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Showing posts with label social policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social policy. Show all posts
Monday, 28 August 2023

Dystopian Australia: just the tip of the iceberg.....

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  In Australia it sometimes feels as though there has never been any hope of a genuine level playing field developing in a society whose ins...
Saturday, 19 February 2011

The start and finish of 'charity' according to Hartsuyker

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The Federal Member for Cowper and Shadow Spokesperson for the Dog Whistle on the NSW North Coast forgets that old saying that although chari...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Income Management by Basics Card: NSW North Coast Business Shame File

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The following businesses operating on the NSW North Coast participate in the Gillard Government’s paternalistic and punitive income managem...
Saturday, 22 January 2011

If Baby Boomers were worried aged care might be stuffed by the time they turned 75 - worry no more

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Read and enjoy current aged care recommendations in the Caring For Older Australians: Draft report presented to the Gillard Government by t...
Monday, 26 July 2010

Australia 2010: When the welcome mat is never put out for you

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SANE Australia has released the findings of a recent survey in Research Bulletin 12 Social inclusion and mental illness - hopefully in time...
Friday, 18 June 2010

And the Rudd Government wonders why its reputation is in tatters....

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On 20 May 2010 the NT News reported : LABOR backbencher Marion Scrymgour has once again spoken out against her own party's policy by at...
Sunday, 7 March 2010

Lack of public facilities such as transport in rural and regional Oz

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Last year the local community of ***** (name removed) buried young ****** (name removed). ***** hanged himself out of despair. Centrelink ho...
Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Shame Rudd Shame: government gets a fail on pension increase

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State government housing authorities and community housing are lining up to take a bite out of the Rudd Government $60 per fortnight base pe...
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Sunday, 26 October 2008

Saffin announces new deal over Centrelink employment benefit compliance

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The Far North Coaster reported last Wednesday : Member for Page Janelle Saffin says the Rudd Government's new welfare compliance system...
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Living life on your uppers in the Northern Rivers

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I've just received the October newsletter from my community housing company which contains mind boggling information. It informs me that...
Monday, 13 October 2008

Single, living alone, no assets, on a full pension and in community housing? Rudd and Rees want to starve you out

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It is rather difficult to find Housing Commission accommodation in regional New South Wales these days. I'm told that most subsidised ho...
Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Wrong side of the great divide perpetuated by Rudd Government

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Rudders and Jackboot Jenny Macklin still haven't got the message it seems. Despite Kevin Rudd's public apology to the stolen genera...
Monday, 29 September 2008

Google Inc. gets hot under the collar over California's Proposition 8

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It's Goggle Inc 's 10th birthday and, apart from explaining the birthday logo and a brief post on the presidential debate, the only ...
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Is it beat up on pensioners week?

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* First we had Today's Apathetic Youth making a case that pensioners are whingers who caused some of their own financial problems by a...
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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Hold on a mo, Joe!

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According to ABC News last week, Joe Ludwig was talking up a digital welfare debit card: "The federal Human Services Minister says alm...
Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Rudd oversteps the line on his way to becoming John Howard Lite

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The Prime Minister is either getting a little too big for his boots or has been listening to Jackboot Jenny Macklin again. Now he wants to...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Nicola Roxon has only herself to blame for that binge drinking hangover

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The Federal Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, has only herself to blame for the hole she teeters on the edge of over the excessive use of t...
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Friday, 28 March 2008

Families Minister and Member for Jagajaga channels Mal Brough and throws compassion out the window

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ABC1 AM : TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Government will quarantine the $5,000 Baby Bonus from parents who neglect or abuse their children. Fami...
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Clarence Valley Council looks into affordable housing scheme

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Yet another NSW North Coast council is deciding that there may be a role for local government in the provision of affordable housing. Cla...
Friday, 21 March 2008

Read my lips, Mr. Rudd. I will never vote Labor if you continue down this path

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For over a decade the former Howard Government ignored this country's own democratic heritage, international law and UN conventions; a...
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