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lol womble why is the market the way it is then , 2 term tony nailed on
yawn yawn AFL do some research on Gillard in the 90's .......of course you wont...lefties are immune from any wrong doing  |
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Do you reckon Abbott's got hold of some free product?
That could explain it.  |
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explain what?
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if asada proves essendon's "dirty" 34 took ped's ........ then we might as well ban woolworths and coles from selling multi vitamins and protein shakes from the "health and well being" shelves ....... because, so far, the only concrete evidence against them is that they've been taking the same chemicals you can get with ur paywave card at woollies.
Where are these drug dealers that were operating out of efc ??? who were they ??? Which bikie club was supplying efc with ped's ??? Exactly which organised crime group was connected with efc ??? What....... u tell me a friend of a friend of a friend of someone that plays for essendon was once convicted for selling an ecstacy tab !!!! Well, fk me, lets start a riot. |
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whose the libturd ringin up getting posts deleted
 cant handle the truth..fking pathetic..just like .. Matias Conman being handed the poison chalice of selling the budget..good luck arnie  |
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NBN was scheduled to be rolled out in my street last month......obviously never happened
now stuck with adsl that can drop out over 20 times a day, usually just before a race or worse still when betting inplay when the local kids gets home from school dies in the arse like clockwork have to pay at least $250 a year for two back ups.......internet speed in this country is a laughing stock |
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they are a disgrace VK
false fav Secong, not much interest in the market yet Charter is the link Very, importing stuff from China for Dank - will be interesting to see what the Cronulla players do, i hope they take the offer |
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yes, and my GUESS is that those substances that he got from china and thailand..... were ultra cheap amino's and legal volume batched peptides which were used as part of a scheme to rip off EFC monetary wise. Robinson and Dank were shown the door at EFC very quickly after Rboinson presented EFC with an invoice for supplements that the Footy Manager realised was a load of carp !! Around 60 grand from memory. It's my GUESS that Dank knows exactly what the players got and it was not anything expensive and/or under phase trial but something he thought he could get away with on selling for windfall profit. This is why he knows that evidence can never be produced to find him guilty of administering banned substances and hence his attitude towards ASADA. Just my theory .... it's the profit motive 99 times out of a hundred behind this sort of criminal behaviour.
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couldn't agree more VK, school holidays and approx. 4 O'clock in the afternoon are an expensive nightmare in st. albans. NO ONE does any training or has a kick in the park or a hit in the nets or gets a few bombs in at the local pool after school anymore.
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Team Australia: Patriotism, religion and idiots
Duade Borg independentaustraliadotnet 21 08 2014 Tony Abbott's appeal for immigrants to join 'Team Australia' is simply a crude dog-whistle attack against another religion, writes Duade Borg. RECENTLY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has been attempting to draw attention away from their shambles of a first year in office by putting security on the national agenda. The politics of fear is a tried and true success story for the politically and socially stagnant. Any time the progressive side of politics is having a good run, you can be assured the stagnants will jump at every spook. I’ll borrow an idea from the great George Carlin. When you consider just how stupid the average person is, and then realise that half of everybody are even more stupid, it’s not difficult to see why conspiracy theories and fear of the unknown are such vote bringers. Stupid people are easily alarmed and there’s a lot of them. This is the essence of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s "Team Australia" comments. It's simple political symbolism designed to invoke a sense of patriotism. Patriotism is great for making idiots unquestionably follow the will of the government; you’ll find some of the most interesting and wondrous tales of patriotism in Nazi literature and Axis history in World War II. Powerful stuff indeed. Many of Abbott’s comments and undertones are fuelling the Team Australia bus down the express route through Muslim territory into Bigotry City. Lord Mayor Andrew Bolt – the name synonymous with racism – has been extremely vocal on this issue as one would expect, having written many rants on the local Sorbent in Melbourne. Let’s not mince words. Team Australia (and pretty much everything Abbott and Bolt ever do) is about perpetuating Christianity (and Judaism) at the expense of Islam. Now myself, I’m an atheist. A militant anti-theist, no less. The best part about being an atheist is that you get such strong emotional responses to the absurdity of all religions. For example, a Christian would find certain parts of Judaism and Islam completely off limits for ridicule, as all three religions are just different versions of the same untruth. However, when you regard them all with the same disdain and consider all their followers equally as schizophrenic and deluded, the blinders are lifted and the only thing left to see is the harm created and perpetuated by them. So let’s start talking about these 'good Christians'. The sheer ludicrousness of the Tony Abbott business advisor Maurice Newman’s recent comments about climate change science being a new form of 'religion' could only come from the demented, unhinged mind of a religious lunatic. Science is the application of logic and reason where religion is the suspension of it. Science is observation and experimental reproduction where religion is a disregard of your own observations. Such brazen contempt for the scientific method could only occur in a country such as Australia, where the Government consists purely of far-right stagnants. Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s maiden speech to Parliament in 1994 began with a reference to the first Christian service in Australia. He stated in his speech that “... loss of faith is a social problem extending far beyond politics and far beyond Australia.” He went on to claim that “God and the ghosts of great men give [him] strength." Treasurer Joe Hockey gave a speech in 2009 to the Sydney Institute titled 'In Defence of God', where he attempted to defer the blame for the influence religion has on people to do terrible things. He has repeatedly cited his Catholic faith as his reason for opposing socially progressive policies such as gay marriage. Scott Morrison, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (note: only a stagnant government, with a constituency of mostly deluded idiots, could possibly elevate border protection to the highest level on the national agenda in a country surrounded by oceans) spoke very highly of himself and his Christian values in his maiden speech in 2008: From my faith I derive the values of loving-kindness, justice and righteousness, to act with compassion and kindness, acknowledging our common humanity and to consider the welfare of others; to fight for a fair go for everyone to fulfil their human potential and to remove whatever unjust obstacles stand in their way, including diminishing their personal responsibility for their own wellbeing; and to do what is right, to respect the rule of law, the sanctity of human life and the moral integrity of marriage and the family. We must recognise an unchanging and absolute standard of what is good and what is evil. Desmond Tutu put it this way: ‘... we expect Christians ... to be those who stand up for the truth, to stand up for justice, to stand on the side of the poor and the hungry, the homeless and the naked, and when that happens, then Christians will be trustworthy believable witnesses.’ Three obviously deeply religious men, they are probably so deluded that they don’t even realise their idol/prophet is likely to have had the same coloured skin as those children and families they have condemned in squalid detention centres for simply seeking a life away from the harm causes by religious groups at war. All claim to follow the teachings of a profoundly progressive, left-wing, prophet and yet none of them act in such a way. Cases in point being Abbott’s vandalism of our environment, Hockey’s vandalism of our social fabric and Morrison’s vandalism of our morality. The dangers of religious delusions are real — regardless of the religion that the person prescribes to. For such a prescription to occur, there must first be a suspension of logic and reason. If an adult claimed to hear voices, have visions, or speak to a sky fairy without attributing them to “god”, they would be promptly medicated or institutionalised for being a schizophrenic menace to society. Curiously, though, this is not the case with religion. Stagnants love the word “terrorism” because of the connotations. It’s another great way to invoke fear and compliance. But have you ever seen or heard the term used by a stagnant to describe a massacre committed by a white man? Take this article from Andrew Bolt a few years ago as an example. No less than three times are acts committed by Muslims referred to as terrorism, yet not once does Bolt refer to the 2011 Norwegian shooting massacre by a white, right-wing extremist as a terrorist act. In a classic act of Bolt obfuscation, he attempts to make the left-wing look bad because someone pointed out that the shooter was a Christian. Obviously, Bolt’s sensibilities are threatened by white Christian massacres. It’s always amusing to watch someone with such a weak ideological foundation sit in their glass house throwing pebbles. Highlighting the hypocrisy of Bolt’s “journalism” serves little purpose. His readership and viewership are idiots but at least he brings them together where we can keep an eye on them, as you would any group of people who lacked full development. What brings Bolt, Abbott, Hockey and Morrison together is not religious extremism, or Islam, or even Team Australia, it is simply that it is not the right sort of religious extremism: the Christian sort — the one that brought us the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades. Idiots. You can follow Duade Borg on Twitter @diabzAU. |
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luvin it afl.... especially amusing was the reference to Bolt and the local Sorbent in Melbourne. So ironic to get a laugh out of Bolt, considering the self imposed ban on even reading his headlines was due to keeping my temper in check
... and this ban was imposed after reading only 3 articles |
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Yes...Murdoch Ban in my house-hold as well. Great to see they are losing money hand over fist.
