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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://twitter.com/LucyXIV/status/868683433244897282 Hope he asked his parent's permission before using their credit card.
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Does Daisy Cousens have political aspirations beyond "bad columnist/talking head"? Like, I've seen her name mentioned on the periphery of Young Lib bullshit for a few years in a manner that suggests she's important in some small way but I can't figure out if she actually does anything or if she's just a ~personality~
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May 29, 2017 12:37
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May 29, 2017 12:49
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Caleb whatshisface's dream girlfriend.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Does Daisy Cousens have political aspirations beyond "bad columnist/talking head"? Like, I've seen her name mentioned on the periphery of Young Lib bullshit for a few years in a manner that suggests she's important in some small way but I can't figure out if she actually does anything or if she's just a ~personality~ Getting groomed to be the next bronnie.
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May 29, 2017 13:43
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Does Daisy Cousens have political aspirations beyond "bad columnist/talking head"? Like, I've seen her name mentioned on the periphery of Young Lib bullshit for a few years in a manner that suggests she's important in some small way but I can't figure out if she actually does anything or if she's just a ~personality~ Her dad played Menzies at Old Parliament House at the Libs commemorative event the other day, which suggests she's been around that toxic mob since childhood. It would explain the attitude as well as the useless Young Libs talking points. The way politics goes, she probably imagines she could be an MP, it would be fun to see her try.
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NTRabbit posted:They're always on the lookout for a token woman or two to promote to prove they're not just a men's club, reaching the level of a willing handful of candy should help put her in front of the competition. *slowly licks fingertip* "vote for me" Harrumph harrumph yes Daisy is an excellent representative for woman's issues in the modern liberal party.
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There's a few right wing nutters like her that couldn't find success in their home countries so they moved to the United States, mostly from Canada.
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Australian asset manager Altair Asset Management has made the extraordinary decision to liquidate its Australian shares funds and return "hundreds of millions" of dollars back to its clients, citing an impending property market "calamity" and the "overvalued and dangerous time in this cycle". "Giving up management and performance fees and handing back cash from investments managed by us is a seminal decision, however preserving client's assets is what all fund managers should put before their own interests," Philip Parker, who serves as Altair's chairman and chief investment officer, said in a statement on Monday. Low interest rates are fueling a high demand for housing despite tighter lending rules, says St. George Bank Senior Economist Janu Chan. The 30-year veteran of funds management said that he had on May 15 advised all Altair clients that he planned to "sell all the underlying shares in the Altair unit trusts and to then hand back the cash to those same managed fund investors". Mr Parker said he had "disbanded the team for time being", including his investment committee of chief economist Steve Roberts, senior healthcare analyst Sally Warneford and independent strategist Gerard Minack. "I would like to make clear this is not a winding up of Altair, but a decision to hand back client monies out of equities which I deem to be far too risky at this point," Mr Parker's statement said. "We think that there is too much risk in this market at the moment, we think it's crazy," Mr Parker said more candidly. "Valuations are stretched, property is massively overstretched and most of the companies that we follow are at our one-year rolling returns targets – and that's after we've ticked them up over the past year." "Now we are asking 'is there any more juice in these companies valuations?' and the answer is stridently, and with very few exceptions, 'no there isn't'." Mr Parker outlined a roll call of "the more obvious reasons to exit the riskier asset markets of shares and property". They included: the Australian east-coast property market "bubble" and its "impending correction"; worries that issues around China's hot property sector and escalating debt levels will blow up "later this year"; "oversized" geopolitical risks and an "unpredictable" US political environment; and the "overvalued" Aussie equity market. But it was the overheated local property market that was the clearest and most present danger, Mr Parker said. "When you speak to people candidly in the banks, they'll tell you very specifically that they are extraordinarily worried about the over-leverage of the Australian population in general," he said. He flagged how exposed the country's lenders were to a correction. "If they get a property downturn anything similar to 1989 to 1991 then they are going to have all sorts of issues," Mr Parker said. Altair's investment committee included former Morgan Stanley chief economist and noted bear Gerard Minack and former UBS economist Stephen Roberts. The finance industry is not short of dire warnings. One Melbourne fund manager recently warned that interest-only loans had the potential to be "Australia's sub-prime". More notoriously, in early 2016 a Royal Bank of Scotland strategist urged clients to "sell everything" at what fatefully proved to be a low point in the cycle in January 2016. But Mr Parker's decision comes after a robust year of double-digit gains on the ASX. Not only that, but he is acting on his convictions by returning money to clients and abandoning the fees attached to a $2 billion advisory agreement. However Mr Parker, displayed little nervousness about making such a significant decision. "Let me tell you I've never been more certain of anything in my life," Mr Parker said. "I am absolutely certain we are in a bubble in this property market." "Mortgage fraud is endemic, it's systemic, it's just terrible what's going on. When you've got 30-year-olds, who have never seen a property downturn before, borrowing up to 80 per cent to buy three and four apartments, it's a bubble." Using the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index as a proxy, he outlined a situation where the measure could fall as low as 5200 points in the coming months, depending on the confluence of his identified risk factors. "Australia hasn't had its GFC event, we've been living in this fool's paradise. But if China slows down the way the guys think it will towards the end of this year, then that's 70 per cent of our exports [affected]. You can see already that the commodity market is turning down." Mr Parker stridently denied any suggestion that there were other factors at play other than a pure investment decision. No personal issues, no position that has blown up and forced his hand. "No, God no," he said. "We've sold out all of our positions at huge profits for our clients." "This game is all about reputation. I feel that we are right." For now, Mr Parker said he was happy to take some time off. "I've never had more than five weeks off in a row. I'm probably going to have four months in a row, and if something happens in between, I'll think about it. Otherwise I'll enjoy the time off."
