Australian Job Losses

[Julia]

Another 2000 on the scrapheap courtesy of the incompetent Newman Government .....

All Can-Do is having to do is get rid of some of the bloated public service created by the Bligh government where, just as one example, in Qld Health there are two administrative employees for every single health worker.

[Vesupria]

All Can-Do is having to do is get rid of some of the bloated public service created by the Bligh government where, just as one example, in Qld Health there are two administrative employees for every single health worker.

I lost interest in him when he used the first parliamentary session to give him and his bloated party squadron a payrise. Talk about arrogance!

I don't think he realises that for every job he cuts in the public service, someone else inadvertantly loses their job in the private sector (there is research with factor tables out there for this kind of thing, I believe).

Gold medal performance announcing this whilst the public's eye is on the Olympics too. I can understand they need to cut money (to an extent) but the way he has gone about this makes me cringe.

[Vesupria]

Lack of money = social unrest is what I was getting at.

But then the idea of marauding gangs of property developers does create a picture

A lot of Can-do's mates are in the property development gig. They won't be left lacking - mark my words!

[numbercruncher]

All Can-Do is having to do is get rid of some of the bloated public service created by the Bligh government where, just as one example, in Qld Health there are two administrative employees for every single health worker.

Is that 2:1 figure backed up with a link or something ? Looks like more propagnda to take the heat off cant-do incompetence. Might be his next target , sack half of health workers , make doctors do their own admin , work 20hrs a day instead of 16 ? Then the next wave of interstate retirees who havnt contributed a bean to Qld will rock up so we can up doctors workload to 22hrs aday ...... 2 hrs sleep and some pseudoephedrine should see them through .....

Can do!

[jank]

Is that 2:1 figure backed up with a link or something ? Looks like more propagnda to take the heat off cant-do incompetence. Might be his next target , sack half of health workers , make doctors do their own admin , work 20hrs a day instead of 16 ? Then the next wave of interstate retirees who havnt contributed a bean to Qld will rock up so we can up doctors workload to 22hrs aday ...... 2 hrs sleep and some pseudoephedrine should see them through .....

Can do!

Got to love the Aussies, you guys like to whinge a lot! The Poms have nothing on you guys.

[prawn_86]

33 jobs to go at CUB. Maybe they should brew better beers rather than the bland boring sh1te that most of their labels are

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/br...802-23ies.html

[chrislp]

33 jobs to go at CUB. Maybe they should brew better beers rather than the bland boring sh1te that most of their labels are

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/br...802-23ies.html

Personally I think their beer's good but it's not priced correctly.

[Timmy]

The latest employment figures have been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, of anyone is interested.

6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia, Jul 2012
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0 (Summary)

JULY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)

Employment increased to 11,517,500.
Unemployment increased to 631,700.
Unemployment rate steady at 5.2%.
Participation rate steady at 65.3%.
Aggregate monthly hours worked decreased to 1,626.0 million hours from a revised June 2012 estimate.



SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)

Employment increased 14,000 (0.1%) to 11,512,600. Full-time employment increased 9,200 to 8,073,700 and part-time employment increased 4,800 to 3,439,000.
Unemployment decreased 2,500 (0.4%) to 635,100. The number of persons looking for full-time work increased 14,600 to 457,600 and the number of persons looking for part-time work decreased 17,100 to 177,500.
The unemployment rate at 5.2%. The male unemployment rate increased 0.2 pts to 5.2% and the female unemployment rate decreased 0.3 pts to 5.3%.
The participation rate at 65.2%.
Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 13.4 million hours to 1,625.1 million hours from a revised June 2012 estimate.

[numbercruncher]

Thousands more about to be thrown on the scrap heap thanks to campell the axe newman ....

In other news, about 200 positions are to be cut from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), with more 'savings' to be made before the budget.

After weeks of speculation about as many as 550 job losses in the newly formed department, Minister John McVeigh has confirmed hundreds of positions will go.

Alex Scott from Together Queensland said they were expecting significant job cuts to be announced in the next few days, including up to 2000 in Public Works and Housing.

Earlier, Treasurer Tim Nicholls revealed job losses in Queensland's public service could amount to more than 20,000.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226446629590

Im sure they will still be able to award plenty of contracts to their mates construction companies though hey ....

