Números de ontem do TV TOTAL

País	Visualizações
Brazil	1.006
Estados Unidos	77
Portugal	16
Japan	6
Chile	5
Syrian Arab Republic	5
France	5
Austrália	4
Bélgica	3
Espanha	2
Switzerland	2
Paraguay	1

Números do TV TOTAL no mês de abril de 2014

País	Visualizações
Brazil	21.830
Estados Unidos	1.783
Chile	595
Portugal	415
Turkey	111
Austrália	106
Argentina	93
United Kingdom	84
France	57
Germany	54
Japan	40
Switzerland	37
México	34
Canadá	22
Italy	22
Holanda	21
Espanha	20
New Zealand	18
Indonesia	16
India	14
Romania	14
Uruguay	13
Pakistan	13
Moçambique	12
Peru	12
Sweden	11
Georgia	11
Egito	11
Singapura	9
Ireland	9
Poland	9
Angola	9
Cabo Verde	9
Bélgica	9
Paraguay	8
Arábia Saudita	8
República da Coreia	8
Bolivia	7
Venezuela	7
Nicaragua	7
Ecuador	7
Colombia	6
Russian Federation	6
Qatar	6
Greece	5
Syrian Arab Republic	5
Argélia	4
Áustria	4
South Africa	4
Croácia	4
Bulgaria	4
Noruega	4
Hungary	3
Costa Rica	3
Malaysia	3
United Arab Emirates	3
Serbia	3
Denmark	3
Guatemala	3
Ghana	3
Montenegro	3
Hong Kong	3
Moldávia	2
Lithuania	2
Thailand	2
Tunisia	2
Líbano	2
Jordan	1
Trinidad and Tobago	1
Ukraine	1
Dominican Republic	1
Kazakhstan	1
Kuwait	1
Vietnã	1
Porto Rico	1
El Salvador	1
Suriname	1
French Guiana	1
Aruba	1
Estonia	1
Oman	1
Marrocos	1
Nigéria	1

Após estreia, Rodrigo Faro diz: “vamos tentar o primeiro lugar com humildade”

Colaboraram João Gabriel Batista e Thiago Forato

No último domingo (27), Rodrigo Faro estreou sem mais novo projeto na Record, o “Hora do Faro“, que entrou no lugar de “O Melhor do Brasil” e garantiu a vice-liderança no Ibope da Grande SP.

A emissora fez grandes investimentos na nova atração, que conta com formatos comprados e gravações em três estúdios, tudo para se consolidar nos domingos.

Em entrevista exclusiva concedida ao NaTelinha por telefone na tarde desta quarta (30), pouco antes de gravar no estúdio Quanta, Rodrigo Faro falou sobre seu novo programa, comemorou a audiência conquistada na estreia, mas manteve os pés no chão: “A gente ganhar ou perder, depois vem outro domingo… Cada domingo é uma história, não podemos ter a pretensão ou orgulho de dizer que esse programa é vice-líder”.

Questionado, o apresentador achou correta a decisão da Record de extinguir a marca “O Melhor do Brasil” e lançar uma nova: “o nome ‘O Melhor do Brasil’ remete ao sábado. No domingo precisava ter um novo nome, um programa novo”.

Sobre os boatos de que teria ameaçado pedir demissão após a emissora mexer em sua equipe, ele explica: “a única discussão que houve foi quando me separaram da Ritinha [diretora Rita Fonseca], a troca de direção”.

Rodrigo Faro também falou dos seus motivos para não querer fazer programas ao vivo no momento e qual a sua próxima meta: chegar ao primeiro lugar de audiência.

Confira a conversa:

NaTelinha – Rodrigo, “Hora do Faro” estreou no último domingo (27) na vice-liderança. Como você prevê a guerra no Ibope contra Faustão e Eliana para os próximos meses?

Rodrigo Faro – Como vem sendo desde que estreei. Desde que televisão é televisão. O domingo não é moleza para ninguém. É o dia mais concorrido, onde as três maiores emissoras concorrem em condições de igualdade. Fizemos um programa de estreia, a Globo fez de tudo para tentar atrapalhar, o SBT também, colocando a Eliana mais tarde, o “Troféu Imprensa” entrando mais cedo. Mas, que bom que conseguimos manter a vice-liderança, e agora a cada domingo é uma história diferente.

