Nobody confronted Paul Fletcher on the nonsense coming out of his mouth; I predicted the first thing he would say about having local manufacturing is lower taxes - I guess a politician with only economics/laws credentials would be out of touch with the reality of encouraging STEM-based industries and making real things rather than just generating paperwork or following a one-track political line. Invest in Australia - value added-STEM not just digging up rocks!

@zaibian7

10 күн бұрын

The libs have always been a one, or in this case four trick pony. Lower taxes for the rich, smaller government, racism and fighting the unions. Well, they're conservatives. Living in a version of the past that never existed is all they know.

What about the transportation infrastructure savings for tax payers? When people work from home, there is less of a peak hour. This means society doesn’t need to build so many additional road lanes or upgrade public transport to accommodate additional capacity. Imagine if some transportation infrastructure projects were delayed. The market would naturally redistribute the labour and materials elsewhere including to much needed new housing.

The way to stop antisemitism is to stop conflating being Jewish with the state of Israel. Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing.

@Salaryman_

12 күн бұрын

This 👏

@AbolitionAbz

12 күн бұрын

The issue is that most Israelis are seemingly also Zionists

@levcherkasski5318

12 күн бұрын

Yes they are. And you separating out a core tenet of Judaism makes you every bit as repugnant as the Nazis who found every excuse to hate the Jews

@rywt4zc

12 күн бұрын

@@Salaryman_ except, in the example given in this video, a woman was thrown out of a taxi for wearing a Jewish star. Not a "zionist" star

@rywt4zc

11 күн бұрын

@goldencalf5144 Is it? In the example given in the video, a woman was thrown out of a taxi for wearing a Jewish star. Not a "zionist" star. How does your comment help that?

It sounds like the Simon the small business owner just wants to blame the government for his shortcomings as a manager and leader.

@JamielDeAbrew

12 күн бұрын

Exactly why Australia needs a lower unemployment target (even if the level of unemployment is below the NAIRU and puts upward pressure on inflation).

@phillipaclemons7261

12 күн бұрын

@steveremington I agree with you

@daniellivings6638

11 күн бұрын

Lol! Poor Simon...

Well it should be optional to suit one's productivity. Being forced to be in an office when you are actually less productive is archaic in the knowledge industry

@JamielDeAbrew

12 күн бұрын

And costs tax payers when they need to pay for additional road lanes and public transport capacity.

@19SuperSarah92

6 күн бұрын

My workplace is open plan (shocking) and I am in online workshops with clients most days for 2+ hours at a time. I am an annoyance in the office - yet I am still being urged to go in. Build me suitable quiet work spaces and I would be in much more often.

Pity governments in the past 30yrs didn’t invest in more public housing and didn’t halve the capital gains tax

When he starts by calling Oct 7th an unprovoked attack, then you know he is completely full of ****.

I’ve been working from home full time since 2019, and before that was hybrid for 2 years. I hate being in the office, especially when it’s cold/flu season and dumbasses refuse to take sick days and instead get the whole office sick. On top of that I save loads of money not going to the office.

@christinefiedor3518

12 күн бұрын

Doesn’t do much for the wider economy however or immunity against pathogens.

@snuscaboose1942

12 күн бұрын

Same. Save a lot of time not commuting.

@andrewthomas695

11 күн бұрын

Horses for courses. I love the office and working with my team. But that's just me. Also, you make a good point about people coming to work sick. Certificates should be used to demonstrate a person is safe to return to work, not prove they are sick per se.

Tony Burke is based as always, easily the best Labor minister.

@N0R3M4C

12 күн бұрын

amen

@sonjakozman1699

11 күн бұрын

You know that "based" is essentially the opposite of "woke"?

@N0R3M4C

11 күн бұрын

@@sonjakozman1699 Based is a word coined by the rapper Lil B (Based God) - who said "Based means being yourself,". It denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance.

@sonjakozman1699

11 күн бұрын

@@N0R3M4C what a clown answer. So to you it just means, someone said something you like LOL

@robertholland7558

10 күн бұрын

@@sonjakozman1699I prefer the word “ grounded”, or down to earth.

