I think you will find parental leave differs, very much from job to job.Lots of private employers go above and beyond what the current PPL scheme provides for. The PPL scheme is a baseline.
Yes they did and that same scheme should apply to female politicians and public servants and not the extravaganza they now enjoy and paid for by the tax payer.
The Labor Party say they believe in fairness......where is the fairness hear?
I once had a neighbor, a man about 40, who was on a disability pension for a neck problem....He would religiously walk down the street, "stiff necked", with his neck brace securely fitted, but come after school he had no problem playing foot ball with his kids in the back yard.
I'll suggest again that Mr Abbott needs to be less passive about accepting all this flak and take a leaf out of Scott Morrison's book - that bloke knows how to stand up for himself and his beliefs.
It's time Mr Abbott stopped trying to be all things to all people because he simply cannot be.
Did you just sit at home whining about this, or did you report him?
Yes, that's a very fair criticism, syd.It's the inconsistencies of Abbott that I think people are finally waking up to.
But the current Govt wants to make PPL even more unfair. Personally I can think of plenty of other areas $2B could make a difference in, let alone the grand $5.5B a year that Abbott wants to throw around.
As I satated before - it’s easily possible to reinstate the Early Years Quality Fund and there’s even enough left to pay $1.2 billion for a planned pay increase for aged care workers (also scrapped by the Abbott government), plus $1.8 billion to save 3000 jobs under the endangered Medicare Locals scheme.
So while you like to bag the politicians generous PPL, it's the current Govt wanting to push through an extra $3.5B in costs on the economy.
Did you just sit at home whining about this, or did you report him?
What are his beliefs? He's in a Liberal party yet comes across as very illiberal.
He's said climate change is crap, but then says his direct action policy will achieve the goals necessary for Australia.
The carbon tax was a massive drain on the economy, yet his PPL levy (not a tax as that would break his promise) is not.
We're told students need to pay a higher proportion of their university courses, yet this doesn't require fees to be deregulated and likely doubled, while the Govt provides new funding for people to become church ministers.
We're told money is tight, but there's $250M for school chaplains.
It's the inconsistencies of Abbott that I think people are finally waking up to.
And of course there were no inconsistencies with Rudd/Gillard/Rudd???????????...you have such a short memory.
The carbon tax was certainly a drain on the economy alright...you know the carbon tax that would never be introduced under the government I lead ahla Julia Gillrad.......almost sent lots of companies down the gurgler....Not sure how many companies stop investing here or who took there money overseas or how many jobs were lost as a result.
It's the inconsistencies of Abbott that I think people are finally waking up to.
Blah blahring of the labour past is not cutting it anymore noco.
Need to deal with the glaring and unfair proposals of those now in power as put up by sydboy.
The topic of this thread is " THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT."
Don't you believe it.....Labor's past will be cutting it for years to come....I am very well aware of what this thread is all about but you cannot divorce the fact that Labor left a hell of a mess for the Abbott Government to clean up, so Labor is still very much associated with what this Government is trying to do with no help from the Labor Party except obstruct methods of savings.
And you are so naive that do not understand or don't want to understand why cuts have to be made...I just cannot believe how you expect this current government to pay back the debt and deficit left by Labor in not 12 months or even 3 years but very much longer.....you Green/Labor left wing socialists are unbelievable..
Don't you believe it.....Labor's past will be cutting it for years to come....I am very well aware of what this thread is all about but you cannot divorce the fact that Labor left a hell of a mess for the Abbott Government to clean up, so Labor is still very much associated with what this Government is trying to do with no help from the Labor Party except obstruct methods of savings.
And you are so naive that do not understand or don't want to understand why cuts have to be made...I just cannot believe how you expect this current government to pay back the debt and deficit left by Labor in not 12 months or even 3 years but very much longer.....you Green/Labor left wing socialists are unbelievable..
And you are so naive that do not understand or don't want to understand why cuts have to be made...
Abbott does not even bang on about "everything is the Labor Party's fault" as much as you do Noco.
It is sour grapes and people don't want to hear it.
So lets start "moving forward".
That's the same line the Tas state government is using.
But you can save money without needing to be outright nasty in doing so. I mean seriously, new spending on things we don't need and can't afford meanwhile cutting all sorts of other things? And in the case of the state government, not even being willing to have a proper meeting with unions? Not even a meeting?
The Liberals are showing their true colours unfortunately. Hit the weak and play games in the name of saving money, and yet somehow managing to find plenty of money for their own pet projects. Most can see straight through that game.
The only ones who don't want to hear about it is the Green/Labor left wing socialist.....they just can't stand being reminded about the mess they left....It sticks in their gizzard every time it is mentioned.
We were supposed to move forrrrrrrrrrrwwaaarrrrrrrdd under Gillard but we went backwards.
Naive huh, I worked in a public service post for five years within a research team on future planning and development which included the demographics of both population and infrastructure needs.
What you need to do is specifically list the actual actions being taken or proposed by the Abbott Government that will improve the lot for the community going forward.
All I can see is cuts to spending on education, medicine and welfare at the lower levels with no gains other than letting the much higher paid off tax increases.
And you have also failed to respond to the facts presented on debt which I put up a couple of times, the last about a week ago, Aust per head debt $15,000, the US $70,000, Our debt is nothing and a first principal of expanding for the future is to borrow so that those in the future who are to benefit help to pay for it.
This harping of debt is no more than political blah blah to try and blurr the issues.
So its time for you to be constructive noco.
Why should the Liberal Government meet with such corrupt unions?.......The unions are not governing the country or are they?....
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