Australian Politics thread [merged]

[Judge Roughneck]

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/irak-deutschland-schickt-kurden-panzerabwehrraketen-a-989117.html

[1965]

You really are a nutcase.

 

[Judge Roughneck]

It seems a horny NSA [maybe[ employee has hacked a leaked a number of celeb punani photos

NSFW

But safe for the national security agency 

My non professional understanind this is rather illegal but bush and Cheney did NGAF

Not a bad day to be alive

#leakforjlaw #feminism

[Francois Jackson]

Not a bad first year from TA you have to admit.

Has really grown into quite the leader if you ask me

[Judge Roughneck]

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-strange-and-suspicious-case-of-tony-abbotts-citizenship,6859#.VAh1By-Qw1o.reddit

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.

Deport

Go home we don't want u here

Stop the boats

Australia is full

Poms out of government

Illegals out  too

[mightytiges]

Not a bad first year from TA you have to admit.

Has really grown into quite the leader if you ask me

   

Credit where it was due for Abbott's response and handling of the MH17 tragedy (it helped having a position on the UN security council) but on the domestic front Abbott's been played by Clive Palmer and the billionaire's latest whim. What's helped Abbott recently though is the main focus has switched overseas to the ISIS psychos and the Ukraine/Russie crisis, while at home it has been Hockey who has been the one continually putting his foot in his mouth.

[Judge Roughneck]

 :whistleWar of terror must be won mt

Have some respect for tony pls

He yelled at putin too, that was wonderful

My understanding is australia signed a non disclosed pact for the Plane that got shot down. I like how this didn't make the main stream media.

[1965]

Watch out Tony, they are coming for you.

Pressure builds for federal ICAC

Date September 10, 2014

Mark Kenny

The case for a federal corruption watchdog has been given fresh impetus by claims that the Liberal Party-linked Free Enterprise Foundation, based in Canberra, was used to channel otherwise illegal donations from a developer back to the state party machine in 2011.

The allegation is one of myriad disturbing accounts of dodgy dealings between politicians and property developers dating back years.

In Canberra, crossbench senators say the steady stream of revelations emanating from the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has bolstered the case for a national version.

They argue persuasively that the superior revenue-raising and spending powers of the Commonwealth make transparency and probity even more necessary.

Greens democracy spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon said major party resistance to a "national ICAC" – as many dub it – was becoming increasingly hard to justify, especially when money flowed routinely between state and federal accounts of political parties.

And she said the standard refrain from the major parties that NSW was a special case was also wishful thinking.

"The appalling things we are learning about the murky relationship between business and politics in NSW, we only know because of ICAC, so how do we know what's happening beyond that?" she said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/pressure-builds-for-federal-icac-20140909-10ed3n.html#ixzz3CrAek1Of

[dwaino]

Just read that Russia is re-militarising Wrangel Island to take their Arctic circle presence to cold war levels. Interesting because the US make a large claim over the region.  Both interests obviously due to the oil and gas reserves that will be readily accessible the more the ice retreats.

[Chuck17]

That awful ranga PM we had is getting reamed at the commission

[tiga]

Just read that Russia is re-militarising Wrangel Island to take their Arctic circle presence to cold war levels. Interesting because the US make a large claim over the region.  Both interests obviously due to the oil and gas reserves that will be readily accessible the more the ice retreats.

Would make "The deadliest catch" that little bit more exciting.

[dwaino]

Just read that Russia is re-militarising Wrangel Island to take their Arctic circle presence to cold war levels. Interesting because the US make a large claim over the region.  Both interests obviously due to the oil and gas reserves that will be readily accessible the more the ice retreats.

Would make "The deadliest catch" that little bit more exciting.

As if Bering Sea Gold didn't already have enough drama 

[1965]

How this bastard thinks he is going to get re-elected just amazes me.

One-term Tony. Libs only hope is a leadership change. Julie Bishop?

Heaven help us.
 

Women will bear the brunt of the Abbott government's budget cuts.
 
September 10, 2014 - 7:00PM
 
Gareth Hutchens

New analysis drawing on National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling budget impact models and latest census and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, shows women in low and middle-income households can expect to suffer the biggest financial losses from the Abbott government's budget savings.

And the worst hit – by far – will be women in low-income households.

A single mother in the lowest disposable income group can expect to lose one of every four dollars lost by that group in the budget's aftermath come 2017.

Women in middle-income households will suffer much more than high-income women.

The analysis comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott released a video on the weekend in which he said one of his government's main motivations in future will be "protecting the vulnerable."

The new slogan marked a deliberate and noticeable change of rhetoric from Mr Abbott's previous public messages, and follows months of criticism that he and his Treasurer, Joe Hockey, have endured for their budget's likely negative impact on poor households.

An opinion poll published this week also showed Mr Hockey has recently become the least popular member of the Coalition front bench, falling from third place nine months ago when a similar poll was taken.

The new analysis, conducted by the Australia Institute, shows women in the poorest 20 per cent of households will be $2566 worse off in 2017 as a result of the budget.

Women in the wealthiest 20 per cent of households will be only $77 worse off on average in 2017.

The analysis accounts for disposable income after tax, including welfare payments, and considers the impact of the government's controversial fuel indexation changes, fringe benefits tax changes, and the loss of the low-income super contribution from July 1, 2017.

The analysis does not include the likely impact of the proposed GP co-payment and higher education measures.

Marie Coleman, chairwoman of the National Foundation of Australian Women and former head of the Social Welfare Commission,  called the figures "alarming."


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott-budget-to-leave-poorer-women-worse-off-20140910-10f4dw.html#ixzz3CwcJLjFB

[Chuck17]

It makes me furious too

[Judge Roughneck]

When are we invading Syria?



http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/10/politics/isis-obama-speech/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


Bashar al-Assad gawn


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