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It's [Dick] Time Entrepreneur Dick Smith has flagged a move into politics, announcing he has registered the name “The Dick Smith party”. Smith made his announcement during a speech at the launch of the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal – an event attended by the New South Wales premier, Mike Baird. The founder of Dick Smith Electronics, aviator and renowned adventurer said he was frustrated by bureaucratic regulation, mentioning the light aviation industry as an example. Smith also said there were more than 2,000 Australians with incomes of more than $1m who did not donate to charity. The Salvation Army hopes to raise $15.26m in Sydney and $74m nationally from its 2015 Red Shield Appeal. Smith said he would commit $100,000 to the Red Shield Appeal.
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Today First Dog sums up the NSW election:
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:46 |
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Pickled Tink posted:Today First Dog sums up the NSW election:
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Pickled Tink posted:Today First Dog sums up the NSW election: Stop posting this. Also the NSW election is simply going to be a Mike Baird victory. He might sell off the electricity but Labor here is still toxic and the policy isn't a dealbreaker when Labor's alternative can't move over that they are Labor.
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bowmore posted:so many words TL;DR
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Pickled Tink posted:This is just making me more and more depressed. I'm allergic to that crap, and this may help explain why every manufacturer stuffs garlic and onion into loving everything, including stuff that shouldn't have loving onion in it (Like canned tomatoes). My shopping trips take three to four times as long these days because I have to check the ingredients of everything for the tiny garlic/onion small print, and some manufacturers are complete and utter shits and don't list it either, so I'm taking a risk either way. QUACKTASTIC posted:Bloody onions
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Lid posted:Stop posting this. First dog posting is fine. No worse than any other white noise posting here. I don't like and don't need it, but also don't feel that the effort required to drag my finger over the scroll wheel to scroll past it requires me to complain about it.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:54 |
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This and the final line would of made the same point, in 1/16th as many words.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:54 |
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I get most of my news from First Dog so compared to regularly reading articles it's actually much faster and has little cartoon animals.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:04 |
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First Dog on the Moon reinforcing the perceived two party system, gently caress off First Dog.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:04 |
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I get most of my news from this thread or The Brisbane Times.
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I know this was 2 pages ago but ~I don't care~Gough Suppressant posted:From time to time they'll need people to do data entry managing the membership databases etc, it's worth emailing your state office and saying you're available for that sort of stuff and they'll contact you if it comes up. And then when you get there they'll emotionally blackmail into cold calling people. Volunteer for letterboxing and then screen your calls until the election is over IMO. Once you volunteer for something they don't stop hassling you until you die. tomkash posted:Pickled Tink, just join the Greens they don't make you do anything. You might get a call when you join up and maybe get on the mailing list but they'll never push or expect anything from you. You could also do letter boxing which is fun and you won't have to interact with anybody. Not My Experience At All. So far the NSW greens seem to have little respect for their volunteers and fundamentally do not understand the concept that people have things they have to do other than volunteer, or perhaps don't want to give up every weekend for a month. They're also horribly disorganised and you will get called by several different offices who don't identify themselves. So you say "yes" to handing out HTVs and then realise they want you for a completely different electorate to the one you live in. They will contact you for the same event with every medium at their disposal (call, text, and email) and the medium you reply to apparently decides which office you're working with, or will cause a bureaucratic meltdown when you get their and it turns out the guy who sent all those texts out didn't bother to enter them into the two competing organisational systems. And that's if you agree to stuff. I had one woman who didn't seem to understand that "sorry, I'm busy" is the polite way of saying "I don't want to do this because I have better poo poo to do on a Saturday" and was extremely passive aggressive about how 'busy' I was. This is after I'd already done letterboxing and door knocking, and agreed to do HTVs on Saturday. She also asked me about HTVs, to which I replied that somebody had already called me about it last night, and then I had to tell her again when she brought it up again. Disorganised and rude. Splode fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Splode posted:Once you volunteer for something they don't stop hassling you until you die. This sounds like the ALP! Google knows what's up.
