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Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Graic Gabtar posted:

Well, maybe start with the ones who aren't being looked after as well as the ones on Manus.

I'm sorry you're a clown gently caress idiot troll, because somebody probably has to deal with your poo poo irl and that's just a shame.

Don't have kids

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
The Australian public is generally ok with concentration camps so don't expect much outcome.

Graic Gabtar
Dec 19, 2014

squat my posts

Don Dongington posted:

I'm sorry you're a clown gently caress idiot troll, because somebody probably has to deal with your poo poo irl and that's just a shame.

Don't have kids
Quit your crying. These people have had lovely treatment but it doesn't change what will happen next. It's just politics. This is the only place I ever talk politics is here so I guess you're poo poo out of luck trying to shame me.

Too late, got heaps of them.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Where else but Queensland

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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
Drink piss craig

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
Jeez Ratbag I'm surprised they let you on the iPad unsupervised

Graic Gabtar
Dec 19, 2014

squat my posts

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Drink piss craig


Recoome posted:

Jeez Ratbag I'm surprised they let you on the iPad unsupervised

lol

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
oh boy, I made some people upset by saying I don't care for human life. I really am winninf.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

I'm looking forward to the series of posts where 'they should just take over Manus like Fidel did Cuba' is expanded upon.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

ALP holding the line extremely well though


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6bRGRKFkXA

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
Looking like it might be a swing toward Labor as PHON splits the conservative vote and scares away moderates.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Good.

Well as good as Queensland can be

Which is still bad

But it's good that it's not getting worse?

Tardscream
Nov 3, 2007

Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
A friend reckons that qld Labor don't want adanis mine but are shackled with some dumb contract made by the Newman gov that would force them to pay massive penalties if they cancelled it. The game plan ever since has been publicly spruiking but privately stalling so that adani will bleed too many costs n challenges and pull out of the deal themselves.

Senor Tron
May 26, 2006


Tardscream posted:

A friend reckons that qld Labor don't want adanis mine but are shackled with some dumb contract made by the Newman gov that would force them to pay massive penalties if they cancelled it. The game plan ever since has been publicly spruiking but privately stalling so that adani will bleed too many costs n challenges and pull out of the deal themselves.

If that was the case they'd publicly talk about it.

ili
Jul 26, 2003


Labor are cunts and I would cordially invite each and every one of them to lick my hairy balls.

RichardA
Sep 1, 2006
.
Dinosaur Gum

Senor Tron posted:

If that was the case they'd publicly talk about it.

Wouldn't that hand Adani a easy win in court? I doubt a judge would be amused by deliberate, publicly admitted obstruction to avoid the cancelation penalties.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

ili posted:

Labor are cunts and I would cordially invite each and every one of them to lick my hairy balls.
Not sure you've thought this through:



In utterly unsurprising news relevant to feeding the troll:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-03/manus-island-un-calls-on-australia-to-end-centre-stand-off/9117996

Lol. Must be uncomfortable in council meetings:

https://theconversation.com/with-a-seat-on-the-un-human-rights-council-australia-must-fix-its-record-on-indigenous-rights-86060

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
It's just politics, mates :discourse:

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

RichardA posted:

Wouldn't that hand Adani a easy win in court? I doubt a judge would be amused by deliberate, publicly admitted obstruction to avoid the cancelation penalties.

That's what strategic leaks to the Herald are for.

It's far more likely that they don't want to hand the lnp an easy attack campaign on 'jobs and growth' because they (correctly) assume Queenslanders care more about 500 lovely mining jobs than the reef.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
lnp still haven't put anyone up in my seat, amid rumours of money going missing.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Don Dongington posted:

That's what strategic leaks to the Herald are for.

It's far more likely that they don't want to hand the lnp an easy attack campaign on 'jobs and growth' because they (correctly) assume Queenslanders care more about 500 lovely mining jobs than the reef.

I went to Port Douglas recently and there seemed to be a lot of fair dinkum Aussie battlers making money off the reef.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

JBP posted:

I went to Port Douglas recently and there seemed to be a lot of fair dinkum Aussie battlers making money off the reef.

So what are they going to do, preference the libs? One nation? It doesn't matter in that unicameral hell hole, Greens votes are going to Labor eventually.

Schlesische
Jul 4, 2012

JBP posted:

I went to Port Douglas recently and there seemed to be a lot of fair dinkum Aussie battlers making money off the reef.