A gente ganhar ou perder, depois vem outro domingo… Cada domingo é uma história, não podemos ter a pretensão ou orgulho de dizer que esse programa é vice-líder, não é assim. Vamos ter que batalhar o nosso espaço a cada domingo. É a luta da melhor estratégia, dos melhores quadros… Estávamos com “O Melhor do Brasil” adaptado. A Record está investindo nisso, e agora temos tendo um programa com investimento para crescer cada vez mais na audiência.

NaTelinha – Como vê a escolha da Record em acabar com a marca “O Melhor do Brasil”, que já existia há nove anos?

Rodrigo Faro – “O Melhor do Brasil” ficou caracterizado como programa de sábado à noite. A minha história na televisão como apresentador explodiu no sábado à noite com o “O Melhor do Brasil”, com o “Dança Gatinho”, com o “Vai dar Namoro” e o nome “O Melhor do Brasil” remete ao sábado. No domingo precisava ter um novo nome, um programa novo. Mas fui informado que iria para o domingo na quinta, e com sete programas gravados. O jeito era colocar no ar e torcer.

NaTelinha – Na época que saiu a notícia de que seria lançado o programa “Hora do Faro”, surgiram boatos de que você teria se irritado com as alterações na equipe e ameaçado pedir demissão. O que realmente aconteceu?

Rodrigo Faro – A única discussão que houve foi quando me separaram da Ritinha [diretora Rita Fonseca], a troca de direção. Mas quando soube que a Rita tinha uma missão importante, de implementar a Sabrina Sato na Record, tive uma conversa com ela e decidimos deixar tudo como está. A Sabrina precisava dela, mais do que eu. As coisas aconteceram sem estresse, apenas com esse desentendimento. Nada além disso.

NaTelinha – E a relação da nova equipe liderada por Ignácio Coqueiro, como está sendo?

Rodrigo Faro – O “Ig” [apelido de Ignácio Coqueiro] veio para somar. Trouxe a experiência dele, de vários programas que dirigiu, de apresentação, trouxe uma nova cara. Tudo diferente. Graças a Deus, a resposta do público, de audiência, tem sido muito positiva. Está sendo ótima a convivência com ele. A própria Rita continua minha amiga. Tudo igual, como era antes, mas com o Ignácio trazendo a visão dele para o programa.

NaTelinha – Você declarou em outras ocasiões que não pretende fazer programa ao vivo nos domingos porque é dia de ficar em casa com a família, de cueca… Você não tem mesmo vontade de fazer ao vivo?

Rodrigo Faro – Não. Ao não ser que seja um programa como o do Fausto, Silvio, que tenha menos trocas de cenários. Nós temos três cenários de 1 mil metros quadrados. Como faço isso ao vivo em três locais diferentes? Não tem como. Se fosse só em um palco, daria tranquilamente. Mas nada que no futuro não possamos fazer, mas aí não poderia ser esse formato de programa.

NaTelinha – Você está gostando desse novo formato com gravações em produtoras e cenários grandiosos?

Rodrigo Faro – Estou muito animado, trabalhando muito mais do que trabalhava. Agora, estou feliz com o resultado, o programa está lindo no ar. A nossa estreia foi emocionante e ver o  investimento da Record. A grandiosidade do projeto me deixou muito feliz.

NaTelinha – Você realizou um sonho em ir para os domingos. Qual a próxima meta?

Rodrigo Faro – É óbvio que quando você entra num domingo, você precisa pensar em crescer. Embuscar com trabalho, humildade e ser o número 1. Mas é muito difícil, eu sou um novato. Estou chegando agora no domingo. Preciso primeiro buscar meu espaço, e graças a Deus isso vem acontecendo.

Preciso ir aumentando cada vez mais meu público no domingo, fazer com que as pessoas liguem a televisão para me ver. Para isso tem que ter trabalho, e demanda tempo. Vamos tentar buscar esse primeiro lugar com humildade, não podemos ficar contando vitória antes do tempo. Tem muito trabalho pra mim, que sou um apresentador de domingo iniciante. Agora, é trabalho.

