Here’s Why Canberra is the World’s Most Liveable City!
It’s long been the envy of city dwellers in Sydney and Melbourne, and now Canberra has now firmly cemented its status as the World’s Most Liveable City according to the OECD ahead of London, New York, Paris, Milan, Rome and Venice.
And it’s not surprising why. Renowned for its close proximity to stunning beaches, riverside cafes and a plethora of eclectic book shops, antique fairs, and a thriving culinary and arts and culture scene. Today, Canberra is the number one tourist destination attracting visitors from all corners of the world eager to sample the fine fare that only Red Rooster and Burger King in Belconnen can offer.
It’s also emerged as the leading fashion centre of Australia, trumping Melbourne’s multi-million dollar Emporium department store with Westfields in Woden boasting both Target and Best for Less.
But that’s not all. A visit to Canberra isn’t complete without a sojourn to the elegant Discount Adult Bookshop in Fyshwick, and you can also pick up a small memento from any of one of the myriad of small explosives shops in Queanbeyan.
But there’s still more! Home to the nation’s largest congregation of public servants, high fashion is the order of the day, with the nation’s behind-the-scenes powerbrokers parading the streets in the latest collections of walk shorts, sandals and knee high socks.
Cardigan clubs abound after dark, allowing radical accountants, administration officers and those footloose and fancy free bohemian human resource managers to kick up their heels and exchange knitting patterns, scone recipes and cafeteria biscuit tasting competitions.
Look out Las Vegas, Canberra is the new playground for the rich and fabulous!
theguttertrash.com 
PM Abbott:
‘Well, Canberra’s a lovely city, so’s Sydney, so’s Melbourne, so’s Adelaide, so’s Perth, so’s Brisbane.’
Obviously he’s never been to Brisbane.
The Canberra workplace is vibrant, efficient and lively.
Here’s a team of dedicated public servants planning the new offices for some more public servants!
Canberra, welcome to #workchoicesdeadburiedcremated
Thousands of middle managers in the Australian Taxation Office face the loss of their flexitime arrangements and instead will work unpaid extra hours as the ATO continues to crack down on workers’ conditions.
The Tax Office management wants its executive level 1 public servants to lose the right to refuse to work overtime, unions say, and to be on the same arrangement as better paid bureaucrats further up the hierarchy who are not allowed to recoup extra hours worked.
The new arrangement, proposed as part of enterprise bargaining talks, means EL1 staff will not be able to take time off to compensate for extra hours spent at their desk.
Unions are furious, saying the move is another assault on the working conditions of a key group of ATO public servants.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/flexitime-under-threat-for-ato-middle-managers-20141007-10rast.html
But, as our employment expert yomm says, they’re all bludgers anyway, so deserve what they get.
What a great idea…
“Businesses In Brisbane Are Boycotting The Courier Mail”
Read more at http://junkee.com/businesses-in-brisbane-are-boycotting-the-courier-mail-over-its-awful-front-page-yesterday/42869#6BoJfiO0sH931Mz2.99
Wow reb, that front page is atrocious, even for ltdnews.
No wonder they are getting picked on from such bastions of un-biased (chuckle) reporting such as Independent Australia
Murdoch’s Brisbane masthead The Courier Mail has clearly displayed bias and inconsistency in its hysterical coverage of the Senate Inquiry into the Newman Government, writes Alex McKean and Stephen Keim SC.
http://www.independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/senate-inquiry-into-queensland-govt-reveals-courier-mails-corruption,6974
From your link
Please be aware that I will no longer be selling The Courier Mail, or any other News Corp Australia publications, at the Café.
Much amusement to be had with that line I foresee.
Are they attacking “free-speech” by boycotting garbage?
Getting an hour or 2 a week from public servants will hardly hurt them.
The daily comments of public servants –
• “Who’s eaten all the Tim Tams? There’s only iced vovos left”
• “I don’t have enough money for lunch today, so could we have a meeting at 12.30, and I’ll order the catering”
• ”Heavens, it’s 12.32 already, I’m late for lunch!”
• “I have to hang up now Mum, or I’ll be late for afternoon tea”
• “Sorry, it’s 4.34, and I’m already late in knocking off”
yomm shows again his intricate knowledge of all things employmenty
You neglected to mention the frisson, the sheer titallation, that comes from being at the centre of political power in this country. There is the exhilarating validation of one’s status knowing that by lving in Canberra one is walking among giants, that at any moment one might catch a face-full of Abbott in his lycra cycling togs or a glimpse of Hockey and Korman chomping on cigars.
yomm shows again his intricate knowledge of all things employment
Chuckle … based on “personal experience” no doubt … 😉
employmentY… hehe … 🙂
employmentY… hehe
Yep, he’s level eleventy xspurt in employmenty 🙂
ELEVENTY! What pay bracket!
