There were far worse offenders in the restaurant industry than the Lucas group in terms of underpayment but none were worse to deal with In terms of pressure, aggressive tactics etc towards our reporting.
Not sure how Chris Lucas was “absolutely exonerated” when an audit he had commissioned showed 20% of his workforce were paid unlawfully below the minimum rates of the award …
If you and I beat someone up and put their property in the bin, we’d be charged with robbery in company and face a 20 year maximum penalty
When NSW Police do it they get paid overtime
Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.
You CAN condemn what happened to the Bondi Jewish community and you CAN oppose the genocide and you CAN oppose Oct 7 and you CAN condemn the oppression Gazans faced before that, without it justifying anything that came next.
You can and you must. You have to want it *all* to stop.
Chris Minns's recipe for a lemon tart:
1. Place restrictions on protests
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“steps down” lol
If you have a Neo-Nazi leader (Tom Sewell) speaking at your rally, its a Neo-Nazi rally. This is not difficult.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
Meanwhile
Christopher Pyne reacting to this theory was one of the highlights of the Channel 7 coverage
Peter Dutton rolling up to another petrol station photo op during the election campaign #ausvotes
Peter Dutton rolling up to another petrol station photo op during the election campaign #auspol
cool
Chart showing that even though Australia's population has grown quickly after the COVID pause - it is still lower than would have occurred under the trend growth in the 5 years before COVID
Blaming migrants for housing prices is not only wrong it also ignores the fact that Australia's population is now *lower* than it would have been had we not had COVID. Migrants are not taking our houses (or jobs)@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writes #OffTheCharts
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"But that was after an extraordinary period where the borders were shut, we saw more people leaving the country and entering it, and the Australian population went down. Even more extraordinary – during that period of border closures, house prices rose 25% in little over a year."
This is really, really good. Thanks!
Not only that, but the misconduct included promoting Dutton’s appointment as Home Affairs minister…
Against a blurry background image of an audio mixing desk sits, at a jaunty angle, the square cover image for a podcast, looking a bit like an album cover. The text reads: Another Untitled Music Podcast with Stilgherrian and Snarky Platypus.
NEW PODCAST, FINALLY: “Another Untitled Music Podcast | Pilot 1” anotheruntitledmusicpodcast.com Just look for that title in your podcast app.
Our music license limits our audience to Australia and New Zealand, sorry. I have no idea how one could possibly listen from elsewhere.
To be fair, providing advice to a corrupt regime may be in Pezzullo’s wheelhouse
the $60 million faux baronial castle that will serve as the Scots College’s new student centre
MySchool data showing the Scots College received cumulative Cth and State public funding of $58,476,011 between 2017 and 2023
“Scots College will this week unveil the $60 million faux baronial castle… Scots College, which this year lifted fees to $51,000, first lodged a proposal to overhaul its John Cunningham Centre in late 2017.“
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‼️ $58.5 million in public funding over the same period
Truly awful.
I wonder who killed her?
Dude's LinkedIn says "we're launching a masthead to give space to conversations that need to be conversated" and yeah that's a hard no from me
Old tea towel for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, with kids climbing on a playground with trees behind and the slogan “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a cake stall to buy a bomber”
Really feeling this one right now
I wouldn’t call Paterson ‘an apologist for fascists’
