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.

[nero_bolt]

MORE Labore LIES  and their supporters blindly believing everything that they say without ever checking any facts.  

Research is such an easy thing now days with GOOGLE 

LABOR LIES

LABOR LIES and MORE LABOR LIES

 What their posters and supporters fails to tell you is it's simply a scare campaign on vulnerable! (But whats new for Labor) 

A. Meals on wheels is a voluntary organisation. The Australian ...Meals on Wheels Association Inc. is not funded by Government and exists only on the fees collected from members and subscribers and the goodwill of sponsors.

B. The Stay at Home, Living Longer, Living Better – Reforms, including means testing, was brought to you by the Gillard Government, while they were romancing the Greens!

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-aged-care-reform-measur...

[fiestas*girl]

one does protesteth too much me thinks

[boris1gary]

Mud flung at Bill Shorten by rabid right shows he's a threat to Coalition

It had to come, the character assassination of Bill Shorten. The Opposition Leader has been doing too well in the polls for Australia's right-wing hunting pack to leave him untouched.

Listen to any radio shock jock or ranting TV host and the drum beat has started. The hunting pack's star witness is a former Victorian Australian Workers Union official, Bob Kernohan. Earlier this month, he told the trade union royal commission that in the mid-1990s Shorten (then aged 28) urged him to ignore the rorting of union funds. This is precisely what the feral right wants to hear. It's a chance to smear Shorten and practise the politics of personal destruction.

As ever, the Prime Minister's lickspittle, Andrew Bolt, is leading the chase, asking, with mounting frustration: "How come the mud isn't sticking to Bill Shorten?" Bolt's News Corp colleague Jason Morrison has gone a step further, calling on the Labor leader to stand aside. In the way of these things, we can expect to hear a lot more about Kernohan's allegation in the lead up to the next election. Already, 2GB has it on a continuous replay loop. But how credible is Kernohan and his testimony to the royal commission?

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/mud-flung-at-bill-shorten-by-rabid-right-shows-hes-a-threat-to-coaliti...

[cherry*135]

Cutting funding for home support for the elderly  is very  shortsighted as are alot of  the other proposed cuts. If elderly people receive Govt support to stay in their own home, it costs the GOVT far less to do that, than if they have to move to a retirement home.

I see there are proposed cuts for the ABS as well . They will no longer be able fund some surveys, which certain industries rely on to follow business trends and which they rely on to make future business decisions.

[cherry*135]

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten remains the preferred prime minister by 47 per cent of voters, with Mr Abbott languishing on 40 per cent. The Labor leader also enjoys a positive net approval rating of plus-1 per cent compared to Mr Abbott on minus-25 per cent.

Equally worrying for Mr Abbott is the finding that Malcolm Turnbull, the man he replaced as Liberal leader in 2009 by just one party-room vote, is preferred by Australians at the rate of two-to-one in a straight shootout between the two men.

June 23

SMH

[cherry*135]

Cuts to aged care to rake in $2.5bn

The Australian 

May 14 ,2014

The $1.7bn cut to the Commonwealth Home Support Program will reduce its annual growth to 3.5 per cent rather than 6 per cent, but this spending curb will not apply until 2018.

The services provided under the scheme include Meals on Wheels, respite care, cleaning, maintenance and other in-home services for elderly Australians living in their homes.

The government said the $1.7bn in savings from this measure, along with the $652m from scrapping the payroll tax concessions, would be directed to repairing the budget.

The now-scrapped payroll tax concession previously covered the payroll tax bills for most aged-care providers by giving them a payment roughly equivalent to their liabilities, which are payable to the states.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/budget-2014/cuts-to-aged-care-to-rake-innbsp25bn/st...

Nerowulf wrote:

 A. Meals on wheels is a voluntary organisation. The Australian ...Meals on Wheels Association Inc. is not funded by Government and exists only on the fees collected from members and subscribers and the goodwill of sponsors.

Checked the FACTS did you before posting that??

Meals on Wheels NSW

The NSW MOW Association is the peak body for Meals on Wheels services across the state.

....The Association relies on fundraising through raffles, bequests and donations to supplement our government funding and allow us to provide our members with all the support they need.

Who runs Meals on Wheels?
Most Meals on Wheels and Food Service organisations in NSW are run by local management committees, made up of volunteers from the community. The committees receive and control funding to employ one or more people to manage and coordinate the daily operations of the service.
 

In this way, every Meals on Wheels organisation remains responsive to specific local needs. In some areas, the Area Health Service, the local Council or the Home Care Service of NSW administers Meals on Wheels and Food Service organisations.
 

The Association and Services are supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Commonwealth HACC Program. 

[cherry*135]

nerowulf wrote:

B. The Stay at Home, Living Longer, Living Better – Reforms, including means testing, was brought to you by the Gillard Government, while they were romancing the Greens!

What is your point there?

Isn't means testing an aged care service sensible? Only those who can't afford to pay for their own home care can access Govt scheme? Same as Govt  payments such as FTB  are means tested?

So, it is a means tested service, does that make it right the current Govt plans to cut  $bn's funding to the service?

[bella_again]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-23/has-hospital-funding-been-cut-by-50-billion-fact-check/5486988

FAct check on the hospital funding and schools funding with graphs! lol

[bella_again]

One only has to do some research on the Carer's Australia site to recognise just how much the cuts to the commonwealth respite and in home support is going to impact not only on the elderly but also the disabled.

Tragically many at risk and vulnerable people could be left in situations that place them at risk because no one will be able to care for them and they won't have the support.  This is a very real concern.  Especially among those who have disabled adult kids, young kids or the elderly requiring full time care that may not give them enough points to qualify for carer payment.

The government has no foresight and has not thought through the consequences of their funding cuts.  They are not educated in areas of social welfare and have no concept of the impact on cuts to our most vulnerable.  Sadly in the long run they won't save a cent, the cuts will result in  more homelessness, more social issues than they ever imagined which will cost far more to repair in the long run.

[monman12]

"One only has to do some research on the Carer's Australia site to recognise just how much the cuts to the commonwealth respite and in home support is going to impact not only on the elderly but also the disabled."
'Carer's Australia': A site with obvious "vested" interests, apart from which the  "impacts" are only a forecast, not fact.

"FAct check on the hospital funding and schools funding with graphs! lol"
I see reading links is still not in favour.

Excerpts from link:

"Fact Check asked former finance minister Penny Wong whether Labor had a 10-year hospital funding plan. A spokeswoman for Senator Wong responded that the Labor government laid out 10-year funding plans for the NDIS and for the National Plan for School Improvement.
From Fact Check's assessment, the former Labor government did not lay out a 10-year plan for hospital funding in any of its budgets."


"Ms King (Opposition spokeswoman for health) says this budget "cuts a whopping $50 billion from Australia's public hospitals", but doesn't make it clear that the forecast changes to funding are over 10 years."

"In fact, the Government is only cutting $2 billion from hospitals over the forward estimates. Whether there will be a $50 billion difference to hospital funding over the next decade is impossible to verify."

"It's conjecture. "

Its a chuckle.

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