The Albanese government

[SirRumpole]

It's good to Bill is coming out of the blocks at a gallop, some Centrelink programmes to get a makeover, thankfully with computers all the old stationary doesn't have to be replaced.
I have a hard hat at home, that has three different company logo's on it and it was a Government dept first thing the boss has to do is rename the dept.
At last, the unemployed will have a sympathetic Govt.

A new points-based system has replaced Jobactive. How will it affect thousands of job seekers?

Jobactive — the Australian government's main employment services program — has been replaced by a new service called Workforce Australia Employment Services Provider. Here's how the change will affect your job search.

www.abc.net.au

From the article:
From July 4, Jobactive — the Australian government's main employment services program — will be replaced by a new service called Workforce Australia Employment Services Provider.

If you've been on Jobactive while receiving the JobSeeker Payment, you'll soon be moved to the new program.

Workforce Australia has begun contacting participants about how they'll be impacted and what they need to do.

As a jobseeker, what will my obligations be?​

There are new changes to the way jobseekers will have to complete mutual obligations.

A new Points Based Activation System (PBAS) has been introduced, which will replace the current system where jobseekers are required to submit 20 job applications a month.

Through the PBAS, jobseekers will need to accumulate 100 points a month in order to continue receiving payments.

How do I earn points?​

You earn points by doing the following tasks:

• Completing job applications
• Attending interviews
• Completing online learning modules

Here are the points values for some tasks:

Task	Points earned on completion
Job application	5 points
Online learning modules	5 points (maximum of 5 points per month)
Attending a job interview	20 points

Well its obviously a Coalition policy which Labor can ditch if it wants.

 

[sptrawler]

Puts new meaning to the concept of "points scoring".
Mick

Yes, this is the very reason Govt's have to be flipped, there would be an uproar if this was suggested by a different Govt, but it needs to happen.
Companies screaming for workers from overseas is ridiculous, that shouldn't happen until you've exhausted the home grown pool.

 

[sptrawler]

Well its obviously a Coalition policy which Labor can ditch if it wants.

Oh of course. ?

 

[SirRumpole]

Oh of course. ?

Do I detect a touch of cynicism there ?

 

[mullokintyre]

Do I detect a touch of cynicism there ?

Sometimes there is a fine line between cynicism and sarcasm.
Mick

 

[sptrawler]

Do I detect a touch of cynicism there ?

Sometimes there is a fine line between cynicism and sarcasm.
Mick

Or maybe I'm not as sharp as you guys and miss the subtleties.
Fair suck of the sauce bottle, fella's.

 

[SirRumpole]

Or maybe I'm not as sharp as you guys and miss the subtleties.
Fair suck of the sauce bottle, fella's.

No offence intended.

We'll see what Labor does with this policy.

Maybe Bill Shorten will get asked about it on Insiders.

 

[Knobby22]

It's good to Bill is coming out of the blocks at a gallop, some Centrelink programmes to get a makeover, thankfully with computers all the old stationary doesn't have to be replaced.
I have a hard hat at home, that has three different company logo's on it and it was a Government dept first thing the boss has to do is rename the dept.
At last, the unemployed will have a sympathetic Govt.

A new points-based system has replaced Jobactive. How will it affect thousands of job seekers?

Jobactive — the Australian government's main employment services program — has been replaced by a new service called Workforce Australia Employment Services Provider. Here's how the change will affect your job search.

www.abc.net.au

From the article:
From July 4, Jobactive — the Australian government's main employment services program — will be replaced by a new service called Workforce Australia Employment Services Provider.

If you've been on Jobactive while receiving the JobSeeker Payment, you'll soon be moved to the new program.

Workforce Australia has begun contacting participants about how they'll be impacted and what they need to do.

As a jobseeker, what will my obligations be?​

There are new changes to the way jobseekers will have to complete mutual obligations.

A new Points Based Activation System (PBAS) has been introduced, which will replace the current system where jobseekers are required to submit 20 job applications a month.

Through the PBAS, jobseekers will need to accumulate 100 points a month in order to continue receiving payments.

How do I earn points?​

You earn points by doing the following tasks:

• Completing job applications
• Attending interviews
• Completing online learning modules

Here are the points values for some tasks:

Task	Points earned on completion
Job application	5 points
Online learning modules	5 points (maximum of 5 points per month)
Attending a job interview	20 points

He has been sitting there with grand plans for years, stewing away.
That's why I always like governments to change.

 

[sptrawler]

He has been sitting there with grand plans for years, stewing away.
That's why I always like governments to change.

My sentiments exactly, new ideas, new faces and a clean slate.

 

[mullokintyre]

What is it about politics in the ALP that any leader has to watch his back.
Writing in The Evil Murdoch Press today, Cameron Milner a former Queensland labour Secretary who has worked on Labour Election strategies for the last thirty years according to his blurb is already warning Albo to watch out for the demoted Tanya Pilbersek who might get the numbers to shaft him.

As veteran political commentator and The Australian columnist Graham Richardson wrote a week out from the election, “in the Labor caucus the knives are being sharpened”.

Current frontbenchers had caucus numbers being whipped to have them dumped despite years of service. Many others missed out again, like Tim Watts, held back from the ministry despite entering parliament the same year as Jim Chalmers.

The only lack of discipline from Albo was moving Tanya Plibersek from education to the environment and water. She was treated like Cinderella for most of the election campaign but it’s notable Labor’s electoral numbers rebounded only once Plibersek was back on the campaign trail.

