that is ONLY if you believe the propaganda of their dis-information departments, personally I can not trust ANY form of official information 'service' or broker, especially when that are making money from supply of information & dis-information.

regarding the tax situation australia now has a carbon tax that appears to equate one ton of coal (carbon basically) with 20 tons of carbon in the air, AND taxes based upon the 20 tons of carbon in the air instead of the ONE ton that produced it, and has a GST of 10% on all transactions other than food ingredients (not all forms of food, just the ingredients), then has a wages tax that starts at only 15% for the first $37k, then jumps to 30% to $80k, then another jump to 37% up to $180k and 45% over the $180k, and on top of that there is the super tax, flood tax, fire tax, and as far as Iknow there might even be a politics tax(hope not, but the idiots in can'tberra want more taxes so that they can rake in more money, but they have not noticed that the entire economy is shrinking at about the rate of taxes).

so if you want to aviod or minimise tax then do NOT come to australia, you WILL be taxes into and IN the grave.

harpo

Who is Gina?

Exactly me thought, too, Bryan....

Must be one of those US conditions where "if it's known here, the rest of the world must be aware of it too", that has infected the Aussies.

A fat ugly bitch with a lot of money she mostly inherited from her late father, Western Australian mining magnate, Lang Hancock.  She now heads his empire and is the richest Woman in Australia, soon the World

she is the richest woman in the world... with the potential to be the richest person in the world....  watch out Carlos...

link

And yet, STILL Gina made NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS last financial year.

Because when you reach a certain 'level' NOTHING can touch you.

So,is everybody happy?

Watch the entire clip, your brain will turn to mush and you'll pluck your eyes out with a fork. Only then will the answer come to you.

And the great thing is, a Pilbara Iron Ore mine owned by Gina Rineheart has got permission from the federal government to bring in the entire workforce from overseas, without even trying to get local workers first.  It's one thing to oppose the mining tax, it's another to be able to not even bother to try to employ workers that, you know, actually live in the place the resources are coming from?

I'm in the process of becoming a foreign worker right now, and it's a bummer.  Not in Australia, but a similar country, and it's the same story, giving significant preferential treatment to local workers and all.   And I'm a skilled worker.  So I've got a different perspective on things--like you should feel complimented that people want to live in your country, I feel highly discriminated against, maybe we should have a global economy on this one, all that.    It's like you want first divs on your own local labor market, but it comes at the price of...if you ever need to do a gig elsewhere, they are giving themselves first divs on theirs.  What goes around comes around.  It seems better to me at this point to just have no discrimination, instead of double discrimination; and the only purpose it really serves is to restrict our international freedoms.

And you'd think, with all that money, she'd invest in a friggin' facelift... tho with a triple chin like hers, it'd probably take a piece of heavy lifting machinery from one of her mines to make any real difference.  Yup, she's got a head on her like a bucketful of scrotums.

More importantly, me thinks, she should do something positive for the environment and conservation.... like liposuction, for instance.  With the amount of by-product drained from her ginormous gut n' arse, there'd be enough blubber to keep the Japanese whaling fleet from ever having to put to sea again.

How can Australians be the happiest with the most dangerous creatures on Earth plaguing their tiny desert island? I wouldn't go near that spider infested rock. 

Well tetleytea, that is an interesting perspective.  Thanks.   What would you say if there are two equally skilled workers, one is local, one isn't?   That's the only caveat I'd have with no discrimination.

shutup and eat a meatpie.

One mans plague is another mans Home Defense.

 The little buggers appear to be doing their job.

They are happy because one of their hobbies is shark fishing. I'm sure a friendy and happy Australian would be willing to give you a demo...

LOL, Fuzzy. You shouldn't bait the poor sharks that way.

Politicians will always enact laws favouring the people that can vote in the next election (i.e. the locals).  Any politician who advocates putting foreign workers (i.e. non-voters) on an equal footing will quickly find themselves out of a job.  Right or wrong, it's the reality.

It's true:  I mean, how can you beat up your local senator because the receiving country is resisting receiving you?  You have to beat up the other country's parliament.   Well, you can't do that either...you're a foreigner.   The only way to make it work is to drive a reciprocity agreement, and now you're trying to drive TWO countries to do something you want.  Good luck with that. 

All skills being equal, naturally an employer would tend to want the local first, for a few reasons:  you can get an earlier starting date from the local guy, less risk, and usually the employer would be picking up relocation expenses.  And then you get the chicken-and-the-egg problem I'm hitting:  the employer doesn't want to deal with all the legal immigration issues.  Which I'm saying I wish we didn't have legal immigration issues....   But if you're in a situaton where all this doesn't really apply (such as I'm already there; I'm just a foreigner who's already there), personally I would pick the foreign worker because i want the diverse mindset.  I want to form a multicultural team who think very differently from one another. 

Excuse me! Tiny?  In landmass, Australia equals mainland USA.

Furthermore!  Not only is it an island... it is also a continent.

Which reminds me!  If the USA is stuck in between Canada and Mexico, does that make it incontinent?

Oh, and Sean, don't worry about our dangerous creatures.  Chances are, you'd never see one.

But then, that's how a lot of tourists end up on the menu.

Yeah, and I resent foreigners criticising our choice of pets.  Like they know the troubles we have keeping alive pets imported from overseas.  They don't acclimatise too well, so naturally we turn to the native fauna for our 4, 6, 8-legged companions.

Not too well, it seems... we still get 1000's of tourist turning up here every day.  I suppose the big bonus to that is that it helps keep the pet food bills down.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work anymore.  After several game fishing boat collisions, tourists are now required to wear seat belts and they fall overboard not nearly as often.

I'm afraid that the import of workers into Australia has little to do with getting the right person for the job, but more to get the right person for the price. We have some of the best wage and conditions for workers in the world. The mining elite have been arguing to import workers to break the unions and to keep prices and conditions down.

They won't put in programs to train people for positions, they want the government to put the time and money in it. They get huge tax breaks and funding so they will continue to grow, at the cost the voters and a cause of inflation. And now Gina get to import cheaper workers so she can maximize profits ... something she has been pushing well before the mining boom.

Next thing you know the Australian government will let her use nukes for mining, another thing she would like to do