Bogan King posted:

ZombyDog posted:

I was thinking the same thing, I mean I get what they're going for by suspending the structure over the water, but eh? It's also not the kind of waterfront I'd want to be waking up overlooking, having blown half a million dollars in a members only Casino the night before.

Bogan King posted:

You're in charge of naming stupid buildings now.

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Tokamak posted:

She is over three times his age.

Bogan King posted:

PaTH internships could be used to avoid paying penalty rates, department admits [Guardian]

snoremac posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheCalebBond/status/882937444387102720

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Cream in carbonara, jesus loving christ.

Bogan King posted:

Turns out there is a way to have me on Van Badham's side.

Zenithe posted:

Cream in carbonara is fine.

You Am I posted:

get hosed

quote:

A new union has been launched for Indigenous people who are part of a controversial work-for-the-dole scheme amid claims the Government has created a "pool of free labour" that is denied basic workplace rights.
Jobless people in remote Australia must work 25 hours a week to receive welfare payments under the Community Development Programme (CDP), which is up to three times longer than city-based unemployed people need to work.
More than 30,000 people are covered by the CDP, most of whom are Aboriginal.
Australia's peak union body has established the First Nations Workers' Alliance to represent CDP participants.
"We do believe that it's racially discriminatory," said Kara Keys from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
"It is hard to mount the argument [that CDP is not racist] when … above 80 per cent of workers in this scheme are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander."
The alliance was launched about a month ago to campaign against the scheme and the ACTU said it had attracted more than 100 members.
It is free for Indigenous CDP participants to sign up, while workers who are members of other unions can pay to support the alliance.

Zenithe posted:

Cream in carbonara is fine.

quote:

Turnbull government at threat as Labor plans High Court challenge

Labor is planning a High Court challenge against a Coalition MP's right to stay in Federal Parliament, in a move that would put the Turnbull government's slim majority in peril.

The ALP's national executive is meeting on Friday to make a final decision on launching the High Court action under section 44(v) of the constitution, Fairfax Media can reveal.

It's understood the challenge would be against Assistant Health Minister David Gillespie, who may have an indirect financial interest in the Commonwealth - grounds for disqualification from office.

As revealed by Fairfax Media in February, the Nationals MP owns a small suburban shopping complex in Port Macquarie and one of the shops is an outlet of Australia Post - a government-owned corporation.

If Dr Gillespie was disqualified - under circumstances similar to those that brought down former Family First senator Bob Day - it would spark a byelection in his seat of Lyne, potentially bringing down the government.

While the Nationals would be well-placed to retain the seat, it would be an enormous political headache for the Coalition.

The seat was previously held by independent Rob Oakeshott, who could run again. Dr Gillespie won the seat only after Mr Oakeshott announced his retirement in 2013.

Dr Gillespie and his wife, through their company Goldenboot, lease the shop space in question to a local woman who is an Australia Post licensee - meaning he has no direct financial link to the postal service.

Nonetheless, prominent constitutional law expert George Williams believes Dr Gillespie has a case to answer based on the broad definition of "indirect pecuniary interest" the High Court applied in the Bob Day test case.

In the court's April decision, Mr Day was ruled ineligible to be elected because he had an indirect financial interest over a taxpayer-funded electorate office leased to the Department of Finance.

Section 44(v) of the constitution says any person who "has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than 25 persons shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives".

The section is an anti-corruption measure, designed to stop people sitting in Parliament and at the same time making money through contracts with the Commonwealth.

At a Senate estimates hearing in May, Attorney-General George Brandis revealed he had urged Dr Gillespie to seek his own legal advice on the matter. He did, from prominent Sydney barrister Guy Reynolds, SC.

"Mr Reynolds' opinion is that Dr Gillespie does not have a section 44 problem," Senator Brandis said in the hearing.

"I have not written any advice in relation to the matter but I can tell you that I discussed the matter with Dr Gillespie and I formed the preliminary view that his arrangements were nowhere near a section 44 problem because of the indirectness of the interest."

However Dr Gillespie has resisted calls to release Mr Reynolds' advice publicly.

Cartoon posted:

Charity is stupid as gently caress

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/charity/against_1.shtml

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/fed...706-gx6b7q.html

Zenithe posted:

Lot of pasta nazis itt. Why do you hate diversity so much?

e. I just checked my Italian Cooking Encyclopedia and it has a recipe for carbonara using cream too, would you look at that.

Anidav posted:

So the Government is running Indigenous Australian slave labour camps for the dole?


Really makes you think about what the ALP will do to save us from Centrelink...

Zenithe posted:

Lot of pasta nazis itt. Why do you hate diversity so much?

e. I just checked my Italian Cooking Encyclopedia and it has a recipe for carbonara using cream too, would you look at that.

JBP posted:

Nonnas are also boomers.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

My Nona wasn't . Part of 'the greatest' generation. But she didn't make Carbonarras. Just really good goulash for her gnocchi.

JBP posted:

The previous crop of nonas were probably Nazi collaborators.