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snoremac: Jul 27, 2012; I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

JBP posted:

This article makes it sound like Leftists are geniuses because everyone that opposes them is crushed under boot and brought in line.

It reminds me of Umberto Eco's point that fascists make their enemies out to be weak and strong simultaneously.

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# ? May 11, 2024 15:22

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

bowmore posted:

Cut meat out of your diet, help save the planet

I don't eat meat, just chicken and fish.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:40

Laserface: Dec 24, 2004

Doctor Spaceman posted:

That's a really good location.

Perfect for complaining about noise from pubs/venues.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:44

snoremac: Jul 27, 2012; I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

The most telling part of that Bolt article is when he thinks it's moronic that Leftists criticized IBM for employing an anti-gay advocate after the company had supported a politician's vote on SSM. Which shows the Leftists to be ideologically consistent and says plenty about Bolt's ethical standards.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:49

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 27, 2017 06:02

Ten Becquerels: Apr 17, 2012; My Little Tony: Leadership is Magic

Barnaby wants to take the Leadbeater's Possum off the endangered list so they can cut down more trees in Victoria and save 250 JOBS. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing or why he thinks people will go along with his idea to threaten a very cute animal. Should have picked an uglier animal to try and justify the likely extinction of.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:14

Korgan: Feb 14, 2012

Like Turnbull

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:20

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Barnaby to Frydenberg: "Minister for the Environment, please help drive your state emblem to extinction".

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:34

open24hours: Jan 7, 2001

quote:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/fed...327-gv79iu.html
Immigration management have been lambasted over their plan to spend a quarter of a billion dollars fitting out a new office, with the politicians asked to approve the proposal accusing them of poor preparation and failing to provide vital information.

Even Turnbull government MPs say they are "deeply unimpressed" with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection's handling of the mega-proposal, going so far as to compare its top officials to "unco-operative witnesses".

In a heated hearing last week, members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works also castigated the department for providing it with incorrect figures, a blunder secretary Mike Pezzullo blamed on a consultant who used "the wrong spreadsheet".

The department is seeking approval to spend $255 million to fit out a new Canberra headquarters, in what is thought to be the most expensive plan of its type in federal government history. Under the proposal, the number of buildings the department inhabits in the national capital would shrink from 12 to five, with the main office located in a new state-of-the-art building next to Canberra Airport.

Mr Pezzullo said the consolidation will ultimately deliver a net benefit to the taxpayer, with more than $230 million in savings over 30 years.

But some committee members have suggested the proposal may not be approved in its current form, which is heavily reliant on landlord "lease incentives".

Committee members are concerned the incentives distort the true cost of the proposal, making it less than transparent.

Liberal committee chairman Scott Buchholz led the attack, accusing the department of repeatedly changing its proposal and not informing MPs.

"The committee is deeply unimpressed with the way it has been provided with information on this project to date," he said.

"This is unacceptable as the committee can only make judgements about the project based on the information that is provided."

Mr Buchholz told Mr Pezzullo and the paramilitary Border Force's boss Roman Quaedvlieg that the department's "lack of preparation" had made the committee's job far more difficult, leading to significant delays in its deliberations.

"While I do not believe it is the department's intention to be unco-operative, it would be understandable if the committee members saw the department as unco-operative witnesses," he said.

Members also raised concerns about value for money, with Labor senator Alex Gallacher pointing out the new building has been sitting empty for eight years.

"You're paying the maximum rate that you would pay for a lease in Canberra, in an area where the building is eight years old and there is allegedly somewhere between a 20 per cent and 40 per cent occupancy rate," he said.

But senior official Ben Wright said it was a "good deal" and noted the building's condition as "a cold shell" meant it was cheaper and easier to fit out to the department's specifications.

The fit-out is due to begin in August this year and be completed by February 2021. The upgraded buildings would accommodate 6000 staff.

Jesus Christ they are fuckwits. For those not familiar with Canberra, the Department of Immigration is currently located in Belconnen and, along with the ABS, is one of the major employers in the area. Belconnen is a thriving area with shops, schools, services and public transport. Immigration employees presumably also live in the area.

Canberra airport is in the middle of nowhere, has virtually no services, no public transport, limited childcare options and the roads are barely adequate for the traffic as is.

I'm almost tempted to believe it's deliberate attempt to damage an important part of the city for the benefit of the Canberra Airport Group.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:41

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

open24hours posted:

Jesus Christ they are fuckwits. For those not familiar with Canberra, the Department of Immigration is currently located in Belconnen and, along with the ABS, is one of the major employers in the area. Belconnen is a thriving area with shops, schools, services and public transport. Immigration employees presumably also live in the area.

