Frogfingers posted:

Next time you have libs talking at you about "personal responsibility" and "self-reliance" thank them in finding common ground about a 99% inheritance tax.

Frogfingers posted:

Next time you have libs talking at you about "personal responsibility" and "self-reliance" thank them in finding common ground about a 99% inheritance tax.

Konomex posted:

You've got me jittery. I want this so bad. Inheritance tax for anything over half a million (or a sensible figure not pulled from my rectum), excluding property below some reasonable amount (with house prices in Sydney, I've no idea what this might be).

You don't get to grow fat off your parents ashes any more. Any gifts between family members need to be taxed too, you can't offload your children's inheritance before you die to get around it.

ewe2 posted:

It does rather come down to something like that, doesn't it? Taxes need raising, on whom and for what? Turning taxes into personal responsibility is hilarious coming from the LNP.

cheese-cube posted:

I want to fire high income earners out of a cannon into the sun.

Gorilla Salad posted:

I can't remember who said it, but I've always like the line, "I don't like taxes, but I like the things taxes bring."

tithin posted:

Remember the story about the government MP who ran a Gloria Jeans Franchise, complaining about how high penalty rates were for weekends and that she could only afford to stay open if she got family to come in and work for nothing?

The store owner reportedly refused to extend their lease.

Anidav posted:

Because we are an island of loving criminals

Gorilla Salad posted:

I can't remember who said it, but I've always like the line, "I don't like taxes, but I like the things taxes bring."

Oliver Wendell Holmes posted:

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

AFR reporting that the government is looking at cutting the capital gains tax discount.

Zenithe posted:

It keeps happening!

One Nation candidate advocated killing Indonesian journalists, attacked gays, Muslims and blacks

The guy is a WA real estate agent One Nation candidate. I'm pretty sure that's failing at life bingo right there.

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It's just locker room talk mate

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It does look like I'm being a bit racist but I'm not.

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You never here [sic] a good looking black person complain its [sic] the ugly blacks that start this nonsense Mohammed Ali was black and he loved it.

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I've got indo mates and fuc their [sic] arrogant about their superiority over us lazy Aussies. we are regarded as poo poo in Indonesian eyes.

Zenithe posted:

One Nation candidate advocated killing Indonesian journalists, attacked gays, Muslims and blacks

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Waleed Aly — that darling of the Left — has become seen as infallible. He is ordained with a gold Logie. Every time he opens his mouth, online news sites rush to report on what he says. His word has become gospel and people apparently want it on tap.

According to the headlines attached to these articles, Waleed most often “nails it”. But he didn’t nail it this week.

His snobbery was in full view on Monday night when he and fellow panellists on The Project joked about a job advertisement from a Perth business specifying no “bogans” or “rough people” should apply.

“The other thing,” Aly piped up, ready to deliver another pearl of wisdom that would land him on the Daily Mail site.

“If you are not taking bogans, where will you get good admin people?”

Haha. Boom Tish. Admin workers are uneducated and wear ugg boots and drive Commodores. Geddit?

People are growing tired of all manner of occurrences being blamed for the rise of Donald Trump and his contemporaries, but this is a good example. It’s elitism — pure and simple. Just as Hillary Clinton claimed “half of Trump supporters” were “deplorable”, Aly has maligned unskilled workers as bogans.

Your ruse is up, Mr Aly. We know who you really are now.

He’s usually the bleeding heart type. He loves to bleat about the poor refugees and how we’ve locked them. He cries that they just want a better life.

But to hell with anyone working in an office so they can send their children to a private school.

And there’s the rest of the grab bag. Aborigines, Muslims, women, etc.

Aly tells us they’re all so hard done by. We ought to feel sorry for them. And he is more than happy to virtue signal, showing us just how compassionate and warm he is.

But on Monday night, we had a little peek into his soul. His cold, elitist, snobbish soul.

In all fairness, this is not unique to Aly. It is typical of the chardonnay socialist Left, who get about complaining about how awful the world is while driving to dinner parties in expensive European cars.

