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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

ambitionz az a [jetski] ridah

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Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
Is eating at a restaurant and dodging the bill a preferred crime of our countrymen?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEsZkTTgydc

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.
Know Your Judo Well, the new break out album from 2pec.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

quote:

Another of his targets, Defence Industries Minister Christopher Pyne, said he had been "the butt of satire" for nearly a quarter of a century and was "happy to be so".

"I think the role of a political satirist is very important in our democracy and it is also a safety valve."

Mr Pyne said it was his time as education minister than drew Clarke to "critique my performance, which I thought was very funny".

"If you take anything personally from cartoonists or satirists or even your opponents you wouldn't last very long in this business. I've never taken anything personally. My wife, I think, thinks I miss the social signals and I think that's probably been quite a good thing after a quarter of a century."

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/10/abbot-point-coal-port-spill-causes-massive-contamination-of-queensland-wetland

Give the guardian your clicks, read the article.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

After getting away with a dying bleached white great barrier reef who cares about some dumb birds in a pond?

*goes back to smoking cigars bought with laundered LNP backer money in a private club*

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

MonoAus posted:

Is the concept of wind farm really that new and scary to concern people so much??

We should just make them move next to a coal power station.

Anti wind farm groups go around to regions where they are being proposed and spread a bunch of bullshit about the health effects of the turbines. People then get sick because they expect to (it's called a nocebo effect). In WA and Europe where anti windfarm groups are nowhere near as prevalent they don't seem to suffer the same 'wind farm syndrome' as the people where these groups are active.

There's been a bunch of reviews into the health effects of windfarms (the LNP didn't like the answers given in a couple of them and told them to do it again and find that windfarms are bad), people are incapable of differentiating windfarm noise from infrasound generated by traffic or whatever and people who believe in 'windfarm syndrome' were made to feel sick in a dead silent room because they were told windfarm infrasound was being played at them.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Don't forget the wind farm commissioner.

NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

gay picnic defence posted:

In WA and Europe where anti windfarm groups are nowhere near as prevalent they don't seem to suffer the same 'wind farm syndrome' as the people where these groups are active.

Its tough to cry about the health effects of windfarms when albany exists.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
Oof.

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/851348740510105600

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

This is an outrage.

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.
That's really loving harsh *looks up union membership details*

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
And yet Uhlmann has a job

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

JBP posted:

That's really loving harsh *looks up union membership details*

The ABC released a since-deleted statement that she was a casual

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

adamantium|wang posted:

The ABC released a since-deleted statement that she was a casual

Adults in charge.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/851385068803153920

:allears:

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS
at what point can he be admitted into care?

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

gay picnic defence posted:

at what point can he be admitted into care?

I think most people are far past caring about Mark Latham

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The Mark Latham of 15 years ago would probably have wanted those titles for himself.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/851376694292119552

One of these things is not like the other...

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
I remember when Latham wrote for crikey and he would rwrite really good columns getting stuck into people like Gerard Henderson and Janet Albrechtsen.

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
What we need is a sad violin to play over all media Latham appears in.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

quote:

“It was now approaching 1am and it was time for Malcolm to go. There’d be no milling among the plebs. There’d be no basking in personal adulation. Malcolm had come to the luxury hotel, delivered his speech, shaken a few people’s hands and now he returned to his luxury home.
The house lights came on and just like at a nightclub, people were shocked to see the room without the glossy, gloomy filter. The room was more than half-empty. Some were wearing Malcolm Turnbull apparel and sported red faces—those who had spent the day in the sun, campaigning on booths. Others were drunk, looking at their phones asking each other, “So what’s the plan now?”

“At the Liberal event, young men skolled the final remnants of beer and wine that was left in half-full glasses and planned to meet at different locations around the Sydney CBD. Some were heading to The Ivy—the natural kick-on location for this set. Others would head to the casino. Some invited groups back to private rooms in the hotel.
One group had a small bag of coke stored in the back of their room’s TV. It was then racked up using, appropriately, a Medicare card to split the white powder and then hoovered down by young women, clutching at their nostrils.
I packed up my gear and made my way down the escalators of the hotel. Descending ahead of me was a group of the young Liberal faithful, dressed as mini-Malcolm Turnbulls, sporting Herringbone suits, Hermès ties and matching pocket squares. They started a chant:
“gently caress LABOR!”
“gently caress LABOR!”
“gently caress LABOR!”

