Summary: This week on Something Wonky, Lifestyles of the forgotten and marginalised, Joe Hockey auditions for the role of Superman, there’s a sausage sizzle coming up in NSW,and we search for good government. Also, Australia squeals about the UN, The Australian stops squealing about data retention, and Andrew Bolt gives us a lesson in logic. Dave recommends: Left in harm’s way - Background Briefing The Focus Group Lifestyle Choices Tony Abbott a ‘disgrace’, says Federal Opposition after comments that living in remote Indigenous communities was a ‘lifestyle choice’ Rolf de Heer slams Tony Abbott over ‘lifestyle choice’ comments on remote Aboriginal communities There once was a girl named CJAY….. : My country… Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under threat? Abbott criticised for ‘urban Aboriginal’ comment 30 years working for dole a reality - “Under the tightened welfare rules, which come into effect on July 1, jobseekers in remote areas aged 18-49 will be obliged to undertake work-for-the-dole activ≠ities for 25 hours a week, five days a week, for most of the year.” Super Stupidity Joe Hockey Blows Thought Bubbles On Housing Bubbles Joe Hockey’s super idea not so super, say Paul Keating and industry chiefs First home buyers want access to their superannuation now Dipping into superannuation for house ‘could cost $140,000’ in retirement Fairfax Media dismisses Joe Hockey claims as ‘conspiracy theory’ Good Government Coalition’s big news day on automotive industry ends in a car crash Malcolm Turnbull says budget sales job was ‘biggest misstep’ Vice-chancellors blast ‘dumb’ decision to axe research funding if uni fee laws don’t pass Intergenerational report: assumptions about government spending are a confusion of idiocy This Is What The Prime Minister For Women Did On International Women’s Day CSIRO head decries Coalition’s ‘brutal’ ruling out of Labor-appointed directors Malcolm Turnbull says ‘refreshing’ government boards PM’s ‘preference’ Tony Abbott marks term’s first half on YouTube Abbott ministers want to negotiate watered-down pension changes Abbott claims Victoria’s East West Link reversal will hurt Australia’s reputation as a safe place to invest The secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership has community groups and businesses concerned Great Barrier Reef lobbying: Australian government offers junkets to journalists New South Wales NSW government suggests entire village be relocated for Rio Tinto coalmine NSW needs 385 new classrooms every year for a decade Schools Plus makes tax deductible donations available to public schools High-risk inmates at NSW super-max jail banned from speaking Arabic Australia versus Humanity Bill Shorten faces damaging ALP split over asylum processing Goodwill letters to asylum seekers on Nauru returned unopened Sanitary Pads ‘A Fire Hazard’: The Realities Of Life For Mothers And Children On Nauru UN accuses Australia of systematically violating torture convention Asylum seeker torture report: United Nations special rapporteur Juan Mendez responds to Tony Abbott criticism UN is trusting ‘absolutely bizarre’ claims of asylum seeker activists, Abbott says Australia again justifies torture as a means to an end, this time by attacking the UN | Ben Pynt View from the Street: So, your PM, Tony Abbott, reckons you’re cool with torture The Oz: “Julian Burnside: Refugee boats activists quiet under ALP” Indonesia ‘could release human tsunami of 10,000 asylum seekers on Australia’ Forced asylum seeker transfer stopped amid airport protest Vietnamese boats ‘unseaworthy’, government sources say Asylum Seeker Self Harm Coaching Claims Weakened By Greens Leak Of Secret Report Stop The Pr
