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Ler posted:(Abbott is giving Obama, a native of Hawaii*, a loving surfboard) *Allegedly. 
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From here, the recent copyright change push is due to the Korea - Australian Free Trade agreement, as well as the Australia-US and Australia-Singapore Free Trade Agreements : Australian Treaty National Interest Analysis quote:Implementation
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Ler posted:And the winner for most misleading title once again goes to News Corpse Wow, the headline, paper and man pictured are all offensive and stupid. Congrats guys, a trifecta!
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Tirade posted:Not always. Although it's easy to think of the Libs as moustache-twirling cartoon villains, a lot of them truly believe that they're doing the right thing for Australia. Almost no-one wakes up in the morning thinking "I'm an evil person, let's see what dastardly things I can do today!". At the absolute best they are guilty of wilfully maintaining ignorance of the consequences of their actions. At the worst they are guilty of literal treason and should be put up against a wall and shot. Personally I would argue that wilful ignorance in a position of such responsibility is also treasonous.
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Gough Suppressant posted:At the absolute best they are guilty of wilfully maintaining ignorance of the consequences of their actions. At the worst they are guilty of literal treason and should be put up against a wall and shot. Don't think I'm trying to excuse their actions. It's just that automatically defaulting to "they're greedy evil fucks!" really simplifies their motivations, and that of the people that vote for them. It's at the same level as "they hate us for our freedom!". If it was as simple as that then it wouldn't be too hard to convince Australians to never vote for LNP ever again. Unless of course you think that roughly 50% of Australians are also greedy evil fucks, in which case why bother yourself with politics at all?
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I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. Also being pregnant is not an excuse for being unemployed. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/jobless-pregnant-women-face-same-wait-for-income-support-as-under-30s?commentpage=1
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Ler posted:I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. Holy cow. My wife gets horrendous morning sickness that lasts all pregnancy and she's pretty much a disabled person for a portion of it. I can't imagine what it would be like for someone who got knocked up by accident and didn't have someone to support them. I wanna turn into the hulk or something.
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Konomex posted:I can't imagine what it would be like for someone who got knocked up by accident and didn't have someone to support them. Well then they should just keep their legs closed! 
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Tirade posted:Don't think I'm trying to excuse their actions. It's just that automatically defaulting to "they're greedy evil fucks!" really simplifies their motivations, and that of the people that vote for them. It's at the same level as "they hate us for our freedom!". If it was as simple as that then it wouldn't be too hard to convince Australians to never vote for LNP ever again. Self interest, how does it work?
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Oh, for gently caress's sake: http://www.afr.com/p/national/education/tony_abbott_backs_us_style_corporate_esnG60ZXK0h8BtMr2Ip2TO
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Oh, for gently caress's sake: Excellent, we can have classes in why unions are evil and your employer really does have your best interests at heart in every lower SES suburb in the country.
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Tirade posted:Don't think I'm trying to excuse their actions. It's just that automatically defaulting to "they're greedy evil fucks!" really simplifies their motivations, and that of the people that vote for them. It's at the same level as "they hate us for our freedom!". If it was as simple as that then it wouldn't be too hard to convince Australians to never vote for LNP ever again. Just a reminder. The people you are attempting to say are not necessarily evil fucks support the torture of children, currently are attempting to burn to the ground the system of higher education that allowed them to get where they are, support the torture of children, want to make young people starve to death for six months each year, SUPPORT THE TORTURE OF CHILDREN, want to make it harder for poor people to receive medical care and SUPPORT THE TORTURE OF CHILDREN if that doesn't meet your criteria for being villains then personally I would say the problem lies in your definition of a villain.
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Ler posted:I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. Jesus loving Christ. Even the US could recognize the importance of pre-natal and early childhood support enough to roll out the WIC program and try to keep them well-fed with decent nutrition. For all of Hockey's talk of "participation", he sure doesn't seem to care about the collateral damage of a child getting their development and mental health permanently stunted before they ever got a chance to participate in anything. On that debate as to whether politicians are "villains" or not, I think even if they don't actually purposely mean to be evil, this level of complete ignorance would have been grounds for immediate dismissal if they were doing any menial job with far less responsibility than the ones they actually have.
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Ler posted:I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. A true class act this Federal Government is. gently caress over asylum seekers, the poor, the pregnant, the old, the unemployed, the public transport user, the primary/secondary public school student, the tertiary student, ummm, I am sure there are more getting hosed over
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Ler posted:I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. They're obviously scared stiff that their harsh policies will encourage people to just pump out kid after kid in order to get the sweet sweet welfare dollars so they need to make that as difficult as possible. Who cares if there is collateral and a bunch of kids are born with health problems, what really matters is that the rich, LNP donating taxpayer is paying as little as possible. Could changes to the superannuation loophole pay for the removal of all this poo poo?
