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Retrospectively apply it to all baby boomers at today's market rates and backdate interest as well.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:07 |
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adamantium|wang posted:Can't possibly spend any money on refugee advocates, no sir. To give you an idea, the largest PR firms in Australia employ about 30-50 people in their head offices, so they've employed the equivalent of two huge firms just for the immigration department. BUDGET EMERGENCY
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:19 |
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Sorry, the age of entitlement is over. It's just good luck that they benefited from it and just they way things fall when policies continue to help them at the expence of anyone younger. Just because they had their lives handed to them you shouldn't expect the same. Ps please work longer for less to maintaint their wealth.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:19 |
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quote:Tony Abbott says Malcolm Turnbull isn't after his job If the press gives Abbott/Turnbull even a fraction of the inexorable shitmongering saturation coverage of Gillard/Rudd I will die laughing.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:21 |
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quote:Minister denies uni fees will jump More stuff re: Pyne. tl;dr - THE FREE MARKET Problem: getting into university is NOT a free market and requires ATAR scores in the first place to gain access to certain degrees, thereby you are already limited in choice. The Market is a closed market where the demand won't go down because people who can afford will continue to go and people who can't simply won't. Libertarianism running wild.
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quote:"It's not my job to give a character reference for my political competitors," he told Channel Ten. "But on the other hand, it's also not my job to impugn the integrity of people who may well be our negotiating partners." quote:"We've seen real Julia, we've seen fake Julia. We've seen wooden Julia, we've seen teary Julia. We've seen 'All the way with LBJ' Julia, we've seen bible expert Julia, we've seen George Washington 'I will never tell a lie' Julia.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:43 |
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Ammonsa posted:Restaurant Industry, Restaurant Industry Award 2010, I don't have a contract and get paid cash in hand haha it's kind of dodgy. United Voice I think. We have someone else here who works in a restaurant. 1) join the union, ask how long the waiting period is before you get access to all their services. 2) read through the award, and see if there is a casual to permenant clause. (You get to be a perm after 6 months maybe) 3) document everything, how long you have been working, how many hours you've worked, if you know exactly get a statement witnessed by a justice of the peace. 4) best case they go well poo poo and pay you casual and super. 5) worst case they go get out and you have the union to back you for unfair dismissal, and they can bring in fairwork and the ato. You're not in a happy workplace and they will gently caress you over more. It's just a matter of where and when.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 04:43 |
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There's nothing free about the 'market' for uni places. Demand far outstrips supply, universities can charge what they like. There is no fluid competition - It's not like a bunch of reputable sandstone unis are going to pop up to compete with the established unis if they increase their prices. Also psychologically speaking people will still bear the cost, because of the real and perceived advantage of having a degree, plus the fact that they can essentially defer the cost of uni til later in life, it's not seen as a real cost that they have to pay right now.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 05:00 |
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Lid posted:More stuff re: Pyne. Look if you don't like the prices of snacks at the movie cinema, you can always go to a different movie cinema. Ergo free market bitch. I hate how journalists never ask politicians to rationalise their claims. You could ask what competition in the education system will look like, given the hurdles setting up a new university and regulatory compliance. But hey, lets always take things at face value and appreciate how GP co-payments will make people think twice before seeing a doctor, while also not limiting access to doctors.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 05:05 |
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You're not going to get those questions in a country where every editor of a Murdoch paper apparently came to the same independent conclusion that this budget is great for the country and anyone publicly stating otherwise is a spoilt child.
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Those On My Beet posted:That much is obvious. They are concerned about polling figures and by trying to front foot it they are running around contradicting each other and themselves because they have no real strategy to respond to the backlash. It's quite bizarre really. The strategy to hold back until they get a Senate to work with is unravelling. It bears out the belief among a few of us that they got the royal ride of their life from the media pre-election and never thought that far ahead. Why didn't their PR/lobbyists of genius predict the roadblocks? I get the sense that the sensible people got ignored in the rush to be libertarian heros; is discipline just an Opposition thing now?
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ewe2 posted:It's quite bizarre really. The strategy to hold back until they get a Senate to work with is unravelling. It bears out the belief among a few of us that they got the royal ride of their life from the media pre-election and never thought that far ahead. Why didn't their PR/lobbyists of genius predict the roadblocks? I get the sense that the sensible people got ignored in the rush to be libertarian heros; is discipline just an Opposition thing now? They really never did think beyond getting themselves into power, all that is behind their strategizing is sociopathic animal cunning, nothing deeper than that. You're watching a bunch of criminals panic and ransack the place as fast as they can, of course they're disorganized.