Including the least trusted and most disgusting newspaper in the country Daily Telegraph and the UN-Australian hasn't turned a profit in donkeys years. |
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cleanaway has one incident and 2400 trucks off the road. Catholic Church hundreds of incidents and no safety check.
Who is protecting these ****s any pollies ever given testimony Boy oh boy,wowee,what a world we live in.. |
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should we be running a BILL SHORTEN should be sacked thread now?
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Go for your life.
It might last a week and and maybe a dozen replies. |
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we'll know soon enough re all the drug stuff Very
Murdoch losing millions with his Australian papers, no surprise good luck with that Secong What odds Abbott sends troops overseas to try and save his job??? |
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i bloddy well hope so, i'm getting sick of defending my footy club to collingwood supporters looking for something, anything, to throw at essendon supporters
btw: any news will jsut add to stuff that the afl and asada already know........ blood samples from essendon players were sent to laboratories in germany (unannounced to efc) way back in 2012, by the afl and during essendons supplements program, and ... which banned peptides that were specifically test requested were found ?????NONE,ZIP,NADA,ZILCH............... SFA. |
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The strange and suspicious case of Tony Abbott's citizenship......
Ross Jones 04 09 2014 Why is the PM's chief of staff so desperate to prevent proof emerging about whether Tony Abbott is eligible to sit in Parliament? Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones reports. You don’t want to be blocked by Mal Brough — look what happened to Peter Slipper. It happened to Tony Magrathea when he posted a message to Brough telling him there was a serious cloud hanging over the legitimacy of his leader, Anthony John Abbott, to hold the highest public office in the land. Magrathea is a Sunshine Coast-based blogger who doesn’t normally get involved in the political arena. He refers to himself as ‘The Ideas Man’ and his blog normally covers technology issues. He is not a lefty. Born in England, Magrathea is about the same age as Abbott and, like Abbott, came to Australia as a £10 pom. Abbott arrived in 1960 aged three. Before the last election, Abbott made a few comments that piqued Magrathea’s interest in Abbott’s progression from England to Australia, then back to England to Oxford, then back to Australia and a life in politics. Magrathea noticed an odd thing: Abbott had been apparently granted Australian citizenship back in 1981 — as he was entitled to do, because while his father was British and he was born in London, his mother was Australian. This apparent change in status meant Abbott was now a dual British/Australian citizen. 1981 was the year Abbott ‘matriculated’ to Oxford, but he did so as a British citizen. After Oxford, he returned to Australia and entered a seminary. The priesthood didn’t stick and, after managing a cement plant, and then some stints as a journalist, monarchist and apparatchik, he entered Parliament in 1994. Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is clear when it says: Dual nationality is considered an acknowledgement of allegiance and entitled to the privileges of citizenship of a foreign power disqualifies people from standing for parliament. This is a provision strictly applied. In 1996, Jackie Kelly was forced to face a by-election after being found to have been elected holding both Australian and New Zealand citizenship. Employment Minister Senator Eric Abetz appears to have been elected to the Senate holding dual German and Australian citizenship before finally renouncing his citizenship after a High Court action has been commenced against him. So Magrathea, in an idle moment, had a look around for the date Abbott renounced his British citizenship — but there was no apparent record. He first turned to the National Archives of Australia who keep citizenship applications for everyone who applies to be an Australian citizen. These documents should record if Abbott had renounced his British citizenship at that time. These are generally public documents available to all. However, in Abbott's case, the NAA decided to make the application file a secret document in February 2014. Coming up blank there, he turned his attentions to the UK Border Office, part of the Home Office, which has a form called ‘Declaration of Renunciation of British Citizenship, British Overseas Citizenship, British Overseas Territories, British National (Overseas) Or British Subject Status’. This declaration is otherwise known as Form RN and around 5,000 are completed each year. In early May, Magrathea sent an FOI to the Home Office asking for Abbott’s RN. They say they are still looking. So, Magrathea put in an FOI to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Having half a brain, Magrathea waited until Abbott ‒ and, more importantly, his chief of staff Peta Credlin ‒ were in Washington in June. Things, according to Magrathea, were going well and he’d made contact with a Department staffer who was willing to help in his quest. Apparently, on the day the public servant was to formally respond to Magrathea with the results of his search, Credlin came home and went straight to the office. She immediately kyboshed the request and told Magrathea, Magrathea posted a note to his Federal MP Mal Brough’s Facebook page, pointing out that any doubt over the Prime Minister’s legal right to hold office should be settled before the upcoming G20 Summit. Brough blocked him. He posted the same thing to the Attorney-General Senator George Brandis. Nothing. He posted to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. No reply. He wrote to the Federal Police regarding a possible crime against the Commonwealth. Nil. He wrote to the Queensland Governor General. Nada. On 1 August, Magrathea’s email account was hacked and all his emails were deleted. What started as an innocent enquiry has begun to morph into something quite serious — and perhaps sinister. Certainly suspicious. Abbott can clear the whole thing up in the blink of an eye, of course — just show us the RN and it will all be over. But he and his camp followers don’t seem to want to do that — or allow others to release this information. We can only wonder why. If the British Home Office come back to Magrathea and say they are unable to find the RN, things may move up a notch. Find out more about this issue on Tony Magrathea’s blog tonymagrathea.blog.com. Creative Commons Licence This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License |
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and then some stints as a journalist, monarchist and apparatchik...........lost all credibility right there...why do you post this sh!t
then Abbott can clear the whole thing up in the blink of an eye, of course — just show us the RN and it will all be over. just like Buzz could do.... like swearing on the Bible to say he landed on the moon huh? and Barack was never born in the USA the list goes on and on AFL.....they has nothing to prove I can prove Abbott owns your head space though  |
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TRACKING ABBOTT’S WRECKAGE Tony Abbott has been in power since 7 September 2013. From that moment, he and his government have broken promises and hurt Australians. This post will be regularly updated to keep track of the Abbott Government’s broken promises and everything his Government does to hurt Australians. Each separate item will have a link to a source. Broken promises appear in bold and in a separate list at the end. THE LIST 281. Delays superannuation increases for seven years costing workers thousands of dollars in retirement savings – 2 September 2014 280. Kills the Low Income Super Contribution payment and the Superannuation Guarantee which aimed to boost the retirement savings of 3.6 million workers who earn $37,000 per year or less – 2 September 2014 279. Repeals the mining tax on the profits of big coal and iron ore companies – 2 September 2014 278. Bans secular workers from the school chaplaincy program – 27 August 2014 277. Refuses temporary visitors visas for Sri Lankan trade unionists to attend a union conference in Australia because they “do not have enough personal wealth” – 25 August 2014 276. Unemployment hits highest level in 12 years – 7 August 2014 275. Breaks an election promise to amend the race hate laws - 6 August 2014 274. Directs all government departments to disclose every contact with every union for any reason over the last decade to the Royal Commission - 28 July 2014 273. Allows the suspension of payments to parents whose children do not attend school in the Northern Territory – 19 July 2014 272. Axes the carbon tax with no viable policy to address climate change or Australia’s emission targets - 17 July, 2014 271. Risks up to $1 billion in revenue through job cuts at the ATO - July 15, 2014 270. Cuts all funding to Vibe Australia, the Indigenous organisation responsible for creating and producing the Deadly Awards, Deadly Vibe and InVibe magazines, Deadly Sounds radio, Move It Mob Style TV and deadlyvibe.com.au - July 14, 2014 269. Detains 153 asylum seekers at sea on board a customs ship for a month, despite questions about the legality of this action - July 12, 2014 268. Offends