ewe2 posted:

Now now children, settle down and listen to this nice song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9ZTtMjFsI So many dumb ways to lie.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

I like this potato hamster Abbott.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

I love this government. If it's not fingers-in-ears shouting at everyone that this is the budget we had to have, it's furious back-pedalling and blatantly contradicting one another. We couldn't even get one of those charming, charismatic fascist governments. Their ineptness would be comedic if you were able to ignore how serious they are and will continue to be.
I like this potato hamster Abbott.

Zenithe posted:

At this point, Australia is basically Fawlty towers with Abbott is Basil, trying desperately to cover up lie upon lie and not fooling anybody, whilst trying to impress and fawn over the upper class he pines to, while taking every opportunity to punish the riff raff he thinks are below him.

Zenithe posted:

At this point, Australia is basically Fawlty towers with Abbott is Basil, trying desperately to cover up lie upon lie and not fooling anybody, whilst trying to impress and fawn over the upper class he pines to, while taking every opportunity to punish the riff raff he thinks are below him.

Zenithe posted:

At this point, Australia is basically Fawlty towers with Abbott is Basil, trying desperately to cover up lie upon lie and not fooling anybody, whilst trying to impress and fawn over the upper class he pines to, while taking every opportunity to punish the riff raff he thinks are below him.

Nuclear Spy posted:

This guy is absolutely pumping out the Fireman Tony photoshops (every 5-10 mins):

Canberra Times posted:

Private schools caning pupils, the abolition of ACT self-government, licences for cyclists, a privatised ACTION bus network and minimum sentences for child sex offenders.

Is this what life in Canberra would be like if the Young Liberals were in charge?

A set of policy proposals to be considered by ACT party members suggests private schools "should be offered the option of disciplining students through corporal punishment, with the use of a cane".

It calls for the ACT Government to be stripped of all legal authority until territory voters support a referendum proposal establishing self-government, and says a national sex offenders' register should be established with full public access.

It also calls for all public housing to be privatised and tenants to be subject to a voucher system.

The ambitious policy document, obtained by The Canberra Times, is to be debated at a June 14 Young Liberals meeting at the Australian National University.

Despite reading like a broad-based, right-wing political manifesto, the document's 23 individual motions will be debated as part of policy development. The document is divided into three sections: local, federal and "nanny state".

If carried, some of the motions may be considered at future Liberal Party conferences. Divided into three sections, including local, federal and "nanny state" proposals, it also calls for all public housing to be privatised and tenants to be subject to a voucher system.

Motions support the scuttling of Canberra's proposed light rail network, the creation of compulsory third-party insurance and licenses for cyclists and a 10-year moratorium on increases to federal government expenditure.

"The ACT Young Liberals call on the ACT Government to abolish legislation requiring cyclists to wear helmets," the document says.

"The ACT Young Liberals call on the federal government to begin measuring foreign aid spending against outcomes achieved, rather than a targeted percentage of GDP."

One suggestion will win support from Palmer United Party leader and Fairfax MP Clive Palmer. It calls on the Abbott government to replace the existing ComCar network with a taxi-based service operated by the Department of Finance. Mr Palmer has criticised the ComCar service since joining Parliament.

ACT Young Liberals secretary James Baillie declined to comment on the document circulated last week.

The Canberra Times understands some Young Liberals are critical of the proposals and are concerned the group is being overrun by hard right-wing sentiment. Some members are believed to be disillusioned with the Young Liberals policy process.

Debate will follow the group's general meeting and a proposal to adopt the federal Liberal Party's logo in place of one showing the facade of Canberra's Parliament House.

Other motions included calling on the NSW, Victorian and federal governments to sell the Snowy Hydro scheme and offer support to an Abbott government initiative merging immigration, customs and border protection agencies as the Australian Border Force.

Other controversial federal budget measures, including the deregulation of universities and easing of tax structures, are supported.

Members will be asked to condemn "recent violence perpetrated against current and former Liberal Party MPs on campuses across Australia as abhorrent conduct".

The motion calls for universities to expel students involved in the recent protests that have targeted Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and former Coalition MP Sophie Mirabella.

The ACT Young Liberals recently congratulated Prime Minister Tony Abbott on his move to reintroduce Australian knights and dames.

Despite opposition from some Coalition MPs, members welcomed the move as a "long-standing ACT Young Liberal policy motion".

The 1978 advisory referendum on territory self-government won just 30.54 per cent support. Parliament passed the act granting self-government 1988, establishing the Legislative Assembly.

Sir Coq of Nandos posted:

Your daily reminder that the Liberal party are collectively human garbage. The ACT Young Libs are getting bolstered by all of the new staffers working in Canberra, which means these ideas are getting fed back to sitting Government ministers.

