- Solemn Sloth
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Oh great, then it will be Scott Morrison's Reign of Terror.
Morrison hasn't exactly performed well when he has at to talk about what he is doing at all, his prime ministership would likely be even more comically inept than Abbotts.
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Wow. That unregistered 2.3 million dollar house looks like a poo poo hole.
What house price bubble?
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I for one welcome the continued use of the revolving door in the PM's office, it only brings closer the reign of Boy King Wyatt Roy.
Travel awards exist purely to drum up traffic for the website or publisher who "awards" them, and they can't just go over the same ground again because - case in point - that doesn't get media coverage. Which is why Lonely Planet keeps naming duds like Adelaide or Newcastle as ONE OF 2016'S ABSOLUTE HOTTEST MUST-SEE-BEFORE-YOU-DIE DESTINATIONS!!!
Anybody else from Perth remember a couple years ago when the New York Times travel section wrote a piece about Perth? Which then caused a massive stir of cultural cringey excitement, followed by a backlash, followed by a counter backlash etc. And you know the NYT writer just filed and forgot about it and moved onto the next puff piece about some lesser-known resort town in Spain or whatever.
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The organization that Turnball has been standing in front off for the last 2 days has just been revealed to be corrupt and a damming indictment of the need for a federal ICAC.
Which organisation is this?
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The organization that Turnball has been standing in front off for the last 2 days has just been revealed to be corrupt and a damming indictment of the need for a federal ICAC.
Turnball has actually been a member of the Liberal party for while now.
yeah this
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Morrison hasn't exactly performed well when he has at to talk about what he is doing at all, his prime ministership would likely be even more comically inept than Abbotts.
Sure, but they'll have to try him at some point. The base don't trust him, so he might be brief, but nasty. The alternatives are loving dire though. It's the same for both parties, though. Albo and Bowen? Nope.
Speaking of brief and nasty, it appears that the Liberal party are indeed hanging Sophie Mirabella out to dry, refusing to spend any money on her campaign at all. She's done.
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So glad that what was essentially a fluff piece (War Memorial) got so much attention. Despite the flaws in that fluff piece there has been a noted and sustained increase in interest in ANZAC as well as a contining rise in numbers of visitors to the War Memorial (1.2 Million last year) https://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/2015-sees-record-number-visitors-australian-war-memorial/ Compared to other Aussie icons like Uluru http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/reversing-long-term-decline-in-tourism-to-uluru/6608226 where visitor number continue to drop but are on the order of 0.3 million a year. This is in tandem with the rise in Anzac day involvement and 'participation'.
Before I get into the pool of cess that is Australian politics if there was a single sign of hope that the LNP are on their way out it is the absolute desperation the Murdouche press are showing in trying to make the LNP re-electable. Malformed Turdball visiting 'The West' is big important news and shows #insert slogan# or so the Arsetralian slavered.
I don't know what is more shocking: What Dutton actually said or that it doesn't outrage me any more. And just as a quick aside, the boats haven't stopped and the detainees on Manus are still being detained. So just what have Border Farce achieved?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-18/mcmahon-dutton-ditches-the-dog-whistle-and-just-barks-instead/7425250
quote:English overboard: Dutton ditches the dog whistle and barks instead OPINION By Neil McMahon Updated yesterday at 4:24pm
Peter Dutton's statement on asylum seekers was, in its way, a work of art. Critics may yet come to consider this latest gust of enthusiasm the Minister's best work yet, writes Neil McMahon.
"They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English. These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that. For many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare and the rest of it so there would be huge cost and there's no sense in sugar-coating that, that's the scenario."
