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Toyota's decision to stop manufacturing in Australia is a further wake-up call for federal and state government policymakers struggling to help the 45,000 people employed in the country's automotive supply chain.
Job creation will have to be in growth industries such as information and communications technology. But there is a distinct lack of inspiration coming from political leaders about the need for Australia to embrace the digital economy.
The closure of manufacturing plants owned by Toyota, General Motors Holden and Ford will have a big impact on the broader manufacturing sector.
As Innes Willox at the Australian Industry Group noted on Monday, the automotive assembly companies have long held key roles in the development and diffusion of technological, process and design-led innovation in Australia.
They have been pivotal in the training of skilled workers and managers who have applied their expertise across the economy, particularly in the industrial sector.
If the future of industry is about marrying research with business skills, then Australia needs to deal with the complete failure to develop early-stage venture funding.
New technology companies are flowering all the time in countries which have a strong venture capital sector. Yet a recent survey shows that there is $7.50 of venture capital invested in Australia per year per capita, compared to $75 in the US and $175 in Israel.
These statistics were used in a recent comment piece in The Australian Financial Review by Communications Minister
While Turnbull says Australia industry cannot remake itself or transition to a digital future based on government handouts, he recognises the importance of providing strong support to science and research.
Chanticleer understands Turnbull was one of three ministers in the Abbott government who went into bat for the confirmation of federal funding for NICTA, Australia's Information Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence.
The other ministers who argued in favour of NICTA retaining its $185.5 million in funding until 2015 were Industry Minister
These three ministers have recognised the importance of developing a portfolio of technology and intellectual property and spinning the core ideas off into the private sector.
But NICTA's budget has been taking some big hits from former strong supporters at state government level.
Last year, the Queensland government under new premier
It is ironic that on the same day that Toyota announced its decision to stop manufacturing in Victoria that the government of Premier
The state's technology minister,
This looks to be a case of insular parochialism prevailing over the national interest and common sense. NICTA finds itself in a difficult position to rebut the claims made by the Victorian government because under the agreements with the states, it cannot comment on funding arrangements.
However, it is clear from what staff were told by NICTA chief executive, Hugh Durrant-Whyte that the Victorian funding will be devastating for its research operations in that state.
NICTA's Victorian research lab will have to shrink to half its current size.
The only official comment was as follows: "NICTA is in the middle of a restructure at our Victorian Lab. Once we have finished our consultations with staff we will be in a position to communicate in more detail. Consultations commenced a couple of weeks ago."
The NICTA funding cuts in Queensland and Victoria and the strong support from the federal government ought to prompt a conversation about the role of science and research in Australia.
We need to ask fundamental questions such as what is science? What role should it play in transitioning the economy away from the mining investment boom? How should we support science?
Unfortunately, the retirement of Robin Batterham as chief scientist in 2006 marked the loss of a powerful public voice in favour of science and research. Until someone steps up to the plate and shows leadership on this issue, the policymakers and politicians will continue to be divided about the benefits of investment in science and research.
The immediate winner from the purge of the
It was his decision to resign that started the dominoes falling and resulted in the resignations of the chairman Peter Mason and non-executive directors Steve Vamos and Leigh Clapham.
Zahra's excuse for leaving was that he was feeling tired and needed to move on. However, within weeks of giving that reason he admitted he was open to offers for another CEO position.
Mason and his colleagues were faced with the sudden realisation that the company was being run by a lame duck CEO and they did not have a succession plan. That appeared to be a factor in the decision by the board to bring forward the release of quarterly sales data. This seemed to be an attempt to remind the market how well the company was travelling.
If that was the only move made by the board to bolster confidence in the company it is doubtful if the corporate governance debacle would have unfolded. But Mason made two fundamental mistakes, both of which were avoidable with the application of common sense.
He allowed Vamos and Clapham to trade in David Jones shares before the release of the sales numbers. Even worse, he allowed them to trade after the company had received an unsolicited, conditional, confidential proposal from Myer Holdings.
One can see how Mason may have justified the decision to give directors the freedom to trade. After all, it showed a willingness of insiders to have more skin in the game.
This fits with the growing demand around the world for directors and officers of companies to hold significant shareholdings in companies. At some companies such as BHP Billiton it is a condition of being appointed a director that shares be held in proportion to director fees paid.
But Mason allowed his directors to overstep the line, given the amount of information they had that was not in the possession of the market.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission played catch-up throughout the period when David Jones was facing increasing pressure from its shareholders.
Newly appointed David Jones deputy chairman
Vamos leaves immediately while Mason and Clapham will depart within the next three months.
There are a number of lessons from the David Jones board room turmoil.
First, it takes a lot to get Australian institutional investors hot enough under the collar to sack company directors. However, it is now clear that the handling of price sensitive information is the tipping point for action.
Second, there is a broader message for the market and the corporate regulator about what big fund managers think about preserving market integrity. Also, there is a gap between what the market thinks should happen and what is enforceable by law.
Third, the appointment by the board of directors of a CEO is the single most important decision it can make. Managing this relationship while finding a successor is the next most important job at hand.
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What is thoroughly ironic is the fact that the left is so filled with hatred and lunacy that wishing death on those from the right is the norm, yet it is rarely, if ever, seen as being wrong or hate-filled by that left. Gay activists can wish death on those who do not support their lifestyle and that's perfectly fine, because the right "asked for it" apparently by stating their belief that homosexuality is wrong. This – to gays and others on the left – is tantamount to spewing hatred. Therefore, since the right spewed "hatred" first, the left is allowed to do the same. Let's ignore the fact that the left has redefined what hatred actually means. To them, simply expressing an opinion they disagree with equals hatred.
It's the same with those who stand with Cliven Bundy. One individual from the left said this about what the federal government should have done in that situation.
He received quite a bit of opposition as well as support. Later, he stated that he was simply "joking" around, which few people believed (except his supporters). Eventually, he found out that an article had been written about him on Infowars and then declared:
Sorry for the epithets, but he's apparently a "Progressive with a penchant for profanity and perspicacity. 0 tolerance for #ignorant #GOP. #Atheist #Volt owner. 2nd amendment applies to muskets #OUgymnast, Vegas, NV · vegasjessie.com" as his Twitter bio reveals.
Perspicacity means having insight that allows him to see into things; a shrewdness. Unfortunately, as I read through one post after another, he really doesn't seem to have perspicacity and neither do his friends. They always appear to be in visceral attack mode with the least amount of understanding. This is often the case with atheists in general. As the Bible says, they profess themselves wise, but are ultimately complete fools (Romans 1:22). They simply don't know it…yet.
But again, here are people from the left who wantonly wish death on those with whom they disagree. That is the real hatred. That is how they want to deal with people they can't actually hold a conversation with and even though they would like us to think they're kidding, they would love nothing more than to see the right completely disappear from the fact of the earth. They are actually stupid enough to believe that life would be so much better without us.
There were also a number of others who believe that the feds should have used drones to deal with the situation in Nevada. This simply proves that ignoring the U.S. Constitution is fine with these pompous leftists.
This rejoinder was a perfect fit for someone as asinine as "songsteve."
Here's one more that proves the hatred of the left and their murderous desires.
But the "MadJewessWoman" comes back in fine form.
These leftists do not realize that history is repeating itself. What they want is what Hitler wanted, what Mussolini wanted, what every dictator (including Obama) wants. They only want people on this earth who think like they think and act as they act. Yet, those of us on the right of center are called haters.
I gave up on all mainstream media a while ago, including Fox News simply because they are all owned by oligarchs of the Global Elite (GE). Of course, those on the left would never accept the fact that the GE exists and controls much of what happens in the political arena. Even Richard Nixon admitted that.
The nation's immediate problem is that while the common man fights America's wars, the intellectual elite sets its agenda. Today, whether the West lives or dies is in the hands of its new power elite: those who set the terms of public debate, who manipulate the symbols, who decide whether nations or leaders will be depicted on 100 million television sets as 'good' or 'bad.' This power elite sets the limits of the possible for Presidents and Congress. It molds the impressions that move the nation, or that mire it.
Further confirmation also comes from THE CONSERVATORS (1983) by President Franklin Roosevelt's son, Elliot Roosevelt, who wrote that 'there are within our world perhaps only a dozen organizations which shape the courses of our various destinies as rigidly as the regularly constituted governments…this unofficial council of the elite, the crème de la crème of global planners'. [1]
People don't like to believe there exists among us men of unfathomable wealth and power, who, over previous generations have done everything they could to change the fabric and direction of society so that, through manipulation, they might create their one-world system. The fact that people on the left can say what they say without fear of censure speaks to the fact that the GE exists.
These people would not feel so emboldened to wish death upon detractors if not for the fact that the GE has so managed society that its very foundation has morphed into something that hardly resembles the foundation that America's founding fathers created this nation upon.
