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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol March - fuck the poor, fuck the SDA

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008; Can't post for 24 hours!

Goodbye Colin Barnett

Goodbye Colin Barnett

Goodbye Colin Barnett

# ? Mar 6, 2017 22:45

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# ? May 9, 2024 17:05

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

Faces of PHON voters on ABC24 this morning and the haggard toothless stereotypes are out in force

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:17

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008; Can't post for 24 hours!

WA Election seems like a good enough reason for Raptorfag to make an appearance.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:27

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

G-Spot Run posted:

Faces of PHON voters on ABC24 this morning and the haggard toothless stereotypes are out in force

I loved when she asked that old dude about Hanson's policies and he just kept repeating that he liked her

I also love how doing a deal with the Libs is hurting both parties. The supporters of the lady that parrots Trump and Alex Jones talking points don't like being tied to establishment politicians (Hanson's been in politics what, 20 years now?) while the supporters of stronger borders and loving the poor don't want to be ~~correctly~~ called outright racist

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:29

open24hours: Jan 7, 2001

https://twitter.com/AnnaVidot/status/838884025141899264

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:49

freebooter: Jul 7, 2009

Not from the Onion

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560

quote:

Female traffic light signals to go up at pedestrian crossing as Committee for Melbourne tackles 'unconscious bias'
By Yvette Gray

Pedestrian traffic lights depicting female figures will be installed in Melbourne's CBD today as a part of a lobby group's push for gender equality.

Ten female pedestrian figures will be installed on traffic lights at the intersection of Swanston and Flinders streets as part of a VicRoads-approved 12-month trial.

The Committee for Melbourne � a non-profit organisation comprising more than 120 Melbourne business and community groups � is behind the move.

Chief executive Martine Letts said having only green or red silhouettes of men discriminated against women.

"The idea is to install traffic lights with female representation, as well as male representation, to help reduce unconscious bias," she said.

Ms Letts said the group wanted to see female and male representation on all pedestrian crossings.

"We know that Melbourne is the world's most liveable city and we would really like to see Melbourne also known as the world's most equal city.

"The aim is to move towards one-to-one male and female representation across the state of Victoria."

It costs an average of $8,400 to change six traffic lights.

Ms Letts said some people had questioned the move, but said the program was backed by Victorian Governor Linda Dessau.

"Some people have expressed a little scepticism wondering whether it's gesture politics rather than having any real substance," she said.

"But these symbols are a practical and meaningful way to demonstrate that in fact 50 per cent of our population is female and should therefore also be represented at traffic lights."

The program has been funded by the Committee for Melbourne and Bayswater company Camlex Electrical.

Last year the City of Yarra paid tribute to Victoria's first female councillor, Mary Rogers, by placing her silhouette in a pedestrian crossing at a major intersection in Richmond.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:53

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; Can't post for 6 hours!

More like unconscious bias of the lobby group who think women don't wear pants, and only women wear dresses. :colbert:

:colbert:

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:01

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008; Can't post for 24 hours!

Me at your posting

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:13

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Pauline said "line up a number of Muslims and you tell me, who's the good one?"

Now repeat this in Clint Eastwood's voice.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:16

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

Or you could just find one of his own racist quotes

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:25

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

It's more that when you apply that type of voice it literally sounds like "line them up and kill them."

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:26

Don Dongington: Sep 27, 2005; #ideasboom; College Slice

open24hours posted:

https://twitter.com/AnnaVidot/status/838884025141899264

How good's it going to be when he moves most of the dept. of Agriculture into his own electorate and they respond by voting him out next election.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:25

Bogan King: Jan 21, 2013; I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

New FDotM

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:36

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Actually this is the new FDotM

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:42

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

Welcome back to the standing Cartoon challenge! Still waiting for a single piece of evidence that privatisation has ever worked anywhere. Meanwhile Free Market best Market! Regulation leads to stifled innovation and productivity! Someone should blow those unions up!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-06/accc-says-consumers-gouged-through-poor-airport-privatisations/8327196

quote:

ACCC suggests airport regulation, says flyers pay up to $1.6b in extra fees due to privatisations By business reporter Michael Janda Updated yesterday at 1:45pm