China and many Australians by praising the “skill and honour” of Japanese soliders who killed 22 000 Australians and hundreds of thousands of Chinese during World War II - 9 July 2014 267. Hands over 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to the custody of Sri Lankan authorities after screening them at sea and transferring them while still on the water - 07 July, 2014 266. Creates a strategic communications branch employing 37 people and costing $4.7 million each year, to oversee communications in the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet despite saying at the 2013 launch of the Liberal Party’s book on ALP waste, that they would spend less on spin than the previous government - July 05, 2014 265. Describes Australia as ‘unsettled’ before the British arrived, during an address to the Australia-Melbourne Institute Conference - 04 July, 2014 264. Grants the Immigration Minister power over the granting of permanent residence allowing him to personally decide the conditions of the test and his decisions will not be subject to appeal - 03 July, 2014 263. Breaks a promise not to grant permanent permanent residency to people arriving by boat by granting a visa to a least one refugee - 03 July, 2014 262. Prohibits Community Legal Centres from using Government funding to advocate for policy or law reform - 02 July, 2014 261. Appoints a former Liberal MP and a conservative columnist and vocal opponent of the ABC to the ABC and SBS appointments panel - 02 July, 2014 260. Strikes out protections for consumers of financial advice before the report into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia financial planning scandal is tabled, which recommends a Royal Commission into the bank to investigate allegations of fraud, forgery and a management cover-up - 01 July, 2014 259. Refuses to confirm the existence of two boatloads of refugees reported to be currently on board customs vessels. The Government previously denied the vessels were in trouble and refuses to comment on whether the refugees will be landing in Australia - 30 June, 2014 258. Revokes the residential determination of two asylum seekers from Vietnam currently in high school in Adelaide and removes them to a detention centre, resulting in up to 7 other children, also in school, running away for fear of the same fate - 28 June, 2014 257. Cuts Dementia and Severe Behaviours Supplement, a payment to those who provide care for people with severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia - 26 June, 2014 256. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy as it is revealed that staff in Treasury in Finance will be made involuntarily redundant – 24 June, 2014 255. Seeks to reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas after the High Court strikes down the Government’s attempt to limit the number of permanent visas available each year - 22 June 2014. 254. Refuses to halt return of refugees to war-torn Iraq - 18 June, 2014 253. Abandons the long-held, bipartisan position of referring to Palestinian land captured in 1967 as occupied - 06 June, 2014 252. Abolishes the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee, which has, for 25 years, investigated gaps in Australia’s corporate and financial markets law and recommended ways to close them - 05 June, 2014 251. Excludes Australian shipyards from a major new contract, sending jobs offshore and threatening the industry in Australia - 05 June, 2014 250. Cuts funding to the peak refugee organisation the Refugee Council of Australia - 30 May 2014 249. Takes money from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and gives it to the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Scheme - 28 May 2014 248. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy after revelations that public servants in the Department of Industry have been made involuntarily redundant – 19 May 2014 247. Scraps the National Water Commission – 13 May, 2014 246. Abolishes funding for Building Australia’s Future Workforce — Connection Interviews and Job Seeker Workshops and the Experience+ Career Advice initiative - 13 May, 2014 245. Abolishes the Get Reading Programme - 13 May, 2014 244. Scraps the annual subsidy to local ethanol producers – 13 May 2014 243. Slashes the Biodiversity Fund – 13 May, 2014 242. Cuts the Education Department’s Online Diagnostic Tools Programme – 13 May, 2014 241. Abolishes the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority which was established to encourage organ donation – 13 May, 2014 240. Introduces annual reviews for veterans receiving military compensation payments due to illness or injury – 13 May, 2014 239. Terminates the Office of Water Science research programme – 13 May, 2014 238. Abolishes the Commonwealth Human Rights Education Grant - 13 May 2014 237. Abolishes funding to the Exotic Disease Preparedness Programme - 13 May 2014 236. Slashes funding from the Indigenous Health Budget - 13 May 2014 235. Cuts funding for Indigenous language support - 13 May 2014 234. Cuts funding to the Torres Strait Regional Authority - 13 May 2014 233. Abolishes the Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, the only elected representative body for Indigenous Australians - 13 May 2014 232. Breaks election promise and slashes funding to Landcare - 13 May 2014 231. Abolishes the National Rental Affordability Scheme - 13 May 2014 230. Cuts funding from the corporate regulator ASIC which oversees the financial sector - 13 May 2014 229. Axes the first home buyers savings scheme - 13 May 2014 228. Reduces funding to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency - 13 May 2014 227. Abolishes the Improving Educational Outcomes Programme - 13 May 2014 226. Cuts funding to the Child Care Early Learning Projects and the Professional Support Program which assist childcare workers gain skills - 13 May 2014 225. Reduces funding to the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership - 13 May 2014 224. Cut the Research Training Scheme, with tertiary education providers to introduce student contributions for higher degrees - 13 May 2014 223. Ends the development of the Australian Baccalaureate - 13 May 2014 222. Cuts higher education reward funding - 13 May 2014 221. Cuts the Australian National University’s HC Coombs Policy Forum - 13 May 2014 220. Cuts Australian Research Council funding - 13 May 2014 219. Abolishes tax break for mature age workers and replaces it with a payment for employing people over 50 who have been on Newstart or the DSP for more than 6 months - 13 May 2014 218. Cuts an incentive program for graduates to take up work in regional locations of need - 13 May 2014 217. Axes the National Partnership Agreement on Certain Concessions for Pensioners and Seniors Card Holders which supports state and territory concessions for senior citizens including energy rebates. - 13 May 2014 216. Kills off four grant programmes including the the Australian Community Food Safety Campaign and Outreach Support Services for Criminalised Women - 13 May 2014 215. Cuts $2.3 million in contribution to the World Health Organisation - 13 May 2014 214. Abolishes the Australian Interactive Games Fund which helped support local video game developers - 13 May 2014 213. Breaks a promise not to cuts funding to health by dramatically cutting hospital funding - 13 May 2014 212. Cuts $240 million over four years to community programs that support poor, sick or disadvantaged people - 13 May 2014 211. Cuts $25million over 4 years or a quarter of the funding to Community Legal Centres who provide legal support to the poor and disadvantaged - 13 May 2014 210. Cuts the Women in Leadership program - 13 May 2014 209. Breaks a promise to have one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns - 13 May 2014 208. Breaks a promise to spend $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund by committing less than half this amount in the budget - 13 May 2014 207. Orders the spending of $11.7 million to plan the privatisation of: Defence Housing Australia, the Royal Australian Mint and the registry function of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission - 13 May 2014 206. Announces 3000 job loses at the Australian Tax Office - 13 May 2014 205. Freezes the Family Tax Benefit A at a set income level regardless of the number of children - 13 May 2014 204. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit B end-of-year supplement by 15% - 13 May 2014 203. Reduces funding for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation - 13 May 2014 202. Reduces funding to the Australian Institute for Marine Science - 13 May 2014 201. Scraps a range of grant programs aimed at funding innovation and start-up businesses, including: Australian Industry Participation; Commercialisation Australia; Enterprise Solutions; Innovation Investment Fund; Industry Innovation Councils; Enterprise Connect; Industry Innovation Precincts; and Textile, Clothing and Footwear Small Business and Building Innovative Capability - 13 May 2014 200. Rips a further $111.4 million over four years out of the operating budget of the CSIRO - 13 May 2014 199. Ceases funding for National ICT Australia, which is a research centre for communications and information technology - 13 May 2014 198. Abolishes Medicare locals - 13 May 2014 197. Reduces payments to people under 35 with a disability who cannot find employment if they could work more than eight hours a week - 13 May 2014 196. Mandates religious education in schools by taking away the option for school to opt for a secular social worker instead - 13 May 2014 195. Abolishes the ABC’s disability communities website Ramp Up - 13 May 2014 194. Abolishes the Disability Discrimination Commissioner - 13 May 2014 193. Abolishes the Better Schools Centre for Quality Teaching and Learning - 13 May 2014 192. Dismantles the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and will establish a health productivity and performance commission - 13 May 2014 191. Abolishes the Seniors Supplement - 13 May 2014 190. Axes the tax break for people with dependent spouses - 13 May 2014 189. Axes the Diagnostic Imaging Quality Programme - 13 May 2014 188. Ceases the Dental Flexible Grants Program - 13 May 2014 187. Axes the Charles Sturt University’s dental and oral health clinics - 13 May 2014 186. Axes funding for the nursing and allied health scholarships in Tasmania - 13 May 2014 185. Defers 13 Partners in Recovery programs which help people with severe and persistent mental illness and complex support needs - 13 May 2014 184. Cuts funding to the National Anti-Tobacco Campaign - 13 May 2014 183. Cuts Australia’s Animal Welfare Strategy - 13 May 2014 182. Abolishes Health Workforce Australia and cuts the expansion of the Clinical Training Funding Program - 13 May 2014 181. Axes the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health - 13 May 2014 180. Defers the National Partnership Agreement for adult public dental services until July 2015 - 13 May 2014 179. Reduces the Medicare benefit for optometry services and allows optometrists to charge more - 13 May 2014 178. Abolishes the GP Education and Training Limited and ceasing the Pre-vocational GP Placements Scheme - 13 May 2014 177. Axes industry and community clean energy programs include the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund, the National Low Emission Coal Initiative, Energy Efficiency Programmes, the National Solar Schools Plan, Energy Efficiency Information Grants and Low Carbon Communities - 13 May 2014 176. Scraps The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) which was set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies and in doing so breaks an election promise - 13 May 2014 175. Scraps the Housing Help for Seniors scheme which provided assistance to older Australians - 13 May 2014 174. Pulls $2.5 billion from aged care, including $1.7 billion from home based support such as Meals on Wheels - 13 May 2014 173. Cuts the benefit for unemployed people under 25 by moving them onto the Youth Allowance - 13 May 2014 172. Kills off the Gonski school funding vision by cutting future funding by $30 billion - 13 May 2014 171. Reduces Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety nets - 13 May 2014 170. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health with a $368 million cut from preventative health measures - 13 May 2014 169. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit A end-of-year supplement by 17% - 13 May 2014 168. Increases the fuel excise twice a year by indexing it to CPI - 13 May 2014 167. Forces students to repay their debt earlier by lowering the wage they need to earn before payments kick in - 13 May 2014 166. Increases debt for students by increasing the interest on their fees - 13 May 2014 165. Makes it harder for retirees to access the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card - 13 May 2014 164. Guts the Australia Council and Screen Australia by cutting $87 million for the Arts - 13 May 2014 163. Forces people under 30 to work for the dole if they want to receive any financial support after a waiting period of six months with no financial support - 13 May 2014 162. Imposes a six month wait for people under 30s to receive unemployment benefits - 13 May 2014 161. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit Part B - 13 May 2014 160. Cuts the old age pension by indexing it to CPI instead of wages - 13 May 2014 159. Increases the pension age to 70 from 2035 - 13 May 2014 158. Imposes a $5 increase on the cost of all medicines available under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (80c for concession card holders) - 13 May 2014 157. Cuts the ‘Tools for the Trade’ program which helped apprentices buy their tools, and replacing it with a loan scheme apprentices will have to repay - 13 May 2014 156. Caps the amount of money workers can recoup in entitlements if their employer becomes insolvent or bankrupt to 16 weeks - 13 May 2014 155. Breaks a promise to only cut the foreign aid budget by $4.5 billion and cuts it by $7.9 billion instead - 13 May 2014 154. Axes funding to the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, the national peak body for young people- 13 May 2014 153. Slashes Disability Support Pensions by indexing to inflation - 13 May 2014 152. Abolishes the highly successful Youth Connections program that supports young people who have not completed, or are at risk of not completing Year 12 or equivalent qualifications also costing hundreds of community sector jobs - 13 May 2014 151. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a fuel levy - 13 May 2014 150. Announces the sacking of 16,500 public sector workers as whole Departments are abolished despite promising only 12,000 job losses - 13 May 2014 149. Cuts $500 million from indigenous programs over five years - 13 May 2014 148. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a deficit tax rise of two percentage points for people earning more than $180,000 a year - 13 May 2014 147. Scrapping a net $1.2 billion in tuition subsidies for universities - 13 May 2014 146. Scraps the Australia Network, Australia’s international television service broadcast across our region that provides news and current affairs from an Australian perspective - 13 May 2014 145. Breaks promise of “no cuts to the ABC or SBS” by cutting $43.5 million from the ABC and SBS - 13 May 2014 144. Undermines Medicare by imposing a $7 fee increase for GP visits - 13 May 2014 143. Tears up Federal Government’s agreement with states and territories to help fund increasing health costs - 13 May 2014 142. Scraps caps on university fees, meaning universities will be able to charge whatever they like for degrees - 13 May 2014 141. Abolishes the COAG Reform Council — which provides information to Governments so they can track the performance of their programs - 13 May 2014 140. Sacks the National People with Disability and Carers Council — which pushed for and then helped build the NDIS - 13 May 2014 139. Releases the Commission of Audit report which recommends savage budget cuts that would negatively affect every Australian - 1 May 2014 138. Breaks a promise to introduce the paid parental leave scheme he took to the election - 30 April 2014 137. Spends $12.4 billion on new fighter jets whilst claiming a budget “emergency” and preparing to make big cuts to health and welfare - 23 April 2014 136. Abolishes the research and development tax incentives board – 11 April 2014 135. Begins dismantling GP Super clinics - 8 April 2014 134. Cuts 480 jobs from the Environment Department who are responsible for protecting places such as Kakadu, Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef - 7 April 2014 133. Forbids public servants from making political comments online, even anonymously, and instructs them to report on colleagues who do - 6 April 2014 132. Establishes a secret, publicly funded “hit squad” to target political opponents led by the man who provided a “chaff bag” for Alan Jones to auction at a Young Liberal fundraiser - 1 April 2014 131. Imposes fees and charges on people who become bankrupt – 1 April 2014 130. Axes free legal assistance for asylum seekers - 31 March 2014 129. Defunds Ethical Clothing Australia that worked with industry to protect outworkers in the textile and clothing industry from exploitation and abandons the Governments ethical procurement guidelines - 30 March 2014 128. Opposes a UN resolution to conduct war crimes inquiry in Sri Lanka - 28 March 2014 127. Closes all Medicare offices on Saturdays - 26 March 2014 126. Brings back the awards of knights and dames which were abolished in 1986 - 25 March 2014 125. Cuts 400 jobs from the industry department - 25 March 2014 124. Ensures a human rights enquiry into the Manus Island detention centre is shut down and human rights lawyers are denied access to the centre - 23 March 2014 123. Abolishes one third of the jobs in Treasury costing approximately 300 jobs - 21 March 2014 122. Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers - 16 March 2014 121. Moves to deny funding to artists or events that refuse corporate sponsorship for ethical reasons - 15 March 2014 120. Cuts hundreds of jobs at the CSIRO - 14 March 2014 119. Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny - 12 March 2014 118. Overturns a ban on cattle grazing in the Victorian Alpine National Park - 6 March 2014 117. Frustrated and defeated an attempt at the UN to highlight the humanitarian consequences of nuclear war - 5 March 2014 116. Axes funding earmarked to save the Sumatran rhinoceros from extinction - 28 February 2014 115. Introduces legislation to allow people aged between 17-24 years old to work for half the minimum wage and be exempted from all other work rights including health and safety laws and protections should they be injured at work – 26 February 2014 114. Axes funding to Aboriginal Early Childhood Support and Learning Incorporated, the only Indigenous peak body advising on early childhood issues for Indigenous people in NSW - 25 February, 2014 113. Misleads the Australian public about what occurred on Manus Island when asylum seekers were attacked killing one person and injuring seventy-seven. Once the information was known to be untrue, waited five days to correct the record - 25 February 2014 112. Contravenes 113 years of established practice by moving to release the previous Government’s confidential cabinet papers to the Royal Commission into the Pink Batts scheme - 22 February 2014 111. Scraps food grants program for small farmers - 21 February 2014 110. Pressured SPC Ardmona to cut the pay and conditions for workers in return for Government money - 20 February 2014 109. Blames carbon pricing for the close of Alcoa smelters and rolling mills and the loss of nearly 1000 jobs, despite the fact the company states it had no bearing on their decision - 19 February 2014 108. Breaches the privacy and puts in danger around 10, 000 asylum seekers and their families by releasing their personal details on the Department of Immigration website - 19 February 2014 107. Fails to ensure the safety of asylum seekers in our care on Manus Island who were subjected to a vicious attack, which left one person dead and seventy-seven seriously injured – 18 February 2014 106. Reverses the previous government’s decision to care for refugee children who are without an adult family member (ie unaccompanied minors) in the community and sends them to detention centres in Nauru – 17 February 2014 105. Removes poverty reduction from the goals of the foreign affairs budget –February 17, 2014 104. Appoints a climate change sceptic to head a review of our renewable energy target – 17 February 2014 103. Pays hundreds of indigenous workers in his Department up to $19 000 less than non-indigenous workers doing the same job and cuts the budget for the representative body the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples causing two-thirds of the staff to lose their jobs – 15 February 2014 102. Breaks a promise to provide fibre-to-the-premises for all Tasmanians for the National Broadband Network – 13 February 2014 101. Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years - 13 February 2014 100. Lies to the Australian public about the reasons Toyota gave for their decision to close in order to blame the workers and their union - 12 February 2014 99. Takes down a website providing information to the Australian public on the ingredients and nutritional content of foods. It is later revealed that the person in the Minister’s office who gave this directive is married to a lobbyist from the junk food industry and was still a share holder in their lobbying company - 11 February 2014 98. Destroys the Australian car manufacturing industry by refusing to provide any industry assistance leading to the decision of Toyota to shut costing up to 30 000 jobs – 10 February 2014 97. Launches a Royal Commission into unions – 10 February 2014 96. Attempts to reintroduce temporary visas for asylum seekers found to be fleeing persecution preventing them ever settling in Australia and retrospectively applies them to 20 000 people. This is stopped in the Senate twice by the ALP and The Greens - 7 February 2014 95. Supports a reduction of penalty rates and other Award minimums in a submission to the Fair Work Commission’s review of all Awards - 4 February 2014 94. Lies to the Australian public about the wages and working conditions of factory workers at SPC Ardmona in Shepparton and uses this incorrect information to blame them for their job insecurity - 4 February 2014 93. Launches an “efficiency study” into ABC and the SBS - 30 January 2014 92. Cuts the wages of Australian troops deployed overseas by almost $20 000 per solider - 29 January 2014 91. Intervenes on the side of Toyota to support cutting Australian workers wages and conditions - 28 January 2014 90. Privatises the 104 year old Australian Valuation Office costing nearly 200 jobs – 24 January 2014 89. Seeks to wind back the World Heritage listing of Tasmania’s forests – 23 January 2014 88. Withdraws funding for an early intervention program to help vulnerable young people – 22 January 2014 87. Exempts Western Australia from national environment laws to facilitate shark culling - 21 January 2014 86. Defunds all international environmental programs, the International Labour Organisation and cuts funding to a range of international aid programs run by NGOs such as Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE Australia and Caritas – 18 January 2014 85. Violates Indonesia’s territorial sovereignty while turning back asylum seeker boats – 17 January 2014 84. Politicises the national school curriculum by appointing a former Liberal staffer and a Coalition supporter, both critics of the current curriculum to conduct a review - 10 January 2014. 83. Directs that people already found to be refugees who arrived by boat be given the lowest priority for family reunion - 8 January 2014 82. Fails to contradict or take any action against a member of his government, Senator Cory Bernardi, who makes divisive statements about: abortion, “non-traditional” families and their children, same sex couples, couples who use IVF and calls for parts of WorkChoices to be reintroduced - 6 January 2014 81. Scraps funding from the Jewish Holocaust Centre –January 3, 2014 80. Devastates Australia’s contribution to overseas aid by cutting $4.5 billion from the budget, causing vital programs supporting those in extreme poverty in our region to collapse - 1 January 2014 79. Drastically reduces tax breaks for small business and fails to publicise it - 1 January 2014 78. Appoints Tim Wilson, a Liberal Party member and Policy Director of a right-wing think tank to the position of Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission even though this think tank argued for the Commission to be abolished – 23 December 2013 77. Approves private health fund premium increases of an average 6.2% a year – 23 December 2013 76. Breaks his promise to provide the promised customs vessel to monitor whaling operations in the Southern Ocean – 23 December 2013 75. Requests the delisting of World Heritage status for Tasmanian forests – 21 December 2013 74. Cuts funding to the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Programme which makes it mandatory for large energy using businesses to improve their efficiency –17 December, 2013 73. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health by cutting $150 million from hospital and health services - 17 December 2013. 72. Scraps the Home Energy Saver Scheme which helps struggling low income households cut their electricity bills - 17 December 2013 71. Defunds the Public Interest Advocacy Centre whose objectives are to work for a fair, just and democratic society by taking up legal cases public interest issues - 17 December 2013 70. Defunds the Environmental Defenders Office which is a network of community legal centres providing free advice on environmental law - 17 December 2013 69. Axes funding for animal welfare - 17 December 2013 68. Breaks his election promise of no cuts to education by cutting funding for trade training centres in schools - 17 December 2013 67. Abolishes the AusAID graduate program costing 38 jobs - 17 December 2013 66. Cuts Indigenous legal services by $13.4 million. This includes $3.5 million from front line domestic violence support services, defunding the National legal service and abolishing all policy and law reform positions across the country - 17 December 2013 65. Abolishes the position of co-ordinator-general for remote indigenous services - 17 December 2013 64. Breaks his promise to unequivocally support the NDIS by changing the name of NDIS “launch sites” to “trial sites” and flags cuts to funding – 17 December 2013 63. Abolishes the National Office for Live Music along with the live music ambassadors - 17 December 2013 62. Cuts $2.5 million from community radio – 17 December 2013 61. Weakens the ministerial code of conduct to let ministers keep shares in companies - 16 December 2013 60. Disbands the independent Immigration Health Advisory Group for asylum seekers – 16 December 2013 59. Dumps the National Occupational Licensing Scheme which was designed to increase productivity by making it easier for skilled workers to work interstate - 14 December 2013 58. Axes $4.5 million from charities and community groups for the Building Multicultural Communities Program – 13 December 2013 57. Starts dismantling Australia’s world leading marine protection system - 13 December 2013 56. Scraps the COAG Standing Council on Environment and Water – 13 December 2013 55. Breaks his NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016 – 12 December 2013 54. Overturns the “critically endangered” listing of the Murray Darling Basin - 11 December 2013 53. Dares Holden to leave Australia. Holden responds by announcing its closure which costs Australians tens of thousands of jobs – 11 December 2013 52. Approves Clive Palmer’s mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin which opponents say will severely damage Great Barrier Reef - 11 December 2013 51. Demands that the few childcare workers who got pay rises “hand them back” – 10 December 2013 50. Approves the largest coal port in the world in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area – 10 December 2013 49. Removes the community’s right to challenge decisions where the government has ignored expert advice on threatened species impacts – 9 December 2013 48. Downgrades national environment laws by giving approval powers to state premiers – 9 December 2013 47. Undermines Australia’s democracy by signing a free trade agreement with South Korea allowing