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A CFMEU analysis of Jobs & Skills Australia occupation and internet job advertisements data busts the myth peddled by employer groups that there is a worker shortage which must be addressed through migration.
The vast majority of building and construction-related jobs have an indicative vacancy rate below 1%.
In February, there were just 56 ads for plasters – a profession employing 27,600 people nationally.
There are 30,000 bricklayers and stonemasons employed in Australia, yet only 111 job ads, which indicates a vacancy rate of 0.4%.
Vacancies for plumbers, tilers, fencers, carpenters and joiners, insulation and home improvement installers were all lower than 1%.
CFMEU National Secretary Zach Smith said:
“We have exposed the blatant lie that Australia is suffering from a tradie shortage that must be fixed through migration.
Source: New figures destroy Australia’s tradie shortage myth – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Managing editor Michelle Pini delves into whether Laura Tingle may represent the last ABC journalist prepared to report the truth.
Source: Laura Tingle and aliens at the ABC
The US Must Choose: Billionaires or Democracy
The world’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, has deleted from its website details about Australia’s key role in building F-35 fighter jets, which Israel is using to bomb Gaza.
Source: Lockheed Martin hides Australia’s complicity in Gaza bombings
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has said it will not commence a corruption investigation into the Coalition's shameful Robodebt Scheme.
Fearful and forceless: NACC fails Robodebt victims
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- Israeli air strikes on a UN-operated school sheltering war-displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed at least 33 people, including 12 women and children. Israel’s army says Hamas fighters were also in the shelter.
- “Dozens of people, including children, were slaughtered while they slept” at a UN school attacked by Israeli forces, Oxfam International says.
- Egyptian and Qatari mediators reportedly say they expect Hamas will submit its formal response to the latest ceasefire proposal in the coming days as pressure continues to mount on both sides to get a deal done to halt the devastating war.
- Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah is a “sinking ship” – overwhelmed with wounded and dead – after days of unrelenting strikes by Israeli forces on central Gaza, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says, describing it as “a scene of devastation”.
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Hospital ‘barely coping’ with dead and wounded
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Past and present but seemingly now more than ever, with the Palestine-Israel conflict there has been widespread partisanship via Internet and news commentary. The politics of polarization outside of Israel and even the Middle East, perhaps in part for its own sake, has gotten quite disturbing.
Within social media especially, the angry and thoughtless two-dimensional views are especially amplified, including the majority posted by non-Jews and non-Palestinians.
It arouses a spectator-sport effect or mentality, with many contemptible trolls residing well outside the region yet actively supporting the ‘side’ [via politicized commentary posts] that they hate less. I anticipate many actually keep track of the bloody match by checking the day’s-end death-toll score, however extremely lopsided those numbers.
Additionally concerning about all of the highly publicized two-way partisan exchanges of fury is: what will young non-Israeli Jewish, and Palestinian, children living abroad think and feel if/when they hear such misdirected vile hatred towards their fundamental identity? Scary is the real possibility that such public outpour of blind hatred may lead some young children to feel misplaced shame in their heritage.
With each news report of the daily Palestinian death toll from unrelenting Israeli bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally, including present Ukraine, ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988.
Clearly, human lives on this planet are not perceived as being of equal value/worth when, morally speaking, we all definitely should and even could be.
In fact, human beings can actually be perceived and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations. ... It's like an immoral consideration of 'quality of life'.
A somewhat similar inhumane devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations.
The worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
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