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I approve of Mick Malloy How can we put a Christmas spin on our usual bigoted fear-mongering, asks the Daily Mail
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 07:34 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 03:08 |
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"Cordon Bleu cooking for convicted criminals outrage" is a staple of the Mail in Britain.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 08:13 |
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quote:A Victorian woman has been charged with serious religious vilification after posting comments about Islam on Facebook. It's the vibe, your honour
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:07 |
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Today you cant say people should be burned alive, whats next? Dear oh dear.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:16 |
katlington posted:Today you cant say people should be burned alive, whats next? Dear oh dear. Lost a family member to the flame. Hope they throw the book at her.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:18 |
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Queensland underground coal mine operators have been warned by the mining union to reduce their dust levels below the state's safety standard or they will be shut down. The Queensland Resources Council has condemned the warning as an "ill-conceived threat" based on questionable legality. Three weeks ago 7.30 revealed that Percy Verrall and three other former and current coalminers have the potentially life-threatening disease "black lung", or coal miners' pneumoconiosis, thought to have been eradicated from Australian coalfields. The mining union, CFMEU, now says it is likely more cases will emerge. "At this stage, there are four confirmed cases of black lung," CFMEU Queensland mining president, Stephen Smyth said. "And we have another four unconfirmed cases which will be verified in the forthcoming weeks." The CFMEU's national president Andrew Vickers said he was "gutted" by the development. "That in 2015 we are seeing a re-occurrence of the disease, and a terrible debilitating disease and a murderous disease that we thought we had eradicated from the industry. It is just not good enough," he said. The Queensland Mines Department and mine operators like BHP asserted that local radiologists have the skills to correctly identify the disease in regular checkups, a claim the union disputes. "I have no faith in the current scheme with these nominated medical authorities (company doctors) and some of the radiologists because they have failed," Mr Smyth said. "And the system shows us that they are failing, because we have all these cases of black lung which had to be confirmed either by a biopsy in Australia ,or read by an expert in the US," he said. "So the system is not working."
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:37 |
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After all we've done for it, this is how coal repays Australia? No. No, it must be the miners who are wrong.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:43 |
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A racist posted:I told him how can I be charged for an opinion and how can I be charged with a religious vilification when I don’t acknowledge those that are Muslims and those that follow the Quaran (sic) as a religion but as an evil, hateful ideology. "How can you possibly say I'm vilifying those disgusting subhuman mongrels!"
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 09:58 |
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Evil hateful ideology and religion are mutually exclusive, who knew?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 10:06 |
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Pred1ct posted:I approve of Mick Malloy Tony Martin told the story on Get This and imitated Mick, and the question was "why are you such a loving oval office?", and he was going to do nothing on the whole segment but ask that question, regardless of an answer. Needless to say, it was never mentioned again, and the word probably went out. Many Get This fans think it was no coincidence that that show was canned on the eve of Howard's last election campaign. The rant that quote came from is quite a good read, and makes a good point.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 10:15 |
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Anyone else simply can't see their new start payments after the 23rd?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 10:27 |
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Wow, in a real surprise the guy who gave testimony defending George Pell is in fact himself a kidfucker Sorry for formatting, phoneposting quote:A Catholic priest who gave evidence to the child abuse royal commission in defence of Cardinal George Pell was himself the subject of a historical sexual abuse claim, the ABC can reveal. Solemn Sloth fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Dec 23, 2015 |
# ? Dec 23, 2015 11:12 |
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Can anyone explain to me the controversy about lyme disease in Australia?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 13:50 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Can anyone explain to me the controversy about lyme disease in Australia? It doesn't officially exist here in the medical literature but a whole lot of people have apparently contracted an infectious disease with borderline identical symptoms. When I was doing honours in microbio my supervisor implied that there's basically an unspoken widespread belief in microbiology (maybe not in medicine because it's way more conservative) that the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that cause Lyme disease do exist in Australia, or a very closely related species does.There's not really much published to say this though. There's also an unrelated controversy about whether or not it causes a long-term illness called "chronic Lyme disease" that has similar symptoms to fibromyalgia. Thus far there's not that much reliable evidence that Lyme disease actually causes these symptoms in the long term. Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes stay in the body long after infection so some people think that this causes the possibly-existent chronic illness. Anyway, long-term antibiotic treatment would clear them from the body, but that's fairly dangerous so there's a controversy about that too.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Can anyone explain to me the controversy about lyme disease in Australia? Originally in the 90s there was a health announcement that Lyme would be on the rise and for doctors to look out for symptoms. The testing done at Westmead failed to get any positives and so it was determined that the disease wasn't here rather than the tests weren't working or optimized for Australia's borrelia - which exists in Europe/the Americas/Africa/Asia. I used to work in the private lab that tests for Borrelia. They do inhouse PCR with their own primers and 2 kits - one serological and one based on cell activity EliSpot - a method also used for TB and HIV. I can say for sure we had positives from the kits from people who never left the country. A few of the doctors who actually call themselves Lyme specialists tend to have Lyme also which is the reason why they got into it. The PCR primers are the company's intellectual property and according to my old boss some of the researchers had asked for access to the primers in use for studies which my boss refused. I have also heard that doctors that have gone out of their way to diagnose people who have never left Aus with Lyme have been threatened with deregistration. Lyme/borrelia is a bugger to treat when you have it in a chronic condition. I collected blood from people who had been sick for 10 to 20 years and turned up positive on the tests. Not only that, you could have a number of coinfections like Rickettsia or Bartonella that give you different symptoms. In some cases, victims would get a bullseye rash from the bite - a universal sign of borrelia infection but not here apparently. It's my personal opinion that it is here, but the majority of registrars and doctors in the hospital i work at now don't believe so at all. Could go more into it but heading into work now.
