Nibbles141 posted:

Every race that isn't white has been the doom of Australia at various points throughout history. Today it's just no Muslims; the Greeks, Italians, Asians and whoever else were the problem decades ago are fine now.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

This is also noxious, by the way, I didn't ignore this! I really dislike the chirpy pseudo-educational/PSA tone these things have, too. It's grating, especially when one tries to sustain it, and can't help but make the speaker sound like a patronising git.

The constant flubs are annoying as well. Just do a retake, you're cutting every ten seconds anyway

Wheezle posted:

Wow it's just one long dogwhistle.

Anidav posted:

The internet is too.
(actual paid advertisement on Facebook. Literally a sponsored page)

Nibbles141 posted:

Every race that isn't white has been the doom of Australia at various points throughout history. Today it's just no Muslims; the Greeks, Italians, Asians and whoever else were the problem decades ago are fine now.

Tony Jowns posted:

Hell, just read any of the sensationalist articles or statements by Liberal candidates about Halal certification and mentally substitute "kosher" for "halal". poo poo reads like something straight out of 1930s Germany.

HookShot posted:

Yeah, my father in law told me once "the way we treat Muslims now is what we used to think of the Jews"

El Pollo Blanco posted:

I'm pretty sure anti-Semitism is just as virulent now as it ever has been?

Anidav posted:

Anyone else in Brisbane hate those Translink cops who stop the bus and check if everyone has a ticket? Police state i tells ya.

ungulateman posted:

got smacked $240 for it.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

My brain is full of gently caress....

Jumpingmanjim posted:

My brain is full of gently caress....

Jumpingmanjim posted:

My brain is full of gently caress....

quote:

Tory self-destruction is so painfully enjoyable
Mike Carlton
Sydney Morning Herald.


You can smell the doubt in Tory ranks, see the fear in Tory eyes. It’s not yet panic, although in this febrile political climate it wouldn’t take much to start one. But they are worried, deeply worried, that Tony Abbott might just have lost the plot.

This swine of a budget has been a disaster, both in its construction and its political execution. Stunned by the public protest, Abbott and his ministers have been furiously daubing the pig with lipstick, but it’s not working. The polls have the Coalition trailing badly on the primary vote and Bill Shorten is streets ahead as preferred prime minister, even though he has done little but keep his bum pointed to the ground.

So the usual Tory toadies of the media are stampeding to the aid of the party. For more than a week they have been exhorting Abbott to stand firm, to take arms against a sea of troubles, blah blah. Always a sure sign the faecal matter has hit the fan.


An even more certain sign is when they start fighting each other. Treachery! The shrill denunciation of Malcolm Turnbull by Melbourne’s village idiot, Andrew Bolt – amplified on Thursday by Sydney’s village idiot, Alan Jones – sent the needles on the right-wing paranoia scale trembling off the dial. Hilariously, the Parrot dictated a pledge of loyalty for Turnbull to repeat on radio, a wheeze not seen in any modern democracy since the demise of the infamous American Senator Joe McCarthy.

To his credit, Turnbull stiffed the two nongs right back, branding them ‘‘bomb throwers’’ doing Labor’s work. He’ll not be forgiven. It’s been hugely enjoyable.

The polls tell you more and more people are realising Abbott has not so much lost the plot as that he never had one. In opposition he was the wrecker, brutally effective against a divided and demoralised Labor Party, promising to lead an adult government faithful to its election commitments. But in power he and his ministers trudge through the smoking ruins of their policy flip-flops and broken promises, haplessly blaming their predecessors for the mess. This scaled new heights of idiocy on Wednesday when Defence Minister David Johnston proclaimed that it was Labor’s fault Abbott’s RAAF VIP jet had been late leaving for Indonesia.


In truth, we are saddled with a gang of punishers and straighteners, of cutters and slashers, run by the sort of bossy former private school prefects who enjoy enforcing dress codes at golf clubs. To borrow from that American wit, the late H.L.Mencken, these Abbott Tories are racked by the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might not be working hard enough.

So the government has changed. But despite the dogged efforts of Peta Credlin and her platoons of highly-trained spin doctors, it is ever more obvious that Abbott himself has not. Beneath those crisp white shirts and pale blue ties there still beats the heart of the campus bully. And Australians know it.

duck monster posted:

Is this a reference to work for the dole?

