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Hey, it's March and we're talking about Australian Politics! In Recent News: The Fair Work Commission - an independent body - handed down a ruling that essentially said "society sees working on Sunday as a greater hassle than any other day but lol if we're going to pay you more for it" reducing hospitality and retail workers award rates to be more in line with Saturday. Tony Abbott continues to be a glaring hypocrite by being the Rudd to Turnbull's Gillard, despite the fact that Rudd was actually popular with people and unpopular with his party, where Abbott is unpopular with absolutely everyone. WA state election is coming up and there's been some furore about the Libs preferencing One Nation over the Nationals. This is actually the Libs looking to the future instead of the 50's for a change and realising that the Nationals are dead as a loving dodo. The Parties and Their Leaders: The Liberals Lead by Lab-ah Run by Pauline Hanson's One Nation Despite the name this party now simply copies whatever dear leader Trump does. They have 4 senate seats thanks to a Double Dissolution election and are gaining power in WA in QLD. The Greens Australia's only truly left party, the Greens look to leader Karl Marx to light the way while some faux-leftie named Di Natale sends out Facebook posts and tries to ignore the SALTies attempting splits in NSW. quote:There is an irc channel, #auspol on synirc where Australians discuss things, presumably dark spooky things that man was not meant to know. MysticalMachineGun fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:The Liberal Party on Bikes
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 06:54 |
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noice Also, be afraid: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/01/think-trumps-travel-ban-was-bad-peter-dutton-may-soon-have-the-power-to-play-god The Guardian posted:Think Trump’s travel ban was bad? Peter Dutton may soon have the power to play God Why would he even want to be PM when he can wield so much power?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 06:58 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:noice I don't think Dutton will want to give up his black shirted stormtrooper wannabes either. If they at least wore the plastic armor I might have a bit more respect for them because that shows some effort, you know.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 07:25 |
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There is a pro-abortion rally in Brisbane right now! I would normally be there but I'm currently doing my own research so I am trapped in the lab (y i k e s)
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 07:34 |
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Gas Australia, Ban OP
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 09:18 |
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Are we in a recession yet?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 09:38 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:
Joe De Bruyn is a dutchman who hates dykes.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 09:40 |
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https://twitter.com/CFMEUWA/status/836808885910519809
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 09:43 |
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Does Morrison always wear a flag pin?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 10:04 |
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he isn't really a small "l" liberal though
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 10:31 |
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From the other thread:quote:The Brisbane tradie sponsoring a prominent neo-Nazi website Their business website is something else. The top half looks like your typical DIY webpage from 15 years ago, and then the second half
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 11:49 |
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I'm so glad you brought that over - he's a full on fake news, white supremacist, misogynist Trump supporter.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 11:56 |
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Recoome posted:There is a pro-abortion rally in Brisbane right now! Mandatory post-birth abortion for all Australians imo
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:10 |
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Tokamak posted:From the other thread: Fixed link.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:15 |
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I'd quote the guy's response, but I don't want that poo poo in my posting history. What I will say is, holy poo poo this guy is an intellectual titan. Right up there with the very finest minds of our world. Clearly takes the time and effort to ensure his points are well articulated and come across in a very poignant and - some would even dare say - sane fashion.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:21 |
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Why have they glommed onto pepe the frog? Is it because all btards were always Nazis and I never realised?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:35 |
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hiddenmovement posted:Why have they glommed onto pepe the frog? Not all, but an environment that tolerates ironic racism has trouble stamping out actual racism.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:38 |
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I don't think you can ever be an ironic Nazi any more than you can be half pregnant.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 12:43 |
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Well, there's been some interesting things coming off the back of the failed attempt to decriminalise abortion in QLD. Firstly, the Women's Abortion Rights Campaign ended up learning the hard way that having TERF-sympathetic members was really bad for the movement in general and is now attempting to be more inclusive. This is pretty cool because it now means that all the major movers/shakers in favor of abortion rights are all on the same page, so I don't think we'll have the same amounts of territorialism we've had previously. It sucks that it basically took a major tactical defeat in order to learn this lesson. The LNP have well and truly decided that going further right is the best course of action, and thus far have done this as a unified bloc. There's no questioning that these guys (all of them) were pretty confident in their ability to shrug off negative press/opinions regarding their opinions re: abortions. I'm assuming that they are worried about the rise of PHON at the