Tag: Tony Burke

ALP Government,

Scrap the digital workhouse. An open letter to Tony Burke. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We know you are new in your job, Tony and face not only the huge demands of your portfolio but a backlog of catastrophic ineptitude and deceit left you by a Morrison government whose criminal negligence of health and welfare was rivalled only by its pandering to corporate oligarchs and its bent for wholesale corruption, but can you, please, reconsider Pbas?

Pbas is the points based system which the Coalition was keen to inflict on job-seekers, a jobactive revamp it promoted as “more flexible” than mandatory job application. It’s not. It’s Liberal propaganda designed to pillory job seekers for being out of work. Lazy dole-bludgers. Political point-scoring. Baked into it is unconscionable, sadistic cruelty and victim blaming. It’s the antithesis of everything we’ve come to associate with Labor.

Scrap the digital workhouse. An open letter to Tony Burke. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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Uncanny! Man’s Business Trip Amazingly Coincides With Family’s 4-Day Luxury Holiday
tony burkeBy on August 6, 2015

Sometimes it seems like things were just meant to be. That’s what Sydney man Tony Burke was thinking when he realised that a range of meetings he had to attend in Uluru were at exactly the same time and place as his family’s holiday.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Burke says. “The same business class flights, the same hotel. Even the hire car I had organised for my business meetings was the same one I had organised for my family’s holiday”.

Burke says it was a quirk of fate. “What are the chances of all those meetings occurring at the same time and place as my family’s annual getaway? Unbelievable.”

The coincidence means Burke, 45, was able to save on costs. “As luck would have it, we didn’t have to pay for two separate sets of flights. In fact we didn’t have to pay for flights at all. It was uncanny; one of those ‘once-in-a-year’ coincidences”.

But the story gets more amazing. Mr Burke says some of his colleagues have had the same thing happen to them. “Just last week a guy at work had a meeting in Port Douglas that was at the exact same time and place as his family holiday up there. The world’s a funny place”.