[numbercruncher]

Earlier, Treasurer Tim Nicholls revealed job losses in Queensland's public service could amount to more than 20,000.

Hopefully they choose 20,000 people who are half a mil in debt each so than can take down a bank or something

[ROE]

Hopefully they choose 20,000 people who are half a mil in debt each so than can take down a bank or something

why do you want to wish ill on other people? do you enjoy seeing other suffer or business going bankrupt?

[numbercruncher]

I see Clive Palmer is proving "Cant Do" Newman as the idiot that he is with a simple equation......

BILLIONAIRE Clive Palmer is more in touch with the man on the street than Premier Campbell Newman is, a union has claimed.

The outspoken Mr Palmer has criticised the LNP's approach to Government saying they haven't created a "can do" atmosphere.

In an interview on ABC Radio, Mr Palmer slammed the decision to axe funding to political parties as risking the "independence" of political groups, and taking Queensland back to a pre-Fitzgerald era.

He also attacked the mounting job cuts, saying they alone would not create the savings needed to dig the State out of its financial black hole.

"If we get rid of 20,000 (public servants) that will save $1.8 billion which isn't even enough to pay the interest on a $100 billion debt," Mr Palmer said.

[numbercruncher]

why do you want to wish ill on other people? do you enjoy seeing other suffer or business going bankrupt?

Cant do wishes ill on other people (20,000 of them), not me, I just hope they are debt slaves who will be forced into being freed from their shackles ( negative equity mortgages and consumer debt etc) and taking down a greedy bank as a side effect would be a fantastic thing .......

You wishl the ills of a life of debt slavery on these poor souls ? Do you enjoy seeing them suffer and going bankrupt slowly ?

[numbercruncher]

All Can-Do is having to do is get rid of some of the bloated public service created by the Bligh government where, just as one example, in Qld Health there are two administrative employees for every single health worker.

I see this nutjobs "budget" cuts are now destroying front line jobs , but funny enough hundreds of millions can still be blown on construction projects like the turf club and rail links etc ....


Around 130 positions will be sacrificed in the next week, including 45 full-time equivalent nursing roles.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...#ixzz25OSFe7bk

[Bushman]

Boral has just cut 700 positions across all its business divisions.

Bluescope Steel cut 170 positions last week.

Most of these would be ALP voters ... they must be pleased that Gillard has ensured that Thomson and Poacher's Pantry Pete have kept their snouts in the trough!

ALP voters - regressive taxes, anti-business rhetoric, the support of entrenched union corruption, the winding back of much needed industrial relations reform and the spending of Australia's largesse on pink bats, pokies (via the fiscal 'stimulus' hand outs) and over priced school canteens means you lose your jobs in the eye of the producitvity storm.

But don't worry; Paul Howes will say it is mean and unfair and give you a cuddle.

Jokes on us I'm afraid.

[tech/a]

Dont know what all the fuss is about.

Just give business a printing press and away we go---problem solved!

Govts do it at sound economics
We do it its a jailable offence!

[moXJO]

Boral has just cut 700 positions across all its business divisions.

Bluescope Steel cut 170 positions last week.

Most of these would be ALP voters ... they must be pleased that Gillard has ensured that Thomson and Poacher's Pantry Pete have kept their snouts in the trough!

ALP voters - regressive taxes, anti-business rhetoric, the support of entrenched union corruption, the winding back of much needed industrial relations reform and the spending of Australia's largesse on pink bats, pokies (via the fiscal 'stimulus' hand outs) and over priced school canteens means you lose your jobs in the eye of the producitvity storm.

But don't worry; Paul Howes will say it is mean and unfair and give you a cuddle.

Jokes on us I'm afraid.

I wonder how much Boral and bluescope pay in carbon tax every month?

[prawn_86]

5500 jobs lost last month. Seems as though all those news headlines are finally flowing through into the jobs figures

[Aussiejeff]

5500 jobs lost last month. Seems as though all those news headlines are finally flowing through into the jobs figures

No, no, no...!!

This can't be happening..stock markets are soaring, bank profits are soaring. Where is the lie?

[psailagroup]

I also honestly think that the unemployment rate is allot higher then being "said".
Is it also fair to say that 8 out of 10 business have shredded their work force?

Also Tatt's Group have just moved from VIC to QLD (only two weeks ago) and they are working on 50% less head count.