NaTelinha – Você chegou a dizer que pretende reduzir sua aparição em comerciais. É pela sua imagem e por estar trabalhando demais?

Rodrigo Faro – Eu estava com muitas campanhas. Quero ficar somente com as grandes empresas, que já venho fazendo. Não dá para fazer muitas propagandas, porque você pode ficar muito tempo no ar e desgastar sua imagem. É só ficar atento na quantidade e o excesso de exposição. Eu sou chamado para fazer muitas campanhas, não dá para fazer todas.

NaTelinha – Você tem ganhado vários prêmios como melhor apresentador e no “Troféu Imprensa” é eleito há cinco anos. Como você se sente com esse prestígio?

Rodrigo Faro – Me sinto muito feliz, cada prêmio que ganho é um incentivo para continuar trabalhando. Para mim o  melhor apresentador do Brasil é e sempre vai ser Silvio Santos. Só eu sei qual a emoção em receber um troféu das mãos dele pelo quinto ano consecutivo. É a maior emoção da minha vida. É uma satisfação incrível. É um incentivo de cada vez crescer mais, e a crítica vem me elogiando como apresentador, acho muito bom, é importante.

Melbourne Airport to get private VIP terminal

 

Melbourne Airport could soon have a VIP terminal dedicated to the highest of high-flyers including celebrities, rock bands, cashed-up ‘whales’ bound for Crown Casino and others belonging to the private jetset.

The terminal, which would be Australia’s first such facility, will be built on a 20 hectare (49 acre) site currently occupied by John Holland Aviation Services and first developed by Ansett Airlines before that airline collapsed in 2001.

Melbourne business tycoon Paul Little’s company Little Aviation has bought the John Holland site for an estimated $10 million, reports The Sydney Morning Herald, with plans to spend another $10 million upgrading the space to house a VIP terminal by the middle of 2015, subject to approval by Melbourne Airport.

“‘We think the types of people that will use the facilities are private aircraft owners through to rock groups to sporting people that come to Melbourne for the grand prix” Little said. “It is the sort of world-class facility that Melbourne just doesn’t have at the moment.'”

John Holland Aviation already holds several private jet contracts, including those run by the Crown Casino.

Little also has eyes beyond the domestic market, suggesting the VIP terminal could include its own quarantine and customs operations for handling international travellers.

Under Melbourne Airport’s current arrangements, all arriving international travellers are fed through the same channels, although the airport offers a ‘VIP room’ in the international arrivals and baggage reclaim hall where selected passengers can gather before braving the scrum to exit into the public area.

However, for some VIPs the airport does allow ‘tarmac transfers’ based on safety and security requirements.

A spokeswoman for Sydney Airport said the airport “has well-established VIP facilitation arrangements.”

“Several fixed base operators are located at Sydney Airport’s general aviation area to facilitate private jet movements away from the airport’s main terminals” she told Australian Business Traveller.

“We have five VIP lounges in our International terminal which are handled by Sydney Airport’s dedicated VIP manager.”

 

Source : Australian Business Traveller

Air India to join Star Alliance in July

Air India is set to formally join the Star Alliance family in July.

Star Alliance CEO Mark Schwab confirmed the timeline on a visit to India this week to lay the groundwork for Air India’s admission into the group, saying that “The precise date is yet to be decided but it will be in July.”

Air India is working through the final stages of its checklist for entry into Star Alliance, reports The Economic Times, with most of what remains being integration of Air India’s IT network into the Star Alliance system.

“There are also a few commercial agreements that need to be signed with other member airlines relating to codeshares, but Air India is already in the advanced stages of those discussions,” Schwab added.

The official ‘endorsement vote’ from the CEOs of Star Alliance’s 26 other member airline is expected to take place at an alliance membership gathering in London on June 23.

Second time’s the charm

This will be Air India’s second chance to join the Star Alliance group  as the airline coalition scrambles for a large piece of the growing Indian air travel market.

The Indian airline first signed on to Star Alliance in December 2007 but the process ground to a halt after almost four years, with the airline’s

application

for membership suspended in July 2011.

