Post-leadership change turbulence costs the Liberals a sitting MP in a crucial marginal seat, as preselection hopefuls jockey for safe seat vacancies:
• Liberal MP Julia Banks yesterday announced she will not recontest her Melbourne seat of Chisholm, citing bullying she was subjected to ahead of last week’s leadership vote by the anti-Malcolm Turnbull camp. Banks won the seat on the retirement of Labor member Anna Burke in 2016, making her the only Coalition member to gain a seat from Labor at the election. Rob Harris of the Herald Sun reports the Liberals will choose their new candidate in a community preselection, which presumably entails an open primary style arrangement in which anyone on the electoral roll can participate. Labor has endorsed Jennifer Yang, former adviser to Bill Shorten and mayor of Manningham who ran second as a candidate in the Melbourne lord mayoral election in May, finishing 3.0% behind winning candidate Sally Capp after preferences. The party initially preselected the unsuccessful candidate from 2016, former Monash mayor Stefanie Perri, but she announced her withdrawal in May, saying she had been deterred by the expreience of Tim Hammond.
• Alexandra Smith of the Sydney Morning Herald cites “several senior Liberals” who say the “only real contenders” for the Wentworth preselection are Dave Sharma, former ambassador to Israel, and Andrew Bragg, a director at the Business Council of Australia and former leader of the Yes same-sex marriage survey campaign. The report says Sharma has moderate factional support, including from powerbroker Michael Photios, while Bragg is supported in local branches. It also says it is no foregone conclusion that Labor will contest the seat, despite having an election candidate in place in Tim Murray, managing partner of investment research firm J Capital. An earlier report by Alexandra Smith suggested Christine Forster’s bid for Liberal preselection appeared doomed in part because, as an unidentified Liberal source put it: “She is an Abbott and how does that play in a Wentworth byelection? Not well I would suggest.”
• Primrose Riordan of The Australian identifies three potential candidates to succeed Julie Bishop in Curtin, assuming she retires. They are Emma Roberts, a BHP corporate lawyer who contested the preselection to succeed Colin Barnett in the state seat of Cottesloe, but was defeated by David Honey; Erin Watson-Lynn, director of Asialink Diplomacy at the University of Melbourne; and Rick Newnham, chief econmist at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• Sally Whyte of the Canberra Times reports a Greens-commissioned ReachTEL poll of the Canberra electorate suggests ACT Liberal Senator Zed Seselja’s role in Malcolm Turnbull’s demise may have put his seat in danger. Elections for the ACT’s two Senate seats have always resulted in one seat each for Labor, but the Liberal seat could potentially fall to the Greens if its vote fell significantly below one third. After allocating results of a forced response question for the initially undecided, the results are Labor 39.6%, the Greens 24.2%, Liberal 23.7% and One Nation 2.8%. Even accounting for the fact that the Canberra electorate is particularly strong for the Greens, these numbers suggest there would be a strong possibility of Greens candidate Penny Kyburz overhauling Seselja on preferences. The poll also finds 64.6% of voters saying Seselja’s role in Turnbull’s downfall made them less likely to vote for him, with only 13.0% saying it made them more likely to, and 22.4% saying it made no difference. Among Liberal voters, the respective figures were 38.7%, 29.6% and 31.7%.
In other news, the Liberals in New South Wales are managing expectations ahead of a feared defeat in Saturday week’s Wagga Wagga state by-election, most likely at the hands of independent Joe McGirr. Andrew Clennell of The Australian reports a ReachTEL poll commissioned by Shooters Fishers and Farmers has the Liberals on 30.2%, Labor on 23.8%, McGirr on 18.4% and Shooters Fishers and Farmers on 10.9%, after exclusion of the 7.4% undecided. However, McGirr faces a complication in Shooters Fishers and Farmers’ unusual decision to direct preferences to Labor, which could potentially prevent him from overtaking them to make the final count. According to Clennell’s report, “any government loss post-mortem would be expected to focus on why the Liberals did not let the Nationals run for the seat”.
Puffy
I am noticing many more prepositional mistakes by pollies and other speakers which I’m sure used to be corrected in newspapers when they employed sub-editors. As you say, if people never read the correct phrases, how can they learn?
Oooohhh, ABC reporting that Morrison is facing ‘his first test’.
