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I'm more interested in Pete Slipper's hunch on that missing plane.
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I'm the leg stealing varicose veins
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 14:22 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/child-bride-survivor-eman-sharobeem-has-assets-frozen-by-nsw-crime-commission-20170220-gugqxj.htmlquote:Eman Sharobeem's life story reads like an inspiring tale of overcoming the odds: forced into an arranged marriage to her first cousin as a teenager, then widowed at 29 with two young sons, having endured a violent 14-year marriage. Hmmm
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 20:31 |
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Mad Katter posted:Also morbidly obese at 10
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 22:58 |
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Somebody please post the That's Life magazine cover bit with the weird dog face on it that I taped to my fridge in like 2002 and then it found it's way onto the internet and now it weirds me out everytime I see it. e. the dog is doing Chris Pratt face: but it's a dog e2. it might have been a different lifestyle magazine. CATTASTIC fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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Just read on my Facebook that the sky rail on the Frankston line has been defeated? By the looks of the age article it was too appease swing seats. These stations are so close to the water going down can't be a good idea. Tell me there's more than just house prices in the opposition. The opposition group claims noise pollution and "proper long term planning" are what they are worried about. Also "respect for local residence" which I read as house prices.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 23:16 |
I would love queensland to cecede
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 23:30 |
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Well given the Great Barrier Reef's cactus there's no reason to hang onto it anyway
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 23:32 |
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I came across this article today, which outlines some experiences about the difficulties of being gifted. I honestly don't see many of these types of stories come up, and I always find things like this interesting because one of my areas of interest (amongst others) is psychological testing and assessment. I could've written a big effort post about this using actual references, but it really boils down to that I agree that people should have access to an education which is both age and ability appropriate. I do have a couple of issues though, the big one being that psychological testing isn't cheap and that parents will sink an amazing amount of money into this kind of poo poo in order to prove that their kid is special or something. There are a ~lot~ of advocacy/support/whatever groups for gifted children (if you do a google search), as well as testing your kid for giftedness, which is weird given that it's a very small group of people by definition. It's important to remember that being gifted is just as abnormal as being developmentally delayed (which isn't a bad thing, necessarily). We often forget this because being gifted is socially acceptable (generally).
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 00:22 |
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Tasmantor posted:Just read on my Facebook that the sky rail on the Frankston line has been defeated? By the looks of the age article it was too appease swing seats. These stations are so close to the water going down can't be a good idea. Tell me there's more than just house prices in the opposition. The opposition group claims noise pollution and "proper long term planning" are what they are worried about. Also "respect for local residence" which I read as house prices. I'd hazard a guess and say it's the government not wanting to make it an election issue. All the reports I read seemed to indicate that elevated rail was the best option (specifically for the Frankston line stations) and that the soil and ground water conditions make rail under road to be a pain in the rear end and expensive to maintain. If the government was thinking creatively they'd build over the top of the underground rail then create new public open spaces and increased pedestrian/road connectivity while selling the rights to any left over land to developers that will comply with decently high affordable/social housing quotas.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 01:23 |
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Tasmantor posted:Just read on my Facebook that the sky rail on the Frankston line has been defeated? By the looks of the age article it was too appease swing seats. These stations are so close to the water going down can't be a good idea. Tell me there's more than just house prices in the opposition. The opposition group claims noise pollution and "proper long term planning" are what they are worried about. Also "respect for local residence" which I read as house prices. No, that's exactly it. Elevated is a much better choice for those crossings on basically every metric but NIMBYs gonna nimby
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:06 |
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quote:Ross Cameron quotes Gandhi while maintaining a Liberal rage http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...011ced223bb7759 The NSW division of the Liberal Party is basically a gay club.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:16 |
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Annabell Crab wrote something not terrible for once http://www.smh.com.au/comment/generation-y-must-be-close-to-revolution-20170224-gukink.html "How – if you were a young person today – would you see your seniors as anything but a grabby crowd of legislative brawlers who got their degrees for free and their homes for a song, and are conspiring together to have you foot the bill for their retirement as they drink the last of the Grange in the polluted ruins of the planet that is now exclusively yours to fix?" Centusin fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Feb 26, 2017 |
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"Should be"
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 03:28 |
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Scylo posted:Annabell Crab wrote something not terrible for once Look there is no housing shortage or affortability issue if you're willing to take a small commute. Just buy a cheap property on the Nullarbor Plain and commute to Sydney or Melbourne from there every day. Gawd. So easy.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 06:42 |
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Scylo posted:Annabell Crab wrote something not terrible for once Lmao she's actually afraid. So she should be.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 07:22 |
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Periphery posted:I'd hazard a guess and say it's the government not wanting to make it an election issue. All the reports I read seemed to indicate that elevated rail was the best option (specifically for the Frankston line stations) and that the soil and ground water conditions make rail under road to be a pain in the rear end and expensive to maintain. I was worried that this was it. They have on their Facebook page that they think any changes need to last for at least a hundred years. Good luck having underground stations by the beach today not get hosed by climate change on the next century.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 07:40 |
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DancingShade posted:Look there is no housing shortage or affortability issue if you're willing to take a small commute. Exactly. <boomer> When I bought my first house, I had to commute all the way from Balmain, right on the edge of the city. Commuting from Lithgow is the same! </boomer>
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 08:38 |
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Newspoll soon comrades.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 10:50 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Newspoll soon comrades.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 10:51 |
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Anidav posted:Tonight right? Yessss.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 10:55 |
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I was thinking about this while walking to work in Saint Petersburg. If we want to fix housing affordability, commuting and etc, we need to have medium/high density apartment blocks around metro stations, and also within the city and not on the fringes. Like, I don't want there to be nothing but the apartment blocks, but the Metro system is a public good and should be serving the maximum amount of people possible within walking distance. If you want to have your backyard block and a car, well you'll have to live some distance from a metro station. But good loving luck acquiring the land, defeating the NIMBYs and getting people to support public transport.
