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bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/998749303001645058

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TheMightyHandful
Dec 8, 2008

Dude McAwesome posted:

Did that piece of poo poo end up paying his refinery workers? Or did his pretense at illness shield him from any responsibility there?

Combo of ”dank” memes and pretending to be sick.
the court case is ongoing iirc

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
Oh right, I drove past a giant brand new Palmer poster on the way to work, just his dumb face and MAKE AUSTRALIA GREAT on it.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Zenithe posted:

Oh right, I drove past a giant brand new Palmer poster on the way to work, just his dumb face and MAKE AUSTRALIA GREAT on it.

I saw one of those the other days and was going to snap a picture but I was driving.

A serious "What the gently caress?" moment considering I'm in Victoria.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




I got one of those Chinese language phonecalls from the "chinese embassy" yesterday morning at 7:30, and the next thing I remember it was 5pm and I was standing on the banks of a reservoir while a car slowly sank in front of me. Vote Liberal.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Yeah Palmer United Party is probably going to ressurect soon for no loving reason.

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
How is it people like him can source so much money when they're colossal gently caress ups?

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

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

starkebn posted:

How is it people like him can source so much money when they're colossal gently caress ups?


Dude McAwesome posted:

Did that piece of poo poo end up paying his refinery workers?

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

fiery_valkyrie posted:

Last year I attended a talk given by a professor from JCU who has spent decades studying the reef, and more recently in particular on the effects of increasing water temperatures on coral growth, or lack thereof. His talk was really informative (and depressing) and I’m glad he doesn’t have work at the same place as this dickhead anymore.

Yeah just imagine the morale working at JCU where you are watching the reef go byebye and all this poo poo blows up as well.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005


I do like it when Penny Wong fires up. Suck poo poo Cormann

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/23/coalition-says-there-is-no-persuasive-evidence-federal-icac-needed

Hey, when you are wrong about corruption in a particular area (like banks), might as well keep that same line about a Federal Icac.

OH WAIT

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/may/23/malcolm-turnbull-andrew-hastie-china-donor-estimates-politics-live

I wonder if the media will be attacking Hastie over his Chinese donor like they were for Sam Dastyari

You Am I fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 23, 2018

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Why ask politicians if a Federal ICAC is required?

Why ask priests if a Royal Commission into sexual abuse is required?

Why ask mobsters if effective policing is required?

Why ask banks if stronger protections are required?

bigis
Jun 21, 2006
Unfortunately the difference is the pollies get to decide for themselves.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Guys guys, self policing is totally going to work this time!

norp
Jan 20, 2004

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

hooman posted:

Guys guys, self policing is totally going to work this time!

:wrong:

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Salim Mehajer's solicitor sister Zenah Osman has been struck off the roll of lawyers for attempting to mislead the Federal Court, in the latest legal drama to befall the Mehajer family.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found on Wednesday the case for removing Ms Osman from the roll was "overwhelming" and there was "no evidence" she had learned or changed from her mistakes.

A three-member bench of the tribunal found Ms Osman told the Federal Court in July 2014 she acted for a number of creditors of her brother's failed company SM Project Developments "when she knew or ought to have known that was false".


At the time, Ms Osman was the director of the Mehajer Legal Group, which employed no other lawyers and shared an office with Mr Mehajer.

"It is trite to say that a legal practitioner misleading a court in which she or he appears must be amongst the most egregious misconduct that a legal professional can commit," principal tribunal members Robert Titterton and Linda Pearson and general member Bruce Thomson said.

They said the conduct was "perhaps even more reprehensible" when the lawyer involved offered no explanation for their misconduct.

"The respondent’s comment, 'I don’t even deserve to be here to be quite honest', in many respects, summarises the respondent’s attitude to and understanding of the disciplinary complaints brought against her," the tribunal said.


The tribunal concluded Ms Osman was not a fit and proper person to remain on the roll of lawyers and there was "no evidence" either of mitigating circumstances or "any remorse, insight, or understanding" by her of her misconduct.

The law firm acting for the liquidator appointed to Mr Mehajer's company wrote to Ms Osman in June 2014 and advised "as a matter of professional courtesy ... that we have been contacted by a number of persons that you purport to act for who have advised us that you do not act for them".

The letter said this was "obviously of great concern".

The tribunal said Ms Osman "failed to take any meaningful action" in response to the letter.

Ms Osman told the tribunal said she knew nothing about the liquidation and “they needed me and my letterhead. I didn’t even get paid. They lied to me”.

"She said that she did not want to act in the matter, as she thought it involved 'some sort of dodgy deal'," the tribunal said.

"She admitted that she had been 'very naïve', negligent and stupid. She said that unfortunately, she 'can’t do nothing', which we understood to be a statement that she is not able to correct her past wrongs."


