Australias' new budget ........well we're %*^#

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This is what happens when rich people want to tell us all that our youth is sitting on their arses. Which of course is not true . We have a huge number of youths out of work so this is the answer according to our government.

Young Australians to face six-month wait for unemployment benefits | World news | theguardian.com

People under 30 will receive Newstart and Youth Allowance for only six months of the year which they will spend undertaking 25 hours a week on Work for the Dole programs.


Okay..... .if there is 25 hours work a week for each of these youths (which is equivelant to part time work hours) ..Then why isn't it an actual job with decent pay?

Slave labour?

then after they have done this work they lose their welfare payment again for six months..........(by the way they just worked for those payments so essentially they get the sack from the dole....making any sense to anyone?

Once they have spent six months on the program, they will lose income support for another six months unless they undertake training or study.


they will also have to wait six months to get a first payment anyway

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and good bye to Medicare.....co payments of $7 to go to the doctor ..who's hit hardest? the poor, people with chronic illnesses or sick children. Old age pensioners (my mother being one of them who has to attend doctors quite often.........

Simply put people are going to stop going to the doctor for pap smears, breast checks, pains that wont go away, when they come down with the flu.......And why will people stop going to the doctor when they are sick? because doctors will prescribe medicine and pharmaseuticals are about to go up in price and those who get it cheaper because they are on welfare, will be cut.

I don't know what the hell they are thinking but this is not good. How is the health sector better off by having it's funding slashed . Western Australia has already said this morning two hospitals will have to close.

I personally know someone who pays out almost $500 a month for heart medications. Which is fine when you are working.

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Oh and single mothers on welfare are going to be hit once again. Once your child hits 6 all payments stop .......zilch you get nothing. It was once when your child turned 7 they transferred you to the dole or you went on to study.

Paranting payment A and B will stop. School start bonus will stop. This from a government who seems to think our schools (even our public schools) are free.

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Oh and petrol is about to go up too . The government says that the excise hasn't gone up in ten years ..they couldn't put it up because other issues around the world raised the price, there would have been a huge backlash. So in turn this means less buses and increased fares, farming costs and small business will suffer increased taxi fares ...........And I hope you don't have to drive to the doctors .

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And we all know the GST will be increased because the feds has stopped funding to the states. GST goes to the state governments. How do they make up the money ....yep slug us with even more tax. GST is at 10% they want to raise it to 12 to 14% .

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$145m GST hit for Tassie | The Advocate

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Everything About Anything in The Budget - Unions NSW

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I can only tell you how things go in Holland:

You are better off pooping out 6 kids, not work and claim.

If you are like us: don't want kids, got a mortgage and want to work, you're stuffed. 3 months of unemployment money is given, after that you can live in a cardboard box for all they care ( that was actually said to us).

The companies want younger people. once you hit 23 you cannot find a job or it is super difficult, because for the same labour a sixteen year old gets €3,50 and hour and someone 23 or over might get something like €8,95 an hour.

It's ridiculous.

if you take your elderly parents in (instead of sending them to a care home), they will cut their pension in some cases up to €300,- per month.

if you want health care over here, thats fine but the first €360 euro's you pay for. But i'm already paying €125,- per month per person for health care, the €360,- own risk is on top of that... and there is no way of getting out of that.

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That's my point really, our prime minister wants to make us like every one else. It's not going to wash . It will take Australia back 70 or so years. And he's probably the worst and most embarrassing prime minister we've ever had. You know how Putin struts around bare chested for photo shoots? That's exactly what he does it's nausiating.

this is how members of this government addresses the opposition . He's the education minister and he says what in parliament? they have nothing but disdain for anyone who are not them.

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opposition response to the budget . Christ I hope they block it. So many are calling for a double dissolution . Even those who voted for Liberals are shocked.

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Sadly our left wing opposition parties are no longer left wing and a spineless bunch of nonentities.

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Yes well we'll see if ours has any guts .

