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Friday, May 10, 2019
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Hi guys just wondering if there are any HR people on here.
i'm in a pickle, haven't had a "proper' job in more than 6 months now.
I'm an accountant but failed my probation in my previous role.
Since then i've been applying for jobs.
In my interviews I usually say that i left my last job due to family reasons
(this is actually kind a true because i failed my probation in my last job due to a combination of workplace bullying and anxiety which affected my ability to perform).
Now one of the people i used to work with say they would be a reference for me.
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I have been living in Australia for around 6 months. Just wonder why the internet is so expensive compared to many other places like Japan and Korea? It seems I need to pay 2000$ for NBN unlimited plan while the internet speed is like 40Mbps.
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I'm seriously considering stopping my YouFoodz shipments as of today, after receiving their new "enviro box". Lately, I'm trying to be more cautious about my waste by properly sorting and reducing the amount of plastics I use. When it came to YouFoodz, i knew that they sent a lot of plastic but they had a nice feature where you could leave your polystyrene box outside when they deliver, with cleaned out food trays and they'd take the entire thing to reuse.
Now, they seem to be using this new "enviro box". I was cool with it at first, because it's a cardboard box, but oh boy once you look inside it, it's not good. they have this "bubble liner" that keeps the food cold, and strange gel-packs that also assist in cooling during transit. I was wondering how the hell I'm going to throw this stuff out considering they don't pick the boxes up anymore, so I looked it up on google and they try and get away by being environmentally conscious by calling it the "enviro box" despite the only thing you can throw out at home is the cardboard box itself.
The bubble liner has to be thrown out at a "soft plastics recycling bin" which is found at most supermarkets, and the gel packs CAN'T be thrown out. They just tell you to reuse them. YouFoodz genuinely expects the regular person (who is usually pretty ignorant on their waste) to take their bubble liner to a supermarket every week, and to store their gel packs until their freezer is full of them...and then what?
Can anyone else who receives YouFoodz please help me in complaining to these assholes? This is incredibly irresponsible, especially lying to their customers and trying to get away with fake names for their products
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Guys I am not very knowledgeable on politics and i ask you this question to get your views. My uncle and aunty are high income earners and own about 3 properties. And surprisingly they arent too interested in politics either. Since coming to this country, they have voted for the liberal party twice because they say that the labor party would tax them too much. The sydney morning herald (https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/labor-s-32-billion-plan-to-tax-the-top-end-of-town-will-hit-10-per-cent-of-taxpayers-20190508-p51lf9.html) said this;
"The decision means the top quartile of taxpayers – those earning more than $90,000 a year – will have effective average marginal tax rates 5 per cent higher under Labor than they would under the Coalition by 2022.
Analysis by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling reveals those earning $110,000 today are likely to earn $120,000 by 2022 and pay an extra $2300 in tax under Labor.
Residents of Palm Beach in Sydney and Toorak in Melbourne – where average taxable incomes reach up to $230,000 – will see the $11,000 extra they pay in tax spread to areas with below-average incomes, such as Campbelltown and Broadmeadows, through a permanent $16 billion low-income tax offset.
According to the Tax Office, the average taxable income is $58,700 a year, but that is skewed by high-income earners. The median or typical income is $43,900.
The cumulative effect of Labor's income tax changes will see inequality, measured by the Gini index (where 0 is perfectly equal and 1 completely unequal), modestly lower under Labor at 0.36 compared to 0.37 under the Coalition, according to Associate Professor Ben Phillips at the Australian National University.
At the same time, the 5 per cent of taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year will pay 30 per cent tax on their super contributions, rather than the current 15 per cent. That change will add more than $19 billion to the budget over a decade.''
Now this has left me wondering what some good reasons would be for a high income earner to vote labor this election.
Thanks guys.
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Who is proposing these new oil wells in national parks?
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Am trying to help out an online friend from down under who's gotten in a bit of legal trouble, all i've found is a pdf that would be useful to them except for that pdf only applies to 'muricans like me. Is there anything like that for Australian law that I can link them to?
I hope this is the right subreddit for this kind of post.
Edit: And what's the first thing to do if they don't go to prison? What's the first thing they should do after they serve time?
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I've read some the the RC's outcomes and they do indeed come under attack BUT it also says bed rails have there use. Can anyone with experience or legal perspective clarify what my Familys rights are in insisting bed railing? Thanks in Advance. I'm on the road to the Home now so it'll take a bit to get back to you all
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Australian media seem stuck in the 90s. Great to see the Footy Show has finally been axed. But some other 90s dregs are still hanging on, despite their incredible irrelevance these days: Media Watch on the ABC, and Good Weekend magazine in the SMH/TheAge newspapers. Media Watch was a great show back in the 90s with the always interesting Stuart Littlemore, but decades later it is lame and irrelevant (who cares about Paul Barry's opinion on news events? ffs). And as for the Good Weekend magazine, reading this is like discovering back issues of Womens Weekly circa 1991. Will our media industry ever move beyond the 90s?
EDIT: This was the first post I've made at Reddit Australia that was even remotely contentious, and I gotta say I wish there was more discussion and debate here. Don't just downvote something, explain why you disagree with it. I like a good debate. Interesting to see how many people defend Media Watch and Good Weekend but can't identify what they actually like about them. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch, aye?
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Greetings from the other side of the Pacific. I'm from Chile.
Today the news featured one of you. A lovely Australian spider was found walking around in the streets of Iquique, a town in the north of the country. It's not dangerous for humans (thank you) but it could disturb the ecosystem. How she got here? dunno.
This made me wonder; besides all the banter online about the deadly creatures you can find in Australia and memes about giant bugs and animals getting into your houses, realistically, what's your relationship with these little 8-legged friends at a domestic level?
I hate them. Let me tell you. Here, we have two spiders to deal with in our houses (at least in urban areas). First, our own deadly creature, and literally deadly, is the araña de rincón(translated as corner spider). As the name says she lives in the corners of the house or furniture, she's rather small and very fast and venomous. If you cross paths and you accidentally touch her, she will bite. You'll have to run to the hospital, or you could lose your limb or die. The way to prevent her appearance is maintaining a proper cleanness at home.
The second one is the good one: the araña tigre or tiger spider. You can find her barely moving, it's very slow and has long striped legs, she won't hurt. The recommendation says you don't have to kill her because she's the natural predator of the araña de rincón. Never seen them fighting though.
Anyways, I'll send you a bunch of both as a show of appreciation for your gift to our lands.
Greetings. Good night for me. G'day for you.
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