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Surely the US can spare a few drones to murder the federal cabinet. Maybe we should start a change.org petition asking them???
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:07 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 20:21 |
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I would hate to see Cairns die with the reef.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:10 |
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Nah gently caress qld. Seriously.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:15 |
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The Welfare Lobby posted:Apparently over 20% of the electorate pre-poll voted so it might be a lot closer than it looks. Allegedly 24% were early/postal, so might not have a concrete result for days. The demographics have changed a bit in that area, although I wouldn't count out anti-Abbott sentiment helping the non-Liberal candidate. The state libs are pretty toxic too. It's all very sad for me, Bob Such used to babysit me when I was a kid
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:18 |
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Matthew Beet posted:Nah gently caress qld. Seriously.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:19 |
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Nah mate all this fine state needs is a swing back to the ALP and the reef will be saved!
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:26 |
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Mr president we are willing to forgive the CIA for it's involvement in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, if it orchestrates the death of Tony Abbott and his front bench.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:29 |
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Anidav posted:Nah mate all this fine state needs is a swing back to the ALP and the reef will be saved! You got a point there. The libs Under joh were ready to drill for oil near the reef.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:35 |
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Matthew Beet posted:Nah gently caress qld. Seriously. Not empty quoting
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:37 |
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Hey homebrew.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:41 |
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Systematic posted:Hey homebrew. At least you didn't wish him happy birthday.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:51 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:At least you didn't wish him happy birthday. No no, you wish Fawlty7 happy birthday every day mate.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:56 |
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Systematic posted:No no, you wish Fawlty7 happy birthday every day mate. Fawlty7 got a jabber broadcast earlier.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:58 |
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homebrew posted:Fawlty7 got a jabber broadcast earlier. I saw that, sadly I don't think he's at the PC right now, more important things happening *wink*
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:01 |
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Systematic posted:I saw that, sadly I don't think he's at the PC right now, more important things happening *wink* You'd better wish him Happy Birthday on FB then.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:01 |
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Pred1ct posted:Am I reading that right, the intake was 20,000 and they're reducing it to 18,750, and that's somehow a concession? Yeah, as it said in the piece you quoted they had planned to reduce the refugee intake down to 13,500, but the poor dears had to make a concession and only reduce it down to 18,750. Also OH MY loving GOD 5,000 reffos a year SWAMPED, SWAMPED I TELL YOU we're drowning under a brown tide
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:06 |
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gently caress Australia.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:08 |
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Pred1ct posted:Am I reading that right, the intake was 20,000 and they're reducing it to 18,750, and that's somehow a concession? Now you're getting it. For once, the con worked. Scott Morrison will probably be PM some time next year.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:09 |
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ewe2 posted:Now you're getting it. For once, the con worked. Scott Morrison will probably be PM some time next year. Morrison as PM would pretty much ensure a Labor win.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:11 |
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Step 1. Scott Morrison makes a bid for PM. Step 2. Scott Morrison elected in a landslide victory. Step 3. Gas chambers installed on Christmas Island and Nauru. Step 4. I kill myself. just kidding I will have killed myself long before then
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:11 |
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The only decent 'concession' of that load of horseshit was giving work rights to those on bridging visas.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:12 |
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ungulateman posted:What's the opinion of this thread on work for the dole, and in particular it being reintroduced in remote areas (read: places where non-white people live)? - to a large extent, the jobs aren't the sort of thing that you can put on your resume to get you employed in something better. So there's a big lost opportunity in skills training. - work for the dole can contribute to unemployment. Suppose you are a low-skilled worker in a pretty crummy job - but hey, at least it's a job. Until your boss realises they can fire you, and replace you with someone on work for the dole, at a lower pay rate. You're unemployed, and the person in your job is also still unemployed. Even if people aren't being fired to create a work for the dole position, the fact remains there is no job created despite the work being done. In a proper employment market, if a company couldn't find someone to do essential work they'd have to increase the salary or do something else to attract workers. - work for the dole creates downward pressure on wages. If you're doing a job that's worth doing, it's worth being paid a market rate. If a company needs work done but can't afford to pay the market break, them's the breaks of capitalism, creative destruction and all that. - time spent working for the dole is time not spend finding a real job. - someone in a work for the dole position, who stands to lose what little benefits they have if they're kicked out of the position, is less likely to cause a fuss if they are being discriminated against, bullied, harassed or denied benefits they're entitled to (eg: breaks). You should have figured out by now that none of these things are vaguely socialist and your family are confused about what work for the dole is, confused about what socialism is, or both.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:14 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Morrison as PM would pretty much ensure a Labor win. Have you seen his approval ratings? He's one of the few LNP ministers who is still getting positive ratings, he'd ensure an LNP victory and we'd get on the literal Hitler path.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:14 |
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homebrew posted:You'd better wish him Happy Birthday on FB then.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:14 |
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Have you seen his approval ratings? He's one of the few LNP ministers who is still getting positive ratings, he'd ensure an LNP victory and we'd get on the literal Hitler path. He's got positive approval ratings from Coalition supporters, and is one of the most hated ministers outside that. Plus Morrison as PM requires a massive internal shitfight on the scale of the Rudd / Gillard stuff, which is a massive turn-off for the electorate.
