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quote:Credlin’s loyalty to Abbott only fuels government disunity. Paul Murray cosies up to the extremists of One Nation and the libertarian gun enthusiast from the Liberal Democrats, David Leyonhjelm. He whales into the Liberal moderate Christopher Pyne as “piss-weak”, “useless”, “a wanker” and an “arsehole”, among other things. Bolt, broadcasting from under the stairs, instructs his viewers that it’s time to give up on the Liberal Party and back Cory Bernardi’s breakaway Australian Conservatives party.
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Read 'em and weep. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-09/defence-admits-delay-in-informing-residents-of-contamination/9027706 ABC posted:The Department of Defence has admitted it should have warned the public about a chemical contamination scandal three years earlier than it did — and says the cost to taxpayers to clean up the problem nationwide will mount into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Oct 9, 2017 00:13
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Cartoon posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/pm-calls-for-national-database-of-drivers-licence-photos/9014098 Is there a practical difference between them having passport photos (as they do already) and having licence photos? This seems to be the least objectionable part of the terror-scare circus, which has more interestingly shown federal ministers to be afraid of pre-teens.
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Oct 9, 2017 00:14
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A lot more people have a license than a passport, they get updated more regularly, they're more or less essential to have. It wouldn't necessarily be a problem if we didn't have such a predictably hopeless government that will undoubtedly misuse the data. You can guarantee this will be sold of to, like, Westfield or something so they can identify you when you walk through the door target ads at you while you shop.
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Oct 9, 2017 00:21
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Cartoon posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/pm-calls-for-national-database-of-drivers-licence-photos/9014098 I've seen things on facebook from a few big names but couldn't be bothered trying to wrestle facebook's search algorithm for sources
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Oct 9, 2017 00:38
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they already have access to the drivers licence's, it is just bureaucratic rigmarole to get them and they want to speed it up. I'm sitting in the middle on this one.
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Solemn Sloth posted:The tears coming from the rent seeker class at Dan Andrews tepid tenancy reforms are pretty delicious.
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Unfortunately my wife has bought the "but it's for terrorism!" line all the way. I'm trying to tell her how it's a very small step from this database being available to picking out faces from a protest against the government or what have you but all they have to do is push the line of "this is for terrorism, we swear" and people buy it.
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Oct 9, 2017 01:23
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I think the important point is that a drivers license is required for you to drive a vehicle and so you are obliged to have your photo taken for that purpose. Using it for any other purpose is over reach and needs to be stopped in principle.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Unfortunately my wife has bought the "but it's for terrorism!" line all the way. I'm trying to tell her how it's a very small step from this database being available to picking out faces from a protest against the government or what have you but all they have to do is push the line of "this is for terrorism, we swear" and people buy it. Also the easy work around any hypothetical terror plot would have for this is to just recruit young people without licenses to carry out activities. It's not like they're not breaking the law already.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Unfortunately my wife has bought the "but it's for terrorism!" line all the way. I'm trying to tell her how it's a very small step from this database being available to picking out faces from a protest against the government or what have you but all they have to do is push the line of "this is for terrorism, we swear" and people buy it. Maybe kindly ask your wife to stop watching channel 7 and start reading some books before she starts bringing home MAGA caps and hanging up an A3 poster of Pauline in the front room.
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CrazyTolradi posted:But anyone ASIO or AFP have under surveillance would already be on their records because they'd have a warrant? Like, the warrant isn't exactly a hard barrier, it just adds a step to getting the data they want. i agree its a needlessexpansion of powers.
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Oct 9, 2017 02:17
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Knobb Manwich posted:Read 'em and weep. Ironically exactly the same foam has been used at basically every airport in Australia but I haven't seen much about that
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Recoome posted:Ironically exactly the same foam has been used at basically every airport in Australia but I haven't seen much about that Scares the poo poo outta the greyhounds
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Don Dongington posted:Maybe kindly ask your wife to stop watching channel 7 and start reading some books before she starts bringing home MAGA caps and hanging up an A3 poster of Pauline in the front room. She's a green voter but she's staunchly anti-terrorism so there 
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MysticalMachineGun posted:She's a green voter but she's staunchly anti-terrorism so there if she's green she should probably see a doctor
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Oct 9, 2017 03:16
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Essentially they're bringing private rental into line with Vic govt public housing rules. That's going to make it tough to argue against, because the public housing rules have been around for quite a while.
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Oct 9, 2017 03:17
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I've gotten an emails.quote:From: Citizenship Testing <citizenship.testing@border.gov.au> Hmmmmmmm. Might be interesting, but on the other hand they'll probably just plow ahead with it regardless of research outcomes. IF this is legit. vOv quote:Important Notice: The content of this email is intended only for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email by mistake, please advise the sender and delete the message and attachments immediately. This email, including attachments, may contain confidential, sensitive, legally privileged and/or copyright information. is this really how they do things like this? I keep seeing so much spam that everything starts to look like spam.
