Don Dongington posted:

gently caress yeah. It's been ages since old white dudes last tried to filter the internet.

Don Dongington posted:

gently caress yeah. It's been ages since old white dudes last tried to filter the internet.

Edit: dis my dogger

The ABC posted:

A 12-year-old boy attempting to drive a car from New South Wales across Australia to Perth has been arrested by police at Broken Hill.

The boy was pulled over on the Barrier Highway after police noticed his car's bumper was dragging along the road in New South Wales' far west on Saturday.

He had apparently already driven already driven more than 1,000 kilometres, beginning on the east coast.

"Checks revealed the driver to be a 12-year-old boy travelling from Kendall, NSW, on his way to Perth," police said in a statement.

Police said the boy was taken to Broken Hill Police Station, and that inquiries were continuing.

DancingShade posted:

Sure but nothing I'm going to say because of the geographic and metadata identifying nature of my potential comments.

DancingShade posted:

I have a special loathing for the bottom tier of the legislative system. Without fail anywhere in the country they've been the most useless pathetic infighting worthless self interested parasites.
(I'm talking council level if anyone doesn't click immediately)

ewe2 posted:

It's true but only half the time. People like QM for example get into council because their ambition is to connect with and serve the community in some capacity even if it isn't the wonderful levels of state and federal government, and we shouldn't dump on councils given how they actually do the things often promised and never delivered by higher tiers. Yes, there are useless infighting people, some councils are not so lucky. Maybe do something about your local guys?

Ora Tzo posted:

You didn't have to mention some in the vicinity of your place of residency.
May I suggest you put forward an example that is not in close proximity to you.

Like this...
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work...d3f63d8724be924

Solemn Sloth posted:

The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. In Victorian cases where councils call in planning applications for a decision rather than leaving the decision delegated to the planning officers, the vast majority are to refuse a permit due to community opposition. Councils approving a development when officers recommended it be refused are vanishingly rare.

Solemn Sloth posted:

The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb.

Bogan King posted:

Solemn Sloth posted:

The idea that councils are run by developers is frankly dumb. In Victorian cases where councils call in planning applications for a decision rather than leaving the decision delegated to the planning officers, the vast majority are to refuse a permit due to community opposition. Councils approving a development when officers recommended it be refused are vanishingly rare.

Kafka Syrup posted:

Alternatively be good like the ACT and just merge State and Local Governments (or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers).

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It might not be true for all councils but it was sure as poo poo true for Newcastle for a while.

NTRabbit posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f06H_0eGy2c

Clarke & Dawe for one last time

Ettin posted:

SOMEONE SAW A TITTY ONLINE

Cleretic posted:

Watch the half-hour special Thanks For Your Time that's on the Youtube channel too. God drat, we lost the best comedian Australia ever had.

Starshark posted:

Shaun Micallef's dead?

quote:

Australia doesn't usually need much encouragement to partner with the US in whatever righteous military conflict it deems just. We've done so in every major conflict since WWI.

Obviously some have been more justified than others.
But the idiosyncratic nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un has just provided the most comprehensive justification possible for a US-led pre-emptive assault: a clearly stated threat of nuclear strike on Australia.

quote:

Some in Australia will counter that the North Korean bully-boy is merely bluffing. Others will question the DPRK's technical know-how, and therefore its ability to carry out its threat of a nuclear strike.

And some may even be persuaded by Pyongyang's petulant ultimatum: that Australia should separate from the US because that alliance has made us more vulnerable.

There are sound arguments for a more independent foreign policy than the approach Australia has pursued to date. But they are for another day. Confronted by a genocidal aggressor-state threatening thermo-nuclear annihilation, this would be a bizarre time to seek distance. Australia has skin in this game.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

What if we got nuked by north Korea and nobody cared

Kafka Syrup posted:

(or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers).

BBJoey posted:

since when is north korea 'genocidal', or do words stop having meaning when used to stir up jingoism

Ettin posted:

SOMEONE SAW A TITTY ONLINE

BBJoey posted:

follow george takei much

Whitlam posted:

In fairness, you could absolutely consider their whole prison camp "take three generations of your family" system genocidal. There are scholarly definitions of genocide that don't limit it specifically to ethnic groups and refer instead to classes or groups of people, in which case yeah, it absolutely is genocidal.

I mean yeah the idea that North Korea is in any way a serious threat to Australia is laughable, but it isn't a huge stretch to accuse it of being genocidal.

BBJoey posted:

my personal feeling is that 'family members of perceived traitors' is not well-defined enough as a group to really meaningfully use the term genocide; i can't really explain why i feel that way though.

Kafka Syrup posted:

Alternatively be good like the ACT and just merge State and Local Governments (or be like Brisbane and actually pay your Councillors a decent salary to stop them getting kickbacks from developers).