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https://twitter.com/_robcorr/status/841966137805946880
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Mar 15, 2017 12:04
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Mar 15, 2017 12:19
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Cartoon posted:BBJoey in being utterly wrong shock development. idk what i did to deserve such vitriol, i misread the article and am glad that i was wrong 
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Mar 15, 2017 13:25
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Mar 15, 2017 13:41
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Guardian AU posted:Retail associations are pushing for Sunday penalty rate cuts to be phased in over 15 months, the minimum length of time suggested by the Fair Work Commission. Retail association in "gently caress our workers" shocker.
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Mar 15, 2017 13:45
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Liberalism is bad and far more interested in being chums with the popular and the powerful than enacting any sort of change
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Mar 15, 2017 13:48
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hooman posted:Retail association in "gently caress our workers" shocker. I'm sure the shoppies will push back hard againshahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Mar 15, 2017 14:46
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Jonah Galtberg posted:I'm sure the shoppies will push back hard againshahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha SDA have publicly opposed the cuts, but are beyond poo poo so who knows edit. also, most of their members work from large companies that are unaffected anyway so they barely have an incentive to do poo poo. Zenithe fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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Mar 15, 2017 15:21
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There is now a Retail and Fast Food Worker's Union, hopefully they'll try. But they're still very new and very small and I'm sure the shoppies aren't exactly advertising the existence of a union for the most exploited workers in the country which isn't run by right wing bigoted shitheels. EDIT - and I'm sure we're all waiting for the inevitable slashing of penalty rates for every other industry which has them 
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Mar 15, 2017 15:22
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Zenithe posted:SDA have publicly opposed the cuts, but are beyond poo poo so who knows They enabled the justification of cuts by signing deals for major retail with lesser penalty rates. How this union doesn't care or understand that corporations constantly scream about precedent being set when one worker loses a provision is loving beyond me.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:41
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JBP posted:They enabled the justification of cuts by signing deals for major retail with lesser penalty rates. How this union doesn't care or understand that corporations constantly scream about precedent being set when one worker loses a provision is loving beyond me. true story, under my current SDA agreement, we're already at what the proposed cuts are anyway.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:55
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Same thing here! Great union really. 
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Mar 15, 2017 16:34
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Zenithe posted:true story, under my current SDA agreement, we're already at what the proposed cuts are anyway. meteor9 posted:Same thing here! Great union really. *taps thread title*
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Mar 15, 2017 16:44
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quote:Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will today reveal plans for a $2 billion expansion of the iconic Snowy Hydro scheme that could power up to 500,000 homes through a new network of tunnels and power stations. This doesn't strike me as a terrible idea which is surprising given the LNP came up with it. With enough storage capacity, the base load argument that has been keeping coal in the game disappears overnight.
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Mar 15, 2017 21:35
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:First dog: If you cover up his feet with your thumb it looks like he's making GBS threads piss onto Leak's grave, which feels more appropriate. Also Turnbull has announced (emphasis on that word) a $2bn upgrade to the Snowy Hydro scheme. No new dams but "could" increase capacity by 50%: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/16/turnbull-2bn-snowy-hydro-electric-expansion This bit where my terminal cynicism kicks in: quote:The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has been asked to prepare a feasibility study and report back by the end of the year. Big gently caress off announcement $2BN RENEWABLE PROJECT MALCOLM BEST PM EVER ALL IS FORGIVEN to take to heat out of the actual concrete action from Weatherill. But, if the Libs are going into this with any intention other than turfing the feasibility study once it's complete, I will be shocked. I'm looking forward to that dense gently caress Frydenburg explaining why hydro renewable good, wind and solar bad (Assuming most 30+ aussies still have quite a sentimental or romanticised attachment to the Snowy Hydro, they'll pitch it as "oh its always been in our glorious history as a nation of frontiersmen, not like that new age fart-powered renewables"). So I guess the main question I have: Is AREA any good? Havent had time to look up their board and history but if they are actually a genuine cause for good and not some loving think tank stacked with ex-Libs and a leafy name, maybe some good will come out of this!
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Mar 15, 2017 21:39
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aejix posted:If you cover up his feet with your thumb it looks like he's making GBS threads piss onto Leak's grave, which feels more appropriate. Pumped hydro isn't really about increasing capacity, it's about evening the load through storage. You still need to connect it to a power source, and if that isn't a variably generating renewable like wind or solar you're just wasting money. It takes more energy to pump the water back up to the higher reservoir than you get back when you're releasing it through the turbines, so you need to be pumping at peak production (high radiation/high wind), and then releasing during peak demand. Someone in another thread mentioned another take on this which is locating it on the coast so you can just use the ocean as the lower reservoir, although my suspicion is using salt water would cause an increase in maintenance costs.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:01
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Salt water rusts the gently caress out of most metal, so yeah.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:10
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https://twitter.com/RachelFeltman/status/842055549764161536 https://twitter.com/mckinnon_a/status/842117798939709440
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Mar 15, 2017 22:10
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Gotta say, it warms my black heart to see these WA frontbenchers lose their seats.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:42
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So Victoria has been floating some potential changes to the Residential Tenancies Act including support for 5/10 year leases, limiting rent increases, allowing long term tenants to make modifications and banning no pet clauses. The Real Estate peak body is having a fit, the funniest bit of which is threatening that some landlords will exit the market and invest elsewhere, as if lovely landlords not outcompeting potential owner-occupiers would be bad for anyone other than the parasites themselves.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:50
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Solemn Sloth posted:So Victoria has been floating some potential changes to the Residential Tenancies Act including support for 5/10 year leases, limiting rent increases, allowing long term tenants to make modifications and banning no pet clauses. Presumably it'd also be bad for developers since people who buy to rent typically have significantly lower standards than people who buy to own.