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aejix posted:I was lucky enough to swim with a whale shark (and a coral banded sea snake) over at Ningaloo reef. Do it before you can't My partner and I did that last year. It was simply amazing. We swam with a little baby whale shark that was only 7m long. I got to dive on the navy pier there, and patted a grouper there that was about the same size as me. Technically I haven't seen the reef itself but that just gives me an excuse to go back later on. Closest I have been to a reef shark as well.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:43 |
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T-1000 posted:A couple of things that I have heard as being wrong with work for the dole. They introduced legislation specifically to stop work for the doll people from been able to claim for stuff like injuries and bullying. It's also expensive. The government doesn't oversee it, they contract it out. It'll cost more then it ever 'saves'. Plus it's just lovely to expect people to get to and from a specific place when they're already trying to live on $250 a week.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:52 |
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Systematic posted:Fisher by election shows 2 party preferred: People really don't like Tony Abbott's vision of Australia.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:56 |
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 12:57 |
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Whoever posted the QLD ALP's policy release a few pages back suggesting they're expecting a snap election soon, I also just got an EOI from the Queensland Electoral Commission so there is that as well
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:00 |
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Tokamak posted:People really don't like Tony Abbott's vision of Australia. I'm sure they're currently shocked to find that all of those people voting for Bob Such were not naughty coalition voters having a tiffy protest before returning to the fold. The Liberal primary is currently bang on what they got in the main election, and instead all of Big Bad Bob's votes and most of his preferences are going to Woodyatt and/or Labor. cpaf posted:Whoever posted the QLD ALP's policy release a few pages back suggesting they're expecting a snap election soon, I also just got an EOI from the Queensland Electoral Commission so there is that as well Why exactly is Newman calling a snap election? Does he think he's going to win the rest of the seats and declare himself Reichskanzler? vv Turnbull will never be Treasurer under Abbott, there'd be a new leadership speculation piece every morning and evening edition NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Dec 6, 2014 |
# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:01 |
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I was thinking, turfing Hockey for Turnbull for Treasurer might be a deft political move, Hockey is on the nose while Turnbull is much more liked and a better salesman. Plus offering Turnbull a promotion might keep him from challenging for leader. I don't think it would be an easy sell though, looks like more dis-unity in the party.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:03 |
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cpaf posted:Whoever posted the QLD ALP's policy release a few pages back suggesting they're expecting a snap election soon, I also just got an EOI from the Queensland Electoral Commission so there is that as well An EOI for what?
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:04 |
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quote:The Coalition is "not a happy family" and there is a "shitload of room for improvement" say government MPs, who confess to being in the dark regarding the future of the government's controversial GP co-payment and a mooted cabinet re-shuffle, because those decisions are centralised in the Prime Minister's office. It's a long bow but what does this mean for Kevin Rudd's leadership ambitions?
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:08 |
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NTRabbit posted:Why exactly is Newman calling a snap election? Does he think he's going to win the rest of the seats and declare himself Reichskanzler? Because LNP state governments are struggling all of a sudden, the federal LNP government has been on a very steady decline, and it's exceptionally unlikely he'll lose government whether the election happens now or at any other point before the 20th of June by which time things might be a lot worse, so he may as well call the election soon and retain government comfortably. He's gonna see a very big swing but they'll start with 73 seats in a chamber of 89 and naturally there isn't any upper house to deal with because Queenslanders don't like complicated things like legislative councils, daylight savings or wearing shoes e; Jumpingmanjim posted:An EOI for what? Takin' votes
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:08 |
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Hey man, thongs are shoes.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:16 |
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Tommofork posted:Yeah, as it said in the piece you quoted they had planned to reduce the refugee intake down to 13,500, but the poor dears had to make a concession and only reduce it down to 18,750. On fb someone was saying that they think the refugee intake was unfair and it should be as high as 20 000. When I pointed out Turkey's intake and said we should gun for 100 000 at a minimum, he blocked me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:23 |
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cpaf posted:Because LNP state governments are struggling all of a sudden, the federal LNP government has been on a very steady decline, and it's exceptionally unlikely he'll lose government whether the election happens now or at any other point before the 20th of June by which time things might be a lot worse, so he may as well call the election soon and retain government comfortably. Every poll I've seen has him on track to losing his seat. He can't be that stupid.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:24 |
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SKY COQ posted:Every poll I've seen has him on track to losing his seat. He can't be that stupid. Yeha, LNP may win by a slight majority (or we'll have a hung parliament lol) but Newman's not going to be around to deal with it.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:27 |
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He has said he'll contest Ashgrove at the next election but he probably wont. Maybe he can go back to being leader of the Queensland LNP without holding a seat in parliament
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 13:40 |