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Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

On Thursday One Nation disendorsed a candidate for the Queensland state election for not paying a $2,400 upfront fee to cover, in part, campaign materials.

Elise Cottam, the candidate for Callide, told Guardian Australia she had intended to have her son provide marketing material for “next to nothing” but the party had disendorsed her for failing to meet a Monday deadline to pay.

Literally using your son as an unpaid intern Mr Speaker

# ? Feb 11, 2017 08:43

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# ? May 15, 2024 07:40

Urcher: Jun 16, 2006

Word cloud for January:

2017: J

2016: J F M A M JJ A S O N D

2015: J F M A M J J A S O N D

2014: J F M A M J J A S O N D

2013: A M J J A S O N D

Highlights from last month's thread:

Recoome posted:

Won't someone please think of the small clash which occured). Slackbastard argues that actually calling the people who confronted that UPF/TBC "scabs" is a high-stakes test which basically acts as a comparison between a whole "what if" because everything about our current worldview is shaped by what's already happened.

Also I mean who cares lol she's just a drug addict haha

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Are you a failing bank? If so then boy do we have at all material times had sufficient funds held in trust not only to run that action but to run further actions,� he said.

He refused to answer question about whether his salary was still being paid and said he�s �not going anywhere�.

Culleton has demanded correction and made his indelible mark on history�s page.�

Mr Culleton had a small bag of coke stored in the bag and She then proceeds to place it in the Representative dept office. There is a conspiracy theory that if you added an �s� I would have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would every be boring. It�s that simple.

�And once I�d added the �s� it was the others in the Senate he had also formulated the terms of reference for a good 10 minutes. Not grasping that the cable needs to be careful because that likely means you carry a �birth emotion�, projected on you by your mother or father at the pub. Yes, the woman in the back of their room�s TV. It was then racked up using, appropriately, a Medicare card to split the white powder and then complains why they trip breakers. Moron also tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really obsessed with the concept of "socialism" and tried to once shove a 2 pin US adapter into an Australian socket....Sigh
A staffer from DJ TONEZ DA ABBOTT (a certain staffer who everyone thought was taking the D from tony) office using a mobile cooler to keep receiving their dole, family tax benefit or child care payments.

open24hours posted:

Apparently it's owned by someone involved in the world and to grow its soft power, and they get rid of something like this to save a pathetically small amount of money. We're being outclassed by New Zealand for Christ's sake.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 10:52

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

Tasmania is win as always. Do you do that deliberately?

# ? Feb 11, 2017 10:53

Les Affaires: Nov 15, 2004

Anidav posted:

On Thursday One Nation disendorsed a candidate for the Queensland state election for not paying a $2,400 upfront fee to cover, in part, campaign materials.

Elise Cottam, the candidate for Callide, told Guardian Australia she had intended to have her son provide marketing material for �next to nothing� but the party had disendorsed her for failing to meet a Monday deadline to pay.

Literally using your son as an unpaid intern Mr Speaker

This has happened before and its because whoever the candidate was probably refused to pay the money to use James Ashby's personal printing press or whatever the hell he has. The former party treasurer made the accusations in december.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 10:55

Urcher: Jun 16, 2006

Starshark posted:

Tasmania is win as always. Do you do that deliberately?

Yep. I keep hitting random until I like the look of Tasmania. Sometimes I tweak the other options if nothing interesting is coming up.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 10:56

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

VIOLENCE QUEENSLAND POLICE USING NATIONAL loving GUY YEAH BLAME ASHBY TRYING LNP CANDIDATE

Yes, that pretty much ecplains the upcoming Queensland State Election.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 11:05

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

Urcher posted:

Yep. I keep hitting random until I like the look of Tasmania. Sometimes I tweak the other options if nothing interesting is coming up.

Yees, I thought it was a little too good to be true, every month Tassie being funny. Still, it keeps me amused in an age of misery, so keep up the good work.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 11:11

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Urcher posted:

Word cloud for January:

2017: J

2016: J F M A M JJ A S O N D

2015: J F M A M J J A S O N D

2014: J F M A M J J A S O N D

2013: A M J J A S O N D

Highlights from last month's thread:

Mr Culleton had a small bag of coke stored in the bag and She then proceeds to place it in the Representative dept office.

# ? Feb 11, 2017 12:19

Ora Tzo: Feb 26, 2016; HEEEERES TONYYYY

Les Affaires posted:

This has happened before and its because whoever the candidate was probably refused to pay the money to use James Ashby's personal printing press or whatever the hell he has. The former party treasurer made the accusations in december.

