Lid posted:

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has resuscitated its threat to refuse to support the Turnbull government’s budget measures unless the ABC’s funding is cut.

Brian Burston, One Nation’s party whip, said it had received “unfair treatment” from the ABC and the party would reject “all bills associated with the budget” unless the broadcaster’s $1bn a year funding was cut by $600m over four years, according to the Australian.

lol

hooman posted:

I hope this is called out for what it is, the action of dictators. We don't like what you wrote, so you aren't allowed to write any more.

kirbysuperstar posted:

Centrelink, two weeks ago: We fixed that issue, also we noticed you always get paid the same amount, we can set it so that it automatically reports for you.
Me: Oh, okay sure.

Centrelink, today: Your Newstart is cancelled because you didn't report.

Ohhhh my gooooooood

hyperbowl posted:

The letters page of the Hearld Sun 10 years ago today:

iajanus posted:

First mistake: trusting anything Centrelink ever says.

Lid posted:

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has resuscitated its threat to refuse to support the Turnbull government’s budget measures unless the ABC’s funding is cut.

Brian Burston, One Nation’s party whip, said it had received “unfair treatment” from the ABC and the party would reject “all bills associated with the budget” unless the broadcaster’s $1bn a year funding was cut by $600m over four years, according to the Australian.

lol

Solemn Sloth posted:

https://twitter.com/maynereport/status/869017563275042816

quote:

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...4b0be3ed192148d
Nick Evans of the West Oz asks in the wake of the Comey sacking and allegations of Russian interference in the US and French elections, is there a threat to the Australian elections next year?

Colvin: I think we would be ignorant and naive if we didn’t think that this is a real threat. As I said I’ll be travelling to the US shortly where that is on my agenda to talk to them about. Maybe it’s a question for the next time I come about.

Bogan King posted:

Attempting to claim the title of Australia's Greatest Satirist in a hotly contested field I present the following:

https://twitter.com/NickMcKim/status/869449985464467456

Frogfingers posted:

Are people before committee compelled not to respond with "I refuse to dignify that question with an answer" or something of the like, because like a sizeable amount of federal senators are clearly crackpots.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What does the thread think about covfefe?

Anidav posted:

Solemn Sloth posted:

https://twitter.com/maynereport/status/869017563275042816

quote:

Slashing ABC funding will not be the most crucial component of ensuring One Nation’s support for the government’s budget, Senator Pauline Hanson confirms.

Senator Hanson explained that, despite the ABC’s bloated budget and regular displays of bias, it would be not be in the nation’s best interests to block government supply in exchange for sweeping cuts to the national broadcaster.

“The people want One Nation to deal with all legislation on is merits, and the government’s budget will be no different,” Senator Hanson said.

However, Senator Hanson explained that if the government wanted to show it was serious about media reform and deficit reduction it would rein in the out-of-control ABC and SBS. Senator Hanson pushed back on allegations that One Nation’s position on ABC cuts was a result of the national broadcaster’s recent attacks on her party.

“People know my party has always been concerned about the ABC’s budget. Senator Burston has been fighting for cuts to the ABC from the moment he raised the issue in his maiden speech.”

Senator Hanson also raised concerns with the budget’s lack of action on the rorting of Medicare, multinational tax evasion, and failure to address shortfalls in the collection of mining royalties.

Lid posted:

Backflip faster than Healthy Harold

JBP posted:

Why is the article using wording like "out-of-control" without attributing it to Hanson in quotations? It reads like that is the journalists opinion.

Lid posted:

This is a media release from One Nation

Lid posted:

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has resuscitated its threat to refuse to support the Turnbull government’s budget measures unless the ABC’s funding is cut.

Brian Burston, One Nation’s party whip, said it had received “unfair treatment” from the ABC and the party would reject “all bills associated with the budget” unless the broadcaster’s $1bn a year funding was cut by $600m over four years, according to the Australian.

lol

quote:

Far from modifying her denouncement of gay marriage, tennis champion Margaret Court has broadened it, saying that it was causing huge problems in countries where it was legalised, that homosexuality was an ungodly "lust for the flesh" and that LGBT tendencies in young people were "all the devil".

"That's what Hitler did. That's what communism did," Court said, "get in the minds of the children. There's a whole plot in our nation and in the nations of the world to get in the minds of the children."

Fanatic posted:

Margaret Court is on a roll.

AgentF posted:

If you don't want the media to report on how corrupt you are, you should really just stop being corrupt.

Box of Bunnies posted:

Yet it's the leftist homo mafia reacting to her that has finally convinced the feckless moderates that maybe we can't have a "polite, reasoned debate" about treating people as equals.