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I was talking to my mum in Perth and she mentioned how my sister, grandfather and aunt all had really bad colds or flu bugs in the last few weeks. I asked if they got tested and she said no and seemed nonplussed that I would even suggest it, which I think was my first real interstate culture shock moment, which I'm sure will only become more pronounced as we go into 2020.
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Senor Tron posted:God bless the one term marginal seat MP who has taken over the WA libs, valiantly sacrificing himself in the unwinnable state election. Grew up with him, I've been scratching my head so hard about why he'd take the poison chalice for an unwinnable election when he's on a razor thin margin already. I know he wants the PM job one day, he must be playing 4D chess in his head on how to wrangle this into a bigger thing. It does come with a bigger spotlight at least.
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Nov 24, 2020 13:31
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freebooter posted:I was talking to my mum in Perth and she mentioned how my sister, grandfather and aunt all had really bad colds or flu bugs in the last few weeks. I asked if they got tested and she said no and seemed nonplussed that I would even suggest it, which I think was my first real interstate culture shock moment, which I'm sure will only become more pronounced as we go into 2020. Please, not 2020 again...
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Nov 24, 2020 15:54
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Konomex posted:Grew up with him, I've been scratching my head so hard about why he'd take the poison chalice for an unwinnable election when he's on a razor thin margin already. I know he wants the PM job one day, he must be playing 4D chess in his head on how to wrangle this into a bigger thing. It does come with a bigger spotlight at least. He's definitely got less to lose than he has to gain, even in losing he can definitely use the opportunity to advance his own brand. Whether he'd be able to do that or not I guess we'll see. I knew a guy who ran against Greg Piper in a NSW state election for the seat of Lake Macquarie (as a Labor candidate) a few years back and it was kind of obvious he got the position because literally nobody else wanted it, since he had pretty much no support, and the few times he got a word in to the media he managed to say all the wrong things. Animal Friend posted:Please, not 2020 again... Yeah we did it wrong apparently so we're going on a redo.
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Nov 24, 2020 16:04
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freebooter posted:I'm lucky enough to have a punch-in-punch-out wage-paid white collar job, where once a time-allotted task is over there's literally nothing for me to do, but my girlfriend often now works until 8 or 9pm or logs in to finish stuff on weekends, which I reckon will be a widespread issue in the coming years as heaps of companies shift entirely to WFH. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a test OH&S case on this in the near future. I think there’s a decent claim that part of an employers “reasonably practicable” test should be to monitor and respond to excess out of hours work done by the employees. Companies that have any sort of cloud based document system are fairly easily able to see when people are committing edits. Should they be using that to check in on people and suggest they take a break?
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Nov 24, 2020 21:14
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-25/second-whistleblower-attacks-football-queensland-governance/12910828 This entire story is bonkers. I hate reading that when I see it on a twitter post, but this time it's true. And it all comes back to our old friend 
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Nov 24, 2020 21:16
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Konomex posted:Grew up with him, I've been scratching my head so hard about why he'd take the poison chalice for an unwinnable election when he's on a razor thin margin already. I know he wants the PM job one day, he must be playing 4D chess in his head on how to wrangle this into a bigger thing. It does come with a bigger spotlight at least. There are several Premiers who when they got the job appeared to be in atleast as bad shape as the WA libs, obviously Anastasia, but even someone like Andrew’s (also Ardern) came in with more things going wrong than right. Several more in recent history, ie Mike Rann had a two term deal on SA after the 1993 election, so it all comes down to what he negotiates. But you can’t be premier till your leader and unless you are a generational exceptional politician you need to take it when it comes up, as it just might not come up again.
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Nov 24, 2020 21:24
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Holy poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqA_DprY0RA
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Nov 24, 2020 22:04
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for the first time I wrote to the APC to complain about that segment specifically
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Nov 24, 2020 22:21
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Lid posted:Holy poo poo Did you mean to link something else because this appears to just be two fat brain dead shits and if one other person mistakenly clicks on it you will have doubled the viewership
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Nov 24, 2020 22:24
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no i meant to link that the holy poo poo came from not its inclusion of "this will break this wide open" but from "this is so far removed from reality, and even opinion, to have offended me to my very core."
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Nov 24, 2020 22:26
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We should “deplatform” Paul Murray and Rowan Dean, they have far too much influence through their prominent positions on the widely viewed Sky News After Dark programming block
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Nov 24, 2020 22:27
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Deplatforming is when the head rolls off the guillotines raised stage.
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Nov 24, 2020 22:48
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Solemn Sloth posted:Did you mean to link something else because this appears to just be two fat brain dead shits and if one other person mistakenly clicks on it you will have doubled the viewership Thanks I won't click on it
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Nov 24, 2020 23:14
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Konomex posted:Grew up with him, I've been scratching my head so hard about why he'd take the poison chalice for an unwinnable election when he's on a razor thin margin already. I know he wants the PM job one day, he must be playing 4D chess in his head on how to wrangle this into a bigger thing. It does come with a bigger spotlight at least. It might help him save his seat if he's getting a spotlight now.
