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Les Affaires posted:I'm reminded of the various cases in the 1980s where concerns parents were alarmed with the rise of metal and the argument that came back from one of the bands was basically "Why the hell would we knowingly want our fans to kill themselves?" Fan death remains a major issue for South Korean metal bands
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Hockey wants more than $1m in damages.
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Lid posted:Oh look it turns out that another alternative therapy to treat cancer "celebrity" is a complete failure, but this time with the added bonus of rather than dying they lied about having cancer the whole time. Steve Jobs spirit lives on at Apple, I see. Media Watch last night touched on this and apparently she's gotten a lawyer and will provide an open letter soon. Hopefully it's written better then that last tweet.
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Ragingsheep posted:Hockey wants more than $1m in damages. Good lord, that's 100s of business meetings for the
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:51 |
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Ragingsheep posted:Hockey wants more than $1m in damages. Yes but what about next weeks groceries
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:51 |
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Ragingsheep posted:Hockey wants more than $1m in damages. Maybe he'll be able to afford a car.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 04:00 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Fan death remains a major issue for South Korean metal bands *quiet applause*
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 04:32 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Fan death remains a major issue for South Korean metal bands
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Gough Suppressant posted:Fan death remains a major issue for South Korean metal bands
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Abbott's managed to piss off the Irish Prime Minister and the rest of Ireland. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-st-patricks-day-message-causes-offence-in-ireland-20150317-1m10h4.html
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Graphic photo of the guy on the ground bleeding all over the place. quote:An Iranian refugee couple has been taken to hospital after being pelted with rocks and knocked off their motorbike on Nauru on Monday night. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/nauru-iranian-refugee-couple-pelted-with-rocks-by-local-men-sources-say
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SynthOrange posted:Graphic photo of the guy on the ground bleeding all over the place. Should've worn a helmet.
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ewe2 posted:
I've spent half an hour typing something about how this fits with the Constitution, Judiciary Act, specific court legislation and the common law, and it's still about as clear as diarrhoea, so here goes my simple version: - The Federal Court is hearing the case because maybe Fairfax is using the implied constitutional freedom for political communication, maybe? - Defamation is usually a state matter, so the single federal judge is in the position of a first instance NSW judge, and thus bound by NSW appellate decisions. - Judges at the same level aren't supposed to disagree unless one is obviously wrong. So two NSW single judges shouldn't overrule each other because they're the same court - the same thing applies across jurisdictions at the same level. This is because there is a single common law of Australia, and only the High Court tells everyone what that is. - Because of that last principle, theoretically the Tasmanian Supreme Court could set some interesting precedents and the rest of Australia would have to follow. Ha! - Hockey is still a giant sook
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SynthOrange posted:Graphic photo of the guy on the ground bleeding all over the place. Asphyxious posted:Should've worn a helmet. It wouldn't help unless they were wearing it in another country.
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Asphyxious posted:Should've worn a helmet. quote:After the protests, a six-year-old asylum seeker lost two teeth when a guard reportedly threw rocks at children inside the family camp. The camp has also been stoned from outside several times.
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Lid posted:Abbott's managed to piss off the Irish Prime Minister and the rest of Ireland. Is St Pat's Day really a thing here?
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ffs
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Birdstrike posted:I've spent half an hour typing something about how this fits with the Constitution, Judiciary Act, specific court legislation and the common law, and it's still about as clear as diarrhoea, so here goes my simple version: Good enough It's a bit mad that we're already talking appeals but this isn't really about defamation, it's about points-scoring :\
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Ragingsheep posted:Is St Pat's Day really a thing here? Like, we can laugh at the response all we like, but Ireland sorely underestimates Australians' ability to co-opt days of significance as an excuse to drink until you pass out. Abbott's video was offensive for a myriad of reasons (the Dr. Evil hands, the lovely political pointscoring with the green gag, etc) but suggesting that Australians will have a drink or three was underplaying it heavily, tbh.
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quote:The archbishop of Adelaide has been charged by police over his alleged concealment of the sexual abuse of children by a priest in the 1970s. Welp. Also horrible American flouting Australia's bike helmet laws!
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The UN needs to gently caress off with its bullshit moralizing about how its not okay to throw rocks at the heads of children explicitly under your care.
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SynthOrange posted:Also horrible American flouting Australia's bike helmet laws! Did he beat the tram at least?
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He got a stern talking to by a traffic cop about helmet laws, but no ticket
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loving hell
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Lid posted:Abbott's managed to piss off the Irish Prime Minister and the rest of Ireland. oh please st patricks day is for drinking and acting like a doofus and it has been for a long time.
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Orkin Mang posted:oh please st patricks day is for drinking and acting like a doofus and it has been for a long time. Just like all the other days Australians have appropriated.
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Frogmanv2 posted:Just like all the other days Australians have appropriated.
