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Friendly Fire posted: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. I've seen them miss some pretty major stuff, so you can't really take a positive building inspection at face value. In my experience, if there is major structural/non-compliance issues very few inspectors will straight up tell you its hosed and not to go ahead. The reports are full of weasel statements about not being a qualified engineer and getting further advice. People are dumb enough to not read between the lines and go ahead with it, especially when it comes to units where issues are with the building as a whole. This non-compliant hobbit dwelling kind of thing isn't that unusual except for the fact they're trying to sell it by itself and there isn't a legitimate dwelling upstairs.
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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: I was reading that thread at OzB earlier today, and I'm almost convinced it's a an elaborate troll, cause I don't want to believe somebody that dumb exists. The best part of the whole thing is his comment later on about people becoming multi-millionaires because of OzB. Who would have thought buying thousands of Eneloops and discount Lego sets could be so lucrative?
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Cartoon posted:
Still fighting the 2010 election and trying to rewrite history to fix things, because they're fixers. Sad really. Someone somewhere might think a Keynesian policy worked. Do you think it's just because it might have helped non-rich non-approved ALP-voting people because they themselves were never going to suffer either way. But I know for a fact that people lived longer, and spent less on their electricity bills, and some people got much needed work just from the pink batts scheme, despite its faults. But we still can't talk that way because the whole tapestry of lies would unravel. That they're still trying to rewrite things tells you what a problem their own narrative is for them; perhaps that they think somehow this "myth" of stimulus is the thing that's preventing people from seeing their version of reality and if only they could make it go away people will be more receptive hahaha. Boy is there bad news there.
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Cartoon posted:You know how there's been some dire poo poo come out recently about the performance of the sub-muppets at the helm? If only we had some counter-examples to see what would have happened if we pursued austerity instead of stimulus.
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Solemn Sloth posted:If only we had some counter-examples to see what would have happened if we pursued austerity instead of stimulus. I also seem to remember someone screeching 'budget emergency' in between mouthfuls of cigars and ben & jerrys and proposing austerity. Went down a treat with the voting public. Not sure why the Libs don't want to go there hard right now.
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I'd just like to point out that this guy is a 'highly regarded' economist. What are your qualifications to be doubting his proclamations? Hmmmm?
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Cartoon posted:I'd just like to point out that this guy is a 'highly regarded' economist. What are your qualifications to be doubting his proclamations? Hmmmm? Poorly regarding shitposter. Still a better qualification.
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Dec 9, 2016 03:58
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The paper so nice he wrote it twicequote:
Here it is during the Abbott years http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...672cb2fbe447f78
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Cartoon posted:I'd just like to point out that this guy is a 'highly regarded' economist. What are your qualifications to be doubting his proclamations? Hmmmm? Four years postgrad qualification at clown college. Your move. 
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https://cdn.tspace.gov.au/uploads/sites/99/2016/10/The-Effectiveness-of-Federal-Fiscal-Policy.pdf It's worth reading the actual report if you're interested. I've only skimmed through it but his argument seems to be that the stimulus contributed to the high dollar, which made exports less competitive. In a sense that's probably true, but I think less competitive exports are probably a fairly small price to pay to avoid the kind of recession seen in Europe and the US.
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Dec 9, 2016 04:09
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He's probably part of the "we need another recession" type of crowd who thinks having everybody scrap for a smaller pie is a good thing to do every once in a while.
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Dec 9, 2016 04:10
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Hyperventilating over public debt is exactly the kind of BS neoliberal economists pull when they have no other plans for the local economy. Governments use public debt as a tool, it's not a bogeyman. This from the same people who externalize everything else if there's a buck in it (eg asset sales).
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Comstar posted:60% of large businesses pay no tax. I have full confidence that Scomo will blame Labour and that's why we need to cut business taxes. If we lighten the burden on big businesses they will be more likely to pay their fair share 
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Dec 9, 2016 04:46
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Jonah Galtberg posted:If we lighten the burden on big businesses they will be more likely to pay their fair share Arguably, it was due to this happening and thus undercutting smuggling, that led to the American war of independence. 
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Dec 9, 2016 04:49
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:"Radical centre" Lmao the google results for compassionistas
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"Controversial conservative politicians Cory Bernardi and George Christensen have agreed to help an anti-Islam organisation raise funds to defend a defamation case brought by a halal certifier. The South Australian senator and Queensland MP, who are both outspoken critics of Islam and halal certification, are on the bill for a series of events by the Q Society, the Australian reported." https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/09/cory-bernardi-and-george-christensen-to-raise-funds-for-anti-islam-group loving hell Libs, get your loving morons under control.
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hooman posted:loving hell Libs, get your loving morons under control. The morons are at the controls. That's the problem.
