Shall do :) I have called my MPs office (new the Labor MP in Melbourne) and they're putting the question forward for me to Amanda Rishworth.
I'll let you know I go.
Fingers crossed
MisterFrog
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I really, really appreciate your through response, but I'm questioning how long it'll take after royal assent for it to practically be in force.
As it's currently written, it only compells the fair work commission to update, or make new awards in line with the amendment in this bill (I think?)
I'm wondering if someone knows if the way it's written can mean I can argue that section 18.6 of Professional Employees Award is no longer valid (if this bill, in fact, does make it invalid), before the fair work commission actually gets around to updating my award.
As they should. If we're going to barely lift our finger to prevent see level rise, we ought to take them in
I wouldn't worry about it, looks fine while scrolling:
Yes, but also this would be a huge scandal which would no doubt come out.
As much as this is a pretty big fuck up, I have decent trust in the integrity of the vast majority of public servants. (Not to say that information isn't ever massaged or suppressed in the public service, just that a conspiracy of this magnitude would not stay quiet).
Give it a couple of months. If it really is a conspiracy, I bet we'll find out.
This is extremely unreasonable. It should be on record how an individual MP voted on every single bill. How else are we supposed to hold them to account?
Something something, rules based order, something something ruining our reputation.
But honestly, we need to get legislation in place to stop governments making such plainly terrible deals in the first place.
If it's not profitable, but has to get built, that's just screaming government should built and control it.
Why we keep subsidising hugely profitable companies is beyond me.
And where old contract terms are unfair, we ought to grow some balls and say: we're reneging on this as a sovereign entity, because the terms were unfair, and oil and gas companies have lobbied like crazy to make them happen.
We should make these past injustices against Australia, right.
Try let the Americans coup us, at least it'll be overt
May I ask what the relation is to the story you posted?
What a world where you have $450,000 lying around to invest in your friend's business
Wealth tax when? It's likely the 1 thing the UK has going for it, politically, at the moment.
Yeah, we've dropped the ball. You actually need to do some enforcement to make this work, seems like that's hardly being done. And increases in enforcement would pay for itself.
Making something annoying to do definitely is a winning strategy.
It's not even criminal to use a VPN in China, but they are banned and make it very difficult use, you just accept your fate that they don't really work anymore. It's still possible to circumvent the Great Firewall, but requires way more effort than before. Most people just don't, even those with a desire to.
Just that for our purposes, it's for something worthwhile (In my opinion. Smoking is dumb, and as stated in another comment, someone's "freedom" to do it isn't convincing if you want to live in a social democracy.)
Licencing seems like a good first step (that, I find it mindboggling didn't already exist).
It's not like the same level of enforcement is needed continuously.
I kinda do think shutting down and charging shop owners would be enough to massively curb the trade. It wouldn't stop it, but suddenly it becomes more of a pain to buy.
Currently shops are doing this in the open. How hard would it be, honestly, to make a tip line (internet form), have a small team of inspectors go around, charge and shut people down? It kinda feels like this isn't even being done.
And if funding is the problem, well, it kinda pays for itself.
Gotta make it juuuust enough of a pain that you either quit, or are willing to pay the extortionate excise.
Can't really argue with the results, we massively curbed smoking in this country until vapes showed up.
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It's stated in my contract, but also this is the appropriate award for enginners: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/awards/awards-summary/ma000065-summary#who-the-professional-award-covers
Unfortunately as it currently stands, I'm not entitled to overtime because of clause (section? I dunno the terminology) 18.6 of the award https://awards.fairwork.gov.au/MA000065.html#_Toc201323508
I'm hoping that this legislation ties the hands of the fair work commission so that I don't have to work 2 "extra reasonable hours of overtime" each week.