Urcher posted:

Is that the abhorrent "australian memes page" or the "abhorrent australian memes page".

I'm asking for a friend.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio/status/844373631937396736

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio/status/844373631937396736

norp posted:

Was Reith the one that went on that sbs show that took a bunch of racists to war zones and asked if they still supported turning back the boats?

Bogan King posted:

So the dude who got hit by a croc the other day jumping in the creek on a dare

1) Wasn't jumping in because of a dare but instead doing it to impress a woman
2) Wasn't jumping in because the woman wanted him to do it to impress her, instead wanted him to not do it
3) Had this to say afterwrds (final sentence)

The Idiot posted:

About 10 cups of goon

GoldStandardConure posted:

Zenithe posted:

That diagram is great but implies lnp are unionists.

iajanus posted:

Wait

I have some pink football jerseys and I like wearing them

But I am married to a woman

Have I accidentally broken the gay marriage embargo?

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio/status/844373631937396736

abc posted:

More to come.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC_NewsRadio/status/844373631937396736

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/844334501438271488

The Sydney Morning Homosexual posted:

A Sydney man has been awarded $3000 for being stopped by police for four minutes at Liverpool train station, after a court ruled this amounted to false imprisonment.

Sam Le, 24, was approached by two police officers in January last year and asked to produce his Opal card and pensioner concession card, along with photo identification.

One of the officers told the District Court he suspected Mr Le may have stolen the concession card because he appeared "young and fit" and was "evasive" when asked to hand over his Opal card.

In an exchange captured by Mr Le on his mobile phone, the officer called him a "smart arse" and asked if he "had a problem listening".

He was told he was not under arrest but was "not leaving" until the officers had verified his identity.

"So this officer is now demanding ... my driver's licence when I'm not even in a car," Mr Le said in the video.

"Yeah, put it onto whatever social media you want. Be a hero," the officer replied, after Mr Le said the officer was refusing to tell him his first name.

After four minutes and 15 seconds waiting on the platform while police conducted a radio check, Mr Le was told he was "free to go".

Mr Le sued the state of NSW in the District Court for false imprisonment and won.

Judge Matthew Dicker said the police officer had an "honest suspicion" the concession card may have been stolen but this was based on "tenuous" rather than "reasonable" grounds.

Mr Le's apparent youth was "not a fact which could reasonably ground a suspicion that the concession card may have been stolen" and he did not act evasively, Judge Dicker said.

He said police did not have the power to demand commuters hand over more than their Opal card and concession card, unless they did not have their concession card with them and had other "relevant evidence" to support their entitlement to the concession.

Mr Le gave evidence in court he was on a disability pension.

Judge Dicker said there was "no conscious wrongdoing" by the police and their evidence was truthful, although it was "not appropriate" to call Mr Le a "smart arse".

In contrast, he rejected some of Mr Le's evidence and said "some caution should be exercised" in accepting it without "independent evidence".

But he said false imprisonment had been established and awarded Mr Le $3201 in damages including interest.

Judge Dicker said physical constraint or force "does not have to be proved" and Mr Le had established he was "imprisoned through being detained".

In calculating damages he took into account the "very short period" of detention, along with the fact Mr Le was "not manhandled ... or handcuffed" or put in a police cell or van.

Mr Le's lawyer, Andrea Turner, said commuters were unaware of their legal rights and were handing over their drivers' licences to police "without anything being suspicious about their concession card and nothing suspicious about their Opal card".

Mr Le said he brought the case because he wanted to "send a message to the police force that they can't just approach someone and demand their personal identification ... when a person has not committed any offence".

"There's no reason for police to approach me demanding my ID [to] do further checks on me," he said.

A NSW police spokesman said they were "currently reviewing the decision of the court".

It is the second time Mr Le has sued the state over an incident with police. A 2015 case was settled out of court.

He denied in court that he said to the police officer involved in the earlier incident "thanks for the holiday" and he had "lots of money" as a result of the settlement.

drowned in pussy juice posted:

professional referee spotted, you dog

quote:

I’m unemployed and ashamed. The idea that people don’t want to work is a ridiculous myth
Vicki Nash

The stigma attached to unemployment can be dangerous. We should all think before we judge people who are struggling with trying to find work
People waiting in line
‘When I was shutting down my business, the thought that I may be unemployed and on the precipice of giving up entirely would never have occurred to me.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Last year I made a decision I’d been struggling with for a few years: I walked away from the business I was running, the business I’d sacrificed most of my 20s and numerous friendships and relationships to, the business I had dreamed of running since my primary school years.

To say this was a difficult choice would be a massive understatement but it was what was right for me, or so I believed. I wanted a social life, a regular job and a regular paycheque, and most of all I wanted to feel like a regular person.

For too long I had felt like someone who was tied to her business, who was constantly overworked, overstressed and over budget, but I’d lost track of who I was outside the business. I ran a small thoroughbred farm breeding and breaking in horses for racing, and it was my life for a long time. But it’s clearly not an industry that leaves me with an obvious place to transition.

Another factor was my age. If I was leaving my business behind then I also wanted to leave the industry behind, start afresh entirely and, at 28, I was aware that not only was I getting ancient in terms of entry-level positions, but that if I was going to make a success of myself in my new field then I was better off getting started in it yesterday.

Unfortunately it has now been over six months since I started in earnest to apply for jobs in different fields, seeking to be reborn on a new career path. With the exception of one online video interview, I haven’t made it past the first checkpoint.

