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https://twitter.com/BevanShields/status/1096240074084077569
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 05:31 |
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https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1096254347564933120?s=20
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bell jar posted:Alice Workman work for The Guardian If labor is planning on reviving the abc it might be good for her to remain free until after the election.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:11 |
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I don't know why they bother, twitter always comes out left.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 06:15 |
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The emissions reduction fund, which is at the heart of the Morrison government’s climate change policy, could be used to help pay for an upgrade at a 40-year-old coal-fired power plant after its owners successfully applied to register under the scheme. In a step that underscores the political divide over emissions policy, Vales Point power station in New South Wales was registered in August for a proposal to improve some of its turbines. It is the first stage in it being allowed to bid against land owners and other businesses for climate funding. The Coalition has indicated it is considering tipping more into the fund, which started with $2.55bn but is now near empty, before this year’s election. The fund has so far failed to curb national emissions, which have increased each year since the government abolished a carbon pricing scheme in 2014. The Australian Conservation Foundation said it was shocking that taxpayers’ money meant to combat climate change could go to coal power plants. “No government should be propping up ailing coal generators with public funds, especially as any major capital works would help extend the life of a plant that should be retired,” said ACF chief executive Kelly O’Shanassy. “Vales Point getting even this far in the process is a clear sign the emissions reduction fund needs structural reform before any new injection of cash is considered.” Sunset Power International bought Vales Point from the NSW government for $1m in 2015. Two years later it was re-valued at $730m and last year it reported a net profit of $113m. Its part-owner, coal power advocate and former National Party candidate Trevor St Baker, has flagged extending its operation beyond its expected closure date of 2029 to 2049. Managing director Greg Everett said prolonging the plant’s life was a $400m decision and had nothing to do with its pitch into the emissions reduction fund. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/emissions-reduction-fund-could-be-used-to-upgrade-40-year-old-coal-fired-power-plant
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To the north, hundreds of thousands of cattle lie dead, drowned by floods caused by unprecedented rains. In the west, millions of fish have expired in a river system drained by drought. In the far south, bushfire is obliterating Tasmanian forests that have not seen flames in millennia. There are reports that in the Northern Territory the ground itself has begun to burn. Across the nation and the world temperature records tumble week by week, month by month. If ever there was a moment for a minor party with an environmental focus to take its place on the political centre stage, you would expect this state election to be it. Instead the NSW Greens are racked by a civil war that has been fought in fits and starts for years and now threatens to tear it apart. Rather than planning on massive expansion, the Greens hope to increase their lower house representation by one member (to four) and to hold rather than increase their three upper house seats. "I don’t know what the platform is," says one despondent activist of the Greens' campaign. "I don’t even know what the f---ing slogan is." So far the rift in the Greens has already resulted in one NSW MP quitting the party and two others threatening to leave. Now a long-term parliamentary staffer, Jack Gough, is also resigning, telling the Herald that he believes those scientists who say the world has only a dozen or so years to act on climate change, and that in his view a hard-left faction in the NSW Greens determined instead to focus on a quixotic campaign to dismantle capitalism in the cause of revolutionary socialism. In a Facebook post announcing his departure to members last week he wrote: "While the global Green movement represents me and my political philosophy, the NSW Greens no longer do." He voices full support for his boss, upper house MP Cate Faehrmann, who is associated with the environmental wing of the party; along with fellow MLC Justin Field; and the party’s candidate for the seat of Lismore, farmer and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson. The fissure To understand the rift, it helps to remember a bit about the party’s history. The Australian Greens, which is a confederation of state parties rather than a single entity, was born not only of Tasmanian environmental activism but also from the Western Australian nuclear disarmament movement and parts of the radical industrial left in NSW. Given that heritage, it is not surprising that tension has long simmered within the party. Some prominent figures, such as former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne and the party’s first NSW MP, Ian Cohen, were always identified as being driven by environmentalism. Others such as the former NSW MP and senator Lee Rhiannon, the serving MP David Shoebridge and the former MLC John Kaye, who died in office in 2016, were seen as proponents of the social and political reform. Rhiannon, whose parents were active in the Communist Party of Australia, edited the magazine Survey, a monthly digest of trends in the Soviet Union from 1988 until it closed in 1990. Though no formal factional system exists in the Greens, most MPs can now be identified as belonging to either the industrial left of the party or the environmental activist faction or as the groups are sometimes known, the Watermelons and the Tree Tories. The dispute between the groups came to a head when the party sought to discipline the upper house member Jeremy Buckingham, who is broadly identified with the environmentalists. Buckingham was first elected to Orange City Council in 2004, becoming the first Green to win such a vote west of the Great Dividing Range. When he made the jump to state politics he worked to win over regional voters who were traditionally suspicious