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Synthbuttrange posted:I've gotten an emails. If it's being run by ACER it's legit. They do a lot of testing for various reputable institutions.
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Oct 9, 2017 03:30
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How would one demonstrate their integration into Australian community. Comedy options aside, I'm genuinely interested as to what this would look like.
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Oct 9, 2017 03:34
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Fucks per minute in normal speech.
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Zenithe posted:How would one demonstrate their integration into Australian community. Comedy options aside, I'm genuinely interested as to what this would look like. By obeying the law. This was a reasonably interesting discussion mainly about the British citizenship test http://www.philosophy247.org/podcasts/citizenship/
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Knobb Manwich posted:Fucks per second in normal speech.
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ewe2 posted:Essentially they're bringing private rental into line with Vic govt public housing rules. That's going to make it tough to argue against, because the public housing rules have been around for quite a while. I'm pretty fine with the changes, so long as the bond is still able to be used properly by the landlords. In the short amount of time we rented out our house in Sydney before selling it all three sets of tenants managed to do substantial, expensive damage that required nearly the entirety of their bonds. So long as it's still able to do its job, I'm fine with everything else (and we allowed pets, and the 2nd of the three fuckwits managed to completely destroy parts of the house by letting their large dogs just trash the place; loving ripped the wooden floors to shreds and damaged heaps of cabinets). Although we were in NSW so I'm not sure how the laws compare, directly.
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AN LNP candidate has posed with a person in blackface in an Instagram post she has since deleted. Redcliffe candidate Kerri-Anne Dooley posted the photo over the weekend with the caption: “Got to meet the lead singer of Yothu Yindi yesterday”. It is understood Ms Dooley was attending a house-warming party at the time Ms Dooley has apologised for the photo, saying that “on reflection” it was a mistake to post it. “I attended an Australian themed house warming party where guests went as icons of prominent Australian identities,” she said in a statement. “One person was a fan of the band Yothu Yindi and lead singer, the late Mandawuy Yunupingu. I posted a photo of us together on my Instagram feed. “On reflection it was a mistake to post this photo and unprompted, I deleted it. I apologise for any offence that this may have caused.”
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This Queensland election is gonna be a riot.
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Dude McAwesome posted:If it's being run by ACER it's legit. They do a lot of testing for various reputable institutions. whoops its ages away gently caress that.
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Anidav posted:It was a mistake to post this photo Translation: I'm not sorry it happened, I'm sorry there's evidence. Top-notch non-apology
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How do they keep loving this up? Like if you're singing along to a song and you accidentally say the n-word it's all good just apologise and move on that kind of thing can just happen. But it's not like anyone just slips into a pool of blackface before stumbling into a party and happens to photobomb a politician who puts the photo up without realising it. At each step some idiot thought yeah, this is the thing to do. I know you have to be a certain level of stupid to be LNP anyway but come on.
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Futuresight posted:How do they keep loving this up? They don't understand why it's bad because they don't think it's bad.
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Yeah but even small children learn to not do things to avoid getting in trouble even if they don't understand why.
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Possibly they also know it plays well to their racist supporters.
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Ooh, you're right, that is a possibility. Do the racism to signal the base, apologise to minimise fallout in other demographics.
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Futuresight posted:How do they keep loving this up? Some voters like a controversial candidate. LNP is trying to take Phon identity to local level campaigns. "I mean sure, he had sex with a dog but he is an outsider!" Mainstream parties are trying to latch onto the gently caress the mainstream tidal wave any way they can and it wouldn't surprise me if it was intentionally posted just to make headlines and to rally the PC gone too far crowd.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-09/conventional-gas-drilling-ban-lifted-vic-coaltion/9029292 Victorian Liberal State leader Matthew "Lobster with a Mobster" Guy wants the Gas Drilling ban lifted if he's elected next year. Thank you for painting an even larger target on yourself Guy. All Labor and the Greens need to do is point at Guy and tell farmers he's going to gently caress their land.
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quote:Yiannopoulos’s tour is being brought to Australia by Penthouse magazine, whose publisher Damien Costas compared the right-wing agitator to Martin Luther King and the freedom riders of the 1960s. quote:Markson described it “an exciting project” and brushed aside the often extreme and divisive nature of Yiannopoulos’s rants. I mean these are quotes from PR people so of course they're absurd, but there is a not-insignificant number of people who actually believe this poo poo and it blows my loving mind. Best response to Milo would be complete silence as all he knows how to do is be a troll. But of course he's apparently already lined up to do a bunch of interviews on radio and TV. Count on the mainstream media to give a platform to absolute shitheads to spread their awful views. Luckily that's never backfired in this country...
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cohsae posted:I mean these are quotes from PR people so of course they're absurd, but there is a not-insignificant number of people who actually believe this poo poo and it blows my loving mind. Dear Australian Media, Please do not give any coverage or exposure to known paedophile apologist Wait.. poo poo. EDIT: Also his last name sounds like something out of a bojack name joke.. "We can't block the talks 'cause Yiannopoulus's pedo populus will throttle us."
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