Australia is a terrible country populated by racists. Discuss. House of Representatives:
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:37 |
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gently caress all these changes to unemployment. It's going to make it even more impossible for your resume to be seen among the pile of 8000 resumes sent out due to the requirement to spam everyone with loving resumes for jobs you aren't qualified. Where's my DIGNITY OF WORK Tony???
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:41 |
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Do I lose points if I grew up in Queensland but left the country?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:41 |
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The man he stepped up to the microphone and he gave it a kiss. It was a big wet, slippery kiss. And he had sweat dripping off of his nose onto the windscreen. As he looked out over the audience he said, God bless you, God bless you one and all. Then he took a can of Ronson lighter fluid And he squirted it over the top of his head. And proceeded to light himself on fire As he stood there glowing and said, Remember this day.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:42 |
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I think that gets you points.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:43 |
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Ground floor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDiC0huVDs
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:44 |
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Senate numbers wrong there aren't 26 National Senators, thank gently caress.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:47 |
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Hey Auspol, Just a reminder about Xylo's Australian Care package. I will post a reminder at the start of each thread monthly thread all the way up until Novembers thread. As we all know, Xylo has been a fantastic Mod/Admin, better than we deserve. Those of you on Snapchat also know that he has a bubbly baby boy that makes even the most jaded Auspoler go A few of you have decided that you want to send him a thank you. I am heading to the US in November to present at a conference, and I am happy to carry the package to the US and help pay the postage costs to ship internally once there. The plan is to make it an Auspol collaboration, an Auspol Christmas present for Xylo's family if you will (no bus chat). I was thinking the usual stuff like Tim Tams, a bottle of Bundy, Vegemite etc. If people wanted to send personalised stuff they could send it to my work before hand. Hambeet has offered to be the “treasurer” and collect money through his paypal (like he did for AMU’s ban) If you want to take part, I have created a google doc like we used in Mafia to chat. Feel free to leave suggestions, let us know if you plan on chipping in or sending a gift through to me. The google doc is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qHwwV7qEMIE58wcE1-2WIsT69jkZPWiSP3ejQxT4Myo/edit?pli=1#gid=1917312845 If you have any questions (like Hambeet’s Paypal account), you can either PM me or if you don’t have PMs you can email xylopresent at gmail dot com Which will be periodically checked Cheers
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 01:49 |
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Also LNP being caught out making up fake supporters online again. (Actually not sure if it's fake - but certainly hiding behind other real people) Campbell Newman supporter uses PR guru Catriona Pollard as profile photo The internet can be a murky place, especially for those politically minded. LNP supporter ‘Holly Watson’ and advocate of the Facebook page ‘Supporting Campbell Newman and the LNP’ found herself so under attack for her backing of the government’s criminal gang laws, she “had to completely change” her own profile. The trouble is she used a photo of Sydney PR guru and social media expert Catriona Pollard as her profile pic, leading to questions about whether the government was involved in the page and who ‘Holly Watson’ was. But she’s definitely not Ms Pollard. “Holly Watson appears to be a fake Facebook profile and they have used my image without permission,” Ms Pollard said. “The page has been reported to Facebook and is under investigation. I am not associated with the posts made by “Holly Watson” to the group page “Supporting Premier Campbell Newman and LNP”. Neither is the government, with a spokesman for the Premier confirming what the page itself espouses – that it is not connected in any official capacity with the LNP. Ms Watson quickly changed her image after she was contacted by Fairfax Media. “I have received many threats of violence so I had to change my fb profile completely,” she said in a message. “I actually had my picture area blank but I got harassed for that too. “So I googled pics of women and randomly chose that one...I chose it because it was a little bit 'girl-next-door'.” But Queensland University of Technology social media researcher, Axel Bruns, said hiding your real identity while pushing political messages could end up hindering the party you support. “By doing so, you are inviting speculation of whether this is genuinely a grassroots campaign or something that is orchestrated by the party itself to make it look like it is grassroots, which is called astro-turfing,” he said. “If an astro-turfing campaign is discovered, they can hurt much more than they can help, because it looks like you are prepared to mislead the electorate to make it look like there is support when there isn’t. “ Which is seemingly not the case in this instance. Ms Watson has decided to continue her support of Campbell Newman and the LNP as 'Rosie the Riveter'. Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...l#ixzz3967rqEgh
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Endman posted:Ground floor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQShSBhzG40
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:11 |
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This is a placeholder post.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:11 |
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This isn't a placeholder post.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:13 |
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I am a placeholder poster.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:19 |
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This may or may not be a placeholder post. Answer below. Argh you changed the outcome by measuring it!
