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l be our last when we opened we thought we d last about a month now four years later it s time to draw the curtain on what has been an amazing experience if it were possible i d keep the café open forever but it s not possible i m focused on finishing my law degree as well as other internet ventures and i don t seem to have the spare time that i d like to have we finish with a proud record and that s a good way to finish over the four years we ve had almost 1 5 million visitors 147 000 comments and 1 200 posts these are remarkable statistics but best of all we ve shared this experience with hundreds of amazing people many of whom i now consider truly great friends they all added to the experience and they all made it worthwhile there are too many to thank both as authors or commenters so forgive me if i skip that formality however i would like to reserve a special thanks to min the café wouldn t have had a heartbeat without her the café won t be disappearing into the internet oblivion though it will be kept open indefinitely as an archive of everyone s contribution so yes by all means we ll still be here if you wish to continue adding comments on any of our existing posts but i will not be adding any new ones and of course we ll still be able to catch up with each other over at the aimn which has grown beyond all my expectations and where many of my friends from the café now gather so we ll see you there anyway shall we finish with a song share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading by michael taylor posted in cafe talk 242 may 14 2014 budget of the damned background herald sun frankston hospital december 13 my impression in the lead up to hockey s budget was that we would be damned if we did and damned if we didn t damned if we were ill or disabled damned if we were unemployed and most definitely damned should we ever have the temerity to become a burden on society and get old and it seems that for none else other than the gina types of our society that this has been confirmed there is not much point in once again noting that abbott promised no surprises no new taxes no increased taxes no cuts to education no cuts to health i would suspect that for the vast majority of us that given abbott s political record that the surprise would have been if he had kept his word making promises is nothing but clever politics and anyway you cannot believe anything said in the heat of a debate nor at any other time it seems tony abbott promised to restore trust in government then quickly discarded the notion as written by robert simms for the drum tony abbott is a pathological liar who has lost the respect of the australian people he leads a beleaguered government held ransom by extremists in the senate his government is illegitimate he must resign and end our collective misery simms was noting the irony of the hate campaign run incessantly by abbott during his term as leader of the opposition surely it is now time for abbott and barrackers to apply the same standards to themselves but of course not just prior to the election the herald sun and without exception all of the murdoch stable gushed effusive praise ding dong the witch is dead and the wordy nerd come power tripper gone with her all hail the prince tony abbott stands ready today to become australia s new prime minister with a set of economic and social policies to take the nation into a safe and assured future he has not wavered from the task of building a disciplined and cohesive coalition team in doing so he has proved himself a conviction politician he has proved himself a man of principle labor has lost its way as well as its heart it has chosen to stoke class war to gain political advantage not only is this un australian it is also a betrayal of modern labor the herald sun believes mr abbott should be given the opportunity tomorrow to restore australia for australians i hope that the writer of the above editorial is now equally as damning of the obvious the class war the restructure of our society with the well off being deprived of a small slice of their massive pie while the poor will be grubbing around in the gutter but now and even before hockey s horror budget saw the light of day again from simms this growing sense of hypocrisy is reinforced by the contradictory political persona the prime minister has crafted for himself indeed six months after his election many voters would struggle to articulate precisely what he stands for we have a budget emergency yet the government can still find billions of dollars for fighter jets abbott supported gonski and the ndis before the election yet was eager to dump them after he promised no new taxes yet wants to charge for visits to the doctor even his paid parental leave scheme has been watered down suggesting that if it was abbott s signature policy his autograph was forged from ross gittins if you thought a man who could promise no surprises no excuses was a man who could be trusted to keep his word more fool you any experienced voter who didn t foresee that changing the government would mean this year s budget was a stinker isn t paying enough attention here are but one example of the ideological agenda being presented to us and for no one s delectation except those whose beliefs run to right wing extremism as someone tweeted welcome to the united states of australia ap ril 2014 the government moves to dismantle labor s gp super clinic program by trying to claw back money from centres that are yet to be built gp super clinics with longer opening hours more staff and broad medical services were a major plank of labor s health policy in government with 650 million earmarked for 60 clinics funding has been suspended to three clinics which are yet to be built in darwin rockingham in western australia and brisbane december 2013 nsw will miss out on more than 150 million in funding for vital health services that has been cut by the federal government this is bad news for public hospital patients people living in western sydney will be hardest hit by the cuts with westmead hospital losing 100 million over three years the children s medical research institute and the westmead millennium institute will also lose tens of millions of dollars and now in addition to this and a whole lot more which is likely to have passed under the radar there is billions of dollars will be slashed from already strained public hospital budgets under plans that could lead to huge increases in waiting times for surgery and emergency treatment the commonwealth will for the first time allow the states to charge patients for public hospital treatment partly to deter people from circumventing a 7 fee for gp visits by going to the emergency department despite strong opposition from doctors who say hospitals are not placed to deal with the administrative burden this seems to an ongoing theme of the abbott credlin hockey government that all should be government via deterrence the excuse for imposing a 7 fee has been that this will act as a deterrence imposing more user charges in health in order to deter overuse but surely it is the medical practitioner s role to decide on the level of care required by each patient and not the role of governments to decide what is and what is not overuse the previously mooted 7 fee will apply to gp visits diagnostic imaging such as x rays and pathology services such