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    <title>topic Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp;amp; deceptions in Community Spirit</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rort-fears-as-457-visa-loophole-reopened-20140311-34kgr.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rort-fears-as-457-visa-loophole-reopened-20140311-34kgr.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="2"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Abbott government has quietly reopened a visa loophole that will allow employers to hire an unlimited number of foreign workers under a temporary working visa, in a move that unions say will bring back widespread rorting of the system.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;In the Coalition's bid to remove all ''red tape'' from the 457 skilled migrant visa, employers will not be penalised or scrutinised if they hire more foreign staff than they applied for.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Before the loophole was closed in 2013 by the Labor government,&lt;/STRONG&gt; companies in the mining, construction and IT industries were knowingly hiring hundreds more foreign workers than they had applied for.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;In one example, an employer was granted approval for 100 visas over three years, but in 18 months he had brought in 800 workers under the 457 visa.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Unions say the move, which was introduced on February 14, undermines Australian job security while deliberately reopening a loophole that can easily lead to the exploitation of foreign workers. ''It is reopening a rort for employers,'' said Dave Noonan, assistant secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 07:46:06 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-03-30T07:46:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1120633#M305156</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well done LNP,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;for the 123 broken promises, lies &amp;amp; deceptions&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://sallymcmanus.net/abbotts-wreckage/" target="_blank"&gt;http://sallymcmanus.net/abbotts-wreckage/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://theaimn.com/2014/03/28/tony-abbott-stuffs-it-up-again/" target="_blank"&gt;http://theaimn.com/2014/03/28/tony-abbott-stuffs-it-up-again/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Cuts hundreds of jobs at the CSIRO&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Pays hundreds of indigenous workers in his Department up to $19 000 less than non-indigenous workers doing the same job&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and cuts the budget for the representative body&amp;nbsp;the National Congress of Australia’s First&amp;nbsp;Peoples causing two-thirds of the staff to lose their jobs&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Scraps food grants program for small farmers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Cuts the wages of Australian troops deployed overseas by almost $20 000 per solider&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Withdraws funding for an early intervention program to help vulnerable young people&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Starts dismantling Australia’s world leading marine protection system . .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-29T08:38:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1120881#M305206</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;A particular favourite of mine is from tones Address to the 2013 Federal Coalition Campaign Launch.....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;I want our workers to be the best paid in the world&lt;/FONT&gt; and for that to happen, we have to be amongst the most productive in the world.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;He must have meant his LNP Premiers, Ministers etc when he used the word "workers".&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Some of the 123 Broken Promise Count&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;Does not&amp;nbsp;spend his first week as Prime Minister with an Aboriginal community –&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tony-abbotts-broken-indigenous-promise-and-news-corp-breaking-bad,5750" target="_blank"&gt;14 September 2013&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp;This promise was made in front of indigenous elders and participants at the Garma&amp;nbsp;Festival on 10 August 2013, this is a&lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xJny0vuoo" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;live recording&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1OKujvU2wQ&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;Breaks his promise to support Gonski -&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/gonski-reversal-christopher-pynes-switches-leave-us-all-in-dark-20131202-2ylph.html" target="_blank"&gt;25 November 2013&lt;/A&gt;. Fails to commit to future funding or to require States to match the &lt;A href="http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Publications/2014/McMorrowjan2014.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Commonwealth funding commitment&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp;See paragraph two from Christopher Pyne on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://images.theage.com.au/file/2013/11/26/4954835/Pyne-presser-schools.pdf?rand=1385431052158" target="_blank"&gt;29 August 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;Breaks its NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016 –&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-reveals-plan-to-break-nbn-promise-20131212-2z8ir.html" target="_blank"&gt;12 December 2013 &amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;This was the Coalition’s policy they took to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.liberal.org.au/fast-affordable-sooner-coalitions-plan-better-nbn" target="_blank"&gt;election&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;first announced 9 April 2013.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;Changes name of &amp;nbsp;NDIS “launch sites” to “trial sites” and flags cuts to funding –&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.news.com.au/national/concerns-over-national-disability-insurance-scheme-after-joe-hockey-warns-of-cost-blowouts/story-fncynjr2-1226785509770" target="_blank"&gt;17 December 2013.