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Bogan King posted:Joyce just told China to eat our rear end It's talked about in this AFR Tingle bit TFA posted:The Joint Statement will unlock a number of trade restrictions currently in place to support Australian meat and livestock exports including advancing Australia's access for tripe exports to China and initiating trade in donkey meat and edible skins to China.
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I find it hard to imagine Barnaby's skin is edible.
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Mar 24, 2017 05:41
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While we're on a Joyce roll have this one too https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/845131045812940805
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Mar 24, 2017 05:48
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I like Barnaby in a weird way.
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JBP posted:I like Barnaby in a weird way. It's because of your tomato fetish. 
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JBP posted:I like Barnaby in a weird way. He's like any politician that when he says things you agree with, you nod along and go "makes sense" with a bit of mixed in country no bullshit mixed in. It's just a shame that he very, very rarely says things reasonable people agree with. CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP
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freebooter posted:Can anybody recommend a good accountant in Melbourne? Last full financial year I was working in Australia I went to H&R Block and gave them $200 to spend ten minutes on etax and inform me that I owed the government $250, I mean, I could have done that. Yeah, but your $200 is tax deductible
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The HuffPo posted:In what we promise is a very real story, Queensland's Nationals MP George Christensen is going to war against an ice cream company, calling out Ben & Jerry's for their opposition to the controversial Adani coal mine. Free ice cream and protesting for lefty poo poo. Gonna be a good weekend.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:11
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Thanks Unilever!
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Mar 24, 2017 06:16
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Adecco have just asked everyone that worked at the Aus Open to work the weekend at the Grand Prix for free as a donation.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:21
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Is this going to end up with a close-but-not-close-enough 'right conclusion-wrong reason' situations with Christensen where he realises there's no ethical consumption under capitalism? (Will it be different from PHON's tenet of no ethnic consumption?)
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quote:We did this successfully in 2014 with WWF and the 'Fight for the Reef' campaign, and we're proud to do it again by joining our friends at 350 Australia in the fight against the proposed Adani mega coal mine," he said. This sounded a lot better before I remembered the WWF is no longer a wrestling federation.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:28
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Why do people hate the Adani mine so much?
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JBP posted:Why do people hate the Adani mine so much? It's hosed, it doesn't make economic sense without massive government subsidies (like all fossil fuel), and it has massive environmental implications both on site and for transportation of the product
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Mar 24, 2017 06:39
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Pauline Hanson has said we need to vaccinate against Islam. Which I guess means we should teach it in schools or embrace comparative religion subjects or something?
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Mar 24, 2017 06:40
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Vaccinating against Islam causes autism though.
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JBP posted:Adecco have just asked everyone that worked at the Aus Open to work the weekend at the Grand Prix for free as a donation. I hope you told them to get fukt and reported them. JBP posted:Why do people hate the Adani mine so much? Adani already has stated that the profits will be sent offshore to the Caymans. This means we won't see the tax for it. It also means that a bunch of their shareholders are mega pissed because it means they won't see anything of the profit too because it's a different company.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:44
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JBP posted:Adecco have just asked everyone that worked at the Aus Open to work the weekend at the Grand Prix for free as a donation. What?
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Mar 24, 2017 06:47
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I don't work labour hire for Adecco. I am simply reporting what has been reported to me.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:49
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Guess which party has 4 seats in the WA Legislative Council? The Greens, that's who.
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Konomex posted:Guess which party has 4 seats in the WA Legislative Council? Who cares.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Pauline Hanson has said we need to vaccinate against Islam. Which I guess means we should teach it in schools or embrace comparative religion subjects or something? Give everyone a Koran, except the book only has blank pages?
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JBP posted:I don't work labour hire for Adecco. I am simply reporting what has been reported to me. Wait your earlier post wasn't a joke? I read it four times and eventually decided you had to be kidding. Some of the hardest work I've ever done was events setup
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Mar 24, 2017 07:34
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JBP posted:Who cares. Me. I care.
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JBP posted:Who cares. I do.
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JBP posted:Who cares. Everyone but you. Then again you cared enough to comment so
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Yeah it's kinda a huge deal for WA, formerly known as The Scrunt State. Edit: our resident electoral megasperg says it's a long call, and to wait 20 mins, when the AEC are actually pushing the button. As to why it's a big deal to me, Lynn McLaren has been SUPER supportive of the NTEU aka best union, and is an all round top sort. Don Dongington fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Mar 24, 2017 08:12
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Who is the current scrunt state?