Click to access Hay%20Group%20Powerpoint%20Presentation.pdf
Hard working Public Servants……………..ROFLMAO
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/how-my-centrelink-job-left-me-afraid-of-telephones-20141008-10rpi9.html
The ATO has an average of about 16 days a year in sickies!! That’s an epidemic!!
They get a “flexiday” or 2 a month, and a sickie or 2, meaning that it is the exception that a public servant works 5 days a week!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/large-workplaces-struggle-with-sickies-20121129-2ah2r.html
Then we have the world famous case of a woman having such vigorous sex with her colleague that the bed lamp feel on her head!
The culture of the private sector would be – “that’s a little embarrassing, I might need a couple of days off, but I’d better be discrete about it.”
But not our public service. Comments by the “victim” of this safety hazzard–
• I should have been booked into the Hyatt
• There should have been an OHS inspection of this hotel
• What can I get out of this?
• I’m never having sex with a Clerk Grade 5 again!
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/woman-hurt-during-sex-on-work-trip-entitled-to-compo-court-20120419-1x8z3.html#ixzz3FW5SGsES
The ATO has an average of about 16 days a year in sickies
Wow, yomm does links, talk about evolution 😉
Mind you, try and get it right when you do; (about) 16 days in sickies?? (unscheduled absentees aren’t sickies yomm, but I don’t need to tell that to a employmenty xspurt do I)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-11/murdoch-fact-check-sparks-social-media-frenzy/4950894
But, regardless, it is a high number, and obviously we need to make their conditions even worst in order to tackle it 😯
Most workers only get 1
sickieday of personal leave a month, so how can our public servants at the ATO get 16 a year on average?It’s probably just another example of their privileged employment conditions.
Organic soy coffee at the ATO:
Good to see that the leech had a responsible manager and got a good ass-kicking from the AAT.
We should survey Rupert, Gina, Twiggy, any Windsor Kids*, Clivey and compare their time on the job to the money they avoid paying in taxes and how much they get from taxpayers … oh and the Pope …
And WGAF what Rupert Murdoch’s mind makes up occasionally? (I just can’t call it thinking)
*Harry and William
It’s probably just another example of their privileged employment conditions.
probably? Aren’t you an xspurt?
So, here comes all the links of stoopid employees
Should we put up links of stoopid employers?
As they should have … so what’s the point? I’ve had liars, cheats and thieves work for me … the other 99% of people worked with me to achieve some pretty profitable/satisfying outcomes in private enterprise …
Having said that I have recognised a different “culture” within government departments that I’ve worked with (consulting and/or training) … the drive to achieve is somewhat lacking …
When I commisioned the Navy network I had to fly to Canberra once maybe twice a month. I then understood the meaning of the term “I spent a week in Canberra one afternoon” :shock;
My brother recently worked as a public servant in Canberra and noticed his boss would frequently disappear for hours for no particular reason, so he asked him ‘whats the go?’
“I go to the movies”, he replied, “you should do it too.”
So he did.
So he did.
And that’s good?
PNG Electricity Commission didn’t know what hit them when my mentor and I turned up … your brother and his boss would have been terminated within our first week!
It does explain some of your sillier posts though …
your brother and his boss would have been terminated within our first week!
You’re operating under the assumption that what egg says has a grain of truth.
You know better 😉
Fair comment … TR
””””yomm shows again his intricate knowledge of all things employmenty””””@TomR
#yeah, unfortunately yomm is a miserable excuse for an air-breathing critter, example,
””public servants at the ATO get 16 a year””
#but lets not mention the tax holiday some of the richest biz-monsters are getting,
””example of their privileged employment conditions””
Look over there! Some working-class arse-hole on the lower-rungs is receiving some `micro`-benefit! But lets ignore fully boardroom members being paid hundreds of thousands per company for often, `about` 30-days work per company.
Lets also ignore that these `clerks` yomm hates so much, are more than likely working to Ministers/Parliaments `instruction`, and/or `Committee`/`Advisor` recommendations.
Unfortunately, yomm is one of those stupid critters we often refer to as `useful-imbeciles` that has been fooled into having `envy` of those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, by those on the upper rungs. By his own repeated comments across the interwebs, he is a devout imbecile of envy, and he will not be leaving his church.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/pms-150m-spin-doctor-brigade/story-e6frg996-1226448739077
1600 media types seems to be about 1550 too many. I wonder whether the $150,000,000 includes the cost of their catering and Tim Tams.
I’m sure they’re all very hard working, and even if they go to conferences at taxpayer expense, they probably wouldn’t claim compo for the injuries they suffer as a result of having sex with a colleague.
