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3blindmice
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Browndog
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Oh deary me, this affair keeps getting grubbier. It is a good thing we know the age of entitlement is over, lest this might look a bit crook.
Tony Abbott's daughter focus of Fair Work claim against design schoolRachel Nickless The design school that handed Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s daughter a scholarship faces a legal claim by a former employee who was investigated by the school after the story broke. A former employee of Whitehouse Institute of Design has filed an “adverse action” complaint in the Fair Work Commission. The former employee faced an internal investigation after the media reported the school awarded a rare $60,636 “chairman’s scholarship” to Frances Abbott. The chairman of Whitehouse’s board of governors is a Liberal Party donor and friend of Mr Abbott, Les Taylor. In response to questions from Fairfax Media, Whitehouse Institute of Design chief executive Ian Tudor said in a statement that: “the Whitehouse Institute is confident that the adverse action case is without merit and has no prospect of success. The former employee concerned was subject to an internal disciplinary review and resigned before that review was complete.” A spokesman said the school, which operates in Sydney and Melbourne, investigated an employee over concerns that “student confidentiality was breached”. He declined to name the student. A source confirmed it was Ms Abbott. The matter is expected to come before Fair Work Commission vice-president Joe Catanzariti in Sydney in coming weeks. Several sources said the employee behind the lawsuit is being represented by law firm Harmers Workplace Lawyers, which has run a string of explosive workplace cases, including representing former media advisor James Ashby in his sexual harassment claim against the former federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper. Asked about the Whitehouse matter, Harmers Workplace Lawyers chair Michael Harmer declined to comment or confirm if he was acting in the case. A spokeswoman for Mr Abbott said “the Prime Minister is aware of the claim but won’t comment on any legal proceeding currently underway”. She said Mr Abbott “has not had any involvement in matters involving Whitehouse and its employees”. Mr Abbott did not declare the scholarship in 2011 and continues to deny that he has any obligation to do so, saying his daughter won the scholarship on merit. He has previously said his daughter was awarded the scholarship for her academic potential and she maintained a distinction average while studying at the college. Monique Rappell, a former head of interior design at the institute, said that “the entire scholarship system was extremely vague”. She said she had put forward a student for a scholarship who had topped her year, whose work had been used in the school’s marketing materials and who had experienced financial hardship. That student failed to secure a scholarship, she said. Despite the award being known as the Chairman’s Scholarship, the Whitehouse chairman, Mr Taylor, told Fairfax Media in May he did not know how scholars were selected. The institute said in a statement it had “offered a variety of scholarships for 25 years . . . all scholarships are discretionary and awarded on merit”. The scholarship story has prompted clashes between student protesters and police at the design school. Rachel Nickless is the workplace editor for the Australian Financial Review This article first appeared on AFR.com This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/tony-abbotts-daughter-focus-of-fair-work-claim-against-design-school-20140731-zyri7.html |
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3blindmice
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Monique Rappell, a former head of interior design at the institute, said that “the entire scholarship system was extremely vague”. She said she had put forward a student for a scholarship who had topped her year, whose work had been used in the school’s marketing materials and who had experienced financial hardship. That student failed to secure a scholarship, she said. -------------------------------------------------------------- This ^^^ is the nub of the issue. It's pretty obvious what went on but if Abbott hadn't set the bar so low as Opposition Leader it wouldn't be a big issue. In a what you know V who you know battle always back the latter. |
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Sometimes tone is lost with the written word. So nah,I missed it entirely. My bad! |
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3blindmice
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Here's one for the true believer, Brooke.
A woman's virginity is ''the greatest gift you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving''. Is this statement from Abbott sexist? Discuss. |
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Browndog
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Brookey, are you paying attention?
