I'm glad they're doing this. Despite me disagreeing that Allegra Spender is "centrist". She consistently votes against improvements to workers rights.
She just happens to believe in climate change and that queer people deserve rights.
At a minimum, she's right wing on economic and class questions.
Redundancy legislation/regulation is already massively stacked in favour of the employer.
There is no formalised process they're supposed to do, as far as I'm aware. They're just supposed to do a process. It seems largely determined by case law...
Also it's only 3 MONTHS before they can hire people again for the same role, and that again is not legislated/regulated. Just seems to be the rule of thumb/case law. (I am not a lawyer).
Meaning 1. you have to know they've rehired someone and 2. You need to take them to court for unfair dismissal.
Absolute joke.
Reminder to all that the Labor party is pretty weak on workers rights, it's just they're km ahead of the LNP and One Nation.
Hope these two workers get a just outcome.
That's true. Should be a hoot haha
After having stayed I'm Brisbane for a couple weeks for work once, and seeing how car dependent it was, when I heard the news they'd bid for the Olympics, I thought they must be joking haha
It's gonna be such a shitshow
It's sad at how obvious it is, and how few people are engaged enough to want to do something about it :(
On a positive note, Vic Socialists/Aus Socialists has grown massively recently.
Still a small party though.
Next biggest after the Greens I'd guess though. Pretty much all other parties are tiny outside of Labor/LNP/One Nation/Greens
https://youtu.be/wkZ9Q3kOgR8?t=2295
Timestamped to jump to where Pauline Hanson starts talking about the "transgender insurgency" in Australia.
The campaign linked by OP is The Greens mocking her
(This YouTube channel doesn't seem to be blocked in Japan which is where my VPN I tested this with connected to, so presumably should work elsewhere too)
I will be shocked if anything beyond telling Israel that Australia has "deep concerns" is actually done.
The Labor party is piss weak on this.
This is a stupid take. The problem is only parents who aren't teaching their kids properly.
A bit of noise from some slightly rowdy children is not a big deal.
Let's not further isolate our society. Parents should feel free to bring their kids along places so they can still socialise.
I say this as someone without children.
One Nation are basically Reform UK, I'd say
Is this the same Labour Party who banned Palestine Action?
Colour me "press X to doubt".
Leave Labor/Labour, people, for parties who actually share your values. Ffs.
What an absolute farce.
In the case of Melbourne, the enemy likes to arrives to the F1 and the Melbourne Cup by Helicopter.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54459152
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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/29742117
The "big switch" has ended up being a lot less big than originally promised. I'm really happy we now have a turn up and go service - or at least every 10 minutes - on the lines going through the Metro Tunnel (the Munnel), but feels really silly we haven't brought more drivers on board to run services at least every 10 minutes across the network, and upped all bus routes to the same frequency.
There's a great map that Taitset made showing sections of the metro network which could already do 10 minute running.
My mum, who's in her late 60s, told me of growing up in [European city]. She interchanged 2 times between 2 trains and a bus on her way too highschool. Her and her friends didn't like the bus because it only came every 10 minutes. In the 1970s.
It's a bit embarrassing to me how bad our frequency is, given our massive population.
It would be great if we could convince our government or MPs holding the balance of power at the next state election to invest in a larger workforce to achieve the frequency PTV needs to thrive.
Keen to hear others thoughts on the "Big Switch".
P.S. I've talked to multiple colleagues who live on the lines who literally didn't know about the "Big Switch" until I told them about it, 2 days beforehand.
The "big switch" has ended up being a lot less big than originally promised. I'm really happy we now have a turn up and go service - or at least every 10 minutes - on the lines going through the Metro Tunnel (the Munnel), but feels really silly we haven't brought more drivers on board to run services at least every 10 minutes across the network, and upped all bus routes to the same frequency.
There's a great map that Taitset made showing sections of the metro network which could already do 10 minute running.
My mum, who's in her late 60s, told me of growing up in [European city]. She interchanged 2 times between 2 trains and a bus on her way too highschool. Her and her friends didn't like the bus because it only came every 10 minutes. In the 1970s.
It's a bit embarrassing to me how bad our frequency is, given our massive population.
It would be great if we could convince our government or MPs holding the balance of power at the next state election to invest in a larger workforce to achieve the frequency PTV needs to thrive.
Keen to hear others thoughts on the "Big Switch".
P.S. I've talked to multiple colleagues who live on the lines who literally didn't know about the "Big Switch" until I told them about it, 2 days beforehand.
Cross-posted to !melbourne@aussie.zone
Interesting read, thanks for sharing :)