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Get out of the gutterYou may not have heard of Mike Rinder. A Scientologist for most
of his life, at the age of 52 he walked out, and as a result lost his
family, friends, employment and pretty well everything else in his life.
RInder has written a book on his time in Scientology, runs a
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Was Amtrak Joe derailed?Prior to becoming President, Joe Biden was a US Senator for around
36 years. He is known as Amtrak Joe as he routinely took the daily 90
minute each way train trip (on the USA’s national passenger train network
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If employers can measure well-being...Last September, you might have seen Qantas CEO Alan Joyce
received a pay increase of $278,000 per annum. It seems that Joyce
has met or exceeded the performance goals set by his employers and
contractually has earned the reward. It does, however, raise a larger question. -
Coming back to haunt youIn his recent Budget reply speech, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton
laboured (pun intended) on the increasingly difficult to achieve promise by
Prime Minister Albanese that power bills will be $275 less in 2025. While the
government is claiming the modelling done in 2021 supports the accuracy of
the promise, 2021 modelling doesn’t account for changes in circumstances since then. -
The good economic unitsWellbeing and politics have collided in the past couple of weeks.
Federal Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers has started a conversation about
measuring the ‘wellbeing’ of the nation as a result of the measures in the
budget. The Opposition, as you would expect, has poured scorn on the idea. -
Do you want to smile or frownRecently, in what could be described as an epic fail in recruiting
practices, the Essendon Football Club hired and accepted the
resignation of the same CEO within a day. The issue was that the
CEO was also the Chairman of ‘City on the Hill’, a church that seems
to promote some conservative views on the way people live their lives.
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