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Recoome posted:Where's the joke Rowan Dean is Australias Greatest Satirist™. Sorry if he is too high brow for you.
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Ora Tzo posted:So they've definately learnt their lesson from the disaster that was their attempt at the privatisation of tertiary education? What does Labor have to gain by agreeing with the Coalition on this? Why would they agree to it this time when they didn't support the previous versions of it?
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:33 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:What does Labor have to gain by agreeing with the Coalition on this? Why would they agree to it this time when they didn't support the previous versions of it? On the one hand, you're completely correct, but on the other hand, ehhhhhh.
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:38 |
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https://fundrazr.com/51EP39 guys the comments here are hilarious.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:03 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://fundrazr.com/51EP39 You're not wrong. Get in quick to read them before that drug smuggler's sister deletes more comments.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:16 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://fundrazr.com/51EP39 Waiting for them to break out the chestnut of that the headphones were to be secretly taken by a syndicate of baggage handlers, because right now they've said literally nothing on what was meant to happen with the head phones in the mysterious packaging once she got back. "My headphones are missing!" The alternative was she was to take them somwhere else first and yeah.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:18 |
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The new Corby?
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:19 |
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ABC Presenter on RN Drive tonight: "Why are Universities leaners and not lifters?" I really wanted to hit the radio when I heard that.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:20 |
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Ora Tzo posted:The new Corby? Problem is in the last decade feelings have changed, especially as the years went on people realised "oh, she was guilty and here I look like a sucker". Schapelle also had the advantage of her drug was just weed, and it was in Indonesia a skip away. This one is in South America and the drug is not as sympathetically viewed. If you want to be sympathetic in these, do the Michelle Leslie - be a literal model, pay off the judges, claim to convert to their religion and then never talk about it again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Leslie Lid fucked around with this message at 12:26 on May 1, 2017 |
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BREAKING NEWS: University graduates will be forced to pay back their HECS debts when they start earning just $42,000 a year and student fees will rise by 8 per cent under the Turnbull government's higher education changes. The package presents a more measured approach than the Abbott government's disastrous 2014 budget - which proposed the full deregulation of university fees and a 20 per cent funding cut - but still carries political risk for the Coalition and will be difficult to get through the Senate. The lowering of the HECS repayment threshold - down from the current $55,874 - is more dramatic than expected and will see almost 200,000 extra graduates dragged into the repayment system. The threshold was previously legislated to fall to $52,000 in coming years. Universities will also be hit with funding cuts through a 2.5 per cent efficiency dividend designed to save the budget $2.8 billion over the next four years. 55k to 42k? Isn't that creeping Into casual work Territory?
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:45 |
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Anidav posted:BREAKING NEWS: University graduates will be forced to pay back their HECS debts when they start earning just $42,000 a year and student fees will rise by 8 per cent under the Turnbull government's higher education changes. 2000 hours per year at $21 per hour.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:49 |
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Drug charges are all bullshit and I blame the American government. But it always seems to be good-looking women who get the front pages long term. There've been a few people of East-Asian appearances with East-Asian names who got busted in places like Vietnam and you only hear of them once and never again.
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:56 |
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gay picnic defence posted:And how will they know if I accidentally underestimate my income by approximately 100% It's still a sensible move because even if 95% of expats do that it leaves 5% of goody two shoes declaring their income, which is more money than the $0 they were drawing from expats before.
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# ? May 1, 2017 13:04 |
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Les Affaires posted:2000 hours per year at $21 per hour. 38 hours a week?
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# ? May 1, 2017 13:05 |
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Okay so I'm watching qanda and I realised why I've long respected Barnaby Joyce, in general, even though I don't like him. I used to think it was because he sticks up for his beliefs, but actually plenty of conservatives do that. It's because he sticks up for his beliefs and explains them in a face-to-face way that most ordinary, reasonably people can parse. And that is so loving easy to do! Yet nobody else in Australian parliament, that I can think of, does that. Even the Greens are slaves to talking points and focus groups. edit - OK as soon as I typed that he said "people up and down the street were furious about it," re: the Muslim ABC lady's Anzac comment who even I can't remember the name of, let alone the mums and dads up and down the street. Bu anyway, in general, for the most part, more or less, I respect Barnaby Joyce despite very much disliking him.
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# ? May 1, 2017 13:07 |
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Free speech is very important when it comes to critisizing Islam, but also if you say the bad words on Anzac day you should be fired. Great insights from Q&A.
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Les Affaires posted:2000 hours per year at $21 per hour. 40 hours a week for 50 weeks (which, sick days and xmas makes real). RIP Cafe Workers with HECS debts. freebooter posted:Okay so I'm watching qanda and I realised why I've long respected Barnaby Joyce, in general, even though I don't like him. I used to think it was because he sticks up for his beliefs, but actually plenty of conservatives do that. It's because he sticks up for his beliefs and explains them in a face-to-face way that most ordinary, reasonably people can parse. And that is so loving easy to do! Yet nobody else in Australian parliament, that I can think of, does that. Even the Greens are slaves to talking points and focus groups. The strong point about not having particularly well thought out ideas is that you don't need to rearticulate them to fit a 15 second sound bite. I should know, I'm really good at having not particularly well thought out ideas.
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# ? May 1, 2017 13:13 |
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He responded to a question about uni rate with LABAH DEBT, I retract my comments
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freebooter posted:Okay so I'm watching qanda and I realised why I've long respected Barnaby Joyce, in general, even though I don't like him. I used to think it was because he sticks up for his beliefs, but actually plenty of conservatives do that. It's because he sticks up for his beliefs and explains them in a face-to-face way that most ordinary, reasonably people can parse. And that is so loving easy to do! Yet nobody else in Australian parliament, that I can think of, does that. Even the Greens are slaves to talking points and focus groups. I had a similar begruding respect for Kevin Andrews. He was someone who looked evil, was a conservatice Christian through and through, but always believed and had reasoning for his positions. It didn't feel like he was off the cuff or overly focus tested but that he was exactly who he appeared to be, and purity like that is something that (during the short lived second Rudd prime ministership) was in short supply. Next to Abbott he looked positively genuine. Edit: contrast with how deeply I respect Penny Wong but how much it literally hurt to watch her argue on QandA against same sex marriage because it was the party line. That was so painful. Lid fucked around with this message at 13:22 on May 1, 2017 |
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gently caress he just said "baseload power"
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I'm going to reorganise my respect for Joyce based around "occasionally goes off script." I guess that's all it takes in 2017.
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Paying $420 a year on a $20,000 hecs debt means you will have paid it off in around 50 years. Give or take. In the meantime that money which is most likely to go towards spending on food, rent, etc is instead going to offset other crap in the budget that wouldn't be missed by others who can afford it more readily.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://fundrazr.com/51EP39 It's sad how hateful people are.
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# ? May 1, 2017 13:34 |
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http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4661912.htm Confirming what we suspected, turns out commercial news in Australia is literally just browsing Reddit for their stories with no fact checking
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Les Affaires posted:Paying $420 a year on a $20,000 hecs debt means you will have paid it off in around 50 years. Give or take. The indexation rate in 2015 was 2.1%, so indexation on a $20K HELP debt would have been... $420! Beautiful.
