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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

http://imgur.com/fqDd5S2

:toot:

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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Sorry for your loss.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009


You fool! We gave you every chance to back out!

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004


At least you'll be able to tell your grandkids that you were let into Australia by a potato.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

ewe2 posted:

You fool! We gave you every chance to back out!

Well... I'm coming from here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/28/the-guardian-view-on-malaysian-politics-a-scandal-meriting-the-worlds-attention

quote:

Malaysia’s new security law, due to come into force on Monday, would be alarming at any time. Its sweeping powers permit authorities to declare national security areas which are off-limits to protests, where individuals and premises can be searched without a warrant, and where killings by security forces need not result in formal inquests. Changes to the country’s criminal code, undermining the rights of suspects, are similarly concerning. Human rights groups warn that existing laws, including the colonial-era Sedition Act – which Prime Minister Najib Razak once vowed to repeal – have been used to detain and muzzle critics. The country’s police chief recently warned that protests by electoral reform group Bersih would be permitted only if participants avoided calling for Mr Najib’s resignation.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

On the other hand the food is delicious.

http://www.themalaya.com.au/

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009


Fair point :( All my life they seem to go nuts every so often like this, and I don't understand it.

bend
Dec 31, 2012

Don't worry we're working toward it. In no time at all it'll feel just like home, especially as an immigrant.

Amethyst posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/elizabeth-farrelly-20160728-gqflzy.html

Good article, IMO



Look at this fucker. The deputy premiere of NSW, was willingly painted like this. The boorish tastelessness at the core of contemporary Australian conservatism honestly makes me sick.

This worries me, why the hat? and what is he sitting on? and why does he seem so sad?. He's in a nice sunny paddock with a posh hat and somewhere to sit, even if I'm not sure it has more than one leg. Surely he shouldn't look so somber? maybe it's his hands.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

Lid posted:

On the other hand the food is delicious.
http://www.themalaya.com.au/

They may take our laksa freedom, but they will never take our freedom laksa

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009


Yeah that's it. The print version also had a picture of the front page of the Jewish News or whatever it was with a photo of Steph and all the anti-Semitic accusation nonsense.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

freebooter posted:

Yeah that's it. The print version also had a picture of the front page of the Jewish News or whatever it was with a photo of Steph and all the anti-Semitic accusation nonsense.

:ssh: Click the quote link - I wasn't going to get aaaaall the images...















Shunkymonky
Sep 10, 2006
'sup
http://blog.australiaboomtobust.com/2016/08/australias-wtf-moment/

quote:

Australia’s WTF moment.

A nation caught off-guard.

I have always warned of the day that Australian banks would face when it came to the dangerous assumption that no matter what happens, the tap of international wholesale debt would always be running at full power. However following this months RBA decision to cut rates, the beans have officially been spilt, and Australians are a little confused at the moment.

First and foremost, this was the first time I can remember witnessing an interest rate cut where the prime response was for banks to raise term deposit rates to the incredible magnitude of 50-85bs (roughly 150bps above the reserve rate). It must also be noted that there is enough scrutiny to warrant an explanation from the RBA on whether it informed these banks prior to the rate decision of a pending rate cut. Because it normally takes a major institution (let alone four of them) weeks to make the necessary preparations to raise term deposit rates at such a scale when the reserve rate is about to be cut.

Why did the banks raise the interest rates on term deposits when the RBA cut rates?

Unfortunately there are several possible reasons as to why. None of those possible reasons can give Australians any comfort. Possible reasons include

The international wholesale lending community have no interest to lend money to Australian ADI’s at such a low rate, so banks have to source money elsewhere
There is a funding problem in general
There already is a funding problem with one of the major banks, hence raising the interest rate by 55-85bps for term deposits will attract more depositors to their banks (keeping money in the banking system) whilst banks tap cheap funding through the RBA bailout CLF (if they haven’t already).
Banks are starting to sustain or preparing for heavy losses from the WA, NT and QLD housing markets, hence are not able to pay back creditors without additional resources which would limit their liquid cash on hand and the ability to lend to homebuyers in other states in Australia the way they are.
For one reason or another about to be given heavy fines for mortgage fraud from a regulator other than ASIC or APRA, or that a Royal Commission is on its way which will crush the banks.
The banks don’t have the fiscal resources to lend to all the soon-to-be new apartment owners. Hence are batting down the hatched because if they cant lend like they are today in Sydney and Melbourne… the whole economy tanks.
Credit rating downgrades (rating agencies are a bit late to this party)

