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bowmore posted:more fake news from the loony left Karl Albrecht was a german soldier in WW2 who was mysteriously rich enough after the war to buy up a dozen stores vOv
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His family owned a couple of stores before the war, but he was on the Russian front so it's pretty likely he did his share of warcriming.
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The Saturday Paper apparently has an exclusive story saying Morrison was fired from Tourism Australia over dodgy contracts but it's behind a paywall.
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Today Josh Frydenburg will give small business a big rear end financing handjob I mean handout because times are tough.
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Anidav posted:Today Josh Frydenburg will give small business a big rear end financing handjob I mean handout because times are tough.  think of this?
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Frydenburg is making Australia great again
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Here he goes Edit: hrs wearing his ScoMo Top Bloke Brand flag pin
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So small and medium businesses can ask the federal government for financing and they will give it to em.
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Meanwhile The Morrison government has tapped former High Court chief justice Robert French to lead an inquiry into free speech on university campuses amid its concerns about the influence of left-wing activists. Mr French, who is chancellor of the University of Western Australia, has been tasked with developing a framework akin to the Chicago principles on free expression, adopted by dozens of universities in the United States, and to investigate "realistic and practical options" for managing areas of conflict.
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ABC staff members says she finds needle in pear. Michael and Virgina on News Breakfast said the staff member works with them.
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Anidav posted:So small and medium businesses can ask the federal government for financing and they will give it to em. Sounds like socialism to me. Also are they expected to pay back the loans/handouts? Sounds a bit like the VEDC debacle from the 80s
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You Am I posted:Sounds like socialism to me. Seems like the government expects innovation in return. E:Small business owners will be given a $2 billion lifeline in a radical federal government intervention to heighten competition with the big four banks while offering more options for companies that can struggle to secure loans. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will set up a major new fund using Commonwealth debt to inject more finance into the small business sector, vowing to help a part of the economy that employs more than seven million workers. The scheme, to be announced on Wednesday, will adopt the same model Labor used to back $16 billion in mortgages during the global financial crisis but will restrict the funds to small companies, in what is an unusual intervention for a Liberal government.
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Barrie Cassidy dobs in WA Bunnings over their shameful sausage practice
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I reckon Richard Wynne has got a good boost by finally convincing his cabinet to agree to the safe injecting facility in Richmond. He’s also an effective local member and has historically pretty good support among the public tenements. NSW Greens being a drag on the vote can’t be discounted too imo
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Anidav posted:So small and medium businesses can ask the federal government for financing and they will give it to em. Watch as the federal government bases the "size" of the business on taxable income.
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Gridlocked posted:Barrie Cassidy dobs in WA Bunnings over their shameful sausage practice Huh? Why would Barrie Cassidy from insiders be talking about Bunnings sausages ?
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Jibs Monteef posted:Karl Albrecht was a german soldier in WW2 who was mysteriously rich enough after the war to buy up a dozen stores tbf it's West Germany so the Yanks giving the first Nazi business owner they find a tonne of cash isn't that weird.
