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ewe2 posted:Bingo. Cries of bias, sure, but what are they against? Fixing the design that kills people. Crush protection has been fought against for years, using the novel argument that fitting it would make manufacturers more liable. Yeah it totally sounds like the manufacturers are having a tantrum because they don’t want to have to go to all the bother/expense of making their product safer.
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:11 |
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I did a quick google on the crush protection debate, they've been fighting this since around 2014, particularly after WorkSafe in Victoria made anti-roll bars mandatory for quad bikes.
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:17 |
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Well if i have to choose between changing the design, getting the design verified, paying the extra material costs, training my workshop staff to assemble the new design, and passing the cost on to the consumer OR A bunch of kids get mashed up underneath my product Then quite frankly the kids are going to continue to be ground into a paste. Its just simple business and i am a job creator
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:17 |
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https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/993416756956807170
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:23 |
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Are you having a nice day? Well i'm here to change all that.quote:Young, pregnant and homeless: Hobart’s rental market at breaking point http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/young-pregnant-and-living-in-a-tent-hobart-housing-crisis/9712170
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:26 |
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The ABC has leaked that Tomorrow budget will contain a tax cut for low and middle income earners of 10 dollars a week. Low and middle-income earners will get tax cuts worth up to $10.50 a week in tomorrow's budget. The ABC understands that while the measure will start on July 1, the tax break will come in the form of a bigger end-of-year tax rebate. The tax relief will be delivered by an increase to the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO) which doesn't show up in weekly or fortnightly pay packets. At the moment, the LITO is worth $445 a year for people earning below $37,000 annually. It gradually reduces and cuts out completely when people earn $66,667 a year. Treasurer Scott Morrison is expected to announce the value of the offset will more than double to $1,000. It will be extended to people on incomes of about $90,000 a year, the ABC understands, and would still be phased out so that the more a person earns, the lower the rebate they would receive. That would mean an extra $10.50 a week for those who receive the maximum benefit. Giving a tax cut in this way is cheaper for the Government because it is targeted at low to middle-income earners and would not flow through to people on higher incomes. It is tipped to cost the Government about $4 billion to $5 billion a year. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has already warned the tax breaks in Tuesday's budget will not be "mammoth". When Mr Morrison was pressed on whether this tax break would be dismissed as only worth a hamburger and a milkshake, he argued that it had been a long time since there had been real tax relief. He said the Government had always said it would provide tax relief that was both affordable and responsible. Choosing a less expensive way of offering a tax break means the Government can also return to surplus more quickly. It had forecast a surplus in 2020-21, but is now likely to announce that it can be in surplus in 2019-20.
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:34 |
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Just to add to what Dane was saying - if you're on the dole and you want to move somewhere where the rent is affordable, you might get done by Centrelink for moving to an area of lower employment which cuts you off for six months.
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Anidav posted:The ABC has leaked that Tomorrow budget will contain a tax cut for low and middle income earners of 10 dollars a week. Well they've got my vote lol.
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:40 |
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Auspol May: I voted Liberal and all I got was 10 bucks
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# ? May 7, 2018 10:43 |
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Lowtax, rejoice!
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:10 |
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Gunna spend my tax cut on a new avatar for anidav.
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:20 |
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aejix posted:Well if i have to choose between changing the design, getting the design verified, paying the extra material costs, training my workshop staff to assemble the new design, and passing the cost on to the consumer The wheels of progress are greased with the blood of the unworthy.
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:23 |
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Starshark posted:Just to add to what Dane was saying - if you're on the dole and you want to move somewhere where the rent is affordable, you might get done by Centrelink for moving to an area of lower employment which cuts you off for six months. Jesus loving christ centrelink.
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:31 |
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It's all here I can't speak for every Centrelink office back when I worked for them, but at my office it was 'shoot first, ask questions later'. In other words, jobseekers would be cut off and they'd appeal to the social worker while they're getting no money.
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:38 |
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Sounds better if you say it's $500 a year. Gonna laugh if they lose the next election and Labor ends up with the first surplus in a decade.
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Starshark posted:It's all here Has been years since I've heard of a malep test failure but the offices I was at played it pretty loose back when we saw them and if people said the right thing noone had enough time to really dig unless you really really annoyed someone. It's a pretty wild part of the social security act that fits that bit in and definitely can land you in huge trouble if you don't know about it.
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:56 |
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The Feds must think they're going to be turbofucked and lose Boothby, Sturt, and maybe even Grey and Barker, becausequote:The electrification of the Gawler rail line and the completion of more stages of the South Road upgrade are among projects earmarked for more than $1.5 billion worth of infrastructure funding in tomorrow's federal budget. They only hold 4 seats in SA, and 2 of them are well within the uniform swing range to Labor, while the other two were slim holds against
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# ? May 7, 2018 11:56 |
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People in the tax free threshold do not benefit from this either, so for the actual low income people (mostly teens in casual jobs) don't get the $10 a week off of tax.
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# ? May 7, 2018 12:08 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:A doctor and senior Mormon who blames ungodly love for HIV, as well as a prominent campaigner against the Safe Schools program, have been elected to positions in the Victorian Liberal Party. I'd laugh too, but religious bigots in power is never funny. Even just a little power is still enough to hurt people.
