The South Australian Political Landscape

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Booney » Mon Sep 16, 2019 4:13 pm

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby stan » Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:59 pm

Jobless rate moving to 7.3%.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Booney » Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:48 am

stan wrote:Jobless rate moving to 7.3%.


Yet Marshall reverts to total number of people employed when he attacked the %age while in opposition.

Is he as limp wristed as they come?
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:02 pm

A backflip on the sand carting
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby stan » Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:17 am

Additional funding down at Flinders looking at easing the ramping situation at the ED.

Any additional funding for the health system should always be welcomed, however the key is getting enough well trained doctors in to handle the demand.

Also probably need to address the horrible as **** current staff. If anyone has ever had to go to Modbury hospital in Adelaide North East, I truly feel sorry for you. The staff there are horrific rude and nasty people. Clearly they hate there jobs, no wonder why its hard to staff that place with decent doctors and nurses as there are some horrible nurses that work there.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Psyber » Mon Dec 23, 2019 6:45 pm

stan wrote:Additional funding down at Flinders looking at easing the ramping situation at the ED.

Any additional funding for the health system should always be welcomed, however the key is getting enough well trained doctors in to handle the demand.

Also probably need to address the horrible as **** current staff. If anyone has ever had to go to Modbury hospital in Adelaide North East, I truly feel sorry for you. The staff there are horrific rude and nasty people. Clearly they hate there jobs, no wonder why its hard to staff that place with decent doctors and nurses as there are some horrible nurses that work there.


I have memories of being rostered on duty at the old RAH in my mid to late 20s for anything from 90 to 120 hours a week on a fixed salary, and clerical administrators trying to tell me what cheap medications I was to prescribe for patients regardless of what I thought was the best choice for their condition. Despite this they insisted they could run the hospital on less staff and were actually doing us a favour employing us to "give" us "the experience we needed"...

This practice inevitably lead to medicos walking out of public hospitals for private practice at the first opportunity as a matter of routine. These days the hospitals are always short staffed, especially for senior consultants, and when the public services want me to fill in for them they need deep pockets and the admnistrators have to behave themselves.

In recent years a public hospital in Melbourne advertised a job for a medical director of one specialist unit who was to be answerable to the Director of Nursing. Predictably, the only applicant was a guy from Pakistan whose specialist qualifications were not recognised here but they could then pay him at Medical Officer rather than specialist level. (I don't know if it happens in SA.)
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:12 pm

South Australia’s clean-energy shift brings lowest power prices on national grid, audit finds

The shift to more than 50% clean energy in South Australia led to the lowest average wholesale power prices in the national electricity grid over the past two months, an audit has found.

According to the national energy emissions audit published by the Australia Institute, South Australia has had lower monthly wholesale electricity prices than Victoria since January, than New South Wales since August and than Queensland and Tasmania for the past two months.

It is the first time the state has had cheaper wholesale power than all other states for consecutive months. It coincided with the percentage of electricity from wind and solar energy in the state reaching nearly 65% in November.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby stan » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:06 pm

SA unemployment at 6.2%.

National average is at 5.1%.

The next worst from SA is QLD at 5.7%.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby DOC » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:50 pm

Under employment is as big a problem as well.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Booney » Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:07 pm

DOC wrote:Under employment is as big a problem as well.


This,"employed" is classified as doing "one or more paid working hours per week". 1!

Unemployment
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines a person who is unemployed as one who, during a specified reference period, is not employed for one hour or more, is actively seeking work, and is currently available for work.


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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby DOC » Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:56 pm

I fear for a lot of young people who work two or more jobs and the ongoing uncertainty that the lack of a full time job creates.

Some "jobs" are now classified as sub contractors (or the like) and they work, at times, for slave like money and conditions. Some years back I extracted my son from one of these mobs.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:57 pm

DOC wrote:I fear for a lot of young people who work two or more jobs and the ongoing uncertainty that the lack of a full time job creates.

Some "jobs" are now classified as sub contractors (or the like) and they work, at times, for slave like money and conditions. Some years back I extracted my son from one of these mobs.
Extremely valid point. Unfortunately those that get trapped in these jobs, dont understand the legalities surrounding what is being employed as a Scam Contractor in certain circumstances.

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tigerpie » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:55 pm

I've worked 2 jobs for the last 12 years as my main job was only 3 days a week.
They could've had me full time but chose not to. Just expected 5 days work in 3.
I just got made redundant after 10 years.
The CEO's comment was, full time work us a thing of the past.
Part time or casuals are going to be the norm now!
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Booney » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:08 am

DOC wrote:I fear for a lot of young people who work two or more jobs and the ongoing uncertainty that the lack of a full time job creates.

Some "jobs" are now classified as sub contractors (or the like) and they work, at times, for slave like money and conditions. Some years back I extracted my son from one of these mobs.


The biggest rort is "traineeships".
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Mr Beefy » Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:23 am

Booney wrote:
DOC wrote:Under employment is as big a problem as well.


This,"employed" is classified as doing "one or more paid working hours per week". 1!

Unemployment
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines a person who is unemployed as one who, during a specified reference period, is not employed for one hour or more, is actively seeking work, and is currently available for work.