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Just voted for Vic Socs on Sydney Rd. They had a lot of volunteers out. The Labor candidate (Cindy O'Connor) was there too.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:tbf it's West Germany so the Yanks giving the first Nazi business owner they find a tonne of cash isn't that weird. "We will defeat socialism using a combination of government hand outs and public investment,"
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Anidav posted:The Saturday Paper apparently has an exclusive story saying Morrison was fired from Tourism Australia over dodgy contracts but it's behind a paywall. Exclusive: Auditor-general found Morrison breaches Ever since Scott Morrison was sacked from his job as managing director of Tourism Australia in 2006, the reasons for his dismissal have been kept secret. At the time and since, public speculation has variously attributed the now prime minister’s removal to a personality clash with his minister, a falling out over changes to the organisation’s structure, and a dispute over the agency’s contentious “Where the bloody hell are you?” campaign. But an auditor-general’s report completed 10 years ago, which has escaped public scrutiny until now, reveals that in the period leading up to Morrison’s dismissal, his agency faced a series of audits and a review of its contractual processes ordered by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, amid serious concerns about its governance. The auditor-general’s inquiry into Tourism Australia – which followed these reviews, and was conducted after Morrison’s departure – reveals information was kept from the board, procurement guidelines breached and private companies engaged on contracts worth $184 million before paperwork was signed and without appropriate value-for-money assessments. The audit report omits the next event in the chronology of relations between the minister and Tourism Australia – that Bailey sacked Morrison the same month. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report examines three major contracts that Tourism Australia signed while Scott Morrison was managing director. It criticises processes in all three cases but especially the contracts for global creative development – advertising campaigns – and media placement services. Ten years since the audit, and 13 years since the contracts were signed, those two completed contracts appear not to be listed on the government’s AusTender website, where all contracts are required to be available for public viewing. Searches, including by AusTender staff, have failed to locate them on the site this week. Procurement rules say they must be reported within 42 days of the contracts being entered. The 2005 request-for-tender documents announcing the proposed contracts are listed. Government records show the ANAO audit was first proposed in July 2006. It is believed to have commenced in the second half of 2007, while the Howard government was still in office and before the November 2007 election in which Labor defeated the Coalition, and former New South Wales Liberal Party director Scott Morrison entered parliament in the Sydney seat of Cook. Morrison began at Tourism Australia in November 2004 and left 19 months later. The ANAO audit covered the 2005 pre-contract period to mid-2008 and documented a series of governance failures at the agency, which coincided with Morrison’s time at its helm. The report does not mention Morrison by name or position, nor apportion blame to any individual but rather to Tourism Australia as a whole. The chairman of its board at the time was former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Tim Fischer, who is currently undergoing treatment for leukaemia. The audit report criticises extensively the agency’s processes for drafting, executing and managing the contracts, the opaque accounting processes involved in aspects of them and poor communication with the board and regional offices, including by service providers. It details Tourism Australia’s failures at the time to adhere to guidelines – the signing of a contract without incorporating measurable performance indicators and non-existent risk assessments or value-for-money analysis. Tabled in parliament on August 6, 2008, the report was one of more than 40 the Audit Office had produced in the previous 12 months. It escaped public attention at least partly because it was not among the handful that parliament’s joint committee on public accounts chose to examine further in its role as chief audit scrutineer. At the time, the committee was chaired by then Labor MP Sharon Grierson with then Liberal MP Petro Georgiou as her deputy. When the report was tabled, Morrison was a member of the public accounts committee, which was tasked with considering it for review. He resigned from the committee six weeks after the report was tabled and, it is understood, some months before the committee formally considered it. The Saturday Paper does not suggest Morrison influenced the audit’s treatment. Grierson says that as Tourism Australia had accepted its three recommendations, and nobody on the committee raised any issues, the report was not officially examined further – standard procedure in dealing with the volume of audits each year. The Saturday Paper lodged detailed questions about the audit report with Morrison’s office but was told he was not able to answer them in the time available. Performance reviews of the two key contracts between 2005 and 2007 – contained in the audit – revealed Tourism Australia had failed to disclose to its own board that it had underspent $3.9 million on one of the contracts in 2006-07. It was found that in one case invoices had been raised before the contract was signed and that in another case the price