The Australian Political discussion

Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:06 am

Muttonbird wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:46 am
Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:03 am
Ellafan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:55 am Is the thread going to be a labour party branch meeting back slappathon like the old one, or will actual political debate be encouraged?
Suck all the conservative cock you like, you don’t have to ask anyone for permission.
Oh look. It's Shanky and the other Shanky, Sluggy, thinking anyone else cares.

I'd rather talk to Guy Smiley's fake log in than converse with you.

Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:10 am

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:05 am Four term Tony

It was an honest prediction.

I'll give you another one. Adam Bandt won't serve any terms.

Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:18 am

The Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:10 am
Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:05 am Four term Tony
It was an honest prediction.

I'll give you another one. Adam Bandt won't serve any terms.

Leading the parliament?

Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:27 am

Gratifying to see the attempt to swing the spotlight away from the festering shit show that is federal Labor...

seriously, Albo and his cohorts should be landing punches at will right now. Just flogging the Libs for the sheer merry hell of it. Where are they? Hiding in the room of mirrors trying to spot a policy?

Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:52 am

Let's get this started

Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:53 am

This is good news for a Friday:

Clive Palmer faces up to five years in jail after being charged with fraud and dishonest use of his position as a company director over the funding of his political party.

Mr Palmer was charged following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into the activites of Mr Palmer's businesses and his political party the Palmer United Party.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/compani ... 55d1j.html

Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:16 am

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:53 am This is good news for a Friday:

Clive Palmer faces up to five years in jail after being charged with fraud and dishonest use of his position as a company director over the funding of his political party.

Mr Palmer was charged following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into the activites of Mr Palmer's businesses and his political party the Palmer United Party.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/compani ... 55d1j.html

Be.Still.My.Beating.Fucking.Heart.

Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:20 pm

Did you delete the previous thread ?

mat the expat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:52 am

Let's get this started

Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:24 pm

http://notplanetrugby.com/viewtopic.php ... 5286ca1930

Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:54 pm

Ellafan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:24 pm http://notplanetrugby.com/viewtopic.php ... 5286ca1930

It had slipped to the end

Merged

Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:31 am

Sluggy. How's the pandemic going for you? Working from home lots, eh?

Imagine my delight that no-one, Australian or Australian expat New Zealander is able to enter New Zealand right now.

Good times.

Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:19 am

Hopefully Morrison is toast. Worse than Abbott, which is his greatest achievement.

These a percentage of gimps that will still vote for the Libs no matter what, but hopefully the swingers have swung. Bring on the election.

Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:04 am

Quade wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:19 am Hopefully Morrison is toast. Worse than Abbott, which is his greatest achievement.

These a percentage of gimps that will still vote for the Libs no matter what, but hopefully the swingers have swung. Bring on the election.

TBH, if the LNP gets in again, it's game over for Unions. Welcome to American-style healthcare and increased casualisation of the workforce

Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:29 am

mat the expat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:04 am
Quade wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:19 am Hopefully Morrison is toast. Worse than Abbott, which is his greatest achievement.

These a percentage of gimps that will still vote for the Libs no matter what, but hopefully the swingers have swung. Bring on the election.
TBH, if the LNP gets in again, it's game over for Unions. Welcome to American-style healthcare and increased casualisation of the workforce

Yup... and the rats are making preparations to shinny down the ropes,

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... unions-say

Enterprise agreements, struck between employers and their staff, provide conditions that leave workers better off overall than the underlying award conditions governing their industry. The employment conditions they set down continue in force until a new agreement is struck or they are terminated by the Fair Work Commission.

Applications to terminate enterprise agreements were relatively rare until a landmark decision in 2015 in which rail company Aurizon convinced the FWC to tear up a dozen agreements it had previously struck with unions.

Following Aurizon’s victory, terminations skyrocketed, according to FWC reports and research by the Australia Institute.

Terminations reached a peak of 508 in 2017-18 and have since fallen back but remain above pre-Aurizon levels of around 200 a year or less, with 330 applications to terminate lodged with the FWC in the 2020-21 year.

“It looks to us like companies are seeing this moment as their best chance to cut workers’ wages and conditions, while Scott Morrison is in power,” the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Michele O’Neil, said.

Sat Jan 22, 2022 6:15 am

Cunce