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.

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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it's such a good and true picture I'm reposting it, so it doesn't get missed  🙂

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Yes, it is excellent if you want to divide the nation.  Most people know that there is no need to choose; we support our armed forces, the hostages and we support the Muslim community, as do the hostages and their families.

[nero_bolt]

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@outdoorhunting1 wrote:

1200 + dead,

And Julian has the audacity to call Morrison
"who has shown himself to be a hypocrite, willing to harm innocent people for political purposes."


So it's OK to kill them by his reckoning.

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If you are green and left leaning apparently its OK to kill them this way in their world....

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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If you are green and left leaning apparently its OK to kill them this way in their world....

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Refugees drowned, we did not kill them.  Now, they might not be drowning (or at least we are not being told about it) but they are still dying, we just do not hear about it.  And while we are not responsible for those who drowned, we are responsible for those we send back, and who are being imprisoned (all those that went back to Shri Lanka), tortured and or killed.

[outdoorhunting1]

And to think the ONLY way was UP for Sarah LOL


I wonder if she has sorted out the difference between fiction on TV and reality ?

[debra9275]

did you read this Nova?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/18/illridewithyou-do-australias-rightwingers-hate-...

Miranda Devine’s ingenuity in finding a way to indict her opponents for this tragedy shows us why she gets the big bucks. Her last column argued that “the left” was culpable because they offered assistance to those who might be subject to racist attacks through the #illridewithyou campaign – because Monis was a Muslim. Devine says:

Denial, deflection, projection. They see themselves as morally superior to the rest of Australia, which they imagine as a sea of ignorant rednecks. In their eyes the threat is not terrorism but Islamophobia.

the i'llridewithyou hashtag has the extreme right  fanatics frothing at the mouth 

only they could turn something so innocent into something sinister lol

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Anyway, it was not Abbott who stopped the boats, they were already stopping when people found out about the PNG solution

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[monman12]

Gosh the Guardian which once was mentioned in "The Conversation"   :  " does Australia need another paper for the left elite being staffed by journalism refugees from Fairfax and News Limited?

I do wonder if the point of the article has been "lost"

"do Australia's rightwingers hate it because they don't know their own readers?"

Think about it,   then juxtapose  Wilson's article with a previous one from him:

"The right has won control of the English-speaking world - thanks to the weakness of the left"

I have missed the many  BIG C&P (what else)  articles from the "Independent" citizen journalists and bloggers,  certainly not aimed at the "left elite".

nɥºɾ  

[outdoorhunting1]

Only because Rudd read the mood of the electorate and could see he would lose if he didn't bring in something.

The fact is it took some good LNP policy and action to really stop them coming.

But that was too late, 50,000 had already come in under Labor
plus 1200 dead.

[debra9275]

you probably need to be following some of the journalists on twitter to know what that's about.

what he's referring to is an andrew bolt blogger, who miranda devine claimed was a parady account.. it's a long story but very funny

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@debra9275 wrote:

only they could turn something so innocent into something sinister lol

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Yes, i did.  These people are the real threat to harmony of our society.  She should be charged with inciting hatred.  Sadly there always be handful of people who will lap her drivel up.   But it is very reassuring to see the huge support for the #illridewithyou in the community, here and o/s.  The trolls might be noisy, but majority of people is decent.