Tuesday 6 December 2011
'Steve' Gulaptis, please stand up
'Steve' Gulaptis MP gets a chance to prove how effective his representation is for Clarence
Opposition Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey exposed
The ruling is an embarrassment to the Coalition which claimed during the campaign the costing was “as good as you could get anywhere in the country, including in Treasury." In recent months it has threatened to use private accountants once again.
Geoffrey Phillip Kid and Cyrus Patell, both of the Perth office of WHK Horwath produced a one-page report for the Coalition two days before the election which Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey tendered as an audit, saying the pair had certified “in law that our numbers are accurate".
“If the fifth-biggest accounting firm in Australia signs off on our numbers it is a brave person to start saying there are accounting tricks,” he told ABC radio. “I tell you it is audited. This is an audited statement.’’
In fact the document was the result of a carefully-worded agreement between the accountants and the Coalition to produce work primarily "not of an audit nature".
An audit would examine the assumptions used by the Coalition and whether they were reasonable.
Kidd and Patell’s unpublished agreement with the Coalition explicity required them to make no inquires about “the reasonableness of otherwise of the assumptions used"...
A professional conduct tribunal established by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ruled in July that Kidd and Patel were liable to face disciplinary action because their one-page report failed to contain “a statement that the procedures performed do not constitute either an audit or a review” and so failed to properly describe the limited nature of the agreed upon procedures…
Something to ponder about the 2011-12 Federal Budget
Monday 5 December 2011
A few barefaced political untruths in November-December 2011
"...controlled burns, despite these problems over the recent couple of weeks, [are] absolutely essential." WA Premier Colin Barnett in ABC News, 4 December 2011
The US said it was committed to making a success of the UN climate talks currently taking place in South Africa. BBC News, 3 December 2011
Christopher Pyne insisted there was a sacred and immutable Westminster principle that a Speaker must come from the government party... The Canberra Times, 27 November 2011
the police gave the same holding statement that has been issued for the past six weeks about ''investigations [into disgraced former Clarence MP Steve Cansdell are] ongoing''. The Age, 13 November 2011
Church parties accept their responsibility when victims of abuse seek damages through legal proceedings and when liability or potential liability is clear. Cardinal George Pell in The Australian, 4 November 2011
From Obama to McWho? Where punters are putting their money in the lead up to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
It only takes a casual glance at the U.S. media to know that, aside from the incumbent president, guesses as to who else will contest next year's race for the White House are somewhat unrealistic and all over the place.
Here's where the average punter is laying win-only money (market depth) at Betfair according to OddsChecker:
2012 Presidential Election - Next President | ||||
1.89 $36 | 1.9 $1359 | 1.91 $106 | ||
4.3 $223 | 4.4 $19 | 4.5 $4 | ||
5.6 $30 | 5.7 $79 | 5.8 $3 | ||
28 $4 | 30 $95 | 32 $18 | ||
60 $3 | 65 $9 | 95 $5 | ||
60 $12 | 100 $27 | 130 $18 | ||
34 $5 | 40 $5 | 60 $9 | ||
3.75 $15 | 24 $6 | 38 $13 | ||
25 $3 | 38 $12 | 50 $20 | ||
250 $3 | 300 $4 | 320 $6 | ||
380 $3 | 390 $4 | 400 $3 | ||
100 $66 | 200 $7 | 1000 $32 | ||
380 $3 | 490 $3 | 500 $5 | ||
400 $10 | 410 $4 | 500 $5 | ||
420 $3 | 520 $10 | 550 $11 | ||
300 $6 | 360 $7 | 430 $3 | ||
840 $3 | 990 $3 | 1000 $14 | ||
590 $3 | 650 $3 | 770 $3 | ||
250 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $58 | ||
130 $3 | 250 $3 | 1000 $41 | ||
920 $3 | 980 $3 | 1000 $18 | ||
27 $13 | 500 $3 | 1000 $22 | ||
60 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $44 | ||
30 $3 | 34 $7 | 1000 $96 | ||
25 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $45 | ||
90 $15 | 500 $3 | 1000 $82 | ||
500 $3 | 730 $3 | 1000 $56 | ||
130 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $80 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $92 | ||
60 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $86 | ||
500 $3 | 640 $4 | 1000 $84 | ||
500 $3 | 610 $8 | 1000 $94 | ||
30 $12 | 500 $3 | 1000 $89 | ||
60 $14 | 500 $3 | 1000 $92 | ||
40 $15 | 500 $3 | 1000 $93 | ||
75 $9 | 500 $3 | 1000 $78 | ||
90 $7 | 410 $3 | 520 $3 | ||
300 $4 | 500 $3 | 1000 $93 | ||
34 $9 | 500 $3 | 1000 $90 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $88 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $92 | ||
480 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $90 | ||
40 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $82 | ||
44 $7 | 50 $7 | 1000 $66 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $82 | ||
100 $10 | 500 $3 | 1000 $88 | ||
90 $6 | 500 $3 | 1000 $86 | ||
100 $11 | 500 $3 | 1000 $88 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 $76 | ||
470 $13 | 500 $3 | 1000 $52 | ||
90 $6 | 500 $3 | 1000 $84 | ||
100 $10 | 500 $3 | 1000 $87 | ||
3.5 $3 | 75 $7 | 1000 $55 | ||
90 $6 | 500 $3 | 1000 $88 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
70 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
120 $7 | 500 $3 | 1000 $85 | ||
3.5 $3 | 500 $3 | 1000 | ||
Sunday 4 December 2011
The Port Paper: a NSW North Coast National Party saga continues
A Click in Time - Celebrating the Centenary of Australian Surfing Photography 1911 - 2011
The exhibition goes for two months at the Yamba Museum 3rd December to 3rd February 2012.
Entry fee is $5 (Children Fee), funds raised go to the disability surfers and Yamba Museum who will be gifted the collection at the end of the exhibition.
Saturday 3 December 2011
Today is UN International Day Of People with Disability
Fair dinkum, I bet they're spewing in Macquarie Street right now
Friday 2 December 2011
Daily Departures: Who will tell us when our friends are having their funeral?
Tweed 'infrastructure' lost
Coal seam gas mining catastrophe
The Coffs Coast Advocate made its final appearance today as a 'daily' ... sad news indeed. Read The Advocate's Belinda Scott tribute to the paper's last edition here.
Coal seam catastrophe