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Nibbles! posted:It would be an interesting Constitutional situation anyway. Abbott could lose a spill and run to the GG. He would still be the First Minister as far as the GG was concerned until a motion of no confidence in the lower house right? The GG could just refuse to dissolve parliament though, which he'd be inclined to do if he thought Abbott was simply throwing a tantrum
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Comedy option: single dissolution of the Lower House.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 12:09 |
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Nibbles! posted:This is pretty lol, doubly so from someone holding the AG position. The Senate was never supposed to be a house of review hence it having so much power. Isn't the GG only compelled by convention to do what the PM says? He could just go "yeah, nah gently caress ya Tony".
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cpaf posted:The GG could just refuse to dissolve parliament though, which he'd be inclined to do if he thought Abbott was simply throwing a tantrum thatfatkid posted:Isn't the GG only compelled by convention to do what the PM says? He could just go "yeah, nah gently caress ya Tony". It'd be pretty drat unlikely that a GG would not act on the advice of the standing Prime Minister. It's a nice idea, but it wouldn't happen.
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Graic Gabtar posted:Or that you've built such a cult around that ideology that a party membership would burn the whole place down if pragmatism was shown by elected members - believing they were in fact holding up that ideology. There is a point where too much pragmatism is bad. Curtin was a strike breaker, after all, and that wasn't pragmatism so much as irrational fear of the yellow horde.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 12:16 |
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Aren't those DD triggers from before the current Senate? Or did they end up getting a trigger? I think the DD consideration was just putting all the options on the table, and someone leaked it out. It's not ridiculous to acknowledge it's a theoretical option, it's just insane to think it's a good one.
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I think they have a couple of triggers already from last year. It's pretty common for a sitting government to have themthatfatkid posted:Isn't the GG only compelled by convention to do what the PM says? He could just go "yeah, nah gently caress ya Tony". Yeah, but the conventions are very powerful aspects of our Constitution and it would be a huge thing if the GG ignored their First Minister.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Aren't those DD triggers from before the current Senate? Or did they end up getting a trigger? I think I remember it was an election promise to pull the trigger if it presented itself.
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hooman posted:hahahahahahaha seriously? holy loving poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhP3p6lI3U
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TheMightyHandful posted:I think I remember it was an election promise to pull the trigger if it presented itself. That was the carbon tax repeal. Tony said he'd take it to a double dissolution.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 12:39 |
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Nibbles! posted:Yeah, but the conventions are very powerful aspects of our Constitution and it would be a huge thing if the GG ignored their First Minister. more like worst minister
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CrazyTolradi posted:It'd be pretty drat unlikely that a GG would not act on the advice of the standing Prime Minister. It's a nice idea, but it wouldn't happen. It's also pretty unlikely that a PM who had just lost a spill would go to the GG and request a DD. It's a remote fantasy scenario so it's impossible to say what the GG would do if it did happen.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 12:47 |
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Guy Sebastian's Eurovision submission is honestly not that terrible.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 12:54 |
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Krazyface posted:Guy Sebastian's Eurovision submission is honestly not that terrible. 'Honestly not that terrible' is pretty standard for Guy Sebastian. Australia generally doesn't have the best taste in music, but there's not really anything all that objectionable about Guy, he's just kind of bland. He's a talent show winner, they inherently produce pretty mundane and easily-digestible music.To stick around after that you definitely need some talent, and Guy's got it, there's just not much substance behind it. EDIT: Honestly I'm still disappointed that Guy was the one we picked, not because I don't like him, but because this is literally the only time I would have ever accepted AC/DC as a musical choice. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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smh posted:
He's not very good at this, is he?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 13:11 |
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http://honisoit.com/2015/03/the-more-you-know-the-less-im-paid/ University is cool.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 13:18 |
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MiniSune posted:He's not very good at this, is he? Cutting off his nose to spite his face.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 13:45 |
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Where are my planeteers?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:47 |
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I have the power of Skeletons. It was inside you all along!
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:48 |
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Anidav posted:Where are my planeteers? They are Pickled Tink, Cartoon, Fruity, Avs and Gough Suppressant.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:50 |
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A fine team of heroes.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:51 |
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captain shitpost he's an hero gonna take the thread vote down to zero he's our shitposts magnified and he's fighting on the auspol side
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:52 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:They are Pickled Tink, Cartoon, Fruity, Avs and Gough Suppressant. I'm not quite sure how to feel about this grouping
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:53 |
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Where is team pollution, avatar fairy?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:55 |
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we're the shitposters you can be one too making GBS threads up all threads is the thing to do tooting and polluting is an art now you get to watch us huff a fart
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:58 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw Is this a Catholic neighbourhood? OR PROTESTANT?!
