Questions, questions and more questions? This dumb lot raise so many questions. It is enough to send an old man grey. These so-called politicians seem to think that the Electoral Act does not apply to them and that people have short memories.
Will Hodgman and his tourism mates out and about buying beers all round is more than dodgy and sending out cheques to bribe ‘the oldies’ into thinking that all is OK is as silly as and most likely illegal. So, if you’ve spent your $125 for Christmas you might be a little browned off.
Then there is Forestry and Minister Barnett. The industry is about as sustainable as the MIS Scheme have proven to be. With dwindling resources in a very competitive world market who is being fooled? Anyway, where are these promised forestry jobs that have not materialised?
Tasmania needs smart politicians who will level with them and who will hold themselves accountable. The current crop, well they just cannot cut it in the real world.
Will Hodgman and his tourism mates out and about buying beers all round is more than dodgy and sending out cheques to bribe ‘the oldies’ into thinking that all is OK is as silly as and most likely illegal. So, if you’ve spent your $125 for Christmas you might be a little browned off.
Then there is Forestry and Minister Barnett. The industry is about as sustainable as the MIS Scheme have proven to be. With dwindling resources in a very competitive world market who is being fooled? Anyway, where are these promised forestry jobs that have not materialised?
Tasmania needs smart politicians who will level with them and who will hold themselves accountable. The current crop, well they just cannot cut it in the real world.
FROM THE EXAMINER: Backlash over Tasmanian Government's energy rebate scheme …. Matt Maloney
A pre-Christmas gift promised by the state government has failed to be fulfilled for some pensioners and senior Tasmanians.
Fairfax Media has received numerous complaints that eligible recipients of a $125 energy rebate have failed to receive their cheques around the expected date.
The offer was made to anyone holding a Pensioner Concession Card and Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders.
Energy Minister Guy Barnett last week said 80,138 cheques had been sent.
The total amount was worth more than $10 million.
Burnie pensioner Michael Garrad said he was told the last batch of cheques were mailed out on December 12.
“I know a lot of people who were hoping to receive it pre-Christmas,” he said.
“It would have made a big difference for them and some have suffered financially because of the delay.
“They were basically relying on having it delivered when they were told it would be delivered.”
Kings Meadows pensioner Ian Williams said he was advised by Aurora Energy the cheque had been sent on December 8.
Three weeks later, he was still waiting.
Mr Williams questioned the method for distributing the rebate and said a more effective, and less costly, method would have been to deduct the amount from a future power bill.
“It’s a real irritation – they continued to spruik this thing and now it is taking so damn long to receive the cheque,” he said.
“Given Australia Post’s woeful reputation for timely mail delivery, you’d have to wonder which genius bureaucrat thought sending out thousands of letters in the fortnight before Christmas would see them delivered on time.”
The administration and mail-out costs associated with the scheme is estimated to cost $100,000.
Mr Barnett told a government business hearing this month the cheque distribution method was deemed the most efficient way to distribute the benefit to all eligible customers.
“There are Pay As You Go customers for example, about 11,000, and to get the benefits direct to those customers, those pensioners doing it tough, this was deemed the most efficient and best way to go,” he said.
Aurora Energy advised that the billing system wasn’t able to process the payments in the time frame required.
I can't help but think that anyone who believes our politicians deserves whatever they get (after all the lies and tripe they've visited on us over the years).
ReplyDeleteWhy just pensioners? The pension is already hundreds of dollars a fortnight more than newstart. And more old folk own there own home. Whose looking after granny then?
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