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So Cadbury (worth billions) gets a hand out SPC workers get lies on how much they are reaping in indulgent wage agreement why is that?

Abbott what a lying tosser, marginal seat in Tas and a safe seat on the main land, Stone is the only Liberal with a back bone for Australians.

Is that a jet turbine I can hear screaming in the back ground.............nope just more anti social conservatives.
 
Lincoln's cannots
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrlft.
You cannot strengthen the week by weakening the strong,
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
you cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by lnciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative.
You cannot really help men by having the government tax them to do them what they can and should do for themselves.
 
So much for Liberals line in the sand and companies can stand on their own feet.

Why are they kicking in $3.5 mil to a seafood processor called Huon Aquaculture to upgrade their plant??

What is Cadbury, owned by Nestle, one of the biggest companies in the world going to do with $16 mil for a factory tour? Make a chocolate river and bring in Oompa Loompas? Sure Noco will be happy because they are from Oompa Loompa land and so won't be unionised.

The fruit factory in Shep. gets two busloads of tourists a day + many other families in cars, we all have done it in Melbourne. You then visit the cafes and then visit the motor museum and maybe the art gallery. According to their mayor they get 250,000 transactions a year at the factory from tourists.

The Libs just lied about the work practices and are all over the shop. Tell me why I am wrong and they are governing well. I must be just misunderstanding it.

Of course if I read a patriotic foreign owned publication instead of the Age and avoided the ABC I wouldn't have steam rising from my ears and would be a happy vegetable.

More government grant provided below.
http://www.daff.gov.au/agriculture-food/food/foodinnovation/round_2_rfpipp_grant_recipients
 
What was interesting after Tony Abbott's misrepresentation regarding the wages of SPCA workers was that Bill Shorten took the $60000 plus figure as valid as well.
How removed from the real world are these people-and of course their advisers.
Ideology uber alles!
Reminds me of when Bob Hawke offered ten dollars to shout the bar.
 
We have one party controlled by the unions and then the other by big business, both are just as corrupt as each other.
Why is it this government can axe all 3 climate agencies, fail to appoint a science minister but then have the audacity to order another study into adverse health affects caused by wind farms even though only 3 years ago the same study found no evidence of any and globally the many studies have resulted in the same answer. So on one hand we have enough evidence to at least make us question climate change and then with no evidence of ill health affects he orders yet again another study. Some consistency would be nice hear but I suspect he has his pockets lined from the big energy companies who would be the biggest losers out of renewable energy. I don't want to turn this into a climate change debate but I find this completely inconsistent to dump agencies where there his much more evidence than the numerous study's on wind power health effects have found but yet he scraps one and orders more research for the other.
 
sptrawler said:
At last common sense is starting to glimmer through.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...rs-out-of-the-market-20140205-320vt.html#poll

We can't sustain ridiculous wages and conditions and also stay in business.
Something has to give, it isn't rocket science.
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Well its about time someone from the union movement actually realized how damaging some of their excessive conditions are to the future employment of their members, if you keep forcing businesses to raise their overheads then a tipping point will occur where its unsustainable to stay in business.

I don't think penalty rates should be the target, those who work weekends and nights deserve a few extra dollars. But if you want to boost productivity then kill off these RDO's. Wasn't it a big deal when the 40 hour week was passed? and now we can't even work the modest 40 hour week without an RDO once a month. It basically adds 2 weeks additional annual leave, combine that with the bludgers who use up their sick leave each year and they barely work a full work week.

And while we're at it how about we take a good look at the golden handshakes at the top that only encourage short term company growth as to meet their targets for the excessive perks they receive. CEO wage growth is also unsustainable.
 
overhang said:
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Why is it this government can axe all 3 climate agencies, fail to appoint a science minister but then have the audacity to order another study into adverse health affects caused by wind farms even though only 3 years ago the same study found no evidence of any and globally the many studies have resulted in the same answer.
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It reminds me of George Bush the II. I think Abbott and some of his ministers are scientifically illiterate or at least have a great dislike of science. Maybe they think if they select the right people they can get the right answer...well it works for politics!

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sptrawler said:
At last common sense is starting to glimmer through.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...rs-out-of-the-market-20140205-320vt.html#poll

We can't sustain ridiculous wages and conditions and also stay in business.
Something has to give, it isn't rocket science.
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I vote with start with pollies pay. didn't they just get a rise of 30%?

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wayneL said:
It seems cognitively dissonant to have a policy of lowering wages and propping up house prices however.
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It's Australia's sacred cow. Can't be questioned.
 
