Europe mild winters save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, also parts of ice caps are melting yet other parts are thickening but this isn't reported as much. Data from ice core samples shows that in the past, temperatures have risen by ten times the current rise,and fallen again,in the space of a human lifetime.Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist
@itsadeadmansparty You're just absolutely wrong about temperatures changing that much, unless you're talking about a past so different that the Earth couldn't support complex mammalian life at the time.
The climate is a non-linear system - overall warming causes cooling in some places, warming in others, but the average temperature is higher.
But it's not the heat that's the problem. It's instability: desertification, the loss of fresh water systems (e..g glaciers in Nepal), flooding, etc.
CO2 Is not the cause of global warming, it contributes but does not cause Global warming all together!
UC San Diego, shows that the last four great ice age cycles began when Earth's distance from the sun during its annual orbit became great enough to prevent summertime melts of glacial ice. The absence of those melts allowed buildups of the ice over periods of time that would become characterized as glacial periods.We just left the Quaternary Ice age thus we will begin moving closer to the sun.
@planetnerd You are still very wrong my friend, You are healthy and still breathing correct? All the plants in majority are just fine, When you do the research you will see it is 100% natural for earth to move between warming and cooling stages,
The 100 year trend means nothing at all,Humans in the last 100 do not compare to the Volcanoes that have erupted in the past that released 20 times the CO2 man has made in the past,Very little we can do will stop Earth and its inhabitants,Not man made
@itsadeadmansparty Google for "CO2 vs Temperature: Last 400000 years" and look at the graphs.
We are now about double the average CO2 concentration, ever, in an incredibly short time.
We have never seen CO2 like this in the last half million years, including all the volcanoes that erupted in that time. The last time there was this much CO2 was before mammalian life could exist. Please explain how this isn't going to have a dramatic effect on climate.
@planetnerd 98% of All Earth Bio-Mass is Plant Life,Now we have not even began to talk about the chemistry of CO2,If you study chemistry you will see CO2 with the other elements in the sky cannot harm us,and considering 98% of All Earth Bio-Mass is plant life,CO2 isnt going to cause Earth as a whole to warm,
it doesnt help we continue to put out CO2 but I wouldnt even think twice about this, The problem is you will never actually look into the facts I presented, so our communication is useless!
@itsadeadmansparty If you take the carbon stored in biomass and put it into the atmosphere as CO2 it causes the so-called "greenhouse effect", because it enables the atmosphere to trap more heat and raise average global temperatures. Carbon in trees is no threat. Carbon itself is completely non-toxic. But in the atmosphere it acts like a blanket, trapping heat that would normally escape.
I have not only studied chemistry, but have also built a lot of meteorological equipment deployed worldwide.
@planetnerd I will look at this graph and some of your information
but according to my research, this isnt as bad as television is saying it is,
we dont actually have that many cars, Really, and if we are going to be taxed for polluting then tax Shipping Container Ships, one of those ships put out more co2 then all the cars on the planet, and two blame airliners, they also put way more co2 out, but honestly my friend dont worry,Earth returns to what it was before, also we are not alone on Earth!
@itsadeadmansparty Glad to hear you're looking at the data. And, by the way, nobody is saying we need to tax cars. We're placing a cost on CO2. If cars don't emit much CO2, then the cost of running a car won't change much.
You're right, there are bigger emitters. One of the largest is agriculture, because felling and burning trees releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is a huge problem. The only viable solution today is a global price on carbon, so the market can respond and innovate
@planetnerd I still dont agree to tax anyone, for any of this, because CO2 isnt the real problem at hand, and people need to understand that Earth will warm and nobody yet has technology to stop the sun. The solutions to all these problems exist already, Electric Cars, Wind Turbines, Geo-Thermal Energy, and Solar Panels. If we had not been run by greedy billionaires, the electric cars would already be here, and the gas monopoly would be finished. Definitely a Government problem, don't fear Co2
@itsadeadmansparty Putting a price on carbon isn't the same as having a tax. The market mechanisms they're putting on CO2 emissions are very similar to other trade-based mechanisms that have been used in the past to reduce other emissions.
Yes, the sun heats the earth, but normally the earth is able to reflect a lot of that heat into space. With more CO2 in the atmosphere, more of the heat is trapped, warming the earth.
@planetnerd Lets start by using our technology to better us,lets not focus on charging anybody or business a fee or tax,that solves nothing, and is completely pointless as money doesn't actually exist,it is numbers in a digital computer(bank) Only, now if money was real and had a backed value(gold) I might agree, The solution is the same as when we went to the Moon, use our knowledge to help stop the continuing oil monopoly, stop oil cars! Fuel cells, and Electric cars, Solar, Wind, Geo-Thermal!
@planetnerd Your still incorrect about Humans and CO2
Your putting the effect before the cause,and 380 ppm is 100 percent natural,
these levels rise and fall without mankind's help,I really dont know where exactly to start with dis proving you,so heres another,both water vapour and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored.vehicle fuel is taxed at 300% while fuel to heat buildings is taxed at 5% even though they emit twice as much carbon dioxide!See
@itsadeadmansparty What are you talking about? 380ppm hasn't been seen since the days when there was no complex life on the planet! 300pm is the _highest_ natural amount on record, in the last 500,000 years (i.e. since modern man evolved).
To claim that 380ppm CO2 is natural and normal is actually completely wrong.
@planetnerd LOL you ignore everything else, i doubt you can prove 300ppm can be recorded since we only have 5000 years of written history water vapour and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored
@planetnerd Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist
@itsadeadmansparty 380ppm is completely unheard of. Google for "historical co2 level" and check out the graph on wikipedia. Or any other graph of CO2, ever. They all agree, 380ppm hasn't been reached in at least the last million years or more. It is way outside the Earth's natural levels.
Vehicle fuel is currently highly taxed in order to pay for roads and government insurance, not to offset carbon emissions.
@planetnerd Please planetnerd Perform some real hard,in depth research again, and if you need to talk to a Professor Of Chemistry,then do it! I just want you to start to actually see that you have not been given the proper facts on humans and co2,we are not in a crisis nor is there a thing we humans can do to help earth do what it naturally does,please please please dont believe me,go out and study more independently and you will see man hasnt done a thing to earth in the last 100 years. Thanks
@planetnerd We are now in a cooling phase! The weather has 28 yearhalf cycles. Get new data! CO2 is taken in by plants, so free carbon dioxide in the air has not changed for 200 years. The weather is controlled by the sun man just lives with it.
@JonThm That's insane. There are microvariations in climate over one decade or another due to atmospheric particles and other short-term effects, but the upward trend in global temperature since the 1950s is unequivocal.
@itsadeadmansparty In the last 400,000, across 4 ice-ages, temp has varied btw -5 and +1 degree relative to today, and CO2 has moved in sync, from 200 - 300ppm.
In the last 100 years, CO2 has shot up to to 380ppm or more. This is absolutely unprecedented in the last million+ years. Given the tight r'ship between CO2 and global temperature, it's hard to argue that this won't cause climate craziness.
Recent CO2 changes have MANY times more effect than distance from the sun.
@JonThm Hey man, guess what? Plants also need Nitrogen to grow, and oxygen, and a bunch of other things. That doesn't mean you can radically shift the balance of those chemicals without throwing the biosphere into disarray.
Furthermore, ice may contract as it melts, but if it also slides from land into the sea (as with Antarctica and Greenland) then it causes ocean levels to rise. If all the ice was already in the sea, then sea levels would drop. It isn't, so they'll rise.
Julia Gillard was a member of a dangerous far-left radical communist leaning organisation called the Socialist Forum as recent as 2002. If a Rudd Labor government is elected, Australians will have a dangerous government. Don't risk Australia's trillion dollar economy on unionists and a former communist.
Well done. The La Trobe Valley is not just coal, it is brown coal. Brown coal is even dirtier than black coal. So they really do need the windmills down there. To be serious about environment, people need to think more Green or Labor. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
I don't really know. I'm just saying to think of the environment. Is it Greens? Is it Democrats? Are there Independents? Time to think but not waste votes. This is too serious. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
@saintfletcher CO2 Is not the cause of global warming, it contributes yes;
UC San Diego, shows that the last four great ice age cycles began when Earth's distance from the sun during its annual orbit became great enough to prevent summertime melts of glacial ice. The absence of those melts allowed buildups of the ice over periods of time that would become characterized as glacial periods.We just left the Quaternary Ice age thus we will begin moving closer to the sun causing warming.
The farmer's association are backing a Howard government, as a Labor gov plans to cut back subsidies already provided under this gov. The greens need a life out of climate change and start broadening their expertise in other areas of the economy. Wow a PM with climate change policies and nothing else...I would really like a PM like that...:N
Realistically, we're not going to end up with a PM with climate change policies and nothing else. Nobody is that stupid and your caricaturing adds nothing to the debate.
Plus, single-agenda groups add to the debate without seriously running for the highest office. The Greens have no pretense of running the country. Their agenda is to draw people's attention to particular environmental and social issues. And they've succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
planetnerd, I was taking the piss out of the greens, I actually agree that the Climate change policy that the gov has put out can be better...If only the greens won't shoot down every idea the government has to rectify it. But I agree on one thing, they certainly have had a helping hand in putting climate change on the priority list and I give them credit for that.
