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Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
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The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

Playpen full of puppies and cats, I see

I'm on the wrong side of this whole nazi thing

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
Also congrats to the "Western Civilization" on surviving a debilitating Jewish virus for seventy five years

... or has it

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
At first I disagreed with the mandatory circumcisions. But I must admit the policy grew on me.

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Anidav posted:

At first I disagreed with the mandatory circumcisions. But I must admit the policy grew on me.

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:
Fresh German immigrants to the USA, having barely escaped the genocidal consequences of their toxic Marxist ideology in the form of the (socialist!) totalitarian Nazi state, decided to spread the same evil views in their new home, because, they are less clever than I. I would simply not have done that

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE
I'm bitterly disappointed nobody posted this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYt6Xnj1Q0

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
It got posted but it was lost amidst Labor's shitfuckery.

It's good though.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE
I want that guy running the country.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
It wasn't lost amidst anything

hidys
May 6, 2015

"Give the boys a bit of a rev up."

The Peccadillo posted:

It wasn't lost amidst anything

At least according to Newspoll.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Gina Rinehart: "Don't call me an heiress"


Gina Rinehart ranks as the richest Australian ever, owns vast swathes of the continent, directly and indirectly employs tens of thousands of her fellow countrymen, has homes around the globe, travels in an $80 million private jet, is instantly recognisable across the land, has been the subject of a television mini-series and several bestsellers as well as having the ear of the Prime Minister.

Just don't ever call her an "heiress".

I innocently made this incursion recently, only to be swiftly dealt with by Rinehart's team of "communications specialists", one of whom wrote to inform me she was hardly of the ilk of Paris Hilton.

Rinehart was disputing the term "heiress": "When Lang Hancock passed away his estate was bankrupt, which is publicly available information.

"In addition, Hancock Prospecting which he'd largely sold out of was in an extremely bad financial situation at time of his death in March 1992 with the few remaining assets under threat of litigation or heavily mortgaged. Tenements to Roy Hill were not in the company when Lang was alive – these were acquired after his death."
I returned serve by pointing out that for years it had been reported that Hancock Prospecting was worth about $75 million at the time of her father's death, which included the old Rio Tinto royalties, reportedly worth roughly $12 million a year.

Today, Rinehart, at $22 billion-plus, is worth about 300 times that amount. No one disputes that she has clearly eclipsed her father in business success.

But Gina wasn't having a bar of it. Her minions responded that the term heiress is a "negative slur" and that her father "left a bankrupt estate, which is public knowledge, hence impossible for Mrs Rinehart to inherit, and hence your mention of 'heiress' is incorrect.

"It is unfortunate men like to think a female can’t be successful, must have inherited, however Mrs Rinehart worked exceptionally hard, dedicating her adult life to the company group, and has made the company very successful, and is looked up to as an Australian role model by many women and young people."

Those who know Rinehart personally say she feels "completely misunderstood" by the Australian media. Given the public airing of her family laundry over many decades in various courts, she has long harboured a deep suspicion of journalists.

However, she continues to give us plenty of fodder to ponder, such as the advice she offered last week to women who want to get ahead in their careers.

"If you want to go further up the ladder, what you should be doing is working through lunches, working later, be willing to work later. Willing to, even on holidays or public holidays, be available to do something," she was quoted as saying in the Murdoch press, adding that she did not believe in gender quotas.

Rinehart's comments landed like a lead balloon, just as similar musings did in 2012. That was the same year she was declared the "richest woman in the world", only to pen a column in which she advised those jealous of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working".

She helpfully added there was "no monopoly" on becoming a millionaire.

For many years Rinehart has had a mixed relationship with the media: at one time she was a significant player as a major shareholder in the Ten Network and the majority shareholder of Fairfax Media, former publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald.

Her days as a media proprietor were certainly tumultuous ones, not least because she refused to sign the charter of editorial independence that underpinned the independent journalism Fairfax Media long prided itself on. The Herald continues to document her business and family news regardless.

Eventually Rinehart bailed out of media ownership to focus on her areas of expertise, mining and farming, working tirelessly to expand her seemingly endless empire.

And so, while not everyone may agree with her advice, no one can accuse her of not heeding it.


https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/gina-rinehart-don-t-call-me-an-heiress-20181204-p50k7o.html

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting


Post the article, I want to see what angles or extremes Jennifer goes to to make her argument work

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Labor and the Palaszczuk Government is making internet faster and reliable for regional Queenslanders. Today we announce FibreCo – delivering on our commitment to unlock more than 6,000 kilometres of state-owned fibre optic cable.

