For what it’s worth coming from a usual Labor suspect - I ran against Morrison in 2007 as Labor’s candidate for Cook. During the course of that campaign I met Towke and Morrison on several occasions. The former struck me as infinitely more honourable.
Tonight in the Upper House we voted 22 to 17 in favour of banning developers and real estate agents from being local Councillors. The Liberal Govt opposed it and will also oppose it in the lower house. A vote for Liberal Councillors is a vote for developers.
Not The Spirit of Australia illegally sacks 2000 experienced loyal Qantas workers after taking over a $1b in taxpayers money during COVID then wonders why we have chaos at airports. Reinstate your workers instead of appealing the decision !
He wasn’t my boyfriend - I loved him - it wasn’t a significant relationship - I was planning to marry him - I knew what not to know. The Premier is all over the place and can’t be trusted.
The Perrottet government just voted against our Labor amendment to allow peaceful protests: Insert:
“A person does not commit an offence under this section if the conduct
occurs as part of a peaceful protest”. They hate free speech & freedom of association.
Interesting how a seat we haven’t won for 100 years and couldn’t win under Wran and Car in Govt gets spun in to a test for Jodi McKay to win from opposition during COVID. Truth is if we win it’s a miracle but it won’t be portrayed that way.
Generation, transmission and distribution of electricity used to be publicly owned - electricity was reliably produced and distributed at cost because it was run as a not for profit essential service to the public not as a money making oligopoly. Privatisation = failure.
WA Premier McGowan on NSW "I mean how can they claim infallibility in this gold standard when they had the Ruby Princess, outbreaks around the place and now having a cricket test with crowds in the middle of a pandemic. They need to look in the mirror & wake up to themselves”.
We’re probably going to win Bega, huge swing in Monaro and hold Strathfield while the independent is threatening the Libs in Willoughby. Fantastic job by our three candidates Holland, Wilson & Yat-Sen Li and Labor Leader Chris Minns.
Saint Gladys just had to be bailed out by the President from a no confidence motion we moved in the Upper House. 20/20 - This mob just dig in no matter how bad they are. No standards No integrity
There’s a thing called playing by the rules. Rail workers played by the rules - the government chose not to & shut down the rail network by not allowing those workers to operate trains.The Govt inconvenienced thousands of people in a bid to demonise rail workers.Shame.
We are currently debating a Bill which Labor has brought on in the upper house to ban property developers & real estate agents from being Councillors. Government are strongly defending the status quo - they are want developers and estate agents to be councillors. Unbelievable !
This NSW Lib/Nat government is the living breathing realisation of “Jobs for the Boys”. Can’t get a mate up on merit ? No worries just alter the paperwork accordingly.
Why on earth is the Berejiklian Government refusing to front up to Parliament when they expect all other essential workers to turn up to work ? See my thoughts in SMH below 👇👇
Everyone’s heard of the expression “Jobs for the boys” - the NSW Lib / Nat Government lives it. Jenny West the eminently qualified candidate who was pushed aside tells our upper house inquiry that the job was withdrawn because “this is a present for someone”
Transparently pathetic Gladys playing the victim card. No credence whatsoever - if a Labor woman was in this position - eg. Keneally, Gillard or McKay no one would have a bar of it. She should spare us the theatrics and just go !
Spare a thought for the 2000 odd Qantas workers who on Friday were told they would not be reinstated. This is despite the court finding that Qantas illegally sacked them. The system is stacked against workers - creating flat wages and job insecurity.
Perrottet seeks advice of two dinsosaurs Howard & Corrigan on how to sort out rail dispute.Tells you all you need to know about this useless Govt.Instead of sitting down with
@RTBUnion
and negotiating they prefer consulting two people who used dogs balaclavas on the waterfront.
Solution to the train strikes is very simple - don’t blackmail rail workers by insisting the NSW people only get safe trains if rail workers get an effective pay cut. An untrustworthy bunch of rort merchants who gave NSW taxpayer $ to Sth Korea to build unsafe lemons
@RTBUnion
A system that allows property developer interests to be represented on Council is clearly a broken one. My questioning on budget estimates shows the Minister needs to ban developers on Council to fix the problem.
