Anidav posted:

Slow News Day.

Anidav posted:

Bowie News Day.

Laserface posted:

Who cares? its entertainment.

open24hours posted:

Yeah that's pretty much my take on it. If the AFL want a drug testing regime they should organise their own. That drug testing in sport is treated as a public service like environmental monitoring or the regulation of the labour market seems strange to me.

open24hours posted:

If it were reframed as an OH&S issue I might be more sympathetic to it, but as far as I can tell the main objective is to promote 'fairness'.

It also seems like a lot of the things professional athletes put themselves through would be banned if sport were treated like other jobs though.

open24hours posted:

Replace weed with heroin if it makes it easier.

There are a lot of things that I don't think the government should regulate, are you arguing that because the regulation of some things is necessary the regulation of all things is necessary?

For example, cheating in motorsport is endemic. Should we have a government department whose job it is to measure boost pressure and injector size in racing cars, or is it something better left to the race organisers?

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Simplest answer, kill sports

open24hours posted:

Drugs in [professional] sport: an issue for the federal government (or state, for that matter)?

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South Kempsey project scuttled but council manages to hang onto funding By Kieran Moran Jan. 11, 2016, 3:52 p.m.

A HIGHLY publicised and lauded $1.6 million community project earmarked for South Kempsey has been scrapped due to an Aboriginal land claim.

The ‘Our Place: South Kempsey Recreational Parklands Project’ was to be part of the South Kempsey ‘One Community, One Mob’ urban social plan and was a direct result of Kempsey Shire Council-driven consultation with South Kempsey residents in 2012. The project was to transform unused Crown Land between Queen and Vernon streets, South Kempsey, through the construction of a new playground, exercise trails, a walkway and landscape improvements. The parklands project was successful in receiving a $500,000 grant in 2013 under the former Labor Government’s Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) and was launched by then Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott in June 2013. The project was supported by Nationals Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, after the Coalition came to power in September 2013.

The clients for the project were Kempsey Shire Council, NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Australian Government Indigenous Coordination Council and the Kempsey Aboriginal Land Council. Mid Coast Communities, a not-for-profit, non-government incorporated association, who deliver a range of State and federal funded community development projects across the Mid North Coast, were set to deliver the $500,000 project to upgrade the existing 5.2ha recreational parklands, opposite the South Kempsey Community Centre.

However, in early 2015, the Macleay Argus understands that cracks started to appear in the project when it was realised the funding allocated was, in part, designated on land that was not under the control of Mid Coast Communities and no authorisations were in place to allow the project to proceed after the NSW Department of Primary Industry (DPI) and Crown Lands identified significant issues with Native Title and Aboriginal land claims. “DPI land records indicate the land is Crown Land and is the subject of an undetermined Aboriginal land claim,” a DPI spokesperson told the Argus. “In considering proposals for Crown Land, DPI Lands consider potential impacts on any native title rights or other interests that might exist.”

The project was to be on two separate Crown Land lots - but one of the lots is the subject of an Aboriginal land claim. The Argus has not been able to confirm whether the land claim was made before or after the announcement of the planned development. The Argus understands Crown Lands were able to overcome Kempsey Aboriginal Land Council issues through negotiation, but could not resolve the Native Title issue in the limited time available. As a result, Crown Lands could only give Mid Coast Communities the option of a licence over some of the project site, or to seek an extension of time from the funding body (RDAF), while they sought rights to proceed from the Federal Court. “The decision to accept the licence and proceed with the project is a matter for the proponent (Mid Coast Communities),” the DPI spokesperson said.

Due to only one licence being granted for only part of the land, Mid Coast Communities board of governance made the decision to terminate the RDAF funding contract. “Mid Coast Communities deeply regrets that the Our Place project was not able to go ahead due to the timing of approval for use of the land,” Mid Coast Communities CEO Ruth Thompson told the Argus. “We’d like to extend our gratitude to the wonderful people of South Kempsey for supporting us in our efforts to deliver the project. We acknowledge the community’s disappointment as, like us, they saw the project as a very valuable and worthwhile one.”

The Argus understands Kempsey Shire Council, after talks with the Federal Government, has managed to retain the $500,000 RDAF funding for a project within the Kempsey community, with an announcement expected in the next two weeks. Kempsey Aboriginal Land Council was invited to comment on the matter however none was available at the time of going to press.