Asked what has changed three years down the track, Schwab said today’s airline is “a different Air India.”

“They have been through a tough merger but they have a strongmanagement team and they have improved their infrastructure and fleet.”

Star eyes more Indian travellers

Nearly 37 million international passengers travel to and from India each year, with a third of those passengers flying on Air India and Jet Airways, Air India’s local competitor which late last year sold a 24% stake to Etihad.

17% of the traffic belongs to Gulf carriers including Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Air Arabia.

Star Alliance is reported to have only a 13% share of the country’s total international traffic, with rivals OneWorld and SkyTeam holding 8% each.

The remainder belongs to international airlines which are not affiliated with any of the three alliance families.

Finding an Indian partner has been troublesome for alliances.

Oneworld had pinned its hopes on high-flyer Kingfisher, which as recently as December 2011 enjoyed the the second largest share in India’sdomestic air travel market, but suspended the airline’s membership application in early 2012 as the airline’s growing losses exceeded US$1 billion.

Following a series of shut-downs, strikes and employee lock-outs, Kingfisher’s aviation licence was withdrawn in October 12 and its international flying rights and domestic slots scrapped by Indian aviation authorities in February 2013.

 

Source : Australian Business Traveller

Aussie home values cool

May 1, 2014 – 10:19AM

Antony Lawes and Toby Johnstone

Sydney halts, Melbourne falls and Brisbane starts to emerge as nation’s best performer.

There is more evidence that surging property prices are turning buyers away, with the latest data suggesting only nominal growth over the past month.

RP Data-Rismark figures for April show that dwelling values nationally rose only 0.3 per cent, which is well down on the 2.3 per cent growth of the previous month and in some cities is the lowest monthly growth in a year.

All capitals recorded some rise in dwelling values during April except for Melbourne, which fell 0.5 per cent, and Canberra (down 1.1 per cent).

Australian house prices are cooling. Photo: Rob Homer

Brisbane had the strongest growth of the major capitals at 1.1 per cent, while Sydney property prices grew at a paltry 0.5 per cent, which was the slowest monthly gains since June 2013. In March dwelling values in Australia’s most expensive city rose 2.8 per cent.

This lower rate of growth, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, where property values have surged since the end of 2012 ‘‘may signal that these markets are moving through the peak of their growth cycle’’, said RP Data’s director of research, Tim Lawless.

RP Data’s senior research analyst Camerson Kusher said this stellar growth in Sydney was having an impact buyers’ ability to afford property, especially at the lower end price range.

‘‘Affordability constraints are now entering the market,’’ he said.

‘‘The lower end of the market, while it is still seeing value rise, the rate of value growth across that segment has really slowed….we know at the moment a lot of the activity is actually at the middle and top end of the market.’’

Despite this Mr Kusher expected values in Sydney would continue to rise but probably at a more moderate pace than over the first quarter of the year.

‘‘I think Sydney will continue to be one of the best performing capital city markets albeit the rate of growth is probably not going to be as strong as we’ve seen in the past.’’

There was a similar pattern in Melbourne, where the top end of the market was still showing the most strength.

‘‘That lower end of the market is starting to slow as the higher prices really mean that a lot of those buyers aren’t in a position where they can afford to buy a property,’’ Mr Kusher said.

‘‘We are coming into a seasonally softer part of the year. When you are looking at a month to month index that isn’t seasonally adjusted it is quite possible that we could see some more monthly dips in the Melbourne housing market.’’

But Mr Kusher said Brisbane would be where the action is this year.

‘‘Brisbane is going to be the strongest housing market going forward from here and that is purely because the gap in pricing between Sydney and Melbourne compared to Brisbane has really widened and that was always the thing in the past that attracted people to Brisbane.’’

Of the other cities, Adelaide had the best monthly growth of 2.1 per cent, followed by Darwin at 1.1 per cent, while Perth and Hobart dwelling values grew by 0.2 per cent.

This slow down in the nation’s house prices follows a similar trend reported by Fairfax Media-owned Australian Property Monitors, which found that growth had eased in the first three months of this year, compared with the last quarter of 2013.

