Australian federal politics

[GT93]

I read Shorten says there's an Abbott proof fence around Canning.

If I was Shorten I'd want the Liberals to retain the seat so that the Liberals are more likely to be led by Abbott at the next election. Labor might sabotage its own by-election campaign?

Ronan01 will be happy today - the AFP raid the CFEMU. Probably well overdue.

You have interesting news in Oz. Dullsville over here. The lead story here is a political debate on state housing which has been dragging on for yonks. The government is about to sell more of it. Aussie social housing providers are interested in purchasing hundreds of houses. Some of it is such crap it's a health risk particularly to children. The irony is our now multi-millionaire PM who has a holiday home in Hawaii was raised in one of these houses as a kid. They were in better nick then as they were more recently built.

[ronan01]

If you want the CMFEU to run the country vote for labor. Doubt Shorten will ever be PM.

[wazza]

Abbott tells Hockey to pull his head in but its via an old Howard policy adviser and monarchist ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-26/b ... es/6726908

[ronan01]

Labor supports the CMFEU campaign to destroy the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement, the agreement the labor supported but now does not, typical Shorten turncoat behaviour.

The CMFEU runs a lie ad campaign on TV with full labor approval.

Mick Gatto, well known underworld figure wants to $100k to solve CFMEU industrial action - industrial blackmail mafia style.

Bill Shorten - the CFMEU's hand-picked man in Canberra.

Vote labor if you want the CFMEU and Mick Gatto to run Australia.

[wazza]

Libs paid back over $200,000 to State and Federal governments for falsified invoices as Kroger struggles to contain the fall out in Victoria and Federally.

Why didn't the Tas Libs call the police ?

All the Libs knew about Mantach and the circumstances of his departure including Abetz ! according to the Lib State President. Abetz pulling the Alan Bond and Valium , I cant remember and its a state issue anyway. LOL

Vict Libs trying to pay back before the entire scandal / theft of members money is revealed in court. Where their slack book keeping and due diligence will be revealed.

BTW Rohan

Have you ever seen how a 457 Holder and their sponsor can scam their employer, Its easy , Photoshop a dodgy Electrical trades ticket for say an Electrician . When the employee electrocutes himself and has burns to his fingers, you investigate his training records and it actually says 12V Electrician !! soldering iron only stuff WTF. But all went through the process. That's just one of the cases I was involved in 3 years ago in QLD. We got told by HR to don't rock the boat. Root cause of the event, Employee not certified or authorised to work in that activity. To be removed to a position where his skills set are acceptable. Welder, but not MIG qualified, but Certificate just says Welder. Accepted , given a 457 and a fire started with his activity, Burnt down a store room and shed.

Electricians from China are an exemption for competency skills based approvals, just as carpenters, welders are and others under the FTA.

Nurses, Doctors, etc are required to have competency based skill assessments etc as well as English Language Scores

I hope someone keeps some stats on industrial accidents , at Chinese Based sites, particularly with the exempted skills sets , apply them to the states overall reporting incidents and I wont be surprised in 5 years time to see a clear trend of 457 Visas to Australian Qualified injury mechanism.

[wazza]

Off to the far right here

When the 6 Australian High Court judges voted to allow Plain Paper Packaging for tobacco , Who was the High Court Judge who voted in favour of it and voted in favour of the Tobacco Companies ?

Getting paid $1450 PER HOUR to deliberate on his own behaviour. Nice to adjourn for a week and get paid for it.

If he does resign as he " Overlooked " a Liberal Party fund Raiser, One Term Tony might be able to leave Thursday Island in his Irish Search and Rescue Boat,

If Heydon doesn't resign, Dig in and loose Canning

Perhaps he could still represent the Liberal Party in the embezzlement charges, but at a Mates Rate , not at $1450 Oxford Scholars per hour.

[ronan01]

Libs paid back over $200,000 to State and Federal governments for falsified invoices as Kroger struggles to contain the fall out in Victoria and Federally.

Why didn't the Tas Libs call the police ?

All the Libs knew about Mantach and the circumstances of his departure including Abetz ! according to the Lib State President. Abetz pulling the Alan Bond and Valium , I cant remember and its a state issue anyway. LOL

Vict Libs trying to pay back before the entire scandal / theft of members money is revealed in court. Where their slack book keeping and due diligence will be revealed.

BTW Rohan

Have you ever seen how a 457 Holder and their sponsor can scam their employer, Its easy , Photoshop a dodgy Electrical trades ticket for say an Electrician . When the employee electrocutes himself and has burns to his fingers, you investigate his training records and it actually says 12V Electrician !! soldering iron only stuff WTF. But all went through the process. That's just one of the cases I was involved in 3 years ago in QLD. We got told by HR to don't rock the boat. Root cause of the event, Employee not certified or authorised to work in that activity. To be removed to a position where his skills set are acceptable. Welder, but not MIG qualified, but Certificate just says Welder. Accepted , given a 457 and a fire started with his activity, Burnt down a store room and shed.

Electricians from China are an exemption for competency skills based approvals, just as carpenters, welders are and others under the FTA.

