Auspol August: Prime Minister Sharks

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Who should be the Mod? This poll is closed.
Anidav	14	0.14%
Dr Spaceman	2	0.02%
JBP	12	0.12%
bell jar	1	0.01%
GoldStandardConure	7	0.07%
Joseph Stalin	10016	99.64%
Total:	10052 votes

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Moon Atari: Dec 26, 2010

About LNP financial woes: if labour can manage to claim both house and senate they should immediately put through legislation limiting individual's donations to political parties, and require that organizations and foundations prove membership numbers such that their grouped donation does not exceed the individual limits.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:17

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 17:11

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

Anidav posted:

Liberal Policy Handbook:

Unemployment is a choice, no handouts for you

Farming the driest country in the world, not a choice, here's lots of money

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:19

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

hambeet posted:

What is this from?

https://twitter.com/mckinnon_a/status/1033882632788967424

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:19

lua: Jun 16, 2013

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:26

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

The Prime Minister, suddenly realising that Sharks need water to survive is personally touched by the farmers suffering in drought conditions; without water and more importantly - without sharks.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:26

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

Anidav posted:

I dunno The Greens facebook posted it. I assume some sort of article

thanks sherlock.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:32

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

drunkill posted:

https://twitter.com/mckinnon_a/status/1033882632788967424

cheers!

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:32

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Someone put this goverment out of its misery

Maybe also this country

Or at least me

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:34

Rock Puncher: Jul 26, 2014

lua posted:

https://i.imgur.com/G2R4XUT.jpg

scumo proof fence has potential

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:39

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.

lua posted:

I feel wrong finding this so funny.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:44

froglet: Nov 12, 2009; You see, the best way to Stop the Boats is a massive swarm of autonomous armed dogs. Strafing a few boats will stop the rest and save many lives in the long term.

You can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs. Vote Greens.

Moon Atari posted:

About LNP financial woes: if labour can manage to claim both house and senate they should immediately put through legislation limiting individual's donations to political parties, and require that organizations and foundations prove membership numbers such that their grouped donation does not exceed the individual limits.

That would be amazing.

I'm not sure it'd ever happen even if they got control of both house and senate.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:45

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Anyone watching Four Corners?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:47

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Anyone watching Four Corners?

I'm not watching QandA, that's for loving sure.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:48

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Starshark posted:

I'm not watching QandA, that's for loving sure.

There's going to be a fight.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:51

Rock Puncher: Jul 26, 2014

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

There's going to be a fight.

Q&A is infuriating. What's the four corners about?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:56

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Rock Puncher posted:

Q&A is infuriating. What's the four corners about?

Leadership.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:59

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

after all this time, after soo many years, you all still watch qanda

# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:59

Mad Katter: Aug 23, 2010; STOP THE BATS

I know a friend of mine is in the audience, so I'll have it on to see if her question gets up. Haven't watched it in years.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:01

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

hambeet posted:

after all this time, after soo many years, you all still watch qanda

Not loving me.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:04

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Calling the cops may or may not have been acceptable in the circumstances (though I don't think being lost or hungry is a problem only the police can solve) but I was more noting the headline of 'instead of calling the police' which combined with the thread's rush to praise him makes him sound like he was heroically resisting refugee policy enforcement.

The guy rescued them from potential death in the wilderness, and treated them like fellow human beings for the day instead of holding the criminal browns at spear point until border farce arrived, I feel that's worth encouraging.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:04

Ora Tzo: Feb 26, 2016; HEEEERES TONYYYY

https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/1034032933311377411

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:06

Rock Puncher: Jul 26, 2014

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Leadership.

Not much to go on, but I haven't seen four corners in a long time and they're usually pretty good.

