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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Rudd stated that nearly a million jobs created under Labor. It was 928,297.
His first year was the best year at 237,000 created, then less every year after that.


How many of those jobs were in your area ?
Because a million jobs were created but you say people there are not getting jobs.

Did any of them look at the FIFO mine jobs in the last 15 years ?

[debra9275]

Geelongs Mayor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryn_Lyons

Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia on 19 August 1965, Lyons grew up the youngest of three children in a "cathedral-like" house in Melbourne, designed by his father, who was an architect and the choirmaster of the Aberdeen Street Baptist Church.[2] Lyons's passion for photography started at a young age and he attended East Geelong Tech secondary school, where he was regularly dux of school.[3]

Career

Lyons graduated from Geelong East Technical School, then began work as a professional photographer at the Geelong News and Geelong Advertiser. At the age of 22, he moved to London, where he gained a job at the News of the World after a chance meeting with Rupert Murdoch. Two years later, he left to take a position with the Daily Mail, for whom he provided coverage of the Bosnian War.[4]

In 1993 Lyons founded the picture company Big Pictures, which supplies paparazzi-style photography for news organizations. Big Pictures was run by Melanie Lyons and Kevin Anstey, while Lyons worked as a photographer for the Daily Mail newspaper. During 1996 Darryn Lyons left the Daily Mail to work full-time at Big Pictures alongside Melanie Lyons. He gained widespread media attention when his company sold a photograph to the News of the World, which was used to support a claim that football star David Beckham was having an affair with his personal assistant Rebecca Loos.[5]

you should google a pic of him Am and see what he looks like. As i don't live in Geelong, I don't know whether he's been good for Geelong or not. only someone who lives there would know. He's certainly attention grabbing though

[aps1080]

Debra

Wollongong is a MAJOR regional centre, as is Geelong.

The two areas are similar. Wollongong, 3rd largest city, Geelong 2nd largest.
Both the last major centres heading along coast roads
Both have plenty of workers
Both have had major structural changes to business through closures of factories.


Re the mayor, i posted a link to photos before.

He hasn't been in long but he has certainly stirred pt pot and is damn good at putting geelong on the map.

He will be good for geelong, even if some don't like him.







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[debra9275]

you would know 

wollongong has a much larger population according to the stats roughly 100K more people

[aps1080]

Yes, i had checked ages ago

So ? What does that matter ?


Newcastle / maitland has even more and they seem to have recovered well, or to a point.


I deal with businesses in both cities.

[debra9275]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-06/queensland-premier-fights-for-his-political-life/6003098

Queensland election: Premier Campbell Newman fights for his political life in Ashgrove

Posted 27 minutes agoTue 6 Jan 2015, 7:59pm

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is taking a gamble calling a surprise early election, a Brisbane political scientist says, with polling suggesting he faces a tough battle in his seat of Ashgrove.

Less than three years ago he lead his party to an historic landslide victory but is now fighting for his political life against Labor's candidate Kate Jones.

Griffith University senior lecturer in politics Paul Williams has tipped a close overall election result.

"This is going to be tight election and Labor, through the support of minor votes going to independents and minor parties, could fall across the line," Dr Williams said.

Mr Newman's popularity rapidly faded after his government introduced a tough first budget which shed thousands of public services jobs.

There have also been high profile run-ins with lawyers, doctors and teachers.

"If we had to put it down to one reason why the Newman got the public off guard so quickly, it's because it offended so many pressure groups all in the space of the first term," Dr Williams said

[myoclon1cjerk]

Wollongong (the brave 🙂 ) is much larger than Geelong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYM7mve7lI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[polksaladallie]

I might have said something about this before, dunno.

Has anyone ever noticed that men who have only daughters have an unusual extra drive to gain power of some sort?  Perhaps to prove their manhood.

Can anyone add to this list?

Abbott, Newman, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Putin, Xi Jinping. 

I also could add a senator, a friend of someone in my family, but will not name him.

[debra9275]

Hmmm maybe so, I do know a person like that with only daughters

[aps1080]

Military pilots have more daughters.
and they look for power being career orientated LOL
(possibly due to radiation exposure)