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Talking Politics
- Thread starter Legends of 2017
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Yes, I just laugh when I hear Fraudenberg talk about the low unemployment rate. It’s a supply issue more than anything else.
There are no people coming in on 457 visas, no overseas travellers looking for work and a massive reduction in overseas student graduates. It is incredibly difficult to get IT staff, general admin staff like payroll and financial/clerical people, secretarial admin staff and young graduates. It is a sellers market for labour and rates are ballooning.
I’ve seen that stats and I know what I see with my own eyes. In so many industries there are a lot of vacancies right now.
Spoke to an actuary the other night, said he has lost 5 staff to better paid jobs and he has to offer crazy money to keep them.
It's covering everyone from truck drivers to hospitality workers to IT & finance professionals. The cost of living is going bananas as are wages. Inflation is gonna have a big spike.
Also, people are deemed to be employed even if they only work one hour a week.
"The ABS defines people as 'employed' if they work one hour or more in the reference week. The vast majority of part-time employed people work more than 15 hours."
I have had to increase salaries in a number of areas, mainly because of what we have to pay people to recruit them means that current staff rates need to be reviewed to retain any relativity and retain existing staff.
For the first time in my career I had a recruitment agency refuse my business because they said they couldn’t recruit at the salary level we were offering.
scotty from marketing has outdone himself in Lismore. I didn't think it was possible. Hide like a rhinocerous.
responded to a question about why no media when he met some farmers with 'out of respect for their privacy'. Fair dinkum. Since when has he or any politician respected the second-guessed privacy wishes of disaster victims? It is beyond ludicrous. Disaster victims want to be heard and acknowledged, and politicians want to be seen to care and be taking action, that's why political leaders visit disaster zones and talk to victims in front of the media, as they always have everywhere since politics and media was a thing. This time the victims are pissed off due to lack of action, like the bushfires, and he knows they would have expressed that in front of the cameras. He takes us for complete idiots. Maybe enough of us are.
responded to a question about why no media when he met some farmers with 'out of respect for their privacy'. Fair dinkum. Since when has he or any politician respected the second-guessed privacy wishes of disaster victims? It is beyond ludicrous. Disaster victims want to be heard and acknowledged, and politicians want to be seen to care and be taking action, that's why political leaders visit disaster zones and talk to victims in front of the media, as they always have everywhere since politics and media was a thing. This time the victims are pissed off due to lack of action, like the bushfires, and he knows they would have expressed that in front of the cameras. He takes us for complete idiots. Maybe enough of us are.
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The cost of fuel is rapidly going through the roof. The flow on affects will affect us all. Very concerning.
There'd be more than a few who voted for him last election who'd be feeling like idiots.
what about
'The military isnt available at a moments notice'
but it begs the question, how pissweak and lazy and slow-thinking have mainstream journos become?
you don't need to be an intellectual titan, or have the processing speed of robin williams,
to ask him
'so if China pulls a warship into Darwin harbour, the mobilising committee meets with the funding committee, and consult with the relevant state authorities, to see who's rostered on next week?'
hes even completely incompetent at blame-shifting and gaslighting these days.
he needs a new word invented, just for him.
which means incompetent and corrupt.
incompetupt?
its probably time to let WA have their succession,
and have a segregated society.
If it means living 4000km away from the acutely self-interested and stupid,
I'd move to the left side of the Nullabor Wall,
if it meant I never had to be legislated for by completely incompetupt *smile* -mob like Morrison, Cash, Taylor, Joyce, Frydenberg and those overfed small eyed Nationals
ever again
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where is the outrage from the Australian media? Even the Murdoch and Costello Media should be outraged by this. They have been hobbled like everyone else. This propaganda is straight out of the Hitler playbook.
I can’t authenticate this, so take it with a grain of salt, but i saw someone on Twitter claim that they are an Aged Care worker and haven’t yet received their $400 “bonus.” Has anyone else heard this?
That’s not enough for me. I want this government made accountable for its actions.
Albo talks about the ICAC. But there are no guarantees it’ll get through parliament with the teeth it needs. My biggest fear is that the crossbenches will water it down for fear they might be investigated down the track and this horrific government gets away with their incompetence and corruption. I want a Royal Commission. We need a Royal Commission if we want future governments to act with integrity and transparency.
After dithering between the relevant departments, they'd finally come to the conclusion that China is welcome in the NT, because the Libs sold the Darwin Port to them.
There'd then be a mad rush to roll out the red carpet.
Royal Commisions are pissweak these days.
They have half a dozen a year,
a heap of QC's get $10 grand a day,
and the judge takes 3 years to write a huge list of recommendations that are non-binding,
and dont get implemented, before being forgotten.
Federal ICAC is what our Nation needs.
you seem to see hungry, attack-dog, morally and intellectually superior lawyers working the floor of ICAC's,
not fat *smile* in fine suits, members of the same Alumni as the bloke in the dock, with lobster stains on their tie and gin on their breath, and judge and politician jism at the corner of their mouth
he would find the muddy, inked, mullety, same-sexiness of Lismore folk repugnent.
and think they deserved a bit of wet biblical wrath.
hes a complete *smile*, from the top of his head to the souls of his feet.
I'm surprised he didnt visit the muddied cathedral on the hill - the one that organised the prolonged and systematic sodomy and beating of small black state wards all though the 60's, 70's and 80's,
and sing 'glory, glory, hallelujah' while he pledged $10b for a new zero gravity room for the high, dry Grammar School's year 8 space program.
*smile*.
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Scott arrives to help with washing up that Jenny’s just finished
“Anything I can do to help?”
www.theshovel.com.au
There were a lot of religious people in Lismore yesterday. They were all worshipping Morrison, and were all saying u r sole Morrison !!
The National Party? The party Ied by Barnaby Joyce?? People actually vote for him to be deputy PM? Surely that's a mistake??