Jumpingmanjim posted:

It was just an american psycho quote geez louise.

Anidav posted:

I actually have a job and it's magically the one Hotel in Brisbane that doesn't get busy during Christmas. I signed a contract for casual work but they won't tell me when that casual work will start.

Gough Suppressant posted:

QLD is 52(+1)-48 to the ALP
SA 54(+3)-46
NSW 54(+2)-46

Nationally 54(+2)-46

WA: 47(+1)-53 to the Coalition

Nibbles! posted:

You're a student and just looking for part-time/causal yeah? Walk down your local main st and into the cafes/take-away shops and everything else. Go to the local Coles and Wollies. Ask to speak to managers, explain your situation and get their names. When they tell you they have nothing tell them thanks and you'll call again in a couple of weeks to suss it out again.

Call them every week or couple of weeks and ask for them by name. Ask if there's anything going. Worst cause scenario you get told to gently caress off again and again, but all you need is one person to say 'this person seems keen".

There's going to be one place out there that will put you on by virtue of you looking keen and them no doubt having someone on their roster giving them trouble they'd take hours from.

Resumes go in the bin.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

part of me wants to sneer at anidav's naivete and blame his stupidity for not being able to find a job

but the rest of me recognises that although he is stupid, if we had an employment framework that was designed to aid jobseekers rather than abusive employers he would not be having as many issues as he has been and blaming him for being unsuccessful at finding a job under the current regime would make me no better than the average a current affair viewer

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Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis spent years lobbying the Australian media watchdog over what he perceived were breaches of broadcasting regulations involving the Sunrise program and comments about terrorism.

Correspondence associated with the dispute about Seven and the Australian Communications and Media Authority that Monis sent to other authorities, contain numerous references to "Martin Place" and "acts of terrorism", confirming his six-year obsession with the location.

Monis died along with two of the 17 hostages he took in the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place just metres from Seven's Sunrise studio last week.

The attack so near Seven has prompted speculation the Sunrise program or the channel itself was his initial target.

Monis' dispute, dating back to mid 2007, with the ACMA and Seven also suggests his hatred for the channel was not triggered by Seven's current affairs expose of his anti-Afghan soldier letter-writing campaign and online videos in 2008.

Fairfax has learned the 50-year-old first complained in 2007 to the ACMA about a Sunrise program broadcast on July 4 of that year.

He alleged that a guest on the program had commented about the Glasgow terror attacks and had indirectly provided instructions for terrorism and had therefore breached terrorism laws. He posted a quote supposedly taken from the program saying: "If you want to kill people, why not use the tools of your own trade like a plague or a disease or something? Why go into an area which you're clearly unqualified in."

In later ranting letters to other authorities about the Seven program he bemoaned the "failure" of it to investigate "terrorist acts at Martin Place, Sydney, Australia".

Monis posted that after hearing the statement he had been prompted to send "letters to Australian authorities to request them condemn this as instructing terrorists but the Attorney-General of both governments, Mr John Howard and Mr Kevin Rudd has said to Sheikh Haron that it was fine".

ACMA took Monis' complaints seriously enough to launch an investigation into whether the program had involved discrimination against Muslims and sought a copy of the program from Seven.

The complaint was later dismissed, infuriating Monis. ACMA has so far declined to provide a copy of the investigation report.

After learning the complaint was not upheld Monis wrote to ACMA expressing his disagreement with the findings but bizarrely congratulating the authority on its professionalism.

But for years afterwards Monis made reference to the Sunrise program.

Throughout 2012, he maintained a website on which he posted just one statement which said: "That from 2001 I was silent, I was dead.

"Until 4th July 2007 I was in a deep sleep. Sunrise woke me up! God can awaken a person by many different means even by a terrorist broadcast from the program Sunrise on Channel Seven from the Australian TV!

"I thank God and I won't give up until the Australian government condemns that broadcast which was instructing terrorism".

On Friday, a spokesman for Channel Seven said the station was making no comment on Monis while the siege investigation was ongoing.

Kommando posted:

Anidav doesn't need jobseeking advice for qld, he needs a friend to recommend him, The world operates on nepotism.

nockturne posted:

I don't understand why Anidav is struggling, why can't he just sell some shares?

Asphyxious posted:

Anidav open up a string shop, because you love t'whine so much.

tithin posted:

quote:

ANY Queenslanders who wake today a little worse for wear after a robust round of Christmas celebrations can at least take solace in knowing there is no need to feel guilty about overspending.