of environmental activists, convening the Australian Country Greens. In November last year tensions came to a head when the member for Newtown, Jenny Leong, used parliamentary privilege to call on Buckingham to resign over historical allegations of sexual harassment of a staffer. In a statement at the time, she said, "The culture of sexism, sexual harassment, and unwanted sexual advances in society in general and in politics, in particular, must change. Survivors must be listened to and believed. No more excuses. No more delays." She made her speech despite an internal Greens investigation that found in part that, "the Greens NSW resolve this matter with no adverse finding against you with respect to sexual harassment or inappropriate behaviour towards [the complainant]". In December, the party’s state delegates council voted narrowly to call on him to remove himself from the party’s ticket. Buckingham quit in disgust, saying the party had lost its way. After his resignation, Faehrmann and Field also held talks with other MPs and with the party’s elder statesman, Bob Brown, about leaving to form a breakaway party more focussed on conservation and climate change. Gough notes that on December 17 last year, after Buckingham’s resignation and as the factions began to battle over the party’s new upper house ticket, Rhiannon attended a public meeting with the left’s Shoebridge entitled "How the Radical Left Wins". In footage seen by the Herald, Rhiannon urges attendees to join the party so they can vote on the ticket and voices her concern that if they do not the party might preselect candidates who support good policy, but are not wedded to "transformative change" of "the system". Earlier in the year odd spikes in membership had already caused such concern among some party officers that Carole Medcalf, then the party’s executive officer checked the Australian Electoral Commission’s roles. Under Australian electoral law a party must give the AEC the names and addresses of 500 members to register. Medcalf has given the Herald a list of names she says exist on both the register of the Socialist Alliance and the NSW Greens, in contravention of Greens rules. Medcalf has since quit the party after a dispute that ended with legal action and a court settlement. She also believes a deliberate effort to takeover the party by the hard left has crippled it. Greens membership officer David Briggs says the members in question had been contacted and told to select one party alone. "The issue has been resolved." Rhiannon dismisses claims that there has been any effort by a radical left or that there has been any bullying by figures seen as sympathetic to the left's cause. "There is certainly a more critical evaluation of capitalism as the world grapples with the horrors of climate change and gross inequality," she says. "The Sanders/Corbyn/Ocasio Cortez experience is resonating here. Any radicalisation going on in the Greens NSW is part of a global trend." According to Rhiannon such allegations are part of a "McCarthyist style attack" by "Buckingham forces" designed to discredit those who challenged his bad behaviour. Rhiannon says she stands by her record as an activist on behalf of environmental causes. Wherever the new members were coming from, Gough says their presence was immediately felt at branch meetings. He says the new members were aggressive and argumentative and their language appeared to have been refined in far-left campus organisations. Their focus, says Gough, was the overthrow of capitalism and they proved to be expert at using the party’s regulations and rules block any action that they opposed upon ideological grounds. "It is death by committee, death by meeting," one MP says of the party’s internal processes. Gough believes the groups targeted the party in order to harness its existing profile and platform to their own ends, and because its democratic processes left it vulnerable to infiltration. He notes that upon leaving federal parliament one of Rhiannon’s first acts was to move onto the governing committee of the Search Foundation, the successor organisation to the Communist Party of Australia. Last week the Herald reported that an internal party report showed that that party was shrinking as the fighting continued, with up to 485 party members quitting in the 12 months to November 2018 - a decline of almost 13 per cent. 'This has always been a progressive party' Sitting in a Newtown coffee shop this week Leong says reports of division in the Greens - and the impact on the current campaign - are exaggerated. She dismisses the suggestion that Buckingham was forced out for political reasons and says that in today’s current climate it would be untenable not to take firm action over his alleged behaviour. And she also dismisses Gough’s criticism that she and Jamie Parker, the Greens MP for the seat of Balmain, have focused too closely on local issues at the cost of accepting responsibility for portfolios and driving debate on key environmental issues. Leong notes that much of her time is spent working on behalf of public housing residents in need of immediate assistance in securing not only basic maintenance but also long-term mental health and drug and alcohol support. "You can’t tell someone you are not going to help them get their intercom fixed because climate change is the most pressing global issue," she says. Parker agrees, adding that as lower house members they are in a position to work alongside with - and challenge - the premier and key ministers over broader environmental issues in a way they could not in the upper house. Leong says it was natural that there would be some upheaval in the party after the retirement of national figures such as former leaders Brown and Milne, and the departure of Rhiannon from the Senate. And she says that though the NSW Greens have no formal leader, John Kaye had served as a de facto head. She agrees that the language of Rhiannon and some members associated with her might be reminiscent of left-wing politics of an earlier day, but says the policies that they advocate for they are in line with the broader ideals of the Greens. "This has always been a progressive party," she says. For Gough though, the Greens are irredeemable as an engine of urgent environmental reform. He laments not only that the party has fractured internally but that as it grew the broader environmental movement appeared to abandon it, leaving it vulnerable to what he sees as a deliberate takeover. "This is the crucial decade. I haven’t got time to be fighting over reforming the Greens. I want to spend my time fighting climate change."