Canberra airport is in the middle of nowhere, has virtually no services, no public transport, limited childcare options and the roads are barely adequate for the traffic as is.

I'm almost tempted to believe it's deliberate attempt to damage an important part of the city for the benefit of the Canberra Airport Group.

Yeah but it has costco.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:47

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Ten Becquerels posted:

Barnaby wants to take the Leadbeater's Possum off the endangered list so they can cut down more trees in Victoria and save 250 JOBS. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing or why he thinks people will go along with his idea to threaten a very cute animal. Should have picked an uglier animal to try and justify the likely extinction of.

POSSSUUUM! Doesn't really have the same ring to it, does it?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:49

Kafka Syrup: Apr 29, 2009

Brisgoons, because I'm a self-congratulatory fuckwit who needs constant emotional maintenance and I'm totally shameless in the pursuit of validation, I'm gonna spruik the monthly free panel show I run each month at the New Globe Theatre in the Valley.

Pitch Drop is a monthly panel discussion and Q&A on hot button social issue. We invite a panel of industry professionals, academics, community organisers and radical activists to try to solve massive entrenched problem in under two hours or your money back. Promise.

Since January, we've "fixed" democracy in Queensland, made Queenslander love art again (or the first time), and eliminated racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and ageism from political leadership (results may vary).

In April, we'll be fixing housing. You should come. (please come - I feel sorry for our awesome guests talking to a very empty theatre - did I mention it was free and that there's a bar?)

And because I'm a huge masochist in a job with a way too lenient boss, I might be opening a spin-off show in my new home in Canberra.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:16

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

GoldStandardConure posted:

team titsplosion about to destroy QLD

Doing my part for Australia.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:24

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

Ten Becquerels posted:

Barnaby wants to take the Leadbeater's Possum off the endangered list so they can cut down more trees in Victoria and save 250 JOBS. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing or why he thinks people will go along with his idea to threaten a very cute animal. Should have picked an uglier animal to try and justify the likely extinction of.

I love how the Coalition freaked out about the parrot hitting the wind turbines, and the trees being cut down on St Kilda Road for the Metro Tunnel, but hey let's kill off the Leadbeater's Possum for a dying industry

# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:30

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Ten Becquerels posted:

Barnaby wants to take the Leadbeater's Possum off the endangered list so they can cut down more trees in Victoria and save 250 JOBS. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing or why he thinks people will go along with his idea to threaten a very cute animal. Should have picked an uglier animal to try and justify the likely extinction of.

funny that the thing the greenies and hippies have been warning about for yonks has finally happened and we're running out of timber

I remember a few years back there was some forestry hack from Tassie on the radio having a whinge because there was some type of native timber that he couldn't get a hold of and he was for some reason having a bit of difficulty explaining how his apparently sustainable industry could run out of something... if it was sustainable you wouldn't actually run out you fuckwit

# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:31

Kafka Syrup: Apr 29, 2009

gay picnic defence posted:

funny that the thing the greenies and hippies have been warning about for yonks has finally happened and we're running out of timber

I remember a few years back there was some forestry hack from Tassie on the radio having a whinge because there was some type of native timber that he couldn't get a hold of and he was for some reason having a bit of difficulty explaining how his apparently sustainable industry could run out of something... if it was sustainable you wouldn't actually run out you fuckwit

That's the problem when your "renewable" industry takes decades to renew and half an hour to harvest.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:35

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

you mean the free market failed the timber industry?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:11

TheMightyHandful: Dec 8, 2008

starkebn posted:

you mean the free market failed the timber industry?

The free market is in no way problematic

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:16

Blamestorm: Aug 14, 2004; We LOL at death! Watch us LOL. Love the LOL.

open24hours posted:

Jesus Christ they are fuckwits. For those not familiar with Canberra, the Department of Immigration is currently located in Belconnen and, along with the ABS, is one of the major employers in the area. Belconnen is a thriving area with shops, schools, services and public transport. Immigration employees presumably also live in the area.

Canberra airport is in the middle of nowhere, has virtually no services, no public transport, limited childcare options and the roads are barely adequate for the traffic as is.

I'm almost tempted to believe it's deliberate attempt to damage an important part of the city for the benefit of the Canberra Airport Group.

