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Urcher posted:I do. Word cloud for April: Tasmania delivers, as usual.
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May 4, 2020 13:12
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Back his app!
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May 4, 2020 13:19
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Sports rorts funding could escape constitutional challenge if rebooted as coronavirus stimulusquote:The troubled community sport infrastructure grant program could be saved from constitutional challenge by being rebooted as a stimulus program to combat the Covid-19 economic contraction, a constitutional academic has argued. SHUT UP GARY DON'T TELL THEM THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT
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May 4, 2020 13:21
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The Before Times posted:Sports rorts funding could escape constitutional challenge if rebooted as coronavirus stimulus Can the government retroactively fund programs that were originally funded wrongly, possibly unconstitutionally? I understand they could take the money back, then reassign it or what slight of hand bullshit they like, but that doesn't remove the original issue. Not that anyone ever faces consequences in government, so why does it even matter.
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May 4, 2020 13:47
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The Before Times posted:Sports rorts funding could escape constitutional challenge if rebooted as coronavirus stimulus SPRORTS
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chaser lowtax posted:cool If it's the Federal public service it's the CPSU (CSA in WA). They're ok, probably the closest parallel to the boomers union that guy was talking about on Saturday, but if you get to know the organiser and put your hand up to become a delegate you might find yourself on council or exec in 12 months, just due to being under 45 and engaged. Then you can partake in constant factional warfare with the rusted on ALP boomers, and the one Liberal voter who always seems to end up on the governance bodies public sector unions.
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May 4, 2020 14:02
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GoldStandardConure posted:SPRORTS Rortsball.
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May 4, 2020 14:16
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here's a good one for yas https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-04/westpac-will-not-take-cash-from-home-loan-accounts/12213408 
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May 4, 2020 14:19
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There are so many posts on Vic covid testing stuff about Daniel Andrews being out to collect everyone's DNA lmao
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May 4, 2020 16:38
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Who was asking about Professionals Australia the other day? I'm in Professionals Australia. There are multiple sections as the union covers scientists, engineers, translators, engineers, ambos, misc white collar workers (like myself) and managers when they arnt utter monsters. Most of them are decent, they have had a lot of success with cpeng creating a registration framework that isn't engineers australia (mainly because EA is a garbage organisation) They have also been working on creating online content with forums and the like that are are getting pretty active.
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Cartoon posted:Your check just needs to be done before you re-register. The rego date is the one on the paperwork. Thanks!
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May 4, 2020 23:04
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The Before Times posted:Sports rorts funding could escape constitutional challenge if rebooted as coronavirus stimulus rumbled
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May 4, 2020 23:10
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chaser lowtax posted:i have an appointment with them on tuesday Good stuff. I dont really post much here anymore, but I'll try and keep a watch on how this goes, as I'm kinda curious, and seeing bigots get their poo poo pushed in is my only source of joy in this garbage world
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Fuckface the Hedgehog posted:Who was asking about Professionals Australia the other day? I'm in Professionals Australia. There are multiple sections as the union covers scientists, engineers, translators, engineers, ambos, misc white collar workers (like myself) and managers when they arnt utter monsters. A few of us asked including myself. Have been interested but the misc white collar grab bag (which id fall under) was putting me off
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May 4, 2020 23:24
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May 4, 2020 23:33
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Are you trying to set my anxiety off again? Because its working.
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May 4, 2020 23:45
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Konomex posted:Are you trying to set my anxiety off again? Because its working. Same thing happened to my wife. Had the right symptoms, but hadn’t been overseas, so wasn’t allowed a test. She’s also a school teacher.
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May 5, 2020 00:11
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I am pretty much waiting for the second wave to kick off, since we clearly have not stopped it, just no one is/can get tested until recently, as shown by that nursing home situation.
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ColtMcAsskick posted:A few of us asked including myself. Have been interested but the misc white collar grab bag (which id fall under) was putting me off I was a delegate at my last workplace and they where pretty effective at helping people navigate the very toxic workplace that had built up due to the management there. The white collar grab bag thing is mainly covering those who don't have a traditional union. I'm a draftsperson and get picked up by PA under the engineering professionals group. Your mileage would vary, but it's worth having a look. Ive found they look after thier people pretty well, and the groups are really just there to ensure they funnel the more nitty gritty issues in certain jobs, like the mass casualisation of translator roles, to the right people. I'd say the biggest issue I've had with them is they supplement thier income with members deals, and can get a little pushy about them when they do membership drives, though last drive I was in on was a few years ago now.
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Not surprised, until Andrews authorised more widespread testing you had to be sick enough to require hospitalisation to qualify to be tested (or have been overseas, or in contact with a known carrier). That said, it probably helps with their modelling if testing is strictly controlled, if you know roughly 10% of community spread cases are going to be sick enough to require testing then you can work backwards from the number of positive tests to get an idea of the actual presence in the community. I would hope that the Covid hotline is keeping records of the locations of people who call up reporting symptoms too, if there's a sudden cluster of calls from a location all reporting covid symptoms that could provide a useful guide as to where it's potentially spreading. I had hoped that we'd be able to eradicate it in Vic but I think the government is going to be under a bit much pressure to relax the restrictions after May 11 for that to be possible now.