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# ? May 7, 2018 12:17 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Are you having a nice day? Well i'm here to change all that. This tent city (and a second one in Glenorchy) have been in the local news a fair bit here in Hobart recently. There was a news article the other week with a headline along the lines of “welcome relief for tent city residents” which sounded great, but it turned out that they were all patting themselves on the back for having found accommodation for 4 people. It’s very disheartening.
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# ? May 7, 2018 12:35 |
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We need to get all Genghis Khan on this. that is, way bigger tents. Maybe also an army of horsemen making an example of the government.
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# ? May 7, 2018 13:25 |
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Bob Hawke is in hospital. Probably just for an IV of beer but we'll see.
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# ? May 7, 2018 13:45 |
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https://twitter.com/wrongdorey/status/993461796211015680
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# ? May 7, 2018 14:01 |
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drunkill posted:Bob Hawke is in hospital. If Bob Hawke were to steal the budget news cycle it would be the most amazing way for Turnbull to get hosed over yet again
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# ? May 7, 2018 14:02 |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-07/peter-costello-says-well-be-dead-before-national-debt-paid-off/9736158 Peter fuckin Costello calling people earning between $100k-$200k the "forgotten people" who are badly in need of tax relief. What loving planet does this cretin live on? Also, I love how he says someone earning 200k is paying 47% tax. Deliberately applying the top marginal tax rate to the entire amount. gently caress these horrible pricks.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:We need to get all Genghis Khan on this. that is, way bigger tents. Maybe also an army of horsemen making an example of the government. Clearly the solution to the housing affordability crisis is using large areas of lawn area in all major metropolitan cities as established tent cities. None of these crappy 'camping' tent poo poo either. Full on yurts with dirt tracks and areas to graze their animals. Force the homeless to live nomadic lifestyles, in winter they shall move north to Brisbane, in Summer they shall seek shelter in Melbourne and Hobart. And those who have wronged the nomadic tent people? They shall be banished to Perth on the banks of the Swan River where they will be overseen by their overlords in the CBD. And we can film it for a special on SBS.
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Dude McAwesome posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-07/peter-costello-says-well-be-dead-before-national-debt-paid-off/9736158 Based on his performance and that of his PM as treasurer in their respective governments, I would not be shocked if he actually doesn't know how marginal tax rates work.
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# ? May 7, 2018 16:00 |
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So when do we start eating the rich? Because I am getting mighty hungry.
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# ? May 7, 2018 16:38 |
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Early Surplus my dick. No goddamn way.
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# ? May 7, 2018 21:08 |
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*shoves budget papers in oven* *breathes deeply* Mmm, they smell good don't they.
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# ? May 7, 2018 21:42 |
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A branch of the NSW Liberal Party is set to debate the merits of Sharia-style corporal punishment and a radical proposal to make citizens responsible for sentencing criminals rather than judges. The notoriously hard-right Carlingford branch, under its colourful president George Popowski, will discuss a push to "straighten out the law and order system" by handing sentencing powers to a panel of 20 members of the public, with no more than 30 per cent from the legal fraternity. Mr Popowski, who authored the motion, also urged the reintroduction of corporal punishment, arguing it was the "fairest" form of retribution because "we all feel the same pain". He proposed 10 lashes for theft of a T-shirt, 1000 lashes for stealing a car (2000 if the vehicle is damaged), 5000 lashes for punching a police officer and 20,000 lashes for murder. The floggings should be "delivered at 10 lashes per hour – every hour from 9am to 5pm, with one hour for lunch", Mr Popowski wrote. The sentence would be doubled for second-time offenders. Mr Popowski made headlines in 2016 when he brought a motion to a party conference calling for an immediate ban on all immigration, labelling migrants "criminals", "bastards" and "jihadists".
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Lid posted:A branch of the NSW Liberal Party is set to debate the merits of Sharia-style corporal punishment and a radical proposal to make citizens responsible for sentencing criminals rather than judges. 10 lashes for stealing a t-shirt so presumably a few thousand lashes for wage theft. Hmmm? No?
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:09 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:10 lashes for stealing a t-shirt so presumably a few thousand lashes for wage theft. Hmmm? No? Indeed fellow Liberal Party member, we lash the employee 10 thousand times.
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Zenithe posted:Early Surplus my dick. You know it's will be based on dubious projections of all the zombie poo poo they've not passed, with an expectation that it can be adopted retrospectively.
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:22 |
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I'm keen for the zinger filled budget reply speech
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:31 |
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Peter Costello says he’ll be dead before budget surplus so for the first time ever I care about the bottom line
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:58 |
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Anidav posted:I'm keen for the zinger filled budget reply speech Blank Shorten’s budget reply speech in 2014 was the moment I started having hope for the guy to eventually be PM. He was quite *checks notes* good.
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:59 |
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Man who created structural deficit talks about budget and is listened to by people. Short memories all around apparently.
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# ? May 7, 2018 23:01 |
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Dude McAwesome posted:Man who created structural deficit talks about budget and is listened to by people. I mean, all he did was gently caress up telecommunications in Australia and sell everything that wasn't nailed down
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# ? May 7, 2018 23:03 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:10 lashes for stealing a t-shirt so presumably a few thousand lashes for wage theft. Hmmm? No? If they are going old school fear of God 10 commandments style system how many is Barnaby going to get for his adultery or will that be grandfathered in with the wet lettuce leaf he got lashed with by Malcom?
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