How is the Abbott Government Going IV?

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The federal government's new green paper reveals many practical problems with its policy to combat climate change.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/cl...#ixzz2q2ljmlAs

I don't think they have thought this out very well.
They are too concerned with "Stop The Carbon Tax" to be thinking in a rational way.

How is the Abbott Government Going III?

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The cost of seeing a doctor would soar if private health insurers were allowed to cover GP fees, a health economist has warned.

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Get rid of Medicare and put all of the fees up. User pay, that will teach the poor to be poor.

Article from Brett Montgomery Associate Professor in General Practice at University of Western Australia.

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As a GP, when I prescribe a drug, I need to know its likely benefits and risks, and I need to base my decision-making on the best available evidence. I’d like to think the same principle applies to the world of policy, but a recent proposal leaves me scratching my head.

How is the Abbott Government Going II?

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Former Liberal Party leader John Hewson says Tony Abbott should be less secretive about his asylum seeker policies, suggesting the Prime Minister give proper briefings to the public and to MPs from other parties.

Dr Hewson suggested Mr Abbott had gone too far in his efforts to suppress information.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbot...#ixzz2q2jbkycO

Even the faithful are questioning Abbott and his tactics.
How long is it going to take for average Joe to wake up to Abbott?

How is the Abbott Government Going?

How is the Abbott Government going now that we have gone 4 months into the new Government.
We were promised a steady hand, no surprises Government with the adults in charge.
Lets see then.
Fraudband unraveling as the days tick on from the election date. TIC TIC TIC.
From Delimiter.

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In its broadband policy released in April 2013 (PDF), the Coalition made the following pledge: “Within 90 days the department of Broadband Communications and the digital economy, with the assistance of NBN Co and private carriers, will provide Parliament with a ranking of broadband quality and availability in all areas of Australia. This ranking will be published for comment and review and will guide prioritisation of the rollout.”

The report was brought out but is a joke of a report not promising what Turnbull said it would.

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However, the report released by the Minister appears to be little more than three pages of extremely high-level summary overview material. It does not consist of a “ranking of broadband quality and availability in all areas of Australia” as the Coalition had promised would be delivered within 90 days of it taking office.

The promise of faster, cheaper broadband was poo, pooed by most Telecommunication Techies, but Turnbull kept going.

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This approach has meant that the Coalition has admitted — just several months after the Federal Election — that it will no longer be able to keep its election promise of giving all Australians access to 25Mbps broadband speeds by 2016.

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I really have no idea how anyone at NBN Co — with that company’s deep engineering expertise — is supposed to take it seriously. It is a farcical effort that the Government should be ashamed of, and reflects a new broken election promise for the Coalition, if a minor one.

The Coalition has sold us a "pup", a very expensive and out of date pup at that.
Their broadband policy is a shambles, we were all warned.
They should bite the bullet and do the proper thing and apologise to the Australian people and continue with Labor's "Real NBN".

Disgraceful Abbott

Don Randall the rorting Western Australian Liberal member has paid his rort of the taxpayers.

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West Australian state Liberal MP Rob Johnson called on Mr Abbott to dump the embattled federal WA Liberal Don Randall over a taxpayer-funded trip to Cairns with his wife in November last year.

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In a statement on Thursday Mr Randall said he would immediately reimburse the full cost of the trip to ''ensure the right thing is done by the taxpayer and alleviate any ambiguity''.

"The Department informed me that it cannot provide definitive advice.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2i13nNymY

I call ******** on that. How can the Department of Finance allow an M.P. to go across to the other side of a large continent to buy an investment property and claim the travel and other expenses on the taxpayers. This should have been investigated by the AFP.
Tony Abbott is not fit to govern this country due to his inaction on this and his own rorting of the system over many years.
So far the worst P.M. ever.
What a disgraceful rabble they are.

Coalitions Broadband Policy

The Coalitions broadband policy is causing ructions in the Telecommunication Industry. 

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National broadband provider iiNet has published an extensive list of questions it still has regarding the Coalition’s plans to alter Labor’s National Broadband Network strategy, noting that details ranging from points of interconnect to who would build the network are still unknown, a month after the Federal Election.

The telecommunication industry are very much in the dark over what is happening. The Coalition have no idea as far as I can see. This could be turning into a debacle like their telecommunication debacle under Howard.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/10/17/c...il-says-iinet/

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The ISP pointed out that the Coalition had not yet announced key details of its plans, such as who would build its infrastructure (with candidates including the current outsourced construction industry model, in-sourcing the construction to NBN Co or even handing a large portion of the construction work to Telstra).

If they want Telstra to build it they had better hurry, because Telstra are getting rid of workers as fast a a socialite gets rid of last years fashions.

Parliamentary Entitlements Rort

Much is rotten in Parliament regarding parliamentarians entitlements.
The problem is on both sides of parliament. But it seems it is performed at it's most flexible in the Conservative side of parliament.
Just look at the latest "rort" by Liberal MP Don Randall.

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to take action against a Liberal MP who has spent more than $10,000 of taxpayers' money on questionable expenses, including travel that appears to be linked to his Cairns investment property.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvNt1DIU
This rorter(is this a word) flew to Cairns, bought an investment property and claimed it as an electoral expense. His electorate is in Western Australia.

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Meanwhile, the South Australian Labor senator Don Farrell has admitted he repaid almost $1000 in travel allowances several months ago after billing taxpayers for accommodation he accepted free.
Senator Farrell blamed an ''administration error'' for the trip to last year's AFL grand final.

Those damn administration errors. Someone should do something about those pesky administrators.

Carbon Tax Lies and Parental Leave

Abbott and Hunt telling porkies about the carbon price impact on Australians.

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Experts have rejected claims by the federal government that household expenses would be significantly smaller after a repeal of the carbon tax.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said on Monday average households would be $550 a year better off with the scrapping of the tax.

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Hugh Saddler, a principal consultant for energy analysts Pitt & Sherry, said it had been ''almost impossible'' to see the carbon price footprint when it was introduced, and it would be no easier if it was removed. The Australian Bureau of Statistics agreed.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvMBoNrr

In addition.

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Meanwhile, Mr Abbott might have a more pressing challenge than convincing Labor to abandon its carbon price: keeping his own senators in line over issues such as his paid parental leave scheme.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvNB7X25
Abbotts scatter brain idea about Parental Leave may come back and bite him on the bum, by his own Coalition.