Do you know anything EmperorJulian, or do you like telling stories.

John Howard took the GST to an election, & won. You can't do more to offer your policy at an election.

I don't like it much, because of what has happened to the distribution. It is now used to prop up our 2 failed states, Tasmania & South Australia. This is not what Howard proposed, but is typical of lefty activities when ever they get into power.

Do try to get some facts right, for your whinges.

Yes, Julian. The people did approve the GST when they voted for the Howard government. Howard brought it up, said that it would be, included in the the next election and, voila, we had a GST, well after other civilized countries. And WTF does the GST have to do with youth wages?

The Howard team took office only by a gerrymander as the Beazley team got more votes than the Howard team. There wasn't one element of either team's policy that the people were even asked to decide on. Just pick one of the teams on offer - and they didn't pick Howard.

The GST got through the Senate only because enough Democrat senators voted opposite to what the people who voted for them expected of them from their own written policies.

It was totally a pollies' decision and not a decision of the voters but the product of a gerrymander plus a blatant deception of the voters by the Democrat pollies through a back room deal.

There's no way the people voted for a GST.

Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_1998

//Of cause i could have reworked the rosters so my staff were off Christmas day, but thats not how i operate, but as if you care about what i do//

You're damn right. Nobody cares that you had to pay your staff extra because you forced them to work on Christmas Day, you miserable old Scrooge. It was your choice and nobody forced you, so if you feel you've been hard done by it's your own damn fault. Quit bitching.

Who on earth is buying meat on Christmas Day anyway? I thought everyone bought it beforehand.

nice rant there toni, but i didnt open christmas day, but still had to pay public holiday rates to the staff that would have worked.

What i should have done was rostered them off for the day, then changed their rosters back after the hols, but im not that sort of employer, but then again, you dont want to here that as you prefer to stick the knife in when ever you get a chance.

The entire system is in much need of a revamp because times have changed yet unions wont change with the times. Oh well, i guess they will have to go down the hard road wont they.

We have slashed the budgets and now taken a big stick to those who have worked their guts out, the retirees. Who's next on the list i wonder.

BTW toni, i guessed you missed the part where i said 'WITH NO INCOME MYSELF' meaning i did not open Xmas day, yet still had to pay wages to those who didnt work, plus the two allocated holidays. Or perhaps you didnt miss it because the facts were not juicy enough for you.

Why should there be extra public holidays just because Xmas day falls on a Sunday?

Where is the fairness in that i ask? Why should businesses have to pay millions in additional pay without any income because its a gift from their own pockets.