“Arm-in-arm they continued all the way to the bottom floor of the hotel, spilling out onto the street and into waiting taxis.”

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
http://fuckrealestate.com/index.html

AgentF
May 11, 2009
Should I stand as a Greens candidate for the SA state election next year? What can I expect it to be like?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
Yes and probably hell.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

So journalists are complaining that ABC PR is throwing them bullshit lines about the Exelby "sacking".

https://twitter.com/RichardTuffin/status/851399626401824768

In emails the ABC is trying to say it didn't happen but even if it did there's no confirmation.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

AgentF posted:

Should I stand as a Greens candidate for the SA state election next year? What can I expect it to be like?

Ask thatbastardken, I think he ran in the Queensland election.

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

ewe2 posted:

So journalists are complaining that ABC PR is throwing them bullshit lines about the Exelby "sacking".

https://twitter.com/RichardTuffin/status/851399626401824768

In emails the ABC is trying to say it didn't happen but even if it did there's no confirmation.

Isn't it the job of the producer to tell the on air talent when to get ready? I mean, literally their job?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Gorilla Salad posted:

Isn't it the job of the producer to tell the on air talent when to get ready? I mean, literally their job?

Yup.

Punishing a subordinate because of a manager loving up seems to be the way this country is going.

Only the ruling class gets the fair go at the trough after all.

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?
Kikki.K staff face automatic penalty rate cut when Fair Work ruling comes into force

quote:

Staff at one of Australia’s largest stationery companies, Kikki.K, will have their public holiday and Sunday penalty rates cut without any opportunity to renegotiate when the Fair Work Commission’s new ruling comes into force under a newly formed workplace deal with their employer.

Store managers at the gift and stationery chain appear to be the first employees covered by an enterprise agreement who will directly face cuts as a result of the commission’s ruling on penalty rates.

Because clearly we need to lower wages to make housing affordable*.

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*Actually I think I heard that argument today on tonight's PM, so what do I know.

Comstar fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Apr 10, 2017

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Comstar posted:

Kikki.K staff face automatic penalty rate cut when Fair Work ruling comes into force


Because clearly we need to lower wages to make housing affordable*.

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*Actually I think I heard that argument today on tonight's PM, so what do I know.

*More affordable for the ruling class yes

Just think of all the extra cash they'll have in their pocket for another investment property when they can slash outgoing wages.

norp
Jan 20, 2004

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil
If you keep slashing wages eventually rents go down

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




norp posted:

If you keep slashing wages eventually rents go down

Rooms in the workhouse owned by your employer will be easily affordable on a 112 hour work week, relief is only just around the corner

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012


from the linked news.com article

quote:

The decision to bench the freelance newsreader and producer comes from the same broadcaster widely criticised for the more serious charge of failing to vet the audience of its panel program, Q&A and allowing one-time terror suspect Zaky Mallah to join the live TV debate.

a seamless segue

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Yes, it's a long bow but I reckon Exelby's removal could add to the federal destabilization

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Yes, it's a long bow but I reckon Exelby's removal could add to the federal destabilization

Well it is a pretty blatantly poo poo move that nobody would isn't a poo poo themselves would agree with.

I dunno though - reckon there's still anyone with a conscience in the current government?

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

norp posted:

If you keep slashing wages eventually rents go down

Yeah but come on, this is why we have negative gearing.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

AgentF posted:

Should I stand as a Greens candidate for the SA state election next year? What can I expect it to be like?

Yes you should! You will be joining the ranks of Auspol Greens candidates, I ran in the federal election and will be running in the qld state one as well! I'm hardly the only one to give it a go, we even have an elected councillor!

My experience was very positive, of exhausting. I wasn't threatening anyone's seat so the big parties didn't destroy my life, and I only got escorted off one property by a furious voter.

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starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
Johno is a goon? Or a councillor in a different area?

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