Her post-election demotion is a regrettable “get square”. Reportedly told only a few hours beforehand by Albanese of her portfolio change, she is the clearest alternative leader to Albo, who starts his term as the least popular of any incoming prime minister. Albanese knows all about how Labor topples elected prime ministers.

He watched as Julia Gillard used the education portfolio to meet backbencher after backbencher across Australia. Building the Education Revolution, all while building her national profile and caucus numbers to become Labor’s natural challenger to Rudd. Equally, Albanese was the chief numbers man for Rudd when they used electoral popularity and unelectability as the excuse to dump the first woman to be prime minister, six months out from the federal selection in 2013.

Labor has had plenty of other leadership challenges since Albanese become an MP. He has been “doing the numbers” and “fighting Tories” since 1996, though it wasn’t until 2013 he actually ran himself for leadership.

The bloke has only been in the job for a few weeks, yet already the knives are out.

Australia hasn’t seen a full two-term Labor prime minister since Bob Hawke. Little point actually fulfilling your manifest destiny of becoming Labor prime minister if you don’t get to keep it once you’ve got there. If you want to win back-to-back premierships and “change the country”, then you’ve got to have one eye on the electorate and one eye on your caucus.

Must be a pleasant workplace that cess pit they call parliament House.
Mick

 

[SirRumpole]

What is it about politics in the ALP that any leader has to watch his back.
Writing in The Evil Murdoch Press today, Cameron Milner a former Queensland labour Secretary who has worked on Labour Election strategies for the last thirty years according to his blurb is already warning Albo to watch out for the demoted Tanya Pilbersek who might get the numbers to shaft him.

The bloke has only been in the job for a few weeks, yet already the knives are out.


Must be a pleasant workplace that cess pit they call parliament House.
Mick

Richardson has gone round the twist I reckon, he's been reading too much Machiavelli.

Paid columnists have to write something otherwise they don't get paid, and nothing sells like a good conspiracy.

 

[wayneL]

My sentiments exactly, new ideas, new faces and a clean slate.

All we need now is magi riding in from the east on camels.

Francincense and myrrh, anyone?

 

[wayneL]

The bloke has only been in the job for a few weeks, yet already the knives are out.

We know these stories always end in a crucifixion

 

[SirRumpole]

Or maybe I'm not as sharp as you guys and miss the subtleties.
Fair suck of the sauce bottle, fella's.

The government has only been in 3 weeks, the legislation for these changes would have had to be passed by the previous government, Labor haven't had the time to make any changes.

 

[PZ99]

What is it about politics in the ALP that any leader has to watch his back.
Writing in The Evil Murdoch Press today, Cameron Milner a former Queensland labour Secretary who has worked on Labour Election strategies for the last thirty years according to his blurb is already warning Albo to watch out for the demoted Tanya Pilbersek who might get the numbers to shaft him.

The bloke has only been in the job for a few weeks, yet already the knives are out.


Must be a pleasant workplace that cess pit they call parliament House.
Mick

Under their rules TB would need over 50% of the caucus and over 50% of the membership vote to challenge. Given the vast majority of the caucus is "third way" centre right I can't see Tanya winning that contest. Bill Shorten... well that's another matter

 

[IFocus]

What is it about politics in the ALP that any leader has to watch his back.
Writing in The Evil Murdoch Press today, Cameron Milner a former Queensland labour Secretary who has worked on Labour Election strategies for the last thirty years according to his blurb is already warning Albo to watch out for the demoted Tanya Pilbersek who might get the numbers to shaft him.

The bloke has only been in the job for a few weeks, yet already the knives are out.


Must be a pleasant workplace that cess pit they call parliament House.
Mick

And so it starts Murdock campaign to bring Labor down usual suspects cheering on.

 

[Eager]

As if to confirm that coalition governments are only capable of being adversarial with anyone and everyone, Australia and China are once again talking to each other. ANY direct dialog is good, regardless of the content.

Relationships with France have also been repaired.

We also have the very welcome situation of the Nadesalingam family coming home. On compassionate grounds alone, this is a far better example compared to the au pair that was working for the liberal donor McLachlan family, or the one working for one of Dutton's former colleagues. For those with conveniently short memories: https://www.news.com.au/national/po...m/news-story/6b9205f78b3693715884a6b1bcda5863

I remember Abbott once pumping himself up as a doer because in his words he has always fighting, battling etc., but never realising that all he had to do to be truly successful was to work with people rather than against them (it's also why Gillard was able to run a very effective minority government). Morrison also fell into the trap, to the detriment of Australia. It is how conservative governments roll. So far, Albanese and his crew have shown how damaging the last 10 years have been to this country, simply by acting as humans should.

 

[moXJO]

Small business about to get targeted by ato. I'm sure Labor back to its old tricks. Just after the pandemic and during an inflation burst.
I'm starting to see businesses going under.

 

[Knobby22]

Small business about to get targeted by ato. I'm sure Labor back to its old tricks. Just after the pandemic and during an inflation burst.
I'm starting to see businesses going under.

The temporary insolvency protection rules have ended.
Plenty of businesses are now forced to declare themselves insolvent.

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On January 2021, as new insolvency reforms to support small business started, the COVID-19 temporary insolvency protections ended. Good news for creditors!

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[PZ99]

It should never have been allowed to happen in the first place.

It was supposed to be temporary - not used as a permanent get out of jail card.

Trading while insolvent is a one way ticket to a financial crisis.