There was also that attempt to keep their people loyal with the threat of $$$.
Another potential money making scheme?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-05/one-nation-scraps-demand-for-wa-candidates-to-pay-250k-surety/8242572

# ? Feb 11, 2017 12:32

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

Pretty sure that sort of contract would be illegal or unconstitutional in some way

# ? Feb 11, 2017 15:24

RC Bandit: Sep 7, 2012; Hanson: It's Time; Grimey Drawer

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-12/huw-parkinson-trumpocalypse-now/8263228

Trumpocalypse Now posted:

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is sent deep into the jungle of the United States of America to try and smooth things over with newly elected President Donald Trump and quickly discovers how things get� "confused out there".

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:18

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

WA Libs have officially announced that there will be a Preference deal where the Liberals will preference One Nation in the regional seats and One nation will preference the Liberals in every other non regional seat they are contesting; pissing off the Nationals extremely.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:30

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

Anidav posted:

WA Libs have officially announced that there will be a Preference deal where the Liberals will preference One Nation in the regional seats and One nation will preference the Liberals in every other non regional seat they are contesting; pissing off the Nationals extremely.

Hahshahahaha

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:36

UrbanLabyrinth: Jan 28, 2009; When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence; College Slice

Anidav posted:

WA Libs have officially announced that there will be a Preference deal where the Liberals will preference One Nation in the regional seats and One nation will preference the Liberals in every other non regional seat they are contesting; pissing off the Nationals extremely.

Forgive my ignorance re WA LNP politics, but how many regional seats would the libs be actually standing a candidate in (rather than leaving it to the nats).

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:45

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Romeo Charlie posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-12/huw-parkinson-trumpocalypse-now/8263228

This is amazing work.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:54

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

Forgive my ignorance re WA LNP politics, but how many regional seats would the libs be actually standing a candidate in (rather than leaving it to the nats).

Details of the controversial deal were confirmed by senior Liberals yesterday, with Nationals claiming privately they had been double crossed.

Under the plan, the Liberals would preference One Nation above the Nationals in the Upper House country regions, and in return, they are demanding One Nation would preference the Liberals above Labor in all Lower House seats they were contesting.

Mr Barnett, who in February warned voters against voting One Nation, yesterday declined to comment.

That's all we know about the deal at this point.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:58

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Anidav posted:

Details of the controversial deal were confirmed by senior Liberals yesterday, with Nationals claiming privately they had been double crossed.

Under the plan, the Liberals would preference One Nation above the Nationals in the Upper House country regions, and in return, they are demanding One Nation would preference the Liberals above Labor in all Lower House seats they were contesting.

Mr Barnett, who in February warned voters against voting One Nation, yesterday declined to comment.

That's all we know about the deal at this point.

And so it begins.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:01

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

I fully expect the QLD LNP to do the same now.

Wtf can The Greens even do about being replaced as the protest third party at state levels? Wait it out? Blame Left Renewal?

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:02

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

At the state level in Vic One nation's only really taking votes from Nationals.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:12

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Anidav posted:

Wtf can The Greens even do about being replaced as the protest third party at state levels? Wait it out? Blame Left Renewal?

lose the overt association with the environmentalist movement.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:12

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

At the state level in Vic One nation's only really taking votes from Nationals.

But that shouldn't be happening. Fracking and Climate change are of rural concern and The Greens failing to nip votes from the Nats rotting corpse is a failure on The Greens part.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:17

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

I mean on the one hand yeah definitely. On the other, yeah that's not going to happen until boomers die off and give their university educated kids with horticultural degrees the farm.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:23

asio: Nov 29, 2008; "Also Sprach Arnold Jacobs: A Developmental Guide for Brass Wind Musicians" refers to the mullet as an important tool for professional cornet playing and box smashing black and blood

The environmental bit is just the cover to bring in the social revolution, left renewal aren't meant to say it out loud without tying it into the environment...

Everyone has a connection to country in their own way except property developers. It shouldn't be hard for the greens in Qld but the metro attitudes and assumptions SEQ has of the rest of the state is why the greens are stuck at <10%

# ? Feb 12, 2017 02:22

ungulateman: Apr 18, 2012; pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is

on the other hand, basic observation of the rest of queensland

# ? Feb 12, 2017 02:26

adamantium|wang: Sep 14, 2003; Missing you

quote:

Liberals to put One Nation ahead of Nationals in unprecedented election deal
Adam Gartrell

The Turnbull government is defending an unprecedented preference deal that could see the Liberals put One Nation ahead of the Nationals in Western Australia, with a senior frontbencher saying Pauline Hanson's party is more "sophisticated" than it was in John Howard's day.

Arthur Sinodinos says One Nation has "evolved" in the 16 years since his former boss, John Howard, decreed that the Liberal Party always put One Nation last on their how-to-vote cards.

"The One Nation of today is a very different beast to what it was 20 years ago," he told the ABC on Sunday.

"They're a lot more sophisticated. They've clearly resonated with a lot of people. Our job is to treat them as any other party.

"So when it comes to issues of preferencing and the like we have to make decisions - in this case it's a state decision, not a federal decision - based on the local circumstances," he said.

