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Labor wins Herbert by 37 votes
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 04:24 |
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# ? May 22, 2024 14:36 |
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SynthOrange posted:Labor wins Herbert by 37 votes Did anything happen that'll trigger a return to the polls for that electoare
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 04:30 |
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In other indigenous news http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-31/coalition-rules-out-two-indigenous-commissioners-for-nt-inquiry/7675670 quote:Four Corners: Coalition rules out Indigenous co-commissioners for NT inquiry into juvenile justice By political reporter Eliza Borrello Updated about an hour ago It may be opportunist but at least Shorten has said the obvious and necessary. The choice of commissioner was an appalling error and without some effort to balance the very clear basis of bias in appointing Brian Martin QC. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/nt-youth-detention-royal-commission-who-is-brian-martin/7670576 I don't have TV so I haven't really watched any of the torture porn but in the pictures from the ABC link they blurred out the aledged perpetrators faces but left an underage boys buttocks exposed? Thanks for the untagged kiddie porn ABC.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 04:35 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Last week Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR respectfully put a public call out for the Socialist Alternative to not attend our rallies. SAlt blatantly and disrespectfully ignored this by showing up and continuing to colonise a black political space by pushing their own agenda and profiting off the black struggle. Specifically today, they were drawing profit off what is a very painful and emotional issue for the Aboriginal community, our black children being held in abhorrent conditions and abused while incarcerated in detention. In Meanjin (Brisbane) several SAlt members were asked to leave by members of WAR. They refused. SAlt demanded that we engage with them and they demanded that they have a rightful place in our space, our Aboriginal political space, on Aboriginal land. WAR don't pander to our oppressors, WAR don't meet the demands of our colonisers. WAR support and welcome solidarity but we do not tolerate the colonisation of our spaces and the profiting of our dispossession. Do not let these leeches push their agenda onto you. If you want to be schooled in black politics - buy independent black media such as The Black Rising magazine, if you want to donate money - donate to true grassroots not for profits that are run by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people such as WAR, Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy, Grandmothers Against Removals, the BASE food program etc. SAlt in Brisbane are also notable insofar as they reaaaaaaaally hate Jewish people (from what I've seen)
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 04:51 |
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LibertyCat posted:I unironically miss Arnott's Golliwogs. Yeah they were pretty good. Did they ever replace them with a non-golliwog version?
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:06 |
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Higsian posted:Yeah they were pretty good. Did they ever replace them with a non-golliwog version? "Scallywags". Same biscuit, discontinued soon after.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:07 |
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ungulateman posted:Ricky Muir is definitely the senator who most accurately represented Australia as a whole Everyone can have lovely wrong opinions. I know I've had a few, I guess the measure will be when someone actually explains to him how lovely and bad that is if he's willing to listen and change. Still one of the better senators in the last parliament. Pretty good representation of the average australian, good at heart but also not really understanding how racist they are sometimes.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:13 |
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Turns out that using the original mold still results in a biscuit in the shape of a racist caricature. hth.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:17 |
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Offense is taken, not given. I doubt 99% of Australians under the age of 30 ever saw a "racist" golliwog. Destroying a good type of biscuit because 1% of the population consists of thin-skinned dickheads is regrettable.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:23 |
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The millenials are to blame.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:25 |
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This website's great fun! quote:The award, which ought to reflect and unite this great nation, has evolved into a mere plaything of social engineers and reflects all of the unhealthy preoccupations of the Left. quote:WHITE AUSTRALIA WAS EARLY CODE FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA How loving thick do you have to be to think that White Australia is in anyway coded language?
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:27 |
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The government should mandate which brands are produced to protect companies from political correctness IMO
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:27 |
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We will decide what biscuits are made in this country, and the circumstances in which they are made.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:28 |
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Higsian posted:Yeah they were pretty good. Did they ever replace them with a non-golliwog version? Isn't that the teddy bears? Cartoon posted:It may be opportunist but at least Shorten has said the obvious and necessary. The choice of commissioner was an appalling error and without some effort to balance the very clear basis of bias in appointing Brian Martin QC. RCs are so versatile! Create issues with them, but also kill issues with them! Can't have someone on the team who might waste time! Issue management has now devolved to the biggest stick they can wave.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:32 |
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Launch a Royal Commission into Royal Commissions and the culture of fact finding commissions.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:36 |
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gollyywogs aside, we'd be better off with a a senate of Muirs than the current lot.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:43 |
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LibertyCat posted:gollyywogs aside, we'd be better off with a a senate of Muirs than the current lot. Agreed, kick out Pauline and the libs, Abetz, Bernadi, Lambie and the lot.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 05:54 |
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norp posted:Did anything happen that'll trigger a return to the polls for that electoare ABC posted:The Coalition has the option of taking the matter to the Court of Disputed Returns and asking for a re-count.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 06:06 |
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LibertyCat posted:Destroying a good type of biscuit because 1% of the population consists of thin-skinned dickheads is regrettable. They could just make them with a different mold if they want to avoid the problem. Maybe it was just a poo poo biscuit that no one bought any more
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 06:17 |
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Tokamak posted:Maybe it was just a poo poo biscuit that no one bought any more
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 06:26 |
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Is lolbcat actually a libertarian because so far all I've seen him do is propose more government and bitch when the free market puts his cookie out of business.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 07:22 |
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Starshark posted:Is lolbcat actually a racial supremacist? yes
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 07:23 |