Our living standard has lifted substantially during the past few years and we can feel confident that even better financial times are on the way.

Australian Retail Association figures show that Queensland shoppers spent on average about $2000 each in the days leading up to Christmas, an increase of about 5 per cent on last year.

We are expected to each spend at least another $270 at the Boxing Day sales – beginning this morning – on discounted electronics, clothing and homewares, which will put another $380 million into retailers’ tills.

There’s no doubt low interest rates and a recent drop in petrol prices have put extra dollars in Queenslanders’ pockets. But the most critical reason behind our generosity this Christmas has been Queenslanders’ own confidence in the state economy.

Retail figures are reliable indicators of how comfortable we feel – and this year’s retail surge can be read as a big tick of approval for the way the Newman Government has turned around the Queensland economy.

It’s an assurance also shared by business and investors, with one Chamber of Commerce and Industry survey this year pegging business confidence at almost 60 points – eight points higher than under the last days of the Bligh Labor government.

Queenslanders clearly feel more economically comfortable than they did three years ago.

And with $3.4 billion from the proposed leasing of state assets earmarked for cost of living relief, taxpayers are about to feel better still.

This revival is neither accidental nor coincidental.

It is the result of the hard work and tough decisions of an LNP government determined to repair the damage of Labor’s economic mismanagement.

With the release this year of Treasurer Tim Nicholls’ “Government for Growth Economic Strategy and Action Plan” – itself building on last year’s “Enabling a Strong Economy” blueprint – it’s clear Queensland has come a long way from the sometimes shortsighted and ad hoc decision-making of the Beattie and Bligh years.

Proof that the LNP’s economic vision is paying dividends is not hard to find. Inflation remains low, yet wages over the past year have grown by 2.6 per cent. The recent mid-year economic review also forecast a budget surplus, of more than $330 million for 2015-16.

All this has been achieved despite falling coal revenues and without compromising – and in many cases improving – frontline public services. Today, there are many more police on the streets and teachers and teachers’ aides in schools than under Labor. Surgery waiting lists have also been slashed and the dental waiting list reduced to zero.

The arrival of Queensland’s $60 billion liquefied natural gas industry is especially exciting – an industry tipped to push the state’s annual growth rate to almost 6 per cent – as is the Abbot Point expansion, the Kurilpa Riverfront renewal, the Aurukun bauxite project and the Mary Valley development.

All will see prosperity shared across the state. And the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games alone will inject $2 billion and 30,000 jobs into the economy.

To maintain this strong economic momentum, the Newman Government must identify the $8 billion of infrastructure projects to be funded by the lease of state assets.

This is a key part of the Government’s economic recovery plans that should be unveiled before the state election, due early in the new year.

There’s also clearly work still to be done on the jobs front. While more than half of all new Australian jobs in the past year were created in Queensland, the state’s unemployment rate still hovers around 6 per cent. The slashing of red and green tape and the halving of industry project approval times should assist here.

Overall, the reality is that the Queensland economy is emerging as the envy of the nation.

Indeed, other states – and the Abbott Government – would do well to emulate Queensland’s resolve and make tackling their own deficits a top priority.

Treasurer Joe Hockey’s mid-year economic statement last week disappointingly revealed a ballooning federal deficit – now forecast to exceed $40 billion – more than $10 billion higher than indicated in the May Budget.

If left unchecked, federal finances will be a drag on a Queensland recovery so critical to Australia’s wider prosperity.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is no more to blame for the mess federal Labor left of the national economy than Campbell Newman is for Queensland Labor’s legacy here.

But it remains Mr Abbott’s responsibility to continue to negotiate with crossbench senators and to find the savings that will cement Australia’s future.

With the economy of the states so dependent on the lead offered by the federal numbers, real progress on reducing the federal deficit is still the best Christmas gift all Australians – including Queenslanders – could receive.

SadisTech posted:

Are you dying, Mills?

i got banned posted:

Or if they suspect someone is trying to murder them. Do you have any enemies?

katlington posted:

WA is a bad place full of bad people.

Haters Objector posted:

tbh the Australian public is not even remotely qualified to comment on the competency of a treasurer

Anidav posted:

We still love Costello for reasons!

EDIT: Saved us from the GFC, only 8% care. Wayne has to be an alcoholic by now.