The debate was quite good. I was particularly glad that Rudd *finally* countered the interest rate half-truths and outright lies the government have been propagating. I just hope they come up with more concrete policies on climate change.
Majoroz the truth is this howard govt has produced interest rates at an average of 7% and under the previous policies the average was 12.4%..you see majoroz when the interest rates rise under the coalition it only rises by say .25% but under labor they rised by 2% and thats huge compared to the coalitions rises..Swann is getting scared the debate with Peter is tuesday:) if no one can see through his Fake confidence then wait to see him crumble and get cut in half in the debate
But with private debt at record levels, interest rates are going to have a bigger impact, aren't they? (Household debt as a percentage of income has more than tripled in 15 years, with the sharpest rises occurring after 2000)
Majoroz cmon your worried about interest rates and private debt and you vote labor?Coalitions track record on interest rates cant be beaten. im telling you peter is our best money manager running surplus not deficit..Majoroz even the governer of the resverve bank says labor's fiscal policy is a wory for pressure on rates.labors IR laws put pressure on interest rates and this is because of wages being inflated and a lot of employers cant afford to pay it leading to highrates
Howard did quite well in the debate vs the spin doctor so watch it again and listen to howard's words and not the fancy sloguns by rudd, rudd is hollow and has nothing special on his plan for Australia, will be funy to watch Peter Costello cut swanny in half in the debate because swann doesnt know his stuff well anough and swann is not smarter than Peter:)
I think both Costello and Swanny held up well. I have to admit I wasn't confident about Wayne's performance, but he was at least as good as Pete. I won't go into the health ministers' debate, of course. :-D
Sorry, I meant by that that I wasn't confident BEFOREHAND of how Swanny would hold up. I must say it's nice for Howard and Costello to acknowledge the great contribution of past Labor governments as well (refer to both the leaders' and treasurers' debates if you don't believe me).
Oh Majoroz you are right about Howard and Costello acknowledging the great contribution Hawke/keating did for this country and you should know also that howard sat down with Hawke many times and worked together but this doesnt happen anymore and i can say this is labors fault not wanting to work together on Anything these days:( ...the good old days hey? ;)
Majoroz Wayne Swann did ok I didnt like the way Swann couldnt be a Man and acknowledge the good the Coalition has done without putting on his Spin on top of it.he wasnt tested enough and i wasnt totally fooled by him because on 2 occasions he was flat out wrong in my opinion but these debates are just let one person speak and then the next without any front on one on one true debating.from the debate to me it showed me Peterhas more knowledge and certainly can be trusted with our money.
You poor libs your leader is an american puppet. How many australians has he sacrfised for bush's war for oil? if you believe howard you will believe anything. Howard cares only for himself.You don't stay wealthy by selling your assets ask the rich. If your not of aboriginal decent you are an illegal immigrant. And thats a fact.Howard steals from the aboriginals. there land there resource's there way of life. He is a thief nothing more.
Without America my friend you would probably be eating fried rice and spring rolls everyday, Howard doesnt steal from Aboriginals and if anything they get increased benefits than anyone else, Maybe you should blame captain cook instead of Howard :)
Adro, it is naive to believe that the Australian economy has control over the global economy. You will find that our interest rates are low when international rates are low. Howard is happy to blame the reserve bank for interest rate hikes *now*, yet similtaneously expects us to believe that the Keating-era interest rates are Keating's fault, rather than a symptom of the global recession of that time.
Hewhosayszonk your incorrect and you need to learn about fiscal policy And heres the killer for you and it kills you old son....Ian Mcfarlan the former governer of the reserve bank himself last year said that because the state labor is now in control that could push interest rates higher and be a problem:) do you know why?
It's going to make a real difference! Everything is going to change because you walked around with a sign, yelling some uncharismatic and unoriginal chant.
Yeah defend David Hicks. He only trained with Al Quaid, and most properly fought against Coalition forces in Iraq.
Yes say he used Mohammed Haneff as a pawn. The ALP supported the governments decision. But I am sure that if he did commit a terrorist act you would be whinging that they did nothing.
Yes blame Howard for going into Iraq. He was going under false information, he simply trusted the most powerful country in the world.
He rigged the republic debate... Do I need to say anything? I would love to see your case.
On Nuclear Energy; it is clean, if the bi-product is disposed of properly and the highest level of safety is upheld, I do not see how it is a bad thing.
But like someone said, lets use photosynthesis using algae. All we need to do now is hook up a whole lot of wires to plants...
You people whinge that something has to be done about climate change, yet you ramble on about all this in 20 years time crap. The problem is now. The best answer for Australia is nuclear.
Solar Thermal Power is generated in California, Spain, Italy, and even Canada. It is cheaper to run than nuclear power. You are right, we gotta start somewhere. God Bless you +++The Saint+++
The Howard Government figures are all just creative accounting to fool the people. Gross domestic product figures are a complete wank. As standards of living increase for the rich Australian more children suffer in poor families who can never catch up. Water and agriculture have been mismanaged now Howard wants us to thank him for water and vegies?
Help get the word out to all. Read Ozonomics by Andrew Charlton. This book debunks all the bullshit Howard shovels and shows that the economy, the thing he toats as his strong point is not Howards or Costellos doing.
MY GOVERNMENT? ...Sorry John:( It will be The Peoples Government. NEW CENTURY Get with it!
The Office of Human Evolvement Logical Progress has designed a new Governance model which is not based on an ancient two party preferred dictatorship. The designer is at Deakin University.
It is written to benefit the People ...Who will embrace it Howard or Rudd that will decide Australia's election!
Many a Follower of The Führer has Crashed and Burned. Now it's The little Rat's turn. The little Rat has picked up Cheap and childish Pseudo Nazi ideas in the hope that the inbred racist will side with him .
Mining Booms have a habit of ending. so those who are laughing now will be cryng later.Its just the order of things and there aint no rabbit out of Howards hat that is going to stop that.
Zalgruesa is a self proclaimed communist who thinks howard is a Nazi because he has detention centers for illegal immigrants, people who come in here ILLEGALLY should be put in detention centers and then the appropriate steps to take place but you just want to let them in,,, Shame on you!
We are signatories to the UN declaration of human rights which secures the rights of individuals to flee their own countries and seek asylum. Over 90% of 'boat people' are found to be genuine refugees, whereas a majority of those who fly here are not. It makes sense - you'd have to be pretty desperate to trust your life to a leaky boat and a smuggler you've never met.
Powerbroker, I am in the field, trust me when I say that I didn't just pull that 90% figure out of my arse. You didn't actually refute my arguments, you just said they were wrong, so I'm going to take it as a given that anything further you say at this point is just to get the last word in. Feel free.
Haha its you that wants the last word so nice try...you didnt answer my question either...i dont care about boat people i care about important issues about my country, Ian Mcfarlan the former governer of the reserve bank refuted your comments about interest rates for me :) and i passed them on, again you need to learn about fiscal policy and not worry about boat people lol...
Your quote from Ian Mcfarlan had nothing to do with the issue actually, which is why I didn't respond to it. I didn't say interest rates would be unaffected by the states, in fact I didn't even mention the states. I said that interest rates are more strongly affected by international economics than domestic politics. We can see that in the steady rise in interest rates over the last few years, which have mirrored the US rise and are not the fault of the Liberals.
Yes but its about money management and living within our means, labor cannot be trusted with money you can see it in the states report cards as they are running budget deficits until 2011, labors fiscal policy puts Pressure on interest rates so it does indeed have something to do with the issue:)
So who is the better economic manager, the party that actually invests in facilities for the people? Or the party that lit's it sit there gaining intesrest and not doing a fucking thing?
AndyW you are way off there and down right incorrect, you are ill informed if you actually think the govt doesnt use its money to fund us, there is plenty the Coalition are funding and they dont just have money sitting gaining interest, Andy you are unwise to be negative to a surplus and we do need to save for the future and not spend it all on you:)
By the way I am not being funny. I have read numerous articles that attribute the "world population boom" to global warming yet no one who believes this obvious conclusion to global warming is volunteering.
Obviously I don't want you to do this but I want you to see the total hypocrisy of this "climate change religion".
I hope you Rightwing scum realise that in 10 years from now a house will cost half a Billion dollars so not even you Masters of Exploitation will be able to afford one .Great we will finally get some equality.
This is the path the little Weasel has put us in.
Yes, try not to sound like a uni student. Work harder to sound like an inbred bogan chainsaw jockey who desperately wants his kids to be condemned to work in the same dead-end, insecure and unsustainable industry as ol' daddy... possibly just because if his son moves away then there'll be nobody to breed with little sis. You edjumactaed people are the whole problem in the Tamar Valley. Excuse me, I'm off to church....
Wake up people, the governments are the terrorists!!
Google Video "Bursting Bubbles of Government Deception" and "The Magnificent Deception", break your chains from these de facto Pirates. Take our world and our freedom back from these monsters.
Stuff Howard, i could run this country better then him. And Kevin Rudd isnt much better, everytime i see his face on tv makes me wanna point and laugh, give us a prime minister thats smart doesnt have a speach impairment and knows exactly what the average person wants.
Well done kEVIN Rudd! You want to retain coal power and improve emissions. Go figure ? Nuclear is CLEAN, EFFICIENT and SENSIBLE. Grow up you left wing cunt, you are boring !
