Scott Morrison - new Social Services Minister

[Rorschach]

What are you on about??? Rudd did nothing to stop the boats... both he and Gillard only created a worsening of a situation which for all intents and purposes was fixed when they first came to government.

Rudd initiated some tough new policies to stop the boats in his last few months as leader. Morrison enforced and added to them when the government changed. The same could be said for Andrews initiating policies to starve the homeless, but Morrison the enforcer will ensure that these policies are carried out thoroughly and no doubt added to.

As for your avatar... personally I find it revolting.

I didn't think you were homophobic.

I'm not... that doesn't mean I find men kissing men acceptable in any way.
As for Rudd... you post crap a lot mantra... lies and crap.
Rudd wrecked the Coaltion policy, which in turn, increased the number of people arriving and kept in detention, those accepted and those who died.
As for you bullshit analogy... puhlease... haters gotta hate dontcha.

[mellie]

Morrison's Xmas gift to the impoverished underbelly of Australia will disturb a few people.

He's been in the job a couple of days and he's already started vacuuming up the Coalition's version of human debris. Funding is being cut or withheld to all the advocacy groups who help the homeless.

No doubt the homeless will be treated as harshly as the asylum seekers, although Morrison can't send them home because they have no home. Will he provide detention centres so they can at least get a bed and a decent meal every day? Highly unlikely.

As Scott Morrison prepared to step in as Social Services Minister, his new department was contacting housing advocacy groups and other community services providers on Monday to inform them their funding had been cut and contracts with the Commonwealth would be discontinued.

Social Services posted letters responding to requests for grants from the community sector for ongoing and new funding streams after a process first announced in March.

Note...it's now called the Rein foundation I believe.




The government has previously warned it could satisfy just $800 million of the $3.9 billion in grants requested by the sector.

Fairfax Media has learned that all funding to Financial Counselling Australia has been cut, while a number of other community services groups providing emergency accommodation relief lose their funding.

Highlands Community Centres in the NSW southern highlands, which has 450 families on its books and has been serving people in distress for 20 years will no longer receive any federal funding and does not know how it can continue to provide the same service.

National Shelter, a peak advocacy group whose mission is to create a "more just housing system, particularly for low-income Australian households" was informed by the Department of Social Services on Monday that it would lose its funding and its three-year contract torn up a year early.

The Commonwealth will only continue to fund agreements that it has a legislated duty to fund, such as the National Affordable Housing Agreement with the states under the Council of Australian Governments process.

National Shelter executive officer Adrian Pisarski said it was a cruel blow coming three days before Christmas.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... 2cf67.html

Mantra, no wonder Morrison is determined to clean up these society-sappers..given our tax dollars are being syphoned into these "said" advocacy groups advocating for who again?....Tell me, exactly what has "Housing Australia" achieved for their clientele in the last 12 months?

And why wont they, like charitable organisations CEO's disclose their salaries?

Rudd promised to make these orgs salaries more transparent, that was until he realised his own wife was chairman...or chairwoman of her own non for profit charitable organisation....the "Rene foundation".


Tell me, what exactly has Adrian Pisarski achieved and on what annual salary?


Oh shit, it looks like pis-ass-ski might have to get a real job.

adrian pisarski
@AdrianPisarski
Social commentator, occassional painter, writer, art lover, EO of National Shelter. Tweets are my personal views.

Joined September 2012

Clearly, he is a lefty socialist fuckstick bludger.

[Rorschach]

APPOINTMENT AS MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
Serving in the Cabinet is a great privilege. We do so at the request of the Prime Minister in whatever role he asks us to, in service of the Australian people. Our responsibility as Ministers is to get the job done.

The Australian people can expect me to apply the same energy, commitment and leadership in this new role as I have in Immigration and Border Protection. Stopping the boats has saved lives and restored public confidence in our borders and our immigration programme.

People waiting in desperate situations offshore are no longer having their places taken by those illegally entering Australia on boats and we have successfully passed legislation that will see Labor's legacy caseload of 30,000 people processed and all children out of detention in Australia.

Going forward the Australian Border Force and our work in the region will ensure Australia is better protected against all border threats, including people smuggling.

It has been a pleasure to serve with all the men and women who have made these achievements possible and to do what so many said could not be done.

I will now turn my attention to our welfare system and working to ensure the integrity, dignity and sustainability of our safety net. But the best social service we can afford any Australian to help them deal with the costs of living, is a job. Getting as many Australians as are able off welfare and into work will be one of my core goals.

ENDS.