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Brandis is going to introduce website-blocking legislation this week. This is about protecting Foxtel though, not blocking child porn. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/401763,brandis-to-introduce-site-blocking-legislation-this-week.aspx Can see this going down well especially a few weeks away from the GoT season premiere.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 06:46 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Yep, having a large single indivisible and potentially hard to move asset sure is categorically better than an income stream. Run out of money, most of your wealth in your house, but you happened to retire during a downturn in the property market? Tough fuckin luck. As opposed to my dad who lost almost half his super when the US economy took a poo poo and died? This isn't actually that bad an idea in the sense that property IS in fact a pretty sensible retirement strategry. Even when the economy tanks, you'll still have a house. The problem is Joe has also bee proposing raiding super for unemployment money and poo poo as well. Which is *loving reckless*
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duck monster posted:As opposed to my dad who lost almost half his super when the US economy took a poo poo and died? Putting your super into a fund that invests in property is a solid plan. Putting your super into buying a house when the money is meant to fund your retirement is a terrible idea.
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My friend Gold Standard Conure pointed me in the direction of this thread, and to the attention of BCR, with regards to issues with my current pay scheme and determining the pay bracket etc I should be in so that I have some information to back me up when I go to my rear end in a top hat boss to ask if I can please be paid well. Info; Age: 25 Job: Computer Technician/Onsite Service Engineer Job Description: I perform onsite break fix and troubleshooting for National Companies like Fujitsu and RSS for customers ranging from Coles and Target to the ATO and Aurizon as well as in-office IT support for the company I work for directly and some printer maintenance for the same companies photocopier fleet. Wage: $17.40/hr with $137.31/week (equates to $3.61 an hour for a total of $21.01/hr) FLAT car allowance and $0.32/km allowance Allowances: I currently get paid a car allowance in a flat rate/week as well as a rate/kilometer of business travel. From my cursory lookings I THINK that I am under the MA000021: Business Equipment Award 2010. I currently do not have a copy of my contract though I will be trying to get one, and I don't know if there are any clauses in my contract that exclude me from awards etc or specifically what award my contract is covering me with. The ideal outcome for me would be that I would be taken off the car allowance and brought into line with the other technicians in the workshop ($25/hr) and I am fine with still using my car for the work. I currently do not have the solid information at my disposal to propose this to my boss, who is a very tight individual when it comes to money and wages. I am almost certain everyone working here is getting ripped off when it comes to OT and other things in the contracts. I would also like some information RE, who to turn to should he turn me down, as there are very few available jobs in Mackay in this industry and I am unable to move from here for the foreseeable future. Let me know if you need any more information.
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duck monster posted:As opposed to my dad who lost almost half his super when the US economy took a poo poo and died? Real estate as an investment is fraught in part because the quality of the asset depends on its location. Somebody might argue that they should be entitled to use their super to buy a home in the pilbara, a house that cost about $1m two years ago and is now worth $300k.
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duck monster posted:The problem is Joe has also bee proposing raiding super for unemployment money and poo poo as well. Which is *loving reckless* When/where has he proposed raiding Super for unemployment?
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Dante18907 posted:My friend Gold Standard Conure pointed me in the direction of this thread, and to the attention of BCR, with regards to issues with my current pay scheme and determining the pay bracket etc I should be in so that I have some information to back me up when I go to my rear end in a top hat boss to ask if I can please be paid well. That award should cover printer techs, see Part 1 section 4 here: http://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/documents/modern_awards/pdf/MA000021.pdf If you're a field tech, working independently, then you shouild be at least technician level 3 and probably 4. Part 4 covers wages, and it looks like your mileage should be 78 cents per KM. Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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duck monster posted:As opposed to my dad who lost almost half his super when the US economy took a poo poo and died? A properly managed super fund is diversified, this coupled with the length of time it's supposed to be operating on makes it far less likely that you will wind up hosed compared to if you have one house. I guess you can argue that when we get to the stage where not owning a home is more common than owning one, that this in fact increases diversity in your assets, but we're a fair way from that still. It also doesn't do anything to address the problem Hockey claims it does: housing affordability. Injecting more money into the market will just raise prices, simple as that. Actual levers which could be used to increase housing affordability: get state governments to dramatically increase land taxes for undeveloped land; get state governments to institute caps on allotments over a certain size in particular areas, start to grandfather out negative gearing etc Gough Suppressant fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mr Chips posted:wow. I was getting paid ~$17/hour to do CPE repairs under the SA version of that award back in 2002-ish, and 56 cents per KM mileage. Can't recall the on-call allowance but it wasn't bad at the time. Yeah, I had a look through the stuff on paycheck but I don't know what Level I am supposed to be. It returned Level 5 when I entered my stuff but I would like to have that confirmed. Also, is the minimum wage what I am supposed to be paid BEFORE allowances? Or do allowances figure in and its just the final figure that counts towards minimum wage? But yeah. I'm kinda getting hosed over at the moment. I have been here six years and the junior is being paid more than I am. I've never brought it up because I only recently found out and I thought the guy was just a stingy prick. I also don't have a fallback position of 'X are offering me Y so I want Z to stay' because there are no jobs here in this industry, so I have been hesitant to bring it up for fear of being given the boot, as work has been kinda light lately with 3rd part contracts shifting hands etc.
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Dante18907 posted:Yeah, I had a look through the stuff on paycheck but I don't know what Level I am supposed to be. It returned Level 5 when I entered my stuff but I would like to have that confirmed. Also, is the minimum wage what I am supposed to be paid BEFORE allowances? Or do allowances figure in and its just the final figure that counts towards minimum wage? Join a union.
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Eat an onion
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KennyTheFish posted:Join a union. this and also check that you are being paid the proper amount of Super!
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