Source : The Sydney Morning Herald

Ceará só irá contratar reforços após Copa do Mundo, afirma presidente

Evandro Leitão ainda quer três nomes para compor o plantel alvinegro na Série B .

Evandro Leitão, presidente do Ceará (Foto: Divulgação/CearaSC.com)

Reforços só depois da Copa. No Ceará, este é o discurso adotado pelo presidente do clube, Evandro Leitão. Em entrevista à Rádio O Povo/CBN, o dirigente anunciou que o torcedor terá que esperar um pouco mais para ver reforços no plantel de Porangabuçu.

Para Evandro Leitão, três reforços bastariam para deixar o elenco cearense preparado para conquistar o principal objetivo no ano do centenário: o acesso à Série A.

– Acredito que com mais três contratações teremos um time forte para brigar pelo acesso. Esse elenco é bom, mas precisa se reforçar. Queremos um zagueiro, um volante e um atacante – explicou.

Sobre quem seriam as possíeis contratações, o presidente do Alvinegro de Porangabuçu se esquivou. No entanto, explicou a necessidade de ponderar para selecionar os nomes procurados para o elenco do Vovô.

– Antes disso (Copa do Mundo), não teremos mais condição de contratar. Ficaremos 45 dias sem jogar, por conta da Copa. Então, precisamos pensar muito nisso – afirmou.

O Ceará estreia na Copa do Brasil nesta quarta-feira (30) contra o Parnahyba-PI, em Parnaíba, no Piauí. O duelo é válido pela primeira fase da competição e está marcado para 22 horas.

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Tax returns to be axed for 1.4m Australians

May 1, 2014 – 10:02AM

Fleur Anderson

Thank you and come again: Treasurer Joe Hockey’s plans to send each taxpayer a personalised receipt from the Australian Taxation Office showing where their tax dollars were spent. Photo: Stefan Postles

Up to 1.4 million taxpayers will be freed from the hassle of completing a tax return and will receive a “thank you” receipt from the Treasurer for paying their taxes from July 1 this year.

The May budget is expected to include Treasurer Joe Hockey’s plans to send each taxpayer a personalised receipt from the Australian Taxation Office showing where their tax dollars were spent.

And a move to “tick and flick” tax returns from July 1, 2014 will be sold as a red tape reduction measure, delivering the Abbott government’s commitment to reducing red tape by $1 billion a year.

More than 6 million taxpayers claimed a tax deduction in 2011-12 for the cost of managing their tax affairs. Photo: Virginia Star

Taxpayers spend 4.6 hours on average filling in their tax returns, or $371 on average to get someone else to do it, according to the latest Tax Statistics released on Tuesday.

More than 6 million taxpayers claimed a tax deduction in 2011-12 for the cost of managing their tax affairs.

The ATO and Treasury have been working on the technical details of delivering the Abbott government’s new tax receipt which will show in dollar terms how much of a person’s tax bill was spent on welfare, health, education, defence and other spending. Mr Hockey promised during the 2013 election that the receipt would be one of his first acts as Treasurer.

Tax industry groups support the plan to streamline tax reporting for the majority of taxpayers.

“We support anything that makes compliance easier for taxpayers with simple tax affairs,” Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia head of tax policy Michael Croker said.

Mr Croker said while some tax agents might lose low-margin business from taxpayers with simple tax affairs, most accountants realised there was more future in offering targeted advice to taxpayers with complex affairs.

‘TICK AND FLICK’

Retail tax agents, such as the United States-listed accounting franchise H&R Block, have downplayed the impact on their earnings because the “tick and flick” returns would target mainly DIY tax lodgers.

Wage and salary earners with bank interest, dividends and straightforward tax deductions will be able to “pull” their tax return – already filled in by the ATO’s systems – by July 1 this year.

The trial will be expanded to 4.5 million taxpayers between 2015 and 2016, and Treasury is considering using third-party information from real estate agents and stockbrokers to track taxpayers’ capital gains, with the long-term goal of offering “no touch” tax returns.

This would mean taxpayers with simple affairs could accept the ATO’s assessed tax refund without having to take any action. Under current rules, taxpayers have to declare pre-filled information is accurate and complete.

