Friday 29th of March 2024

get him out of here — he is a backflipping senator...

backflip

smelling foul like an independent senator...

Hinch told Guardian Australia that over summer he discovered he was “suddenly regarded as a villain by small and medium builders and subcontractors” because he had negotiated a two-year phase-in period for the code.

In an amendment that is certain to pass because it is supported by Hinch, the Nick Xenophon Team and David Leyonhjelm the government will now cut the phase-in period to nine months.

But a second amendment provides that, between the bill’s passage and 1 September, companies with industrial agreements that fall foul of the government’s procurement policy may bid for but cannot be awarded government work.

The amendment means the about 3,000 companies with union-approved enterprise agreements will miss out unless they renegotiate deals, a change aimed to punish those that gave conditions more generous than the code and reward builders who resisted union pressure, such as Kane Constructions.

Hinch said the government had originally wanted the code to apply retrospectively from April 2014 so building companies, many of which negotiated new agreements in 2016, “knew what was coming”.

But the head of industrial relations at a major builder has told Guardian Australia the amendment will “hand power to the Construction, Forestry, Mining [and] Energy Union”

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/08/derryn-hinch-back...

and another first...

Here, the social importance of MAD magazine comes once more to the fore. In this "Australian" issue number 283, Hinch is lampooned in a manner that resembles Fast Forward, the TV comedy show of the 1989-1992, in which Steve Vizard imitates the bearded Hinch as "Hunch"... So which one lampooned Hinch first? The 1988 MAD Magazine already mentions "Hunch at 7" which became that standard of Fast Forward thereafter. So it's a no contest. History is settled. 

In memory of Murray Ball, the creator of Footrot Flats, who died recently, here is one frame from "Hunch at Seven", in which Clive Robertson, a witty radio journalist commentator (possibly bipolar for his constant pessimism about anything), makes a cameo appearance. The drawing has unfortunately faded. The name Derro is not ambiguous. It can mean a derelict alcoholic or Derryn Hinch, whatever comes first:

Footrot...Footrot...

 

May Murray Ball enjoy the great paddock wherever that is...