Zoidlord
“NSW – trams that can’t interconnect, trains that don’t fit existing stations, billion-$ legal action over tram contracts, George St track laying going forever – and now selling off WestConnex control while it’s still being built”
Thanks and agreed. The timing and nature of the Westconnex sale seems a good way of reducing the price NSW taxpayers will get by billions of dollars. As I have said before, after sorting out the banks, Labor needs to sort out urban transport policy, including how projects are selected, planned and tendered. The potential for rorting at present is alarming, with billions at stake every year.
Have a good day all.
zoomster
Don’t keep us in suspense! What is it?
Maurice Newman providing some morning chuckles.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/scott-morrison-josh-frydenberg-will-struggle-with-the-right-decisions/news-story/8ee03856968a388b0d7a3e311c300bc7
lizzie
I only heard that bit! The radio’s upstairs, so I only get snatches…
Morning all! Just to let you know BK has his wonderful round up on the previous thread. I expect he’ll copy it here, but if your impatient…
@Zoomster
A cricket match?
your => you’re (sorry)
So, we now all realise that the so much commented about: “Strong recovery for the Coalition”…. “The 2PP is within the margin of error”…. “But, but, the voters hate Shorten, they want Albo”…. “The ALP is in crisis”…. “Turnbull is a great leader and highly respected by the electorate”… “The economy is doing fantastically thanks to the Coalition government leadership and vision”…. was all just CRAP, do we?….
With the Liberal party falling apart at the speed of light and the Nationals ready for another coup to make Joyce “great again”, we can only hope for a strong bashing of the Liberals in Wentworth so that the tempo of the Federal election will accelerate….
“MAURICE NEWMAN
Robert Menzies would correctly consider today’s Liberal Party left wing”
Newman, as Chairman, was one of those that shaped the present-day ABC. I must say he was successful in his endeavours.
“Maurice Newman providing some morning chuckles”…. Yes, poroti, unwittingly they seem to have embraced a “Greens strategy”: Behave in an ideologically purist manner in order to attract a solid number of highly committed voters. With that strategy the Greens are at a 10% (or less) primary vote, the Liberals would be probably at about 20-25%.
I am happy if they are happy with that…. 🙂
Sorry folks. I hadn’t realised a new thread had been opened.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
John Hewson laments that climate change policy has proved just too big an issue for our politicians and our political system to handle. It is reasonable to doubt the new Scott Morrison government will do any better – indeed, we may slide even further backwards.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/one-policy-behind-fall-of-a-run-of-australian-leaders-20180829-p500g7.html
“I am not sceptical about climate science”, says climate change denier Angus Taylor.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-am-not-sceptical-about-climate-science-energy-minister-angus-taylor-hits-back-in-new-price-pledge-20180829-p500je.html
Meanwhile Fergus Hunter tells us that the Morrison government is under pressure from Pacific leaders to sign a pledge of support for the Paris climate accord, and declare climate change the “single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing” of the region.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pacific-nations-push-morrison-government-to-pledge-support-for-paris-climate-accord-20180829-p500jz.html
Energy Minister Angus Taylor has equated power companies to the banks, saying they have forfeited their social licence and should brace for heavy-handed intervention. Well he might have got this one right! Phil Coorey examines the statement.
https://outline.com/2vsTA2
The political fight in Canberra seems to have missed what markets are saying about energy prices. They have already peaked and are heading down without an NEG.
https://outline.com/pgpEzY
While the Morrison government has identified lowering power prices as a key early priority, a new analysis says wholesale prices will almost halve over the next four years because of the technology many Coalition conservatives oppose – renewables.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/30/renewables-forecast-to-halve-wholesale-energy-prices-over-four-years
And on top of this State Labor governments have vowed to push on with their own ambitious renewable energy schemes after the ‘death’ of the National Energy Guarantee.
https://outline.com/yfp5st
Greg Jericho says that if Morrison is heading out to the bush and not mentioning climate change he is failing to actually listen – not just to those who know from their own experience that the climate is changing but from those advising on how governments should respond.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/aug/30/if-youre-talking-about-drought-but-not-climate-change-youre-not-doing-your-job-pm
the NFF chief Fiona Simson agrees.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/29/climate-change-making-drought-worse-says-farmers-federation-chief
The United States and Australia have a lot in common, not least of all our appalling record on the environment, particularly of late, writes Cat McLeod.
