The Abbott Government Sneak Show

The Abbott government is making a lot of sneaky moves that are not highlighted by the media so many people stay in the dark until they are affected personally.  This thread is to record what we know of underhanded moves so that we can keep each other informed. Please add anything you hear about that involves funding reductions, or misplaced spending, or whatever, that is not widely known or publicised.

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A LNP government will never stop live export no matter how many people protest. They care about beef farmers making money more than they care about cruelty to animals.

You got it right there Robi, money rules to some

Anyone who worked at the Wyndham abattoirs in the mid sixties would know that the cattle were killed in exactly the same way.  They were hit between the eyes with a taped sledgehammer.

My husband has witnessed this himself and the highest paid worker in the abattoir was "the killer".

 

We have moved into an era where we can treat the animal with respect ...yes the animal will still die but it is not necessary to torture it. Sledgehammering cattle to death is extremely cruel. Export meat, not live animals.

Twilla

Yes I do believe if Gillard was in power this would not be tolerated... this is all about human greed.

Abby,so I have been told by those who worked there in Wyndham...that is the quickest way to kill them.  To me it also sound horrible. I wonder what the alternative is though.  I do not in any way condone torturing an animal which was what appeared to be happening in Indonesia.

Currently, after general patients spend $1453.90 in a year on PBS medicines, they get further scripts for the rest of that year for $6.10 each. Under the budget proposal, this threshold will be increased by 10 per cent each year for four years, in addition to indexation in line with the consumer price index, eventually adding several hundred dollars to the amount patients must spend before qualifying for relief.

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The threshold for concessional patients, currently $366, will increase by two scripts each year for four years, so that by 2019 they will be paying for eight more prescriptions a year before qualifying for free scripts.

The safety net changes are part of a bill currently before the Senate which the government estimates will save more than $1 billion over four years. The bill also includes proposals to increase the patient contribution for general patients by $5 a script and for concessional patients by 80¢ a script.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/federal-budget-2015-sideeffect-means-sickest-patients-are-to-pay-more-for-drugs-20150520-gh55qb

IMO only those on concession cards should get their prescriptions paid by others. 

Some of Australia's sickest people will pay more each year for their medicines due to the little-noticed change in last week's federal budget as mentioned above by geomac.

Thanks for that info Geo. I didn't know they were doing that. They have also stopped the tax deal whereby the sick can claim some recompense (so much in the dollar) for annual medical costs above $1,500pa. The current situation is that once you make no claim (because your expenses are below $1500) you can never claim again. Before last year anyone who had large expenses in any particular year could claim for costs above $1500. 

Greens leader Richard Di Natale? accused the government of being "intent on balancing the budget on the back of the sick and vulnerable".

"You don't improve health by shifting costs onto patients," he said

Or taxpayers 

Any news on the 1.5 billion the other  States gave Victoria to build a tunnell.,as I recall at the last budget in Victoria it was in surplus. There are poorer States like SA that could do with the money,,

Government Pushes To Increase Retirement Age To ‘Dead‘, as reported by SBS Backburner in April.

Booky you are being naughty , 

when you going to put up the interstate rail thingo in travel

The May budget had a $3.5 billion child care package. But the money, to be delivered over five years, has been linked back to last year's controversial family payments cuts. If passed by the Senate, the cuts would "disproportionately and adversely impact on low income families, particularly single-parent families".

"The cut to Family Tax Benefit Part B to single income families with children over six years would result in income losses of $49 per week for single parent families or more for those with older children," Dr Goldie said. "This cut will have dire consequences, particularly when taken together with the freezing of family payments indexation – a condition for the new investment in child care – given that a third of sole-parent families are already living in poverty."

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/budget-stripped-more-than-15b-from-families-lowincome-people-acoss-analysis-20150522-gh6z2z

More on Abbott

 

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abbott-and-his-abusive-government,7877

 

Da Aussie Borda Force Bill contans stuf for the proscution of “entrusted people” who tell “protected info” related to Aussie’s immigrashun detentshun system. Anyone found to have violated the new rules could be loked away fer up to two years.

Gumble,

Abbotts Border Force leaves me just a bit uncomfortable.

It smacks of some right wing, secret and  privately controlled force and not a public institution such as our armed forces and police services.

Too much subterfuge and secrecy from untrustworthy politicians who only have their own interest at heart. The general population is there to be controlled and manipulated.

This is not the Australia I know.

SD

Lets hope that this Border Force does its job ... for too long our Border protection has been a joke.

The secrecy is a bit of  a problem but we have not been exposed to the like of ISIS before.... what is the point in establishing protection if the information is passed onto ISIS.

Abby,

Border Force sounds like something taken from a comic or kids TV show.

We already have security and intelligence forces in place, good ones too.

Why would they pass information on to ISIS or anybody else who is a threat to Australian security.

Sadly the current government has politicised security issues and is foisting a lot of rubbish on ill informed voters.

Take it easy.

SD

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