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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

TREASURER Joe Hockey says he does his own washing and is therefore not out of touch with average Australians.

Mr Hockey, speaking on Geelong radio, revealed he polishes his boots and does his own washing.

His comments followed last week's claim that poor people "either do not have cars or actually do not drive very far".

Mr Hockey said on Tuesday he was not out of touch with the community.

"No I am the same person I have always been, someone who focuses on doing the job that is at hand," he said.

"Like you, I polish my boots, I do my washing, they are the things you do as a human being, you are no different."

He said his comments last week was misrepresented by the media.

"But it is really important that you do not allow people to try and misrepresent your values and that is what annoyed me most about last week and I feel responsible for it and I accept that," he said

# ? Aug 25, 2014 11:59

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# ? May 23, 2024 08:15

Drugs: Jul 16, 2010; I don't like people who take drugs. Customs agents, for example - Albert Einstein

There's no way that silver spoon gently caress washes his own clothes

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:02

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Haters Objector posted:

There's no way that silver spoon gently caress washes his own clothes

Don't most suit wearers get them dry cleaned?

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:04

Pidgin Englishman: Apr 30, 2007; If you shoot
you better hit your mark

e: ^^^^^^^
Haha, who polishes their boots so often that that leaps to mind as a key domestic chore? :jerkbag:

T-1000 posted:

Alternative interpretation:
45% of the population are rusted on to the party they support and ICAC changes nothing.
14% lean Coalition and ICAC reinforces their existing biases against Labor, making them more likely to vote for the Coalition.
17% lean Labor and ICAC reinforces their existing biases against the Coalition, making them more likely to vote for Labor.
20% have been dissuaded from supporting either major party by ICAC.
4% don't know anything.

So ICAC only has any real influence on 20% of the population, the rest just barrack for their team or don't care. We'd need to know who they were planning to vote for before ICAC's revelations to make more meaningful inferences from this data.

That's a good way to view it, nice. I don't mind the idea that ICAC has made 1 in 5 people genuinely question who they vote for - that's got to be a fairly big result.

Pidgin Englishman fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Aug 25, 2014

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:06

Drugs: Jul 16, 2010; I don't like people who take drugs. Customs agents, for example - Albert Einstein

Mr Chips posted:

Don't most suit wearers get them dry cleaned?

Joe probably wears the crotch out super fast and just gets Na new pair every sitting week

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:07

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

So centerlink just rejected my austudy application because apparently my masters course doesn't meet their criteria (http://www.industry.gov.au/HigherEducation/StudentSupport/Documents/DIISRTEGuidelines.pdf). Does anyone have a list of courses offered that would meet their criteria that I could transfer into at the end of semester or any other loophole I could use?

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:09

Aaronicon: Oct 2, 2010; A BLOO BLOO ANYONE I DISAGREE WITH IS A "BAD PERSON" WHO DESERVES TO DIE PLEEEASE DONT FALL ALL OVER YOURSELF WHITEWASHING THEM A BLOO BLOO

Joe "I sleep in a racecar bed with Simpsons bedsheets" Hockey, truly a battler of the middle class.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:19

plumpy hole lever: Aug 8, 2003; ♥ Anime is real ♥

what hes not mentioning is that the boots are $500 RM Williams

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:28

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Soag posted:

what hes not mentioning is that the boots are $500 RM Williams

Pfft, not even the custom fitted ones. Truly one of the battlers.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:33

UrbanLabyrinth: Jan 28, 2009; When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence; College Slice

gay picnic defence posted:

So centerlink just rejected my austudy application because apparently my masters course doesn't meet their criteria (http://www.industry.gov.au/HigherEducation/StudentSupport/Documents/DIISRTEGuidelines.pdf). Does anyone have a list of courses offered that would meet their criteria that I could transfer into at the end of semester or any other loophole I could use?

http://www.industry.gov.au/HigherEducation/StudentSupport/Documents/StudentAssistanceDetermination2009Compilation.pdf seems to have a list.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 12:58

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

ewe2 posted:

The Oz claims disastrous polling in Victoria:

It seems much worse than the Galaxy poll (52-48) because it was taken over two months, but clearly a bunch of someones are unhappy with the leadership and wants a scare campaign to get some action. In both polls Napthine still leads Andrews as preferred Premier, but almost everyone is discounting that.

I hope in some ways this is the Victorian people partly punishing the LNP over some of the outspoken members of parliament who are against the current abortion laws in Victoria. Watching 730 Vic last Friday and seeing the nutbags like the Australian Christian Lobby, DLP and Rise Up! Australia Party joining up for the next Victorian state election to lobby for changing the laws makes me sick.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:21

Decayed: Dec 30, 2004; Shang-a-lang; Fun Shoe

T-1000 posted:

Alternative interpretation:
45% of the population are rusted on to the party they support and ICAC changes nothing.
14% lean Coalition and ICAC reinforces their existing biases against Labor, making them more likely to vote for the Coalition.
17% lean Labor and ICAC reinforces their existing biases against the Coalition, making them more likely to vote for Labor.
20% have been dissuaded from supporting either major party by ICAC.
4% don't know anything.