state level, so there's no real reason for them to go any further left. The lobby groups such as the ACL and Cherish Life have been buoyed by the withdrawal of the legislation (it's a tactical victory for anti-abortion rights groups), and will probably continue to bitterly contest any attempt to decriminalise abortion (especially now that they have a win under their belt). The ALP, while hamstrung by the minority government, were not voting as a unified bloc for decriminalisation, and have instead referred the legislation to the Law Reform commission (IIRC). I don't feel like there's been a lot of strong opinions/positions coming from the Government here, and I believe that they will be wedged between this issue and the Adani mines in the next election (which is this year). I think they've shot themselves in the foot here because they don't have anything to lose by coming out and supporting abortion (except the right wing of the ALP, I guess) because they were never going to capture conservative votes from the LNP/PHON. Basically the whole thing is up in the air AND predicated on the ALP winning a majority government in QLD this year. It's not really a likely outcome at all, so we are probably looking at another 10-20 years before this comes up again.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 14:20 |
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Recoome posted:we are probably looking at another 10-20 years before this comes up again. Farkin hell.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 14:42 |
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The federal government is happy to step in to prevent marriage equality by rewriting federal laws. Why can't they step in and simply override Queensland's stupid loving ban by making federal legislation legalising it?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 15:04 |
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Wait, women in QLD can't get abortions? Holy poo poo that's pathetic, gently caress you QLD! I guess there's a few select super-popular clinics right over the border in actual modern civilisation (NSW)? They're also rolling back flouridisation in some areas, right? What a shithole, no wonder the PHON vote is so high; anyone with half a loving brain would just move.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 20:42 |
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I'm seeing on social media people who I previously thought were rational and anti-racist leaning towards PHON and spreading PHON garbage here in WA. I have NFI what is going on.
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cheese-cube posted:I'm seeing on social media people who I previously thought were rational and anti-racist leaning towards PHON and spreading PHON garbage here in WA. I have NFI what is going on. Entropy.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 21:21 |
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This budget is going to be fun. How can ScoMo claw back some support in the polls while keeping the lunar right happy while producing something that actually has a chance of getting through the senate while sucking on the chode of big business?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 21:27 |
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Women in QLD can access abortions, however it's because they aren't enforcing that law at this moment and technically this could change at any moment (like if a conservative govt came to power) It probably also impacts service availability
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 21:55 |
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quote:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nsw/extech-sicen-sun-made-replica-guns-in-lounge-room-using-3d-printer-court-hears-20170301-gunws8.html
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 22:09 |
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I would have thought it would have an effect on malpractice insurance too
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 22:10 |
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https://twitter.com/inthehansard/status/836483581417414656
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 22:23 |
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Roberts is pretty clearly having a different conversation in his head than the one happening in the chamber.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 22:27 |
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it must be fun to have two separate estimates briefs; one for normal people questions and one for mentally ill pieces of poo poo like roberts
BBJoey fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Roberts just called the Guardian 'fake news' in estimates so there is that.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:12 |
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Bogan King posted:Roberts just called the Guardian 'fake news' in estimates so there is that. Is this the first time in linguistics history when we can determine the precise time and date a phrase completely inverted in meaning? Like, it didn't exist until around June last year, then flipped meaning in late-October then stopped having any meaning by December.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:14 |
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Eric Abetz has said no worker should be worse off under the penalty rate cuts, and thus they should only apply to new workers. So he is acknowledging the the change to penalty rates makes workers worse off, but is advocating for wages to shrink in the future.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:15 |
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yeah it's cool that fake news had a meaning once but smooth brained dullards have turned it into 'thing i dislike'
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:15 |
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why has australian labour been such a wretched third way sellout party, apparantly for its entire existence, before it was cool?
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:22 |
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trotskyist infiltrators
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:29 |
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Can we get this added to the OP? https://twitter.com/rpy/status/835770761679785984
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 23:31 |
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BBJoey posted:yeah it's cool that fake news had a meaning once but smooth brained dullards have turned it into 'thing i dislike' Same thing happened with "troll" when people over 40 started using it on the internet.
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