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Recoome posted:Canberra is poo poo and it looks poo poo Recoome rhymes with Boom
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The new 404 pages from The Australian are better than the actual articles. Can someone who isn't phone posting link some here?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The new 404 pages from The Australian are better than the actual articles. Can someone who isn't phone posting link some here? theaustralian.com.au/qualityjournalism
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Jumpingmanjim posted:theaustralian.com.au/qualityjournalism   
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Bold the whole thing Serco guards bar asylum seeker advocate from visiting Baby Asha in hospital Serco guards employed by the Department of Immigration have barred an asylum seeker advocate from visiting Baby Asha and her mother at a Brisbane hospital. Doctors at Brisbane’s Lady Cilento children’s hospital are refusing to discharge the one-year-old baby, known as Asha, who was being treated for burns sustained at the Nauru offshore processing centre, because they do not believe the centre provides a safe environment for a child. Natasha Blucher, a former Save the Children worker who is now advocacy coordinator for the Darwin Asylum Seeker Advocacy and Support Network (Dassan), has been supporting the family, but said her permission to visit with them has been revoked without explanation. Blucher told Guardian Australia she had applied to visit Asha and her mother earlier this week. She had been granted permission by the Department of Immigration to visit the mother and baby on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, citing their relationship of two years. Blucher met with the pair on Tuesday morning, but upon returning in the afternoon she was approached by a “quite rude” Serco guard who told her approval had been revoked and she had to leave. Subsequent repeated phone calls to the Department of Immigration have been ignored or fobbed off, according to Blucher. Serco referred questions from Guardian Australia to the immigration department, which said visitation rights were decided on a case by case basis with a number of considerations, “primarily in relation to the ongoing security and welfare of the people they are seeking to visit”. The spokesman said the department was in contact with a number of people and authorities, including the family. “Decisions are being made in the best interests of the child and family and where visitation refusals are made they are for good reasons, which may not be able to be shared publicly,” he said. “Authorised legal representatives and caseworkers for detainees are not impeded in their visitation applications. This individual is not an authorised caseworker for this family and does not deliver services on behalf of the department or its service providers.” In response Blucher said it didn’t make sense for the department “to state that these decisions are made in the best interests of the family, when it’s the family themselves who are so upset that I’m not allowed to see them”. Blucher said Asha’s mother had not been allowed to receive calls from her. She questioned the government’s recent promise of compassion towards asylum seekers currently in the custody of Australian authorities. “The government has made statements that they are going to treat people with compassion and on a case by case basis,” said Blucher. “When Malcolm Turnbull was asked about Asha specifically he said he wouldn’t comment on individual cases but that we’ll be treating all people with compassion. Not allowing a mother with a sick child in hospital to be visited by someone she’s known for two years when she has no other friends around is not compassion.” Asha was born in Australia to her asylum-seeker parents. In June she was removed to Nauru at the age of five months, against the advice of Save the Children. She developed gastroenteritis within a week. A protest and vigil outside the Brisbane hospital supporting Asha and her doctors has entered its seventh day. When asked about the case on Monday, Turnbull told media the government would not make any decisions which would “imperil the health or security of any individual”. “We’re managing this policy with great care and with great compassion, and at the same time doing everything we can to ensure that we do not do anything or say anything which will be used by the people smugglers to get more vulnerable people on to those boats,” he said. The government is also under pressure from community groups, churches and state and territory leaders to grant amnesty to 267 asylum seekers who are set to be deported back to offshore processing and detention following the high court decision which ruled the system legal. On Wednesday human rights lawyers said the government had agreed to give at least 72 hours’ notice of any attempt to deport Asha and her family back to Nauru. At the same time it was revealed the government had withdrawn its assurances to do the same for the 267 other asylum seekers facing transfer. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/18/serco-guards-bar-asylum-seeker-advocate-from-visiting-baby-asha-in-hospital
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Buzzfeed have a massive collection of the Oz 404 pages if you don't want to give them clicks.
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Is anaconda venom a diuretic? EDIT: Do anaconda's even have venom? Apparently not, I am not a snek expert. EDIT2: "He ruled out making “effective retrospective” changes to super by taxing in the retirement phase. “If they’re going to change the rules at the other end when you’re going to be living off it, then it’s understandable that people might get spooked.”" HAHAHAHA Sure we'll make changes to negative gearing and super taxation and concessions, but only for the future, GOTTA PULL THAT LADDER UP AFTER THE BOOMERS. hooman fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/18/grow-up-and-stop-taking-naked-photos-of-yourself-says-senior-police-officer Problematic
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Lid posted:http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/18/grow-up-and-stop-taking-naked-photos-of-yourself-says-senior-police-officer quote:Australian federal police assistant commissioner Shane Connelly denies he is victim blaming in saying people should stop taking naked shots of themselves to curb revenge pornography AFP Assistant Commissioner Shane Connelly denies he is victim blaming when he blames the victims of revenge pornography
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hooman posted:Is anaconda venom a diuretic? Oh ffs. Fuckin boomers, I hope their sequencing risk is really high. At this rate the next gen is going to retire on lentils while enjoying the waves gently lapping at their beach front properties caused by rampant, irreversible climate change. Utterly fukt.
