o sung wu,
Pauline probably makes good 'fish and chips' but she make a far better 'Attila" the "Slayer".
She has my vote as well as my back.
Back in those days when we needed a partner who you could trust with your back someone with the front of this woman would have been my choice.
Up here in QLD you wouldn't believe how scared the pollies are and how fast the are running to cover their asses.
Now we are having 4 new seats and a massive realignment of others so much so that home base politicians are becoming no based.
Good to hear from you mate
chrisgaff

The fact Aus. Post were losing money hand over fist, until Mr FAHOUR came along and completely transmuted their operating practices, is surprising. Given that I/We receive quite an amount of mail as a consequence of Ebay Auctions, and purchasing Numismatics material, and I can't begin to count the number of Stamps of high, face-value, yet to be cancelled.

Today was a prime example. One package contained two Numismatic catalogues, and another, a much smaller NZ catalogue. Weight plus Registration fee amounted to $5.00, requiring an attachment of a $3 and $2 stamps. Neither were cancelled upon receipt. The other packet, contained the NZ Numismatic Catalogue, requiring a $3 stamp, again uncancelled, though from a different origin altogether. A total of $8 of uncancelled postage stamps, quite capable of being re-used again.

Furthermore, we quite often receive ordinary mail bearing a $1 stamp, again not cancelled. I can only wonder who is responsible for ensuring masses of revenue are not lost to the Post Office, through simply neglecting to cancel these revenue stamps?

Small potatos I'd agree, in the scheme of things. But if these loses were extrapolated right across the board, you've really got to wonder, how Aus. Post ever made a quid in it's entire existence.

Dear o sung wu;

You wrote;

“The fact Aus. Post were losing money hand over fist, until Mr FAHOUR came along and completely transmuted their operating practices, is surprising.”

Well it might be suprising but it certainly isn't a fact.

He had been at the helm for six years before managing to record Australia Post's first loss in over 30 years and it was a whopping $222 million dive into the red.

“The national postal service made a profit of $16 million in the six months to December, after posting a $222 million loss in the 2014/15 financial year, its first loss in more than 30 years.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/australia-post-profit-falls-sharply/news-story/94bcc121af1b8caf4e17a4fd302c59c3?nk=13e4ad793ad2d02fcd57d8fad318865b-1487932724

I'm interested to know why you thought it had been losing money hand over fist before he came on board. How do you think these impressions filter out of the media you consume?

One thing of note about Australia Post is its high rate of union membership, particularly among base rate employees, sorters, delivery and counter staff etc, around 90% are members of the CEPU.
Thanks to the efforts of a strong and diligent union, all employees at post have benefited from a excellent union negotiated enterprise agreement. That agreement is presently being renegotiated and without that union involvement employees could expect nothing more than 'coffee shop' wages and conditions as determined by some fat cat at 'Unfair Work Australia'.
It is amusing that the CEPU has set the wage point at a 14% increase being the "benchmark" set by the pay increase granted to CEO Ahmen Fahour in the last year. Hard to argue with.

http://www.eba9.com.au/

Steel, Pauline is the one in the spot light. She is also the one who has not given up the fight, despite the usual anti Muslim crap she has been branded with over the matter. So I do think it was here scalp.

As for the NBN, nobody in their right mind would have touched that with a barge pole without some huge financial carrot because Turnbull inherited a real basket case.

Paul. You do know that wages are paid from profits, and to simply suggest a wage rise of 14% just has no merit.

As for the FWC 'fat cat' as you refer to, this person, or persons, have read the submissions from all sides and decided that the ridiculous penalty rates forcing many out of business were just that, ridiculous and totally unsustainable. Quite frankly, I’m amazed because I really didn’t think they would go that way, although I knew they had to. Three cheers from me.

Why would an atheist object to cutting penalty rates for Sundays?