So ICAC only has any real influence on 20% of the population, the rest just barrack for their team or don't care. We'd need to know who they were planning to vote for before ICAC's revelations to make more meaningful inferences from this data.

I like your world better

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:32

kaguya: Apr 4, 2013

Your'e allretarded.

gay picnic defence posted:

So centerlink just rejected my austudy application because apparently my masters course doesn't meet their criteria (http://www.industry.gov.au/HigherEducation/StudentSupport/Documents/DIISRTEGuidelines.pdf). Does anyone have a list of courses offered that would meet their criteria that I could transfer into at the end of semester or any other loophole I could use?

lmao

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:37

plumpy hole lever: Aug 8, 2003; ♥ Anime is real ♥

true fact: LVMH (abbreviation for Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate responsible for Moet, Veuve, Dior, Donna Karan, Fendy, Givenchy, Marc Jacbos, Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, and TAG Heuer, also now owns The Great Australian Boot, RM Williams

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:38

Gough Suppressant: Nov 14, 2008

Sanguine posted:

e: ^^^^^^^
Haha, who polishes their boots so often that that leaps to mind as a key domestic chore?

The fash

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:45

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Soag posted:

true fact: LVMH (abbreviation for Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate responsible for Moet, Veuve, Dior, Donna Karan, Fendy, Givenchy, Marc Jacbos, Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, and TAG Heuer, also now owns The Great Australian Boot, RM Williams

Isn't it only a 49.9% stake?

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:45

duck monster: Dec 15, 2004

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

http://www.industry.gov.au/HigherEducation/StudentSupport/Documents/StudentAssistanceDetermination2009Compilation.pdf seems to have a list.

Its pretty much Psych (You cant work as a clinical psych without it) and loving law and business masters (Both of which rightly belong in TAFE not loving unis).

Oh and something called "Master of Autism Studies" lol

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:47

plumpy hole lever: Aug 8, 2003; ♥ Anime is real ♥

Mr Chips posted:

Isn't it only a 49.9% stake?

thanks for making GBS threads in my cornflakes "mate"

# ? Aug 25, 2014 13:58

UrbanLabyrinth: Jan 28, 2009; When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence; College Slice

duck monster posted:

Its pretty much Psych (You cant work as a clinical psych without it) and loving law and business masters (Both of which rightly belong in TAFE not loving unis).

Oh and something called "Master of Autism Studies" lol

Technically, you can't work as a clinical psych without that (or a doctorate) and a registrar program (where you do actually get paid work, usually). Likewise for any other psych specialisation.

It also covers some architecture and accounting and teaching masters streams, it seems.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 14:00

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Soag posted:

thanks for making GBS threads in my cornflakes "mate"

Well the other 50.1% is owned by some rich gently caress who happens to be strine, it was never a glorious workers' collective.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 14:11

Kim Jong ill: Jul 28, 2010; NORTH KOREA IS ONLY KOREA.

If you can afford to, what reason is there that you shouldn't be buying quality products made locally by workers given (relatively) reasonable compensation and conditions?

# ? Aug 25, 2014 14:55

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/andrew-bolt-insists-indigenous-australians-werent-/e416a69e-af6c-4bc2-b3c2-bd58ce3afc29.htm

He suggested that a future preamble might, however, mention the fact that "there were an Aboriginal people here on this land" prior to British colonisation, and to Bolt's increasingly loud objections, he pointed out that Aboriginal people were sorta kinda "here first".

On hearing this, Bolt arced right up. "No, but they weren't here first," he replied. "We were here the moment we were born, and to start looking ... that's racism."

quote:

To elaborate on the point I was making to Gary Johns:

Yes, Aborigines settled Australia tens of centuries before Europeans. In that sense �they� - those who first arrived - were here first.

But to say Aborigines today were here �first� is to treat each other as representatives of a �race� rather than an individual. No one of any �race� - Aboriginal or other - who is younger than 54 was here before me. They have no greater right to this country. It is racist to say a group of Australians living today were here �first� on the basis of who some of their ancestors were.

I vehemently oppose racism. We should judge each other as individuals, regardless of �race�.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 15:47

Nibbles!: Jun 26, 2008; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

make australia great again as well please

Racism is dead*

*If you ignore all of human history before me writing this

What's Bolt's opinion on all the bits of the Constitution that still reference race?