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Mithranderp posted:AFP Assistant Commissioner Shane Connelly denies he is victim blaming when he blames the victims of revenge pornography If I want to send people pictures of my tackle that's my business*. *they may not know me.
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If someone wants to take up the case, remembrance day could be a thing of the past.quote:LONDON, England -- A bizarre legal battle over a minute's silence in a recorded song has ended with a six-figure out-of-court settlement.
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That's really dumb. The entire point of 4.33 is that it isn't silence.
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Zenithe posted:That's really dumb. The entire point of 4.33 is that it isn't silence. He actually got done for citing Cage and not getting permission to use the work so this is a bit misleading to say the least. Just reads funny in the context of remembrance day.
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http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016/02/19/negative-gearing-is-for-the-average-everyday-battler-with-multiple-houses-morrison-says/
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For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, watch at least the first skit on Black Comedy on iView. Not going to give you details because I don't want to ruin the joke.
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hooman posted:“If they’re going to change the rules at the other end when you’re going to be living off it, then it’s understandable that people might get spooked.”" Unfortunately the way the current system is set up, when the capital-owning class spook and dump their properties because now they're suddenly exposed to massive liability, it'll gently caress the economy overnight and everyone's going to suffer from that. The current arrangements are so thoroughly hosed that not only do they screw over the poor, you can't even get rid of them cleanly without screwing the poor even more.
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The band-aid model of economic development.
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Kommando posted:well. if it's royally hosed, could we make it a short sharp pain instead of a long drawn out panic. The recession we had to have wouldn't fly with the Australian public.
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Unfortunately the way the current system is set up, when the capital-owning class spook and dump their properties because now they're suddenly exposed to massive liability, it'll gently caress the economy overnight and everyone's going to suffer from that. The current arrangements are so thoroughly hosed that not only do they screw over the poor, you can't even get rid of them cleanly without screwing the poor even more. Sounds good to me 
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It's also not really fair to change laws people rely on like that. You wouldn't like it if you got to the end of your working life and suddenly found out you had a lot less money to retire on than you thought.
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open24hours posted:It's also not really fair to change laws people rely on like that. You wouldn't like it if you got to the end of your working life and suddenly found out you had a lot less money to retire on than you thought. It's really hard to feel sorry for someone who is abusing a system built to gently caress over the poor to put away fat stacks. Maybe they can have a turn at being poors so they know what they've been doing to others. Empathy through pain.
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open24hours posted:It's also not really fair to change laws people rely on like that. You wouldn't like it if you got to the end of your working life and suddenly found out you had a lot less money to retire on than you thought. if they fail it's their fault for not being agile enough.
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Birb Katter posted:It's really hard to feel sorry for someone who is abusing a system built to gently caress over the poor to put away fat stacks. Maybe they can have a turn at being poors so they know what they've been doing to others. Empathy through pain. Birdstrike posted:if they fail it's their fault for not being agile enough. Looks like birbs of a feather really do *puts on sunnies* flock together!
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Birb Katter posted:It's really hard to feel sorry for someone who is abusing a system built to gently caress over the poor to put away fat stacks. Maybe they can have a turn at being poors so they know what they've been doing to others. Empathy through pain. They're using the system in the way it was designed to be used though?
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Birb Katter posted:The recession we had to have wouldn't fly with the Australian public. This australian public.
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The idea that there are 'recessions we have to have' is an invention of sadistic misanthropes who want everyone to be as miserable as they are anyway.
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open24hours posted:They're using the system in the way it was designed to be used though? Rising by using a system to steal money from the poor to give to the rich and fall in a system designed to take back what they got out of it. Seems fair.
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Birb Katter posted:Rising by using a system to steal money from the poor to give to the rich and fall in a system designed to take back what they got out of it. Seems fair. It might not be fair but it's hardly unusual.
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Things are getting very strange in Twitter #auspol https://twitter.com/doktrspin/status/700462501842939904
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Interesting move to revoke Australian and NZ visas http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/02/19/nauru-revokes-all-australian-visitor-visas-airline I am not extracting the text from this, it's SBS
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As if things weren't hard enough for Australian Musicians: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-19/figures-show-40-per-cent-drop-in-sydney%27s-live-music-revenue/7183024 quote:Music industry representatives claim 40 per cent drop in live music revenue since Sydney lockout laws By state political reporter Lucy McNally Updated 19 minutes ago Clop clop clop.
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Here is a nice read on apartment living. Because I want to be just like Recoome you can click the ABC link. It's kind of long and just an opinion piece.
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It seems like the main thing missing is family sized apartments. There's no shortage of one and two bedroom ones, but four and five bedroom apartments almost don't exist in this country.
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Recoome posted:Interesting move to revoke Australian and NZ visas https://twitter.com/Republic_Nauru/status/696528101950394368
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