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Xerxes17 posted:I was thinking about this while walking to work in Saint Petersburg. If we want to fix housing affordability, commuting and etc, we need to have medium/high density apartment blocks around metro stations, and also within the city and not on the fringes. Like, I don't want there to be nothing but the apartment blocks, but the Metro system is a public good and should be serving the maximum amount of people possible within walking distance. If you want to have your backyard block and a car, well you'll have to live some distance from a metro station. Sounds like what they are trying to do with the light rail in Canberra.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:02 |
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And what they're trying to do starting with the rail electrification and tram expansion in Adelaide, because property developers constantly opening new developments north and south has properly hosed over the ability to provide services. Fortunately you can keep the NIMBYs distracted here by threatening the parklands with the left hand, while doing the real work in the inner suburbs with the right. http://livingadelaide.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/278203/DPTI-30-Year-Plan_150dpi.pdf
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:20 |
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Oh and I forgot the biggest thing is that this would need to destroy the housing "market" too which would be electoral suicide, so Housing as an investment is the dumbest thing.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:21 |
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I prefer referring to it as housing speculation, since that is what many investors are doing, just hoping that the property value will rise so it can be be flipped. Plus most housing "investors" aren't contributing anything to the market, they are just inflating it.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:35 |
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https://twitter.com/rpy/status/835770761679785984
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:55 |
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https://twitter.com/Leroy_Lynch #Newspoll TPP: ALP 55 (+1) L/NP 45 (-1) Primaries: Coalition 34, Labor 37, Greens 10, One Nation 10, Others 9 1582 sample. Feb 23-26 #auspol #Newspoll Turnbull: Satisfied 29, Dissatisfied 59 Shorten Satisfied 30, Dissatisfied 56 Better PM: Turnbull 40, Shorten 33 #auspol
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:55 |
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Holy poo poo
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 11:59 |
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Better PM: Turnbull 40, Shorten 33 lol
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:00 |
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Brown Paper Bag posted:https://twitter.com/Leroy_Lynch https://twitter.com/Leroy_Lynch/status/835806476773961728 I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Feb 26, 2017 |
# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:01 |
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c'mooon someone knife Shorten and replace him with... erm... me!
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:10 |
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tithin posted:I would love queensland to cecede I believe the word is suicide.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:12 |
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Starshark posted:c'mooon someone knife Shorten and replace him with... erm... me! couldn't do a worse job lol
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:12 |
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55 - 45. It's #DuttOn.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:22 |
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When Turnbull got a bit shouty, Miranda Devine predicted the next poll would be 50/50.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:43 |
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All Shorten has to do is what, hilariously, Theresa May is planning: play the centrist. It's a hard tactic to beat, Turnbull can hardly claim to be more centrist than Shorten. Never mind that it's bullshit, and they keep pretending they are when they're not, its the horse-race aspect of it that is also effective on the media. Shouty Malcolm has failed. If it keeps sliding, it really is on.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 12:53 |
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lmao, if it keeps sliding. It's worse in almost every way than when Malcolm rolled Tony.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 13:06 |
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Hey auspol thread, I stopped paying attention to australian politics awhile back because it was all too depressing, but I want to get back into following it now for some masochistic reason. Are they any sources or blogs you recommend? I used to get most of my news from abc but they have gone to crap, and I don't want to pay for crikey.
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I don't understand. How can Shorten have both a higher "satisfied" and a lower "dissatisfied" than Turnbull but then somehow Turnbull wins as preferred PM?
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