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JBP posted:Is this as a result of a medical assessment? I don't know the clink process for appraising an injury, but this guy is arguably a 75% incapacity worker under work cover which means you get paid. Obviously he can't do this because it isn't work related, but you would think that an independent medical board/examiner would reach the same conclusion as the hardcore shitcan work cover system. It's a result of a tribunal.
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"why I bet that robo arm could carry 20L of VB." *stamps page with red FIT TO WORK stamp*
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Bogan King posted:And after todays party meeting Turnbull has made the tough decision to completely cave on 18c and decide it needs to be watered down. Such leadership Most people are unsure what it does so I doubt amending it would damage his polls any further.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/843922866013839360 I cannot smile hard enough
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I agree with Lionhat I'm so confused.
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Howdy D&D Vote for my dog as best dog so the RSPCA and the Animal Shelter I got him in gets goon money. Also Rusty is a good dog.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Please describe to me the person who previously voted PHON above ALP above LNP but is swayed by 18C I have spoken to multiple... Unions are good Muslims are bad Free speech
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I was speaking to voters in Cairns... Loves Labor Loves Unions Hates Muslims Hates 18C Loves Coal Voting PHON
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hooman posted:Reminder: There are large populations of Australians without head injuries who liked Bill Leak. Haha ah who made this?
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We are at the dawn of a new era - and like the dinosaurs who just thought they were having an off day - many Aussie retailers aren’t going to know what’s hit them. In the coming months Amazon will start opening its online doors in Australia. And already locals are seeing an impact. Australia’s favourite retail curmudgeon, Gerry Harvey, has seen $100M disappear from his personal balance sheet as the likelihood of his prediction that the internet would never amount to much for retail is slowly being shown to have been somewhat less than correct. As we recently reported, it has been speculated that Myer could lose anywhere up to 55 per cent of its earnings over the next five years. The old Myer cafeteria is going to need to sell a lot of bad coffee and “Frog in a Ponds” to cover those kids of losses. Credit Suisse says Myer could be just the tip of the iceberg with Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Supercheap Auto, Rebel and Amart Sports, BigW, Kmart and Target all tipped to see revenues smashed.  Officially, Amazon hasn’t made any announcements concerning its retail presence here. But recruiting for hundreds of workers suggests they’ll be here sooner rather than later. An article at The Financial Review [subscription required] reported Watermark Funds Investment chief investment officer Justin Braitling as saying Amazon was planning to undercut locals by around 30%. Braitling used the word “destroy” to describe Amazon’s Australian ambitions. It will be interesting to see what the retail industry does when Amazon arrives - I think we can dispense with the “if they’ll arrive”. Past form suggests we’ll hear a lot of bleating and whining. Just like the brouhaha over forcing customers to pay GST on products that are purchased from overseas, I suspect we’ll see Gerry Harvey and his mates buying new megaphones so we can listen to them complain about how they’re battling. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos as been quoted has saying “your margin is our opportunity” when undercutting prices in new markets the company expands into. And when you look at the Credit Suisse report, it's pretty obvious who the potential victims of amazon's expansion are.  According to the report: "Almost anything that can be put in a small box is likely to be vulnerable to Amazon". I wonder if the local retail establishment will get into the ACCC’s ear and try to push for a predatory pricing argument, saying Amazon’s purpose is not to compete but to eliminate or damage a competitor. The ACCC has some specific guidelines regarding predatory pricing. The argument is that predatory pricing will force competitors out of business, leaving the “winner” to scoop up the market and then raise prices as there’s no competition to keep them honest. I’m not a lawyer but given Amazon is a new entrant to the Australian market, it would be tough to make a case that a multi-billion dollar empire like Myer or Harvey Norman would be a victim of predatory pricing. The reality is online retail has been a thing for close to 20 years. I suspect major retailers are looking at the bookshop business and see a model for what could happen to them. My local shopping centre - which was recently expanded and is now pretty huge has just three bookstores - a Dymocks, a QBD with cut-price books and a niche store with some less commercial titles and a decent selection of graphic novels. A decade ago, when the centre was much smaller, there were at least six I can remember. Having many years to prepare for this inevitable storm hasn’t been enough for them to prepare their operation for a lower-margin world. Amazon is coming. Local retailers can do their best King Canute but they aren’t going to stop the flow of customers rushing like a rising tide to Amazon and other overseas retailers that see the opportunities here. Anyone who travels to the US will know we pay a premium for many goods here. Those days are coming to an end.
