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birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

" ABC apology to Kevin Rudd posted:

On January 31, 2018, ABC News reported on a document prepared in April 2009 for the Strategic Priorities and Budget Committee (SPBC) warning of critical risks in the roll-out of the Energy Efficient Homes Package.

In reporting on that document, the ABC did not intend to suggest that Mr Rudd recklessly ignored critical risks of the home insulation scheme before the deaths of four young installers, or that he lied to the royal commission that examined those deaths.

The ABC accepts that, as found by the royal commission, Mr Rudd was not warned of, and was not aware of critical safety risks at the time.

The royal commission made no adverse findings against Mr Rudd and there is no suggestion that Mr Rudd lied to the commission.

The ABC unreservedly apologises to Mr Rudd for any harm or embarrassment caused.


Mess with the best, die like the Grech :clint:

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Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

Birdstrike posted:

Mess with the best, die like the Grech :clint:
What if Krudd doesn't accept the apology? :ohdear:

X13Fen
Oct 18, 2006

"Is that an accurate quote? It should be.
I think about it often enough."

Cartoon posted:

What if Krudd doesn't accept the apology? :ohdear:

He'd have to interrupt his concession speech first anyhow

Dimebag
Jul 12, 2004
It's a long bow, but what does this mean for Kevin Rudds leadership ambitions?

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
https://twitter.com/CallamPickering/status/961762927094128640



hmmm

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die



Please let this happen.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
When WA peaked, it hit the most expensive (read: Overvalued) properties first too.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Peter Dutton has returned serve against veiled criticism in George Brandis’s valedictory speech by suggesting the former attorney general thought he was better than the public and aspired to be “the smartest person in the room”.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Aspiring to be smart is bad and furthermore

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Check out the ausgbs thread everyone.

Endman posted:

Aspiring to be smart

I wish you would do this.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
no see you think you're better than us with your fancy "achievements", "qualifications" and "accomplishments" but I bet u don't know how to do a days hard work welding up a boiler HAHA GOTCHA

- Australian Swing Voter

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Check out the ausgbs thread everyone.


I wish you would do this.

I knew a dude who was a nurse in a mental hospital and then he got struck off for having sex with one of the patients and, I have to say, his life choices haven't been improving.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

BBJoey posted:

imagine being so utterly braindead you think someone’s private life has no implications for their work as the deputy pm of australia. just how stupid would you have to be. how would you even dress yourself

tithin posted:

#BeetRoot

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Workers at an underground coal gasification plant on Queensland's Western Darling Downs were told to drink milk and eat yoghurt to protect their stomachs from acid, a court has heard.

:stare:

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope
Michelle Grattan sticking up for poor, plucky Barnaby.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/is-barnaby-joyces-baby-a-matter-of-public-interest-grattan/9412712

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006


They had an old guy the other day refer to it as romantic and I’m not sure if he was joking or not.

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

Anidav posted:

Workers at an underground coal gasification plant on Queensland's Western Darling Downs were told to drink milk and eat yoghurt to protect their stomachs from acid, a court has heard.

:stare:

more context please because what the gently caress

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

GoldStandardConure posted:

more context please because what the gently caress

This was posted yesterday, but you were probably thinking about Barnaby nutting:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/linc-energy-trial-hears-company-told-workers-drink-milk/9410180

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

Please be true. Stupid economy I don't fully understand.



Also lol Barnaby

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005

Endman posted:

Please let this happen.

I've mentioned before in thread, I've been eyeing off the market in Melbourne for the last year + and it is absolutely happening. The only question left is the degree/speed of the crash, and Wall St is building a clearer picture on that. I have no economics education but I suspect as the stockmarket shits the bed and wipes out super all current self-funded and upcoming retirees with investment properties are going to have to liquidate, plus the pressure on interest rate rises causing mortgage pressure on everything else.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Then again, I'm sure old mates in Canberra will want to pull off another inter-generational heist to save the Boomers.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

A recession with the current mob in power sounds pretty bad, actually.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

A recession with the current mob in power sounds pretty bad, actually.

It's possible we'll get an election before it really hits, leaving Labor to deal with the cleanup and adding another decade to their ill-deserved reputation for bad economic management.

