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.

[cherry*135]

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@boris1gary wrote:

http://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/2805192/medicare-changes-bad-medicine-says-north-nowra-gp...

Medicare changes bad medicine, says North Nowra GP

CHANGES to the federal government’s Medicare co-payment plans will place a hefty burden on general practitioners and risk discouraging medical graduates from going into general practice, especially in rural areas, according to a Shoalhaven doctor.

Dr Michele Browne said she was appalled by the government’s hastily announced changes to its highly unpopular $7 Medicare co-payment plan, part of its “barnacle-clearing” exercise at the end of 2014.

The government’s amended proposal, announced as “dropping the co-payment”, involves slashing $3.5 billion from general practice. “Having trumpeted the importance of providing good chronic care management and keeping patients out of hospital, the government has undermined its own policies by making access to highly trained GPs more difficult for patients,” Dr Browne said.

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That is what I thought too.. why will Australian tertiary educated graduates want to become GP's?

What are they supposed to do, earn a lot less per  patient visit or charge the patient much more (which will mean less patients so the medical centre income will be down also).

[fourandsixpants]

Neo-liberalism has also changed the way we think about unemployment. In the past we understood clearly that it arose as a result of a shortage of jobs. In recent decades, we have been conditioned by a relentless (lying) press and government statements to perceive unemployment as an individual problem.

So the unemployed are lazy; have poor work attitudes; refuse to invest in appropriate skills; are subject to disincentives arising from misguided government welfare support, and all the rest of the arguments that mainstream uses to obfuscate the social problem. In Australia, this sort of “blame the victim” approach was accompanied by a new nomenclature that entered our daily public discourse and was promoted by government ministers including successive prime ministers.

We were told that the unemployed were bludgers, job snobs, cruisers and worse. Television current affairs programs targetted unemployed families and lured them into looking as though they didn’t want to work.

All of this despite the overwhelming evidence from studies in most countries that the unemployed were highly motivated to find work and were victims of a shortage of jobs.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=7308

[monman12]

I see volume not substance is still in vogue!

A little thought might just indicate why courses not requiring laboratories practical/mechanical infrastructure are cheaper!

I notice that your C&P (what else) leaves out (what else) this comment that:

Proposed funding rates for Commonwealth supported places at universities

Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science, Agriculture

$18,067

Major reviews under both the Rudd and Abbott governments have backed extending federal funding to private providers, saying it would correct the historical anomaly that only students in one system receive support.

Must get in the C&P oversize swing of things!

Funding rates for Commonwealth supported places at universities from 1 January 2016

Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science, Agriculture

$18,067

[debra9275]

that post probably relates to this

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/taxpayers-to-fund-teaching-of-pseudoscience...

Taxpayers to fund teaching of 'pseudo-science'

Profit-making colleges would receive taxpayer funding to teach students unproven alternative remedies such as homeopathy, flower essence therapy and iridology under the Abbott government's proposed higher education reforms.

The move comes as the government considers stripping the private health insurance rebate from any policies covering natural therapies not supported by evidence.

As well as deregulating university fees and cutting university funding, the government's higher education reforms would extend funding to private colleges, TAFEs and sub-bachelor degree programs at a cost of $820 million over three years.

Accredited private colleges would become eligible for grants of $6323 a year for each student enrolled in courses such as homeopathy, naturopathy and mind body medicine. This is more than public universities would receive per student studying law, ement The Australasian College of Natural Therapies, for example, would be eligible for subsidies for its Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy), which teaches students homeopathy, iridology and Bach flower therapy.

[monman12]

"We were told that the unemployed were bludgers, job snobs, cruisers and worse. Television current affairs programs targetted unemployed families and lured them into looking as though they didn’t want to work.

All of this despite the overwhelming evidence from studies in most countries that the unemployed were highly motivated to find work and were victims of a shortage of jobs.

Another C&P  which is not unusual which in the closing remarks has this:

"There is no financial reason why the government should not deal with this problem directly by introducing a Job Guarantee. If the Government had the political will, it could readily overcome the problem of persistently high unemployment."

But the date of publication was 2010!, or should I write  But the date of publication was 2010.

Was not that the Circus heyday and the day(s) of the long knives wielded by Poor Me and Rudd?

[boris1gary]

http://www.tai.org.au/node/2396

 Mining the age of entitlement

State governments are more usually associated with the provision of health, education and law enforcement than industry assistance. So it might surprise taxpayers to learn that state government assistance for the mineral and fossil fuel industries consumes significant amounts of their money.

Each state provides millions of dollars’ worth of assistance to mining industries every year, with the big mining states of Queensland and Western Australia routinely spending over one billion dollars in assistance.

This paper is the first attempt to put a dollar figure on the value of state assistance to the mining industry. It shows that over a six-year period, state governments in Australia spent $17.6 billion supporting the mineral and fossil fuel industries. Queensland’s assistance was by far the largest of all states, totalling $9.5 billion, followed by Western Australia’s at $6.2 billion.

[cherry*135]

Govt has back flipped ( yes, good at that aren't they?)  from increased funding to private colleges.. just as well if taxpayers are paying for those airy fairy courses.

Government backs down on some higher education reforms

Fairfax Media can reveal that the government is willing to:

• delay the expansion of Commonwealth funding to private colleges by three years;

Sucked in to those private colleges who believed Abbott's promises for increased funding. He may not be around in 3 years and they may never get it.

[fourandsixpants]

Incompetents

 

[fourandsixpants]

[boris1gary]

so good to see the rabid right are still flogging the stinking rotten corpse that is this Govt, loyalty is one thing but sheer wilful ignorance is just stupid.

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