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hambeet posted:I'm always curious as to why motorists don't like the idea of cyclists being separated. It gets them off more roads! You don't have to worry about them! I thought it was a win win. It's not the motorists as such, it's the people who don't want resources diverted away from roads, because cars and infrastructure and petrol sales, the whole vested interest problem.
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Scummo announced just now he wants to merge the ABC and SBS to clear out the corruption.
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Sep 28, 2018 01:24
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Sep 28, 2018 01:49
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Anidav posted:
lmao, this fuckin idiot having a crack at leadership crises in other mobs
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Sep 28, 2018 01:54
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It'll work, like it usually does. They hosed the ABC with lovely appointments and now will you use the predictable turmoils to gently caress it harder. I'm sure people in here called it at the time and now it's here. Watch as Murdock runs daily mud stirring articles and the boomers eat it all up. Hell if they made the hoo haa they did about laybor leadership madness this is a slam dunk. Edit: just realised this gives them to much credit, I don't think they planned it this way like puppet (muppet?) Masters but I think they are opportunistic enough and have the support needed from other vested interests to do some damage. Tasmantor fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Sep 28, 2018 01:59
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Dude McAwesome posted:lmao, this fuckin idiot having a crack at leadership crises in other mobs Should merge the Liberal and National parties... add stability
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Sep 28, 2018 02:22
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new law: mandatory bike license, and you can't get one unless you've completed a cert iv in aged care services
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Sep 28, 2018 02:22
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How does merging the two benefit the LNP? One budget to cut? More positions to stack with mates? Wouldn't such a thing need to pass the senate? I guess Pauline would support loving up the ABC. Hmmm
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Sep 28, 2018 02:29
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It wouldn't benefit the LNP, because it would just infuriate the 60 odd percent of non-base voters.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:32
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Make safe cycling part of physical education curriculum Add a couple of extra road-share questions in the driver's license test Anytime cycling infrastructure is built match dollar for dollar on government owned burn out recreation parks or council owned burn out parks on the same model as council pools
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Sep 28, 2018 02:34
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So why merge em
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Sep 28, 2018 02:34
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'cause Morrison dumb
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Sep 28, 2018 02:36
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Should merge the Liberal and National parties... add stability Merge them into the ocean
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Sep 28, 2018 02:36
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quote:Federal Labor has rubbished a petition being circulated by fund manager Geoff Wilson protesting plans to scrap cash payments for excess franking credits, after 10 opposition MPs, including policy architect and shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, received emails from Mr Wilson thanking them for signing it. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/just-ignore-geoff-wilson-mr-bowen/
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Sep 28, 2018 02:37
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There's a story in the guardian about fifield appointing the abc board and bypassing merit based criteria. Hope this line gets pushed "ABC chaos due to LNP"
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Measly Twerp posted:Are you really arguing against "be seen at night"? Or are you just being "ironically" stupid? You can be seen at night just fine by using proper lights on your bike.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:45
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Oh my god shut the gently caress up about bikes.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:50
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ewe2 posted:It's not the motorists as such, it's the people who don't want resources diverted away from roads, because cars and infrastructure and petrol sales, the whole vested interest problem. There's also the people who don't want space taken away from cars. I went doorknocking around a "bike boulevard" (road where cyclists are given priority) and a few people noted while they themselves supported the bike boulevard coz it made the area safer to walk/cycle, their neighbours hated that the road slowed them down. There were also people who hated a nearby protected cycle lane on a busy road because it took parking spaces away from cars, as if people have more of a right to use public space for car storage than cyclists do for their safety.
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Anidav posted:So why merge em
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Almost all the directors of the ABC’s eight-member board were appointed directly by the minister for communications, Mitch Fifield, and some were appointed after being rejected by the merit-based nominations panel, documents obtained by the Guardian show. ... Documents obtained by Guardian Australia show that of the five most recent appointments, all were direct recommendations by Fifield. Although the Coalition made much of establishing a merits-based nominations process for the ABC and SBS board appointments in 2013, it has either circumvented or ignored it in recent years. Of the appointments since 2015, two did not go through the nomination panel at all; two were considered but not recommended by the panel and were still appointed by the minister; and one was deemed by the panel to be “very suitable” but withdrew before the final recommendations, only to be then urged directly by the minister to accept a place. The appointments process is revealed in statements of reasons which must be tabled in parliament by the minister and questions he has answered in Senate estimates in 2017. The most controversial has been the appointment of Vanessa Guthrie, the chairwoman of the Minerals Council of Australia, whose appointment was widely criticised as being political. The selection criteria for the nominations panel say candidates must have substantial experience in at least one of the following: experience in the media industry or digital technologies; business or financial management; or corporate governance experience, including managing a large or complex operation in the private or public sector. Vanessa Guthrie had been a mining executive and is on the board of Santos, and is chair of the coal industry’s lobby group, but she had no broadcasting experience and her executive roles appeared to have been limited to smaller mining companies. In Senate estimates, Fifield revealed she had applied through the panel process but was not on their list of recommendations. In his statement of reasons, tabled in parliament, he