SUFFERIN SUCCOTASH IT,S FRYDAY !!!

joe6pack Friday night

Another Friday rolls around with the pleasant thought that Xmas is only 36 Days away

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And it,s already heating up. temps have been hot all over Australia Today

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So time to cool down

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Have a drink or 2

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336 thoughts on “SUFFERIN SUCCOTASH IT,S FRYDAY !!!”

  5. The Democratic Candidate is John Bel Edwards, the minority leader in the Louisiana house of representatives while the republican candidate in Senator David Vitter.

  8. Another revelation from Adele Ferguson:

    Wage fraud: Pizza Hut franchisees using ‘sham’ contracts to underpay drivers

    Australia’s second-biggest pizza chain, Pizza Hut, is under fire as evidence emerges that its franchisees are using “sham” contracts to pay delivery drivers as little as $12 an hour without super or WorkCover. . .

    . . . Over the past five years, Pizza Hut has faced fierce competition from rival chains, particularly from the fast-growing Domino’s chain and premium pizza chains. The increased competition has led to Pizza Hut closing some of its restaurant stores to focus on home delivery and introducing steep discounts to win customers.

    An estimated 90 per cent of franchisees claim losses and business collapses as a direct consequence of orders that they slash the cost of pizzas up to 50 per cent to take market share from rivals.

    A contract obtained by Fairfax Media shows a driver can earn $6 a delivery, with no more than two deliveries per round trip. Under the terms of the contract drivers provide the car, pay for fuel, vehicle maintenance and insurance.

    A delivery driver, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, said the franchisee had offered him an $8 an hour arrangement plus $4 per delivery as a compromise to the $6 per delivery contract, which includes the logo of Pizza Hut on the corner.

    “That’s the best pay methods we can do so far. The business need to make some money to keep running. Please understand,” emails show. . .

    SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer said he was outraged to hear Pizza Hut franchisees were using independent contracts to pay delivery drivers as little as $6 per delivery. . .

    Mr Dwyer said under the current EBA delivery drivers at Pizza Hut are to be paid $20.35 per hour if employed as a full-time worker or $25.44 per hour if employed as a casual worker. Drivers also receive $2.13 per delivery on top of the hourly rate to cover vehicle costs.

    Royal Commission anyone? No?

  9. socks

    As far as the government is concerned workers in pizza shops are not worth bothering about.

    Meanwhile this is going on –

    Workers owed $2.6b in unpaid super as government tries to reduce penalties

    The Turnbull government is trying to reduce the financial penalties for employers caught not paying super, in reforms framed as a “red tape” issue. The legislation has passed the lower house but may face a tough passage in the Senate.
    Meanwhile, a report last week suggests that under-payment and non-payment of compulsory superannuation – the 9.5 per cent employers withhold from each pay cheque – is rampant in Australia

    http://www.theage.com.au/money/super-and-funds/workers-owed-26b-in-unpaid-super-as-government-tries-to-reduce-penalties-20151119-gl3k8e.html

  10. Many years ago a company associated with John Howards brother, I think it was Bradmill In Maitland NSW, was put into receivership by the ATO because it failed to pass the employees superannuation contributions to employer nominated the superannuation fund i.e. robbing its employees

  11. It struck me this week ,well began to annoy me, but Truffles for a supposed silver tongue sure does use a heck of a lot of lot of ah, er, um in his speech.. Added to his usual waffle waffle waffle it makes for annoying listening.

  12. billie11

    Ah yes, young Stan Howard I believe.Even worse they also blew money set aside for workers’ holiday and long service pay. Then ‘worse worse’ The Rodent said it was quite OK for a company to spend the money if they thought it might save the company. Then to top all that badness The Rodent stumped up government money for the missing $s and solemnly declared it was a one off and would not bail out other companies in similar situation. What a lucky brother of the PM eh ? Talk about a whiff of something rotten.