# ? Aug 25, 2014 15:51

Gentleman Baller: Oct 13, 2013

Nibbles! posted:

Racism is dead*

*If you ignore all of human history before me writing this

What's Bolt's opinion on all the bits of the Constitution that still reference race?

He'd probably be entirely happy to remove it because the point of view will be logically consistent and, to most Australians, 'not racist' while still tearing down legitimate attempts to recognize how we treated and continue to treat Indigenous Australians and he's well aware of it.

Or he'd say "There's no need to go CHANGING things. Blah blah tradition, Judeo-Christian heritage!" because who cares about being logically consistent or not appearing racist in Australia.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 17:04

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Nibbles! posted:

Racism is dead*

No, Bolt's completely right on this. Racism is completely dead*

*As long as you're a white male**

**It's almost like it was never there at all.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 17:54

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

Sanguine posted:

e: ^^^^^^^
Haha, who polishes their boots so often that that leaps to mind as a key domestic chore?

Kicking the poors is messy work apparently.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 21:41

Seagull: Oct 9, 2012; give me a chip

Lid posted:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/andrew-bolt-insists-indigenous-australians-werent-/e416a69e-af6c-4bc2-b3c2-bd58ce3afc29.htm

He suggested that a future preamble might, however, mention the fact that "there were an Aboriginal people here on this land" prior to British colonisation, and to Bolt's increasingly loud objections, he pointed out that Aboriginal people were sorta kinda "here first".

On hearing this, Bolt arced right up. "No, but they weren't here first," he replied. "We were here the moment we were born, and to start looking ... that's racism."

I thought this was an Onion piece or some poo poo.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 21:45

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

Technically, you can't work as a clinical psych without that (or a doctorate) and a registrar program (where you do actually get paid work, usually). Likewise for any other psych specialisation.

It also covers some architecture and accounting and teaching masters streams, it seems.

And it seems you can get austudy while doing such things as your MAsters in Theology or Divinity at some christian university. Good to see the government is doing what it can to support the training of the workforce of the future

# ? Aug 25, 2014 22:24

Serrath: Mar 17, 2005; I have nothing of value to contribute; Ham Wrangler

gay picnic defence posted:

And it seems you can get austudy while doing such things as your MAsters in Theology or Divinity at some christian university. Good to see the government is doing what it can to support the training of the workforce of the future

Just curious, what masters degree are you getting that isn't on the list? My current masters wasn't on the list either because it was just created; I was denied austudy, I appealed and now it's on the list so the appeal was successful.

Centrelink explained to me during my appeal that it's the school that submits to centrelink a list of their courses and applies to have those courses added to the list. Sometimes schools either forget to have a course added, have really low enrollment for the course so that don't bother or have already applied and CL just hasn't updated their list yet.

In CLs review of a course to decide if it's to be on the list, they told me their only determining factor is whether the course confuses a "full time" course load so, according to them, they're not picking and choosing things like clinical psychology and law and theology because they prefer those courses; those courses are the ones that demonstrated to CL that they were full time. Things like a masters by research are harder to demonstrate as full time because the actual work load is so variable.

Do clinical psychology! It's on the list

# ? Aug 25, 2014 22:35

SadisTech: Jun 26, 2013; Clem.

Here, have some lovely propaganda. I especially love 0:42 in this video, it's so very organic and unscripted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa7bIICb6o

quote:

Sorry guys, I thought it'd be interesting if we let the people of Australia have a say -
Love Malcolm Turnbull

# ? Aug 25, 2014 23:37

bell jar: Feb 25, 2009

Serrath posted:

Why do you have a diamond next to your name

# ? Aug 25, 2014 23:50

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

SadisTech posted:

Here, have some lovely propaganda. I especially love 0:42 in this video, it's so very organic and unscripted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa7bIICb6o

Disclaimer, quality of the copper is the customers problem, not ours.

# ? Aug 25, 2014 23:51

Laserface: Dec 24, 2004

SadisTech posted:

Here, have some lovely propaganda. I especially love 0:42 in this video, it's so very organic and unscripted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa7bIICb6o

Heres a guy with a footy neck and a nice house! hes using a screw driver because hes a tradie! thanks NBN!

*disclaimer*
I watched it without audio.

# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:09

Serrath: Mar 17, 2005; I have nothing of value to contribute; Ham Wrangler

bell jar posted:

Why do you have a diamond next to your name

I'm not funny enough to come up with a comedy answer

I posted in a thread made by lowtax, he gave me a diamond.

I'm a vert special and important poster, I suggest you give my posts extra consideration

# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:10

Firetrick: Aug 4, 2006

SadisTech posted:

Here, have some lovely propaganda. I especially love 0:42 in this video, it's so very organic and unscripted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa7bIICb6o

Leave a reply and let us know what you think!

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# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:40