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		<title>Who pays the $7 GP expense &#8211; the Prime Minister and the Treasurer don&#8217;t comprehend their own policy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 00:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humiliating bloopers by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have uncovered they don&#8217;t comprehend who will be compelled to pay their questionable new $7 GP expense. What&#8217;s more their missteps have undermined the administration&#8217;s endeavor to offer an intense plan to furious voters. PM Tony Abbott told Melbourne radio audience members yesterday a [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humiliating bloopers by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have uncovered they don&#8217;t comprehend who will be compelled to pay their questionable new $7 GP expense.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more their missteps have undermined the administration&#8217;s endeavor to offer an intense plan to furious voters.</p>
<p>PM Tony Abbott told Melbourne radio audience members yesterday a normal individual would just need to pay the $7 GP expense ten times and afterward they would be mass charged.</p>
<p>Truth be told the legislature has put no restriction on the amount of times a customary laborer will pay the $7 charge, be that as it may, there is a ten visit wellbeing net only for retired people and kids.</p>
<p>Radio 3aw host Neil Mitchell asked the Prime Minister yesterday: &#8220;On the off chance that I am the normal individual coming to the specialist what is the security net on the $7 co-installment?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Prime Minister answered :&#8221;Well, it is 10 visits and after that the standard mass charging courses of action will apply.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Abbott&#8217;s office changed his announcement late yesterday. &#8220;The wellbeing net of ten visits applies to concession card holders and individuals matured under 16&#8243;, it said.</p>
<p>The Australian Medical Association blamed Treasurer Joe Hockey for likewise getting it wrong when he says the chronically sick won&#8217;t be hit by the $7 GP charge.</p>
<p>The Treasurer told Korey Gunnis who experiences eight interminable sicknesses on Monday: &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t be hit by the purported Medicare co-installment. You wouldn&#8217;t be influenced.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Hockey, on the ABC&#8217;s Q&amp;a program, happened to say: &#8220;No, you wouldn&#8217;t, on the grounds that you&#8217;d be on a consideration plan with your specialist. Clearly you&#8217;ve got various unending maladies. In that circumstance you are not influenced by the co-installment,&#8221;</p>
<p>While truly Medicare&#8217;s interminable illness administration thing will be excluded from the $7 GP charge, this is just for one specialists visit a year where the GP plans the patients nurture their endless ailments.</p>
<p>Australian Medical Association GP agent Dr Brian Morton says each other visit the patient with an interminable ailment makes to the GP or medicinal test that is requested would be hit by a $7 GP charge.</p>
<p>&#8220;He either doesn&#8217;t comprehend or is abusing the detail or is lying,&#8221; Dr Morton told News Corporation.</p>
<p>&#8220;The unending ailment administration things are one off, they are not for medication,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>A diabetic patient would need to see their GP at regular intervals and pay the $7 expense and standard tests of their glucose levels and kidney capacity would additionally draw in a $7 charge, Dr Morton said.</p>
<p>A representative for Mr Hockey said yesterday &#8220;his remarks stand&#8221;.</p>
<p>At the point when asked whether the legislature would be presenting new endless sickness medication things absolved from the $7 charge she said &#8220;the enactment was all the while being drafted… I can&#8217;t give any subtle element&#8221;.</p>
<p>The monetary allowance makes no procurement for such an endless sickness thing nor does it give any financing to it.</p>
<p>In further befuddling indicators from the administration, Liberal National Party backbencher Steve Ciobo likewise told ABC radio audience members &#8216;in the event that they have a constant infection they are absolved from making the co-installment&#8221;.</p>
<p>A representative for Health Minister Peter Dutton surrendered the chronically sick could confront the $7 GP charge.</p>
<p>&#8220;They might, it be able to&#8217;s dependent upon the specialist,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Also he affirmed the absolution for constant malady connected just to the arrangement of a GP administration plan or the readiness of a group mind course of action.</p>
<p>Restriction wellbeing representative Catherine King depicted Mr Ciobo&#8217;s and Mr Hockey&#8217;s cases on the copayment and perpetual sickness as a &#8220;falsehood&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a barefaced falsehood. On the off chance that you have an interminable malady you are not excluded from the this barbarous GP duty,&#8221; Shadow Minister for Health Catherine King said.</p>
<p>The Australian Medical Association says it will be asking Health Minister Mr Peter Dutton to adjust the $7 GP expense when it reaches him on Friday at its yearly gathering.</p>
