Anidav posted:Queensland Premier Pauline Hanson. sounds about right. kirbysuperstar posted:First Dog keeps showing up in my Google Now feed. What did I do to deserve this? " because you showed interest in First Dog on the Moon" * holy poo poo my voice recognition capitalises First Dog on the Moon Amethyst posted:Chicken salt on fish and chips. Good or bad? Good bigis posted:I wonder how the reffo team would go if Australia was hosting the Olympics. Fences will be extended an extra 30 centimetres above the maximum high jump. Anidav posted:Ricky Muir is melting down on Facebook about not being elected. Sorry Rick I tried to help
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Kat Delacour posted:Sounds like the ACMA are politely/officially saying "He's an idiot, gently caress that guy" Sounds like ACMA are politely/officially saying "we're of no loving use to anyone, no loving use at all"
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The entire basis of media regulation in Australia is what a reasonable, ordinary person would conclude. To say that a reasonable ordinary person would think Bolt is hyperbolic and opinionated is saying Bolt's audience/followers are unreasonable and extraordinarily stupid.
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I still think that bolt is some kind of twisted performance art.
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kirbysuperstar posted:First Dog keeps showing up in my Google Now feed. What did I do to deserve this? Kommando posted:holy poo poo my voice recognition capitalises First Dog on the Moon These are end times
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Kat Delacour posted:The entire basis of media regulation in Australia is what a reasonable, ordinary person would conclude. To say that a reasonable ordinary person would think Bolt is hyperbolic and opinionated is saying Bolt's audience/followers are unreasonable and extraordinarily stupid. That's a real sick burn and I'm sure they'll reconsider their ways.
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Ricky Muir posted:Malcolm Roberts from One Nation has been elected to the Senate with 77 below the line primary votes. Naturally there is an uproar from aspects of the media, political commentators and the public. I have noted this with great interest and frustration all in one. This whole 'Senate BTL Primary Vote' truther movement is one of the dumber outcomes of the election.
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quote:To ultimately give the power of the preference back to the voter I suggested many changes during the electoral reform debate, including complete removal of above the line voting, introducing the Hare-Clarke system and/or introducing a Robson Rotation.
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Bring in CIRs while you're at it.
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 01:38 |
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Lid posted:ACMA agreed. Even though Mr Bolt said his viewers "chose facts above fear" and presented his views as facts, ACMA believed his use of overblown language would have made the ordinary person realise he was only giving an opinion. lmao
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I don't see the huge problem with it. A Party's second and third candidates are always going to get lower primary votes and rely on the flow of preferences, right? I don't consider that to be fundamentally undemocratic.
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QUACKTASTIC posted:lmao That really is an amazing line isn't it.
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comparing below the line votes is completely stupid when the majority of votes are done above the line. "Oh no, more people voted for One Nation than Motorists and they got in and I didn't - abloo bloo bloo"
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V for Vegas posted:This whole 'Senate BTL Primary Vote' truther movement is one of the dumber outcomes of the election. Nice meltdown.
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Well it looks like we will get an early indication of exactly how full of poo our new crossbench are: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/mark-dreyfus-says-labor-will-%27stand-together/7699518 quote:Mark Dreyfus: Labor will 'stand together with ethnic communities' to fight attempts to change section 18C Monday 8 August 2016 7:37AM (view full episode) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-08/xenophon-wont-support-removing-18c-racial-discrimination-act/7699374 quote:Nick Xenophon rules out support for removing 18C from Racial Discrimination Act By political reporter Stephanie Anderson Updated 37 minutes ago Why isn't Billy Boy Leak being charged under 18C? http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/indigenous-dads:-stories-of-indigenous-fatherhood/7699848 quote:#IndigenousDads: stories of Indigenous fatherhood counter Bill Leak cartoon Monday 8 August 2016 8:35AM (view full episode) loving refos taking aw medals! Of course they swim well! All the bad swimmers are dead. Should make 'em swim wearing niquabs or just leave the towels on their heads. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-07/syrian-swimmer-yusra-mardini%27s-olympic-debut/7698058 quote:Rio 2016: Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini makes debut for first Refugee Olympic Team in butterfly heats Updated yesterday at 11:13am
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gently caress a chicken salt
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 02:27 |
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No, don't
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Mad Katter posted:I don't see the huge problem with it. A Party's second and third candidates are always going to get lower primary votes and rely on the flow of preferences, right? It's not a huge problem, no. Roberts got substantially less than the average second senator (who normally get a few thousand first preferences), but that's probably because he's in a party where the leader's name is also in the party name. The same happened with the second and third NXT Senators. Might as well do this here: Addendum to my How STV systems work post. What is a Robson Rotation? Currently, parties can select the order of candidates on the ballot paper. This allows them to put their best (ie most factionally important) candidates at the top, giving them a greater chance of being elected. A Robson Rotation involves using additional ballot papers with the candidates in a different order. This means that every candidate gets to be in the top spot. Wouldn't you have a huge number of ballots? It's not necessary to cover every permutation. The simplest approach is to have every candidates at the top and just rotate the order (for four candidates it would be ABCD, BCDA, CDAB, DABC). The ACT experimented with this, but found people were still voting straight ticket, which meant the preference flows tended to go in only a few specific paths, aiding some candidates depending on what position they drew. The solution is to add in more options (most obviously a set like DCBA, CBAD, BADC, ADBC). The ACT has 60 different ballot papers for 5-member electorates, and 420 for the 7-member electorate. Are there any other effects?
