Anidav posted:

C U Next Thread

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The federal opposition has proposed a $1.9bn package targeting multinational tax avoidance, with most of the savings slated to come from changes to the amount of debt for which companies can claim deductions in Australia.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

I hope that isn't you mangling those apostrophes.

Lizard Combatant posted:

any takers?

Lid posted:

WELL...

Gorilla Salad posted:

Can someone tell what exactly is the "leftist media" in this country anyway?

The ABS and SBS, okay sure. They're also the only TV news which isn't utter crap.

But what else? Anything?



Post it here when you do, please. This seems like the good stuff.

The Article posted:

A small fleet of brightly coloured Vietnamese fishing boats based in Darwin are believed to be replacing the orange lifeboats used by the Customs and Border Protection department to tow back asylum seeker boats that make it to Australian waters.

Fairfax Media understands that 10 red, blue and green wooden boats have been bought by the Customs department from Dragon Industries Asia as "tow back" boats in a multi-million dollar project.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Why would they need those when the boats have been stopped?

Avshalom posted:

_{my breasts}

auzdark posted:

Why'd you go into Centrelink when you can do it online?

asio posted:

It's because this thread is full of capitalists who are happy just to see the problem shuffled away from them. When you live in luxury on 55/a year + you find it difficult to hear criticism of the party that represents your interests.

The OZ posted:

THERE is one barnacle that the Abbott government needs to get rid of immediately: the rule that any director on a government board who was appointed by the previous Labor government will not be reappointed.

The decree, apparently issued by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and/or his chief of staff Peta Credlin and binding on all cabinet ministers, was publicly confirmed yesterday by the chairman of CSIRO, Simon McKeon.

He was speaking at an Australian Institute of Company Directors lunch that I was hosting. I asked the question of him because I had heard about the rule from the chairman of another federal government commission.

That chairman had told me he had attempted to get three members of his board reappointed this year, telling his minister that in each case they were good directors who contributed much to the organisation.

The minister apparently apologised, but said his hands were tied: they could not be reappointed because they were Labor appointees.

McKeon, a former Australian of the Year and Macquarie Group veteran, yesterday confirmed that, because he had been appointed chairman of CSIRO during the ALP’s term of government, he had been told that he would not be reappointed when his term ends in June.

Dr Nora Scheinkestel, a director of Telstra and a member of the Takeovers Panel, also confirmed the existence of this rule at yesterday’s AICD lunch.

Both Scheinkestel and McKeon said they disagreed strongly with this practice, as did the other company director on the panel, Graham Kraehe, chairman of BlueScope Steel, and a former director of NAB and the Reserve Bank.

And indeed, it is a totally ridiculous idea — childish even — and is becoming a growing problem between the Coalition and the business community.

“After all,” said Simon McKeon, “Labor was in power for six years. Virtually everybody currently serving on the boards of government bodies was either appointed or reappointed while Labor was in power. If Abbott persists with his policy, there will be a full clean out of directorships.”

More and more directors of government bodies are now coming up for reappointment — many of them supporters of the Coalition, and often doing it for philanthropic motives — and instead they are being booted off for no other reason than they happened to be appointed during a Labor government.

They are, understandably, offended at the suggestion that they are partisan in any way, or that they are ALP fellow travellers.

If Tony Abbott doesn’t drop this rule soon, relations between his government and the director community will break down irretrievably.

Apart from the offence caused to the directors, it confirms that the PM and his office are consumed with some kind of medieval notion of reprisal, or that they think that the world is comprised only of allies and enemies, and that anyone who appears to be a friend of their enemy must be an enemy.

The practice does neither the government nor the country any credit, and needs to be abandoned immediately.

Anidav posted:

Life is boring, buy a dog.

my stepdads beer posted:

meteor9 posted:

I mean, on the one hand I'm cautiously optimistic about the M4 thing since it does go from 5 lanes to 2 in less than a kilometer and part of the reason I'm stressing out so much is having to drive from rooty hill to auburn on in every single day, but on the other hand I'm almost a hundred percent certain they're going to gently caress everything up since they're tory fucks and I'm going to die somewhere in the mix of all this.

Or be charged tolls in which case I'm just quitting my job, gently caress that.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

What is with all these nerds posting in this thread did someone make fun of anime again or something

Jibs Monteef posted:

Where the gently caress is that from, because I'm about 80% sure that guy works for the same company as me and I'd like him to burst into flames and die

TIA

auzdark posted:

Maybe Pyne has it set up so he gets emailed when his name is mentioned on the interwebz

CrazyTolradi posted:

Clive's favorite yum-cha place is actually just up the road from me. Maybe we could have Clive at a goon meet?

Seagull posted:

he'd fat in i guess

Cleretic posted:

I bet you could actually pitch this. Like a working-class combination of Q&A and Kitchen Cabinet.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Basically, put them under anaesthetic, give them a skin graft to be dark-skinned, like, Aborigine in Far NQ skinned, or heart of Africa skinned, then make them live their lives. That's the only thing that will make them understand. They are incapable of empathy, and have all the intellectual rigour of primary school children.


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hooman posted:

It is you, you're fatter than you thought.

Ket posted:

Hey everybody! Everybody!
I joined the greens!

Graic Gabtar posted:

Tough one to answer, but I'll try to answer it as best as I can.

When you start a business and you already have a mortgage and six mouths to feed it's very good at focusing you on what is important and how closely you have to watch the books.

If you are lucky enough to get into a mutually beneficial position of employing someone you always have a fear that the arrangement is stacked against you.

For every bad employer story there's a bad employee one.

Just don't get into that position is the answer. Go casual, get someone else if you have to. Whatever works. Luckily for me I never had to knife anyone in this way because things kind of fell the right way. But it was discussed often and I would have done it in a heartbeat if it meant not paying some lazy or whiny gently caress.

That may sound really lovely and it is somewhat but I have a lot more to lose than some employee in this deal. I'm either on the dole myself, or I go back to work in some consultancy role that specialises in moving jobs offshore instead of building a business here.

By no means should business be setting policy on workers because employers can be exploitive fuckers. However, until you've lived this kind of poo poo for several years a lot of people are just slinging their ill-informed poo poo.

e: typo

Mattjpwns posted:

Stupid ones seldom differ.

hiddenmovement posted:

Yes, but doesn't the GST have different rates for things like basic foodstuffs and higher rates for luxury items? I get the burden on the poors thing I was more interested in the broader implications on the economy for monkeying with the GST to make up for shortfalls in government revenue, what the best alternative to the GST is, hwo one would go about unwinding the problems caused by a GST, etc etc.