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CrazyTolradi posted:iberals would be stupid to do the exact same thing they gave Labor the most poo poo about Like promising a raft of things on the eve of the election and then doing the exact opposite in power?
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Nick Xenonphon's launching a national party: the Nick Xenophon Team.
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Dec 7, 2014 04:37
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Nibbles! posted:A cabinet reshuffle may get certain people worried enough that they let others know they'd support them in a leadership spill, and the closer it gets to an election the more of a problem Abbott's numbers will be. I think from what we know about him too there's little chance he'll ever step aside short of losing the election and his seat, if they want to remove him it will be a fight. Oh yeah, he will not stand aside, he will fight them tooth and nail for the leadership position and he'll make any offer or deal he can to keep it. For Tones, being PM was never about the country or even the Liberal party, it was all about him getting the glory and title at any cost. Gough Suppressant posted:Like promising a raft of things on the eve of the election and then doing the exact opposite in power? TBH, that's par for the course in Australian politics now. Mr Chips posted:Nick Xenonphon's launching a national party: the Nick Xenophon Team. Does Nick Xylophone have any new policies other than "No Pokies"?
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Dec 7, 2014 04:44
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Nibbles! posted:A cabinet reshuffle may get certain people worried enough that they let others know they'd support them in a leadership spill, and the closer it gets to an election the more of a problem Abbott's numbers will be. I think from what we know about him too there's little chance he'll ever step aside short of losing the election and his seat, if they want to remove him it will be a fight. Remember that these are the guys who didn't have the ticker to remove Howard when he was an electoral liability ahead of an actual election. And the guys who want their jobs are even dumber. Cartoon posted:The 'funny' thing about this is that if they hadn't jumped off the 'do nothing*' play book (The standard Tory play book) and just kept the ship 'steady as she goes' they would probably have sailed into a second term promising to deliver all of these unpopular things. It says something about Howard's iron grip that these guys were that frustrated they couldn't do what they wanted that an ALP government was the last straw, and the dam burst and other cliches. So for me this is as much his fault, and his continuing "advice" isn't helping. I've said I wouldn't be surprised that if they do dump Abbott they'll put in Scott Morrison and here's my reasons (let's just assume they laugh Abbott off any ballot because seriously mate you hosed up): * He'd win a ballot against all comers. Bishop doesn't stand a chance, they'd pick him to avoid her. * He's the only "success" they have. * He's got I WANNA BE PM written all over him. That's a core requirement for getting the job. Noone takes Joe seriously enough. They're too scared to put a woman in the job. And Turnbull? See below. * No, he won't take Treasurer as an alternative. No one with any brain cells wants that job right now. (I'm secretly hoping they give it to Cormann anyway because that's a train crash that needs to happen). Counterpoint: they put in Also, deal with it 
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MC Eating Disorder posted:Daylight savings is completely pointless in QLD but its really hard not to support it when you look at the kind of people that are actively campaigning against Yeah, the closer to the equator you go, the less you need daylight savings. I just wish the people against it weren't also such loving horrible people. There must be some kind of unwritten rule that any person actively campaigning against daylight savings must also be a sanctimonious luddite bigot. Or they're just old. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
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Cartoon posted:The 'funny' thing about this is that if they hadn't jumped off the 'do nothing*' play book (The standard Tory play book) and just kept the ship 'steady as she goes' they would probably have sailed into a second term promising to deliver all of these unpopular things. Self accelerationalists, or indeed Muppet Government. I remember reading the IPA's list of 75 recommendations for the Abbott government just before the election and being flabbergasted. In reality the commission of audit was a watered down conservative cherry-picking of the IPA's libertarian shopping list and now the budget has been turned into a watered-down version of the commission of audit, which is really quite terrifying considering how loving awful and reactionary it still is. Though one thing I'd really like for Tony Abbott to follow through with on that list more than anything else is to be like Gough, literally.