Knobby22 said:
It reminds me of George Bush the II. I think Abbott and some of his ministers are scientifically illiterate or at least have a great dislike of science. Maybe they think if they select the right people they can get the right answer...well it works for politics!

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I vote with start with pollies pay. didn't they just get a rise of 30%?

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It's Australia's sacred cow. Can't be questioned.
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Agree 100%.
 
chiff said:
What was interesting after Tony Abbott's misrepresentation regarding the wages of SPCA workers was that Bill Shorten took the $60000 plus figure as valid as well.
How removed from the real world are these people-and of course their advisers.
Ideology uber alles!
Reminds me of when Bob Hawke offered ten dollars to shout the bar.
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Yes, and Shorten has been shown up by a Liberal local member of all things.
 
sptrawler said:
At last common sense is starting to glimmer through.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...rs-out-of-the-market-20140205-320vt.html#poll

We can't sustain ridiculous wages and conditions and also stay in business.
Something has to give, it isn't rocket science.
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Well it is good to note that at least one union official is starting to talk sense.

What happened to "A FAIR DAYS WORK FOR A FAIR DAYS PAY"

Many are now working 36.5 hours per week....perhaps the unions should now start to get fair dinkum and revert back to a 40 hour week at the same rate of pay.....Perhaps the unions should start to think that 4 weeks annual leave is too much.....Perhaps the unions should start to think that 17.5 % leave loading should be abolished....I am old enough to remember 40 hour weeks, 2 weeks annual holidays and no leave loading....I can remember my weekly pay as a first year apprentice plumber was 0ne pound one and nine pence ( $2.19 )....That wage was 12.5% of a trades man wage and now first year apprentices are paid 60% of a tradies wage.....Who wants to employe apprentices at that rate.?

The unions were quick to put there grubby hands out when things were good.....but ha fellows, things are tough now so what about giving some back to save their jobs.....not bloody likely!!!!!!!!!!

And I will keep on harping about it until the cows come home......Thank the communist dominated unions starting back in the 50" and 60's for the number of manufactureing industries gone and the number of jobs that have been lost....And now the unions are screaming for the Government to bail them out.

If the unions and lefties are so concerned about jobs, I will ask them the question, "Why don't the unions buy out SPC Ardmona and try running it them selves"? Lets see how good they are.....Perhaps Coca-cola might sell it to them cheaply....Perhaps the fruit growers might even come to the party and operate the factory as a co-op.

To the best of my knowledge hospitality workers work a roosterd week in the likes of hotels and motels and the hourly rate on weekends is the same as week days....So why should some workers get penalty rates on week ends and others don't?

I say to you lefties, THINK HARD ABOUT IT...the alternative is the dole and who wants to live on that that rate of social security.....no hoilday pay...no leave loadings on the dole.
 
Joke of an article.....

Is Tony Abbott's Australian administration the most hostile to his nation's environment in history?

In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef. In Tasmania, ancient forests – harbouring some of the planet’s tallest trees – are in danger of being stripped of their World Heritage listing.

Australians could be forgiven for wondering if the federal government they elected last September is the most conservation-hostile in living memory.

Critics warn that moves by Tony Abbott and his Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, will not only degrade the country’s most outstanding natural assets, but make Australia an international laughing-stock. The UN has already threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” when its World Heritage watchdog committee meets in Qatar in June.

Compounding the right-wing government’s apparent disregard for Australia’s unique environment, say conservationists and scientists, is its resistance to any meaningful action to tackle climate change.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/is-tony-abbotts-australian-administration-the-most-hostile-to-his-nations-environment-in-history-9107534.html
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DB008 said:
Joke of an article.....
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The Independent is the commercial arm of UK Pravda... and appalling little rag, not worthy of even wiping one's backside with.

Most agree, as a result, it is losing millions
 
So what's the joke ?

Its all true isn't it?


Is Tony Abbott's Australian administration the most hostile to his nation's environment in history?

In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef. In Tasmania, ancient forests – harbouring some of the planet’s tallest trees – are in danger of being stripped of their World Heritage listing.
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DB008 said:
Joke of an article.....
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And the Independant favors the WATER MELON PARTY......NUFF SAID.

A leader published on the day of the 2008 London Mayoral election, compared the candidates and said that, if the newspaper had a vote, it would vote first for the Green Party candidate, Sian Berry, noting the similarity between her priorities and those of The Independent, and secondly, with "rather heavy heart", for the then incumbent, Ken Livingstone.[32]
 
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