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chaser lowtax posted:cool -/- What a time to be young and foolish. There is no way the schools are keeping adequate attendance records, or have any real knowledge of who is supposed to be showing up. If I was 13 to 16 in the current world I just got handed 9 to 3 as a complete fun zone devoid of all adult supervision. That and my reckless behaviour is unlikely to actually make me sick. Adds a whole new dimension to misspent youth.
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I imagine we'll be dealing with sporadic outbreaks right up until a vaccine is deployed.
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this is so weird, the message I've heard is that "If you have symptoms get a test" but if they won't test you because symptoms are not bad enough, and we know that mild symptoms are common, what is the point of that message
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The Before Times posted:this is so weird, the message I've heard is that "If you have symptoms get a test" but if they won't test you because symptoms are not bad enough, and we know that mild symptoms are common, what is the point of that message The rules were changed before this testing drive. Anyone with a sniffle can do it in Vic now.
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Endman posted:I imagine we'll be dealing with sporadic outbreaks right up until a vaccine is deployed. This is why the Vic Gov needs to be much clearer about their thinking and guidelines. If their policy is, "we won't open anything until there is a vaccine", then they need to say so. Right now they're just saying bullshit like "we will have options". What options? When? What are the benchmarks for opening schools? Why aren't they public? It's ridiculous.
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CelestialScribe posted:This is why the Vic Gov needs to be much clearer about their thinking and guidelines. Ok
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BurgerQuest posted:here's a good one for yas Suspect there is something more complex going on here, but the idea of lenders messing with redraw stuff is worrying. We barely keep anything in our savings account and just put anything leftover each month onto the mortgage since we know we can withdraw it if needed for a large unexpected bill.
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CelestialScribe posted:This is why the Vic Gov needs to be much clearer about their thinking and guidelines. It's like Conservative Midnight Oil lyrics.
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Meatworks now upto 45 covid cases. Big outbreak but they're all apparently seperated from families etc already.
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CelestialScribe posted:This is why the Vic Gov needs to be much clearer about their thinking and guidelines. Nobody knows what is going to happen, so why would they commit to anything?
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Senor Tron posted:It's like Conservative Midnight Oil lyrics. Greens voter, but try again.
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Senor Tron posted:Suspect there is something more complex going on here, but the idea of lenders messing with redraw stuff is worrying. We barely keep anything in our savings account and just put anything leftover each month onto the mortgage since we know we can withdraw it if needed for a large unexpected bill. Presumably those legacy contract T&C's let them do this - I can definitely understand ME Bank's position but I'd say 95% of mortgage holders wouldn't be under this impression and it'd probably pay to check whether your bank/mortgage can allow this. All the banks are trying to build up a massive cash reserve right now in various ways - eg NAB is going out to the market to raise $3.8B.
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realbez posted:Nobody knows what is going to happen, so why would they commit to anything? It's very easy to say, "we will not release restrictions until there is a vaccine". Parents deserve to know how long they can expect to teach their kids from home.
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CelestialScribe posted:It's very easy to say, "we will not release restrictions until there is a vaccine". Parents deserve to know how long they can expect to teach their kids from home. That would hurt the economy, the only thing that matters.
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CelestialScribe posted:It's very easy to say, "we will not release restrictions until there is a vaccine". Parents deserve to know how long they can expect to teach their kids from home. But I don’t think anybody thinks we’re going to keep them closed until there is a vaccine, so they would be talking bollocks. If you want to have a set date for reopening in your mind then just imagine they said that and you’ll be pleasantly surprised when things open up sooner!
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realbez posted:But I don’t think anybody thinks we’re going to keep them closed until there is a vaccine, so they would be talking bollocks. If you want to have a set date for reopening in your mind then just imagine they said that and you’ll be pleasantly surprised when things open up sooner! I don't want a date. I want a guideline. This isn't hard. "We want two weeks of zero cases before schools open." Wonderful! The Government will already have a guideline they haven't announced. They should simply make it public.
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They should specify just how many people are expendable because that always boosts the stock market.
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The answer is probably simply that there isn't a simple single metric that can be pointed to. No doubt the medical authorities are spitting out lots of different models with different assumptions, all assessing the risks and consequence of opening up under different conditions. Saying "We'll open up when X happens" is dangerous because in the modelling that is probably more along the lines of "It's safe to open when X, unless Y, but if Z then conditions can be A unless B in which case C will depend on D..." and so on.
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Senor Tron posted:The answer is probably simply that there isn't a simple single metric that can be pointed to. No doubt the medical authorities are spitting out lots of different models with different assumptions, all assessing the risks and consequence of opening up under different conditions. This exact conversation has been had. You're trying to talk down someone who just wants to complain that life isn't fair.
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