Cos if so , its a fair point. Forced labor schemes always displace paid labor, its just basic economics really.

duck monster posted:

edit: Snipped off the unrelated stuff at the end. Carlton seems to have wedged 3 unrelated pieces together.

Nibbles141 posted:

Purely anecdotal but in my experience the people that hate the unemployed hate their own jobs. Goes back to the old talking point about how easy life is on the dole yet for some reason they don't abandon their own jobs for this cushy lifestyle.

Daily Telegraph posted:

A major report into paid parental leave in Australia has found that significantly more working mothers are earning six figure salaries than previously thought.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal than 7,655 women claiming taxpayer-funded baby leave last year earned over $100,000 according to Centrelink. While these women claimed baby leave under Labor’s existing scheme offering 18 weeks baby pay at the minimum wage, the same mums will secure $50,000 under the new scheme. When you include women earning $90,000-a-year or more, the Centrelink figures reveal there were 12,082 women who will be eligible for payouts of $45,000 to $50,000. In total, there were 131,207 recipients of baby leave pay. That suggests nearly 10 per cent of Australian working mums will secure $45,000 payouts. But the final figure could be higher because the new scheme doesn’t have an income test.

The new income data is significant because political leaders have largely relied on guess work to estimate how many women earning six figures are also of child bearing age. Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews said it was clear the Abbott Government’s scheme was superior to Labor’s offering women the financial choice to stay longer at home. The report finds that the PPL scheme is allowing low income women to stay at home for longer in the first six months. "Many stakeholders called for the PPL scheme to be extended from 18 to 26 weeks and supported increasing the amount of pay and including superannuation," Mr Andrews said. "The majority of families will be better off under the new scheme and we expect around 167,000 families will be eligible for the new PPL scheme each year."

The Prime Minister has previously argued that the numbers of women earning six figure salaries who may access the scheme was very small. Mr Abbott recently scrapped an election pledge to offer women up to $75,000 under the scheme citing a “budget emergency’’ and capped the scheme at six months’ pay or up to $50,000. "Because only about 2 per cent of incomes over $100,000 are earned by women under 50, changing the eligibility thresholds or changing the maximum rate of paid parental leave would be very modest in terms of budget savings," Mr Abbott said on Melbourne Radio on April 29.

But the new data suggests that 6 per cent of women putting in claims would be eligible for $50,000 payouts, not 2 per cent. The revelations are likely to sharpen the political debate among the Nationals and conservative independents that the scheme is too generous to working women while denying stay at home mums the same benefits.

Family First’s Senator elect Bob Day said the parental leave scheme proposed was "morally wrong" because stay at home mums missed out. "It’s the morality of treating two mums doing exactly the same job differently," he said.

A majority of working women — 54 per cent — are earning under $50,000 according to the report. These women will also emerge as winners under the scheme securing six months leave on full pay from taxpayers rather than the $11,200 or 18 weeks’ pay under Labor’s scheme. But they will secure far less than women earning $100,000 who can secure $50,000. Around 40 per cent of women are earning between $50,000 and $100,000. According to the report the existing scheme is working with more low income mums having the choice to stay at home with their babies in the first six months. More than 99 per cent of parents claiming baby leave pay for women with just 674 dads taking on the job of primary carers for their babies.

Blaming a "budget emergency" the Prime Minister announced he would cap maximum payouts in the PPL scheme to $50,000 in April. The policy that Mr Abbott took to the election had promised women earning up to $150,000 could secure six months’ pay under the scheme. That was a maximum payout of $75,000.

Smegmatron posted:

The only people who've ever given me poo poo for being a university student or teacher are people who also bitch ceaselessly about how hard their jobs are, how bad the conditions are, or how they don't get paid enough for the work they do.

Zenithe posted:

Ah yes, those notoriously overpaid teachers.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Well they only work a few months a year.

Zenithe posted:

just saw this.

Zenithe posted:

Fruity Gordo posted:

I couldn't believe it when I found out that the community services teachers at TAFE are on casual contracts from semester to semester.