For too long, regional Queensland has been getting a raw deal. The LNP's NBN has been an unmitigated failure. We're freeing up extra capacity on the government-owned fibre network to provide faster and more reliable internet across regional Queensland - keeping homes and businesses connected.

Here we go again.

QLDBN

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

You Am I posted:

Post the article, I want to see what angles or extremes Jennifer goes to to make her argument work

The Liberal Coalition tested its policy prowess and tactical intelligence during the last sitting week of the year. Scott Morrison seized the opportunity to challenge Labor on national security, religious freedom, border protection and counter-terrorism.

The Prime Minister introduced a new rule to neutralise the most powerful weapon left in Labor’s arsenal, Liberal leadership instability. By the end of the week the promise of a landslide Labor victory in the coming federal election was no longer assured. The Coalition is back in business. The government accrued political capital last week by outman­oeuvring Labor on several fronts. It drew on Liberal philosophy and policy substance to win the battle in the public square. Defeatism has been the prevailing spirit in Liberal Coalition ranks for months. The era of despondency is over. The fight to win the unwinnable election has begun.

The Coalition successfully challenged Labor, forcing a series of defeats in the areas of policy, politics and public debate. Labor failed to win support for a bill that would compromise religious freedom on the pretext of preventing some future hypothetical case of a gay student being excluded from a school. The bill reinforced the impression that Labor’s pursuit of identity politics conceals a lack of political sophistication and policy nous. The opposition dragged its heels on a government bill aimed at empowering security services to track paedophiles and terrorists.

Bill Shorten’s decision to back amendments to offshore processing while suspending judgment on encryption laws left Labor open to attack. Morrison criticised Labor’s cheap politicking. In these pages, he pointed out that Islamic extremists and criminals commonly used encrypted technology to evade detection. Federal agencies revealed that 95 per cent of targets used encrypted technology. Morrison concluded that Labor and the Greens had decided to “obstruct our vital encryption legislation as part of their political game playing”. The game was holding counter-terrorism reform hostage to amendments that would weaken border security.

Labor backed the encryption laws by week’s end, but the damage was done. The government had the opposition on the back foot for the first time in months. It reset the debate by casting the ALP as an enabler of the people-smuggling trade. The last time Labor was in government, its border policy resulted in more than 50,000 people entering Australia illegally and more than 1000 deaths at sea. Attorney-General Christian Porter flayed the opposition for taking $16 billion from taxpayers to fund its border security disaster. Despite its record of incompetence in security matters, Labor has joined the Greens and the crossbench to dismantle the government’s border policy.

They are yet to provide a well-reasoned argument to support the radical policy shift. Their major points of contention are children in offshore immigration centres and the provision of medical care to asylum-seekers. Yet the weak border policy adopted by Labor during its previous term resulted in 8000 children being held in detention. According to the Prime Minister, the government has reduced the number of children in immigration detention from 8000 to almost none. Given the data, it is fair to conclude that weak borders do not help asylum-seekers. But it doesn’t stop open border activists using children as political pawns to win public debate by manipulating emotions rather than appealing to reason.

Shorten’s decision to change Labor’s position on border security is likely to backfire. The ALP is hoodwinking the public by framing weak borders as compassionate policy.

Labor’s left faction plans to change the party’s position on offshore processing at the ALP national conference next weekend.

As reported in The Weekend Australian, it plans to fast-track transfers of asylum-seekers to Australia on the basis of medical need. It echoes independent MP Kerryn Phelps’s proposed amendment to the Migration Act that will empower medical practitioners to order the transfer of asylum-seekers to Australia. The immi­gration minister could refuse the transfer only on national security grounds. The Australian’s Chris Kenny reported that 460 of the 494 people brought to Australia for medical care from Nauru and Manus Island hadn’t left. Given the numbers, it is reasonable to question whether medical transfers are a backdoor method of entering Australia.

Labor and the Greens are supporting the proposed rule changes to immigration. If they succeed, it will effect a gross distortion of democratic process by handing powers to choose who enters Australia from a government elected by the people to unelected officials. It doesn’t matter whether the officials have a degree in medicine or fashion, they have not earned the democratic right to determine who enters our country.

The authoritarian Left is characterised by an anti-democratic tendency. The emergence of the populist Right stems, in part, from the illegitimate rule of an unelected political class that enforces PC orthodoxy. Rule by unelected officials is not rule by the people. If green-left MPs want to challenge Australian democracy by giving unelected officials the power to compromise secure border policy, they should put the idea to the public at the next election.

Medecins Sans Frontieres is one of the expert groups backing Phelps’s bill. It has demanded the immediate evacuation of all refugees and asylum-seekers from Nauru, stating they “must have fast access to permanent resettlement, alongside their families”.