Liberal party candidate Sarah Richards, sitting in one of the most marginal seats in the country, somehow ‘forgot’ that her partner co-owns a property development company. Sure.
It took
@aclennell
to change the media narrative of Gladys’s ICAC revelations. Fact is she is not a victim - she is a perpetrator. She purposely stayed silent when knowing about Maguire’s corrupt behaviour & failed to act. SHE MUST GO !
Qantas took over a $1b of your money to sack loyal workers - the mean spirit of Australia - 'We want our jobs back', say ex-Qantas workers | St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | St George, NSW.
On any assessment this would have to be the worst crisis management in the history of NSW Government. We were up to 55 days without a community transmission and their rank incompetence has got us back to square 1. They can’t be rewarded with another term.
Last night the Labor opposition successfully passed a bill through the Upper House which requires both houses of Parliament to approve before any more sell off of publicly owned assets. It was opposed by Lib / Nat government. Now it’s down to the lower house.
Massive win for thousands of Qantas workers today whose jobs were outsourced. Federal court has ruled against Qantas who should now accept the decision and reinstate the workers instead of taking $billions in tax payer COVID money and using it to fight their employees !
Local government elections are on Dec 4th - it may surprise many people to know that it is actually legal to be both a property developer and a local councillor. Who thinks that’s ok ?
NSW Lib Government has taken
@RTBUnion
to Fair Work Commission in an attempt to deny Rail Workers their legal right to strike. This is modern Australia - silencing workers ability to stand up for themselves. Is it any wonder why wages are so flat ?
Premier has announced $1b in assistance for businesses - NSW Labor has been calling for this for 6 weeks in the wake of Perrotet’s Let it Rip model. Much easier and simpler to just elect a Labor government who have the capacity to actually plan ahead and deliver on time.
Just when you thought she couldn’t get any worse - Gladys admits to the shonky practice of allocating nearly all grant funding to Liberal areas to buy the 2019 election. On top - she cuts off $ to the very institution that is investigating it - ICAC. No more credit points. GO !
Bushfire recovery bungles - Ruby Princess - NewMarch House - Grants Rorts - Ministers firing machine guns & defying lock downs - now an I Care scandal - when will the NSW government be accountable ?
Qantas the Mean Spirit of Oz stood down Theo Seremetidis Health and Safety Rep for highlighting that his work mates were told to clean planes from China during COVID without adequate protection. Today Safe Work commenced prosecution of Qantas
@TWUAus
👇
$4m paid to I Care executives in one financial year! All while injured workers were being shafted. Yet Gladys B & the ministry of Teflon continue to protect Perrottet.
Congratulations to
@RTBUnion
for winning the right to strike in the FWC this afternoon. The NSW Lib Govt tried to overturn their lawful right to strike. Fortunately there’s this thing called the law which even conservatives have to abide by from time to time.
@TheKouk
@Qantas
Took $2b in corporate welfare - illegally sacked 2000 workers and targeted a WHS rep. Ran the airline in to the ground while Joyce and execs took $m in wage rises
#The
greedy spirit of Oz.
A society that doesn’t value its teachers is a dumb society. Todays teachers strike is because the NSW Liberal Government refuses to give our teachers the pay rise they deserve.The govt is more concerned with appointing their mates to $500K jobs in New York !
#MoreThanThanks
Time for some worker representation on the board of the RBA to inject a reality check. The prioritising of inflation over employment is unconscionable. Unemployment causes generational misery. Crushing the economy to cure external supply shocks is a folly.
What other Premier allows another outbreak by not enforcing quarantine and gets congratulated for it ? Certainly not A.Palaszczuk nor D.Andrews nor M.McGowan. Only in NSW where bad government is lapped up !
If you’re working today and getting penalty rates you deserve it and thank unions for that. If you’re not getting penalty rates you should be - join your union.
12 months ago “The Spirit of Oz” Qantas sacked 2000 workers. In July the Fed Court found this was illegal. Today Qantas appealed the decision.
@TWUAus
are fighting for their reinstatement. Fairness @ work under threat from a corporate bully boy who got $1b from taxpayers
4 weeks ago working people had no chance of a pay rise to keep pace with inflation. After urging from the Albanese Labor government they now have a 5.2% rise in the min wage. What a real difference Labor governments make to peoples lives !
