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.

[monman12]

A3, there is a distinct difference between  independent sources and self styled outlets like :The Australian Independent Media Network.

A3 : "I don't think anyone here has ever posted an article/ link from The Daily Telegraph."  You mean apart from the 200 odd recorded A3?

Interesting comment, slightly askew though , however I do make allowances for "citizen journalists" and there are lots of pink linkers !

A3: Ross Greenwood wrote all of the opening post.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/small-business/paying-penalty-rates-means-potentially-prof...

A3: "Under the new proposals, pensioners and concession card holders would be exempt and families allowed up to 12 bulk billed visits before they must start paying.
 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/razor-gang-is-set-to-introduce-an-upfront-5-fee-for-visits...

A3: Gina pulls out of family trust account
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gina-rinehart-tells-court-she-no-longer-wishes-to-be-trustee-o...

DY: He's been kicked out lol
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/city-east/palmer-united-candidate-for-kingsford-smith-jim...

P007: Nicknamed "Sloppy Joe" by the Government, Joe Hockey is renowned for his lack of attention to detail and it is seen as his biggest political weakness.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/joe-hockeys-right-at-home-with-the-rich/story-e6freuy9-122580552893...

B1G:  http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/grieving-parents-speak-out-against-anti-vaccination-ex...

FN: "Re: After all that hysterical shrieking about Labor debt..."
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/police-investigating-claims-liberal-staffer-threatened-labor-m...


A3: " I don't think anyone here has ever posted an article/ link from The Daily Telegraph". That comment could do with a rewrite,  in my opinion.

[boris1gary]

so....

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/science-funding-cuts-are-generating-fears-for-jobs-and-...

Science funding cuts are generating fears for jobs and research output

Australian scientists, including chief scientist Ian Chubb, are concerned about a lack of coherence in Coalition science policy

At the weekend former Australian coal industry executive Ian Dunlop wrote in the Fairfax newspapers that “science has disappeared from the government’s priorities, just at the time we need it most”.

Last week, Liberal backbencher Dennis Jensen went further, labeling the government’s science funding cuts “incoherent”.

“Unfortunately, I see no evidence to suggest an improvement in science policy,” he told the ABC. “In fact, the reverse would appear to be the case.”

It’s no secret that Joe Hockey’s first budget took the knife to many federal spending programs. But science and innovation were among the hardest hit areas. In addition to cuts to the CSIRO, there were cuts to basic research at the Australian Research Council, as well as cuts to the Australian Institute for Marine Science and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Also slashed was funding for postgraduate researchers, for environmental science, clean technologies, water science and Cooperative Research Centres. There have also been huge cuts to R&D and innovation programs, and to virtually every federal renewable energy program.

Job losses in Australian science

Full-time equivalent staffing reductions in Australian science agencies, based on the 2014 budget forward estimates.

RIRDC

-489

CSIRO

-150

DSTO

-64

ANSTO

-96

Geoscience Aus

-58

Bureau of Met

-9

NH&MRC

-2

AIMS

-3

RIRDC

The cuts to the CSIRO have grabbed the most attention, including internationally. With $111m slashed over coming years, the agency is set to shed nearly 500 jobs. Respected international scientific journal Natureblogged recently about the CSIRO’s woes. Leigh Dayton, at the prestigious Science magazine website, told readers that “the bad news just keeps coming for Australia’s scientific community.”

The inevitable outcome is big reductions in the CSIRO’s research output. According to the CSIRO’s recently released Annual Directions Statement, CSIRO will completely cease research in a number of fields, and shut down at least eight laboratories. Research fields slated to go include neuroscience, colorectal research, urban water research and marine biodiversity. Research will be scaled back in radio astronomy, astrophysics, renewable energy, metallurgy, Nano science, and social and economic sciences. Labs and facilities that will close include the Mopra telescope, the Aspendale laboratories, the Highett laboratory, the Ardig field station and the Griffith laboratory in the Riverina.

[cherry*135]

So is there only 7 Daily Telegraph links in this thread of many links, no wonder I didn't remember them if there is. I did say 'I think'.

Monman: A3: " I don't think anyone here has ever posted an article/ link from The Daily Telegraph". That comment could do with a rewrite, in my opinion.

Didn't my statement end in 'here' ( meaning here in this thread)?

THIS thread, that is what I meant by here, not CS as a whole?

[cherry*135]

" I don't think anyone here". ( here in this thread).

[cherry*135]

"Clive Palmer does not understand paid parental leave policy: Tony Abbott speaks out on attacks on Peta Credlin"

That's rich coming from Abbott, he who gave the wrong info publicly on the $7 medical co payment. That info was then requried to be corrected by his office. Plus it is HIS policy.