<p>AMA president Dr Steve Hambleton said the legislature required to take a gander at developing the 10 visit security net to low wage individuals with a constant disease, and end of life forethought.</p>
<p>Immunizations ought not pull in the $7 expense, he said.</p>
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		<title>Treasurer Joe Hockey concedes $7 Medicare co-payment is a tax on Q and A program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 00:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HE was snickered at and pestered by a suspicious Q and A gathering of people in what John Howard depicted as &#8220;battlers&#8221; nation, however Treasurer Joe Hockey remained by his dubious plan the previous evening. Yet it wasn&#8217;t without a compelling affirmation the Abbott government broke its make a guarantee to not to present new [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HE was snickered at and pestered by a suspicious Q and A gathering of people in what John Howard depicted as &#8220;battlers&#8221; nation, however Treasurer Joe Hockey remained by his dubious plan the previous evening.</p>
<p>Yet it wasn&#8217;t without a compelling affirmation the Abbott government broke its make a guarantee to not to present new charges without a decision.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t take long to get to broken guarantees, with one gathering of people part asking whether it is inexorable that government officials need to deceive get chosen.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you surmise that an Opposition that was genuinely truthful might ever win a race,&#8221; he asked Mr Hockey.</p>
<p>&#8220;No I don&#8217;t think you need to deceive get elected,&#8221; he answered, before the room softened out up giggling.</p>
<p>It slipped into laughs again when he remained by cases no &#8220;immediate guarantees&#8221; were softened up the financial backing.</p>
<p>Host Tony Jones interfered with issuing a cautioning to the gathering of people.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re here to tune in. You&#8217;re here to make inquiries. It&#8217;s not a great thought to harass,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Anyway the Penrith gathering of people weren&#8217;t the main ones with the intense inquiries.</p>
<p>On the Medicare co-installment, Tony Jones grilleded the Treasurer, asking: &#8220;This co-installment you&#8217;ve concurred is viably a duty on individuals heading off to the specialist. Is that a broken guarantee since you said there might be no expenses without a decision?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;All things considered, I don&#8217;t acknowledge — its a payment,&#8221; Hockey said. &#8220;You can call it an expense &#8230; Given that of the $7, $2 goes to the specialist, I didn&#8217;t know specialists in that circumstance are getting duties, however your call. You need to call it a tax, you can call it anything you need, you can call it a rabbit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Hockey additionally gave his strongest sign yet that a first-term Abbott government could change the age at which individuals could get to their retirement investment funds.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Tony Abbott guaranteed before the decision not to tinker with the superannuation framework, however the previous evening the Treasurer conceded: &#8220;It is on my mind, and its on Tony Abbott&#8217;s mind.&#8221;</p>
<p>The age at which individuals can get to their savings — known as the protection age — relies on upon their date of conception.</p>
<p>For those conceived after June 30 1964, its 60.</p>
<p>Mr Hockey said there required to be a national discussion about the &#8220;enormous issue&#8221; of retirement reserve funds, and the legislature might have more to say in regards to it further down the track.</p>
<p>At the point when pressed on the issue, the treasurer affirmed progressions could be made sooner instead of later to permit individuals time to get ready.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it will be in this term, on the grounds that I think what we&#8217;re attempting to do is give individuals a long lead time,&#8221; Mr Hockey said.</p>
<p>The administration declared in a week ago elected plan that qualification for the age benefits will be expanded to 70 years by July 2035.</p>
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		<title>2014 Budget: Massive support for our streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 01:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VICTORIA will receive a $7.7 billion base support in the Budget, with money to stream for many street undertakings, dark spot evacuation and scaffold repairs. The $3 billion for stages one and two of the East West Link will structure the spine of the financing choices, yet several millions more will stream to littler tasks [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>VICTORIA will receive a $7.7 billion base support in the Budget, with money to stream for many street undertakings, dark spot evacuation and scaffold repairs.</p>
<p>The $3 billion for stages one and two of the East West Link will structure the spine of the financing choices, yet several millions more will stream to littler tasks including $45 million to handle the infamous dark spot at the Calder Highway-Calder Alternative Highway Interchange at Ravenswood.</p>
