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I'm curious, where did this living soul thing start? I only drift in and out of this thread every few months or so.
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Solemn Sloth posted:There was, Britain wasn't a foreign power when it was written And yet there's no carve out for the US or W. European countries. Try again.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:51
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In 1901 the USA and Western Europe were rival colonial powers, not allies to England.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:56
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fwiw I've tried Quick and Garran, Tony Blackshield, George Williams, the High Court, this goddamn article from 1982. The Constitution is plenty racist, but s44 doesn't appear to be.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:58
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The idea that the Australian constitution isn't a product of the international atmosphere at the time of its drafting is a strange one to me.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:58
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Bill is pulling out the big guns. Republican electoral platform after this shitshow.
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I simply don't see how the Coalition can win. Bill Shorten basically has to adopt Turnbull's 'progressive pre-Abbott platforms' and combine it with Rudd era policy and Malcolm is too chained up to do anything about it. Like if you were an LNP strategist (Hi Hambeet) you'd be hitting the whiskey pretty hard right now because you'd need a stroke of genius to counter the Bernie-Corbyn emulated populism that Shorten is pulling off. The ALP are still fuckers though.
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JBP posted:Bill is pulling out the big guns. Republican electoral platform after this shitshow. Wait he finally came up with a policy? Pity it wasn't an anti-corruption one. Yeah, yeah I know.
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Anidav posted:I simply don't see how the Coalition can win. Bill Shorten basically has to adopt Turnbull's 'progressive pre-Abbott platforms' and combine it with Rudd era policy and Malcolm is too chained up to do anything about it. One boat. It will take exactly one boat for Turnbull to win an election.
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Smegmatron posted:One boat. I disagree the LNP have been saying they finally stopped the boats for years now and it hasn't given them ay sort of poll recovery. It's beating a dead horse at this point but we are still a racist country.
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The Lord Bude posted:I'm curious, where did this living soul thing start? I only drift in and out of this thread every few months or so. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...804-gqlesa.html
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Jul 28, 2017 17:58
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Thanks. ...Oh my.
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freebooter posted:Australia stuff Yeah Australia really is a very good country. It's easy to feel down on it though because we're on a very rough trajectory and have been for decades. If we could undo ~30 years of economic liberalism we'd be in such an amazing place that it's disheartening. Even social issues are very much manufactured. Boat people didn't just happen that took so much work from the government and the media to turn it into the shitstorm it has become. The more blatant anti-homosexuality and women bigotry is mostly done against the wishes of the electorate. And most of the racism problem we have is very casual compared to things like what faces the American black community and is also heavily concentrated in the older populations we all fervently hope die off soon. I think the only thing that we can really put down to just an essentially Australian problem is our treatment of Aboriginal Australians. Everything else feels like it could be fixed so easily if Labor rediscovered its leftists roots and got its act together. Or the greens don't give up their leftism and take over.
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Jul 28, 2017 23:32
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I'm starting to warm to Bill Shorten...
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simmyb posted:I'm starting to warm to Bill Shorten... Tokamak posted:It's some dumb parliamentary procedures that are out politicking the politicians. It's not like this whole thing is happening on a wave of popular nationalism.
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Jul 29, 2017 01:25
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https://twitter.com/MusAusNSW/status/891059414354022401
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Jul 29, 2017 02:06
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Was Shorten's bland robotness actually an effective small target play?
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Cassie Jaye's film on the men's rights movement shocked Australia. Why? American documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye had all sides seeing red during her recent visit to Australia. Was her work about the men's right movement that shocking? Greg Callaghan oh boy this is going to be a loving read isn't it http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/cassie-jayes-film-on-the-mens-rights-movement-shocked-australia-why-20170726-gxj34p.html
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Welcome to Australia's insanely overblown gender wars, in which men's rights activists (MRAs) rail against "feminazis" and "manginas" (male feminists) and feminists dismiss the MRAs as angry, neurotic misogynists. Although The Red Pill caused debate among the chattering classes when it was released in New York last October, and then more heated exchanges in the UK, it was nothing compared to the outcry Jaye encountered in Australia. "I'm curious about what is different about Australia that makes a film like The Red Pill such a subject of fear and censorship," she muses. "I don't know whether it's because the feminist movement here is particularly strong."