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Wall street making GBS threads itself isn't really the precipitator of a crash here, because a significant percentage of self funded retoirees are leveraged in the housing market, not the stock market. What would actually gently caress them is a couple of interest rate rises and those don't look to be on the cards here any time soon because inflation isn't there yet and neither is unemployment.

Investments in self-funded super schemes have to meet a bunch of criteria related to quality and its just easier throwing it into housing.

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

A recession with the current mob in power sounds pretty bad, actually.

Yep, because they are ideologically limited in how they can respond.

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

G-Spot Run posted:

I've mentioned before in thread, I've been eyeing off the market in Melbourne for the last year + and it is absolutely happening. The only question left is the degree/speed of the crash, and Wall St is building a clearer picture on that. I have no economics education but I suspect as the stockmarket shits the bed and wipes out super all current self-funded and upcoming retirees with investment properties are going to have to liquidate, plus the pressure on interest rate rises causing mortgage pressure on everything else.

I hope not. My parents are looking at building on their new land they brought a few years back and are currently running on a loan for. And my old boy has barely any super anyway thanks to misspent youth and not really even looking at it till he was 40.

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.
I'm not a broker but my advice to anyone who is retired would be to move their poo poo into cash and bullion gradually over the next couple of years.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009


How pathetic an example could you give, Michelle. I'm old enough to remember the Morosi Affair and your mob were desperate for Australia to have its own Profumo. Journalists decided it was newsworthy whether anyone liked it or not, they were "fair game" and that's really the problem we have here. You wish to retain your power of gatekeeper to newsworthiness and fake objectivity and it doesn't work any more, because you're always on the side of power and protection of your specialness which doesn't deserve any specialness at all.

Paingod556
Nov 8, 2011

Not a problem, sir

Zenithe posted:

This was posted yesterday, but you were probably thinking about Barnaby nutting:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/linc-energy-trial-hears-company-told-workers-drink-milk/9410180

This is gonna be another Wittenoom, isn't it. People gonna die and get hospitalized and gently caress all gonna happen to the irresponsible fucks running it

Grumio
Sep 20, 2001

in culina est
I appreciated the tele's title of Little Bundle of Joyce, but I would also have accepted Barnababy Bump

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
while this lasts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Les Affaires posted:


Yep, because they are ideologically limited in how they can respond.

This. Last time, we had a PM and the US had a President who were both willing to run stimulus programs, despite their generally neo-liberal leanings. Ours worked effectively; the Obama QE scheme 'worked' in the sense that the economy recovered relatively more quickly than the countries that ran policies of austerity (which is exactly what Tony Abbott was screaming for the whole time, and would have done if he had been in power).

If a real crash happened today, there is no way the Liberals wouldn't double down on Austerity as "the only sensible option", causing Australia to sink into the quagmire of recession for the better part of a decade. Even if Treasury advised another round of stimulus/infrastructure spending and Turnbull and Morrison tried to follow suit, the Dutton and the idiot conservatives would shoot it down or white ant it/sabotage it such that it became a pointless waste of money, designed to funnel more money back into the federal liberal party and its donors.

Even if it does repeat the lovely cycle and get Labor caught in another decade long quagmire of perceived economic incapability, we'll be far better off. I only hope that the poo poo continues to elude the fanblades long enough that Labor are able to get back in and start doing at least the bare minimum structural repairs needed to keep us out of a recession of our own making.

Centusin
Aug 5, 2009
How long until Barnaby deepfakes

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope
I want loving Ruddbucks. Election now!

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves
You will not be able to stay home, mate.
You will not be able plug in, jack off and cop out.

You will not be able to lose yourself on Pingas, or skip out for a durrie during commericals.

Because the revolution will not be televised.

Senor Tron
May 26, 2006


Scylo posted:

How long until Barnaby deepfakes

Burn down the internet if it happens.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Don Dongington posted:

Labor are able to get back in and start doing at least the bare minimum structural repairs needed to keep us out of a recession of our own making.

I think you mean Labah waste, debt and deficit disaster and red tape.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

hooman posted:

I think you mean Labah waste, debt and deficit disaster and red tape.

I want to get back on Wayne's Socialist Train

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
ALL ABOARD THE KEYNESIAN EXPRESS


TOOT loving TOOT

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
High speed rail to a socialist utopia

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Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
I for one can't wait to vote for the Bullet Train for The Soviet Socialist Republic of Australia Party

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