What a moment for Peter Dutton. Like a mountaineer opting to climb the final stage of Everest in thongs, he first boldly threw aside an Australian leader's favourite tool of trade - dog whistle be gone; no need for it once you have mastered the art of actually barking. And then he gave us what might be called the "English Overboard" affair of the 2016 campaign, a neat bookend to the kiddies-in-the-drink spectacular that so distinguished the 2001 showdown - the very election at which Dutton first presented his chiselled features and chosen fancies to voters. Dutton's statement on asylum seekers was, in its way a work of art - and a particularly Queensland work of art at that. Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen himself would've been proud to have produced this collision of words and sentences, tumbling forth and governed only by the rule that each sentence was to make a swift nonsense of the sentence immediately preceding it.
And what a joy it is to behold - a minister holding forth on questions of literacy with the grammatical flair of an autocorrected drunk text. In the space of three sentences, refugees were painted as the cleverest bunch of illiterate yet industrious job-hogging layabout if completely hypothetical invaders the Australian people had ever been invited to collectively clutch their pearls over. (For good measure on the literacy front, Dutton questioned whether these folk would be "numerate ... in English", which doesn't add up at all. Counting is counting, Minister, and knows no tongue - eight weeks, to pick a random example, will always be eight endless, painful weeks, no matter the language in which we might grimly tally the toll. The words we use for counting - one, two, three - you following, Minister? - they would be a matter of literacy.) Moving on and back to the fearmongering at hand. Despite, or perhaps because of, his blithe defiance of the need to make any sense, Dutton almost got away with it. Actually, he did get away with it on Sky News when he first said it, and make of that what you will. But not long after his warnings hit the outside world it became clear the Minister was actually stranded and left straddling in the most painful of positions. Sir Joh himself could have warned him to take care - in a famous missive with almost eerie pertinence to Dutton's current role, the master of the Queensland word salad once advised:
You can't sit on a fence, a barbed wire fence at that, and have one ear to the ground.
Indeed you cannot, and nor should you try to dance on one, as Dutton is learning after his frolic along the wire last night. Not that he is one to be deterred easily. He is, after all, a one-time northern copper, a determined bunch. Not for nothing was the young Dutton, aged just over 30, sent in on the frontline of that 2001 election. Like many of his Queensland brethren - Sir Joh actually looked like a peanut, Peter Beattie like a plump tomato, Campbell Newman an overripe asparagus - Dutton came blessed with a certain farm-fresh visage. In his case, it was like a Brussels sprout had been cross-bred with Donny Osmond - and it was from those formidable teeth that one deduced he meant business. And so it has proven, though taking care of business has made him perhaps even more prone than others to the pitfalls of public focus. His most famous how-to-wreck-a-photo-op moment came when a hovering microphone caught him cracking wise about rising sea levels swamping our Pacific neighbours. Prior to last night, this was his most notable contribution to comedy folklore, alongside his aborted stand-up experiment with Operation Border Force at Flinders Street station (AKA I didn't read it).
But critics may come to consider this latest gust of enthusiasm the Minister's best work yet, coming as it does a precise 100 days before the 15th anniversary of the Tampa crisis - the event that sealed the 2001 election result for John Howard, and therefore Dutton's political career. A mere 17 days after Tampa came 9/11, and two months after that, polling day. Within those weeks lies the origin story for the politics of today - right up to that Dutton interview last night. Only the dog whistle was missing. But he's always shown signs he didn't much see the need of it when you could just say things right out loud. In his maiden speech, this much was clear. He spoke of crime "causing older Australians to barricade themselves in their homes"; of "the boisterous minority and the politically correct" with their outsized influence; of the "silent majority ... fed up with bodies like the ... Refugee Action Collective".
Taking no prisoners, and taking no time to parse the nuance of his own words, he declared:
As a police officer, I have seen the best and the worst that society has to offer. I have seen the wonderful, kind nature of people willing to offer any assistance to those in their worst hour, and I have seen the sickening behaviour displayed by people who, frankly, barely justify their existence in our sometimes over-tolerant society.
Now there's a sentence to ponder, and ponder again. Or you could just take the advice Sir Joh would give once he'd laid down the law: don't you worry about that. 