Work from Home and 4 days weeks with no cut to pay❤❤❤❤❤❤

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

What a joke. You want to be paid the same to work from home for 8 -10 hours less. Haha the entitlement of some. “Give me more and I’ll give you less!”

@N0R3M4C

11 күн бұрын

@@michaelharvest931 People used to say the same thing about working on a Saturday until early 1900s union advocacy reduced the six-day workweek. Also as a result of Jewish advocacy to recognise Saturday as the Jewish Sabbath. It will help the economy and allow more productivity and spending with the time people gain back. We work to live, not live to work.

Since when did Australians use mm/dd/yy format ?!?!

@pepesilvia3776

11 күн бұрын

Americanization is coming

Bring back Tracy Holmes, she understands Australians better than these wealthy nanny state supporters.

YOU FORGOT TO TURN OFF THE COMMENTS SECTION

Australians treats adults like children.

@yesand5536

2 күн бұрын

It is pervasive, and a lot of Australians are fine with being treated like kids. The less skilled, the more that is pronounced. Managers as well are good on shoving blame, as if if they took accountability, they'd be able to work stuff out. Boring and comfortable dysfunction. Dom made the most sense, and so did Sally. Not sure about that Paul Fletcher, on a different planet

The boss doesn't 'understand' because he is a small business owner with scope for only that sector. Ministers have a much larger scope.

Paul ‘Eeyore’ Fletcher

Bring back Tracy Holmes.

Typo in title! adn

@hamburglar8794

11 күн бұрын

One of their other clips from this episode is titled "The 'right to disconnect - fair for Samll Business?". Who writes this stuff, do they not check at all?

Wall of shallow affect display. Tired of narrative from psychopaths. We know what is driving all the problems we face, and we know how to fix it easily. You'll do everything you can to project and shift blame away from the real issues.

My union has negotiated working from home rights. I do a job that requires me to work on site in a remote area. Other members of my organisation traded off some conditions for work from home. I get neither. I am livid.

On work from home, the question that begs it what happens with insurance. If your worker is working from home in an environment that could cause harm to them and they hurt themselves is the boss meant to suffer the workers compensation insurance claim while not having any control of the environment the worker is in?

Im completely with the union, it is the most important component of a fair workplace.

Outgoings have been going thru the roof for years and years and the brother wants to know why made in Australia manufacturing is not happening 🤦‍♂️ If Toyota one of the most efficient manufacturers of all time can't make a dollar in 🇦🇺 should tell you something

@JamielDeAbrew

12 күн бұрын

It’s not about being able to make “a dollar” it’s about being able to make the most dollars. Visualise of costs as a pie chart. Traditionally labour takes a large of the pie. Manufacturing is becomes more automated. Labour costs are a shrinking percentage. Shipping costs are becoming larger cost (by percentage). Eventually manufacturing will become local everywhere. Just don’t expect the manufacturing jobs to come with the factories.

Maybe let people working in the office wear trackies. Business wear is nonsense anyway.

Small hospitality and retail businesses suffer when more people work from home

@glako8740

12 күн бұрын

Rubbish. Local cafes have never been busier.

@lubaniskie

11 күн бұрын

​@@glako8740But that's cafes specifically, isn't it? What about those small grab and go stores? Who's taking a lunch break from home and walking/driving to one of those? Additionally, cafes are notoriously filled with work-from-table customers that buy a cup and stay for a couple of hours, taking up space and not maxing profit for the business, which demands a jacking up of prices as you now tend to get.

@glako8740

11 күн бұрын

@@lubaniskie I fail to see the problem. Nothing stays the same. People and business need to adapt and change.

@bammohammo

9 күн бұрын

​@lubaniskie so companies and workers should base their work life around other small businesses? If your business model doesn't adapt, it does. Capitalism 101.

@acl6872

9 күн бұрын

@@glako8740Melbourne CBD disagrees with you

I wonder when Q+A is going to turn off these comments as well?? You do it to your videos what's the point on placing in a comment when all they do is shut it down? The point is to have an open discussion it's sad when you close up the comments to most of your videos.

@spankmeflanders1466

10 күн бұрын

"person on internet cries about being able to leave comments" pick your battles bro

@bammohammo

9 күн бұрын

Blame Morrison's digital law which shifts the onus to the producer

Penalty rates for coming into office, time and a half. I will think about it then

13:13, a wonderful speech, wonderful explanation, great representation for us workers. That boss was looking to do a uh hah gotcha type got soundly beaten.

