as per Syds comments
Government silent on why it axed alcohol harm body
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...l-harm-body-20140221-337h8.html#ixzz2u09UqcvY
Well, what did we expect ? Profits before people is the LNP's secret slogan.
as per Syds comments
Government silent on why it axed alcohol harm body
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...l-harm-body-20140221-337h8.html#ixzz2u09UqcvY
How much of a pay cut did the board and CEO take?
Well, what did we expect ? Profits before people is the LNP's secret slogan.
It's also the union bosses "not so secret slogan". Slush funds before workers.
Calliope, you are not supposed to talk about greedy union bosses...only greedy business bosses.
Ah well, I guess the Royal commission will sort the sheep from the goats in the unions.....Not too many sheep I am afraid.
If Labor is smart they'll start offering some true leadership on these issues with REAL world responses to them. I fear they'll take the Abbott FUD route instead, which will be to the detriment of us all.
If you could wipe out unions tomorrow Noco, do you think the Australian economy would then be able to have a world class competitive tradeables sector? I'm pretty confident in saying no it wouldn't.
In Question Time, the Minister responded to Opposition queries about the flow of information by saying that on Saturday it became "essential to correct the record".
He told Parliament the Immigration Department's inquiry into the matter will look at "all of the issues that relate to this incident", including those stemming from Labor's time in government.
"That will include how this centre was specified, and who set it up and how it was set up," Mr Morrison said.
"It'll go into the performance of the service contractors that those opposite contracted, it will go into the security arrangements that were put in place and left to the Opposition when we formed government.
"It'll go into all of those and it'll go into the conduct of myself and those on this side and our handling of these issues since we took over responsibility for these centres."
Mr Morrison also launched a counter-attack on Labor, criticising former immigration minister Tony Burke for his handling of last year's riot at the detention centre on Nauru.
"It took him a full week to front the Australian people to announce the review into the Nauru processing centre that burnt down on his watch - it was a melt down on your watch," he accused Mr Burke in Parliament.
Mr Burke, now Manager of Opposition Business, protested that it was not relevant to the question.
"There are no end of opportunities for political point-scoring - we are dealing with an issue where a man has died," he said.
"The manager of opposition business (Tony Burke) once boast he could build a 10,000 man camp on Manus Island," Mr Morrison told the chamber.
"I just shudder to think how something like that could have been run safely."
Manus didn't rate a mention.5:59pm: Before we ride off into the Monday sunset, what did we learn today?
•"I'll take that on notice" is not an all-encompassing get out of jail card. Particularly if Penny Wong is on the committee;
•Celebrations take many forms (see: the bonfires lit for George Brandis' elevation to Attorney-General);
•The rains/ pours thing really is true. Craig Thomson now needs to keep a concerned eye on the privileges committee;
•As Christopher Pyne tells us, MPs might "gild the lily". But this is very different from deliberately misleading parliament; and
•If at first you don't succeed ... Try and try again. Even if it's just a crockery set;
Thanks for tuning in. Andrew Meares, Alex Ellinghausen and I will see you tomorrow for MORE estimates.
FORMER Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has praised the Abbott government for maintaining funding for a program designed to educate children in the world's poorest countries.
Gillard, speaking in Washington DC on Monday at the Brookings Institution, said she was pleased the change of government in Australia did not lead to a cut in the financial support for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
Gillard will take up the role of chair of the GPE's board next month.
Tony Abbott has flagged a reduction in the rate of spending growth in health and education, but insists he will keep his election promise of no cuts in those areas.
In a speech to the Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum on Monday night, the Prime Minister backed his Treasurer, Joe Hockey, in preparing Australians for a tough budget and for inevitable curtailing of government programs.
''We will keep our pre-election commitments to maintain health spending and school spending but we must reduce the rate of spending growth in the longer term,'' Mr Abbott said.
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The Prime Minister's warning about health and education spending follows media appearances last week by Health Minister Peter Dutton, and Mr Hockey, in which they suggested that the current rate of government spending was unsustainable.
Delivering the first in a series of major speeches on the Coalition's health agenda, Mr Dutton said last Wednesday that one of the Abbott government's important tasks was ''to grow the opportunity for those Australians who can afford to do to contribute to their own health care costs''.
Another day, another unprecedented use of the resources and powers of government to pursue politics.
Before it has even met, the government has announced the parliament will apologise, something that has previously happened only in relation to matters such as the stolen generation, forced adoptions or British child adoptions. Pyne says these comparisons are unfair, but concedes this apology is setting a precedent.
On Monday we discovered the prime minister ordered cabinet documents from the previous Labor government be handed to the royal commission into the home insulation scheme, one of two highly political royal commissions set up by the government (the other is into union corruption). This is also unprecedented.
The cabinet handbook states “the convention is that cabinet documents are confidential to the government which created them and not the property of the sponsoring minister or department. Access to them by succeeding governments is not granted without the approval of the current parliamentary leader of the appropriate political party.”
Whether these unprecedented and blatantly political tactics are effective remains to be seen, but it is possible the best way for a government to “put behind it” three years of a hung parliament is to get on with governing.
Grubby politics and the public know it
Coalition's break with precedent takes political use of parliament to new level
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/coalition-precedent-political-use-parliament
Shorten unreservedly supported this motion.
Manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, said his party would not oppose the motion, but accused the government of attempting to wedge Labor on the issue.
“We are deeply, deeply offended by what happened’’ with Thomson, Mr Burke said.
“We’re not going to play some game ... I expect it will be dealt with pretty quickly.’’
Amid claims of political pointscoring, Leader of the House Christopher Pyne defended the move, saying Thomson had defamed individuals under parliamentary privilege with what appeared to be lies.
For the same reason Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott didn't contest their seats at the last election.If the motion was not warranted why did Shorten offer his unreserved support.
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