Dont mean to start a political discusion online but, i hope everyone is goin against this bullshit. im betting at least 80% of ppl that are apart of this website will be affected by it, and if not directly family surely, please help aussie workers stand up for their rights, protest rally turnouts were fantasic, regards to all who attended

No matter how much we hate it. It's already etched in stone.
God help us if we get stuck with Kim Beasly

True enough it may be etched in stone but we shouldnt go down without a fight.

At the end of the day if it turns out as bad as it seems it might , there will be a backlash, a change of government and a change of policy.

hear hear sidedraught, up the lot of em

GST was apparently going to kill us all.

Good luck to em i say, when it happens you all probably won't even know any better.

Exactly. Thats the cards we are dealt.

What was it? " By the year 1999(?) no child in Australia will live in poverty"
Promises Promises.
Mean while their superanuation package just gained another $100 000.00 in the last 24hrs

Hi Scooter

Like you said I dont want to get invloved in a political statement but some things need to be known.

I have travelled the world, and let me say, until you leave our shores and look around, we have NO IDEA how good this country is! Believe me we dont need Beasley and the labour party in, last time Labour was in interest rates where 18.5%!!! We had national debt we COULDNT JUMP over and couldnt afford to pay the interest on our overseas debts, let alone the principle!! we WHERE heading towards being a 3rd world country. How quickly we forget.

Labour also brought in the "3 verbal, 3 written" rull on laying people off. If the person is no good, give him a chance to better himslef, then if all else fails, he goes! I know companies who have layed people of, gone through all the right channels to do it legally, then been taken to court for unfair dismissal!! And lost!!!

In the US you get 5 sick days a year, they dont acrue, and you get 2 weeks a year holiday, and its at the bosses discretion as to when you can have them! There is NO medicare system AT ALL!! If you get sick, just prey you get better, hope you have medical insurance or put your house on the market! Dont even ask about what the ASIA regions are like!!

With unemployment at 6% or lower we need to realise that it is an EMPLOYEES market now! Think of it like this, if your worried about your pay or your job, maybe you should worry about being a good employee, then you would have nothing to worry about....

To many school teachers tell kids that they must go to uni to get a better education. What about apprenticeships!!!

There is a MASSIVE, and I mean "MASSIVE" shortage of skilled labour out there because we are becoming a society of people who dont want to get our hands dirty. It is fact that you will earn more money laying bricks than being a doctor!! I know friends who went to uni, study law, started work in some of the biggest law firms in Australia, and they start on $35K a year, why? Because a million other kids did the same because they all want to sit in cafes in Armanui suits sipping lattes. My mate has since left that job, now repairs sewers in Sydney and earns excess of $250k a year, 5days a week, He has brought a house on Sydney harbour and drives a new Porsche....

As for the 100,000 people who marched against the reforms.... TV didnt show the 24,900,000 that didnt, mmm....funny that....

Ok, lifes not perfect, but go and have a look at the rest of the world.... we are very, VERY lucky people.

here here

another from the majority of the real world

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Every three months when I have to do my BAS and work out how much GST I have collected and how much I have paid out I curse that little bald headed bastard.

As if I havnt got enough paper work and crap going on without being a bloody tax collector as well.

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Umm? one word " Accountant " Claim it just like all your other outgoing expenses. 1 in, 1 out, 1 back works out in your favour if you do it correctly.

Not trying to cause a kufuffle, but really