Also Belconnen is probably the most difficult commuting area of Canberra to get to the airport business park from, yet will be where most employees currently live, own houses, have kids in school etc.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:18

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

all those scam "timber plantations" planted in the deserts of WA etc didn't work out despite all the money invested by grandmas and grandpas?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:19

NoNotTheMindProbe: Aug 9, 2010; pony porn was here

Those scams have been going since the 80's. You'd think the trees would be grown by now.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:35

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Well who has time to verify that a pine tree plantation hidden deep in the Gibson Desert actually exists?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 08:53

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.afr.com/business/accounting/cpas-alex-malley-allowed-to-resign-from-macquarie-university-20170326-gv6nju

Counter-riposte:

quote:

The Australian Financial Review has been tirelessly battering Alex Malley, the head of CPA Australia, for two years. How exquisite is the irony.

CPA, a professional body for accountants, lays down million-dollar surpluses year after year, �The Fin� lays down donut. Yet, as story after story ripped into Malley and his management of CPA, rival professional body CAANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand) has been mollycoddled with the customary string of Fin Review puff-pieces.

The newspaper really hit it straps this morning with a breathless page one �expose� on how, ten years ago, Malley gave tutorials to students without even telling his former employee Macquarie University he was doing it. He and a host of others even sold textbooks to students, like every other academic in the known world.

In the journalism trade, this is what they call a �beat-up�. It is the epitome of the beat-up.

http://www.afr.com/business/accounting/cpas-alex-malley-allowed-to-resign-from-macquarie-university-20170326-gv6nju

That defamation lawyer Mark O�Brien is bearing down on the Fin over its Malley coverage is one thing, that the newspaper�s credibility is shot and that this is a newspaper in �run-off� is another.

CPA appears to be the only peak body with an �Events� budget and an �A� in its name which attracts hard-hitting coverage from the Fin. You name it � BCA, MCA, APPEA, ABA � if it is an industry PR outfit which espouses lower taxes for rich people and lower wages for poor people, the Fin will be there bashing out its press releases, touting its campaigns from page one.

After a volley of ad hominem hit-jobs from the Fin�s gossip columnist Joe Aston, Malley finally got fed up a few days ago and fired off an 11-pager to CPA members defending his stewardship and answering the newspaper�s criticism.

The Fin and CPA used to host a Sunday morning TV show on Nine Network. The show, which featured Joe Aston, got axed.

In its place, Nine ran a chat show with Alex Malley interviewing celebs like The Fonz, Gai Waterhouse, Neil Armstrong. To the chagrin of the Fin, that still runs.

Here�s what Malley told his members last week:

�Since Financial Review Sunday was �shelved�, the columnist has written more than 30 articles across print and online, with many being tweeted and retweeted by AFR journalists and the paper itself, disparaging CPA Australia, our chief executive and, by extension, all CPA Australia members.

�In February 2016, CPA Australia�s television program took over the 10am Sunday time-slot that had previously been occupied by Financial Review Sunday.�

Aston rubbished the CPA claims, though failed to land a real punch. The Fin has since put two other reporters on the story.

http://www.afr.com/brand/rear-window/unpicking-alex-malley-cpa-spending-defence-20170318-gv18x4

The next story began with the line �the screws tightened on Alex Malley�; another majestic irony from the Fin as Mark O�Brien has also filed a defamation suit against the newspaper for an Aston story about flamboyant investor Michael Kodari.

Further, Malley�s email reveals he has a recorded conversation with Fairfax editorial boss Sean Aylmer in which Aylmer actually apologises to Malley for Joe Aston�s stories.

In Aston�s defence, Alex Malley is fair fodder for a business gossip column. Malley�s grinning visage adorns giant billboards around the country. His head is on the sides of buses. His book, The Naked CEO, is promoted from pillar to post.

Malley, many would say, was cruising for a bruising. For an accountant, for the head of an accounting advocacy organisation, the branding would seem overkill � but for its sheer success.

The CPA�s personality strategy, selling Alex Malley, has delivered spectacular results. Memberships up 30,000 to 160,000 in seven years, record surpluses, a presence in 19 countries. The Malley branding has worked.

There are reasonable criticisms to be made about the CPA�s lavish marketing budget, directors� pay, and transparency; but these are the very sort of criticisms which might be levelled at a thousand other institutions � including the Fin which markets the personal brand of gossip columnist Joe Aston.

While CPA strapped on another 30,000 members over the past nine years, circulation of the weekday Fin dropped by 40,000 to 47,000. As it was late to the digital party, online audience is negligible.

Besides CPA�s 160,000 members, Malley has 454,318 LinkedIn followers and 126,000 on Twitter. As his personal distribution already eclipses the Fin, Alex Malley hardly needs to clog up with courts with defamation proceedings. But it is obvious the Fin has it in for him.

