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.

[vicr3000]

Lets tell the HRW to get effed and shove their report where the sun don't shine because no one listens to them.

Lefty wonker do gooders who like telling everyone else what to do.

They can pay for it but no, as soon as you try to extract money from them, they wilt away.

As I said, I would have used the Tigers and stopped the boats as they left Indonesia.

That would have caused a few reports to be written !

"you don't have to pay."

Yes, we noticed that, "free" education / degree !

[vicr3000]

And even more failures by Labor listed by monman.

Abbott is right to raise the interest rate on education debt.

[cherry*135]

This Govt still has 17 months or so to go. 50 on the list in last 16 months. How can anyone compare part term to a past Govt full term?
Mm list had 60 from memory...

[cherry*135]

Noone is raising the "interest" rate... Changing from an INDEXED rate to an INTEREST rate. I do wish thise commenting understood the proposed policies they are referring to. That proposal has not passed Senate and is not likely to. Moot point.

[cherry*135]

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@vicr3000 wrote:

"you don't have to pay."

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Selective quoting... I wrote "you don't have to pay to vote"' in reply to your post that was about voting and not paying. 

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julie-bishop-and-malcolm-turnbull-perform-well...

Mr Abbott responded by praising his "strong colleagues" and "strong team" but said they benefited from his leadership.

Mr Abbott says if he went into a pub patrons would tell him his decision to honour Prince Philip with an Australian knighthood was a "stuff-up". Photo: Reuters

"One of the reasons why so many members of the team are able to perform so well is because they have got a very good captain," he told reporters.

"It takes a good captain to help all the players of a team to excel," he said.

what an arrogant fool,  

[cherry*135]

Six months Tony Abbott has got to prove himself. My prediction: FAIL - next ....

[debra9275]

Australia under the spotlight in Human Rights Watch World Report 2015

Australia shamed in human rights report

AUSTRALIA has been named and shamed on a list of the world’s worst human rights offenders — but it’s not just our treatment of indigenous people and asylum seekers that has landed us there.

Sharing the dubious honours with the likes of Syria, Nigeria and Egypt, we have made the cut for reasons you might not expect.

According to Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2015, our counterterrorism laws — hastily introduced by the Abbott government last year — have been slammed as “vague” and “over-broad” in the damning report, infringing on the basic rights of all Australians.

In response to the threat of home-grown terrorism, new laws extend to the use of control orders and preventive detention and also make it a criminal offence to travel to “declared areas’’ abroad, which overly restricts people’s freedom of movement, the report states

Am, who would've ever thought that our great country would be included in that list. It's shameful really.

[cherry*135]

debra9275 wrote:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julie-bishop-and-malcolm-turnbull-perform-well...

Mr Abbott responded by praising his "strong colleagues" and "strong team" but said they benefited from his leadership.


Mr Abbott says if he went into a pub patrons would tell him his decision to honour Prince Philip with an Australian knighthood was a "stuff-up". Photo: Reuters
"One of the reasons why so many members of the team are able to perform so well is because they have got a very good captain," he told reporters.

"It takes a good captain to help all the players of a team to excel," he said.

what an arrogant fool,;




Which is exactly why, giving him six months to improve, is a waste of time! He isn't going to have a personality transplant ever.

Poor judgement skills not likely to improve either, surely good judgement is essential for a Prine Minister.

[debra9275]

no, he won't change and they'll have trouble getting rid of him.... once a sledger, always a sledger

he'll be blackmailing his party members with what happened to the Rudd/gillard govt too. lol