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SadisTech posted:Counting down until Renai LeMay justifies his premium content article about how Nick Ross was not gagged whatsoever and is just seeking attention as being the legitimate truth in some tortured fashion Hah, he's hidden a bunch of the text of that article that previously could be seen without a subscription.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 09:25 |
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Hopefully the transcripts will be readable, at what point does that article hide content?
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 10:48 |
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ewe2 posted:Hopefully the transcripts will be readable, at what point does that article hide content? Not the New Matilda piece. Delimiter. https://delimiter.com.au/2016/01/15/the-inside-track-no-the-abc-did-not-gag-nick-ross/ <- This previously had a fair bit more text available to non-subscribers. I wonder if the whole thing will disappear? LeMay has come out with mea culpas before, so he might bite the bullet, but it's certainly not the most professional of looks for someone aiming to be a leading independent tech journalist.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 11:03 |
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The gently caress kind of name is Renai??
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 11:10 |
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ewe2 posted:Hopefully the transcripts will be readable, at what point does that article hide content? The New Matilda article isn't behind a paywall but they haven't posted full transcripts, I think there are more articles coming over the weekend or something. The paywalled article people are talking about was a thing on Delimiter by some guy who was all "Nick Ross wasn't gagged by anyone, he's full of poo poo, pay to find out why!" with the why being a semantic argument about how noone ever officially gagged him and how everyone's being overemotional babies or some other bullshit.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 11:11 |
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Does anyone have access to the paywalled article and can post it here?
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 11:30 |
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Ohhh right, I wasn't up with that Delimiter thing, but hopefully NM puts out the transcript and shuts him up. ABC is quietly freaking out and hoping this gets blown away by whatever madness comes out this invasion day weekend.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 12:29 |
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https://www.facebook.com/events/161845574186315/
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 14:19 |
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"I look at flag burning as an act of treason." ~ A person who does not understand treason.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 15:42 |
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hooman posted:"I look at flag burning as an act of treason." ~ A person who does not understand treason. Maybe she means that she herself likes to look at burning flags for the warm treasonous glow they give? Yeah... Think about it Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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hooman posted:"I look at flag burning as an act of treason." ~ A person who does not understand treason. It ... sorta is, isn't it? Like, fundamentally Or do you mean that dude missed the point?
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 18:38 |
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Burning a flag isn't treasonous, no matter how much flag waving patriots think it is
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 22:27 |
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no, Treason is when you betray your country (government?) to its enemies, not defacing a pointless symbol.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 22:39 |
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lol
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 23:02 |
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starkebn posted:no, Treason is when you betray your country (government?) to its enemies, not defacing a pointless symbol. Yes but have you considered that burning the flag means the terrorists win
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 23:03 |
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What really makes me irrationally angry is when people question the ~honour~ and greatness that is Australia.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 23:05 |
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The NRA have apparently come out swinging against the Australian gun laws. A bit late, considering the buy back was so long ago, but it's probably trying to position itself in the USA regarding Obama's executive orders. At least one of the comments on the video was "this wouldn't happen in the USA without a bloodbath." The irony is astounding. You have to wonder how some people in the US can function at any level with that amount of cognitive dissonance reverberating around their skulls.
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Recoome posted:What really makes me irrationally angry is when people question the ~honour~ and greatness that is Australia. But, but, they followed orders at the complete debacle that was the Dardanelles campaign oh, and the Light Horse rode to their deaths too. These things "define a nation" don't think about the genocide
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 23:17 |
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Oh, I was reading (listening actually) to The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [1898] recently, and this stood out. It's the sixth paragraph:H.G. Wells posted:And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
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starkebn posted:Oh, I was reading (listening actually) to The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [1898] recently, and this stood out. It's the sixth paragraph: The War of the Worlds is actually quite cool and good. I mean, the story is about some technologically superior beings attempting to aggressive colonise a place and wipe out the technologically inferior inhabitants. The allegory to imperialism is probably lost on some people.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 23:33 |
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Canberra Liberals proving their relevance. quote:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/jeremy-hanson-proposes-new-onepunch-offences-for-the-act-20160120-gmaioj.html
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The Shovel still killing it Popularity With Party, Voters, Only Things Standing Between Abbott And Another Prime Ministership
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 00:11 |
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The emails are heart-breaking. People, young and old, responding to the story of Julia Gilchrist, a successful young woman who has had trouble holding down a job because she is profoundly deaf, but has been told she is not disabled enough by Centrelink to qualify for disability support. There is the mother fielding job application phone calls for a deaf son who was made redundant a month ago. So far ten companies have responded to his resume. But as soon as I mention [he] is hearing impaired they do not wish to go to the next level, she writes. Another woman, 50, had worked for 30 years in data entry before being made redundant. She too is deaf, and is at the mercy of a Centrelink job provider who cannot find her work. It is the most frustrating, depressing experience anyone can go through, she writes. And it is not just deaf people who have been told they are not disabled enough. In Western Australia, Prue Hawkins, 33, who has brittle bone disease and is confined to a wheelchair, has been given the same response. A government-commissioned review has recommended pushing more people who are apparently "able to work" off the disability support pension and on to the dole. There, they will be stuck in a world Franz Kafka himself could not have dreamed up, where the deaf are expected to receive vital information over the phone, and people in wheelchairs expected to apply for jobs at their local supermarket. It may seem incomprehensible, but anyone who has ever had the misfortune of ending up in a Centrelink queue knows this is just the next logical step in a long history of Liberal and Labor reforms to welfare. Our welfare system is not about welfare, it is about punishment. Years of demonisation of the unemployed by tabloid newspaper and TV scare campaigns has made it acceptable in our community for governments to design a system that forces people in need through as many humiliating and unpleasant hoops as possible to get their measly $35 or so a day. One emailer tells how she has been made suddenly redundant from an $80,000-a-year job. I got $260 a fortnight which did not even pay my rent, let alone bills, food and getting to job interviews,'' she writes. ''I came up against constant requirements to undertake job ready courses, such as learning how to turn a computer on and off, and open [Microsoft] Excel and Word. Insulting and embarrassing would be putting it mildly. My own experience on finishing university in 2007, mid-way through the year before many graduate hiring programs began, is similar. I only had a couple of shifts a week in my bar job and was switched from youth allowance to the dole to supplement my income. A distinction average student with first class honours, I was immediately put into compulsory "job seeker training", where nine to five every day I went to an office and filled in an "employment workbook", before working nights at my bar job. I filled in a skills audit worksheet, where I ticked whether or not I had skills such as purchasing and estimating physical space. I was ''taught'' not to call people asking for work with a mouth full of food, or lie on my resume. I quit before I got to the interview training week, where my workbook informed me I would be told to wear high heels and wash, bathe or shower and use a deodorant. And while I briefly regretted that decision when, soon after, I developed a serious sickness and was without income for two weeks, I was grateful to know I would, within a few months, most likely get a full-time job. I was privileged enough to bet on myself, and win, and I hope I never had to rely on Centrelink again. But many thousands of Australians will not be so lucky. Young people just starting out or people with a disability particularly mental illnesses, which are the most heavily stigmatised of all medical conditions will suffer greatly. As the former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes has pointed out, the government is fixing a problem of job availability by attacking welfare availability. The result will be countless more little humiliations, unremarked upon and unreported, but slowly chipping away at the self-esteem and opportunities for those of us who are most vulnerable.
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https://twitter.com/petstarr/status/690286131754102784/photo/1 E: Also Morrison is talking down speculation of an early election, probably because people in the party actually realised what DD and Reps-only elections mean. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Lleyton Hewitt slams blog linking him to match-fixing allegations while also announcing he is retiring from Tennis.
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Save the Children compensation, apology for Nauru removal a matter for Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison says http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-22/save-the-children-compensation-immigration-minister-morrison/7106808 quote:Treasurer Scott Morrison has refused to be drawn on recommendations that staff removed from Nauru's immigration detention centre should be offered compensation. I've donated to this organisation for over a decade. Sucks to know some of my money was wasted on fighting this piece of poo poo and I hope they get compensated. Halo14 fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Must be time for the annual rewriting of history! What better way than an unconfirmed leak to newscorpse! http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/icac-and-arthur-sinodinos-silent-on-claims-he-has-been-cleared-20160120-gmaglo.html quote:ICAC and Arthur Sinodinos silent on claims he has been 'cleared' Date January 22, 2016 - 10:30AM Michaela Whitbourn and Judith Ireland
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This is fantastic. Going to copy/paste the whole thing http://www.smh.com.au/national/transcript-deng-thiak-aduts-australia-day-speech-20160121-gmau63.html quote:Transcript: Deng Thiak Adut's Australia Day speech
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:09 |
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It was an amazing speech, and I was so glad to have been able to watch it live on ABC whilst doing some research at home. Such an astonishing amount of courage and fortitude within his words, truly an inspirational person who has survived extreme conditions.
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:22 |
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Is there some public event where we can boo him safe in anonymity while yelling bigot at anyone who calls us racist? Asking for a friend
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:42 |
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Isn't that why this thread exists?
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:50 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Is there some public event where we can boo him safe in anonymity while yelling bigot at anyone who calls us racist? Asking for a friend Do you really want to do this? He's Sudanese not Aboriginal. Wait, reffoes are criminals - carry on...
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:55 |
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Reffos ruin everything. 5 star hotels, centrelink lines, calling no try in the state of origin. I bet the video reffo came here by boat. Australian Tea Party for Freedom!
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Solemn Sloth posted:Is there some public event where we can boo him safe in anonymity while yelling bigot at anyone who calls us racist? Asking for a friend You are such a loving drag dude. Seriously. I know you think this garbage is funny but you're actually just the worst.
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 01:59 |
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Auspol, upon reading a a thoughtful, clear eyed, yet hopeful speech, impulsively breaks out into heavily cynical negativity delivered in the form of witless sarcasm.
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 02:02 |
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Amethyst posted:You are such a loving drag dude. Seriously. I know you think this garbage is funny but you're actually just the worst. No one gives a gently caress what you think hth
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 02:02 |
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Starshark posted:No one gives a gently caress what you think hth I don't give a poo poo what the majority who post here think. Engaging with you guys is a deeply dispiriting experience and I need to train myself out of the habit. You're philosophically bankrupt morons.
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 02:05 |
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There are lots of places on Facebook you can find inspirational quotes. The speech is good in a kind of harmless, twee way that the kinds of speeches people are allowed to give at public events on Australia day usually are. What's to philosophise about it?
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# ? Jan 22, 2016 02:08 |
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Amethyst posted:I don't give a poo poo what the majority who post here think. Engaging with you guys is a deeply dispiriting experience and I need to train myself out of the habit. You're philosophically bankrupt morons. lol
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open24hours posted:There are lots of places on Facebook you can find inspirational quotes. loving lol. You read that speech and your first point of comparison is inspirational quotes on facebook? What's the philosophize about? loving listen to yourself.
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