By the way, did I mention that teabagz is an incoherent f**kwit?
God forbid that anyone would be able to know how our tax system works, hey yomm 😯
By the way, did I mention that teabagz is an incoherent f**kwit?
Incoherently? Yes 😉
Yeah. We really need about 300 people in the tax department drafting media releases and the like.
My tip is that they’ll spend most of their time enjoying the catering while meeting with each other.
Good for them. The Tim Tam industry would be in recession if not for public service meetings.
I think you’re unfairly singling out the Tim Tam industry ToM.
Who will think of the humble milk arrowroot, which I imagine must be struggling given the public sector’s preference for biscuits of the Monte Carlo standard and above.
That’s true, I’d forgotten about the long abandoned milk arrowroots, and the thousands of employees involved in its production. I hope they’ve been retrained in Monte Carlos.
I believe alfalfa sprouts and roast capsicum production is booming, with so many public service media advisors eating sandwiches while meeting each other.
“I believe alfalfa sprouts and roast capsicum production is booming”
Indeed!
As are my shares in Canberra producers of savoury muffins and sausage rolls.
I’m also speculating in publicly listed legal firms based in Canberra who specialise “workplace trauma,” unfair dismissal and workplace bullying.
Gutter Trash Investments is going to be RICH!
Gutter Trash Investments is going to be RICH!
‘Bout time we got a fkn dividend!
Yes, I made a killing by investing in public service trends. Remember when this office equipment was essential to the health of public servants?
I think that supply rort lasted a few years!
Maybe now it’s time to invest in sturdy beds for amorous public servants that go to conferences.
l see our corporate Personal Fluffer has plenty to report from the tinfoil cubicle on scribblers and their `lunch-budget` and nothing to say about over-priced single use flying trash cans(f35) and then rants about `one-off` events.
l guess we could round`em all up to work in the Department of Submarine Construction, hey bro.?
I call it class envy teabagz. Not everyone is forced to work from a surf board 😉
Yes, certainly teabagz has “class envy”
He’s envious of anyone with class. Observe the way he tries to brown nose to some of the long standing contributors, with stuff like – “you wouldn’t put me, reb, dunny or TB in that category”
Teabagz is a genuine suck hole troll.
Yes, certainly teabagz has “class envy” … “you wouldn’t put me, reb, dunny or TB in that category”
Can’t speak for anyone else … but “class” pisses me right off … us Northerners don’t ‘ave nun …
So, Just ad-hom`s yomm.
Unable to defend your own blather.? Again.?
Perhaps if you used comprehensible sentences and grammar, people might bother to figure out how to reply to your crap.
But as it is, there is really no use bothering to even attempt to decipher the nonsense.
So best you just continue with the suck hole trolling.
I see myself as equal, certainly competent to converse, with anyone.
I couldn’t give a fuck about earnings (apart from my own) or social status.
The very concept of ‘divinity’ or ‘regency’, particularly the obviously conflated, faux-human type, offends me at a base level & I piss on its concept from a great height.
Those with airs of such are my targets of disdain.
As for this – “Just ad-hom`s yomm.
It’s an observation made by the only expert in that discipline on this site.
Ironic f**kwit.
I see myself as equal, certainly competent to converse, with anyone.
What, even if they a consumer of the dreaded Tim-Tam ❓ 😯
It’s an observation made by the only expert in that discipline on this site.
only?
I feel a little put out by that, as should wally etal (and other Tim-Tam baggers) 😉
Yes HD, almost everyone here participates without rancour and with respect, without any sense of privilege or regency.
Only blow in f**kwits deserve contempt.
Fortunately Tom R you’re not in the same class as teabagz when it comes to that discipline.
He’s without a single redeeming feature.
* No grammar
* No humour
* No sense
Did I mention that he’s a brown nosing suck hole troll?
BUT DOES HE EAT TIM TAMS!!!
The people have a right to know.
“I couldn’t give a fuck about earnings (apart from my own) or social status.”
Me neither…
Which oddly leads me to dislike quite a wide range of people.
In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that one of my so-called “friends” remarked:
“It’s like you hate everyone.”
And I said:
“That’s not really fair. There’s a lot of people I haven’t met yet.”
So best you just continue with the suck hole trolling.
Keep it up, teabagz , I get it … and ToM don’t! LOL!
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I couldn’t give a fuck about earnings (apart from my own) or social status.
Absolutely, Mate!
The Minister turns 65 in December and the changes to age pensions on Jan 01 are mind boggling … this government is rapacious beyond reason!
Those with airs of such are my targets of disdain.
Ebola in Cairns! (possible – seriously possible!)
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Yes HD, almost everyone here participates without rancour and with respect, without any sense of privilege or regency.