How quick are they about putting things on iview these days?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:08

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-08-27/pm-leaves-climate-change-debate-for-another-day-on-drought-tour/10168860

quote:

Standing in front of the microphone in the searing bare heat outside the Tully family's house paddock, the Prime Minister holds up a message of hope.
It is a photo of a lush green paddock, taken on the same barren earth where politicians and the media pack are standing.
The image was taken just two years ago on the same land.
The Tullys are fifth generation farmers, bringing up five children on Bunginderry, their sheep and cattle property outside Quilpie in western Queensland.
The Quilpie region has been drought declared since 2013.
Stephen and Annabel Tully have destocked significantly and they have prepared their property for the dry.
The questions soon round on that of climate change.
Mr Tully wants to make it clear that debate is not his priority as they deal with daily pressures.
"Whether it's not climate change or it is, is completely irrelevant to any of us here. It's still marginal," he says.
"You can't argue any other way. People are hurting now, we need it fixed now."
He also points the family's own records which he believes show this drought is not unusual.
"We've got 100 years of (rainfall) records," Mr Tully says.
"What's happened here, so far, still sits within those records."
The Prime Minister echoed that position.
"I don't think people out here care one way or the other," Mr Morrison said.
"I don't think that's the issue."
When pressed to give a clear answer about whether he believes the prolonged dry period is associated with human-induced climate change, he is more blunt.
"The climate is changing. Everybody knows that," the Prime Minister said.
"I know what you are trying to ask and I don't think that's part of this debate. That's my point.
"If people want to have a debate about that, fine.
"It's not a debate I've participated a lot in, in the past, because I'm practically interested in the policies that will address what is going on here, right now.
"And I'm interested in getting people's electricity prices down, and I'm not terribly interested in engaging in those sorts of debates at this point.
"I understand the arguments about all of that, I understand the positions that are held."

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:11

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/matttburke/status/1031446351999946752

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:13

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

bandaid.friend posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-08-27/pm-leaves-climate-change-debate-for-another-day-on-drought-tour/10168860

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:15

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.

"debate"

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:16

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

Didn't immediately deny climate change = traitor to the conservative base

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:20

this broken hill: Apr 10, 2018; by Lowtax

i hate the farmers that get interviewed and they're all "my family have been on this land for five generations and now it doesn't function anymore, woe, woe" and you see their land in the background and it has been completely stripped of trees and pounded into dust by cattle year after year after year for every single year of those five generations. and you know when the rain comes and the grass grows back, they'll just put all those cattle straight back on there, and when the next drought hits they'll be back on tv again

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:25

this broken hill: Apr 10, 2018; by Lowtax

loving idiots

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:26

this broken hill: Apr 10, 2018; by Lowtax

less trees = more grass = more cows = $$$ durr hurr im a farm

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:29

this broken hill: Apr 10, 2018; by Lowtax

"piss off with that fucken kurrajong bulltshit you greenie oval office" i'm trying to HELP you! you STUPID OLD MAN

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:31

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

this broken hill posted:

less trees = more grass = more cows = $$$ durr hurr im a farm

hi a farm

im dad

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:31

snoremac: Jul 27, 2012; I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

He�s inherited from Turnbull the instinctive ability to waffle between both sides to the appeasement of neither.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:32

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.

What kind of immediate help do they want re drought that isn't just a massive cash payout?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:33

Starshark: Dec 22, 2005; Doctor Rope

JBP posted:

What kind of immediate help do they want re drought that isn't just a massive cash payout?

In NSW they want 400 000 (giga?)litres of water instead of the 15 000 they're getting.

*megalitres http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-27/drought-continues-in-nsw-despite-weekend-rain/10166682

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:34

Reclines Obesily: Jul 24, 2000; Hey Moona!; Slippery Tilde

JBP posted:

What kind of immediate help do they want re drought that isn't just a massive cash payout?

they want rain motherfucker but the fat cats in canberra ain't listening, typical if you ask me

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:34

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.

Starshark posted:

In NSW they want 400 000 (giga?)litres of water instead of the 15 000 they're getting.

Fair enough. I recall a bloke in the 70s wanted to build a big pipeline for these kinds of incidents but I think he was dealing with browns for the money so it didn't go ahead.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:35

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

Starshark posted:

In NSW they want 400 000 (giga?)litres of water instead of the 15 000 they're getting.

*megalitres http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-27/drought-continues-in-nsw-despite-weekend-rain/10166682

Drained straight out of the Murray-Darling

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:35

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Ora Tzo posted:

https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/1034032933311377411

wew lads.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:35

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 17:11

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

JBP posted:

What kind of immediate help do they want re drought that isn't just a massive cash payout?

they only want a cash payout if it means sending less money overseas or on I don't know, muslim schools or some poo poo.

They farmed themselves into this mess like Avs mentioned before, now they can use it as a stick to beat minorities with.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:36

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