It is our job to counter the hatred at every level, every time we see it or hear of it. We cannot allow these delinquent demagogues to have their say without calling them on it. They hate the Constitution and wouldn't know the law if it bit them. They need to be reminded that they may have the mic (and support of the GE) now, but that could all change in a heart beat as more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that the left is filled with vile hatred.
[1] http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis283.htm


text: With Salems Lot, a blood-curdling shocker based on the novel by Stephen King, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) sends the time-honored vampire legend soaring on bat wings into the modern era.Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac and the dealers mysterious, pale-skinned partner (Reggie Nalder). The solid supporting cast of vampire victims and fighters includes Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Elsiha Cook, Ed Flanders, George Dzundza, Lance Kerwin, Geoffrey Lewis and Marie Windsor. Its hard to keep the undead down. And so easy to be scared in Salems Lot.Check stock and price


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It smells like Tea Party victory. Ed Schultz has gotten a whiff, and he's panicking . . .
On his MSNBC show this evening, sensing an impending Republican landslide inspired by the Tea Party tempest, Ed called for David Axelrod to be thrown overboard for being too "soft." Schultz suggested axing the Axe and replacing him with James Carville and Paul Begala.
It was Joe Biden's attempt to rouse the base on Rachel Maddow's show last night that set Ed off. Savor the scent of Dem desperation . . .
ED SCHULTZ: Vice-President Joe Biden says progressives need to get it in gear if they want to prevent a Tea Party takeover of the Congress. The Vice-President went on the Rachel Maddow show last night here on MSNBC and gave these marching orders to the base.
Cut to clip of VP Biden.
JOE BIDEN: Get in gear, man. First of all, there's a great deal at stake.
SCHULTZ: All right, now that is the hardest sell that I've heard so far coming out of the White House. Respectfully, Mr. Vice-President, I think you should take your own advice. The White House needs to step it up in the next six weeks. I don't see the White House, other than that sound bite from last night, that they're selling hard about the accomplishments that they've had in 22 months! Where are the pit bulls? I mean, I really think that they've got to get a guy like James Carville or Paul Begala. Some of those Clinton people who never back down on TV. The soft sell of Axelrod is not working right now.


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Jobless Claims Improve, Stock Futures Tick Higher
Weekly jobless claims are out and they offer another dose of labor-market optimism ahead of "Jobs Friday."
Jobless claims continued their recent downward trend, tumbling 12,000 to 367,000 in the week ended Jan. 28. Remember, anything below the 400,000 mark is considered the key level that economists watch to determine whether the economy is adding jobs.
The four-week moving average, which aims to smooth out the volatile weekly figures, fell by 2,000 to 375,750.
Stock futures moved higher following the data after trading around the flat line for much of the morning. Dow futures are up 13 points; S&P 500 futures edged 2 points higher.
This report comes ahead of the government's monthly jobs report. Economists expect the economy added 125,000 jobs last month, with unemployment rate staying steady at 8.5%. More on that later.


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This article was published 22/4/2011 (2313 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG - The province has once again reduced its crest projection for the Red River in Winnipeg, allowing the city to strike another 59 properties off its flood-protection list.
And for the first time in quite a while, the provincial highways department has reported nothing overnight but reopening of roads --- and no additional roads closed by flooding.
Provincial flood forecasters say the Red River will crest in Winnipeg no higher than 22.2 feet above normal winter ice level at the James Avenue monitoring station, down from a previous upper-range prediction of 22.8 feet James.
That also means this year's flood will be the third-highest in Winnipeg since the construction of the Red River Floodway. The 2009 flood peaked at 22.6 feet James, while the 1997 flood peaked at 24.5 feet James.
As a result of the new projection, only 35 more properties will require sandbag dikes in Winnipeg, down from an expected 94. Of these properties, 29 require dike raises of less than one foot, flood-protection officials said.
The work will be conducted using student volunteers next week, which means Winnipeggers will not be asked to volunteer over the Easter long weekend. The work will be completed by Wednesday, April 27.
The city warns that a flood of 22.2 feet James is still a very significant event. When river levels are high, the city's drainage system is more easily overwhelmed, increasing the risk of sewer backups.
Highway reopenings since late Thursday include:
Highway 271 for 13 km West of Highway 20. This was due to water on the road.
Highway 489 for 10.6 km North of Highway 271. This was due to water on the road.
Highway 489 for 12 km South of Highway 20. Was closed to local traffic only and was due to water over the road.
Highway 352 for 11 km South of Highway 16 --- had been closed by a washout.
Highway 3 is now reopened for 3 km West of Highway 83. It was closed for dike construction and will be reposted as a caution.