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CFMEU is pretty racist in Brisbane. When the Asian FTAs with China and South Korea went through there were marches onto City Hall for about a week and you would often see dudes dress as samurai holding "HAHA FOOLISH AUSTRALIAN!" signs and other recycled WWII Zap a Jap/Yellow Peril tropes. Made walking to QUT kind of concerning because you'd have to drift through CFMEU dudes dressed as asian stereotypes with loving dumb signs about how the Asians are coming.
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You'd have to live in QLD to see the madness logic that'd allow for Unionists to vote for ONP.
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Qld itself is fine. The smart state.
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A seriously disabled man in Tasmania had a lounge put on top of him by support workers who were trying to restrain him. Key points:Theo Langmaid had lounge put on top of him by support workers trying to restrain him He was also pushed into a pool to calm him down and locked outside in courtyard Mother Joyce Langmaid has made an official complaint He was also regularly locked outside in a courtyard and was once pushed into a pool in an effort to calm him down. Theo Langmaid, 26, acquired a brain injury after contracting meningitis as a four-month-old and requires around-the-clock care. While in the care of North West Residential Support Services his parents became concerned about how he was being treated. "I'd go and say, 'What's going on? What are you doing?'" his mother Joyce Langmaid told 7.30. "He's black and blue, he's got bruises up his arms, permanent hold marks under his arms." Mrs Langmaid was eventually told staff at the house where her son was living had started using "restrictive practices" to control Mr Langmaid when he was agitated. One or two staff members would wrestle him to the ground and hold him there, which went against the plans that were in place for his care. Once when Mr Langmaid's grandmother visited him she found him locked outside in the rain. "You don't treat somebody like that. That's not how we treat ourselves, it's not how we treat our disabled," Ms Langmaid. 'This is horror story stuff' The Langmaids pushed for the Tasmania's Disability Assessment and Advisory Team to review what was happening and its report from 2013 recommended that alternatives to "restrictive practices" be found. "Some workers will 'assist Theo to the ground' immediately upon him hitting his own head or becoming loud, where other workers seem to be able to reassure him and divert him," it read. It also mentioned an occasion where Mr Langmaid was pushed into a pool and held there in an attempt to calm him down. It acknowledged some workers were afraid because of previous staff injuries. "It is important to remember staff are reacting to the outburst behaviours, and given Theo's strength are attempting to keep both him and themselves safe," it said. "However, all such incidents need to be reported ... and other strategies used." A year after the review, an incident report detailed how two staff members put a lounge on top of Mr Langmaid to restrain him after he became agitated and cut himself while lashing out. "As a mum you read that, and quite frankly no-one should have to read that, and think that's what people think their son is worth," Mrs Langmaid said. "In this day and age to have your son locked down in a courtyard and taken down and furniture thrown on him and thrown in pools — I'm sorry, we're in the 2000s, this is horror story stuff." Ms Langmaid said her son could be violent when he became agitated and had injured staff, but she said his behaviour became worse while he was being manhandled. "There's a lot of ways you can make it easier and one of the ways is treating him like he's a human being," she said. 'Concerns were taken seriously' After North West Residential Support Services decided to stop seeing Mr Langmaid, a review conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services found issues with staff training and that incident reporting was ad hoc. Following the review, Mrs Langmaid made a complaint that an official allegation of abuse form was not filed by the department. The department found staff acted appropriately, but that while the Langmaids did not use the "language of reporting of abuse" the concerns they raised were as serious as a formal abuse complaint. "These concerns were taken seriously by [the department] and followed up," it read. "It is my view, however, that the follow-up that occurred and the outcomes from that were not communicated clearly back to Mrs Langmaid." Mrs Langmaid has now made an official complaint about what happened to her son. North West Residential Support Services is investigating the complaint and would not comment on the matter until that investigation was complete. A spokeswoman for Tasmanian Human Services Minister Jacquie Petrusma said what happened to Mr Langmaid was not abuse because restrictive practices are allowed if staff feel they or the client are in danger.
