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JBP posted:Weed culture these days is literally an inflating plastic bag full of clear gas and a machine that looks like it's straight out of an operating theatre. Touche
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:26 |
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RDN posted:Of the hundreds of people I treated when I was an addiction medicine specialist, one really stands out in my memory. She was a young mother with two energetic children, who used to turn my office into a jungle gym. By the time we met, her heroin addiction had already robbed her of so much. About the only things she had left were her kids and the government support that helped her to take care of them while she received treatment at our clinic.
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:35 |
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The best modern weed culture demo was the heavily computerised atomiser thing YOSPOS built that would not only deliver the smoothest of highs, but also post your bong rips including particulate data to its twitter account.
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:35 |
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What's the big problem some people have with RDN?
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:43 |
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starkebn posted:What's the big problem some people have with RDN? They say he's a tory.
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:51 |
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Outsider take so I'm likely to get ripped to shreds for this: There's a battle thats been raging for a mlong time in the Greens - the Greens started as a rural envrionmentalist party, but as time goes on to now it would be accurate to say it is by and large a middle class liberal party. That designation is something a number of people have issues with. The Greens "should" be not middle class, its working class, it should be against the capitalist, it should be against capitalism, aparty of protest not of government. The Greens took everyone in as a broad church and the most mainstream of Leftist parties, but now they're the mainstream and being mainstream mean they aren't as close to their origins. RDN is an example of this - middle class progressive nature, fighting for the long victory not true believer status. By being that he's a part of the Greens right wing, as viewed because well the left of the Greens gets pretty far left. It's a battle for the Greens soul, and to pretend that the Greens aren't a metropolitan middle class party and that they are and forever rural socialists.
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:51 |
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starkebn posted:What's the big problem some people have with RDN?
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# ? May 11, 2017 07:52 |
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And it doesn't help that RDN is a cis white male following leaderships of both a woman and a gay man.
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:03 |
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Idea for the next months OPcode:
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:07 |
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RDN also just comes out with "Greens" policy brainfarts (i.e sugar tax) when they're really just his own policy.
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:30 |
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JBP posted:They don't. Poor areas vote Labor. Nice gently caress you to the idiot Poors post though. I suppose its fair enough to assume that's what I meant given the prevalence of poo poo (hurr) opinions on this topic but i meant that more in the vein of it being sadly ironic that there's probably someone who is going to suffer from this spiteful policy that voted against their self interest without necessarily realising it, thanks largely to the pervasiveness of murdoch and right wing talking points.
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:37 |
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I'd like to tell you all a story about the University of Sydney lifestyle https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862565526974771201 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862565782743465984 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862568485607456768 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862568597847023616 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862570100078936066 https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/862570276466315264
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:38 |
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Four Muslim women allegedly punched outside university in Sydney https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/11/four-muslim-women-allegedly-punched-outside-university-in-sydney
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# ? May 11, 2017 08:52 |
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LABOR tonight is rejecting the centre of the Government’s housing affordability plan as a “fizzer” which wouldn’t pay for a removalist letalone a first home deposit. It will give new entrants into the real estate market less than $600 extra for their first purchase, the Opposition calculates. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will use his formal Budget reply tonight to accuse Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of “perpetuating a fraud on young people”. The Labor leader will also reject a Budget proposal to end the two per cent deficit levy on annual incomes over $180,000. Labor is expected to vote with the Greens to keep the levy going. Mr Shorten also will join the Greens charge that the Budget would hurt the young. “Gen Y are Malcolm Turnbull’s public enemy number one. He’s increasing their uni fees, cutting their penalty rates and doing nothing to tackle housing affordability,” Mr Shorten is expected to say. “Malcolm should end his war on young people and do something serious on housing affordability — like cracking down on the generous tax concessions for wealthy investors.” He will target the Budget’s proposal for first home buyers to save for a first home deposit by contributing to an account similar to a superannuation account. The tax concessions on those housing accounts would cost the Government $50 million in the first year and $250 million over four years, according to Budget documents. Labor calculates that with an average of 89,000 first-home purchases across Australia each year, the assistance per sale is just $565. “The Prime Minister’s great big plan for housing affordability is a massive fizzer for young people,” Mr Shorten is expected to say. “This policy is a flop and a con. It’s there in black and white in Mr Turnbull’s budget. “The money they get would barely cover a removalist truck, let alone a deposit on a house. “The Liberals are perpetuating a fraud on young people. They know this will do nothing to help them — that’s why they’re spending hardly any money on it.” In his speech Mr Shorten will endorse the Government’s proposal to tax the five wealthiest banks an extra $6 billion over four years. But he will challenge the Government’s proposed tax relief for big corporations, which Mr Morrison today said would cost $15 billion a year in foregone revenue when fully implemented. Mr Morrison wants the deficit levy on incomes above $180,000 a year to end on July 1 and, Labor calculates, give Mr Turnbull a $6750 benefit. Labor and the Greens will oppose it.
