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quote:An offer from Christian groups to install a solar system, free of charge, at the residence of the Australian Prime Minister has been rejected by the federal government, for reasons including concerns about cleaning costs and security.
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# ? May 28, 2024 13:55 |
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Ok, a panel of over-40s discussing youth issues. Kewl qanda.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 11:51 |
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 11:55 |
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I noticed that too.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 11:57 |
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 11:57 |
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:18 |
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All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:18 |
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Wizard Master posted:All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:23 |
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I heard the audio for this before seeing it, and thought it was a Clarke and Dawe sketch: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=400865080094904 Christopher Pyne is some sort of Dr Frankenstein and manages to find ways to revive satire so he can kill it over and over
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:23 |
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Wizard Master posted:All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:26 |
Wizard Master posted:All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever. i am witty and charming wizard master
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:27 |
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Snakes and other reptiles like lizards, periodically shed their skin and emerge stronger, larger, and healthier.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:34 |
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Someone who hates themselves enough to watch QANDA, tell me if Hockey says something stupid on QANDA tia
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:46 |
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I didn't watch but all indications are pointing to a resounding yes. Twtter is blowing up about him not knowing gently caress all about superannuation and defending the wealthy's abuse of the system.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:51 |
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Gentleman Baller posted:Someone who hates themselves enough to watch QANDA, tell me if Hockey says something stupid on QANDA tia "Hockey says something dumb" was paying $1.0001 as the show went to air
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 12:51 |
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Wizard Master posted:All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever. really? I'm first? WIZARD MASTER
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 13:26 |
Wizard Master posted:All of you are so dull, humorless and unaware it's embarassing. Auspol owns forever. W I Z A R D M A S T E R
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 13:53 |
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Birdstrike posted:"This implies Scott Morrison is a bronie now to sue for defamation." Wait, which ABC is the LNP trying to destroy again? This is important.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 13:58 |
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Birdstrike posted:"This implies Scott Morrison is a bronie now to sue for defamation."
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:00 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:I only found out what that meant recently. do you mean the reference, or the actual food and drink items to which Hannibal refers?
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:02 |
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Mithranderp posted:do you mean the reference, or the actual food and drink items to which Hannibal refers? the former
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:21 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:the former y...you've at least SEEN Silence of the Lambs, right?
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The Age's economics editor is apparently an innumerate buffoon.quote:Dipping into super for a house is a good idea Yep, having a large single indivisible and potentially hard to move asset sure is categorically better than an income stream. Run out of money, most of your wealth in your house, but you happened to retire during a downturn in the property market? Tough fuckin luck. quote:When the Harmer pension review examined the question some years ago it found only 3 per cent of home-owning single pensioners were in severe poverty compared up to one quarter of those who rented. TV ownership rates also correlate negatively with poverty, so we should probably let people take their super fund down to gerry harvey to buy five flat screens each quote:Rent eats income. It's why houses are important in retirement. They relieve us of the need to pay rent. quote:When renters attempt to earn that income they lose half of it in cuts to whatever pension they are on.Home owners don't need to earn that income. quote:Labor is saying silly things about home ownership now. Its deputy Tanya Plibersek says "you can't eat your family home, you can't pay your electricity bill with it". quote:Australians are right to want to dip into their super to buy houses. Many do it the minute they can, telling their super fund trustee they've "retired" at the age of 55. They use the payout to pay down their mortgage and get back to work. You can't blame them. It sets them up for retirement better than would super. Not if it means they're paying a higher price in the first place by inflating the market it doesn't. quote:They can't because the present system forces them to save year in, year out at 9.5 per cent even when they should be paying down debt. Like attempting to drive a car by pressing on both the brake and accelerator pedals at the same time, it is possible to save and be in debt simultaneously but it's wasteful. quote:That's how Labor's Paul Keating saw it in 1993. Campaigning as prime minister he promised to let all Australians draw up to $10,000 from their super to help buy a family home. Young Labor saw it the same way on the eve of Kevin Rudd's election in 2007. It proposed what Hockey is now proposing. Australians up to the age of 30 would be able to take $15,000 from their super for the deposit on a home. quote:The contributions and earnings would be taxed like super – at a flat rate of 15 per cent – up to a generous limit. After four or more years they could be withdrawn, but only for the purpose of buying a first home. quote:
quote:The best way to hold down prices for first-home buyers is to take out the competition. Second and third home buyers (so called "investors") now almost outnumber owner-occupiers at auctions. One out of every seven Australian taxpayers is a landlord. quote:It can be said in their defence that they provide rental accommodation, just as that used to be said for the far smaller number of foreign investors in real estate against whom the government has taken action. But by elbowing out of the way would-be owner-occupiers those landlords are also creating a class of people to rent to, a class of Australians who may never be able to afford their own homes. quote:Home ownership was once an article of faith of the Coalition. Hockey has at least shown an interest in getting it back on track. An article of faith is a perfect way to describe this sort of attitude to home ownership as it is entirely non evidence based (let's not even mention the fact that current attitudes to home ownership were fostered as a means of social control in response to the post-war red scare). Shoving never-ending streams of more money into the housing market does not help people who want to own the place they live in. Encouraging people to have even higher proportions of their wealth tied up in a concrete asset like a house is not sound economics.
