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By Catherine Lawrence.

 

Hooray!

I made it.

Hoorah!

They voted me in again; & yet again

& again. Thoses stupid people.

Hooroo!

I’m off! thanks to you, with my

 Four million or Two.

 

 

| The New Millennium |  Abuse of power | Water Guzzlers | Mortgages & Rent | Never to forget or to forgive|

 

Liberal Party’s

 

Last Hoorah.

March 27 2006 will become known as the day the Liberals released their insidious political policies across Australia. It’s too bad that more moderate Liberals failed to take a stronger stand against John Howard & Peter Costello (P.C. the grim-reaper in sheep’s clothing waiting to take over) for this demise will their demise also.

From 1975 up to 1995 we had the great downsizing & manufacturing jobs going overseas which created enormous social & financial problems for both people & businesses. It not only created a high unemployment & also a high suicide amongst mature aged men, but also a loss of trust & a commitment from staff members. Many businesses learnt that with-out the trust & commitment from its employees can & did lead to their own businesses demise.

Many people will tell you that the demise of their pay & working conditions already started in 2000, so it’s only a matter of time before the political willy-willy of change moves through-out the business world. These changes will not wait to take place until after the next elections.

The reality of this change is that the business world cannot address the social problems that their decisions are going to be making. These policies will be creating mega problems for all people in all wage groups for the lowering of their wage packages & conditions, along with the new terrorist laws along with more power given to Asio best described as “a bunch of mentality epileptic rattle snakes” all of which will surface in due time.

You cannot have an educated society along with a large pool of unemployed people & then to create policies that will have people in the work force being treated like second rate citizens or even less, with-out the eventual outcome being one of violent oppositions & confrontations. Well may Premier Morris Lemma state, “by removing these staff from corporatised entities, they will be shielded”. Yes! But their family members will not be which will have a direct effect on them also.

The old ways of life may finely becoming to an end, but to rush head long into these new I.R. & I.D. laws & the new terrorist laws & the continuing support of George Bush is a political suicidal willy-willy, ultimately this will become everyone’s nightmare. Unfortunately these changes will be creating a land slide win for Labor, decimating the Liberals who will be out of power far longer than Menzies himself.

Now! Yet again the Government wants to introduce new legislation with more laws blocking our Freedom of Speech to anything that seems to be promoting violence which could include passages written in the Bible or on the internet. Web sites. Radio. Books. Magazines. Newspapers. T.V. Movies. Psychic predictions. Public information on people in terrorist organizations saying anything may well result in a fine, jail &\or deportation & the Australians are big on deportations. Or is it an insidious ploy to control people even more of their rights in Freedom of Speech & end up going down the same road as John Majors & George Bush. Yet I still see people acting like wallie heads & still keep voting for this obnoxious party in to power. Well may the dogs of war start howling their demise & the bugler sound off the last post, because no one will come in & help the Liberal party in their demise?

The New Millennium.

For CentreLink Volunteers it’s becoming even more stressful today to try to find & remain in Volunteering as we’re now having to compete with the Corporate Volunteers who have now also moved into the non-profit organizations. In their new work place policy’s it’s the requirement for unemployed people from the mature age group of 50–64 to not only to meet CentreLink requirements for looking for employment &/or CentreLink Volunteering activities.

But! For men & women in this age bracket the changes in their physical body’s can be extremely depressing or even painful. Not only do women have to go through their change in life their menopause, but arthritis & incontinence starts to set in making working a painful or depressing experience along with the physical body at 60 slowing down. So the thought that both John Howard & Peter Costello want to raise the retirement age to 70 years, while at the same time competing with people who are in their 20 – 30 – 40 in both looking for work & CentreLink volunteering work. Being in the work force &/or CentreLink volunteering work force, from the age of 50 not only does the physical body start to change so does the interest or incentive to remain in the work force especially after the age of 60 & still having to compete with the 20-30-40 age groups.

The true reality is that the work force & CentreLink Volunteering opportunities, as well as CentreLink work-for-for-the-dole in the age groups: 18-20yrs = 24hrs per fortnight 26 weeks. 21-39yrs = 30hrs per fortnight 26 weeks. 40-49yrs = 24hrs per fortnight 13 weeks OR 12hrs per fortnight 26 weeks: Part-time work+Volunteering in the age groups: 18-20yrs= 200hrs 26 weeks. 21-39yrs = 240hrs 26 weeks. 40-49yrs = 150hrs 26 weeks: 50-64yrs = 30hrs per fortnight 12 months in ALL Volunteering work. This is just the tip of the problem along with a shrinking work force it’s become impossible or extremely difficult to find work, as most employers still want a younger work force. Not all CentreLink approved organizations will sign the CentreLink Voluntary activity agreement form which can be written for weeks, months or 12 months, mostly due to not wanting to be involved with CentreLink.

