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Post by Banjo on Aug 30, 2010 7:39:46 GMT 7
Check out this guy, he's an Independent who will influence the next government. From his website. Older Australians deserve to live with dignity and independence in a home of their choice with access to the full range of support and care services they need. Those choosing to live at home must be given every reasonable assistance, including better funded and indexed payments for their carers, while Government funding of aged care facilities must be increased significantly. In all cases older Australians deserve a better funded and indexed aged pension. I would support any initiative which genuinely improves the circumstances of people with disabilities and their carers. Both the Labor and Liberal parties have now released policies on the issue and it is important that the next government move quickly to implement the best ideas contained within them. Moreover I believe the Disability Support Pension and Carer Payment should be increased and better indexed so as to genuinely keep up with the cost of living. And an effective disability care and support scheme should be established, for example a disability insurance scheme. www.andrewwilkie.org/content/index.php/site/welcome/
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Post by Banjo on Aug 30, 2010 7:49:05 GMT 7
An interesting guy, former Liberal, former Green, he was an intelligence analyst in the Army who resigned in protest over the invasion of Iraq.
".....my decision to resign from the Office of National Assessments (ONA) on 11 March 2003 in protest over the Iraq war. I was the only serving intelligence official in Australia, the UK and US to resign publicly before the invasion. I told ABC Radio shortly afterwards that ‘Iraq does not pose a security threat to any other country at this point in time, its weapons of mass destruction program is very disjointed and contained, and there is no hard intelligence linking the Iraqi regime to al Qaida in any substantial or worrisome way".
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