homebrew posted:

Burger Foundry has gone way down hill. It used to be very good when the Canadian bloke was running it, but he left and it turned to poo poo.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Jacqui Lambie is well intentioned, she just doesn't want us overrun by the chinese hordes and forced into slavery. An entirely understandable position.

Like you are seriously going to try and paint someone who has stood for every party which would take her as being some kind of principled well intentioned person?

TG-Chrono posted:

Michelin don't have a guide to Australia and so no restaurants here can get Michelin stars. We get poxy Fairfax Chef's hats. Bleh.

Nibbles! posted:

Keep reporting the page and various post/comments that are openly bad. Sometimes they moderate, sometimes they don't. Next time they might have a review and they say bad luck.

Miranda Devine posted:

No one wants to marginalise moderate Muslims but nor should we [ignore] the contradictions and extreme violence at the foundation of Islam.

Scapegoat posted:

What even if they are rich and well hung?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Haters Objector posted:

I can think of at least one person who wants to marginalise moderate Muslims

TG-Chrono posted:

Michelin don't have a guide to Australia and so no restaurants here can get Michelin stars. We get poxy Fairfax Chef's hats. Bleh.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

There's also a full page thing on CLIVEFUCIUS SAY...I'M A HYPOCRITE (where Palmer has a fu manchu moustache) that I think was ill-considered.

Anidav posted:

I fully except the most News Corp front pages regarding ISIS soon.

Ragingsheep posted:

Got a picture?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

apologies for quality / size, phone-posting

Orkin Mang posted:

Does anyone even read these crappy shock rags anymore?

By the way, thanks to everyone who responded for their excellent explanations of negative gearing and superannuationcon essions. I have a few follow up questions I'd like to ask when I'm not on my drat phone.

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PRIVATISING assets is one of the few ways of dealing with “uncompetitive’’ union agreements that have driven up labour costs and electricity bills, one of the nation’s most respected government-owned business chiefs has declared.

Writing in The Australian today, Vince Graham, the chief executive of Networks NSW, which comprises the three state-owned electricity companies that operate the industry’s poles and wires, warns that unions in the state have entrenched unproductive and uncompetitive work practices.

In a dramatic escalation of the debate over electricity privatisation, Mr Graham says unions have opposed privatising networks in NSW for the past two decades “to protect their labour monopoly” and warns that uncompetitive union agreements that will inevitably lead to outsourcing pose the greatest threat to the job security of his workers.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

apologies for quality / size, phone-posting

Anidav posted:

Actions of ISIS give Tony Abbott a second term. Can't wait.

Lid posted:

Australian.


Privatise the assets because that way it will get rid of the unions.

Australian.

Lid posted:

Given Bill Shorten's personality it is unsurprising this will happen as he will follow John Kerry's stellar campaign policy of "I stand for nothing, but against those things you don't like about the other guy" and then get confounded when he loses.

CrazyTolradi posted:

It's really lovely but yeah, I really do wish you the best but QLD is a loving hole for younger people to find work. If you wanted full time, I could probably hook you up but I'm fairly certain you're a student still so causal or p/t would be what you need?

Les Affaires posted:

Bullshit.

All they need is for John Faulkner to summon the ancient Labor metalworkers to reforge the shards of Narsil and present it to Tanya Plibersek.

Lid posted:

Australian.


Privatise the assets because that way it will get rid of the unions.

Australian.

Endman posted:

What's the teamswap button? How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?

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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/disgraced-former-labor-minister-joe-tripodi-and-eric-roozendaal-preferred-nathan-tinkler-to-labor-colleague-jodi-mckay-icac-20140819-105mlv.html

Disgraced former Labor minister Joe Tripodi and Eric Roozendaal preferred Nathan Tinkler to Labor colleague Jodi McKay: ICAC August 20, 2014 - 5:46AM

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Kate McClymont, Michaela Whitbourn

Explosive documents tendered at a corruption inquiry suggest former Labor minister Joe Tripodi and his colleague Eric Roozendaal abandoned government policy to support Nathan Tinkler's billion-dollar plans for a coal terminal.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption heard on Tuesday that Mr Tripodi, then a Labor backbencher, was flown to Newcastle in Mr Tinkler's helicopter to meet executives from the coal mogul's company Buildev in November 2010.

Internal Buildev notes reveal the company was plotting with Mr Tripodi to get government support for a $1 billion coal terminal in the Newcastle suburb of Mayfield.

Mr Tripodi's colleague, the then Newcastle MP Jodi McKay, supported the government-approved policy for a container terminal to be built on the Mayfield site, but Buildev wanted this stopped at all costs.

''Joe – going to get Eric to stop Anglo deal going to board this Thursday,'' the internal Buildev notes said, in a reference to the rival proposal backed by Ms McKay.

The note went so far as to suggest that Mr Roozendaal, then NSW treasurer, would seize control of the land and insist that a deal was done with Buildev.

The inquiry has also heard that in October 2010 Mr Roozendaal met with Buildev executives.

Departmental documents reveal that officials were worried Mr Roozendaal's support for Buildev's proposal would ''involve a departure from the NSW government-approved direction for the development of the Mayfield site''.

Seated at the back of the ICAC hearing room on Tuesday was Mr Roozendaal, who now works for a Chinese property developer. He and Mr Tripodi are expected to give evidence in coming weeks.

Ms McKay sensationally told the commission in May that after rejecting an attempt by Mr Tinkler to bribe her into supporting his coal terminal, she received a call from Mr Roozendaal, displeased with her rebuffing the coal magnate.

Ms McKay said later that same day a document from Mr Roozendaal’s department, which undermined the viability of the container terminal, was leaked to the Newcastle Herald.

In other evidence, Mr Tripodi's close friend Vince Fedele, a printer, was questioned about the former Labor powerbroker's involvement in an anonymous smear campaign against Ms McKay in the weeks before the March 2011 election. She narrowly lost the seat to the now disgraced former Liberal MP Tim Owen.

The campaign involved 10,000 ''Stop Jodi's Trucks'' leaflets being distributed, which falsely suggested that the lives of Mayfield residents would be ruined by 1000 trucks a day rattling through their neighbourhood to service the container terminal.

The inquiry heard Mr Tripodi was even involved in the ''process of layout and suggesting colours'' for the leaflets.

Mr Fedele said that Mr Tripodi asked him to ''try to keep me out of it'' when journalists started asking questions about his involvement in the leaflets.

''Joe was pretty much involved in the whole process,'' he said.

ICAC has heard that the anti-McKay campaign was funded by Mr Tinkler's company Buildev. Property developers are banned from making political donations in NSW under laws passed in 2009.

It is also illegal to distribute anonymous campaign material after the writs for an election are issued.

Mr Fedele said that he was told to make out the $9000 invoice for the flyers to ''Darren'' – a reference to Buildev co-owner Darren Williams – but he did not know who this was.

Ms McKay broke down in the witness box earlier this year after she learned that Mr Tripodi and Buildev were the likely source of the flyers.

Lid posted:

On phone but god drat

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/why-exempt-pensioners-from-copayment-pm-20140820-3dzqw.html

Tony Abbott has given a strong signal his government won't exempt pensioners from its planned $7 GP co-payment.

The prime minister argued pensioners were not exempt from making a co-payment on taxpayer-subsidised medicines.

"Why should they be exempted from the Medicare co-payment?" he told Fairfax Radio on Wednesday.

Who are you expecting to vote for you?!

Lid posted:

"Why should they be exempted from the Medicare co-payment?" he told Fairfax Radio on Wednesday.