Synthbuttrange posted:

idiot. it's white wine with sexual assault.

Zenithe posted:

Anidav, have you contacted the RTA yet?

Also, every day you ignore this boomer rentseekers win.

Anidav posted:

What is Taylor?

Konomex posted:

Get what? Dutton is really riding hard on this 'anti brown' thing.

JBP posted:

Including TISM.

Quasimango posted:

Of course, Australia's worst writer, Christos Tsiolkas, has the absolute worst take on Robert Doyle:

drunkill posted:

This thread the last three pages:

hiddenmovement posted:

I got about 3 chapters into The Slap before deciding I hated everyone in it

Was it as bad as my instincts suggested?

JBP posted:

All Australian art, literature and culture is poo poo.




Including TISM.

JBP posted:

Public transport sucks anyway it's always packed with junkies and other undesirables.

GoldStandardConure posted:

image of christopher pyne on the bus

GoldStandardConure posted:

image of christopher pyne on the bus

Les Affaires posted:

JBP posted:

I like this one because it looks like an ad for seniors insurance.

The Peccadillo posted:

If it's so bad, how come the hitmakers at NBC adapted it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq49v4oJvcE

Chadzok posted:

diversify, mr. lizard. 100% of anything is dumb and that example relied upon it.

NPR Journalizard posted:

If you have 100% of your investment in one stock, then sure, I agree. You can get plenty of diversity by investing in different stocks.

Fauxbot posted:

The Slap was fine, you're not supposed to like any of the characters apart from maybe the nice gay kid.

Solemn Sloth posted:

I’m maximally diverse, I have 13 interest only investment properties

Milky Moor posted:

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

JBP posted:

All Australian art, literature and culture is poo poo.




Including TISM.

Solemn Sloth posted:

I’m maximally diverse, I have 13 interest only investment properties

The Peccadillo posted:

In all seriousness if you lack the self respect to enjoy Australia's film tradition watch Turkey Shoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojai1EcJcV8

I don't know if it's still on SBS on Demand but honestly who can navigate that hosed app, pirate it, most of the people directly involved are probably dead by now anyway

thatbastardken posted:

My portfolio is entirely composed of artisanal brunches.

JBP posted:

I only buy small cap because I'm for the plucky little guy with less than a couple billion in market cap.

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Vice Admiral enlisted special forces help to keep his sheets and kitchenware

Defence’s second-highest ranked officer, Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, dispatched a crack special forces commander to monitor his estranged wife Kerrie Griggs’s shift from their Defence residence, partly to ensure she left him enough sheets and kitchenware.

The supervision, which was also due to the timing of the shift, had followed some disagreement between the couple over personal possessions at their official home, according to correspondence sighted by The Australian.

The Australian has uncovered further details about the incident that saw the Vice Chief of the Defence Force, an ambassador for the White Ribbon charity which seeks to prevent violence against women, send his chief of staff, Colonel Craig Shortt, to act as his “representative” in Kerrie’s shift from the Duntroon house in 2015.

Colonel Shortt, who has since been promoted to brigadier, is a battle-hardened special forces commander who had twice led the 2nd Commando Regiment, and then been the director of the military’s Special Operations and Plans, prior to being appointed as Vice Admiral Griggs’s chief of staff.

The incident was among a number of issues associated with the 2014 break-up that prompted Kerrie to complain to the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF). She alleged it was inappropriate use of Vice Admiral Griggs’s staff and also queried why a woman wasn’t sent.

The IGADF investigation found that while the move could have “been better handled” it cleared Vice Admiral Griggs of any impropriety. The IGADF found Vice Admiral Griggs had “an interest in and obligations connected with the removal of personal effects from the official residence tied to his posting as Vice Chief of the Defence Force”.

The Australian has sighted correspondence that suggests one of Vice Admiral Griggs’s reasons for dispatching the former special forces officer related to concerns Kerrie might unfairly divide up property, especially linen and kitchenware, in the official residence.

In 2015, he emailed her complaining that what she wanted from the property went beyond establishing a functional household, especially “a functioning kitchen”. In June 2015, while he was overseas on holiday with his new partner, Kerrie notified him of her intent to move out of the official residence.

He emailed her saying he had appointed Shortt and a staff officer as his representatives for the move because he was overseas and he had given them an “agreed inventory”. “They are there to protect my equities as you did not afford me the time to engage a professional to do the task,’’ he said. Colonel Shortt attended the property, but left when Ms Griggs said the move was not occurring that day. The Australian does not suggest he acted inappropriately.

Kerrie emailed her husband complaining about the “optics” of using Defence personnel on a personal matter while “you are overseas on holidays with your mistress”. Griggs emailed back saying having his staff present was justified due to goods being removed that were his. “You removed material from the house you had no right to ... you repeatedly refused to confirm the kitchen and linen issues which were supposed to be agreed, not just what you chose to leave behind,” he said.

A Defence spokesman said independent inquiries found no breach of Defence policy in this matter. He said Defence residences tied to senior commanders contain commonwealth property, which could be inadvertently damaged or packed by removalists.