You Am I posted:

Still laughing at the privatisation of public housing and bringing in a voucher system.

Those On My Beet posted:

Those highrise estates that are dotted around Melbourne are all cost sinks, the buildings are hitting or have passed their expected lifetime and now cost more to maintain then they generate in rent by a long shot.

Those On My Left posted:

Are you talking about what I've heard called "housing commission flats", like on the corner of Brunswick St and Gertrude?

Nuclear Spy posted:

This guy is absolutely pumping out the Fireman Tony photoshops (every 5-10 mins):

Nuclear Spy posted:

This guy is absolutely pumping out the Fireman Tony photoshops (every 5-10 mins):

Sir Coq of Nandos posted:

Your daily reminder that the Liberal party are collectively human garbage. The ACT Young Libs are getting bolstered by all of the new staffers working in Canberra, which means these ideas are getting fed back to sitting Government ministers.

Ragingsheep posted:

This been posted yet?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-monte-carlo-address-of-donor-linked-to-liberal-party-fund-20140601-39ci7.html

Those On My Beet posted:

But I thought we all agreed helmets are bad.

Ragingsheep posted:

This been posted yet?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-monte-carlo-address-of-donor-linked-to-liberal-party-fund-20140601-39ci7.html

Senor Tron posted:

risking certain brain damage

Those On My Left posted:

oh jesus

Ragingsheep posted:

Wait, why do helmets deter people from riding bikes?

Ragingsheep posted:

Wait, why do helmets deter people from riding bikes?

Ragingsheep posted:

Wait, why do helmets deter people from riding bikes?

quote:

There would be no need to hold a by-election in Frankston if independent MP Geoff Shaw is found to be in contempt of Parliament, former speaker Ken Smith has said.

Mr Smith said the Parliament could continue to function without Mr Shaw, if Speaker Christine Fyffe broke with convention to vote with the Government.

"The Government would be in a position where there are 43 Labor and 43 Liberals (Coalition) and the speaker," he said.

"The Speaker would be put under a fair amount of pressure to make rulings on most of the votes."

fatman posted:

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.

quote:

"He feared for his life if he was returned to Sri Lanka," Mr Mylvaganam said. "His housemates have told me he repeatedly talked about being sent back, he was quite worried about it."
Trevor Grant, a convenor at the Tamil Refugee Council, said: "He knew that if he was sent back he'd face persecution from the military." Mr Grant said Mr Seemanpillai suffered depression after fleeing Sri Lanka about five years ago and living in a refugee camp in India. Mr Grant said he understood Mr Seemanpillai had a soft drink bottle full of petrol which he poured on himself and set himself alight. Mr Mylvaganam said that Mr Seemanpillai had previously expressed his wish to be an organ donor, and his liver, an eye, both kidneys and a lung were removed for donation. "We were in communication with the family last night and they wanted his organs to be donated, and as a result five people have benefited," he said.

quote:

Environment Minister Greg Hunt joins RN Breakfast to discuss a new report showing that Australia's mammal extinction rate is the worst in the world.

Cartoon posted:

In which case I hope you have excluded yourself from being an organ recipient:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/asylum-seeker-dies-after-suffering-burns-to-90-per-cent-of-his-body-20140601-39c4w.html


He took his life because it was his only way of having agency in his life and in doing so deliberately helped others in the country that had refused to help him.

Between him and you I know who I'd prefer to have living next to me.

Just while we are addressing lolbertarian nut jobs meet David Leyonhjelm (LDP senator)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/david-leyonhjelm/5492988

You'll have to listen to the audio but he is joining forces with Family First to be a mini-block who will vote for essentially everything in the budget except for the tax rises. Even though he acknowledges that the LDP and the FFP are entirely at odds over personal freedoms they are close enough on the economy that they will be in lock step in the senate for six years...

Not depressed enough yet? I have more, of course I do.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/greg-hunt/5493174

Again you'll have to listen to the Audio for the full horror.


We're No. 1! We're No. 1! We're No. 1! We're No. 1!

Anti bike helmet campaigners are like anti seat belt campaigners. No amount of evidence will sway them so there is no point in arguing. They are the LNP of rational debate.

Those On My Beet posted:

From memory, and it may not have been you, the last few times we've done this you've posted some data about reduction in instances of head trauma since the helmets came in, yeah? Was that you?

Nuclear Spy posted:

Those On My Beet posted:

From memory, and it may not have been you, the last few times we've done this you've posted some data about reduction in instances of head trauma since the helmets came in, yeah? Was that you?