The toilet seat issue has caused a great deal of discussion around our smoko room and is becoming the "can you answer this question" of the week.

What has fascinated me though is what the Act says:
"6 Meaning of sanitary plumbing
(1)  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires sanitary plumbing means -
(a) the work of fixing or unfixing any sanitary fixture or sanitary appliance or any associated fittings or accessories"

Of course a toilet seat comes under an associated fitting or accessories.  Who knew.  The chap that pointed this out is a pure genius!!  I see the Board pursued the home handyman - oh to have so much time on their hands - while strictly speaking this is what the Act says, the Board should be called to task for frivolous use of practitioners funds.

I am guessing toilet seats will be exempted when the Act is looked at for review.

In regards to the OAG report - where to now for the Federation?  This report doesn't really achieve anything - it gives no recommendations despite some problems still occurring - the most obvious of which is the Board are not considered trustworthy by the industry.  I can't believe the AG didn't make some recommendations about fees and levies as we are the MOST expensive regulated trade in terms of what we have to pay.  And then I read the bit about the Board wanting to have a better relationship with the Federation - at this point I fell off my chair and decided that to continue on reading would be a health and safety risk.

The Auditor Generals office must have shares in a paint factory with all the whitewash they have used on this report. What a total waste of time.

So now the Auditor Generals Office won't do anything, the Regulations Review Committee won't do anything, the minister won't do anything, the Social Services Committee won't do anything, the Government won't do anything, MBIE won't do anything and it takes a lifetime to get the Ombudsman's office to do anything and then the Government just ignores them anyway.

It looks like as an industry we are getting told that all these organisations put in place to protect peoples rights are a total waste of taxpayers money and as an industry we have no rights.  This is nothing less than a dictatorship.

People have put their lives on the line to fight dictatorships and here our government is developing micro dictatorships in our own country. Screw the lot of them.