1984 revisited

Hold on to your seats folks. Under the landmark employee bargaining agreement (EBA), permanent full-time employees working 35 hours per week can choose to have weekly hours and entitlements varied to 30 hours per week over four days, without any loss of pay. Meanwhile, permanent part-time employees will have working hours and entitlements pro-rated against a full-time load of 30 hours. This is what Labor will champion because their Union Masters want it. Now that the only government. Australia that isn't Labor is Tassie, it is do as they'll keep time as long as the Unions sign off on it. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric ALP is owned by the Unions and will always surrender to their agenda.

At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In November the Germans called for an armistice (suspension of fighting) in order to secure a peace settlement. They accepted allied terms that amounted to unconditional surrender. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war. This first modern world conflict had brought about the mobilisation of over 70 million people and left between 9 and 13 million dead, perhaps as many as one-third of them with no known grave. The allied nations chose this day and time for commemoration of their war dead. One of our famous ANZACS was: Lance Corporal Albert Ja...