Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/itsbouquet/status/1028179056343171073?s=21

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I know I shouldn't try to apply logic to these things but Australian racists really need to decide if their deranged vision of the future is rule under sharia law or the PRC, the two don't get along that well.

Ten Becquerels posted:

My prof at uni showed a Family Policy Institute of Washington clip that was actually about how transgenderism is stupid to point out that the dude said he was 6'5" when he's clearly not as part of a critical thinking talk. Couldn't hear me over the vid saying 'you know these guys are evangelicals right' so so much for checking your sources This is in a microbiology class and the rest of the talk was interesting but come on dude.

Mind you this is also the dude who believes in climate change but not anthropogenic climate change because apparently we're in drought and greece/california/victoria is regularly on fire while tropics get repeatedly dunked by cyclones because this is normal. Also maybe the CIA created HIV.

bandaid.friend posted:

honky cartoonist afraid of spicy food

Ten Becquerels posted:

My prof at uni showed a Family Policy Institute of Washington clip that was actually about how transgenderism is stupid to point out that the dude said he was 6'5" when he's clearly not as part of a critical thinking talk. Couldn't hear me over the vid saying 'you know these guys are evangelicals right' so so much for checking your sources This is in a microbiology class and the rest of the talk was interesting but come on dude.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/smh/status/1028113827915882496?s=21

Sekkira posted:

What media are you following?

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/itsbouquet/status/1028179056343171073?s=21

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I don't think it's the spicy food.




Hope you've put in a formal complaint about the bigot.

this broken hill posted:

my suggestion for rebranding the greens is to really go in hard on the apocalypse and existential despair. only one party can save us from our self-created hell

Cartoon posted:

I though you people wanted old folks to suffer? Make up your loving minds please.

Dude McAwesome posted:

The guillotine doesn’t cause suffering. It’s quick and painless.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1028430714159558657?s=21

bell jar posted:

why doesn't a simple majority count?

Quantum Mechanic posted:

Greens NSW state council voted 60% in favour to remove Jeremy Buckingham from the ticket while he's being investigated, but because we need 75% to do anything nothing happens. Love the tail of ten regional rotten borough branches wagging the dog

bell jar posted:

why doesn't a simple majority count?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/1028604851016556544

NTRabbit posted:

The Liberals are totally fine, but in the PPM poll Malcolm has taken a nose dive and needs to be replaced, in a set of Murdoch commissioned polls that fit the narrative so well it's like they were manufactured to measure

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

bandaid.friend posted:

Why isn't Workman a 'real' journalist?

Fairfax posted:

A Maori Niuean man working for a Rainbow Beach tour company was given a canister labelled ‘Black Guy Repllent’ [sic] by his colleagues when he asked for sunscreen, he claims.

The incident was just one alleged example of ongoing workplace racial vilification that the man, McDuff Tupetagi, is claiming forced him to take sick leave for mental distress and anxiety, and made him feel “like an unwanted creature or pest”.

In a statement of facts lodged in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission this week, Mr Tupetagi said at his work he was frequently made the butt of jokes and referred to as “the black fella”.

Mr Tupetagi is now suing the Fraser Island tour company and two of its employees for discrimination.

Rainbow Beach Adventure Company is owned by Website Travel Group, which owns a number of travel and tourism companies around Australia.

Website Travel Group general manager Barry Downes said in a statement to Fairfax Media: “We value all our employees and are supporting the proceedings.”
In 2016, Mr Tupetagi asked his boss, Mervin O’Neill, to install a sunshade at the workplace to protect him from the sun as he worked on the company’s cars.
After three months, Mr Tupetagi asked again for a sunshade, and Mr O’Neill took the request to his manager, ‘Byron’.
“‘Byron’ approached the complainant and refused the complainant’s request, saying to the complainant words to the effect of 'because you’re black',” the statement of facts reads.
“By Byron’s words, Byron imputed to the complainant that he was less or not susceptible to sunburn and skin damage from the sun because of his skin colour.”

On November 8, 2017, Mr Tupetagi was told by his coworkers that there was “a present” for him in the car he was next to work on.

In the footwell of the car’s passenger front seat, he found an empty canister of sunscreen wrapped in fluorescent yellow tape, labelled ‘Black Guy Repllent’ [sic] and ‘Caution! Only use on blacks’.
Mr Tupetagi reported the incident to Mr O’Neill, who said it was likely the act of another employee, Joel Mahon.
Telling Mr Tupetagi to go home, Mr O’Neill said he would “sort it out”.

At midday, Mr Mahon drove to Mr Tupetagi’s house and told him he had been sent to apologise.

“The complainant told Mr Mahon with words to the effect of 'you shouldn’t be here',” the statement reads.

A week later, Mr Tupetagi took out a medical certificate and a workers’ compensation certificate declaring him unfit to work due to the stress of the alleged racial discrimination.

Fairfax Media has seen Mr Tupetagi’s Workers Compensation medical certificates, all of which cite discrimination as causing his distress.

Mr Tupetagi has since needed “extensive” psychiatric support and been diagnosed with severe depression and agoraphobia, or fear of leaving safe places, the court documents claim.

The case has reached the Industrial Relations Commission after ongoing negotiations with the company, with Mr Tupetagi claiming his alleged treatment from his employer and colleagues was contemptuous and exposed him to severe ridicule.
“By being presented with a sunscreen bottle, a product designed to save lives which the complainant had been denied access to previously, marked as a product designed to chase ‘blacks’ away, or even kill them, the complainant felt likened to an unwanted creature or pest,” the statement of facts reads.
Supportah Operations industrial advocate Miles Heffernan, representing Mr Tupetagi, said it was one of the most “shocking” cases of workplace racism and vilification he had seen.
“Trying to make a black colleague extinct or otherwise treated like an insect is repugnant,” Mr Heffernan said.
“Any organisation in the business of international tourism should embrace people of all colours and creed.”

Rainbow Beach Adventure Company, Mr O’Neill and Mr Mahon were being represented in the case by DLA Piper litigation lawyer Sophie Devitt.
The case will appear before court in a few weeks.

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The Turnbull government is fast-tracking a policy to underwrite a new coal-fired power station as it seeks to win the support of wavering conservative MPs for the National Energy Guarantee at Tuesday’s Coalition party room meeting.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims, who recommended the government underwrite new dispatchable power generation to boost competition and lower prices, will brief Nationals MPs on the idea at their separate meeting on Monday.

At the same time, Treasurer Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg have started work on options to implement the recommendation which, a government source said, would see the government “underwrite new generation, possibly including coal”.