Nurses, Doctors, etc are required to have competency based skill assessments etc as well as English Language Scores

I hope someone keeps some stats on industrial accidents , at Chinese Based sites, particularly with the exempted skills sets , apply them to the states overall reporting incidents and I wont be surprised in 5 years time to see a clear trend of 457 Visas to Australian Qualified injury mechanism.

I presume that you are a CMFEU supporter and support their dishonest TV campaign - the Aus-China Free Trade Agreement was negotiated in aprt and supported by labor ..... until now. Turncoats and liars.

Vote labor if you want the CMFEU to run the country, they already control Shorten, look closely and you can see his puppet strings, they write his script for him.

It seems the C in CMFEU stands for Corrupt.

[wazza]

Ronan

Not sure if you have missed the news, but the Libs have had a few issues with corrupt official/s , invoices and cover ups.

Not a CMEFU supporter, just investigating Lost Time incidents and other Hi Potential Incidents whilst at work and not being a union member.

L in Liberals = Lying perhaps, as K is for Kroger and A is for Archer

[ronan01]

Almost everything Labor says about the [China-Australia Free Trade Agreement] is untrue or distorts the facts....

The misinformation is staggering. The clause in the FTA that says there is no need for prior labour market testing applies only to projects over $150 million. But in any event, as later clauses make abundantly clear, it is up to the Australian government in the context of any agreed project to set out what labour market testing is required… Not only that, any ­Chinese worker coming for any project will still have to come in under the normal 457 visa process, which can be tightened at any time an Australian government wants.

There are a couple of tiny classes of people not subject to any market testing, such as those receiving business visas. How could you possibly market test someone applying for a business visa?

The whole Labor campaign is fearmongering and old-style protectionism… Labor’s retrograde campaign has already damaged Australia’s reputation in the eyes of investors and Chinese government officials… What they have never previously thought is that we are untrustworthy and capable of ratting on an agreement 10 years in the making…

This is an appalling show from Shorten’s Labor Party, one of the most nationally irresponsible ­episodes I have witnessed in the past quarter century.

Greg Sheridan, The Australian

THE Labor Party’s campaign to derail Australia’s trade agreement with China borders on treachery…

For the sake of making some cheap political, and populist, points at the behest of its union mates, the federal Opposition threatens to wreck an agreement vital to this nation…

China is now our biggest trade partner. And with the tariff reductions under this trade agreement, the export possibilities are huge, particularly for food.

What makes this deal so special is that unlike the iron ore boom of the past decade, our supply of food is renewable… It also means extra income will flow into the pockets of millions, not just those lucky few who hold mining licences.
Ed Gannon, Heraldsun

[wazza]

With unemployment the highest since 2002 !! When Abbott was Minister for Unemployment and you wish to bring in unqualified workers into Australia with no checks and balances as Abbott has exempted many occupations such as Electricians , Plumbers, Carpenters etc

Royal Hobart Hospital is having a major refurbishment by the Chinese owned John Holland Constructions.

Smart money is on Work Place Inspectors having an office on site .

[wazza]

Pretty Damming article about the current Prime Minister and his Government

" The economy used to be the effortless trump card of conservative governments, but Mr Abbott - and Mr Hockey - have trashed that advantage.

They came to power bleating about a "budget emergency" that never really existed and have since delivered a worsening economy.

As economist Stephen Koukoulas noted the other day, wages growth is at a 50-year low; unemployment is at the 13-year high; and business investment is down 11 per cent since Mr Abbott declared Australia "open for business".


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-27/d ... ge/6728580

[GT93]

Yes, I had already read that link wazza. There will be some unhappy Libs pondering that one. I see the budget emergency cry has now morphed into an income tax cut carrot.

It's all, of course, about saving Tony's arse now and it will be so through to the next election if he can keep his trousers on for that long.

[wazza]

There must be a reason why he was on the nose and not invited to Qld and Vict state election build ups. Same reason WA dont want him over there for the Canning by-election.

My prediction is Canning held by the Libs with a massive swing against them with the outcone going to preferences.

The Solar Industry spending money on a Dont Vote Liberal ticket and a leadership challenge to Abbott within 2 months. Hockey's republican stance clearly irritating One Term Tony.

Turbull Hockey tkt lol allowing a free vote on same sex marriage. Allowing the Libs to pass Warren's private members Bill and stealing an election issue off Labor.

Clear indications for this will be Abbott pulling the Australian Ambassador to the Vatican back for discussions on how The Royal Commission findinds into Catholic Child Abuse will be handled.

Then sacking him allowing a secret deal to be done by Turnbull and the Illuminati to appoint Abbott to the Vatican. Pell sadly wont be there as he faces charges of perverting the course of justice and starring down 5 and walking with 3 years.

[wazza]

Police now called in to investigate the stolen Liberal Funds by their Liberal Staffer

http://www.news.com.au/national/breakin ... 7502505621

Nice they have updated their electoral commission declaration only 8 years late, to include these funds.

Cover ups , stolen monies, mates looking after mates , Now lets call for a Royal Commission into the Liberal Party and how they ran and still run their finances. No difference is there ???

