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.

[aps1080]

She is heavier boned, for sure.

[monman12]

Oh come on children.  P007 it would be easy to select a few images of  Poor Me that would be unflattering.

Poor Me beautiful?  I think the rosy red  eye glass you Cyclopians use  must be fogged up, and  also Bishop could never be regarded as beautiful either

Which woman is is more naturally beautiful - this haggard dried up prune?.....actually looks very dehydrated imo.....and an absolute nasty person to speak with over the phone!!

clothes don't make a woman btw......not the heart and soul of a woman anyway

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or this beautiful woman?....

I actually miss her face and presence:

 

Oh come on children.  P007 it would be easy to select a few images of  Poor Me that would be considered unflattering.

Poor Me beautiful?  I think the rosy red  eye glasses that  you Cyclopians use  must be fogged up.  Bishop could never be regarded as beautiful either.

However this encapsulates the very ex Poor Me (the size is Big  for BIG)

(the size is for  BIG)

[monman12]

Which woman is is more naturally beautiful - this haggard dried up prune?.....actually looks very dehydrated imo.....and an absolute nasty person to speak with over the phone!!

clothes don't make a woman btw......not the heart and soul of a woman anyway

..............................................................................................................................................................................................................

or this beautiful woman?....

I actually miss her face and presence:

 

Oh come on children.  P007 it would be easy to select a few images of  Poor Me that would be considered unflattering.

Poor Me beautiful?  I think the rosy red  eye glasses that  you Cyclopians use  must be fogged up.  Bishop could never be regarded as beautiful either.

However this encapsulates the very ex Poor Me (the size is Big  for BIG)

(the size is for  BIG)

[aps1080]

He'll never live that photo down BTW ! LOL

[freshwater-2]

Some conservatives were nasty and ill mannered enough  to refer to Gillard as an unmarried barren woman.

Could the same be applied to Bishop?

Looks have nothing to do with being a beautiful woman.....it is in the smile, the humour and kindness in the heart.

[aps1080]

Just as an aside to that photo, IMHO, Aboriginals set themselves back 100 paces back on that day with

what they did with that protest.

It doesn't endear them to anyone. They might not like Australia Day and what it celebrates but they looked like a bunch

idiots protesting like they did.

As someone said in another thread, with rights comes responsibilities. The crowd of unruly protesters who were

supporting indigenous rights didn't show much responsibility.

[gleee58]

Says the one who is truly ugly within.

[cherry*135]

Love this photo of Julia. Anyway she was two PM's ago.. back to the current dudsters... who are doing all the things they accused the last Labor PM's of doing.

Her smiles look genuine, not like some wannabe model pollies we have now.

[boris1gary]

yes ugliness comes from within and the LNP prove that time and time again

reality never fits the LyingNP spin....

Friendly fire: Is the economy a victim of the Coalition's war on wages?

Like a comedian timing the punchline to a joke, Joe Hockey saved his best line about wages until the end.

"The government's income has fallen below expectations," he told a bleak December national accounts press conference. "We have falling commodity prices and we have weaker wage growth."

Wage growth is slow.

Yet low wage growth is what Hockey's colleagues have been pushing for all year.

Employment Minister Eric Abetz has been railing against high wage increases all year. In January he told the Sydney Institute that weak-kneed employers were too ready to give in to unreasonable demands.  

Australia risked something akin to a wages explosion unless employers showed some spine, he said.

Abetz led the way. On July 1 he abolished the Commonwealth guidelines for cleaners employed on government contracts.

When their existing contracts expire they will be employed on the minimum wage of $17.49 an hour, rather than the $22.02 they had previously been guaranteed. That's a pay cut of 20 per cent.

To bear down on public service wages, Abetz offered Defence Force staff a rise of just 1.5 per cent a year, much less than inflation and the lowest increase in living memory. Unable to take industrial action, soldiers, sailors and air force personnel had to cop it. Even independent Senator Jacqui Lambie wasn't able to lift the offer above 1.5 per cent, although she was able to claw back some benefits Abetz also wanted to take away.

Staff in his department were offered just 0.5 per cent a year, along with cuts to conditions. In this week's ballot only 77 voted in favour, with 1419 against.

Abetz said the vote would achieve nothing, apart from potentially ensuring they got no pay increase at all. "The government has made it clear that voting no will not mean that departments will have any capacity to make more generous offers," he said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott backed him, saying he would be surprised if anyone in the Commonwealth public sector received more than was received by the Defence Force.

Several agencies are offering nothing. The Australian Crime Commission and the Australian Research Council are proposing a 0 per cent pay rise. And others are offering an effective 0 per cent rise. The Australian Tax Office and the civilian arm of the Defence Department  aren't getting offers, even though their last pay increases were in June last year. By the time they do get offers two years will have elapsed.

Documents uncovered by Fairfax Media show the Defence Department is considering offering its civilian workers just 0.9 per cent a year, in return for concessions including two extra days of work.

The Public Service Commission, which oversees these things, is unlikely to become more generous. Abbott has just appointed as its new head John Lloyd, an industrial relations warrior who headed the work reform unit at the Institute of Public Affairs and before that the Australian Building and Construction Commission, where he used extrajudicial powers to take on building unions.

"It's as if they don't join the dots," said Bill Mitchell, director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity at the University of Newcastle.

"They've got a range of little narratives that they pull out at different times to suit different needs.

"One is wage restraint. That's to placate business. Another is the health of the economy. Another is fiscal deficits. They don't seem to realise that they are connected."

"Of course, if you have a 10-year war on trade unions wages are going to be constrained, of course consumer spending will be restrained and of course that'll hit government revenue. The Treasury would have been telling them this. But it's only now that they are starting to listen."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/friendly-fire-is-the-economy-a-victim-of-the-coalitions-w...

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@freshwater-2 wrote:

Some conservatives were nasty and ill mannered enough  to refer to Gillard as an unmarried barren woman.

Could the same be applied to Bishop?

Looks have nothing to do with being a beautiful woman.....it is in the smile, the humour and kindness in the heart.

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Spot on, Freshwater.  According to your words, only one of the two is a beautiful woman.

[monman12]

"Friendly fire: Is the economy a victim of the Coalition's war on wages?"

Or is yet another (not fully read?) C&P, with  some selective quotes?

In the same article I also noticed these:

"As the G20 met in Brisbane last month the International Labor Organisation (ILO) warned that low wage increases were becoming near-universal. Across the entire Group of 20, average real wages were growing only 1 to 2 per cent a year, with almost of the increase taking place in rapidly industrialising nations such as China. Taking out those nations, real wage increases were fluctuating around zero, as they are in Australia. In Britain real wages are lower than in 2007, and in Germany they are lower than in 2002."

""If Swan hadn't developed this obsession with delivering a surplus in 2011-12 and had just let the deficit sit, employment growth would have stayed pretty strong, private investment would have stayed strong, and they would have the deficit down to what they wanted it by now. It would have fallen like the American deficit."

What was the always off-key Swan Song?:  " I never promised you a rosy deficit"

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