The Tasmanian Electoral Commission had a paper on it from 2008, comparing the implementation there to the one in the ACT.
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Lid posted:Andrew Bolt's comments about climate change on his television show were so hyperbolic and subjective that no reasonable person would think he was providing a "concluded scientific position", the television regulator has found. He lied so big only an idiot would believe him. I hope theres not many of those about
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Wouldn't you have a huge number of ballots?
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Mr Chips posted:On the other hand, printing more senate ballots than there are atoms in the universe would be cool If each senate paper is written on one atom how are we going to fold it up to put it in the white box?
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hooman posted:If each senate paper is written on one atom how are we going to fold it up to put it in the white box?
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One Nation senator for Western Australia, Rodney Culleton, has been arrested in New South Wales over a larceny conviction. itshappening.gif
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Oh my god, the 730 interview with Culleton is golden. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2016/s4510194.htm LAUREN DAY: And why the burqa should be banned? ROD CULLETON: (Laughs) I tend to think Muslim women, you know, would be very attractive women. I mean, why do they have to hide their face?
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GrandMaster posted:Oh my god, the 730 interview with Culleton is golden. Burqa shops (Berk Burqa Bargains?) are going to see a massive increase in business.
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GrandMaster posted:Oh my god, the 730 interview with Culleton is golden. Burqa's are oppressing my right to perv on women has to be the whitest malest reason ever for banning the burqa.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-08/no-conspiracy-around-patriot-movement-galea/7699674 lol at fascists thinking the police are conspiring against them.
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I actually don't think Culleton should be sentenced to over 12 months jail over what he's done
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# ? Aug 8, 2016 04:21 |
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What's with the left-right paradigm only being applied to white people? How could anyone possibly argue this was the first time anti-terror laws have been used against the right?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/08/my-10-principles-to-reform-the-united-nations-before-its-too-late KRudd fixes the UN
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Mad Katter posted:I don't see the huge problem with it. A Party's second and third candidates are always going to get lower primary votes and rely on the flow of preferences, right? Sounds like Muir is advocating for the official non-recognition of political parties altogether, in which case .
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:What's with the left-right paradigm only being applied to white people? How could anyone possibly argue this was the first time anti-terror laws have been used against the right? Extremists don't count as right wing if they're Muslim.
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Frogmanv2 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/08/my-10-principles-to-reform-the-united-nations-before-its-too-late Christ, the very first line of that: quote:I will not now be a candidate for the position of UN secretary general but I offer these reflections to the next SG and to the UN member states As for the UN itself, I think it's going to slide into long term irrelevance, as much as that is a shame. After the US/UK/AUS sidestepped around the UN in the invasion of Iraq the decline started in full.
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Wheezle posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-08/no-conspiracy-around-patriot-movement-galea/7699674 i'm still working on doing a new naziwatch thing but basically there's this real amazing persecution complex emerging within the "patriot movement" (actually right-wing ultranationalists). The rhetoric being pumped out is some next level poo poo and really I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone affiliated with these groups to be arrested under these laws. e: Recoome fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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Isn't the whole reason these groups get started in the first place that people feel like they're being persecuted?
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Frogmanv2 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/08/my-10-principles-to-reform-the-united-nations-before-its-too-late It's really goddamn rich of him to take a run for the leadership when his final moments in office were spent passing refugee policies widely and aggressively opposed by the UN. Has anyone put to him how he would have reconciled the differences in policy between the UN and himself concerning refugees if he had formally been nominated to run for leadership? Was his goal to double-down and try to make boat turnbacks a worldwide policy or was he planning on repudiating his own platforms as leader of Australia?
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Serrath posted:It's really goddamn rich of him to take a run for the leadership when his final moments in office were spent passing refugee policies widely and aggressively opposed by the UN. Has anyone put to him how he would have reconciled the differences in policy between the UN and himself concerning refugees if he had formally been nominated to run for leadership? Was his goal to double-down and try to make boat turnbacks a worldwide policy or was he planning on repudiating his own platforms as leader of Australia? Pretty sure his plan was to say whatever was needed to get a grip on power and hold it.
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open24hours posted:Isn't the whole reason these groups get started in the first place that people feel like they're being persecuted? I honestly thought it revolved more around some kind of moral panic about Islam, rather than being persecuted (at least until now). My opinion is that the ultranationalist groups have only introduced the persecution part into the discourse this year, seeing as they've only had like one somewhat successful rally in Perth.
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I'm disappointed that VicPol didn't carry out their usual shoot first policy when dealing with the mentally ill
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Please, you havent been persecuted til you've joined the Democrats
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