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Stevefin posted:And yet they will win cause Annastacia Palaszczuk is even more insane Qld politics is generally insane from the outside. She could be so much worse, believe me. And speaking of worse, here's a nice little smackdown reply to Andrew Bragg's recent Guardian bleat on theaimn. So much power and yet, no mind control.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Oh no Red Symons has suffered a head injury and become a horrible person. Nobody alert Daisy, or we'll be up for another 7 pages of pornographic conservative fanfic.
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He made a couple of jokes that would have suited the age in which he was popular and could have been taken as poking fun at people that still claim all Asians are the same. He then apologised for it in a fairly decent manner. Pretty funny he has a head injury and collapsed though guys.
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ewe2 posted:And speaking of worse, here's a nice little smackdown reply to Andrew Bragg's recent Guardian bleat on theaimn. That site gives off a real "I'm with Julia Twibbon" vibe
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Whitlam posted:Iirc, the states can also agree to give the Commonwealth their state powers temporarily, but in practice, powers forfeited are never (or very, very rarely) returned, which is another reason states are so reluctant to give up power. Interesting, I saw two articles in the herald today about power going back and forth between states and federal. Wonder if its a coincidence or a Baader-Meinhof thing. quote:I think even if we could somehow abolish the states and territories tomorrow, you'd still wind up with a similar system to what we have now, in terms of one official overseer (Federal Minister), and delegates (State Ministers) working under them. Yeah there would still be a similar volume of work to do, but it wouldn't be so inherently adversarial, or duplicative, which would hopefully result in net gains. quote:There may be more consistency on some matters (see: our hilarious rail system), but I think practically speaking, Australia is just too big and varied to have a sole, singular authority on any single portfolio, and I can absolutely imagine the nightmare that could ensue (for instance, if every single regional or disadvantaged area had to compete against all others in the country for health funding, as opposed to just others in the state). Is it, though? Geographically sure, but 22 million people is not that big. Like someone mentioned before, there is a difference between City and Rural, and perhaps regional, but most of the population lives in cities which aren't really very varied. And any variance could be handled at a local level. quote:Also, consistency isn't necessarily a good thing (see: our nationally consistent stance on same sex marriage). Yeah, this is the egg basket argument. Like someone else said too, the whole idea is really as good as the Federal government is. Les Affaires posted:It's the same argument as having a monarch vs a republic, fyi. Without wholesale material oppression (via taxes, police state, corruption etc) it's just changing a bunch of stationery and brands for literally no gain. Not really, an 8 fold duplication of government bureaucracy that shifts blame and responsibility and necessitates frustrating funding arguments is a bit different to a largely ceremonial head of state situation. That opening sentence is... not correct. At least Gay got a boost out of it all though.
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quote:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/fed...717-gxcpgl.html quote:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/17/malcolm-turnbull-to-give-defence-force-greater-powers-to-respond-to-terrorism quote:https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ons-willy-nilly Must be an election coming up.
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Jul 17, 2017 06:35
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Australian woman gets the full American experience of calling 911, is shot dead by responding cops.
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Jul 17, 2017 06:44
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Lol they're going to put a literal potato in charge of a department responsible for the AFP, ASIO and border farce what could possibly go wrong
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Jul 17, 2017 06:45
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The end result of Neo conservatism is exporting guns to the middle east apparently
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Jul 17, 2017 06:51
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Synthbuttrange posted:Australian woman gets the full American experience of calling 911, is shot dead by responding cops. It's ok, I'm sure the body cameras will explain what happened Oh wait they were all turned off never mind
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Jul 17, 2017 06:51
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Why would we export arms? We don't even make guns for our own military.
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iajanus posted:It's ok, I'm sure the body cameras will explain what happened If the actions are illegal the cameras have a way of shutting down
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Jul 17, 2017 07:09
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iajanus posted:It's ok, I'm sure the body cameras will explain what happened I'm sure our government will ask the American government to provide a satisfactory explanation for what occurred in the death of our citizens they were playing host to, including a real explanation as to why these crucial devices were off.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:12
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So instead of making Fords and Holdens we can make guns for some proxy war. The Turnbull Government : Saving our manufacturing jobs
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norp posted:Why would we export arms? We don't even make guns for our own military. Pretty sure we do.
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open24hours posted:Must be an election coming up. Trumball needs Potato's support in the party room or there'll be a spill.
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MikeJF posted:I'm sure our government will ask the American government to provide a satisfactory explanation for what occurred in the death of our citizens they were playing host to, including a real explanation as to why these crucial devices were off. She was white and good-looking so what happens next is anyone's guess.
