Anidav posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...528-gp6536.html
That zinger!

a1superkool posted:

What should an overseas 1st-time voter know to vote? Give me a checklist.

Solemn Sloth posted:

in order of importance:

step 1) don't vote liberals
step 2) don't vote lunatic minor right wingers
step 3) don't vote labor

Solemn Sloth posted:

in order of importance:

step 1) don't vote liberals
step 2) don't vote lunatic minor right wingers
step 3) don't vote labor

norp posted:

There are two things you are voting for; House of Representatives and senate

HOR: this is your "local" representative and is voted for from you and your surrounding suburbs. Number all of the boxes from 1 (favourite) to however many there are (normally 4-7)

Senate: this is your state's representative, it's proportional and the counting is complicated . But this year it's simpler.

1: number above the line at least one box in order of preferences. Doing this lets the party choose the order they want their candidates to be considered.
2: number below the line, there is a minimum (I think 6) and you can order each parties candidates as you wish or even skip those you are not interested in.

CrazyTolradi posted:

UPF crying that the Police wouldn't let them counter the rally with force and terror. I like how they don't even hide it anymore, just flat out admit that it's what they want to do.

They should change their acronym to NSDAP already and get all the pretense over and done with.

gay picnic defence posted:

Can you imagine the various spokespeople for the old people lobby groups expressing their disgust at the lack of research funding for new antibiotics government intervention to prop up the value of their investment properties as the deceased estates are carved up and put onto a flooded market?

Recoome posted:

https://www.facebook.com/7NewsMelbourne/videos/10154278887134301/

2mins 45 sec, shows relative size of both groups. This looks like the second round.

tithin posted:

the last 20 seconds of that video are just depressing.

Daily Telegraph, I ain't linking posted:

Controversial former Abbott ally Bronwyn Bishop’s new TV career on Sky News

EXCLUSIVE
YOU can’t keep a tough woman down — with Bronwyn Bishop set to take flight in a new post-parliamentary career as a political contributor on Sky News.

The network’s latest celebrity signing marks the former Abbott Government Speaker’s first public role since the Choppergate scandal sent her 30-year career into a death spiral.

The former member for Mackellar, on Sydney’s northern beaches, will make her debut as a commentator this week, joining Sky News political editor David Speers on his program Speers Tonight on Thursday (8pm, Sky News Live).

Ms Bishop follows her one-time ally Abbott’s former chief-of-staff Peta Credlin to the 24-hour news channel, but has vowed to focus on policy over personalities.

“Peta Credlin and I come from very different perspectives,” Ms Bishop told News Corp Australia. “I have been an active member of parliament, on the front bench for so many years of my life, I look at the things that are important to me and my beliefs and will continue to do that. To me, I have that philosophy of individualism and the principal of free enterprise which always form the frame work for policy initiatives that I’ve developed and in the way I look at other people’s policies and that won’t change.”

Admitting the 2016 election campaign to date had failed to really get off the ground, she predicted as pre-polling opened up more voters would become more engaged.

Still showing her party colours, Ms Bishop gave the campaign so far to the Liberal Party leader.

“If you look at the visuals, certainly Malcolm Turnbull looks more prime ministerial. The one phrase which will come back to haunt Bill Shorten is the one where he said he’d run the country like he’d run the trade union. You’ve got all those stories which came out of the Royal Commission which that evokes.”

With plans to build up a portfolio of appearances across Sky News beyond the July 2 poll, Ms Bishop was giving little mind to the controversial way her parliament life ended.

“I’ve always said politics is not for wilting violets, it’s a tough game,” she said. “You have to take the rough with the smooth. It’s been a great honour for me to have served the Australian people for nearly 30 years and I’m looking forward to this new contribution that I can make. I’m quite excited by it.”

Angelo Frangopoulos, Australian News Channel CEO welcomed his latest star recruit, adding “her extensive experience as a Senator, MP, Minister and Speaker will add further depth to our unrivalled coverage of national affairs.”

Cleretic posted:

Hey guys, guess who Sky News just netted.


I remember in my journalism studies at university, I wasn't allowed to write about a perceived Liberal bias at Sky News because it was a bit too 'conspiracy theory'. I'm feeling pretty loving justified on that one now, this is getting hilariously blatant.

