Birb Katter posted:

Have you considered shutting the gently caress up, there are only 2 more days till a new thread is due and no one has claimed it

Zenithe posted:

I saw Brontosaurus

Ranter posted:

Was this question without a question mark directed at me? Who are you talking to?

open24hours posted:

GIS

open24hours posted:

I know, but Arc drives me crazy.

Solemn Sloth posted:

I've been doing a lot of work on GIS with one specific area over the last week or so, so I've begun automatically using shortcut names for certain areas, this is the brontosaurus

Solemn Sloth posted:

Yeah, there are some things about it which really annoy me, I haven't had time to try out any other software yet though, definitely on my to do list over the summer break.

HookShot posted:

I'll make next month's thread, claiming it.


edit: are there 31 days in October in Australia, or if it just a northern hemisphere thing?

Birdstrike posted:

No it's actually 10 Brumaire

Skellybones posted:

I am very sad that Tony Abbott is no longer Prime Minister. Yes, he certainly made some wrong choices, but he also did many creditable things too. In his quiet way he trod the world stage with humility and sincerity during the calamities of the two downed aircraft. Unlike some others I could name, and who connived and contrived and would stop at nothing to get the 'top job', he wanted only to server. He did not desire it for the power and glory that accompanies the position. As for knighthoods, what is wrong with publicly thanking some for their years of dedication? Maybe I'm one of the conservative dinosaurs, but for me it is far better to have a man with integrity, who honours God and the Queen, and wants to preserve the very foundations on which this great nation was built. I believe there are many who wold hold fast to the kind of chivalry, strength, and compassion embodied in Tony Abbott, rather than embrace the 'social conscience and vision for the future' which someone like Malcolm Turnbull will usher in.

PS stop the boats.

Birdstrike posted:

No it's actually 10 Brumaire

quote:

In his quiet way he trod the world stage with humility and sincerity

Solemn Sloth posted:

There is no way in hell that any person has ever actually thought this about Tony Abbott

katlington posted:

quote:

Labor has suspended its internal elections and will launch an investigation into one of the biggest-ever branch-stacking scams to hit the Victorian Labor Party.

The move by Labor's powerful administrative committee on Thursday night comes after Fairfax Media revealed the massive rorting earlier this month.

On October 11, Fairfax Media reported that anonymous gift cards were used to pay the dues of hundreds of ALP members at the core of Bill Shorten's Labor Right powerbase.

The scam has been run for years and is linked closely to the plumbers' union and suburban factional warlords close to Mr Shorten and federal frontbencher Stephen Conroy.

Labor's administrative committee suspended elections for Labor state conference, its country executive, women's network and Rainbow Labor until February next year.

The party appointed Labor Right figure Garth Head and the Left's Liz Beattie to investigate the use of the pre-paid gift cards.

But their appointment ran into opposition from some at the meeting amid concern that the two dominant factions would try to sweep the issue of branch stacking under the carpet.

Also making an appearance at the meeting was factional warlord and Turkish numbers man Hakki Suleyman, who was a proxy for his daughter Natalie, a state MP.

The meeting endorsed a motion that noted "potential irregularities" in payments of memberships through the use of pre-paid debit, credit and gift cards and credit cards.

"The ALP must act to ensure that all party members can be confident in the acceptance of members, their renewal and a shared understanding around payments and eligibility," it noted.

The internal investigation has been asked to report back by next month. It is understood as many as 500 memberships involved "irregular" payments.

Branch stacking involves factional players signing up members, or renewing memberships, in bulk. Cash for payment of membership dues often comes from unions or union slush funds.

For factional warlords, the "stacks" represent numbers and power within Labor - numbers to be traded in factional and sub-factional deals and wielded in important policy and preselection battles.

The Visa gift cards used by the branch stackers are, in effect, disposable debit cards that do not show who the cardholder is or who paid for them. Money can be placed on the cards but the cards expire once the money is used.

Each card has an individual number, similar to a debit or credit card, and an expiry date. The lack of ability to trace who paid for them makes them ideal for branch-stacking.

The royal commission into union corruption recently asked Victorian Labor for its membership list, after the Fairfax Media report, but backed down after Labor called the move "McCarthyist".

Documents indicate the gift cards were used to buy hundreds of memberships in the last two weeks of May 2013, the period in which "multiple" party memberships are habitually renewed before the 30 May renewal deadline.

Many of the members involved appear to be of Lebanese background and linked to northern suburbs factional powerbroker David Asmar.

His wife, Diana, is the Victorian secretary of the Health Services Union No.1 branch.

Another group involved appears to centre on the family of former plumbers union official, Tony Murphy, who for many years was a Labor powerbroker in Melbourne's north.

Under Victorian Labor's byzantine factional arrangements the plumbers, and associated party members, make up a right-wing sub-faction loyal to Shorten.

While the HSU is not currently affiliated to the ALP - it disaffiliated in 2011 amid the scandals surrounding former leaders Craig Thomson and Michael Williamson - it is an important factional resource.

thatbastardken posted:

literally murder all white australians, me first please.

thatbastardken posted:

literally murder all white australians, me first please.

Lid posted:

Kind of an odd statement when the two factional warlords in the article are explicitly described as Lebanese and Turkish, in addition to backing the scum of Shorten and Conroy, but sure I guess.

hooman posted:

At what point do we just give up on NSW and fire the entirety of it into the sun?

Lid posted:

This is Victoria.

Lid posted:

This is huge