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Keep in mind the true victims of Christmas in Aus, unlucky Kris Kringle recipients.Author of other hit pieces like "lollygate" posted:Mr Ngoc was working as an economic modeller for the Finance Department when he was targeted by the unnamed colleague with a present that clearly implied his economic modelling work was animal poo. 
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Dec 18, 2014 23:06
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He doesn't have to let any stay if he doesn't want to which makes it an even dumber deal. E: Re: babies
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Dec 18, 2014 23:06
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Dec 18, 2014 23:13
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MaxwellsEquations posted:Keep in mind the true victims of Christmas in Aus, unlucky Kris Kringle recipients. That is a hilarious KK gift
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Dec 18, 2014 23:18
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I was under the impression that being born here automatically made you an Australian citizen? Maybe we can let the UN know and they-hehe... they'll... ehehehehe... they'll do... bahaha... they'll do something about iAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA 
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Dec 18, 2014 23:43
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Dec 18, 2014 23:49
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We should be working on a way to harness the power of Morrisons' hatred for babies.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:04
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Endman posted:I was under the impression that being born here automatically made you an Australian citizen?
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Dec 19, 2014 00:12
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Dec 19, 2014 00:29
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:
Absolutely disgusting. That image is RIDDLED with jpeg artifacs.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:37
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T-1000 posted:No, that's the US (and most of North and South America). Here, one of your parents needs to be a citizen or permanent resident, or when the child turns 10 while still living here. So the children are effectively stateless? That's messed up.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:37
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:
quote:...a bunch of terrorist thugs. I don’t support ISIS.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:40
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What a sensible and principled thinker she is.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:47
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Mithranderp posted:Absolutely disgusting. How2TrollA-Troll.jpg drat son, thought you woulda been onto this poo poo. Are you losing your prowess as you get older? Don't worry, it happens to all of us mate. I too, used to be with it; but then they changed what it was. And now what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:54
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quote:Clive Palmer's media adviser and confidant Andrew Crook has been detained by Queensland Police as part of an investigation into the alleged kidnapping of a National Australia Bank executive on an Indonesian island.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:How2TrollA-Troll.jpg Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
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#BREAKING @CliveFPalmer's media adviser Andrew Crook detained in raids linked to alleged kidnap of NAB executive e;fb
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Dec 19, 2014 01:14
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http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/3/1/6/316d601946a70d8c/Robert_Talisse_on_the_Importance_of_Argument_in_Politics.mp3 This is worth a listen.
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Dec 19, 2014 01:15
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I want to reexamine some impressions I have of Australian political culture- I wonder if any of you would mind considering these two questions: In general, how do you feel about the Hawk/Keating governments? Of the Prime ministers since Curtin, which do you assess most positively? Thanks.
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Dec 19, 2014 01:18
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http://junkee.com/the-guardian-just-spectacularly-trolled-the-age-over-their-waleed-alynazeem-hussain-mix-up/47534 Lovely.
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Dec 19, 2014 01:18
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So, it turns out the AFP contacted an independent counter-terrorism expert to try and get an ISIS flag. Why would they expect him to have one? Can't they use Google to phone a flag shop to print one? The loving incompetency of federal police, man.
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Dec 19, 2014 01:34
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Dilkington posted:In general, how do you feel about the Hawk/Keating governments? I think Keating was the main driving force of that partnership and deserves a lot of the credit (and blame) for their achievements. I think that having a Labor government during the Reagan / Thatcher years helped insulate us from the worst trends in economic rationalism, and that many of their reforms (superannuation, aboriginal rights, floating the dollar, re-establishing Medicare) were good steps forward. Far from perfect (HECS, mandatory detention, relationship with Indonesia) though. And that Keating was an arrogant bully who wasn't nearly as witty as some people seem to think. quote:Of the Prime ministers since Curtin, which do you assess most positively?
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Dec 19, 2014 01:35
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Keating to my mind should take a lot of the blame for the one liner focused politics and small target opposition strategies we have seen for the last two decades.
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quote:Clive Palmer’s senior adviser, Andrew Crook, has been detained by police in an investigation apparently linked to an alleged kidnapping of a bank executive. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/19/clive-palmer-adviser-andrew-crook-detained-over-raids 
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SynthOrange posted:http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/19/clive-palmer-adviser-andrew-crook-detained-over-raids Palmer has has compared his arrest to Peter Greste's imprisonment in Egypt.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:How2TrollA-Troll.jpg Yes, you've well and truly lost "it".