paid in some areas of a contract was “more expensive than the benchmark”. The audit report does not mention then tourism minister Fran Bailey’s sacking of Morrison in July 2006, nor any of the alleged preceding tension between them that has been the subject of public speculation since. But The Saturday Paper understands the events and issues the audit report outlines played a significant role in Morrison’s removal. Unconfirmed news reports have since alleged that he received a payout of more than $300,000. Asked to comment this week on the report’s contents in relation to Morrison’s dismissal, Bailey would only repeat the one comment she has made before: “I reiterate that it was a unanimous decision to get rid of Mr Morrison by the board and the minister.” She added: “I have always treated confidential matters as confidential.” The report’s description of the chronology of events would suggest matters came to a head between Morrison and Bailey when the organisation asked her to approve the agency’s annual upper spending limit for the three-year creative development and media placement contracts – required because of their high value – in June 2006. The year before, during the selection of tenderers, Bailey had raised concerns with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet about Tourism Australia’s evaluation process for short-listing companies. The prime minister’s department ordered a re-evaluation, which produced the same result. The ANAO report describes the documentation provided as “not comprehensive” and, as a result, the selection process “lacked transparency”. Unconfirmed media reports at the time recorded industry insiders alleging that advertising and marketing company M&C Saatchi – which was subsequently awarded the contract – had been given early access to information. It’s understood there had also been tension over Tourism Australia’s commissioning of an AC Nielsen survey of Australians’ stockpiling of annual leave, which then formed the basis for a marketing campaign “No Leave, No Life” to encourage people to take holidays. It is believed some in the Howard government were annoyed, seeing it as potentially undermining its workplace relations policies. The audit report mentions the campaign and survey as an example of Tourism Australia’s domestic activities, without comment or criticism. In mid-2006, before approving the annual upper spending limits, Fran Bailey asked Tourism Australia to provide a fully completed internal assessment of all of its 2005-06 contracts, an independent assessment of whether the two contracts were value for money, and details of the mechanisms in place to monitor and manage the contracts for the following financial year. Awaiting the information and to avoid disrupting an international marketing campaign already under way, Bailey agreed to authorise expenditure of $25.8 million for the two contracts. An independent assessor was appointed to review the contracts as requested, but Tourism Australia told the minister the review couldn’t be finished until September. The agency said that delaying the approvals until then could “lead to a loss of discounts worth $6.7 million” and urged her to act. “In light of this, the former minister felt she had no option but to approve (in July 2006) the total annual expenditure of $82.6 million,” the 2008 report says, with the bracketed date included. Bailey added two conditions to her agreement: that the board must be satisfied the evaluation, once completed, showed taxpayers had received value for money; and that the following year’s funding approval request should provide evaluation material upfront. The audit report omits the next event in the chronology of relations between the minister and Tourism Australia – that Bailey sacked Morrison the same month. The then prime minister, John Howard, did not intervene to prevent it. The 2008 audit report goes on to say that once the reviews were completed in 2006, as the minister had requested, the agency advised its board that the service providers’ overall performance was satisfactory and, in October 2006, the board conveyed that to the minister. Some of the financial management issues the auditor-general describes had emerged earlier that year in a broader annual review, prompting Tourism Australia to implement a monthly reconciliation process from February. Despite that, the auditor still had concerns in 2008 – two years after Morrison left the organisation. It also raised serious concerns about the board’s handling of conflicts of interest. Acknowledging that conflicts were to be expected in the tourism industry and on a board that straddled the public and private sectors, the audit report noted that, as of 2007, every board member had registered at least four potential conflicts, and on average between seven and 20, with the highest number for any board member being 71. But only one case had been documented in which a board member had stepped out of a meeting over a potential conflict. The audit report noted that instead of abiding by its charter, the board had amended the charter to reflect its practice. One of its 2008 recommendations, all of which Tourism Australia accepted, was to change it back. The ANAO report says that since July 2007, Tourism Australia had improved its processes further but, as of August 2008, “was unable to demonstrate whether all recommendations from the internal and external reviews, which were agreed to, have been properly implemented”. Tourism Australia’s annual reports since then have not given rise to any further ANAO investigation. The 2008 audit report also details other aspects of the two contracts about which it had most concern. It describes how its media placement contractor struck a deal with American network the Discovery Channel for the production