I warned about this… Sad to possibly see my biggest concerns possibly coming to fruition. Whatever the RBA does from now is irrelevant. Our focus now turns to how much money can banks raise to fund their ponzi financing schemes– by who– at what rate– and how much it will cost the Big Four to lend between one another. Last but not least, focus will also be on how much are these banks going to write down from the housing market.

Interesting times ahead."

It's happening!

Eventually.

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

So can I just give the census a fake name or what? What's the difference between a paper form and online?

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

freebooter posted:

So can I just give the census a fake name or what? What's the difference between a paper form and online?

My new name is Steven'); DROP DATABASE census; --

Mad Katter
Aug 23, 2010

STOP THE BATS

This is hilarious, thanks for sharing.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Corey Bernardi says Gooda the wrong choice for the royal commission and that the four corners report ignored "serious injury and damage" inflicted on youth in detention corrections officers :yum::yum:

also asks why the ABC released it now instead of waiting until after the NT election because how dare they impact on the liberals electoral chances :mad:

BBJoey fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Aug 4, 2016

RichardA
Sep 1, 2006
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Dinosaur Gum
Queensland is in:
LNP 5
ALP 4
Greens 1
PHON 2

1.Brandis (LNP)
2.Watt (ALP)
3.Hanson (PHON)
4.Canavan (LNP)
5.Chisholm (ALP)
6.McGrath (LNP) #ausvotes tweet 1 of 2
7.Moore (ALP)
8.Macdonald (LNP)
9.Waters (GRN)
10.O’Sullivan (LNP)
11.Ketter (ALP)
12.Roberts (PHON) #ausvotes tweet 2 of 2

Considering it is Queensland it could of been a worse.

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

And in news that will surprise noone

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-04/immigration-department-rejects-amnesty-hrw-nauru-report/7688834

The immigration department says "Nuh uh not us" to allegations of systemic abuse and deliberate torture.

open24hours
Jan 7, 2001

quote:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/our-olympic-team-is-a-terrible-waste-of-money-20160803-gqjx18

With the opening of the Rio Olympics only a matter of days away, the question of how much countries should spend on the Games is again being asked. This is especially as wealthy, developed countries continue to spend staggering sums on their Olympic teams.

Britain spent A$374 million on its team for the London Olympics. It is spending even more for 2016 to ensure that it wins just as many gold medals. The British now spend four times more on Olympic competitors than on sport for schoolchildren.

Australia is another example of this massive state subsidisation of elite sportspeople. It may only have a third of Britain's population, but the Australian government spent a mind-boggling $264 million on its London team. The seven gold medals it won in the 2012 Games was its worst result since the 1988 Olympics.

Each gold medal cost Australian taxpayers $37 million. In the hope of lifting its gold-medal count, Australia is spending even more for Rio. It does this in spite of deep government cuts to education and health.

State subsidisation of Olympic teams is hotly debated. In each country, the relevant national Olympic committee claims it's absolutely necessary to secure the "obvious" benefits of gold medals.

But others argue just as strongly that such benefits are illusory; for them this subsidisation is unethical in the age of budget austerity. It wastes scarce public income that would be better spent on doctors and physical education teachers.

What's needed is some analysis of the actual benefits that Olympic gold medals bring.

The ancient Greeks competed in Olympic Games for 1000 years. They had clear views about the benefits of victory. By studying their views, we get insights into what gold medals might do for us.

The Greeks would have been horrified at our subsidisation of Olympic teams. They did not waste public income on getting athletes to the Games.

Individuals were ready for the Olympics because their families had paid for the private classes of an athletics teacher. Olympians paid their own way to Olympia and their own expenses during the Games.

Yet the Greeks valued Olympic victory more highly than we do. Each polis (city-state) gave its Olympic victors free meals and free front-row tickets at sports events – for life.

