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]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Has Joe got those auditors embedded in multinational corporations to report on tax evasion yet? If not,what's the hold-up?

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I don't think he seriously intended to do anything about the large corporate tax evasion

interesting story from OXfam this morning about how the wealthy 1% own almost half the populations wealth ( and tipped to keep growing)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30875633?ocid=socialflow_twitter

[fourandsixpants]

Tony Abbott is Australia's Shame imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijCj12jwDI

Most people, with practise - at anything get better!!

Abbott is too much of a coward to call a Double Dissolution

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/exploitation-of-foreign-students-putting-australias-repu...

The latest group of students claim are still only getting paid $8 per hour, below the minimum wage of $16.87 an hour.

Often young and unable to speak English well, the students have told Fairfax the practice of underpayment is widespread and most do not know their rights. They claim they are being paid so little that they are forced to break their visa requirements that limits them to 20 hours work per week, putting their visa and studies at risk.

Such exploitation of fee-paying visitors to Australia is an international embarrassment and an economic threat. 

International education is Australia's third biggest export earner, second only to the sale of natural resources of iron ore, coal and natural gas. It is worth $16 billion per year to the country

[fourandsixpants]

Youth unemployment is headed for ground zero, incomes are going to fall.

[debra9275]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/immigration-bosses-to-be-purged-within-weeks...

Up to 25 senior managers at the Immigration Department will learn the news of their sackings within weeks, DIBP has confirmed.

The long-feared purge of Immigration's Senior Executive service by their new boss Mike Pezzullo is expected in early February with up to 20 per cent of the department's SES expected to be shown the door.

The sackings will come as the department prepares for the emergence of "Australian Border Force", which will see Immigration merged with Mr Pezzullo's old agency, Customs, to create the new entity.

[idlewhile]

In recent months Immigration's 8500 public servants have been told they will be breathalysed and drug tested and must make detailed personal disclosures to satisfy a new Organizational Suitability Assessments or face the sack.

There will also be a crackdown on second jobs, social media use and sloppy appearances among the department's public servants, as the Customs agency hierarchy tightens its grip on Immigration.

OMG, is this really true, drunks, drug addicts, social media rants, second jobs, filthy appearances??, immigrant friendly staff regardless of the truth?

I suppose this is the reason the murdering  Man Monis, and Captain Ahab and his family found it so easy to hoodwink the dept.

[boris1gary]

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@idlewhile wrote:

In recent months Immigration's 8500 public servants have been told they will be breathalysed and drug tested and must make detailed personal disclosures to satisfy a new Organizational Suitability Assessments or face the sack.

There will also be a crackdown on second jobs, social media use and sloppy appearances among the department's public servants, as the Customs agency hierarchy tightens its grip on Immigration.

OMG, is this really true, drunks, drug addicts, social media rants, second jobs, filthy appearances??, immigrant friendly staff regardless of the truth?

I suppose this is the reason the murdering  Man Monis, and Captain Ahab and his family found it so easy to hoodwink the dept.

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you mean john howard who refused Irans request that Monis be sent back to Iran to face criminal charges. Captain Ahab is a disgusting racist term and I will be reporting it to the mods.

[idlewhile]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@idlewhile wrote:

In recent months Immigration's 8500 public servants have been told they will be breathalysed and drug tested and must make detailed personal disclosures to satisfy a new Organizational Suitability Assessments or face the sack.

There will also be a crackdown on second jobs, social media use and sloppy appearances among the department's public servants, as the Customs agency hierarchy tightens its grip on Immigration.

OMG, is this really true, drunks, drug addicts, social media rants, second jobs, filthy appearances??, immigrant friendly staff regardless of the truth?

I suppose this is the reason the murdering  Man Monis, and Captain Ahab and his family found it so easy to hoodwink the dept.

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you mean john howard who refused Irans request that Monis be sent back to Iran to face criminal charges. Captain Ahab is a disgusting racist term and I will be reporting it to the mods.

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Captain Ahab is the name of the person who ferried thousands of illegal immigrants to Australia. It's what he called himself, what he demanded his charges call him and the name he used.

So how that can be a filthy racist term? , playing the racist card is the stock in trade of the left to shut down any debate.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Gregory Peck lived here?

[fourandsixpants]

to deb who said:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-se​rvice/immigration-bosses-to-be-purged-within-week...

Up to 25 senior managers at the Immigration Department will learn the news of their sackings within weeks, DIBP has confirmed.

The long-feared purge of Immigration's Senior Executive service by their new boss Mike Pezzullo is expected in early February with up to 20 per cent of the department's SES expected to be shown the door.

The sackings will come as the department prepares for the emergence of "Australian Border Force", which will see Immigration merged with Mr Pezzullo's old agency, Customs, to create the new entity.

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That's alright !!

They can join this chap, who at 63 years old is enrolled to do an apprenticeship.

WA's oldest apprentice, Julyan Sumner, trading in shears for plumbing tools

.....knew he would have to find something to keep him going until he could no longer work.

"Look, it's out of necessity that I've done this because my super is not going to keep me,"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-18/was-oldest-apprentice-julyan-sumner-aged-64/6023670

.....especially if, like our illustrious Treasurer Joe Hockey informed us recently how we are going to live much longer.........

          (probably because of all the exercise/walking-can't afford a car or to drive anywhere)

& this guy lives to be 150 years old!!!