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H ha ha ha ha just found this . if you need to re post with your government of choice be my guess. lol

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The Abbott Government has been in power for 256 days. Since the election they:

Confiscated medication from asylum seeker detainees. source

Deliberately hid the cost of the $4.45 million renovations on the Lodge. source

Spent $50,000 on one dinner for 60 G20 guests, including food specially flown from all over Australia to Washington. source

Lied about the presence of a full time psychiatrist on Manus Island. source

Cut over $900 million from local council funding. source

Scrapped tax breaks for people with a dependent spouse. source

Voted against the creation of a federal anti-corruption body. source

Called Bill Shorten a "****" in parliament, on camera. source source

Scrapped The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. source

Cut $170 million from the Research Training Scheme, which supported research students. source

Spent $12 million to investigate whether to sell a department which makes $0.538 billion per year for only $6 billion. source

Cut $15 million from Charles Sturt University's dental health program and oral clinic. source

Cut $2.5 billion from aged care programs, such as Meals On Wheels. source

Removed financial rewards which encouraged Universities to enroll disadvantaged students. source

Scrapped the National Rental Affordability Scheme from 2015 onwards. source

Cut sunday penalty rates for casual restaurant workers. source

Cut $16 million from ANSTO, Australia's only source of medical isotopes. source

Slashed $1.1 million used to fight against animal abuse. source

Made $110 million of broad-sweeping cuts to the Arts. The only organisation to receive more funding ($1 million more) is coincidentally chaired by the daughter of Rupert Murdoch. source source

Cut $28.2 million from the Australia Council, which provides grants for the arts. source

Cut $38 million from Australian television and film funding. source

Scrapped the National Water Commission. source

Threw another $100 million at the mining industry. source

Scrapped the National Preventive Health Agency’s $2.9 million National Tobacco Campaign. source

Broke an election promise to have over one million roofs with solar panels. source

Broke an election promise by cutting billions from school funding and committing to even less of the Gonski reforms. source source source

Scrapped a program to encourage graduates to take up work in places of need. source

Cut $1.3 billion from seniors concessions funding. source

Scrapped the Community Food Safety campaign. source

Cut $2.3 million from contributions to the World Health Organization. source

Scrapped a program which encouraged Australian video game development. source

Deregulated university fees, thereby allowing Universities to charge what they want. Students will end up with American levels of crippling debt. Many of the politicians behind this policy received their degrees for free. source source source

Scrapped the Women's leadership program. source

Broke an election promise by cutting well over $15 billion per year from health funding. source source source source

Scrapped the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority, which helped increase organ donation rates. source

Tightened eligibility and lowered indexation for support for injured Veterans. source source

Scrapped the Commonwealth Human Rights Education Programme. source

Scrapped the Education Department’s Online Diagnostic Tools Program, which helped improve teachers' productivity. source

Cut $4.4 million from job interview workshop programs. source

Scrapped the Office of Water Science research program. source

Reduced the Medicare optometry rebate. source

Spent $480 million merging the Department of Immigration and Customs into Border Force, which won't have to follow public service or ADF laws and protocols of conduct. source source source

Simultaneously increased the cost of petrol and cut funding for public transport. source source

Scrapped Youth Connections, a program which helped school leavers find work. source

Removed family tax benefits for children older than 6, and drastically reduced the income threshold for its eligibility and froze it below interest rates. source source

Cut $845.6 million from programs which fund innovative start-ups. source

Stopped giving under 25s Newstart. source source

Spent $218 million upgrading Christmas Island's asylum seeker operations, so that we can whisk off vulnerable people out of side quicker before we start abusing them. source

Halved the $2.55 billion emissions reduction fund. source

Cut $2 billion from Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Landcare and other environmental agencies. source

Cut over half a billion from Indigenous spending. source

Cut 16,500 public service jobs, despite promising to create one million new jobs. source

Cut the Exotic Diseases program. source

Ended the Get Reading! program. source

Scrapped the Centre for Quality Teaching. source

Cut $111 million from the CSIRO. source source

Cut $120 million from ethanol and biofuel programs. source source

Cut all funding to NICTA, a peak technology research company. source

Cut welfare for young people, so they have to survive on $0 per week for 6 months, before being put on a welfare scheme which is below the poverty line anyway. source source source

Set aside $245 million for religious chaplains in schools. Secular schools do not have the option of hiring a secular equivalent. source source

Scrapped the First Home Buyer's Account scheme, which provided sorely needed assistance for young people to buy homes. source