Nuclear isn't clean, it produces waste - not as much in volume but much worse in terms of toxicity. Nuclear isn't inherently sensible or stupid. It depends on whether you trust humans to run a nuclear reactor. And why do people keep bringing up Kevin Rudd? I honestly don't think he's all that different from Howard.
I'm not left wing just because I posted one rebuttal to a right-wing Prime Minister.
Sure, nuclear energy is clean. Efficient? Maybe for the next 3 or so hundred years. Sensible? Maybe, it is after all a cleaner alternative to dirty coal but it is also a finite resource -- what do you propose we do when all uranium reserves have been depleted? The right wing philosophy is clearly short-sighted.
Coal is finite and much less efficient. The left wing philosophy is archaic.What do you propose to do when coal reserves run out? Russia, France, USA, Britain and France all have nuclear energy without incident. Coal mines in China kill thousands each year.
The only nessecary reason for nuclear is to make a shit load on selling Uranium to the rest of the world. Nuclear is now also archaic and a non-renuable resource. Who said coal is good?
What else do I expect...? Not much from John Howard. He is not as clever as people make him out to be. Watch for the next snake in the grass though. I am sure they're all tared with the same brush
LIES lies you had 11 fucked years to do this. labour bring out it you wake up to it lies &more lies no blood for oil. go back to usa you fuck wit johnny. ynwa
Well done! A carbon tax should have been brought in years ago. Gutless leaders equal gutless decisions! I only hope Rudd has the balls to introduce a carbon tax!
A global tax will undoubtedly set the precedent. With a global carbon tax you now need a body to organize and decide how to spend this revenue. If you want to build a whole new layer of red tape and taxation onto the existing terrible systems then go ahead and yell for a carbon tax.
A far better alternative would be to give large grants toward alternative energy research. This way eventually alternatives become cheaper than the old methods.
Sure, that sounds grand. My point was that Howard chose the inferior option of two high-profile mechanisms for including impact on the environment in company balance sheets.
Ultimately, global treaties on emissions will have to be imposed if Capitalism is going to continue to be the engine of society. When this happens, the nations who have taxed emissions hardest and longest will suddenly be at an enormous competitive advantage.
Howard is not going to fix anything, I agree with you there. He destroys everything he touches, including our economy and our relations with other countries. Lest our mining boom our economy would be in a deep recession.
But you have to realize that if you outlaw something the first thing that happens is the high power people with money and influence get around the new laws through loopholes, via offshore or what have you. The next thing that happens is the middle class of business gets trodden all over by the new laws and the bigger companies which are now at an advantage.
In a society where you are fed and looked after no matter how useless or lazy you are, and where even if you did work hard and came up with new ideas you'd be no better off, no one is compelled to work hard. In terms of driving engines communism is about as useful as salt in a salt mine.
The only solution to saving the environment is to heavily invest in research.
This means giving out billions in grants to universities and private companies to do industry research on the provision that the research they develop must be under a particular type of public domain patent.
If we had invested in solar research 25 years ago we would probably have fewer than half the coal fired plants we have today. That's progress through competition, the way capitalism is supposed to work.
Johnny, if you want to get re-elected then you should make airheaded, simplistic policy like Rudd does. Have a rant about the price of carrots in woolworths, have a useless housing summit, set up a committee to look at petrol prices. These are the policies that everyone with an IQ below 80 want to see, Your current policies don't appeal to this large voting block.
I didn't think we were talking about Rudd. I don't particularly have an opinion about him, personally.
I'm not sure that Rudd having "bad" policies necessarily means that Howard's are good. You only have to look at most of the comments here to see that there is plenty to dislike about Howard's policies.
The fact is that Australia is made up of Conservatives especially in QLD like myself. People who search for climate change videos are usually left wing howard haters to say the least. The overwealming majority of Australians agree with Mr Howard hence he is our Prime Minister.
Why did we have record breaking cold temperatures this winter. eg it was so cold that 70 year old men could not remember it being colder?
I suggest you visit the AIRC website where you'll find a whole heap of examples of employers escaping unfair dismissal claims because of operational reasons. By the way, I spend every day representing employees (I am a solicitor) who have been unfairly dismissed for any number of reasons. It IS happening, and employers are escaping liability for some pretty bloody ordinary behaviour - makes one wonder what's going to happen when the economic good times end.
The only people who don't think that there is a problem with the new IR laws are people who don't work for a living. All employees these days are less protected and more in debt than ever before. But then again, the only way for companies in Australia to show a higher profit each year and remain competetive is to work their employees to death and pay them peanuts. Don't blame Johnny, he has to continue doing their bidding because they pay him big dollars to destroy worker's rights.
Exactly. Yet there are other ways to be competitive, including investing in technology and development to make your product better than your competitor. The problem with WorkChoices is that it enables wage-cutting to be a tool of competition. Eventually, even those employers who wish to fairly remunerate will be forced into the lower wages war in order to remain competitve. In addition to this, the ILO has ample material to prove that collective bargaining promotes higher productivity.
In actual fact (and this is why the Libs attempted to smear his reputation) Professor Peetz of Griffith Uni proved that WorkChoices and AWAs have a negative impact on productivity. This was one of the reasons that the Howard government (through Hockey) refused to release the statistics on post-WorkChoices AWAs. Everyone knows this legislation is ideological poison, but some, motivated by short term greed, will not hear the compelling arguments against it.
And are you going to explain how the mining boom has over the past years lowered unemployment rates in NSW, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Northen Territory and the ACT? Its not just W.A. and QLD bringing down the Australia UNE rate, its all the states and territories.
Of course, if mattus and HowardsBeast care to do some research they might try to tell us that an employee can seek an alternative remedy in the federal court for unlawful termination (e.g. dismissed if pregnant etc). However, running a claim in the federal court costs around $40,000 - which is a bit hard to bear when you've already lost your job. So, even though it is impossible to defend the indefensible, would the Howard cheer-squad like to comment?
The difference between Howard's "operational reasons" and the old redundancy provisions is that employers of any size (even the huge corporations) are now able to sack at whim, even if the real intention is to get rid of a person because of pregnancy and so on (provided just ONE reason cited was an "operational reason") and also duck having to pay redundancy pay. Welcome to Howard's corporate vision where Australian employees have become the new McSerf generation.
By the way, mattus and HowardsBeast don't want to discuss the WorkChoices unfair dismissal "operational reasons" exclusion because the recent case of Cruikshank v Priceline shows that it is now legal for employers to dismiss employees and re-advertise their jobs on an AWA at a significantly lower salary under the guise of "operational reasons". THAT is how Howard treats the most vulnerable in this country.
What the hell are you talking about hmm?? Since when was I invited to talk about WorkChoices?? No I wasn't, I know that in all of my comments and people's comments unto me, it wasn't discussed.
Does it look like I give a damn about Cruikshank v Priceline?? Given that workchoices hasn't affected me at all, does it look like I care?
Stop talking about "mattus and HowardsBeast", this video is about climate change. And mattus has been blocked from posting too.
Apologies if I misunderstood. Yet, in the spirit of fairness, I still invite you to make a comment. But, then again, you freely admit to not caring about anything that doesn't affect you. Therein lies the true nature of the Howard Apparatchik; cares for naught but him or herself and cares even less about the plight of those less fortunate than he or she. Yet another hint at the reasons behind the impending annihilation facing the Liberal Coalition.
No I didn't freely admit to "not caring about anything that doesn't affect" me, once again you are miscontruing others comments and putting words into other's mouths, to suit your own agenda. You just can't stop lying can you?
Rather defensive now, aren't we? Still don't care to comment on the operational reasons exemption under WorkChoices? Not brave enough to speak in more than just Liberal party catch phrases?
Liberal catch phrases ahuh sure, care to elaborate on that or are you just bullshitting again? I can as easily retort that all you do is speak in Labor party catch phrases.
You seem to be labouring under this misconception that under WorkChoices employers can just fire their workers as easily as that and call it 'operational reasons'. Not so.
You esny ptod of WorkChoices? How about 4% unemployment and a rise in real wages? More single mothers and people of my age able to get work.
Ah, citing 4% unemployment whilst refusing the acknowledge ABS stats showing WA and Qld are dragging the rest of the country up thanks to the mining boom. Nice selective citation of statistics there, HowardsBeast, but not actually correct to draw the line between your stats and WorkChoices. Check these out (see Peetz report 2006), women are paid 2% less under WorkChoices (i.e. hospitality and retail sectors) and employment growth was stronger in 1994.
I've heard that WA and Qld argument before, are you actually going to provide relevant proof? Can you source me state-by-state unemployment rates?
Whats more is, you cite mining boom as if it is just an automatic process that isn't managed well by the Howard government. Economies in boom can be ruined, you are in fact providing a pro-Howard point there, by pointing out the mining boom and the governments competent efforts in managing it well for the Australian economy.
ABS is the source, please take a look - I'm unable to post a link, sorry. Yet, I agree with you that the mining boom is a wonderful thing and cannot just be managed by autopilot. However, last year, despite the current skills shortage, 45,000 secondary students missed out on tertiary places - despite having high enough grade point averages. Where is the investment in our future? Why just engage in working visas, while allowing the brain drain of Aussie kids to continue unabated?
Versus how many who actually got in? I'm sorry thats complete bullshit. If you get the ENTER score (VCE) then you will get into your course with no hassles. If you're lucky and scored just below, hey you might even get in on second round offers.
