I wasn't surprised at it being shit, but I wasn't expecting suicidal.
For those who don't have easy access to ABC iview (e.g. not Aus internet connection) they've now uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2y5VbC4WCo (hopefully bot gives Invidious mirrors, otherwise here)
Haven't checked the official .gov What's On site in a while, but it's always good for a quick look if nothing else is on.
Are the AFP employees (coppers) aware they are the wrong people to be handling this? They had an opportunity to help this kid, and instead just accelerated a terrorist operation until they could punish the victim.
This is very bad news for the worker movement.
The bottom line is that, despite their flaws, the CFMEU management enables construction workers to fight for better working conditions, including those working in roles where people regularly die in workplace incidents, where safety standards are a life and death matter. If they are replaced by a state-supplied dictator against the will of the workers which a union is created to represent, this introduces a conflict of interest somehow even worse than that in any of the accusations. We've seen in history how state-enforced class collaboration screws over workers. When employees are working for huge multinational companies like Lendlease, they need ways to defend themselves from all the corruption that comes with that. The CFMEU in its current state is not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing, or one assigned by the government.
This has already had a chilling effect on the other more-militant trade unions, word-of-mouth is that some are asking members not to draw attention to themselves e.g. by flying banners at the recent NSW Labor conference. Giving the government this power to weaken unions at will is a horrible precedence which I sincerely believe will cost lives when it comes to safety regulations, let alone cost of living, preventing financial abuse of immigrant workers, and the inability to support social movement, such as the Green Bans of the BLF (who were deregistered in various states in 1986 and essentially brought into the coverage of what would become the CFMEU).
Randwick Mayor Philipa Veitch has addressed protests at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and outside the offices of US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin in Matraville.
A few councils and senators have been standing up on this issue and it's great to see elected officials getting involved and not afraid to take stances. Veitch is a Greens member, so they have party support there, but it's still nice and encouraging to see some support within certain governments (despite my reservations with current electoral politics).
Greens and Labor councillors combined to vote against the motion, which was defeated by 10 votes to five.
The motion was amended to remove the vote of no confidence and became a motion condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and acknowledging the council's role in promoting community cohesion.
I wonder what that means in practice, will supporting human rights protests like this violate "the council's role in promoting community cohesion"?
[Liberal councillor who launched the motion] Cr Rosenfeld told ABC Radio Sydney local politicians should leave international affairs to the federal member. "We're in the local sector of government, not the federal sphere," he said.
hahaha this is just silly. Of course a local politician should be allowed to care and engage with international politics. Particularly in Randwick, one of the areas with a major university involved in the war effort (e.g. weapons manufacturers connections to campus), their local area is relevant to international affairs so they shouldn't just block their ears and offload responsibility because it's over 10 kilometres away.
Yep, I was going to point out that a decent amount of tech roles had an expectation of WFH long before 2020.
Seriously, I've had a union organiser lament that WFH was making it hard to work with a certain part of the company. You can't just set up a lunch or coffee meeting if everyone is in on different days (it's not a co-operative role).
I was using mine for measuring oil temperature when trying to shallow fry (so bread crumbs fry on impact), so unfortunately in this case it wouldn't help me, but a 50 cent one would be useful for most cooking. Thanks for the tip!
The video does touch on this wrt. the South Australian proposal, they give a few explanations and critiques of how well it does this.
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