https://newmatilda.com/2018/08/29/brothers-harms-scott-morrison-donald-trump-cut-anti-climate-cloth/
Dave Donovan writes about how it’s business as usual and the idiots have won.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/business-as-usual-how-the-idiots-won,11842
David Crowe explains how the bullying and intimidation claims by Julia Banks are rocking a divided Morrison government.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bullying-and-intimidation-claims-by-julia-banks-rocks-a-divided-morrison-government-20180829-p500jy.html
Chris Wallace reckons the Liberals have a ‘man problem’, and they need to fix it. She says that you can’t beat thugs through appeasement. You’ve got to get rid of them. Cleaning up the Liberals right-wing is the challenge for a future leader – a real leader.
https://theconversation.com/a-woman-problem-no-the-liberals-have-a-man-problem-and-they-need-to-fix-it-102339
The “agreement” on free trade between Australia and Indonesia that Prime Minister Scott Morrison hopes to sign this week is just one page long, and was still being negotiated late into the night on the eve of his visit to Jakarta. One bloody page!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/free-trade-agreement-between-australia-indonesia-only-one-page-long-20180830-p500le.html
John Warhurst writes that the consequence of having Scott Morrison as Prime Minister will be that the place of religion in Australian politics will continue to be fraught.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/a-man-of-faith-is-again-leading-the-country-but-what-will-that-mean-20180827-p4zzy3.html
Cole Latimer wonders whether the AGL leadership change may renew Canberra tensions.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/agl-leadership-change-may-renew-canberra-tensions-20180829-p500fw.html
Academic Andy Marks describes Julia Banks as being the first collateral victim of Canberra madness.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/julia-banks-the-first-collateral-victim-of-canberra-madness-20180829-p500ho.html
Katharine Murphy writes that Australian politics needs women like Julia Banks – but it is hostile territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/29/australian-politics-needs-women-like-julia-banks-but-it-is-hostile-territory
Josh Frydenberg has demanded Westpac justify its out-of-cycle interest rate increase, the first of the big banks to hike rates as funding costs surge.
https://outline.com/D6dCne
ASIC is understood to have trawled through months of phone calls at several insurers, as part of a deep dive into potential shoddy sales practices, and ahead of the sector fronting the royal commission.
https://outline.com/5SgTa9
Jack Latimer is most concerned and disturbed over Abbott’s appointment as special envoy on Indigenous affairs.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/29/abbott-as-indigenous-affairs-envoy-be-disturbed-be-very-disturbed
While there is no evidence that Abbott and Joyce have accepted a salary for their special envoy roles, an offer of payment, if there was one, could cause them problems through Section 44.
https://theconversation.com/could-section-44-exclude-tony-abbott-and-barnaby-joyce-from-parliament-102346
Huawei chairman John Lord has pointed to the National Broadband Network as an example of what happens when Canberra imposes bans on Chinese companies, saying the $49 billion government-owned network is “not a world leader”. Well you can’t argue this that last point!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/not-a-world-leader-huawei-boss-slams-national-broadband-network-20180829-p500ju.html
Calls are mounting for the Berejiklian government to bring forward water restrictions as storage levels plunge amid signs the $1.8 billion Sydney Desalination Plant won’t reach full output for almost a year.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/pressure-mounts-for-early-sydney-water-use-curbs-on-desalination-delay-20180829-p500ga.html
The Grattan Institute’s Peter Goss gives incoming Education Minister some tips on how to pull of the funding arrangements to the benefit of all Australian students and without resorting to special side deals.
https://www.smh.com.au/education/five-steps-to-fair-school-funding-20180829-p500g4.html
The SMH editorial makes a very good point about the waste of private and public money on inefficacious health products and procedures. Governments have been slow to act.
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/wellness-industry-has-us-on-our-knees-20180829-p500gb.html
Jason Wilson explains how hard-right columnists with no mass audience cause enough turmoil to ruin leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2018/aug/29/hard-right-columnists-with-no-mass-audience-cause-enough-turmoil-to-ruin-leaders
With all the focus this week on new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domestic challenges, less attention has been paid to the international impact of the leadership change and any new directions for Australian foreign policy. Susan Harris Rimmer says that Morrison’s foreign policy credentials are slim and his interest in foreign policy is low, not rating even a mention in his first speech to the nation as PM.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/departure-of-bishop-leaves-australia-in-a-foreign-affairs-vacuum-20180829-p500fn.html
WTF! The NSW Minister for Better Regulation Matt Keane has proposed scrapping mandatory licences for a raft of trades including painting, fencing and glazing.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/standards-will-slip-if-you-scrap-trade-licences-20180824-p4zzn2.html
Yet another instance of the poor level of governance in NSW local government.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/gaping-holes-in-cv-of-the-man-running-one-of-sydney-s-most-important-councils-20180829-p500jt.html
Stephen Koukoulas outlines the political fallout of a new Morrison government.
