JBP posted:

He got kicked in the head by a horse irl and became this way.

quote:

<snip>Joint Strike Fighter: Multi-billion-dollar F-35 lands in Australia for first time Exclusive by defence reporter Andrew Greene Updated about 7 hours ago

After years of delays and cost blow-outs, the controversial Joint Strike Fighter has arrived on Australian soil for the first time. Just before 5:00pm on Monday, the Royal Australian Air Force landed two F-35s at Amberley Air Force Base outside Brisbane, after flying the fifth generation fighters from their current home in the United States. The two jets have been based at Luke Air Force Base, where four Royal Australian Air Force pilots are training to fly the cutting-edge aircraft.<snip>

Cartoon posted:

Duck!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australia/8308498

hooman posted:

Just he had the ability to make it all go away and immediately win if he'd just said "I did it in good faith" and the HRC prompted him twice to make that defence and pretty much immediately win, but he wanted to take it to court I mean holy poo poo. Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Then you attack the adjudicator and his ruling.

"This man is paid more than $10,000 a week and stated outright he has no idea how cutting penalty rates will affect the lives over three quarters of a million Australians. But that didn't stop him from cutting their pay, a move which will cause untold thousands to fall into poverty."

Solemn Sloth posted:

So why didn't you look into who the independent decision makers are before pledging to back their decision biff snorter?

adamantium|wang posted:

Frogfingers posted:

Here's an 11th dimension chess theory: what if they do a Rudd and put Dutton on the throne only to lose, that way he instantly resigns, and Mal becomes opposition leader without him ever losing an election, avoiding a technical definition of damaged goods? And since the bar for Labor loving up is way, way higher, they come back in one or two elections down the track.

JBP posted:

Shorten needs to just keep repeating the same things over and over again though. He can just keep saying Liberals bad and they steal from poors right into the election.

quote:

Now, we stand for small business. Labor invariably lines up with big business.

Anidav posted:

Dutton with Abbot

Cartoon posted:

Duck!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australia/8308498

JBP posted:

Shorten is trying to have a go at Turnbull in QT, but Turnsy is just throwing Shorten quotes back at him about the times he worked for the SDA and the time he supported tax cuts for business.

Shorten needs to just keep repeating the same things over and over again though. He can just keep saying Liberals bad and they steal from poors right into the election.

guardian politics live posted:

The Report makes several recommendations to fix the complaints handling process related to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. These include:

· providing greater assistance to respondents to match what is currently afforded to complainants;

· imposing time limits on notifying respondents and on the complaints handling processes more generally;

· ensuring section 18D defences are considered by the Commission in assessing complaints;

· giving the Commission greater powers to terminate complaints earlier in the process;

· restricting access to the Courts following the Commission’s termination of a complaint;

· providing penalties for legal practitioners instituting complaints that have no reasonable prospects of success; and

· providing more parliamentary oversight to the Commission.

quote:

These reforms will return section 18C to its intended function as an important but limited protection against the worst kind of racial hate speech. They will also put important limitations on the types of complaints that are pursued and provide more oversight of the Human Rights Commission.

Section 18C plays an important role in our multicultural society. However, it was always intended as a limited protection, to be used only in serious cases. The way the law is currently being administered allows too many nuisance complaints. The threshold for making a complaint is so low as to be virtually redundant. These reforms will see that complaints with no prospect of success, such as those made against the QUT students and Bill Leak, thrown out.

Recoome posted:

Abortion will remain a criminal offense in QLD

Recoome posted:

Abortion will remain a criminal offense in QLD

Cartoon posted:

Duck!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australia/8308498

Anidav posted:

Dutton with Abbot as Deputy

Cpt Soban posted:

Abbot anywhere near the command high-chair is doomed to fail.

Don Dongington posted:

Because Dutton isn't the political/popularity equivalent of a lawn dart?

Cpt Soban posted:

You're right... It's one of those impossible questions: Who would be better? Dutton or Abbott? (you must pick one)

Recoome posted:

Mad props to the ALP though for not coming out and explicitly supporting it, they can go get hosed

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Estimates hearings are the worst. Let's get in some Commissioner that earns 500k a year or something then ask them stupid questions.

JBP posted:

Why didn't Pauline turn up to bash that Musso Australian post bloke they had in for questioning today?

JBP posted:

Bill hired him and he was head of the ACTU rofl

Recoome posted:

Abortion will remain a criminal offense in QLD

Gorilla Salad posted:

The fact he held any position at all at the ACTU is staggering.

hooman posted:

Look inside yourself and consider.. is it really?

Or is it ultimately unsurprising given what the big unions have become.

JBP posted:

There are own zone unions around like MUA, NUW, CFMEU and MEAA. The rest are varying degrees of poo poo from kind of poo poo like the AMWU to not a union like the SDA.