What the Halal is Going On?

oops, that was meant to be death cult 😯

Dangerous days for spell checkers 😆

Can’t wait until we send black people to the back of the bus.

I do hope there’s no one called Rosa Parks on that bus.

Wake up you brain dead Lefties !

Yep, public servants get a legislated standard that is designed for the public service, then sign up for the extra 18 weeks at the minimum wage.

That is double dipping.

Yep, public servants get a legislated standard that is designed for the public service

In a bargaining process where pay rates etc are often bargained away for better workplace conditions. abbot now wants to take those conditions, which had been bargained for in good faith, away from them.

then sign up for the extra 18 weeks at the minimum wage.

Just like everyone else in the country is able to.

hat is double dipping.

That’s the recommendation of the productivity commission. Even his own stacked Commission of Audit report didn’t call it “double dipping”.

And from memory, no grubmint has ever called working parents doing precisely what a policy is designed to do as “rorters”. That’s just fucken low.

I don’t think public servants “bargained” for the legislated standard of parental leave.

In any event the notion of pen pushers and meeting attenders bargaining for their workplace rights is hilarious

Yes, we understand your opinion of workers rights yomm. But, just because yo are employed in a grubmint department, doesn’t mean you don’t have them

The Prime Minister has been criticised for supporting a controversial plan to set up another Australian medical school.

A “Medical Consensus” department? Will they focus on the link between wind farms and yolkless egss I wonder?

I struggle with the notion that people that attend meetings and fill out forms at public expense are “workers” and privileged workers at that – enjoying far better benefits that the overwhelming majority of those that pay the taxes that give them the cushy, privileged and well paid life.

That they then take industrial action, against the public, to protect their privileged position is quite odd.

Having suffered through Sky news for the last week … I’m pleased we don’t squander our income on such right wing biased crap …

Insiders wasexcellent … Typo but actually works! … Well done ladies … Barrie was good too …he let it run well …

Waiting for The Mad Monk to start the Australian campaign to save Morsi from the firing squad …

I saw a preview of the advert about domestic violence, and was gobsmacked when I saw the misogynist yabot stick his fucken head in. Talk about destroying any credibility. They tried to rip apart funding for domestic violence in their first budget, and had to be dragged kicking and screaming by this “recalcitrant” opposition (thank fuck), while throwing millions at DEAF CULTS!. But even then, they are still kicking the vulnerable, while making platitudes that contradict their actions

phA domestic violence shelter servicing 50 Aboriginal communities in the remote north of Western Australia has emerged as the latest project to miss out on funding under the Federal Government’s overhaul of Indigenous funding.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-17/funding-withdrawal-puts-indigenous-womens-lives-at-risk/6476132

We need a lot more people “inconveniencing” commuters to highlight the viciousness of this regime.

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‘Less aggressive’: Malcolm Turnbull’s advice for ABC journalists Leigh Sales and Emma Alberici

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/less-aggressive-malcolm-turnbulls-advice-for-abc-journalists-leigh-sales-and-emma-alberici-20150517-gh3f7f.html#ixzz3aRQLZc5q

I AGREE!. Journo’s are shit

Was malcy crying crocodiles while ulman was lying to the pm, or chaff bags were being stuffed? What a wanker. Even poor widdle yabot is having a sook about nasty questioners not accepting his litany of lies.

hockey finally admits he’s a fuck head

Joe Hockey concedes ‘double-dipping’ on paid parental leave is not fraud

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/joe-hockey-concedes-doubledipping-on-paid-parental-leave-is-not-fraud-20150517-gh3ttg.html

“”gnoring the point that a federal bureaucrat is not an ” average worker “ ……….””

Would you care to define “average worker” so we can make a judgement on your statement ?

If the average public servant earns well over $80k a year, that’s a lot of money for attending meetings with your colleagues, eating tim tams and getting some flexi time.

Bureaucrats are employed in that occupation because they prefer not to-
*Buy their own lunch
*Be accountable
*Work

I’m not in favour of padding out their benefits even more.

that’s a lot of money for attending meetings with your colleagues, eating tim tams and getting some flexi time.

Not to mention putting up with ignorant morons continually berating you when they obviously don’t have a clue what you really do.

#justsayin 😉

Public servants –
• More benefits
• More pay
• More job security
• More tim tams
• More cardigans
• Less accountability
• Less work

yea, but they still gotta put up with morons without a clue continually berating them for no reason except murdoch said so. 😉

• More cardigans

I think the countries most subsidised occupation might disagree with you there yomm 😉

And more sick leave

And i bet you they use it as well. Most people in private enterprise only use sick leave when they are sick.

