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T-1000 posted:We would have done it to all the Germans too but we Yeah, there was a shitload of this in South Australia, since it had an entire German-speaking region back then. Some people, particularly those that didn't change their surnames to anglo- or francophone equivalents were interned. A lot of suburbs in Adelaide had their names changed from German names to the names of places or generals from important British military victories. One that amused me was a suburb named Klemzig which was renamed Gaza for a while.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Counterpoint: he is a successful kiwi and thus Australian by default. Where is Russell Crowe currently on the Kiwi/Australian ratings? Lost track of the pendulum of ownership.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Yeah, there was a shitload of this in South Australia, since it had an entire German-speaking region back then. Some people, particularly those that didn't change their surnames to anglo- or francophone equivalents were interned. I guess that's one Gaza that did get stopped 
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Lid posted:Where is Russell Crowe currently on the Kiwi/Australian ratings? Lost track of the pendulum of ownership. being a souths fan is kind of australian as gently caress i think, the whole mistaken assumption of your own relevance etc.
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My grandmother was denied a job at Myers during WWII as she listed her religion as Lutheran, despite the family being in the country since the 1800's, and by then, having an Anglo surname. Somewhat ironically she ended up getting a job at a switchboard. I suppose having Germans serve you was more offensive than listening in to phone calls.
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Hockey seems to have aged considerably over the past 12 months... Being sworn in as treasurer. 
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Figuring out how to punish poor people must be stressful
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norp posted:Figuring out how to punish poor people must be stressful Nah, that was the easy part. The stressful part is trying to implement it.
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This was a guy dancing in his office before delivering the budget, his sorrow is not been able to achieve his vision.
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Haters Objector posted:There should be a minimum set of criteria that you need to fill to call yourself "progressive" Progressively worse.
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Today I was told that if I want to change employment service providers I have to do it through the group I'm currently with? Was told I need to talk to a manager? Does anyone know anything about this? I remember it being mentioned in this thread which gave me the idea. My ESP reported me to centerlink as missing a meeting that I didn't, and I'm pissed the gently caress off about it. I study full-time, they don't deserve my money to sign a piece of paper once a month. Also.. the call to centerlink wasn't a free call. When did that happen? I was on hold for 45mins.
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Dubs posted:Also.. the call to centerlink wasn't a free call. When did that happen? I was on hold for 45mins. It's been a while. There's a couple of 1800 numbers but all 13 numbers end up being tens of dollars+ on a mobile. They do have a service that lets you hang up and they'll call you back when your queue pops, it's really worth doing http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/information/piq
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Nuclear Spy posted:Hockey seems to have aged considerably over the past 12 months...  This has been literally all I can see when I look at joe hockey ever since he started wearing pinstripes.
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Dubs posted:Also.. the call to centerlink wasn't a free call. When did that happen? I was on hold for 45mins. The complaints number is a 1800, you could yell at them for the charge, for free.
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The Turnbull NBN CBA has been released, Dropbox Here, and also has the nerdlingers over at Whirlpool frothing with anger. I shouldn't have to tell you that Turnbull's NBN is pro LNP policy and shows Labor NBN 'not what Australia wants nor needs'.
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Dubs posted:Today I was told that if I want to change employment service providers I have to do it through the group I'm currently with? Was told I need to talk to a manager? Go to another JSP in person and say you want to switch to them. They'll do the rest. Pick a non religious one, there might be a chance they'll actually do something for you, and you won't be supporting rapist paedophiles
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One of the unsettling things about Hughesy for me is that he sounds very like Damien Lovelock and that kind of sucks because Lovelock is actually funnier.
