markgreyam posted:

Could you be really lazy and just headline it

TRUCK STOP

Anidav posted:

It's a Kids Crossing but Trucks bossing.

Cartoon posted:

This is a bullshit argument if we are talking about large (Semi/B Double) trucks. I get most of my stuff from Melbourne and it comes all the way by road and is transhipped up to four times before I get it delivered, usually in a light van. If our rail freight network worked properly I would still get it delivered by a light van that had come ~ 1 km from the railway siding. Supermarkets might need different methods but it isn't the issue it is commonly held to be and it certainly isn't a case of transhipping is why we use trucks which is constantly the argument made.

Pred1ct posted:

So why isn't Netflix paying GST?

bowmore posted:

Made me laugh out loud.

bowmore posted:

Sorry, forgot to mention it's about trying to get the trucks banned from the road because of the danger to kids

Pickled Tink posted:

I'm not aware of how this is an issue. Can you please try to explain it, because I am drawing a blank here.

The Vinnies I work at is next door to a school, and there's another school down the road. Plus we have a small shopping centre down the road. In all that time, cars have posed the most danger to pedestrians in the area because they seem to think that if they accelerate they can squeeze through a pedestrian crossing before we get half way across. I had to jump back out of the way one time when I was more than half way across because some fuckwit floored it, and he still nearly took me out with his mirror a couple years back.

If we couldn't use our trucks there though, it would just be completely unworkable to run the shop. We generate so much excess that needs to be sent off that even when it is slow we need a truck every two-three days. Don't even get me started on the loving furniture. Vans are not a practical solution to this. They may work for smaller shops, but they just flat out aren't going to work for anywhere that has to move a decent volume.

bowmore posted:

Netflix doesn't pay GST because it's an overseas good I guess

Pickled Tink posted:

I'm not aware of how this is an issue. Can you please try to explain it, because I am drawing a blank here.

The Vinnies I work at is next door to a school, and there's another school down the road. Plus we have a small shopping centre down the road. In all that time, cars have posed the most danger to pedestrians in the area because they seem to think that if they accelerate they can squeeze through a pedestrian crossing before we get half way across. I had to jump back out of the way one time when I was more than half way across because some fuckwit floored it, and he still nearly took me out with his mirror a couple years back.

If we couldn't use our trucks there though, it would just be completely unworkable to run the shop. We generate so much excess that needs to be sent off that even when it is slow we need a truck every two-three days. Don't even get me started on the loving furniture. Vans are not a practical solution to this. They may work for smaller shops, but they just flat out aren't going to work for anywhere that has to move a decent volume.

norp posted:

The bill you from overseas, using a foreign entity, possibly using a foreign credit card processor. (you may actually be paying GST on the credit card fees, not sure)
They don't have a local entity, and probably run all the marketing using local firms that bill the overseas entity.
And I'm sure the distribution contracts are between 2 overseas entities in tax havens that just transfer rights to "broadcast" into australia..

At no point does money get sent by you to a company with an ABN or australian assets that can be touched by the ATO.

Anidav posted:

Use it

Graic Gabtar posted:

Just as a side, I'm watching the first episode of "Struggle Street".

gently caress me.

gay picnic defence posted:

Don't know what the fuss was all about to be honest. I think it just shows a bunch of people that fell through the cracks of society. Yes, they're fat, mentally ill and on drugs, but that's what happens to folk when they are put under unimaginable stress day in day out. Hopefully the show raises a bit of awareness in the rest of society of people like that who they'd rather pretend didn't exist.

gay picnic defence posted:

Don't know what the fuss was all about to be honest. I think it just shows a bunch of people that fell through the cracks of society. Yes, they're fat, mentally ill and on drugs, but that's what happens to folk when they are put under unimaginable stress day in day out. Hopefully the show raises a bit of awareness in the rest of society of people like that who they'd rather pretend didn't exist.

Gough Suppressant posted:

That seems the more likely response rather than widespread victim blaming and saying they obviously deserve to be in poverty because of all their vices and we shouldn't be funding their degenerate lifestyles with our tax dollars.

Mr Chips posted:

The only thing that bothered me about it was the narration, which managed to patronise both the viewers and the subjects

quote:

Former Greens leader Christine Milne had been considering her future for six months before deciding to quit, and held discussions about her exit with Greens Party founder Bob Brown.

Fairfax Media understands new leader Richard Di Natale, former deputy Adam Bandt, and immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young led the push for a leadership change in the party.

Former Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne with new Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale leader during a press conference on Wednesday.
Former Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne with new Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale leader during a press conference on Wednesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Mr Bandt and Senator Milne had had a strained relationship for some time, while Senator Hanson-Young had challenged Senator Milne for the deputy leader's role as far back as 2010.