[Neferti]

Well said, Mellie!

[mantra]

Mantra, no wonder Morrison is determined to clean up these society-sappers..given our tax dollars are being syphoned into these "said" advocacy groups advocating for who again?....Tell me, exactly what has "Housing Australia" achieved for their clientele in the last 12 months?

And why wont they, like charitable organisations CEO's disclose their salaries?

Rudd promised to make these orgs salaries more transparent, that was until he realised his own wife was chairman...or chairwoman of her own non for profit charitable organisation....the "Rene foundation".

Mel - who else is going to speak up for the homeless? Their families, friends? If they had anyone who cared about them - they wouldn't be in that predicament. Morrison is effectively silencing them by his actions. Eventually they'll disappear, but at least our streets will be tidy.

Years ago, and I can't remember whether it was a state or federal government who had all the homeless moved out of Sydney or hidden somewhere out of sight. There was some global conference and they wanted the streets cleaned up. Quite a few people were moved to country towns or regional areas. It was shocking. I can see this happening all over again and not because we're trying to impress the international world, but simply because the homeless are of no use to our society.

[Rorschach]

All these advocacy groups do is line their own pockets and waste money that could be better spent elsewhere when was the last time you ever heard of any of them let alone them doing anyone any good?

[mantra]

All these advocacy groups do is line their own pockets and waste money that could be better spent elsewhere when was the last time you ever heard of any of them let alone them doing anyone any good?

Perhaps the government should demand that some of the wealthy tax exempt churches look after the homeless. The Catholic Church and the Exclusive Bretheren could provide a lot more help, but they don't. They look after their own though.

You can't say that advocacy groups give no help.

Rudd wrecked the Coaltion policy, which in turn, increased the number of people arriving and kept in detention, those accepted and those who died.

Yes - initially when he became leader, but the second time around - he initiated a very effective policy, which of course the Coalition ran with.

KEVIN Rudd has vowed to send all new asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea under a regional resettlement deal, declaring future boatpeople will have "no chance" of staying in Australia as refugees.

The Prime Minister said he would impose the changes as soon as possible as he signed the agreement with the promise that there be no cap on the number of asylum-seekers being sent to PNG's Manus Island detention centre.

“If they are found not to be genuine refugees they may be repatriated to their country of origin or be sent to a safe third country other than Australia.”

Mr Rudd said the agreement did not specify an absolute limit to the number of refugees who could be resettled.

“Some will say it's too hard-line, others will say it's inadequate,” Mr Rudd said of his plan, as he sought to present it as a “balanced” approach that lay between the opposing camps on border protection policy.

“Our responsibility as a government is to ensure that we have a robust system of border security and orderly migration, on the one hand, as well as fulfilling our legal and compassionate obligations under the refugees convention on the other.”

Immigration Minister Tony Burke said the new regime applied immediately - starting with those asylum seekers on board a vessel intercepted this afternoon.

“From now on, any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees,” Mr Rudd said in Brisbane at a press conference with PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

“Asylum-seekers taken to Christmas Island will be sent to Manus and elsewhere in Papua New Guinea for assessment of their refugee status.

“If they are found to be genuine refugees they will be resettled in Papua New Guinea - an emerging economy with a strong future, a robust democracy which is also a signatory to the United Nations refugees convention.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 4faed3f69a

[AshLee]

Yeah that makes perfect sense looney tunes. Take money back from organizations that give it to the homeless and poor and give it to politicians to give it to the homeless and poor instead. What a stupid leftist idiot you are.

[mantra]

Yeah that makes perfect sense looney tunes. Take money back from organizations that give it to the homeless and poor and give it to politicians to give it to the homeless and poor instead. What a stupid leftist idiot you are.

Your new avatar suits you. Congratulations on your recent nuptials. Are you the short bloke?

[Rorschach]

Perhaps the government should demand that some of the wealthy tax exempt churches look after the homeless. The Catholic Church and the Exclusive Bretheren could provide a lot more help, but they don't. They look after their own though.

You can't say that advocacy groups give no help.

Feel free to post some proof for a change mantra...
Why you are obsessed with a teeny tiny group like the Bretheren is beyond me.

Rorschach wrote:
Rudd wrecked the Coaltion policy, which in turn, increased the number of people arriving and kept in detention, those accepted and those who died.

Yes - initially when he became leader, but the second time around - he initiated a very effective policy, which of course the Coalition ran with.

So I was right good o...
BTW, The PNG policy wasn't effective... the Coalition policy has been.