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Please Complain
Please Complain - your whinges at work

If you've got a problem with your workplace or work contract, there's no better time to get publicity than during an election campaign and Please Complain will get your complaint in front of Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Joe Hockey and Shadow Minister Julia Gillard. The website is not affiliated with nor endorsed by Joe Hockey or Julia Gillard or any political party and will protect the sender's anonymity but the text of complaints may become public.

When there's no federal election, Please Complain is a unique staff retention system which enables staff to complain anonymously to their employer about any issues in the workplace. Management can respond to complaints whilst the staff member's anonymity is protected.  Effectively, the system helps HR managers to reduce staff turnover, to predict problems arising from changes in the mood or culture of the workplace, and to reduce the need for mediation and other forms of managerial intervention.

To complain about yout work conditions click View button below.

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Thinking positively about getting a job
19 apr  |  Prime Minister Gillard's speech to the Sydney Institute last week, and Tony Abbot’s policy announcements two weeks ago, drew unanimous response from the community sector — that getting people into work is a sound objective, but it's harder than it looks. by Lin Hatfield Dodds . . read more
Gillard gets gazumped
22 jul  |  By Sean Maguire

Most Australians love to see their politicians with egg on their face; with Julia Gillard earlier this month it was a delight that we almost saw literally dripping down her face. Yesterday, the egg was a metaphor as a young student stood up, yelled and gave Australia 'security scares' with how close he got to our new PM.

Finally it seems young Australians are waking up, becoming angry and showing our elite that the issues that matter, might splatter in their faces if they aren't careful.  . . read more

The election Rudd could have won
25 aug  |  The result suggests some fascinating questions. Prime among them is whether Labor panicked and threw away this election when it deposed Kevin Rudd and replaced him with Julia Gillard in June. Would Rudd have done better? The answer is probably yes.
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Gaddafi going to go like a dictator
22 aug  |  By Stephen Myles

With the Gaddafi regime on the verge of collapse, the world is waiting for the money shot - an image of a shackled or dead dictator paraded through the streets as a lowly criminal.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to see more, she wants to see the man brought before an international criminal court; a nice thought but looking through the history of fallen dictators, let's just say "justice" is pretty unlikely to happen.

Dead, deposed or distant is all you really have to hope for, so let's hope too much blood isn't spilled in getting one of these results.

 

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Did Rudd Get It Right on Industrial Relations?
29 aug  |  Kevin Rudd says his workplace plan - Forward with Fairness - gets the balance right. It provides businesses the flexibility they need to keep the economy strong - while ensuring every working man and woman is treated fairly. Is he right?  . . read more
A Shakespearean view of Australian politics
25 jul  |  Shortly after Kevin Rudd was ousted from the Lodge last month, Malcolm Turnbull decided to console him with some words from Shakespeare. In a Fairfax op-ed entitled 'Axed and humiliated: Someone should give this poor bastard a hug', Turnbull quoted Coriolanus.

By Adrian Phoon

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HPD Jobs: Writing an Undeniable Cover Letter
28 jun  |  Now to begin the tedious task of job-hunting, all excellent resumes are accompanied by a cover letter. When apply for a job you should talk to the company the way they would talk to you. Everything you receive from a business is complemented with a cover letter so why should the resume you send them be any different? Talk their talk. This is an opportunity for you to inform the reader who you are, why you are sending your resume and why they should read on - By Rebecca Scott  . . read more
Gag-worthy Gillard shows sickening sycophancy
11 mar  |  With Australian Prime-Minister Julia Gillard's verbal fellatio in U.S Congress, the Americans are mighty pleased they have a friend pleasuring them down under- by Stephen Myles


 

 

 

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The Difference is Marginal...
3 aug  |  Suffering from an acute lack of vision? Don’t put on your glasses, it is our political system that is myopic. Do worry though, as we’ll all be worse off for it, Australia has long term challenges ahead and will need political leaders with the whole of Australia as their constituency, not with both eyes on the polls. 

In this two part article, Shaun Lambert writes exclusively for HomepageDAILY, taking a look at how we arrived at this juncture and what could be done to avoid repeating mistakes. . . read more

Women lead race to ruin
23 jul  |  By Sean Maguire

It's a strange fact of life that when a person from a certain group is up for election that group is much more likely to vote for the person. Think African Americans and Barack Obama, gay people and Harvey Milk, women and Julia Gillard

The thought must be that if the person they elect knows their troubles then the elected official should be much more likely to create solutions that will actually work.

Trouble is that so often in politics this prescription proves incorrect.

So as women race to the polling stations pen in hand to vote for Gillard think to yourselves, and really think to yourselves, has she given you any reason to think that she'll do anything to better the situation for women in Australia?

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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)