PHOTO: Sydney Airport is the nation's most expensive, including a 73 per cent profit margin on parking. (AAP: Paul Miller)
RELATED STORY: Sydney Airport profits $100m on car parking in one year

Airlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator said. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) latest report into Australia's four biggest airports - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth - found that profit margins eased slightly for three of the operators last financial year. However, Brisbane Airport's profit margin increased to 44.9 per cent, and Sydney Airport's 46.7 per cent profit margin would be amongst the highest in corporate Australia. The airports have dramatically increased revenue per passenger over the past decade, with Brisbane charges up by two-thirds, Perth 43 per cent, Melbourne almost a third and Sydney up 16 per cent. However, Sydney's charges remain the highest with $17.27 in revenue per passenger. "The airlines are concerned that they keep getting higher charges from the airports and, of course, they've got to pass that on to consumers," ACCC chairman Rod Sims told RN Breakfast.

Airport profit margins
code:
Sydney	Brisbane	Melbourne	Perth
Flight charges	46.7% down 3.4%	44.9% up 1.3%	38.2% down 5.2%	33.5% down 6.7%
Parking fees	73.1% up 1.5%	66.1% down 1.1%	59% down 14.2%	55.6% down 8.1%
Profit margin in 2015-16 financial year and change from previous year. Source: ACCC (Formatting hosed up by Cartoon)

Beyond charges for airlines' use of the tarmac and terminal, Australia's airports are making a killing out of parking. Mr Sims described the airports' car parking profit margins as "quite amazing", and said they get away with such high charges because they also slug taxis, hire cars and shuttle buses with large, and rising, fees to access the airport for drop-offs and pick-ups. "Their access charges have gone up quite a lot, so the airports don't face much competition," he said. "It's a great position to be in where you can have this near monopoly car parking and also make it more difficult for your competitors."

ACCC calls for power to regulate airport charges

Mr Sims said the ACCC would like to be given some specific regulatory powers over airports to limit price increases, but so far it has been denied. "They're completely unregulated. Various governments over time have set them up that way. We've suggested a bit of regulation over time but governments have said they'd rather they stay unregulated," Mr Sims observed. "The airlines certainly would support us having some role here, whether it's a negotiate/arbitrate role on, whether it's some regulatory role on car parking fees. Whenever you have a monopoly that is providing services to average consumers, that have to pay directly through their car parking or indirectly through their airline ticket, I think people do get concerned when they make very high margins."

Mr Sims said such poorly handled privatisations, where governments seek to maximise the sale price by allowing monopolies to operate without regulatory oversight, are a key factor behind community opposition to public asset sales. "They privatised them and simultaneously took the regulations off," he said. "So people saw privatisation and they saw charges go up a lot, I mean the aeronautical charges doubled on Sydney airport. So, of course, don't be surprised when people see privatisation and link it to higher prices because they've seen a lot of it happen." Mr Sims said it was also undoubtedly a mistake for the Howard Government to have given Sydney Airport a first right of refusal to build and own Sydney's second airport at Badgery's Creek, "in order to inflate how much money they could sell Sydney Airport for". "It's fundamentally anti-competitive, and let's hope it doesn't get taken up and we do get an alternative owner," he argued.
Mr Sims said it would be a "great" outcome if the Federal Government built Badgery's Creek, and potentially sold it off to another private owner later. "Not only would you get the benefits of competition between Badgery's Creek and Sydney Airport, but if you have a common owner of the two airports, that common owner will have an incentive to restrict investment at Badgery's Creek and delay Badgery's Creek so that it can maximise its profits at Sydney Airport."

So close Rod but then you done hosed up at the last minute. Also the cold dead hand of JWH reaches up from the grave and fucks us all one more time. What he isn't dead? There is no silver lining here.

Homeland security department? :psyduck:

:psyduck:

World Fukt.

In 1978 Australia had a dramatic terror related event and we did literally nothing. It fuelled a further 0.000000000 terror related events. Lets just serve up all our remaining rights as citizens of this wide brown poo poo stain. How bad can it be?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:51

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

Cartoon posted:

In 1978 Australia had a dramatic terror related event and we did literally nothing.

Nonsense.

