http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/brendan-darcy/ Brendan Darcy was a senior ministerial adviser to Kevin Andrews, the former Employment and Workplace Relations Minister for the Howard Government, with specific responsibilities for the Welfare to Work reforms and reforms to Indigenous employment programs. Currently a consultant on workforce participation matters, he has worked for Jobfind Centres, Australia’s largest private provider of employment services and as a general manager to an Indigenous employment provider. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-greens-plan-for-australia-a-big-tasmania/ The Australian Greens is a political party that comes to wreck and to not build. Their grand plan is to turn Australia, the fourteenth largest economy in the world into Tasmania writ large. Modern Tasmania lives off the redistributionist largesse of Commonwealth subsidies and public service salaries. Two thirds of the island State is locked up in national parks and its population growth has been historically anaemic for many decades. Through the Hare-Clarke system, development and entrepreneurialism is gridlocked – a happy outcome if you are an advocate of zero population growth and genteel poverty. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Brendan Darcy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-greens-plan-for-australia-a-big-tasmania/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-greens-plan-for-australia-a-big-tasmania/#item3913 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:45:03 +0000 Brendan Darcy | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sad-exit-of-the-man-who-took-on-building-industry-yobbos/ John Lloyd, the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner, is paid $400,000 a year. Could a public servant ever be worth that much? Yes, when he and his role is worth a lot more than that to the Australian economy in billions of dollars of productivity gains. And yes, when the remuneration represents danger money as the Commissioner and his staff for which is responsible, have been and continue to be subject to intimidation and coercion by Eureka cross wearing thugs across worksites nationwide. John Lloyd, a very charming but tough man, is even more remarkable as a public servant as he could have opted to keep a long term cushy IR Club job as a commissioner for many years. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Brendan Darcy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sad-exit-of-the-man-who-took-on-building-industry-yobbos/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Sad-exit-of-the-man-who-took-on-building-industry-yobbos/#item3192 Sun, 30 May 2010 19:40:45 +0000 Brendan Darcy | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-dole-plan-can-work-heres-how/ There is a lot of merit to Tony Abbot’s proposal to tighten the compliance rules on Youth Allowance and Newstart Allowance recipients aged under 30 that would requiring them to work in areas experiencing labour shortages. The public is generally unaware there is a thorough suitability test on the activities offered to jobseekers on income support. One of the components of the suitability tests involves a travel time rule. The travel time rule says jobseekers that have the capacity for full time work do not have to take up employment or training if the travel time is more than 90 minutes. As a result, there are no requirements to move to areas experiencing labour shortages.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Brendan Darcy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-dole-plan-can-work-heres-how/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/abbotts-dole-plan-can-work-heres-how/#item2912 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:00:37 +0000 Brendan Darcy | Author bios | The Punch