These were the highest honours the Greeks could give. They were otherwise only given to victorious generals. That they were given to Olympians shows that the Greeks believed such victors significantly benefited their city-states.

What made an Olympic victory so politically valuable was publicity. The Olympics were the biggest public event in ancient Greece; the Olympic stadium seated 45,000.

The result was that whatever took place at the Games became known to the entire Greek world, as ambassadors, athletes and spectators returned home and reported what they had seen.

Because so many Greeks attended the Games, it was possible for the whole Greek world to learn of the sporting victory that a polis had gained through one of its competitors.

Such a sporting victory gave city-states of otherwise no importance rare international prominence. To those that were regional powers, it gave uncontested proof of the standing they claimed in relation to their rivals.

The only other way that a polis had to raise its international ranking was to defeat a rival polis in battle. But the outcome of a battle was always uncertain and could cost the lives of thousands.

Thus, a Greek city-state judged a citizen who had been victorious at the Olympics worthy of the highest public honours because he had raised its standing without the need for his fellow citizens to die on the battlefield.

We continue to view Olympians as our representatives and to be part of an international system of competing states. So an important lesson from the ancient Olympics is that international sporting success improves a state's standing.

The ancient Olympics provide some justification for the state subsidisation of our Olympic teams. But we must not push these parallels too far.

For good or for ill, we are not ancient Greeks. International competition is no longer confined to sport and war. New bodies, such as the G20, OECD and the United Nations, also rank states in terms of education and health.

In this new world order, we will only hold our ranking if we invest just as much in doctors and physical education teachers.

freebooter
Jul 7, 2009

It's worth asking how much we should be spending on the Olympics but that article is absolutely daft in its long digression about the Ancient Greeks - who gives a gently caress?

My gut feeling is that money spent on elite sport is an absolute waste, but that's because I'm a nerd who's uninterested in sport, and if someone asked me to justify public spending on the arts I wouldn't be able to either, so I figure live and let live.

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
sports should just continue their normal World Championship meetups and gently caress the Olympics

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

BBJoey posted:

amethyst is good, actually
This but unironically.

Was a time that getting caught in a lie was the end of you as a minister in the Federal government. How times change.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-04/scullion-admits-receiving-official-abuse-briefing-last-year/7688546

quote:

Nigel Scullion admits receiving official briefing on Don Dale abuse claims last year By Peta Donald and staff Updated 46 minutes ago

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has conceded he received an official brief about abuse claims in the Northern Territory youth justice system last year, despite earlier saying he had not been told about it.

Key points:

Senator Scullion admits asking for a briefing on NT juvenile justice abuse claims last year
Briefing gave background to a report by the NT children's commissioner
Senator Scullion says early media reports 'not as evocative' as seeing CCTV footage on Four Corners
The day after seeing Four Corners, Senator Scullion said he was shocked to the core.

On the weekend the Indigenous Affairs Minister apologised at the Garma festival in Arnhem Land for relying on the Northern Territory Government to keep him informed. Now he says he did ask his department for information in October last year, after seeing a story in the media about the report by the NT children's commissioner. "Well, it was for a Question Time brief. We'd seen it in the paper and I said 'Listen, what can you tell me about this, this might come up'," he said.
"The report basically just provided a bit of background about the commissioners report when it was published. "And it talked about — it said it looked at the use of tear gas during a three-hour siege by inmates. It talked about the report explaining approval to transfer five young people under the Youth Justice Act. It quoted some other media stories, … and it provided some media stories."

Early stories 'not as evocative' as CCTV footage

Media stories at the time reported much of the abuse shown by Four Corners. The stories reported children being tear-gassed in their cells, held for up to 17 days in solitary confinement, and hooded. An ABC story quoted a prison guard recorded threatening to pulverise a detainee. The Minister says it was not as evocative as seeing the abuse on CCTV, obtained by Four Corners. Senator Scullion said the advice from his department was that it was up to the NT Government to consider the findings of the report from the children's commissioner. He told Radio National he and his department could have done better. "I should have known. I should have had processes in place to ensure that I knew earlier," Senator Scullion said.

