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The MUA’s outrageous wage demands would see maritime workers such as those employees working as kitchen hands, stewards, dishwashers and basic cooks potentially earning up to $230,000 a year”. “Let’s consider that, if a Maritime union seaman whose job is to do the dishes for 15 crew three times a day, earning up to $230,000pa, working 5 days a week, that equates to almost $20 dollars for each plate in the sink”, says Senator Abetz.Good work if you can get it but any tax advantages or pay rise will help the MUA only. Australia will simply have to pay more for export/import costs. But then, thats the Labor way.
[….] that a challenge for the future was to start winning seats outright rather than relying on preferences. “We’re now in a position, even with Liberals preferencing against us, to mount that challenge at the next election.”Bandt, you are only in parliament because of Liberal preferences. What do you think your chances are that the Federal Libs will do the same next time? None, according to this article;
THE Greens will find it more difficult to win lower-house seats in state or federal parliaments at future elections. Senior Liberals have vowed to use the Victorian template of putting the party last as a national strategy to cruel its chances of growing into a genuine third forceSee? That’s the real good news.
Back in the 1950s, copper wire was rolled out in our suburb, but it was not until the early 60s that we could afford the telephone. It changed my life, for with three pennies knotted in a hankie I was able to freewheel through the illicit delights of adolescence. But the telephone was essential for our neighbourhood schools, the hospital, business and industry. It’s the same today. The ordinary homeowner may not see the necessity of the NBN, but as a school teacher, I can tell you it’s essential. Whenever we have two classes on line in our primary school, the rest of us have to whistle Dixie interminably. It’s the local businesses, hospital and schools which need this rollout. Soon our students will be adults, and then broadband connection will be as endemic as the old dial-up telephone became.I think Pauline is a bit taken up with her being a teacher as she points out she is much smarter than the ordinary homeowners but she really misses the point that these non Dip Ed punters are making. Her case is for for improved broadband, not NBN, and no thinking person would argue that isn’t a good cause. What people are arguing about is the cost of the NBN as proposed by the ALP. Do we go from the current situation straight to $50 odd billion or is there a solution somewhere in between and do we put all our eggs in the fiber optics basket or is wireless broadband going to improve as the younger generation throw off the shackles of being tied to the home. Reasonable questions that the ALP refuse to answer while it would appear that Pauline isn’t even aware that the questions exist.
The committee – promised by Julia Gillard to secure the support of independent senator Nick Xenophon for crucial legislation to end Telstra’s market dominance and pave the way for the NBN – will have 16 members, of whom nine will be Labor-nominated. It will be chaired by independent Rob Oakeshott.With Oakeshott chairing and a labor majority it will produce no scrutiny. Nothing to see here – just move on
David Manne, executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, who co-ordinated the High Court challenge, said: “This is a great decision for the rule of law in this country. “The court has unanimously ruled that these decisions on our clients’ cases were unfair and unlawful because the government was not applying ordinary Australian laws on decisions on these life or death matters.”Well, that’s David Manne’s opinion but to classify this as ‘life and death matters’ lends false gravitas and, I for one, don’t think refugees should have the rights of citizens until they are citizens. In my mind, the only winners are the lawyers in the Human Rights industry, the two Tamil Tigers plus, of course, every other future ‘life style shopping’ boaty. What now for East Timor? Forget it – the government will be too busy processing claims once the news hits the People Smuggler Network News to try and come up with any solution to their self-inflicted wound.
The Australian government and the immigration minister have been ordered to pay the pair’s legal costs.Which translates as a mob of legal practitioners are going to be handed a lot of money as payment for their efforts in making it harder to run the country’s borders in any sort of organized manner. So, not only have we exhorted the people smugglers and ‘life style shoppers’ to greater efforts, but if we don’t want them to live here for any legitimate reason we will totally fund their appeal to the High Court to force us to give them what they want – permanent residency. Something wrong there!
According to the latest Newspoll survey, taken exclusively for The Australian last weekend, voter satisfaction with Ms Gillard dropped three points to 41per cent and dissatisfaction rose four points to 41 per cent.I find it amazing that 41 per cent of those survey think she is doing a good job! Can’t they read? Don’t they look at newspapers?
…a high-ranking Pakistani official, also involved in anti-people-smuggling operations, denied the numbers were in decline and said the Gillard government’s recent family-friendly announcement would only encourage more movement. “It’s increasing and the reason is very simple: you’re not doing anything positive to stop it,” the official said. “You’re sending all the wrong signals. You’ve set up new centres in Adelaide and one near Perth to accommodate the child issues. If you’re going to be so friendly then of course you’re going to get more people.Sending all the wrong signals is dead right.
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