starkebn posted:

Must be nice when you've got everything figured out and it's all so brown & white

MaliciousOnion posted:

starkebn posted:

Must be nice when you've got everything figured out and it's all so brown & white

Avshalom posted:

you loving

fliptophead posted:

What about who gives a gently caress about borders? It is a waste of money keeping this arbitrary idea around. You as a libertarian think the government needs to regulate the flow of people into and out of this land because they aren't citizens? Who pays for that? gently caress off.

LibertyCat posted:

I wish the Greens would adopt that attitude and loudly announce it while campaigning.

Zenithe posted:

Because I've been applying for every job I come across with no success yet?

LibertyCat posted:

Good point. Since Islam+Men is a bad combination, clearly we should prevent immigration by Muslim Men.


What political cause was he advocating? Did he carry a "Free Palestine" flag, or demand Independence for Western Sydney?

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Why is political violence a higher priority than criminal or domestic violence, when it has the least victims? You're attempting to proceed from false premises. I think you'll find this board will *aghem* arrest your progress from that point of origin.

e: btw people, I was a mere 300 metres away from the explosion on Crystal St when the bikies blew up a rival gang's clubhouse.

Amount of actual bombings carried out by terrorists in this country? 0

Amount of actual bombings in this country by other people? Many.

You all remember the car bomb guy in Queensland who got nicked with loads of explosives on his property? I don't forget.

Hilton bombing in Sydney? Car bombing outside police station in Melbourne 30 years ago?

We seem to have a problem with white men in this country blowing things up. Perhaps we should deport them.

e2: and ffs look at all this chauvinist poo poo. I hate this thread sometimes.

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Just 3 per cent of voters think a company tax cut should be the government's top economic priority, according to a devastating poll that will put further pressure on the Coalition's pre-budget planning.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has indicated company tax cuts are on the agenda for the May 3 budget - rather than income tax relief - arguing the best way to drive economic growth was by reducing the tax paid by employers.

But the public is far less keen on that prospect, much preferring budget repair, education spending or personal income tax cuts to take top billing on the government's economic agenda.

The online Omnipoll survey taken for Sky News found 46 per cent of respondents said "fixing the budget" should be the government's first priority - especially among Coalition supporters.

Even among Labor voters, 36 per cent favoured budget repair, compared to 34 per cent who want more spending on education.

Only 3 per cent of voters said company tax cuts should be the government's first priority - a sentiment that was consistent on both sides of the political spectrum and across all age groups and income brackets.

OmniPoll co-founder Martin O'Shannessy, a former director of the influential Newspoll, told Sky News balancing the budget was "becoming a proxy" for voters' concerns about the economy.

"Even among Labor voters this concern for the budget balance and the economy is equally important with education, and normally education is way out there," he said.

The online poll of 1146 voters across Australia was taken last weekend, before Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull set down his double dissolution election threat to the Senate crossbenchers. It is the first major survey by OmniPoll, established by former Newspoll managers including Mr O'Shannessy.

The poll also reinforced perceptions that Mr Turnbull's honeymoon has come to an end, with 62 per cent of respondents saying the PM had not lived up to their expectations. But that was chiefly driven by Labor voters, with six in 10 Coalition supporters expressing confidence in Mr Turnbull's leadership.

"We're at that stage where the honeymoon should be over," Mr O'Shannessy said. "He's had six months of fantastic ratings and we've just seen him starting to drop off."

But the results are a public indictment on the government's plans for an election-year budget in which companies would enjoy a tax cut but workers would not.

Cabinet Secretary Arthur Sinodinos last weekend explained the "good effects" of cutting company tax, arguing it would encourage investment and greater productivity.

"At least 50 per cent of the impact of cutting company taxes goes in higher wages for workers. And higher employment," he told the ABC's Insiders program.

The idea is one of many promulgated by Mr Morrison in the formulation of the government's tax reform agenda. But, like the GST increase or changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, the Prime Minister has hesitated to embrace it with both hands.

In December he said a major cut to the corporate tax rate would be an "enormous change" to the budget and would present an affordability problem. "It would stimulate growth, but it would have a cost to the budget … affordability is very important," he said.