Pyne in JerusalemRead on for article July 30, 2014by J-Wire StaffAustralian Federal Minister for Education Christopher Pyne was the keynote speaker at the opening of the third Australia-Israel-UK leadership dialogue held in Jerusalem. J-Wire publishes his address in full…
Tonight I wanted to address why the Australians are here. There are two reasons why we are here and I will go through them momentarily. But firstly I should say good friends visits their friends in tough times. It is easy to visit your friends when things are going well. Fair-weather friends who come and go when things are on the up and up are easy to come by. Friends who come when times are tough – they are the real friends. Ladies and gentlemen, I was approached by a young man at the reception here at the King David Hotel on Friday, his name was Aaron, and he asked me who I was and where I was from and I said I was from Australia and he said ‘why are you here?’. And I very simply said, because Australians love freedom. And he said very simply, that freedom isn’t free, right?. And I said exactly right. The reason why the Australians are here today, the first reason, is because Australians value freedom. And we have been fighting for freedom for 114 years and usually alongside our UK friends, whether it has been in the Battle of Beersheva here in Israel, in the Second World War, or the First World War, or more recently in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Vietnam and Korea, wars that are now well and truly in the past. Whenever there has been a congregation of freedom loving nations versus non freedom loving nations, Australia has always been prepared to be in the fight and always on the right side. And that’s how we view the State of Israel that we are on the right side. It is a story about the King of Denmark during the Second World War when the Nazis changed their attitude toward the deportation of the Danish Jews. There weren’t many Danish Jews, about 8,000 or so but the King of Denmark when the Nazis changed their attitude and said that they would start to deport the Jews, said that the Jews are Dames and the Dames are Jews. In other words, the concerns of Jewish Dames were the concerns of all Dames. In the same way I believe, and I think most Australians believe, that the destruction or defeat of Israel is a concern for all of us around the world. Because Israel is the beacon of freedom and liberty in the Middle East and Australia likes to believe that it is in the world. We are two sister nations believing in the same thing – freedom of the press, freedom of democracy, freedom of association. It shows that Israel has existential threats that requires them to take firm action to protect those freedoms, firmer actions than Australia has had to take to protect our own existence. So that is the first reason, ladies and gentlemen, why the Australians are here. Because we regard Israel and Australia as sister countries with the same value systems and we want to show our support for that system here in the Middle East. The second reason is more personal, ladies and gentlemen, and it goes to the question of remembering some of the crimes of the past. The great crime of the past against the Jewish people was the Holocaust. And just coming to Israel as an Australian, and landing at Ben-Gurion Airport, even in the last few days travelling El Al, just by the act of coming here, we reaffirm that we will not forget the crime of the Holocaust against the Jewish people, and we stand with the Jewish people. Simply by the act of making sure this dialogue was not cancelled when some people said it should have been cancelled because it was dangerous, the Australians and British came here, simply by that act reaffirmed that we will not forget the Holocaust. This is my sixth visit to Israel. And it is important that we come again and again to Israel. To say it to those in the Islamic Jihad, the terrorists – Hamas or ISIS or whoever they are – that by their actions they won’t frighten Australians into coming to Israel and supporting Israel. That is by me and my colleagues, whether they are Labor or Liberal, are here supporting this Dialogue because it proves, ladies and gentleman, it proves that freedom is winning and tyranny is losing. Israeli Minister of Interior Gideon Saar has also addressed the Australia Israel UK Leadership Forum.
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mc41
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Abetz didn't get an invite ? |
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Don't know why not, Eric renounced his German citizenship in 2010 just ahead of a High Court challenge to his eligibility to be a Senate candidate
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mc41
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Has Scabbott renounced his visit to the aboriginal community ? you know 1 of the thousand lies he told ? Has Bishop had a child yet or still baron ? after all the Scabbott led opposition where calling Gillard the motherless 1 Strange how Scabbot and the baron 1 where so critical of labour trying out for a seat on the UN council,then proudly accepted the nomination,now running around the world on it. |
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Wasn't it our Julez who said in 2012 that the Gillard govt. should be dealing with the budget situation rather than swanning about chasing UN seats?
How is the budget going by the way? I noticed Joe displaying their negotiating skills today, threatening to bundle all measures together and try and ram them through the Senate together
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looking likely scott morrison is in a world of bother. resignation to follow if claims of coverups re: medical/mental evaluations of children in detention are true.
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Immigration detention inquiry: Government tried to cover up asylum seekers' mental health problems, inquiry toldBy Rebecca Barrett and Karen Barlow Updated 11 minutes ago |
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If what was said today during the inquiry and what the lady doctor who accompanied the Human Rights Commissioner to Christmas Island said this morning on ABC are right, this guy should be jailed, not just sacked
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And what has happened to the sobbing Joe "over my dead body" Hockey?
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The Polar Bear Waltz
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It doesn't matter BD, we have 'stopped the boats', and that's all that matters.
After all, if these people arent't Australian, Hungarian or Royalty they probably aren't even 100 % human. And who would want such Lepers here? |
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Our strawberries seem to go best with manure on them.