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;The unequivical promise to deliver the NDIS in full was made&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2013/08/20/tony-abbott-coalitions-policy-australians-disability-and-carers" target="_blank"&gt;20 August 2013&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;and is in the &lt;A href="http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2013/08/20/tony-abbott-coalitions-policy-australians-disability-and-carers" target="_blank"&gt;policies they took to the election&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;Breaks his election promise of no cuts to education by cutting funding for trade training centres in schools on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/scrapped-trade-centres-to-fund-schools/story-e6frgcjx-1226785162856" target="_blank"&gt;17 December 2013&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp;He made this promise at the National Press Club on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/22487/20130903-0148/www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9481/Address-to-the-National-Press-Club-Election-2013.html" target="_blank"&gt;2 September 2013&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;and in writing on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2013/09/05/final-update-federal-coalition-election-policy-commitments" target="_blank"&gt;5 September 2013&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;as part of their policy commitments.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:56:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-29T09:56:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":face_with_open_mouth:"&gt;😮&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:15:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>azureline**</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-29T10:15:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;img id="robottongue" class="emoticon emoticon-robottongue" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_robot-tongue.png" alt="Robot tongue" title="Robot tongue" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:21:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>silverfaun</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-29T13:21:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="2"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;6 a day, like an unbalanced diet.....&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health. He made this promise at the National Press Club on &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/22487/20130903-0148/www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9481/Address-to-the-National-Press-Club-Election-2013.html" target="_blank"&gt;2 September 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt; and in writing on &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2013/09/05/final-update-federal-coalition-election-policy-commitments" target="_blank"&gt;5 September 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt; as part of their policy commitments. This promise was first broken on &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/alcohol-and-other-drugs-council-of-australia-in-administration-after-tony-abbott-cuts-20131126-2y836.html" target="_blank"&gt;27 November 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt; when they cut funding to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council and again on &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/nsw-health-funding-cut-by-150-million-20131217-2zizr.html" target="_blank"&gt;17 December 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt; when they cut $150 million from hospitals and health services.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Fails to provide the promised customs vessel to monitor whaling operations in the Southern Ocean –&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-22/conservationists-slam-federal-government-over-anti-whaling-plan/5171638" target="_blank"&gt;23 December 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Promise made by Greg Hunt -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/coalition-would-send-out-whaling-patrol-boat-20130409-2hiyw.html" target="_blank"&gt;9 April 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;Breaks a&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1711548/turnbull-confirms-nbn-will-honour-contracts/" target="_blank"&gt;promise&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;to provide fibre-to-the-premises for all Tasmanians for the National Broadband Network. This promise was confirmed my Malcolm Turnbull on &lt;A href="http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1711548/turnbull-confirms-nbn-will-honour-contracts/" target="_blank"&gt;17 August 2013 &lt;/A&gt;and confirmed as broken by the&amp;nbsp;NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.examiner.com.au/story/2088190/state-to-miss-out-on-fibre-nbn-after-2014/?cs=95" target="_blank"&gt;13 February 2014&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cuts compensation to the victims of bushfires -&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-cut-in-aid-heartless-20131020-2vuz1.html" target="_blank"&gt;21 October 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Instructs public servants and detention centre staff to call asylum seekers “illegals” -&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/minister-wants-boat-people-called-illegals-20131019-2vtl0.html" target="_blank"&gt;20 &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Denies there is a link between climate change and more severe bush fires&amp;nbsp;and accuses a senior UN official was “talking through their hat” &amp;nbsp;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/un-official-talking-through-her-hat-on-bushfires-and-climate-change-says-tony-abbott-20131023-2w0mz.html" target="_blank"&gt;23 October 2013&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
