You Am I posted:

ScoMo - "In the words of those most Excellent Dudes, Bill and Ted - Be Excellent to One Another"

GoldStandardConure posted:

scomo would watch bill & ted and think that teds father was right

JBP posted:

Scomo would think he was Rufus.

Lizard Combatant posted:

I have to be reminded about the existence of fatman scoop and prime minister scott morrison in the same sentence, truly this timeline tailors a personal hell for us all. What's yours?

hooman posted:

Donald Trump Juniors Instagram post defending attempted rape.

Guardian Au posted:

AMP has admitted to charging $1.3m in premiums for life insurance to more than 4,600 superannuation customers it knew had died, and admits the number of cases could be higher.

Lizard Combatant posted:

I have to be reminded about the existence of fatman scoop and prime minister scott morrison in the same sentence, truly this timeline tailors a personal hell for us all. What's yours?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Charging dead people for insurance was brought up earlier in the royal commission, I want to see what (if anything) the banks can come up with to top that.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Incredible.

tithin posted:

bandaid.friend posted:

Only 33 sleeps

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Businessman Clive Palmer has succeeded in his bid to have a Supreme Court Judge in Brisbane recused from an upcoming trial related to the 2016 collapse of Queensland Nickel.

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In his written judgement, Justice Bond rejected Mr Palmer's argument of actual bias against the mining magnate and former federal MP as "baseless".

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Justice Bond concluded that because he had made an adverse finding against Mr Palmer and found his evidence was "implausible", there was a risk that future rulings might be seen as prejudiced.
"In this case, such an observer might reasonably apprehend that having expressed the view that I expressed about Mr Palmer's evidence in the passages I have identified … I might not bring an impartial and unprejudiced mind to the determination of future issues which involve whether Mr Palmer should be believed," he said.
Mr Palmer denied trying to delay proceedings and said it was not a case of "judge shopping".

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Clive Palmer is attempting a spectacular comeback into federal politics, promising to spend millions of dollars at the next election and trying to register the United Australia Party (UAP), which already has a senator and is recruiting candidates.
Expect to see plenty more of his "Make Australia Great" billboards popping up across the country, along with television and radio advertisements on high rotation.
Townsville in North Queensland is at the centre of Mr Palmer's political ambitions, despite him being a polarising figure there after the collapse of his nickel refinery.
Mr Palmer has said he is moving north and planning a possible run in the marginal seat of Herbert at the next federal election, against his bitter rival, Labor's Cathy O'Toole.

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Mr Palmer is now suing Ms O'Toole for half a million dollars, claiming she defamed him in other comments she made about the collapse of Queensland Nickel.
Mr Palmer recently won another defamation claim, against Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill.

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UAP is setting up a showdown with One Nation as both parties fight for disenfranchised voters on the political right.
UAP has been recruiting disgruntled former One Nation candidates, encouraging them to follow in the footsteps of its new senator, Brian Burston, who joined after he fell out with Pauline Hanson and her chief of staff, James Ashby.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Charging dead people for insurance was brought up earlier in the royal commission, I want to see what (if anything) the banks can come up with to top that.

tithin posted:

The Strawberry Saga has migrated to Bananas now

Don Dongington posted:

My prediction is that it'll go to that lovely Phelps independent, Auspol and twitter will get excited about a no confidence vote, and then she'll join CA within a week and basically vote with the govt on 90% of legislation much like Sharkie.

GoldStandardConure posted:

copycat crime?

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Queensland police are still unsure if the sabotage devastating the nation’s strawberry industry is the work of a single person or several people acting independently.

The crisis is spreading after metal needles were found in strawberries in Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the investigation was complicated by the vast web of supply chains where the strawberries are produced and shipped to.

“There is a range of really complex scenarios which could play out here, and we’re looking at all of them, and that’s what’s taking the time,” he said on Monday.

The investigation was complicated further when a 62-year-old woman was caught putting a needle into a banana in central Queensland, in an apparent copycat act. It’s understood that the woman, caught at a shop in Mackay, has mental health issues.

In a statement police said they were treating it as an isolated incident without any links to other food contamination investigations.

The Queensland agriculture minister, Mark Furner, met with strawberry growers nervous about their future as the number of needle contamination cases grows to 10 and New Zealand food distributors remove Australian strawberries from their shelves.

Vice president of the Queensland Strawberry Growers Association, Adrian Schultz, says what started with a single “act of commercial terrorism” has now brought a multi-million-dollar industry to its knees, with jobs beyond the growers now likely to be lost.

“I’m angry for all the associated people, it’s the farmers, the people who supply them, the packaging people, the truckies with families to support, who suddenly lose their jobs ... it’s far-reaching,” he told ABC radio on Monday.

Growers met with Furner on Sunday to discuss the commercial effects of the contamination that began at a southeast Queensland farm eight days ago.

Furner says industry-specific assistance packages are being considered but no plan will be made until an understanding of the “complete effect” of the sabotage is understood.

“We won’t be coming up with any half-baked outcomes ... we need to listen to what is required,” he said.

There are around 150 commercial strawberry growers in Queensland.

Furner said a variety of generic government assistance packages were available and these would be offered to growers.

He said many growers were already experiencing economic stresses before the contamination began due to an oversupply of fruit, which had led to retail prices for a punnet falling to around $1.50.

Don Dongington posted:

My prediction is that it'll go to that lovely Phelps independent, Auspol and twitter will get excited about a no confidence vote, and then she'll join CA within a week and basically vote with the govt on 90% of legislation much like Sharkie.

hambeet posted:

yeah this, for real

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Nah

She'll join Bernardi's Palmer's Party

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has angrily denied cutting $1.2 billion in aged care funding as he announced a royal commission into the sector.

“If people want to put questions, they are not allowed to put lies,” Mr Morrison told a journalist on Sunday who asked about the cuts.

The Prime Minister went back and forth with the reporter, as he insisted he had not, as treasurer, presided over the funding cuts in the 2016 budget.

“This is why I’m having a royal commission because I’m not going to put up with lies being told about what’s happening in the aged care sector,” Mr Morrison said.

“Policies must be based on facts, not the facts that are dreamt up, not facts that are misinterpreted, not the facts that have agendas sitting behind them.”

However, the 2016 budget said the government would “achieve efficiencies of $1.2 billion over four years” from federal funding paid to aged care providers.

Mr Morrison did not explain how this was a “lie”.

He may have been referring to the fact that some parts of aged care received small boosts in funding in that budget, such as $137 million for the My Aged Care web portal. The combined effect was a cut of $902.7 million in federal aged care funding over five years, according to health department estimates at the time.

JBP posted:

Phelps is a fuckhead.

bandaid.friend posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/clive-palmer-supreme-court-judge-recused-queensland-nickel/10255160

JBP posted:

Phelps is a fuckhead.