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freebooter posted:I've noticed this with fiction as well; I read the Best Australian Stories of 2010 (I think) a while back and while they're all good, definitely, they all have this same melancholy vibe, this horrible world of drug addicts and broken marriages and existential ennui and child abuse. I'm not saying fiction needs to be funny or uplifting, or even that any individual story or film could be held to fault, but the overall impression is one of unrelenting drudgery. Pretty much exactly how I feel. Lake Mungo, a sorta-horror movie even had a similar tone to Animal Kingdom. Even reading (or rather, listening to my girlfriend read) Tim Winton books they all have that dull, depressive tone to them. I notice it in music too, especially with the Dole-wave style stuff and Indie music. Its like all the creatives in Australia just cant get passed 'serious art' being dark and down feeling.
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Graic Gabtar posted:Moron-Vision
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Rainbow lorikeets eating meat leaves bird experts astonished e. CATTASTIC fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Pretty sure it's just nature preparing to wipe out Australians
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Oops, the PM's in some more hot water over travel entitlements http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...323-1m61zz.htmlquote:Labor is demanding Prime Minster Tony Abbott detail what work meetings he scheduled in Melbourne on Sunday after revelations he used a taxpayer-funded jet to attend a Liberal Party donor's birthday party.
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ShoeFly posted:Oops, the PM's in some more hot water over travel entitlements http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...323-1m61zz.html This just adds to a looong list
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CHANGE FROM WITHIN posted:Labor’s Mark Butler has hailed a landmark deal to slash penalty rates as the realisation of Paul Keating’s economic vision, as the Abbott government said the complicated “machinery” of the penalty rates system could be further redesigned. I dunno if this is good or bad.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:51 |
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The SDA are known scum and should be booted out of wider union movement.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:55 |
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Does the higher overall pay make up for the loss of penalty rates? If so, it could be a good thing. Unless you're only able to work longer hours over the weekend, in which case you'll be losing regardless.
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It may seem like a good thing now, and in this particular deal it may be, but this is going to be used to convince other people to give up penalty rates and the 'increased' wage will slowly drift back to where it was before.
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Seagull posted:Can someone give me a bite-sized rundown on electing people to the upper house in NSW? Preferably in terms of differences to federal, I want to make sure I'm explaining this properly to some mates asking me. The short version is that it's very similar to Senate voting at Federal elections, especially from the perspective of an individual voter:
There are no group voting tickets in NSW; any preference deals parties do only affect How-to-Vote cards and advertising, and have nothing to do with how votes are actually allocated. A vote above the line is a vote for all 15(+) members of that party / group in the order listed, and nothing more. As for what it means: The Conversation posted:The quota for election is 1/22 of the vote or 4.55%. However, because many votes exhaust, seats can be won on about half of that quota, so a little more than 2% can be enough to win a seat. In 2011, Pauline Hanson almost won a seat on 2.5% of the vote, but the Coalition and Greens just passed her on preferences.
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Endman posted:Does the higher overall pay make up for the loss of penalty rates? If so, it could be a good thing. There is nothing good about the loving Union shafting their own members. What sort of bastard exchanges penalty rates for anything, and thinks it's a good idea.
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open24hours posted:It may seem like a good thing but now, and in this particular deal it may be, but this is going to be used to convince other people to give up penalty rates and the 'increased' wage will slowly drift back to where it was before. Yeah I fully expect it to just get gobbled up by something stupid and then small business will just never remember penalty rates existed before.
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open24hours posted:It may seem like a good thing but now, and in this particular deal it may be, but this is going to be used to convince other people to give up penalty rates and the 'increased' wage will slowly drift back to where it was before. Good point. It's like if you were to get rid of the GST. Prices might go lower for as long as businesses can reap the marketing pull of "no more GST = cheaper stuff", but then it'll creep back up for that tasty 10% pure profit. Capitalists are scum. The workers should own the means of production.
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Jerk Burger posted:There is nothing good about the loving Union shafting their own members. What sort of bastard exchanges penalty rates for anything, and thinks it's a good idea. True, but then this is the SDA, which is not a union, it's a management advocacy group.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The short version is that it's very similar to Senate voting at Federal elections, especially from the perspective of an individual voter: You can number multiple boxes above the line too.
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If your business is doing so poorly that paying penalties means you can't operate on a weekend, your business is doing pretty poo poo anyway and reducing penalties won't save you.
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Small Business Owners are some of the worst people I've ever encountered. It takes a special kind of shitness to take your complete lack of qualifications over matriculating year 12 and think it qualifies you to run a commercial enterprise, then to suck horribly at it and, instead of learning from your mistakes, you blame the 16 year old kid on the front counter because he had the audacity to live in a society that views working on weekends as inconvenient and thus deserving of greater remuneration.
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CrazyTolradi posted:If your business is doing so poorly that paying penalties means you can't operate on a weekend, your business is doing pretty poo poo anyway and reducing penalties won't save you. Family Owned Hardware shop owner posted:Back in my day, everything is where it was supposed to be. Nowadays, kids are spoilt and rotten and raised wages out of greed. Much like a household budget however; you can only pay wages as much as you can afford.
