Starshark posted:

Murder the government.

Not just for this, but for their coal fetish as well.

Bogan King posted:

And for being a vector for this poo poo too

JBP posted:

I don't know man, I'm laughing at this one you've selected.

Bogan King posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/877854029325287425

racing identity posted:

Why not seize the wealth of the CEOs and redistribute it to the homeless their flesh to the hungry?

DancingShade posted:

FTFY

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Because of prions.

Bogan King posted:

Terror level in Sydney has gone up due to credible chatter so they're building barricades around the city. I love this country to death.

Bogan King posted:

Terror level in Sydney has gone up due to credible chatter so they're building barricades around the city. I love this country to death.

Don Dongington posted:

But what about the negative effect this will have on Sydney's thriving night life,

Oh wait

You Am I posted:

They seem to be the worst of the state based Labor governments. Continuing the coal path as if they were the LNP, giving zero fucks about the reef. Have they overturned any of the previous LNP governments cuts like to women's health services?

Tokamak posted:

I can't tell the difference between Labor and LNP in NSW. They are a couple of faceless centrists who only care about businesses and property developers, with a dash of lip service to roads and public transport.

quote:

http://thefairgo.com/whos-your-grand-daddy/
We can’t be the only ones who remember that brief, disturbing time in which Australia declared the newly-minted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to be “daddy”.

We were curious how UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and US Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders would stack up in the daddy stakes. Corbyn got a huge slice of the youth vote and Sanders didn’t make it through the primary but still commands the hearts, minds and Twitter feeds of voters craving a political quality which has been thin on the ground.

It’s The Fair Go’s considered opinion that this quality is Daddiness. Or maybe more like grand-daddiness. Hear us out.

At first glance, you’d have to say that these old white leaders (OWLs) are unlikely heroes for a woke generation. But the young, white and wealthy just can’t get enough of them.

Grand-Daddy Corbyn and Sanders are scruffier and less sex than a daddy. But they’re still likely to offer you cash. Shuffling, slipper-wearing, above the workaday fray, they slobber fondly on your cheek and push a C-note into your hand whenever you pop by to see them. Free money. What’s not to love.

The other charm of the OWLs is that they tell you fairytales about a better time – a time when everyone banded together to build a better world. It’s all sharey-carey communes, protests and Woodstock. Although…actually women were treated very poorly in these communes, so don’t talk to grandma about pop’s fairytales. She was expected to cook, clean and perform the traditional roles, as well as hooking up with the great unwashed in the name of sexual freedom.

The sharing thing didn’t work so well either. Everyone who’s ever lived in a share house knows that there are those housemates who pull their weight – and those that don’t. Over time, everyone’s standard sinks to the level of the housemate who contributes least. Because why TF should you do a better bathroom clean than the guy before? And why TF would you keep stocking the fridge with decent edibles when your bludger flatmate eats it all before you get home from work at night.

Still, what the OWLs wanted was a better world. They say they want people to all be awesome to each other. And that’s kind of a nice sentiment. Definitely worth endorsing.

We’re all about people being awesome to each other. We believe in a world in which people can live any way that works for them AS WELL AS contributing to society and building a better future. Because we know that, when people get to decide what’s important to them and exactly HOW important it is to them, we all end up better off.

But it’s not just us. If you put envy aside, the stats speak for themselves. Where the OWLs have been in control, everyone is worse off – poorer, unhealthier and with less personal choice. Turns out grand-daddy mostly filches the C-note out of your pocket on the way out the door so he can bestow it on you again next time.

Where individuals – you, me, family, strangers, all colours and creeds – have been free to work together in any way that suits them, the poor have become richer and we all live longer, healthier lives.

That’s the future we stand for. A future in which individuality and social good can co-exist. In which we all become better off, however we each define it. And instead of passing that c-note back and forth with grand-daddy OWL, we enjoy his stories for what they are: fairytales.

open24hours posted:

I can see why Getup would be worried.

Bogan King posted:

Remember these guys. Turns out they are doing it rough with brand loving new cardboard.

quote:

Early this morning, before the workers moved in, a City of Sydney representative walked through handing out a letter to the homeless describing the camp as a "public nuisance".

"The accumulation of items in Martin Place, including a barbecue, gas bottles, tents, food and other items has been determined to be a public nuisance as it materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of other users of Martin Place," said the letter, written by David Riordan, director of city operations.

open24hours posted:

Weird, hey?

norp posted:

Isn't qld the one that still has abortion listed as a crime?

thatbastardken posted:

that is one of the many things state alp have failed to do, yes.

to be uncharacteristically charitable, they did try.

Recoome posted:

The most half-hearted attempt imaginable, actually. The legislation has been referred to the law reform commission, but there's splits within the ALP regarding whether it should be decriminalised.

quote:

http://thefairgo.com

racing identity posted:

Is this some Liberal party astroturf bullshit?