Adding Insult to Injury

[izmeina]

Yesss. Izzie so so hates Aussie Rules football and most sports in general. But that is one serious advantage as the cartoon so perfectly puts it. The ma has used the Lair as a warehouse for excess bits of stuff including a television that can only pick up SBS. Not being a TV person, it stays off for months on end. But the ma rather likes the goggle box so the Izzie does get to see bits and pieces on our weekly visits. In the last few weeks, simply cannot get over the almost total saturation of those infernal govt adverts. Bad enough having to look at junk but knowing that your taxes paid for it is even more of an insult. And then the buggers are tossing it in the mailbox too.
The latest instalment is the seriously sad little pamphlet "Climate Clever" Most amusing indeed especially since the Izzie so very vividly remembers one parliament Question Time when the Prime Mendacious constantly denied the existence of this very campaign. (The leader of the opposition way back in April had managed to get his paws on the crappy and ever so corny "Climate Clever" title)

Most strange. Left Oz last year on September 20 with the general government attitude of dismissal to the whole environmental thing. Came back only 8 weeks later to discover that green was the new Black. Even the Lying
Rodent was paying lip service to the whole climate change thing which he had been totally dismissing until consulting Sybil's Opinion Polls.

Oh and most amused to see the latest university study raining on the Rats' parade. It's pretty obvious that the whole structure of individual workplace 'agreements' would disadvantage those with the least bargaining power and when a study comes along and proves this point the rat and his minions are only too quick to cry foul. The academics concerned are most peeved indeed at the questions cast on their credentials and are threatening to sue for defamation. Let the lawyers loose. It could be most embarrassing indeed.
The Iz is ever so reminded of an amazing exhibition seen many moons ago featuring various posters from the 1933 elections in Germany. A certain party had one set of posters featuring big bad hooknosed cigar smoking capitalists and promising the working class protection from these evil creatures. But there was also another set appealing to small business owners and promising protection from the evil communist hook nosed bolsheviks. Talk about having it both ways.
The truth is out. The voters' suspicions have been confirmed - an industrial relations regime that takes from the have-nots and gives to the have-lots. And the Rat is most peeved indeed.

He never uttered a squeak about this grand plan in his 2004 election campaign and there's an awful lot of voters who have not quite forgotten and forgiven this particular brand of evil sneakiness. Those petty appeals to the hip pocket in 2004 have rather backfired when lots of voters whose workplace arrangements have left less in the wallet courtesy of Serfchoice will be out for payback time.

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[ozfille]

I'm so hoping that the academics sue the pants off Costello and Hockey and did Tony Abbott, the Mad Monk stick his bib in too. It might stop them lying so much or at least abusing anyone just because they happen to suggest that they might have been wrong. The state of our country that we have to resort to legal action to make sure politicians behave decently toward the citizenry. Their sheer bloody arrogance knows no bounds.

I think I have chucked out at least once a week, these last few weeks, oodles of very expensive government brochures telling me how good my life has been under the Rodent's reign. How many bloody trees have been sacrificed trumpeting the lies of that bunch of rogues. They also wrap them in plastic which means we can't put them in the recycling bin unless we rip off the plastic every damn one of the things. Living in a block of flats, the distributors of the pestilential things dump whole piles on our doorstep, far more than is required, just to get rid of the things.

Oh and I loved their most recent trick to do with the health system. Recreate a whole lot of hospital boards that were done away with a decade ago to cut down on the number of evil and despised bureaucrats and to streamline and better organise the provision of health care provision. I'm sure they applauded that back then but now because the Mad Monk obviously believes in Abbott-infallibility he says will control all the hospitals across the land rather than those inefficient State Govts. But of course the buck stops with the boards and the CEOs appointed. No responsibility can be sheeted home to the Feds if they stuff it up in their grand new health scheme. They have been starving NSW and Victoria of badly needed funds for years to redistribute the largesse in other states and so of course our hospitals are falling to pieces and of course then blaming the State Governments for the situation, all the while hoping the recalcitrant populations in those states will start voting for the Coalition at the State level.

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Izzie is not only keeping her precious little brochures but snatching the ma's copies too. Preserving them for posterity and evidence. Also got a nice little selection of full page newspaper adverts from the good old days when a certain piece of industrial relations legislation was called "Workchoices" as well as the original Halloween pumpkin orange WC booklets.
Evil Izzie even sent a copy to the Bat many moons ago. We thinks that "Climate Clever" could also prove to be an object of much amusement.

You know - you got to admire their ingenuity. What better way to buy the silence of otherwise potentially critical media than to bombard them with big advertising bucks? Even SBS is totally saturated with the stuff. Thank God for the ABC

Still never quite got over the trauma of being absent on our Middle Earth adventures when the famous fridge magnets were in the mail. Poor Izzie missed out and has been alert and most alarmed ever since.

Izzie's just waaaay too confused with all this hospital business but most miffed with Kevin07's 'me too-ism'
Just been downloading the Hansard transcripts for the last question time. One of the bestest and beastliest ever.

Was an interesting letter in today's paper about the budget surplus of both this state and the federal govt. Instead of 'good economic management' he more accurately describes it as payment for goods and services which are not delivered. Such conduct by anyone else but the govt is known by the quaint old title of 'fraud'. So damned right he is too. If they cannot build infrastructure and provide services during boom times, how will they ever manage during the bust?