Tasmantor posted:

In Melbourne for work this week being subjected to KIIS101.1 it's truly something awful. Anyway going to be in Sandringham what's good eating?

Seagull posted:

Boy this thread is still bad.

Muir wrote something about how we shouldn't just grind up young people to be used as a cheap pig slurry and rather aid them when they're unemployed and personally I agree.

Muir continues to be pleasantly surprisingly one of the best members of parliament. Which isn't saying much but still.

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Assistant treasurer Josh Frydenberg still sees no need for a royal commission into financial advisers despite the scandal that has rocked National Australia Bank.

Renewed calls for a royal commission came after the bank’s financial advice arm NAB Wealth confessed last month it had quietly paid out as much as $15m to 750 customers during the past five years because it “didn’t get it right the first time”.

NAB sacked 37 advisers and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is further investigating the bank.

It follows a series of other scandals, including the nation’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank.

A Senate inquiry last year urged a royal commission into the sector but this was dismissed by the government, a decision Frydenberg is standing by.

“That’s my view,” Frydenberg told ABC television.

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The federal opposition has proposed a $1.9bn package targeting multinational tax avoidance, with most of the savings slated to come from changes to the amount of debt for which companies can claim deductions in Australia.

Frogfingers posted:

Boss Burger in Highett or Bocconcino's Pizza in Parkdale. Walk a few streets down and you can eat it at the beach. Its always quiet.

cpaf posted:

I think it's a pretty good direction personally. The Libs put an unpopular and unfair budget to a senate that resoundingly rejected it and they've spent the entire time since wringing their hands and shrugging, as if the "economic situation they were elected to fix" is no longer their problem. Labor throws up a policy popular with mostly everyone, punishing multinational tax evasion, and the government is left with the choice of either passing it and giving the appearance that they're unable to devise their own policy, or rejecting it and reinforcing the growing realisation amongst voters that the budget is pushing an agenda and not built upon the desperate necessity they originally alleged.

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Please ignore any threats or other violent suggestions, I'll retract them once my antipsychotics kick in.

I mean well but sometimes my anger gets the best of me.

Breetai posted:

SO I've never been to a goonmeet before and was vaguely worrying about how to identify the right people at the pub tomorrow, never having met any of you, by the general tone of this thread I'm looking for the people slapfighting each other, doling out purple nurples, and screaming "false flag, false flag!", right?

Nuclear Spy posted:

ADELAIDE GOONMEET

Tuesday 3rd of March from 6:30pm at the Wheatsheaf Hotel

If funds are too low for you but you'd otherwise attend or you are a goon who has never met another goon IRL, I will shout you a beer. Lurkers would have to post in one of the AusPol threads beforehand, in case someone brings their friend and just says they are known as *random username* on the forums. This cannot obviously backfire on me as goons over self-regulate their time in public, right?

Fruity Gordo posted:

$1.9 billion over three years seems like a really piddly amount, surely our lost revenue from corporate tax evasion would be orders of magnitude higher?

E: Apple alone ripped off $9b over the course of a decade, for example. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-06/tax-expert-explains-how-apple-pays-193m-tax-on-27b-revenue/5303426

Fruity Gordo posted:

$1.9 billion over three years seems like a really piddly amount, surely our lost revenue from corporate tax evasion would be orders of magnitude higher?

E: Apple alone ripped off $9b over the course of a decade, for example. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-06/tax-expert-explains-how-apple-pays-193m-tax-on-27b-revenue/5303426

Cleretic posted:

I might've misread it, but I took it to mean that they were devoting $1.9b to fixing the problem. Which, granted, doesn't actually make much sense to me; investigating the problem and potential solutions would probably not require that amount of money into it.

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The opposition said the Parliamentary Budget Office had assessed the measures as bringing in $1.9bn in revenue over three years from July.

Fruity Gordo posted:

$1.9 billion over three years seems like a really piddly amount, surely our lost revenue from corporate tax evasion would be orders of magnitude higher?

E: Apple alone ripped off $9b over the course of a decade, for example. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-06/tax-expert-explains-how-apple-pays-193m-tax-on-27b-revenue/5303426

Laserface posted:

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Apple had 9B of profit so there's "only" potentially 3B of tax revenue there.

There are also limits to what one country can do alone.

Breetai posted:

SO I've never been to a goonmeet before and was vaguely worrying about how to identify the right people at the pub tomorrow, never having met any of you, by the general tone of this thread I'm looking for the people slapfighting each other, doling out purple nurples, and screaming "false flag, false flag!", right?