The biggest difficulty for the Abbott government and the ATO’s push to cut red tape for individuals is how to deal with work-related deductions.

Individuals claimed more than $19 billion in work expenses, worth on average $226 each.

Former treasurer Wayne Swan’s attempt to eliminate tax returns by introducing a standard deduction cost of $2 billion failed because the mining tax failed to produce the billions to pay for it. In addition, the option for a $500 or $1000 standard deduction meant some taxpayers would be ­overcompensated while others would be short-changed.

University

 of NSW tax expert Professor Neil Warren said the ATO’s e-tax software cost millions to deliver but was now old-fashioned.

E-tax software will eventually be replaced by a web portal so individuals can log on to the myGov website to deal with their tax affairs.

This article first appeared on AFR.com

Source : The Sydney Morning Herald

Canberra to be cut to bone in audit report

April 30, 2014

Peter Martin and Mark Kenny

Tony Abbott’s Commission of Audit has recommended massive cuts to the size of government, with whole agencies to be abolished, privatised, or devolved to the states, in what would be the biggest reworking of the federation ever undertaken.

Among its 86 recommendations, to be finally revealed on Thursday afternoon, are calls for the axing of multiple agencies and the surrender of huge swathes of responsibility back to the states in education, health, and other services.

The Abbott government is now in the final week of pre-budget deliberations. Photo: Penny Stephens

Among the small group of ministers and bureaucrats granted access to the report, there is an acceptance that some ideas will be adopted, others can be modified or placed into a longer-term planning framework, and some will be regarded as politically untenable.

Senior ministers concede the report contains the kind of suggestions to be expected from “economically dry” business types, but admit many are just not achievable in the real world or politics.

The National Preventive Health Agency is the largest in a string of small so-called ”orphan” health agencies marked for abolition. Under heavy attack from the alcohol industry, it releases its long-awaited report into a minimum floor price for alcohol on Thursday.  The report has been gathering dust now for a year and it is to be released under a clause in the agency’s act that requires the automatic release of reports if a year has elapsed since they were presented to government.

Also marked for privatisation or abolition is Defence Housing Australia, which manages and owns properties for defence families. It turns an annual profit before tax of $1 billion and employs 600 people. The government has commissioned Ernst & Young to advise on whether it should be sold.

The closely guarded Commission of Audit report is built around the theme of competition, according to a source who has seen it. It calls for competition between the states to provide services currently subject to some oversight from the Commonwealth. It also calls for competition between private firms to provide within-government services presently provided by the government itself, such as building management and Commonwealth cars.

The Audit Commission report, to be released publicly at 2.00pm on Thursday, proposes dumping Kevin Rudd’s favoured notion of cooperative federalism in favour of competitive federalism and financial contestability criteria whereby services are provided against value-for-money indices.

Although asked specifically to recommend how the government could achieve a budget surplus of 1 per cent of GDP by 2023-24 the commission has interpreted its mandate much more broadly and attempted to identify the activities the government should vacate.

Like the 1996 Commission of Audit report commissioned by the Howard government, it finds that in many areas where state and Commonwealth responsibilities overlap, the responsibilities are best handed to the states.

The 1996 report recommended that the Commonwealth abandon all involvement in preschool, primary and secondary education, funding the states for it by untied rather than tied grants. The Commonwealth would cease grants to private schools, allowing the states themselves to grant money to private schools if they thought it was necessary. If adopted, the recommendation would have abolished large sections of the Commonwealth Department of Education. If recommended again it could unwind more recent initiatives such as the Gonski school funding reforms and NAPLAN.

It suggested the Commonwealth maintain control of Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, using its weight to contain costs through the introduction of co-payments.

If adopted the recommendations would undo years of Commonwealth centralisation, returning to the states responsibilities surrendered in the early decades of federation. The theory behind the decentralisation is known as “competitive federalism”. It says that free of constraints, the states and territories will compete with each other to provide the best services at the lowest cost.

Although the 1996 review proposed handing more responsibilities to the states, it also proposed extra funding in the form of untied grants. The grants would be less than the Commonwealth would have spent had it continued to provide the services itself.

