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.

[debra9275]

Lol myoclon,

I think that was supposed to be a "shirt front"

[cherry*135]

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@debra9275 wrote:
No wonder her book is doing so well Am . I saw the amount of copies sold somewhere the other day, can't remember the figure, but it was impressive 🙂

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Yes, it was impressive.

2 January 2015

Book Sales

Former prime minister Julia Gillard's memoir My Story (62,300) was the clear frontrunner among Australian political books,

followed by The Book of Paul, a collection of Keating's scathing wit (13,200),

John Howard's The Menzies Era (12,700)

and Bob Carr's Diary of a Foreign Minister (10,800),

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/childrens-books-the-bestsellers-of-2014-20150102-12gxlg.ht...

 Tony Abbott's Battlelines shifted 20,000 copies

[myoclon1cjerk]

Typo.That should read 'Battlelies'.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Barking mad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8sKhoPFd8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[cherry*135]

LOL so Julia Gillard was not the first Australian PM to fall over on camera, Johnnie H has been there done that.. and he wasn't even wearing heels on soft ground.

[fourandsixpants]

Free Advice for Josh Frydenberg

appears he has been appointed  Parliamentary Secretary to BOTH Abbott and Hockey

 Don’t rely on your mates in the Murdoch press to guarantee you a smooth ride. It’s dangerous on two fronts.

First, they hate failure and turn against you if there’s a sniff of it.

Second, they are becoming increasingly irrelevant as newspaper sales fall and people look elsewhere for news and opinion.

As you say, ‘advertising via Facebook and Google is often more likely to connect with the swinging voter’.

But you need to have something to say that they want to hear – and maybe these people who use these platforms think that a fiber to the premises NBN wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Interesting that Frydenberg should quote Aldus Huxley. He’s the one that said in 1934 that ‘Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid.’

Universal education is clearly what current Liberal policy on university fees is seeking to avoid.

Must be worried about the new stupid.

http://theaimn.com/free-advice-josh-frydenberg/

[icyfroth]

Nothing new about that.

Free uni education has created a lot of educated idiots

[polksaladallie]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Nothing new about that.

Free uni education has created a lot of educated idiots

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Some on the front bench to the right of the chair.

[gleee58]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Nothing new about that.

Free uni education has created a lot of educated idiots

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Yeah, look at them all sitting on the current govt benches without a single policy for the benefit of the Australian people.  Got their own free education and are now hell bent on blocking the opportunities for others.

[debra9275]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/outsourcing-approvals-would-put-patients-at...

Consumers Health Forum chief executive Adam Stankevicius said he was concerned the government seemed "intent on meeting the demands of the drug and medical-device industries while giving scant regard to questions of consumer safety and the public interest."