Amethyst posted:

He was extremely obviously joking about the kangaroo thing.

turdbucket posted:

I hope everyone saw LABOR LEFT HERO OF THE WORKERS Albanese attacking the Greens' candidate for being a socialist today.

Lid posted:

A recurring theme amongst religious extremists is very poor education and intellect.

quote:

Gina Rinehart is no longer Australia's richest person.
In the past five years Ms Rinehart has topped Forbes Australia's rich list, but this year she has been unseated by another woman - reclusive American heiress and longtime Australian resident Blair Parry-Okeden.

Ms Parry-Okeden's net worth of $US8.8 billion ($12.5 billion) makes her the country's richest person (again) while Ms Rinehart has fallen to second place with a net worth of $US8.5 billion ($12.1 billion).
Forbes says Ms Parry-Okeden, who grew up in Hawaii and moved to her ex-husband's country of birth Australia decades ago, was recently confirmed to be an Australian citizen.
After her mother's 2007, death she inherited a quarter of US media conglomerate Cox Enterprises, America's third-biggest cable TV company

Forbes says Ms Rinehart's wealth has slipped $US3.2 billion in the past year, mainly due to falling iron ore prices and a legal ruling which impacted her shareholding in Hancock Prospecting.
Ms Rinehart's wealth erosion was the largest in dollar terms, but fellow iron ore miner Andrew Forrest's wealth took the biggest percentage hit: down 41 per cent, sending him down 12 spots on the rich list to No. 22.
Property baron Harry Triguboff ranks number three on this year's list, with a net worth of $US6.9 billion ($9.8 billion).

Rising rents and increased demand for his Sydney apartments helped drive up Mr Triguboff's fortune by $US1.3 billion, Forbes says.
Property sales of his apartment tower development company, Meriton, are expected to rise 70 per cent this year.
The biggest winner on the rich scale in percentage terms was Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Smith. His wealth jumped 62 per cent to $US1.78 billion after the successful float of the software company on the US sharemarket in December. Atlassian's co-founder, Scott Farquhar, is right behind him.

James Packer fell two spots to sixth rank with an estimated fortune of $3.5 billion.

TOP 10 RICHEST AUSTRALIANS:
1) Blair Parry-Okeden, $US8.8 billion

2) Gina Rinehart, $US8.5 billion

3) Harry Triguboff, $US6.9 billion

4) Frank Lowy, $US5 billion

5) Anthony Pratt, $US3.6 billion

6) James Packer, $US3.5 billion

7) John Gandel, $US3.2 billion

8) Lindsay Fox, $US2.8 billion

9) David Teoh, $US1.95 billion

10) David Hains, $US1.9 billion

Anidav posted:

Only 19 though, if there's more evidence that is obviously classified then it's kind of hosed how young these blokes are getting. It kinda sounds like some smuck getting caught up in his own imagination and looking into ways to get attention in a plan that would probably never leave the paper it's written on but the high terror level means the AFP will read what you've written before the ink even dries and throw you in the slammer.

The kids aren't the problem though, counter culture to american imperialism in the middle east has existed for a very long time and there no doubt is all sorts of content in the web; deep or otherwise encouraging all sorts to be heroes and martyrs. The problem is with the current approach it's very easy to slip into an eye for an eye mentality and gently caress up a generation of Muslim kids forever.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Or you could just decide not to try to kill people.

It doesn't matter how much poo poo you read on the internet you would know there is no excuse for cold blooded murder. Plotting to murder an innocent person to... I dunno avenge the deaths of innocent people is a pretty weak argument. Eye for an eye mentality? Plenty of other people would have to take a wander through the hall of mirrors before you got close to the AFP.

He's going to get his day in court. If the case is bullshit he will be free. If it's solid then gently caress him to be honest.

Amethyst posted:

Good thinking Graic Gabtar, understanding the roots of criminality and extremism is completely pointless, IMO, since violent urges arise from within, possibly from an imbalance of the four humorous temperaments.

Graic Gabtar posted:

He's going to get his day in court. If the case is bullshit he will be free. If it's solid then gently caress him to be honest.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Lol what? You believe the courts are fair? Do you seriously think courts aren't heavily biased in favour of the rich and the white?

Oh my god, what a world you must live in, Graic. What a world you must live in...

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Lol what? You believe the courts are fair? Do you seriously think courts aren't heavily biased in favour of the rich and the white?

Oh my god, what a world you must live in, Graic. What a world you must live in...

Guardian Au posted:

NSW cafe's 'National Dickhead Day' sign sparks death threats and vandalism
The owner of Mister Jones cafe, Matt Chun, received threats of ‘vandalism, arson, murder, mass violence’ over his ‘lighthearted’ Australia Day sign

A regional New South Wales coffee shop that displayed a sign labelling Australia Day “National Dickhead Day” was vandalised and its owner sent death threats after pictures of the provocative message were posted on social media.

Matt Chun said a blackboard with the message in chalk was displayed for 15 minutes outside his cafe, Mister Jones, in the south coast town of Bermagui, the afternoon before Australia Day.