https://thekouk.com/item/629-the-political-fallout-of-a-new-morrison-government.html
And he sees three downside risks to the AUD.
https://thekouk.com/item/630-three-downside-risks-to-the-aud.html
Offshore detention centres are far worse than their intended purpose, they’re a death sentence for immigrants, writes Gerry Georgatos.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australian-crimes-the-tragic-results-of-nauru-and-manus,11835
Australians currently have no say in their prime ministers and a leader with conviction is needed, but while Dutton has conviction, he was never the solution, writes Jacinta Coehlo.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/dutton-was-never-the-solution,11837
Unpaid super entitlements continue to be an issue, with nearly $3 billion of superannuation entitlements not being paid by employers each year, but employers will get some relief with the government announcing the introduction of the Superannuation Guarantee Amnesty. It will be interesting to see how many spivs get caught out eventually.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/unpaid-super-how-the-amnesty-could-affect-you-20180829-p500dw.html
Another sacking by Twitter from the unhinged Trump.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-says-lawyer-will-leave-white-house-after-kavanaugh-vote-20180830-p500lf.html
Peru has declared a 60-day health emergency in two provinces on its northern border, citing “imminent danger” to health and sanitation, as a regional crisis sparked by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing economic collapse escalated on Tuesday.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/south-america/peru-declares-health-emergency-as-venezuelan-exodus-now-a-migrant-crisis-20180829-p500h5.html
Suppression orders in Victoria are still rampant.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/i-want-to-name-my-abuser-but-the-victorian-courts-are-preventing-me-20180827-p50048.html
Now Husqvarna has been exposed over franchising transgressions.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/gardening-firm-husqvarna-overhauls-contracts-after-misleading-franchisees-20180829-p500gn.html
Carton Corner
A very cutting contribution from David Rowe.
John Shakespeare gets this one right!
Sean Leahy gets into Westpac.
And he reckons he’s got Mesma worked out.
Matt Golding with the welcome Abbott has had.
More from Golding.
Peter Broelman – “Hello sailor!”
Zanetti turns NAPLAN onto the Liberal Party.
Jon Kudelka joins the list of cartoonists giving Dutton grief over the au pairs.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/b5a72bda78dcd968527787515e515740
More good ones in here.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-august-30-2018-20180829-h14ovr.html
Thank you BK. The blog feels empty without your effort.
The drought tour cartoon:
https://mobile.twitter.com/cathywilcox1/status/1034920604057493505/photo/1
Morning all, another day, another person from Team Trump is fired. Talk now is when (not if) Sessions will be fired. This is all about shutting down Mueller’s investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/29/trump-firing-jeff-sessions-looks-more-likely-than-ever-heres-storm-that-awaits/?utm_term=.3c234cf74595
Hewson can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. It was not OUR politicians it was YOUR party’s politicians. We had a carbon trading system that the Chinese wanted to base their model on but then YOUR party of troglodytes came along. So stuff your same same all to blame. Grrrrrr.
Lizzie@7:07am
But the rural and regional Australians still cannot bring themselves to vote for ALP. Now they do not even have the fig leaf of “family values ” after Joyce affair
Deception? Shame?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/naurus-asylum-seeker-tents-demolished-ahead-of-pacific-islands-forum
This sounds like something out of an alt-right conspiracy theory: non-white American citizens using fake birth certificates to demonstrate their US citizenship since birth!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.46c88e98ff82
Because Julia Banks too a seat off Labor at the last election I think she was seen as a talisman, similar but even more significant, than Jackie Kelly in 1996.
So the response of this “government” to $3 Billion in unpaid Superannuation contributions is to have a moratorium
More of the best form of regulation is self regulation – benefiting the demographic that philosophy benefits
This money is employee money
And, given it has been deliberately withheld, who says those employers pocketing employee money have any capacity to repay the money they have systematically stolen from their employees, some of whom may have left that employer?
What happens and where is penalty if the employer owing the money belly’s up the business, most likely a $2- Company including a Shelf Company established to remit employee entitlements ?
