Auspol April - Gay is good why fire me for calling a kid gay?

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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.

Senor Tron posted:

Wouldn't make it a long weekend, that will just result in less people voting. Also seems hard to organize without fixed elections.

The logistics of it are by far and away the least stupid part.

This pug is where our country is going

# ? Apr 21, 2017 04:28

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# ? May 23, 2024 13:00

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

Giving people the day off work will do a lot more for bottleshops and butchers than civics

# ? Apr 21, 2017 04:41

Nibbles!: Jun 26, 2008; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

make australia great again as well please

Why do we need a holiday when our media provides such robust political discourse year round?

# ? Apr 21, 2017 04:58

Kafka Syrup: Apr 29, 2009

Senor Tron posted:

Wouldn't make it a long weekend, that will just result in less people voting. Also seems hard to organize without fixed elections.

Most States at least have fixed elections now, so it's not unfeasible. Best day, IMHO would be the Wednesday before the election. Gives people a couple of days to talk to coworkers before the Saturday election.

Of course, what'll end up happening is just everyone takes the day off to get pissed or watch TV and not actually do anything. I mean, what proportion of people go to Dawn Service on ANZAC Day or go to a rally on Labour Day?

# ? Apr 21, 2017 04:59

NoNotTheMindProbe: Aug 9, 2010; pony porn was here

Senor Tron posted:

Wouldn't make it a long weekend, that will just result in less people voting. Also seems hard to organize without fixed elections.

Public holidays don't become official until get gazetted each year by the state parliaments. The date can be moved as needed.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 05:28

BBJoey: Oct 31, 2012

ah yes, just what i want to do on a day off, have a political discussion with some dickhead one nation voter. sounds lovely

# ? Apr 21, 2017 05:40

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

Compulsory Deliberation day attendance.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 05:46

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

The afl/nrl will immediately whack a game on that day rendering the whole thing moot

# ? Apr 21, 2017 05:57

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.

hiddenmovement posted:

The afl/nrl will immediately whack a game on that day rendering the whole thing moot

We could make the game be made up of politicians

# ? Apr 21, 2017 06:01

Schneider Inside Her: Aug 6, 2009; Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman

How about instead of a public holiday we just burn the whole thing to the ground

# ? Apr 21, 2017 06:02

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Alan Jones unleashes on Turnbull and his �team of bed-wetters�

As if he didn�t have enough problems, life has just got worse for Malcolm Turnbull.

Powerful broadcaster Alan Jones today threatened to reveal private conversations which he says �won�t help the Liberal Party and won�t help Malcolm Turnbull.�

Jones, Sydney�s highest-rating radio announcer, today dropped a non-nuclear bomb near the Turnbull bunker � but threatened worse to come.

Tony Abbott, Jones said, had been �knifed by Pyne and Turnbull and their team of bed-wetters.�

And of those who had leaked material against Abbott, he declared: �You�re picking one hell of a fight.�

Jones was outraged by a story published yesterday in The Australian Financial Review, based on leaked Liberal Party research, suggesting that at last year�s election Tony Abbott was in danger of losing his Sydney seat of Warringah � in a landslide.

What saved Abbott, according to the research, was that Turnbull had to personally intervene, channelling some of his popularity to save the embattled Abbott.

Jones also featured in the story � it said that the Liberal Party was so worried Abbott would lose that they wondered whether two of 2GB�s big guns � Alan Jones and Ray Hadley � could assist.

�It would be good if Ray Hadley and Alan Jones could deliver a strong message about Warringah being under threat and perhaps do a job on Xenophon and Mathison,� the research reportedly said, a reference to Nick Xenophon, who was running a candidate in the seat, and James Mathison, an independent who appeared to be gaining popularity.

Today, it was Alan Jones� turn to have his say.

Every so often, when Jones is angry, he takes a long run-up.

Today�s was reminiscent of the long run-up that Dennis Lillee used to take at the MCG if someone had had the audacity to hit him for six.

Lillee would walk slowly back to the fence. The MCG crowd knew exactly what was coming � the fastest bouncer that the world�s fastest bowler could deliver.

Today, Jones walked back to the fence � through his breakfast radio program he teased his audience that he would have �something to say� about the latest leaked Liberal Party research.

Jones began by declaring that he had been friends with Abbott for a long time.

Abbott, he said, was �decent, truthful, honourable, loyal, with a high level of scholarship, a splendid thinker and with a political capacity to present things simply and forcefully and unapologetically.�

�You know where he stands,� Jones said.

�A magnificent campaigner who would not only would have his seat at the last election, he would have won the election.

�But he was knifed as leader of the government, he was knifed as Prime Minister, by people who lack almost every one of those qualities.�

Jones said no-one from the Liberal Party approached him to �do a job� on anyone, adding: �And they wouldn�t be game.�

Jones said that while Abbott had taken 25 seats from Labor over two elections, Turnbull had lost 14.

�Just for truth�s sake, Abbott won 62 per cent of the two-party preferred, about the vote he always gets,� Jones said.

�I�ve tried to steer the middle ground here but if this nonsense goes on, I�ll tell you a few stories that will make it quite clear who had the dream run at the last election from Alan Jones and it wasn�t Tony Abbott it was Malcolm Turnbull,� he said.

�I won�t go into the detail but if this rubbish continues I will and it won�t help the Liberal Party and it won�t help Malcolm Turnbull.

�This relentless attack by the bed-wetters on Tony Abbott is getting no-one anywhere.

�The polls demonstrate a thrashing coming up for the government at the next election and they don�t understand why.�

Jones attacked Turnbull for not putting Abbott into the ministry: �Turnbull pig-heatedly, or hopelessly jealous of Abbott and his political success, refuses to reward talent.