Ms Osman said she had stopped practising as a lawyer but the tribunal said her "equivocal answers" - including that she was only sending "short emails" and did "nothing heavy" - "did not assure the tribunal that she had indeed ceased to practise".

She was removed from the roll and ordered to pay the NSW Law Society's costs.

The lowest-profile of Mr Mehajer's sisters, Ms Osman wrote to Fairfax Media in October last year as Mr Mehajer's lawyer, and claimed he was about to commence "Australia's Largest Case of Defamation" against a host of other media outlets. The case did not proceed.

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:
How do these people not expect to be caught? All this stuff seems really obvious

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.
Probably because they've gotten away with a bunch of other poo poo in the past

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

bandaid.friend posted:

How do these people not expect to be caught? All this stuff seems really obvious

Yeah it seems obvious, but gaming the system makes it difficult to stop, even when all the facts are present. A friend of mine was sued by someone with legal experience and even thought it was clear that they were gaming the system to harass him, it took years to make that obvious and the story hasn't ended yet.

Halo14
Sep 11, 2001

quote:

Remember that time Greg Hunt’s twitter account liked a pornographic tweet? The Australian federal police confirmed that it has finished its investigation and found no evidence of criminality.
“There was no crime. The account was not hacked in a criminal sense,” the federal police commissioner, Andrew Colvin, says.
Hunt, at the time, said his account had been hacked and called for an investigation.

Colvin offers some sage advice: “I think social media hygiene is an issue that we all need to be conscious of. That is about who has access to your Twitter account, how many people have access, do you know who has access to your account. I’ll leave it at that.”
Twitter apparently gave some information to police during the investigation.

So....

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

it was either a staffer or Hunt himself

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 need to stop reading the hun letters I'm going to have a loving seizure eventually.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

bandaid.friend posted:

How do these people not expect to be caught? All this stuff seems really obvious

Can't Do Nothing

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Presumably Hunt will be criticised for wasting police resources by claiming he was hacked for wanking

Dude McAwesome
Sep 30, 2004

Still better than a Ponytar

JBP posted:

I need to stop reading the hun letters I'm going to have a loving seizure eventually.

It’s like stepping into an alternate reality in which everyone is a huge loving moron.

“Dodgy Dan” “We need Abbott back” “Unions are crooks”

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

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

Dude McAwesome posted:

It’s like stepping into an alternate reality in which everyone is a huge loving moron.

...alternate?

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/999059808136265728

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

it's funny how sexual or violent offences involving public figures are 'just allegations' and 'innocent until proven guilty'

but when it's a suicidal refugee, let's allegedly drag their name through the mud

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.
The Herald Sun has spent two days filling the comments with criticism of some PC gone mad gender bender policy in Darebin, but I can't find a single loving article about it online and I want to know what they've read because it's extremely impressive that they're filling two pages of opinion with comments on something one can't even read about.

The Before Times
Mar 8, 2014

Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

JBP posted:

The Herald Sun has spent two days filling the comments with criticism of some PC gone mad gender bender policy in Darebin, but I can't find a single loving article about it online and I want to know what they've read because it's extremely impressive that they're filling two pages of opinion with comments on something one can't even read about.

I saw it on reddit a few days ago; essentially there was some literature review (potentially commissioned by a council?) that spoke about not boxing children in entirely on the basis of gender, which turned into "MELBOURNE COUNCILS WANT TO BAN THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE"

e: SBS has more info on it. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/no-thomas-the-tank-engine-won-t-be-banned-under-melbourne-council-gender-guidelines

The report that sparked the moral panic can be read here: http://csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/CSRM_WP4_2018_RESILIENCE_1.pdf

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Australian Government intentionally neglects another refugee to death.

The Australian Newspaper: HE WAS NO ANGEL

Paingod556
Nov 8, 2011

Not a problem, sir

I saw Green/LGBTetc mates sharing a Truck PoorPork thing about it, apparently in agreement of whatever she was saying.

hosed if I know what the article said, I saw the author name and moved on with my day

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 wish the actual culture war would kick off so I can kill some of these people gently caress a bloody duck.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-23/judge-orders-30-year-old-man-to-move-out-of-his-parents27-house/9790312

I feel you, Michael. My parents won't let me live with them either.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
God I loving despise Alan Tudge.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Rub and Tudge.

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.

Michael was directed to sell some of his weapons to afford living out of home.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




JBP posted:

Michael was directed to sell some of his weapons to afford living out of home.

You don't just sell Hanzo steel, friend

Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012

https://twitter.com/illywhacker_/status/999044803730980865?s=21

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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Anyone else like how Turnbull claims the relationship with China is fine while Chinese customs is holding up Australian wine, meat and baby formula at the border and the state media is calling for Bishop to resign?

(A2 milk and Penfolds stocks tanking on ASX)

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