WorkTurds New ™

WorkTurds New is to be the campaign name that, ‘The Hock’, is currently polishing up.

Fully approved by every employer lobby group. Guaranteed to scare the shit out of socialist underpants. With none of that exploitation aroma that surrounded a previous, unnamed product.

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Leaving this Plain.

All the indications are that Pete the Spiv, will jump early , rather than endure the pain of time in opposition. A golden parachute will be provided, after he has left the plane , for sure , from Saint Alchemist Mal…… who knows better, how to turn bullshit into gold, than The Abbot knows how to turn religion into fuel.

“Comfortable and relaxed, he urged his hosts to call him “Pete”. Pressed to ponder a hypothetical in which he was on a plane about to crash, and told he could offer a sole spare parachute to either Mr Rudd or Labor’s deputy leader Julia Gillard, he was asked to choose.
“So it is me, Julia and Kevin,” he clarified slowly.“You know what I would do? I would jump out!”

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Pete the Spiv.

Pete believes that bribery will work. A couple of months and the punters will get a few extra bucks and the dumb bastards will take the bait. His arrogance and disrespect for the electorate is palpable.

"You generally find it takes, well even a month or two, and then by 30th of June the pensioners receive a bonus and they say: 'Gee I wonder where that came from'. Tax cuts come into effect in July and people say: Well that's nice, a little bit more money to help with the bills".

cartoon...Don Lindsay.

Who has the biggest Poll?

My alternative take on the latest Galaxy poll is thus……

Rudd is actually getting more ‘bounce’ from his ‘delayed honeymoon end’, than expected, despite being ‘tired’.

Howard, while ‘working harder’, after each bad poll result, ‘is looking fitter, cleverer and more Prime Ministerial’, but ‘may well lose his seat’, if he doesn’t sit down soon.

Got that?

Aunty Kidnapped !

I still can’t believe the degree of editorialising, even ABC radio/tv news, is ingaging in.
Today, was the perfect example. All day, radio ran a story, every hour, about the mining industry concern on awa’s and Rudds discussions.

All framed under the not said, but obvious opinion, that a cave in, is imminent. It was likely, given his misunderstanding of the need for “flexibilty”. And yes, a later report, Rod Cameron had ‘come out’, suggesting time for a Rudd, policy change.

This is pravda style aggenda setting . Nothing to do with fearlessly, reporting, the news.
Possibly so unproud of their manipulation, they do not even mention this ‘big newstory’ on their website, so far.

See ya Tony....

The first part of the guilty, 'tag team' , is to leave the political scene.

Let's celebrate!

Two to go....

Mr Pork Barrel.

Guessed pretty well, didn't I? Sadly, no cute little piggy tail.
This is a Spooner work, of course.

Get ready for pigs to fly.......

We know they are shadey, shifty and lie....
With a noses like that, they will hoover the trough of any little scrap.

Best grab, any bit you can, and THEN vote these 'bracket creeps' out.

Budget Night Rant.

Right now, cartoonists around Australia are drawing ‘pork barrels’ with Cossie, sitting on one, with a tiny little tale. It is to their drawings I will be looking too, for balance. It will not be the conga line of suckholes, that pretend to be the ‘balanced’, press gallery.

If Labor were to win the Federal election, which is still unlikely, given the extreme advantages of incumbency and ‘the win at all costs’ mentality of those born to rule…… a fine chance, will be available, to twig the relationship between the Fed boss, who holds all the cash and options, and his almost employees, the premiers.

Presently, the states have all the important roles to fill, but are hampered, by the flash, fully paid up Prime Miser , who will squander around 15 billion to provide fine driving experiences for those lucky enough to be RAAF pilots; while many old codgers sit at home, in pain, and are unable to get their teeth fixed.

Employers Unions to Suck Up.

So it looks like the The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry or other employer unions are planning advertisements to help out John Howard on the workchoices front. Still, some employers are successfully plugging for the Labor party, if you follow the stories that Surfdom and Bilegrip drew attention too after the Priceline decision, mentioned in a previous post.

The latter is dynamite in an election year and just reinforces well founded perceptions that the ordinary joe in the street has been shafted by new industrial relations deforms. The best form of advertising...costs nothing and has that ring of truth about it.

Julia Gillard pokes her head up and warns business unions that it might not be to their advantage to run a campaign and woe is she. She was just doing them a favour. It is they and Ruppys yes men that are on the nose and the public can smell it a mile away.

A fair days pay for a fair days work has been transformed into "take it or leave it, shit head". It must be said that the government probably imagined the fuller implications of their policy would not come into effect until after the election. When they could bed it down properly. Such is the greed/stupidity of certain bosses that they could not even hold out that long and let Johny off the hook.

Joe Hockey has been left holding a can full of rodents poo and not sure where to empty it. The last thing you would want is the leaking of information that the ordinary punter is being screwed bigtime. Fade to employers unions-predominantly big business- who are really really upset that bad Kevin is going to make things intolerable for small business. Balless bastards can't even come out and say who they really represent.

