Thursday, November 30th, 2006...11:34 am
National Day of Action for Our Rights at Work
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… from this morning’s rally in Canberra.
Important for all the family.
Update: lots more photos in the Your Rights at Work flickr group.
33 Comments
November 30th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
If you dont like working for an employer LEAVE.
It’s simple.
We live in free country and you have the choice.
If you really want better conditions or higher pay - work harder, get more education, invest in your own future. Don’t expect the employer or the Government to do it for you.
This country is full of opportunities for anyone who has the guts and drive to go out and get it.
Stop complaining that big business is mean and the government is bullying you. The World doesnt owe you a living.
Unions are for lazy people who won’t get off there butt and do a days work.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Funny, the Mr Lefty I know is in Melbourne, yet this comment came from Brisbane!
Read the not-so-fine print, dude:
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November 30th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Zoe, that’s not me. That’s my troll. Please feel free to delete it.
The “WorkChoices” legislation is an abomination and it just shows the bankruptcy of the dickheads propounding it that they have to resort to crap like pretending to be the people opposed to it.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
That’s more like the Mr Lefty I know.
As for “Unions are for lazy people who won’t get off there butt and do a days work.”
All those hardworking firefighters, nurses, teachers, etc that I marched with this morning say you’re wrong. You might have benefited from attending the rally, and hearing the stories about what can happen when people get sick on an AWA.
Also, it’s “their” butt. And “butt” is a nasty Americanism.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Brisbane, eh? Gee, I wonder who my troll is. Obsessed with me… based in southern Queensland… plenty of time on his hands… GOSH.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I don’t doubt you’re being nice, Mr Lefty.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
I was actually going past Parliament House a little before noon today, and I’m not sure if it was all over by then or not, but the turnout looked a little poor. There seemed to be more cops than protesters (evidently the cops were expecting a lot more protesters).
It’s unfortunate that Canberra couldn’t put on a better crowd. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t even realise it was on (but then, I don’t belong to a union and don’t tend to watch Mainstream Media™).
Still, given that I’m on an AWA, I guess I would have been fired if I’d actually stopped to join the protest! But good on you for going.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
We had left by then, dr F. There were 2000 or so, which was OK, but could always be better. The march left Manuka oval at about 10 and there was to be an hour or so of stuff up at PH, so most would have gone - there were union barbies and stuff being held elsewhere, and others off to work.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Oops! Forgot to go (to the local version).
For a moment, I thought your family might have joined the Orange People, then I realised the connection.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
yay, on ya Zoe. glad you got off your Australian Arse (no nasty American Butts round here thank you) and bothered. btw, sweet photie of Sage
November 30th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I’ve got photos from my morning up Zoe. Including the banner made by the little blokes I was with!
November 30th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
I spent the entire dark to dawn period of last night holding a bucket for a small boy so was utterly exhausted this morning. I thought that it would be unsolidaritous of me to wipe out the entire RSL with little boy gastro so stayed home to mope (actually, I went back to bed to dream of fair workplaces).
I’m glad youse went. However, I am really bummed out that I missed the chance to bask in some Greg Combet-inspired good feelings. Sigh.
November 30th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Unfortunately we too were up into the early hours enjoying the virus that is going around.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
The new workplace laws will create a flexible (more easily sackable and subject to unilateral conditions) higher-payed (you’re a riot!) work force with increased prosperity (for employers) and greater employment opportunities for the disabled and ethnic minorities (doing socially valuable stuff like cleaning windscreens at traffic lights and earning them valuable gold coin donations!).
Do you think it’s fair that employers have to pay an extra 17.5% wages when you are going on holiday? (Sure. It’s factored into what you get paid. What say you to golden parachutes, golden handcuffs, golden handshakes and other idiocies of corporate fiddling?) That’s clearly a dodgey (I have already spoken to you today about spelling!) rort brought in by the unions - now we finally have some balance (who’s this “we”? And what do you mean by “balance”?)
Your attempt is generally very poor. 2/10
November 30th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Yay Zoe! I should have messaged you to wave a fist for me (but was caught up in faffy old lady whinges).
December 1st, 2006 at 8:39 am
wow, what is it with the gastro? it’s only just stopped devestating our lot up here.
December 1st, 2006 at 10:20 am
I forgot too, because I SUCK.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pm
“I forgot too, because I SUCK.”