Australia is the only Country where Volunteering has become a way of life which some people have been calling it the new cheap labour force, once it was for the non-profit organizations. From their web sites it’s now gone into profit making organizations.  

John Howard may be 67. But! to me he looks & is beginning to talk like an old man, maybe he’s thinking is going the same way “I just can’t remember it right now” people around him will be starting to say “Oh! He’s just thinking like a silly old man” “Not again! He’s just gone off to the toilet”.

I still don’t see women in Government past their 60 years unless their bored housewife’s or doing it for the big hand out.

Peter Costello is now no doubt grating his teeth with people 60 something still remaining in the work force.      

 

Abuse of Power.

One needs to remember that for Australia it’s detrimental to be having either party in complete power; as abuse of power & people will be the final outcome.

Businesses themselves will start to suffer the same way as in the 1990’s, with many businesses collapsing due to the loss of commitment from their staff members. Along with Strikes. Oil & public transport price rises. Continued out-sourcing. & NOW a new cheaper imported labour “guest workers”.

Age Discrimation? Hell yes!

The Mature age Allowance which did the EXEMPTION was abolished in 2003. Today unemployed men & women 60-64yrs are now denied a Mature age Allowance that would EXEMPT them from returning to the work force &/or CentreLink Volunteering. It’s absolutely ridicules & shameful to be seeing the 60-64 year olds sitting with us in the private sector of CentreLink Job Networking Agency’s, still looking for employment & to be competing with the 20-30-40-50 year olds.

I am well aware that people in their 50-59 age groups have the same problems as the 60-64 age groups.

The Mature age Allowance is no different from that of the Newstart (dole) Allowance. I am NOT advocating lowering of the Retirement age Pension of 65yrs to 60yrs or raise it up to 70yrs. The Mature age Allowance is for men & women 60-64yrs who’s already been made unemployed.

The Government unlike their claim of saving money by keeping people in the work force for as long as possible is in fact squandering Tax payer’s money by out-sourcing this age group to CentreLink Job Network Agency’s & Tax payers money being spent through T.V. commercials promoting changes in the work force to accommodate the Mature age workers 50-64yrs those who are already in the work force (As if!).

John Howard & Peter Costello policy’s of removing the EXEMPTION in the Mature age Allowance for both men & women is not only unrealistic & out of touch with people especially women but it borders on cruelty to mature age people. Failing to meet the requirements will result in a part or full breach of their CentreLink payments.

Job Network Agencies make their money through the transfer of recipients from CentreLink & from their obtaining full or part-time employment; for each recipient this runs in to the hundreds of dollars. If the Job Network Agencies has a low turn over in profit the short fall is made up through breaches which are a proximally $500 for new unemployed 1yr or less, & $800 for long term unemployed. This leaves the recipients feeling nothing but animosity.

After 1 year of tolerating Job Network Agencies with their indifferent bully/thug confrontational attitudes which for the most part creating a negative stressful work environments. Both CentreLink Newstart & CentreLink Volunteer’s are not allowed to take the annual 20 days or the 20% pro rata holiday leave.  

Yet the Government wouldn’t think of putting a freeze on their own pay rises or to shorten the number of days to their holiday rorts.

The Ethnics who have little or no English can apply for a Pension. I personally have met & know of young Ethnics pretend to have little English when in fact it’s better than a lot of English speaking people. The Disability Pension (excluding genuine cases) is the most misused Pension that is available to the public.

Well! Well! Well! They’re at it again! The Government is set to bring in yet another new policy for making it easier to breach people on CentreLink Newstart by having them all keep a diary with the name of the employer & to whom they spoke with & then to have CentreLink phone employers to check the entries in the diary’s, which most employers / personnel refuse to give out to CentreLink. 1st they gave the employers the mind blowing extra work load GST now the Government is going to have CentreLink hassle / harass them even more with diary records from the unemployed.

I know from employers & personnel telling me that they either refuse or can’t even remember all the people applying for employment per week, most of them don’t keep the records of everyone applying. It’s just another abuse of power for the unemployed & also the employers by the Government, it’s little wonder that more & more employers are wanting to have less & less to do with CentreLink & the Government.

It’s a sad time when the Government can only bring in people to lead the Community Services who has the brains the size of a pea. This is not even a cost cutting excise it’s an absolute abuse of power & going down the same road as in America. All of this comes at a time when still more companies are going off shore including Qantas may be.  