We did the terror event.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:55

Centusin: Aug 5, 2009

Don Dongington posted:

How good's it going to be when he moves most of the dept. of Agriculture into his own electorate and they respond by voting him out next election.

They're not going to vote him out, Joyce can outspend every other person that runs there (because of Gina) so it's easy for him to staff all the small polling places nobody gives a poo poo about. He'll be the member till he retires.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 02:16

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

First dog sucks.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 02:16

Bogan King: Jan 21, 2013; I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

JBP posted:

JBP sucks.

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/838927410737242112

# ? Mar 7, 2017 02:51

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

G-Spot Run posted:

Faces of PHON voters on ABC24 this morning and the haggard toothless stereotypes are out in force

Or red faced 50+ old white males

# ? Mar 7, 2017 03:14

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

You Am I posted:

Or red faced 50+ old white males

Joyce?!

# ? Mar 7, 2017 03:17

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

e: revoked post about first dog being a bit of a oval office.

JBP fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Mar 7, 2017

# ? Mar 7, 2017 03:18

NPR Journalizard: Feb 14, 2008

JBP posted:

e: revoked post about first dog being a bit of a oval office.

So why did you leave in the gendered slur?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 04:29

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

NPR Journalizard posted:

So why did you leave in the gendered slur?

I added it.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 04:38

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

JBP posted:

I added it.

Well, don't. If you want to use that word go to the GBS thread. You can get a free av cert if you use there often enough.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:02

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

He's a scab, I'll call him what I want.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:04

Bogan King: Jan 21, 2013; I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

JBP posted:

He's a scab, I'll call him what I want.

:thumbsup:

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:13

NPR Journalizard: Feb 14, 2008

JBP posted:

He's a scab, I'll call him what I want.

Well thats disappointing.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:17

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

OK then I'm sorry I won't.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:26

Bogan King: Jan 21, 2013; I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:38

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

But free speech everybody! Unless your a filthy vagina haver.*

*_{T & Cs apply. Muslims need not apply, unless you are one of the good ones. Lol right.}

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:40

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

freebooter posted:

Not from the Onion

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560

:psyduck:

replace them with WALK and DON'T WALK and there's no gender bias, jesus.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:49

BBJoey: Oct 31, 2012

on the one hand i think that's dumb

on the other hand it led to this so maybe it's actually good

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:04

Bogan King: Jan 21, 2013; I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

Is it full communism that is coming next? Please let it be that.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:07

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Starshark posted:

Well, don't. If you want to use that word go to the GBS thread. You can get a free av cert if you use there often enough.

No don't

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:10

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

BBJoey posted:

on the one hand i think that's dumb

on the other hand it led to this so maybe it's actually good

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:10

Cirofren: Jun 13, 2005; Pillbug

MysticalMachineGun posted:

replace them with WALK and DON'T WALK and there's no gender bias, jesus.

Yeah for fucks sake.

Why she gotta be wearing a dress?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:13

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

The Victorian former deputy speaker’s refusal to repay more than $100,000 in allowances he claimed for living outside his electorate has cost him his spot in the state’s parliamentary Labor party.

Don Nardella resigned from the party after the premier, Daniel Andrews, again asked him to repay the money.

“This morning I met with Don Nardella, the member for Melton, and I indicated to him as I have done for some time now, that in my judgment he should repay the money he claimed,” Andrews told reporters.

“He indicated to me that he was unwilling to do that and I accordingly asked him to resign from the parliamentary Labor party and he has done that. It would have been far better if he’d repay the money.”

Nardella will now sit on the crossbench, and Andrews has told him to talk to the Labor secretary to decide whether he remains in the ALP outside parliament.

When asked if he wanted to comment, Nardella told reporters: “gently caress off.”

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:19

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Am I the crazy person for being totally ok with changing over the walk and don't walk to have some wearing dresses?

It is a step away from the unconscious bias that the default is male and that's a good thing.

WALK and DON'T WALK doesn't work if your English isn't good.

Also if you are angry that they put the woman in a dress just think of it is rather than being specifically inclusive of women of it being inclusive of dress wearers whether cis or trans.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:25

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# ? May 9, 2024 17:05

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

I didn't assign a gender to those signs

changing them is a waste of money and time that could be better spent elsewhere in that particular fight, like education?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:30

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