When I started this thread I had no idea that it would still be going by day 50. I had thought that the material would run out well before 50 days. The material still hasn’t run out but, for reasons that will become apparent, I doubt I’ll be able to continue beyond Tuesday. So I though it best to have a definitive end to the series. So there will be no daily outrage tomorrow – although I might start it up again in future. The latest instalment is below.
Sources familiar with the report say despite the involvement of the Labor-aligned trade union movement – the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the Australian Workers Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Unions – the report cites rising energy costs caused by the carbon price as having an additional impact in an already competitive environment.
We keep hearing it will be soon… I await Tuesday with eager anticipation…
ar
19 Aug 12 at 9:08 am
ar – Tuesday is about me not the tax or Gillard. Sorry.
Sinclair Davidson
19 Aug 12 at 9:12 am
So, when will Paul Howes put his house on the market? I know of two companies now that have closed their doors due to skyrocketing costs since the carbon tax came in.
Since these are work related, it’s impacting on my workplace, and it’s been a major headache for all concerned. Especially when I get a phonecall from someone asking, “have you got all the new stock in from Co. X? If you haven’t you need to get onto it, they’ve shut their doors.”
Great way to start a monday morning, especially when I later find out that they had already been struggling in the economy and their costs had gone through the roof.
That really sucks, and the person I dealt most with there is gutted.
(On a rather ironic note, that person also voted for the Greens.)
nilk
19 Aug 12 at 9:22 am
Public service calling Sinc?
JamesK
19 Aug 12 at 9:23 am
Hope it’s not for red Ted.
Entropy
19 Aug 12 at 9:33 am
Training with the Bombers?
Poor Old Rafe
19 Aug 12 at 9:40 am
Nilk, whilst we feel for the persons(s) who have lost their job, had they no insight? Didn’t they see this coming? Or did they think it was going to happen to someone else, not them? In that case, they get no sympathy at all from me.
Winston Smith
19 Aug 12 at 9:54 am
Having job interview with TA re post of Chief Economist in Residence?
Helen Armstrong
19 Aug 12 at 10:49 am
No – TA has a good economist already. Should listen to him more though.
Sinclair Davidson
19 Aug 12 at 10:54 am
Howzbout Tone’s Doomlord aka The Shitkicker’s shitkicker?
JamesK
19 Aug 12 at 10:59 am
They get no sympathy at all from me, nilk. Nor do any of the bogans who got bored with prosperity and sane government(or what passes for it)and voted for Kevin 07 or Juliar 10, who now lose their jobs and businesses. The current shambles was all so predictable, just like electing the community organiser in the US.
Eyrie
19 Aug 12 at 11:03 am
So so true. There must be footage of the warnings issued by John Howard and his senior ministers prior to the 2007 election about how this would turn out. It is this material that must form the foundation of the next coalition election campaign. Of course it must not be done in a patronising way, but I reckon the electorate would crave stable, ‘boring’ government, like that delivered from 1996 to 2007.
Skuter
19 Aug 12 at 12:23 pm
So, when will Paul Howes put his house on the market?
‘Piggy’ Howes won’t be putting his house on the market any time soon. He is just another in a long line of grotesque Labor Party imposters, who bleat about ‘the werking man’ but who themselves have never done a proper day’s work in their lives.
God I want them gone. Every single last one of them.
James P
19 Aug 12 at 2:14 pm
nilk, there may be a few more houses going to market in labor territory, especially in the Hunter heartland.
Sharon Grierson has resigned from the blue-chip seat of Newcastle, and Greg C is rumoured to be after it because Charlton is a bit shaky. He resides in the seat of Newcastle, not in his parachuted mining seat of Charlton, which might explain why Sharon hasn’t nominated a successor.
Saving the furniture seems to be happening. Newcastle hasn’t been out of the hands of federal labor since federation.
mareeS
19 Aug 12 at 3:56 pm
Combet for Newcastle, eh?
What a bastard he is; the rest have the excuse of being stupid; he has an engineering degree and therefore some level of numeracy and therefore NO excuse for supporting AGW.
cohenite
19 Aug 12 at 4:02 pm
combet does not have an engineering degree. you have to know something to have one. he has an economics degree. for which you may know nothing, in his case entirely possible.
johninoxley
19 Aug 12 at 7:23 pm
Yes he does have an engineering degree- mine Engineering from the UNSW.
JC
19 Aug 12 at 7:25 pm
Hear hear.
Dandy Warhol
19 Aug 12 at 7:49 pm
Eyrie and Winston, the person I’m speaking of felt that the carbon tax was a good idea. S/he’s a True Believer, which made for some interesting conversations.
This person would look at industrial development as killing trees and ruining the environment while my answer was that you can plant more trees, and it’s a sign of progress and opportunity.
And they also had no issue with the decimation of the live export trade up north because they’re vego anyway, and don’t have a dog in the fight.
Greenies can be really nice people but oh, so clueless.
nilk
19 Aug 12 at 9:05 pm
Mine Engineering: what’s yours is mine!
blogstrop
20 Aug 12 at 8:42 pm