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TOPIC: Thanks but no thanks- Joe Hockey rejects budget advice from his mentor Peter Costello

Thanks but no thanks- Joe Hockey rejects budget advice from his mentor Peter Costello 10 years 9 months ago #26955

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Mr Costello, a former Liberal treasurer, urged the government and ditch unpopular measures that are unlikely to pass the Senate, including the $7 GP fee.
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But Mr Hockey has rebuffed the advice, saying the fee was crucial to making Medicare sustainable.
"It's not good advice because, frankly, our budget is part of an overarching economic action strategy," he said.
"We are dealing with issues one at a time."
Labor has seized on Mr Hockey's refusal to budge saying it shows the Treasurer doesn't listen to anyone ''but himself''.
''Health experts and professionals, and now even your own side agree the GP Tax is a disaster Mr Hockey,'' Labor's Health spokeswoman Catherine King said in a statement.
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Mr Hockey stressed that there was still plenty of time to negotiate on key measures before they were due to begin next year or later.
''I think it is important that we carefully and methodically go through a process of engagement, which is exactly what we are doing,'' he said.
''It is not unusual to have various initiatives held up in discussion in the Senate.''
The Treasurer has hit the road in the past fortnight, visiting crossbench senators in their home cities to negotiate on the remaining individual measures still to pass the Senate.
Mr Hockey said the crossbenchers had given him various pieces of information to analyse and he in return had invited them to meet Treasury officials for a more detailed explanation of the budget.
And he hit out at "inconsistency" of some of those he is dealing with and singled out Labor for attacking the deficit levy and then voting for it.
"So I am very sceptical about public pronouncements by individuals versus how they actually vote in the Parliament," he said.
"We're dealing with people who are entirely inconsistent; there is a level of inconsistency from our political opponents that we have to deal with," he told ABC Radio.
But Mr Hockey seems to still have some way to go to persuade crossbenchers of the merits of his budget, with Democratic Labour Party senator John Madigan predicting at the weekend that the measures would produce an increase in domestic violence,Ray Ban 3138, drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues.
Interviewed on ABC TV's Insiders on Sunday, Senator Madigan said he believed the budget was .
''If we attack those people with the least, I believe we're going to have more domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse,Gold Ray Ban Aviators, vandalism, mental health problems - and what's the cost going to be to mop that up?'' Senator Madigan said.
And the Palmer United Party has also refused to support deregulation of university fees when the Abbott government presents legislation to the Senate. PUP leader Clive Palmer's stance was backed by one of his senators, Jacqui Lambie, who called on the Nationals to .
Labor leader Bill Shorten appeared at a Melbourne University rally on Monday, where he signed a pledge that Labor would block university funding cuts, fee deregulation and increased interest on student debts.
Mr Shorten said Education Minister Christopher Pyne was "arguably the worst education minister this country has ever seen".
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Thorning helt i bundLidegaard var inden sin udnævnelse som minister med til at oprettet den grønne tænketank Concito 10 years 9 months ago #26991

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Spillerne var unge og kåde, alle omkring 19 år, og for de flestes vedkommende var det deres første rejse uden for Uruguay, ligesom det var deres første flyvetur. Samlingen præsenterer et bredt udsnit af de danske essayister fra det 20. Jaffry var nemlig i efteråret heldig at blive optaget på en non-profit erhvervsskole kaldt Year Up, der betaler unge mænd og kvinder fra lavt bemidlede hjem et ugentligt stipendium på 150 dollar for at tage et halvt år langt kursus i informationsteknologi og adfærds- og kommunikationskundskaber. For den, som undrer sig over,fitflop sko, hvordan Børnestyrelsen kan vide, hvad der er bedst for barnet,http://www.flirre.se/old/ping.asp?id=fitflops-sko-Fleur-salg-butik-persons-usa-hvid-2014-0, må jeg henvise til den svenske Barnkomitéens betænkning,fitflop sko, hvori den britiske familieekspert John Ekelaar fastslår, at der findes to måder at finde ud af på. Maskinen har en pragtfuld kadence - buldrer og tér sig,fitflop sko, så det er en fornøjelse - ved 50 miles/h eller 88 km/t, som er den gamle amerikanske hastighedsbegrænsning.
Vi fandt ud af, at det i mange tilfælde giver lokalsamfund mulighed for at tale med sig selv om sin nutid, fortid og fremtid. Vinden skriver sine graffiti på gadehjørnerne. Vil det sige, at glæden hurtigt kan blive vendt til sorg på Bornholm? - Jeg vil tage fat i Daniel Agger og nogle af de andre, og så må vi se, hvordan det kan gøres, siger målmanden. Efter nytår går turen til Burma sammen med Lisbeth Lundquist og Søren Østergaard.
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