The ScoMo Government
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BHP wants everything to keep going, they are not the ones who have a problem, the indigenous are worried about the virus getting into their population. Which is understandable.
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Really worth reading this overview of how our political parties are coping with this crisis.
Our politicians scramble for hope as Australia, one of the most gregarious nations on earth, folds in on itself
Katharine Murphy
This pandemic has stolen their certainty, and yet they must lead. They are called to make decisions guided by expertise that is contested minute by minute
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...mble-for-hope-as-australia-folds-in-on-itself
Our politicians scramble for hope as Australia, one of the most gregarious nations on earth, folds in on itself
Katharine Murphy
This pandemic has stolen their certainty, and yet they must lead. They are called to make decisions guided by expertise that is contested minute by minute
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...mble-for-hope-as-australia-folds-in-on-itself
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Thinking of all work tasks I've ever done, there's plenty of situations where keeping 1.5m distance in practice means you've either halved the workforce, it's now one person working in the box not two, or you're simply unable to do the job because you need two or more people simple as that.
There's plenty of things in industry, building sites and so on where in practice you can't avoid very close contact with other workers due to the nature of the task and that something needs two hands to hold it whilst the other one tightens the bolts, thus meaning you need two people in very close proximity to each other, or it needs two people to pick it up or whatever. Lots of things like that.
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Thinking of all work tasks I've ever done, there's plenty of situations where keeping 1.5m distance in practice means you've either halved the workforce, it's now one person working in the box not two, or you're simply unable to do the job because you need two or more people simple as that.
There's plenty of things in industry, building sites and so on where in practice you can't avoid very close contact with other workers due to the nature of the task and that something needs two hands to hold it whilst the other one tightens the bolts, thus meaning you need two people in very close proximity to each other, or it needs two people to pick it up or whatever. Lots of things like that.
In that case, all the people doing the job should be issued with masks.
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Earlier in the thread IFocus posted a graph on welfare costs, I noticed the NDIS was growing alarmingly fast, this sort of behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud. It is a great thing NDIS but it will need to be closely watched IMO. Like all Government funded schemes, there is always those who will develop their own scheme.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...-funded-lavish-lifestyle-20200323-p54cy0.html
From the article:
A Sydney couple have pleaded guilty to defrauding the National Disability Insurance Scheme of $1.5 million through a criminal syndicate that earned some members upwards of $50,000 a day.
Alaedine Rifai, 41, and his partner Amal Hilmi, 36, were arrested in May last year for their role in the group, which netted the money by hiding behind registered NDIS service providers for people supported by government-subsidised disability plans.
Investigators at the time said more than 70 people disability plans were defrauded by the syndicate, which sat behind three registered NDIS providers: Universal Group Australia, Reliance Disability Services and United Mission.
Mr Rifai was the sole director and secretary of Universal Group Australia, a kitchen joinery business.
The three organisations individually offered nursing, cleaning, transport and home fit-out services to people supported by government-subsidised disability plans.
Investigators found Mr Rifai and Ms Hilmi played a key role in the syndicate, which lodged over-inflated invoices for services and falsely drew from the victims' disability plans so that the victims were unable to make further claims.
In other examples, they found services were either delivered in part only, or not at all.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...-funded-lavish-lifestyle-20200323-p54cy0.html
From the article:
A Sydney couple have pleaded guilty to defrauding the National Disability Insurance Scheme of $1.5 million through a criminal syndicate that earned some members upwards of $50,000 a day.
Alaedine Rifai, 41, and his partner Amal Hilmi, 36, were arrested in May last year for their role in the group, which netted the money by hiding behind registered NDIS service providers for people supported by government-subsidised disability plans.
Investigators at the time said more than 70 people disability plans were defrauded by the syndicate, which sat behind three registered NDIS providers: Universal Group Australia, Reliance Disability Services and United Mission.
Mr Rifai was the sole director and secretary of Universal Group Australia, a kitchen joinery business.
The three organisations individually offered nursing, cleaning, transport and home fit-out services to people supported by government-subsidised disability plans.
Investigators found Mr Rifai and Ms Hilmi played a key role in the syndicate, which lodged over-inflated invoices for services and falsely drew from the victims' disability plans so that the victims were unable to make further claims.
In other examples, they found services were either delivered in part only, or not at all.
IFocus
You are arguing with a Galah
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By the sounds of it Scott will have to follow someone else, the word is Jacinda isn't doing too well in the the run up to the election.
Don't forget Morrison has still got the go to Labor solution if things get real bad, he can get the unemployed, to complete Kevin Rudd's pink batt programme for him.
Schmo dragged kicking and screaming to the reality that expert opinion and considered responce is the way to make decisions.