We know the wet lettuce penalties for Directors trading insolvent Companies – usually banned from acting as a Director for a couple of years but totally ineffective in practice and never audited
The Coalition have significantly watered down legislation re the remittance of superannuation contributions
The other issue is not the quantum of funds but the return on those funds by Fund Managers – where is that consideration in the moratorium?
The government is dysfunctional
zoomster @ #48 Thursday, August 30th, 2018 – 8:09 am
Zoomster
What was that unedifying and irrelevant remark about. I have for personal reasons studied the ACT electoral system very closely albeit many years ago.
Way back in one House of Assembly election the Libs scored just 21%. It gave rise to a great deal of misplaced optimism about the chances of winning the second seat, including I recall one enterprising fool who spent a great deal of the ALPs money on a foolish and fruitless campaign.
By the way since the quota is 33.3% even you should agree about my 28% – bleeding obvious.
poroti:
Well said! I’m so sick of the same-same crap being used to excuse or cover up coalition intransigence and inaction on AGW when there are clear policy differences between Labor and the Liberals, not to mention a clear track record of different action when in govt.
Broelman onto it. 😉
And, to compound the problem of the theft, that is $3 BILLION of superannuation entitlements not paid EACH YEAR
So what is the aggregate?
And these employers are receiving tax cuts!!!!!
$3 billion unpaid superannuation ? fixed it for ya “$3 billion stolen superannuation”
Unfortunately Seselja (or whoever is the the Liberal candidate) will take the second ACT Senate seat. They only have to achieve 33 1/3% plus one.
Two elections ago the Greens were hopeful with a high profile candidate but the arithmetic got in the way.
Looking on the bright side, Labor is all but certain to win the three HoR seats in the ACT.
Amazon attacks US Senator:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2ef5bd0-abd8-11e8-94bd-cba20d67390c
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https://www.ft.com/content/a2ef5bd0-abd8-11e8-94bd-cba20d67390c
“In a blog post to its “Day One” site, Amazon said: “We have been in regular contact with his office and have offered several opportunities for Senator Sanders and his team to tour one of our fulfilment centers . . . Instead, Senator Sanders continues to spread misleading statements about pay and benefits”.”
“Amazon said it had created 130,000 jobs in the last year and claimed the average hourly wage for a fulfilment centre associate came to more than $15 per hour, when cash, stock and incentive bonuses are counted in.”
$15 per hour isn’t much in America and considering how much taxes globally they avoid.
It’s no excuse for Amazon or other large multinationals to not help their employees.
Well said poroti @8:41 am. Related
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/29/california-electricity-fossil-fuels-wind-solar-vote
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Item 16 – the ex-Mayor of Ipswich and the Immi minister, allegedly? (link: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/tableOffice/TabledPapers/2017/5517T1239.pdf) parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/tabl…
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Are you sitting comfortably? It’s quite a tale: Paul Pisasale ex Mayor of Ipswich City Council featured in the attached article, & who faces corruption charges, also had the Dutton hotline, and allegedly sought help with via issues for ‘young Asian women’
DTT
Continuing from yesterday
There are a few reasons why wages are not growing
1. There was/is pent up demand for full time work because of unemployment, under-employment and youth unemployment.
2. Full time permanent employment now is less than 50%
3. Many employed people are contractors who can be sacked at short notice if they ask for wage rise.
4. 457 visa
5. Temporary and casual employment
I am in support of people to get penalty rates when they work on weekends j
What happens when you fail to invest in infrastructure renewal and maintenance.
citizen @ #80 Thursday, August 30th, 2018 – 8:49 am
Citizen
For the Libs to lose the ACT senate spot required a special set of circumstances. First the Liberals would need to be really, really on the nose. Morrison will not do that. Dutton possibly could have.
Now take those reported figures. Looks good for the Greens BUT there are still those 13.5% of voters, most of whom will drift back to the Libs, either by preferences or simply decisions on the day.
So ScoMo’s appointment of Tony to an “envoy” position does not seem to be going down very well in the Indigenous community then?? Dodson, and Wyatt now speaking against it in quite scathing terms. I agree with. Its a major insult to all of them and they are right to say so.
Least worst outcome from this is that Tony finds other things to do and upon reflection quietly changes his mind and declines the offer.
And then ScoMo has to find him some other sinecure………..
