Goreripper
Metal as fuck
Isn't petrol triple taxed in NSW? That 3x3 tax should have been dropped years ago. Even getting rid of that would help.
Tsunami - the movie
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Shannow
Stunt Plough Rider
Brian,
we still pay the bicentenial road levy (2c) that was to have the major highways (Princess, Pacific, and Hume) turned into dual carriageway by 1988 (and there's a lot of dead people as a result of that failure). We pay the 3x3 levy. We pay excise. and then we pay GST on top of all of those levies and excises.
Now they are talking about fixing the highways with toll booths, as a "user pays" system of roads.
we still pay the bicentenial road levy (2c) that was to have the major highways (Princess, Pacific, and Hume) turned into dual carriageway by 1988 (and there's a lot of dead people as a result of that failure). We pay the 3x3 levy. We pay excise. and then we pay GST on top of all of those levies and excises.
Now they are talking about fixing the highways with toll booths, as a "user pays" system of roads.
Spiff
I have the power
Just because the Coalition holds power in the Senate, doesn't mean it'll be passed. I'm sure quite a few of the senators (especially the National ones) wouldn't be too impressed with the new laws, and if they do indeed have their consituents' (sp?) best interests in mind like they pretend to, then you would think they'd veto the bill.
Fingers crossed, anyway. That said, I'm a temp so I don't know if the new IR laws would affect me much at all. Anyone?
Fingers crossed, anyway. That said, I'm a temp so I don't know if the new IR laws would affect me much at all. Anyone?
Mark
Not blessed, or merciful
As a temp, you're employed by your agency (in a way), so you should check with them.
I liked being a temp, other than the pay.
I liked being a temp, other than the pay.
Spiff
I have the power
The pay is good for temps here. I get paid about $100 a week more than the fulltime staff for doing the same job. 
Do you get holiday and sick leave etc, Spiffo?
I attended the massive rally in Melbourne last week. The chick from Rockwiz was there - yay. Ah it's all too depressing for words. Things are likely to get worse on many fronts.
It would have been nice if they'd raised the issue during the election period before claiming a mandate to introduce the changes, wouldn't it?
I attended the massive rally in Melbourne last week. The chick from Rockwiz was there - yay. Ah it's all too depressing for words. Things are likely to get worse on many fronts.
It would have been nice if they'd raised the issue during the election period before claiming a mandate to introduce the changes, wouldn't it?
Spiff
I have the power
Nup, I just get paid for the hours I work. If I'm sick, tough. If it's a public holiday, tough (and it REALLY hurts when offices close down for a week or two over Christmas).
My choice though, so I can't really complain.
Thing is, if they had made it an election issue then Howard would have still got in. Australia fell for the GST so they'll obviously fall for anything.
My choice though, so I can't really complain.
Thing is, if they had made it an election issue then Howard would have still got in. Australia fell for the GST so they'll obviously fall for anything.
KoichCPA
Banned
Mark
Not blessed, or merciful
dreamwatch
Syntax error
Celestial-Todd
The Incredible Bulk
Southy
Proud Brisbane Metaller
The dumbest thing is the Government is touting 100 people as a small business, like fuck that is a small business.
chrisvp
Member
just like the government considers a person who only works 1 hour a week employed heh heh , wait ..........we have the lowest unemployment we've had in years :Smug:
it really is a circus , please someone tell me when intermission is on :Spin:
it really is a circus , please someone tell me when intermission is on :Spin:
Southy
Proud Brisbane Metaller
there won't be intermission in this show till all the fuckwits that keep voting like they are told to decide to take their lives in their hands and votes AWAY from PC polotics
KoichCPA
Banned
dreamwatch said:Koich, we wouldn't have you. France might though.
I would move to France no questions asked. I massive amount of respect for a country who is proud that they are a bunch of cunts to everyone.
Blitzkrieg
Master Exploder
Blitzkrieg
Master Exploder
Nicolas Cage to star in 9/11 movie
Actor Nicolas Cage will star as a real-life policeman who survived the collapse of the World Trade Centre in what will be one of Hollywood's first films to dramatise the September 11 attacks on America.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is on board to direct the untitled movie, which centres on the story of the last two men - a pair of New York Port Authority police officers - rescued from the rubble of the twin towers, Paramount Pictures said.
