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Starshark posted:According to my Labor politician mate it's more like 60%. Pity it's going to the Shooters and rooters party. Oh wait, he was talking about the booth Molong Hall.
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This is the greatest article ever http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/defamation-not-18c-the-real-threat-to-free-speech-20161111-gsnms0.html quote:Defamation, not 18C, the real threat to free speech
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Lid posted:This is the greatest article ever That's quite a collection of photographs. George Brandis practicing his Peter Dutton impersonation.  Pauline Pantsdown practicing her Tim Curry impersonation.  George Christiansen with some Trump porn.  Cory Bernardi thinking about scrotums.  Tony Abbott, upon realising he forgot the onions. 
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 Thanks for the recommendation facebook  I knew that RUA had links to nationalist shitheads so it's no surprise that they are supporting trump, but why are they paying Facebook to advertise a video by Infowars, possibly the craziest people on the internet?
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Hmm yes, perhaps it was the loss of American prestige and global authority that disenfranchised people - not the actual disenfranchisement.
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10:45 presser on Nauru and Manus Island resettlement.
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Time to start whinging about the Latin scourge.
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Ooh, could be neat to get a stronger central/south american cultural presence here
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I did not see that coming. Also, did he say we have no children in detention, and then say we are deporting children in detention to the US?
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Knorth posted:Ooh, could be neat to get a stronger central/south american cultural presence here they'll probably just get a bunch of socially conservative catholics and settle them in marginal seats
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gay picnic defence posted:they'll probably just get a bunch of socially conservative catholics and settle them in marginal seats get a bunch of venezuelan emigres and tell them shorten is a chavezista
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Knorth posted:Ooh, could be neat to get a stronger central/south american cultural presence here Awwwwe mate. I love me some GYG tucker. Can't wait for more of em so I can order Butter Chicken maaaate.
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Trump would abolish it "What is Australia anyway? An island a Jebs! Does America really need more? We don't know what they're doing over there!" *airhorn*
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It appears to be a once off deal. What happens to further arrivals?
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Synthbuttrange posted:What happens to further arrivals? Excuse me we have stopped the boats.
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It was nice having a few decades of no White Australia Policy. Oh well.
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Whatever you do don't go in the Australian GBS thread.
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Resident Idiot posted:
It's important to note that Orange is also the Federal seat of Calare, which in 1996 5-term Labor rep David Simmons was expected to be thrown out by the Nationals, only to have Peter Andren run an independent bid and take 63% of the vote. I always joke that he beat the Nationals because he had been doing the 8:35pm stock report every night for as long as I could remember on CBN-8 ('Mid State Television 6-8-9). In reality this was the electorate saw what was going on over at Tamworth with Tony Windsor and agreed that the National's all-the-way-with Liberals meant that their local voice was silenced, so it was time to be look elsewhere . Andren was re-elected multiple times, at one point holding a 75%-25% 2pp, until in 2006 the AEC redistribution massively changed his electoral boundaries. The conspiracy theory was he was making too much noise in Canberra (Anti Iraq war, warning about climate change, pro-refugee, and most importantly repeatedly asking questions about politician's Superannuation and introducing private members bills to enable Reps to turn it down). [Yes, the AEC is independent) In 2007 He decided he would make a run for the Senate, but was diagnosed with cancer in August, left parliament in October and died in November. He is very fondly remembered, and I'm not at all surprised that the voters cast around looking for someone else to stir up parliament, except State this time. A quick bit of cynical re-branding from the Shooters + Fishers party back in April 2016 and there you go, a new hope ready-made to tap into voter resentment. evilbastard fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Whatever you do don't go in the Australian GBS thread.
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Cartoon posted:Link pls. all old memes are new posted:I have made a terrible mistake tldr: goon gets drunk, shoves metal bolt up his dick, now cant stop bleeding 
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Synthbuttrange posted:tldr: goon gets drunk, shoves metal bolt up his dick, now cant stop bleeding What? Whyyyyyyy?