as blood tests concessional patients and children under 16 years will pay the fee only for the first 10 services they use each calendar year the government will cut its contribution to the cost of those services by the same amount saving it 3 5 billion over five years part of the new fee will go towards a new 20 billion medical research fund presumably which will also act as a deterrence to those individuals who go groveling at their gp s feet begging for unnecessary items which therefore might be overused such as x rays and blood tests doctors have discretion to choose who pays the fee but there is a catch if gps choose not to charge a patient they won t receive their 6 20 bulk billing consultation payment from the government anyone for blackmail patients will also pay more for prescription medications with the general patient contribution rising next year by 5 while the contribution by concessional patients will rise by 80 this may not seem like much but here is a true indication of how means and just plain nasty this government is the cost of the diabetes drug insulin will rise from 37 70 to 42 70 but if you re a concession card holder you re in luck instead of the 5 card holders will pay an extra cost of just 0 80 for instance if you are a concession card holder and you need to buy dabrafenib a treatment for malignant skin cancers you would pay 6 90 instead of the previous price 6 10 that s right if you are a pensioner with cancer this government is going to extract 80 cents out of you mean petty and just plain nasty consumers health forum chief executive adam stankevicius said the budget spelled the end of universal access to primary care under medicare it s very bad news for consumers particularly the elderly and those with chronic disease the president of the australasian college for emergency medicine anthony cross said the introduction of the fee would lead to more people seeking treatment in emergency departments for problems more appropriately treated by gps and it would be almost impossible for hospitals to decide which patients should be charged for treatment just a question and this is again from news com new rules mean you re going to have to wait six months if you want to receive newstart or youth allowance and you ve just left school or are a new jobseeker after that six month period the government will provide you with six months worth of income support although you ll have to participate in work for the dole at 25 hours a week if you re still unemployed after the first 12 months the government will not support you for the next six months except in the form of wage subsidies to employers as an incentive to hire you the tedious cycle of six months on six months off continues how are people meant to survive if they are unemployed and will not receive any form of assistance for six months beg on the streets in typical abbott hockey style the practicalities of things such as survival seem to escape them in their zeal to enforce this thing now known as a deterrence follow minkelct share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading by carol taylor posted in politics tagged 2014 budget joe hockey tony abbott 414 may 8 2014 labor s vision for australia misses one huge detail i received this email today michael some time ago i wrote to you asking you to complete a survey so i could see what you believed was labor s direction for the future today our party the oldest organised labour party in the world is undergoing a process of grassroots reform and revitalisation that s why this was such a tremendous opportunity to hear from you i wanted to make sure all of you got a chance to see the results of this survey and what our community s vision for the future of labor was read our report and take your chance to share my favourite part of this job listening to people about the things that matter most thanks for your support george wright national secretary for whatever reason i didn t complete the survey nonetheless i was interested to read the report sadly it told me little but i was extremely disappointed with the summary here is a part of it the policy areas of importance to supporters namely healthcare climate change the nbn schools funding were policy areas already championed by the party so why am i disappointed i m disappointed because labor s vision for the future doesn t include on shore processing of asylum seekers it obviously wasn t an issue for the respondents not surprising when you consider that respondents generally used the internet either every day regularly consumed media television 68 10 radio news 65 18 as well as facebook 49 64 and online newspapers 49 08 so there you have it most respondents still favour mainstream media over social media if we want to change labor s vision we first need to change where its members get their news and opinion then we can really tell labor what we think of off shore processing of asylum seekers and maybe they ll listen follow miglomt share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading by michael taylor posted in politics tagged asylum seekers australian labor party national broadband network 58 may 7 2014 under the radar the abbott credlin team are successful in nothing else except perhaps confusing everyone perhaps someone should whisper in peta s ear that s if they re game enough that she might be a tad on the obvious side going to ground doesn t help either it just makes it all that obvious via absence however let s have a look at the absolute and utter confusion that the abbott government are making of things it s all taken straight from the john howard little book of how to s of course but they re doing it so badly and so obviously that it s an embarrassment therefore in the process making naught but confusion abbott won the election built on no vision for the future other than trust me and no new taxes there were vague and unexplained references that some sort of something might happen but nothing specific other than ditch the witch that was the aim there was no other very rare and far and few between were any commentators from mainstream who bothered to ask the question what happens next rather it was wink wink nudge nudge clever politics and bugger the country however and aside from the utter wanker that many consider abbott to be this is serious business and the remaking of australia much has been written and to give credit by mainstream criticising what are colloquially known as abbott brain f rts and given credence by the commission of audit however due to lack of coherence abbott brain f rts they remain just as an aside but if the commission of audit comes up with these you beaut ideas how is hockey able to bung them into the budget so quickly if the whole kit wasn t already preconceived no don t tell me however back to the serious stuff and one of the better more precise articles in my opinion is via bernard keane who states the abbott government s national commission of audit has recommended the abandonment of australia s post war fiscal structure in favour of a decentralised state based model of taxation and service delivery that would significantly reduce the commonwealth s role in national life i hope that we ve all got that it s not just an abbott brain f rt nor eleventy joe hockey but a fiscal restructure and by the way has anyone else noted how we ve been done a howard strategy throw in all kinds of furphies such as gran...