These 45,000 students missing out, what kind of grades did they get in their examinations and final year at school? I'm sniffing bullshit here because I know that potential doctors and physicists who have the right score will not get rejected.
I'm betting to say that these 45,000 students were dumbasses who slacked at school and went shithouse on their exams. I don't really care if some no-hoper bogan misses out on their arts degree, which they would have dropped out of in their first year.
When I finished school I had NO TROUBLE WHATSOEVER into getting in my course.
I did look at the ABS by the way and it contradicts your assertions that Western Australia and Queensland is bringing the national unemployment rate down.
Please prove that, because I have also looked at the stats (in fact, I cited them) and they bear this out. By the way, while you're at it, take a look at Professor Peetz's 2006 study on the impacts of WorkChoices and AWAs on the retail, hospitality and manufacturing industries and the negative wages growth. I'd love to hear your comments.
And so has the ageing crisis has also continued. Again, your citation of employment figures as a benefit of WorkChoices is disingenuous when there are so many factors. By the way, since Howard moved the goalposts in 1996, a few hours work over the preceding 12 month period equates to "employed".
By the way, the Howard government (Hockey in particular) were so dismayed by Professor Peetz's findings that they engaged in brutal smear campaign. A number of eminent professors from around the world wrote an open letter to BRW condemning the government's actions and supporting Prof. Peetz. I suggest you read a book called silencing dissent.
Again, I've already looked at the statistics - I don't need to remind you that I cited them, do I? Care to comment about the comparison with 1994 jobs growth?
You've looked at the statistics. Are you going to concede that QLD and W.A is not bringing down the national UNE average. Are you going to concede that UNE rate has been declining in all states and territories over the past years?
June 2007: Full-time employment decreased by 34,300 to 7,495,400 and part-time employment increased by 36,900 to 2,964,400. I suggest, in relation to my earlier comment, that you look to the Melbourne Institute study that cites 1 in 6 employed persons is under-employed. I have looked at the stats, and it is quite clear that WA and Qld are leading the way (um...can't you read?) Do you now concede that Professor Peetz has revealed a decline in wages growth during a time of record profit growth?
No its right bloody there on the ABS website. Can't YOU read?
Part time employment is a growing trend by employers, as is outsourcing and employing casual workers. I still count them as employed, and under-employed persons too. You can sure as hell bet that if the labor party gets in power they won't be changing the definition.
But, add this to lack of certainty under WorkChoices (4 million people no longer have unfair dismissal protection - more if you count operational reasons) and you have a heck of a lot of people who have no long term financial security.
Women do much worse under individual contracts than under collective agreements. Women already earn $150 a week less than male employees, and the pay gap has grown under the Howard Government. And women who are on AWAs do worst of all -- they receive 11% less per hour than women on collective agreements (Peetz). Howard has also presided over massive casualisation of the workforce.
The recent case of CFMEU v Don Mathieson [2007] proves that an employer who sacked an employee predominatly because he was on a union negotiated agreement (the employer ADMITTED this during proceedings) still escaped punishment for unfairly terminating the employment contract because ONE of the reasons for dismissal was an "operational reason". The AIRC admitted that under WorkChoices it was powerless to intervene. I'd say that qualifies as sacking at whim, wouldn't you?
Yeah sure, one case study certainly proves that a labour force of 10 million can be simply sacked at a whim. You say in theory that this is happening, yet it really isn't in reality. There can be those who abuse the system, that would happen before anyway. At least people can actually get a job if their sacked.
Well, I didn't block mattus from posting, so I'm not sure why he wouldn't be able to. I'm not sure whether YouTube would even allow you to block one person from posting.
What's the issue, is it technical or is he just not allowed by someone?
Howaed a low-life, cynical scumbag. His opportunism is breathtaking in its insincerity and its "I'll do anything for a vote" tone. He is a despicable, vicious little weasel. Oh, and if he loses hisseat, which looks quite possible, I'll laugh myself sick!!!
Plants ahve taken in all man's CO2 fro the last 200 years.
JonThm 1 year ago
Green plants have ensured that free CO2 in the air has not increased for 200 years
JonThm 1 year ago
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The globe has been cooling since 2005. CO2 levels in the air havbe not changed in 200 years
JonThm 1 year ago
Europe mild winters save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, also parts of ice caps are melting yet other parts are thickening but this isn't reported as much. Data from ice core samples shows that in the past, temperatures have risen by ten times the current rise,and fallen again,in the space of a human lifetime.Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty You're just absolutely wrong about temperatures changing that much, unless you're talking about a past so different that the Earth couldn't support complex mammalian life at the time.
The climate is a non-linear system - overall warming causes cooling in some places, warming in others, but the average temperature is higher.
But it's not the heat that's the problem. It's instability: desertification, the loss of fresh water systems (e..g glaciers in Nepal), flooding, etc.
planetnerd 1 year ago
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itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
CO2 Is not the cause of global warming, it contributes but does not cause Global warming all together!
UC San Diego, shows that the last four great ice age cycles began when Earth's distance from the sun during its annual orbit became great enough to prevent summertime melts of glacial ice. The absence of those melts allowed buildups of the ice over periods of time that would become characterized as glacial periods.We just left the Quaternary Ice age thus we will begin moving closer to the sun.
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty Thanks for the comment.
The global average temperature variance of an ice age was just a couple of degrees and that change happened over many centuries, allowing adaptation.
The global temperature variance we're looking at with climate change alone is predicted to be 4 - 6 degrees in just 100 years, with current trends.
Make no mistake, we are driving temperature changes far faster than any orbital change. It will be catastrophic for life on Earth if nothing is done.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd You are still very wrong my friend, You are healthy and still breathing correct? All the plants in majority are just fine, When you do the research you will see it is 100% natural for earth to move between warming and cooling stages,
The 100 year trend means nothing at all,Humans in the last 100 do not compare to the Volcanoes that have erupted in the past that released 20 times the CO2 man has made in the past,Very little we can do will stop Earth and its inhabitants,Not man made
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty Google for "CO2 vs Temperature: Last 400000 years" and look at the graphs.
We are now about double the average CO2 concentration, ever, in an incredibly short time.
We have never seen CO2 like this in the last half million years, including all the volcanoes that erupted in that time. The last time there was this much CO2 was before mammalian life could exist. Please explain how this isn't going to have a dramatic effect on climate.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd 98% of All Earth Bio-Mass is Plant Life,Now we have not even began to talk about the chemistry of CO2,If you study chemistry you will see CO2 with the other elements in the sky cannot harm us,and considering 98% of All Earth Bio-Mass is plant life,CO2 isnt going to cause Earth as a whole to warm,
it doesnt help we continue to put out CO2 but I wouldnt even think twice about this, The problem is you will never actually look into the facts I presented, so our communication is useless!
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty If you take the carbon stored in biomass and put it into the atmosphere as CO2 it causes the so-called "greenhouse effect", because it enables the atmosphere to trap more heat and raise average global temperatures. Carbon in trees is no threat. Carbon itself is completely non-toxic. But in the atmosphere it acts like a blanket, trapping heat that would normally escape.
I have not only studied chemistry, but have also built a lot of meteorological equipment deployed worldwide.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd I will look at this graph and some of your information
but according to my research, this isnt as bad as television is saying it is,
we dont actually have that many cars, Really, and if we are going to be taxed for polluting then tax Shipping Container Ships, one of those ships put out more co2 then all the cars on the planet, and two blame airliners, they also put way more co2 out, but honestly my friend dont worry,Earth returns to what it was before, also we are not alone on Earth!
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty Glad to hear you're looking at the data. And, by the way, nobody is saying we need to tax cars. We're placing a cost on CO2. If cars don't emit much CO2, then the cost of running a car won't change much.
You're right, there are bigger emitters. One of the largest is agriculture, because felling and burning trees releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is a huge problem. The only viable solution today is a global price on carbon, so the market can respond and innovate
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd I still dont agree to tax anyone, for any of this, because CO2 isnt the real problem at hand, and people need to understand that Earth will warm and nobody yet has technology to stop the sun. The solutions to all these problems exist already, Electric Cars, Wind Turbines, Geo-Thermal Energy, and Solar Panels. If we had not been run by greedy billionaires, the electric cars would already be here, and the gas monopoly would be finished. Definitely a Government problem, don't fear Co2
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty Putting a price on carbon isn't the same as having a tax. The market mechanisms they're putting on CO2 emissions are very similar to other trade-based mechanisms that have been used in the past to reduce other emissions.
Yes, the sun heats the earth, but normally the earth is able to reflect a lot of that heat into space. With more CO2 in the atmosphere, more of the heat is trapped, warming the earth.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd Lets start by using our technology to better us,lets not focus on charging anybody or business a fee or tax,that solves nothing, and is completely pointless as money doesn't actually exist,it is numbers in a digital computer(bank) Only, now if money was real and had a backed value(gold) I might agree, The solution is the same as when we went to the Moon, use our knowledge to help stop the continuing oil monopoly, stop oil cars! Fuel cells, and Electric cars, Solar, Wind, Geo-Thermal!
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty What? How is gold more real than money? It only has value because we agree it has value.
Furthermore, without appropriate economic incentives it's hard to raise the capital needed to restructure to a low-carbon economy.
If money isn't real, how am I buying food with it?