<p>The venture to fabricate an evaluation divided exchange will pull in a further $40 million in state financing, and was a pre-election duty.</p>
<p>An alternate $25 million will be used repairing and redesigning the Great Ocean Road. Around $180 million will be apportioned in excess of four years to copy 38km of the Princes Highway West from Winchelsea to Colac.</p>
<p>Around $260 million will be designated for continuation of work doubling the Western Highway from Ballarat to Stawell- a task commenced by the past Labor government.</p>
<p>Also, $60 million will go to store the evacuation of dark spots crosswise over Victoria, an alternate $60 million to overhaul nearby scaffolds, and $350 million will be made accessible for street upkeep.</p>
<p>Head administrator Tony Abbott told the Herald Sun the Coalition had guaranteed to assemble the ways and base of the 21st century.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our base arrangement for Victoria &#8230; will imply that individuals invest less time in movement gridlock and more of an opportunity with their families, that organizations can get their products and administrations to market speedier and that our fare commercial enterprises might be more focused,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Hours in front of their first Budget, the Coalition discharged information which they said indicated that generally, they might be decreasing assessments.</p>
<p>The move came as the Government kept on attempting to persuade voters that its choice to present an impermanent obligation expense and raise the fuel extract did not add up to a break of Mr Abbott&#8217;s no new assessments pre-election guarantees.</p>
<p>As per the information, the Coalition might lessen general expenses by $5.7 billion next monetary year. This figure incorporates the nullification of the carbon and mining charges, which the Government has tried to cut out, however which has been obstructed by Labor in the Senate.</p>
<p>And presenting the obligation assessment and the climbing petrol assess, the Government will cinch down on welfare profits, with families winning over $100,000 a year set to lose access to profits. A $7 expense to visit a mass charging GP will be presented.</p>
<p>Also, 16,000 open servants will lose their occupations and around 70 offices will close or consolidation as the Government tries to cut billions of dollars in using.</p>
<p>Treasurer Joe Hockey will discharge the Budget at 7.30pm.</p>
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		<title>Prince William Flying Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 02:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shockingly, it’s not the first run through the royals have sat with whatever remains of us. In 2011, travelers were astonished to see William and Catherine board economy in Edinburgh for a flight to Manchester emulating the wedding of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall. Furthermore, it appears the basic touch is a directive of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shockingly, it’s not the first run through the royals have sat with whatever remains of us.</p>
<p>In 2011, travelers were astonished to see William and Catherine board economy in Edinburgh for a flight to Manchester emulating the wedding of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall.</p>
<p>Furthermore, it appears the basic touch is a directive of the Queen.</p>
<p>Throughout the British subsidence, she obviously urged her family to stay away from clear shows of luxury.</p>
<p>Sovereign William stunned explorers at an airstrip in Memphis by sheets a flight with people in general and sitting in economy. (Yes, economy. I figure we could all be royals after all &#8230;)</p>
<p>US TV journalist Eli Ross, who was on the flight, took a subtle pic of William in his window situate and presented it promptly on Twitter thinking of: &#8220;I am still stunned #prince William flies COACH. That is really unassuming/marvelous. Who knew?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Prince was taking a provincial flight to Dallas on the way to London in the wake of going to the wedding of great companion (and famous Prince Harry gathering mate) Guy Pelly.</p>
<p>Evidently, the outing was secretly financed by both the sovereigns. (Harry took a separate flight home.)</p>
<p>Also in yet an alternate stun, William held his own particular hand gear, despite the fact that he did load up the plane independently to whatever is left of the travelers, and was encompassed by a pack of security officers.</p>
<p>William and Harry are accompanied with day and night-by a group of around four citizen-financed officers from Scotland Yard&#8217;s Royalty Protection Squad.</p>
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		<title>As Monica Lewinsky Breaks Her Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 01:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewinsky, 40, says she chose to recount to her story now as a result of the suicide of Tyler Clementi, the 18-year-old Rutgers young recruit who bounced from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010 after he was subtly discovered on a webcam kissing an alternate man in his apartment. MONICA Lewinsky has penned another [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lewinsky, 40, says she chose to recount to her story now as a result of the suicide of Tyler Clementi, the 18-year-old Rutgers young recruit who bounced from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010 after he was subtly discovered on a webcam kissing an alternate man in his apartment.</p>