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norp posted:Why would we export arms? We don't even make guns for our own military. They make the Steyer under licence in NSW.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:20
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Yeah the Lithgow armoury still exists.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:26
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Hobo Erotica posted:Is it, though? Geographically sure, but 22 million people is not that big. Like someone mentioned before, there is a difference between City and Rural, and perhaps regional, but most of the population lives in cities which aren't really very varied. And any variance could be handled at a local level. Globally and relatively, a population of 22 million is not that big. Practically it's still huge, and the differences in needs, training, equipment, and everything else you can think of will vary huge between regions. Even just the terms "metro" and "rural" are huge oversimplifications. Individual states have a hard enough time bringing rural areas to parity as it is, with a population way less than 22 million. Now imagine a singular Federal Minister, not only trying to keep on top of all the needs of the 22 million people and the different regions they live in (even capital and major cities have different needs), but also trying to give a poo poo about rural areas, which are traditionally underdeveloped and underperforming on a number of metrics compared to metro areas, and have a fraction of the number of voters. Some would argue that "handling variance at a local level" is a major part of the role that states play now (e.g. deciding how to allocate funding).
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Why exactly is Pyne considered moderate? He doesn't want to murder the gays.
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Why exactly is Pyne considered moderate? Propaganda and normalisation.
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Why exactly is Pyne considered moderate? It's how he regards himself and how the rest of the Liberal Party regards him. He is in favour of same sex marriage, was against stripping citizenship from extremists, believes in climate change, is a republican, etc. His views are pretty similar to Turnbull's overall (ie centre-right) which makes them more moderate than most of the Liberal party. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Whitlam posted:Globally and relatively, a population of 22 million is not that big. Practically it's still huge, and the differences in needs, training, equipment, and everything else you can think of will vary huge between regions. Even just the terms "metro" and "rural" are huge oversimplifications. Regionalism is a thing, so administration should work hand in hand, but often it wants to be at arms-length for various reasons. Take a microcosm of the problem, North Queensland. Take just one aspect, infrastructure. Roughly every decade there have been weather events that trash roads, towns, farms, silt rivers, destroy tourist attractions, etc. Millions of dollars involved, and in the certain knowledge that it will reoccur. This is a region that makes serious money in mining, tourism, and agriculture but the general attitude from "down south" is take what you can from it and skimp on everything else because you'll be spending on the same things again and again. There is understandable resentment from the people who have to live and work there. They are not being governed for, they're being governed at, and that's one reason why a particular style of politics has evolved up there. But the problem with the Joyce style of forced-decentralisation is that it's for its own sake, there's no regional logic to it. If he succeeds, he'll only engender a new form of regionalism because then Canberra will seek to devolve those functions it doesn't deem "federal" enough, and we'll go back to the situation before federalism with competing wasteful regional departments.
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I'm in Israel (yeah, yeah, I know) and random Australian woman without any instigation on my part starts talking about how Israel is better because it's a democracy compared to "Arab tribes" and that the west bank was at peace when Israel had full control  Not even nationalist IDF veteran museum staff were like this, why do Australians need to broadcast their bad opinions all over the world instead of confining them to dead gay comedy forums
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:I'm in Israel (yeah, yeah, I know) and random Australian woman without any instigation on my part starts talking about how Israel is better because it's a democracy compared to "Arab tribes" and that the west bank was at peace when Israel had full control It's alright apparently you can just rock up and shoot us now,
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Don Dongington posted:It's alright apparently you can just rock up and shoot us now, Good. EDIT: 
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:I'm in Israel (yeah, yeah, I know) and random Australian woman without any instigation on my part starts talking about how Israel is better because it's a democracy compared to "Arab tribes" and that the west bank was at peace when Israel had full control Look forward to more laffs and carry on during the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
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I'm pretty sure Pyne and Albo are best friends forever
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It's not straight up Hentai so I doubt it will get past Steam's Greenlight system
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hiddenmovement posted:It's not straight up Hentai so I doubt it will get past Steam's Greenlight system It's freeware.
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Zenithe posted:It's freeware. I think you mean "early access"
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Whitlam posted:Globally and relatively, a population of 22 million is not that big. Practically it's still huge, and the differences in needs, training, equipment, and everything else you can think of will vary huge between regions. Even just the terms "metro" and "rural" are huge oversimplifications. Unless you're arguing that the funding the federal level distributes to the state level is perfectly equitable at the moment, wouldn't it make more sense to only have to make that allocation once? Score all schools nationally by suitable funding need, and just go from the one purse, rather than muddle it and go via the arbitrary states.
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Brandis needs a special attack that involves throwing expensive hardwood bookshelves at things. Tony has friendly fire activated no matter what.
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DancingShade posted:Tony has friendly fire activated no matter what. Tony's one of those gimmick bosses where he just shoots up the walls until the roof falls in and crushes him.
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DancingShade posted:Brandis needs a special attack that involves throwing expensive hardwood bookshelves at things. He probably does, the game is really quite up with politics. Tony's special attack is "nod silently" and confuses journalists, and Joe Hockey blows cigars in peoples faces. e. also tony is the player character
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Zenithe posted:He probably does, the game is really quite up with politics. Tony's special attack is "nod silently" and confuses journalists, and Joe Hockey blows cigars in peoples faces. When you die and respawn, your next life arrives in game via a helicopter piloted by Bishop.
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