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd Your still incorrect about Humans and CO2
Your putting the effect before the cause,and 380 ppm is 100 percent natural,
these levels rise and fall without mankind's help,I really dont know where exactly to start with dis proving you,so heres another,both water vapour and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored.vehicle fuel is taxed at 300% while fuel to heat buildings is taxed at 5% even though they emit twice as much carbon dioxide!See
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty What are you talking about? 380ppm hasn't been seen since the days when there was no complex life on the planet! 300pm is the _highest_ natural amount on record, in the last 500,000 years (i.e. since modern man evolved).
To claim that 380ppm CO2 is natural and normal is actually completely wrong.
planetnerd 1 year ago
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@planetnerd LOL you ignore everything else, i doubt you can prove 300ppm can be recorded since we only have 5000 years of written history water vapour and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@planetnerd Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty 380ppm is completely unheard of. Google for "historical co2 level" and check out the graph on wikipedia. Or any other graph of CO2, ever. They all agree, 380ppm hasn't been reached in at least the last million years or more. It is way outside the Earth's natural levels.
Vehicle fuel is currently highly taxed in order to pay for roads and government insurance, not to offset carbon emissions.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@planetnerd Please planetnerd Perform some real hard,in depth research again, and if you need to talk to a Professor Of Chemistry,then do it! I just want you to start to actually see that you have not been given the proper facts on humans and co2,we are not in a crisis nor is there a thing we humans can do to help earth do what it naturally does,please please please dont believe me,go out and study more independently and you will see man hasnt done a thing to earth in the last 100 years. Thanks
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@planetnerd We are now in a cooling phase! The weather has 28 yearhalf cycles. Get new data! CO2 is taken in by plants, so free carbon dioxide in the air has not changed for 200 years. The weather is controlled by the sun man just lives with it.
JonThm 1 year ago
@JonThm That's insane. There are microvariations in climate over one decade or another due to atmospheric particles and other short-term effects, but the upward trend in global temperature since the 1950s is unequivocal.
planetnerd 1 year ago
@itsadeadmansparty In the last 400,000, across 4 ice-ages, temp has varied btw -5 and +1 degree relative to today, and CO2 has moved in sync, from 200 - 300ppm.
In the last 100 years, CO2 has shot up to to 380ppm or more. This is absolutely unprecedented in the last million+ years. Given the tight r'ship between CO2 and global temperature, it's hard to argue that this won't cause climate craziness.
Recent CO2 changes have MANY times more effect than distance from the sun.
planetnerd 1 year ago
Plants take in CO2 to grow. Wtihuot it, there would be no life on Earth.
There is only 0.00037% CO2 in the global air.
Water contracts as it mmelts. THe onyl reason to host thsi video, would be if nuclear power paid you well!
Don't you like life?
If not, do us all a favouyr, kill yourself - after you take thsi p[hantom sciecne video off youtube
JonThm 4 years ago
POMMY MORON
mutguts 3 years ago
@JonThm Thank You,
so many people dont understand 98% of Earths Bio-Mass is Plant life,
thus what you said is completely true, and so many other reasons your correct, i dont even know where to start,
but congrats for helping point out the truth
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
@JonThm Hey man, guess what? Plants also need Nitrogen to grow, and oxygen, and a bunch of other things. That doesn't mean you can radically shift the balance of those chemicals without throwing the biosphere into disarray.
Furthermore, ice may contract as it melts, but if it also slides from land into the sea (as with Antarctica and Greenland) then it causes ocean levels to rise. If all the ice was already in the sea, then sea levels would drop. It isn't, so they'll rise.
planetnerd 1 year ago
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Julia Gillard was a member of a dangerous far-left radical communist leaning organisation called the Socialist Forum as recent as 2002. If a Rudd Labor government is elected, Australians will have a dangerous government. Don't risk Australia's trillion dollar economy on unionists and a former communist.
FairDinkumPride 4 years ago
Have you noticed yet, globla warming was just words made up by Newsweek, when the scientists were predicting the next ice age?
JonThm 4 years ago
lol HowardsBeast if you are a fan of John Howard why not make your name HowardsBest not HowardsBeast. That just makes you a beast of John Howard lol.
sylviesangels 4 years ago
Well done. The La Trobe Valley is not just coal, it is brown coal. Brown coal is even dirtier than black coal. So they really do need the windmills down there. To be serious about environment, people need to think more Green or Labor. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
saintfletcher 4 years ago
Is this the same Labor gov who have backed out of their original climate change policy and are agreeing to the gov's policy? Me too! Me too!
Lerlialen 4 years ago
I don't really know. I'm just saying to think of the environment. Is it Greens? Is it Democrats? Are there Independents? Time to think but not waste votes. This is too serious. Blessings from Earth +++ The Saint +++
saintfletcher 4 years ago
@saintfletcher CO2 Is not the cause of global warming, it contributes yes;
UC San Diego, shows that the last four great ice age cycles began when Earth's distance from the sun during its annual orbit became great enough to prevent summertime melts of glacial ice. The absence of those melts allowed buildups of the ice over periods of time that would become characterized as glacial periods.We just left the Quaternary Ice age thus we will begin moving closer to the sun causing warming.
itsadeadmansparty 1 year ago
The farmer's association are backing a Howard government, as a Labor gov plans to cut back subsidies already provided under this gov. The greens need a life out of climate change and start broadening their expertise in other areas of the economy. Wow a PM with climate change policies and nothing else...I would really like a PM like that...:N
Lerlialen 4 years ago
Realistically, we're not going to end up with a PM with climate change policies and nothing else. Nobody is that stupid and your caricaturing adds nothing to the debate.
Plus, single-agenda groups add to the debate without seriously running for the highest office. The Greens have no pretense of running the country. Their agenda is to draw people's attention to particular environmental and social issues. And they've succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
planetnerd 4 years ago
planetnerd, I was taking the piss out of the greens, I actually agree that the Climate change policy that the gov has put out can be better...If only the greens won't shoot down every idea the government has to rectify it. But I agree on one thing, they certainly have had a helping hand in putting climate change on the priority list and I give them credit for that.
Lerlialen 4 years ago
well of course the farmers association loves the howard government
after all, who was it who forced the sheerers to strike and resulted in the creation of the labour party?
everything old is new again.... except howard
sean2074 4 years ago
Yes...and there is not one shearer in the country that would vote Labor anymore.
pi550 3 years ago
The debate was quite good. I was particularly glad that Rudd *finally* countered the interest rate half-truths and outright lies the government have been propagating. I just hope they come up with more concrete policies on climate change.
majoroz 4 years ago
Majoroz the truth is this howard govt has produced interest rates at an average of 7% and under the previous policies the average was 12.4%..you see majoroz when the interest rates rise under the coalition it only rises by say .25% but under labor they rised by 2% and thats huge compared to the coalitions rises..Swann is getting scared the debate with Peter is tuesday:) if no one can see through his Fake confidence then wait to see him crumble and get cut in half in the debate
powerbroker77 4 years ago
But with private debt at record levels, interest rates are going to have a bigger impact, aren't they? (Household debt as a percentage of income has more than tripled in 15 years, with the sharpest rises occurring after 2000)
majoroz 4 years ago
Majoroz cmon your worried about interest rates and private debt and you vote labor?Coalitions track record on interest rates cant be beaten. im telling you peter is our best money manager running surplus not deficit..Majoroz even the governer of the resverve bank says labor's fiscal policy is a wory for pressure on rates.labors IR laws put pressure on interest rates and this is because of wages being inflated and a lot of employers cant afford to pay it leading to highrates
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Ha Ha Howard lost the debate. Take THAT Howard!
poomonkeey 4 years ago
Howard did quite well in the debate vs the spin doctor so watch it again and listen to howard's words and not the fancy sloguns by rudd, rudd is hollow and has nothing special on his plan for Australia, will be funy to watch Peter Costello cut swanny in half in the debate because swann doesnt know his stuff well anough and swann is not smarter than Peter:)
powerbroker77 4 years ago
I think both Costello and Swanny held up well. I have to admit I wasn't confident about Wayne's performance, but he was at least as good as Pete. I won't go into the health ministers' debate, of course. :-D
majoroz 4 years ago
Sorry, I meant by that that I wasn't confident BEFOREHAND of how Swanny would hold up. I must say it's nice for Howard and Costello to acknowledge the great contribution of past Labor governments as well (refer to both the leaders' and treasurers' debates if you don't believe me).
majoroz 4 years ago
Oh Majoroz you are right about Howard and Costello acknowledging the great contribution Hawke/keating did for this country and you should know also that howard sat down with Hawke many times and worked together but this doesnt happen anymore and i can say this is labors fault not wanting to work together on Anything these days:( ...the good old days hey? ;)
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Majoroz Wayne Swann did ok I didnt like the way Swann couldnt be a Man and acknowledge the good the Coalition has done without putting on his Spin on top of it.he wasnt tested enough and i wasnt totally fooled by him because on 2 occasions he was flat out wrong in my opinion but these debates are just let one person speak and then the next without any front on one on one true debating.from the debate to me it showed me Peterhas more knowledge and certainly can be trusted with our money.
powerbroker77 4 years ago
this guy for pm
atzre 4 years ago
Well done.
airbarracuda 4 years ago
i loathe howard. im voting green. and im gonna set my preferences for labour, with the liberals absolutely last.
stepntone 4 years ago
You poor libs your leader is an american puppet. How many australians has he sacrfised for bush's war for oil? if you believe howard you will believe anything. Howard cares only for himself.You don't stay wealthy by selling your assets ask the rich. If your not of aboriginal decent you are an illegal immigrant. And thats a fact.Howard steals from the aboriginals. there land there resource's there way of life. He is a thief nothing more.
the1calledbat 4 years ago
Without America my friend you would probably be eating fried rice and spring rolls everyday, Howard doesnt steal from Aboriginals and if anything they get increased benefits than anyone else, Maybe you should blame captain cook instead of Howard :)
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Hahaha, you guys are absolutely right.