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JBP posted:Who cares. We care a lot. *hums the rest of the song*
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Anidav posted:Who is the current scrunt state? Sobriety.
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GoldStandardConure posted:Sobriety. The only state worse than QLD
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freebooter posted:Can anybody recommend a good accountant in Melbourne? Last full financial year I was working in Australia I went to H&R Block and gave them $200 to spend ten minutes on etax and inform me that I owed the government $250, I mean, I could have done that. Do you actually need one? The online tax filing thing in MyGov is pretty easy to use and prefills most of the data for you. Unless your finances involve a mix of foreign income and capital gains the main advantage of an accountant is them pointing out deductions you didn't know about, and you can get most of that benefit by browsing https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Income-and-deductions/Deductions-you-can-claim/
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JBP posted:I like Barnaby in a weird way. I agree. I'm a Green through and through and I disagree with many of his positions and if I lived in his electorate I would preference him near the bottom, but I nonetheless prefer his straight-up attitude to the bullshit focus group driven blathering of most of the LNP crowd. Australia would be a better place if most Australian pollies stood up for what they thought the way that Barnaby does. Sure, what you think might be shithouse, but at least own it. Urcher posted:Do you actually need one? The online tax filing thing in MyGov is pretty easy to use and prefills most of the data for you. Ta, I'll check that out. I mostly want to write my laptop off thanks to income from self-pubbing a book on Amazon + rev.com.
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freebooter posted:I agree. I'm a Green through and through and I disagree with many of his positions and if I lived in his electorate I would preference him near the bottom, but I nonetheless prefer his straight-up attitude to the bullshit focus group driven blathering of most of the LNP crowd. Australia would be a better place if most Australian pollies stood up for what they thought the way that Barnaby does. Sure, what you think might be shithouse, but at least own it. This. I feel the same way about Lambie too
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Its encouraging to see just how much the opposition in the party to focusing on 18C has come from them not wanting to shift focus away from economic issues. Granted they should oppose it for the right reasons but you can bet they're getting the pressure from all sides to get on with making everybodys life a little easier.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZxwmHph6E Here's a very nice meltdown for you all.
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JBP posted:I like Barnaby in a weird way. Barnaby's what Bob Katter could have been if he wasn't an idiot with no impulse control. He's managed to work a way to sound really anti-establishment while mostly voting like a hard right Lib, plus pulling off some of the most ostentatious pork barreling we've seen in years. Dude's got the govt to spend $20-something million moving a whole department to his electorate for basically no reason.
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18C has become a self-delusion mechanism for the Liberal Party. It's noticeable just how sick of it the MSM is, even CPG hacks are just rolling their eyes now. Katherine Murphy even dared to contrast defamation law with this "exercise" in free speech in the australian politics live podcast today. Gabrielle Chan was even over talking about it. Laura Tingle is now just grunting on Late Night Live and even those two old grumps Dennis Atkins and Malcolm Farr are frankly annoyed at the time-wasting. Also, Joyce is a typical Nat, they're mostly like that, they've never changed. Some have the impulse control button, some don't.
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FYI the WA Legislative Council is probably the most authentically loving insane of Australia's parliaments. Labor's got twice the Libs' lower house MPs but still probably won't control the assembly because the bush elects half the members. It's for authentically ridiculous WA reasons too. The changing face of mining, Aboriginal disenfranchisement, the state's dumb aristocracy - all capped off with the Greens' genuinely baffling 'bio-regional identity' policy. Love it, all so WA.
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Azmet Jah posted:FYI the WA Legislative Assembly is probably the most authentically loving insane of Australia's parliaments. Labor's got twice the Libs' lower house MPs but still probably won't control the assembly because the bush elects half the members. It's for authentically ridiculous WA reasons too. The changing face of mining, Aboriginal disenfranchisement, the state's dumb aristocracy - all capped off with the Greens' genuinely baffling 'bio-regional identity' policy. Love it, all so WA. What are you even talking about, Perth has like 42 of the 60 odd seats and Labor has a massive majority in the legislative assembly E: oh, you mean the legislative council. The assembly got fixed a decade ago Solemn Sloth fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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