i got banned posted:

Well hurry up and die if you don't pay taxes mate. Welcome to the future.

Captain Pissweak posted:

Freudian Slip posted:

Under 30, lost your job and can't find new work? Well then....


http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/social-services-minister-kevin-andrews-tells-job-seekers-to-work-for-free-20140701-zsrpi.html

Ragingsheep posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...0701-zssnn.html

So you have a boat full of people claiming to be Tamil asylum seekers coming to Australia. Do you:

a. Rescue them and take them for processing
b. Hand them over to the Sri Lankan navy who are part of the government that Tamils are fleeing from

Tokamak posted:

Jumpingmanjim posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SvnJDq5s0Y

You know you've hosed up when Dicko hates you

Captain Pissweak posted:

I was watching the video going "wow this is actually good and not at all bad *camera pans over Hildebrand* but it will end being that way".

quote:

HECS-style loan flagged as an alternative to paid parental leave scheme
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme looks unlikely to pass the Senate in its current form, but a prominent free market think tank has come up with a compromise: give parents a HECS-style loan to fund the 26 weeks of parental leave instead.

In a report released on Monday, the Centre for Independent Studies will call for what it argues is a fairer and less expensive paid parental leave policy.

The CIS wants parents to have the option of a loan equal to the pre-baby wages of the primary carer, up to the Coalition's income cap of $100,000 a year, for 26 weeks.

All but $5000 of the loan would need to be repaid once parents were working again and meeting the minimum wage.

This would allow them to ''self-finance'' parental leave, according to report author Matthew Taylor.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Sri Lankan navy confirms 41 refugees handed to them by Australia will be given to criminal investigators.

Negligent posted:

Being desparate enough to break the law doesn't give their asylum claim more merit than people who do the right thing.

Captain Pissweak posted:

Isn't it too late for this? I was under the impression that they washed their hands of them immediately and just got straight to handing them back over.

Negligent posted:

australia doesnt even have capacity to eradicate poverty and homelessness within its existing population

quote:

Sri Lanka asylum seekers returned by Australia face 'rigorous imprisonment'

Forty-one Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned by Australia are to be charged with leaving the country illegally and those found guilty face "rigorous imprisonment", police said on Monday, fuelling concerns about Australian policy and rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

Australia said the 41 were transferred to Sri Lankan authorities at sea on Sunday, but declined to comment on a second boat reported to be carrying an additional 153, saying only that it was not currently in Australian waters.

Australian border patrol personnel intercepted the first vessel carrying 41 Sri Lankans west of the remote Cocos Islands last week, after they were suspected of entering Australian waters illegally.

Australia declined to give details of how the group was transported back to the site of the transfer, which Australia said was off the eastern Sri Lankan port of Batticaloa.

The Sri Lankan navy handed the group to the police and police spokesman Ajith Rohana said they would be produced before a court in the southwestern port of Galle. He did not say when.

"Everybody will be produced before the Galle magistrate," he told Reuters. "They will be charged under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act. The sentence for those proved to have left illegally is two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine.

Quantum Mechanic posted:

It saves the CT temporarily. This is the time when we goonrush his office with flowery explosive praise for saving the carbon price and hoping that he will continue his principled and thoughtful stance for Australia's future

norp posted:

Well since labor are going to support it there really isn't any opposition.

quote:

Less than a fortnight after the federal government announced that from 2015, people up to 30 years old will have to wait six months for an unemployment benefit, Mr Andrews showed little patience for Labor's criticism it was the ''single most heartless measure'' in the budget.

Those On My Left posted:

Palmer's giving a press conference saying his senators are going to vote against the repeal of the carbon tax.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/carbon-tax-repeal-gets-senate-vote-politics-live

Kim Jong ill posted:

What a blundering loving idiot. Forget for a second the endless list of atrocities committed by the Japanese against our neighbours, how about you know, the treatment of Australian servicemen on the Burma Railway or the Sandakan Death Marches?

quote:

Australia will stand up to China to defend peace, liberal values and the rule of law, says Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

In the Coalition government’s clearest statement yet on how to handle China, Ms Bishop said it had been a mistake for previous governments to avoid speaking about China for fear of causing offence.

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe are pictured as they arrive to tour the Rio Tinto West Angelas iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe arrive to tour the Rio Tinto West Angelas iron ore mine. Photo: Reuters
"China doesn’t respect weakness," Ms Bishop told Fairfax Media, marking a break from the policies of previous governments whose reticence, she said, had only caused confusion.

hooman posted:

CARBON TAX REPEAL BLOCKED

Those On My Left posted:

Where did you get this?