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Shunkymonky posted:The indexation rate in 2015 was 2.1%, so indexation on a $20K HELP debt would have been... $420! if only the kids run a bit faster on the treadmill, they'll be able to get off of it! (I'm someone who worked part time so I could pay my fees up front and get a 20% discount, back when HECS fees were something you could conceivably earn part time while living independently. gently caress I feel sorry for kids starting uni now, they're paying much more for a shittier education)
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# ? May 1, 2017 14:19 |
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As a South Australian it loving infuriates me to hear twits on Q&A say "We can see what happened in South Australia" and have absolutely nobody challenge them that neither of the SA blackouts had a single thing to do with renewable energy. They had to do with 1) hurricanes knocking out the transmission lines, and 2) AEMO failing to turn on enough generators. South Australians were sitting in the dark, not even clear of the crisis, when Malcolm Turnbull starting using us as a tool to bludgeon renewables with. Having dickheads continue to use us as a fake example of a made-up problem is maddenning, and having nobody challenge it is even more so. Where were the greenies on that panel? Plibersek was a disappointment.
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quote:The Queensland senator said Mr McNee — who financially supported One Nation — had not “donated” the plane to the party but admitted he had given it to Mr Ashby for his personal “business”. what is this i don't even?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:what is this i don't even? Enemy Combatant Enhanced Interrogation Technique
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Schlesische posted:The strong point about not having particularly well thought out ideas is that you don't need to rearticulate them to fit a 15 second sound bite. I should know, I'm really good at having not particularly well thought out ideas. Contrast Joyce with someone like Hansen who's been a politician for decades and whose every idea is completely boneheaded yet she still struggles to recite basic statements.
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AgentF posted:As a South Australian it loving infuriates me to hear twits on Q&A say "We can see what happened in South Australia" and have absolutely nobody challenge them that neither of the SA blackouts had a single thing to do with renewable energy. They had to do with 1) hurricanes knocking out the transmission lines, and 2) AEMO failing to turn on enough generators.
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AgentF posted:Where were the greenies on that panel? Plibersek was a disappointment. I think it was Ludlam's communications manager who made the point (on Twitter) that no-one from the Greens has been invited onto the show in the last 6 months.
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Cheap Trick posted:I think it was Ludlam's communications manager who made the point (on Twitter) that no-one from the Greens has been invited onto the show in the last 6 months. It's your ABC. *camera pans around to reveal room full of right wing conservatives*
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Anidav posted:
That's probably the point. There's not enough students getting a decent job, let alone full time work of any kind so they just lower the threshold until everyone is paying it back regardless of how little they make. It's getting pretty close to the minimum wage actually.
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You know those obvious "buy property at the height of the bubble" home investment propaganda pieces? ABC is getting in on the act http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-02/brickx-startup-selling-shares-in-sydney-melbourne-properties/8487790 It reads more like an advertorial for a startup.
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gay picnic defence posted:That's probably the point. There's not enough students getting a decent job, let alone full time work of any kind so they just lower the threshold until everyone is paying it back regardless of how little they make. It's getting pretty close to the minimum wage actually. Minimum wage is $34,980. As Birmingham pointed out on 730 it's 20% above minimum wage. The Googles posted:In 2014, the median starting salary for bachelor degree graduates aged less than 25 and in their first full-time employment was $52,500 (essentially unchanged from $52,450 in 2013, and $52,000 in 2012). There should be a tax on companies that employ graduates for less than median wage as they're obviously leaners and not paying graduates enough to pay back HELP debt.
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# ? May 1, 2017 23:09 |
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The ABC posted:A Federal Government trial restricting how Centrelink recipients can spend their money is costing taxpayers up to about $10,000 per participant. How about we just give those poor people $2,500 payments in cash every quarter and let them improve the quality of their lives a bunch. This way we can feel good about helping people and it isn't costing us any extra money over what we're paying now for this crock of poo poo.
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Bogan King posted:How about we just give those poor people $2,500 payments in cash every quarter and let them improve the quality of their lives a bunch. This way we can feel good about helping people and it isn't costing us any extra money over what we're paying now for this crock of poo poo. wash out your dirty mouth
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Bogan King posted:How about we just give those poor people $2,500 payments in cash every quarter and let them improve the quality of their lives a bunch. This way we can feel good about helping people and it isn't costing us any extra money over what we're paying now for this crock of poo poo. In case you didn't realise already the goal is to make miserable not improve their lives.
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