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Cartoon posted:In other indigenous news But don't you see that the two Aboriginal commissioners would also be incredibly biased? They come from a position that torturing indigenous children is inherently wrong and just aren't prepared to listen to their betters tell them how darkies need civilisation beaten into them :lnp: In the space of three days at work, the conservatives here have gone from shock and outrage over children being horribly abused to "it's the only way they'll learn" and "there's nothing else for them to do out there but cause trouble, this will straighten them out" and it's just so loving depressing. All facts get quickly forgotten and the old conservative line of "hurt everyone" floats to the top like the poo poo it is.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 07:34 |
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every person for the year after they finish school should be forced to work in a detention centre (youth / refugee, your choice)to instill correct Aussie values, then we wouldn't have a PC problem in a generation
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 07:45 |
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Starshark posted:Is lolbcat actually a libertarian because so far all I've seen him do is propose more government and bitch when the free market puts his cookie out of business. sounds like a libertarian to me
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 08:52 |
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ewe2 posted:Isn't that the teddy bears? Oh yeah the chocolate tiny teddies are the same thing. I haven't had those since I was a kid. I'll have to pick some up next time I go shopping.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 09:03 |
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On phone http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/luke-foley-puts-forward-reform-plan-to-save-greyhound-racing-industry-20160731-gqhkml.html Luke Foley continuing his run into irrelevance.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:18 |
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Luke Foley has never been relevant.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:23 |
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Touchè But this is an amazing hill to die on choice. Its legit a policy that makes Labor voters not vote Labor because its so clean what Baird is suggesting.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:25 |
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"Let's regulate it to the highest standards of animal welfare" that's called banning it buddy
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:39 |
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Seagull posted:"Let's regulate it to the highest standards of animal welfare" The best part is that is that his comments make clear that he is putting himself in the corner that he would never ban Greyhounds, even though his argument is they need time to clean up their act. The second he gets asked what he would do if Greyhounds continued to be corrupt after his plan he has to either say he'd ban it or put in theoretical even stronger measures. This is such a courageous policy.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:49 |
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quote:http://www.theland.com.au/story/4065336/leyonhjelm-turnbull-government-direct-betrayal-on-adler-ban/?cs=4956 That's what you get for trusting people.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 00:38 |
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open24hours posted:That's what you get for trusting people. I hope for one this begins the tone of the senate. Turnbull won't be able to credibly use a DD as a circuit breaker this term, especially if they dont pass the abcc legislation
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 00:44 |
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I get far too much enjoyment out of watching detestable people fight other detestable people. Particularly when they're in positions of authority.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 00:59 |
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I'm going to have to turn the sensitivity down on my bullshit meter it is getting overwhelmed by the enormous tide of crap surging over it everyday. Free trade equals prosperity! According to known font of truth and goodness Scott Morrison. Well no it doesn't. It means the richest people get richer. this report spells it and a bunch of other stuff out in some detail. http://www.tai.org.au/system/files_force/PB+64+Income+and+wealth+inequality+FINAL.pdf More to the point the wage crunch in Australia is about to bite. One of the things that tipped a few people, who were paying attention, off about the GFC was the increase in defaults on home loans. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/more-households-struggling-to-pay-off-their-debt/7676664 quote:Monday finance Monday 1 August 2016 6:51AM (view full episode) Moreover this is in an environment of constantly falling interest rates. That property bubble is over and deflating everywhere but a few select places outside of Sydney and Melbourne and the whole house of cards is starting to shake. This is just eight years after our generation's equivalent of the Great Depression and all the lessons it should have taught us. So I once again challenge our house libertarians. Find me a single example of a privatisation or outsourcing that actually saved money*. The current 'liberalising' settings on our economy are about to gently caress normal people savagely and once again private disaster will be bailed out with public money. -/- The LNP look likely to take their sooky la la about Herbert to the court of disputed returns because they are just such good sports. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-31/election-2016-labor-wins-herbert-after-recount/7675898 -/- There was a doco on the falling rates of employment in journalism on future tense yesterday http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-post-journalistic-world/7658116 I choose my sources reasonably carefully and filter out a bunch of stuff but ultimately the fields I till for information are professional journalists. The world we face after these are gone is a pretty scary one. Even a fourth estate doing a poor job is better than none at all (See above re bullshit detector). Recently there was the NT child torture stuff but it has played out before with so many other issues (Greyhound racing, live cattle exports and oh so many more). The initial reaction is a huge spike and within days the need to actually do something is dissipated in the churning news cycle. "I'm over the outrage, sensible people move on and it's time to think about the struggling <insert offender profession>." We really do live in a close replica of George Orwell's 1984. *T&Cs apply and yes I will quibble minutely over the details.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 01:38 |
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I don't know if it's fair to blame income inequality on free trade. It increased at the same time as tariffs were reduced, but seems more likely that cuts to welfare and other government services were responsible for it.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 01:42 |
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open24hours posted:I don't know if it's fair to blame income inequality on free trade. It increased at the same time as tariffs were reduced, but seems more likely that cuts to welfare and other government services were responsible for it. Also I only claim correlation not causality. For us to be prospering from free trade there needs to be evidence of prosperity. There is none, QED.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 01:58 |
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I looked at the report it but it doesn't seem to mention trade? We're one of the richest countries in the world, so someone is prospering. Whether that wealth is being properly distributed is separate issue.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 02:01 |
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open24hours posted:I don't know if it's fair to blame income inequality on free trade. It increased at the same time as tariffs were reduced, but seems more likely that cuts to welfare and other government services were responsible for it. The reduction in trade barriers, the undermining of social services and the erosion of labour bargaining power all stem from the same core neo-liberal ideas. The increase in income inequality is a goal of the system, not a side effect.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 02:14 |
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open24hours posted:I looked at the report it but it doesn't seem to mention trade? The report does talk about policy settings effecting the distribution of wealth. All those jobs in manufacturing sacrificed on the alter of pure liberalised trade? They weren't the ones in the 99 percentile group.
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