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NSW takes stand against children in detention War on Christmas real Alternate: Large influx of Auspolers to Brunei
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MythLisp posted:Originally in the 90s there was a health announcement that Lyme would be on the rise and for doctors to look out for symptoms. The testing done at Westmead failed to get any positives and so it was determined that the disease wasn't here rather than the tests weren't working or optimized for Australia's borrelia - which exists in Europe/the Americas/Africa/Asia. very interesting. Why would you boss refuse access to the primers? or did he offer his PCR services to the researchers instead?
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It's high time that strong action was taken against the terrorist responsible. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-24/police-investigate-explosion-in-bowen/7052280 quote:Police set up exclusion zone in Bowen after explosion Updated 32 minutes ago Interesting smear of heroic and fearless journalist Greg Sherriden http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-22/maccallum-how-an-asio-chief-came-up-against-a-hostile-media/7047624 quote:How an ASIO chief came up against a hostile media OPINION By Mungo MacCallum Updated Tue at 12:57pm Not done as household consumption but some interesting figures here: http://www.esaa.com.au/policy/data_and_statistics-_energy_in_australia
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Amoeba102 posted:
While you're there, try not to kill yourself on their horribly textured, flavourless national dish.
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I don't believe that punching people is assault, I think it's a loving gesture, ergo I am now going to go to King St tonight and king hit people and no one can charge me with anything.
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HookShot posted:I don't believe that punching people is assault, I think it's a loving gesture, ergo I am now going to go to King St tonight and king hit people and no one can charge me with anything. Beware, all punches on King St are king hits aka cowards punches.
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Kommando posted:very interesting. Why would you boss refuse access to the primers? or did he offer his PCR services to the researchers instead? Intellectual property. She said she would allow them to use them if they signed a confidentiality agreement. Apparently one of the board said they could, but it wouldn't guarantee any of the staff would steal the genetic code they use. Pretty much they'd go out of business if public health got them. And the way public health do things are by screening with serology and if positive, confirmation with PCR. Borrelia in particular is a poo poo to test for as some people don't produce antibodies to them, or become so immune suppressed that they end up screening negative. Or the tests are optimized for that strain. My old company don't use that method for screening. You can get a PCR done without screening positive on serology. Which again, can come back negative based on where the spirochetes are located or the shape they are in (borrelia in cyst form are harder to detect) As far as I'm aware I think she did offer, but as the lab isn't NATA accredited yet, I think they refused so it came to stalemate. I havent worked there in 8 months now, and all this happened either late last year or very early this year. Which is why some researcher trying to find Borrelia in Perth hasn't found anything and either will release/has released a journal article that borrelia isn't here.
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# ? Dec 24, 2015 01:52 |
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lol good luck getting charged with hitting someone there is like no one there anymore. who's the real cowards now huh?
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# ? Dec 24, 2015 01:52 |
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Laserface posted:If working full time in a 5 of 7 day roster, should penalty rates be applied to sundays? Don't know. With rostered work unless its explicitly mentioned in your contract, you generally get 1.5X for so many hours then 2X after that. actu helpline 1300 486 466 fairwork 13 13 94 I've had rostered work where if you're on saturday its the normal 1.5X an hour and sunday its the normal 2X an hour. I've also worked on an award, where there was no penalty rates but they'd bumped up the hourly rate to make up for it. BCR fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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loving unemployable economic immigrants: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-24/rescued-migrant-wins-big-in-spain-christmas-lottery/7052202 quote:Rescued asylum seeker wins big in Spain's Christmas lottery just days after losing job Updated about an hour ago
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Cartoon posted:Not done as household consumption but some interesting figures here: I don't think that energy consumption decline is that great. The y-axis is abbreviated so you only get about a 10% decline. There has been huge leaps in energy efficiency during that time, and people tend to be more mindful about turning things off when not in use. Lights, fridges, computers, tv's have all had huge reductions of power consumption. The things that have remained constant are stuff like hot water/laundry/cooking/air-con(?), and even then most of these average an hour or two a day. My home would far exceed 10%. And given how industry has changed over that period I'm surprised it's not more.
