John: I'm quite enamored with the BOOT and in this case, given my druthers, would bury it ankle deep in your pronounced projecting posterior or failing that in your pompous portal and hard enough to ensure your ivories decamped via the anus sphincter! This is screw over the loyal employee, isn't it? And all you've got or ever proffered as an economic solution?

S.A. are finally beginning to realize, it's the unnecessarily high cost of energy killing off industry and our growth in this country, not fair and reasonable returns or reward for cooperative effort!

As always, there's at least one ethnic in the woodpile, to coin a phrase, trying to broker divisive division, when what we and this nation need right now is cooperation and some original thinking!

None of which are on display from the pernicious pen of this washed out commentator, with absolutely nothing new or of any worth to say!
Alan B.

So "only two years before a Shorten Labor Government takes the reins", eh? That's not the sort of pessimism I liked to be faced with first thing in the day. Just because the Coalition is a dog doesn't mean that we have to put ourselves back in the clutches of Labor. Have we not learned that the our two party system is cactus; that we can vote for people with the potential to free us from the Liberal/Labor drudgery? Our two party system is little better than China's one party system, particularly now that both out parties kick with the same foot. After Trump's inauguration, the U.S will never be the same. Why cannot we Australians orchestrate something similar? Or, are we so stupid that we will go on accepting that our future must be tied to Tweedledum and Tweedledee?

I'm now convinced the John Slater is not a real person. He is made up figure head and bit like Max Headroom. A persona created by some right wing think tank to spout silly ideas that they are too ashamed to put their own name to.

Only someone who is mentally defective would say something as silly as
"Moreover, how much sense does it make for FIFO workers with work schedules carefully coordinated months in advance to have recourse to a statutory right for community service leave?"

with a straight face. er how about CFS volunteers during major bush fires, I could pull the article apart piece by piece. However its clear that who ever is behind this cartoon cutout really doesn't think to hard about other's only their own self interest.

Cobber: Yes minister!
Cheers, Alan B.

S.A. are finally beginning to realize, it's the unnecessarily high cost of energy killing off industry and our growth in this country, not fair and reasonable returns or reward for cooperative effort!

As always, there's at least one ethnic in the woodpile, to coin a phrase, trying to broker divisive division, when what we and this nation need right now is cooperation and some original thinking!

Posted by Alan B., Friday, 6 January 2017 9:45:57 AM

This is happening all over the world. The Americians call it offshoring. Paul Craig Roberts writes about this. The affect of this, according to some, is that the skill void has now passed the point of no return for some industries. That means some industries will never return to the US because there is now insufficient skills in the US to rebuild the industry.

This all about agenda 21 people. Nothing less nothing more. Whats agenda 21 about? According to Maurice Strong, the strong man behind agenda 21, heating and cooling in homes and workplaces is environmentally, unsustainable and has to go. Living space for the masses has to be reduced to that of a single car garage in size, hence high rises.

Whats this got to do with the export of industry to developing countries? Its all about evening out the living standards of the earths population, that is pull the living standards in all western countries down to that of the 3rd world countries because they use less raw materials, per person, per year than first or second world countries.

"It's a little known secret that Australia's public servants are paid more and work less than their private sector counterparts." It's not a little known secret, just an IPA assertion. John Slater is desperate if he is going to quote the IPA report by Lane (who had resign as a Liberal candidate after homophobic comments he wrote on Twitter came to light) and James Patterson before he became a senator. The report is under-graduate at best (which fits the authors). They conflate a pay increase due to advancement through a level with an increase due to the outcome of an agreement. They then argue that an increase shouldn't be granted because of the government deficit - ie something that has nothing to do with work value.
"Public sector wages are higher than those in the private sector, on average." This is unsurprising as education levels and job complexity are are higher on average than in the private sector. Lower value work is often outsourced. Think for a moment about how a customs officer has to interpret regulations, apply technical skills, manage the public, work odds hours etc. You could also say that the mining industry, health industry have higher than aveage wages, but that doesn't tell you much about those industries and those who work in them. Its industries like cafes, retail etc that bring down the private sector average. As I said, undergraduate