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Its not just Apple doing it, but the question is finding the right balance between pursuing our taxation rights and having them decide its cheaper to not operate here at all. Which is hard to imagine given how much money there is to make off the Aussie market. Its not that they can't afford the taxes, there is just no incentive to pay them and they can lobby to keep not paying them

IslamoNazi posted:

If you have iMessage you can iMessage Senator Brandis at senator.brandis@aph.gov.au it is very real and very amazing

Tokamak posted:

Don't worry, you'll know... you'll know.
Have you seen a nerd before? It's a group of nerds. Pudgy, awkward (both socially and from meeting strangers on the internet), a little unkempt, somewhat less fashion sense and talking about video games out loud. You'll be right, and maybe pm or post in the thread if you are lost

Arsetralian posted:

2 Mar 2015 The Australian SARAH MARTIN

30 years working for dole a reality

JOBSEEKERS in remote indigenous communities “with no economy” may never get a real job and could spend up to three decades working for the dole. However, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion told The
Australian that as long as jobseekers are taking part in 25 hours a week of meaningful community activities, working for the dole in perpetuity was not a negative outcome. “I don’t think that is a bad thing,” he said. “They are engaged in purposeful activities in their communities, where they choose to live, and they are choosing to live in an area where there is no economy and a growing population. And while people may say, ‘ How can you possibly do this to people?’, there are no alternatives.”

The government is planning to introduce tough new rules for the Remote Jobs and Community Program that aim to end passive welfare and the harmful effects of “sit-down money”. Under the tightened welfare rules, which come into effect on July 1, jobseekers in remote areas aged 18-49 will be obliged to undertake work-for-the-dole activities for 25 hours a week, five days a week, for most of the year. Approved activities would include helping getting children to school, aged care, volunteer work, learning to drive and literacy and numeracy training.

Senator Scullion said the scheme could improve living standards, citing unhygienic conditions in remote areas that contributed to chronic disease. “Many of my communities live on the floor, it is like a cave,’’ he said. “I think that one of the characteristics of civilisation must be that you don’t have to eat at the same level as your animals, it must be something like that. I feel very strongly that we should try to provide furniture.” On Friday, a Senate inquiry heard there would not be an exhaustive or exclusive list of approved activities as the scheme needed to be flexible enough to meet individual requirements. Senator Scullion insisted the program would not provide free labour to companies in remote areas, but businesses should be engaged where possible.

He again stressed that the government would take a hardline approach to passive welfare. “Staying at home like a couch potato with the channel clicker is probably not amongst (approved activities) because this is about moving people from a dangerous and vulnerable place to a more positive place, and ensuring that they are connected with the sort of skill set and the sort of environment that allows them to move into work when it becomes available,” Senator Scullion said.

Consultations on the final design of the scheme — including potential for annual and cultural leave — is continuing with remote communities and jobservice providers. The policy will apply to both indigenous and non-indigenous recipients of Newstart and Youth Allowance in 60 remote areas, covering 76 per cent of Australia’s area. About 37,000 people are covered by the Remote Jobs area, 83 per cent of them Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

I hope that isn't you mangling those apostrophes.

Tokamak posted:

Don't worry, you'll know... you'll know.
Have you seen a nerd before? It's a group of nerds. Pudgy, awkward (both socially and from meeting strangers on the internet), a little unkempt, somewhat less fashion sense and talking about video games out loud. You'll be right, and maybe pm or post in the thread if you are lost

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The Palmer United Party's two senators, Glenn Lazarus and Dio Wang, will abstain from voting on government legislation indefinitely, according to party leader Clive Palmer.

In a statement released on Monday, Mr Palmer said it would be irresponsible for the party to vote on any legislation until government "chaos" had ended.

"The government's proposals seem to change daily," Mr Palmer said.

"The policies are not consistent, party infighting and conflict is ongoing and as a result our party has decided as a bloc to abstain from voting on any legislation proposals."

Fairfax Media is seeking clarification on the party's position. If the abstention refers to PUP senators not attending any Senate votes - rather than voting down any government bills - then this would likely make it easier for the government to pass legislation.

Only days ago Mr Palmer vowed that his party would vote against any attempts to introduce a co-payment for Medicare services and he has said repeatedly that PUP would vote against the deregulation of university fees.

According to the Odgers' Australian Senate Practice manual, Senate votes are decided by a simple majority of those present and voting on bills before the Senate. Senators who wish to abstain in a vote can do so only by absenting themselves from the floor of the chamber.

Former PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie has vowed to vote down any government legislation until it improves its pay rise offer for Defence personnel.

SadisTech posted:

Mr Chips posted:

Devine's not a journalist. She writes opinion pieces.