The Greens oppose the CPRS not because it is too weak, but because it will point Australia in the wrong direction with little prospect of turning it around in the timeframe within which emissions must peak, says Senator Christine Milne.
Silent redundancies at Fairfax?
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The Fitzgibbon Brothers (Joel and Mark) were having a very relaxed beer or two at the Railway Hotel in Cessnock on Friday night. The former minister was chatting to his local constituents and the CEO of NIB Health Fund did not seem to be spruiking his company’s products. Fairfax Media is again offering redundancies to selected journalists. But this time they are asked to sign a piece of paper that says the journalist accepting the package must remain silent about their time at Fairfax and must keep mum about receiving a redundancy package . That makes it a bit hard to get a CV together for another job. Lawyers are being consulted. It seems that RMIT University may have set a new standard of academic appointment. Which acting Dean has no degree? Why has the CEO of Fairfax, Brian McCarthy, sold more than a quarter of the shares that he — personally — holds in the company? National “AUSTRALIA” Bank takes aways their credit card printing contract from an Australian supplier and hands it to Taiwan supplier, despite Australian manufacturing options being available, in current economic climate, where jobs are a priority — aren’t they? This is approximately 5 million cards a year and around 2.5 million AUS dollars. One of the major Australian suppliers that I know of (who is not the current supplier) wasn’t even asked to tender — - they currently produce this product range for a smaller bank — and this contract would have meant about 20 more Australian jobs. (“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” — Mark Twain.) Great acronym: My child’s high school newsletter advises that students will soon be provided with laptop computers under the Rudd government’s “Digital Education Revolution, or DER”. A friend of mine operates a gift shop in Adelaide CBD. She employs an architectural student who comes from China. I don’t know all the details of his situation except to say that he has finally passed his citizenship test and is now one of us. The thing that alarms me is that this very intelligent young man, who is regarded by those who know him to have a bright future here, had to sit the citizenship test 5 times before he passed. So what? Well, his employers became so concerned at the continual failing of the test that they encouraged the young bloke to contact the relevant department to find out what the problem was. Each time he sat the test it cost a fee (don’t know how much), which he found difficult to finance. The department told him that they were under no obligation to tell him why he failed. Does anybody else think that this is a bit rough? Media Monitors is sending the majority of its “production work” out of Australia, leaving many long term employees without their jobs. Press is going to Kuala Lumpur while Broadcast will be done in Wellington. Crikey published this tip on 18 June:
Ans then we received this:
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