I think the PS’s shows why taxpayers subsidies often do not work. Since it is not their own money they do not appreciate it. The workers at Holden/Ford/Toyota did not improve the cars they were making. If anything the more govt money they got the worse the cars became they made. Same goes for PS workers.

It is wrong that PS’s get higher wages and entitlements than people in the private sector.

” You mean like, negotiate with their employer.”

Negotiation public service style –
• “You mean if I give you a pay increase, I get one too?!”
• “So if I restructure and reclassify some of my staff, I also move up?!”
• “If I look for greater efficiency and have to lose a few subordinates, my budget goes down, then my job evaluation goes down, then I’m not going to get my reclassification…it’s best I don’t look for too much efficiency”

I tend to agree with you. Also, same goes for anybody in debt ie the Australian govts, State, local and Federal.

Trouble in predicting a property bubble is that I think Australia has never had one. Housing prices always go up or remain stable in the big cities. However if someone loses their job you are in big trouble with a debt.

People are getting into property because bank interest rates are so low and not much is happening in the share market. Self funded retirees who have to survive on interest on money in the bank are doing it tough.

It takes a particular orientation to work in the public service, one that is more towards process than outcome, working to rules.

It isn’t necessarily the fault of public servants that they’re inefficient, it is the system that is designed to protect politicians that makes it over burdened. They public system lacks accountability, it is costly and inefficient.

Public servants may be hard working and well intentioned, that doesn’t make the public service efficient or them either for that matter.

The fact that commonwealth public servants cost the taxpayer $85,000 each (then add superannuation etc) is stupid, it is loading up average wage earners with higher taxes.

The place to start is cutting benefits – there is no reason for public servants to be given benefits that are not available to the majority of the rest of the workforce.

I suggest the place to start for the private sector is to progress, to offer evidence based, best employment practice and avail their workers of more benefits.

Spoken like a true socialist. Fact is the private sector has to generate its own revenue. A lot of small business people work for themselves and pay themselves less benefits than PS’s because they cannot afford anything else.

Fact is when people have access to taxpayers money they will abuse it. No all PS’s of course but much more than in the private sector. Same goes for council workers. Oh we need a new coffee machine. Lets us put up the rates.

When I refer to public servants/bureaucrats, I’m not talking about –
• Nurses
• Teachers
• Military
• Police (though I’m in 2 minds about the culture, the level of efficiency and rorting)

I’m talking about the actual bureaucracy, the non value adding meeting attenders, the ones that spend their lives justifying their existence, speaking at conferences to one another – the ones that eat all the tim tams.

If they are not making enough profit to cover themselves or their workers, they probably shouldn’t be in business.

Well i have a relative who is a builder in Country NSW. When he gets up in the morning he has to find someone who wants a renovation, a second story or a house to build. If not his family is in trouble. He has almost no Super. Perhaps you are right he should not be in business.

But the fact is all the money to pay the wages of PS’s comes from taxing the private sector. Govt run organisations raise very little revenue by their own activities. Pull out the taxpayer funding and they would collapse.

…though I’m suspicious of police.

I disagree with everybody.

…It isn’t necessarily the fault of public servants that they’re inefficient, it is the system that is designed to protect politicians that makes it over burdened.

Precisely. But what is saddest, is that it is the same pollies who overburden them crap to protect their own asses who are now using them as a punching bag to try and distract from their own failings.

The same pollies who are actively sacking public servants so that multi nationals can continue to skirt around tax laws to minimise their own tax in ways that might not be illegal but are most likely immoral, and then have the nerve to call parents who are using ppl EXACTLY as it is designed to do and EXACTLY as it was legislated (by both parties) to be accessed as “rorters”

You can call it ‘semantics’ hockey, I call it an act of bastardy

But people who have access to taxpayers money often do not respect money as much as people who have to generate money.

Claiming full pay while cycling in a “charity” event springs to mind 😉

But perhaps not as bad as you are trying to make out.

When you put that up against a long list of rorting from the taxpayer in this individuals case, then it is as bad as it looks

They are highly qualified and hard working.

Which brings us back to the pathetic comparison of “federal bureaucrats” and “average workers”.

It would be interesting though to see a fair comparison of workers wages, if that is even possible?

I was at a party and chatting to a professional young woman. She said she worked in ‘risk management’

Safety, finance or governance, I asked.

Media she replied. Her job was to monitor the media and get on top of any reporting or talk back that reflected badly on her bit of the public service.