Tokamak posted:

Considering that most sports played at the national level involve athletes that compete at the international level... Then it is a government issue. The government makes a large investment into the development of athletes and sporting organisations, so it only makes sense to hold professional athletes to international standards.

Tokamak posted:

Besides if you are a sport that doesn't compete internationally like the AFL, do you really want to carry a reputation for not giving a poo poo about drug use? Take a look at professional wrestling if you want to plumb the depths of a sport with token drug testing.

Recoome posted:

Obviously the source is UPF supporter, or person with schizophrenia/delusions

Recoome posted:

Worst company you can be possibly working for. The zionists are in league with the catholic leadership. That is why the Pope is so chummy with Islam. The Papacy invented Islam to do it's persecutions for it so it could be seen to keep it's hands clean.

The new world order is really the dark ages take two but this time they are getting rid of the whites because white Europeans broke the churches power before.

Guardian Au posted:

TPP trade deal will expand Australia's economy by less than 1%, World Bank reveals
Government continues to trumpet Trans-Pacific Partnership’s ‘enormous benefits’ despite analysis showing Australia’s growth will be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries in the deal

The federal government maintains the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will deliver “enormous benefits”, despite World Bank analysis showing Australia’s economy will grow by less than 1% as a result of the deal.

Australia’s increased growth is projected to be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries that signed the deal last year, according to the report on the global implications of the deal. Only the US fares worse.

By 2030, Australia’s gross domestic product could increase by just 0.7% as a result of the historic trade agreement. By contrast, Vietnam’s GDP could rise by 10%, and Malaysia’s by 8%, the World Bank finds.

The analysis concedes that the impact for developed nations like Australia and the US will be “modest” because “existing barriers to their trade ... are already low for the most traded commodities”.

“If ratified by all, the agreement could raise GDP in member countries by an average of 1.1% by 2030. It could also increase member countries’ trade by 11% by 2030, and represent a boost to regional trade growth,” the analysis said.

The trade minister, Andrew Robb, has defended the agreement, which has been described as one of the largest and most diverse trade deals in history.

“The historic Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will deliver enormous benefits to Australia by enhancing our competitiveness, and promoting job creation, growth and higher living standards,” a spokeswoman for Robb told Guardian Australia.

“As well as slashing tariff barriers, it will drive Australia’s integration in the fast-growing Asia Pacific, and improve access to regional value chains by establishing one set of trading rules across 12 countries.

“The World Bank report demonstrates that all 12 TPP member countries – representing around 40% of global GDP – will experience economic growth and increased exports under the agreement.”

The Greens spokesman for trade, Peter Whish-Wilson, said the World Bank report was “evidence that the highly politicised TPP agreement will not deliver anything like the government’s overhyped spin”.

“Its economic impact will be negligible,” he said. “This latest World Bank analysis simply backs up all the evidence that has previously been presented regarding the lack of benefits to Australia.

“Andrew Robb has his head in the sand and no amount of credible evidence presented is going to shift him from his spin.”

Whish-Wilson argued the cost of controversial clauses which allowed multinational corporations to sue governments if they thought domestic laws harmed their investments had not been taken into account by the government.

The government is “in total denial about the future costs to Australia of Trojan horse investor-state dispute settlement provisions,” Whish-Wilson said.

Labor has vowed to examine the agreement.

“The trans-Pacific partnership is a major agreement involving some of Australia’s most important trading partners. Labor supports trade negotiations that promote growth and create jobs,” Labor’s acting spokesman on trade, Jim Chalmers, told Guardian Australia.

“The World Bank also notes that the agreement could be an important counterweight to the post-GFC global trade slowdown. Analysis by the World Bank and others will be considered by Labor as we consider the agreement.”

The 6,000-page deal was put online in October, but had previously been criticised for its secrecy. The wide-ranging deal includes changes to tariffs, drug patents and intellectual property.

The 12 countries to sign the deal are: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, US and Vietnam.

Global economic giant China was excluded from the deal, as was South Korea.

Recoome posted:

Obviously the source is UPF supporter, or person with schizophrenia/delusions

fiery_valkyrie posted:

Why not both?

Anidav posted:

US uses post WW2 cultural imperialism to gently caress over Asian nations + Australia.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Anidav posted:

US uses post WW2 cultural imperialism to gently caress over Asian nations + Australia.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Cartoon posted:

When others laugh at how deluded the Socialist Alliance are and mock them most people nod sagely. Whereas the IPA gets quoted in all seriousness by ministers. See also Kate Carnell