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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.

Amethyst posted:

Here's a balanced take from the communists at the ABC

Yeah this is the universal hot take from aspiring Annabel Crabbs

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:32

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 20:16

Reclines Obesily: Jul 24, 2000; Hey Moona!; Slippery Tilde

you can tell those articles were written before yesterday :lol:

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:33

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Amethyst posted:

That's a fairfax article

I thought fairfax stuff was all owned by Nine now

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:36

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.

The Before Times posted:

I thought fairfax stuff was all owned by Nine now

Yeah it is. I think Amethyst was just Amethysting on me bc I skated on the detail.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:37

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai

I'm not going to call SMH and The Age articles Network Nine papers. the company still operates under the name Fairfax stop being pedants.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:39

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.

Amethyst posted:

I'm not going to call SMH and The Age articles Network Nine papers. the company still operates under the name Fairfax stop being pedants.

no u

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:39

Don Dongington: Sep 27, 2005; #ideasboom; College Slice

It's 100% smokescreen to draw attention away from the growing AWU/ROC/Cash scandal IMO.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:51

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

# ? Feb 15, 2019 01:55

snoremac: Jul 27, 2012; I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

hambeet posted:

Oh also don't be put off by " years of experience." At least 60% of the time that's put in there so that some dud internal who has been there 2 years doesn't apply, or they can easily reject for that reason. So apply anyway and highlight what transferrable skills you have that apply to the role.

I can kind of attest to this - I just got offered a job in legal transcription that asked for years of experience despite having none. So it doesn�t hurt to apply anyway.

Unrelated: during the interview they said you typically here some tough to stomach cases from the Queensland courts.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 02:13

Slugnoid: Jun 23, 2006; Nap Ghost

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_3eEBu81M

# ? Feb 15, 2019 02:13

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Amethyst posted:

I'm not going to call SMH and The Age articles Network Nine papers. the company still operates under the name Fairfax stop being pedants.

Nah the Fairfax name has been completely excised from the company. The Pyrmont building now just has SMH & AFR logos (and a huge Domain sign on the roof...). You won�t find Fairfax Media mentioned on any of the websites, etc.

Fairfax is dead, the only remnants are email addresses that haven�t had domain changes yet.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 02:30

Paingod556: Nov 8, 2011; Not a problem, sir

You know, I haven't heard an inspirational (aspirational?) Domain story in a while. Wonder how they're doing.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-15/domain-takes-a-big-hit-on-profit-due-to-weak-property-market/10814706

... good.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 02:31

Senor Tron: May 26, 2006

Paingod556 posted:

You know, I haven't heard an inspirational (aspirational?) Domain story in a while. Wonder how they're doing.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-15/domain-takes-a-big-hit-on-profit-due-to-weak-property-market/10814706

... good.

How the hell does Domain even spend enough money to make that sort of loss?

# ? Feb 15, 2019 02:49

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.

Paingod556 posted:

You know, I haven't heard an inspirational (aspirational?) Domain story in a while. Wonder how they're doing.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-15/domain-takes-a-big-hit-on-profit-due-to-weak-property-market/10814706

... good.

Share price has gone apeshit today, it's up nearly 20%

e: I begged the question re their losses versus investor interest "that element relates to the accounting treatment of non-cash items on their balance sheet. I don�t think their decision to write down the value of certain assets impacts their expected cash earnings"

JBP fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Feb 15, 2019

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:00

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.

https://amp.9news.com.au/article/397b23ee-a3df-44c2-8da2-e019ec377e57

Apparently Liberal Party candidates don't like being called out for supporting the ongoing abuse of asylum seekers.

Also who gives a gently caress people are taking their signage down?

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:22

aejix: Sep 18, 2007; It's about finding that next group of core players we can win with in the next 6, 8, 10 years. Let's face it, it's hard for 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds to lead an NHL team. Look at the playoffs.

That quote is from fucking 2018. Fuck you Jim; Pillbug

I can guarantee there is no fuckin way the police would be investigating anything except the contents of their own rear end if that was a Labor/Green/not LNP candidate

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:24

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

bell jar posted:

Alice Workman work for the Guardian, any other buzzfeed reporter, i could care less, enjoy your lovely profession

https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/1096233896457383936

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:31

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.

froglet posted:

https://amp.9news.com.au/article/397b23ee-a3df-44c2-8da2-e019ec377e57

Apparently Liberal Party candidates don't like being called out for supporting the ongoing abuse of asylum seekers.

Also who gives a gently caress people are taking their signage down?

haha the pic of her crying is classic

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:32

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/15/scott-morrison-may-face-second-parliamentary-defeat-this-time-by-nationals

quote:

Scott Morrison may face second parliamentary defeat � this time by Nationals

Nationals MPs defy Liberals on measures designed to help small businesses prevent misuse of market power

Barnaby Joyce and two other Nationals MPs have backed measures to improve small businesses� access to justice, in a move which may force Scott Morrison to overturn government policy or risk a second lower house defeat on a substantive bill.

In comments to Guardian Australia Joyce, Keith Pitt and Andrew Broad all expressed in-principle support for measures designed to help in court cases of farmers and suppliers taking on big business like Coles and Woolworths for alleged misuse of market power.

On Thursday night, Labor and the crossbench combined in the Senate to pass amendments to an obscure government treasury bill over Liberal objections, after Nationals senator John Williams signalled they had support from the junior Coalition partner.

Under the amended bill, small businesses will be able to apply in court before launching major legal action to escape paying costs even if they lose a competition law case against larger rivals.

The Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No5) bill now looms as a time-bomb for the Morrison government when parliament returns on Monday, likely to cause a loss in the House of Representatives as occurred on Wednesday with the medevac bill unless the government supports the bill with Labor�s amendments.

