Anidav posted:

Sky News Breaking : Government has majority support to pass tax cuts.

gently caress Hinch.

Anidav posted:

It's on TV right now and I'm waiting for a URL source but all of the top stories are about Cricket. Almost as if this was timed

Zenithe posted:

As a Wesfarmers employee I sure can't wait for my pay r-aaaahahaha AAAAAHAHAHAA

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/politicsabc/status/978043122553782272

thatbastardken posted:

vb and darts aren't banned substances

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

That was a great meltdown.

Anidav posted:

That was election period tier spin.

Tax cuts pass and then to the polls probably.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Peter Dutton trying to smile

Anidav posted:

That was election period tier spin.

Tax cuts pass and then to the polls probably.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/politicsabc/status/978043122553782272

The Before Times posted:

Australian Conservatives MP Dennis Hood defects to SA Liberals


fuckin lol

Anidav posted:

I reckon a fair few of them flirt with Labor and minor parties until the next tax cuts come and then they will tell younger generations about the glory of Howard.

The Before Times posted:

Australian Conservatives MP Dennis Hood defects to SA Liberals


fuckin lol

Senor Tron posted:

Can't wait to see the response from Cory. Wonder if the Australian Conservatives as a brand will even last out his entire senate term.

quote:

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has updated his parliamentary records to confirm his former media adviser is now his partner.

...

He confirmed Ms Campion as his partner on February 13 but only updated his register of interests to reflect that last week, on March 19, which is just outside the 28 days required for updates to be made.
His register of interests now shows the update made in January — that he had separated from his wife Natalie — as well as the from last week showing Ms Campion owns a property in the Canberra suburb of Braddon, and some shares.
He has deleted the declaration showing the gift of six months' rent-free use of a townhouse in Armidale in his electorate of New England.

The Before Times posted:

Probably not--they seem to have lost a lot of steam following the marriage survey outcome and given that Turnbull has almost entirely capitulated to the conservative faction of the LNP

Senor Tron posted:

Can't wait to see the response from Cory. Wonder if the Australian Conservatives as a brand will even last out his entire senate term.

G-Spot Run posted:

This is *checks notes* good for Star Citizen because

wait wrong train wreck

Freudian Slip posted:

According to the Guardian, Labor has caved and exempted pensioners from the franking credit rebate.

They should have just put a cap on the amount and then have it reduce over the coming years, allowing people to restructure their finance.

CrazyTolradi posted:

quote:

The Queensland senator Fraser Anning has described people attacking South African farmers as “subhuman” and claimed that events in the country were “the start of a genocide”.

Speaking to supporters of the farmers outside Queensland’s parliament in Brisbane on Sunday, the former One Nation senator, now an independent, said of the situation in South Africa: “This is the start of a genocide as far as I’m concerned, and it’s only going to get worse because the genocide has just started.”

Without referring to any specific case, Anning said: “Anyone who would boil a child in a bath, rape his mother and slaughter people the way they are slaughtering them now are subhuman.”

In a Facebook video of the speech (beginning at 27 minutes), Anning cast doubt on the ability of black South Africans to work the land. “These people, when they do take over the farms, as we’ve seen in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], the farms will run into ruin.

“Within a few more years they’ll be asking, demanding our support, and you can be sure that the United Nations will be demanding that we support these people with foreign aid.”

Anning supported Peter Dutton’s proposal to grant the farmers refugee status. He disparaged migrants from other destinations, saying South Africans were “industrious, they’re hardworking, they have the same Christian values, as opposed to some of the other people we’ve been bringing into the country”, who, he said, were “intent on tearing our country apart”.

Independent analysis has found it is all but impossible to accurately estimate the number of white farmers who have been murdered or attacked in South Africa in recent years, but figures suggest the murder rate for young black men in urban areas is considerably higher. Police statistics publicised by a South African MP, Pieter Groenewald, of the Freedom Front Plus party, show there were 638 attacks on farms and 74 murders in 2016-17, a rise on the previous year, but fewer than in many years during the past two decades. The figures are not broken down by race.

In earlier remarks at the Brisbane event, the Liberal MP Andrew Laming said attacks on white farmers in South Africa were sending them the message to “effectively, get out of our country”.

Laming said he had learned about the issue from a widely shared Facebook post purporting to show an elderly farmer who had been beaten, which he reposted on Sunday night.

He praised his “great colleague Peter Dutton”, saying “he could have ignored [farmers] completely, and hid behind PC departments, who continue to say the murder rate here is no different from the murder rate down the road”.

Laming cast doubt on the South African government’s willingness to tell the truth about attacks on farmers. “We need a South African government that starts counting the toll,” he said. “We need a South African government that doesn’t paper over reality.”

He emphasised the kinship between Australia and South Africa, saying: “We have two great frontier countries, with a great history.”

The speeches were cheered by hundreds of people who had earlier marched down Roma Street chanting slogans including “Save our farmers”, and “Thank you Mr Dutton”.

The march was organised by Brisbane’s South African community in support of proposals floated by Dutton to grant a special immigration status to white South African farmers.

The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, rejected Dutton’s comments last week, saying Australia had no plans to make special visa considerations for white South Africans. The South African government criticised his comments as “sad” and “regrettable”.

bell jar posted:

Fraser Anning claims that South African farmers are at risk of genocide

Anidav posted:

Police have arrested the mayor of Logan

Anidav posted:

Police have arrested the mayor of Logan