XxHirokixX 4 years ago
Nice Evo.
Let me point out a few good things.
1. Low interest rates
2. Strong economy
3. More jobs
4. Better business environment
5. Stands by convictions not by popular opinion.
6. Gives workers a choice in the work force, instead of handing the power to arrogant, bias and foul mouthed unionists.
7. Keeping illegal and possibly dangerous immigrants out of Australia.
8. Encouraging small business.
adro389 4 years ago
Adro389
1. Universties funding cut.
2. Gst lies.
3. Country major assets sold.
4. Health is strugling.
5. Giving powers to rich to squeze the pooor.
6. Handling of tempa.
by the way the one you called illegal are not illegal. First occupation of Aborignies land was illegal too study the history if you ever heard of it.
addy986 4 years ago
Adro 389 makes the Right Points about this country that matter, the rest if they had it their way would turn this country into a rubbishtip
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Adro, it is naive to believe that the Australian economy has control over the global economy. You will find that our interest rates are low when international rates are low. Howard is happy to blame the reserve bank for interest rate hikes *now*, yet similtaneously expects us to believe that the Keating-era interest rates are Keating's fault, rather than a symptom of the global recession of that time.
hewhosayszonk 4 years ago
Hewhosayszonk your incorrect and you need to learn about fiscal policy And heres the killer for you and it kills you old son....Ian Mcfarlan the former governer of the reserve bank himself last year said that because the state labor is now in control that could push interest rates higher and be a problem:) do you know why?
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Get your pickets for APEC!
It's going to make a real difference! Everything is going to change because you walked around with a sign, yelling some uncharismatic and unoriginal chant.
Yeah defend David Hicks. He only trained with Al Quaid, and most properly fought against Coalition forces in Iraq.
adro389 4 years ago
Yes say he used Mohammed Haneff as a pawn. The ALP supported the governments decision. But I am sure that if he did commit a terrorist act you would be whinging that they did nothing.
Yes blame Howard for going into Iraq. He was going under false information, he simply trusted the most powerful country in the world.
He rigged the republic debate... Do I need to say anything? I would love to see your case.
adro389 4 years ago
On Nuclear Energy; it is clean, if the bi-product is disposed of properly and the highest level of safety is upheld, I do not see how it is a bad thing.
But like someone said, lets use photosynthesis using algae. All we need to do now is hook up a whole lot of wires to plants...
You people whinge that something has to be done about climate change, yet you ramble on about all this in 20 years time crap. The problem is now. The best answer for Australia is nuclear.
adro389 4 years ago
Hear, hear!
utuser101 4 years ago
Solar Thermal Power is generated in California, Spain, Italy, and even Canada. It is cheaper to run than nuclear power. You are right, we gotta start somewhere. God Bless you +++The Saint+++
saintfletcher 4 years ago
12. Instilling hatred and fear into the population for his political gain.
13. Stealing gas, wealth, land, freedom, peace and safety from the Timorese.
14. Using illegal tactics to eliminate political opponents(Pauline Hansen (not that I like her)).
15. Spending exorbitant amounts of tax payers money on grossly luxurious things for his own benefit.
16. Letting David Hicks rot to hide his lies.
17. Taking away an decent education for our children.
There's more...
dhowzer74 4 years ago
Love your work! However you forgot.
7. Slashing funding for all public amenities.
8. Lying about he and Costello's role in our economy.
9. Shoveling taxpayers money into private business pockets.
10. Having a dire hatred for the blue collar worker, removing their rights
to line the pockets of big business who are already having record profits.
11. Trying to use Mohammed Haneef as a political porn.
dhowzer74 4 years ago
The Howard Government figures are all just creative accounting to fool the people. Gross domestic product figures are a complete wank. As standards of living increase for the rich Australian more children suffer in poor families who can never catch up. Water and agriculture have been mismanaged now Howard wants us to thank him for water and vegies?
wdyagf 4 years ago
Help get the word out to all. Read Ozonomics by Andrew Charlton. This book debunks all the bullshit Howard shovels and shows that the economy, the thing he toats as his strong point is not Howards or Costellos doing.
dhowzer74 4 years ago
MY GOVERNMENT? ...Sorry John:( It will be The Peoples Government. NEW CENTURY Get with it!
The Office of Human Evolvement Logical Progress has designed a new Governance model which is not based on an ancient two party preferred dictatorship. The designer is at Deakin University.
It is written to benefit the People ...Who will embrace it Howard or Rudd that will decide Australia's election!
wdyagf 4 years ago
Many a Follower of The Führer has Crashed and Burned. Now it's The little Rat's turn. The little Rat has picked up Cheap and childish Pseudo Nazi ideas in the hope that the inbred racist will side with him .
Mining Booms have a habit of ending. so those who are laughing now will be cryng later.Its just the order of things and there aint no rabbit out of Howards hat that is going to stop that.
Too many rabbits in China
zalgruesa 4 years ago
Zalgruesa is a self proclaimed communist who thinks howard is a Nazi because he has detention centers for illegal immigrants, people who come in here ILLEGALLY should be put in detention centers and then the appropriate steps to take place but you just want to let them in,,, Shame on you!
powerbroker77 4 years ago
We are signatories to the UN declaration of human rights which secures the rights of individuals to flee their own countries and seek asylum. Over 90% of 'boat people' are found to be genuine refugees, whereas a majority of those who fly here are not. It makes sense - you'd have to be pretty desperate to trust your life to a leaky boat and a smuggler you've never met.
hewhosayszonk 4 years ago
No 90% are Not Genuine you are incorrect, you know nothing about the smugglers and what they do...you are blind or uneducated...
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Powerbroker, I am in the field, trust me when I say that I didn't just pull that 90% figure out of my arse. You didn't actually refute my arguments, you just said they were wrong, so I'm going to take it as a given that anything further you say at this point is just to get the last word in. Feel free.
hewhosayszonk 4 years ago
Haha its you that wants the last word so nice try...you didnt answer my question either...i dont care about boat people i care about important issues about my country, Ian Mcfarlan the former governer of the reserve bank refuted your comments about interest rates for me :) and i passed them on, again you need to learn about fiscal policy and not worry about boat people lol...
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Your quote from Ian Mcfarlan had nothing to do with the issue actually, which is why I didn't respond to it. I didn't say interest rates would be unaffected by the states, in fact I didn't even mention the states. I said that interest rates are more strongly affected by international economics than domestic politics. We can see that in the steady rise in interest rates over the last few years, which have mirrored the US rise and are not the fault of the Liberals.
hewhosayszonk 4 years ago
Yes but its about money management and living within our means, labor cannot be trusted with money you can see it in the states report cards as they are running budget deficits until 2011, labors fiscal policy puts Pressure on interest rates so it does indeed have something to do with the issue:)
powerbroker77 4 years ago
Money is useless unless it's spent.
So who is the better economic manager, the party that actually invests in facilities for the people? Or the party that lit's it sit there gaining intesrest and not doing a fucking thing?
AndyWenman 4 years ago
AndyW you are way off there and down right incorrect, you are ill informed if you actually think the govt doesnt use its money to fund us, there is plenty the Coalition are funding and they dont just have money sitting gaining interest, Andy you are unwise to be negative to a surplus and we do need to save for the future and not spend it all on you:)
powerbroker77 4 years ago
The best way to reduce the amount of global warming caused by humans is to reduce the number of humans.
Are you going to volunteer?
youbet1980 4 years ago
By the way I am not being funny. I have read numerous articles that attribute the "world population boom" to global warming yet no one who believes this obvious conclusion to global warming is volunteering.
Obviously I don't want you to do this but I want you to see the total hypocrisy of this "climate change religion".
youbet1980 4 years ago
I hope you Rightwing scum realise that in 10 years from now a house will cost half a Billion dollars so not even you Masters of Exploitation will be able to afford one .Great we will finally get some equality.
This is the path the little Weasel has put us in.
zalgruesa 4 years ago
That is why I have made sacrifices now to get into the housing market with investments even in the hard times.
Surely you have done this? especially with the gains you are predicting :)
youbet1980 4 years ago
Yes, try not to sound like a uni student. Work harder to sound like an inbred bogan chainsaw jockey who desperately wants his kids to be condemned to work in the same dead-end, insecure and unsustainable industry as ol' daddy... possibly just because if his son moves away then there'll be nobody to breed with little sis. You edjumactaed people are the whole problem in the Tamar Valley. Excuse me, I'm off to church....
lllordllloyd 4 years ago
Wake up people, the governments are the terrorists!!
