the fit, ‘gentle’ 24-year-old should have been better looked after

Kehazaei was flown from Manus last Wednesday. Speaking in Farsi from the family home in Tehran, Goldone Kehazaei told Guardian Australia she had not heard her son’s voice since his diagnosis.

“Not even before he boarded the plane,” she said, “They didn’t allow anyone to go with him on the plane, they said he had to give written permission, but he was too ill and unaware of his surroundings at that point. I was very upset because if I was there I would have held his hand and given him some comfort.

“On the plane his heart stopped and by the time he got to hospital the infection had spread and blood wasn’t getting to his brain.

Only his heart and lungs were functioning. His brain and kidneys had failed.”

“No one called us [from the hospital] because it was the weekend, so we called ourselves and they said: ‘We don’t know who you’re talking about’.

“I later found out he was on life support.”