Unfortunately the good work of the real journalists at the Fin, as is the case with The Australian, is tarnished by the agendas, ideological prejudices and toadying of its managers to vested interests.

Just as The Oz has torn down acres of plantation forest obsessing about free speech clause 18c � bellicosely defending peoples� rights to insult people � The Fin has squandered its resources on harebrained campaigns like the pursuit of Alex Malley.

Both the national dailies have been bleeding red ink for years pandering to a tiny market of big business people.

The Malley coverage is redolent of the newspaper�s campaign against the ANU. The depths were plumbed in 2014 when the Fin pumped out literally dozens of stories lambasting the Australian National University (ANU) for divesting its shares in Santos.

After this festival of indignation, shares in Santos dived from more than $12 to less than $3. A jumbo capital raising ensued. In dumping its Santos shares, the ANU probably did the deal of the year. That was never reported.

The orgy of insults which followed the divestment was not matched with even a skerrick of investigation when a suspicious looking takeover bid offer for Santos conveniently materialised after its share price rout.

Such is mainstream business journalism these days. It is getting worse. As Paddy Manning, freelance journalist and former SMH business chief of staff, wrote about the Fin in 2013:

�Herograms for business leaders, unreadable roundtables and conference-linked spreads featuring plenty of happy snaps of business leaders with a glass of champagne or mineral water in hand�

�Nobody reads it. Educated readers � hate it. Ultimately, even advertisers shun it. It�s a business model for business journalism that had been tried at both The AFR and The Australian. It doesn�t work.�

Manning was sacked for that, sacked for telling the truth, sacked for exercising free speech, sacked by Aston�s boss.

https://theconversation.com/paddy-manning-the-fairfax-watchdog-eats-one-of-its-own-13327

So parlous are the finances of the Financial Review that Fairfax management hides them. They are not stripped out in the newspaper�s results, instead they are buried in Metro Media division along with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

While Malley�s CPA notched up its enormous surplus last year, the poor old Fin and other metro papers suffered a 55 per cent fall in earnings before interest and tax to $13.8 million.

Where their journalism has failed, they are now counting on �Events� to lift revenue. Indeed �Events� sales were up 33 per cent last year. The actual dollar figures, if disclosed, are hard to find.

It is true that the kowtowing to big business is de riguer for the financial press, dilapidated as it is and desperate to keep advertising coming in the door.

It is also true that the Fin and The Oz � in spite of all their resources � also miss a lot of the biggest stories in business, beaten by the likes of The Guardian (which doesn�t even have a business reporter) on Adani, the ABC on Macquarie, the metro dailies on big bank investigations and by yours truly on multinational tax and the debacles in electricity and gas � just beaten into irrelevance weekly; its good reporters interred on the inside pages while it campaigns off the front page for the corporate PR fraternity.

The big business bootlicking might ever so slightly defensible if it were even-handed. Yet The Fin has disclosed that it had a commercial arrangement with CPA�s arch rival CAANZ (also with Westpac which would not take kindly to Malley�s efforts to undermine the big bank�s financial planning empires).

Indeed this reporter copped some heat over CAANZ coverage � a solid story on the merger pulled from SMH online for two days while CAANZ was busy advertising � far fairer and coverage than the Malley stories.

http://www.michaelwest.com.au/witch-hunt-the-fins-campaign-to-destroy-cpa-boss-alex-malley/

# ? Mar 27, 2017 09:37

BBJoey: Oct 31, 2012

open24hours posted:

Jesus Christ they are fuckwits. For those not familiar with Canberra, the Department of Immigration is currently located in Belconnen and, along with the ABS, is one of the major employers in the area. Belconnen is a thriving area with shops, schools, services and public transport. Immigration employees presumably also live in the area.

Canberra airport is in the middle of nowhere, has virtually no services, no public transport, limited childcare options and the roads are barely adequate for the traffic as is.

I'm almost tempted to believe it's deliberate attempt to damage an important part of the city for the benefit of the Canberra Airport Group.

honestly i don't recognise agencies that aren't in civic as even existing

"can't wait to start work at pm&c, and visit the single cafe within walking distance every single day"

# ? Mar 27, 2017 09:58

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

BBJoey posted:

honestly i don't recognise agencies that aren't in civic as even existing

"can't wait to start work at pm&c, and visit the single cafe within walking distance every single day"

Paleo pear and banana bread.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 10:28

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.

ewe2 posted:

Counter-riposte:

http://www.michaelwest.com.au/witch-hunt-the-fins-campaign-to-destroy-cpa-boss-alex-malley/

Counter-counter-riposte

That counter seems to have misread what The Fin actually said about what occurred

"Malley gave tutorials to students without even telling his former employee Macquarie University he was doing it. He and a host of others even sold textbooks to students, like every other academic in the known world."