We need a AI and Automation mega profits tax that funds UBI, because AI will very quickly replace knowledge workers in many fields.

@JamielDeAbrew

12 күн бұрын

This could just be taxes on profits, wealth, spending, income, land. Taxing AI/Automation directly has issues… Eg1 it can be hard to measure Eg2 Taxing AI/Automation is essentially taxing productivity growth. We want to encourage productivity growth. Especially since it’s been low in Australia for the last few decades. Productivity and/or efficiency improvements are the only to have sustainable wage growth. And sustainable quality of life improvements. Instead we could tax inefficiency Eg1 a national vacancy tax on commercial and residential properties. The tax should be high enough to essentially force AirBnBs, hotels, motels, holiday homes to be rented at a loss on low demand days. This would increase supply. It would also lead to some being converted to long term rentals or sold. Commercially, offices currently have a high vacancy rate. This may lead to investors converting some into residential (despite the high costs). Eg2 tax unhealthy items (an inefficient use of plants) eg cigarettes, processed foods, soft drinks, alcohol etc… This should only happen to a limit. Beyond that limit, a tax would incentivise a black market. Eg3 require longer warranties - to incentivise products to be made to last Eg4 have a carbon tax to incentivise the efficient use of energy

@JamielDeAbrew

12 күн бұрын

A UBI is tricky. A good UBI needs to be higher than the aged pension and unemployment benefit. And be available to everyone (without restricting access to the wealthy which would remove the “universal” part). Then the government could remove the pension and the unemployment benefit. This would allow the removal of this government bureaucracy (saving tax payers this cost and making it easier for citizens to access the UBI). Collecting this much additional tax is hard… If GST is raised too, businesses will offer a cash discount. If income tax is too high at low thresholds, it will discourage workplace participation. If income tax is too high, some workers will offer to work below the minimum wage for cash. Small businesses (and sole traders) will offer cash discounts. Some good steps towards the principles of UBI might be to: * raise the income tax free threshold. This would increase the workforce participation rate. It would reduce the number of employees getting paid in cash (increasing GST and company tax revenue). * remove payroll tax (as it penalises employers for employing people) * improve public healthcare (which could also help businesses by reducing the number of sick days people use) * move from stamp duty to a monthly land tax Stamp duty is bad because it’s a disincentive to moving. * It means people (who don’t WFH) travel further to their jobs. This means tax payers have to spend more on transportation infrastructure. * It delays ‘empty nesters’ in downsizing. This contributes to the housing crisis as it reduces the number of rooms on the market. Long term land tax would be vital in helping to fund a UBI. (Along with other taxes).

It's too bad that comments were turned off by Q+A on the episode that had Jordan Peterson as a guest. Whenever this happens, it tends to make me think some petty tyrant wants to silence community discourse on a topic they're insecure about.

islamaphobia is not real. You cannot be irrational scared of something thats very rational to fear.

funny a panel discussing workers - without any representation from real workers / just a union shill

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

Yup. Unions and their members. The bane of people trying to do work honestly and efficiently

Good work, PK, for naming the elephant in the room out loud - radical Islamist extremism - at 43:35. Two Australian teenage boys have recently committed terrible violent crimes, because of the Prophet, or Allah, or Jihad

Can't stand Patricia Karvelis and Q& A is hard to stomach. I don't normally read of trust wikipedia but Karvelis's wikipedia entry is worth a look. She's even worse than I expected.

@kyliemoronogue

12 күн бұрын

You mean she's awful inside and out?

None of this discussion applies to teachers. The most unfamily friendly profession in the country. The laptop class need to stfu.

2:28 Bad vocal fry.

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

Haha nice stop, I hate the vocal fry

The right to disconnect, whilst on the surface it sounds reasonable. I wonder where this will lead the workplace relationship, particularly around that flexibility of time. The flip side to the narrative from a business perspective is making sure workers are working during hours they are paid to be connected. Will it lead to more more productivity monitoring and less flexibility of that time?