The recommendation to axe the National Preventive Health Agency is awkward for the Coalition, coming after its assistant health minister Fiona Nash pulled the plug on a healthy eating website set up by the Council of Australian Governments hours after it went live. If adopted it would leave it open to charges that it wasn’t serious about reining in long-term health expenditures on diseases such as obesity and alcohol-fuelled violence.

The government is into the final week of pre-budget deliberations.

As well as a controversial deficits tax, and a scaled-down paid parental leave scheme, the unemployed can expect tougher rules regarding eligibility for Newstart with a renewed push to “earn or learn”. There will also be cuts to ABC and SBS funding through the extension of the government wide 2.25 per cent efficiency dividend.

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said on Thursday that the audit would show that the spending growth projectory inherited from the previous Labor government was unsustainable.

He also played down claims that the government would be breaking an election promise if it went ahead with a proposed a ”debt tax” on workers earning more than $80,000 a year.

‘‘We’re not making any excuses,’’ Senator Cormann said. ‘‘We’re not doing any of this out of fun.’’

Opposition finance spokesman Tony Burke accused the government of confecting a budget emergency and of deliberately waiting to reveal cuts until after the polls in Griffith, Western Australia, Tasmania and South Australia.

“They’ll then release what will simply be a guidebook on how to break every election promise Tony Abbott made,” Mr Burke said.

Mr Burke said half of the $123 billion deficit referred to by Senator Cormann on Thursday morning was created by the Liberal government.

“They doubled the deficit when they first came in,” he said.

“They added $60 billion to it, more than doubling the deficit. If you’re in an emergency, why on earth would you do that?

“The truth is they wanted to confect or manufacture a budget crisis because these are the sorts of cuts they actually want to bring in.”

Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said it was ‘‘unconscionable’’ for the government to have sat on the report for so long.

With Lisa Cox

Source :The Sydney Morning Herald

Após negativa do TJD/RJ, Vasco vai ao Pleno por impugnação da final

Cruz-Maltino classifica como equivocada a visão do tribunal de que o impedimento não marcado de Márcio Araújo foi apenas uma “interpretação errônea dos fatos” .

A tentativa do Vasco de impugnar o último e decisivo jogo do Campeonato Carioca ainda não terminou. Depois de o Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva do Rio de Janeiro (TJD/RJ) indeferir o pedido na última terça-feira, o departamento jurídico cruz-maltino deu entrada nesta quarta em um recurso voluntário. No documento de 15 páginas, o clube de São Januário classifica como equivocado o entendimento do presidente do tribunal, José Teixeira Fernandes, de que o impedimento não assinalado no gol de Márcio Araújo – que deu o título ao Flamengo – foi apenas uma “interpretação errônea dos fatos”. O Vasco pede ainda que o recurso seja julgado pelo Tribunal Pleno do TJD/RJ.

Departamento jurídico do Vasco entrou com o pedido de recurso voluntário nesta quarta-feira no TJD/RJ (Foto: Reprodução)

– Há características muito particulares no tribunal desportivo. Primeiro, o valor pago para se tentar anular uma partida é altíssimo, impeditivo para que pequenos clubes tenham acesso a jurisdição desportiva pelo fator inibitório do volume pecuniário a ser dispendido. Some-se a isso a pequena importância emprestada pelo tribunal para discussões acerca de impugnações e anulações de partidas, bastando ver a decisão proferida que, como tantas outras, opta pela mesmíce de atribuir equivoco ao clube postulante ao buscar “interpretar” um erro de fato como sendo de direito – reclamou o advogado vascaíno Marcello Macedo, responsável pelo caso.

Ainda de acordo com Macedo, o Vasco vai até o fim em seu pedido por mais que a tentativa de se anular uma partida seja complicada, uma vez que a “superficialidade nos julgamentos para corroborar todos os erros de arbitragem a qualidade de erros de fato evite discussões mais aprofundadas sobre o tema”.

– Enfim, os recursos relacionados a anulação de partidas não passam de mera formalidade escrita que nunca será admitido, pois sempre haverá superficialidade nos julgamentos para corroborar todos os erros de arbitragem a qualidade de erros de fato e assim se evita discussões aprofundadas sobre o tema – frisou o advogado.

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