The Aussie election (108)

Now Super I have a small super
But if we are going back in time wash this job 21/22 years the last one 13 years .
In that 13 years job you were not given any super you were invited in sometimes and sometimes you were not I think I was asked in after 8 or 10 years wasn't the way it is now .
Mind you I haven't had high paying jobs to have high supers

did it lookin familiar to you ??

i listened to Donald Trump ranting today, seems to me he is saying he gunner get rid of the republican parties (ronald regans) new world order of 1984.
Gold is good for nothing, price of goods and services are to be set by supply and demand (Cheating-Keating kicks off Australian compliance)

Former President George Bush, who spent eight years as Ronald Reagan's vice president, remembered his friend Saturday as a kind, decent man whose beliefs did not waver. "I think history will give him great credit for standing for a few principles, and standing firmly for those principles, and thus setting an example for the American people, whether they agreed with him or not," Bush said, standing alongside his wife, Barbara, outside their summer home at Walkers Point...

April 24, 1917 - The First Liberty Loan Act authorized the issue of $5 billion worth of bonds at 3.5 percent interest three weeks after the United States declared war on Germany.

April 9, 1924 - The Dawes Plan was transmitted to the Reparation Commission. It was accepted by Germany on April 16, 1924. While it was a short term success, the Dawes Plan proved to be a monumental failure because the annual payments required were too large and it required the United States to give massive loans to Germany to pay reparations. The countries receiving this money then used it to repay war loans to the United States. This cycle meant that the stock market crash of 1929 caused Germany to no longer be able to pay reparations and prevented the Allies from repaying debt owed to the United States.

April 5, 1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt issued an order making it illegal to hoard gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates. Violation of this order was punishable by a $10,000 fine or 10 years in prison, making it a felony to own gold. Eventually, gold coins from 1933 and earlier were exempted from this rule so coin collectors could avoid prosecution.

January 17, 1934 - It became illegal for private citizens to own gold certificates following the implementation of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934.

January 30, 1934 - The Gold Reserve Act withdrew gold coins from circulation, provided for the devaluation of the dollar's gold content, and created the Exchange Stabilization Fund.

August 23, 1935 - The Banking Act of 1935 removed the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency from the Federal Reserve Board.

August 31, 1935 - President Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act, which was meant to prevent the United States government from entering into activities that could lead the country into a foreign war.

January 13, 1937 - The first deposit of gold bullion was shipped to the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

July 1, 1944 - Delegates from all 45 Allied nations gathered at the United States Monetary and Fiscal Conference, better known as the Bretton Woods conference, in New Hampshire. The conference resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund or IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The IBRD is commonly referred as the World Bank today, but it is actually the largest of five organizations that make up the World Bank Group.

December 18, 1971 - President Nixon declared that the official U.S. price of gold would be raised to $38 per ounce, devaluing the dollar.

April 3, 1972 - President Richard Nixon raised the official U.S. gold price from $35 an ounce to $38 an ounce. The change in gold price was the first made since an Executive Order by President Roosevelt in 1934.

August 13, 1981 - President Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act, reducing income taxes by approximately 23 percent over a three year period and lowering estate taxes. The ERTA also introduced indexing for inflation into the tax system.

Uncle Sam Steps In
The U.S. government became concerned over what it saw as a clear attempt at manipulating the nation's silver reserves, and the fact that this corner involved the Middle East added some venom to the government's reaction: after all, the 1970s oil crisis was still fresh in the nation's mind. Federal commodities regulators introduced special rules to prevent any more long position contracts from being written or sold for silver futures. This stopped the Hunts from increasing their positions by temporarily suspending the fundamental rules of the commodities market. With longs frozen and shorts free to pile in, the price of silver began to slide. Margin calls on the loans began to take a toll on the Hunts' reserves to the point where they were paying millions a day in calls, storage fees and interest.



The commission charged that the Hunts and their associates acquired more than 100 million ounces of silver bullion in the period covered by the complaint. At the same time, they established long positions in silver futures contracts--agreements to buy the metal at a later date--that represented a potential demand equivalent to 130% of the total U.S. industrial consumption of silver in 1979 and half of the entire world silver production that year.



In January 1980 gold was fixed at a record 850 USD an ounce while high inflation, strong oil prices , Soviet intervention in Afghanistan as well as the impact of the Iranian revolution prompted investors to heavily buy the metal.
and then gold fell 43% to US$484/oz on 17 March 1980


Historical Gold Prices
Annual high and low Gold prices since 1972

With about 3 million upper house votes still to be counted, the Coalition has won 27 seats but could gain up to three more while Labor has 23 seats and may win three to four more.

The Greens have six definite seats with three still in play. On the crossbench One Nation looks set to pick up three seats, the Nick Xenophon Team has won three, Jacqui Lambie has been re-elected and Derryn “Human Headline” Hinch has one seat.

The Liberal Democrats, Christian Democratic Party, National Party in Western Australia and Family First are also in with a chance of picking up some of the final Senate seats around the country, amid predictions the crossbench could be made up of about 10 independents.



The Senate count is more complicated than the count for the House of Representatives. Counting of first preferences begins on election night but the full count cannot be completed until several weeks after the election.

It should be noted that while the method of marking and counting Senate ballot papers has changed, the processes for determining the quota, transferring surplus votes and the exclusion of candidates, as outlined below, have not changed.

Formula for determining a Senate quota
(Number of formal ballot papers / (Number of senators to be elected + 1)) rounded down + 1 = Senate quota

Example of determining a Senate quota
This is how the quota for NSW was calculated at the 2013 Senate election.

(4 376 143 / (6 + 1)) + 1 = 625 164

Therefore the quota, or number of votes required to be elected, in NSW at the 2013 federal election was 625 164.





Candidates Handbook 2016

I'll be honest never ever voted for Pauline .
Like Nick Xenophon never in my life voted for him he looked like a show pony in state politics .
He left and went federal never voted for him ,

Then I got pissed at labor voted greens . Didn't like their policies this time couldn't vote for the big parties . Then they started saying don't vote for Xenophon . So I kept seeing it on the TV here in Adelaide don't vote for Xenophon . Malcom saying it's bad the liberal party don't control the senate don't vote Xenophon so I voted Xenophon .
Funny a democratic country saying who we can't vote for don't think so .
And my preferences went to labor so the sitting liberal member lost his seat suck it up princess