poo poo wot happened in November LGBT Marriage https://twitter.com/tom_cowie/status/930582394523885568 Thanks to a resounding "YES" vote during the non-binding, non mandatory, postal vote plebiscite (being the way that conservatives desperately tried to jerryrig their way out of approving same sex marriage), Same Sex Marriage / Marriage equality is now mandatory. (It's not quite ready to go yet, the bill is still before Parliament, but is guaranteed to pass - it has the numbers to do so, and has already passed one branch of parliament with little in the way of amendments that give people the right to keep discriminating against LGBT). https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/930578796264214528 Kevin Rudd takes a moment from his concession speech, to congratulate Australia on voting Yes to SSM This is much to the rage of right wing conservatives on both the labour and LNP, but mainly the LNP, who have desperately tried to amend the bill to reflect that florists and bakers (why is it always florists and bakers??) should have the right to refuse to gay people. Every amendment has been voted down, and the bill is now before the house of reps which for some reason was given an extra weeks break! https://twitter.com/SydOperaHouse/status/930588602207150080 The Government is hosed, and we're probably going to have another early election in the next 12 months ...which sure as poo poo had nothing to do with a certain high court ruling that happened just prior to the announcement. So yeah, the high court came back to rule on the never-ending saga that is section 44 of the constitution (that prevents a person from owning allegiance to another nation, and has been catching out shitloads of MPs and making them ineligible to be MPs). The high court ruled that 5 out of the 7 MPs who had been referred to the high court weren't eligible to be elected at the time they stood for parliament due to having dual citizenship by descent. https://twitter.com/craigjack36/status/934984322888564736 One of those caught out was the former-Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby "allegedly got a staffer pregnant and then took her to get an abortion" Joyce. And then his replacement, Fiona Nash, was also kicked out for the same thing. The irony was that both Barnaby and Fiona were the Leader and Deputy leader of the National party, prompting twitter to erupt into sensible chuckles about "which nation" https://twitter.com/Bishop64/status/935087656236589056 This triggered by elections in the now vacant seats leaving the government with a paper loving thin majority, leaving them particularly vulnerable to poo poo like.. A Banking Royal Commision ... two of their own MPs, who were so enraged about Same Sex marriage being legalised, going rogue and planning to introduce a Private Members bill to parliament to force a royal commission into Banking and Finance Culture, and how banks loving love to rip off their customers. This was done to embarrass the Government over Same Sex marriage (which the National Party, of the Liberal National Party, loving despises). After a few days of threats, one of those MPs launching a website, and a deadline being set wherein those MPs would cross the floor, the banks mysteriously dropped a letter publicly calling for a Royal Commission to be lodged and get rid of all of the uncertainty that could potentially financially impact them. Within 30 minutes of this letter, a royal commission had been called and terms of reference set awfully coincidental timing there. Almost seems like a stitch up to me considering the timing! But then, I just work for one of the big 4, so what do I know QLD had an election and we don't actually know who won??? QLD went to the polls last week and rather than doing the sensible thing and electing the adults and putting them back in charge, QLD basically said "gently caress the lot of you" and elected the equivalent of a hung parliament. Results are still up in the air at this point, but it looks like no one's got a clear majority. Labour got the most number of seats, the LNP got the next highest amount, and the rest went to independents and single issue parties. This caused an immediate shitstorm from the media who went hard for the LNP to win, and who are calling on the incumbent Labour government to go into opposition in spite of the fact that, well, the LNP literally do not have enough (even with the help of the independents) to form government. anyhoo, that's about all I can think of that happened last month, welcome to another riveting episode of loving #auspol
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:23 |
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reported op for first dog amount of words
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:27 |
Birdstrike posted:reported op for first dog amount of words Maybe report him for never finishing his loving lp
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:31 |
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One thing not covered in the previous thread is the suspicious number of people claiming to be SES. I think we have some stolen valour here. If you claim to be in the SES, name your commanding officers here. The truth will out.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:31 |
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Birdstrike posted:reported op for first dog amount of words Reminds me, my dad got given a 2017 political cartoons book (what a gift) which features First Dog, but the pages are small enough that you can't even read the sheer mass of
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:33 |
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It's still November wtf
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:34 |
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With an early election - why do the ordinary punters always whinge about elections? I know we're all political junkies who love them, but seriously, I don't notice any difference whatsoever between ordinary times and election season except a handful of ads on TV. So what gives?
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:36 |
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freebooter posted:With an early election - why do the ordinary punters always whinge about elections? I know we're all political junkies who love them, but seriously, I don't notice any difference whatsoever between ordinary times and election season except a handful of ads on TV. So what gives? People don't like getting off their arses and going to a polling booth, apparently. I had to vote in Parramatta and there was one guy there who wouldn't stop shouting I'M JUST HERE TO GET MY NAME MARKED OFF like anyone gave a poo poo.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:37 |
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Hobo Erotica posted:It's still November wtf Give it 4 hours or so.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:44 |
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freebooter posted:With an early election - why do the ordinary punters always whinge about elections? I know we're all political junkies who love them, but seriously, I don't notice any difference whatsoever between ordinary times and election season except a handful of ads on TV. So what gives? Maybe the parties are so good at electioneering now only the people who aren't engaged are targeted and bombarded with things we never see?
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:47 |
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tithin posted:Kevin Rudd takes a moment from his concession speech, to congratulate Australia on voting Yes to SSM
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:56 |
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Hobo Erotica posted:It's still November wtf Early thread for the early election.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:57 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:What does the SSM survey result mean for Kevin Rudd's leadership ambitions? Time for sodomy
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:02 |
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Hot take from literal fascist Peter "Lucifer" Dutton: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/30/peter-dutton-says-royal-commission-a-chance-to-investigate-union-links-to-super-funds
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:08 |
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Starshark posted:One thing not covered in the previous thread is the suspicious number of people claiming to be SES. I think we have some stolen valour here. You're not in the SES are you
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:13 |
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You forgot the passing of the assisted dying bill in the best state in the country, Victoria
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:14 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:Hot take from literal fascist Peter "Lucifer" Dutton: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/30/peter-dutton-says-royal-commission-a-chance-to-investigate-union-links-to-super-funds loving commonwealth bank being poo poo led to funds for ISIS but yeah sure, union funds are the bad guys.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:15 |
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If you have seen this man, please call the AWU:quote:Investigators Unable To Find Michaelia Cash's Ex-Staffer To Serve Him A Federal Court Subpoena https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/where-in-the-world?utm_term=.cpL2YADQ9#.uhXOp53mX
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:24 |
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Buses replacing trains expecting a 60 minute delay on my line, and that’s not even taking a biblical flood into consideration. Weird, my throat started feeling sore just now, best not go into work and risk infecting everyone.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:26 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:If you have seen this man, please call the AWU: why doxx me?
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:26 |
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Tweets in OP gas.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:31 |
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JBP posted:Tweets in OP gas.
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I put up the thread late, people complain, I put it up early, people complain anyhow, hope people got a laugh out of the OP
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:42 |
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Pretend I quoted the post about Shorten/Dastyari ALP internal factional politics from the last thread here ALP internal factional politics is the most pathetic thing in the whole world and everyone who is involved in it is a king-sized loser
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:47 |
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JBP posted:Tweets in OP gas. Ran his Thread into the ground, now nothing but snipes. We cannot afford to give JBP another chance at the OP
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:47 |
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 11:59 |
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Zenithe posted:Ran his Thread into the ground, now nothing but snipes. We cannot afford to give JBP another chance at the OP My thread is still the most successful AusPol thread. Maybe even the most successful thread in general. It was a great thread. More pages and posts than any other I've seen.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:01 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Buses replacing trains expecting a 60 minute delay on my line, and that’s not even taking a biblical flood into consideration.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:02 |
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About the citizenship thing, this is what I said when Ludlam first stepped down back in July:Hobo Erotica posted:God dammit Scott literally no one gives a poo poo, even the right wing media would shrug at this, renounce the NZ thing if you have to and get the gently caress back to work in senate estimates committee I... I know you guys think I'm wrong a lot of the time, but gently caress... How much time and energy have we wasted on this stupid poo poo.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:03 |
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JBP posted:My thread is still the most successful AusPol thread. Maybe even the most successful thread in general. It was a great thread. More pages and posts than any other I've seen. A lot of people saying that, many people, great people. Very great.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:05 |
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Hobo Erotica posted:A lot of people saying that, many people, great people. Very great. Many bigly people. Most good.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:17 |
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ATM down the road was replaced with a touchscreen model and it's stuffed. First of all why would I want to be prodding at the display like an idiot. And of course it broke, and there's no fall back, the buttons on the side of the display don't do anything. I just want my money. It's a bloody outrage. How do I get dumbshit ATMs looked into in the inquiry?
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:21 |
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Birdstrike posted:Time for sodomy aww yeah
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:24 |
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This is what happens when you go to an early OP
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:27 |
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Premature thread creation.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:49 |
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Thirty-year-old Kole Olsen appeared in Hornsby Local Court in Sydney, Australia, today on one count of drunk driving, after a bizarre altercation in a McDonald's car park involving 200 chicken McNuggets. He pled guilty to the charges. On Thursday, the court was told that after a night of drinking earlier this month Olsen drove to Thornleigh McDonald's and ordered 200 chicken McNuggets at the drive-thru. When he was told the nuggets weren't available, Olsen was said to have responded with: "I want my loving nuggets ... I'm gonna gently caress you up." Olsen, who in court said he was vegan, then drove four laps around the drive-thru lane of the McDonald's while honking his horn before finally ordering 200 hash browns instead. The meal cost him $230. After continued abuse from Olsen, McDonald's staff feared for their safety and locked the restaurant doors. Requesting a refund, the drunken Olsen could not remember what he had ordered and instead asked to be reimbursed for 200 large fries and 200 Big Macs. Police found Olsen drunk at the wheel after they were called by McDonald's staff. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.175. While Olsen avoided jail time, he has been fined $1,000, sentenced to a one-year good behaviour bond, and is banned from driving for nine months.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:49 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Premature thread creation. Much like our upcoming election. And several recent elections.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:57 |
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A thousand dollars is eight hundred and sixty-nine hash browns
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:57 |
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But did he get to eat the hash browns? God, it'd be enough calories to plug the arteries of a blue whale in 5.5 seconds flat
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 12:57 |
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He should have been made to eat them all in one sitting as part of a court order. "You can have one diet coke to wash it down. A small one."
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