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That's a fairly impressive level of incompetence.
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loving forums
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jesus christ the amount of milquetoast liberal tut-tutting about expressing anything that's not reverential awe about bill loving leak is really pissing me off
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quote:
DEVASTATED Australia Post employees say work continued around the dead body of one of their colleagues at a Sunshine Coast warehouse.
Workers at the site described the scene where they continued work while their colleague lay dead on the ground, covered with just a blanket, as horrific and degrading.
"He basically had a blanket thrown over him and the staff had to continue to work around him," one employee said.
"When something like that happens, the organisation sends out counsellors but this is not happening till tonight.
"Apparently getting the post out is more important than a person's life."
However an Australia Post spokeswoman has denied employees were required to continue working, but confirmed work did go on.
"None of our employees were forced to work this morning as this very sad situation unfolded," the spokeswoman said.
"All proper processes were followed and police were involved immediately.
"We have encouraged employees to access our free, confidential Employee Assistance Program for support.
"The site remained operational".
Police have confirmed a 49-year-old man was "deceased at the site".
The call to emergency services that a "non responsive male was found" came through at 2.55am.
The ambulance and police arrived shortly after 3am.
Police cordoned off the area, but it is understood there was a delay in the undertaker's vehicle arriving.
Three independent sources have contacted the Daily saying the body was still at the scene at 6am, more than three hours after the man was found.
One employee said witches hats were "placed around the body and people were told to carry on working".
"They didn't see it as important enough to stop work," she said.
"It is really horrific. It is the most degrading, horrible thing for this man and his family
"Then to distress the other people in the warehouse. They all know each other, they all knew this man."
A third person said he was "shocked" when he arrived at the scene to find the body of his colleague of 15 years lying on the ground while work continued.
"It was quite disgusting," he said.
"The whole work should have ceased operation."
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I had to unfollow Found in the Hansard because so much of it is mind meltingly aaaaaaaaaaa
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quote: Editorial
Inhuman services
A month ago next week, The Saturday Paper reported on the death of Rhys Cauzzo. The florist and musician was being pursued by Centrelink over historic payments. He was menaced by debt collectors. On January 26, he committed suicide. His mother and girlfriend say Centrelink’s treatment of him tipped him over the edge.
This week the secretary of the Department of Human Services, Kathryn Campbell, was asked by a senate committee about Cauzzo’s death. Her response was so specious, so tellingly disconnected, that it is worth reproducing at some length. To paraphrase would be to inject feeling.
“This is a very sad event, and we don’t want to make it harder for families,” she said. “This was a former recipient. It wasn’t a current recipient. So that’s why the debt collectors had been used on that occasion. There are always different dimensions to stories that appear in the media, as I’m sure you’re aware. We have a different take on what was reported.
“We provided the initiating letter. And the initiating letter asked people to clarify. There was a 1800 number that people were able to access, and deal with and work through those issues. We often find that people are distressed when dealing with the social welfare system. I mean, every morning I have a look at my email and there are a number of emails about people who are distressed in different circumstances – it may be their personal circumstances, it may be the interaction of our system with other systems, it may sometimes be a misunderstanding of eligibility under the criteria. And we work with those individuals to try and resolve those issues… But this is a complex payment system. And often people don’t understand the obligations that go with the payments, that they are required to update various pieces of information. And we do our very best to make it as streamlined and user-friendly as possible. But I do acknowledge that there will be people distressed.
“I think in the lead-up to Christmas and into January people became even more distressed because of the significant media attention around these issues. I think half of the stories that appeared in the media were not part of this system – they were general debt matters. And because of some of the stories in the media, there was a belief that all debts were wrong. And therefore people started to get saying, ‘I want this debt waived. I don’t think I should have to pay this back.’ ”
None of what Campbell said changed the facts of Cauzzo’s death – it simply avoided them. This is not about the media. It is not about whether a debt was raised manually or by a grossly flawed algorithm. It is about a department completely unwilling to engage with the brutality of its procedures.
Recently, private information about welfare recipients has been leaked to the media in the hope of discrediting critics. After The Saturday Paper published Rhys Cauzzo’s story, the department shared his personal data with our reporter in the hope of changing the piece. This week, Barnaby Joyce said: “If you want to keep your information absolutely private, don’t go and get the dole whilst you’ve also got a job.”
The contempt in which people who receive welfare are held is the contempt of a government out of touch with its responsibilities. It is this contempt that designs a system such as the one that drove Rhys Cauzzo to suicide.
Welfare does not exist to punish people; it exists to help them. In receiving the support of the state, a person does not forfeit their ordinary rights. Nor should they.