�Or is he frightened of Abbott?�

Jones branded the Financial Review story as �ridiculous and untruthful.�

It had been leaked, he said, in order to damage Abbott.

Jones declared that the government was �a policy-free zone.�

�And where it has policies it can�t prosecute them.�

It was �soft� on the Labor Party because its instincts �most probably are more labour than Liberal.�

It was not prepared to respond to the anger in the electorate about militant Islamic behaviour.

It was not prepared to respond to groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir, some of whose Sydney supporters recently recorded a video saying that men were permitted to hit their wives �gently.�

Jones told his listeners that in the last election campaign he did receive various phone calls.

They were from people who wanted to talk to him about Abbott � �Tony this and Tony that and you have to talk to Tony.�

Jones did not reveal who had made all these phone calls about Abbott.

But he made clear that at some point he may make such revelations.

Of all his problems, Malcolm Turnbull now has a new one � an angry broadcaster threatening to reveal private conversations.

At the end of today�s on-air comments, Jones said he had put a few cards on the table � �but not quite all of them.�

�There�s plenty more that could be said � I�ll save that for when it�s necessary,� Jones told his listeners.

This war is set to get worse.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...fe5c47435e02762

# ? Apr 21, 2017 06:09

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...fe5c47435e02762

Tony Abbott, Jones said, had been �knifed by Pyne and Turnbull and their team of bed-wetters.�

nice self-own

# ? Apr 21, 2017 06:54

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.

New Pope

# ? Apr 21, 2017 06:56

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

Hello I am FDoTM and my employers told me if I wanted to keep my job as a cartoonist I need to start learning to draw and write less. Please be patient with me.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:05

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.

Bogan King posted:

New Pope

What the gently caress is this

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:10

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Hello I am FDoTM and my employers told me if I wanted to keep my job as a cartoonist I need to start learning to draw and write less. Please be patient with me.

pretty sure that parrot is a copy/paste job.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:12

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

Bogan King posted:

New Pope

best fdotm I've ever seen

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:12

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Bogan King posted:

New Pope

I actually liked this and I hate first dog.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:16

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

What are swans known for? Their short stubby necks.

Also geese honk, swans whoop, do your loving research.

WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Apr 21, 2017

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:15

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

What are swans known for? Their short stubby necks.

That's not a swan.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:19

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

I retract my criticism.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:20

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.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

I retract my criticism.

Goose

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:21

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

Bogan King posted:

Goose

HONK

# ? Apr 21, 2017 07:25

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.

For something a little more homegrown. I took this pic of a car in Glebe earlier today.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 08:02

cohsae: Jun 19, 2015

Pretty sure I've known multiple people who've managed to keep Vic licences and car rego for years at a time while living in NSW.
Like, is the person who gets that email at the RTA going to give a poo poo?

# ? Apr 21, 2017 08:14

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

cohsae posted:

Pretty sure I've known multiple people who've managed to keep Vic licences and car rego for years at a time while living in NSW.
Like, is the person who gets that email at the RTA going to give a poo poo?

Probably not. There's nothing proving it's been there for 3+ months apart from some dickhead's word.

You may as well report literally every car you walk past with out of state plates and say they've been there for 6+ months.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 08:20

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

Something I didn't know: Larry Pickering is going to die.

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au...135639b8cf008ea

:twisted:

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:11

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.

https://twitter.com/michaelkoziol/status/855261611560361984
I assume this is like disco fever.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:12

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

Starshark posted:

Something I didn't know: Larry Pickering is going to die.

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au...135639b8cf008ea

My god. This is the best adblocker I've ever used! Default blocking of news.com!

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:14

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.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

My god. This is the best adblocker I've ever used! Default blocking of news.com!

I hit that too :respek:

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:15

racing identity: Apr 5, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

Starshark posted:

Something I didn't know: Larry Pickering is going to die.

We're all going to die

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:16

Box of Bunnies: Apr 3, 2012; by Pragmatica

Starshark posted:

Something I didn't know: Larry Pickering is going to die.

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au...135639b8cf008ea

2017 continuing to be good

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:37

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

Bogan King posted:

I'm not bolding any of that but how good is a public holiday for the voting long weekend.

Don't need a public holiday. Only retired boomers would show up.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 09:51

woofbro: Nov 25, 2013

Bogan King posted:

For something a little more homegrown. I took this pic of a car in Glebe earlier today.

"Have a great Easter"

loving yuppies!

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:09

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

Box of Bunnies posted:

2017 continuing to be good

counterpoint

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:17

Box of Bunnies: Apr 3, 2012; by Pragmatica

gay picnic defence posted:

counterpoint

Oops, yeah, my lust for gobshite cartoonist death made me forget the good people we lost so far

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:21

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

gay picnic defence posted:

counterpoint

That dogs dead too fyi

Edit: the dog?

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:23

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.

Bogan King posted:

For something a little more homegrown. I took this pic of a car in Glebe earlier today.

Imagine living in a world where people weren't passive aggressive dickheads.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:33

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Graic Gabtar posted:

Don't need a public holiday. Only retired boomers would show up.

Don't need a public holiday for it because all the younger shift workers will probably still be working anyway, also likely without penalty rates if the LNP stomping on the face of the workers.

Just keep the current arrangement where you can vote well ahead of time for any number of good reasons. It's not a problem that needs a new solution.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 10:38

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Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-21/cba-raises-home-loan-rates-again/8461746

quote:

Australia's biggest lender, the Commonwealth Bank, has raised home loans again, for the second time in less than a month.

The new rates affect a variety of fixed-rate mortgages � both for owner occupier and investors � with some of the rises of 0.5 percentage points, double the standard move from the Reserve Bank.

# ? Apr 21, 2017 12:53

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