If NSW Lib/Nat Govt had any desire to resolve train dispute with
@RTBUnion
they would fix the train safety issues without making it conditional on a wage cut for workers.Truth is they want the dispute to roll on - it’s a helpful distraction from their hopeless record and scandals
Meanwhile 2000 illegally sacked ground staff remain jobless while Qantas fights them in the High Court. Not The Spirit of Australia but a national disgrace
@TWUAus
@TWUNSW
First 10 days of hearings wound up today in court. Qantas - the meanest spirit of Oz - were prosecuted for targeting WHS rep Theo Seremetidis because he stood up for safety in the workplace. Watch this space Qantas deserve nothing less than the full force of law
@TWUAus
@TWUNSW
What a reprehensible disgusting character Speakman has turned out to be - former Attorney General now Opposition Leader demeaning his position and cheapening the cause of the Israeli people by asking me to disown my son. Not in a million years. What a sewer the NSW opposition is.
NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism Mark Buttigieg responds after
#qt
to questions about his son attending last night's rally at the Town Hall & Opera House
#nswpol
@10NewsFirstSyd
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce & his executive are out of control - they took over $1b of taxpayers money then illegally sacked over 2000 workers last year. Now they want to slash the wages & conditions of cabin crew who flew back stranded Australians during COVID
NSW Legislative Council just voted 23 to 18 against the Liberal / National government in favour of banning property developers from being local Councillors.
So job destroyers Qantas get a seat at the Jobs Summit. Will their contribution be telling the summit how they took >1 billion in taxpayer $ and then illegally sacked 2000 workers then appealed to the High Court to allow them to continue job destruction?
NSW Lib Govt hates the trains running and free fares for passengers because it upsets their narrative of unions shutting down the rail network. This is a government on its last legs desperate to divert attention from its abject failure
@RTBUnion
Qantas - the Spirit of America. They take $billions of tax payer dollars and outsource the workforce to drive down wages and conditions. Shameful - we wont stand by and watch the Americanisation of the Aussie Labour market. Reinstate your loyal employees now!
What a shonky outfit this Liberal/National NSW Government is. They decided to appoint a very well qualified woman as Senior Trade Commissioner then change their mind - and gave it to the notorious former Dep Premier John Barilaro instead - $500K a year jobs for the boys !
Gladys thinks that her popularity will excuse her atrocious behaviour and poor judgement. There comes a point in time where the brownie points run out. We have surely reached that point.
Qantas - an Australian icon trading on Australian values taking Australian tax payers $ to force loyal long term employees out the door - shame on you Qantas - reinstate your employees - abide by the law !
30 years of universal Super. Hard to imagine a more fundamental structural change to the Oz economy which has made such a tangible difference to the lives of working people. Thank God for Unions.
Earlier this week, NSW’s 128 councils voted to prohibit property developers and real estate agents from holding civic office.NSW Labor has a bill that passed the upper house but is opposed by the Liberal / Nat government in the lower house. Why are they protecting developers ?
12 months ago today my colleague and friend Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane was hung drawn and quartered in the media. He’s subsequently been cleared. No apology, no compensation - despite him and his family being dragged through the mud. # Advance Australia Fair !
Complacency par excellence is allowing a limo driver to get infected without any precautions to prevent it after 18 months of virus experience. # incompetence.
A stark contrast:
Labor Leader Jodi McKay sacrificed her career to expose corruption.
Gladys Berejiklian prioritised her career by turning a blind eye to corruption.
Congratulations to Nathan Hagarty
@Nate0natE
- our newly preselected candidate for Leppington ! With
@ChrisMinnsMP
after our announcement that Labor if elected will build a desperately needed high school at Gledswood Hills.
Another day and still no responsibility taken by Gladys B and the ministry of incompetence for allowing us to get in to this mess again. Only in NSW is bad government acceptable.
@9NewsAUS
@cokeefe9
This bloke is a scourge on society. An illustration of how grotesque our society has become rewarding incompetence and greed and punishing workers. Q took over $2b in tax payer money & sacked over 2000 people. On top of that they have the hide to argue against Labor’s IR laws.