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I have just read an article in the SMH about the tweeteraty at DIAC.
From what I can gather a DIAC employee using the twitter id @Lalegale had 700 followers and used that id to (apparently) make a commentary and disparaged DIAC. There was no id linking her personally to the twitter account and she was to all intents and purposes.
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Migration Alliance members will be interested to see a picture of a billboard Dave Noonan and the CFMEU have released in Geelong.
From my perspective this is misleading electoral material. Migration Alliance condemns this advertisment. In our opinion, Abbott has never said he supports temporary overseas workers over locals. The suggestion that he has said that or indicated that is just ridiculous.
In my opinion this is just a beat up by the CFMEU to win votes for the Labor party.
To complain about the truth of this CFMEU 'temporary overseas workers' advertisement please contact the Australian Electoral Commission media unit on the email below. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Derivatives have been added to a revised SIV regime which is set to commence on 23 November 2013 which will operate to limit investments in complying managed funds to the following:
(a) infrastructure projects in Australia;
(b) cash held by Australian deposit taking institutions (including negotiable certificates of deposit, bank bills and other cash-like instruments);
(c) bonds issued by the Commonwealth Government or a State or Territory Government;
(d) bonds, equity, hybrids or other corporate debt in companies and trusts listed or expected to be listed within 12 months on an Australian Stock Exchange;
(e) bonds or term deposits issued by Australian financial institutions;
(f) real property in Australia;
(g) Australian Agribusiness;
(h) annuities issued by an Australian registered life company in accordance with section 9 or 12A of the Life Insurance Act 1995;
(i) derivatives used for portfolio management and non-speculative purposes which constitute no more than 20 per cent of the total value of the managed fund;
(j) loans secured by mortgages over the investments listed in paragraphs (a) to (h) above; and
(k) other managed funds that invest in the investments listed in paragraphs (a) to (j) above.
Further details are contained at the following ComLaw link.
Last night Christopher Levingston, Liana Allan and Jennifer Fong from the Migration Alliance board and committee along with Glen Frost and Renee Zhao from PwC, Dina Goebel from Bupa, Stacey Martin from NAB and Karen Berkley from VETASSESS attended an Italian cooking class with the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott Morrison MP and his wife, Jenny.
As you will see from the images below, just for a bit of fun everyone was wearing a Migration Alliance apron.
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Just came across this article and not sure if anyone has seen it before and it is now 'old news', but I felt that it was something that needed to be covered. It is a story on Chris Bowen and his treatment of a Hazara he ordered back to Afghanistan.
This is the type of government we have had to deal with for a while now and this is indicative of the contempt shown for these Hazara visa applicants by the previous Immigration Minister.
The point I would like to raise is why did it have to take an Australian court to dictate to Bowen what is and what is not acceptable?
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