Some Greens, angry at how just one-hour's notice was given for the leadership vote, believe that if Mr Bandt had faced Senator Di Natale in a ballot, the result could have been as close as 6-5 or 7-4 in the 11-member partyroom.

While Senator Milne's decision to resign surprised many, she had discussed her future with family, friends, former staff and other members of the party in the lead-up to the announcement.

The new leadership team: Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale with his co-deputies Senator Larissa Waters and Senator Scott Ludlam.
The new leadership team: Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale with his co-deputies Senator Larissa Waters and Senator Scott Ludlam. Photo: Andrew Meares
The message was clear in many of those conversations. Senator Milne was told she needed to decide sooner, rather than later, about whether she would stand at the next election.

A push for generational change was gathering pace.

At 10am on Wednesday, when the 11 Greens MPs met, some in the partyroom expected the meeting to focus on pre-budget tactics and strategy.

Instead, Senator Milne announced her plan to go and spoke for about 30 minutes about her legacy and the party's future.

At around 10.30am she announced a snap vote for 11.30am, a rapid resolution that has angered some colleagues and party members.

Some members insist that Senator Di Natale, and Senators Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam - who were elected co-deputy leaders, were tipped off ahead of time by Senator Milne to spoil Mr Bandt's chances.

Senator Milne and Senator Di Natale have repeatedly refused to say whether or not that is true, however the new leader did confirm that the change of leadership had been on his radar for some time.

"I was talking to Lucy [his wife] about this six months ago because, you know, I might not be from a political background but I'm smart enough to know when something could happen," he told reporters on Wednesday.

Mr Bandt was the only other Greens MP to make calls seeking support from colleagues for the leadership.

But Senator Di Natale began the contest with a solid bloc of five votes in the 11-member partyroom - senators Milne, Ludlam, Waters and Rachel Siewert - and the writing was on the wall.

Some members of the party say Senator Di Natale also knew he could rely on the support of either or both South Australian senators, Penny Wright and Sarah Hanson-Young, enough to get him the six votes to get him over the line.

And so Mr Bandt, who was likely able to rely on the support of NSW senator Lee Rhiannon and possibly senators Peter Whish-Wilson and Janet Rice, decided not to force a contest.

Senator Di Natale was elected unopposed, as were senators Waters and Ludlam.

Afterwards, Mr Bandt congratulated the new leadership team, signalled plans to lead the charge to win more lower house federal seats and said he wanted to focus on the birth of his first child, due in a few weeks.

But as one Greens MP told Fairfax Media, "the [leadership] conversations didn't get far. It was clear that Adam didn't have support and that was explained to him. It was brutal for him but he has been gracious."

The rapid vote and switch to Senator Di Natale has angered some Greens MPs; "even those of us who would have voted for him", says another Greens MP.

Party members say it will lead to a renewed push at next week's Greens National Council meeting for the party to move to a model that would see party members directly elect the leader, rather than MPs.

As one put it to Fairfax Media: "we are behind Labor on this issue."

Senator Di Natale confirmed on Wednesday that a reshuffle of portfolios will now take place in the partyroom.

The new leader is said to be open to a change of structure that would see the party appoint a treasury spokesperson for the first time.

Until now, the party leader had held the economic portfolio but the change would be a tactical move designed to position the Greens more prominently in debates about the economy.

After the ballot and change of leader, Greens MPs, staff and family gathered at Canberra's Hotel Realm to drink, talk, commiserate and celebrate.

From now, the Greens will rise or fall on the shoulders of senators Di Natale, Waters and Ludlam.

quote:

After the ballot and change of leader, Greens MPs, staff and family gathered at Canberra's Hotel Realm to drink, talk, commiserate and celebrate

Gough Suppressant posted:

First they came for the democrats, and I said nothing for I was not a idiot child crypto-Tory
Then they came for the sex party, and I said nothing for I was not a brothel owner

my stepdads beer posted:

Fairfax is really trying for the 'internal strife' angle here

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Weird, the SMH posted an article yesterday basically congratulating them on how smoothly the leadership change went.

quote:

SBS has been forced to fast-track its controversial documentary Struggle Street, combining the second and third episodes into a two-hour special to air next week.

"To best understand [Struggle Street], you need to see the three-hour observational documentary as a whole as it unfolds over the six months and we decided to make it available sooner in order to do that," the broadcaster said in a statement.

Laserface posted:

Im sorry but your kid should be loving killed by a truck.

Laserface posted:

Jesus Christ.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

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markgreyam posted:

Offensive to religious people but otherwise use the rest.

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