The two officers, John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, sold their life rights to the studio, providing the basis for the original screenplay by relative newcomer Andrea Berloff.
Cage, who won an Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, will play McLoughlin. No other casting decisions have been made, Paramount said.
The studio has given producers the go-ahead to begin work on the film, getting an apparent leg up on another 9/11 feature in development at rival Columbia Pictures.
Columbia announced in February it had optioned screen rights to 102 Minutes, a book by two New York Times reporters chronicling the interval between the crash of the first hijacked airliner into the World Trade Centre and the collapse of the first tower.
No director or actors have been signed to the 102 Minutes project, but Columbia has received a first script draft by Billy Ray, the writer and director behind Shattered Glass, according to Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety.
Word that Paramount had a film in the works dramatising the 9/11 attacks came a day after London was rocked by a series of deadly bomb blasts that renewed anxieties about terror threats.
A studio insider said the timing of its announcement was less than "ideal", precipitated only because Variety broke the story in its Friday edition.
The fact that at least two major studios have embraced the subject of 9/11 marks a huge shift in Hollywood's attitude toward depiction of the suicide hijackings that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and prompted the US global war on terrorism.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, studios and broadcasters steered clear of any themes considered evocative of the tragedy. The trend has gradually swung the other way.
Until now, stories about 9/11 have remained the province of film and TV documentaries, television dramas, or in big-screen fiction like Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds featuring 9/11-like imagery.
The American TV network ABC is planning a miniseries drama based on the 9/11 Commission Report, the best-selling official government account of events surrounding the attacks.
Rival network NBC recently pulled the plug on a similar project.
Actor Nicolas Cage will star as a real-life policeman who survived the collapse of the World Trade Centre in what will be one of Hollywood's first films to dramatise the September 11 attacks on America.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is on board to direct the untitled movie, which centres on the story of the last two men - a pair of New York Port Authority police officers - rescued from the rubble of the twin towers, Paramount Pictures said.
The two officers, John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, sold their life rights to the studio, providing the basis for the original screenplay by relative newcomer Andrea Berloff.
Cage, who won an Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, will play McLoughlin. No other casting decisions have been made, Paramount said.
The studio has given producers the go-ahead to begin work on the film, getting an apparent leg up on another 9/11 feature in development at rival Columbia Pictures.
Columbia announced in February it had optioned screen rights to 102 Minutes, a book by two New York Times reporters chronicling the interval between the crash of the first hijacked airliner into the World Trade Centre and the collapse of the first tower.
No director or actors have been signed to the 102 Minutes project, but Columbia has received a first script draft by Billy Ray, the writer and director behind Shattered Glass, according to Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety.
Word that Paramount had a film in the works dramatising the 9/11 attacks came a day after London was rocked by a series of deadly bomb blasts that renewed anxieties about terror threats.
A studio insider said the timing of its announcement was less than "ideal", precipitated only because Variety broke the story in its Friday edition.
The fact that at least two major studios have embraced the subject of 9/11 marks a huge shift in Hollywood's attitude toward depiction of the suicide hijackings that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and prompted the US global war on terrorism.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, studios and broadcasters steered clear of any themes considered evocative of the tragedy. The trend has gradually swung the other way.
Until now, stories about 9/11 have remained the province of film and TV documentaries, television dramas, or in big-screen fiction like Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds featuring 9/11-like imagery.
The American TV network ABC is planning a miniseries drama based on the 9/11 Commission Report, the best-selling official government account of events surrounding the attacks.
Rival network NBC recently pulled the plug on a similar project.
Spiff
I have the power
Cool. I have no problems with 9/11 movies, as long as they're not a) tacky and b) jingoistic, flag-waving hooey.
Shannow
Stunt Plough Rider
Blitzkrieg
Master Exploder
Whether the film itself is or not (which I will expect it to be), patriotic American's will probably make it a massive hit at the box office, and we will have to put up with all the annoying promo. I can see it now.Spiff said:
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