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Ruptured Yakety Sax
Jun 8, 2012

ARE YOU AN ANGEL, BIRD??

quote:

Sustainable Australia won a spot despite wining just 1.32 per cent of the vote in Southern Metro, compared to the Greens who were unsuccessful with 13.5 per cent.
The Liberal Democrats in South East Metro won a seat with just 0.84 per cent of the vote

Great system

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BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

drunkill posted:



rip greens.



all hail the 1000 year labor reich

Animal Justice?

Are they PETA brand nutjobs? Or are they a one issue "ban live export" type party? Or a bunch of hippie "kicking puppies is bad!" people that sound nice on a ballot sheet and got in via clandestine preferences?

clusterfuck
Feb 6, 2004


Trapezium Dave posted:

The group voting tickets were heavily skewed against the Greens and the Socialists. I was playing around with Antony Green's calculator before the election and the usual result in most districts was the Green candidate would get something like 0.8 of a seat before all the other minor parties started pooling up each others votes to push them ahead.

So it's the preference whisperers. Is preferential voting getting gamed to the point of broken?

I know I was dark on Shorten last week but after the Jericho article I started thinking about how much can be put down to the preference system and it's effect of rewarding the least disliked. I still think the ALP shouldn't let itself be caught bait and switching on policy but I also figured it's dumb to expect Bernie Sanders style campaigning when preferences can bite your arse that hard.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I thought the norm in Melbourne was to wait 49 minutes in traffic before you even see a CBD.

Why should Brisbane be held to account for your poo poo ability of finding decent real estate? I've seen great prices in Brisbane and just because you didn't doesn't mean it's Brisbanes fault.

Brisbane is strong and beautiful.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

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

clusterfuck posted:

So it's the preference whisperers. Is preferential voting getting gamed to the point of broken?
It is in Victoria.

Most of the other states don't have this problem (except WA?), and on a Federal level it was fixed in the leadup to the 2016 election.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

clusterfuck posted:

So it's the preference whisperers. Is preferential voting getting gamed to the point of broken?

I know I was dark on Shorten last week but after the Jericho article I started thinking about how much can be put down to the preference system and it's effect of rewarding the least disliked. I still think the ALP shouldn't let itself be caught bait and switching on policy but I also figured it's dumb to expect Bernie Sanders style campaigning when preferences can bite your arse that hard.

Preferential Voting is fine, above the line group tickets are hosed.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Anidav posted:

Brisbane is strong and beautiful.

MMM NICE LOCATION!

Vahtooch
Sep 18, 2009

What is this [S T A N D] going to do? Once its crossed through the barrier, what's it going to do? When it comes in here, and reads my [P O S T S], what's it going to do to me?
So Hack, terrible I know, has Caleb Bond debating Jan Fran from the feed and my God he sounds exactly like he looks. I almost want to leave it on to see him get dunked on since they're talking about Euridyce Dixons murder

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I lived in a poo poo box in inner city toowong
but it's all Brisbane's fault, not me that was wrong.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
Brisbane cannot do wrong, only be wronged.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Anidav posted:

I lived in a poo poo box in inner city toowong
but it's all Brisbane's fault, not me that was wrong.
Yeah nah I'll just get a nice cheap house.....in Brown Stains.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Anidav posted:

I thought the norm in Melbourne was to wait 49 minutes in traffic before you even see a CBD.

Why should Brisbane be held to account for your poo poo ability of finding decent real estate? I've seen great prices in Brisbane and just because you didn't doesn't mean it's Brisbanes fault.

Brisbane is strong and beautiful.

Never had that problem and live 45 minutes out from the city, right on the outskirts of the West? :shrug:

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

I guess from Anidav's perspective, I can't complain about Toowong too much. After all, I didn't have to deal with an infestation of rats so it wasn't that bad.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I just live in the real world. The light and the dark the angels and demons. Queensland trains you to be the best.

I have no time for some soft belly city posters who only know the pain of papercuts and broken air conditioning.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/10NewsFirst/status/1072374370188718080

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

hambeet posted:

Here is a list of things that Victoria should take from Queensland:

The Great Barrier Reef. We can't trust Queensland with it

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
From my point of view the Victorians are evil.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
https://twitter.com/Barnaby_Joyce/status/1072030953638256640

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/Barnaby_Joyce/status/1062073353798709251

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://www.facebook.com/david.shane.731572/videos/262185007808982/?fref=nf

That crazy guy in Western Australia who won't pay his council rates had his day in court today.

I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Dec 11, 2018

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
There was that fundie wacko in Tasmania who did that, and the council seized his house and sold it.

Edit: oh this one is a SovCit.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.facebook.com/david.shane.731572/videos/262185007808982/?fref=nf

That crazy guy in Western Australia who won't pay his council rates had his day in court today.
You watch he is going to be a Phon senator next election.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

Christ.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Anidav posted:

You watch he is going to be a Phon senator next election.

He and Rodney Culleton share the same ideas.

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Vikki Campion clearly earning her keep

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Anidav posted:

Nah mate heaps of good Australians live in Queensland.

Like that guy who punched a shark. Larry I think or something.
and that guy Anidav

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
shut up anidav

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I'm hurt.

drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib

28766f69642a2930 posted:

Brisbane cannot do wrong, only be wronged.

Does Toowong make a right?

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
This doesn't seem very right wing

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1072291121823432705

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/ausgrid-sale-price-revealed-early-by-nsw-government-report-says/10605874

quote:

The State Government showed its hand too early and failed to keep records of vital meetings while negotiating the $16 billion lease of the electricity distributor Ausgrid, the NSW auditor-general has found.

...

The then Treasury Secretary met with representatives from IFM Investors and AustralianSuper on 14 September, 2016.
According to speaking notes, he was to tell them a minimum acceptable price at which negotiations could continue.
"Later the same day, the proponent revised its proposal to match exactly the dollar price suggested by the Treasury Secretary," the report said.

...

The report found minutes of two important meetings, when price was discussed, were also missing.
"No records were provided to show the Treasury Secretary had prior authorisation to disclose a specific price," Ms Crawford said in the report.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

BrisBane posted:

Ah you think Queensland is your ally? You merely adopted the Queensland. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see another state until I was already a city, by then it was nothing to me but zoning!

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009


it warms my heart that people still use this

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Saw on Facebook some fake article making the rounds claiming that Tanya Plibersek's husband is a drug lord and the master plan is to elect Labor so they can legalise drugs so the Plibersek drug empire can sell lots of drugs.

A top secret plan until this unknown website figured it out.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Anidav posted:

Saw on Facebook some fake article making the rounds claiming that Tanya Plibersek's husband is a drug lord and the master plan is to elect Labor so they can legalise drugs so the Plibersek drug empire can sell lots of drugs.

A top secret plan until this unknown website figured it out.

Legalising drugs seems like something a drug lord would be against.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys
I think you mean Tanya PILL BESERK

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.
Seems in good taste given drugs nearly killed her husband.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/11/nine-guts-fairfax-websites-after-merger-with-dozens-laid-off

Huh. I didnt remember Kotaku was fairfax.

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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.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.facebook.com/david.shane.731572/videos/262185007808982/?fref=nf

That crazy guy in Western Australia who won't pay his council rates had his day in court today.

I immediately shared this with my two friends who study/studied law. They're like "oh no not again", haha. Sounds like Sovereign Citizens are not entirely unheard of in WA?

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