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If the strongest claim you can make for someone is that they weren't as bad as Regan/Thatcher then I think they might not be all that loving flash. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/ama-concerned/5978392 quote:Concerns for stigmatisation of mentally ill following Sydney siege http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/who-will-clean-up-the-tarkine/5978508  quote:Who will clean up the Tarkine? Listen with mounting disbelief as you find out the mine owners are the same people who were involved in the New Zealand mine disaster and bankrupted the company on their legal defence (Meaning there was no money to pay compensation to victims). They were given special dispensation (it wasn't a significant change to their licence) to dump toxic spoil above ground in the Tarkine, shut the mine and walked away after seven months.
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Cartoon posted:If the strongest claim you can make for someone is that they weren't as bad as Regan/Thatcher then I think they might not be all that loving flash. Gough Suppressant posted:Keating to my mind should take a lot of the blame for the one liner focused politics and small target opposition strategies we have seen for the last two decades.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Yes, you've well and truly lost "it". Aww, it's babby's first flame war.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Yes, you've well and truly lost "it". e: phone related dp
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It wasn't the strongest claim I was making but it was an important bit of context. It could have been far worse, if Howard had been able to make a dent earlier. There was some vision and some sort of plan which was better than nothing. Alas, it wouldn't last. quote:It's one of the lessons learnt from 1993 and Fightback Exclamation Mark, but on the other hand that policy platform was loving awful and deserved to be vigourously attacked. And after that there was no vision at all from either party. Once the basic market reforms were done, noone had a clue about where to proceed. Wouldn't budge on manufacturing. No clue at all on R&D. And then ever so quietly and gathering pace we are now in the hole where neoliberalism is so strong we can't even dig ourselves out because government might spend money. But as a result of no vision, the parties fell to copying presidential style campaigns for, let's admit it, the most jumped-up of officials in a system of jumped-up officials. All the more ridiculous when PMs are only a matter of convention. I'm pretty sure thats when the surplus bullshit started as an admittedly clever way to wedge the Opposition while bullshitting the electorate about how the financial system works. Now both sides actually believe their bullshit, and hyperventilate about nothing because it absolves them of doing what we are paying them for - looking after us.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Generally positive. Gough Suppressant posted:Keating to my mind should take a lot of the blame for the one liner focused politics and small target opposition strategies we have seen for the last two decades. A previous girlfriend of mine (Labor right) had a major hard on for Keating and showed me what amounted to a compilation of his sick burns in Parliament and I basically brought up the bolded points. She was more far more concerned about how I rated his rhetoric (and my opinion he was an arrogant wanker) than what I actually thought of his policy achievements (basically the aforementioned mix of good and bad), which now that I think about it, is unsurprising coming from someone involved in student politics obsessed more with winning arguments than actually achieving anything.
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Wasn't it Keating who privatised a bunch of poo poo?
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Splode posted:Wasn't it Keating who privatised a bunch of poo poo? Yeah wasn't he a third way advocate?
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Splode posted:Wasn't it Keating who privatised a bunch of poo poo? Yeah, he did. Some of which I don't have a problem with (eg QANTAS), some I do (eg CBA). E: Matthew Beet posted:Yeah wasn't he a third way advocate? Keating was pretty much the first Third-Way leader in the Anglosphere, yeah, and set the tone for people like Blair. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Kim Jong ill posted:A previous girlfriend of mine (Labor right) had a major hard on for Keating and showed me what amounted to a compilation of his sick burns in Parliament and I basically brought up the bolded points. She was more far more concerned about how I rated his rhetoric (and my opinion he was an arrogant wanker) than what I actually thought of his policy achievements (basically the aforementioned mix of good and bad), which now that I think about it, is unsurprising coming from someone involved in student politics obsessed more with winning arguments than actually achieving anything. Sophistry? In Australian politics?
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Dec 19, 2014 02:59
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Some of Keating's burns are objectively pretty funny, the problem is when people rewrite the poo poo he did with fond memories of ye olde arguments in QT.
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Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd go hand in hand as the Labor Party's biggest Prime Ministerial fuckwits. Both of them put Me before We and both of them relied on personality politics and lost due to a negative ratfucker on the opposition benches defaming the government of the day. No amount of gotchas or jokes will save people like them and there will never be a Fightback! moment to give them a second chance like Keating got.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah, he did. Some of which I don't have a problem with (eg QANTAS), some I do (eg CBA). The privatisation of QANTAS was a stupid idea then and its even worse now.
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