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:19 |
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this is not a placeholder post this is just a tribute
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:20 |
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where are the amusing OP pictures, we have standards around here
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:26 |
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Mattjpwns posted:where are the amusing OP pictures, we have standards around here Anidav posted:Bill Leak is a mother fucker: Australia
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:31 |
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Goddamn, that poo poo makes me physically ill. I would have preferred a page of David Pope, but that wouldn't Maintain The Rage™ quite as well.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:35 |
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Am I the only person who doesn't actually mind Sarah Hanson Young? She gets appropriately cross at things that are poo poo.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:36 |
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Endman posted:Am I the only person who doesn't actually mind Sarah Hanson Young? She gets appropriately cross at things that are poo poo. She is the
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:38 |
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Those images gave me brainAIDS.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:39 |
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don't worry, he's only the daily cartoonist for the only newspaper with national circulation.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:41 |
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Why is Twiggy Forrest's idiotic plan to put all welfare recipients on income management getting so much press? Is this Liberal strategy? Publicize something horrible so their own policy looks mild in comparison?
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Amethyst posted:Why is Twiggy Forrest's idiotic plan to put all welfare recipients on income management getting so much press? Is this Liberal strategy? Publicize something horrible so their own policy looks mild in comparison? Yes
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:45 |
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Amethyst posted:Why is Twiggy Forrest's idiotic plan to put all welfare recipients on income management getting so much press? Is this Liberal strategy? Publicize something horrible so their own policy looks mild in comparison? We thought that's what all the budget leaks were and then it turns out no that's their actual policy so
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Mattjpwns posted:where are the amusing OP pictures, we have standards around here Let me put it to you this way: The Age of Entitlement is over. We should not take this as cause for despair. It is our market based economies which have forced this change on unwilling participants.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:46 |
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Today I learnt that the ABC paid Bill Leak to paint a portrait of dead indigenous activist Charles Perkins as part of the series "Face Painting"
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:48 |
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quote:PUP threatens to block supply over privatising states' assets ELECTION NOW! Also: quote:No modelling to prove Abbott's dole plan works What a load of utter failures.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:49 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Today I learnt that the ABC paid Bill Leak to paint a portrait of dead indigenous activist Charles Perkins as part of the series "Face Painting" I thought depicting the dead like that was a big "no no" for most indigenous cultures in Australia?
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quote:Tonight I wanted to address why the Australians are here. There are two reasons why we are here and I will go through them momentarily. But firstly I should say good friends visits their friends in tough times. It is easy to visit your friends when things are going well. Fair-weather friends who come and go when things are on the up and up are easy to come by. Friends who come when times are tough – they are the real friends.
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Lid posted:ELECTION NOW! It's pretty much their motto at this point. House Liberal: No Modelling Was Done
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:56 |
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Endman posted:I thought depicting the dead like that was a big "no no" for most indigenous cultures in Australia? Not sure about Perkins particular people and their practices re: the dead, but I don't think many people would be happy about the first indigenous australian to graduate from uni in australia being painted by the guy who made this:
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:57 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:Not sure about Perkins particular people and their practices re: the dead, but I don't think many people would be happy about the first indigenous australian to graduate from uni in australia being painted by the guy who made this: Oh right. Excuse me while I uh... urrrrr.... hnnngggg...
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 02:59 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:We thought that's what all the budget leaks were and then it turns out no that's their actual policy so http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-01/abbott-rules-out-expansion-of-income-management-measures/5640280 You know they're going to do it when Abbott says poo poo like that.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:00 |
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You see, Gaza is a lot like Rorke's Drift. Gough Suppressant fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:You see, Gaza is a lot like Rorke's Drift. But I thought Hamas wore green, not red?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:05 |
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On the subject of awful political cartoons, this is in the Tele today Ugh.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:05 |
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Has Bill Leak ever been in trouble much like Andrew Bolt?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:06 |
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Anidav posted:Has Bill Leak ever been in trouble much like Andrew Bolt? According to wikipedia he was hanged 11 times by the Archibald's, but sadly it seems the rope never stuck.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:09 |
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I have never contributed to these threads, because I often have to skip pages of posts to keep up. My opinions don't always echo those of others in this thread, but I appreciate having a go-to resource that isn't fact bereft murdochracy or FYGM work associates.
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