They’ve turned left-wing politics into the domain of the wealthy, excluding and sneering at everyone below them. They infest the Greens and profess to love the downtrodden. Their hearts go out to the friendly neighbourhood Muslim refugee who faces epidemic levels of Islamophobia.

But, of course, there is no friendly neighbourhood Muslim refugee within 10 postcodes of where they live. They’re living out with the bogan admin workers.

And they cry for the poor Aboriginal children trying to stay out of prison. When did they last speak to an Aboriginal kid? The closest most of them get is to peer at them out the window of their BMW as they pass them on the footpath.

They don’t really care about the poor and downtrodden. It’s more about looking fashionable and trendy. It’s all just a performance to gain the admiration of their peers.

Which is why they hate lower-socioeconomic people when they happen to be white. People don’t nod while swigging expensive chardonnay when you mention that.

Instead, they’re bogans. White trash.

We’re not talking about unemployed bums frittering away their dole money on booze and cigarettes. Aly specifically mentioned admin workers, who are earning their keep, supporting their families and trying to keep their heads above water.

They have committed the crime of not being university educated and living in the inner city. To the great surprise of much of the inner city set, people actually live and thrive in the suburbs.

So desperate is Aly to keep up appearances that he rents a home in Melbourne’s Richmond — because he can’t afford to buy.

Oh, the struggle.

I’m sure the bogans will sympathise.

Anidav posted:

Labor closing in, but it could be Albo, not Shorten, who gets the kill

Bill Shorten's Right Labor faction is losing ground, writes Labor insider Ben Chiefly. And if the Left assert its dominance nationally, Anthony Albanese could be the real winner.

Someone post the full crikey article pls

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A senior member of Victoria's Country Fire Authority has been stood aside amid allegations they were caught covertly filming female colleagues getting changed in a storage shed.

The CFA has launched a full investigation into the incident, saying an "unauthorised" security camera had been discovered in a shed at the Bendigo fire station.

The CFA said it would launch a 'full investigation' into the use of the camera.
The shed had been used to store fire extinguishers and other equipment, but was also used by women as an unofficial change room.

The CFA said the camera had been removed, and authorities had seized the footage.

A spokeswoman would not say how long the camera had been there, but in a statement the authority said the incident could have affected "a number of volunteers" who used the shed as a change room.

"We understand this incident may have affected a number of volunteers who used this facility as an unofficial change room," the CFA said in a statement.

"We are in the process of contacting those individuals and will provide appropriate support."

The senior CFA member will not be allowed back to work until the investigation is complete, and the matter has also been referred to police. A spokeswoman would not say whether the person under investigation was employed by the fire authority, or was a volunteer.

The Bendigo CFA is one of 34 "integrated" fire stations across Victoria, which has both paid and volunteer staff.

"We are committed to ensuring our workplaces are safe, secure and support the wellbeing of staff and volunteers at all times," the authority's statement said.

"This includes constantly reviewing our workplaces to ensure they provide a safe environment for women at all times, where we ned to make improvements we will take action immediately."

The incident comes amid long-running allegations of discrimination and intractable workplace problems in the fire services.

Fewer than 4 per cent of staff and volunteers at Victoria's two major fire agencies, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade and the Country Fire Authority, are women.

In July 2015, the Victorian Government commissioned a review of the management and culture of the CFA and MFB, which recommended the fire services work harder to improve diversity and end harassment and discrimination in their services.

In March last year, the Andrews government announced it had engaged the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission to investigate discrimination, equity, sexual harassment and workplace bullying at the CFA and Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

That review is still underway.

A survey of members in 2015 revealed a widespread view among women that the CFA is a club of blokes, many of whom do not believe women are up to the physical demands of fighting fires.

Zenithe posted:

Since when are bogans working in admin a thing anyway?

I've never heard of that stereotype.

Zenithe posted:

Since when are bogans working in admin a thing anyway?

I've never heard of that stereotype.

open24hours posted: