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We literally became the hand of God and bred and domesticated a best friend only for loving idiots to breed and kill them to win a race.
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Senor Tron posted:Let's say we increase our spending by 1% of GDP (so an extra 17 billion a year). Does Abbott really think that would save us if China actually went on the offensive against Australia?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1017248670033461248 1 11 11 1_
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Does this mean we're ignoring the rest of the crooked-looking stuff the government's been doing to cover this up
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Mr Chips posted:Our best defence against invasion is being a sun-blasted, mad-max style hellscape at the arse end of the world. except we have a good proportion of the world's known uranium so there's *some* strategic value in it, but it'd be a logistic nightmare to invade and hold.
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bell jar posted:these are written by chris leben, producer of sbs' the feed, and not by lee lin chin, sorry if that shatters anyone in this threads dreams of not everything being run by white men i am dismayed
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Box of Bunnies posted:Thank goodness the government flipped on the unfair racing ban on these hardworking entrepreneurs. It's only one or two bad apples m8 "how many owners are there in the industry?" like three or four?
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Party Plane Jones posted:dear god what is happening in this thread Aurora Australis?
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drunkill posted:Some jokers in the army "Bulk Billing" LMAO
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Tasmantor posted:Aurora Australis? At this time of year? In this part of the forum? Located entirely in this thread?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1017248670033461248 No! No rules against graft! Only against poors!
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Box of Bunnies posted:At this time of year? In this part of the forum? Located entirely in this thread? Fucken oath
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AgentF posted:Fucken oath ...can I see it?
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Cleretic posted:...can I see it? Yeah nah
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Steamed Lambs, oval office. Steamed Lambs.
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Starshark posted:what is this poo poo election now Yo dawg, we put a phone on your phone, so you can talk while you talk.
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Please make Auspol August: Steamed Lambs.
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hooman posted:Please make Auspol August: Steamed Lambs. I like how pleased you are with that one. Also I'm reading an article about the ACCC report into power prices and the main conclusion I'm coming to is private companies with a profit motive running essential services like power is bad. I've also just realised I've signed myself up to doorknock this weekend for the election but it's apparently going to pour with rain. 
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froglet posted:I like how pleased you are with that one. Yes and then for some reason the conclusion they come up with for Queensland is to sell electricity assets. Not even joking the report is all about how privatisation is bad and then says Queensland should sell its generators lol.
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The report concludes that privatisation is bad but competition is good and therefore Queensland should privatise its electricity grid because it will create competition despite the fact that real competition under capitalism hasn't existed in decades and in the case of electricity prices has led to companies simply agreeing prices should be higher rather than competition forcing the prices downwards. It's almost as if despite years of evidence, this report cannot fathom that an industry that merely feigns competition in order to look like a healthy market cannot exist.
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Anidav posted:The report concludes that privatisation is bad but competition is good and therefore Queensland should privatise its electricity grid because it will create competition despite the fact that real competition under capitalism hasn't existed in decades and in the case of electricity prices has led to companies simply agreeing prices should be higher rather than competition forcing the prices downwards. It's almost as if despite years of evidence, this report cannot fathom that an industry that merely feigns competition in order to look like a healthy market cannot exist. thats because if qld collapses, we can finally cut out the cancer and the rest of australia will improve. what next, privatise the water?
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Kommando posted:thats because if qld collapses, we can finally cut out the cancer and the rest of australia will improve. Lol if you think in 2018 that NSW isn't the cancer.
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Don Dongington posted:Lol if you think in 2018 that Australia isn't the cancer.
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Don Dongington posted:Lol if you think in 2018 that NSW isn't the cancer.
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Solemn Sloth posted:The first time that you have direct contact with a big 4 accounting firm, and see the discrepancy between the level of work and expertise they bring and the hourly rates they charge, is a hell of a shock tbqh. EY? I hate EY.
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But tbh the same is true for a lot of consultancy firms. Government wastes a ridiculous amount of money on that poo poo.
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The Before Times posted:EY? Got it in one! Yeah this was my first time seeing a fee estimate from them. It’s seriously criminal how much the public sector forks out to their mates through this type of consultancy. Translating the costs of an individual project you outsource, compared to the total cost to bring on a highly skilled person internally, and then you’d also retain that knowledge within the department/agency going forward too. It’s hosed.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Got it in one! yeah but something something bloated public service fat cats! Also be careful engaging any consultants with projects that might span over the christmas holidays; all the seniors gently caress off and leave the grads/interns behind to cluelessly do the work.
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When I was a teenager and the privatisation of the public sector was still new I was doing something in some office somewhere. Anyway, one of the more experienced workers took a redundancy package worth quite a chunk of change as they were doing those efficiency downsizes they like to do. He was back the next week as a consulting earning 3 times as much for the next few months at least. We used to have a public sector to be proud of...
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Oh boy you wait until you do some work with PWC. EY are comparatively excellent in comparison. PWC literally come in, do a bunch of bullshit interviews, then do a find and replace on the nearest applicable document, and walk off 5-6 figures heavier. My experience with EY was that they at least generated some original material, even if it wasn't worth the price.
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Oh also the people they’re going to be asking all their questions to are represented by Freehills so it’s really ticking all the boxes for an excellent process imo
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Oh also Murdoch/Freehills have dropped their bullshit vexatious lawsuit against the NTEU's WA industrial staff which is great. The Guillotines can't come soon enough to those scumfucks.
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The Before Times posted:EY? Turns out I play floorball with one of the offspring of a partner of EY and the guy is an entitled jerk.
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My workplace has recently had some stuff contracted to Deloitte. One of their presentations involved them very carefully restating a bunch of things I've been saying for a year and a half. Fun times.
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That's basically the experience anyone's gonna have with a big 4 consulting company, if you're a subject matter expert or at all invested in the organisation you work for. They come in, say what you've been saying for years, walk away with a few million dollars, and then your boss ignores it anyway.
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