commonwealth

is your real name Rose Porteus by any chance?

northernbird

abi31

More worried about the rest of the article

"A rise in resilient south-east Asian strains of sexually transmitted infection in the fly-in fly-out heavy north-west of WA was already a ''major problem'' due to a lack of health management and specific services for workers"

Presume the specific services for workers is disease free hookers?!

Just told hubby that when he's doing the FIFO he'd better not bump uglies with anyone - could be way too literal

commonwealth

i thought most in the mines are male? should i ask the gay health council to intervene and educate and provide free "paraphernalia"?

fish.01

Note sure "very clear" is an accurate depiction...the stats show the spending contraction ended in Jul 2011. According to the latest Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI), "economy-wide spending grew for the eighth straight month in March." GDP is forecast to rise a whole point which should reflect on the broader economy.

"At a sectoral level, just three of the 20 industry sectors contracted in trend terms in March, a similar result to February but up from two sectors in January. And for the fifth straight month none of the eight states and territories recorded weaker sales in trend terms in March."

Source: http://www.commbank.com.au/business/...March-2012.pdf

slapphead_otool

+1.

I don't see where this "very clear" came from.

What IS very clear is that the IMF thinks that the Euro is on its last legs. As the EU is the largest market for the UK, I would say things are going to get much harder in Europe in the next few years.

slapphead_otool

Further to my last post, these are the IMF GDP Growth Estimates for September 2011:

Advanced Economies: 1.9%

Euro Area: 1.1%

Developing Asia: 8%

Emerging Economies: 6.1%


Now, ask yourself which one affects the UK, and which one affects Australia?

A result of this is a realignment of trade relationships. For the first the in decades the UK is looking at exporting more to Asia than it does to the EU.

in 2000 the EU accounted for 30% of British exports, and Asia/Oceania only 22%. This has been changing, and now the UK expects 36% of its exports to go to Asia/Oceania by 2030.

This is neatly shown on this graph:

Turban Explorer

Chinese growth 2010 - 12.4% growth
Predicted growth 2012 - 8.1%

Ergo demand for Australian commodities slowing and economic outlook worsening. Hence Aud has fallen 7% against sterling in the last month.

commonwealth

wow the southern sky is falling.

a falling AUD...but isn't that what many people want?

and only Australia is 'worsening'

Turban Explorer

No chance of an adult response then.....

commonwealth

yes everything on the barbie is childish.

chris955

You are just lucky he didnt somehow manage to introduce a gay comment into the reply

slapphead_otool

I think the IMF GDP growth predictions speak for themselves.

The EU is royally stuffed. If it were human it would be in palliative care, with its grandkids coming in to see its last days.

The UK placed to high a reliance on what should have been viewed as a political and economic experiment. Now as per my graph above, they are trying to align with Asia.

I doubt they will make it. The UK strengths are in light manufacturing and financial services. Most of Asia could teach the UK a lot about both.

Australia's strength lies in holes in the ground (and gas) and the ability to offer the resulting produce at low cost. There market may ebb and flow, but the holes can be mothballed. You can't mothball financial services or light assembly factories. They get sold off, knocked down and have housing estates built on them.

Turban Explorer

So you agree the Australian markets are ebbing....

nickyjohnt

A Perth mother, Nicole Ashby, who gave evidence on behalf of her support group FIFO Families, said she understood that fly-in fly-out should be a choice, but stressed that companies could manage their attrition problems by making fly-in fly-out arrangements more suited to the individual worker or their family.

''It's hard to explain to a two-year-old that dad's at work, he's on an oil rig, and he's not coming back for four weeks,'' she said.




This lady obviously hasn't tried to work out a roster, It's just about impossible to work to individual workers or their family's requirements. Most of the workers don't complain about the time off though, I know i don't and where i work we are all 3weeks on 1week off!!