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Jul 29, 2017 02:43
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The Australian Media rejoices as it finally finds someone stupider than themselves.
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Jul 29, 2017 02:44
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Umm what do you put in a museum in Parramatta? I'm struggling here.
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To the majority of people MRAs vs Strident feminists and antifa vs UPF etc might as well be televised goblin battles.
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Jul 29, 2017 03:35
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Umm what do you put in a museum in Parramatta? I'm struggling here. Part of the old Westfield food court.
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JBP posted:To the majority of people MRAs vs Strident feminists and antifa vs UPF etc might as well be televised goblin battles. You should talk to ratbag criag - you could exchange stories about how you two know what the majority of Australians think.
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SuddenCactus posted:Part of the old Westfield food court. The original Red Rooster Red Rooster.
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Starshark posted:You should talk to ratbag criag - you could exchange stories about how you two know what the majority of Australians think. The majority of people are demonstrably not interested in extreme politics.
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Jul 29, 2017 04:13
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Who has more readers, green left weekly or Mama Mia.
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If a red pill moment is one in which you see the world with brutal, unforgiving clarity, then by any measure it's still a man's world. Never mind the very real problems for women in the West. For women in other parts of the world it's a far, far grimmer picture of powerlessness. Honour killings. Arranged marriage. Child marriage. Sexual slavery. Minimal or no education. Restricted reproductive rights. No right to vote, to drive, to travel without permission. The women who blazed a path to the freedoms and rights Western women enjoy today faced hostility and scorn not only from men, but from a powerful posse of conservative women who opposed female suffrage and any divergence from non-traditional paths. The resistance rumbled on over the decades, from opposing access to the pill in the 1960s, with claims it would lead to promiscuity and the breakdown of marriage, to later resisting reproductive rights, equal workplace opportunities and abortion. Jaye acknowledges her own career would not have been possible without the sacrifice of her brave feminist predecessors. "I'm career-driven, so I'm grateful to the previous generations who brought about a more even playing field," she says, adding as I prepare to leave: "You know why I'm not anti-feminist? Because I see feminists doing wonderful things for gender equality. All my friends and family are feminists; after all, I live in San Francisco." No longer a feminist but not an anti-feminist. Many will be anticipating Cassie Jaye's next documentary project with great interest. this is the male equivalent of a bill leak obituary
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If you think bashing the fash needs people watching it to be effective I'm not sure what to tell you.
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Can we stop talking about some trash movie that no one talks about and start talking about the Parramatta museum of Western (Sydney) Civilization.
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Jul 29, 2017 05:31
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Abby and I decided to check out one of those display home theme parks down in Brisbane's south and the experience is incredible. We are the only young people here everyone else walking around is a grey haired trilby wearing investor rocking up in landrovers and speed dealer sunnies. If Bill Shorten fucks up negative gearing then this whole thing will collapse.
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Anidav posted:Abby and I decided to check out one of those display home theme parks down in Brisbane's south and the experience is incredible. We are the only young people here everyone else walking around is a grey haired trilby wearing investor rocking up in landrovers and speed dealer sunnies. Room for a puggle?
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Smegmatron posted:One boat. If a boat sneaks through the Navy-Silence net now to be seen by the media it will invalidate the entire line that they've stopped the boats, or that torturing refugees for years on end discourages boat journeys. I think a boat now would be far worse for them than good. If Labor could spin any kind of narrative that is.
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https://twitter.com/LeemingLachie/status/891142713877217280
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Konomex posted:If a boat sneaks through the Navy-Silence net now to be seen by the media it will invalidate the entire line that they've stopped the boats, or that torturing refugees for years on end discourages boat journeys. I think a boat now would be far worse for them than good. Depending on the state of the Liberal party at the time the hard right might use it as a reason to put Dutton in instead of Turnbull.
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Jul 29, 2017 06:14
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lol "Dangerous driving causing death" instead of manslaughter.
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Jul 29, 2017 06:37
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I wonder what the charge would have been if the kid had run someone over?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-29/luke-foley-pledges-to-crack-down-on-wage-theft-if-elected-in-nsw/8756236quote:Luke Foley said NSW Labor would bring in a new wage law to criminalise the deliberate failure to pay wages and other entitlements, with punishing fines and jail terms for the worst offenders.
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