Anidav posted:

So ALP is protectionist now making them pretty remarkably close to the KAP no?

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Aboriginals: not Australian

Anidav posted:

Yeehaw Dick Smith timeline.

Anidav posted:

So ALP is protectionist now making them pretty remarkably close to the KAP no?

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Budget 2017: AFP to get $321m funding boost to hire extra personnel By political reporter Stephanie Borys Updated 20 minutes ago

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will receive an additional $321.4 million in tomorrow's budget to fund an expansion of the force.

Key points:

AFP expected to use funding to hire specialist personnel
Justice Minister Keenan says the AFP needs to be a high-tech organisation
Keenan denies AFP has been under-resourced or is immune to the efficiency dividend
Up to 300 personnel are expected to be hired, including negotiators, tactical response officers, bomb squad technicians and forensic specialists.

Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the funding will ensure the AFP has adequate personnel and resources to deal with the multiple threats facing Australia. "We are living in a very difficult national security environment and we're also living in an environment where organised criminals, particularly those involved in the drug trade, continue to enhance the sophistication of their operations," he told AM. "And we need the AFP to be a high-tech organisation, with the skills sets available to it, to meet these threats." Mr Keenan has also denied suggestions the extra funding indicated the force had not been properly resourced. "This is a very significant investment, the largest single investment in the past decade and it goes over and above what we have already done to ensure the AFP has the resources that it needs to do its job," he said.

The $321.4 million will be rolled out over the next four years with the Federal Government indicating it will not be cutting any funding from other areas to provide the extra money.

Earlier this year, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security recommended national security agencies — such as the AFP — be exempt from the annual funding cuts referred to as efficiency dividends. But Mr Keenan said that will not occur, arguing that "no agency is exempt from the efficiency dividend". "… But the money that is contained within this announcement, on top of all the extra significant resourcing we have given to the federal police, more than makes up for that," he said.

The additional funding will be used to hire:

Specialist response capabilities: Police negotiators, tactical response officers, bomb response technicians and canine resources specialising in drug, cash and explosive detection.
Covert physical and technical capabilities: Physical surveillance teams, covert online investigators, undercover operation members and police technical teams.
Forensics and intelligence capabilities: Digital forensics, crime scene investigators, firearms and armoury specialists, biometric experts, forensic intelligence analysts, and operational intelligence professionals.

Solemn Sloth posted:

They're okay as long as they can visually pass for Anglo, but thanks anyway Andrew

MysticalMachineGun posted:

C'mon, it's not like the ad is showing their names and heritage. They could have had a diverse looking range of people (we're a successful multicultural country after all, eh Mal?) but instead went white, white, white

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Just back to the AFP $321m boost. Simon Benson at the Oz reports that the money will be diverted from the foreign aid budget.

Anidav posted:

Federal election hangs on QLD. The ALP needs a minor swing there to win government. I think a swing of 2 percent causes a gently caress load of blue seat to tumble down. Next election will have a crazy amount of pandering for Queensland.

You Am I posted:

What a Queenslander thinks.txt

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/billshortenmp/status/861394700422397952

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/billshortenmp/status/861394700422397952

freebooter posted:

Lol an "oversight" there's no way it wasn't a conscious, committee-designed decision

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

We used to live in a lake.

freebooter posted:

Lol an "oversight" there's no way it wasn't a conscious, committee-designed decision

MysticalMachineGun posted:

We're lucky it wasn't a group of faceless blonde white men.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

We're lucky it wasn't a group of old white men, ruling the world



old men are the future

freebooter posted:

Lol an "oversight" there's no way it wasn't a conscious, committee-designed decision

MysticalMachineGun posted: