Enough is enough
We travelled to Canberra on Monday to support the women of this country that Enough is Enough. Many women and men out there are angry and are calling for gender equality and justice for victims of sexual assault.
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How does the Prime Minister Scott Morrison respond in Parliament?
To busy to meet with a delegation outside of Parliament. Wouldn't come out to the crowd, not like the Leader of the Opposition Mr. Albanese and his Shadow Ministers.
Morrison telling protesting women, in Parliament, that they're lucky they aren't being shot. This has parallels with violent males who tell their female partners that they're lucky they just bruise their bodies and leave their faces alone.
Enough is Enough and Justice for Women.
P. David, Unions Shoalhaven
Ticket fury
My wife and I retired and moved to Lake Conjola in October and we love the Shoalhaven coast. My wife and I recently attended the Milton markets and fun fair.
My wife parked the same spot nose to the fence, the same as approx 50 cars. We could not see any sign on the fence or on a pole.
We left the markets at approx 12:30pm and had a ticket in the car. There was a very large number of cars booked. I have been driving for 44 years and never been booked until now.
The bottom line is that I will not be paying fine. I will contact current affairs and speak to the federal minister again. The signs were approx 100m apart, very poor.
I spoke to tourists that will never come back to Shoalhaven again for $83.
R. Mcgregor, Lake Conjola
No hope for works with new IR Bill
This week Parliament will vote on the IR Omnibus Bill. Many workers in regional area shave not had improvements in gaining secure work, pay or conditions for many years.
This bill will not help remedy this situation. In fact one provision states that workers on "greenfields sites" cannot negotiate for improvements in conditions or pay for eight years! How is this fair?
The bill proposes that workers "can ask the employer to be made permanent" after 12 months of casual work but with no guarantee that this will happen! How is this fair?
The government is trying to push these changes through when workers in our area are already disadvantaged - this bill does nothing to improve their conditions / circumstances.
We need Senators and MP's to vote against this Bill.
D.Hanlon, Vincentia
Clarifying legal question
The ABC program Q&A on Thursday March 11th provided viewers with a snapshot of some of the diverse opinions held with regard to Christian Porter and, Scott Morrison's stand on the problematic situation Christian Porter has created for the LNP. Labor's Kristiana Keneally and Liberal's Zeb Seselja were poles apart on the "fitness for office" question involving Christian Porter.
Fortunately, in what threatened to become an ideologically driven verbal brawl, another of the Q&A panellists, acknowledged expert on the Australian Constitution, Kim Rubenstein, provided the much-needed wisdom into the debate.
Professor Rubenstein relied solely upon the Constitutional Powers and Functions of our three levels of Democracy: Legislature, Executive and Judicial to sustain her argument an independent and confidential review of any minister of the Crown's "fitness for office", would in no way jeopardise "The Rule of Law" as claimed by Scott Morrison and his LNP colleagues.
Some viewers sent messages suggesting Kim Rubenstein consider entering politics.
In truth Professor Kim Rubenstein is too intelligent, honest and valuable to be subjected to such a fate!
Barry Swan, Balgownie