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Mithranderp posted:y...you've at least SEEN Silence of the Lambs, right? yes, but theres a hidden meaning to that line.
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Ah fixed ut. Ah'm a fixer.
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For the lazy http://mentalfloss.com/uk/movies/27139/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-silence-of-the-lambs-iconic-line He eats his liver with fava beans and chianti. When you are on MAOIs you can't eat beans or liver or drink wine. He was telling her subtly that he hasn't been taking his medication
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 23:09 |
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4corners said nobody in the lnp foresaw any of the backlash to the budget?? Smoking too much of their own jenkum imo.
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Gough Suppressant posted:The Age's economics editor is apparently an innumerate buffoon. Sulla-Marius 88 posted:When you are on MAOIs you can't eat beans or liver or drink wine.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Martin's normally pretty decent too, I don't know what came over him, Made even weirder by his article today lauding the head of the grattan institute taking Hockey to task on negative gearing last night.
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katlington posted:4corners said nobody in the lnp foresaw any of the backlash to the budget?? Smoking too much of their own jenkum imo. The Republican Party, circa 2012 elections. Except in this case they won, and have no idea why the public voted them in.
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Gough Suppressant posted:The Age's economics editor is apparently an innumerate buffoon. Well either he's had some sort of stroke (he hasn't, he's proudly tweeting it) or suddenly he needs to shore up his old age with a piece that guarantees his super. Otherwise I don't understand how he's abandoned any logic, except that he seems curiously desperate to avoid discussing the problem negative gearing presents.
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Final FINAL day of Hockey trial:@MWhitbourn posted:McClintock says he may be slightly longer than he indicated yesterday. "What a surprise," Justice Richard White says #HockeyFairfax And with that we begin the very last day of the Hockey defamation trial. Not an auspicious comment from the judge there! Indeed he goes further to say that the reason he allowed a further day is to prevent McClintock repeating himself. McClintock starts by blaming Sean Nicholls for not asking Hockey was he selling access to his office. Then he blames Fairfax for their very conduct of the trial, claiming that displays malice and the whole cross-examination of Hockey should be struck out, as it was only intended to smear him! This isn't exactly the summing-up of a winner here. He starts reading out Goodsir emails again and the judge is getting restive, reminding McClintock that he is a judge and he can read submissions himself. Then McClintock demands top damages (of course, duh who wouldn't), and then tries to anticipate Hockey winning without damages claiming Fairfax would report it badly. This is beginning to sound slightly hysterical. Collins gets to reply to McClintock's charges. He points out that the plaintiff wants very specific meanings imputed and the judge will have to decide whether those things are so imputed for the plaintiff's case to succeed. (He's saying here that the if the defence is bound by its choice of defence, the plantiff is also bound by the terms of the complaint he chose, not whatever extra things he's tried to load upon it). He rejects the charges of a smear campaign both in the article and in court and suggests McClintock has fallen back on ad hominems And with that, Justice White adjourns and we have a finished case! Fairfax have already mooted a High Court challenge should they fail in the case, no doubt prompting McClintocks feverish performance today. Collins has apparently stated in his written submission that qualified privilege has had a bad run in appellate court, and this is a problem should they wish to fight an appeal. I was unaware that a Federal Court judge couldn't overturn an NSW Appeals court decision, which is being suggested here?! In any case, the summing-up of the plaintiff doesn't suggest much faith in the outcome, so I would assume the sting is in the written submission, at least I'd hope so! edit: and upon thinking further I realize that they always intended to appeal the verdict and hence complained about the defence's case during the trial. No wonder the judge is not impressed. This stinks of US-style attack-by-litigation and borders on vexatious. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Oh look it turns out that another alternative therapy to treat cancer "celebrity" is a complete failure, but this time with the added bonus of rather than dying they lied about having cancer the whole time.quote:Belle Gibson's overseas book launch has been officially scrapped amid concerns the Melbourne author faked having cancer and withheld thousands of dollars in charitable donations. Belle Gibson it seems was another "I cured cancer by eating right" person and Apple especially went overboard promoting her apps on the iOS. Turns out she may be a serial medical fraudster who has faked diseases for years for attention.
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quote:As well as encouraging her social media followers to avoid vaccinating their children and backing medical cannabis, Ms Gibson also supported the practice of drinking raw cow’s milk. A real winner.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:42 |
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Open up submissions for anyone who has lost a loved one who eschewed medical treatment after contact with her book and then throw her in jail on X counts of manslaughter.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:42 |
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The amount of total loving idiots dying because they think they know better than professional doctors will never cease to amaze me. Now, I can also add total loving idiots who believe them and spend money on their products tot that pile.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:42 |
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I was misdiagnosed, it wasn't brain cancer, it was fingerpaint
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I'm reminded of the various cases in the 1980s where concerns parents were alarmed with the rise of metal and the argument that came back from one of the bands was basically "Why the hell would we knowingly want our fans to kill themselves?"
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