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Dec 7, 2014 05:16
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An idiot on Facebook posted:The reason people don't know what the government has been acheiving is because the main stream media are caught up in a 'soap opera" style of politics (as Prime Minister Abbott rightly stated) instead of the things that matter - like policy!!! Look deeper than the Today show people - you'll be pleasantly surprised that the country is in very capable hands! Must be amazing being a Liberal voter and living in a different universe.
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Dec 7, 2014 05:19
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The Welfare Lobby posted:I had a chat to Tony Piccolo, minister for police, while I was volunteering for the Greens. He reckoned that a loss in Fisher could trigger a leadership spill in the SA Liberals, so I guess we'll see if he's right. The SA Libs have no leadership, so I don't know what that will achieve
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Dec 7, 2014 05:49
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Every time we pass Cairns hospital in a shuttle bus the drivers sing praise about how great the Queensland Government is. Did Newman promise anything to the Cairns hospital or do these bus drivers have to do it by contract?
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Dec 7, 2014 06:23
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The Welfare Lobby posted:Must be amazing being a Liberal voter and living in a different universe.
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Anidav posted:Every time we pass Cairns hospital in a shuttle bus the drivers sing praise about how great the Queensland Government is. Did Newman promise anything to the Cairns hospital or do these bus drivers have to do it by contract? Queensland Hospitals have always been great. We have always had great reefs in Queensland. Do not question the tourguide.
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Dec 7, 2014 06:43
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Anidav posted:Every time we pass Cairns hospital in a shuttle bus the drivers sing praise about how great the Queensland Government is. Did Newman promise anything to the Cairns hospital or do these bus drivers have to do it by contract? Looks like he promised $15M over 4 years to upgrade the hospital when he was campaigning. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-20/newman-pledges-15m-for-cairns-hospital/3901430 Presumably he's been delivering on that promise otherwise the locals wouldn't be full of praise for him.
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Dec 7, 2014 06:53
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CrazyTolradi posted:Does Nick Xylophone have any new policies other than "No Pokies"? He's also (arguably) done more to advocate SA's interests in the Senate than shits like Farrell, Michin and so on, and is at least open to evidence based policy on on things like climate change
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Dec 7, 2014 06:54
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"Everyone warp to me, warp to me warp to me." (brief pause) "poo poo. If you warped to me you're dead."
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homebrew posted:"Everyone warp to me, warp to me warp to me." I'm in his fleet now- We actually won a fight with only 7-8 losses, we dunked 40 of them.
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Dec 7, 2014 07:21
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Now it's only a matter of time until all our emergency services have corporate sponsors. 
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CrazyTolradi posted:Does Nick Xylophone have any new policies other than "No Pokies"? He supports massive extrajudicial powers for the Immigration Minister to destroy people's lives, that's new.
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Dec 7, 2014 08:26
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What is wrong with this new law? Has it not been passed within the auspices of Australian democracy? Nothing untoward has occurred! All that has happened is merely a reflection of the will of the Australian people! Be proud of what the Australian people have chosen! With compulsory voting and preferential voting one can be certain that the people's will is most accurately reflected!
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Urcher posted:Looks like he promised $15M over 4 years to upgrade the hospital when he was campaigning. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-20/newman-pledges-15m-for-cairns-hospital/3901430 Newman begging for federal money posted:"We'll then of course be lobbying the Federal Government because they have a huge role here in terms of this move to tier one." Given Tony's cuts to health...
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Dec 7, 2014 09:44
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Brisbane times posted:Bruce Flegg dumped again as LNP candidate for Moggill
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SKY COQ posted:He supports massive extrajudicial powers for the Immigration Minister to destroy people's lives, that's new. But before that he blocked the higher education bill. I refuse to use the word reform in the same sentence.
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Dec 7, 2014 10:10
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Hahaha Hockey at the presser for the Murray report saying we need to cut down the money taken by intermediaries in Super. Didn't give a poo poo about that when you were trying to gently caress over industry super funds in favour of commercial ones with the FOFA rollback did you fatso?