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quote:http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...826-108nxo.html Abbott flies to Melbourne in the evening for a Liberal Party fundraiser, ends up billing the public for the expenses, needs to justify it so he visits a hospital early the next morning as a cover. Abbott ends up being late for a regular Liberal Party meeting, fellow fascist is pissed that Abbott made him wait more than an hour and spills the beans to the media. Gets demoted. Adults in charge, Labor waste etc
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Johnny Sack was a more honourable, ethical, and reasonable man than Hockey will ever be.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/08/26/aboriginal-woman-who-dies-wa-jail-was-there-unpaid-fine-0 Julieka Dhu who was 22-years-old at the time of her death earlier this month, was in jail for four days for failing to pay a $1000 fine. It's emerged that not only was Ms Dhu released from hospital multiple times after complaining she felt unwell but she was locked up as part of the WA government's policy of paying down outstanding fines through prison time. After complaining to police about severe pain, vomiting and partial paralysis she was twice taken to a local hospital but on both occasions declared well enough to be sent back to prison depsite reportedly not being seen by a doctor reported he Australian newspaper. Her family is now demanding answers from the WA government. Her uncle Shaun Harris questioned how someone who was dying could be sent back twice to prison with an all clear from the hospital. “How on earth did the WA health system, the Hedland Health Campus, apparently miss such an obvious health problem on more than one occasion, such as toxic poisoning and officially declare Julieka fit to be held in police custody?" Mr Harris told The Australian. “And why did the police refuse her proper medical treatment by unjustifiably dismissing Julieka’s begging and multiple cries for urgent medical attention?’’ WA attorney general Michael Mischin is standing by the policy. "It is not a matter of automatically jailing people as a default on paying fines, there are a number of ways people can avoid being put in jail," he said. "If they choose not to avail themselves of that then [there is nothing] the government can do about it but to say there is no consequence if you refuse to pay a fine means that people have a licence to break the law maybe in petty ways but without consequences and that just reduces the respect for the rule of law." Shadow Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt criticised the approach saying the cost doesn't justify the incarceration over fines of only a few thousand dollars. "I've long had the view that locking people up to pay down fines when you don't resolve the underlying issue is a terrible way to operate a justice system, it's a terrible way to operate the finances of the state," he said. "Ultimately it costs more to keep someone inside than the fine that they're paying down". Mr Wyatt also said the policy targets the poor and will only maintain the high incarceration rate of Indigenous people. Family and community members have been critical of the Port Hedland Health campus that Julieka Dhu was admitted to three times and their conduct is currently being investigated. The family want the harsh penalties that lead to her arrest to be changed.
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Who said the free market couldn't do public transport?quote:A new "private club" commuter bus service will allow Melbourne's white-collar professionals to shun the unsavoury aspects of public transport but the business' founder has denied it will create a commuter class divide.
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gay picnic defence posted:Who said the free market couldn't do public transport? Ohhhh, so that's what SuitJet is. I walked past two of their coach/bus/things parked in Docklands yesterday while two of their bumbling cockhead salespeople tried to hand me pamphlets.
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quote:After all, as one potential customer said at Tuesday's launch, "You never know who you're going to be sitting next to on the train". lol if you actually get to sit on a Melbourne train
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It's like a bus, but for dickheads! But seriously there aren't many (any) people living in Mernda or Caroline Springs who would be able to afford a $30/day bus fare
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Milky Moor posted:lol if you actually get to sit on a Melbourne train Or sit next to anyone, rather than going on a socially conventional diagonal.
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Haters Objector posted:It's like a bus, but for dickheads! Someone should buy a bunch of Suitjet memberships and hand them out to homeless people.
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Haters Objector posted:It's like a bus, but for dickheads! quote:"I was quite nervous about calling it SuitJet. The demographic is white-collar workers, everyone from the receptionist to the junior accountant through to the middle management," he said. Yeah, they're going to spend a full hours pay, every day, on a loving bus, not only can they get to work, at the exact same time as before if they already were catching a bus, but they can spend the time with the rear end in a top hat boss/marketing exec/accountant/lawyer who talks to them like poo poo all day. I don't know what parking is like in Melbourne but you can drive to work and park all day on an 'early bird' special for less than that in Brisbane. So unless they're serving liquor I fail to see the added value. fake edit : $20 all day parking Galleria early bird. (If you wan't to give money to known scumbags Wilsons). Ol Sweepy fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Soag posted:i like will anderson http://wilosophy.libsyn.com/ Wil Anderson sitting down and chatting with the likes of Pinky Beecroft, Tom Sampson and Adam Spencer. Really amazing listen, and i'm poo poo at podcasts. Hughesy can gently caress right off out of here.