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hooman posted:"Controversial conservative politicians Cory Bernardi and George Christensen have agreed to help an anti-Islam organisation raise funds to defend a defamation case brought by a halal certifier. It doesn't get any more blatant than this WARNING: ARSETRALIAN - DO NOT CLICK - GOOGLE HEADLINE Bernardi, Christensen fight for anti-Islam society posted:The Coalition’s self-styled conservative warriors Cory Bernardi and George Christensen will appear at a fundraising dinner to help an anti-Islam organisation and three members of a rival political party defend themselves in defamation proceedings. The Q-Society are straight up some of the most "respectable-looking" ultranationalists in Australia, and also enjoy the support of the more respectable neo-nazis. The fact that Bernadi and Christensen can associate with ~actual neo-nazis~ while the Arsetralian merely reports them as "an anti-muslim group" is loving  . Like did anyone actually consider that some bizarro weird "society" with an obfuscated name like some bad-guy organisation out of a Bond movie might be a bad thing? Hmmmmmmmmmm
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Well it's not the first time some of these Liberal scrubs went to some sort of nazi/MRA/how-to-date-rape public event, and sadly I think it'll end about as well as always: completely ignored.
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"Our politicians are worryingly associated with neonazis" sadly seems to mean a lot less now given trump.
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Dec 9, 2016 05:52
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Loss edits becoming ever more abstract.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I've seen them miss some pretty major stuff, so you can't really take a positive building inspection at face value. Well, you do have to find a good inspector and all that. When I first bought a house, my inspector got me out of two contacts due to the places not being up to scratch including one which was had structural issues. The guy in the link didn't even have a cursory inspection done.
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You know about the sexual harrassment employees at Honey Birdette have been exposed to Check out these pro comments   
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First Dog. This one was posted with a lifeline disclaimer.
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FDOTM needs to turn their monitor on before they draw
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Loss edits becoming ever more abstract. 
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More tears before bedtime: 'Drastic overkill': Nationals riled after states agree to tough Adler shotgun classification https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/807137983795105792 and Dumbo was quick to chime in https://twitter.com/SenatorMRoberts/status/807142565539516420 but the great one is also from the SMH: Liberal Party powerbroker's wife Kristina Photios quits over lack of action on climate change quote:"Debate in the Liberal Party is being shut down by a vocal minority of conservatives who are subverting the democratic process," Ms Photios said, singling out former prime minister Tony Abbott and South Australian senator Cory Bernardi as among those "ideologically-driven" Liberals who wield disproportionate influence. This isn't some lefty, this is the wife of a Liberal party bigwig who's always moved in privileged circles. If they're getting worried, interesting times indeed.
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Holy poo poo, Bernardi just called the Greens and Labor "rentseekers". The LNP, calling others rentseekers. Ho-ly gently caress, he did it with a straight face, too.
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ewe2 posted:More tears before bedtime: She was on the drum with Julia Baird just then. Spoke well. Said she thought Turnbull could be a superb pm but he had no balls. The right wing are apparently threatening to dissolve government over every little thing, refusing to debate in party or concede any compromise. The exact phrasing was 'take their ball and go home'. Turnbull needed to call their bluff and refused to do so. He's going to drown shackled to these fuckwits.
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hiddenmovement posted:She was on the drum with Julia Baird just then. Spoke well. Said she thought Turnbull could be a superb pm but he had no balls. The right wing are apparently threatening to dissolve government over every little thing, refusing to debate in party or concede any compromise. The exact phrasing was 'take their ball and go home'. Turnbull needed to call their bluff and refused to do so. Maybe the LNP power brokers need to go start a new fuckwit free party if the current one is so rotted from inside?
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DancingShade posted:LNP power brokers DancingShade posted:fuckwit free um
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The direction of the world would seem to indicate that liberals are the right-wing's bitches. I don't think we can expect any significant number of them to do anything as drastic as speak out publicly, let alone form a new party.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Holy poo poo, Bernardi just called the Greens and Labor "rentseekers". The LNP, calling others rentseekers. Ho-ly gently caress, he did it with a straight face, too. I think hes tslked about cultural marxism before as well. Havent heard him say anything about globalists yet but its not like i seek out information about him
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Trump lost the pop vote by a loving mile against a totally unlikeable candidate that had 0 drawing power. 10% of brexit voters now admit they made a huge loving mistake. There's resentment against the established order, not global love of right wing nutbars. He can absolutely tell them to gently caress off. If he does, the worst possible outcome is the party votes him out and he quits politics having achieved nothing, but that's precisely what will happen after the next two frustrating pointless years anyway. Rip off the bandaid and take a chance on being the moderate, effective liberal people voted for.
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This guy is a barrister. It confounds me that if he was any good, he'd find a way to not simply face them down but threaten their political viability as well. That he doesn't appear to even be acting as a PM with the kind of party power normally associated with a PM doesn't tell me so much that the Right has too much power but the rest of the party are simply too interested in the goodies of office to bother much with any pushback. Against that kind of apathy it might be difficult for any PM.
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