Old Dog Thoughts: Fighting Fake News with REAL 29/8/22; Morrison's CV; Documents of his sacking,

Small business isn't the great influncer when widening the income gap in Australia. It's the bemoths in the bargaining process and their lobbyists that have always had the greatest influence on governments and the means by which wages are determined in this country by the weakening of unions in the process by exploiting the myth that individuals do better. They certainly do today they work three jobs to just get by.

Bargaining deal struck ahead of summit – Michael West

The peak body for unions and small business representatives have struck a deal on workplace reform ahead of the federal government’s jobs and skills summit.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions and Council of Small Businesses Australia (COSBOA) have agreed to work together to simplify and reduce complexities within the current industrial relations system.

This includes a pledge to support new options for collective bargaining, proposed by the ACTU last week, which would enable multiple workplaces to work together to strike deals with employees.

Supporting a simpler form of the “better off overall test” in fair work laws is also part of the agreement.

Bargaining deal struck ahead of summit – Michael West

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A closer look at Scott Morrison's CV

February 11, 2019:

“When Scott Morrison skipped out the doors of the Property Council of Australia (PCA) in 1995, where he had spent six years cutting his teeth as a spinner, lobbyist and propagandist, he landed in the tourism sector. Specifically, the Tourism Task Force (now the Tourism and Transport Forum) — a lobby group that in many ways mirrored the PCA.

For the next 12 years, he would switch between various roles in peak and government-run tourism bodies — and a brief…

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The Fiberal Party of Australia - Lies & Misdemeanours

The Fiberal Party of Australia - Lies & Misdemeanours Where is Dutton on Morrison’s secret ministries?
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"The acquisition and exercise of power must carry with it significant responsibility. As Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Reasonably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been keen to understand how and why Scott Morrison so readily sacrificed the essence of our style of government, destroying the conventions of transparency, of ministerial appointments and responsibility, by secretly appoin…
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This shit failed and we are sick of it.

Our voting choices are only authentic if our decisions are informed by truthful information. That condition is now increasingly elusive.

In Australia, over two-thirds of adult news consumers report having seen media items they considered to be deceptive. This includes misleading commentary, doctored photographs and serious factual errors.…

June 8, 2019:

'Thirteen years after Scott Morrison was mysteriously sacked from a senior public sector job as managing director of Tourism Australia, a six-month investigation by The Saturday Paper has created the clearest picture yet of the events surrounding his dismissal.

Documents obtained by The Saturday Paper under freedom of information laws show Morrison received a pay rise less than a month before he was sacked, taking his annual base salary from $318,031 to $332,0…

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Fresh documents in Morrison’s sacking