I'm certain that anyone with at least half a brain would have already been skeptical about the scare campaign run by the ALP and the ACTU against the recent workplace reforms, but this time they have been well and truely caught with their pants down, with the Daily Telegraph exposing some of their lies this morning.

Recently the ACTU released an advertisement on TV featuring 8 people who claim to have lost their jobs as a direct result of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005, however it has been revealed that upon investigation by the independant Office of Workplace Services at least 5 of the claims were misleading to various degrees. For example the ad featured a 58 year old claiming she had been sacked because of her age, however upon investigation it was discovered the had been asked to leave because she had refused to perform the duties set out in her origonal job description, and was offered a substantial redundancy package.

This is just another in the saga of misleading advertisements released in this ongoing campain. What I find personally disturbing is that MY money is being used in this campaign. I attended the SRC meeting at university this week, where a motion was raised to contribute funds in order to manufacture banners in support of the "your rights at work" campaign and more specifically a rally held at Bathurst showground. I raised an objection to the motion however in a move which can only be compared to the countless times debates were cut short by the ALP last time the were in power in the federal parlament I was not fully allowed to voice my opinion and the motion was carried.

On the off chance a member of CSUAB's SRC is actually reading this, can u please answer the following questions:

A) CSUAB claims not to be affiliated with any politcal party or views, and yet this is clearly taking sides on an issue which is by all rights not even remotely within the purview of the association, how can the SRC reconcile these two opposing statements.

B) The point was raised before the discussion was abruptly ended that as many students have casual job the issue does relate to the SRC. I would like to know if a single student as CSU Bathurst has been sacked or threatened to be sacked that would not have been experienced the same dilemna under the supercieded laws.

C) A number of the banners made featured language which in undeniably offensive, with such language as (look away now kids) "fuck" present on banners. Is it the the view of the SRC or CSUAB that the use of student funds to introduce offensive banners into our peaceful country community is appropriate?

I can go on but these are the most significant objections I have. I sincerley hope that someone from the SRC does read this and provide some sort of answer either to me personally or in the comments section.


In more amusing news- for those of you who havent heard, US Senator Ted Stevens, the one of the men responsible for the creation and implimentation of internet-related legislation, has shared with us all a vast piece of incite about the nature of the world wide web. 

To start with, apparently we each have our "own personal internet", this seems like a lot of redunant information.

He then goes on to relate a story where a member of his staff sends him "an internet" and it takes a substantial amount of time to reach him, I'm not suprised! It takes awhile to send the whole internet, trust me I've tried it!

The senator goes on with a sting of badly worded and meaningless sentanges before his most significant incite comes to the floor- apparently, the internet is "not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck" but is in fact "a series of tubes".

The suggestion that the internet is not a truck can be easily proven as follows:


Does this picture have to potential to turn you on? hopefully not. Therefore this truck is not the internet.

Im curious as to just what types of tubes the Senator thinks the internet is made of. Maybe his office has one of those tube transport systems like they use at some large stores to transport cash quickly and securely from the registers to the safe room, the ones where u put the item in a capsule, place it into a receptical, press the button and "WHOOSH" off it goes. this would explain his comments on why it took so long for him to receive an internet, perhaps thats what he calls the capsules. But I certainly havent seen such a tube network in my house recently.

At any rate he is certainly not the sort of person I want deciding how the internet should work

(Full article here)