Cartoon posted:

Source your quotes.

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.

Recoome posted:

Well currently the ALP believes in -checks notes-

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Rod Culleton aide claims James Ashby threw phone

Pauline Hanson has downplayed allegations that her adviser James Ashby threw his phone at fellow One Nation Senator Rod Culleton’s Chief of Staff, saying it was an underarm throw which has been “blown out of proportion”.

Mr Ashby is accused of having walked into Senator Culleton’s Parliament House office last Wednesday morning and arguing with his chief-of-staff Margaret Menzel over a proposed Facebook livestream.

“That is completely blown out of proportion,” Senator Hanson told the Seven Network this morning.

“He is accused of something. He was underhand throwing. It was completely blown out of proportion,” she said.

“It was an underhand throw. That is the news of the day, heaven help us, how my advisor threw his phone underhanded.

“How pathetic it is, if you want to talk about something else, but if this is more important to the nation, go ahead.”

James Ashby threw phone

Pauline Hanson’s high-profile ­adviser James Ashby has been ­accused of “losing the plot” and throwing his mobile phone at senator Rod Culleton’s chief of staff.

In another sign of One Nation’s escalating tensions just four months after the election, Mr Ashby, who Senator Hanson has jokingly described as her “adopted son”, is said to have walked into Senator Culleton’s Parliament House office last Wednesday morning and argued with his chief of staff Margaret Menzel over a proposed Facebook livestream.

Ms Menzel told The Australian she had asked Mr Ashby to set out his proposal in writing.

According to Ms Menzel, the ensuing argument became personal and repetitive, until Mr Ashby “completely lost the plot” and threw the phone in her direction.

Ms Menzel was not hit by the phone. “My reflexes are pretty good for an old chick,” she said.

The incident, which was allegedly watched by two of Senator Culleton’s other staff but not the senator himself — has been reported to parliamentary officials.

The incident came after Senator Hanson’s apparent abandonment earlier in the week of Senator Culleton, who is facing High Court action over the eligibility of his election.

Ms Menzel said she feared the phone incident was a sign that One Nation’s promise to be different from the big political parties was proving hollow.

Mr Ashby did not respond to The Australian last night.

Two days before the alleged ­incident with Ms Menzel, Mr Ashby had intervened in One ­Nation senator Malcolm Roberts’s press conference when journalists asked questions about Senator Culleton, who is said to be under pressure to quit on the grounds he is discrediting the party.

In both the Senate and on Sky News’s The Bolt Report last ­Monday, Ms Hanson said Senator Culleton should face the High Court.

He would “not be too happy” with her for saying so, Senator Hanson added.

Ms Menzel said problems within the party had been escalating for some time. Senator Culleton, Ms Menzel said, had lacked support and had been treated “abominably”.

“The greatest endorsement is that every single party decided he was a threat because he’s determined to tell the truth,” Ms Menzel said. “And if I’ve got to cop my bit of stick because of it, so be it.

“He’s not going anywhere without doing everything we can do to ensure that he sees through every promise he’s made to everybody across the nation, particularly in Western Australia.”

Ms Menzel emphasised relations were good between Senator Culleton’s office and One Nation colleagues Malcolm Roberts and Brian Burston.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...82eb5fbe1c19939

Birdstrike posted:

you could also, idk, fix things like TAFE

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.afr.com/business/retail/inside-harvey-normans-losing-franchises-gerry-harveys-mystery-mr-fixer-20161107-gsjz44

Here is a good article about some interesting accounting processes at Harvey Norman.

Starshark posted:

hosed if I'm even going to so much as apply for the free 1 month trial.

Cartoon posted:

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.

Knobb Manwich posted:

You can grab the link, then paste it into google, click on it there and you've hacked their incredible paywall.

Starshark posted:

This works.

Knobb Manwich posted:

You can grab the link, then paste it into google, click on it there and you've hacked their incredible paywall.

tithin posted:

Didn't work on mobile

Can someone post

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Gerry Harvey badman, possibly criminal

Solemn Sloth posted:

tithin posted:

Didn't work on mobile

Can someone post

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It's not suggested that there is anything improper in the accounts. But shareholders would value more information.

The reason shareholders are told nothing about losses and obsolete stock in the franchise network is because Harvey Norman believes franchisees are independent third parties.

Accounting rules require Harvey Norman to consolidate the results of any entity that it controls. Control is measured by exposure to variable returns and the ability to affect those returns.

Yet franchisees function like commission salesmen – Harvey Norman controls how they work, where and when they work, and it picks up the tab on their losses.

Isn't that control? Auditor Katrina Zdrilic calls the decision not to consolidate the franchises "a significant accounting judgment".

Harvey Norman and Ernst & Young declined to comment on that judgment. They also wouldn't say how the fudged list of trusts appeared in the accounts.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

aejix posted:

Do you have any of this handy because gently caress me if virtually every person I've spoken to about this doesn't immediately throw the "young job snobs" line out before completely disengaging

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A petition calling for The Project to apologise to Steve Price after he was 'bullied' by Carrie Bickmore live on-air has received 17,000 signatures.

The Change.org petition says the 61-year-old radio presenter was a victim of "leftist bullying" after a heated debate with columnist Jamila Rizvi last week which ended with Bickmore telling Price to watch his tone.

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"This is the reason why Donald Trump won, because people like you lecture and hector people."

Lid posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...113-gsohqv.html

Lid posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...113-gsohqv.html

Laserface posted:

Lol he makes an excellent point that a number of other commentators have made and gets shouted down by that chick for zero reason other than expressing his opinion, which is the exact thing he is talking about.

its the same thing this very thread is guilty of all the loving time.

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Nobody, no matter what side of politics they fall on, should have to experience the abuse and degradation of what Steve had to go through on that program," petition founder Thomas Nicholls wrote.

"What happened on The Project is unacceptable and should be condemned. Wether you are on the left, right, or somewhere in between, nobody should experience what Steve experienced."