Jumpingmanjim posted:

But how did Kanye cope with not being the centre of attention during this incident?

Mills posted:

Haha they're idiots for doubling down.

Kommando posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-10/community-television-kicked-off-air-by-federal-government/5733690

Community TV? Channel 31? Thats gotta go.


Minister for Communications wants to kill public access TV. Cant say im surprised any more.

Bifauxnen posted:

What sort of experience do you have, and what would you be looking for next? What part of Australia are you in?

One thing you could look into is try volunteering somewhere. Yes, it's shithouse that you'll be working for free, but if you're at the rock bottom point anyway, it can be a good way to keep yourself active, pad up your resume, and get some good references if you don't have many.

Ideally try and find somewhere you can bum some fringe benefits off them without looking like a total mooch and getting on their bad side. I really lucked out with my volunteering by going to some nice community gardens. I got a fair bit of free food from either the gardens or their morning teas.

Ammonsa posted:

Well I've got waiting experience, but my boss isn't going to give me a reference now so haha. I'm in Canberra, just trying to apply for places but I don't have a car and public transport is shithouse here. So I'm limited to the southern area of Canberra realistically, honestly I'm just having a lot of trouble finding places that don't require qualifications I don't have in Canberra.

Ammonsa posted:

Well I've got waiting experience, but my boss isn't going to give me a reference now so haha. I'm in Canberra, just trying to apply for places but I don't have a car and public transport is shithouse here. So I'm limited to the southern area of Canberra realistically, honestly I'm just having a lot of trouble finding places that don't require qualifications I don't have in Canberra.

Ammonsa posted:

Well I've got waiting experience, but my boss isn't going to give me a reference now so haha. I'm in Canberra, just trying to apply for places but I don't have a car and public transport is shithouse here. So I'm limited to the southern area of Canberra realistically, honestly I'm just having a lot of trouble finding places that don't require qualifications I don't have in Canberra.

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Hundreds of workers at Coca-Cola Amatil's warehouses around the country will cop a pay freeze and new hires will receive pay of 38 per cent less to do the same job under new pay deals that provide a stark warning of the pressure on wages across the economy.

A spokesman for the United Voice union, which represented some of the 90-odd workers at Coke's Victorian warehouses, said it had no idea why workers would accept such an agreement.

DAAS Kapitalist posted:

Some spectacular FYGM from Coca Cola's warehouse staff. They do realise the company will invent ways to boot them to replace them with cheaper employees?

http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/cocacola-amatil-slashes-wages-with-new-employees-to-work-for-less-20140910-10exj8.html

Ammonsa posted:

Thanks for some of the suggestions, guys. There's no local supermarkets near me, just the big ones, Woolworths, Coles. I don't understand how but I've never managed to even get an interview for them, even though I apply and send in expressions of interest (because they never have the actual vacant openings at the stores I can get to).

DAAS Kapitalist posted:

Some spectacular FYGM from Coca Cola's warehouse staff. They do realise the company will invent ways to boot them to replace them with cheaper employees?

http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/cocacola-amatil-slashes-wages-with-new-employees-to-work-for-less-20140910-10exj8.html

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The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) says it is prepared to take High Court action to reclaim the senate seat held by John Madigan.

Senator Madigan dramatically walked away from the party last week, saying he would serve out his term as an independent.

Federal president of the DLP, Paul Funnell, said he has written to the Victorian Governor seeking to have Mr Madigan removed from the Upper House.

"We have written to the Governor [Alex] Chernov to advise the Federal Senate that we actually will be nominating a senate delegate to fill the vacant position," Mr Funnell told ABC Statewide Drive Victoria.

"It's our contention that the sixth Victorian senate seat, that was won in 2010, is vacant because of the resignation."

He said if the move failed, the party would take its case to the High Court.

adamantium|wang posted:

Haters Objector posted:

Has this ever happened before?

norp posted:

Pretty sure yes. He keeps his seat until he steps down.

Senators have even changed parties, totally fine. But when they step down the original party gets to nominate the replacent

Ammonsa posted:

Well I've got waiting experience, but my boss isn't going to give me a reference now so haha. I'm in Canberra, just trying to apply for places but I don't have a car and public transport is shithouse here. So I'm limited to the southern area of Canberra realistically, honestly I'm just having a lot of trouble finding places that don't require qualifications I don't have in Canberra.