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BCR posted:Don't know. With rostered work unless its explicitly mentioned in your contract, you generally get 1.5X for so many hours then 2X after that. How is this noted in the award? I should be able to ask the employer what award I am on, and then look it up on fair work and it'll say "$XX an hour plus YY to compensate for no penalty rates" ?
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MythLisp posted:Intellectual property. Are they claiming they own naturally occuring bacterial DNA, or certain PCR primers, or a method for assaying antibodies? Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Laserface posted:How is this noted in the award? I should be able to ask the employer what award I am on, and then look it up on fair work and it'll say "$XX an hour plus YY to compensate for no penalty rates" ? 1) Look at contract, if it doesn't mention what award you're going to have to ask your employer. I don't like this part because it lets lovely bosses know that you know they're lovely. I like the element of surprise. 2)Ask your employer what award you're under. 3) You can then look up the award on the fairwork website and it'll tell you what the minimum you're meant to be paid, plus any compensation for no penalty rates. With some awards its buried in the details. 4) Quicker way is to ring fairwork or the actu. "hello I'm x, on y award being paid z an hour with no penalty rates is this correct?"
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The former Australian prime minister, who was a Rhodes scholar in the 1980s, has weighed into the debate telling the Independent “racism is a dreadful evil ... but it’s hardly virtuous to be against racism today”. Tony Abbott leaps to the defense of the father of apartheid.
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quote:but its hardly virtuous to be against racism today. Too early to name the January thread?
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# ? Dec 24, 2015 07:57 |
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hes not wrong though its like being anti-cancer
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# ? Dec 24, 2015 08:59 |
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Full sentence: "Racism is a dreadful evil but we all know that now. It’s hardly virtuous to be against racism today. Real virtue would have been to oppose racism when it was difficult to do so."
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Full sentence: dig up ... UP
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Negligent posted:hes not wrong though True, but it's still weird hearing it coming from the tumor itself.
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# ? Dec 24, 2015 09:12 |
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Full sentence: Virtue hipster
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Laserface posted:How is this noted in the award? I should be able to ask the employer what award I am on, and then look it up on fair work and it'll say "$XX an hour plus YY to compensate for no penalty rates" ? If you are on salary then you should be getting the minimum + 25% to cover the penalty rates they would normally pay you if you weren't on a salary, this is in hospitality at least So if you are on salary you should have the exact same pay every pay day. I recently got 440 hrs of back pay because my employer didn't understand how salaries work/ were knowingly under paying me
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"Domestic violence is a dreadful evil but we all know that now. It’s hardly virtuous to be against domestic violence today. Real virtue would have been to oppose domestic violence when it was difficult to do so."
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Mr Chips posted:Are they claiming they own naturally occuring bacterial DNA, or certain PCR primers, or a method for assaying antibodies? Certain PCR primers for the Borrelia DNA detected and I suppose the method too, as they culture blood/serum between 3 weeks to 2 months as it's such a low level bacteria and slow growing too, much like TB. Urine they don't culture as its dead/bits of borrelia being picked up by PCR. Borrelia positive urine samples tended to coincide with IgG positive ImmunoBlot results suggesting a longer period of infection. What I find the most strange is that doctors treating Borreliosis/Lyme have been threatened with deregisteration/restriictions. A disease has become political when it really shouldn't be. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/gps-lyme-disease-treatment-ban-angers-sufferers/story-e6frg8y6-1226796835468 This one is from last week. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...b88daa6b71f96e3 This is a long and interesting read about Borrelia/Coinfections in the Sydney House of Reps. The patient experiences are pretty freaking horrible with the average time of someone getting sick to being diagnosed is 6 and a half years on average. http://www.lymedisease.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Standing-Committee-on-Health_2015_09_18_3808.pdf
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Wait what? A) that's the media industry and not entertainment, b) since when did anybody in our industry get paid overtime or penalty rates. It happens sometimes, but rare as hen's teeth. C) do you really think a government would ever go after us? We'd demolish them. I don't want to say what I do exactly because it's a tiny industry but basically, yeah, we're a media company but pretty much our only client is TV networks. I always just tell people I work in TV because it explains why I work such lovely hours. I don't know how it works for other people in entertainment but I'm on wages, not salary, and I drat well expect any Australian on wages to be getting extra money on the hour if they're working at unsociable times. Like I said before, I know lawyers and doctors and stuff work crazy hours, but they also get paid a squillion times better than me and have scope for advancement and future earnings (which I don't, this is very much a dead-end job).
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