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      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/977767"&gt;@boris1gary&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well done LNP,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;for the 123 broken promises, lies &amp;amp; deceptions&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://sallymcmanus.net/abbotts-wreckage/" target="_blank"&gt;http://sallymcmanus.net/abbotts-wreckage/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://theaimn.com/2014/03/28/tony-abbott-stuffs-it-up-again/" target="_blank"&gt;http://theaimn.com/2014/03/28/tony-abbott-stuffs-it-up-again/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Cuts hundreds of jobs at the CSIRO&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Pays hundreds of indigenous workers in his Department up to $19 000 less than non-indigenous workers doing the same job&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and cuts the budget for the representative body&amp;nbsp;the National Congress of Australia’s First&amp;nbsp;Peoples causing two-thirds of the staff to lose their jobs&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Scraps food grants program for small farmers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Cuts the wages of Australian troops deployed overseas by almost $20 000 per solider&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Withdraws funding for an early intervention program to help vulnerable young people&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Starts dismantling Australia’s world leading marine protection system . .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;They are doing an excellent job of all those things, the voters must be thrilled!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>donnashuggy</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T01:17:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
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      <description>But weren't we told the other day they are doing exactly what they were elected to do?</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:20:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1121817#M305385</guid>
      <dc:creator>lurker17260</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T01:20:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1121895#M305395</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/357962"&gt;@lurker17260&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;But weren't we told the other day they are doing exactly what they were elected to do?&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;well since they never really said what they would do bar the odd 3 word slogan and the pamphlet, who knows. Although I don't remember any mention of ruining the economy but it could have been in some kind of code. Looking back, Hockeynomics was a rather big clue.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="hokk.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30009iF7A06664179A0BF0/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="hokk.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:54:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1121895#M305395</guid>
      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T01:54:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122067#M305418</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I saw 100 days and thought: B1G mentioning what the ABC&amp;nbsp; recently published,&amp;nbsp; never. I was correct.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;ABC&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Government marks 100 days since a boat arrived in Australia's territory.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Opposition said it was too early to "proclaim victory", but welcomed the reduction in boat arrivals. (&lt;STRONG&gt;I bet that hurt&lt;/STRONG&gt; B1G)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now a Sunday pink catharsis , to be followed by&amp;nbsp; that well known&amp;nbsp; hymn&amp;nbsp; Kumbaya, I do understand a day of vent.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The trouble with&amp;nbsp; posts B1G is that after a while, with some posterers, one&amp;nbsp; tends to not&amp;nbsp; believe what they write, even if they do themselves. In&amp;nbsp; many cases the belief stems from a lack of research, avoidance of unpalatable facts, or selective memory. So here are some repeated facts apropos 457 visas and unemployment figures which you seem keen to mention occasionally&amp;nbsp; sans background??&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;“In the same month that saw the release of the worst unemployment figures in over a decade.....'&lt;/U&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Not that the ALP's head office, the ACTU,&amp;nbsp; would present a selective statement or&amp;nbsp; have an axe to grind,&amp;nbsp; would they?&lt;BR /&gt;Figures can be fun,&lt;STRONG&gt; when the Poor Me and Rudd circus commenced, the unemployment rate was 4.5%, when they were finally kicked out of the ring it was 5.8%.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;"worst unemployment figures in over a decade": OK, here is an interesting graph that covers a period " of over a decade"&amp;nbsp; Note the trends:-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="australia-unemployment-rate.png" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30017i318698788CDADFD8/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="australia-unemployment-rate.png" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As for 457 visas, interesting trend also for the Poor Me and Rudd circus&amp;nbsp; performance times !&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="457 visas.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30013i95563AC3778E8C19/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="457 visas.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;With an average annual base salary of $94,000, the average 457 visa holder sits comfortably above the 75th percentile of Australian full time salaries."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I have noticed that amongst those working under 457 visas that there is not a category for trade union officials or spin doctors,&amp;nbsp; probably because the visas are issued to skilled workers, without criminal convictions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;PS&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can now add Thomson and Williamson to the unemployed ranks, &lt;STRONG&gt;long term !&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="kudosRdown.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30019iF111F3DD355FCC14/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="kudosRdown.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:17:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122067#M305418</guid>