( not to mention Hockey & Pyne also giving out wrong info on policy changes in the Budget)

[boris1gary]

I still find it funny...but not as funny as the conservatives reactions....

  http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/clive-and-credlin-media-finally-spot-s...

  Clive Palmer vs Peta Credlin: Mainstream media finally spots some sexism

The Coalition and mainstream media have blasted Clive Palmer over his stupid and sexist comments about Peta Credlin. Noely Neate wonders where they were during Julia Gillard's prime ministership (please note sarcasm font).

Unless you have been living under a rock, you would be well aware of Clive Pamer's stupid and sexist comments about Tony Abbott's chief of staff, Peta Credlin. 

I say ‘living under a rock’ as the media are ‘outraged’. Clive made his comments on Monday night and journo’s were ‘shocked’ — tweeting how ‘nasty’ he was.

 

Ahh I fondly recall the same disparaging commentary by Sky's Laura Jayes every time Julia Gillard was dissed, Oh Wait...

By Tuesday morning James Massola was admirably quick out of the gate with “Grow up: Clive Palmer's comments about Peta Credlin have embarrassed only himself” and the outrage had seriously begun. By Tuesday afternoon we had David Speers focussing almost exclusively on the sexism, not only outraged by Clive but outraged that members of the ‘Left’ - wondering who they are, Yellow Pages don’t have a head office listed for that entity - and the ALP have not exactly been overwhelming in their condemnation of Clive Palmer, nor yelling very loudly for his apology to Peta Credlin.

Yessiree the media have ‘finally’ seen the light, they know sexism when they see it and with fire in their belly will call it out and name it!

Now, Wednesday morning we find it is not just the ‘left’ that are silent on Clive, Ms Miranda Devine is seriously disappointed with the ‘Feminists’ too, (another where I could not find their head office listed, **bleep**) and with the same fire in her belly gives them a flogging in “Feminists let Clive strip them of their integrity”. Obviously Ms Devine didn't notice the graphic above floating around Social Media? Of course it goes without saying that Mia Freedman, the doyen of women’s issues, is disappointed too, thankfully she has her own Jamila Rizvi to set things right in Mia’s world (sorry, no link to that one, is a principal of mine). 

Yes, the same Mia who so staunchly stood against sexism with her defence of what Julia Gillard was copping. Oh wait, sorry, that was in defence of Tony Abbott, my bad...

Again Mia is blaming the ‘Left’. I could carry on with examples, but I won’t, every single news show from Sunrise to ABC Breakfast News are up in arms, fighting the good fight against sexism and Clive, it is a thing of beauty and wonder to see. It is also the height of hypocrisy.

[boris1gary]

more favours for mates.....

Ballet chief defends multi-million dollar mansion budget buy

The chairman of the Australian Ballet School says the decision to purchase a $4.7 million Melbourne mansion, part-funded by $1 million in the Federal Budget, was part of the institution's "duty of care" to its students.

Leigh Johns, who posted a photograph of Federal Arts Minister George Brandis standing with Australian Ballet School representatives outside the 'sold' sign in front of the Parkville mansion, said the grant was recognition of years' of hard work.

Mr Johns denied that former Liberal Arts Minister Rod Kemp (now chairman of right-wing lobby group the Institute of Public Affairs), whose wife Daniele is on the Ballet School's board, had anything to do with the funding announced in the budget. 

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/dance/ballet-chief-defends-multimillion-dollar-mansion-budget-bu...

[amber-eyed-girl]

When I was a ballet student noone showed me that level of "duty of care".

it will become admin's playground.

Completely ridiculous.

nice to know the connections, was wondering about that, thanks Boris. Who was sleeping with who...

because, at times, that does influence purse strings in the Arts world.

[boris1gary]

It's a bit off considering how other arts institutions have been cut....

Whether ballerinas are lifters or leaners is a matter for debate, but the Ballet School seems to have been given a lift while many other arts institutions took a cut - more than $87 million of cuts over the next four years.

Screen Australia was cut by $25.1 million, while the Australia Council lost $28.2 million.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/budget-help-for-ballet-australian-ballet-schoo...

[monman12]

So with a renowned ballet school that raises 75% from its own resources  towards what will become a student hostel, you would deny them a one-off grant of 1 million based upon your political bias BIG, that I would consider is a somewhat churlish attitude.

The Australian Ballet Company draws 95% of its dancers from the School and many graduates dance as principals and soloists around the world.
Substantial renovations will be required to turn the six-bedroom home into a boarding residence, housing 28 students enrolled at the school.
The school had enough cash to come up with more than $3.5 million on its own.

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