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SynthOrange posted:Taxpayers shell out $1,700 for three beanbags for Julie Bishop's creativity initiative Beanbags were purchased for $590 each to outfit innovationXchange, described by Bishop’s as a ‘gorgeous little funky, hipster, Googly, Facebooky-type place’ http://lovesac.com.au 
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The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party.
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. lol
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. Hahaha sucked in
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. Hahahaha, suck poo poo.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:37
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. That confused me for a moment as I thought it was approved, but it was only his LNP branch approved his defection
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. hahahaha sucks to be him
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. lol.
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Amazing. I hope this causes no end of trouble in the Coalition.
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. Would someone please explain the process of switching party allegiance and also who Ian MacFarlane is?
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Dec 14, 2015 05:44
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So what exactly does that mean, they've got an unhappy troublemaker in the ranks? If they cut him loose he'll go over anyway?
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A cartoon in the Australian depicting starving Indians chopping up and eating solar panels sent to the developing nation in an attempt to curb carbon emissions has been condemned as “unequivocally racist”. Drawn by the veteran cartoonist Bill Leak, Monday’s cartoon was his response to the climate deal signed in Paris at the weekend. India is the world’s fourth-largest greenhouse emitter. Amanda Wise, an associate professor of sociology at Macquarie University, said in her view the cartoon was shocking and would be unacceptable in the UK, the US or Canada. “This cartoon is unequivocally racist and draws on very base stereotypes of third world, underdeveloped people who don’t know what to do with technology,” Wise told Guardian Australia.
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EXAKT Science posted:Would someone please explain the process of switching party allegiance and also who Ian MacFarlane is? A person runs for a party but you vote for a person not a party. MacFarlane got dumped from a cushy spot in his party so wanted to switch to their symbiotic parasite party because that would get him a cushy job back. His party were pissed but voted that he could leave, once he left the other party could decide if they wanted him and told him to gtfo. So he's burned a *lot* of bridges for nothing because he thought he was smart.
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 ABC Caption: DJ Scott Ludlam dropping beats
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Don't need a loving professor to tell me a bad cartoon is racist, but good to feel validated I guess
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EXAKT Science posted:Would someone please explain the process of switching party allegiance and also who Ian MacFarlane is? The Coalition is a formal agreement between two parties: the Liberals and the Nationals. At the Federal level the Liberals are by far the dominant party, but they make certain concessions to the Nationals because they need their votes; this includes things like the Deputy PM being the head of the Nats. A certain number of ministries go to the Nats too. When Turnbull took over he dropped Macfarlane from the ministry. Macfarlane wasn't a particularly terrible minister (and actually supported Turnbull in the leadership change), but he was seen as being a bit too much of the Howard-era old guard, and Turnbull wanted some fresh faces. Macfarlane decided to defect to the Nats (possibly with some accomplices), which would increase their numbers to the point where they'd be allocated another ministry. Naturally he would get that ministry. Except the whole thing blew up in his face because people don't like you gaming the system for your own end, especially when you do it so openly.
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Birb Katter posted:A person runs for a party but you vote for a person not a party. MacFarlane got dumped from a cushy spot in his party so wanted to switch to their symbiotic parasite party because that would get him a cushy job back. His party were pissed but voted that he could leave, once he left the other party could decide if they wanted him and told him to gtfo. So he's burned a *lot* of bridges for nothing because he thought he was smart. So now does he go back to the Liberals and grovel or what?
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Doesn't being in the Queensland LNP change things a bit, now that they've merged? He didn't change parties so much as he changed (or tried to) his allegiance to the Nationals in Canberra?
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EXAKT Science posted:So now does he go back to the Liberals and grovel or what? You don't have to have a party affiliation to stay around, we have senators called cross benchers who have 1 person party or are independent. We don't know what is going to happen yet as he said he's going to wait for the new year. Edit: for example, we have the Motoring Enthusiasts Party as one of those nobody here but me guys.
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EXAKT Science posted:So now does he go back to the Liberals and grovel or what? It's a bit more complicated - in almost every state, the Liberals and the Nationals are separate parties. But in Queensland they amalgamated as a single party, the Liberal National Party (LNP). Queensland Liberals and Nationals caucus with their respective parties when Canberra and identify as separate parties but they're all LNP members. Which is what makes this so glorious: in any other state the Liberals couldn't stop him quitting and the Nationals desperately want him to join, but since it's all the one party in QLD the Liberal wing of the LNP retain the power to say "gently caress you" back.
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Birb Katter posted:A person runs for a party but you vote for a person not a party. MacFarlane got dumped from a cushy spot in his party so wanted to switch to their symbiotic parasite party because that would get him a cushy job back. His party were pissed but voted that he could leave, once he left the other party could decide if they wanted him and told him to gtfo. So he's burned a *lot* of bridges for nothing because he thought he was smart. So, he's independent now?
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Amethyst posted:So, he's independent now? Ian MacFarlane has been called many things, I'm not sure independent has ever been one of them.
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Dec 14, 2015 06:18
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I'm not sure if he left the Libs or just got approval (from his local branch) to do so. He's going to retire or be forced to though.
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Maybe he can join PUP
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This didn't take long
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Tirade posted:Which is what makes this so glorious: in any other state the Liberals couldn't stop him quitting and the Nationals desperately want him to join, but since it's all the one party in QLD the Liberal wing of the LNP retain the power to say "gently caress you" back. Which is exactly what they've done. After a 4 hour meeting the move was blocked 14-12.
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Macfarlanes options are now a little more dire. He can't affiliate with the nats anymore, and he will find it hard to remain with the liberal party. He can switch to independent but that will pretty much spell doom for his political career because he will basically become another Bob Katter except without the loud mouth, and there's no guarantee he's popular enough in his own right to win the next election as an independent. Besides which, as soon as he switches to independent the LNP will run a candidate against him. He's doomed, and the Nats in canberra (Barnaby) will be furious.
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First Dog on the Moon with a not-racist cartoon:
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Points for penguin, points off for lack of kitties.
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SynthOrange posted:
mods namechange to Your Boy DJ S-Ludz please
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Where's the fucken kitties Tink, don't fucken hold out on me
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Look, I am stuck rationing kitty pictures until the end of the year. Besides, at present I don't have access to the kittens. It got temporarily switched to the injured cat growli-cam.
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Every time you ration a kitty, an internet dies 
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Pickled Tink posted:Look, I am stuck rationing kitty pictures until the end of the year. Besides, at present I don't have access to the kittens. It got temporarily switched to the injured cat growli-cam. get your own cat
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Or just stop posting loving first dog, like everyone wishes you would.
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Laserface posted:Or just stop posting loving first dog, like everyone wishes you would. #notallauspol
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Laserface posted:Or just stop posting loving first dog, like everyone wishes you would. Yeah First Dog is fine. It's a nice break from the racism.
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This was always scheme for the Nats to get back in charge of water policy. This involves loving everyone south of about Murtho. Everyone knows this. Everyone knows that the Murray Darling Basin is hosed. They still keep on with this stuff. If they put Barnaby in charge of water, I might just drown him in the mud at Murray Bridge.
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