That isn't what occurred. Malley told students to take, off school, tutorials with a private educator for pay and in response he gave them higher grades. This off site tutorial was run by his wife.

It's also a little light on the why, ending with that they're trying to bring down the CPA because of the CAANz but doesn't do anything to address why Malley. Plus it reads like it managed to slip past twelve copy editors.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 10:41

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Every professor I've ever had who prescribed their own textbook have pointed out how little money they make from it.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 11:10

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Lid posted:

Counter-counter-riposte

That counter seems to have misread what The Fin actually said about what occurred

"Malley gave tutorials to students without even telling his former employee Macquarie University he was doing it. He and a host of others even sold textbooks to students, like every other academic in the known world."

That isn't what occurred. Malley told students to take, off school, tutorials with a private educator for pay and in response he gave them higher grades. This off site tutorial was run by his wife.

It's also a little light on the why, ending with that they're trying to bring down the CPA because of the CAANz but doesn't do anything to address why Malley. Plus it reads like it managed to slip past twelve copy editors.

That's unusual, Michael West is generally not terrible for a business columnist

# ? Mar 27, 2017 11:32

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

Blamestorm posted:

Also Belconnen is probably the most difficult commuting area of Canberra to get to the airport business park from, yet will be where most employees currently live, own houses, have kids in school etc.

Just go North of Mt Ainslie. The move itself is stupidity but your objection is hyperbole.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 11:34

Kafka Syrup: Apr 29, 2009

Honestly if they move anywhere it should be Woden since it's basically a bloody ghost town

# ? Mar 27, 2017 11:59

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Kafka Syrup posted:

Honestly if they move anywhere it should be Woden since it's basically a bloody ghost town

It has a David Jones :colbert:

:colbert:

# ? Mar 27, 2017 12:20

nyerf: Feb 12, 2010; An elephant never forgets...TO KILL!

Did that omnibus childcare/welfare reform 'savings' bill pass in the end? Last I heard Hinch proposed amendments and it went back to the lower house. If it passes there does it have to go through the senate again or will that be it?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 12:32

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.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 12:54

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

I don't get loss edits any more.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 12:56

Brown Paper Bag: Nov 3, 2012

Apparently PHON back flipped on penalty rates. Lol

# ? Mar 27, 2017 13:18

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Tokamak posted:

Every professor I've ever had who prescribed their own textbook have pointed out how little money they make from it.

One of my lecturers didn't think it was right making students have to buy expensive textbooks so he wrote his own and the cost was literally just what it cost to get the uni print shop to print and bind them in bulk. Something like $5 each.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 13:46

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Brown Paper Bag posted:

Apparently PHON back flipped on penalty rates. Lol

Shocker

# ? Mar 27, 2017 13:49

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Senor Tron posted:

One of my lecturers didn't think it was right making students have to buy expensive textbooks so he wrote his own and the cost was literally just what it cost to get the uni print shop to print and bind them in bulk. Something like $5 each.

My uni stopped lecturers from doing this.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:11

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

Senor Tron posted:

One of my lecturers didn't think it was right making students have to buy expensive textbooks so he wrote his own and the cost was literally just what it cost to get the uni print shop to print and bind them in bulk. Something like $5 each.

One of my subjects made 10% of the final grade an assignment based on a $200 textbook that was listed as an optional book in the syllabus, and didn't tell anyone until it was too late to buy it anywhere but from Unibooks, or for $120 as an eBook, as it was one of those books that won't let the library keep a digital copy, or even digital excerpts. Was a brand new subject though, and I'm pretty sure the lecturer didn't know it had been listed that way, because it was a disconnect between Griffith and OUA, and I said I didn't have the book and couldn't get it, did the thing using other sources, got good marks anyway.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 14:24

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# ? May 11, 2024 15:22

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.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Justice Minister Michael Keenan have moved to quell a backbench revolt over a China-Australia extradition treaty.

Fairfax Media has been told that several MPs have even discussed crossing the floor, if necessary, to sink the extradition treaty, which has been roundly criticised by the Law Council of Australia, human rights group Amnesty and by members of the Senate crossbench.

Writing On The Wall

# ? Mar 27, 2017 17:12

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