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 14:59 |
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Amethyst posted:http://honisoit.com/2015/03/the-more-you-know-the-less-im-paid/ Good article, and precisely true. Some of it does vary by university - I get paid a pretty substantial hourly rate, with additional for marking assignments (rather than a set rate). Because I know all of the poo poo off the top of my head, I have no prep time at all, and I don't give out my work email unless people ask for it - so I avoid student consultation. If they need help they know how to get it, but you learn to very quickly block off avenues of contact and establish set rules. Last semester I had a guy that sent me nearly 400 emails over the semester - after the first day, I only ever replied the next morning at 9am, and never followed up with a reply until the next day. Marking I develop a tonne of shortcuts for - again, something I can only do because of massive familiarity with the areas that I teach in. As a result, I can teach 4 hours a week in the last year of my PhD without too much trouble, but most people don't do any. The part about the "teacher-only" contracts is spot on for us, too. Our VC came in and immediately implemented a similar system after firing all 14 Deans, replacing them with 8 (literally hand-picked) sycophants. The end result was that our department (IT) were told that lecturers needed 3 A-rank journal papers per year to keep their jobs. IT research tends to be more involved than something like chemistry (which is where the Dean was from), so it was literally impossible. When lecturer positions come up, research output is the only metric valued - teaching quality or experience is completely ignored - and if you have a degree from our university, your application gets thrown out. So, we've just hired on 3 new lecturers (into teaching-focused roles) that are truly awful teachers. We know this, because part of the application process was to deliver a lecture on your research area to the department in a simple manner, to see if you could deliver complex information to people not familiar with the topic. The 3 that got chosen (again, by the hand-picked Dean) were the three worst performers, but had the highest research output. Because what we really need in teachers is high-output researchers that are terrible at teaching, particularly since we're now the department with the largest number of students and the largest profit-maker (from teaching) in the university. Then the VC got charged for corruption by the CCC and the senate dismissed him, to be replaced by an acting-VC (who doesn't seem too bad). All his policies are still there though, as are his Deans. Funding is certainly a problem for universities - we need more of it, because student numbers are outpacing our resources. Of course, that's mostly because the university's management decided that even though we gained 35% students this semester, our casual teaching budget was cut by 40%, and we're down 4 FTE to begin with. My supervisor (our Head of School) has 18 PhD students, 10 of which are finishing this year, is teaching 2 units with 80 students each and teaching all his own tutes (because there's no casual budget), and also has Head of School duties (about 30h/week on their own). It's not a lack of funding ruining our universities (though it certainly doesn't help), it's the loving management.
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Murodese posted:It's not a lack of funding ruining our universities (though it certainly doesn't help), it's the loving management. Pretty sure I read an article (that I can't seem to find right now) that basically said management practices in Australia are fukt and one of our major hurdles in increasing productivity.
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Requesting name change to Pro-Active Enterprise Advocate tia.
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Tokamak posted:A pet dingo ate my baby.
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CrazyTolradi posted:They are Pickled Tink, Cartoon, Fruity, Avs and Gough Suppressant. It has come to my attention that life may be incredibly stressful due to having to deal with the unending circus of incompetence and pain that is our government. If you are feeling stressed out at all, please accept a complementary kitten picture.
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Chicken Parmigiana posted:Would Chipp noice Here you go: Objectives Policies GrandTheftAutism fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Here we go again, business council poo poo stains who keep insisting on screwing over the worker because reasonsquote:BUSINESS is proposing a radical overhaul of the workplace safety net, calling for the removal of the current award-based system with workplace agreements to be assessed against the minimum wage, industry rates of pay and a series of legislated employment standards. I don't think I need to point out the obvious bullshittery with their reasoning, but I'll do one anyway - 93.6 resolved earlier in the process you say? Wouldn't have anything to do with fear of losing ones job or anything?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 19:53 |
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Quite possibly.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 19:54 |
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Senor Tron posted:It's also pretty unlikely that a PM who had just lost a spill would go to the GG and request a DD. It's a remote fantasy scenario so it's impossible to say what the GG would do if it did happen. It just means that any spill moves would have to happen without Tones knowing about them, or once he knew it was going down and he no longer had enough support he'd nick off to the GG and call an election.
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 22:04 |
Brisbane Goonmeet March. Mu'ooz, West End Monday 23rd March. 18:30 hrs http://www.muooz.com.au/ Sorry bout the late notice. Tell the usual.
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MiniSune posted:He's not very good at this, is he? Can we do the same for corporate taxes avoided and charge them to the lnp?
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# ? Mar 18, 2015 22:26 |
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Murodese posted:IT research tends to be more involved than something like chemistry Tell me more.
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People should brace themselves for another all fronts attack on the parole system. The murderer of Masa Vukodic seems to be a recent releasee.
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