corporations to sue the Australian Government – 6 December 2013 46. Damages our diplomatic relationship with our nearest neighbour East Timor – 5 December 2013 45. Repeals the pokie reform legislation which was designed to combat problem gambling – 4 December 2013 44. Suspends the Wage Connect program, despite it being proven to deliver good outcomes for unemployed people – 3 December 2013 43. Axes funding to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, forcing the 46 year old organisation to close. It is later revealed that a staffer in the Assistant Health Minister’s office had links to the Alcohol Industry - 27 November 2013 42. Breaks his promise to support Gonski and back flips three times – 25 November 2013 41. Shifts Australia’s position at the UN on Israeli settlements - 25 November 2013 40. Damages our diplomatic relationship with the Indonesian Government by refusing to apologise for tapping the phones of their President, his wife and senior Government officials – 23 November 2013 39. Converts crucial Start-Up Scholarships into loans, increasing the debt of 80,000 higher education students by $1.2 billion – 21 November 2013 38. Gifts two navy patrol boats to the Sri Lankan government to stop asylum seekers fleeing the Sri Lankan government - 17 November 2013 37. Introduces a Bill to impose on workers who are elected onto unpaid union committees huge financial penalties and jail terms for breeches of new compliance obligations – 14 November 2013 36. Condones torture by foreign governments by saying “sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen” – 14 November 2013 35. Hides information from the Parliament and the people about the government’s treatment of asylum seekers – 13 November 2013 34. Abandons Australia’s emission reduction targets - 12 November, 2013 33. Separates a refugee mother from her newborn baby – 10 November 2013 32. Cuts 600 jobs at the CSIRO - 8 November 2013 31. Abolishes Insurance Reform Advisory Group which provided a forum for industry and consumer bodies to discuss insurance industry reform - 8 November 2013 30. Abolishes the Maritime Workforce Development Forum which was an industry body working to build a sustainable skills base for the maritime industry - 8 November 2013 29. Abolishes the High Speed Rail Advisory Group whose job it was to advise Governments on the next steps on implementing high speed rail for eastern Australia - 8 November 2013 28. Abolishes the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula which for 21 years ensured companies comply with agreements on the advertising of infant formula - 8 November 2013 27. Abolishes the Antarctic Animal Ethics Committee who ensured research on animals in the Antarctic complies with Australian standards - 8 November 2013 26. Abolished the National Steering Committee on Corporate Wrongdoing that for 21 years worked to make sure the law was effectively enforced on corporate criminals - 8 November 2013 25. Abolishes the National Inter-country Adoption Advisory Council which provided expert advice on overseas adoption - 8 November 2013 24. Abolishes International Legal Services Advisory Council which was responsible for working to improve the international performance of Australia’s legal services - 8 November 2013 23. Abolishes the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council a group of experts in gun crime and firearms which was set up after the Port Arthur massacre - 8 November 2013 22. Abolishes Australian Animals Welfare Advisory Committee a diverse group of experts advising the Agriculture Minister on animal welfare issues - 8 November 2013 21. Abolishes the National Housing Supply Council which provided data and expert advice on housing demand, supply and affordability - 8 November 2013 20. Abolishes the Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing, established to help address the challenges the country faces as the number of older Australians grows – 8 November 2013 19. Refuses to offer support to manufacturing in Tasmania, despite requests and warnings. Caterpillar announces the move of 200 jobs from Burnie to Thailand, costing around 1000 local jobs - 5 November 2013 18. Provides $2.2 million legal aid for farmers and miners to fight native title claims - 1 November 2013 17. Abolishes the 40 year old AusAID costing hundreds of jobs - 1 November 2013 16. Launches a successful High Court challenge which strikes down the ACT Marriage Equality laws invalidating the marriages of many people and ensuring discrimination against same-sex couples continues – 23 October 2013 15. Denies there is a link between climate change and more severe bush fires and accuses a senior UN official was “talking through their hat” – 23 October 2013 14. Appoints the head of the Business Council of Australia to a “Commission of Audit” to recommend cuts to public spending – 22 October 2013 13. Cuts compensation to the victims of bushfires - 21 October 2013 12. Instructs public servants and detention centre staff to call asylum seekers “illegals” - 20 October 2013 11. Appoints Howard era Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC) Director to help reinstate the ABCC with all its previous oppressive powers over construction workers – 17 October 2013 10. Axes the Major Cities Unit a Government agency with 10 staff which provided expert advice on urban issues in our 18 biggest cities - 24 September 2013 9. Breaks his promise to “stop the boats” – 23 September 2013 8. Scraps the Social Inclusion Board, which had been established to guide policy on the reduction of poverty in Australia - 19 September 2013 7. Abolishes the Climate Commission – 19 September 2013 6. Appoints himself Minister for Women – 16 September 2013 5. Appoints only one woman into his cabinet and blames the women for his decision, saying he appoints “on merit”– 16 September 2013 4. Abolishes key ministerial positions of climate change and science – 16 September 2013 3. Breaks his promise to spend his first week with an Aboriginal community -14 September 2012 2. Takes away pay rises for childcare workers – 13 September 2013 1. Takes away pay rises from aged care workers – 13 September 2013 The Broken Promise Count 1. Does not spend his first week as Prime Minister with an Aboriginal community – 14 September 2013. This promise was made in front of indigenous elders and participants at the Garma Festival on 10 August 2013, this is a live recording. 2. Fails to “stop the boats” – 23 September 2013. This promise was repeated so many times I can’t count. Here’s Abbott’s 2013 campaign launch speech. 3. Breaks his promise to support Gonski - 25 November 2013 and 13 May 2014. Fails to commit to future funding or to require States to match the Commonwealth funding commitment. See paragraph two from Christopher Pyne on 29 August 2013 4. Breaks its NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016 – 12 December 2013 This was the Coalition’s policy they took to the election first announced 9 April 2013. 5. Breaks his election promise of no cuts to education by cutting funding for trade training centres in schools on 17 December 2013. He made this promise at the National Press Club on 2 September 2013 and in writing on 5 September 2013 as part of their policy commitments. 6. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health. He made this promise at the National Press Club on 2 September 2013 and in writing on 5 September 2013 as part of their policy commitments. This promise was first broken on 27 November 2013 when they cut funding to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council 7. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health on 17 December 2013 when they cut $150 million from hospitals and health services. 8. Fails to provide the promised customs vessel to monitor whaling operations in the Southern Ocean – 23 December 2013 Promise made by Greg Hunt - 9 April 2013 9. Breaks a promise to provide fibre-to-the-premises for all Tasmanians for the National Broadband Network. This promise was confirmed my Malcolm Turnbull on 17 August 2013 and confirmed as broken by the NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski on 13 February 2014. 10. Breaks a promise to introduce the paid parental leave scheme he took to the election on 30 April 2014 by reducing the promised benefit for those earning above $100 000. 11. Breaks promise of “no cuts to the ABC or SBS” by cutting $43.5 million from the ABC and SBS. 12. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a deficit tax rise of two percentage points for people earning more than $180,000 a year. 13. Announced to sacking of 16,500 public sector workers as whole Departments are abolished despite promising only 12,000 job losses and through natural attrition. 14. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a fuel levy. 15. Reduction in foreign aid budget of $7.9 billion over five years despite promise to not exceed $4.5 billion and cut via indexation. 16. Increases the pension age to 70 from 2035 after promising no changes to pensions 17. Cuts to old age pension by indexing to CPI, while it was promised there would be no changes. 18. Scraps The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) which was set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies and in doing so breaks an election promise. 19. Tears up Federal Government’s agreement with states and territories to help fund increasing health costs despite promise of no cuts to health. 20. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health with a $368 million cut from preventative health measures. 