The Abbott Government

[IFocus]

Using the gold standard established by the conservative supporters here Abbott has no option but to resign now and call an election..............deafening silence

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LP (52.5%) start 2014 with a clear lead over the L-NP (47.5%) in first major public opinion poll of 2014

http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/5371-federal-voting-intention-january-13-2014-201401130606

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Coalition education policy

What an absolute joke

Where Pyne and the neocons went wrong

Since federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne's launch last week of a two-man curriculum review panel, of conservative educationist Kevin Donnelly and conservatively inclined business academic Kenneth Wiltshire, levels of incredulity, derision and cynicism among educators and political commentators (outside News Corp media) have gone off the Richter scale.

Pyne might as well have announced he was rearranging the communal henhouse by shoving two foxes through its front door. The curriculum history wars, part of the bigger culture wars that have been blighting the Australian cultural and political landscape for more than a decade, were on again.

This focus on religiosity by a government in rampant social-engineering mode presents a disturbing trend.

The history wars are an invention of the political right which sees hidden ''cultural-leftist'' influence at every turn in the government school curriculum, a chimera supported in particular by News Corp's broadsheet The Australian

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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/where-pyne-and-the-neocons-went-wrong-20140115-30v1u.html#ixzz2qYWgNvGY

 

[sptrawler]

Using the gold standard established by the conservative supporters here Abbott has no option but to resign now and call an election..............deafening silence

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http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/5371-federal-voting-intention-january-13-2014-201401130606

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Coalition education policy

What an absolute joke

Where Pyne and the neocons went wrong

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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/where...-went-wrong-20140115-30v1u.html#ixzz2qYWgNvGY

A bit of journalistic license there Ifocus, most of us qualified our statements regards opinion polls.

Coalition education policy, is probably no different than Labors, to try and improve a rapidly falling standard.
Just because you don't like their policy, is probably as important as me not liking Labors, meaning it isn't important at all.
Labor had their go, now the Coalition gets their go. Labor wanted to throw more money at teachers, Coalition wants to demand we return to teaching the basics.

With regard what the public think, let's see how the Senate vote goes.

 

[Tink]

Well said and agree, sptrawler

 

[IFocus]

Coalition education policy, is probably no different than Labors, to try and improve a rapidly falling standard.

At the moment it looks more like an ideology war fought by Liberal insiders.

 

[sptrawler]

At the moment it looks more like an ideology war fought by Liberal insiders.

Pyne doesn't sound like he is on an ideological war, to me, it sounds like he is as concerned as the rest of us.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/polit...m-review-christopher-pyne-20140119-312p8.html

Hope you find something to get your teeth into IFocus. You seem to be scratching around at the moment.

 

[drsmith]

Hope you find something to get your teeth into IFocus. You seem to be scratching around at the moment.

Only in his own poo at the bottom of the cage.

 

[sydboy007]

Only in his own poo at the bottom of the cage.

How about keeping things civil. There's no justification for saying stuff like that!

 

[drsmith]

How about keeping things civil. There's no justification for saying stuff like that!

Look at his avatar and in particular, the little statement above the pic.

Don't take political discussion so seriously all the time.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Look at his avatar and in particular, the little statement above the pic.

Don't take political discussion so seriously all the time.

There is indeed a loss of civility and humour in intercourse these days.

gg

 

[sptrawler]

There is indeed a loss of civility and humour in intercourse these days.

gg

+1
I was just talking about that, with the missus, this morning.

 

[sptrawler]

It looks as though Abbott will go ahead with a royal commission into unions.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ion-into-union-corruption-20140128-31jmy.html

That should give the newspapers some fodder to work with, also a mini series will follow.

 

[drsmith]

That should give the newspapers some fodder to work with, also a mini series will follow.

First there was Underbelly.

Now there's Under-Labor.

I can imagine more than one. Perhaps Rob Oakeshott has a post-political career starring as himself.

 

[sydboy007]

First there was Underbelly.

Now there's Under-Labor.

I can imagine more than one. Perhaps Rob Oakeshott has a post-political career starring as himself.

Not to forget the Howard cronies job boom since the Abbott Govt was elected.

It's been raining contracts and $$ for so many of them since September.

 

[drsmith]

Not to forget the Howard cronies job boom since the Abbott Govt was elected.

It's been raining contracts and $$ for so many of them since September.

Jobs for the boys is a characteristic of both sides in government.

Characters though associated with Labor and the union movement seem somewhat more unsavoury.

 

[bunyip]

ACTU rejects Government's call for royal commission into construction industry corruption

I wonder why? LOL I’ll bet there are some worried people in the unions and the ALP! It’ll be interesting to hear what Shorten has to say about all this – him being a former boss of the ACTU. Poor old Billy will find himself between a rock and a hard place on this one I think.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-...s-call-for-royal-commission-into-cons/5224018

 

[Calliope]

ACTU rejects Government's call for royal commission into construction industry corruption

I wonder why? LOL I’ll bet there are some worried people in the unions and the ALP! It’ll be interesting to hear what Shorten has to say about all this – him being a former boss of the ACTU. Poor old Billy will find himself between a rock and a hard place on this one I think.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-...s-call-for-royal-commission-into-cons/5224018

Bill's legacy.

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[sydboy007]

Bill's legacy.

Yet when Westfield does the same thing to small shop owners it OK, or Coles and Woolworths cliffing suppliers.

Or when the CEO of Gunns is allowed to keep pretty much all the money he made selling out of his shares just before the company went bust.

I'd prefer if ALL FORMS of abuse of power were targeted.

 

[IFocus]

Jobs for the boys is a characteristic of both sides in government.

Characters though associated with Labor and the union movement seem somewhat more unsavoury.

Actually Abbott has been ruthless in appointing cronies, Rudd actually appoint a number of high profile Libs that didn't really rate as the best.

 

[sptrawler]

Actually Abbott has been ruthless in appointing cronies, Rudd actually appoint a number of high profile Libs that didn't really rate as the best.

That's probably because, he didn't appear to have mates in his own party.
Comes with the territory when you're a massive narcissist, massive egotist, massive wan#er IMO

 

[Logique]

Have wiser heads prevailed?

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...om-6-gp-fee-20140129-31lzt.html#ixzz2rouusLab

Julie Bishop backs away from $6 GP fee

January 29, 2014

The Abbott government is distancing itself from a controversial proposal to charge bulk-billing patients a $6 fee every time they visit their doctor.

In the strongest comments made so far by a senior minister about the GP fee proposal, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the government had "no plan for co-payments".

There has been no GP fee proposal to cabinet says Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop...

...Ms Bishop described the GP co-payment plan, which was proposed to the Commission of Audit by Tony Abbott's former health adviser Terry Barnes, as "scaremongering on Labor's part".

"I'm in the cabinet," Ms Bishop said. "This has never been proposed. This is not before the cabinet.
"It was a submission made to the Commission of Audit by an entity … We have no plan for co-payments".......

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...om-6-gp-fee-20140129-31lzt.html#ixzz2roukLxhf