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Crazy idea time: politicians' investment properties should be treated the same as shares, ie they can't be actively investing in them while in partliament.
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Mar 22, 2017 06:17
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Doesn't pass the pub test Mr Speaker
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Mar 22, 2017 06:54
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Mr Chips posted:Crazy idea time: politicians' investment properties should be treated the same as shares, ie they can't be actively investing in them while in partliament. I thought you could buy shares as long as you weren't the minister for shares.
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Mar 22, 2017 07:03
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JBP posted:I thought you could buy shares as long as you weren't the minister for shares. You can only buy shares while riding in a govt car to a party meeting.
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Mar 22, 2017 07:08
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Can I still buy a block of investment flats in Redfern so long as I have donned a hivis and am walking the floor of a warehouse or construction site?
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Mar 22, 2017 07:28
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Mr Chips posted:Amazon feedback does this for the things I buy (usually electronics/computer related). Yes, but if you go into a shop and say "does product X do this specific action" and the person serving you says "yes" and then you get home and find out it doesnt do that specific action, you can take it back and get your money back. Cant do that with just reading amazon reviews, which are also very easy to fake.
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Mar 22, 2017 07:37
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Don Dongington posted:Here I made this to help some of you understand the PHON > ALP > LNP preference flow: I approve of your intention and love Venn diagrams but they don't work for everything.
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Mar 22, 2017 08:21
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Looks like Bernghazi is walking the walk of being a MGTOW https://twitter.com/murpharoo/status/844458018737733633
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Mar 22, 2017 09:02
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Hopefully Amazon AU will muscle package delivery guys into actually delivering packages instead of just dropping postal notification cards.
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Mar 22, 2017 09:36
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Or just losing your packages (two of mine this month have disappeared off the face of the earth  )
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Mar 22, 2017 09:52
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iajanus posted:Or just losing your packages (two of mine this month have disappeared off the face of the earth I have had 2 fitbit bands stuck in customs for nearly two months now.
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Mar 22, 2017 10:31
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https://twitter.com/rpy/status/844421759856201728
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Mar 22, 2017 10:35
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NPR Journalizard posted:I have had 2 fitbit bands stuck in customs for nearly two months now. My lost packages were being shipped from Brisbane to Beenleigh 
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Mar 22, 2017 10:48
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lol
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Mar 22, 2017 11:00
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https://twitter.com/australian/status/844485731124887553 https://twitter.com/tfswebb/status/844486774500085760
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Mar 22, 2017 11:10
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https://twitter.com/rpy/status/844338998923354113
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Mar 22, 2017 11:19
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Terminal cancer and unable to work? gently caress you buddy, get a job or die. A Centrelink tale
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Mar 22, 2017 11:20
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Bogan King posted:https://twitter.com/australian/status/844485731124887553 lmao
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Mar 22, 2017 11:30
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Well, the Libs "sticking their company tax right up their own arsehole" would probably mark the first occasion that they've actually taken expert advice.
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Mar 22, 2017 11:39
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what a conga-line of suckholes
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Mar 22, 2017 11:49
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Lol this government has accomplished nothing except the ABCC which nobody gives a poo poo about.
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Mar 22, 2017 12:55
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bigis posted:Lol this government has accomplished nothing except the ABCC which nobody gives a poo poo about. About time those lefties at auntie had their funding cut, well done Malcolm
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Mar 22, 2017 13:04
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bigis posted:Lol this government has accomplished nothing except the ABCC which nobody gives a poo poo about. Yeah about that... http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act...322-gv3oq5.html quote:The federal government's building watchdog cut a deal to keep a disgraced former union official out of jail in return for testifying against his former colleagues, the Federal Court has found. Hey that name seems familiar, quote:Nearly two years since the Royal Commission into union corruption hearings came to Canberra in a blaze of publicity, there has only been one conviction as a result of allegations aired in the proceedings; that of Mr Kivalu who was given a suspended jail sentence in June 2016 after pleading guilty to blackmail charges. GG Malcolm. G fuckin G.
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Mar 22, 2017 13:28
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Bogan King posted:Queensland does something right? What is this world coming to? SA is awaiting a law review on changes to provocation laws to remove the gay panic defense without accidentally also removing legal defences for victims of domestic violence. Game lifted, just doing their due diligence.
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Mar 22, 2017 13:34
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A seriously disabled man in Tasmania had a lounge put on top of him by support workers who were trying to restrain him. Key points:Theo Langmaid had lounge put on top of him by support workers trying to restrain him He was also pushed into a pool to calm him down and locked outside in courtyard Mother Joyce Langmaid has made an official complaint He was also regularly locked outside in a courtyard and was once pushed into a pool in an effort to calm him down. Theo Langmaid, 26, acquired a brain injury after contracting meningitis as a four-month-old and requires around-the-clock care. While in the care of North West Residential Support Services his parents became concerned about how he was being treated. "I'd go and say, 'What's going on? What are you doing?'" his mother Joyce Langmaid told 7.30. "He's black and blue, he's got bruises up his arms, permanent hold marks under his arms." Mrs Langmaid was eventually told staff at the house where her son was living had started using "restrictive practices" to control Mr Langmaid when he was agitated. One or two staff members would wrestle him to the ground and hold him there, which went against the plans that were in place for his care. Once when Mr Langmaid's grandmother visited him she found him locked outside in the rain. "You don't treat somebody like that. That's not how we treat ourselves, it's not how we treat our disabled," Ms Langmaid. 'This is horror story stuff' The Langmaids pushed for the Tasmania's Disability Assessment and Advisory Team to review what was happening and its report from 2013 recommended that alternatives to "restrictive practices" be found. "Some workers will 'assist Theo to the ground' immediately upon him hitting his own head or becoming loud, where other workers seem to be able to reassure him and divert him," it read. It also mentioned an occasion where Mr Langmaid was pushed into a pool and held there in an attempt to calm him down. It acknowledged some workers were afraid because of previous staff injuries. "It is important to remember staff are reacting to the outburst behaviours, and given Theo's strength are attempting to keep both him and themselves safe," it said. "However, all such incidents need to be reported ... and other strategies used." A year after the review, an incident report detailed how two staff members put a lounge on top of Mr Langmaid to restrain him after he became agitated and cut himself while lashing out. "As a mum you read that, and quite frankly no-one should have to read that, and think that's what people think their son is worth," Mrs Langmaid said. "In this day and age to have your son locked down in a courtyard and taken down and furniture thrown on him and thrown in pools — I'm sorry, we're in the 2000s, this is horror story stuff." Ms Langmaid said her son could be violent when he became agitated and had injured staff, but she said his behaviour became worse while he was being manhandled. "There's a lot of ways you can make it easier and one of the ways is treating him like he's a human being," she said. 'Concerns were taken seriously' After North West Residential Support Services decided to stop seeing Mr Langmaid, a review conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services found issues with staff training and that incident reporting was ad hoc. Following the review, Mrs Langmaid made a complaint that an official allegation of abuse form was not filed by the department. The department found staff acted appropriately, but that while the Langmaids did not use the "language of reporting of abuse" the concerns they raised were as serious as a formal abuse complaint. "These concerns were taken seriously by [the department] and followed up," it read. "It is my view, however, that the follow-up that occurred and the outcomes from that were not communicated clearly back to Mrs Langmaid." Mrs Langmaid has now made an official complaint about what happened to her son. North West Residential Support Services is investigating the complaint and would not comment on the matter until that investigation was complete. A spokeswoman for Tasmanian Human Services Minister Jacquie Petrusma said what happened to Mr Langmaid was not abuse because restrictive practices are allowed if staff feel they or the client are in danger.
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Mar 22, 2017 14:32
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4 dead, including 1 cop. 20 injured in attack on UK parliament. Abbott will use this to talk about the wall around our parliament and maybe even the moat.
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Mar 22, 2017 20:58
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Bogan King posted:4 dead, including 1 cop. 20 injured in attack on UK parliament. Abbott will use this to talk about the wall around our parliament and maybe even the moat. The parliament guards need to get rid of their boring police style uniforms and wear shining chromed suits of medieval plate armor.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:19
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Konomex posted:SA is awaiting a law review on changes to provocation laws to remove the gay panic defense without accidentally also removing legal defences for victims of domestic violence. Thankfully, Queensland codified domestic violence defences some years ago.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:28
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DancingShade posted:The parliament guards need to get rid of their boring police style uniforms and wear shining chromed suits of medieval plate armor. Swiss guard style would be my preference
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Mar 22, 2017 22:51
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is this what it feels like to have a stroke? also 
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QUACKTASTIC posted:is this what it feels like to have a stroke? That one got a wry smirk
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Mar 22, 2017 23:48
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Mar 22, 2017 23:50
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She's pissed lmao.
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quote:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/fed...322-gv3psz.html
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Mar 23, 2017 00:04
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Mar 23, 2017 00:13
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Anidav posted:
Well he has significantly improved his public persona over the years and also thrown out the occasional kernel of rational thought, so there's something in this.
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Mar 23, 2017 00:20
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Joyce is right that there need to be jobs in the regions to entice people to move there, but this kinda seems a bit hamfisted to me.
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What if, and this is crazy but bear with me, we made houses cheaper where the jobs already are. I'm not sure if the maths on this really works as I'm not a mathistician but if it's affordable houses + good job = good times then wouldn't adjusting the easier of the left hand side of the equation to make it add up correctly be the smart thing to do?
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