Archive for March 19th, 2009
The stimulous package
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Spelling, Stimulus package, Wankers.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics
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‘Use your stimulous to go to the US,’ said a billboard outside a travel agency. Don’t they know only wankers like me can get away with making up words like stimuloss, but then again perhaps their misspelling was intentional too. After all Rudd’s stimulus package is lousy.
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Booze, bingeing and bullshit
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Rudd's revellers, Senator Fielding, The Liberals, The Right, unemployment, Wage slavery.
Tags: Alcohol, Alcopop tax, Alcopox, Alienation, ALP, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Economics, Family First, Fighting back, Great Recession, Grocery retailers
Comments: 2
Let’s get drunk on our power, not their poison.
Crap Corner – The Australian again
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Media, The Australian.
Tags: Afghanistan, Australian politics, Cut & Paste
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Cut & Paste in The Australian newspaper tells us about the ‘left’s’ supposed about-face on Afghanistan from support to opposition to the US-led invasion. (The Australian March 18 page 15). But that can’t be right. Only the day before, Nick Dyrenfurth was telling us, in his silly article in the same newspaper called ‘Rudd must […]
Too poor for the stimulus package
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Living standards, Rudd, Rudd Bank, Stimulus package.
Tags: ALP, Big business, Capitalism, Defence, Economics
Comments: 4
My friend Brian is too poor to receive the $900 stimulus payment. Last financial year Brian was working but earnt less than $11,000. This means that, even though he lodged a tax return, because he was below the effective tax free threshold and thus paid no tax on his income, he doesn’t get the $900. And the […]
Il Globo, the Tax Office and me
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Part time work, Public Service, sackings, Tax, Tax Office, unemployment, Unions, Workplace madness.
Tags: ATO, Commissioner of Taxation, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Democracy, efficiency dividend
Comments: 4
There was an interesting interview with Michael D’Ascenzo, the Commissioner of Taxation in Australia, in Il Globo recently. Here is part of the interview with Michael. A former assistant commissioner, John Passant, recently described the office as dominated by people who were too old and hostage to a “detail fetish” where they should be thinking big. […]
Zionism and anti-semitism
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Palestine.
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Ever since I published ‘Anti-semitism make-believe: the last refuge of Zionism’ a couple of my pro-Palestinian articles have been receiving particular attention from some readers. I suggest that those looking at my views on this also read some other articles on the site – for example ‘Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism’ and Rick Kuhn’s ‘One state only road to justice in Palestine’.