March in March!

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10 yrs ago

Dissatisfied with the Abbot government? Want hands off pensions and Medicare? March in March all around Australia on the weekend of 16th March to defend your rights. Google March in March to find out time, date and place of local marches.

March in March is not affiliated with any party, just ordinary fed-up Aussies.

I will march because I‘m sick of the richest woman in Australia pulling the puppet strings of this government and telling the rest of us we are not entitled to be entitled. Gina, leave my pension and Medicare alone. Nobody elected you and Australians aren‘t happy to your less than $2 an hour slave!!!

As for slippery Tony, shame on you for attacking the poor, the disabled, the unemployed, and the aged. We don‘t want live in a dog eat dog country like the USA. Let‘s fight for a fair go for all Aussies!

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geomac

9 yrs ago

Lets have a sitcom about Abbotts consternation with his daughter shacking up with her boyfriend . Plenty of laughs as his virgin comment , special gift in marriage comes to bite him on the bum . Daughter just ignores the farce and treats it as what it is , grow up dad !

This is not the fifties and you are not Santamaria . Phone Tony some old codger called Pell on the line , long distance fro0m Rome . Laughs aplenty or a bomb .

geomac

9 yrs ago

The Coalition's primary vote has slumped from 40 per cent in early April to 35 per cent - 11 points lower than its vote in the election last September.

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And a significant number of voters have switched to the ALP, bringing its primary support up from 34 per cent in April to 40 per cent - a figure not seen against the Labor Party's name in a national poll for years.

On the Prime Minister's performance, Nielsen says 34 per cent approve of Tony Abbott's efforts - a 10-point slump - while approval of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's performance is up to 47 per cent.

Mr Abbott's disapproval rating climbed to 62 per cent - 12 points higher than at last month's poll.

On the budget, 63 per cent of people said it was not fair, and 53 per cent thought it was bad for Australia, against 42 per cent who believed it was good for the country.

The Newspoll published in The Australian has similarly dire numbers for the Government, showing Labor in front 55 to 45 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.

And for the first time, voters prefer Mr Shorten as prime minister over Mr Abbott, giving him a 10-point lead in the better prime minister stakes at 44 to 34 per cent - a six-point drop for the PM since last month.

The Nielsen poll has a margin of error of 2.6 per cent and Newspoll's margin of error is 3 per cent.

seth

9 yrs ago

No worries for abbotts daughter with fees, was given a $60.000 design degree, a chairmans' scholarship, at a prestigious school where an abbott donor is chairman. Where they do not give scholarships!!

geomac

9 yrs ago

“Les Taylor, chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design, which provided the Prime Minister’s daughter with a fee-free education, has donated more than $12,000 to the NSW Division of the Liberal Party,” Senator Rhiannon said.

“These donations were flowing into the Liberal Party at the same time it was developing policy to publicly fund private higher education providers such as the Whitehouse Institute of Design.

“Mr Abbott should now reveal if he was lobbied by the chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design, Mr Les Taylor, to open up federal government funding to private higher education providers.’’

Senator Rhiannon said the Greens would use Senate estimates hearings next month to ask questions about the accreditation of a number of courses offered by the Whitehouse Institute of Design by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.

Mr Taylor said he could not recall ever discussing ‘‘anything of substance on higher education policy’’ with Mr Abbott.

bookwyrm

9 yrs ago

Corruption! An undeclared gift is illegal but Abbott gets away with it because it‘s called a scholarship!

Twyla

9 yrs ago

bookwyrm,

I haven't been following this saga, but a scholarship is not a gift.

A scholarship is based on merit and is highly competitive.

Did anyone else apply for this scholarship, or was it a field of one. Then it looks very fishy?

geomac

9 yrs ago

Institute chief executive Ian Tudor said the chairman’s scholarship was awarded ‘‘occasionally’’ and that Ms Abbott was its second recipient.

‘‘I understand that the selection of Frances was done at arm's length from the chairman by the owner, founder and Managing Director of the Institute, Leanne Whitehouse,’’ Mr Tudor said by email from Indonesia.

The Prime Minister's spokeswoman said Mr Abbott had known Mr Taylor for many years and received clothing from him as a gift when in opposition.

bookwyrm

9 yrs ago

Twila, a field of one. Offered to her at her first interview. Other students are mad as they were always told there are no scholarships. The chairman, a friend of Abbots, suggested Frances Abbott have this scholarship. It was not advertised or open to any other student. This chairman gives big donations to the Liberal party. After graduation the Whitehouse school now employs Frances Abbott.

Twyla

9 yrs ago

In that case, it is open to the accusation of corruption.

i have grave doubts also about the gifting of clothes to Abbot. I always understood that acceptance of gifts like this was graft.

geomac

9 yrs ago

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he wasn't lobbied to allow private colleges access to government subsidies by the head of the college where his daughter gained a scholarship.
Mr Abbott was again questioned on Friday about the $60,000 scholarship from the Whitehouse Institute of Design awarded to his daughter Frances.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-says-he-was-not-lobbied-on-government-grants-by-head-of-institute-that-gave-daughter-a-scholarship-20140523-38t42.html#ixzz32VHuYrWB

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geomac

9 yrs ago

Some Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff are annoyed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's daughter Louise is working at Australia's embassy in Geneva, which is headed by former Coalition staffer Peter Woolcott.

But a spokesman for DFAT said the job helping represent Australia to the United Nations was awarded on the basis of merit.

Jealousy over plum jobs in overseas locations was a staple of workplace life at DFAT, but departmental insiders said there were concerns over Ms Abbott being hired in Geneva, given the political connections of the mission's boss

bookwyrm

9 yrs ago

I am extremely shocked and disturbed, geomac. A relative and all her colleagues at adfat office have been told recently they will be let go next June when the office will close. Amongst the 1600 public servants who will lose their jobs will Tony Abbott‘s daughter be one of them? As the Greens suggested, we need a federal ICAC.

Daisy

9 yrs ago

Interesting to read back over this old thread (especially the first 2 pages) which covers the March in March and the March in May.

Suze

9 yrs ago

Thanks Rob

Definitely makes very interesting reading

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