Aussie Federal election 2025

[pmccarthy]

I ran a consulting business for many years and we always had full working from home. Employees (up to 250 of them) were billing clients by the hour and I didn’t care where they worked from. They were assessed on their billings and client satisfaction. The system worked well and still does, the business has been going for 40 years now.  Here's a link if you are interested https://www.amcconsultants.com/

Edited Sunday at 01:49 PM by pmccarthy

[red750]

Another problem we have with my son WFH is the dog. It's a smallish breed, about the size of a Jack Russell, but has a bark like a Great Dane. And it barks at anything, the cats chasing each other through the house, anyone coming to the door, neighbourhood dogs barking, cars and trucks on the street, anyone dropping something. And as he lives indoors due to the neighbours dogs which would eat him, we have to try and control the barking when my son has a customer call going.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Our Cocker is the same.. barks at many things, and usually while I am in mid-sentence in a meetng. I guess as I don't deal with customers directly, it is probably more tolerable. A couple of times when I have had the camera on for meetings, he has jumped up on my lap. Works a treat for dog lovers on the call.

[facthunter]

Biggest defeat in Australia's Political History for the Liberals. The People have spoken. Not ONE blue seat in Tassie. Nev

[red750]

Go easy on the celebrations Nev.

[red750]

Looks like the Greens may end up without a seat.

 

[red750]

Clive Palmer is set to retire from politics after his Trumpet of Patriots political party failed to secure any seats this election - despite him spending more than $60million to promote it.

 

The Trumpet of Patriots only secured 1.85 per cent of the primary vote, according to data from the Australian Electoral Commission.

 

On the back of his election blow, Mr Palmer has revealed he will retire from politics and instead focus on charity work. 

 

'I'm 71 and I'm getting too old for politics,' he told The Daily Telegraph.

'I'd rather spend time helping the tens of thousands that are homeless and hungry in this country … that's why I've donated $5million to Foodbank,' he said.

 

The Trumpet of Patriots infuriated voters after sending unsolicited texts to mobile phones across the country.

 

The messages were signed off by Harry Fong, the party's lead Senate candidate for Queensland, and urged people to 'Vote1 (sic) Trumpet of Patriots'.

 

Social media was flooded with people complaining about the messages, with the correspondence ramping up at the start of the week.

 

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Have you noticed all the Laborites spoofing everywhere with their collective orgasm?

There's droplets raining down on my village. Someone please tell them to stop.

[facthunter]

It's from the Liberals dummy spitting. .They think they hold all the Cards. Be a good loser, GON It was a win beyond most expectations and no lives were lost  Andrew Bolt says the People were wrong. Do you go along with that? The  Poll that counts is the One counted after polling day. Is it not? Nev

[octave]

On 30/04/2025 at 4:00 PM, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

Albanese will be tossed out this election, he made a blunder spending all that money trying to get the Voice up.

Oh dear, that prediction did not age well. I seen to remember you also assuring us that Trump would not impose tariffs on Australia because, blah blah blah fentynol.

It is hard to see the outcome of this election as anything but a repudiation of those things that you and the Trumpsters hold dear.

 

 

[red750]

Mutton handed it to them on a silver platter.

[facthunter]

IF you think that's the complete answer, the much needed reform that Many Libs want, won't happen. Nev

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

Have you noticed all the Laborites spoofing everywhere with their collective orgasm?

There's droplets raining down on my village. Someone please tell them to stop.

If you didn't vote, you can't complain about the outcome.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

I may have got some predictions wrong, but I'm just totally glad the Coalition got thrashed, they are the bastards who conscripted me into the Army, treated me as if I was a leper, gave me nothing for my two years lost, then kicked me out onto the footpath caring nothing about my future.

 

About five years ago, I placed a curse on the Coalition. It seems to be taking affect, they lost the last election, and now they've lost this one dismally. If they're smart, they'll be wise to split up and go home before the curse gets into their very soul destroying each and every one of them from within.

 

I'm also of the belief that if the electorate continues to allow the ALP and the Coalition to rule Australia, things will get worse. Since I first said it some years ago, housing is unaffordable, inflation took hold and prices rose to make shopping too expensive, crime is being met with indifference, motorists are hitting accelerators instead of brakes and crashing into shop fronts and lounge rooms, etc, etc,

 

We need to have a think about what we're doing. 

[red750]

Same old same old. Maybe you have a bone to pick, but what were they supposed to do, just let the commies march down and take over here? Then you'd really have something to bitch about.

[rgmwa]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

About five years ago, I placed a curse on the Coalition. It seems to be taking affect, they lost the last election, and now they've lost this one dismally. If they're smart, they'll be wise to split up and go home before the curse gets into their very soul destroying each and every one of them from within.

I suspect their recent demise has more to do with their policies and their political strategies than your curse. Still, I’m impressed by your ability to hold a grudge for so many decades even though your curse seems to be be taking a while to work against people who actually had nothing to do with you being conscripted. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

2 hours ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

About five years ago, I placed a curse on the Coalition. It seems to be taking affect

Who else have you cursed? I will take care to warn them their lives are ruined.

[Marty_d]

3 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Who else have you cursed? I will take care to warn them their lives are ruined.

Not them, but whoever is in their job 5 years later, by the sounds of it.

[octave]

GON inflation is not an ever worsening problem that we did not have on the "good old days". For some years before COVID inflation and interest rates were low. Inflation is now starting to go down. Whilst this is difficult for many the situation is improving.

Housing prices seem to be a problem around the world to varying degrees.  I am not sure what the answers are. Governments can tinker around the edges but I don't think they can wave a magic wand and lowe prices. GON, do you have any suggestions?

 

[onetrack]

GON seems to relish harbouring and feeding longstanding bitterness and grudges, turning them into his sole reason for living. A wise old Auntie told me once - "As you age, you can Better, or get Bitter". GON is obviously a bitter old man, concentrating all his energies into pursuing grudges and hatreds, and I'll wager he lives alone and has few friends. What a sad case he is.

 

He also has a very selective memory. He seems to forget that official inflation rocketed to 17% under the "leadership" of Gough Whitlam. It was a terrible time, the mid-1970's, as everyone kept raising prices as fast as you could blink.

I can recall a meal were having with a business associate, and he remarked, just looking at the condiments and food items on the table, as to how much they had inflated in price in such a short time.

 

A new, basic Holden Belmont sedan cost just over $2000 in 1972. By 1977 the cost of that sedan had gone to $3,200 - an increase of 60% in just 5 years.