21. Reduces the Medicare benefit for optometry services and allows optometrists to charge more, despite promise to not cut health budget. 22. Axes the Charles Sturt University’s dental and oral health clinics, despite promise to not cut health budget. 23. Abolishes Medicare locals, despite promise to not cut health budget. 24. Breaks a promise to spend $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund by committing less than half this amount in the budget. 25. Breaks a promise to have one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns. 26. Breaks a promise not to cuts funding to health by dramatically cutting hospital funding. 27. Breaks election promise and slashes funding to Landcare 28. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy after revelations that two public servants in the Department of Industry have been made involuntarily redundant since September. 29. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy as it is revealed that at least 30 staff in Treasury will be made involuntarily redundant. 30. Breaks a promise not to grant permanent permanent residency to people arriving by boat by granting a visa to a least one refugee 31. Breaks a promise to amend the race hate laws 32. Breaks a promise to “make no unexpected detrimental changes to superannuation” by killing the Low Income Super Contribution, the Superannuation Guarantee and delaying superannuation increases for seven years. .......................................................................................... |
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Some key-words that help define Abbott and his illegitimate government.....
Vindictive Delays Kills Repeals Bans Refuses Breaks Risks Cuts Detains Offends Axes Prohibits Revokes Abandons Abolishes Excludes Slashes Terminates Reduces Ends Freezes Rips Ceases Reduces Dismantles Defers Undermines Sacks Forbids Imposes Defunds Misleads Contravenes Breaches Reverses Removes Destroys Privatises Violates Politicises Devastates Hides and the biggest one of all...... LIES LIES LIES. The infrastructure PM.what a sad joke.....what have they built????? apart from a lifetimes worth of resentment. Operation KICK HIM OUT. |
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illegitimate government.....
??????????????????? but the majority voted them in....Stupid |
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oh yeah Sally Mcloonyleftunionistmanus will always write up in favour of the cause
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The latest count is he/they have broken 32 DIRECT PRE ELECTION PROMISES
That means by any standard they were elected on a platform built on lies. This makes them an illegitimate Gov't. |
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THERE WILL BE NO CARBON TAX UNDER ANY (REPEAT FOR THE HARD OF HEARING AND POOR SIGHT....ANY) GOVERNMENT I LEAD...
The biggest porky of ALL time.....your criteria rendered her govt illegitimate |
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Abbott and his 32 lies far outweigh Gillards NON - LIE
32 times worse than Gillard even if you count her non lie as a lie.  Abbott is he really an Australin..... or does he hold dual citizenship .....or is he still just a Pom? That would make him doubly.......illegitimate |
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Wouldn't it be sickening but hilarious....to find out that he has been a Pom all this time
The first real illegitimate PM After he spent 3 years telling Gillard she was illegitimate to have it revealed that he was the illegitimate one...... and for it to come back on him and get hit by the KARMA BUS. |
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ANOTHER NON LIE?
this one from the biggest spender in oz history (and we are all paying for it now)WAYNE SWAN "Well certainly what we rejected is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax from the Liberals in their advertising. We certainly reject that.” Meet the Press, 15 August 2010. |
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Climate Change is crap
Who said that? There will be no changes to pensions. Who said that before the last election? |
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The biggest lie is Abbott telling the world he believes in Climate Change
When everything he has done is the exact opposite of someone that believes in Climate Change How gutless and deceitful is that?..He hasn't got the guts to go to the Australian people and be honest about his real beliefs in this matter but prefers to lie to get into power and then becomes a enviornmental vandal of the highest order with his attack on Science and his dismantling of any programme that has a green tinge. That is the biggest lie by a Prime Minister in our history. But you won't find a critical member of the MSMthat has the guts to pull him up on his lies...because they gave him a free pass into Gov't without any scrutiny and now sit back as if it has been a shock that he/they have been such an abomimation as a gov't. |
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Time for Abbott to stop fudging on the citizenship issue
Ingrid Matthews 10 September 2014 independentaustraliadotnet The fudging, blocking and delaying from both conservative governments, in Australia and Britain, suggest the date when Tony Abbott renounced his British citizenship will be politically harmful to the Prime Minister. Law lecturer, Ingrid Matthews, looks at the facts. IN THE U.S., being born in that country is a constitutional requirement for standing for the Presidency. Anyone born outside the U.S. is not eligible to stand. There was once some talk of changing this so that Arnold Schwarzenegger aka the former governator of California, would become eligible to run for president. A sex scandal broke, he disappeared from public life, and so did the debate. This is a constitutional matter. A legal fact. The political and cultural requirements are numerous and complex. For instance, there is no requirement in the constitution that a presidential candidate also be a Christian. But the current political reality is that candidates are compelled to state their adherence to the Christian religion and end their speeches with ‘God Bless America’. This is so despite the fact that the framers of the American Constitution were determined secularists. Freedom of religion and freedom from religion is the secular liberal tradition. The private letters of U.S. Constitution framer Thomas Jefferson clearly show his secular outlook and contain the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ to explain the First Amendment, which opens with this line: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof’ Atheists are usually required to demonstrate our knowledge of your religion in order to refute it. In this tradition, Jefferson supported his argument by quoting the gospel of Mark (12:17): ‘Then Jesus said to them, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.’ Because Barak Hussein Obama is a black Democrat with a funny sounding Muslim-ish name, a group of right wing conspiracists made up a story: that Obama was not born in the U.S. This is simply a lie. It gained traction in all the usual ways: via the lie-spreading machine that is Fox ‘news’, funded by millionaire Donald Trump, who donates generously to the Republican Party and increases his already obscene wealth under the demonstrably terrible ‘economic policy’ measures favoured by the extreme right wing. (image courtesy homebrewedtheology.com) The whole shrieking mess can be translated into a simple invalid argument: Obama is black, therefore he is not eligible for the presidency. The situation in Australia is different. Not for the first time, we have a foreign-born Prime Minister. This is neither a legal nor political problem. The constitution does not even mention the prime minister, let alone direct that the person holding that office be born in Australia. The Australian constitution does, however, require all elected members of Parliament to only hold Australian citizenship. That is, if you want to take up an elected position in our democracy and become part of the highest governing authority in the country, it is illegal to do so if you also hold allegiance to a foreign power in the form of citizenship of another nation. You must be neither a non-citizen nor a dual citizen. You must be an Australian citizen and an Australian citizen only. This is in section 44, which sets out the conditions and requirements of election to the Commonwealth Parliament. Section 44 of the Australian Constitution lists the grounds for disqualification on who may become a candidate for election to the Parliament of Australia. It states in particular: 44. Any person who - (i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power: or (ii.) Is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer: or (iii.) Is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent: or (iv.) Holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the Commonwealth: or (v.) Has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than twenty-five persons: shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives. Here’s the thinking behind the provision on foreign powers. While the states run day-to-day internal matters such as health, education and policing, the Commonwealth must deal with external affairs on behalf of all Australians. So if a member of the Commonwealth Parliament holds dual citizenship, they immediately risk a conflict of interest where the Australian government is negotiating, or going to