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Doctor Spaceman posted:A half-senate election has to be held within the next year or so. Eh, I guess. Who cares about that though it isn't the Billpocalypse
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JBP posted:Eh, I guess. Who cares about that though it isn't the Billpocalypse It's been almost 50 years since the last reps-only election, nobody seems that keen to do it again.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's been almost 50 years since the last reps-only election, nobody seems that keen to do it again. I can't recall having a more cowardly government though
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May 9, 2018 03:43
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I don't understand this loving word salad, what. I feel like now has been a bad time to try and understand politics again.
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https://twitter.com/samanthamaiden/status/994045800131969025JBP posted:I can't recall having a more cowardly government though Sure, and having a half-senate election and then a reps-only one a few months later would be brave as hell. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 03:54 on May 9, 2018 |
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May 9, 2018 03:48
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Spudd posted:I don't understand this loving word salad, what. I feel like now has been a bad time to try and understand politics again. Labor were smart and brave to pass evil Dutton KGB bill. Greens bad for opposing it. Literal children that won't form government.
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May 9, 2018 03:55
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All of the dual citizen Reps are recontesting.
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May 9, 2018 04:01
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Meanwhile the LNP duals won't do poo poo until the real election and quietly make the changes they need about 3 seconds after the election writs are issued.
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Spudd posted:I don't understand this loving word salad, what. I feel like now has been a vanbad time to try and understand vanbad again.
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May 9, 2018 05:06
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reborka dork goodpork
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this broken hill posted:reborka dork goodpork
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/09/sydney-archdiocese-runs-ads-seeking-donations-for-cardinal-george-pells-legal-fees posted:The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has been running ads in its news publication, the Catholic Weekly, seeking donations to fund Cardinal George Pell’s legal costs, a move which a lawyer representing victims of child sexual abuse, Dr Judy Courtin, describes as “utter hypocrisy”. What a loving ;augh
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May 9, 2018 05:23
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What are the best books about the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era? I know there is an author that has done 2 or more books about some high profile crooked cop setups (can't remember the names), but is there anything better for a general "this is how hosed up things were"?
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starkebn posted:What are the best books about the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era? I know there is an author that has done 2 or more books about some high profile crooked cop setups (can't remember the names), but is there anything better for a general "this is how hosed up things were"? I think you're referring to Matthew Condon's books which own but you're correct they're investigative non-fiction. The Lord's Premier is ok (forget author) but some of it is loving boring. Joh for PM owns. Peter Beattie's book contains interesting Joh content and a decent read.
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Yep *looks at the light on the hill* Queensland has come a long way. *sheds a single tear* The beacon of Australian ingenuity...
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I will give you all the drum. There are no finer documents of record than hansard from the Joh era. Absolutely mind boggling content.
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bigis posted:I guess there is an irony that s44 was presumably written to prevent the interference of foreign powers yet here we are. At the time s44 was written commonwealth countries weren't considered foreign powers. It was to prevent non-Anglos from been elected.
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Nibbles! posted:At the time s44 was written commonwealth countries weren't considered foreign powers. Which makes it as much about keeping out the French Third Republic and the Imperial Russians as it does 'orientals' NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 06:32 on May 9, 2018 |
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I stop reading auspol for a week and labor loses 6 seats? are these by-elections now the pre-election referendum?
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Ranter posted:I stop reading auspol for a week and labor loses 6 seats? They'll contest them and win them again it's no biggie.
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Former prime minister John Howard has joined leading business figures in calling for Newstart payments to be increased after Tuesday's budget delivered no extra benefits to the unemployed and clamped down further on welfare recipients. Mr Howard, who established the work-for-the-dole scheme, said there was a debate to be had about increasing the level of payment from $40 a day. "I actually think there is an argument about that, I do," he said at the PricewaterhouseCoopers post-budget breakfast in Melbourne on Wednesday. "I was in favour of freezing that when it happened, but I think the freeze has probably gone on too long."
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May 9, 2018 06:58
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Reclines Obesily posted:former libs are just making GBS threads over the current ones from all angles, whats the deal They've realised raising NewStart means more money gets spent by the poors (since they need to spend 100% of what they earn to y'know... survive) and as far as I know they all hate Turnbull since he's not as far right as they'd like Costello is just a loving idiot who people think are smart since he had the mining boom under him. Much like ScoMo last night, they had nothing to do with the increased revenue and instead global commodity markets made it possible.
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May 9, 2018 07:04
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The answer is to have a guess what part of the budget that a piece of desiccated dogshit, you know the ones that explode into a white faecal dust cloud when you accidentally kick them because they've been in direct sunlight for weeks, like John Howard would look at cutting in order to pay for the increase of newstart. "Hey we believe poor people should be given <large figure> more in their pockets! Look at us and how much we care for the poor please vote for us!" *slashes billions out of public school funding / mental health services / all arts except the posh ones / CSIRO / whatever you get my point*
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JBP posted:They'll contest them and win them again it's no biggie. apparently one of the seats is held by the alp with a .8% margin so it’ll be interesting to watch
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May 9, 2018 08:10
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Jesus Christ if all this citizenship buffoonery leads the Libs to strengthening their majority rather than losing it than gently caress this planet into the sun
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Tokamak posted:this is what politicians want to believe It seems to be the basis for their wages claims. Not seeing those cut because "government costs too much", eh. This was a poo poo Budget, the most cowardly from the Libs in a long time.
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I want Bill Shorten to torpedo every part of this budget on Thursday.
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I want Zingers flying left and right I want him to say THIS GOVERNMENT loudly
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aejix posted:The answer is to have a guess what part of the budget that a piece of desiccated dogshit, you know the ones that explode into a white faecal dust cloud when you accidentally kick them because they've been in direct sunlight for weeks, like John Howard would look at cutting in order to pay for the increase of newstart. While I don't doubt that Howard would approve, it's not the the sole reason for his suggestion, it's a bonus feature. The prime reasons for his suggestion are: 1. He doesn't have to answer politically for what he says any more, so he can say the unpalatable things. 2. The unpalatable things are that the demographics of youth unemployment, general underemployment and older people on the dole by default because they raised the pension age and are trying to avoid NDIS have risen to a significant percentage of "never going to vote Liberal". Unless he starts saying "save the whales", this is the kind of response I'd expect from a neoliberal who wasn't just brainfarting.
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JBP posted:Labor were smart and brave to pass evil Dutton KGB bill. I completely agree, fellow Australian citizen who will also not be purged because we are completely loyal to President Dutton. All hail President Dutton for life! *salutes portrait on wall*
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Was the NDIS given enough money? I was reading earlier about how they got rid of the tax they had intended to fund it with
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ewe2 posted:While I don't doubt that Howard would approve, it's not the the sole reason for his suggestion, it's a bonus feature. The prime reasons for his suggestion are: Fair play on point 1, agreed there. It's probably the longnecks that are preventing me from parsing point 2 - you're basically saying that the focus groups/internal polling/whatever have shifted negatively in significant enough numbers that they need to pump in however many pints of virgin blood are required to reanimate the corpse of Howard, in order to get him to throw out a few soundbites that will be dutifully repeated ad nauseum on every murdoch- or commercially-owned media outlet without question, promising money to the exact people on whose face the Libs have spent their entire lives grinding their boots? Yes, i torture the english language and grammar for a living, come at me bro vvvvvv dunno about mastermind, pretty sure every tory gently caress in this country was thinking the exact same thing, abbott is just stupid/smart/publicised enough to say it fake third edit: actually maybe 
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