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You can get early bird parking in the CBD for about $15 at some places, but the problem is getting in and out of the city, which is a nightmare if you're coming from the outer suburbs. Trains still should be fine for most people though. Taking Caroline Springs as an example, there is a huge park-and-ride station at Watergardens (about 5-10 minutes drive from Caroline Springs, depending on what part of it you live in), which gets you into the CBD in about 30 minutes. You could go from your front door to the CBD in less than an hour, for the price of 5km's worth of petrol and a Zone 2 Myki Pass (Which will become a Zone 1 pass after the election, dropping the price from about $12 to about $7). The problem in this case isn't lack of access to transport infrastructure, but snotty suburbanites who think they're too good for public transport when they've got a perfectly good Rav4 sitting in the driveway. Mernda is a different story because you would have to drive to South Morang station (up to about 20 minutes) and then another 50 minutes or so to Flinders Street). Driving would suck too because the main road from Mernda into the city is pretty much 45km of congestion. When the next generation of urban planners are learning about how Melbourne become such a lovely place to live for non-millionaires, Mernda will be exhibit A. Most of my partner's extended family live in the outer west, and I was really shocked to find the anti-public transport attitudes that seem to be prevalent out that way. Like, people proudly bragging that they haven't been on a train for 15 years. Where I live, people would be more likely to brag about not owning a car.
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Abbott announced a MH17 memorial to be erected in the gardens of Parliament House. Dude's shameless.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Abbott announced a MH17 memorial to be erected in the gardens of Parliament House. Dude's shameless. Presumably he will get Gina to write the epitaph. The plane in Ukraine falls mainly on the plain, or something to that effect.
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I dunno, it seems pretty budget conscious. A single burning plane statue could be used for all kinds of memorials depending on the day: MH17 memorial F35 memorial Australian research memorial University student future prospects memorial Tony Abbott approval rating memorial Jacqui Lambie political career memorial
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Was trying to buy Metro Redux for XBox today and came across this Outlast cover art which looks surprisingly like Abbott.
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Scylo posted:http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/08/26/aboriginal-woman-who-dies-wa-jail-was-there-unpaid-fine-0 WA has already established (Police pursuit strategy) that 'tough on' involves the occasional human sacrifice. Just add it to Australians_Are_Excrement%WA.Txt PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Abbott announced a MH17 memorial to be erected in the gardens of Parliament House. Dude's shameless. It does however not gel well with other 'get tough' rhetoric that he's making GBS threads out. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/us-australia-plan-for-tackling/5699042 quote:US-Australia plan for tackling Islamic State to go before UN next month Bishop basically said that the threat to Australian lives (current casualty count 0.0) was such that we should go to war against the ISIS 'terrorists'. Surely this would mean that we should be planning on taking action in the Ukraine, the place where Australian lives were actually lost? Although she didn't follow it up Fran Kelly actually did a great job in leading her into a trap. Kelly mentioned that one of the figures on the known AusSec poo poo list was allowed to leave the country even though they had well know 'terrorist' connections. In dodging the question Bishop stated that it was therefore imperative that all Australians submit to more invasive screening. Either she is utterly oblivious or didn't realise just how stupid it made her look. Nearly as stupid as Turnbull and his 'cheaper, faster' Duffband cost benefit analysis. I haven't gotten into the nitty gritty but it seems to exclude any of the over time maintenance and running costs of the node infrastructure. A winning strategy if you are really looking hard at it because you care about the sdf;jodfsabghujdafbvjdfcvnsui lfghifw;GBDSILD. OK back to suicide watch for me. Cartoon fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Laserface posted:Was trying to buy Metro Redux for XBox today and came across this Outlast cover art which looks surprisingly like Abbott. Solid motivational. 10/10.
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Haters Objector posted:Trains still should be fine for most people though. Taking Caroline Springs as an example, there is a huge park-and-ride station at Watergardens (about 5-10 minutes drive from Caroline Springs, depending on what part of it you live in), which gets you into the CBD in about 30 minutes....Mernda is a different story because you would have to drive to South Morang station (up to about 20 minutes) and then another 50 minutes or so to Flinders Street). Both car parks will be full before 7:30am, and I think South Morang gets full before 7:00am. Useful if your work day starts before 8am, but not so much after that. Better than the roads mind you. I've got a new job in Port Melbourne that requires me to go via the ring road, Tullamarine and then Citylink where I get to pay for the privilege of driving down the worst road in Melbourne. Comstar fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Abbott announced a MH17 memorial to be erected in the gardens of Parliament House. Dude's shameless. Ahahaha, he is trying to milk this for all its worth. But so far every idea/plan he has had MH17 has backfired badly.
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