Anidav posted:

I'm not a, shill. I'm just a guy who used to work for a polling company then went to work in the darkest bowels of political opinions and also became moderator of this thread so any shred of light in this dark landscape is what I crave endlessly.

tithin posted:

https://twitter.com/macaulaybalkan/status/1074462863106879488?s=19

avshalemon posted:

"how will your policies ensure a stable future for the mallee region, not just in the short term but over the long haul?"

"*builds a huge mound of rotting vegetation, lays an egg in it and disappears into the night*"

avshalemon posted:

"how will your policies ensure a stable future for the mallee region, not just in the short term but over the long haul?"

"*builds a huge mound of rotting vegetation, lays an egg in it and disappears into the right*"

Anidav posted:

Jesus christ.

See, this stuff right here is why I'm so hungry for a change of government so all these fuckos get a big cream pie thrown at the face like the clowns they are.

hiddenmovement posted:

Only olds read the newspaper so it makes sense that only olds would write in them

clusterfuck posted:

Don Dongington posted:

18 going on 68

Anidav posted:

Well I mean the last time the ALP told a group of rich psychopaths to gently caress off was the Mining Tax and that ended poorly so they might as well attempt to use public policy to direct the boomer psychopaths to build low income housing.

Anidav posted:

Lol can't even commit to a human rights charter.

bell jar posted:

first one, then the other

quote:

Conference just passed this amendment:


“Labor will ... deliver fairer and timely access to dental care by taking steps towards the establishment of universal dental care, beginning with the expansion of the provision of dental care to the most vulnerable in our community and also focus on prevention of oral diseases.”

quote:

ACT chief minister Andrew Barr has successfully moved an amendment to cut the wait period for men who have sex with men to donate blood.

The platform now states:

“Labor acknowledges that the Australian Red Cross Blood Service has previously recommended that the current 12 month deferral period for men who have sex with men is excessive and beyond what is required to maintain a safe blood supply, and notes that the Blood Service is currently reviewing the deferrals policy again. Labor will act urgently on any advice from the Blood Service and the Therapeutic Goods Administration to reduce the deferral period for men who have sex with men. This will increase blood supply and reduce the inequality and social harm caused by this discriminatory policy.”


Barr described the change as “highly symbolic” and “practical” because it will “increase the blood supply and decrease the exclusion” of men who have sex with men. The Red Cross currently relies on blood donated by just 3% of the population, causing local shortages.
Barr said men who have sex with men who want to donate to save others’ lives “are not a threat to Australia’s blood supply and it’s the time rules changed to acknowledge this”.

bell jar posted:

ALP...good?

Konomex posted:

About loving time. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has been wondering why the politicians haven't done this yet. The answer of course being, they themselves don't have two brain cells as a group.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/primroseriordan/status/1074824179415887873

JBP posted:

Is there something in this that allows recipients to opt out of receiving a gay man's blood transfusions?

Anidav posted:

ALP left and right just passed a motion to recognise Palestine.

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PM was kept in dark over MP’s ‘sugar daddy’ scandal


Prime Minister Scott Morrison was blindsided by the sex scandal engulfing the assistant minister to the Deputy Prime Minister and only learned of the police investigation from reading New Idea magazine, it can be revealed.

The tale of the married junior minister, his alleged use of a “sugar daddy” website to meet a woman 20 years his junior in Hong Kong and the police investigation that followed, prompted Victorian MP Andrew Broad to quit the frontbench on Monday.

The New Daily can reveal that Mr Broad embarked on his fateful and inauspicious trip to Hong Kong to meet up with the woman within days of being appointed to the ministry in August. He texted the woman, who was known by an alias, to inform him of his “big promotion”.

Mr Broad has told colleagues his promotion, which followed the leadership coup, was “unexpected” and he decided to keep his appointment in Hong Kong to visit trade show, Asian Fruit Logistica.

The revelation confirms that Mr Broad travelled to Hong Kong as a minister on electorate business but paid for the international travel and accomodation privately before meeting the woman.

“I paid for it. I paid for it all myself,” Mr Broad told The New Daily.

“I’ve never been one to put myself on a moral high ground. I am full of mistakes like anyone else.”


It was during the trip, which Mr Broad insisted was funded privately, that he decided to mix business with pleasure and meet up with the woman he had met through the “sugar baby” website.

The New Daily understands that the MP says the woman subsequently asked for $8000 in cash from Mr Broad, with whom she did not have sexual relations. He declined her request.

The Australian Federal Police said last night it had investigated the matter in November and failed to find any offence under Australian law.

The Victorian MP said the fallout was a private matter between himself and his wife, and he would not discuss it publicly.

“Government is imperfect people governing imperfect people,” he told The New Daily.

Anidav posted:

ALP left and right just passed a motion to recognise Palestine.

Knobb Manwich posted:

Andrew Broad: "I can put the rams in a paddock and they might mount one another, but no lambs will come out."

Knobb Manwich posted:

Andrew Broad: “I’ve never been one to put myself on a moral high ground.”

Also Andrew Broad: "I think a bicycle is not a tricycle, and relationships can have different names," he said. "I can put the rams in a paddock and they might mount one another, but no lambs will come out."

JBP posted:

Is there something in this that allows recipients to opt out of receiving a gay man's blood transfusions?

hambeet posted:

pretty sure they still don't take gay blood

edit: just gay men.

https://www.donateblood.com.au/lgbtqi-donors

avshalemon posted:

the banner ad with the quivering bumcheeks making GBS threads out gold coins gets me very excited in a sexual way

im alan jones posted:

nsw labor got raided by icac again lol

JBP posted:

Asexual donors
There are no additional eligibility requirements for asexual donors.





lmao