Saturday 8th March 1997
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Issues - The banking system under the spotlight. "It's been a long time since I've seen anything as stupid or bloody minded in Australia as what the trade unions in Victoria are doing at the moment," he said.
A furious Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, said the government would now "give consideration" to provatising the public transport system.
"The question is, have we been managing the public transport system as well as we could have, should we not have privatised a lot earlier? We'll give consideration to that next week," Kennett told Melbourne radio station 3AW.
The chairman of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, Mr Ron Walker, described the strike - which threatens to leave Victoria woth a huge financial loss- as a "bleak day for Australia" labelling the actions of the Public Transport Union as "industrial anarchy".
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Dear Editor,
It's about time somebody in a position of influence spoke up. The cowardice of the men and women of Australia's Establishment was fast becoming a legend in its own borrowed time. It was also disgusting the other day to see leading journalists at the Canberra Press Club applauding Noam Chomsky for saying things none of them would have the courage or integrity to write.
Perhaps Hayden's comments will break the grip of fear, cowardice and hysteria preventing any sort of mature debate in this country. Perhaps.
Cheers again,
Graham.
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Isn't that a great story about the well-known aboriginal artist who has been well-feted by art critics and aboriginals (story in todays Sydney Telegraph) who turned out to be an 82-year-old white woman!
Have a good weekend
Mario
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Subject: Re: Tom Bray's Letter to the QT
Tom Bray's letter to the Queensland Times, regarding racism in reverse hit the nail on the head, regarding the inequities in "the system" for underpriveleged rural Australians.
It did interest me that the name Jason Yanner was mentioned as appearing in court on charges of shooting crocodiles with a high-powered hunting rifle. He must have had some serious legal resources available to him. I am sure young "Jason" Yanner's legal fees could have paid for a waterless toilet, a water tank, some sealed road and an extra community tap for a couple of the aboriginal communities I have seen.
A former colleague of mine said he went to school with a Jason Yanner. It must have been a different person, because it seems this "Jason" was a gun-nut (as opposed to sporting shooter), and now who goes by the new "Nom-de-Plume" of Murundoo.....
A stunning coincidence, or is Jason Yanner - alleged assassin of protected native animals - actually our favourite Murundoo? I leave you with that thought.
Cheers
Brian White
The staff have found their working environment to "be neither fair nor equitable".
The report revealed that "Men were therefore more strongly influenced by remuneration-related issues, while women were influenced by their perception of how the bank valued their contribution."
For both men and women, "the bank was regarded as exhibiting few of the behaviours which would ensure a good organisational culture and this was a factor in their decision to leave".
In fact one of the ironies of the greed of the men running the banks is that not only have they lost the plot with the man in the street, they have now also lost the plot with their staff who are "contact-with-client" driven and are being replaced by untrained systems people who are, in effect, yes-men for some headless wonder back at head office.
The purchase of the property I referred to two weeks ago became a comedy of errors which highlighted the lack of training of senior staff at Australia's major banks.
Take this true scenario which took place over the last ten days:
If you wanted any real proof that the law in Australia is a complete arse, then try this one.
Alan Bond defrauds shareholders of Au$1.2 billion - an amount equating to the total loss in 84 weeks of household burglaries in the whole of Australia.
Bond with spend about 16 months behind bars or about one week for every Au$18 million "stolen" from shareholders.
Australian citizen Joyce Gye was sentenced to nine months behind bars last week for burglary including one month for having two boxes of infant baby formula - suspected of being stolen. (Gye is an unemployed mother of three children).
No one lost in Gye's case because all stolen goods were returned to their owners.
Now here you have a mother of three inside for petty theft for a period not much shorter than that of Australia's biggest conman - and her real crime was not being able to afford a QC to defend her - while he had the country's best legal brains knocking at his door.
Will be going along to the new investment property this morning to see how renovations are coming along.
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