Now I'm suspicious
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/schoolgirl%27s-milk-price-protest-reaches-barnaby-joyce/7427348
Why hasn't the Murdouche press besmirched Chloe Scott? Surely there are some skeletons in her closet. Longer than regulation nails at a netball match? Suspicions of cheating during a geography exam? One too many Katy Perry CDs? No wonder the muck rakers are getting sacked in droves.
Mal Brough, the gift that keeps on giving: Was this the reason the election was called early?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/afp-wins-access-to-james-ashby-phone-records/7427832
quote:AFP wins access to James Ashby's phone records in Mal Brough investigation By David Spicer Updated 16 minutes ago
The Australian Federal Police has been given permission by the Federal Court to access the mobile phone records of James Ashby in their investigation of former Cabinet minister Mal Brough and others. Police have been investigating whether an offence took place when the official diary of former speaker Peter Slipper was released without authority. The court has ordered that the mobile phone records of Mr Ashby — a former staff member for Mr Slipper — be released to allow investigators to examine the text messages he sent. Justice Geoffrey Flick found there was legitimate public interest in the records being released. Police sought access to the forensic downloads of Mr Ashby's text and picture messages, to investigate whether Mr Brough committed a crime by encouraging him to copy pages of Mr Slipper's diary.
The mobile records were submitted by Mr Ashby in his civil sexual harassment case against Mr Slipper, but the court previously heard they were no longer "located on the handset" because they were sent in 2012.
Both Mr Slipper and Mr Ashby have consented to the records being given to police. Mr Brough stood down as special minister of state in December and later said he would not contest the upcoming federal election. 
If Queensland does prove to be the King maker (no girls running) in this federal poll then you have to wonder what the clever clogs in LNP strategy HQ are doing:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/disaster-relief-funding-doubts-in-queensland/7427584
quote:Disaster relief funding doubts in Queensland Thursday 19 May 2016 7:51AM (view full episode)
The Federal Government's decision to delay paying Queensland more than a billion dollars in disaster relief funding is percolating as an election issue in the north, with 77 local councils joining the State Government's call for the money to be paid on time. The Government and local councils are warning the delay will create uncertainty when the next natural disaster strikes. The delay comes on top of ongoing concerns about the future of natural disaster funding arrangements, which Queensland councils are calling on both major parties to provide clarity about.
Statement from a spokeswoman on behalf of Federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan:
The Australian Government will always have a role in supporting those affected by natural disasters—we stand ready to assist Australian communities in need. We always have and always will. That's why last year we listened to the concerns of local communities and local governments and extended 'day labour' arrangements to councils in QLD to enable them to be reimbursed for reconstruction works undertaken by their own employees (where they can demonstrate this is at a lower costs than contracting out). Since 2011, $7.9 billion has been provided to QLD by the Commonwealth to assist in recovery from its natural disasters. The NDRRA recovery money is still Budgeted for; we have placed the funds over the next two financial years to ensure the funds are still available to QLD—but we need to ensure the claims are eligible before they can be reimbursed. That's because the framework we inherited from Labor was a disaster—both the Productivity Commission and ANAO released reports critical of Labor's framework and highlighting systemic issues where ineligible payments were made. Queensland's own Audit Office found that over $115 million ineligible claims were paid against the QLD Governments 2009-2012 NDRRA claims. Labor has no respect for taxpayer's dollars—it's all part of their higher taxing, higher spending, debt and deficit agenda, which will stop our nation's transition to the new economy dead in its tracks.
Our plans are fully costed, and fully funded—and QLD's NDRRA funding is no exception.