Growing calls for Senator Scullion to resign as minister

The former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, has added his voice to those calling for the Minister to go. He cites Senator Scullion's initial lack of interest in what was going on at Don Dale. "Any minister who is not willing to engage with the community they represent and want to listen to them and work cooperatively with them, shouldn't be a minister," Professor Calma said. Senator Scullion said he would have liked to hear it from Mr Calma himself. "I've obviously lost the confidence of Tom, and I have to say it is a great disappointment to me," he said.

The Prime Minister is moving on with the issue of Indigenous recognition in the Constitution.

This morning he'll sit down to talk about it with Labor Leader Bill Shorten in their first meeting since the election. Malcolm Turnbull has warned Labor against pushing for a treaty as well as recognition, saying it could jeopardise the success of a referendum. Senator Scullion argues that rather than ruling out a treaty at this point, the Referendum Council should be allowed to consult Indigenous Australians and make a recommendation. "It's through that engagement process. If that's what Indigenous Australians, if that's what the process tells us what to do, well that's what it is — so that's what their view will be," he said.

What a joke. Speaking of being lied to. Remember how your data wasn't going to be linked to the census before (Yeah it was and you were just lied to about it). Makes trusting any claims by the ABS to being honest about data privacy now pretty hollow. IF they were doing a straight up mea culpa and returning the situation to what they publicly stated it was before maybe that could restore confidence. Unfortunately doing so while mashing the jack boots on the populous' heads with new draconian provisions attacking basic privacy...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-03/census-turnbull-defends-security-of-private-details/7685664

quote:

Census 2016: Malcolm Turnbull says privacy 'absolute' in ABS survey by political reporter Stephanie Anderson, staff Updated about 10 hours ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has moved to alleviate worries about the security of personal details gathered in the Census, after independent senator Nick Xenophon called for the national survey to be delayed over privacy concerns.

Key points:

Malcolm Turnbull says personal details gathered in Census are protected by law
PM says the ABS has "always protected people's privacy"
Nick Xenophon wants survey delayed amid access concerns
The compulsory survey, to be carried out on August 9, has been under fire from privacy advocates since the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) announced it would, for the first time, retain all the names and addresses it had collected "to enable a richer and dynamic statistical picture of Australia."

The Australian Privacy Foundation last month called on the ABS to stop using people's names for data analysis, but Mr Turnbull said on Wednesday the organisation "always protects people's privacy. The security of their personal details is absolute and that is protected by law and by practice," he said. "That is a given." ABS chief statistician David Kalisch said the organisation had "never had a privacy breach with Census information". (That he can barefacedly lie about that is astonishing in itself. Plenty of people have breached ABS privacy in the past. The ABS just doesn't have the mechanisms in place to catch them. To make such an absolute statement about this is absurd.)

Mr Kalisch said privacy concerns were raised every time a Census was conducted.

"The ABS has the best security features," he said. "We've never had a privacy breach with Census information and we do secure the information somewhat differently … These days we can keep names separate from address and separate from other Census content, in three separate computer systems and never brought together." When asked if he believed this year's Census had been handled poorly, Mr Kalisch responded that "we're well ahead of where we thought we would be". Process at risk of becoming 'shemozzle': Xenophon Concerns have also been raised over the changes in completing the form, with independent Senator Nick Xenophon calling for the Government to delay the Census amid confusion over the shift to an online form.

Worried about the Census?

Previously, Australians had the ability to "opt in" to have their names kept by the ABS. But now it's compulsory and many privacy advocates aren't happy about it, his year Australians have the option of either filling in the Census online using a 12-digit identification number, or calling a phone hotline to request a paper copy. However, some people who are seeking a paper form have been unable to get through on the phone line, as it struggles to keep up with the huge demand. Senator Xenophon and his party's Member for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie said the transition had been mishandled. He said the process was at risk of becoming a "shemozzle" and some people would not fill in the national survey because of their concerns. "If the Census is meant to be a snapshot of Australia on [August 9], I wonder if it'll end up being more like timelapse photography that's very blurred — because it seems that there is a lot of chaos and dysfunction in the way it is rolled out," he said. "This census may go down in history, for the unenviable statistic, that there will be a record number of Australians that won't be participating in it."

