The Albanese government

[mullokintyre]

Too many people with too much time on their hands ....

 

[SirRumpole]

Consumers tighten spending as inflation bites.

Good for the economy ? It's what the Reserve Bank wanted.

A pull-back in Australians' spending habits is concerning economists

While it's clear many thrifty shoppers saw the need to hunt for Christmas gift bargains in November, the Australian Bureau of Statistics notes that overall spending has been subdued.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Sean K]

Did Albanese say something about government not being incentuous with it's civil appointments like ambassadors etc?

Greg Combet taking over as Chair of the Future Fund...

I'm looking forward to the first moment the FF decides to 'invest' in green hydrogen or wave power...

 

[sptrawler]

@IFocus this is more like it, at last an availability allowance written into law.
I wish that had been in when I was working, being able to be able to switch off the phone, instead of being rung up in the middle of the night to go to who knows where.
All essential service workers, man your EBA's.

Right to disconnect from work laws set to pass Australian parliament after deals with crossbench

Adam Bandt says changes to industrial relations bill mean ‘when you clock off, you’ll be able to switch off’

www.theguardian.com

 

[IFocus]

@IFocus this is more like it, at last an availability allowance written into law.
I wish that had been in when I was working, being able to be able to switch off the phone, instead of being rung up in the middle of the night to go to who knows where.
All essential service workers, man your EBA's.

Right to disconnect from work laws set to pass Australian parliament after deals with crossbench

Adam Bandt says changes to industrial relations bill mean ‘when you clock off, you’ll be able to switch off’

www.theguardian.com

Yeah rung up at all hours not so bad if you had the answer there and then hard to get back to sleep if only just giving out options or some directions for further investigations.

Then there was being in the office 5.00am / 5.30am to hit the ground running.

Then came mobile phones every man and his dog at work wanted to talk to you then

I was still getting calls to go back and mange stuff on a fixed term basis 6 years after I left...

 

[wayneL]

Yeah rung up at all hours not so bad if you had the answer there and then hard to get back to sleep if only just giving out options or some directions for further investigations.

Then there was being in the office 5.00am / 5.30am to hit the ground running.

Then came mobile phones every man and his dog at work wanted to talk to you then

I was still getting calls to go back and mange stuff on a fixed term basis 6 years after I left...

Good God!

Anyone who messages me out of hours and expects an immediate response gets sacked forthwith, unless it's a genuine emergency.

 

[Smurf1976]

I wish that had been in when I was working, being able to be able to switch off the phone, instead of being rung up in the middle of the night to go to who knows where.

Ah yes, that sounds familiar.....

Two incidents really stand out in memory years later - one involving a deliberate attack on critical infrastructure by vandals, and the other being an external organisation which had requested immediate help in dealing with a major incident.

The rest were somewhat more predictable.

 

[sptrawler]

Looks like housing affordability is too hot a potato.

Treasurer says government not considering changes to negative gearing and capital gains

Property investors won’t lose tax deductions, Jim Chalmers says

www.theguardian.com

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and opposition leader Peter Dutton are both facing pressure to revisit tax breaks on investment properties before the next federal election due by September 2025.

The Greens are proposing limiting negative gearing rules to a single investment property. But Chalmers says any changes are off the table.

 

[SirRumpole]

Looks like housing affordability is too hot a potato.

Treasurer says government not considering changes to negative gearing and capital gains

Property investors won’t lose tax deductions, Jim Chalmers says

www.theguardian.com

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and opposition leader Peter Dutton are both facing pressure to revisit tax breaks on investment properties before the next federal election due by September 2025.

The Greens are proposing limiting negative gearing rules to a single investment property. But Chalmers says any changes are off the table.

Politics wins over policy on this issue.

 

[mullokintyre]

They said before the elction, and numerous times since, that they would go ahead wiyh the stage three tax cuts.
And what happened then?
They are deliberately letting outsiders do all the convincing , then they will just run with it.
Politician is just another word for liar.
mick

 

[wayneL]

They said before the elction, and numerous times since, that they would go ahead wiyh the stage three tax cuts.
And what happened then?
They are deliberately letting outsiders do all the convincing , then they will just run with it.
Politician is just another word for liar.
mick

"We" deserve it. Because we collectively let them off.

 

[farmerge]

"We" deserve it. Because we collectively let them off.

Very few politicians ever tell the truth, so we should know better. I suppose we can always live in hope that one day that may change for the better.

 

[Sean K]

Anyone believe that he didn't get a call about this?

He's either got incompetent staff, or he's a liar.

 

[qldfrog]

Anyone believe that he didn't get a call about this?

He's either got incompetent staff, or he's a liar.

maybe he gets his news from his abc..
when headlines all over the internet are than around 30 Pakistanis have landed in WA , their abc this morning (saturday) was reporting "more than 20" ..yes..that is true, they could have said a couple, or even more than a pair of... such a propaganda stooge media, and yet ,many people still refer to it as the reference..
so maybe our PM got confused...

 

[Sean K]

maybe he gets his news from his abc..
when headlines all over the internet are than around 30 Pakistanis have landed in WA , their abc this morning (saturday) was reporting "more than 20" ..yes..that is true, they could have said a couple, or even more than a pair of... such a propaganda stooge media, and yet ,many people still refer to it as the reference..
so maybe our PM got confused...

Maybe he was in deep conversation with Jodie in the limo consummating the proposal. Even so, he should have coitis interruptus to hear about our friendly fighting age male tourists so desperately wanting to contribute to our society and economy.

 

[farmerge]

Anyone believe that he didn't get a call about this?

He's either got incompetent staff, or he's a liar.

@Sean K Probably both. Can't tell me his hasn't got a sat phone in the limo.
His response to the question was absolutely pathetic.

 

[Sean K]

@Sean K Probably both. Can't tell me his hasn't got a sat phone in the limo.
His response to the question was absolutely pathetic.

Without doubt he would never be without comms and a CPP det who would also have comms 24/7.

I'm quite certain he was lying but didn't have a good answer prepared. Maybe because his speech writers were not in the back of the limo with he and Queen Jodie while they were canoodling.

 

[farmerge]

Without doubt he would never be without comms and a CPP det who would also have comms 24/7.

I'm quite certain he was lying but didn't have a good answer prepared. Maybe because his speech writers were not in the back of the limo with he and Queen Jodie while they were canoodling.

@Sean K Trouble is we are not paying these people peanuts to do the job, but we seem to get with regular monotony the Organ Grinder's monkey.

 

[wayneL]

@Sean K Trouble is we are not paying these people peanuts to do the job, but we seem to get with regular monotony the Organ Grinder's monkey.

Speciesism!!!! Stop offending organ grinder's monkeys

 

[farmerge]

Speciesism!!!! Stop offending organ grinder's monkeys

Oophs perhaps then with regular monotony a useless mob of duds