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Anidav posted:The Brisbane mother at the centre of a botched child recovery in Lebanon that led to the detention of a 60 Minutes reporter and crew, has been arrested and her children handed over to her husband. Wait didnt they do a thing about bad immigrants in sweden last week or so?
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katlington posted:Wait didnt they do a thing about bad immigrants in sweden last week or so? Yep, and then it came out that they had used the equivalent of ukip as local guides
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Anidav posted:The Brisbane mother at the centre of a botched child recovery in Lebanon that led to the detention of a 60 Minutes reporter and crew, has been arrested and her children handed over to her husband. Wow
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Apr 8, 2016 08:32
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Is there an unspoken rule that it's always a Brisbane person who does things like this?
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Anidav posted:Is there an unspoken rule that it's always a Brisbane person who does things like this? It's a commonly spoken rule actually
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Apr 8, 2016 08:44
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To quote Auspol before Australia elected Are Tones. Death is Certain.
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Anidav posted:Is there an unspoken rule that it's always a Brisbane person who does things like this? steady on mate, it's not like I got really excited about having a job for the first time in ages or anything.
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Anidav posted:Is there an unspoken rule that it's always a Brisbane person who does things like this? Yes, much like Florida Man.
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thatbastardken posted:steady on mate, it's not like I got really excited about having a job for the first time in ages or anything. I wonder if our jobs would be better if we kidnap someone with the assistance of Channel 7.
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Anidav posted:I wonder if our jobs would be better if we kidnap someone with the assistance of Channel 7. we're going to kidnap the president of the united states and make him vandalise the consititution
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BCR posted:Make sure shes a paid up member, or you personally pay her dues for her. If she's not a member, sign her up and let her union rep help. An update on this. I've read correspondence betweeen the union and the employer and it looks like they are right on the case, specifically mentioning the fiance's mum as well as two other employees who are in the same situation, and insisting that they be instated as permanent. The language is very firm and legalese and indicates to me that they know what they're doing, which makes me happy. Fiance's mum looked through her work e-mails and hasn't found any that discuss permanency at all, as I suspected the promises of permanency were only ever made verbally. She is certain these conversations happened and is willing to sign a stat dec to this effect. She's surrounded by very supportive workmates and has a good case, so hopefully she will come out of this with her job, but either way I am happy that as much as possible is being done. I appreciate you answering my posts and chasing up on them, they've been some good support, so as a thank you I will donate $50 to any organisation of your choice.
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https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Apr-07/346119-lebanon-detains-australian-tv-crew-after-abduction-of-2-children.ashx Hahahahah quote:Earlier reports had said that the mother and her children were at the Australian embassy in Beirut. A security source told The Daily Star that the children were freed by police as a result of contacts between the ISF and the embassy.
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Isn't Labor leaving the existing NBN as-is a good thing, because it means they can focus on getting the rest of the network up and not focus on giving people who already have relatively fast internet, even faster internet? They can always go back and fix up the FttN areas latest I guess.
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MaliciousOnion posted:Isn't Labor leaving the existing NBN as-is a good thing, because it means they can focus on getting the rest of the network up and not focus on giving people who already have relatively fast internet, even faster internet? They can always go back and fix up the FttN areas latest I guess. Considering that the NBN was always meant to be about bringing rural areas and places where internet is really sub-par up to scratch with what should be expected of a first world country, I think you're right. Nerds complaining that they're not getting 100mb/s in the loving Melbourne suburbs is insulting and nowhere near the first priority of an infrastructure project like this.
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MaliciousOnion posted:Isn't Labor leaving the existing NBN as-is a good thing, because it means they can focus on getting the rest of the network up and not focus on giving people who already have relatively fast internet, even faster internet? They can always go back and fix up the FttN areas latest I guess. Also, the reason for the 'quicker, cheaper' LNP NBN ballooning in costs and becoming basically a non-thing was because they had to renegotiate everything. As much as the LNP NBN is a bad plan it's better than throwing it out, failing to get an entirely new one and being left with nothing.
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Cleretic posted:Also, the reason for the 'quicker, cheaper' LNP NBN ballooning in costs and becoming basically a non-thing was because they had to renegotiate everything. As much as the LNP NBN is a bad plan it's better than throwing it out, failing to get an entirely new one and being left with nothing. actually its because fttn requires more construction, skilled workers and material than fttp. it's literally worse in every conceivable way
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MaliciousOnion posted:Isn't Labor leaving the existing NBN as-is a good thing, because it means they can focus on getting the rest of the network up and not focus on giving people who already have relatively fast internet, even faster internet? They can always go back and fix up the FttN areas latest I guess. As I understand it, FTTP infrastructure would require the destruction/backhauling of all the copper hauled to the node/premises from the exchange, mostly due to the limited space for cabling in the telecom ducting network.