of three special Australian episodes of the television series American Chopper, which would air in 2007 and expose Australia as a tourism destination to a potential audience of 300 million households in 160 countries. Three separate contracts were signed covering the deal, one of which involved having a motorcycle custom built. But the auditor-general identified accounting problems. Although it established that Tourism Australia’s contribution to the building of the bike was $150,000, it was unable to establish what happened to the bike. Confusion over the way the agency recorded the bike as an asset meant the auditor was unable to establish the actual cost. None of this rang alarm bells for the parliamentary joint committee on public accounts when the report was tabled in 2008, presented as it was with a slew of others. Among the dozens of reports produced between August 2007 and August 2008, the committee selected six for further inspection through public inquiries, based on their wider implications. The findings on Tourism Australia didn’t capture members’ attention, nor flag any broader issues warranting examination and neither they nor the then new Labor tourism minister, Martin Ferguson, rated them for a separate public inquiry. Most of the auditor-general’s reports follow a similar path onto the shelf for sheer reasons of resourcing and the need to prioritise. Having been elected in 2007, Morrison had joined the committee in March of 2008 when it was re-formed in the new parliament. He served on it for just over six months, resigning along with another Liberal MP on September 25 – three days after having been promoted to the opposition front bench and six weeks after the audit report into the agency he had headed was published and sank without trace. Ten years later, people involved still won’t say why Morrison was sacked as head of Tourism Australia. Given he is now prime minister, it was a minor setback.
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Nothing will ever come of this. You don't even need to be eligible for a seat in Parliament to hold a senior ministry in this Government, what's large scale impropriety compared to that
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HTV from the Bendigo East incumbent Jacinta Allan in the mail today. The preferencing is interesting, she's put the Greens student politician after her on 2nd, 3rd is an ex-Libs/Nats staffer for the Nats, 4th is the independent, 5th is the Liberal policeman and last is Helen Leach (Labour DLP), former Family First candidate and Bendigo councillor who hates mosques. Obvious preference harvesting of the Greens aside, it's being rather nice to the Nats who couldn't even get a vote in this seat in 2014. Very different field this year, most minor parties have defected to the upper house electorates.
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http://tonyabbottmp.com/ Tony hosed up Again.
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NPR Journalizard posted:http://tonyabbottmp.com/ Whoever did this is a comical genius. Dietary Requirements I have sampled many treats from the fertile Australian ground, and I am happy to report that Mother Earth's climate has not changed. Her succulent flesh is as delectable as always. The onion is my spirit vegetable because it makes people cry.
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NPR Journalizard posted:http://tonyabbottmp.com/ That’s not a lapsed rego though that’s just someone registering a different site. His site is tonyabbott.com.au
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https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 ... What the hell does this even mean
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Solemn Sloth posted:That’s not a lapsed rego though that’s just someone registering a different site. His site is tonyabbott.com.au He also has tonyabbottmp.com.au so a bit of an oversight not getting the .com. Funny site, but I don't think anything will ever beat the Morrison site takeover.
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 Papers please.
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 hmmm there's no way this could be exploited at all, nosiree
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 It's like "show me your papers citizen" but they don't bother to ask for the papers
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 Ankle tags, literally. Not sure if they want to just send an alert out or do the virtual fencing thing they do for cattle and send a shock when they enter the area (prohibited for Victorian cows due to prevention of cruelty to animals legislation)
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 no skateboarding
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The Peccadillo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1062511086346264577 Remember a couple of years ago when Border Force wanted to stop people on the street to check their visas?
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NPR Journalizard posted:http://tonyabbottmp.com/ From the about page: "Tony Abbott was elected Prime Minister by three witches, who promised him the job once the hurlyburly was done." 
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I forgot to opt out of MyHealthRecord and now the site's hosed, RIP
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I forgot to opt out of MyHealthRecord and now the site's hosed, RIP Just call up, took me about 5minutes total on the phone to delete my accidentally created one and opt out for future.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I forgot to opt out of MyHealthRecord and now the site's hosed, RIP You have until 31 January now, thanks to Pauline Hanson 
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