741,700 officially unemployed people in the country (  Trading Economics)  are required apply for 40 jobs per month out of the approximately 146,100 jobs that are available (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ analysis of advertised job positions in May. However unemployed people face the loss of payments as a punishment for spamming employers with unsatisfactory applications to meet tough job search rules, the Abbott government has warned.

“Job seekers who do not make satisfactory job search efforts, including not diversifying their efforts to approach a range of employers and use a range of job search techniques, can be subject to compliance action, including ultimately financial penalties,”

In other words, genuine job seekers are like genuine refugees: only the government can determine who fits the criteria – and no-one fits the criteria. Unemployment figures will rapidly drop as people are penalized and kicked off the scheme.

The Australian government have been impressively resolute over MH17: demanding an investigation, accusing Russia of culpability, rallying for the UN to send in teams. However now that the US and the European Union are imposing harsh sanctions against Russia Tony Abbott is thinking “…oooh, seems a bit much.”

“At the moment our focus is not on sanctions,” “Our focus is on bringing home our dead. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again – that’s the approach that the Australian government and our international partners, particularly the Dutch, have got to this.”

 

Last week, when Russia struck back applying sanctions to agricultural products, Australia was also affected. Had the PM forgotten sanctions were placed on Russia back in March when they annexed Crimea. The farmers affected like the our motor industry will not be receiving any support.

George Brandis has been given the go ahead to do whatever he wants yet again having done so well till now. ASIO can do whatever they want to spy on us. We have so many ex German, Romanian secret service people here there is no shortage of advice available to him

“It’s not the purpose of this bill to place any constraints at all on freedom of discussion,” Brandis explained, presumably before howling with laughter at his own hilarity and taking a few moments to contain himself.“”We are a government that believes very strongly in freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

Now that no changes to the RAD section 18C will be tabled everything will be consistent and massive constraints on people’s freedom are, obviously, there for protecting people’s freedom. 

Our man in charge of our largest people smuggling operation Scott Morrison has an even more secret maneuver  planned. At it’s best it will for the meager cost of $ 40 mill in ‘foreign aid’ disappear 4000 asylum seekers from Nauru. This will be called ‘resettlement’ and the minute they have landed no longer be Australia’s responsibility. Should anything untoward happen to these people the responsibility will be Cambodia’s. As Morrison pointed out.

“resettlement does not mean first world resettlement”

Like SriLanka Cambodia is only rumoured to have human rights issues and those rumours have no substance as far as Australia is concerned. Rumours of mental health issues spread by the UNHRC are base less and if there is one or two cases they will obviously be dealt with in Cambodia with whatever is left of the $ 40 mill to be distributed. It’s strange that the coalition in opposition rejected the same scheme Labour had put in place with Malaysia whose infrastructure is far superior to Cambodia’s

Poor Joe Hockey ‘pilloried’ I think is the appropriate word. He should never have gone to Fiji on that holiday, released his book or been allowed loose in public

”poorest people either don’t have cars or actually don’t drive very far in many cases”

Even if the statistics as presented to Hockey by advisers were right the presentation was appalling.’Politics is not a statistical game, it’s an emotional game. It was a dopey remark that should have been realized straight away and corrected.”n his apology on 2GB on Friday, Mr Hockey used the words ”sorry” and ”apologise” eight times – and his voice carried genuine emotion. However it was a grovel that was too late and long in coming.

Can anybody tell me in clear an simple terms why Tony Abbott has been away. Is it because he is a poll driven politician like Rudd. His ratings improved while he was away last time so let’s send him off again. Why to give his personal condolences to the Dutch PM. You send condolences. We do however have to admit he hasn’t lost his silver tongue putting the Scots offside. Did he take his office with him? The control centre lost their centre of gravity while the PM was out of town and all his ministers had a go with the media all in one way or another kicking own goals. Where was the iron hand of Peta Credlin? Her mind seemed to go for a walk. Maybe because her husbands name kept coming up in the NSW crime & corruption hearings.

Strange week yet again I’m sure they are happy it’s over