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Dec 7, 2014 10:16
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Xenophon's been a pretty good senator over the last couple of years and a definite improvement over his young liberal days stuffing student ballot boxes with dupe votes, but he lost all of my respect passing the Morrison legislation and he can go loving rot in hell forever Muir as well the stupid ignorant bastard No apologies for torture enablers
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Dec 7, 2014 10:25
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Xenophon also tried to get an anti worker lolbertarian shitheel up on his ticket last year, possibly due to the fact that Xenophon is a lolbertarian anti-worker shitheel who just happened to have a dad who pissed babby nicks lunch money down the pokies informing nicks only progressive worldview.
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Dec 7, 2014 11:01
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Xenophon doesn't believe in penalty rates. He can gently caress right off, frankly.
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I heard of someone doing a similar campaign for 50 Shades of Grey, with the arguements that it's a sexually explicit book and can easily be purchased by children. Not having read it, I have no idea how bad it is, I just keep hearing people say it's horrible. But it does raise a point, if we're restricting video and game content to minors, should the same principles and classifications apply to books?
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I guess I should've expected their website to tell me I'm wrong every time I hit the correct button? (no this is not going to make things better for rural colleges, no this is absolutely not going to be better for new parents, what the gently caress?)
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Dec 7, 2014 13:21
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Y'know if you're a hosed up enough person that you need to get your kicks out of murdering imaginary women after paying to have simulated sex with them you should probably not be allowed in public, let alone in a K-Mart or Target e: it's not like gta does anything else noteworthy that noted Good Game, Saints Row, doesn't
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CrazyTolradi posted:I heard of someone doing a similar campaign for 50 Shades of Grey, with the arguements that it's a sexually explicit book and can easily be purchased by children. There are multiple porn book stores in the Melbourne CBD so I assumed we do restrict what types of book gets sold on shelves?
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Gough Suppressant posted:There are multiple porn book stores in the Melbourne CBD so I assumed we do restrict what types of book gets sold on shelves? I think you'll find that these places diversify and sell a wide range of adult products, not just adult porn "books". There's a difference between porn books and erotica, like 50 Shades of Grey. I guess my question is, should books such as 50 Shades of Grey be under some kind of classification? Do books even have a classification system? I know porn mags have to be covered up in newsagents and are rated adults only, but I have no idea if this is just magazines/published perodicals, or books as well. Keep in mind 50 Shades of Grey has pretty explicit scenes in it.
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CrazyTolradi posted:I heard of someone doing a similar campaign for 50 Shades of Grey, with the arguements that it's a sexually explicit book and can easily be purchased by children. Technically we have a literature rating system, but afaik it's only ever applied to porn mags and for some reason American Psycho, which is rated R.
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Our literature rating system is as follows; Has pictures of naked people in it - Only if it's in an adult shop or wrapped in plastic at a servo. Old people/puritans complained about it - R Everything else - Whatever who cares it's just words Compare this to our games rating system which is as follows; Old people/puritans complained about it - R/Banned Everything else - Whatever who cares games make kids go quiet Never underestimate the ability of a parent to crack the shits because their kid is reading a book wherein two teenagers kiss, though. Never mind that the Shakespeare they see as a signifier of high achievement has more racism and murder in an act than the video game industry could ever fathom creating. Smegmatron fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out the whole thing was the brainchild of some ad agency. The games been out for over a year and it was a lot of publicity just as the new gen edition arrived.
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Nibbles! posted:I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out the whole thing was the brainchild of some ad agency. The games been out for over a year and it was a lot of publicity just as the new gen edition arrived. This would square pretty well with the fact it's happening around Target. They're a big chain, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a Target store that isn't within spitting distance of an EB Games or something.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Not having read it, I have no idea how bad it is, I just keep hearing people say it's horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTSxQIxsiA
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