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Splode posted:I know this was 2 pages ago but ~I don't care~ Depends on the group/branch. I joined the Greens last year and my local branch is content to leave me alone. I only get the odd email inviting me to attend a branch meeting.
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TheHeadSage posted:Depends on the group/branch. I joined the Greens last year and my local branch is content to leave me alone. I only get the odd email inviting me to attend a branch meeting. Same for me until the election. Honestly my local branch seem fine and really nice, the woman I spoke to to organise HTVs was extremely friendly and reasonable. It's the surrounding electorates (looking at you Newtown and Balmain) who seem to think that because they might actually win they have the right to steal everybody else's volunteers and harrass anyone who might possible help them out.
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Uber v Taxis continuesquote:“UberX doesn’t cater to people who don’t have access to a smartphone or credit card, people living in fringe areas or with a disability, probably because it’s just not profitable enough.” Also article on taxi monopoly lobbying http://mobile.news.com.au/finance/business/uberx-versus-taxis-why-the-time-for-taxis-is-over/story-fnkgde2y-1227274842438
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:45 |
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Pickled Tink posted:Today First Dog sums up the NSW election: gently caress off
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:56 |
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Lid posted:The union alleges Ms Jackson spent more than $660,000 on personal expenses, including holidays, shopping and mortgage payments, as well as $1.07m in separate unauthorised spending. It claims the former national secretary misappropriated $350,399 through unauthorised expenses on her union-issued credit cards, including $170,554 on travel and holidays, $101,783 on shopping, $28,288 on food and alcohol, and $44,537 on entertainment.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:58 |
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Lid posted:Uber v Taxis continues The taxi system probably needs to be reformed but the uber system seems like it's just set up to skirt around regulations designed to protect the consumer (e.g., extra driver licensing requirements, ability for the taxi to cater to people with disabilities etc).
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Pickled Tink posted:This is just making me more and more depressed. I'm allergic to that crap, and this may help explain why every manufacturer stuffs garlic and onion into loving everything, including stuff that shouldn't have loving onion in it (Like canned tomatoes). Learn to cook and just buy the raw ingredients you need for the things you want to eat. You know, like a normal person who needs to control their diet.
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Lid posted:Uber v Taxis continues 1) Own car 2) Uber 3) Don't 4) Taxi Taxis are poo poo. Taxis are hosed. They will go the way of any other outmoded technology.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:08 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:Taxis are poo poo. Taxis are hosed. They will go the way of any other outmoded technology. The government will claim to be replacing them, but then buy the taxis minus the wheels that will stay owned by the taxi company so the government has to pay them to use the taxis despite owning them?
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:18 |
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Pickled Tink posted:
That sort of guff is not a greens thing. Its an old hippy thing. Avoid the old hippies and you'll be fine.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:21 |
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Graic Gabtar posted:
It's easy to appear better than taxis when you don't have to follow the regulations applied to taxis meaning you can deliver a cheaper, faster, more streamlined service. You can say that about any industry - I bet you could get the price of a big mac to under a dollar if you did away with all those pesky rules limiting the grade of beef fit for human consumption or what you can legally call "lettuce".
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MysticalMachineGun posted:First Dog on the Moon reinforcing the perceived two party system, gently caress off First Dog. Percieved? It loving IS a two party system. Albeit with the greens and some whacky right wing loon parties occasionally getting balance of power for lulz
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Serrath posted:It's easy to appear better than taxis when you don't have to follow the regulations applied to taxis meaning you can deliver a cheaper, faster, more streamlined service. You can say that about any industry - I bet you could get the price of a big mac to under a dollar if you did away with all those pesky rules limiting the grade of beef fit for human consumption or what you can legally call "lettuce". The trick being that currently your Taxi Mac comes out squashed and cold and costs $15, whilst the Uber Mac costs $5 and is a juicy, tasty burger. Sure, you're not quite certain that the burger is alright to eat, but it still looks pretty good...