Wilkie seeks assurances on fines

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie also issued a statement, citing a "broad feeling of confusion in the community. I do not doubt the importance of the Census and I commend the vast majority of ABS staff for doing the very best they can," he said.
"But the Government needs to step up and listen to the concerns in the community and provide an assurance that no one will be fined if they haven't been able to complete the census." Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh defended the process, but called on the Government to support it. In a statement, Dr Leigh said the Census should be a "first order issue for the Turnbull Government". The Census office has carried out extensive testing of its technology to see if it can cope with demand. It said the data required to fill out the Census was small, and should not add too much pressure on internet providers.

'Australians should be worried'

Nigel Waters, Australia's former deputy privacy commissioner, was hired 11 years ago by the ABS to investigate whether keeping identifying data was a good idea. "What they are now doing is breaking the compact or the deal that they have had with the Australian people for the last 100 years, which is that in exchange for giving them very sensitive information — including about your relationships, your health, your financial circumstances — their part of the deal was to make sure that that information would be de-identified as soon as possible," he told 7.30. Dr Mark Gregory from the RMIT School of Engineering said "Australians should be worried" about the ABS collecting their personal information. "They can't guarantee the security of the information. We know that Australia does not have mandatory data breach reporting laws and until those laws are put in place and security improved both within government and business then Australians have a great concern about the privacy of any information that they provide," Dr Gregory said.

But for social researchers like Liz Allen, a demographer from the Australian National University, more detailed Census data means better research and better targeted government policy. "The consequences of boycotting or sabotaging census data — putting aside the fact that you could be fined and face prosecution — is that the data won't truly reflect Australia," Ms Allen told the program. "Australians rely heavily on data to provide an evidence base. We don't want to build a road to nowhere, I think everyone would agree that evidence-based policy is the way to go."

But hey why worry about your data privacy when there are still hospitals in the middle east to bomb.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-04/six-aleppo-hospitals-struck-by-syrian-government-air-strikes/7688504

quote:

Battle for Aleppo: Six more hospitals struck by Syrian Government air strikes, relief agency says By Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill, wires Posted about an hour ago

<img>A blood-stained stroller in an Aleppo hospital</img> PHOTO: Six Aleppo hospitals were hit by airstrikes in the past week. (Supplied: Syrian American Medical Society)
RELATED STORY: Save the Children-supported maternity hospital bombed in Syria
RELATED STORY: Doctors under fire in Aleppo as Syrian forces target hospitals

Six hospitals in the Syrian city of Aleppo were hit by Government air strikes last week in what a medical relief agency said amounted to war crimes. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said it was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the Aleppo region since the beginning of Syria's five-year conflict. "Since June, we've seen increasing reports of attacks on civilians in Aleppo and strikes on the region's remaining medical infrastructure. Each of these assaults constitutes a war crime," said Widney Brown, PHR's director of programs. "Destroying hospitals is tantamount to signing thousands of death warrants for people now stranded in eastern Aleppo," he said. "The bombings, the lack of humanitarian aid, and the failure of the United Nations to deliver any kind of assistance means the death toll may soon be catastrophic." The warning came as yet another hospital in Aleppo was hit overnight, with the M2 facility run by the Syrian American Medical Society bombed for the third time.

Meanwhile, Syrian regime forces bolstered by Russian air strikes have recaptured territory in the battleground city of Aleppo, rolling back the short-lived gains of a rebel offensive. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian Government forces, with the aid of heavy Russian air strikes, seized two hilltops and two small villages in the south-west of Aleppo. Syria Government forces have advanced on Aleppo in recent weeks, imposing a siege on the opposition-held eastern part of the city since early last month. In a statement, the UN children's fund UNICEF said it is extremely concerned for the safety and wellbeing of children caught up in the violence in Aleppo, reporting that children make up a third of the 300,000 residents trapped in rebel-held besieged neighbourhoods. The observatory said 25 civilians were killed in Aleppo and Idlib on Wednesday by Syrian and Russian forces including 10 children, while 10 civilians including 4 children were killed overnight in rebel shelling of government-controlled districts in western Aleppo.
But that's OK because it's just 'Syrian Government' airstrikes. Oh really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria and that includes US with the USA http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/03/31/raaf-hits-targets-syria-iraq

No wonder we are number three on a list of Western targets for Islamic extremists. Lucky there are so few Islamic extremist available to do anything about it however.