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# ? May 11, 2017 09:33 |
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I am ready for some zingers
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# ? May 11, 2017 09:51 |
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quote:Graduates on low incomes are set to be slugged with an extra $1000 a year in tax as the Turnbull government's changes to the repayment of university fees and an increase in the Medicare levy combine to hit those earning well below the average wage. cool
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:15 |
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Human Services has been forcing people with Down Syndrome to keep getting medical reviews to prove they still have Down Syndrome to keep their disability support pension.
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https://twitter.com/SenatorLudlam/status/862577132492398592
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gay picnic defence posted:Human Services has been forcing people with Down Syndrome to keep getting medical reviews to prove they still have Down Syndrome to keep their disability support pension. They're that optimistic that a cure is any day now.
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:22 |
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In the exchange, recorded for the Australian Parliament House website, Mr Hill tells the committee new rules to produce medical proof of disability within 21 days were “causing stress and anxiety”. “It is quite a scary process for some people ... (to) justify why they are receiving the disability pension ... particularly people with a mental intellectual impairment or an acquired brain injury,” Mr Hill said. “And the repeated concerns we have from submitters and public experience that people with Down syndrome that get sent a letter every two years to see whether it has been cured. “I mean does the department agree that Down syndrome’s not going to be cured?” The respondent to the question was Jill Charker. Ms Charker replied: “Look I’m not a medical practitioner I’m sorry, deputy chair, I couldn’t, I couldn’t provide you with any informed view.” “I think from our point of view what’s important to note is, ah, where we know that a person and we have information on their record is manifestly eligible, um then we, we keep track of that information over time and we don’t go back to them for medical reviews. “That’s what’s really important.” Mr Hill: “So the manifest category, there’s a box that you tick, go manifest, not doing a medical review, income assets, fine?” Ms Charker: “Effectively, yeah.” Ms Hill: “So someone with Down syndrome, to follow that example, because we had a submission, you can’t provide a comment whether that can be cured or not?” Ms Charker: “I wouldn’t be arrogant enough to do so deputy chair insofar as not being a medical practitioner of any sort.” Mr Hill (frustrated, addresses the others present): “Has anyone from either department heard of Down syndrome being cured?” One of them, not Ms Charker, responds, “Sorry no, deputy chair”.
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:25 |
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Bill Shorten about to spit hot fire in Parliament.
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:27 |
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gay picnic defence posted:Human Services has been forcing people with Down Syndrome to keep getting medical reviews to prove they still have Down Syndrome to keep their disability support pension. These slackers are just standing outside the dole office with their hooligan mates taking turns with the extra chromosome to fort the system
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:37 |
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This would be a good speech if it was given by Paul Keating or something.
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:39 |
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It's kind of amazing that Bill Shorten is boring as gently caress but his speech writers are dynamite and loving hilarious at tearing the Coalition to shreds
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# ? May 11, 2017 10:44 |
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* sycophantic laughter *
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:* sycophantic laughter *
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNmP2aZCn_Y
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# ? May 11, 2017 11:22 |
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There had better some zinger clips on twitter later dammit
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The ABC posted:The government department that runs Centrelink has backed a decision to deny disability payments to a man who lost his leg in a shark attack, saying he should complete rehabilitation and get a prosthesis fitted before being considered. Was going to bold choice bits but gently caress that read it all.