<p>MONICA Lewinsky has penned another inform-all concerning her issue with President Bill Clinton in which she depicts how his effective political machine mercilessly made her a &#8220;substitute&#8221; to spare his presidency.</p>
<p>The New York Post reports that Clementi&#8217;s suicide made her mother Marcia Lewis distracted in light of the fact that it dug up memories of her reasons for alarm for her own particular little girl after the embarrassment broke.</p>
<p>&#8220;She was remembering 1998, when she wouldn&#8217;t let me out of her sight. She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my cot, after quite a while, on the grounds that I, too, was self-destructive. The disgrace, the disdain, and the expect that had been tossed at her girl left her compelled to admit I might take my own particular life — an expect that I might be truly mortified to death,&#8221; Lewinsky wrote.</p>
<p>Lewinsky concedes the timing of her tell-all could demonstrate cumbersome for the Clintons — with Hillary reflecting a 2016 presidential run while confronting restored inquiries over her part in the Benghazi bloodbath.</p>
<p>However she said she&#8217;d stayed noiseless throughout past Clinton fights and chose now was the time to stand up.</p>
<p>&#8220;I remained practically withdrawn, regardless of being immersed with press demands. I put off reporting a few media ventures in 2012 until after the decision. (They were in this manner wiped out — and, no, I wasn&#8217;t offered $12 million for a licentious tell-all book, in opposition to press reports.)</p>
<p>Furthermore as of late I&#8217;ve ended up firearm-bashful once more, frightful of &#8216;turning into an issue&#8217; if she choose to increase her crusade. Be that as it may if I put my life on hold for an alternate 8 to 10 years?&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>The previous White House assistant — named the &#8220;heavy pepperpot&#8221; for her full figure and undisguised desire for the wedded president — said she never attempted to slaughter herself yet had self-destructive contemplations as the steamy points of interest of their tasteless tryst developed.</p>
<p>&#8220;My own particular enduring tackled an alternate importance. Maybe by offering my story, I contemplated, I may have the capacity to help others in their darkest minutes of mortification. The inquiry got to be: How would I discover and give a reason to my past?&#8221; she composed.</p>
<p>A selection of the article seemed Tuesday on the site of Vanity Fair magazine, which will distribute Monica&#8217;s full story May 13. Extra quotes originated from a press discharge about her story.</p>
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		<title>Is The Budget Pain Will Be Australia&#8217;s Gain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey is sharing the pain deficit levy that will be arranged according to your income bracket. Those high income earners will pay significantly more than other taxpayers. If you are a taxpayer earning about $200,000, you will pay an extra $4000 a year, while those who earns$400,000 will pay $8000 in extra tax. Tony [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joe Hockey is sharing the pain deficit levy that will be arranged according to your income bracket. Those high income earners will pay significantly more than other taxpayers.</p>
<p>If you are a taxpayer earning about $200,000, you will pay an extra $4000 a year, while those who earns$400,000 will pay $8000 in extra tax.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.australiantimes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2452fyk4-1398654291.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4365 alignleft" alt="2452fyk4-1398654291" src="http://www.australiantimes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2452fyk4-1398654291-300x194.jpg" width="300" height="194" /></a>Tony Abbott also confirmed in a speech to the Sydney Institute that aged-pension thresholds would be stretched, indexation scaled back and an assessed Medicare payment.</p>
<p>The debt levy is only applicable to taxpayers who earns $80,000 and above with a certain tax bracket that will seemingly increase. Taxpayers in the 37c tax bracket earning $80,000 to $180,000 will most likely pay an extra 1 percent and those earning above $180,000 will pay an extra 2 percent.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister flagged that school leavers will be contradicted easy access to the handout and would be forced to study or work under a budget welfare with severe measures.</p>
<p>Good news though, with tough measures to cut spending and this tax levy, Mr. Hockey declared that the deficit will be eliminated eventually. This means the levy is only applicable for four years.It will be terminated either year 2017 or 2018.</p>
<p>The government has shown tight measures on the spending side of the pool. The deficit levy is raised to guarantee the cost of rebuilding deficit where highest earners will most likely contribute more, this does not only fall on people earning low and in need of budget assistance but by those earning taxable incomes.</p>
<p>To top it off, the great amount of taxpayers pays the Medicare levy of 1.5 percent of their taxable wages, however, an increase of 0.5 percent has been lifted.</p>
<p>The new tax will be assessed in the Treasurer’s first Budget on the 13<sup>th</sup> of May.</p>
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		<title>Clive Palmer Accused Of Trying To &#8220;buy&#8221; Northern Territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Anderson has been suspended outside of Parliament House. Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says “If Clive wants Alison Anderson, go for it.” He says Clive Palmer is welcome to Alison Anderson, the rebel indigenous politician who left the Country Liberals and took two indigenous colleagues with her last month. “I’ve got to say [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left"><a href="http://www.australiantimes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/354433-c3117a36-b585-11e3-993f-a57163efdfb6.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4335 alignleft" alt="354433-c3117a36-b585-11e3-993f-a57163efdfb6" src="http://www.australiantimes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/354433-c3117a36-b585-11e3-993f-a57163efdfb6-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>Alison Anderson has been suspended outside of Parliament House. Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says “If Clive wants Alison Anderson, go for it.” He says Clive Palmer is welcome to Alison Anderson, the rebel indigenous politician who left the Country Liberals and took two indigenous colleagues with her last month.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">“I’ve got to say I’m amazed, surprise, bewildered he’s gone down this path.” Mr. Giles added. He was referring to Ms. Anderson’s detonative record in Northern Territory politics, having been behind attempts to sabotage four chief ministers and having been an active member for Labor, the Country Liberals, as an independent and now PUP.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Alison Anderson, Larisa Lee and Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu have resigned the Country Liberals. Mr. Palmer said that Ms. Anderson would become the first indigenous person to head an Australian parliamentary party. However, Mr. Giles already took that position, who clutched power in the Territory a year ago.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Mr. Giles also commented that Ms. Alison made the Northern Territory a “laughing stock” and that she’s trying to make them all alike.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Meanwhile, Ms. Lee has been charged with aggravated assault over an incident in her hometown of Katherine last week. Her political future is now uncertain and has made no comment about the move to PUP.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Adam Giles has been called a “liar” by Clive Palmer but did not specify what he had lied about. Mr. Kurrupuwu, from the Tiwi Islands, has remained mum since joining Ms. Anderson’s seceding group. Mr. Giles recruited Mr. Kurrupuwu to the Country Liberals and had been unable to get a hold of the latter.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Mr. Giles would like to know where did the “slush funds” went that Mr. Palmer claimed. He said that these are very serious allegations that he will seek legal advice about them. Mr. Palmer hinted that few will follow the trio to PUP eventually, but Mr. Giles denied the claim.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Mr. Palmer was being suspected that he had made promises to the rebels  he cleared that he had not offered any financial inducements for the trio to join his party.</p>
<p style="text-align: left"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4338 alignleft" alt="533577-21aa74ac-cde7-11e3-ae84-eacdfc097015" src="http://www.australiantimes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/533577-21aa74ac-cde7-11e3-ae84-eacdfc097015-300x168.jpg" width="300" height="168" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left">Ms. Anderson, who was originally a Labor politician will now become PUP’s NT leader. She said that it is an absolute fantastic time in the Territory’s political history that they have a third alternative choice. “It gives us comfort, stability, it gives us a home” she added.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">After she have decided to join the PUP prior to serving as a minister in Labor and CLP governments, Prime Minister Tony Abbott&#8217;s chief indigenous affairs adviser Warren Mundine said: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to ask questions about Ms. Anderson’s credibility.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Australia to Help out Neighbours</title>
		<link>http://www.australiantimes.com.au/2012/06/australia-to-help-out-neighbours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Triinu Maran]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gillard Government recently announced it will invest $435.6 million over four years to strengthen developing countries&#8217; preparedness for natural disasters, enhance Australia&#8217;s ability to respond to disasters in our region and internationally. Australia’s location in the Asia‑Pacific, the most disaster prone region in the world could not afford bad humanitarian decisions. New Humanitarian Action [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Gillard Government recently announced it will invest $435.6 million over four years to strengthen developing countries&#8217; preparedness for natural disasters, enhance Australia&#8217;s ability to respond to disasters in our region and internationally. Australia’s location in the Asia‑Pacific, the most disaster prone region in the world could not afford bad humanitarian decisions. New Humanitarian Action Policy was launched in December last year, which prides itself of having a unique perspective in preparedness. </p>
<p>It says The Australian Defence Force has unique logistics capability which the Australian Government can draw on for major regional crises to meet critical humanitarian needs are most needed. Australia maintains a standing agreement with a logistics company to provide logistics, procurement, shipping and personnel services, also appropriate and cost‑effective relief supplies, such as generators, tarpaulins, family tents and water containers.</p>
<p>“There are rising demands for accountability of international humanitarian action. It needs to respond better to sudden‑onset and slow‑onset disasters. They require coordinated, sustained long‑term responses,” the action policy explains one of its main goals.</p>
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		<title>Don’t Blame Mining Boom for Little Growth in Consumer Confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.australiantimes.com.au/2012/06/dont-blame-mining-boom-for-little-growth-in-consumer-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rochelle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports have indicated the consumer confidence grew little despite the government’s move to cut interest rate. The latest data showed that it only grew 0.3 percent this month.  Some quarters are blaming the mining boom saying this has caused disquiet. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens, however, said the mining industry should not be [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reports have indicated the consumer confidence grew little despite the government’s move to cut interest rate. The latest data showed that it only grew 0.3 percent this month. </p>
<p>Some quarters are blaming the mining boom saying this has caused disquiet. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens, however, said the mining industry should not be blamed. </p>
<p>He added that households have become more careful in spending and that they are more judicious in saving their money. </p>
<p>Stevens reiterated that the dissatisfaction is not because of the mining boom. He said household behaviors are changing, given the tougher times. </p>
<p>The strong Australian dollar has also been beneficial to Aussie consumers, adding the benefits reaped by the mining industry are felt by the economy. </p>
<p>The RBA Governor added that in the last few years, Aussie households spent more than the usual and now is the time they are spending less and saving more. He predicts that this will end soon. </p>
<p>Stevens tried to placate speculations by saying that it is normal for an economy to post weaker data. He said the Aussie economy will always be a patchwork that will never be seamlessly woven. </p>
<p>He also said that it is rare for all sectors and regions to have the same speed growth at the same time. If that happens, Stevens said that means the economy is either on a recession or experiencing an unsustainable boom. </p>
<p>The RBA Governor said he expects that the country’s terms of trade would remain high, thanks to the demand of Asia for resources.</p>
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		<title>Gillard: Love Is More Than Just A Piece of Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.australiantimes.com.au/2012/06/gillard-love-is-more-than-just-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rochelle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains steadfast in her point of view against same-sex marriage, saying love is not just about marriage. The Prime Minister cited her own personal relationship with Tim Mathieson, her long-term partner.  Gillard said that despite not being married to Mathieson, it does not mean that they are not committed to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains steadfast in her point of view against same-sex marriage, saying love is not just about marriage. The Prime Minister cited her own personal relationship with Tim Mathieson, her long-term partner. </p>
<p>Gillard said that despite not being married to Mathieson, it does not mean that they are not committed to the each other. She said one can have a relationship that is based on commitment, love, understanding and trust without the need to have a marriage certificate. </p>
<p>The Prime Minister explained her side during an interview on ABC TV, sayings she speaks from her own experience. Vietnam veteran Geoff Thomas posted the question on she opposes gay marriage. Thomas has a gay son. </p>
<p>Thomas also put the Prime Minister on the spot, asking her how Australia can pride itself for being the land of freedom, tolerance, and equality but denies gays of same-sex marriage. </p>
<p>In 2010, Thomas notoriously asked Opposition Leader Tony Abbott when he would accord gays with the respect they deserve. </p>
<p>Gillard drew the ire of people supporting same-sex marriage. Even when US President Barack Obama said he is supporting gay marriage, the Prime Minister remains firm with her decision. </p>
<p>Green Senator Bob Brown, however, said Aussie politicians should take inspiration from the US President, adding that world leaders should rethink their old views. Brown also said that majority of Aussies are supporting gay marriage.</p>
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