  13. billie11

    That was Howard’s brother Stan. Stan was chairman of the board of National Textiles. The company collapsed in 2000 and the workers were left with nothing, owed $11 million in entitlements but with bugger all chance of getting so much as one cent of it. Before the collapse Stan and the other board members had paid themselves handsome bonuses, as you do when you are a crook. Howard insisted his brother had done nothing wrong and, determined to save the family honour, rushed through legislation for a new workers’ entitlements scheme and eventually the workers were paid a total of $6 million, $4 million of that kindly donated by the Howard government.

    https://archiearchive.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/john-howard-and-family-values/

    http://archive.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=3&c=1&t=78597

  14. Summer must be here
    Ned is hot

    And the geese are off to the pond

    Stitches out tomorrow for me, looks like it has healed up ok so looking forward to see how I look.

  16. I seem to recall that during the Wharves dispute in the early Howard years, was not only training a workforce of farmers in Dubai, they also set up a shelf company with no money, to transfer the workforce to. Meant no money to pay out workers entitlements,

    Somehow Howard and his ilk, didn’t see long service etc as belonging to workers. In fact, deferred pay.

    They seen the money belonging to the employer, for the employer to do as they wished. In fact IMHO, if employers wishes to use money, they should pay workers interest.

  17. Final Results from Louisiana,

    John Bel Edwards (D): 56.11%

    David Vitter (R): 43.89%

    A bit more detail: The Democrat John Bel Edwards won every parish that went for Obama in 2012 plus all but one parish that voted between 50% and 60% Romney, 11 parishes that voted between 60% and 70% Romney and one parish that voted more than 70% for Romney.

  18. Best parish for the Democrats: Orleans Parish (New Orleans): 86.53%

    Best parish for the Republicans: Sabine Parish (along the Texas border): 68.64%

  20. Florence nee Fedup

    workforce of farmers in Dubai, they also set up a shelf company with no money, to transfer the workforce to. Meant no money to pay out workers entitlements,

    Due to a mate I ended up spending quite a bit of time on the front line in that dispute. It was when I became a committed Vote 1 Combet !. He spoke so well and turned up at some god forsaken hours. I could have listened to him for hours. Being the wharfies he had some real hard arses to deal with and they were pretty fired up but whenever he turned up and spoke he had us spell bound.

    Anyways , yes that was what they were going to do. Transfer all the assets to another company and then collapse it. Leaving the workers with exactly nothing. Criminal or what ? But hey Peter Reith’s $ 50,000 phone card was cool.

    Another person that surprised and impressed me was Carmen Lawrence. I was not a fan of hers but she was turning up in the wee small hours after flying from Canberra and hung around for ages. No publicity , she was just turning up. Well done Carmen. My political “high water mark” was being in the front row locking arms with Carmen when word went out the police were moving in. They started but backed down.

    Surprisingly in WA one of the Farmers’ associations backed the wharfies.

  21. Not sure how Waffles is going to like being referred to as ‘a shiny new thing for people to look at’.

    Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘flawed judgment’ on show, says Anthony Albanese
    Labor frontbencher attacks prime minister over his handling of the Darwin ports controversy and his appointment of Mal Brough to the ministry

    Albanese attributed the Coalition’s boost to Turnbull being “a shiny new thing for people to look at” but maintained that the government’s numbers would decline when voters examined the substance.

    He argued the prime minister was facing the same sorts of problems with his political judgment that emerged when Turnbull served as the Liberal opposition leader.

    “Just like he trusted [Treasury staffer] Godwin Grech last time, already, early on in his prime ministership we saw him appoint Mal Brough to the position in charge of ministerial responsibility for the integrity of the parliamentary process and yet Mal Brough is under investigation from the AFP about the Peter Slipper and James Ashby affairs and, indeed, there was a raid just this week on Mal Brough’s house,” Albanese told The Bolt Report on the Ten Network

    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/22/malcolm-turnbulls-flawed-judgment-on-show-says-anthony-albanese

  22. Kaffeeklatscher,

    Surprisingly in WA one of the Farmers’ associations backed the wharfies.

    I remember that; I also vaguely remember that self-interest – getting their wheat crops exported – was involved.

