Welfare Reform suggestions

[donnashuggy]

Who should they target first? Or last?

[boris1gary]

izabs, "considering what would be best for his three daughters", well that's OK then.  Hockey may have to amend his infamous "The age of entitlement is over" speech (again). The list of the wealthy and entitled is growing every day. Shame abbott can't see what's best for workers, the unemployed, the aged, ..............the list is long.

[ca04]

Our PM is not my idea of  a man who has grown and 'matured' 

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Why not he not only wears his hair longer and uses longer words

he is always in the S...t.

Oh sorry the word you used doesn't have an "n" in it.

[izabsmiling]

Boris , I do believe that our Government can see .They are hoping that we don't 'wake up and smell the coffee"

 http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tony-abbott-the-abc-and-rupert-murdoch...

LOL ca04

[izabsmiling]

Rupert Murdoch tells us what we think and want ....

Federal Election Rupert Murdoch Tweet

Aust election public sick of public sector workers and phony welfare scroungers sucking life out of economy.Others nations to follow in time

[izabsmiling]

Joe Hockey's Age of Entitlement

The 'end of the age of entitlement' doesn't apply to Murdoch's empire

20th Feb 2014

Treasurer Joe Hockey pushes an 'end of the age of entitlement' in the midst of massive job losses across the country, just as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp gets a tax rebate worth $882m

Let’s be very clear: when treasurer Joe Hockey announced “the end of the age of entitlement” amidst the threatened closure of the SPC cannery in Shepparton, the withdrawal of Toyota from Australian manufacturing and the planned shutdown of Holden in South Australia, he was not talking about the expectations of corporate Australia. He was declaring an end only to a working-class expectation of basic job security.

Meanwhile, corporate entitlement is flourishing under the Coalition – and there are few better examples of it than Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

This week saw the jaw-dropping revelation, reported in the Australian Financial Review, that the single largest factor in the deterioration of the federal budget announced in December was “a cash payout of almost $900m to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation” by the Australian Tax Office. News Corp’s windfall was the result of years of creative paper transactions which allowed them to bill the Australian taxpayer for a “loss” recorded against a high Australian dollar. This is the same News Corporation that cited the former federal Labor government’s “spending profligacy” as the reason to “kick this mob out” with stupendous lack of self-awareness during the election campaign.

 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/the-end-of-the-age-of-entitlement-doesnt-apply-...

[boris1gary]

I suppose there is nothing wrong with looking after your own.

[izabsmiling]

i think that there is that much wrong that I don't know where to start

It's sickening imo.All the cruel targeting the needy (welfare recipients,Asylum seekers)  and blaming the former Government.We paid all that for the garbage 'opinion' rather than news as it should be (which put carp on our former Government) ...and it seems even afterward the facts aren't given . we are owed..the truth about the spending of OUR money and the actions of our Government !!!! 

Which welfare recipients will we target first to cover the costs ? It's incredible .

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  News Corp’s $882m blew the budget

PUBLISHED: 17 FEB 2014 

CASH PAYOUT

Discounting new spending announced by the new government, Mr Hockey reported the underlying deficit had jumped $6 billion in the four months. The Australian’s editorial called the update “a devastating picture of Labor’s spending profligacy” and called for urgent action to rein in “wasteful spending”.

But the largest single factor producing the blowout appears to have been the cash payout to News Corp.

Mr Hockey and News Corp declined to comment.

The galling feature for the Tax Office is that the original deals that cost taxpayers $882 million cost News nothing.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/news_corp_blew_the_budget_DFlluROVi0F6CV1fQ5UJvJ

‘News to me,’ Abbott says of $882m cash for Murdoch’s News Corp

PUBLISHED: 18 FEB 2014 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has denied any knowledge of almost $900 million that the Tax Office paid to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation between September and January.

Mr Abbott was speaking on Monday after The Australian Financial Review revealed the cash payments, totalling $882 million, following the decision by the Tax Office not to appeal a Federal Court of Appeal judgment in News Corp’s favour on July 25 last year.

The decision not to appeal crystalised the loss for the government, and appears to have been the largest single factor in the deterioration of the federal budget position, which Treasurer Joe Hockey released in December.

“The facts are unknown to me,” Mr Abbott told journalists on Monday.

“This is something which is news to me and I’ll have to take that one on notice.”

Mr Hockey declined to comment on questions put to him by the Financial Review on February 11.

http://www.afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/news_corp_me_abbott_says_of_cash_ojp4XjT5ZEYQoUrQvN36p...

news to you ? yeah right !!!!

[izabsmiling]

would giving out free copies of newspapers help spread the 'news' AND  also help run at a loss ?

[boris1gary]

[izabsmiling]

From the first link ...

look at the timing ..

The Tax Office was deciding whether to appeal against the judgment as News Corp newspapers launched a ferocious attack on the government, kicking off with the Daily Telegraph’s headline on August 5, 11 days after the court judgment: “Kick this mob out.” In the following days, Labor leader Kevin Rudd would claim that News Corp was running a virulent anti-government campaign in exchange for concessions from the Coalition.

The Tax Office had 28 days to lodge an appeal, a deadline of August 22.