Joyce told Guardian Australia he would not �telegraph [his] punches� on how he will vote but the �whole raison d�etre of the Nationals is to support small business�.

https://twitter.com/ALeighMP/status/1096141521588387841

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:35

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

#freecranno

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:35

AbortRetryFail: Jan 17, 2007; No more Mr. Nice Gaius

I'm just handing out fliers here, don't blame me for the actions of the party I am representing!

If getting your sign kicked and being called "the d-word" is the worst experience you have had with the public you must have lived a bomb sheltered life.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:40

bell jar: Feb 25, 2009

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/workmanalice/status/1096233896457383936

Alice Workman work for The Guardian

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:40

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

froglet posted:

https://amp.9news.com.au/article/397b23ee-a3df-44c2-8da2-e019ec377e57

Apparently Liberal Party candidates don't like being called out for supporting the ongoing abuse of asylum seekers.

Also who gives a gently caress people are taking their signage down?

property is more valuable that humans and they broke her sign!

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:43

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

bell jar posted:

Alice Workman work for The Guardian

she�d have to check her sources at the guardian

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:48

Gridlocked: Aug 2, 2014; MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

So as much as I send you guys samples of the right wing idiocy in letters to the editor of my local paper, I think the local cartoonist is solidly in the ALP.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 03:56

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I took a flier from my local ALP candidate at the station today

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:05

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

Gridlocked posted:

So as much as I send you guys samples of the right wing idiocy in letters to the editor of my local paper, I think the local cartoonist is solidly in the ALP.

Rocky is in the weird place of being staunch labor but still having really conservative views. Basically lnp but don�t want to murder unions.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:08

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.

Zenithe posted:

Rocky is in the weird place of being staunch labor but still having really conservative views.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:14

Don Dongington: Sep 27, 2005; #ideasboom; College Slice

Zenithe posted:

Rocky is in the weird place of being staunch labor but still having really conservative views. Basically lnp but don�t want to murder unions.

So like most of the Parliamentary Labor Party prior to about 2016 then

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:18

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Cash saying first she knew of the raids was seeing it on tv.

Right.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:26

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:27

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Why would anyone trust a recycling company ever

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:28

Don Dongington: Sep 27, 2005; #ideasboom; College Slice

I'm thinking we might see a senate inquiry into this Paladin affair if not a full on RC into OSB. The more that comes out, the sketchier it becomes.

https://www.afr.com/news/policy/for...jH2T17exd66fRM4

quote:

The Department of Home Affairs sought to exclude Manus Island security contractor Paladin from Freedom of Information laws, while allowing it to sit outside the usual government procurement guidelines, raising further questions about the awarding of $423 million in Commonwealth contracts.

A draft of Paladin's "PNG Services Contract", provided to the Senate by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, shows department lawyers crossed out obligations for Paladin to comply with FOI legislation.

The exclusion was reversed and the FOI reference was in the final contract, but any obligation for Paladin to comply with "Commonwealth Procurement Rules" was left out

The revelation of the tweaks made to the Paladin contract follows Mr Dutton's comments to Sky News and the ABC's Triple J, when he stressed the government had strict procurement rules for such contracts.

"There are Commonwealth procurement guidelines for any of these contracts," he said.

In question time on Thursday, Mr Dutton further distanced himself from awarding the controversial contracts.

"If there are issues, my department, the secretary, will deal with those issues," he said.

The department and Mr Dutton are under pressure to explain how Paladin, a thinly capitalised group of companies, with no experience delivering government services, emerged with two contracts worth a combined value of $423 million.

People are also saying that apparently Dutton is now worth 300 Million (citation needed - that'd make him richer than Trumble and he would easily be parachuted out of Dickson were that the case)

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:37

Gridlocked: Aug 2, 2014; MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

Zenithe posted:

Rocky is in the weird place of being staunch labor but still having really conservative views. Basically lnp but don’t want to murder unions.

it comes largely from the solid unionist base of miners and other trade union related enterprise that thrived in rocky so they're very conservative blokey bloke type people with strong western Christian backgrounds so they run very conservative in those lines thought but when it comes to there personal relevance they very solidly fit into the labour sector because it's all about the unions and support of the unions in the mining industry that has a horrible crossover between parties

sorry all of that is just a weird running sentence I'm using voice to text and it's crap

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:44

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

JBP posted:

Share price has gone apeshit today, it's up nearly 20%

e: I begged the question re their losses versus investor interest "that element relates to the accounting treatment of non-cash items on their balance sheet. I don�t think their decision to write down the value of certain assets impacts their expected cash earnings"

The thing that really stands out is that excluding one-off costs, sales are flat and profit is down. So it cost them more money to achieve the same sales. That�s never a good sign.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:49

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.

fiery_valkyrie posted:

The thing that really stands out is that excluding one-off costs, sales are flat and profit is down. So it cost them more money to achieve the same sales. That’s never a good sign.

Oh yeah they're in strife it's just the big number isn't really much more than stupid accounting stuff I don't fully grasp

# ? Feb 15, 2019 04:51

MiniSune: Sep 16, 2003; Smart like Dodo!

Don Dongington posted:

I'm thinking we might see a senate inquiry into this Paladin affair if not a full on RC into OSB. The more that comes out, the sketchier it becomes.

https://www.afr.com/news/policy/for...jH2T17exd66fRM4

People are also saying that apparently Dutton is now worth 300 Million (citation needed - that'd make him richer than Trumble and he would easily be parachuted out of Dickson were that the case)

His wiki entry I believe was put up on Twitter as showing 300 million. The relevant passage appears to have been removed.

# ? Feb 15, 2019 05:07

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.