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Don't worry everything just fiiiiiiine - Domain
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In an extremely Domain voice: sounds like a great opportunity to buy into the market and profit!
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Jonah Galtberg posted:her horizontal stripes game has a way to go though I wish her politics weren't so reprehensible or she'd be a gay icon
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Jonah Galtberg posted:her horizontal stripes game has a way to go though She's not a good person or a good politician but dang that is a dope jacket.
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New Pauline tape dropped: https://soundcloud.com/abcnews/phone-call-between-one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-and-former-treasurer-ian-nelson
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open24hours posted:I have a lot of sympathy for this criticism of universities, but it seems like reducing funding is going to push them even further in this direction. A fair bit of what is written here is true, but it lacks any real understanding of the situation. As others have already said, the drive to move higher in the rankings is based almost entirely on the desire to recruit more international students, since the Chinese & Indian markets (especially the former) pay a huge amount of attention to the rankings in determining where to go. With the increasing cuts to both university funding and ARC/NHMRC, attracting more international students is essentially the only way to keep funding constant, let alone increase it. As such, all our efforts as an organization are directed to moving up those rankings to get more international student dollars. I have six numerical KPIs, of which two are related to how much money I've brought in, and the other four to things that directly feed into the international rankings. I spend a large portion of my time writing grants, but that's not going to change unless you massively increase university funding in an unrealistic way. Academics all over the world spend a chunk of time applying for grants, there isn't enough money to go around. The point about international journals is partly a bit silly, but there is some truth to it. This goes back to when the ERA did its A*/A/B/C ranking for all journals, and the universities started only caring about A*/A ranked ones. This really did have the side effect of killing Australian journals. Local journals focused on Australian history, economics, indigenous studies etc all got ranked down at C, and people stopped publishing in them. That part of the critique is accurate, but again, that's been forced on us externally; we don't control the ERA process.
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racing identity posted:In an alternate universe the guy is indigenous and wakes up in a jail cell. When I saw that photo I just thought it was a dumb/cute cop photo. But then you say that. And gently caress. You're so right and that's loving horrible.
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Anyone else getting mailouts from Fed ALP members asking to sign a "petition" vs the Budget to mail back? Mine is tailored to my electorate but looks like an excuse to get me on their database. It refers to http://www.lisachester.org/2017_budget but wondering if this is going on elsewhere.
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ewe2 posted:Anyone else getting mailouts from Fed ALP members asking to sign a "petition" vs the Budget to mail back? Mine is tailored to my electorate but looks like an excuse to get me on their database. If it comes with a reply paid envelope, print out an image of scrunt and post it back.
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GoldStandardConure posted:If it comes with a reply paid envelope, print out an image of scrunt and post it back. Sadly its a two-sided reply (which is super dodgy to have one's details readable to anyone) with a tear-off top. The online petition is even more blatantly trawling for personal details. 
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Kafka Syrup posted:She's not a good person or a good politician but dang that is a dope jacket. She could be a gay icon if she was in a progressive party, that's a fierce loving look
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So in the last few days Margaret Court kicked off a storm over gay marriage and otherwise gay relationships, unsurprising as she's been an outspoken homophobe for decades. This has lead to simultaneous accusations of bullying and oppression by people shouting down her views, and others calling for Margaret Court Arena to be renamed given that such a vitriolic person - despite being the most Grand Slam winning tennis player of all time - is not who we'd consider a banner holder for Australian sport. Samantha Stosur believes renaming is out of the questions but the protest can be players refusing to play on the court. https://www.theguardian.com/austral...rriage-comments https://twitter.com/caseydellacqua/status/867855363760107522 Well some others have done some background checking and found this. https://twitter.com/mavisgrizzltits/status/868443074480885766 You can defend, albeit weakly, anti-same sex marriage on fundamentalist Christian grounds. You can not defend calling for apartheid to spread because it's so great. How the gently caress has this been overlooked for so long?
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Lid posted:You can defend, albeit weakly, anti-same sex marriage on fundamentalist Christian grounds. You can not defend calling for apartheid to spread because it's so great. How the gently caress has this been overlooked for so long? Australia is South Africa only with a get tough on blacks policy. Hth. Especially true in the sporting community. See also the friend of the family Brown stadium.
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open24hours posted:I think that was probably a pretty mainstream view at the time. It wasn't  Cartoon posted:You really need to ask? Yeah I know the legal history of friend of the family Brown, but apartheid stands out in Australia because we were the first western nation to condemn it. There was a time when Australia was ahead of the curve, and this was one such time. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-27/bob-hawke-opens-apartheid-exhibition-in-canberra/7364762
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Cartoon posted:You really need to ask? It really is this. It was never a problem till it hit white people. The only way to get any traction on something is to hurt white feels.
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