@Salaryman_

12 күн бұрын

The legislation is there for the fringe examples. Same as workplace harassment legislation. People still have romantic relationships at work, and the same is still correct for reasonable contact. If people use common sense, this is clearly not an issue

@bammohammo

9 күн бұрын

That onus is on employers. It has always been on employers and employers have the power to manage unproductive workers. Workers didn't have the right to point to laws that allow them to not work outside of their hours. Also, employers can draft and have both parties sign EAs. People are acting like these tools haven't ALWAYS been there for employers.

privilege laptop class get paid as taking a holiday as the forklift driver works in a cold wearhouse

@Salaryman_

12 күн бұрын

Corporate greed is to blame. 90% of those laptop workers would have no issue seeing an improvement in work conditions for others like forklift drivers.

@bammohammo

9 күн бұрын

Oh no! Also doctor gets more money than me. Let's take money from doctor. Quit acting like all jobs are the same and all people can better their lot in life.

Do you pay rent to the indigenous people who you recognise are the owners of the land you are on? Or is the recognition lip service?

@Blayzincaucasian

12 күн бұрын

Pay rent? That’s a white mans invention 😂

@kyliemoronogue

12 күн бұрын

Yes. It's called taxation. Who do you think funds all those special programmes, projects, payments and advisory committee? The taxpayer. I am the owner of my private property. Not the 'traditional owners'.

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

Lip service only. Lip service that needs to stop.

@quinnmach535

11 күн бұрын

The voice failed, most australians don't care about aboriginals

Crappy service is a result of working at home. These people are clueless...

@matthewsmith2682

12 күн бұрын

This is true in some ways, its incredibly wrong in others. Nothing is absolute.

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

@@matthewsmith2682”Only a Sith deals in absolutes”- Obi-Wan

@bammohammo

9 күн бұрын

You must have poor management.

people are being bullied at universities and the host of Q+A is failing to acknowledge this? pathetic show

A secondary teacher in the audience, wishes to programme her students on political correctness. This is a clear case of what parents are concerned about. Why is this even part of the student curricular studies. This sort of teaching by this women should be banned in the classroom. By the way, she mentioned Islam as a religion, it is not a religion but an Ideology.

@kyliemoronogue

12 күн бұрын

Time stamp?

@MariaZiyech

11 күн бұрын

@stephaniehawkins5211 Promoting critical thinking amongst students in order to govern social cohesion is very different from politically engineering them into supporting a specific ideology. In fact, it sounds like she wishes to be more careful around using divisive language that inform extremist ideologies which unlike your baseless assumption, members of the community like parents, would be pleased to see unfold in the classroom. We have to remember that students do not live in a vacuum oblivious to the horrific news, images, and videos perpetually displayed to them online. So treating these young impressionable minds with thought provoking conversations and integrity is not only KEY in navigating such difficult discussions but also allows for true knowledge acquisition amongst them without politically engineering them to adopt a specific viewpoint like western media so perfectly does. By facilitating such conversations that ultimately equip students to independently identify and call out acts of religious exploitation, this gives true power to these young individuals and this pursuit falls heavily on teachers as students spend most of their time at school. More power to well informed and responsible teachers!! 👏 Ah yes, she also did mention that Islam is a religion. She is correct. Lol ✌🏻

Well done Paul Fletcher

@yesand5536

2 күн бұрын

For what? He spent most of his time attacking the other two, and in the end, we got very little substance. Only when the two business people spoke, did we get some intelligent conversation. The union gal spoke also with a lot of sense. If a business put Paul Fletcher in charge of innovation, we'd still be happy to get a fax machine. He didn't sound very 2024

Two state solution is not possible as long as Hamas is in control of Palestine

@michaelharvest931

11 күн бұрын

The people of Gaza voted them in, and when polled about the attack over 72% agreed with it. The people themselves are full of hate. Rightly or wrongly, I can’t say. God knows what can be done about this now. Then with Israel’s retaliation that’s still going on.. it will create more hatred for another generation. What a mess. God help them all.

@spankmeflanders1466

10 күн бұрын

Zionists in the Israeli Government financially supported Hamas to get them to where they are - you think these things just happen? or is it more likely that as a result of decades of oppression and genocide and Israel supporting radical groups is why the situation is what it is