Google Video "Bursting Bubbles of Government Deception" and "The Magnificent Deception", break your chains from these de facto Pirates. Take our world and our freedom back from these monsters.
drkaos0909 4 years ago
Howard cares as much about the environment as men want to have prostate cancer
CaptainNavman 4 years ago
Stuff Howard, i could run this country better then him. And Kevin Rudd isnt much better, everytime i see his face on tv makes me wanna point and laugh, give us a prime minister thats smart doesnt have a speach impairment and knows exactly what the average person wants.
kariharnett 4 years ago
Your an idiot! If you want to change peoples thinking! try not to sound like a sarcastic uni student!
nickprowse 4 years ago
> Your an idiot! If you want to change peoples thinking!
> try not to sound like a sarcastic uni student!
Without trying to sound petty, learn how to punctuate and use apostrophes before calling someone else an idiot.
This is YouTube. If you don't like the way I've engaged with the debate, you can plug in a webcam and do better. Brilliant, eh?
planetnerd 4 years ago
G'day guys n girls,
thought you may be interested in checking out iVote australia, search it in google
cheers
iVotelive 4 years ago
Shit production, poor framing, bland script, stick to accounting pencil neck............
aandiee 4 years ago
man made climate change is a complete wank, Labor is a cover for the Unions to run Australia, Labor can't run a country or cut emmissions.
Dragonlady66 4 years ago
Hm. I'm not sure that you've supported your assertions too well there. Plus, since when did I say I'm a fan of the Labor Party?
planetnerd 4 years ago
No you didn't, (say you favoured Labor) just a general comment from me. There isn't really room to explain every assertion on Youtube.
Dragonlady66 4 years ago
Dear Fuck Wit,
Well done kEVIN Rudd! You want to retain coal power and improve emissions. Go figure ? Nuclear is CLEAN, EFFICIENT and SENSIBLE. Grow up you left wing cunt, you are boring !
wcb67 4 years ago
Nuclear isn't clean, it produces waste - not as much in volume but much worse in terms of toxicity. Nuclear isn't inherently sensible or stupid. It depends on whether you trust humans to run a nuclear reactor. And why do people keep bringing up Kevin Rudd? I honestly don't think he's all that different from Howard.
I'm not left wing just because I posted one rebuttal to a right-wing Prime Minister.
planetnerd 4 years ago
Sure, nuclear energy is clean. Efficient? Maybe for the next 3 or so hundred years. Sensible? Maybe, it is after all a cleaner alternative to dirty coal but it is also a finite resource -- what do you propose we do when all uranium reserves have been depleted? The right wing philosophy is clearly short-sighted.
utuser101 4 years ago
Coal is finite and much less efficient. The left wing philosophy is archaic.What do you propose to do when coal reserves run out? Russia, France, USA, Britain and France all have nuclear energy without incident. Coal mines in China kill thousands each year.
wcb67 4 years ago
The only nessecary reason for nuclear is to make a shit load on selling Uranium to the rest of the world. Nuclear is now also archaic and a non-renuable resource. Who said coal is good?
dhowzer74 4 years ago 2
What else do I expect...? Not much from John Howard. He is not as clever as people make him out to be. Watch for the next snake in the grass though. I am sure they're all tared with the same brush
AddyGoose 4 years ago
Nice one guys. I love it. Fuck Howard and his climate change "solutions."
hughsexi123 4 years ago
ROFL!!!!11ONEONEONE hahahahahahahahahahaha howard got BURNED pwnd! woot planet nerd FTW! keep on burnin that n00b and he might realise
VortexNeurofunk 4 years ago
Dan, Great response, a truly great critique of howard's 'GREENWASH' policy.
To celebrate the end of howard's term, come to Adelaide in October for DECOMMISSION THE COALITION (an ANTI howard party for young and old voters)
Details at the myspace of the ocean uprising
PEACE and remember, vote with your mind not you short term economic stability
lordtak 4 years ago
Nice work dan... Did you get the Philo CD?
Yakovich 4 years ago
i agree completely.. tax not credits.. dont ruin austrailia nemore..
evilsnowy2 4 years ago
Another solution that is not well-considered is described in only 2 words:
POPULATION CONTROL
CanberraUser 4 years ago
LIES lies you had 11 fucked years to do this. labour bring out it you wake up to it lies &more lies no blood for oil. go back to usa you fuck wit johnny. ynwa
reds2001 4 years ago
Well done! A carbon tax should have been brought in years ago. Gutless leaders equal gutless decisions! I only hope Rudd has the balls to introduce a carbon tax!
Markwin74 4 years ago
here here, u are a gentleman and a scholar
gregofscott 4 years ago
F.T.W
deadreds 4 years ago
nice one
hallucinaJason 4 years ago
A global tax will undoubtedly set the precedent. With a global carbon tax you now need a body to organize and decide how to spend this revenue. If you want to build a whole new layer of red tape and taxation onto the existing terrible systems then go ahead and yell for a carbon tax.
A far better alternative would be to give large grants toward alternative energy research. This way eventually alternatives become cheaper than the old methods.
Yandros42 4 years ago
Sure, that sounds grand. My point was that Howard chose the inferior option of two high-profile mechanisms for including impact on the environment in company balance sheets.
Ultimately, global treaties on emissions will have to be imposed if Capitalism is going to continue to be the engine of society. When this happens, the nations who have taxed emissions hardest and longest will suddenly be at an enormous competitive advantage.
planetnerd 4 years ago
Howard is not going to fix anything, I agree with you there. He destroys everything he touches, including our economy and our relations with other countries. Lest our mining boom our economy would be in a deep recession.
Yandros42 4 years ago
But you have to realize that if you outlaw something the first thing that happens is the high power people with money and influence get around the new laws through loopholes, via offshore or what have you. The next thing that happens is the middle class of business gets trodden all over by the new laws and the bigger companies which are now at an advantage.
Yandros42 4 years ago
The third thing that happens is there is less corporate tax being paid, and the individual has to fork out more income tax to fill the deficit.
And if you think socialism is going to save you then think again. Capitalism works because it promotes innovation.
Yandros42 4 years ago
In a society where you are fed and looked after no matter how useless or lazy you are, and where even if you did work hard and came up with new ideas you'd be no better off, no one is compelled to work hard. In terms of driving engines communism is about as useful as salt in a salt mine.
The only solution to saving the environment is to heavily invest in research.
Yandros42 4 years ago
This means giving out billions in grants to universities and private companies to do industry research on the provision that the research they develop must be under a particular type of public domain patent.
If we had invested in solar research 25 years ago we would probably have fewer than half the coal fired plants we have today. That's progress through competition, the way capitalism is supposed to work.
Yandros42 4 years ago
Great message guys well done!
dengis1978 4 years ago
nicely done.
mgeeproductions 4 years ago
Johnny, if you want to get re-elected then you should make airheaded, simplistic policy like Rudd does. Have a rant about the price of carrots in woolworths, have a useless housing summit, set up a committee to look at petrol prices. These are the policies that everyone with an IQ below 80 want to see, Your current policies don't appeal to this large voting block.
yourmajestyz 4 years ago
I didn't think we were talking about Rudd. I don't particularly have an opinion about him, personally.
I'm not sure that Rudd having "bad" policies necessarily means that Howard's are good. You only have to look at most of the comments here to see that there is plenty to dislike about Howard's policies.
planetnerd 4 years ago
The fact is that Australia is made up of Conservatives especially in QLD like myself. People who search for climate change videos are usually left wing howard haters to say the least. The overwealming majority of Australians agree with Mr Howard hence he is our Prime Minister.
Why did we have record breaking cold temperatures this winter. eg it was so cold that 70 year old men could not remember it being colder?
youbet1980 4 years ago
good work aleast some ones telling the truth about the to littel to late o bugger theres an election on the way polices of the coward goverment
bencanlickhimself 4 years ago
It is another tax for little Johnny's pension.
fredynerks 4 years ago
I suggest you visit the AIRC website where you'll find a whole heap of examples of employers escaping unfair dismissal claims because of operational reasons. By the way, I spend every day representing employees (I am a solicitor) who have been unfairly dismissed for any number of reasons. It IS happening, and employers are escaping liability for some pretty bloody ordinary behaviour - makes one wonder what's going to happen when the economic good times end.
JadaMai 4 years ago
The only people who don't think that there is a problem with the new IR laws are people who don't work for a living. All employees these days are less protected and more in debt than ever before. But then again, the only way for companies in Australia to show a higher profit each year and remain competetive is to work their employees to death and pay them peanuts. Don't blame Johnny, he has to continue doing their bidding because they pay him big dollars to destroy worker's rights.
austfairgo 4 years ago
Exactly. Yet there are other ways to be competitive, including investing in technology and development to make your product better than your competitor. The problem with WorkChoices is that it enables wage-cutting to be a tool of competition. Eventually, even those employers who wish to fairly remunerate will be forced into the lower wages war in order to remain competitve. In addition to this, the ILO has ample material to prove that collective bargaining promotes higher productivity.
JadaMai 4 years ago
In actual fact (and this is why the Libs attempted to smear his reputation) Professor Peetz of Griffith Uni proved that WorkChoices and AWAs have a negative impact on productivity. This was one of the reasons that the Howard government (through Hockey) refused to release the statistics on post-WorkChoices AWAs. Everyone knows this legislation is ideological poison, but some, motivated by short term greed, will not hear the compelling arguments against it.