In NSW it's not about your politicians being without corruption it is only a matter of degree. Mike Baird can not run the HMAS Corruption that is the NSW state government and not catch some of the taint of what is endemic and entrenched systematic corruption. Or perhaps he can genuinely not remember who Authur Sinodinous is...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/westconnex-billions-to-be-audited-albanese-questions-funding/7427150
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This is how right-wing governments attempt to stay in power. When the public begins to recognise that the government's economic policy is against their self-interest and start to turn to the left, the right desperately (but unfortunately, often successfully) try to claim them back on with gut-level fear-mongering against
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Don't you remember The Verdict?
Greens released their ag policy.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/greens-launch-2016-agriculture-policy/7427792
The Greens have pledged extra funding for research, development and extension, as the centrepiece of their agriculture policy for the 2016 election.
The party is also hoping to win over farmers with a promise to boost funding for Landcare, which has been gutted by deep cuts in recent years.
Under the Greens' plan, existing rural research and development corporations would receive a $75 million boost, while $100 million over four years would be used to establish a new Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
The party has called for $722 million to be ploughed back into Landcare, to fund community revegetation and landscape rehabilitation projects.
The Greens agriculture spokeswoman, West Australian senator and former agricultural scientist Rachel Siewert said renewed investment in rural R&D was essential if Australian farmers were to continue to innovate and adapt.
"Unless we seriously invest in sustainable agriculture and into research and development, we don't think [we are] going to be competitive, or able to keep our agriculture at the cutting edge, in the face of the impacts of climate change."
The party is also calling for a new network of 180 agricultural extension officers, nationwide, to be funded by the Commonwealth.
"One of the things we believe is missing at the moment is how we translate some of that research into on the ground outcomes," Senator Siewert said.
"What we've seen across Australia in departments of agriculture, and also through cutting of funding under the previous government of Land and Water Australia, when we've talked to people, that's what they say is missing."
Senator Siewert said the Greens' policies have been fully costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office.
The Greens won't form government, but Senator Siewert says the party will push for a focus on agriculture from the crossbench.
"If we don't make sure that we are putting research and the future of agriculture very high on our agenda, we're going to fall further behind," Senator Siewert said.
"This is extremely important for our food security at an Australian level and a global level, and also for looking after the future of our farmers and growers."
The Greens had remained silent on the controversial backpacker tax until Sunday, when they declared that higher taxes on working holiday makers should be abandoned.
The Coalition has delayed plans to tax backpackers 32.5 per cent from their first dollar earned, pending a wide-ranging government review of working holiday visas and tax arrangements. It says as-yet unknown tax changes will now take effect from January 1, 2017.
Labor has refused to declare a position on how it would tax backpacker labourers if elected.
The issue has sparked huge concern among farmers, tourism operators and regional communities, who fear backpackers will be lured away from Australia, to Canada or New Zealand, where they would pay much less tax for similar work.
Senator Siewert said the Greens would be prepared to consider alternatives proposed by government or industry, including the principle of an agriculture-specific work visa.
But in the short term, she said growers and backpackers need certainty.
"The government should be clearly sending a message to the sector that this backpacker tax is dead," Senator Siewert said.
"Farmers are saying that the way the government's handled it, by delaying it, puts uncertainty over the sector and in some areas means that just as they would be hiring for harvest, there's uncertainty about whether there will be backpackers available."
Controversy over coal mining proposals and coal seam gas exploration on prime agricultural land has lead to an unlikely alliance between farmers and green groups in northern NSW in particular.
The Greens won the seat of Ballina on the northern NSW coast in the last state election, and the party is attempting to win the federal north coast electorate of Richmond from the Labor party in 2016.
Senator Siewert said the party was trying to convince regional Australians that the value of their vote would be taken for granted if voters don't demonstrate they're prepared to cast their ballot outside the traditional conservative parties.
The Greens are attempting to make the case to regional voters that they should look beyond the Coaltion and Labor on a range of social policies, as well as agriculture.
"The two old parties are not taking [climate change] seriously enough, in terms of where we need to go in the future and how we need to invest," Senator Siewert said.