One!

Most of the young (U21) unemployed that I know are not registered for the dole as their parents earn to much., so they wouldn't be counted.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:59 pm

Booney wrote:
DOC wrote:I fear for a lot of young people who work two or more jobs and the ongoing uncertainty that the lack of a full time job creates.

Some "jobs" are now classified as sub contractors (or the like) and they work, at times, for slave like money and conditions. Some years back I extracted my son from one of these mobs.


The biggest rort is "traineeships".


And unpaid 'internships' where millennials should be grateful for 'gaining valuable job experience'. Stop exploiting our youth FFS.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Q. » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:01 pm

At least our State Libs aren't completely ******* useless like their Federal counterparts:

South Australia on track to 100 pct renewables, as regulator comes to party

South Australia’s plans to reach net 100 per cent renewables within a decade, and help provide renewable power to NSW to offset the closure of its coal plants have received a major boost after the Australian Energy Regulator green-lighted the business case for a major new transmission line linking the two states.

The AER on Friday approved as “robust” the regulatory investment test for transmission (RIT-T) for the $1.5 billion, 900km Project EnergyConnect transmission line proposed between Robertstown in S.A. and Wagga Wagga in NSW, a project being led by network companies ElectraNet and TransGrid.

The approval is being celebrated as an important milestone, and not just by the project’s proponents: The South Australian government on Friday described the interconnector as “the foundation piece” of its stunning net-100% renewable plans.

The new link is critical for the development of more than 5,000MW of wind, solar and storage plants in South Australia and in south west NSW, including huge projects such as Neoen’s massive Goyder project mixing wind, solar and storage, and the Susan River solar and battery storage project, which has already signed a contract with Alinta Energy.

South Australia is the main beneficiary. Its Liberal state government wants to reach “net 100 per cent” renewables by around 2030 (it will likely reach that milestone much earlier) and then become a net exporter to states such as NSW. At least half a dozen large renewables and storage projects have jockeyed for position in anticipation of the new transmission line.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby tigerpie » Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:22 pm

Q. wrote:At least our State Libs aren't completely ******* useless like their Federal counterparts:

South Australia on track to 100 pct renewables, as regulator comes to party

South Australia’s plans to reach net 100 per cent renewables within a decade, and help provide renewable power to NSW to offset the closure of its coal plants have received a major boost after the Australian Energy Regulator green-lighted the business case for a major new transmission line linking the two states.

The AER on Friday approved as “robust” the regulatory investment test for transmission (RIT-T) for the $1.5 billion, 900km Project EnergyConnect transmission line proposed between Robertstown in S.A. and Wagga Wagga in NSW, a project being led by network companies ElectraNet and TransGrid.

The approval is being celebrated as an important milestone, and not just by the project’s proponents: The South Australian government on Friday described the interconnector as “the foundation piece” of its stunning net-100% renewable plans.

The new link is critical for the development of more than 5,000MW of wind, solar and storage plants in South Australia and in south west NSW, including huge projects such as Neoen’s massive Goyder project mixing wind, solar and storage, and the Susan River solar and battery storage project, which has already signed a contract with Alinta Energy.

South Australia is the main beneficiary. Its Liberal state government wants to reach “net 100 per cent” renewables by around 2030 (it will likely reach that milestone much earlier) and then become a net exporter to states such as NSW. At least half a dozen large renewables and storage projects have jockeyed for position in anticipation of the new transmission line.

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby stan » Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:30 pm

Q. wrote:At least our State Libs aren't completely ******* useless like their Federal counterparts:

South Australia on track to 100 pct renewables, as regulator comes to party

South Australia’s plans to reach net 100 per cent renewables within a decade, and help provide renewable power to NSW to offset the closure of its coal plants have received a major boost after the Australian Energy Regulator green-lighted the business case for a major new transmission line linking the two states.

The AER on Friday approved as “robust” the regulatory investment test for transmission (RIT-T) for the $1.5 billion, 900km Project EnergyConnect transmission line proposed between Robertstown in S.A. and Wagga Wagga in NSW, a project being led by network companies ElectraNet and TransGrid.

The approval is being celebrated as an important milestone, and not just by the project’s proponents: The South Australian government on Friday described the interconnector as “the foundation piece” of its stunning net-100% renewable plans.

The new link is critical for the development of more than 5,000MW of wind, solar and storage plants in South Australia and in south west NSW, including huge projects such as Neoen’s massive Goyder project mixing wind, solar and storage, and the Susan River solar and battery storage project, which has already signed a contract with Alinta Energy.

South Australia is the main beneficiary. Its Liberal state government wants to reach “net 100 per cent” renewables by around 2030 (it will likely reach that milestone much earlier) and then become a net exporter to states such as NSW. At least half a dozen large renewables and storage projects have jockeyed for position in anticipation of the new transmission line.
The interconnector opens up the size of the energy market for SA based generators.

Looks like SA can build an industry around energy for starters. If and it's a big if we can get this right it will also help other industries in this state. Open up the R&D for sustainable energy storage.

I know a few companies like 1414 for example are looking at thermal energy storage technologies.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:59 pm

It will be good for SA to get some cheap power for a change
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