Apparently Kevin Rudd has not attended a Christmas party for PM&C. Out of two he has been to none — John Howard attended nearly all Christmas parties. People in the Department think this is a deliberate snub. Although apparently he needs to have the AFP vet anywhere and anyone he talks to. John Howard is being looked on as someone in touch with the people who worked long hours for him.
Queensland Liberals are starting to think that the funny man at Telstra who issued the new LNP HQ with a phone number that ended in 666 was more on the money than he realised.
The Director General of NSW Dept of Arts, Sport and Recreation has vastly increased the staff in her own office, who do god knows what. This empire building was mentioned at the estimates hearings, so someone has noticed. We know about lots of “reviews” at huge expense. Roll those logs. Meanwhile, casuals employed in various areas of the Department have worked for several weeks unpaid because she has insisted on approving all recruitment, then failed to sign the approvals before she went to NZ for two weeks. Even by the self-serving standards of the NSW Government Senior Executive Service, this is a new low.
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Is Labor’s refusal to abolish the ABCC , the industry-specific industrial relations body for the construction industry that has pretty extreme powers, perhaps Labor’s payback for the sight of CFMEU members cheering John Howard back before the 2004 election?
Although Sunday’s Great Australian Run promised first, second and third placed males and females would be awarded prizes in five separate age groups, none have been paid and the results list — which on Sunday and Monday showed age group placings — have since been amended to delete all such rankings. Further, the GAR has no contact phone number and is not responding to emails from disgruntled place-getters.
I have it on very good authority that Wizard are going on a witch hunt for staff members who may have spoken to members of the media about the NAB purchase and are breaching the Privacy Act by demanding personal phone records from staff. Information about the sale/purchase has appeared on the websites of Crikey (as you know) as well as The Sheet, Money Management and the Herald Sun. Wizard and/or GE Money management are now trying to match up the personal mobile phone records of staff with phone numbers of journalists at these publications to expose them.
Casual journalists at the Herald Sun are to be told they are no longer needed — despite the many calls on their services to fill essential sub-editing holes, especially at school holiday periods, Christmas etc.
ANZ staff aren’t allowed to put up Xmas decorations in the office. Health and safety regulations. Talk about Scroogey.
Regarding the Oz Minerals mystery. Contrary to Ausenco’s response to the deferral of their work for Oz, in which they stated that staff working on Sepon and Martabe would be reassigned, last Friday they laid off staff in Brisbane and Perth.
Further to the tip earlier this week on Foster’s retrenchments — the actual number is 20% across the company
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Crikey/Media Monitors radio rumour watch reports:
- Presenter Ross Stevenson jokes racehorse Bauer was seen out with former AFL footballer Ben Cousins the night before the Melbourne Cup. — 3AW (Melbourne) 7.09am
- A listener received a 15th birthday party invitation which asked those attending to bring their own alcohol. — 3AW (Melbourne) 7.09am
- It is rumoured that former Tourism and Economic Development Minister Paul Wriedt is seeking a new job, possibly heading up the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. — HO FM (Tasmania) 8.00am
- Peter from Victor Harbor claims he heard Penny Wong calling PM Kevin Rudd by his first name on ABC radio. He wonders if this is appropriate. Presenter David Bevan says there is no way Hillary Clinton would refer to Barack Obama as “Barack”; she would call him “The President”. He reckons this lack of formality with names is corroding our society at its highest levels. — ABC 891 (Adelaide) 11.37am
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So the PM hasn’t turned up to your Christmas do. Dang. You know, it’s entirely possible that he was off at the North Pole assisting St Nick with stocking-fillers for all the good little girls and boys at PM&C who appear to be living in A WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE. Get real folks. I hand over a reasonable wad of cash each year to Canberra, gladly. So when it comes down to it, I guess I’m working for the PM too. And he’s not going to be dressing in a Santa suit and serving drinks and savouries at my Christmas party either. You’re welcome to dig up ever-festive JH for your festive bash. Sounds like neither you nor he have a adequate supply of mates.
Re: the comment about informality “corroding our society”. I think one of the great things about Australia, as opposed to America, is that awareness that our PM is a reasonably normal kind of person. There is too much distance between the people on the street and the people in power in America. I don’t think it should really concern us how ANYONE, let alone a Government Minister, refers to the PM in a conversation.
I My Self Have Not The Abilty To Formulate The Documents For A High Court Case Of Which The Judge Would Proberly Still Cover Up For The State Anyway So For Ten Years Fighting For Justice The Right Way by The Law And Still Get Raped And Abused All Over Again, And The state lawyers Just Laugh In Your Face ,Because You Are A No One Today The 4th Of December 2008 Was The Last day To Lodge the Appeal To The High Court so because Of My Interlectual Ability I had no Hope Of having Any Documents drawn Up Fot An Appeal Verbally Yes i would And Could Put My case Forward But They Do Not Allow That
Im Sorry For All The Other Victims Out Their As I Know My case Was A Win Case But The Courts Have Coverd Up For The Stae Of New South Wales, Once Again And They Will Continue To Do This As Their Is a Lot Of cases Pending In The Sydney Supreme Court For The Same Claims I Took Before The Courts, If Those going before The Courts And Win i Congradulate You As For Me Im Down a Home A Car And Just Surving My Faimly And Children And Grand Children Are My Suport And Freinds ,
And The Shames Thing Is The attorney General Waqs Asked personally By Me via mailAnd Email And Phone To Help Take This case To The High Court yet has Done Nothing That I Am Aware Of as They have Not Even Been Incontact With Me About Asking For assistants From The attorney General
Even kevin Rudd Our Prime Minister Is wiping His Hands of Us Victims He can If He Had The Guts To Stand Up For Us Victims As He has Been Asked many many Time But Yet Has Not Once Mentioned Us So Much Guts From The Man Thats Running Our Country , He Can Not Even Stand UP To The State Goverments Of Australia To address This Issue
It Must And Has To Be True That new South wales is The Most Corupt State In australia , Thats Why Peter Hollingworth Got Kicked Out Of The Governer Genrals Job And Why Bob Car Changed The Laws , And Why The premiers have left Their Jobs
Nathan Rees Are You Going To continue What The Other Past leaders Of The State Of New South Wales have Done
To Us victims And Continue The Cover UP Like The Past Premiers Have Done
Anyone That Can Help And draw Up The Documents For A High Court Fight get In Contact With Me at , michealjbrown@hotmail.com Im Real And A real Victim The Goverment defintly Does Not Want To Give Justice To
You Imagine Sydney Harbour Bridge Been Blocked By All Us Victims And The Main City , The State Would Be In Melt Down For The Loss Of Income From Every Body They can Not lock Us All Up as They Do Not have The Facilities For 500,000 Thousand Victims Of Which They Would Abuse Us Again Anyway Kind Regrds Huffnpuff 4/12/2008
Whatever Hillary calls Barack, you can bet it will be a lot more polite than some of the things she called the previous Democrat President!