"The government's agricultural white paper barely pays attention to the impact of climate change, and unless we start boosting up our research and addressing that issue now, we are going to fall further and further behind.
"We are passionate about Landcare, about natural resource management, and sustainable agriculture into the future, because that's where the future of agriculture lies."
Seems pretty reasonable. Should include more money for financial advice as well as extension.
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If you're on the east coast and have been having major internet issues it's because the main Telstra hub for the east coast in Perfleet mission was set on fire.
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If you're on the east coast and have been having major internet issues it's because the main Telstra hub for the east coast in Perfleet mission was set on fire.
Oh good they arrested a juvenile.
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"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Shortens campaign literally crashing
Watch him turn this into another Beaconsfield.
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Minus the stuff about fighting wars for whatever reason, this is a good article and a hosed up situation. Is there any recourse at all?
Remember the movie The Castle? Allow me to refer you to our national constitution:
quote:Part V – Powers of the Parliament
51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:
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(xxxi.) The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws:
Like in the movie, it could be strongly argued that the compulsory acquisitions did not occur 'on just terms' due to the significant hardships those evicted may face as a result of the Westconnex project. IANAL though.
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Like in the movie, it could be strongly argued that the compulsory acquisitions did not occur 'on just terms' due to the significant hardships those evicted may face as a result of the Westconnex project. IANAL though.
NSW has a Just Terms Act which sets out the matters to be taken into consideration when determining "just terms" (s55). If you were unhappy with the amount you could appeal to the Land & Environment Court as set out in that Act.
If you were unhappy with the process you could conceivably run all sorts of administrative law arguments to try and delay the decision and have it remade properly, which may or may not net you any more money. Given the despicable machinations of the Baird government you may even have some success with this, although the courts are (sometimes) reluctant to exercise this power.
I'm assuming you could do this because I didn't see a privative clause in the Act and I'm in my phone and I cbf looking.
I am not an environmental lawyer though.
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quote:Greens leader Richard Di Natale failed to declare his family farm in Victoria's Otway Ranges for 15 months, breaching parliamentary rules and potentially placing him in "serious contempt" of the Senate.
And Senator Di Natale has paid three au pairs to help with his family as little as $150 a week after tax, or $3.75 an hour.
He says he made up the difference and met minimum wage requirements [based on advice from a payroll services company] by providing food and board worth $300 a week and requiring only 25 hours of work a week.
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The Greens leader has made workers' pay and conditions, and a promise to protect penalty rates, a central feature of the 2016 election campaign.
He has attacked Bill Shorten over the penalty rates issue too after the Labor leader vowed to respect the rulings of the independent Fair Work Commission and said he would not - unlike the Greens - legislate to protect penalty rates.
Senator Di Natale and his wife, Lucy Quarterman, jointly own a 20-hectare farm "Twin Gums" and a second investment property in North Melbourne, which is not negatively geared, when he entered the Senate on July 1, 2011.
He declared ownership of the North Melbourne property on his Register of Senators' Interests on July 28, 2011 but omitted ownership of the family farm, which was his primary residence - breaching Senate rules about the disclosure of property owned solely or jointly by a senator.
In October 2012, the GP-turned-MP transferred the jointly owned farm to Ms Quarterman's name, removing the requirement for it to be declared publicly on "Form A" of the Register.
But between July 1, 2011 and October 2012, he was joint owner of Twin Gums, which means that like Labor MP David Feeney, who Fairfax Media revealed on Tuesday failed to disclose a $2.3 million property on the Register, Senator Di Natale could be found to be in "serious contempt" of the Senate under disclosure rules, and censured.
Senator Di Natale's spokesman said "the farm was listed as a business interest from the time Richard was elected" but conceded he had breached the rules by not declaring joint ownership of the property for 15 months.
The 2012 post on backpackerjobboard.com.au by Ms Quarterman, advertising an au pair job paying $150 a week, plus food and board, is potentially more embarrassing.
