DancingShade posted:

Offshore finance? Yeah maybe.

asio posted:

Truly the cicero of our generation

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NTRabbit posted:

Don't ever buy from Dominos again just fyi

http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2017/the-dominos-effect/

A six-month investigation by Fairfax Media into Domino’s and its franchisees has uncovered widespread underpayment of wages, the deliberate underpayment of penalties using a delivery scam and the illegal sale of sponsorships of migrants for as much as $150,000.

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It said the average profitability of a franchisee ranges between $138,000 and $145,000 a year.

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What % of Dominos stores are franchisee owned and what % are corporate owned?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/15/taxes-rise-ndis-welfare-cuts-blocked-government-warns?CMP=soc_567 posted:

The federal government has flagged it will increase tax if the Senate does not pass family benefit cuts in the omnibus welfare bill, citing the need to pay for the national disability insurance scheme.

The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, told Lateline on Tuesday that if parliament did not pass its savings measures, “then of course tax increases become the only option”.

On Monday the government attempted to increase pressure on the Senate crossbench to pass welfare cuts associated with its childcare package by announcing that $3bn of the proposed savings package would be allocated to a special account to fund the full rollout of the NDIS.

But the Nick Xenophon Team, Labor and the Greens plan to block the bill, with Xenophon citing the harsh effect of almost $4bn in savings measures on families.

Liberal defector, senator Cory Bernardi, has also warned he is reconsidering whether the can support the bill, because it “robs Peter to pay Paul” rather than contributing to budget repair.

The government’s omnibus savings package includes multibillion-dollar cuts to family tax benefits, paid parental leave and unemployment payments, with some of that money used to pay for extra funding for childcare.
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Cormann said the savings in the bill would either be directed to better childcare or spent on the NDIS – which he said was already a liability for the government that was “left unfunded by Labor”.

Asked about increasing a tax such as the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS, Cormann said if savings were blocked then there “comes a day when the only way you can repair the budget is through tax increases”.

“That is not what we would like to do. That is not our instinct or our preference. ... but the way that the Labor party is carrying on, it might be that is the only thing that we are able to do at the end of the day.”

The treasurer, Scott Morrison, has given the same warning, the Australian reported.

The government is set to write off $13bn in so-called “zombie” savings measures – including making young jobseekers wait four weeks for the dole – the report said, citing a senior government source who said ratings agencies would be ­unlikely to accept the blocked measures as genuine savings.

Asked if Labor would support a tax increase to pay for the NDIS, Bill Shorten told ABC radio on Wednesday increases were not necessary. Shorten said the NDIS was fully funded in 2013 because Labor had planned to increase the Medicare levy and make other savings.

“What they first said for this current omnibus bill ... was [it] was necessary to help reform childcare – then we’ve exposed that 1.5m Australians will have reductions in family payments,” he said. “This week they’ve tied [the bill] to the future of the NDIS, they’ve taken the future of the NDIS hostage on the basis it won’t be properly supported unless these cuts go through.”
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Shorten said the threatened tax increase was the latest tactic to pass the omnibus welfare bill while the government continued to treat its “unaffordable tax giveaway to big business” as “sacred”. He said the government had a choice between taking from families earning $60,000 to $70,000 and its $48bn company tax cut plan, which was a “no-brainer” for him.

The opposition leader was also asked about the fact that one of the architects of the Gonski report on needs-based education funding, Ken Boston, has said that additional funding is not the key to improving education.

In a speech on Tuesday, Boston said the Gonski report’s “most critical recommendations were about redistribution of existing funding”.

“The way money is distributed is important but overall education needs more funding,” Shorten replied. “The people who most typically say that you don’t need more resources in schools, that money’s not the answer, are people for whom money is not a problem.”

ewe2 posted:

Dear god did queensland relocate to Scotland when I wasn't looking?!

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Men who are out and proud - about their support for Tony Abbott.

JBP posted:

Oh. I'm an only child and my parents got a divorce, so great for me.

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/chriskkenny/status/833413226956148736

You Am I posted:

I suggest the Vietnamese dong.

I mean for AU$1 you get over 17,000 dong

Graic Gabtar posted:

Is it just me or does anyone else feel an epic post of rage inbound from Cartoon?

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Its release comes as Australia once again ponders the US alliance in the era of Donald Trump, with Australian troops back in Iraq, and with the Pentagon poised to release a new game plan to defeat the Islamic State terror group that could involve asking for more help from Canberra.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...f9a7b3847a05218

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First Dog: