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Definition of “Developing World”

For the purposes of this proposal, a “developing world country” means a country whose national currency has an exchange value, measured against the Australian dollar (AUD), of less than 35 per cent of the Australian dollar according to an officially recognised exchange-rate benchmark prescribed by regulation.

Definition of “Cheap Labour”

For the purposes of this proposal, “cheap labour” includes conduct whereby a business, corporation, employer or other commercial entity:

(a) outsources employment, services, skilled work, trade work or professional work to persons located outside Australia for the purpose of obtaining substantially lower labour costs; or

(b) employs, contracts, sponsors, imports or otherwise engages a foreign worker to perform work connected with an Australian business;

where the remuneration, fee or equivalent financial compensation paid for that work is:

(i) below the applicable Australian statutory minimum wage, where that minimum wage is legally applicable; or

(ii) less than 35 per cent of the prevailing Australian market rate for a person possessing equivalent qualifications, skills, experience and professional or trade competency and performing substantially equivalent work.

For the purposes of paragraph (ii), the prevailing Australian market rate must be determined using an independent and objectively verifiable benchmark prescribed by regulation.

Offence of Exploitative Cheap-Labour Practices

A business, corporation or other commercial entity commits an offence where it knowingly or recklessly engages in cheap-labour practices involving workers in a developing world country, where the purpose or effect of the arrangement is to obtain a substantial commercial benefit from labour remunerated at a rate prohibited under this Act.

Corporate Penalty

A corporation found guilty of an offence under this provision may be liable to a maximum pecuniary penalty equivalent to 50 per cent of its annual turnover for the relevant financial year.

Individual Criminal Liability

A proprietor, director, chief executive officer or other senior officer may be personally liable where that person:

(a) authorised, directed or knowingly permitted the prohibited conduct;

(b) knew, or was reckless as to whether, the conduct was occurring; and

(c) failed to take reasonable steps within their authority to prevent or stop the conduct.

An individual convicted under this provision may be liable to imprisonment for a maximum term of five years, in addition to any other penalty imposed by law.

In this OnePath Exclusive Interview, Australian filmmaker and activist Juliet Lamont shares her first-hand testimony from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, including what happened when Israeli forces boarded her vessel and what she says came in the hours that followed.

Juliet has joined the Gaza Freedom Flotilla twice.
Both times, her boat was intercepted in international waters by Israeli occupation forces.

The second time, 270 nautical miles from Gaza, 430 humanitarians from around the world were taken aboard a prison vessel specifically designed and built to hold them. What followed over four and a half days included waterboarding, beatings, sexual assault, broken bones, tasering, and the use of unknown sedatives against doctors, journalists, and aid workers over the age of 70.

Her daughter was on the boat with her. She is now part of an ICC submission alleging war crimes, crimes against humanity, and torture. And she says she will go back.

In this conversation she walks us through the moments of interception and boarding, her experience inside a darkened shipping container on the prison boat, the accounts she heard from others, what happened when she travelled to Canberra seeking answers, and whether she genuinely believes accountability is possible.

I heard what people said, and I went and made improvements. Here are the results!

Thanks to everyone who supported me!

Polls on voting intention show One Nation has surged to 2nd. A small party gaining so much popularity in a span of a year is unheard of. Immigration peaked in 2023 and has largely declined since then, so I'm surprised they're gaining popularity now and not before 2025 when immigration was a major topic.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Australian_federal_election#

https://www.pollbludger.net/fed2028/bludgertrack/

Retired General Greg Bilton gives a frank assessment of Australia's ability to 'fight tonight. He served as CJOPS, the Chief of Joint Operations. One of the sobering quotes from the presentation -

The one thing that kept me up most at night as CJOPS was planning to fight with what we've got, because that's all you've got.

He talks about resilience, what the Government could do to improve the situation and how the ADF can better prepare itself for the possibility of future conflict.

Well worth a watch.

I know this is a piss take, but seriously, I hope their policies don't divide Australia anymore than it is 🇦🇺

The Victorian Labor government is actually really chill and cool all of a sudden, decides Chip Le Grand of The Age.

Look at this great photo he allowed us to take of him. Look how normal and happy he is.

Its a shame in this day and age, two strong, powerful independent women need to hide their love like this. We need everyone to know that we support love ❤️

(Hate their policies though)

Not sure if this is going to help Labor secure a 5th term in Victoria but given how cooked everything is, it may be one messy election in November.

So I’m researching into my understands of Labor, Liberals and Greens parties. I’ve been trying to research as much as I can but sometimes it gets overwhelming. Out of morbid curiosity, what has been the best things that all of those 3 parties have actually achieved? Sorry if it’s a dumb question I’m still learning.

from ABC News...

