By: deemondo
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NOT one of the hundreds of new houses promised in 2007 for remote communities as part of the Northern Territory intervention has been built.
A day after Kevin Rudd declared that indigenous disadvantage was worse than previously thought, The Weekend Australian can reveal that layers of bureaucracy are strangling a $700 million plan to address poor and overcrowded housing.
Indigenous leader and former Labor Party national president Warren Mundine yesterday agreed that not one house had been built under the intervention's housing crisis plan. He described the delays as "disgraceful and embarrassing".
Mr Mundine, who sits on the Prime Minister's commission on indigenous housing, said the federal government was putting "speed humps in the way of development" in the form of unnecessary bureaucracy.
Addressing poor and overcrowded housing is widely acknowledged to be the starting point of tackling indigenous problems, especially child abuse.
But for all the talk, the Territory and federal governments have choked on what should be a straightforward business proposition: securing land, calling for tenders and building the houses.
But lengthy consultations on land tenure, house design and location, and demands for 20 to 30per cent indigenous worker participation are stifling action.
The situation is worsened by the fact that these dry-season months in the Top End are the crucial window to get work started before roads close and rain sets in.
When Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin visited Tennant Creek this week to inspect progress, the only work under way appeared to be cleaning out some old houses in preparation for refurbishment.
Asked yesterday if she was disturbed by the delays, Ms Macklin said: "We have to get this right, otherwise we will just repeat the failings of the past. The old ways of doing things have comprehensively failed generations of indigenous Australians." |
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By: deemondo
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| http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25730613-601,00.html |
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| Global Recession, protecting jobs for working families, bla bla, suck the sauce bottle bla bla. |
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By: slr2007mclaren
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Ms Macklin said: "We have to get this right, otherwise we will just repeat the failings of the past. The old ways of doing things have comprehensively failed generations of indigenous Australians."
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this is the spin here
it makes light of why they haven't done anything and blames everyone else for their incompetence |
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By: deemondo
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| The urgency to deliver is still being mobilised. Rudd said: "If you ask me: 'Are we better placed than we were 18 months ago to get to that point?', I think we are. But you know something? We are barely half a step along the road." He said: "We have to redouble and treble out efforts to make an impact." Yet this sounds too shallow and disguises the quality of the shift required. Perhaps Rudd needs to think more seriously about the actual policy changes to meet his ambitious objectives. |
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By: corky1939
4/07/2009
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The Prime minister was looking for a call girl.
He found three such girls in a local pub, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.
To the blonde he said,
'I am the Prime Minister of Australia.
Now how much would it cost me to spend some time with you?'
She replied, $200.'
To the brunette he asked the same question.
Her reply was $100.
He then asked the redhead...
Her reply was,
'Mr. Prime Minister, if you can get my skirt up as high as my taxes, my pants as low as my wages, get that thing of yours as hard as the times we are living in, and keep it rising like the price of petrol, keep me warmer than I can afford to have it in my apartment and screw me the way you have retirees,
then it isn't going to cost you a damn thing!' |
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By: slr2007mclaren
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| lol corky |
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By: corky1939
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| Too True Macca !!!! |
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By: simonhall1900
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| Good one corky LOL |
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By: bahamian3002
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I note though that Rudd has doubled the bureaucracy that manages this debacle.
More jobs for Labour drones and union thugs.... |
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By: codswal
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the point I have made before is... Does He Have The Money??? its alright to say we are going to spend $50million on such and such...it is another to come up with the cash..at the moment his $21000 FHB is keeping the building insutry going..because it all gets tied up in legal fees and the likes, the cash has to be forth coming..
these homes will not be sold to first home buyers. therfore they [ the govt ]have to come up with a whole lot more up front.
I think it sticks out a mile...btw have you noticed hes on another money give away..weve even got $1.5.million to give to Italy..maybe an election coming sooner than later??..a few votes in that I am sure...and in todays paper the NSW govt ..9 out of 11 upgrades for railways. is all being spent in Labor seats... well corky thats a surprise I am sure..and they are not even in the top priority list.mind you, again it hasne happend yet!! |
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By: centrelink10
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think it sticks out a mile...btw have you noticed hes on another money give away..weve even got $1.5.million to give to Italy..maybe an election coming sooner than later??..a few votes in that I am sure...and in todays paper the NSW govt ..9 out of 11 upgrades for railways. is all being spent in Labor seats... well corky thats a surprise I am sure..and they are not even in the top priority list.mind you, again it hasne happend yet!!
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NURSE!! nana needs her medication. Thanks to Rudd giving her over 60pf pension increase she can now afford it. As quick as possible please....... |
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By: simonhall1900
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| A SCHOOL with just one pupil for 2010 has been given a $140,000 government grant to build a covered playground - even though it has already has a new one. |
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By: simonhall1900
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| AN INVESTIGATION was last night launched into expense claims by Victorian public servants overseas after revelations taxpayers were billed for a taxi ride to a raunchy Las Vegas casino.Expense claims worth $35 million, including the taxi to Hooters Hotel and Casino, an Audi A8 worth more than $100,000 and a postage stamp worth just 38c, have been uncovered. A study of thousands of documents released under Freedom of Information has exposed a culture of free spending on luxury accommodation, parties, |
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By: thy.nemesis
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When the Howard Govt mobilised workers in their invasion and occupation of the NT, they discovered (SURPRISE, SURPRISE!?) that there were no suitable places to a accommodate the Intervention workforce...
From the outset, a significant proportion of the Intervention cost and resources has gone towards creating creature comforts for the Intervention workers, most of whom were (understandably) not prepared to live in the squalid conditions available to the vulnerable and disadvantaged indigenous population that the Howard Govt was belatedly targetting for 'intervention'...
For what should be obvious reasons...the administration and logistical burden, of attracting, accommodating and retaining the Intervention workers, remains a significant and costly issue in delivery under the Rudd Govt... |
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By: thy.nemesis
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>> By: simonhall1900
AN INVESTIGATION was last night launched into expense claims by Victorian public servants overseas after revelations taxpayers were billed for a taxi ride to a raunchy Las Vegas casino.Expense claims worth $35 million, including the taxi to Hooters Hotel and Casino, an Audi A8 worth more than $100,000 and a postage stamp worth just 38c, have been uncovered. A study of thousands of documents released under Freedom of Information has exposed a culture of free spending on luxury accommodation, parties, <<
Yo Simple simon!
Do you not agree that: the issue, of curtailing extravagant and otherwise dubious expense claims by POLLIES and PUBLIC SERVANTS, is universal - i.e. NOT confined to periods of state and federal ALP governance in Oz...!? |
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