Community Groups Protest the Governments Budget Cuts

Joe Hockey's budget is a complete failure to govern the people successfully.  There has not been very many good decisions made.  Hockey won't live down the comment about poor people and driving and before their term is up there will be more of those.  Hundreds of community groups went to Canberra to show the coalition government the budget cuts are unjust and harsh.  They signed a statement and the statement read.

"We do not accept that these measures are necessary to achieve budget sustainability when fairer alternatives exist"
"Our Parliament has a choice between harmful and helpful action.
"We urge all elected members of Parliament to reject current proposals which will reduce support to low income and disadvantaged members of our community."  Read More ABC

Clive Palmer's  Palmer United Party (PUP) holds the crucial balance-of-power votes in the Senate.  Because of the PUP position the coalition may be up the creek without a paddle and PUP vow they will not support the budget cuts.

The Coalition changes to the pension age and payment rates, cuts to family payments, and reductions and cuts to unemployment benefits for young people all spell a recipe for disaster.  To hit those who are already doing things tough seems to be and extremely unfavorable  move and the GP Co-Payment also planned Clive Palmer announced it was dead in the water also.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said he feared that this prime minister was a very dangerous individual trigger happy psychopathic individual.  This is a worry when a former PM is worried.

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Clive Palmer and his Party in Senate hot water.

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Clive Palmer has been heavily criticized for his attack on Senate clerk Rosemary Laing over her advice on the carbon tax repeal amendment bill.

Members of the Upper house defended the senate clerks position after Clive Palmer suggested she should get out of the job if she was not prepared to take instruction from him.

Rosemary Laing spoke to the party about this and said that a PUP amendment to the carbon tax repeal legislation was unconstitutional.   Clive Palmer disputed this enthusiastically and he also denies the accusations he yelled at the clerk.

Senator Nick Xenophon thinks Clive should apologise and described his actions as that of a bully.

Clive Palmer replied with a statement describing Laing's actions  as akin to Stalinist Russia and continued to justify his actions as standing up for the people.

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"She can't interfere and stop them from doing it - that's what it boils down to. Otherwise you get a bureaucrat being able to veto legislation and we don't want that. That's what happens in Stalinist Russia," Mr Palmer said.

"We don't seek her advice, we seek to put things to the Senate and she's inconsequential to us as to what she thinks.  It's what the Australian people think and what they've elected us to do. 

"Our party will always want to put things that we decide, not what the clerks decide".

"She's not a member of our party, she hasn't been elected to Parliament, she's employed by the Parliament to draft legislation in accordance with instructions and she can't really refuse those instructions."

"If that's her job, well, she has to get out of that job". Read More

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