But these simple principles seem beyond this government and beyond the department that serves it. In their place is a deadly barbarism, a breakdown of the social compact under which this country once operated. Our system of social security was once the envy of the world. Under this government, it has become a monster.
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"Rainbow Gestapo" against Coopers is "worse than anything in Eastern Europe" - Mark Latham
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No they changed the text to white.
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That's right. Good. No need for you to go just yet.
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quote:Support for the Turnbull government has crashed, according to the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll, and Labor now holds a thumping 10-point lead over the Coalition in the two-party preferred vote.
Under a uniform swing, if an election had been held on Saturday, the government would have suffered an electoral drubbing and lost 24 seats, including cabinet ministers Peter Dutton and Christian Porter, as well as junior ministers Ken Wyatt and Luke Hartsuyker.
The poll will likely send shockwaves through the government, which believed it had started to recover politically after a series of policy announcements designed to tackle rising power prices, and may kick off a fresh discussion about the Coalition's prospects under the leadership of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
It comes ahead of the final sitting of Parliament before the May budget, and after a week in which the government announced controversial changes to race hate laws, passed a $1.6 billion childcare package, and explicitly backed a cut to Sunday penalty rates.
The Coalition now trails Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 55 per cent to 45 per cent, while strong support for minor parties, including the Greens, One Nation and the Nick Xenophon Team, has held firm.
The two-party preferred vote is a big dip since the July 2016 election result, when the Coalition narrowly won by 50.4 per cent to 49.6 per cent. In November's Fairfax-Ipsos poll, Labor led the Coalition 51-49.
Significantly, the 55-45 lead for the opposition is worse than the 54-46 two-party result recorded in August 2015, weeks before Tony Abbott was removed as leader by Mr Turnbull. It is only two percentage points better than Mr Abbott's worst ever Fairfax-Ipsos result, 56-44, which came soon after the disastrous May 2014 budget.
Mr Turnbull's personal approval rating has also gone backwards since November, falling 5 points to 40 per cent, while his disapproval rating has risen 3 points to 48 per cent. In October 2015, soon after becoming leader, Mr Turnbull's approval was 28 points higher, at 68 per cent, and his disapproval rating was 17 per cent.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's approval also fell 2 points to 35 per cent, while disapproval remained steady at 53 per cent.
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quote: Baiada to reduce wages up to 40 per cent for new staff
Mario Christodoulou
One of Australia's largest chicken processors, Baiada Poultry, plans to reduce wages for its contract labour by almost 40 per cent.
The company, which is behind brands Steggles and Lilydale, is rolling out a plan to reduce wages to the award rate for new casual employees taken on via labour-hire firms.
Under the plan, an experienced casual working at a factory in Newcastle would receive $25.14 an hour, well short of the union-negotiated rate of $38.91 an hour and a loss of almost 40 per cent.
Until a few days ago, the company had intended to roll out the plan not just to new employees but across its entire workforce of casuals. Last week it began informing staff at its raw-processing facility in Beresfield, Newcastle, about the changes but then backflipped after the unions were informed by Fairfax Media.
Grant Courtney, secretary of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union Newcastle branch, said workers were horrified by the news their pay would be reduced to a "hugely inferior" rate.
"We have expressed our disgust to the company about how this can happen," he said
"These vulnerable workers already toil for long hours with no job security in a tough, fast-paced environment. With their take-home pay suddenly slashed by $200 each week, many would have lost their houses, defaulted on their bills, or forced to look for a second job to supplement the lost income."
Contract labour makes up an estimated 40 per cent of Baiada's workforce ,according to the union, with the company using two main labour-hire firms – Chandler Macleod and Australia Personnel Global. Both firms declined to comment when contacted by Fairfax Media.
A spokesman from Baiada said no current workers would be subject to wage reductions but "future agency workers will be employed under lawful award wages and entitlements".
Baiada has a track record of underpaying employees through the use of labour-hire companies. In 2015, a report by the Fair Work Ombudsman found that staff were working extremely long hours while paying high rents in overcrowded houses.
According to the report, young poultry workers were paid as little as $11.50 an hour, well below the minimum wage, for shifts of up to 19 hours a day. They were also forced to live in slum houses with 20 others and sometimes share mattresses.
Baiada promised to clean up its act following the report, setting aside $500,000 for underpaid employees.
Mr Courtney said the recent plan to reduce wages was possible only by exploiting a loophole through the use of labour-hire companies, which allowed it to get around paying the union-agreed site rate.
"Employers take advantage of this loophole by creating a "second class" of worker who receive between $5 and $13 less an hour for doing the same identical work as the person next to them," he said.
"Workers who do the same work should receive the same pay. It's that simple."
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Ahahahah gently caress Cormann and gently caress Xenophon
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