Yes, good point, but it gets worse. The
participatory street theatrepolitical protest march was totally ineffectual PRECISELY because YOU, specifically, weren’t there.It’s all your fault.
I hope you’re proud of yourself, pikelet. There are working mothers being sacked and forced into prostitution as we speak because of your selfish inaction.
December 1st, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Don’t get me started on street theatre, F. Unless you’re being directed by someone with an Italian-American surname in an action movie with police, guns and/or Russel Crowe, fake blood amuses nobody.
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Work Choices does indeed bite the big one, and I too pay my union fees but in Adelaide, but the march seemed to be a good excuse to stop and have a beer at 11.30 on Thursday morning. Admittedly, it was rather hot, though.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:31 am
“Political protest march was totally ineffectual PRECISELY because YOU, specifically, weren’t there.”
Well I wouldn’t go quite that far, Mr Bazarov, but I guess as I’ve already copped responsibility for Stalin and Mao I can wear jobless single mums as well.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:34 am
hey, where’s my gravatar gone??!!??
December 4th, 2006 at 11:39 am
They’ve all gone wobbly, Kate. I wish the gravatar peeps would embrace capitalism and charge us $5 each or something so they could get a decent gorram server.
December 4th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
“Well I wouldn’t go quite that far, Mr Bazarov, but I guess as I’ve already copped responsibility for Stalin and Mao I can wear jobless single mums as well. ”
Keerist you’re a plucky little Super-Trooper. Just when I think you can’t carry any more weight on your nicely-formed shoulders you go and lob a few more giant
apesmonkeys on the pile.You’re so conshy I’m surprised you don’t blame yourself personally for the strangely ubiquitous appeal of the “playsuit”. OK, maybe not that far, but definitely those wide belts girls wear that don’t hold anything up.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:33 am
How do the jobless single mums make any money as prostitutes when they can only be out in public in full burqahs?
(Aussie women are doomed to opprssive fundementalist muslim dress due Kate’s pro-Taliban anti-Americanism, aren’t they?)
December 6th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
“How do the jobless single mums make any money as prostitutes when they can only be out in public in full burqahs?”
Erm…necessity is the pimp of invitation?*
Apparently, prostitution is a growth industry in Iran. I saw a doco on SBS [I heart SBS, Zoe] on it once, so it must be true. I gather Iranian women can be highly suggestive with curtains and/or Iranian men are very imaginative [necessity is the step-uncle of imagination?].
*I was going to go with “invagination”, but that was a bit too icky even for me.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
This is off topic, but wanted to make sure you got to see it (although you proddly already have!):
http://www.tokfiler.com/fun/cats/
December 7th, 2006 at 12:02 am
From one zoe to another!
You rock, chicky!
Great work, love your blog and especially the “we’re in ur streets fighting ur laws”!
I’m behind ya all the way.
Zoe xx
December 7th, 2006 at 11:50 am
With regard to Iranian prostitutes, perhaps: “Open Sesame” is the lover’s invention.
“highly suggestive with curtains”
Dance of the seven curtains? or that really sensuous circus act that involves two long lengths of silk. The emerging butterfly from ‘Quidam’ by Cirque du Soliel.
(Incidently, I think “emerging buttefly” is page 45 of the Karma Sutra)
December 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
harry, I spend my workdays with an Iranian woman who gives “feisty” a whole new world of meaning.
Those I-ranian womens is TOUGH.
And sorry to miss your departure t’other day. It was good to see you, especially next to the Real Batman.
Enny - cat pictures are never off topic here.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
“With regard to Iranian prostitutes, perhaps: “Open Sesame” is the lover’s invention.”
Heh. Biggest chain of kebab shops in Ireland: “Abrakebabra”. They’re shite, in case you’re wondering.
“Incidently, I think “emerging buttefly” is page 45 of the Karma Sutra.”
I think you’re confusing it with “Emerging Butter” from minute 45 of Last Tango in Paris.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:48 am
“harry, I spend my workdays with an Iranian woman who gives “feisty” a whole new world of meaning. ”
I know. She spends her lunch hour with me!
January 4th, 2007 at 9:26 am
[...] Including the freedom to starve to death, according to this trollified comment on crazybrave: If you dont like working for an employer LEAVE. It’s simple. We live in free country and you have the choice. 30 November 2006 at 1:00pm http://crazybrave.net/2006/11/30/national-day-of-action-for-our-rights-at-work/#comment-4693 [...]
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