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.

[boris1gary]

August 22

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August 13

[fourandsixpants]

ref boris saying:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4081390.htm

Have Australians been manipulated over the purchase of new fighter jets?

New fighter jets set to be bought by Australia for some $24 billion have excited manufacturers who hope to be part of their creation, but critics suggest manufacturers, taxpayers and politicians have been manipulated by an elaborate and misleading sales job by the world's largest military corporation.

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I don't know whether one could say that Australians have been manipulated over this.....I would state that we have been 'bullied' more appropriate a description on this IMO.

We ordered a 'better' set of fighter jets-same as the Americans are getting....the Americans AFTER THEY GOT OUR MONEY IN THEIR HOT LITTLE HANDS basically said 'no' you can have these rejects instead. They changed their minds on the deal and AFTER they got our money.These dud 'fighter' jets have many, many faults, are LEMONS and we have been bullied into taking the carp planes.

The Americans would not want us to have the 'good' ones like they have would they!?....and the Americans have to recoup the monies they wasted on production of these duds....don't they?

We are the mugs that allowed our wheely-dealy politicians to handover our tax monies in a shonky deal WITHOUT DEMANDING A REFUND OR AT LEAST THE ORIGINAL JETS AS FIRST ORDERED.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4081390.htm

 

[fourandsixpants]

DAVID JOHNSTON: They've said,

"No, you(Australia) can't have the F-22; that is for the United States Air Force.

But you can certainly participate in our program with the Joint Strike Fighter." We do not have anywhere else to go - that's on one side of the coin. On the other side of the coin, this aircraft is coming along, with all due consideration to it, very, very well.

[fourandsixpants]

GREG HOY:

Lockheed Martin would not be interviewed to discuss such concerns.

The US Air Force Combat Command, meantime, has expressed its own reservations. It has warned the US must continue to maintain its older, more agile and far more effective fleet of F-22 jet fighters to back up the F-35s or they'll be rendered irrelevant.

So should Australia instead try to buy the proven F-22?

Well, according to the Defence Minister, Australia did ask, but the Americans insisted there was no choice, but to take the troubled F-35 or nothing.

**bleep**??????????????????????????

[boris1gary]

I think there were a few posts that were rubbishing the campaign against the GBR dredge dumping plan, might even have had an assortment of graphs, wonder what the Minister Against the Environment has to say...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/06/reversal-over-great-barrier-reef-dredge-dumping-p...

Reversal over Great Barrier Reef dredge dumping plan

Queensland government wants sediment from Abbot Point development to be dumped on land instead, report says

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Tony Abbott ties ‘Kevin 747’s’ travel record

When Tony Abbott arrives home from India and Malaysia the weekend after next, he will have matched a record set by Kevin Rudd: the most trips abroad by a prime minister in their first 12 months in office.

Mr Abbott, who this time last year was among those in the Coalition criticising Mr Rudd over his penchant for travel, will have made 11 trips overseas by the time of the September 7 anniversary of the election of his government.

In his first 12 months in office, Mr Rudd also made 11 trips abroad and visited 25 countries, which included two visits to each of East Timor, Indonesia and Japan

After the Indian and Malaysian trip, Mr Abbott would have visited 22 nations, which includes three visits to Indonesia and two to the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/tony_abbott_ties_kevin_travel_record_azxvdPjMD6gM9XLFUZDB6N

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[boris1gary]

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...  and as people cannot pay their mortgages the housing bubble may finally burst and the people who bought in the past few years will find they owe the bank more, lot more, than the house is worth.  And the investors who rely on their tennants to pay rent might find that people cannot afford it anymore.  Of-course, that might be good news to those who still have a job and are brave enough to buy.