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The squandering of Tax payer’s money when applying it to persons under the age of 18 years of age with the baby bonus of $4000 plus baby expenses. In theory this peace of legislation could possibly be deemed as unconstitutional legislation as its promoting child promiscuity &/or child prostitution. It absolutely fails to protect the child from child promiscuity &/or child prostitution from irresponsible &/or devious adults around them.

The Government should be applying a similar policy’s as that of the British Government where payment is only for the first 3 baby’s, & then to persons over the age of 18.

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Again! It’s another abuse of power for John Howard & Peter Costello are giving little thought of squandering billion of dollars per week of tax payers money by having the troops remain in Iraq & Afghanistan through a variety of trumped up excuses for them to be remaining there. Yet when it comes to water state-wide, they’re both still mentality living in a fool’s paradise.  

Water Guzzlers & Recycled Water.

It’s interesting that both Labor & Liberal Governments attempts of trying to save Billions of Litres of Water is extremely hypocritical when neither party does anything about the water guzzlers like the single flush toilet water tanks, single basin kitchen & washing machine sinks & also coin operated washing machines which have NO water level knob unlike the washing machines we use in our homes. These are used in the Laundromats & rental properties. The toilets are in? Well everywhere. It’s time that BOTH Governments & all political parties should NOW be making new legislation for Businesses in the washing machines. Toilets. Rental properties & Public convinces forcing them in a 3 year period to change over to appliances that control the use of water levels. Governments need to stop passing the buck & start making it illegal to sell these water guzzlers as new or second hand goods.

Some simple everyday conveniences are taken for granted in these horrendous water guzzlers, too many times have I been at a public washing machine & seen people put no more than 5 articles in to the machine & have to use a full water level. We truly don’t have NO MORE TIME LEFT to daydream about it, what if? What if? What if? The supplying of 40 Billions of water through the new bore holes, no guarantees. New laws are needed forcing All Apartments  have their own internal laundries & individual water metres, forcing more people to take responsibility for the amount of water they use, thereby lessening the amount of public Laundromat out-lets. Our rivers & seas are dirty which Government depts can’t or won’t clean-up & now we are supposed to trust the sewage department & with their track record?

As for the recycling of sewage water, 1st: The Governments are still lying to the public in the removal of the birth control pill & other medications, along with chemicals in the food & drinks most of these are having an adverse effect on our reproductive organs medications & chemicals most will not be removed from the recycled water as it’s to expensive. In time this could have a devastating effect on our bodies. Anyone for free birth control pill? What if? What if? What if?

The 2nd: What could become a major is what if the rain & snow continue to dry-up for the next 10 or 20 years or so? The continued out-sourcing of our water to Interstate, farmers & industries there’s NO way people in Sydney can produce enough Pee water to flush the toilet, washing machines. Baths & showers let alone for everything else. What happens to the recycled water? Recycled? Recycled? Recycled. If there’s a continued drying-up of the rain & snows just how long do these Wally headed Politian’s think all of this recycled water is going to last. If Warahagamber dam dries-up, what then? To replace the filters how much is that going to cost the tax payer or is it going to become a victim of political cost cutting? Just like the road tunnel filters or the white elephants train stations. Both Labor & Liberal Politian’s have an extremely bad track record for cost cutting, & in my opinion there’s no way we can afford to trust either of them in health issues as in recycled sewage water. Don’t assume we have the time to wait another 10 years for a new dam to be built; it’s 5 years or less done by 24/7.    

There’s an abundance of sea water which isn’t going to dry-up in the very near future; But! The rain & snows are drying up & the people in Sydney don’t produce enough Pee to solve the social problem long term. Yes! It will have a small effect on the sea but over time the sea will right it’s self, the only down side of sea water is that the sea is becoming extremely contaminated with nuclear & industrial waste from overseas countries.

The economic solution is underground pipe lines from Tasmania which can have a reversed flow of water in the near future. 1 man had a great vision to build a dam to preserve water for the future. A minority of men possibly started by “The Greens party” sabotaged the vision. People are not always given the “Why” to their visions. Who are the people in Tasmania going to blame when their rain & snows dry-up, & there’s no water pipe lines? The same is also going to happen in New Zealand.

Ya, whoo! Ya, whoo! Your poo. My poo. Everybody’s drinking our poo.        Tourism gone down the poo. Ya, whoo! Have a good day.

Mortgages & Rent.

This does not leave any bargaining with their bank mortgages or landlords.

These changes will create excessively large numbers of families to loose their homes; this will include people who are also renting.

The more the social change takes place more & more people will stop spending their money creating a cash shortage for shops, Banks & Financial institutions. The suicide rate will yet again start to rise along with crime.