And now imagine that Cairns is like 10x bigger as far as "number of tourist traps involving the reef" go.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Yeah that's what I mean. That reef is worth loving mega dollars and big employment, why wreck it for a dogshit mine that's going to shaft us on tax anyway. It's just dumb.

norp
Jan 20, 2004

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

JBP posted:

Yeah that's what I mean. That reef is worth loving mega dollars and big employment, why wreck it for a dogshit mine that's going to shaft us on tax anyway. It's just dumb.

Dumb for the public, great for their personal finances

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

JBP posted:

Yeah that's what I mean. That reef is worth loving mega dollars and big employment, why wreck it for a dogshit mine that's going to shaft us on tax anyway. It's just dumb.

A mine that will never turn a profit and end up having to be bailed up and cleaned up by a Labor federal government no doubt.

Turnbull, Abbott, Brandis, Hunt and Frydenberg should do time over this. Still curious to know what the gently caress Qld Labor are actually doing here, dumb theories and hot takes aside.

Edit: Like, they're literally betting on coal making a comeback, and as a result their own energy policy is hosed because they've bet the farm on coal making a comeback. Australia is self owning so hard atm.

Don Dongington fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Nov 4, 2017

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I think Adani is the result of QLD Labor betting that Turnbull would get a few more terms and the only way to get Federal funding for projects is to support coal or whatever and since the State government is basically hanging on by the skin of its teeth. It needs to adopt a Queensland First slogan for regional areas and wait it out.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Anidav posted:

I think Adani is the result of QLD Labor betting that Turnbull would get a few more terms and the only way to get Federal funding for projects is to support coal or whatever and since the State government is basically hanging on by the skin of its teeth. It needs to adopt a Queensland First slogan for regional areas and wait it out.

That might explain the sudden change of policy, right as the Turnbull govt looks like it's about to lawn dart itself into the ground.

Intoluene
Jul 6, 2011

Activating self-destruct sequence!
Fun Shoe

Don Dongington posted:

That might explain the sudden change of policy, right as the Turnbull govt looks like it's about to lawn dart itself into the ground.

You mean it hasn't already? I mean, I think people prefer Bill *checks notes* Shorten and it's hard for an opposition leader to gain popularity outside election season.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Intoluene posted:

You mean it hasn't already? I mean, I think people prefer Bill *checks notes* Shorten and it's hard for an opposition leader to gain popularity outside election season.

I meant more in terms of actually losing govt to a no confidence vote. Popularity wise they've been in the shitter for months.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Someone needs to explain to the politicians of Queensland that the GBR is basically a mine for money.

You send in miners (tourists) and they in turn dig out the minerals (money) locked within. All the money stays in the country, you can tax it, it creates jobs for areas without many other industries.

It's a money mine holding infinity dollars as long as you keep it healthy, which is easy to do when you don't open bullshit mines that cause your infinite money mine to die.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Laserface posted:

Someone needs to explain to the politicians of Queensland that the GBR is basically a mine for money.

You send in miners (tourists) and they in turn dig out the minerals (money) locked within. All the money stays in the country, you can tax it, it creates jobs for areas without many other industries.

It's a money mine holding infinity dollars as long as you keep it healthy, which is easy to do when you don't open bullshit mines that cause your infinite money mine to die.

Coal miners pay the politicians more than the money miners though.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
Reefs dead from global warming regardless, sorry.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Nah the reef has been bouncing up and down of late. Went to a shelf that has bloomed again recently after bleaching and it looks magnificent. Could be alright if they don't sea bulldoze it.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Laserface posted:

Someone needs to explain to the politicians of Queensland that the GBR is basically a mine for money.

You send in miners (tourists) and they in turn dig out the minerals (money) locked within. All the money stays in the country, you can tax it, it creates jobs for areas without many other industries.

It's a money mine holding infinity dollars as long as you keep it healthy, which is easy to do when you don't open bullshit mines that cause your infinite money mine to die.

It's not that the GBR can make money, it's that it isn't making them money.

Conversely a dodgy mine with lots of bribery will most definitely make them money.

The general public? Not a consideration.

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY

gay picnic defence posted:

Coal miners pay the politicians more than the money miners though.

Why wont anyone think of them poor poor bitcoin miners.

Ora Tzo fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Nov 4, 2017

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I was surprised at the size of the turnout, it was pretty big. A touch smaller than the SSM rallies of the past month tho.

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
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Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

Ora Tzo posted:

Why wont anyone think of them poor poor bitcoin miners.


That's some quality posting.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-04/sa-government-accused-of-gagging-independent-voices/9119018

South Australia does a "me too" on being terrible.

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