Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Hypocrisy comes in all colours - including pink it would seem.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
It's sure your money Ralph. (However much it really is.)
CBA chief tells of high funding costs.
The chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has told the company’s annual general meeting the bank’s funding costs remain high.
His comments come despite warnings from the Federal Treasurer and the competition regulator about so-called “price signalling”.
The banks have been flagging their intention to lift interest rates above any Reserve Bank move, and there are concerns they are sending signals to their competitors and may be bordering on anti-competitive behaviour.
But Ralph Norris has reiterated that new global regulations and the ramifications of the crisis have made funds more expensive.
“The net result is that funding costs are now significantly higher than they were prior to the GFC, and this is likely to remain an issue for all banks in the short term,” he said.
Perhaps, Mr Norris, the following might have contributed to some of the onerous CBA costs you are bleating about.
At today’s general meeting, Mr Turner broke down the terms into their individual elements that showed in take-home pay Mr Norris actually received less than in 2010 than in the previous year.
Over the 12 months to June 30, he received a base salary $2.9 million and cash and long-term benefits of almost $6.2 million, which took his total pay to $9.1 million. That compares to the $10 million package that was awarded to him for the corresponding period in 2009.
But then there was this report over a month ago. Creative accounting by Mr. Turner?
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Proof that masturbation can make you go blind ... and apparently profoundly deaf to the sound of hairy palming in the morning.
AUSTEREO chief Peter Harvie says he’s not the best judge of whether a show featuring a masturbation contest appeals to listeners.
Sandilands and others reportedly held a competition on air in May that involved giving contestants pornography and seeing who could masturbate the fastest and who had the largest sperm count.
Mr Harvie said he was not the best judge of whether such programs were appealing.
“I am afraid that I don’t hear much of the Kyle and Jackie O show because I am located in Melbourne,” Mr Harvie said.
It's a bit of a worry when the head of a national radio network doesn't get to hear a program emanating from his own company because it isn't being broadcast in his home town.
Let's all pass the hat around and get Mr Harvie better technical staff, a more powerful crystal set ... and a tastefully air brushed copy of 'Man Junior'.Labels: I love the smell of burning weasel clausers in the morning.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The one thing that Kyle's got right.
Sandilands took calls throughout the morning from fans who said they had missed the show.
At one point he said: “I missed coming here, this is what keeps me alive.
“I was sitting at home like a toad on the couch.”
He also said he had scoured the newspapers and internet for any reports on the scandal during the show’s two-week hiatus.
(Humble, modest and self-effacing to a fault is our scoury Kyle.)
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Is it bad manners to gloat? Yes. So I will.
Windy gets scuttlebutted.
Windschuttle, meanwhile, argues that only the name of the author was fake. “A real person wrote that article.”
But in two busy hours yesterday he [Windschuttle] was able to satisfy himself the article was “only 10 to 15 per cent invented. When I discovered that my gloom and embarrassment changed completely.”
"But," says li'l Keef, "there's a real person inside that suit, so you lot can't tell me there's no Santa. Well, OK then, but at least only 10 to 15 per cent of Santa is invented".
In the 'Cooking Stuff Up' section of the next issue of Quadrant, Iron Chef Keith proves there was no Stollen Generation.
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