Broke an election promise by tightening disability pension eligibility and financially penalising anyone who spends at least 4 weeks overseas. source source source

Broke an election promise by changing age pension indexation, and eligibility age, and the threshold. source source source

Abolished the position of disability discrimination commissioner. source

Cut all funding to the government's only dedicated disability website. source

Broke an election promise by cutting $40 million from the SBS and ABC. source source

Cut foreign aid, again. This time by $7.6 billion. source

Started charging interest on HECs. source

Reduced the income threshold where graduates start to pay back HECS. source

Cut $138 million from the Australian Federal Police, resulting in 335 job losses. source

Scrapped a loan scheme which helped apprentices buy the tools they need to learn and work. source

Deliberately ignored desperate and repeated pleas by security personnel on Manus Island requesting stronger fencing, CCT cameras and better lighting. These requests were made months before locals broke down the fences, shot, stabbed and bashed detainees. source

Claimed asylum seekers are safe on Nauru, even after an unexploded wartime shell was found inside the compound. source

Claimed asylum seekers are safe on Nauru, even after it was leaked that some guards physically and verbally assault children regularly. source

Failed to provide adequate medical treatment to asylum seekers on Manus Island who were shot and bashed by locals who invaded the camp and rioted. source

Went $1 million (67%) over budget on the Commision of Audit, an investigation into how taxpayer money can be spent more prudently. source

Cut $10 million from Flinders Hospital, then spent $15 million upgrading the field for the Manly Rugby Leage team. source

Broke an election promise to not cut ABC funding, by cutting all funding to the Australia Network (part of the ABC). source source source

Described wind farms as "urterly offensive" and "a blight on the landscape". source

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Spent $20 million on an international campaign to discourage people from fleeing war crimes, genocide and other persecution. source

Broke an election promise by proposing a deficit tax. source

Chose not to debrief any Manus Island detention centre staff after the riots by PNG locals which resulted in the death of one asylum seeker and the hospitalisation of dozens more. source

Paid people $1500 per person per day to recommend spending cuts. source

Failed to act on the recommendations of the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders regarding CCTV cameras and strong fences on Manus island. 3 months later security guards and locals pushed over the fences and assaulted the asylum seekers, resulting in 1 death and dozens of hospitilisations, none of which was caught on CCTV footage. source

Tried to abolish the independent national charity regulation body, which would mean the government would regulate charities, possibly resulting in less impartial regulation. For example, environmental groups stripped of charity status because they oppose government policies. source

Removed climate change from the agenda of the 2014 international G20 summit. source

Spent about $2 million for Prince William and Kate's 14 day royal visit. source

Spent $3 billion on new drones to patrol our borders. source

Spent $7.5 million on life boats to send back asylum seekers in. Allegedly the motivation behind the government's asylum seeker policy is to stop people drowning when travelling from neighbouring countries to Australia in unsafe vessels. Despite this, much of the safety equipment was removed from the boats before sending asylum seekers back into the ocean. source source

Tried to prevent internet supplier TPG from installing fibre all the way to customers. source

Broke an election promise by no longer guaranteeing NBN speeds higher than what ADSL can provide. source

Classified people born in Australia who have never left Australia as "unauthorised maritime arrivals" because their parents haven't had their asylum claims processed yet. source

Scrapped a body which provides advice on over $1 billion in tax breaks that are designed to encourage Research and Development, despite promising during the election to improve incentives for Research and Development investment. source

Claimed a 2.5% reduction in funding every year for the ABC is not a funding cut. The government promised during the election to not cut ABC funding. source

Cut over 300 jobs (about 1 in 3) in the Treasury department. source

Cut 400 jobs in the Department of Industry. source

Removed anti-sweatshop laws and cut all funding to Ethical Clothing Australia. source

Closed all Medicare offices on Saturdays. source

Ceased legal assistance for people exercising their right to make a claim for asylum. source

Cut 250 jobs from the Federal Environment Department. source

Increased the fee for lodging Freedom of Information requests. source

Increased the eligibility age for the pension. source

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Achievements of the Abbott Government To Date | The Sauce



the list is huge and none of it is good

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I had no idea and now i'm really really angry . Who the **** goes around cutting funds to meals on wheels?

I'm really beginning to hate these people. and all this for what? to buy a few planes?