JadaMai 4 years ago
And are you going to explain how the mining boom has over the past years lowered unemployment rates in NSW, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Northen Territory and the ACT? Its not just W.A. and QLD bringing down the Australia UNE rate, its all the states and territories.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Of course, if mattus and HowardsBeast care to do some research they might try to tell us that an employee can seek an alternative remedy in the federal court for unlawful termination (e.g. dismissed if pregnant etc). However, running a claim in the federal court costs around $40,000 - which is a bit hard to bear when you've already lost your job. So, even though it is impossible to defend the indefensible, would the Howard cheer-squad like to comment?
JadaMai 4 years ago
The difference between Howard's "operational reasons" and the old redundancy provisions is that employers of any size (even the huge corporations) are now able to sack at whim, even if the real intention is to get rid of a person because of pregnancy and so on (provided just ONE reason cited was an "operational reason") and also duck having to pay redundancy pay. Welcome to Howard's corporate vision where Australian employees have become the new McSerf generation.
JadaMai 4 years ago
By the way, mattus and HowardsBeast don't want to discuss the WorkChoices unfair dismissal "operational reasons" exclusion because the recent case of Cruikshank v Priceline shows that it is now legal for employers to dismiss employees and re-advertise their jobs on an AWA at a significantly lower salary under the guise of "operational reasons". THAT is how Howard treats the most vulnerable in this country.
JadaMai 4 years ago
What the hell are you talking about hmm?? Since when was I invited to talk about WorkChoices?? No I wasn't, I know that in all of my comments and people's comments unto me, it wasn't discussed.
Does it look like I give a damn about Cruikshank v Priceline?? Given that workchoices hasn't affected me at all, does it look like I care?
Stop talking about "mattus and HowardsBeast", this video is about climate change. And mattus has been blocked from posting too.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Apologies if I misunderstood. Yet, in the spirit of fairness, I still invite you to make a comment. But, then again, you freely admit to not caring about anything that doesn't affect you. Therein lies the true nature of the Howard Apparatchik; cares for naught but him or herself and cares even less about the plight of those less fortunate than he or she. Yet another hint at the reasons behind the impending annihilation facing the Liberal Coalition.
JadaMai 4 years ago
No I didn't freely admit to "not caring about anything that doesn't affect" me, once again you are miscontruing others comments and putting words into other's mouths, to suit your own agenda. You just can't stop lying can you?
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Rather defensive now, aren't we? Still don't care to comment on the operational reasons exemption under WorkChoices? Not brave enough to speak in more than just Liberal party catch phrases?
JadaMai 4 years ago
Liberal catch phrases ahuh sure, care to elaborate on that or are you just bullshitting again? I can as easily retort that all you do is speak in Labor party catch phrases.
You seem to be labouring under this misconception that under WorkChoices employers can just fire their workers as easily as that and call it 'operational reasons'. Not so.
You esny ptod of WorkChoices? How about 4% unemployment and a rise in real wages? More single mothers and people of my age able to get work.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Ah, citing 4% unemployment whilst refusing the acknowledge ABS stats showing WA and Qld are dragging the rest of the country up thanks to the mining boom. Nice selective citation of statistics there, HowardsBeast, but not actually correct to draw the line between your stats and WorkChoices. Check these out (see Peetz report 2006), women are paid 2% less under WorkChoices (i.e. hospitality and retail sectors) and employment growth was stronger in 1994.
JadaMai 4 years ago
By the way, 194 was the year that unfair dismissal protections were brought in. So much for your theory, champ.
JadaMai 4 years ago
I've heard that WA and Qld argument before, are you actually going to provide relevant proof? Can you source me state-by-state unemployment rates?
Whats more is, you cite mining boom as if it is just an automatic process that isn't managed well by the Howard government. Economies in boom can be ruined, you are in fact providing a pro-Howard point there, by pointing out the mining boom and the governments competent efforts in managing it well for the Australian economy.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
ABS is the source, please take a look - I'm unable to post a link, sorry. Yet, I agree with you that the mining boom is a wonderful thing and cannot just be managed by autopilot. However, last year, despite the current skills shortage, 45,000 secondary students missed out on tertiary places - despite having high enough grade point averages. Where is the investment in our future? Why just engage in working visas, while allowing the brain drain of Aussie kids to continue unabated?
JadaMai 4 years ago
Versus how many who actually got in? I'm sorry thats complete bullshit. If you get the ENTER score (VCE) then you will get into your course with no hassles. If you're lucky and scored just below, hey you might even get in on second round offers.
These 45,000 students missing out, what kind of grades did they get in their examinations and final year at school? I'm sniffing bullshit here because I know that potential doctors and physicists who have the right score will not get rejected.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
I'm betting to say that these 45,000 students were dumbasses who slacked at school and went shithouse on their exams. I don't really care if some no-hoper bogan misses out on their arts degree, which they would have dropped out of in their first year.
When I finished school I had NO TROUBLE WHATSOEVER into getting in my course.
I did look at the ABS by the way and it contradicts your assertions that Western Australia and Queensland is bringing the national unemployment rate down.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Please prove that, because I have also looked at the stats (in fact, I cited them) and they bear this out. By the way, while you're at it, take a look at Professor Peetz's 2006 study on the impacts of WorkChoices and AWAs on the retail, hospitality and manufacturing industries and the negative wages growth. I'd love to hear your comments.
JadaMai 4 years ago
Look at the ABS statistics, its right there. Western Australia and Queensland IS NOT bringing down the national UNE rate.
The unemployment rate for every state and territory has been declining for years.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
And so has the ageing crisis has also continued. Again, your citation of employment figures as a benefit of WorkChoices is disingenuous when there are so many factors. By the way, since Howard moved the goalposts in 1996, a few hours work over the preceding 12 month period equates to "employed".
JadaMai 4 years ago
Bullshit, source me that. I don't believe that 3 hours of work in one year is counted as employed.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
By the way, the Howard government (Hockey in particular) were so dismayed by Professor Peetz's findings that they engaged in brutal smear campaign. A number of eminent professors from around the world wrote an open letter to BRW condemning the government's actions and supporting Prof. Peetz. I suggest you read a book called silencing dissent.
JadaMai 4 years ago
You are going to look at the ABS statistics, right?
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Again, I've already looked at the statistics - I don't need to remind you that I cited them, do I? Care to comment about the comparison with 1994 jobs growth?
JadaMai 4 years ago
You've looked at the statistics. Are you going to concede that QLD and W.A is not bringing down the national UNE average. Are you going to concede that UNE rate has been declining in all states and territories over the past years?
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
June 2007: Full-time employment decreased by 34,300 to 7,495,400 and part-time employment increased by 36,900 to 2,964,400. I suggest, in relation to my earlier comment, that you look to the Melbourne Institute study that cites 1 in 6 employed persons is under-employed. I have looked at the stats, and it is quite clear that WA and Qld are leading the way (um...can't you read?) Do you now concede that Professor Peetz has revealed a decline in wages growth during a time of record profit growth?
JadaMai 4 years ago
No its right bloody there on the ABS website. Can't YOU read?
Part time employment is a growing trend by employers, as is outsourcing and employing casual workers. I still count them as employed, and under-employed persons too. You can sure as hell bet that if the labor party gets in power they won't be changing the definition.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
But, add this to lack of certainty under WorkChoices (4 million people no longer have unfair dismissal protection - more if you count operational reasons) and you have a heck of a lot of people who have no long term financial security.
JadaMai 4 years ago
Women do much worse under individual contracts than under collective agreements. Women already earn $150 a week less than male employees, and the pay gap has grown under the Howard Government. And women who are on AWAs do worst of all -- they receive 11% less per hour than women on collective agreements (Peetz). Howard has also presided over massive casualisation of the workforce.
JadaMai 4 years ago
The recent case of CFMEU v Don Mathieson [2007] proves that an employer who sacked an employee predominatly because he was on a union negotiated agreement (the employer ADMITTED this during proceedings) still escaped punishment for unfairly terminating the employment contract because ONE of the reasons for dismissal was an "operational reason". The AIRC admitted that under WorkChoices it was powerless to intervene. I'd say that qualifies as sacking at whim, wouldn't you?
JadaMai 4 years ago
Yeah sure, one case study certainly proves that a labour force of 10 million can be simply sacked at a whim. You say in theory that this is happening, yet it really isn't in reality. There can be those who abuse the system, that would happen before anyway. At least people can actually get a job if their sacked.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Employers are far more likely to take a risk when they know they can fire me easily.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Well, I didn't block mattus from posting, so I'm not sure why he wouldn't be able to. I'm not sure whether YouTube would even allow you to block one person from posting.
What's the issue, is it technical or is he just not allowed by someone?
planetnerd 4 years ago
I don't know. I am not him.
HowardsBeast 4 years ago
Well done, so true. I'll buy you a beer for that one. I think I still have some carbon credits at the pub.
Wasn't the gnome the same person who refused the Kyoto Protocol?
lemmyman 4 years ago
haha well done mate, you are SPOT ON!
AccordionManiac 4 years ago
Howaed a low-life, cynical scumbag. His opportunism is breathtaking in its insincerity and its "I'll do anything for a vote" tone. He is a despicable, vicious little weasel. Oh, and if he loses hisseat, which looks quite possible, I'll laugh myself sick!!!
stezzar 4 years ago
Anyway...be back later. I'm off to buy pirated dvd's! Free of religious carbon taxes.
mattus52 4 years ago
"Cutting and running", mattus?
JadaMai 4 years ago
He said "be back later" you moron.