A message from PM Bill

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A message from PM Bill

Post by LEFTWINGER supreme » Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:25 pm

Easter is a great time to spend with family and friends.

I am fortunate enough to be able to spend some time with Chloe and our family.

Not everyone will be as lucky.

Unfortunately for hundreds of thousands of Australians working this Easter, they will receive less pay than they deserve due to penalty rate cuts.

Those workers in food, hospitality, retail and pharmacy are losing as much as $370 out of their pay packet this Easter.

This is simply unfair, yet Scott Morrison voted in support of penalty rate cuts eight times.

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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by billy the kid » Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:37 pm

Penalty rates, shops that open all hours, pubs that open til dawn all create a false economy.
When we consider the cost of opening up and paying penalty rates to create more business, I often wonder
how much profit is actually made by businesses after they pay all their overheads...
Im bloody sure if I was in business, I would be opening 9-5 only and if I was closed then the public can go elsewhere
and pay maybe higher prices...
Penalty rates should only apply to essential and emergency services...nurses/police etc...
Penalty rates are one of the reasons that kill businesses off...apart from incompetent business managers....
Its common knowledge that a huge percentage of businesses close down in the first twelve months...
Its just too expensive to run a business..hence why the economy is dying...look at all the shops closing down....
Why....penalty rates......(and money hungry landlords...)
Then if we abolished compulsory superannuation (the increase has been pushed back to 2025...that tells us
everything....) we might be able to stimulate the economy....but what would I know....
However...I digress......
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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by Nicole » Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:46 pm

Well said , billy. Penalty rates should go. Unskilled workers getting 40 bucks an hour just because it’s a Sunday is outrageous. Businesses can’t afford it, especially when they are having to compete against online shopping.

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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by billy the kid » Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:59 pm

Mistress Nicole wrote:
Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:46 pm
Well said , billy. Penalty rates should go. Unskilled workers getting 40 bucks an hour just because it’s a Sunday is outrageous. Businesses can’t afford it, especially when they are having to compete against online shopping.
Youre on the money there with on line shopping...the retail apocalypse is almost upon us and crap like penalty rates
may have been a bonus in another time..but now...well, its different...
The same can be said for one of my pet hates...the compulsory superannuation levy introduced by Keating...
Its all very well to say that the government cant afford the social security it pays out..I agree with that...
What I dont agree with is the need for employers to provide for their employees retirement..its not their
responsibility...its the responsibility of each and every worker to provide for their own retirement....
If they are not doing that then run more retirement seminars to educate everyone...
If they can educate everyone on TV not to drink and drive etc..then they can educate people to start
providing for their own retirement...its not fkn hard.....
And they can also start means testing the political pensions when the scum retire....like the rest of us.......
I suppose this is the problem you have when your politicians are incompetent.....
To discover those who rule over you, first discover those who you cannot criticize...Voltaire
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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by sprintcyclist » Sat Apr 20, 2019 4:01 pm

LEFTWINGER supreme wrote:
Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:25 pm
Easter is a great time to spend with family and friends.

I am fortunate enough to be able to spend some time with Chloe and our family.

Not everyone will be as lucky.

Unfortunately for hundreds of thousands of Australians working this Easter, they will receive less pay than they deserve due to penalty rate cuts.

Those workers in food, hospitality, retail and pharmacy are losing as much as $370 out of their pay packet this Easter.

This is simply unfair, yet Scott Morrison voted in support of penalty rate cuts eight times.
just because someone implies they feel bad about another persons does not mean they can or will do anything about it.
With many people, the more outraged or sad they say they are, they think the more correct they are.

Well, that is rubbish.
Right Wing is the Natural Progression.

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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by brian ross » Sat Apr 20, 2019 4:54 pm

Mistress Nicole wrote:
Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:46 pm
Well said , billy. Penalty rates should go. Unskilled workers getting 40 bucks an hour just because it’s a Sunday is outrageous. Businesses can’t afford it, especially when they are having to compete against online shopping.
Mmmm, I'm not aware of any online Coffee shops, "Nicole". Do you know any? Penalty rates apply to retail workers - those that interact primarily with the public directory - coffee shop workers, restaurant waiting staff, etc. Not much internet competition for those workers... :roll:
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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by cods » Sat Apr 20, 2019 5:21 pm

he is so two faced..

not long ago he was bargaining with business to take penalty rates off union members and pass it on to their unions instead... :S :S

my oh my now hes pretending it pains him to watch someone working on a holiday without penalty rates...


what an arsehole.... he has no shame no guilt.....he would cut his own mothers throat for a vote.....after stabbing two PMs in the back.....

cheating on his wife ...hes bloody despicable..

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Re: A message from PM Bill

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:20 pm

So what if we started our own political party?

We could call it the "Populist Party".

Note that all pollies bitching about populists are full of shit, because politics itself is a game of populism.
And populist candidates attract popularity because their policy objectives are based on common sense.

Now as founding El Presidente of our populist party I advocate our policies as thus;

> abolish income tax for anyone earning under $50K a year.
> abolish tax return submission for everyone earning less that $50K a year.
> abolish compulsory superannuation.
> abolish immigration.

If you have a policy objective you think worth mentioning, by all means suggest it.
Just keep it short and simple (even simplistic if you like).


As for Julia Gillard, we all knew she got renovations on her house paid for by union funds and slush money from the account she set up for Wilson. And no doubt Shorten and Co paid someone influential to bury the scandal.
If Donald Trump is so close to the Ruskis, why couldn't he get Vladimir Putin to put novichok in Xi Jjinping's lipstick?

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