Paul Keating is left to nail Hendy and Dunlop because the media can only jump around in shock and awe that the business community have universally damned Labors planned mild, IR, changes. Fair suck of the sauce bottle, I say.

May Day.

My mothers birthday and lots of other meaning, as well.

Employers' Pandora's Box.

It may seem a mystery to many in Australia why Victoria is polling so heavily for Labor at this early stage in the electoral cycle. No surprise to me. Jeff Kennett was the first to introduce draconian workplace laws, on a very large scale; not only did they strand the so called "unskilled", to fight for a few, very poorly paid casual hours , at the 'extra salt mine with that?', it also forced them to plead for a 'top up' from Centrelink, as well. With all that that entails. Victorians really hate Workchoices because it is the natural continuation of this system gone federal. Some watched as old friends, neighbours and relatives slipped down the economic gurgler. It is starting to get much closer to the middle class home. The 100k, a year, position might be cut back by 25% this year and maybe the same again in another year, given the recent decision of The Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Andrew Cruickshank, 42, was made redundant by the Priceline retail chain in November along with 31 other employees. His salary package totalled $101,000, made up of $75,000 salary, superannuation payments and a car. The job was subsequently readvertised, offering a salary package of up to $75,000. AIRC ruled that the grounds for sacking workers under Work Choices using "operational reasons" were much broader than the grounds that existed under the previous federal industrial legislation."

It just opens a Pandora's box," said Gary Pinchen industrial advocate for Cruickshank "Provided employers have got some economic need - and what firm hasn't? - to reduce costs or increase profits in a changing economic environment they can now terminate people and replace them for a marginal economic saving. "

The Best Video/Song Yet.

Robert Altman, who produced Nashville, would surely be appreciative of this work, if he were alive. I will not need to argue the point.

Classy, delicate and sensitive you must check this work out...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAChVVVZaM

Thanks to Alex.

More Peak than Iceberg.

"Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. So it goes".

Because I like fulfilling somebodies prophesies and I am a great fan of the mans' work. Thought this a reasonable tribute but maybe it was hidden in a bottom draw for this kind of sad moment. I really don't expect death would be any great surprise to the old anti-warhorse. And surprisingly not death by Drano ® .

P. Adams interview with Kurt is available here for listening only.

Encourage violence or brutality!

Yes folks it's perfectly acceptable. Alan Jones is to be left alone because everything he does is A , O.K. The media has, so far, barely taken notice of the fact that he has been caught, yet again. Even by themselves.

See ACMA media report here and Fairfax background.

The full report can be seen in this spot.

Ken Henry, when ya gonna win?

I like the idea that the head of treasury is well qualified for the job. Not just that he is academically all over his subject of 'economics' but comes from a background where 'scarcity' meant more than the lack of a plasma television.

Alan Ramsey does a very fine profile of the number two Australian bureacrat, Ken Henry, who has somehow managed to maintain his position, when inferior political appointees are rising like dicks in a whorehouse.

Thankyou to Meagan for alerting many to the read.

Maundy Thursday under Workchoices.

Maundy Thursday under Workchoices.

Bonus .................William Blake, regressing, Special.








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Gunns at Head.

A new touchstone in business efficiency seems to have been achieved in Tasmania with the major logger , Gunns , moving into the business of drafting government legislation. This is a plan that will undoubtedly be applauded by all right minded individuals and think tanks. It has been far too clear, in recent times, that the interests of the voting public are standing in the way of the profit making ambitions of major companies.

Premier Lennons' new benchmark will undoubtedly spread through to all ministries and other states. Companies need merely frame appropriate legislation and fast track it through parliament. None of those fussy, old , hold ups about environmental issues, conflict of interest and health concerns. Or annoying politicians who get in the way of progress. They have fine legal teams that just get stymied by nit picking, long-haired, smelly, dole bludgers. Who gives a stuff about bloody trees, anyway, when they can be cleared and turned into sensible , right thinking newspapers?
And if they don't like it, Gunns have other lawyers to keep them engaged for the rest of their bloody lives. How could those bastards say bad things and eat into shareholder dividends, anyway? Damn it, sense is starting to prevail in this ungrateful hole of a 'country'. Soon to be called Corporation.

Hicks Fix.

It did not take too long before American media cottoned on to the deal set up by Howard and Cheney to have David Hicks negated as an Australian election issue. Susan J. Crawford a civilian trial overseer will be the name talked about as the 'fixer' for old pals prepared to cut an arse saving deal.

Her direct overiding influence was a little bit much for even a seasoned war horse, Chief Prosecutor Morris Davis, who said that he wanted to thank Howard's government "for everything it had done to bring closure to the case".

"The British are cunning" says Fish.

Mr Fish has come up with yet another goody. If you click on the picture you can read the words.

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