Month: August 2015
- The claim: Unions say the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement “allows Chinese companies to bring in their own workforce for projects over $150 million and removes the requirement that jobs be offered to local workers first”.
- The verdict: The agreement allows the Immigration Department to decide that jobs should be offered to local workers before it issues visas to overseas workers, but it does not require this to happen. The ACTU’s claim checks out.
Search giant Google has announced a new company structure and a new name that will cut in half the time it takes its accountants to fill out taxation forms.
“We’re all about speed. So we figured by making our name the same as our taxation status, we’ll have more time to focus on other things,” a spokesperson for the company said.
Google last year paid an estimated $5 million tax in Singapore, on the $2 billion revenue it earned in Australia.
The announcement of the new structure was made on social media platform Google+ in April, with the news quickly spreading to other channels today.
The Dutch get pleasure gathering up their demented elderly and putting them in villages where the signs are all in English. They then sit back and watch.
Australia has set a target to reduce its carbon emissions by at least 26 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030. See how Australia’s emissions and its new reduction target compare among the world’s top 15 emitters.
The majority of Australians spend their evenings competing on a televised cooking program, new figures have revealed.
Demographer Caroline Netherby said the average person now spends 4.5 weeks a year on a TV cooking show, with nearly 80% of the population preparing food for the cameras on any given weeknight. “Most of those remaining spend the night at home, watching the cooking show,” she said.
One network executive said it was becoming harder for new cooking shows to achieve the sky-high ratings of years past. “People aren’t sitting in front of their TVs as much as they used to be. Most of them are preparing for a mystery box challenge”.
Social researcher Gabby Henderson said the way we cook at home had changed as a result. “Most people now describe out loud how they are cooking something, while they are cooking it, which is a great new development”.
Menstruation will be scrapped under a Trump administration.
The billionaire businessman said women’s obsession with bleeding was becoming a drain on the economy, a problem which he would immediately fix if elected in 2016.
Mr Trump said it was obvious that changes needed to occur, and that the current administration’s decision to allow menstruation to continue unchecked was political correctness gone mad.
The Apprentice star said it wasn’t the periods themselves that were the issue, but rather the amateur way in which women had them. “I’ve never had a period. But if I did it would be the best period America has ever seen. Period.”
100,000 more people have joined the jobs queue since Tony Abbott was elected and Australia’s unemployment rate has now had a six in front of it for over a year.
Under Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey’s Liberals we have the most people unemployed since 1994, and their only plan is to bring back WorkChoices.
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Catastrophic Spelling Error Sees Australian Croquet Team Take To Field In 4th Test
A terrible mix up has meant Australia’s national croquet team were forced to face up against England in Nottingham last night, instead of the cricket team.
The mistake was made when the croquet team accidently boarded the wrong bus in the morning. “We misspelt the sign on the front of the bus,” a spokesperson said.
It was tough going for the players, who were not prepared for the ball to be thrown at them at such pace. “I had my mallet out ready to hit the ball through the hoop, but then there was a guy running at me very quickly. I missed the hoop,” croquet player Michael Clarke said.
Another player, David Warner, said he was also confused about proceedings. I walked out onto the pitch and then moments later I was asked to leave. Maybe I did a double tap without realising it? I’m really not sure”.
Luckily for the croquet team the ordeal was over in about an hour.
Reports about the cricket team’s performance playing croquet are yet to be provided.
John Pilger – Episode 12
the role of the corporate media in manufacturing narratives, its relationship to capitalism and commodification, and the importance of independent media to pierce through the propaganda. Pilger provides his blistering critique of the especially insidious liberal media whose misinformation and disinformation is so critical to the ruling class. Eric and John touch on an array of other topics including Greece, Ukraine, and debt as a neocolonial weapon. All this and much more on a slightly abbreviated Episode 12 of CounterPunch Radio, featuring as always intro and outtro music from the Dr. of the Blues, the man with a PhD in Boogie Woogie,
![Environmental activists warn that the rapid fall in bee numbers could take a catastrophic toll on food production worldwide [EPA]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdresplarge/mritems/Images/2015/8/6/8f27685aeae24d3b8c143908ddb667e8_18.jpg "Q&A: Bee crisis stinging world food production")
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