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3blindmice
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But didn't you know Scott's a good "christian" BD? About as faithful to the creed as Abbott and Hockey are to Catholicism. It does seem though that Morrison's "religion" Shirelive is pretty much anything you want it to be so no surprise that you can choose your own level of moral treatment of your fellow humans. It's a very tough gig I'll admit but if you are prepared to take it on and compromise your own principles and beliefs you have no excuse - unless the only alternative was to let someone of even lower moral fortitude do the job, which could easily have been the case in this totally bereft rabble. I'll wait for the commissioner's report but it's not looking good on many levels for those responsible for government policy or its implementation. For a nation quick to point the finger at others for human rights violations we are building a solid track record for abuse. When even your guards suffer from mental breakdowns - as a number did under the Howard detention policy - then you can be sure something is seriously wrong. |
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We are getting enough Psychiatric problems by boat we don't need to breed more . What a foal Gillard would drop.
Self mutilation a big problem on the Islands. Who's fault is that? They weren't invited and getting attention won't help. They have escaped as planned , like other Papuans , they have a place to live. Gees, They don't have to work for the handouts there, either. |
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If psychiatric issues are any measure of suitability to live on this island no doubt you'll be hoping authorities don't get hold of the IP addresses from TBV.
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I am looking forward to question time returning All year Morrison has been taking 'Dixers' being asked "Can the Minister please update the house on how long it has been since a successful boat arrival" I hope Richard Marles takes the smug so-and-so to task this session.
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I forgot to add,
Abbott has also Legalized heterosexuality again, by flirting with women and behaving like a normal man should. Unlike the prudish gay ABC and Labor Party (who are more likely to legalize indecent homosexual acts in a public toilet). |
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holly is more gnarly than ever , hates the prospect of having to put in 40 job applications per month Edited by Browndog - 01 Aug 2014 at 1:05pm |
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that's alright Brooke, whatever you say dear |
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You have me scratching my head with this one Brooke. The only person I can think of convicted of acts of depravity and indecency in a public toilet is Tone's best friend in the media and Sydney's no 1 radio personality, a 4 time failed Liberal candidate failure. I don't think the Labor Party would give him the green light to resume his activiyies
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this thread has become a psychiatric ward.
get it off your chest people. it will make you feel better. must be difficult to be proved wrong continuously and have no where to cry. i would not know what that feels like
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"it's not gambling if you're absolutely sure you're gonna win" Barney Stinson
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3blindmice
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Getting more desperate by the hour. Don't let it get you down Brooke, the failure of your flawed hero was inevitable. It takes naive people a while to recognise a hollow man, others see it instantly. Not doubt Tony learnt everything he knows about women from his Jesuit teachers and local Catholic priests. Judging by the Royal Commission he can thank his lucky stars that he wasn't the object of "flirting" himself. Pity Phoney didn't show his undying love for his future bride by keeping his virginity intact eh what? Ah well what's a bit of hypocrisy in your personal life when your career is built on it. |
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I can't speak for anyone else but I'll certainly be crying if we ever get to that negative GDP you told us about. I hope the effects of the GFC wear off before then so that I can experience that magical benefit of inflation increasing the value of my money. Can't wait to get my hands on a few million dollar coins. How I envy those Yugoslavians during the 80s and 90s. Millionaires overnight. |
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dont be so negative. i was supporting your need to cry.
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"it's not gambling if you're absolutely sure you're gonna win" Barney Stinson
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You forgot the "charging mining companies diesel excise is unconstitutional" corker. But no, the numpty wouldn't know what it's like to be wrong.
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i was proved right. i dont have to pretend to support your insecurities and need for an emoticon or two in order to feel like anyone is actually paying attention to what you are saying. i am starting to think that both you girls/boys are not only using this thread as a psychiatric ward for your ineffective thinking, but actually live in the same ward. good to see you have a friend.
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"it's not gambling if you're absolutely sure you're gonna win" Barney Stinson
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You were proved right? When exactly? Every time you open your mouth there's a fair chance you'll be proven wrong and the rest of us will be rolling in the aisles with laughter. Your "unconstitutional" clanger was no different. An embarrassing misinterpretation of what the case actually decided. If you were right we wouldn't have seen Tom Albanese & Andrew Mackenzie lobbying the government not to remove the rebate completely. Granted it wasn't your most clueless blunder but when you'd already come out and told us that inflation is the increasing value of money then it was always going to be tough for you give a repeat performance. Oh wait, what were you saying about negative GDP? |
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