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:37 |
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Serrath posted:It's easy to appear better than taxis when you don't have to follow the regulations applied to taxis meaning you can deliver a cheaper, faster, more streamlined service. You can say that about any industry - I bet you could get the price of a big mac to under a dollar if you did away with all those pesky rules limiting the grade of beef fit for human consumption or what you can legally call "lettuce".
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Lid posted:The union alleges Ms Jackson spent more than $660,000 on personal expenses, including holidays, shopping and mortgage payments, as well as $1.07m in separate unauthorised spending. It claims the former national secretary misappropriated $350,399 through unauthorised expenses on her union-issued credit cards, including $170,554 on travel and holidays, $101,783 on shopping, $28,288 on food and alcohol, and $44,537 on entertainment. Wasn't the right wing commentariat bleating on about how Kathy Jackson was a noble whistleblower standing up to corruption? Edit: Found it: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ae7e98de#auspol http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/women_warriors_blowing_the_whistle/ quote:WHAT is it about women that makes them such prodigious whistleblowers? Pred1ct fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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There was a bizarre piece in the Aus recently about noted fuckwit Michael Smith and his relationship with Kathy Jackson.
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Pred1ct posted:Wasn't the right wing commentariat bleating on about how Kathy Jackson was a noble whistleblower standing up to corruption? There goes lunch.
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Pred1ct posted:Wasn't the right wing commentariat bleating on about how Kathy Jackson was a noble whistleblower standing up to corruption? Theres more http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/mirandadevine/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_to_reform_unions_by_kathy_jackson/ Miranda Devine hitched her horse to Ms Jackson and has been oddly quiet since.
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Lid posted:Uber v Taxis continues In Direct response to the quote you mentioned, I couldnt get a loving taxi in Toongabbie from the train station to a mechanics workshop down the road at 5pm on a weekday. I did however manage to get an uber pickup that was on his way into the city to start driving. I wouldnt really call Toongabbie a fringe area either.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:08 |
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Good on Kathy Jackson, she is a shining beacon of honesty and character. Having been involved in the union movement for quite a few years, there comes a time when you realise that the welfare of workers/members is not high on the agenda. In a perfect world ladies like Kathy Jackson would make good Labor politicians, the type that we could trust. Unlike the shower of proverbial that we are suffering at the moment. Union fees over the decades have been used as a personal slush funds for all the union hacks that end up labor ministers. Looking after the workers....give me a break. Where have all the billions gone???. Kathy is a breath of fresh air but despised by the current labor regime for telling the truth. What a marvellous woman! People like her are what once made the ALP Chifley’s Light on the Hill. What a contrast with the rabble of self-centred rent seekers that constitute the present ALP. Kathy Jackson is a refreshing change from the union thugs we have come to know as the face of unionism.I hope she does not succumb to union and government pressure to desist from speaking out for what is right.This Joan of Arc of the union movement must be protected from the unfair and nefarious attacks she is atracting from the dark side.If it was time for a woman prime minister to lead our great nation what a shame it was’nt Kathy Jackson. And then amongst it all quote:
One genius.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:12 |
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Uber is so much better and if there was a less scummy offspring that replaced the Taxi Industry, it'll be for the better.
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Liberal and National parties tried to stop release of AEC reviews of their finances
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:34 |
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To get a taxi home from the CBD in Adelaide costs me about $50, and I'm never doing that again. Hey Adelaide goons, can someone remind me whether or not the Wheatsheaf has a TV from which one can watch the football while drinking? It's a deal breaking criteria for a friend of mine who wants good micro between go karts and dinner on his Bucks Day.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:36 |
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NTRabbit posted:To get a taxi home from the CBD in Adelaide costs me about $50, and I'm never doing that again. It does not, as far as I recall.
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Lizard Combatant posted:It does not, as far as I recall. NTRabbit posted:A friend of mine who wants good micro between go karts and dinner on his Bucks Day.
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Remind me never again to go to Auspol on twitter.
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