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All you need to know about wedge politics.jpg
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Anidav posted:I dunno if this is good or bad. Cutting penalty rates, even if it leads to higher pay in this specific instance, is very extremely bad because it sets precedent and encourages tory scum.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:11 |
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Darwins babies got freaky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_finch (Also gently caress lorikeets. They are an invasive species in WA and the only other species of bird other than doves my cats allowed to kill)
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Gorilla Salad posted:[nerd post incoming] From the last page, but this is why everything should be nationalised. Even things the luxury industry would create better products if their stated aim was to create better products rather than to accumulate capital. I remember Quantum Mechanic trying to argue something different ages ago (but, some capitalism is good, guys!), but that just means you are ignoring everyone who is a part of that industry 'not important enough' to be deemed necessary.
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asio posted:From the last page, but this is why everything should be nationalised. Even things the luxury industry would create better products if their stated aim was to create better products rather than to accumulate capital. I remember Quantum Mechanic trying to argue something different ages ago (but, some capitalism is good, guys!), but that just means you are ignoring everyone who is a part of that industry 'not important enough' to be deemed necessary.
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The luxury industry probably wouldn't really exist in the way it does now if everything were nationalised. Not a huge market for $100m yachts when everyone is a public servant.
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open24hours posted:The luxury industry probably wouldn't really exist in the way it does now if everything were nationalised. Not a huge market for $100m yachts when everyone is a public servant. Extend negative gearing to include literally everything
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The problem I can see with nationalising the luxury industry (as opposed to the solution I'm more fond of: worker owned cooperatives operating in a state regulated market) is that you'll end up with a lack of diversity. When you've got a service that everyone needs the same result from (e.g. power, water, etc) it makes sense for a big, state-run organisation to run it. The amount of power a household needs to be provided is easy to legislate on. Luxuries are a subjective thing driven by the shifting interests of individuals and wider social trends. State-run organisations don't really lend themselves to the kind of fast adaptation a luxury industry needs to keep up.
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The trick is to have state run companies competing with each other. All the workers in the more successful company get a subsided stay at the state dacha.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:21 |
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gently caress you to all those people in SA retail who only work weekends, hope you like your pay cut!
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starkebn posted:gently caress you to all those people in SA retail who only work weekends, hope you like your pay cut! Pretty much this, it's a gently caress over to anyone who's a uni/tafe student trying to make some extra cash so they don't starve. The big retailers are the only real winners from this, small business might think it's a great boost to them, but the real issues they usually have aren't with the amount they have to pay staff and lie in other areas like mismanagement.
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I love how the SDA are claiming that the "right to refuse to work on public holidays and the weekend" is somehow a victory. I'm pretty sure those were rights that the workers already had.
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Gorilla Salad posted:[nerd post incoming] I wasn't talking about privatising the industry, I was talking about jettisoning the old infrastructure in the pursuit of new publicly-owned infrastructure that will better hold its value and won't be tied to fossil fuels. Putting essential services/networks in the hands of private companies is idiocy and it's not really something you can transition out of in any reasonable amount of time, I was just paraphrasing something I'd heard. More to the point, I don't actually think it's a good idea or that any AU government could be trusted to do it, but that fart bubble of an argument I posted is more sophisticated than anything I've heard from the Libs or Labor in the runup to this election, all of which amounts to "we have to privatise because ???" vs. "we will never privatise because ??? unless we do, and we might, but maybe not!" Like, they've never had good justifications for doing anything and they're usually transparently bad or self-serving but they're not even trying to explain any of their actions anymore and I wish people gave a gently caress.
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Cartoon posted:All you need to know about wedge politics.jpg gently caress the shoppies, they're an unflinchingly cancerous fusion of greed and incompetence and any deal they broker will be a tremendous loss to employees anywhere quote:Barbara 14 MINUTES AGO I remember being paid $7 an hour after school to work at woolies. Priced out of the market indeed.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Like, they've never had good justifications for doing anything and they're usually transparently bad or self-serving but they're not even trying to explain any of their actions anymore and I wish people gave a gently caress. But if they talk about their policies they might lose! In a two party system why would you, just wait for the other side to make enough mistakes and cruise back into government with little to no effort.
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starkebn posted:gently caress you to all those people in SA retail who only work weekends, hope you like your pay cut! Don't forget those who work nightshifts either, everyone who doesn't work 9-5 Monday to Friday just got a pay cut. Nightshift penalty rates are extremely important, not many people appreciate how much it can gently caress up your life working opposite hours to everybody else. Having to work weekends is bad enough but waking up after your partner goes to work and getting home after they are in bed, to use the most common example really really sucks.
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I'm actually a small business owner. Paying Award rates I can give as little as $10.42 an hour to a casual (Under 16) on normal time [Shop Employees (State) Award (601)]. I don't have to offer them more than two hours at a time and I can stop their shifts on a whim. Definitely tough times in retail land. The most outrageous thing I have found out about IR in NSW is your employer isn't oblidged to tell you what award or contract you are being employed and paid under. ffffffffffff
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Cartoon posted:The most outrageous thing I have found out about IR in NSW is your employer isn't oblidged to tell you what award or contract you are being employed and paid under. ffffffffffff u wot m8
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Courier Mail reporting the important things again. Interesting to see if kids join up for real life quickscoping, knives only rounds and playing Rambo to win sweet sweet weapon unlock points.
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# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:44 |
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"Okay you got me, I'll sit this one out until next round... guys? next round? Uh, there's a next round right"
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They've been doing the same thing for years. I guess it makes gamers feel like they'd be good for something more than cannon fodder.
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