  23. Would love to see Combet make a comeback. I think they then dumped the farmers. I had very little to do with that one. Not so with the Cockatoo Island dispute Never fan Basley after that one.

  36. This little black duck

    Re ‘Godzilla” El Nino . After seeing Galaxy has it 58-42 in favour of Truffles’ motley crew in Quinceland my inner nasty makes me feel pleased at the thought they will cop the brunt of it. How sad.

  37. Compass on ABC tonight was well worth watching, a nice antidote to the faux Chrsitianity of Morrison, Andrews, Abbott and the rest.

    Love Makes A Way

    Jarrod McKenna and Teresa Lee are Christian activists. They are amongst a growing number of Christians turning to civil disobedience to try to effect change.

    They share their home in Perth with refugee families and work to make their transition to Australian life as positive as possible while demonstrating in politicians’ offices to draw attention to the plight of children in detention. Inspired by the American civil rights movement their cause is faith based striving to achieve justice for asylum seekers and refugees

    http://www.abc.net.au/compass/comingup.htm

    Repeated at 11.30 tomorrow on ABC1.

  38. Whichever miserable traitorous blasted ruined our chances of getting nbn fttp and therefore decent internet should be banished from our shores and denied food, fire and shelter… oh wait, he was made the PM.

  40. Hi Leonetwo,

    It would be nice to have a billion each but we don’t have enough resources to sell to make every one in Oz a billionaire:
    Billion = 1000 million
    Trillion = 1000 billion
    23.4 million x 1 billion = 23.4 million billion = 23.4 quadrillion (23.4 followed by 15 zeros)

    Enough for one massive headache.

    Another thought, if everyone had a $billion, who would we get to do all the work needed to produce the food and stuff needed to survive in society? 🙂

  43. “This weekend Lebanon skies will be cleared to allow Russian naval forces to launch attacks from the Mediterranean. ISIS will be paid back for the Beirut bombing with Russian cruise missiles from ten ships in position offshore.”

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-asks-lebanon-to-partially-shut-down-airspace-1448052553

    Russia is moving quickly to consolidate influence in the ME. With Russia in Lebanon’s skies, will Israel think twice about violating Lebanese airspace?

  44. L2

    Readi it and weep Stop The Rain. El Nino Now.

    “Galaxy poll shows Malcolm Turnbull has won over Queensland

    The poll of 800 Queenslanders on November 17-18, ­reveals the Coalition will entrench and increase its stronghold in the state, possibly picking up a further two seats. The LNP already holds 22 of Queensland’s 30 federal seats”

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/galaxy-poll-shows-malcolm-turnbull-has-won-over-queensland/story-fntuy59x-1227617639868

  45. eJames,

    My apologies for not responding to your earlier comment about infrastructure et al. It is a fascinating topic, and one I’d like to discuss at some length, if The Pub will permit.

    The reason for my delay is that I’ve been trawling through my mother’s financial records to determine whether or not two payments of interest were reported in her 2014 tax return. I’m fairly sure they were, but I have to refer to several streams of documents to do this. I’ve finished all but one stream, and am too tired to do any more this evening.

    Unfortunately, every time her savings account reached a certain level, she would shove a few thousand into yet another term deposit, so keeping track of what was invested when, and how much interest accrued in any tax year, becomes quite challenging.

    Well done the creator(s) of Excel – that program does help a lot!

  46. eJames

    It is interesting that the Lebanese.Russians are doing that as the Russians have a large naval base in Tartus, Syria. Hedging bets in case Assad’s regime implodes or a ‘spreading of influence’ move ?

  49. Fiona

    If you phone the ATO they can give you that interest information as the financial institutions report interest paid. I was assisted in that way a few weeks ago when speaking with them regarding information for the year 2007. If you hold a power of attorney they can talk to you regarding your mother’s affairs. I have done this for a family member who has been overseas the last couple of years.

  50. Ms Adventure,

    I was wondering about that – thank you for confirming!

    The possibly easier option is to go to my local friendly franchise tax specialists and get them to check with me. It will be much faster than hanging on the phone.

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