Abbott, the itchy rash that just wont clear up. 🙂
Interesting US podcast on coal
Deregulation Nation: Coal-Fired Power Plants
https://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-08-29/deregulation-of-coal-fired-power-plants/115371/@00:00
Finishes on positive note, predicting Trumps efforts will founder in the courts
At least Joyce was envoying on day one. Abbott is just arranging his 2GB schedule.
HURRAH .”The Great Northern Food Bowl” episode 154.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/six-dams-planned-in-vision-for-the-north/news-story/0a1eb06da569b4ce6b33bf1ee9a5a0f4
“$3 billion unpaid superannuation ? fixed it for ya “$3 billion stolen superannuation””
I’d support a scheme where the Govt pays whats owed to employees. Then, the Govt pursues the recalcitrant employers relentlessly to recoup. Any of the directors of the companies in question, or companies they have any ownership of or interests in get hit with a special levy, and their personal assets and income get garnished to repay.
And if they lose the big houses, nice cars and oh dear cant pay the expensive school fees….Fwarkem.
It makes me seeth that rich dickheads get away with this, but the Govt will do crap like the centerlink robo debt and be proud of it??
Hit some of them hard and it will send the message clearly, this is theft, dont do it.
A good point was made by the Kouk the other day. Why are all these wealthy families, Di Natale, Mclachlan/Machlachlan, Dutton’s copper mates and assorted sundry Queensland slimeballs like Pisasale, wanting to import AuPairs when there are perfectly fine and unemployed Aussie lads and lassies who would gladly take those jobs!?!
Not beautiful and Aryan enough or young and Asian enough for their liking?
Lol at the redaction fail in that document about the Ipswich mayor:
“REDACTED is the Immigration Minister and the federal member for Dickson”
Ven @ #84 Thursday, August 30th, 2018 – 9:04 am
All true.
I have to say that I was surprised by Bob Katter’s comments on Q&A about 650,000 new workers coming into the country every year. i thought he had gone wackadiddle (as usual) but thought I should at least see why he made those comments.
To my horror I found that it a weird sort of way he was RIGHT
Apparently in 2017 we had90,000
$190,000 permanent arrivals plus another less exact number of Kiwis about $25,000. So we have about $215,000 new immigrants seeking work.
Then we have annually about 343,000 student visas approved. Now many (not all) of these students do opt to work during their stay. They are permitted to work 20 hours per week so they gobble up the evening part time spots – restaurants, commercial cleaning etc.
Now sorry to be a know it all Catty but yes I do know many, many students who work these hours and know at least one company who employs about 120 of them and another who “employs” another 100 or so as “contractors”.
Anyway adding in the students we have the number of potential workers at 558,000
The balance is made up of about 90,000 457 visas and another 40,000 is some sort of professional class of visas. And I have not included travelling back packers or french au pairs.
So much to my surprise the Kat in the Hat was right.
No wonder wages are not going up. There is no incentive at all. Employers do not need to pair over the award to get staff. There are always more available.
poroti @ #90 Thursday, August 30th, 2018 – 9:14 am
Unbelievable. Has the government sunk this low already?
What next? Rain-dancing?
Player One
It really is an Old Faithful isn’t it 🙂
poroti says:
Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 9:14 am
HURRAH .”The Great Northern Food Bowl” episode 154.
The PM has been handed a scientific blueprint to transform northern Australia into the nation’s “next great food bowl”.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/six-dams-planned-in-vision-for-the-north/news-story/0a1eb06da569b4ce6b33bf1ee9a5a0f4
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Indeed.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/ord-river-jobs-cost-6m-each-ng-b88549923z
The Ord River irrigation scheme has been a $2 billion waste, with each new job costing almost $6 million to create, a report to be released today reveals.
In research that backs criticisms from WA’s Auditor-General, the Left-leaning Australia Institute found just 61 jobs had been generated by the most recent, $334 million investment in the sprawling irrigation area in the State’s north.
Irrigation, backed by government investment, started in the Ord region in the 1960s. Total spending now exceeds $2 billion.
Even after the latest expansion of the Ord scheme, the Australia Institute found that there were just 260 agricultural jobs in the region of which 60 were not related to irrigation.
Was the ” scientific blueprint ” sponsored by Northern Australia landholder Gina ?
Now BK thanks for the cartoons
But where is Guytaur
That Broelman cartoon was decidedly homophobic
Conroy has become a r-w apologist type now he has regular gigs on SKY