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While going through past news articles, I'm still trying to get my head around this quote by Tony:quote:Prime Minister Tony Abbott has rejected a controversial recommendation in a key Productivity Commission report that suggests drivers be charged for every kilometre of road use:
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 05:55 |
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Doesn't the white paper for the Carbon Repeal suggest a road levy?
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 05:59 |
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Nuclear Spy posted:While going through past news articles, I'm still trying to get my head around this quote by Tony:
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 07:41 |
oh my god
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 07:42 |
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Gonna leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ggMgjYev4
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:08 |
Pred1ct posted:Gonna leave this here. You're a thread late.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:12 |
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Incredible.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:14 |
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It's beautiful
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:15 |
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There needs to be more Simpsons AusPol crossovers:
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:21 |
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Nuclear Spy posted:There needs to be more Simpsons AusPol crossovers: https://www.facebook.com/Simpsonsagainsttheliberals
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 08:36 |
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Sparticle posted:Someone posted this page a few weeks ago.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 09:03 |
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:They really never did think beyond getting themselves into power, all that is behind their strategizing is sociopathic animal cunning, nothing deeper than that. You're watching a bunch of criminals panic and ransack the place as fast as they can, of course they're disorganized. I suspect they thought they could just pay off Palmer, and the other individual senators.
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A refugee likely self-immolated in Victoria http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/01/asylum-seeker-dies-after-suffering-serious-burns-morrisonquote:Immigration Minister Scott Morrsion has confirmed a man living on a bridging visa in Geelong has died after succumbing to the effects of serious burn injuries. quote:An asylum seeker living on a bridging visa in Melbourne is dead after suffering serious burns. Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Fruity Gordo posted:A young refugee self-immolated in Victoria I think you will find he was not a genuine refugee, but merely seeking to bludge off of our overly generous healthcare system and take advantage of our dear job creators' efforts.
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Fruity Gordo posted:A refugee likely self-immolated in Victoria I'm pretty sure exactly this happened not three months ago.
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Burning to death: Preferable to what the Australian government does to refugees.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 09:27 |
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Captain Pissweak posted:I'm pretty sure exactly this happened not three months ago. Yep, in Balmain. Second refugee self-immolation in two months. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/tamil-asylum-seeker-self-harms-in-sydney/5383318
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Lid posted:More stuff re: Pyne. I've yet to see anyone pointing out how there's currently only a cap on the maximum fee that a university can charge (that's right?), and no cap on the minimum fee. That being the case, there's absolutely nothing currently stopping universitites from lowering their fees if they wanted to. Obviously then, the maximum cap is not preventing them from lowering fees. Thus, removing the cap won't make prices go down. I mean, I know that Pyne's argument is just ideological bullshit, but this seems likie a simple and obvious argument that anyone can understand, even an Australian voter.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-01/afghan-refugees-who-helped-defence-resettled-in-australia/5492380quote:More than 500 Afghans resettled in Australia after helping Defence Force More loving queue jumpers.
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Foundry Dancer posted:I've yet to see anyone pointing out how there's currently only a cap on the maximum fee that a university can charge (that's right?), and no cap on the minimum fee. That being the case, there's absolutely nothing currently stopping universitites from lowering their fees if they wanted to. Obviously then, the maximum cap is not preventing them from lowering fees. Thus, removing the cap won't make prices go down. The University of Western Sydney at least have frozen their fees, effectively taking a further 20% funding cut on top of the across-the-board cuts. Because they are good. Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Fruity Gordo posted:Yep, in Balmain. Second refugee self-immolation in two months. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/tamil-asylum-seeker-self-harms-in-sydney/5383318 Don't
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 09:43 |
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This is the young man who set himself on fire yesterday. His name's Leo. He was afraid of being sent back to Sri Lanka and tortured.
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quote:A message from the Prime Minister - 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings he actually did it he managed to make d-day about the carbon tax e: adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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I fully accept that Abbott himself is a total fuckwit but you'd think his inner circle and the people writing his speeches/press releases would be at least a little more tactful.
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adamantium|wang posted:he actually did it
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 10:26 |
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How loving tone deaf do you have to be to write that poo poo?
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Fruity Gordo posted:This is the young man who set himself on fire yesterday. His name's Leo. He was afraid of being sent back to Sri Lanka and tortured. I know ill do something to warrant that, jet off to another country, expect to be handed everything, just the sort of unhinged person i want living next door to me.
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