Only blow in f**kwits deserve contempt.
Now that deserves respect! ToM!
HD! Human Dividend of the Buffalo Lodge … ultimate respect! (and I slapped my keyboard!) Mem’ries ….
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“It’s like you hate everyone.”
And I said:
“That’s not really fair. There’s a lot of people I haven’t met yet.”
FUCK! What’s wrong with US!
Thanks, sreb!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-11/murdoch-fact-check-sparks-social-media-frenzy/4950894
””””Rupert Murdoch says public workers in Australia earn more and take many more sick days than their private sector counterparts.””””
#it seems to me that my abc is engaging in its favorite pre-occupation; talking about teh-media.
#so what, 16, 20 or 25, who gives a fcuk, it is nothing when you consider the direction of where employment is heading
#under the teabags work till`ya drop, locking super up until 70, these `days-off` the pantie-soilers are bleating about will probably climb much, much higher, with an `elderly` so-called work-force #teabags
“Which oddly leads me to dislike quite a wide range of people.”
Haha…so do I. But not because of their earnings or social status. It’s their wrongheaded fucktardery & poor manners wot duz it!
““It’s like you hate everyone.”
And I said:
“That’s not really fair. There’s a lot of people I haven’t met yet.”
Best Quote Ever!
#sotrue
‘And that’s good?’
No.
Bagz is off his meds.
“Bagz is off his
medshead.”yomm, tinfoil`osy, #yaaawwwwwwn
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””Keep it up, teabagz , I get it … and ToM don’t! LOL!””
Count on it TB 🙂 🙂 🙂 watching ticki on the biz.?
just had so-called `unemployment` numbers reported by abs,
prepare to laugh, abs don`t believe their own numbers since `system` rejig, it seem we converted them TB 🙂
””””””””””’There’ll be more attention than usual on the latest set of official employment figures out later this morning after the Bureau of Statistics (ABS) admitted recent monthly figures were probably dodgy.
The credibility of the ABS numbers was already on the line after a startling jobs increase of 121,000 in August was viewed by most economists as unbelievable.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/treasurer-blames-labor-for-abs-dodgy-jobs-data/5800666
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#too simple to just publish the number straight out of the dole-office database
”””””””””””However, the union representing the staff at the ABS said the state of the organisation was embarrassing.
The CPSU said $68 million was cut from the organisation in this year’s budget under the Coalition Government.
It said that followed a $10 million reduction in the previous year’s budget under the Labor government.
In that two-year period, the union said 350 roles had been cut.
CPSU deputy national president Alistair Waters said the lack of resources at the bureau was jeopardising the credibility of its data.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/hockey-calls-for-answers-over-abs-unemployment-figures/5800346
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#it must be an onion conspiracy with all the damage caused by Joolya`s government
”””””””””the monthly Bureau of Statistics employment numbers have nothing to do with the number of people on the dole or other Centrelink benefits.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-13/employment-figures-explainer/5258248
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”””””””””The Bureau’s figures are estimates, not actual numbers, and like any estimate there is scope for error.””””””””’
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””””””””’This survey is one of the nation’s biggest, and covers 26,000 households per month – around 60,000 people – and that sample gets gradually rotated so that it is not always the same households being interviewed.
The ABS says this sample is 0.32 per cent of the civilian population aged over 15.”””””””’
#this is the total bullshit `our` teabags and rusteds love to chortle about, what a bunch of arse-hats, 0.32% `interviewed/polled` means 99.68% are NOT.
With””his intricate knowledge of all things employmenty””and Tim-Tammy, the better human-being and smarter critter could argue ethically, (yes, even ethically) that the abs should have their tim-tam budget reduced, the number of `clerks` reduced, and the budget reduced in the un-ethical, fraudulent, Unemployment Fictional Number Division of the ABS, in the interest of Fairness, Service and Transparency to the voting public that Government is meant to serve.
Alas, we do not have that better human-being and smarter critter. @Tom-R 🙂
Genius bagger of T’s, cut the Tim Tam budget, and save the cuntree budget. Why didn’t hockey think of that, instead of trying to blackmail the opposition.
I note that most write ups have blamed the total inability for ABS to measure anything now as Labors fault, even though this gubmint has cut more in one year than Labor did in the previous three combined.
I wonder if they will finally call bullshit on the previous oppositions “waste” mantra as well?
Considering it’s still all Labor’s fault (even though the ABS still operated accurately under Labors funding cuts) I can’t see that happening
Needless to say, like everything else, this gubmint is quite happy with letting us know very little. And the ‘free-speech’ warriors who were so up in arm over legislation designed to make print media operate under similar laws that broadcast media operates under are silent or supportive (it’s for our own good don’t ya know)