A picture of the board was uploaded to the Facebook group Meanwhile in Australia, with the caption “Your attitude is as bad as your coffee”.

It was reproduced on several Facebook pages belonging to rightwing nationalist groups and liked more than 700,000 times, Chun said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that has been liked by 13,000 people and shared more than 3,000 times.

He arrived on Tuesday morning to find “the door locks to my business had been drilled out and the windows glued shut”.

His inbox was full of messages “containing unprintable abuse and describing group plans for physical attacks”, he said.

“My voicemail account has mercifully reached capacity and I’ve long stopped listening to the graphic and explicit death threats.”

Chun, a professional artist, said he and his customers had also received online threats of “vandalism, arson, murder [and] mass violence”.

Despite the furore, or because of it, 26 January was his busiest Australia Day on record.

“The provocative blackboard seems innocuous now, entirely disproportionate to the scale of the hatred,” he said.

“Indeed, taken on face value, the blackboard was possibly the most Australian thing that one could write about ‘Australia Day’, in a country that claims to be proud of its ‘larrikin’ irreverence and self-effacing humour.”

The message was intended to be lighthearted, but he stood by its sentiment that Australia Day was “a singular atrocity”.

“Celebrating January 26 at best trivialises – and at worst glorifies – the invasion of this continent, declaration of terra nullius, massacre and attempted genocide of its 30,000-year-old Indigenous population,” he said.

“It is a day spent reveling [sic] in the mindless perpetuation of old myths and the clumsy fabrication of new ones. It is no accident that ‘Australia Day’ has been so effectively co-opted by an extremist minority as a thinly veiled anniversary of white privilege.”

Zenithe posted:

Triple J listeners like bland indie music, shocker.

Just listened to the no.1, and yeah, plain toast with nothing on it.

adamantium|wang posted:

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

The film clip is literally an all-white band dressed in all white clothes playing in an all white room.

Lid posted:

The Hottest 100 has become a case of Australian exceptionalism, when it's not exceptional. Vance Joy over Lorde was the worst.

See also: every case of Australian Hip-Hop ever.

Birb Katter posted:

Fudge or c4, I'm not Muslim so it's probably fudge

ScreamingLlama posted:

Judging by the khaki colour, it looks like plastic explosive to me. I've seen and eaten fudge in lots of colours and flavours, but never that. Granted, C4 and its cousin PE4 are both white under the wrapper by default, but you could always dye it as a means of camouflage.

Thanks to you, I now have explosives search strings in my google history.

quote:

CNN spoke to multiple current and former child detainees who describe the Nauru camp as a prison. Children live behind fences. They are searched when leaving or entering the camp, including when they go to school. They feel intimidated or harassed by the omnipresent security guards. But mostly these refugees describe the hopelessness of their lives and the vanishing dreams of an education and a future beyond the confines of this tiny island.

Laserface posted:

When, if ever, do you think the Australian public will change its opinion on refugees? Im guessing 3 maybe 4 more articles about it. Be sure to post them here so I can keep count.

hooman posted:

Australian Hip Hop gets a whole lot of unjustified hate. It's cool as gently caress to hate it but drat if there aren't some good bands/groups out there working loving hard and putting out some really quality stuff.

Weak unadventurous poo poo like anything Bernard Fanning has done solo deserves far more poo poo. Biggest travesty that he got #1 over Gorillaz and I'm still loving dark about it.

EDIT: Seriously, if you loathsome "Aussie Hip Hop Sucks" hipsters have never listened to Horrowshow's Inside Story, do that, then tell me all Australian hip hop is poo poo.

Laserface posted:

When, if ever, do you think the Australian public will change its opinion on refugees? Im guessing 3 maybe 4 more articles about it. Be sure to post them here so I can keep count.

ScreamingLlama posted:

Thanks to you, I now have explosives search strings in my google history.

"Canada considers changing national anthem to include country's women posted:

Justin Trudeau’s newly elected Liberal government has been praised for overhauling Canada’s approach to immigration, the environment and relations with the First Nations.

Now it is seeking to change the country’s national anthem – but just by four words.

Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger introduced a bill on Wednesday to change two words of O Canada so it recognises the country’s women as well as its men.

If passed, the third line of the anthem will change from “True patriot love in all thy son’s command” – to “all of us command”.

“With my bill, I want to pay tribute to all the women who have worked and fought to build and shape the Canada that we know today,” Bélanger said in a statement. “I want to at long last honour their sacrifices and contribution.”

Bélanger, who was recently diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and can no longer speak, introduced the bill using an iPad speech app. “By the way Mr Speaker, it is 2016,” he said in closing....

Ten previous attempts have all failed after opposition from conservatives

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Good one Laserface! That's a really funny joke. I wish I could pull off, 'casually cynical about refugees' as well as you can. It's a riot.

Redcordial posted:

You are the problem with this loving world.

I know don't poke the poop, but holy poo poo, you are the loving problem.

Orkin Mang posted:

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