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Brick Dust Otis posted:actually its because fttn requires more construction, skilled workers and material than fttp. it's literally worse in every conceivable way Yeah, also that. But renegotiation was also a huge stumbling block, and it's better for Labor to just go 'gently caress it, we'll make your lovely version instead of throwing it out and then it'll be done and we can stop loving around with this'.
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Cleretic posted:Yeah, also that. But renegotiation was also a huge stumbling block, and it's better for Labor to just go 'gently caress it, we'll make your lovely version instead of throwing it out and then it'll be done and we can stop loving around with this'. i hate the FTTN network and im so excited to see how TPG loving bungle integrating HFC into it
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Endman posted:Considering that the NBN was always meant to be about bringing rural areas and places where internet is really sub-par up to scratch with what should be expected of a first world country, I think you're right. Isn't one of the major differences between the Liberal NBN and the original that it completely hosed over rural areas by expanding the number of rural areas that won't be serviced by fibre, but by wireless?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Isn't one of the major differences between the Liberal NBN and the original that it completely hosed over rural areas by expanding the number of rural areas that won't be serviced by fibre, but by wireless? I think so. My point was that all the whinging you hear about FTTN comes from suburbanites who want fewer milliseconds on their ping for Halo Call of Honour Duty Mans or whatever it is the kids play these days
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Endman posted:I think so. My point was that all the whinging you hear about FTTN comes from suburbanites who want fewer milliseconds on their ping for Halo Call of Honour Duty Mans or whatever it is the kids play these days Unless you're talking about the congestion complaints, which are a combination of lovely ISPs skimping on CVC capacity, the ACCC's braindead 121 POI rule, and the low numbers of customers on the service due to the rollout being so delayed. Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Mr Chips posted:And here I was thinking the criticism of the FTTN project was it's going to cost the Commonwealth almost as much as FTTP, while being slower, having more limited growth potential, having higher operating costs, higher end-user setup costs, and less revenue per user. FYI this is a stupid criticism, because over a long enough period of time, the NBN will make the government money. 20 odd million subscribers all paying $30 a month adds up.
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Many readers will know the feeling of being silently, financially assaulted when parking in the city or at the airport, getting to the boom gate only to find the two-hour threshold has just passed and the fee is a cool $66. Parking charges are eye-watering, but you may be surprised to hear that car-parking companies toil for paper-thin profit margins. Mysteriously thin even. Take Wilson Parking for instance, the company recently embroiled in the Panama Papers imbroglio and whose shareholders include Hong Kong's prominent Kwok brothers. Wilson Security, a subsidiary, also does the guarding at the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres. On the car parks it manages, Wilson has only averaged a profit of 5 per cent over 14 years. Photo: Joe Castro In the wake of the Panama Papers, Fairfax Media and University of NSW accounting academic Jeff Knapp looked into Wilson Parking and found that, like its multinational peers, it enjoys billion dollar revenue but alas makes a lamentably small profit, on which it is subsequently taxed. Running late The company had failed to comply with the Corporations Act and get its financial statements in on time for the past 18 years and we discovered accounting irregularities in the latest 2015 group financial statements. Wilson Parking has also left incorrect details about its ultimate holding company in ASIC's registers for 12 years. And to top it off, Wilson Security has missing annual financial reports with ASIC. It is no small irony that Wilson has its security guards stationed at court houses and the Australian Taxation Office. A financial analysis on over 14 years of records shows the company's income tax paid is around 1.6 per cent of its revenue. In this, it is typical of multinationals, like Pfizer and VW, operating in Australia. Revenue is soaked up by expenses and the resulting profit involves a smidgen of tax compared with the billion-dollar scale of the business. High costs Wilson Parking seems to be burdened by uncannily high costs. On the car-parks it manages, Wilson has only averaged a profit of 5 per cent over 14 years. For all the business risk, on its published numbers, it would have done better to have its money on term deposit at the bank. "The profit and income tax paid appears to defy economic reality,' says Jeff Knapp. "Why would any entity conduct a billion dollar business if it can only scrape out a 4 per cent or 5 per cent return before tax?" The same might be asked of most multinationals. Some rake their profits offshore by financing costs on loans and by royalties to related entities, and most bulk up their costs in Australia, so as to eradicate as much profit as they can because tax is levied not on revenue but on profit. The name of the game is making as little profit as possible in this country. "These multinationals are not for-profit entities but for-revenue-and-as-little-profit-as-can-be-entities," says Knapp. Virgin Island havens Also, like many of its ilk, Wilson has parent companies in tax havens. There used to be the enigmatic Covert Investments Ltd (incorporated in the British Virgin Islands). Now there is the parent Wilson Parking Holdings Pte Ltd (Singapore), and its ultimate holding