Andrew Bolt's 23/12/18; You have to laugh Trumpland Revealed; Podcast and dreaming of a White Xmas;

 

Nobody works hard like Donald Trump. Nobody. - » The Australian Independent Media Network

Hover a magnifying glass over the document he is allegedly signing. What do you see? Nothing. It’s blank.
Now hover a magnifying glass over the pen in his hand. What do you see? A pen with the cap still on it.
Oh dear, Mr President. Oh dear.
Perhaps you better take that holiday after all.
 

 

 

  The grassroots push to oust Tony Abbott from Warringah

“Wake up Warringah! Let’s get out of the habit of just voting for whomever the Liberal Party throws at us. Please, don’t vote for Tony Abbott, the man who denies the reality that our world is changing.”
“If you vote for Tony Abbott and his myopic beliefs,” it said at one point, “you also follow a misogynist into a dark cave made of coal.”
Voters and activists that spoke with The Sun-Herald say that Abbott views they once accepted grudgingly are now beyond the pale. Some say the world has moved on while Abbott has remained in defiant stasis.
There was a protest vote against Abbott at the preselection meeting a few months ago, with almost one in three branch members refusing to endorse him despite the lack of an alternative candidate. That’s according to the Liberal Party’s official count released a few days later, but some members there on the night believe it was much narrower.
The progressive campaigning group Get Up is throwing its resources into the seat, appointing a dedicated Warringah campaigner who has already deployed volunteer door-knockers. According to GetUp’s campaigns director, Django Merope-Synge, about 700 people turned up to the group’s first public meeting in the electorate. Organisers had been hoping for 100.

Andrew Bolt is about to produce a new weekly podcast and if the first is an example of what's to come then you can expect the voices of he and Tony Abbott crooning across the sound waves dreaming of a White Xmas, a Xmas Past, not warming. A Homophobic Xmas powered by Coal with a promise to their children that one day under the Xmas tree that their turn will come too inherit the gains gathered Mum and Dad's hard work while remembering the past mythical wars they never fought as victories which in reality were losses. Meanwhile, the house in the gated community with security guards in which they live will have increasingly lost relevance to the world of mum and dad's dreams that progressively moved on around them.  Yes, there will be great dreaming in the Australian future one that stretches back 60,000 years rather than just 250 and the great Inglorious Colonial Past. The echoes of laughter will be heard and stories told when Abbott brought back Philip, Knights and Dames and tried to make them central to the great dream. (ODT)

 

 One business used 17 interns, but offered no jobs in taxpayer-funded program

One business cycled through 17 interns without providing one with employment, another rostered interns to work for double the amount of time legally allowed, and a third forced an intern to work for 60 hours a fortnight.
Interns receive $200 a fortnight by the government on top of their Centrelink payments. Businesses receive $1000 for every intern they train, but do not have to pay wages for the up to 50 hours a fortnight an intern is eligible to work.

Modern day slave trade and the trickle up effect. The future of Youth Unemployment and Working for the dole. (ODT)