The alliance between the WA Liberals and Nationals is reportedly at breaking point as a result of the deal, which could keep the conservatives in power but also deliver One Nation the balance of power.

Under the terms of the deal detailed in the Sunday Times newspaper, the Liberals would preference One Nation above the Nationals in the upper house country regions in exchange for the far-right party's support in all lower house seats at the upcoming March 11 state election.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made it clear he would not stand in the way of such a preference deal during a speech to the National Press Club earlier this month, calling it a state matter.

His stance comes amid increasing concern in Coalition ranks that it's bleeding votes to the far-right minor parties.

The Liberal National Party in Queensland is also grappling with how to treat One Nation ahead of the state poll due there later this year, with the latest polls giving Ms Hanson's party almost one-quarter of the vote.

The Liberal Party's Victorian branch is also considering dumping its long-standing policy of putting One Nation last.

Labor has taken a different approach, with Bill Shorten instructing the federal ALP not to do any preference deals with One Nation.

Senator Sinodinos says the Coalition's job is to get voters back from One Nation in the years ahead.

"There are a lot of people out there who are just mad as hell and it's going to take some time for policies to seep through to them and convince them that the way of One Nation is not the way to go."

He pointed out: "The bloke who came up with their 2 per cent tax policy years ago has just gone bankrupt."

The WA Liberals want to avoid what occurred in 2001 when Richard Court lost power after putting One Nation last. But the Nationals are furious over the deal, which could cost them several seats.

Preferences are expected to play a major role in what is tipped to be a knife-edge election.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 04:17

Konomex: Oct 25, 2010; a whiteman who has some authority over others, who not only hasn't raped anyone, or stared at them creepily...

Wait. What? The Nationals and Libs are in coalition. I don't think the Libs could even remotely win this if they dumped the Nationals off, even though they are a dying party. They've been arguing over a few things for a while now, but... is this the coalition in WA disintegrating?

Fascinating.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 04:23

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I think the Coalition deal in WA is less formal / strict than in other states (especially Queensland, obviously).

This kind of poo poo is why I get annoyed when everyone just calls them then LNP.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 04:26

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

In WA there is no coalition, and in fact the only reason Barnett got in 2 elections ago was because he was willing to throw 25% of mining royalties at national party seats in return for their support at giving him the premier position.
If course after this preference deal there is zero chance of that this time, if there even was a chance after they got power in their own right and left the nationals out to dry last election.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 04:28

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Konomex posted:

Wait. What? The Nationals and Libs are in coalition. I don't think the Libs could even remotely win this if they dumped the Nationals off, even though they are a dying party. They've been arguing over a few things for a while now, but... is this the coalition in WA disintegrating?

Fascinating.

Looks like it. Put it this way, if after NOT getting the lib preferences first the nats stay in coalition anyway that'll just formally cement their status as "Bitch".

# ? Feb 12, 2017 05:02

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

I wonder how that will play out among moderate liberal voters?

# ? Feb 12, 2017 05:34

Schneider Inside Her: Aug 6, 2009; Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman

Barnett must feel like he is so hosed to be doing a deal with One Nation.

He's gotta go, his time is well and truly up. He's done a loving terrible job. He's tried to improve Perth to deal with our increasing population but to do so he's set up Elizabeth Quay, a big concrete cauldron devoid of trees that people are supposed to gather in. He's also smashing a path through the Beeliar wetlands trying to get Fremantle port connected before he's dumped, so he can flip it and point to his balanced budget as evidence the Libs are responsible economic managers.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 05:56

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

The time has come* for the Nats to join up with the Greens.

* the walrus said

# ? Feb 12, 2017 06:01

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Gorilla Salad posted:

The time has come* for the Nats to join up with the Greens.

* the walrus said

Nats are done. It's just old white men waiting to die off and they hosed their own constituents for short term personal gain.

I can see a long slow death but they'll just bleed white into total obscurity unless they pull an Australian Democrats and get a total wipeout in some election.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 06:09

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

gay picnic defence posted:

Moderate liberal voters?

You're talking WA here.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 06:31

Frogfingers: Oct 10, 2012

What a surprise, the Nationals were quickly flanked on all sides by an actual Nationalist party.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 06:46

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

DancingShade posted:

Looks like it. Put it this way, if after NOT getting the lib preferences first the nats stay in coalition anyway that'll just formally cement their status as "Bitch".

Once again, in WA the nats aren't in coalition* and are generally fairly hostile to the Libs. They tend to actually negotiate with labor when necessary too.

* in the previous government they voted to provide the premiership to the Libs (labor refused their demands) but only got money and cabinet positions. They weren't in the party room or bound to any votes. The current liberal government governs in their own right if I'm 'membering correctly

norp fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Feb 12, 2017

# ? Feb 12, 2017 06:52