companies, Wilson Offshore Group Holdings Limited and Genuine Result Limited, both registered in the British Virgin Islands. Wilson veritably bristled at the suggestion from these quarters that Australian parking fees might somehow wend their way to the tax sanctuaries of the Caribbean, even threatening to sue should such an imputation be conveyed. "We can categorically state that none of the income that you refer to has in any way been transferred or has in any way 'made its way' to any BVI and/or related entities or associated entities of any entities whatsoever including all the entities that you refer to," said an emailed response to questions. One wonders then what the point is of having BVI parentage if not to hide things. In any case, besides the standard Big Four auditor (PwC), the "irregularities" (as Knapp dubs them), the standard large revenue but small profit and tax numbers and the standard piqued cry, "We comply with all our obligations under the law" (no you don't), there is some colourful accounting. 'Managed park revenue' The most glaring anomaly is the Wilson car parks that are managed for "owners". The parking fees for these managed car parks are referred to as "managed park revenue" but they are not included in the revenue shown in the income statement. Wilson booked revenue of $928 million for 2015 after excluding $200 million for managed park revenue. It is strange these parking fees are described as revenue in the directors' report but they are not revenue in the financial statements. Wilson argues there is a principal/agent relationship in play. The managed revenue is for other entities that are running a car park business; property trusts and so forth. Over the 14 year period, Wilson notched up $5.1 billion in revenue, not including the unrecognised "managed park revenue" ($2.3 billion), paid income tax of $83.7 million and booked management fees of $117 million (its other carparks are leased or owned). Those management fees equate to about 5 per cent of managed park revenue. In other words, Wilson is happy with $3.30 when you pay $66 at a building owned by a property company. The management fees seem skinny. Moreover, they have not increased with managed park revenue, contrary to what you would expect for an agency relationship. As to other irregularities, Jeff Knapp points to the following: The accounting policy note does not adequately explain why managed parking revenue of $196 million is omitted from the income statement. There is inadequate disclosure of the amount of each significant category of revenue; $626 million is lumped together as "other – security and patrol services and alarm response". Reimbursed costs of $29 million are netted off against expenses instead of being included in revenue.Cash collected for managed parking stations appears to be netted off.Cash held on behalf of third parties, the owners of the managed parking stations, is not disclosed. "The nature and extent of the irregularities – especially the late and missing accounts – is concerning" said Knapp. "It is fair to ask whether significant amounts of taxpayer funds should be directed a company that routinely fails to comply with the Corporations Act," he said. So Wilson has been exposed in the Panama Papers, it has huge revenue and low taxes in Australia, says it has a multitude of owners that have car park businesses, and it routinely fails to comply with the Corporations Act. Sadly for Australian taxpayers, Wilson is not alone. It is merely one player in what is a global "Bottom of the Ocean" scheme where multinationals come to these shores, not to make a profit, but to generate large revenues which are then soaked up in high costs. "Multinational tax affairs in Australia are dire and toxic," says Knapp. "The sheer scale and audacity of corporate tax avoidance in our country has to be rooted out. Australian-owned companies that do pay a fair share of income tax deserve a fair go. They should not have to compete against multinational corporate blaggards on an uneven tax field."
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Thank you Tony for weaponising royal commissions
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This loving country. Listen to the goddamn audio quote:The Northern Territory health minister has suggested the furore around Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s medical treatment is a publicity stunt for forthcoming albums.
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Concern is mounting for an Australian mother and Channel Nine crew detained in Lebanon after a botched child recovery operation. Lebanese authorities say they have uncorroborated evidence Nine paid for the operation, which saw the children of Australian mother Sally Faulkner snatched off a Beirut street. It appears to have been an attempt to get the children back to Australia after their Lebanese father, Ali el-Amien, took them to Lebanon last year and refused to let them return. But four men accused of grabbing the children have been detained along with Ms Faulkner and a four-member crew from Chanel Nine, which was filming a story with her. Authorities say they now have a signed statement from a member of the "recovery team" who says Nine paid $115,000 for the operation.
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Won't somebody please think of the banks  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-09/nab-anz-bosses-say-banking-royal-commission-a-distraction/7313030 quote:NAB, ANZ bosses say calls for royal commission in banking a 'serious distraction' By political reporter Dan Conifer Updated 9 minutes ago One thing likely to be trotted out by the 'but business confidence!' crew will be that ASIC already has RC like powers. Well.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-15/budget-2014-funding-cut-to-asic-business-regulation/5453816 quote:(extract)Budget 2014: ASIC's funding cut in move away from financial sector oversight By Lexi Metherell Updated 29 Apr 2015, 2:50pm  You can not make this poo poo up.
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