The assumption may be that MSF is particularly offended by Australian border security, but it engages in such activism internationally. It has criticised attempts to stop unauthorised boats entering Europe from Africa. Gabriele Eminente, MSF director in Italy, said: “This year alone, more than 2000 people have perished in the Mediterranean … others continue to take the dangerous sea journey.”

If MSF wants to stop the deaths at sea, it should recommend Australia’s conservative approach to border security that saves lives by turning back boats and removing the financial incentive for people-smugglers to set sail.

Weak borders, divisive identity politics, the attack on core freedoms and undemocratic rule by PC elites are the hallmarks of government by green-left MPs. Elect them at your peril.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

I think it’s a really positive step that News is employing schizophrenics as columnists

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

Anidav posted:

Weak borders, divisive identity politics, the attack on core freedoms and undemocratic rule by PC elites are the hallmarks of government by green-left MPs. Elect them at your peril.
Holy poo poo how is this crap even get past the editor let alone printed. Oh yeah, News Corpse. lol at Jennifer thinking the leadership issue has been solved in the Liberals. Not by a long shot.

And a core freedom is crushing other people's right to freedom? Cool.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Newspoll looks like goatse

https://twitter.com/John_Hanna/status/1071719263998636032

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002


when it opens up like that it must be a boss battle coming up

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/1071880955894398977

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009


Two party preferred for rear end bum

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
The government is prolapsing.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/1071908515990581250

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Could Raptorfag make a return at the next election?
They have my vote!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-09/sydney-dance-party-death-knockout-games-of-destiny/10598010

So let's white knuckle it out and just the count the bodies as the death toll mounts until the preventative measure of a stern talking to kicks in..Oddly like asylum policy. The best bit (not actually in that article) is where good old Sco'mo throws her straight under the bus, like any good mate would!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/ato-contractor-has-a-history-of-bankruptcy-and-tax-minimisation/10595884?section=politics

Another outsourcing success story!

Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

The Peccadillo posted:

Did Chris Ulhmann ever catch any poo poo for opining that socialism is an escaped jew virus?



combined with with his incredibly wrong and badly times op-ed on the South Australia electricity grid collapse, it seems like he was auditioning for a job in the right-wing hate media.

im alan jones
Feb 1, 2009

the muhammad ali of radio


may 28 to july 1 is the ring

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
https://twitter.com/mcnandos/status/1046973477176127491?s=21

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
https://twitter.com/srpeatling/status/1071885130891816960

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

Our posts
is Daisy Cousens a parody character ?

ShoeFly
Dec 28, 2006

Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Phone posting so I can’t paste the screenshot, but Jeremy Buckingham has updated his Twitter bio to say “Rogue NSW MP”.

https://twitter.com/greensjeremy

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:

Federal Labor to back national security bill granting emergency legislative power to the Ministry of Home Affairs

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

ShoeFly posted:

Phone posting so I can’t paste the screenshot, but Jeremy Buckingham has updated his Twitter bio to say “Rogue NSW MP”.

https://twitter.com/greensjeremy

"Smarter than I look"

pretty loving doubtful.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Ranter posted:

is Daisy Cousens a parody character ?

Yes

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

ShoeFly posted:

Phone posting so I can’t paste the screenshot, but Jeremy Buckingham has updated his Twitter bio to say “Rogue NSW MP”.

https://twitter.com/greensjeremy

roll for backstab damage

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

Guardian AU posted:

The commonwealth auditor general last week released a report into the $17bn procurement of the fighter jets, which found the total could be even higher and the cost of maintaining and operating the fleet was unknown.

“The developmental nature of the international JSF program means that Defence does not yet know the final purchase price of future Australian JSF aircraft, or their whole-of-life operating and support costs,” the report states.

“The history of defence acquisitions in Australia demonstrates that inadequate sustainment cost estimates at project approval have led to cost implications once the platform is in service.”

Defence has previously warned the government that support costs for the F-35 “remain high and the economies of scale were not yet evident”.

The report also found delays in the upgrading of airfields and warned of a shortage of spare parts.

ho ho ho.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Reincarnated as a JSF, mister speaker

AbortRetryFail
Jan 17, 2007

No more Mr. Nice Gaius

hooman posted:

ho ho ho.

it's ok, i trust the party of sound economic management

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Broke: Why do we need an air force?
Woke: Buying production line jets good enough to project air power against Indonesia
Bespoke: Buying extremely expensive one off F-35s that don't work, don't have enough range to project air power against Indonesia and need us to rebuild our runway and support infrastructure, thus pointing out exactly how much we don't need an air force (because the one we have can't fly any planes).

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im alan jones
Feb 1, 2009

the muhammad ali of radio

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