There are a lot of factors at play in this, and in some way I even have sympathy with the countless employers who have rejected me without even meeting me; unemployment is high at that moment, particularly in the Geelong region where I now live. I have no experience that counts, and that I was self-employed for so long does negatively affect the quality of my references. It has also become clear to me that most prospective employers see a history of self-employment in a negative light.

But sympathising with all the reasons that people don’t want to hire me doesn’t actually make the task of job hunting any easier, if anything it makes it worse. I can see why people don’t want to hire a now 29-year-old with no relevant experience and a history of self-employment and, as time passes, I increasingly fail to see why they would.

I imagine this loss of faith in oneself and the growing belief that the ongoing rejections are never going to turn around is common among the unemployed. I just never thought I’d be one of them.

Going into this, my biggest concern was that I would have to start at the bottom of the ladder and work my way up. It never occurred to me that I would be unable to get a leg on the first rung. I would now give almost anything for the opportunity to prove my worth in almost any position and at any level.

This time last year I was still in the process of closing down my business. It was heartbreaking and depressing but it was something I got through by reminding myself how much easier it would be when it was through.

I knew, not with cockiness but simply because of the faith I had in myself, that I would find another arena in which to excel. The thought that I may be unemployed and on the precipice of giving up entirely never occurred to me.

Among the things I knew about myself then was that I was intelligent and hardworking, with many transferrable skills that would make me an asset in any number of industries – but I no longer know these things.

When I think about my unemployed status today these are the things I know: that I may never find anyone willing to hire me; that with every passing day I get a little older and a little less employable and the majority of my intelligent, articulate and sometimes witty cover letters are not even being read. Or perhaps they’re not that witty after all.

I do not feel this every day but there are days where a previously unfamiliar feeling of uselessness and hopelessness do creep over me, and they are demons that I find myself increasingly unable to keep at bay. I never thought unemployment would happen to me. I imagined having to take a job I didn’t necessarily want but no job at all wasn’t anywhere on my radar. I think it’s probably this way for a lot of unemployed individuals. And this is probably the greatest lesson that has come out of this experience: that the idea that people don’t want to work, that the unemployed are somehow lazy or unmotivated, is a ridiculous myth. And yet I still haven’t learned it completely.

I still lie to acquaintances and even friends about my employment; make out that I’m doing some casual work to tide me over or make jokes about it because I’m ashamed. I judge myself every day and I’m determined not to let others judge me too.

There is a stigma attached to unemployment that can be dangerous because I don’t think it would take much for it to create a potentially irreversible self-hatred. I fill my days with routines that involve exercise, cleaning, job applications and writing and certainly no television or leisure time during work hours; I’m strict on that. I don’t claim welfare of any kind, because apart from anything else I am far too proud, another one of my failings.

I am not what the unemployed stereotype looks like but I am unquestionably unemployed and I’m struggling mentally, emotionally and financially every day. I often barely recognise myself.

This is not a story of self-pity, although it has elements of that I’m sure. I’m sacrificing my pride in writing about this. But it’s a lesson to think before you judge because unemployment is hard. If we could just come out and speak about our own struggles with unemployment freely and without shame and stigma, it may just get a little bit easier.

Anidav posted:

Anyone who travels to the US will know we pay a premium for many goods here. Those days are coming to an end.

Don Dongington posted:

Here I made this to help some of you understand the PHON > ALP > LNP preference flow:

Starshark posted:

I didn't know JB was under the gun, I buy lots of dvds from them.

E: Online, that is. Haven't been in a store in months.

You Am I posted:

CFMEU are racists?

You Am I posted:

CFMEU are racists?

Anidav posted:

CFMEU is pretty racist in Brisbane. When the Asian FTAs with China and South Korea went through there were marches onto City Hall for about a week and you would often see dudes dress as samurai holding "HAHA FOOLISH AUSTRALIAN!" signs and other recycled WWII Zap a Jap/Yellow Peril tropes.

Made walking to QUT kind of concerning because you'd have to drift through CFMEU dudes dressed as asian stereotypes with loving dumb signs about how the Asians are coming.

hiddenmovement posted:

Supercheap auto are fine. Their bread and butter is either physically large items (e.g batteries, 5 liters of oil), or stuff that you need today when you have the free time to replace that part.

Having someone assure you that the sw4636784-nb is definitively only for the commodore made before July 2012 doesn't hurt either

hiddenmovement posted:

Having someone assure you that the sw4636784-nb is definitively only for the commodore made before July 2012 doesn't hurt either

The ABC posted:

An independent report into all of Liberal MP Sussan Ley's work travel expenses has found she breached the rules once over a three-and-a-half year period.

The former health minister was forced to step down from her position in the Cabinet earlier this year following revelations she bought an $800,000 apartment during a work trip to the Gold Coast.

The independent report, conducted and released today by the Finance Department, found the sole breach of the rules occurred when Ms Ley used a government-funded car to take her from her hotel to the apartment.

The trip lasted about five minutes.

Prior to her resignation as a minister, there were other claims she had breached the rules, including billing taxpayers to attend two New Year's Eve events hosted by a prominent Queensland businesswoman and donor, and piloting a plane when other, less-expensive options were available.

But the report found Ms Ley did not breach the rules in any of those instances.

The now backbencher addressed the findings of the report at the Federation Chamber in Parliament, saying she wants the public to draw their own conclusions about her conduct.

"I simply table the outcome of the investigation, as I said I would, and in doing so I allow people to draw their own conclusions."