The main demise of the Liberal party will come from families who will be losing their houses, like I said ALL wage groups. So when it starts to hit people in the $40,000 & up wage groups the back-lash will be severe.           

  Ultimately the Banks will be forced to back down & change their policies relating to mortgages.

It should be noted that certainly in Sydney should a person be on CentreLink Newstart (dole) Allowance or unemployed, a person is automatically discriminated against by the real estate agents.

As we go more & more into the years of 2000 & with CEO’s & some business managers working in delusions of grandeur it’s now more important than ever for ALL Australian wage & pensioners to quit being such apathetic wallie heads.

Businesses & Government do not seem to learn from the 1980’s – 1990’s experiences & the October 1982 Brisbane experiences from the renters, most of which was politically gagged by the media at that time.

On 25 February 2007 I was flying back to Australia sitting next to me was a person who was involved in the securities industry, of all the things we discussed he told me he was thinking of returning back to Sydney to live. I informed him that Sydney was the one city to avoid buying a house in & that he should look outside of Sydney or even interstate; where ever he decided to live always check out the water resources there. I had mentioned that I rented & the trouble I had in November 2005 with the ever rising rent due to the introduction of the vendor stamp duty in 2004, the real estate agents got some of the land lords to agree to keep putting up the rent so as to force the scraping of the 2004 vendor stamp duty through public outcry. He told me that “they” (the real estate cartel) were going to in stages be doing the same thing all over again on ALL rental properties, if “they” have the guts to go through with it, the rents on all properties would be going up sky high. The “they” have more than one party involved.        

   

 “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Andrew Woodhouse 1887.

Never to forget or to forgive.

Families & other people will never forget or forgive the actions of John Howard & Peter Costello & the Liberal party for the losses of their houses / roof over their heads & their businesses. If Labor is to win the next elections the person to win needs to have a Prime Minsters Karma, Kim Beazley hasn’t got one, so He isn’t getting it. Got it? There are 2 others there on the front bench that do have a Prime Minsters Karma, this means if one of them where the Leader of the Labor party they would win it.

How ironic that in 1987 Michael Douglas in “Wall Street” stated, “Greed is great” “Greed is good” “There’s nothing wrong with greed” “Anyone who says greed is bad, don’t understand greed”.

 It’s surreal to realize that 20 years later on those phrases now have a duel meaning World Wide. May well God help thoughs who believe & practice it, because no one will help them when they reap the fury from their victims?

Having sold-out the backbone of Australia; the workers.

If the politicians think the December 25 1995 Bondi Beach & Canberra along with December 11 2005 Cronulla riots as totally UnAustralian, then their being totally UnRealistic & mentally living in a fool’s paradise. The Bondi Beach experience could become forewarnings to community anger & hostility’s boiling over. Or maybe John Howard & Peter Costello would like to tell them all to go home; open a tinnie & eat their chicken pies. 

Now for John Howard & Peter Costello final last Hooroo! They’ve sold part of Australia too; to China! Yet again. “Thank God for uranium. Now! I can sit down to my soon-to-be my last cup of tea. Is that a reflection I see, a bomb staring back at me?”

 

Stay Cool. Take Care.

26-3-06.

 

The Bank managers

Well the Bank managers are at it again in regards to off shore Banking, what a surprise!

It’s time to quite seeing your Bank as “a friendly chemist shop” it’s a Bank, Black & White & you’re a number only, full stop. Banks have now sunk to as low as second hand car dealers or a prostitution level, their all in the same business.

The criminal gangs in India & elsewhere are already buying your Bank & Life Insurance policy numbers for the Arabic terrorist so all the excuses are not good enough for you not to be moving your Butt, the media’s still out to lunch to be taking care of you.

I suspect the Arabic terrorist already have the Banks BSB numbers World Wide & their simply playing with Bank & Life Insurance numbers, their still working with off shore Banking & Switzerland banking. You need to remember that the Bin Laden family owns a Bank in America. It’s no good you doing a wait & see then change your account after the event; your new numbers will be recorded over there as well. As soon as the Banks state their thinking of going into off shore Banking, move your bloody Butt. The terrorist will be practicing on those whose numbers are already over there. The Banks will not be refunding your stolen money over here where bribery & corruption is a way of life, there’s no such thing as personnel security in business in ALL 3rd World Countries.

Quit being an apathetic Wally head.

24-11-07.

URUKA! We’ve finely done it. The disciple of the war monger to George W Bush has been deleted from his electrical Bennelong office; with blood on his hands no more to run for office again.  

 

 

Revised 3/08.

| Hooray | Hoorah | Hooroo |

 

 

 

 

Hell! Hath no fury like

A Woman scorned.

 

2007: HARMONY in MOMENTUM.