described her as a “strong, qualified candidate”, and that she would add to the gender and geographic diversity of the board as she was from Western Australia. At the same estimates hearing he revealed that Georgie Somerset, a farmer from Queensland, was “one of the minister’s recommendations”. Somerset has been on the board of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Queensland and some other not-for-profit roles, but has no broadcasting, digital, or in-depth management experience of a large organisation. Donny Walford, a businesswoman from South Australia, appointed in 2015, does not appear to have gone through the nominations process at all. In the statement of reasons, Fifield makes no reference to the panel except to say that she was assessed against their criteria, and considered to have “a substantial level of experience and knowledge in business and financial management and corporate governance resulting from significant number of board and senior executive positions”. Joseph Gersh, who was appointed in May this year, was shortlisted and interviewed but was not included in the final report by the nominations panel. A lawyer, who runs a property investment bank in Melbourne, he was described by the Australian Financial Review’s Joe Aston as “a close confidante of former treasurer, Peter Costello”. As treasurer, Costello appointed Gersh to the Reserve Bank’s payment systems board. Kirstin Ferguson appears to be the only recent appointment assessed as “very suitable” by the panel, but she withdrew her nomination and was later appointed directly by the minister. A professional director, who serves on two ASX listed companies in the development sector, Ferguson is also an adjunct professor of business and has written on women in business. But she too lacks experience in broadcasting or media. The only directors with experience in the media are the staff-elected director, Jane Connors, who was a broadcaster at Radio National and later a manager at the ABC, and Peter Lewis, who was a chief financial officer at the Seven Network. Lewis also conducted an efficiency review of the ABC by the Abbott government in 2014 and afterwards was appointed to the board. Milne is a close business associate and friend of the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and he had some relevant experience in telecommunications and digital businesses.
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Anidav posted:So why merge em It is what they think they can get away with, while increasing the ways they can gently caress with the broadcaster.
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froglet posted:Pretty much this. Recently someone shared a picture of a road I used to ride quite regularly and there were so many problems - people would park in the bike lane to drop their kids off at school, there was a bike lane that abruptly ended at a stop sign and there was no feasible way for you to safely cross the road due to 4 lanes of traffic and a turning lane, a bus stop blocked the view for any overtaking drivers, etc.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:07
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Anidav posted:
yes please push for this closer to the election
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Sep 28, 2018 03:25
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There’s evidence of corruption at the ABC, so privatize it because uh There’s evidence of corruption at the ABC, so merge it with SBS because uh There’s evidence of corruption at the ABC, so do this thing I want that does gently caress all to address the problem because gently caress you
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Sep 28, 2018 03:32
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https://twitter.com/PatsKarvelas/status/1045237600460496897
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Sep 28, 2018 03:40
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Typical that Jemima would get overlooked for a bunch of men e: no, there she is obscured by Humpty Dumpty, my bad
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Box of Bunnies posted:Typical that Jemima would get overlooked for a bunch of men That's Humpty Dumpty for you, always sitting on things he shouldn't be.
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Sep 28, 2018 03:47
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Can we somehow merge the two narratives 'ABC a mess' and 'Liberal Ministers appointed people without merit to ABC board' into 'Liberals deliberately hosed the ABC, this mess is the Liberals fault. Liberal Ministers abuse their powers and keep loving poo poo up?' Someone in here has to work for buzzfeed, the bar to write for that place is so low its practically in the basement.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:20
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Konomex posted:Can we somehow merge the two narratives 'ABC a mess' and 'Liberal Ministers appointed people without merit to ABC board' into 'Liberals deliberately hosed the ABC, this mess is the Liberals fault. Liberal Ministers abuse their powers and keep loving poo poo up?' This is what has actually happened. It's their own fault and they're not taking any blame for it as usual. Funnily enough the ABC are the best placed to put these two pieces together and considering how fired up Barrie Cassidy has been about this hopefully he gives 'em both barrels on Sunday morning.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:24
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Fifield can get fifucked. Smug prick.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:28
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 Doesn't even recognise Little Ted mista speakah
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AbortRetryFail posted:
Give him a booting
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Sep 28, 2018 04:50
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https://twitter.com/GrogsGamut/status/1045529294565302273 Not sure I'd need so many volumes for just the word GUILLOTINE printed over and over
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Sep 28, 2018 05:38
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Lol so Frydenburg is scum. The executive summary of the report concludes that new laws should be made, existing laws should be strengthened or simplified. Frydenburg is then all like: The commission believes existing laws should be simplified 
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Sep 28, 2018 05:49
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Coalition is definitely going to conclude too much red tape caused this!
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Sep 28, 2018 05:49
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The Banks broke all these laws. To prevent the banks from breaking these laws in the future, we will remove these laws.
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Sep 28, 2018 05:59
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AbortRetryFail posted:
gently caress off Tim Wilson.
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Sep 28, 2018 06:00
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AbortRetryFail posted:
Every time Tim Wilson tries to be "funny" it comes off as the smuggest, saddest jokes you've ever heard. Guy must be great at parties. In short GoldStandardConure posted:gently caress off Tim Wilson.
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Sep 28, 2018 06:42
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https://twitter.com/fraser_anning/status/1045530217735905280
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 Banking stocks soar after Royal Commission report calls them corrupt and greedy.
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