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Us socialists only have one rule.
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Airtasker sure is popular suddenly. Must be worrying for tradesmen and sole traders with a brand I guess they weren't agile enough
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The kinds of pubs politicians visit are full of loving politicians anyway.
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Who is the current scrunt state?
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Bill Shorten will save us???
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bowmore posted:A company that doesn't care about the welfare of animals also doesn't care about the welfare of its workers 
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So why is Clive Palmer suddenly a meme queen? Did the courts breathing down his neck just make him flat out bonkers?
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The best part is the LNP will win govt in QLD, flip all the power assets off to their mates and then the next cyclone rolls around and no one is connected to the grid anyway because the mates jacked up the prices.
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Meanwhile Union-dominated super funds would lose their special status under a draft Productivity Commission recommendation that would delink superannuation from awards and allocate new workers to default funds only once. Two-thirds of Australian workers stick with the default fund chosen by their employer or industrial agreement, and many end up with multiple accounts after being put into new default funds each time they change jobs. The commission believes that 40 per cent of workers have more than one account, meaning that many have multiple life insurance policies and multiple sets of administrative costs. The combined administrative and unnecessary insurance costs amount to $150 million for every 500,000 to 600,000 duplicated accounts. The Age SUBSCRIBE PoliticsList subcategories SAVE LICENSE ARTICLE 209 READING NOW SHOW COMMENTS One default fund for life. The Productivity Commission takes on unions over super Advertisement Peter Martin 9 hrs ago Play Video Targeting superfluous super Union-dominated super funds would lose their special status under a draft Productivity Commission recommendation that would delink superannuation from awards and allocate new workers to default funds only once. Two-thirds of Australian workers stick with the default fund chosen by their employer or industrial agreement, and many end up with multiple accounts after being put into new default funds each time they change jobs. Advertisement The commission believes that 40 per cent of workers have more than one account, meaning that many have multiple life insurance policies and multiple sets of administrative costs. The combined administrative and unnecessary insurance costs amount to $150 million for every 500,000 to 600,000 duplicated accounts. RELATED CONTENT Simplicity. How the Productivity Commission will take on the funds Foxes in the hen house. Chilling new ad takes on banks The commission's draft recommendations will remove the ability of unions and employers to leverage workers into their jointly controlled industry funds and the ability of banks to tempt employers to leverage workers into bank funds by offering employers sweetheart banking deals. "This isn't against industry funds or against retail funds," the commission's chairman Peter Harris said. "It's about removing the guaranteed flow of new members to all sorts of funds." "It's interesting that the only thing that seems to unite the superannuation industry is its opposition to the hideous prospect of having to compete for work. That might be an indication that we are on the right track." Under the commission's proposal, Australians entering the workforce would be allocated to a default fund only once and would stay with it for life or until they decided to leave. It has put forward four models for allocating new workers to funds without, at this stage, identifying which it prefers. One is to have employers make the decision by choosing from a shortlist of funds deemed to be "good". Extra protections would be put in place to ensure they put their employees' interests ahead of their banking relationships. Another is to have employees make the choice from a list of between four and 10 funds selected by a government body. Those that did not would have their super allocated to a "last-resort fund" possibly run by the government's Future Fund. A third model is for the government to run an auction for the right to be the national default fund for a fixed number of years with the winner being the fund that offered to charge the lowest fees. The winner would be required to offer the same low-fee product to anyone who joined. The fourth model is a more complicated tender process in which the government picked a winner on a number of criteria including past performance, member satisfaction, investment strategy, fees and innovation. "It's a philosophical choice for the government," Mr Harris said. "If the member or employer is involved, they