The timing is exquisit; One of the most incompetent Executive Cabinet in our history and This...
Don't worry it will only be a temporary respite till he defaults back to hollow meaningless blather,pork barreling, outright deception, victim blaming, obfuscation, and lies.
Feel strengthened by this Australia; We'll be back to normal.
The timing is exquisit; One of the most incompetent Executive Cabinet in our history and This...
Don't worry it will only be a temporary respite till he defaults back to hollow meaningless blather,pork barreling, outright deception, victim blaming, obfuscation, and lies.
Feel strengthened by this Australia; We'll be back to normal.
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Good to see Govt. has applied a $0 threshold for any foreign buyers wishing to acquire Australian assets.
I'm certainly hoping for it chiff...
It's the kingdom of god that Schmo's got us lined up for unfortunately... I mean; for christs sake what is someone supposed to make of that?
Now to Sovereign Theft.
Bernard Collaery explains succinctly what has happened to the Helium of the Timor Sea in his book 'Oil Under Troubled Water'. The out right theft of $12-22 Billion of Australian's assets by Conco and Woodside. You Australia have and will receive Nothing... Facilitated by a conga line of Government Ministers...
So to your point Sir. And a Federal ICAC... NOW
And Dutchie my dear benighted child, wake up and smell the coffee, they're getting it for nothing already.
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The Role of Parliament in a crisis
Shadow health minister Chris Bowen has been asked by the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas about why Labour believes a Senate committee of a joint select committee should be established to scrutinise the government’s Covid-19 response. Bowen says:
More parliamentary oversight is unquestionably a good thing. We are talking about billions of dollars, and lives. It makes eminent sense to have more scrutiny, more accountability and more transparency through whatever mechanisms.
The government has rightly, as the executive, a lot of powers here. But they’re accountable to the people through the parliament. We’ll talk to the crossbenchers in the House and the Senate. There’s already been some of those discussions.
Bowen is asked if this demonstrates a break from bipartisanship. Does Labor believe the government is failing? Bowen replies:
No. Bipartisanship does not mean being silent. Bipartisanship does not mean walking away from parliamentary accountability. It means giving the government support for everything they want to do and appropriately as the opposition, calling for more, calling for accountability and transparency and more action. That’s what we’ve been doing. A breakdown in bipartisanship would be refusing to cooperate with passing legislation or criticising actions they’re taking. What we are doing is constructively suggesting what more could and should be done.
We think a parliament should be sitting and have been very cooperative in obviously coming up with ways where the parliament can sit more safely, with few staff and all those arrangements. But that doesn’t mean we think the parliament should shut up shop.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...d-qld-tas-act-sa-wa-nt-covid19-latest-updates
Shadow health minister Chris Bowen has been asked by the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas about why Labour believes a Senate committee of a joint select committee should be established to scrutinise the government’s Covid-19 response. Bowen says:
More parliamentary oversight is unquestionably a good thing. We are talking about billions of dollars, and lives. It makes eminent sense to have more scrutiny, more accountability and more transparency through whatever mechanisms.
The government has rightly, as the executive, a lot of powers here. But they’re accountable to the people through the parliament. We’ll talk to the crossbenchers in the House and the Senate. There’s already been some of those discussions.
Bowen is asked if this demonstrates a break from bipartisanship. Does Labor believe the government is failing? Bowen replies:
No. Bipartisanship does not mean being silent. Bipartisanship does not mean walking away from parliamentary accountability. It means giving the government support for everything they want to do and appropriately as the opposition, calling for more, calling for accountability and transparency and more action. That’s what we’ve been doing. A breakdown in bipartisanship would be refusing to cooperate with passing legislation or criticising actions they’re taking. What we are doing is constructively suggesting what more could and should be done.
We think a parliament should be sitting and have been very cooperative in obviously coming up with ways where the parliament can sit more safely, with few staff and all those arrangements. But that doesn’t mean we think the parliament should shut up shop.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...d-qld-tas-act-sa-wa-nt-covid19-latest-updates
I wonder whether the threat of civil unrest was considered by the Morrison government?The generous response to this crisis does not match their pre-pandemic views.
I must reread what happened during and after the great depression.There was civil unrest in various countries then..
I must reread what happened during and after the great depression.There was civil unrest in various countries then..
Masturbating 24/7 after they achieved a police state.
IFocus
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Mo I often smile after reading your posts cheers.
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On the subject of policing, the brother in law went to go out the bush to cut some wood, the police turned him back.
So they are difinitly enforcing the exclusion zones in W.A.
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They should ban children from supermarkets unless there is a good reason for them to be there.