war against, a foreign power. This is an unacceptable level of risk, because of national security. So to stand for public office as a dual citizen is in breach of our founding legal document, the law that authorises all other Australian laws. Again, this is not necessarily a problem. If the constitutional breach is seen as inadvertent, a mere oversight, we extend the principle of charity. This is the same rule that gives the batsman the benefit of the doubt. People make mistakes all the time. Where there are humans, there is human error. In the first instance, we give them the benefit of the doubt. They said it was an oversight, and it probably was. It’s a small problem with a simple solution. Renounce the other citizenship, become an Australian-only citizen, if necessary hold a by-election. If you win the by-election after renouncing the non-Australian citizenship – the citizenship of a foreign power – both the legal and political problems are resolved. That’s it. It is a different case altogether to repeatedly stand for public office not once, but twice, or three or four or five times, while not being eligible to stand under s44 of the Australian Constitution. It is certainly a substantially different matter if the person who did this is the Prime Minister, a person who holds qualification from an elite university, a highly paid member of parliament who knows or ought to know that what they are doing is in breach of the constitution. Someone in this position is attributed with constructive knowledge, that is, if you say you didn’t know, the law says you ought to have known, in this case on the basis of the responsibilities and remuneration of your office, and the foundational principles of the Westminster system, such as ministerial accountability. There is no crazy conspiracy ‘birther’ movement in Australia. There is a group of people on social (and now some traditional) media asking whether the Prime Minister has stood for public office while ineligible to stand, and if so, how many times. Comparisons with the birthers should be dismissed out of hand as weak analogy. That is, there are too few similarities, and those similarities are very broad (both arguments are founded in political oppositionism and use the constitution to make their case). There are too many highly relevant differences, and the differences are very specific. The birthers simple seek to discredit the president and their opposition is racist as well as political. In Australia, we are asking whether the Prime Ministers tendency to lie goes all the way to his election to public office itself. The question is easily answered. The Prime Minister’s office tells us he has renounced his British citizenship. It refuses to say when. The fudging and blocking and delaying from both conservative governments, in Australia and Britain, suggest the date will be politically harmful to the Prime Minister. My guess is that the date he renounced British citizenship is relatively recent, and will show that he wilfully, not inadvertently, stood for public office more than once, while being ineligible to do so. Creative Commons Licence This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License |
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SC seething.....
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Is this why Abbott had that un explained trip to England recently?
When there were important meetings with the yanks he missed.  |
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Abbott has made Australia less safe — so he’s right to lift the threat level
Bernard Keane | Sep 12, 2014 crikey Tony Abbott’s announcement that the terrorism threat level has been raised is correct — after all, he has taken a deliberate decision that will make Australians less safe, and done so for political purposes. However facile and meaningless Australia’s terror threat level system is, the Prime Minister is correct to raise the level to high — a move he has announced this afternoon. The increase in the level — based on the claim that a terrorist attack is “likely”, although there was “no specific intelligence of particular plots” — will be accompanied by a “modest information campaign”, the Prime Minister revealed, in an announcement that presumably entirely by coincidence was simultaneous with another NSW Liberal MP being exposed at the Independent Commission Against Corruption and Senator Arthur Sinodinos returning to ICAC for more questioning. Australians are less safe now than a few weeks ago — and less safe because of decisions taken, primarily for political ends, by the Abbott government: namely, to intervene in a conflict in Iraq and Syria that has nothing to do with Australia’s national interest. We know this will make Australians less safe because our security and intelligence officials told us how the 2003 Iraq war made Western citizens less safe. Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty said it at the time and was abused by the Howard government for his trouble. Senior intelligence officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have confirmed it since: the Iraq War radicalised hundreds of Western Muslims who saw only unprompted aggression directed toward a Muslim country (the former head of MI5 has explained this best, for the Chilcot Inquiry in the UK). Islamist terrorism is portrayed in the media as a force of irrational evil - far more so than white male terrorists ever are. But terrorism is a response by extremist individuals to external events, not a random occurrence of a disturbed or depraved mind. Osama Bin Laden understood this, knowing that if he could provoke the United States into attacking a Muslim country, it would deliver a generation of angry young men to his cause. For Bin Laden, it took the intricately-planned, epic-scale attack of 9/11 to achieve that. Islamic State militants, however, have achieved it with far less: some slaughters of prisoners and brutal murders of two Western hostages. As if compelled by an other-worldly force, once again Western countries are dropping everything to do exactly what Islamic extremists want — intervene in a Muslim country. In choosing to be part of this process — which includes, along the way, providing arms to a proscribed terrorist organisation, PKK, which happens to be fighting on “our” side — Tony Abbott has therefore taken a decision that will demonstrably make Australians less safe. Moreover, he has done so primarily for political purposes. Having discovered a competence in international affairs of the kind that eluded Julia Gillard until much later in her prime ministership, Abbott has been keen to use international affairs as a distraction from the domestic difficulties that see his government lagging in the polls. He has also, like John Howard, sought to keep the focus on national security, an area where he knows the Coalition always leads Labor — indeed, part of the theatrics of raising the threat level are to do just that. Problematically, however, Abbott isn’t getting the political benefit: the polls so far show his government continues to struggle and that he isn’t trusted on international affairs. It’s one thing to place the lives of Australians at risk for political purposes, but it’s even worse to do it so badly you fail to get any political benefit. It has been noticeable (and it’s been noticed by Labor) that Abbott is ostentatiously invoking Labor’s bipartisan support on the terrorism issue and repeatedly insisting that he is not using it for political purposes — especially that the decision to lift the threat level is one for security officials. Governments in national security situations can normally rely on the electorate to stand behind them with little convincing — it’s oppositions that have to be careful not to be perceived as being out of step. [b]But in this instance, Abbott occasionally looks as though he’s clinging onto Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for protection against the criticism of politicising terrorism. The broader point of all this is, well, duh. As Crikey has noted repeatedly, this isn’t about gormless politicians endlessly repeating the mistakes of their predecessors. They, and security officials, know perfectly well what perpetuates the War on Terror, which is such a boon for large companies, security agencies and politicians. That’s why they keep on perpetuating it. ................................................................................. PURE EVIL  |
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loony
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he was never asked the question and you answered it for him- misrepresenting the truth
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has been forced to defend his comment that "sometimes **** happens" when discussing the events surrounding the death of a digger in Afghanistan last year.
Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney was shot dead in a battle with Taliban insurgents in August. Channel Seven has broadcast footage of Mr Abbott in October discussing the incident with US commander James Creighton. Mr Abbott in Tarin Kowt,is seen saying:"It's pretty obvious that, well, sometimes **** happens,doesn't it?" |
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but he did not say it in relation to a made up question from YOU regarding the current conflict, did he?
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Nahh just shows what he really thinks about the deaths of our soldiers .......
Sh it happens.... move along ...... there's an election to win |