Oh and the CSIRO has been gutted enough. Maybe now they'll do science 'we' like. Instead of that rubbish all the ones who just got sacked were up to.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/turnbull-govt-backflips-on-climate-change/7688908.

Cartoon fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Aug 4, 2016

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Cartoon posted:

This but unironically.

I wasn't being ironic, amethyst uses extremely strong language but he's generally right

RichardA
Sep 1, 2006
.
Dinosaur Gum
NSW Senators elected:
4 ALP
1 GRN
3 Lib
1 LDP
2 NAT
1 PHON

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
Syria and specifically Aleppo has had a daily occurrence of war crimes for too long to remember... Yet of course we do not care, not down here in the land of plenty (plenty of racism and self-interest).

RichardA
Sep 1, 2006
.
Dinosaur Gum
Totals:
Coalition 30
Labor 26
Greens 9
One Nation 4
NXT 3
LDP 1
FF 1
Lambie
Hinch.

open24hours
Jan 7, 2001

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

RichardA posted:


One Nation 4
LDP 1
FF 1
Lambie
Hinch.

Wow. gently caress that.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Did Lambie tend to vote with the Coalition? I can't remember, although it's probably less likely now that the Libs have had an election all to prevent such "chaos".

So if we were to break things down into generally left and generally right:

Totals:
Coalition 30
Labor 26
Greens 9
One Nation 4
NXT 3
LDP 1
FF 1
Lambie
Hinch.

Greens + NXT + ALP = 38
Libs + One Nation + LDP + FF + Hinch = 37
Lambie = ??

NXT, Greens and ALP are not going to agree on everything either.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
I'm the four One Nation Senators

Thanks Malcolm

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Did Lambie tend to vote with the Coalition? I can't remember, although it's probably less likely now that the Libs have had an election all to prevent such "chaos".

So if we were to break things down into generally left and generally right:

Totals:
Coalition 30
Labor 26
Greens 9
One Nation 4
NXT 3
LDP 1
FF 1
Lambie
Hinch.

Greens + NXT + ALP = 38
Libs + One Nation + LDP + FF + Hinch = 37
Lambie = ??

NXT, Greens and ALP are not going to agree on everything either.

NXT is in no way shape or form Generally Left.

thatfatkid
Feb 20, 2011

by Azathoth
One Nation are pro penalty rates, medicare, public ownership of state assets etc. They won't vote lockstep with the coalition.

Solemn Sloth posted:

NXT is in no way shape or form Generally Left.

Also this. They're a group of liberals that split from the Liberals in SA.

Negative Entropy
Nov 30, 2009

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-government-order-csiro-uturn-towards-climate-science-20160803-gqk2pr.html

After making cuts and telling CSIRO you cant be doing climate science any more, leading it to shed jobs, shelve or cancel research projects, Greg Hunt is telling CSIRO, to about face and start doing it again.

But the damage has already happened. $15m in funding is not a lot compared to the amount that was cut.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Did Lambie tend to vote with the Coalition? I can't remember, although it's probably less likely now that the Libs have had an election all to prevent such "chaos".

So if we were to break things down into generally left and generally right:

Totals:
Coalition 30
Labor 26
Greens 9
One Nation 4
NXT 3
LDP 1
FF 1
Lambie
Hinch.

Greens + NXT + ALP = 38
Libs + One Nation + LDP + FF + Hinch = 37
Lambie = ??

NXT, Greens and ALP are not going to agree on everything either.
The only math that will really hurt:

ALP + LNP = 56

Because minor parties are actually irrelevant.

Centusin
Aug 5, 2009
Hoping that one nation goes the way of Palmer United party and everyone decides to become an independent instead, leading to an implosion

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
One day I just want to see the Libs and Nationals splinter nationwide, if only to see the bickering and infighting that would result.

Or at the very least drop the whole pretense of being a coalition and just have the Nats drop colors and wear blue.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
It's Bill Leak time!

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Anidav posted:

It's Bill Leak time!



Beaten like an aboriginal child in a detention centre.


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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Meh.

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