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Synthbuttrange posted:tldr: goon gets drunk, shoves metal bolt up his dick, now cant stop bleeding lmao pretty sure that's raptor fag
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and speaking of stabbing yourself in the dick:quote:Labor is also worried about the impact its forced introduction of compulsory preferential voting will have on the election, a move which was seen as tactically beneficial in combating a growing urban Green vote, but which now has the potential to deliver One Nation more influence.
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quote:Treasurer Scott Morrison is on the mend after emergency surgery, for an undisclosed ailment, in Canberra Hospital. Suspicious timing eh.
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His heart probably started working.
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rumble in the bunghole posted:His heart probably started working. does he even have one? I assumed his organs were just a collection of anuses
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Bill Shorten says temporary overseas workers 'taking the jobs' of Australians Opposition leader denies shift to anti-globalisation message but says Australia must learn from Donald Trump’s victory we're hosed
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i mean that is literally true though we don't bitch about 457 visas for no reason
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my family came here on a 457 visa, why do you all hate me 
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For stealing jobs, pay attention.
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Foreign workers have been a necessary part of the Australian economy in large part because of the failure of our education and training system (and business of course) to fill the gap in skills in the labour market. Any reduction or reform of the migrant worker programme has to come with reform to education away from the desires of the students and more towards the needs of the labour market otherwise we will get massive skill shortages in jobs that aren't sexy enough to attract students. Skills shortages means paying a lot more for a bunch of things we didn't necessarily expect to.
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Les Affaires posted:Foreign workers have been a necessary part of the Australian economy in large part because of the failure of our education and training system (and business of course) to fill the gap in skills in the labour market.
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I think most of the foreign workers we import would be happy to become permanent residents, rather than living on a 457 visa.
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Les Affaires posted:Foreign workers have been a necessary part of the Australian economy in large part because of the failure of our education and training system (and business of course) to fill the gap in skills in the labour market. Any reduction or reform of the migrant worker programme has to come with reform to education away from the desires of the students and more towards the needs of the labour market otherwise we will get massive skill shortages in jobs that aren't sexy enough to attract students. Skills shortages means paying a lot more for a bunch of things we didn't necessarily expect to. Leadership spill is on in the NSW Nats following disastrous Orange by-election. One does have to wonder about this symbolic sacrificing of the leader fad we seem to be undergoing in recent politics. Rudd-Gillard-Rudd, Abbott-Turnbull... It now begs the question "What will the new figure head do differently?" In federal politics the only notable change was being less creepy towards women and eating fewer onions. What will a new NSW National's leader do that a shooters and fishers and farmers and dramalama's party member can't/won't? What a joke in a polity typified by clowns and muppets.
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Cartoon posted:Source your quotes. he's correct tho?
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If foreign worker= 457 visa then a few points to note. 457 visas are widely misused and rorted. http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/08/more-457-visa-rorts-revealed-3/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-27/corruption-and-widespread-rorting-undermining-immigration/7537270?pfmredir=sm There is no effective test in a 457 visa to determine whether or not local workers are available. The whole thing is a wedge politic by employers and their toadies to crash the cost of labour. Surely another better solution, rather than the terrifyingly anti-freedom and authoritarian "reform to education away from the desires of the students and more towards the needs of the labour market otherwise we will get massive skill shortages in jobs that aren't sexy enough to attract students", would be to improve the pay, social status and working conditions for people in the jobs where a skill shortage has developed. That the skill shortage has been created by short term profit seeking in industries that depend on these skills to survive isn't a problem in education, it is one of the fundamental problems with capitalism. This issue has been played out too many times over the period since the industrial revolution that ignoring the actual known cause (gently caress wit shareholders and mangers) and the solution (strong labour laws that require employers to act in their long term best interests) is completely laughable. I accidentally did some investigative journalism into the rural skills shortage and young job snobs.  It is all a loving horrible lie. There are no jobs out there for Australians. The employers want to hire backpackers they can 'burn out' or, more chillingly, a bunch of Taiwanese who are clearly on some dodgey 'guest worker' arrangement and effectively being treated as slaves. So yeah if Les Affaires wants to own what he posted fair game.
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