Both Labor and the Coalition have previously offered in-principle endorsement for a gradual decline in the company tax rate from 30 per cent to 25 per cent. The Greens have said they would not support a cut to either company tax or income tax in the Senate.

BlindSite posted:

Nah thats cool man. I agree. Australia is the sole cause of islamic extremism. Never mind the literal hundreds of other causes starting with their own home grown bullshit. Its the evil of Australia.

Glad we could clear that up as if it has any impact on anything Id mentioned in my original post.

LibertyCat posted:

Not gonna lie, if I had to choose between Di Natale and Trump, I'd pick Trump.

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Of all the real, or perceived, differences between the prime minister and the treasurer, the one that is likely to matter most to Australians is about to come to a head.

In one week state premiers and treasurers will meet Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison to find out whether the federal government is going to offer them any more money to deal with the hospitals and schools funding crisis that hits next year, and has been going to hit next year ever since Tony Abbott ripped $80bn out of projected hospitals and schools funding in the infamous budget of 2014.

As the Guardian revealed last month, Turnbull has been reassuring state premiers for some time that the commonwealth was going to stump up interim funding to tide them over while new long-term funding agreements are struck.

But for a long time Morrison has been consistently sending a totally different message, essentially that the states are on their own, saying things like: “I don’t think states are branch offices of the commonwealth. I think they are sovereign governments ... In no business in this country would anyone just accept someone walking into their office and saying the increase in cost is 8%, give me the cheque. We all have to manage our budgets. The states almost without an exception ... are in surplus at the present.”

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A measure backed by the South Australian Parliament to limit Adelaide's urban sprawl will shrink house block sizes and drive up prices, critics have said.

The Legislative Council has approved introduction of a boundary through creation of an Environment and Food Production Area (EFPA).

Protection of the food and wine production areas to the north and south of Adelaide will also affect towns as far afield as Victor Harbor, Murray Bridge and Kapunda.

Government Upper House leader Kyam Maher said it was important to protect farmland and the rural landscape just beyond Adelaide.

"The EFPA will provide a 15-year supply of land for urban growth within greater Adelaide," he told Parliament.

"It will encourage building of new homes in our inner and middle-ring suburbs, something which market research shows is where more and more people want to live.

"Such infill development, compared to green field development, generates more jobs, costs less to service and provides more affordable living options."

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South Australian Greens leader Mark Parnell said Adelaide's population of 1.3 million could quadruple within its existing footprint if housing density kept increasing.

"Adelaide will not continue to sprawl out into valuable farmland, chew up areas that could be used to grow food," he said.

"Adelaide is already one of the most sprawling and sparsely populated cities in the world, and there is plenty of space for expansion within the existing boundary."

Vladimir Poutine posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-24/adelaide-urban-sprawl-boundary/7272852?section=sa
I cut out a few paragraphs of Property Council and Family First whining for the sake of brevity.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Good luck with actually maintaining a growth boundary. Melbourne's is routinely expanded to accommodate the best mates of the planning minister at any given time.

Cleretic posted:

Adelaide's urban sprawl was a big part of why I wanted to move away from it. With so much of it, and yet nothing to fill it because there isn't any industry, Adelaide just has interminable stretches of nothing. It would take me a half-hour train ride to get into the CBD from Salisbury, and there is basically nothing between those two points; it's just a half-hour of suburbs with absolutely no purpose beyond being suburbs.

Birdstrike posted:

is it pronounced Leon? Lion? Lay-on? and why the gently caress is there a j after an h get rid of him

Anidav posted:

Budget repair is easy. Just go to bunnings and ask for the accounting section. Get some wood, economists and a few nails...

Recoome posted:

Bifauxnen posted:

What does cultural Marxism even loving mean, I'm sick of seeing it thrown all over the place as the new favourite buzzword catchphrase by people that I'm sure have no clue what the gently caress it means either.

BBJoey posted:

it means "I'm a Nazi who believes that the Jews invented feminism so Hot Aryan Babes don't want to go out with me", hth