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 07:56 |
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Possibly the tree tories should stop pretending that overturning the corrupt crony capitalist system would not be the fastest way to stop the impending environment catastrophe
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The Mercury posted:THE case of an 11-year-old boy who was stripsearched and locked in a cell at an adult prison after being fake-arrested by an off-duty police officer has been described as “very disturbing”. Daily Reminder: ACAB
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:44 |
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Also quite possibly ATAB
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:56 |
hambeet posted:Also quite possibly ATAB AAAB
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:03 |
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hambeet posted:Also quite possibly ATAB All Toys for rear end Bum?
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:06 |
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NTRabbit posted:Sunset Power International bought Vales Point from the NSW government for $1m in 2015. Two years later it was re-valued at $730m and last year it reported a net profit of $113m. FFS. The politicians who signed off on that deal, thereby losing taxpayers a good $500m (conservative estimate) should face criminal charges.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:10 |
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Good loving God https://twitter.com/DrJoshuaRoose/status/1096309435712958464?s=19 quote:Dave grew up in Africa during the turbulent ’60s and ’70s. He was conscripted into the Rhodesian Army and joined the SAS. He fought behind enemy lines against two armies across three countries for four years.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:15 |
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This government has gone full blown loving America and they need to get the gently caress out
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:19 |
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GoldStandardConure posted:All Toys for
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:20 |
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wiki posted:Created under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ron Reid-Daly, it was organized as a mixed-race unit, consisting of recruits of both African and European descent, and whose primary mission was operating deep in insurgent-controlled territory and waging war on the hostiles' rear through irregular warfareincluding the use of pseudo-terrorism as a means of infiltrating the enemy. This concept of unit was very similar to the Portuguese Flechas, operating in the nearby territories of Angola and Mozambique since the late 1960s. The Selous Scouts had many black Rhodesians in their ranks who were from 50–80% of its ranks, including the first African commissioned officers in the Rhodesian Army.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:20 |
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I want to loving die
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:26 |
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https://twitter.com/hodgeamanda/status/1096320274339786753 One fisherman, tells one thing to a reporter from The Australian, tells another to Ch. 9? Amanda Hodge wrote that bad piece for The Aus at the end of last year about smugglers being excited about a Labor Government, but other than that she's usually pretty good with the Indonesia stuff. It seems like The Aus buried Hodge's piece about people smugglers thinking nothing has changed that went up today though, so the Ch 9 version is probably going to be what people hear.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:26 |
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adamantium|wang posted:Good loving God Wonder if he employs an au-pair.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:28 |
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This is Matthew Reilly’s worst novel yet
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:37 |
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So this is what his strategic vision is referring to:quote:Matthew 25 King James Version (KJV) I wonder how he squares this away with running a company that helps lock away refugees indefinitely Oh wait he just reads until the end of verse 33 and stops adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Feb 15, 2019 |
# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:43 |
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He's a Rhodesian war criminal, I don't think he cares
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:44 |
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Dave Hodgson sounds like a complete loving nutter
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:47 |
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Seems like the right guy for the job to accidentally kill a bunch of undesirables.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 09:55 |
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quote:sabotage of bridges and railways (including steam engines) Utter monsters
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 10:11 |
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adamantium|wang posted:Good loving God Uhhhh. drat. Dutton must be in love. Don Dongington posted: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) He's been selling the gold fillings from all the teeth.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 10:52 |
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adamantium|wang posted:So this is what his strategic vision is referring to: So polygamy? Seems very Christian.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 11:50 |
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The money being used to reopen the Christmas Island camp was the money originally ripped out of the NDIS, now in turn ripped out of the rural recovery fund. Can we just go to Canberra and string the lot of them up from lamp posts?
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 11:53 |
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:12 |
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and has done quite a few times
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:16 |
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Holy poo poo
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:27 |
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https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19 Pell case I assume.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:59 |
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drunkill posted:https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19 Nearly forgot about that little ownage slow cooker in the background of everything else
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:04 |
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drunkill posted:https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/1096162578395361280?s=19 Some more context. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/mornings/victorias-justice-system/10815020 quote:3. The use of suppression orders in our courts is out of control. The public have no idea what is happening anymore, and there are some highly dubious uses of suppression orders every week. A suppression order ought never be applied to avoid embarrassment, or to protect an influential accused from public scrutiny.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:11 |
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I imagine the overseas outlets with no presence here will simply empty the spam folder and move on
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:28 |
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NTRabbit posted:He's a Rhodesian war criminal, I don't think he cares How the gently caress did we not know this insane monster was running our offshore murder camps until now.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:08 |
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hooman posted:How the gently caress did we not know this insane monster was running our offshore murder camps until now.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:10 |
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Actually Royal Commission now. Just into everything the loving LNP have done, this is madness.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 15:13 |