The ad stated the family of four is "looking for an extra pair of hands around the place to entertain the lads [the couple have two boys] and help with cooking and general domestic duties".
It adds: "Will take couples but weekly wage remains the same."
The $150 weekly wage was a quarter of the national minimum wage in 2012 of $606.40 per week, or $15.96 per hour.
A couple working for $150 a week would be earning just $1.88 per hour.
A spokesman for Senator Di Natale said the employment conditions of the au pair hired in 2012 were "based on advice received" that a deduction of $300 for food and board was appropriate and that the au pairs worked approximately 25 hours each week
"PAYG tax was also paid, at $37 per week, which brought the gross figure to $187, which was above minimum wage," the spokesman said.
"The au pairs worked during business hours (while Lucy worked) so penalty rates did not apply. Advice was that Superannuation was not payable."
The Fair Work Ombudsman states au pairs are entitled to the national minimum wage but can trade away food and lodging if both parties agree in writing.
The tax office states an au pair employed for more than 30 hours a week must be paid super.
Subsequent au pairs, including "Ben" - featured in a 2015 Good Weekend profile - were "paid above minimum wage based on the same conditions and a bonus was also given at the conclusion of his term. He remains a close friend of the family", the spokesman said.
Senator Di Natale has challenged Labor: "If you are so committed to penalty rates, protect them in law...if you care about penalty rates as the Greens do, then join us and let's protect them in law."
He also attacked Mr Feeney for blaming the "maelstrom of events" for his failure to declare his $2.3 million Northcote property.
"I think he's got some serious answers to give and so far the explanation he's given falls well short . . . I can definitely say that I haven't purchased a $2.3 million property - I reckon I would have remembered that," he said.
This is why I vote 1 socialists
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always hated that prick, better loving resign tomorrow.
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"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
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Reading that it doesn't look like he did anything technically wrong regards to employing an au pair. As for not declaring his property, it's a bit disappointing but I'm not sure he didn't follow the rules or not.
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Looks like the Liberals are hitting the panic button and are doing everything they can to get the QLD and to lesser extent NSW vote - if they can hang on there, they think they'll win.
It's too early in the campaign though, 2-3 weeks too early, they are rattled.
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gently caress the SDA. How are they even allowed to be a union at this point?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/hamburgled-mcdonalds-coles-woolworths-workers-lose-in-union-pay-deals-20160518-goycw5.html
quote:Burger giant McDonald's is underpaying its Australian workers tens of millions of dollars a year under a cosy deal struck with Labor's largest union affiliate that excludes weekend penalty rates.
A Fairfax Media investigation has found the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) negotiated a 2013 agreement under which some McDonald's employees are paid nearly one-third less than the award – the minimum pay and conditions safety net.
Nationwide, workers at McDonald's – Australia's second largest employer – appear to be out of pocket by at least $50 million a year. Those affected include young workers who earn as little as $10.08 an hour.
The findings are based on hundreds of payslips, obtained by Fairfax Media, and the leaking of an entire store's roster that shows 63 per cent of workers at a large Sydney outlet are paid less than the award.
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The union is separately locked in a similar controversy surrounding its deal with Coles – the nation's third largest employer. The supermarket chain has since admitted tens of thousands of its casual workers have been underpaid.
The union's agreement with the country's biggest employer, Woolworths, is almost identical to the Coles deal.
News of the underpayments comes at an uncomfortable time for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who has made the defence of penalty rates a key part of his election campaign, saying this week "only a Labor government can be trusted to protect our penalty rates system".
SDA insiders have expressed concerns to Fairfax Media about a string of sub-award deals sanctioned by the union leadership in recent years.
Also gently caress Di Natale, you got to be smarter than that at his level. A lot of peoples' well-being depends on the Greens getting a decent chunk of the vote to block some of the shittier policies proposed by the major parties and they can't afford the Greens to be loving up simple poo poo like that.
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