Negligent posted:

No because I didn't come here illegally by boat

open24hours posted:

NationBuilder is like $20/month, couldn't anyone buy a license?

QUACKTASTIC posted:

thatfatkid posted:

Why are youth-branches of political parties a thing again?

Murodese posted:

It makes for a convenient place to put people that should never be allowed near real power

Anidav posted:

Young Labor does not have access to Nation Builder only Candidate or MP offices can do it. Someone approved it.

hiddenmovement posted:

The real question is how did YOU do it??? It gives me an error errytime

Anidav posted:

I know what I know from QLD but if a NSW ALP group can just volley a meme website without taking it for approval then that is just good for them.

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Sith Master Julie Bishop has declined to say whether Australia’s new intelligence-sharing agreement with Iran will increase the risk of harm for Australian citizens fighting for Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq.

The foreign affairs minister dead-batted a question posed by the ABC about whether activating Iranian intelligence could lead to Shia militias capturing or killing Australian citizens.

“I’m not going to go into those kind of details. I mean that’s obviously a matter of deep intelligence operational issues,” Bishop said on Monday.

Australia and Iran have agreed to share intelligence on Australians fighting with extremist groups in Iraq. Bishop has been in Tehran for the first high-level talks between the countries in more than a decade.

She has described the new arrangement as “informal”. She said it benefited Australia because Iranian forces had a strong presence on the ground, and maintained “a very sophisticated intelligence network, and there’s a lot of information they have been gathering”.

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Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has accused the Federal Government of "dancing with the devil" by entering into an intelligence sharing agreement with Iran.

Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop announced Iran had agreed to trade information on Australian citizens fighting in Iraq, as part of efforts to counter the Islamic State militia.

Ms Bishop was visiting Iran to speak directly with government officials and maintains the country has solid information to offer.

"They are in Iraq in places that we are not, they also have a very sophisticated intelligence network so there's a lot of information that they've been gathering," Ms Bishop said.

But Mr Wilkie, himself a former intelligence analyst, said Iran was the last nation Australia should be swapping sensitive information with.

"The announcement by the Foreign Minister that Australia is entering into a security arrangement with the regime in Tehran really should send shudders down the spine of every Australian," he told reporters in Canberra.

"Frankly, it might be good political theatre for the Government but it's complete and utter madness from a security point of view."


He said Australia risked being used as a pawn and the information could not be trusted.

"When you start dancing with the devil in a place like Tehran, then we run the risk of becoming almost as bad as those who we dance with," he said.

"They are also experts at disinformation and we've seen this time and time again, when the regime in Iran will tell people whatever they want us to believe."

Mr Wilkie said he was the only serving member of Parliament who had worked in Australia's intelligence services and therefore had a unique insight.

"I saw first-hand some of the, and excuse the expression, the crap that was coming out of Iran, which was worse than useless because it was downright misleading," he said.

He maintained Australia should not accept intelligence that comes from torture.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Labor was seeking further details about the deal and would take a steady and considered approach.

"I'm not naive," Mr Shorten said.

"Iran's a very sophisticated country with a different view of the world to Australia and so we need to keep our eyes open whenever we deal with them."

Gough Suppressant posted:

So some "industry expert" has ruffled feathers by suggesting that $1m is not enough super to retire comfortably. I was listening to ABC Melbournes talkback on the subject this morning, and apparently there is a very substantial portion of the population who believe you should be able to live off the interest your super generates without ever touching the capital. This loving country.

Gough Suppressant posted:

What the gently caress is nation builder

Birdstrike posted:

Why spend time formulating and enunciating a social democratic platform that people will vote for when you can make lovely websites to play petty games of no consequence while wondering why we keep losing seats to the Greens

DNQ posted:

So who else is already sick of ANZAC day and all the flag waving, jingoism, chest thumping and race hate that comes with it?

It's become worse by the year. What used to be a sombre, respectful day to mark the loss of lives now seems to be an excuse to sell things, play football and go around yelling about how ARE ANZACS DIDNT DIE SO MUSLIMS COULD INTRODUCE SHARIA LAW !!!!1111

Birdstrike posted:

At this point I'm tempted to say gently caress it and join in the enthusiastic running of Anzac Day into the ground tbh

hiddenmovement posted:

The funny thing is ANZAC day was slipping out of the public consciousness, much the way Rememberance day has, until we started commodifying the gently caress out of it in the 1990s (The AFL / Howard being the big drivers, IIRC). Is it better that a day of memorial has become an nationalistic capitalist vessel than to have it drift into cultural irrelevance?

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

I don't know, are those our only two options?