She considered the job quite important. No doubt she was intelligent and hard working.

While taxpayers fund this type of non value adding job, the public service willl continue to prove it is inefficient

Media she replied.

PMO? 🙂

Funny you have a go at that after the discussion further up about wollies protecting themselves with media games over their exploitation of workers. Is that “inefficient”?

Have you ever stepped foot inside a local council?

I may be stupid, but I’m not dumb!

Whoever fell for Twiggy Forrest’s bullshit …………….I mean seriously…………?

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining-group-takes-aim-at-fortescue/story-e6frfkur-1227359867179

“… (particularly small business who are compelled to have their tax returns – signed – by an accountant who charges like a wounded bull to transfer your own information onto a government tax form … with no fkn responsibility at all) …”

Hehehehehehehehehehe………………..!

Whoever fell for Twiggy Forrest’s bullshit

er, the current grubmint. Didn’t he design their welfare policy?

“………..er, the current grubmint. ”

Er……….no it looks to me the whole damn lot of them including the ALP plus Xenephone

“And for many years small business had to pay “provisional tax” ”

They still do. They simply changed the name to Pay As You Go .PAYG is not just limited to salary earners.

And both sides of politics, and us as voters, have had our dirty hands in the problems that Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are now experiencing.

We should ALL hang our heads in shame.

“………….as wouldn’t give her sanitary pads”

Wouldn’t give…………..or ………………..Didn’t have any ?

Not that I’d even think that the Left would try and distort something like that.

If you have an Iphone check this out

Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
Tap on Privacy.
Now tap on Location Services at the top.
Towards the bottom of the next screen, tap on System Services.
Again, towards the bottom of the next page, tap on Frequent Locations.

Tap on the locations listed and it tells you how often you have been

At the top of the next screen, turn the Frequent Locations option to the Off position.

The prime minister on an irony or inquiry 😯

At the top of the next screen, turn the Frequent Locations option to the Off position.

I don’t know about the iphone, but someone I spoke to the other day said something about turning location off on an Android doesn’t do a lot, as google still maintain the database of wifi hotspots they were told to take down from their Maps api that they collect while doing street view (and they did remove it from the api)

It apparently tracks via that as well as geo-location (the latter is turned off when you turn off location)

So not just the grubmint, but major corporations also can track our every fckn move.

“……AND an expectation by the ATO of what they THOUGHT you would earn …”

So what the fuck are you on about. They still do . The only difference is its by quarter automatically. If I recall Provisional Tax was annual however you could apply for quarterly instalments. And they inflate it based on LY earings by a GDP factor.

What is it you DONT do again ?

http://www.stockjournal.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/payg-the-nightmare-of-provisional-tax-replacement/3705.aspx

“……Provisional tax was an ATO “guess” at how much you were “going” to earn paid upfront annually … BEFORE any earnings and each year the ATO “predicted” your following year’s earning’s … higher than the previous year’s of course and “adjusted” at the end of the year if it was actually lower …..”

Yes and except for the name change nothing much has changed

“It lists the toilets?”

No………that’s a separate App.

It’s called the National Public Toilet Map and its in the App Store

Our slogan will be …………………….”Remember Waco”

And if you can’t remember it, you can always Google it 🙂

Besides, the stance of “NONE SHALL PASS” ignores the grey points that often arise in situations like this.

An Islamic State defector who sparked a storm about whether those who join the terrorist group should be allowed to return to Australia has denounced the slaughter of innocent civilians and told of his wish to rejoin his Melbourne family.

Adam Brookman, a father of five, said he was forced to join the group when he travelled to Syria to provide aid early last year.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/islamic-state-defector-says-he-never-went-to-syria-to-fight-20150519-gh5cog.html

I also wonder what Hicks thinks of all this? 😉

The Philippines President, Aquino, said he would take in the eight thousand starving, thirsting, miscarrying and screaming refugees and look after them, and thus proved Abbott was, in his words, ‘a murderous mad cunt,

And would Gillard/ALP have taken these people? I doubt it.

AO why play politics with the lives of people???

lol reb, I should try to keep up 🙂

I just posted it on your new thread 🙂

As for returned “tewwa”, how others are tackling it

AARHUS, Denmark — In many parts of Europe, he would now be in jail. But here in Denmark’s second biggest city, the young man, a 21-year-old of Turkish descent who spent 13 months in Syria fighting in the name of Islam, passes his days playing soccer, working out at the gym and waiting anxiously to see if he has secured a place to study engineering at a well-regarded local university.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/world/for-jihadists-denmark-tries-rehabilitation.html?_r=2