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Mar 15, 2017 23:09
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So this hydro business has been in the making for a long time and all interested parties have been consulted thoroughly before the announcement. It is definitely not a knee-jerk reaction to SA looking out for its citizens at all. Oh wait https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/842128677986959360
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Mar 15, 2017 23:16
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https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/842115666136129536
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Mar 15, 2017 23:23
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i am shocked and surprised about the latest comments arising from a bag of flour
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Mar 15, 2017 23:26
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It's true; if we just sent all those Jewish we did, they died
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Mar 15, 2017 23:47
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I don't know what anyone expected.
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Mar 15, 2017 23:57
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Solemn Sloth posted:Pumped hydro isn't really about increasing capacity, it's about evening the load through storage. You still need to connect it to a power source, and if that isn't a variably generating renewable like wind or solar you're just wasting money. It takes more energy to pump the water back up to the higher reservoir than you get back when you're releasing it through the turbines, so you need to be pumping at peak production (high radiation/high wind), and then releasing during peak demand. Fair enough, I'm not very clued in on the technical side of things (obviously). Still, announcing a feasibility study which is either going to be ignored or given a terms of reference guaranteeing a negative appraisal (so we'll just have to keep burning coal) is really all that Turnbull has actually done here. I'm still fascinated by that article about the Daylesford community owned windfarm. That loving rules. See! Libertarianism works  Edit: I don't know if I actually linked that article or not and I am not sifting through fifty pages of that Daisy Cousens horseshit to find out - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/renewables-roadshow-community-owned-windfarm-daylesford-hepburn-australia aejix fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Mar 16, 2017 00:06
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Solemn Sloth posted:So Victoria has been floating some potential changes to the Residential Tenancies Act including support for 5/10 year leases, limiting rent increases, allowing long term tenants to make modifications and banning no pet clauses. I've been reading some of that policy work around housing/housing affordability and I am very excited about it all. Even if housing affordability stays as poo poo as it is, renters will at least not be total second-class citizens? Being able to get a five-year lease and a nice doggo would rock my world.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:07
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It would have been so much easier to say "industrial action shouldn't be illegal."
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Mar 16, 2017 00:11
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SLASHER HAWKE posted:It would have been so much easier to say "industrial action shouldn't be illegal." The only developed country on earth that I am aware of that can fine a population $7000 a head for a general strike.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:22
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The day I can call the cops because my boss has hoarded my super and stolen my money is the day I will respect the rule of industrial law.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:36
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Solemn Sloth posted:So Victoria has been floating some potential changes to the Residential Tenancies Act including support for 5/10 year leases, limiting rent increases, allowing long term tenants to make modifications and banning no pet clauses. Good. Bogan King posted:So this hydro business has been in the making for a long time and all interested parties have been consulted thoroughly before the announcement. It is definitely not a knee-jerk reaction to SA looking out for its citizens at all. Oh wait I'm surprised that Turnbull thinks this is a good idea, considering the whole Snowy River Hydro idea would collapse if Australia goes through another period of droughts, like back in the 2000s.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:16
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You Am I posted:I'm surprised that Turnbull thinks this is a good idea, considering the whole Snowy River Hydro idea would collapse if Australia goes through another period of droughts, like back in the 2000s. He doesn't think it's good. He's announced a huge number for something that will get shelved once they've wasted a bunch of money on the 'feasibility report'. This isn't costed, no one involved was informed it was even going to be a thing. It is about nothing more than trying to take the wind (haha, get it) out of SA taking the power back.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:23
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This snowy hydro thing is a distraction. Makes Trampballs look decisive and in charge and poo poo while never being likely to see the light of day. Having said that basin storage is a really good idea and we should be doing it already. But as You Am I has said 'drought, lol'. More to the point if the RET investment goal posts hadn't been doing a supersonic orbit of the playing field we wouldn't even be in this place. That was bad business plain and simple. Speaking of which anything to divert attention from the growing voice on this issue that privatisation has been a disaster. Doesn't go nearly far enough but it is a small ray of hope. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/government-slams-sally-mcmanus-over-union-law-breaking-comments/8358044 quote:ACTU boss Sally McManus called out by Bill Shorten over union law-breaking comments By political reporter Dan Conifer Updated 45 minutes ago This is a great opportunity to cull your facebook (etc.) anyone who harps on about 'rule of law' in this context is not worth bothering with.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:26
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Cartoon posted:This is a great opportunity to cull your facebook (etc.) anyone who harps on about 'rule of law' in this context is not worth bothering with. Just say she's taking the lead from our AG who is currently defying a court order to hand over his diary to his shadow counterpart and watch the dumpster fire.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:30
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https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/842150907747885057
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Mar 16, 2017 01:46
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Wethearowns. Sadly the Advertiser hasn't backed up yesterdays' front page by spluttering "2.5 billion power charge from Trumble" instead it's all footy and state Libs being slightly ahead in some key seats due to Xenophon's party taking votes.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:48
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Jay Weatherill moves from laying down the gauntlet to completely loving roasting Frydenburg at a press conference: https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/10156358043999988/ Paging Mr Frydenburg, Mr Josh Frydenburg, please report to the burns unit immediately If only we could replace the brilliantly described bag of flour Bill "easy now don't rock the boat" Shorten with this guy we'd have a lot more to look forward to.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:51
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aejix posted:Jay Weatherill moves from laying down the gauntlet to completely loving roasting Frydenburg at a press conference: Holy poo poo, that was a fair savaging.
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