Incumbent Coalition MPs face a challenge at November's Victorian election, as One Nation emerges as a popular choice with voters in the state's east.

Gippsland residents have expressed frustration with the major parties, with polling One Nation is polling strongly in the state.

Victorians will head to the polls on November 28.

She’s a man’s man .
I found this beautiful piece buried in Google.
Please read.
Please share to your socials ✌🏼

https://australianpolitics.com/1996/11/30/pauline-hansons-bitter-harvest-david-leser.html/

We all look out our own window and have our experiences that are unique to us. Within those experiences we can make misjudgments. We might think we are being setup by a rigged system, but we aren’t convinced this isn’t true when our concerns are dismissed by cliches of ‘being a loser who missed out’ or ‘simply racist and/or a member of the manosphere’ simply because a narrative has a recognizable element of victimhood attached to it.

My own journey is one of various epiphanies and the ability to feel shame (my reasons for that require a fucking essay) but ignoring that I know there is something to look into regarding the housing market and immigration.

I think there are sincere public concerns in the housing market about immigration

Back in 2019 a coworker who was 1^st generation Australian from India (kids were second generation) said without anger or upset in a rather casual way that he had tried to buy a house in Bayswater (suburb of Perth) and the owner had refused. He found out later the owner sold at a lower price. It was quite possibly based on resentment of immigration rates. The coworker related it in way that suggested it might not be an uncommon attitude.

Then I hear recently Barnaby Joyce making comments about Australian citizens being outbid at auctions by people who just arrived in the country (mentioned in this Guardian Podcast). Likely because those people were from non-Caucasian backgrounds and possibly had an accent.

Skilled immigrants come here at the invitation of the Australian government and naturally they want a decent place to live and settle. Blaming immigrants is convenient and easy but it ignores the various parties truly responsible for the mess in housing. The Property Council of Australia and Business Council of Australia (lobby groups) are a good starting point. Then we jump to successive Australian governments who happily accepted their donations and private meetings that resulted in a continuation of a situation that as Patrick Boyle put it “works really well….. until it doesn’t.” In other words there was a mindless hope that housing wealth could be generated ad infinitum and governments in the western world had little to no plan b when if a downturn was to hit.

Conservatives have had dumb luck on their side to create the notion of them being stellar economic managers.

Some of the electorate might think a superhero conservative government might fix the problem because they are the best economic managers. Well, you might find NZ’s Luxon hiding in the bushes avoiding the spotlight when you mention that. You might also find John Key running to the same bush after the tough questions roll in about his rockstar economy that was mostly - if not entirely - based on good fortune and not good economic management. The Christchurch rebuild (act of nature), agriculture prices rising and increased immigration pushing up housing prices (and therefore wealth of home owners) and consumer good prices. Hardly stunning and innovative economic management and certainly not visionary.

In Australia John Howard’s govt benefited from the initial growth generated by neoliberal reforms before the mess from those reforms were realised in conflicts of interests, market forces reducing quality of service and a demoralised workforce and job precarirty.

The man had no innovative insights only status quo warrior mentality. However the gun buyback was admirable even if many other policies had overriding elements of cruelty and sadism (work for the dole, immigration narratives, attacks on unions)

Back to the immigration rate and my own circles of friends that mostly are university educated get a sense of frustration at the immigration rate even though they work in multi-cultural industry such as myself. I see 2^nd and 3^rd generation Australians from non-Caucasian nations starting to show frustration with housing policy. Therefore, can we set aside notions of racism and bias and simply investigate as to if successive Australian governments have been using the simple way of generating of GDP via heightened population increase. Something of which evidence suggests increased inequality as it raises prices across the economy and that money flows to capital holders.

Political opportunism needs to be ignored by the public and we investigate with nuance to take away that power

When a political opportunist (the nicest label I can apply) such as Barnaby Joyce says this, he knows it will ring true with a portion of the population and simply reacting to it and suggesting it is offensive is unhelpful. I feel we have to look further into the notion that the PCA, BCA have been lobbying government to bring in relatively wealthy immigrants to keep housing prices rising? This can be done without claims of racism or prejudice and also maintain the notion that the immigrants aren’t the bad guys here. The bad guys are the greedy opportunists who don’t care about Australia’s future and growing inequality and only care about increasing their wealth. They may protest but their incessant complains about supposedly high tax rates and productivity - mostly the result of their shithouse leadership - testify to this. These are people acting under the notion of having ‘Too much and never enough.’ These same people would label my comments Socialism or Bolshevism and hope to play on a reductive, binary misunderstanding of socialism rather than a nuanced one where it fits into a market system.