[wazza]

Back to the Royal Commission and the delaying tactics of the Commissioner at $1450 Oxford Scholars per hour.

It has now been proven that the Commissioner was tipped off the night before.

"The Australian newspaper reported that lawyer, journalist and former media adviser Marcus Priest had raised the potential conflict problem with Chris Winslow, an officer of the NSW Bar Association. Winslow emailed Jeremy Stoljar SC, the counsel assisting the Royal Commission, about 7.30pm on August 12, asking whether Heydon was aware the function was a Liberal Party fundraiser. Stoljar said he'd raise it with Heydon.

The Commission then released Stoljar's note of his conversation with Heydon at about 9am on August 13. In part, it says:

"JDH showed me an email from Greg Burton to him, also yesterday 12/8, saying it is not a fundraiser. JDH: Burton is closer to the action than Winslow - he ought to know. So OK to go ahead if JDH writes clarifying + response OK."

So the only reason why he withdrew was he had been tipped off !

Interesting that The Royal Commission initially didn't release this information , and it had to be drawn out wth a blow torch, perhaps the public might even see that as collusion as well.

Good to see the Royal Commission and its head get the same level of detailed investigation that it has applied to others.

Abbott even talking about how the RC will still continue, which sounds like he is all but accepted that JDH ( LOL ) will resign.

Captains Pick, Liberal Party Lawyers C*ck up, Victorian Libs involved with significant Police investigations into missing $1.5 Million, Tasmanian Libs now under Police Investigation for failing to declare this crime and also retrospective reporting of the $48,000 this week to the Electoral Commission.

Not a good week for One Term Tony.

[marjamlew]

Back to the Royal Commission and the delaying tactics of the Commissioner at $1450 Oxford Scholars per hour.

It has now been proven that the Commissioner was tipped off the night before.

"The Australian newspaper reported that lawyer, journalist and former media adviser Marcus Priest had raised the potential conflict problem with Chris Winslow, an officer of the NSW Bar Association. Winslow emailed Jeremy Stoljar SC, the counsel assisting the Royal Commission, about 7.30pm on August 12, asking whether Heydon was aware the function was a Liberal Party fundraiser. Stoljar said he'd raise it with Heydon.

The Commission then released Stoljar's note of his conversation with Heydon at about 9am on August 13. In part, it says:

"JDH showed me an email from Greg Burton to him, also yesterday 12/8, saying it is not a fundraiser. JDH: Burton is closer to the action than Winslow - he ought to know. So OK to go ahead if JDH writes clarifying + response OK."

So the only reason why he withdrew was he had been tipped off !

Interesting that The Royal Commission initially didn't release this information , and it had to be drawn out wth a blow torch, perhaps the public might even see that as collusion as well.

Good to see the Royal Commission and its head get the same level of detailed investigation that it has applied to others.

Abbott even talking about how the RC will still continue, which sounds like he is all but accepted that JDH ( LOL ) will resign.

Captains Pick, Liberal Party Lawyers C*ck up, Victorian Libs involved with significant Police investigations into missing $1.5 Million, Tasmanian Libs now under Police Investigation for failing to declare this crime and also retrospective reporting of the $48,000 this week to the Electoral Commission.

Not a good week for One Term Tony.

Looks like the first item of business that the new Prime Minister Shorten will have to introduce will be the royal commission into the criminal organisation known as The Liberal Party of Australia. Maybe we can dig up former high court judge and eminent jurist Lionel Murphy or even Doc Evatt to chair the commission and pass judgement the swill.

[wazza]

I would nominate High Court Justice Michael Kirby as Commissioner who has done a great job on North Korea, and Counsel Assisting Hon Julian Burnside QC.

Tony Fitzgerald QC from QLD more than capable also, still got the Blood of Joh on his hands and a few Ministers

But probably knock back Tim Carmody ex Chief Justice and Captains Pick from One Term Campbell Newman

[Aardvark]

Labor supports the CMFEU campaign to destroy the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement, the agreement the labor supported but now does not, typical Shorten turncoat behaviour.

The CMFEU runs a lie ad campaign on TV with full labor approval.

Mick Gatto, well known underworld figure wants to $100k to solve CFMEU industrial action - industrial blackmail mafia style.

Bill Shorten - the CFMEU's hand-picked man in Canberra.

Vote labor if you want the CFMEU and Mick Gatto to run Australia.

Mick might not be with us for much longer ...... http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia ... li=AAabC8j

[GT93]

Poor old Mick. I would far rather have downunder on my case than the Colombians.

There seems to have been some strife among the Melbourne "identities" in recent months.

[wazza]

Mick may have taken a small cash job or joint venture payments sorting out the Tas and Vict Liberal Parties over their spat about non disclosure of Mantachs theft in Tas. Tas Lib Premier Lib State Director at the time with Sen Eric Abetz on the leadership group as well.

Mick might also get the gig in WA trying to negotiate the Libs SASR Captain and his late lodgement for enrollment to Canning which is putting his nomination under challenge now.