      <dc:creator>monman12</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T03:17:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122207#M305454</link>
      <description>So you're saying this govt is honest, mm?</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:02:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122207#M305454</guid>
      <dc:creator>just_me_karen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T04:02:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122257#M305465</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/667971"&gt;@monman12&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;I saw 100 days and thought: B1G mentioning what the ABC&amp;nbsp; recently published,&amp;nbsp; never. I was correct.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;ABC&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Government marks 100 days since a boat arrived in Australia's territory.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Opposition said it was too early to "proclaim victory", but welcomed the reduction in boat arrivals. (&lt;STRONG&gt;I bet that hurt&lt;/STRONG&gt; B1G)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now a Sunday pink catharsis , to be followed by&amp;nbsp; that well known&amp;nbsp; hymn&amp;nbsp; Kumbaya, I do understand a day of vent.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The trouble with&amp;nbsp; posts B1G is that after a while, with some posterers, one&amp;nbsp; tends to not&amp;nbsp; believe what they write, even if they do themselves. In&amp;nbsp; many cases the belief stems from a lack of research, avoidance of unpalatable facts, or selective memory. So here are some repeated facts apropos 457 visas and unemployment figures which you seem keen to mention occasionally&amp;nbsp; sans background??&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;“In the same month that saw the release of the worst unemployment figures in over a decade.....'&lt;/U&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Not that the ALP's head office, the ACTU,&amp;nbsp; would present a selective statement or&amp;nbsp; have an axe to grind,&amp;nbsp; would they?&lt;BR /&gt;Figures can be fun,&lt;STRONG&gt; when the Poor Me and Rudd circus commenced, the unemployment rate was 4.5%, when they were finally kicked out of the ring it was 5.8%.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;"worst unemployment figures in over a decade": OK, here is an interesting graph that covers a period " of over a decade"&amp;nbsp; Note the trends:-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="australia-unemployment-rate.png" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30017i318698788CDADFD8/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="australia-unemployment-rate.png" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As for 457 visas, interesting trend also for the Poor Me and Rudd circus&amp;nbsp; performance times !&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="457 visas.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30013i95563AC3778E8C19/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="457 visas.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;With an average annual base salary of $94,000, the average 457 visa holder sits comfortably above the 75th percentile of Australian full time salaries."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I have noticed that amongst those working under 457 visas that there is not a category for trade union officials or spin doctors,&amp;nbsp; probably because the visas are issued to skilled workers, without criminal convictions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;PS&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can now add Thomson and Williamson to the unemployed ranks, &lt;STRONG&gt;long term !&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG title="kudosRdown.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30019iF111F3DD355FCC14/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="kudosRdown.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="4"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;oh look another graph, yawn. PLEASE PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC, IT'S EASY IF YOU TRY. START ANOTHER THREAD ON THE LAST GOVERNMENT IF YOU WISH.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color="#000000"&gt;leave the interpersonal comments out please. thanking you in advance.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:24:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122257#M305465</guid>
      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T04:24:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122381#M305491</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;mmm maybe abbott saw what was coming with arfur.....................or it really could have been any of his mates in low places.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Abolished the National Steering Committee on Corporate Wrongdoing that for 21 years worked to make sure the law was effectively enforced on corporate criminals -&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/a-committee-set-up-to-nail-corporate-crooks-is-among-those-axed-by-the-coalition-2013-11" target="_blank"&gt;8 November 2013&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 05:32:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122381#M305491</guid>
      <dc:creator>boris1gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T05:32:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122509#M305505</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="4"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;oh look another graph, yawn. PLEASE PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC, IT'S EASY IF YOU TRY. START ANOTHER THREAD ON THE LAST GOVERNMENT IF YOU WISH.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apt in red B1G, but &lt;U&gt;the topic, delineated by the OP&lt;/U&gt; included: these:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;"Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;I think addressing these points would be classed as staying on topic, e.g. apropos unemployment &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; "&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;when the Poor Me and Rudd circus commenced, the unemployment rate was 4.5%, when they were finally kicked out of the ring it was 5.8%", &lt;/STRONG&gt;or regarding 457 Visas I included&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt; a graph showing they doubled in the ALP duo ringleaders Circus days.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ah, I see where I could have gone off your topic , &amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366FF"&gt;I included some facts.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366FF"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366FF"&gt;&lt;IMG title="differential2.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30031iD7316BCDC93BD526/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="differential2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:20:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122509#M305505</guid>
      <dc:creator>monman12</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:20:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122525#M305508</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/667971"&gt;@monman12&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="4"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#ff0000"&gt;oh look another graph, yawn. PLEASE PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC, IT'S EASY IF YOU TRY. START ANOTHER THREAD ON THE LAST GOVERNMENT IF YOU WISH.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apt in red B1G, but &lt;U&gt;the topic, delineated by the OP&lt;/U&gt; included: these:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;"Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;I think addressing these points would be classed as staying on topic, e.g. apropos unemployment &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; "&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;when the Poor Me and Rudd circus commenced, the unemployment rate was 4.5%, when they were finally kicked out of the ring it was 5.8%", &lt;/STRONG&gt;or regarding 457 Visas I included&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt; a graph showing they doubled in the ALP duo ringleaders Circus days.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ah, I see where I could have gone off your topic , &amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366ff"&gt;I included some facts.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366ff"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;FONT color="#3366ff"&gt;&lt;IMG title="differential2.jpg" align="middle" border="0" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30031iD7316BCDC93BD526/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="differential2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="5"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;lol MM, they never let the facts get in the way of a good spleen vent. I read this and thought, hang on, didn't Gillard rort the 457 visas for her own staff???&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As for unemployment, the companies and business under Labor were closing&amp;nbsp;down&amp;nbsp;at least 1 per day, historic companies like Kell and Rigby, over 100 years old. Yep Swannie was the mad little cricket who destroyed so much.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But I do apologise for being on topic too.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:25:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122525#M305508</guid>
      <dc:creator>silverfaun</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:25:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122529#M305509</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;one 457.&amp;nbsp; i wonder what the rate is since these lads took office ?&amp;nbsp; is&amp;nbsp; abetz really trying to fiddle the figures?&amp;nbsp; .. indeed he is.&amp;nbsp; &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122529#M305509</guid>
      <dc:creator>lakeland27</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:28:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122537#M305513</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;here's a fact. this government have decimated the employment prospects of tens of thousands so i'd hush a little on that score. &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:31:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122537#M305513</guid>
      <dc:creator>lakeland27</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:31:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122553#M305516</link>
      <description>A lot of jobs are disappearing under Tony's watch silver, that's why he's called the minister for unemployment</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:38:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:38:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122563#M305519</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Tony easing regulations on 457 visas&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/come-in-workers-457-loophole-opened-up-20140311-34kgh.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/come-in-workers-457-loophole-opened-up-20140311-34kgh.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:44:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122563#M305519</guid>
      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:44:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122597#M305522</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well he did tell us his&lt;U&gt; &lt;FONT color="#FF0000" size="4"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;GOVERNMENT WAS GOING TO BE A GOVERNMENT OF NO SURPRISES AND NO EXCUSES.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122597#M305522</guid>
      <dc:creator>freddie*rooster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:53:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 100 Days of broken promises, lies &amp; deceptions</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122625#M305527</link>
      <description>The 457 visas make me really angry because we have a whole generation of young&lt;BR /&gt;People who are struggling to find work here&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Did you know that some companies don't even bother to advertise jobs here, they go straight overseas looking for people willing to work for next to nothing</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/100-Days-of-broken-promises-lies-amp-deceptions/m-p/1122625#M305527</guid>
      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-03-30T06:59:21Z</dc:date>
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