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Taking personal responsibility begins at conception.
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Bifauxnen posted:Taking personal responsibility begins at conception. It's a pity Hockey didn't take responsibility for the harm he'd later do to Australia and miscarry himself.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Oh, for gently caress's sake: quote:The government pays for the education, but IBM mentors the students and shapes the curriculum. In return, students who graduate after six years are first in line for consideration for entry level jobs at IBM’. If the government pays, what's the loving point? Why not just run an actual school?
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Mad Katter posted:If the government pays, what's the loving point? Why not just run an actual school? Because without corporate guidance how can the government hope to excrete perfectly formed ambition less worker drones at regular intervals. After all, everyone knows the only purpose of education is to get a job. We can finally cut out those useless things like history, media studies and literature from the bloated curriculum.
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Fruity Gordo posted:First Peoples, queer people and people with disabilities. Fat kids Skinny skinny Even kids with chicken pox. Fuckwits! Liberal Fuckwits! The Tories... who'll... kill us aaaaallllll! 
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Mad Katter posted:If the government pays, what's the loving point? Why not just run an actual school? Because the LNP aren't totally stupid and recognize that a well rounded education threatens children's potential to be future LNP voters.
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In other news, world is fukt: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/11/-sp-el-nino-weather-2014?CMP=soc_567 quote:India is expected to be the first to suffer, with weaker monsoon rains undermining the nation’s fragile food supply, followed by further scorching droughts in Australia and collapsing fisheries off South America. Good timing really, nothing like a massive drought to remind India that Abbott is being a loving idiot on climate change.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Oh, for gently caress's sake: The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate Disco > Auspol June - Oh for gently caress's sake
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Oh, for gently caress's sake: Why are we even arguing the inherent goodness-gone-awry inside broad swathes of LNP politicians and their dyed-in-the-wool supporters? Does anyone here truly believe that the people hardest hit by the budget are simply the collateral damage of austerity gone mad rather than just targets? Climate change denial is a safer position to defend at this point.
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Goodpart posted:"Pepsi?" Paging LesAffaires to the thread
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My child will graduate with First Class Pepsi from the Melbourne Academy of Refreshment
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Goodpart posted:Climate change denial is a safer position to defend at this point. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/6/12/policy-politics/abbott-sidestep-un-climate-meeting quote:Prime Minister Tony Abbott will not attend a UN-sponsored international conference on climate policy later this year, despite an invitation from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Fairfax reports.
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Ler posted:I'm getting lazy, URL says it all. Quite rightly; as a feminist ally I think it's ridiculous to buy into this patriarchal notion that women are less capable than men due to some evo-psych strawman about the delicate pregnant damsel. If we don't challenge these just-so stories about the supposed vulnerability of pregnant women then the misogynists will start pointing to the so called 'realities' of child-bearing to justify the gender pay gap.
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 You missed the best bit! According to the tERRORgraph it's the most AUSSSIE PRESSSIE EVAR! A loving malibu surfboard is ..  The Meanesturd for NO ENVIRONMENT was on the ABC drooling on himself this morning: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/environment-minister-greg-hunt/5517546 Highlight: Meanesturd: That's a gross distortion! ABC: It's a direct quote. Ian Winthorpe III posted:Weaksauce. Learn from you betters read Hypation's posts IWC.
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I'm not sure where the controversy is exactly, the people taking issue with pregnant women working (shock horror!) share the same dull suburban conservatism as Abbot himself. quote:"I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons."
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Enrolment day with Griffith, what sort of university has one tutorial for a course that is a requirement with three majors in a degree?
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Perhaps, IWC, the problem is not that pregnant women are allowed to work, but that pregnant women are forced to work?
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You know what I want heavily pregnant women doing? Operating forklifts and tiling roofs.
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Haters Objector posted:Perhaps, IWC, the problem is not that pregnant women are allowed to work, but that pregnant women are forced to work? Then why is it more objectionable for them to have to work than men or non-pregnant women?
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Chrodyn posted:Enrolment day with Griffith, what sort of university has one tutorial for a course that is a requirement with three majors in a degree? Depending on what degree you are doing, I recommend supplementing your studies through OUA, where courses are not available in certain Semesters or there aren't enough tutorials available. Then transfer the credit across. My Degree would have taken a full year longer if not for doing that. Ol Sweepy fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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IWC please put your ever-vigilant questioning nature to use, and do an experiment for the good of man's understanding. It might be impossible to replicate the pains and inconveniences of pregnancy, but just to test the concept go crush your dick in a vice and see how much you feel like going to work.
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