Haters Objector posted:

Should have been clearer, what I meant was has a party ever managed to get a member replaced after he resigned from them during a term? I would have thought not.

T-1000 posted:

I got a job at one of these a few years back. There is an online portal you're meant to apply through that I didn't know about. I went down in person and asked, and they told me to come back the next day to start training. Nobody looked at my resume, and it wasn't until halfway through filling out paperwork that they told us what jobs we'd actually been hired for*. I managed to get a friend hired a few months later because they needed more people and I suggested him. If you have any friends who work in these places, see if they can put in a good word.
Also: around Christmas the supermarkets (and many other places that get busy, like JB Hifi and Myer) hire extra staff. If you can wait three months that might provide (temporary) relief.
Try fast food as well. Selling burgers was the worst job I ever had, but it paid.

*There were pretty serious issues with how the store was run at the time. I don't want to imagine what their HR processes looked like where this was the best way to hire people.

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High court verdict spells the end for Australian immigration detention as we know it

Today’s landmark hearing clearly set out the constitutional limits on detaining non-citizens. The federal government will now have to release or process thousands of asylum seekers


Today’s high court verdict, which dealt another blow to the federal government’s plans to give asylum seekers temporary protection visas, set significant new limits on Australia’s policy of mandatory detention. It will throw into doubt the legality of detention of thousands of people in Australia, potentially spelling the end for Australia’s mandatory detention regime as we know it.

In the unanimous decision handed down today, the court threw out the federal government’s strategy of granting temporary visas to asylum seekers through a legal loophole. Unable to get temporary protection visas through parliament, the federal government had been granting other temporary visas which blocked asylum seekers from applying for permanent visas, but today’s case ruled against that practice.

More importantly, and for the first time, the court clearly set out the constitutional limits on immigration detention. It was previously unclear for what purposes the government could detain non-citizens. The court has now clearly stated that the government can only lawfully detain someone in three circumstances: to consider whether or not to let someone apply for a visa; to consider an application for a visa; or to remove someone.

Detention is only lawful if these purposes are being “pursued and carried into effect as soon as reasonably practicable”, the court held. The length of detention must be assessed by what is “necessary and incidental” to execute and fulfil those purposes. These limits on detention are constitutional. In other words, Parliament cannot override them by introducing new legislation.

Today’s decision has profound implications for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. The detention of thousands of people who arrived irregularly before July 2013 is now potentially unlawful and the government will now have to either release these people or at least resume processing. Prolonged cases of detention can be challenged before the courts. The policy of locking people up indefinitely, without carefully considering whether it is justified in the individual case, is unlawful under Australian law.

The court’s decision finally provides clarity about the limits of mandatory detention. Since 1992, the court has heard a series of cases dealing with aspects of the issue. That year, in the case of Chu Kheng Lim, the court held there were two limits on detention. First, it had to be for a “legitimate purpose” – to enable a visa application to be considered, or to remove a person from Australia. Second, detention had to be “reasonably capable of being seen as necessary” for that purpose.

In other words, if it were not possible to remove someone, then the detention could no longer be justified. The court said that detention that did not meet these conditions would be unconstitutional, because it would infringe on the exclusive power of judges to detain people.

Since then, however, the high court has tended to question or overlook these limits. Most famously in 2004, in the much criticised case of Al-Kateb v Godwin, the court effectively authorised mandatory and indefinite immigration detention in Australia. The majority in that case held that the Migration Act required a person to be detained even if there was no reasonable prospect of removal. The court held that this was constitutional.

Since Al-Kateb, lawyers have challenged Australia’s detention laws in a variety of ways – generally without success. However, in recent years the high court has become increasingly receptive to such challenges. In part, this is probably because in practice detention has become longer, more routine and more extensive.

Since September 2013, the average time spent in detention facilities in Australia has risen from 100 to 350 days, and there are currently nearly 4,000 asylum seekers in detention facilities. These numbers don’t include asylum seekers living in detention in the community.

Today’s case sets clear limits to the government’s power to detain asylum seekers indefinitely, without review or consideration of individual cases. In doing so, the high court has reaffirmed the role of judges in reinforcing the rule of law in Australia.

Quantum Mechanic posted:

The High Court has declared indefinite detention to be unconstitutional.