own the decision and might become more involved in their super. If the government makes the decision, it will own the choice. "The important thing is that it is absurd to continue to allocate people to new default funds each time they change jobs for no other reason other than that it was a simple thing to do in 1992." The inquiry's deputy chair, Karen Chester, said back when compulsory super was set up in 1992 many people still thought they might have one job for life. "These days under-25s are turning over jobs once every 1.5 years. Australians aged 25 to 35 are turning over jobs every 2.5 years. We have seen estimates that suggest today's young people will have 17 jobs over their working life." Claims by industry funds that their default status served members well because they provide good returns didn't hold water, Ms Chester said. "Averages can hide a multitude of things. There's a long tail of entrenched underperformance in both the industry and retail funds." "You only need to look at the profile of default funds. They have two-thirds fund members, but only one-quarter of fund assets. What does that tell you?" Ms Chester pleaded for input from ordinary fund members before the report is finalised. "To date, most interest has come from the funds themselves," she said. "We want to also hear from young Australians and those who might want to think about their interests, such as parents. This is about us going for a circuit-breaker, looking out for the interests of super fund members."
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Saviour of penalty rates...Some crazy assholes? The Federal Opposition is set to clinch a Senate victory on its bill to block the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) recent penalty rates decision, in a move that will put further pressure on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene. One Nation, the Nick Xenophon Team and crossbench senator Derryn Hinch reversed their positions and will now back Labor's bill, which will almost certainly be defeated when it returns to the Lower House. It comes as the Senate last night passed, as a matter of urgency, a motion condemning the Prime Minister's, "lack of empathy for Australian workers who rely on penalty rates to make ends meet". During that debate, Senator Hinch openly acknowledged public pressure and a "very clever campaign" run by Labor had forced him to change his long-held position on penalty rates. "I believe they should be the same as Saturday rates … on this I supported the umpire's decision," he said. "But in my maiden speech I promised I would listen. I have decided now to go to the third umpire, and the third umpire's decision is that cuts to Sunday penalty rates are O-U-T, out!" One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson also supported the FWC decision, arguing it would give "struggling small businesses" a chance at growth, but she too appeared to have caved in to public pressure. Labor's employment spokesman Brendan O'Connor welcomed the apparent change of heart but questioned whether the crossbenchers were in fact trying to save their own jobs. "I question their motives," he said. Last month's decision by the FWC to reduce Sunday penalty rates for some workers in the hospitality, retail and fast-food industries sparked a political furore and opened up a new line of attack for the Opposition. Mr Turnbull initially tried to distance himself from the ruling but he later backed it, arguing the Government respected the independence of the FWC and was standing up for small business. However this tactic allowed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to draw the battle lines between the Labor Party — which stands up for workers — and the Coalition — which backs business. Mr Shorten warned the penalty rate cuts were the "thin end of the wedge" for workers in other industries and called on Mr Turnbull to support Labor's bill to, "protect the take-home pay of Australian battlers". While Labor's bill to overrule the FWC's decision is expected to pass the Senate, it will almost certainly be defeated in the Lower House where the Government holds a slim majority. loving lmao  This Government dot gif
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gay picnic defence posted:holy poo poo hahaha The Turnbull government has urged the Fair Work Commission to take a cautious approach to raising the minimum wage, warning an "excessive" pay rise could imperil job creation in a changing economy. In its submission to the commission's annual wage review process, the government said increasing the minimum wage was "not an efficient way to address relative living standards or the needs of the low-paid". Around 196,300 - or 1.9 per cent of employees as of May 2016 - are paid the national minimum wage rate of $17.70 per hour. In a contribution that will incense low-paid workers still angry over the commission's cut to some Sunday penalty rates - a decision Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has backed - the Coalition said low-paid workers "are often found in high-income households".
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