What's new
By:
Advanced search…
The Front Row Forums

Register a free account today to become a member of the world's largest Rugby League discussion forum! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

OT: Current Affairs and Politics

Eelogical

Eelogical

Referee
Messages
23,245
Bandwagon said:
Australia day's been plenty of dates, it's only been Jan 26 since 1994, so it's been moved about and called different names for like 100 years.

I honestly do not see the big deal in moving it, but if they do, FFS do something like make it the first Friday in Feb or some shit, rather than have it on a f**king Thursday, which just sucks balls.
Click to expand...
There’s more to it than just pleasing the activists of the day. Give up one day and the other significant days will follow. AD as it exists in general terms will be only a memory for most of us in the not too distant future. Having said that, I can see that many aussies will take the opportunity to turn AD into a four day weekend.
 
Bandwagon

Bandwagon

Super Moderator
Staff member
Messages
44,955
Eelogical said:
There’s more to it than just pleasing the activists of the day. Give up one day and the other significant days will follow.
Click to expand...

Yeah I don't think that needs be the case.

I think there's a genuine issue there for first nations peoples, it's not a flavour of the month thing for them, so I don't subscribe to the notion that it's catering to the activists of the day.

And I don't believe changing the date is asking us to give up anything, though obviously there are different views about that.
 
the phantom menace

the phantom menace

Coach
Messages
11,812
Eelogical said:
There’s more to it than just pleasing the activists of the day. Give up one day and the other significant days will follow.
Click to expand...
But no-one's giving anything up. There'll just be agreement eventually to change the date (again).

Eelogical said:
AD as it exists in general terms will be only a memory for most of us in the not too distant future. Having said that, I can see that many aussies will take the opportunity to turn AD into a four day weekend.
Click to expand...
I'd disagree with the fear factor... Once the date is changed, how people celebrate Australia will be up to them in the future - just as it is now/tomorrow. Except with the improvement that even more people will be able to celebrate the positives of Australia when the date is a more relevant/neutral one.
 
hindy111

hindy111

Post Whore
Messages
62,867
Bandwagon said:
I coulda taken it off and had a long weekend, normally woulda, but I'm still being analed by the flood and getting back on top of the cost of the damage that five meters or so of fast flowing muddy water does to a building and it's contents.
Click to expand...

Well I agree. Public holiday mid week are a pain in arse
 
Gary Gutful

Gary Gutful

Post Whore
Messages
52,989
Bandwagon said:
I coulda taken it off and had a long weekend, normally woulda, but I'm still being analed by the flood and getting back on top of the cost of the damage that five meters or so of fast flowing muddy water does to a building and it's contents.
Click to expand...
Could have had a coupla days off, but it sounds like you've been analed by muddy water.
 
Gronk

Gronk

Moderator
Staff member
Messages
77,704
You know the lockdown freedom brigade have lost the plot when even 2GB are outing them as cookers.

*Language Warning*


 
Last edited by a moderator:
the phantom menace

the phantom menace

Coach
Messages
11,812
The end of two wasted years where NSW LNP Perrottet and Elliot's poor dealings meant they had to be kicked dragging and screaming to the table to bargain a decent enterprise agreement to/with the railway workers.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/aus...h-covid-jab-ruling-looms-20230130-p5cgd2.html (scroll to 12:33pm)
- - - - -

NSW rail workers vote for new pay deal​

By Matt O'Sullivan​

In state news, thousands of NSW rail workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting a new two-year pay deal.
It brings to an end a protracted industrial dispute between the state government and unions. The vote also clears the way for the government to ramp up work on safety modifications for a fleet of new intercity trains which were at the centre of the dispute.
The results of the ballot show 93 per cent of rail workers voted in favour of accepting the enterprise agreement, which includes a $4500 cash payment and minimum annual pay rises of 3.03 per cent and 3.53 per cent. The wage rises include superannuation increases.
The Fair Work Commission will also decide in the coming weeks whether workers should receive wage increases greater than the minimum pay rises. Arbitration hearings are scheduled for early February.
About 80 per cent of the 13,000 rail workers in NSW covered by the agreement voted in the ballot.
Unions NSW assistant secretary Thomas Costa said the outcome of the vote drew a line under what was a “very difficult” dispute which he says should have been resolved much earlier.
“We could have saved the community and our members so much pain if we had a government more willing to negotiate with its workforce,” he said.
“Hopefully this is a lesson for future governments and management.”
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Top