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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Remember when Tony got booted out and how the media was following his car and he was just aimlessly driving around Canberra all day?

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Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

Aimlessly driving around? Sounds like Tony

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Because everyone was expecting him to resign the same day but instead he just drove around Canberra all day and night.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
And some how the pigeon is less poo poo than the two stooges on the poster.

Is it really real wrong that I want to smack Barnaby Joyce in the face with a cricket bat? (Asking for a friend etc)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-07/east-china-sea-collision-leaves-17-missing,-two-dead/7393610

Should the Chinese emulate America and overfly Malta? Nineteen deaths is a whole lot more provocation than building some poo poo.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-08/battle-of-the-coral-sea-commemorated-in-hobart/7393930

I'm no war fetishist but if we are to celebrate Armed service under the guise of existential threat then the Battle of the Coral Sea is the one. Australian involvement? Two ships: Cruisers HMAS Hobart and Australia. Strange that the Navy doesn't get much of the patriotic adulation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-02/cruise-liner-cancels-newcastle-stop-due-to-weekend-coal-protest/7374574

Hard to find good online coverage but the Newcastle anticoal protest has already seen four arrests and is shaping up as a real ding dong.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3894106/newcastle-harbour-coal-blockade/

My favourite so far: "Look Tony we stopped the boats!"

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Anidav posted:

Because everyone was expecting him to resign the same day but instead he just drove around Canberra all day and night.

Saying goodbye to the roads he loved so dearly. Do you have a link i dont rmemebrr that.

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
Lol at the tourism operators complaining about how the protests are being shut down.

idk why anyone would want to go through the hunter valley, there's a dirty loving great big coal mine in the middle of it and some p ugly industry, also Musswellbrook is a piece of poo poo town full of bogans

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
CANBERRA, May 5 AAP - "I'm pretty disabled in the head."

It's not the usual thing you hear in parliament - but then Bill Heffernan is not your usual politician.

One of the more colourful personalities in Canberra, the Liberal senator is widely known for his quirky lines ("F***, that's risky s***") , unpredictable behaviour (bringing a fake pipe bomb to parliament) and ability to shock (calling Julia Gillard "deliberately barren").

But one of his lesser-known jobs is managing the wild, wild west of parliamentary hearings - the Senate's rural and regional affairs committee.

If you think most other hearings are a laugh, you haven't been in one of these. Think: lessons in harvesting bee semen.

Senator Heffernan was once chastised by a public servant for being a "s***-house" and "dips***" chair because of his inability to manage time, leaving the bureaucrat waiting 12 hours to be heard.

He usually gets into a shouting match with Labor senators unimpressed with his musings about all things farms.

"You should try and behave like a proper chair," his usual nemesis Doug Cameron once said.

But with the outspoken Liberal set to retire after 20 years in politics, Thursday's hearing was his last.

It didn't disappoint.

When Senator Cameron wanted to know if an agency official inappropriately attended a Liberal party fundraiser, Senator Heffernan's advice was delivered with a mighty bellow.

"Who gives a rat's arse if he did!"

And then he complained about his government's unpopular backpacker tax would drive away willing workers.

"We can't get the derros off ice in country towns anymore!"

After he which he lamented that disability support pensioners weren't very disabled "except in the head."

"But I'm pretty disabled in the head."

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Hahaha small business owner in Eden-Monaro has never seen the Lib Member Hendy. Mike Kelly should take it back. This could break the bellwether streak!

Also some dumb hack on abc24 talking utter tripe about people expecting more from their MP's but MP's are hanging around less. Gosh what an insight.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Oh my god these boring clowns on ABC 24.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
I'll be amazed if he mentions the ABCC in the speech.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
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This speech is making me want to throw my phone through the TV

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
This is just empty promises forever.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Anidav posted:

This is just empty promises forever.

It's mostly not even promises.

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

He has said jobs and growth 4 times so far

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
EXCITING TIME TO BE AUSTRALIAN
FREE TRADE
SLAVE LABOUR
TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES

SO EXCITING

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

Anidav posted:

EXCITING TIME TO BE AUSTRALIAN
FREE TRADE
SLAVE LABOUR
TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES

SO EXCITING

You forgot the jobs and growth

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Snod. posted:

He has said jobs and growth 4 times so far

He switched it up and said "growth and jobs" once too.

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

Doctor Spaceman posted:

He switched it up and said "growth and jobs" once too.

He sure knows how to speak a speech

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Bill Shorten's speech:

"I believe *checks notes* that the liberals *checks notes* are bad and *checks notes* unfit to govern."

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Doctor Spaceman posted:

I'll be amazed if he mentions the ABCC in the speech.

I am amazed.

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014


Had to remind us why we're going through all the fuss

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Snod. posted:

Had to remind us why we're going through all the fuss

We're going through it for growth and jobs.

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

Growth and jobs, jobs and growth, jobs and economic growth.

ECONOMIC PLAN

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Surprisingly few journos in the room.

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
MAROONS 2023 STATE OF ORIGIN CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE



Finally we get onto boats boats boats border security

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

iajanus posted:

Finally we get onto boats boats boats border security

Throw another jobs and growth on the barbie too while we're at it

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

iajanus posted:

Finally we get onto boats boats boats border security

A three boat slogan?

Brayds2006
Aug 21, 2011
There has never been a more exciting time to stop the boats. - Malony Turnbott

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
Boats are bad

gently caress the poor

Slash the tax

Reffo's aint welcome

drat young people

Refugees aren't people

Elect us please

Redcordial
Nov 7, 2009

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

lol the country is fed up with your safe spaces and trigger warnings you useless special snowflakes, send the sjws to mexico

Snod. posted:

Throw another jobs and growth on the barbie too while we're at it

lol

Also this speech loving sucks, why am I watching this when I have laundry to do?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
I swear he almost said "growth and jobs and growth".

Snod.
Oct 3, 2014

Stronger economic growth and more jobs!

Jobs and growth!

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
Mall Blurt Column is an anagram for Malcolm Turnbull

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


RIP anyone playing a jobs and growth drinking game.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
JOBS

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
AND

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
GROWTH

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
STOP

Seagull
Oct 9, 2012

give me a chip
growth for the growth god

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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
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