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I just nearly got thrown out of the Senate. Building that AcTiViSt cred. (I got cautioned for politely applauding - loving hardcore, yo)Anidav posted:It's kind of amazing that Bill Shorten is boring as gently caress but his speech writers are dynamite and loving hilarious at tearing the Coalition to shreds He wasn't actively poo poo in person. It was actually a pretty energetic room. But you're right. His speechies are wasted on him. Should have got Penny to do the budget reply.
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G-Spot Run posted:These slackers are just standing outside the dole office with their hooligan mates taking turns with the extra chromosome to fort the system The average Australian, Howard's Battlers, if you will, are struggling to get by with 23 chromosomes, Mistah Speakah And then we have these leaners, leaners! With an extra chromosome no less! Rorting the system!
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# ? May 11, 2017 12:15 |
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Lid posted:Outsider take so I'm likely to get ripped to shreds for this: If the Greens really wanted to be/were a middle-class centrist small L liberal party half the thread would be either sallies or labor voters.
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Aesculus posted:If the Greens really wanted to be/were a middle-class centrist small L liberal party half the thread would be either sallies or labor voters. Yeah. If anything it's kinda gone the other way as more and more disgruntled lefties move to the Greens. In my experience, the older "original" Greens are vaguely centre-left but largely just care about environmentalism and a few NIMBY issues, and the newer generations are various shades from cosmopolitanist to democratic socialist. The shift to Parliamentary professionalism isn't linked to an ideological shift per se, but a shift in the backgrounds of the Parliamentarians, staff and OB from being environmental activists to largely socio-economic activists. But this is annnnnecdotal.
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Kafka Syrup posted:Yeah. If anything it's kinda gone the other way as more and more disgruntled lefties move to the Greens. In my experience, the older "original" Greens are vaguely centre-left but largely just care about environmentalism and a few NIMBY issues, and the newer generations are various shades from cosmopolitanist to democratic socialist. The shift to Parliamentary professionalism isn't linked to an ideological shift per se, but a shift in the backgrounds of the Parliamentarians, staff and OB from being environmental activists to largely socio-economic activists. But this is annnnnecdotal. That isn't true of the NSW branch whose origins lie not in environmentalism but in the old Communist Party. Its why they stick out like a sore thumb.
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Lid posted:That isn't true of the NSW branch whose origins lie not in environmentalism but in the old Communist Party. Its why they stick out like a sore thumb. Everything I say about the Party has a big ol' NSW exceptionalism caveat. Moving from QLD to the ACT really made the differences NSW has into light. Now that I have to regularly meet their OBs and be the brunt of their emails. I read a couple of really good papers on the history of the Greens - I can't remember if it was Narelle Marigliotta or Stewart Jackson who wrote it. But they highlighted the origins of each Branch had insane amounts of influence until recently. Not just NSW's communist roots. QLD and Tasmania were both hardcore on-the-ground environmentalists, while WA sprung from the nuclear disarmament movement and Victoria and SA from community legal and health advocates. Queensland also had the conversion of the left of the Australian Democrats which changed the culture a lot about a decade ago. Kafka Syrup fucked around with this message at 12:36 on May 11, 2017 |
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I can't help but wonder if this is all a temper tantrum over refusing to fund the Adani mine with a bank loan. No? Well gently caress you then, levy time.
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DancingShade posted:I can't help but wonder if this is all a temper tantrum over refusing to fund the Adani mine with a bank loan. Don't forget Anna Bligh getting the ABA job over a Lib staffer. They were salty af about that too.
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# ? May 11, 2017 12:48 |
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Bill Shorten posted:Australia needs to think big or else it will end small Civilisation 7 coming up good.
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Bogan King posted:Don't forget Anna Bligh getting the ABA job over a Lib staffer. They were salty af about that too. And the banks were giving less donations to the Lib campaign funds, because they decided not to throw money after a losing prospect
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