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adamantium|wang posted:Mr Turnbull's office did not respond to questions on Thursday, and Mr Frydenberg was in Antarctica and unavailable to comment. Mr Price also declined to comment. loving LOL. I hope he stays there.
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DancingShade posted:Is Antarctica code for "hiding under his desk with the lights off until the people outside finally leave"? I'd call it a good start.
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Bishop won't be PM unless something weird happens, it's not her style anyway. She is professionally invisible when it counts (eg a dodgy legal deal between WA and the Federal govt and it's Brandis in the headlights, not the senior WA politician: come on, you can't tell me she doesn't know something), and a moderate Senator. Oh, and how's this for invisible: I simply don't recall a word about her in the last sitting, do you? She clearly gets things done and the media simply do not watch her, or if they do, they certainly don't print it. She just won't be PM, she's not that stupid. Unfortunately the lineup is really terrible. The base no longer trust Morrison, no one's insane enough to let Abbott back in or anyone similar like Bernardi, Dutton might want the job but he's almost as bad as Brandis for fuckups. Ideally they'd like Porter to have the job but he's still in training wheels as Minister and it would be a waste to throw him in the arena now. No, someone will have to carry the party through a probable lost election next time and they haven't finished burning Turnbull thoroughly yet. No one wants to lead a government in an economic downturn, particularly the one we are having right now, and this lot still haven't gotten through blaming Labor for everything since 2010. If Turnbull gets the huff and goes or is told to go, someone will sacrifice themselves for the good of the party, and the Right will make sure it's a moderate. Gee, that only leaves...Pyne. Please please please, I need a bloody laugh. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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hooman posted:Pyne Minister Prime He said he was a fixer. Let's see him fix this loving mess.
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the left, that classic enemy of social justice we all know and love
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bad at social justice, bad at the economy, bad at winning elections, time to pack it up leftailures!
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quote:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/09/labor-defends-import-protection-for-australias-book-publishers I still don't know how I feel about this. A local publishing industry does seem like something worth preserving though, especially when you can import anything you want for personal use.
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"Radical centre" "soft bigotry of the left" ‘compassionistas’ Maybe Neal Pearson is just retarded. I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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open24hours posted:I still don't know how I feel about this. A local publishing industry does seem like something worth preserving though, especially when you can import anything you want for personal use. I wonder if this taps into the university textbook industry thing, because I'm all for it otherwise. Pearson Education is loving poo poo and textbooks cost a lot of money if you have to buy them new, they also like to bake in some one-use code or whatever so it's more difficult to resell them.
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I'm not sure that's not a problem with universities rather than publishers, although I'm sure there's some reason why students just absolutely have to spend hundreds on text books every semester that I'm not aware of.
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We need protection from cheap imports, so here is a doomsday scenario to push.
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If they weren't protected I think I'd argue that they should be subsidised. I don't know if it's fair to treat books and other cultural objects like commodities.
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open24hours posted:I'm not sure that's not a problem with universities rather than publishers, although I'm sure there's some reason why students just absolutely have to spend hundreds on text books every semester that I'm not aware of. I guess what I mean is that a publisher has basically cornered the market for university textbooks, and it's a pretty effective extortion seeing these books cost upwards $120 per book, and often you'll have a book per subject. As far as I'm aware, there's import restrictions for cheaper foreign versions of the book, so there's no competition. Also lmao WRT your "some reason why students just absolutely have to spend hundreds on text books every semester that I'm not aware of" comment though
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Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the terrible saga of the guy who bought a basement converted into an apartment which is 1.8 metres from floor to ceiling and now doesn't want to go through with the contract: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/280809 https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-unit-nsw-harris+park-123934138 Pictures:       
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Milky Moor posted:Indigenous person says something you don't agree with, call him retarded. Yeah look, I don't think the retarded comment is fair, this is the article for context. I think this is actually a key point here quote:Pearson said DI [Direct Instruction] – which has been criticised by some educators as a rigid, expensive and culturally inappropriate remedial curriculum – was “precisely the approach to schooling that removes all excuses” based on a student’s disadvantage. Beside the fact that he is allegedly a dick to people, the DI method is copping a lot of fire because there's not a lot of evidence for student outcomes in Australia, amongst other things. The whole personality thing is a distraction from what is potentially bad policy. Reminder: Noel Pearson supported "The Intervention" in the NT.
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Who the gently caress buys a unit with a 1.8m ceiling?
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iajanus posted:Who the gently caress buys a unit with a 1.8m ceiling? Someone from the shire
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Did they even walk through it? Surely you wouldn't buy something at auction without a walkthrough, 1.8 is not enough for me to stand up. I hope he likes broken light bulbs.
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I am average height and my hair would scrape the ceiling in there. It's unlivable.
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Apparently the property was actually certified, but the guy who certified it is actually really dodgy.
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That's why you always get a building inspection before buying a home. I mean, it costs a couple of hundred dollars to check that your biggest investment isn't a lemon.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the terrible saga of the guy who bought a basement converted into an apartment which is 1.8 metres from floor to ceiling and now doesn't want to go through with the contract: Couldn't even be bothered to straighten up the blinds before taking the photos
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Patricia Karvelas is a lot that is wrong with RN. I have to turn her off (which I suspect might be the rationale). She's so loving lightweight. Last Friday - she asked a guest to explain to listeners what the Titanic was.
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Today was a fine day in journalism, brought to you by the Hun.
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First REAL man.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Today was a fine day in journalism, brought to you by the Hun. Man who was the first Astronaut in space would be technically correct
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Noel Pearson isn't retarded, he's just a very naughty boy who thinks if you join 'em that means you beat 'em, uh hahah no that's not how whitey works. You don't get to join whitey club by repeating the poo poo they say, not even in a classroom. Noel has swallowed the bootstraps BS and think he's got the answer. Misguided and selfish maybe but not retarded. And in the economics lookback of 2016 of the Guardian politics podcast with Katherine Murphy Greg Jericho, Gareth Hutchens and Shane Wright, here's a summary with comments: * Jericho says that we were unlucky in the shrinking quarter. Usually one of net exports, consumption or investment avoids a negative quarter, and not enough of any were growing. And we might have to get used to it, because we're more dependent on our net exports now. * But as Hutchens points out, the economic forecast was more rosy than it should have been, so the fact that things look bad now might not be the future case. I feel this is a bizarre way to deal with reality but I guess that's how economists do it. Consumption will probably jump over the festive season and rescue growth temporarily but that's not going to last. * Underemployment and the depression of wages are the danger sign. Less people working full-time at full-time wages will not keep consumption improving. Of course revenue is falling as a result. "Big numbers looking ok but people's lives dragging on the ground". Thus increasing political upheaval. And at root, this is why we seem to be going the same direction as elsewhere, because the people running things aren't learning from similar lessons. * Jobson Growth is a joke, it doesn't improve anyone's bottom line except for the big guys. Investment is still falling. The government is now relying on terms of trade #goironore #gocoal for more revenue. The falling participation rate hides an actual unemployment rate going north of 7% as boomers retire and the jobs disappear to automation. There's no sense that the parties have any idea about this let alone have a plan. Well, apart from kicking poor people, that's easy. Those who have no plan for the local economy have a vested interest in blaming the world economy. Again, look at what NT does and imagine that's how Australia operates. * God knows what Trump's influence will have on the US economy and therefore ours. Mathias Cormann is the rock of stability for the government but Chris Bowen has actually driven the economic agenda be it superannuation or negative gearing and capital gains tax. Morrison has improved, at least as far as figuring out what narrative to sell. That's pretty much all the panel had to say about outstanding performers in the economic sense. I guess you'd expect Morrison to fire up if he's to wrest the agenda back from the ALP but given that his narrative is electoral poison, that's not going to be greatly successful. That's the real problem for the party, it's completely disconnected and sells disconnected messages. The ALP has to wake up to this, but it seems too preoccupied in a slapfight with the Greens for dumb reasons.
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Lid posted:Man who was the first Astronaut in space would be technically correct even then it's debatable, the sub-orbital flights were claimed as space flights at the time.
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ewe2 posted:Noel Pearson isn't retarded, he's just a very naughty boy who thinks if you join 'em that means you beat 'em, uh hahah no that's not how whitey works. You don't get to join whitey club by repeating the poo poo they say, not even in a classroom. Noel has swallowed the bootstraps BS and think he's got the answer. Misguided and selfish maybe but not retarded. It certainly has been an interesting year. The ALP is fighting off the greens for the same reason the coalition is fighting off Juan Nation. Fortunately I reckon the SDA losing influence as a result of their members switching over to a new union will change the political ground within the ALP towards something that more closely resembles "representing worker interests", and if the workers of the future are fighting for scraps and having to support an ever aging population of demanding crybaby boomers then you can bet a pivot will be in order very soon. Whether or not the coalition picks up on it or not is a different story.
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