TimonofAthens posted:

If you think punishing the LNP by voting in a likely GLP coalition will advance your interests, think again. It won't.

Todd posted:

No, Timon. Normally, you would be correct. But please look up fiscal eqaulisation under the GST and understand how it works. It is the growth in WA that has lead to the collapse of its economy. You see, a growing economy normally requires growing infrastructure and growing spending on services., Agreed? This would normally come from higher tax receipts that come with more economic activity. Since 2001, however, under fiscal equalisation, the extra tax from growth goes to those States that are not growing as fast (even more to those States going backwards). S, the growth means the same or less tax coming in, but with higher spending requirements (more people means more schools, hospitals etc). Barnett did not squander the boom, the benefits were given to States like Tassie and SA. That does not mean Barnett is blameless. He has ignored the only solution - secession.

So, there are two options - the first is secession (my preferred option) and the second is to become a "Tassie". Did you know both SA and Tassie have higher credit ratings than WA? That's because people who know what they are talking about see what is in store under fiscal equalisation. They know that WA requires more infrastructure and services and they know WA will have shrinking income over the foreseeable future. There are no ifs or buts about it.

So, unless WA secedes, they would benefit greatly from an ALP (even better, a Greens) Government that will limit growth and economic activity and turn the tables so that WA can shrink its populationat the same time as increase its income - at the expense of other States, of course, but why would West Aussies care about other States.

Barnett wants to put a cable car up to attract tourists. What? I would be running ads on the Opera House and Great Barrier Reef if I was WA's tourism minister. Less West Aussies will have jobs, but Wetsern Australia will be better off. As perverse as that sounds, it is what fiscal equalisation means. Put it this way, if I told you you would have a higher income if you did not work, would you work? Especially if you were in debt and NEEDED to pay it off?

Everyone in Australia should love Barnett, except Western Australians. Tasmania should have a statue of him. McGowan will shrink the WA economy - and that will be a GOOD thing financially. If, by a miracle, WA Labor can foster more growth, WA is stuffed - simple as that. Welcome to socialism.

MaliciousOnion posted:

bugs_bunny_cutting_off_qldwa.gif

Anidav posted:

It has also proved a drawcard for senior members of the Coalition in the early weeks of this election campaign. The Prime Minister, frontbenchers and even former PM Tony Abbott have made the trek north to lend the controversial Nationals MP a helping hand.

Is this a sign he could be in trouble?

quote:

Nauru decriminalises homosexuality and suicide

New laws replace those based on 1899 Queensland code and follow a spate of suicide attempts by refugees on the island

Nauru has reformed its criminal code, decriminalising homosexuality and suicide.

At least two refugees held on Nauru have been charged, jailed and fined for attempting to kill themselves in recent weeks, as a spate of suicide attempts has seized the island. That act will no longer be an offence.

Several refugees on the island are gay, and have reported being forced to live as virtual prisoners in their accommodation because of fears of arrest and widespread community hostility.

On Friday, the Nauruan government announced that the country’s parliament had passed a number of laws updating its criminal code to bring it more into line with modern international human rights standards.

The new laws supersede those based on the 1899 Criminal Code of Queensland.

The archaic Queensland criminal code derived its anti-homosexuality laws – “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” – from the British 1860 anti-sodomy laws, which were exported across the Commonwealth during the Victorian era.

Nauru’s reformed laws have “removed homosexuality as an offence”, and state that suicide “is no longer an offence and is considered more a mental health issue rather than a criminal law issue”.

In addition, the reformed legislation broadens the definition of rape to include marital rape, and introduces the offence of stalking.

The death penalty has been removed as a punishment from Nauru’s statute books, the government has said, as has hard labour and solitary confinement.

Slavery has been criminalised, as well as child labour, and “forcing a child to marry another person in exchange for a material benefit”.

DNQ posted:

Thoughts on Glenn Lazarus? I had rock bottom expectations when he came in saying Bjelke-Petersen was his political idol, but he seems like one of the "least worst" cross-benchers. He's a bit quick to play the race card (halal, "war on Easter", foreign ownership etc) but overall I would take him in the senate 100 times over before Lambie, Hanson, Day etc..

Seagull posted:

Seagull posted:

Anidav posted:

Haha. Jesus loving Christ. The leaps of logic Albo makes these days makes him sound like a shithead.