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Nov 25, 2020 00:14
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https://www.theguardian.com/austral...traffic-cameras Old news but I missed it when it was first reported. Actual proof of systemic racism. This is doubly tragic when you realise that an overwhelming number of the indigenous deaths in custody are as the result of incarceration due to traffic offences. "The biggest disparity was in the issuing of infringements for not wearing a seatbelt, where Aboriginal drivers received 19.2 times the number of fines." Ms Dhu died while “cutting out” unpaid fines after enduring what a coroner called “unprofessional” and “inhumane” treatment from some police officers at South Hedland police station. She had been told she was “faking it” and called a “loving junkie”. She was dropped on the cell floor when she could not stand up, dragged along the floor, and then carried, handcuffed and shackled, to a police van because she could not walk. Her death was attributed to septicemia caused by an infection in a rib broken by her violent partner some weeks before. Her family received a $1.1m ex-gratia payment and a formal apology from the Western Australia attorney general, and are still considering further legal action. ISSUES RAISED Medical care required but not all given, procedures not all followed, force used. On remand for unpaid traffic fines.
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Nov 25, 2020 00:29
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Lid posted:Holy poo poo Sky News Australia is so much worse than Fox News. Also relevant: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1331154637978648576?s=20
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Nov 25, 2020 00:53
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Was watching the SA daily Covid briefing and after it finished the feed switched to a press conference Dan Andrews is doing right now. He's doing such a good job of explaining why borrowing to finance things like public housing and arts infrastructure is good for the economy in the long term.
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Nov 25, 2020 01:01
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I saw him quoted as saying this so went looking if it was still up. After the Victorian lockdown successfully stamped out covid...  Also found this lol  His comment section is exactly what you imagine it is.
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Nov 25, 2020 01:21
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"Who will save me from hordes of innocent Afghani civilians?" I imagine to be the ironic response to this, then realize she thinks that unironically and just wants brown people murdered 
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Nov 25, 2020 01:33
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please save me from those Afghan kids running away from are brave troops
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Nov 25, 2020 02:26
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Animal Friend posted:I saw him quoted as saying this so went looking if it was still up. After the Victorian lockdown successfully stamped out covid... I don't believe that Covid is a conspiracy to thin out undesirable parts of the population but it seems like George Christensen might.
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Nov 25, 2020 02:36
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Alternatively: Our boy George wants us to give up and reopen the border so he can fly overseas to satisfy his urges.
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Nov 25, 2020 02:40
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-24/former-sas-liberal-mp-andrew-hastie-heard-rumours-wrongdoing/12915892 A sitting Federal LNP Member was the SAS commander of the ghani kiddie killers. No I wasn't actually shocked either. LJR was found dead in his bunk in Victoria's Port Phillip prison on the morning of 10 July 2014. While he was a high-level drug user and there is no evidence to suggest the involvement of any other person in his death, the coroner could not determine that his death was due to natural causes because there was a series of shortcomings in monitoring and investigation. The coroner's inability to give a definite cause of death has caused a great deal of anguish to LJR's family. ISSUES RAISED Procedures not all followed, mental health / cognitive impairment.
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Nov 25, 2020 02:55
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Can someone explain to me what's China's game plan with not accepting Australian imports?
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Nov 25, 2020 20:53
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economic punishment for only looking 99% the other way when China is being very Problematic.
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Nov 25, 2020 21:02
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Australia is the dog, the blocked imports are the rolled up newspaper.
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Nov 25, 2020 21:04
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Knobb Manwich posted:Australia is the dog, the blocked imports are the rolled up newspaper. ...it doesn't seem to be doing anything to the Government? I would have thought the coal companies would have been screaming at the National party and we'd see it in the media, but everyone seems to be ignoring it.
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Nov 25, 2020 21:08
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Senor Tron posted:Sky News Australia is so much worse than Fox News. ah yes, the "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"
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Nov 25, 2020 21:08
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Comstar posted:Can someone explain to me what's China's game plan with not accepting Australian imports? Stop making us look bad and acting against our interests in defence of your own (even if we are behaving badly, our interests are the only important ones). Look this is how we can hurt you. Take note other nations that want to do business with us. trunkh fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 21:16
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Comstar posted:...it doesn't seem to be doing anything to the Government? I would have thought the coal companies would have been screaming at the National party and we'd see it in the media, but everyone seems to be ignoring it. They probably are, just quietly. Australians are weird hey? Authoritarian bootlickers with laid back delusions, but if the authoritarianism is perceived as bullying, we'd rather slam our own dicks in the door than be seen to roll over.
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Nov 25, 2020 21:20
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Knobb Manwich posted:They probably are, just quietly. We're just particular about our brands when it comes to bootlicking, Rossi or RM Williams are preferred.
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Nov 25, 2020 22:01
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The authoritarianism is coming from outside the house!!!trunkh posted:We're just particular about our brands when it comes to bootlicking, Rossi or RM Williams are preferred. Nice. Your point about China making an example to others was a really good one btw.
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Nov 25, 2020 23:21
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I imagine no one in the coal industry is screaming about it because they had already taken this into account as a possibility because China has been doing this a lot to a great many nations. A lot of the industries that are actually hurting from it are smaller and can't really spread themselves out the way fossil fuel industries can, and as far as I'm aware we sell way more to Japan (for now) than we ever did to China.
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Nov 26, 2020 00:58
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My thinking now is that the Coalition actually knows that the coal industry is hosed, but are just hoping to hold off that realisation until the point Labor are in power federally and blame them for coal mines closing.
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Nov 26, 2020 01:01
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I imagine no one in the coal industry is screaming about it because they had already taken this into account as a possibility because China has been doing this a lot to a great many nations. A lot of the industries that are actually hurting from it are smaller and can't really spread themselves out the way fossil fuel industries can, and as far as I'm aware we sell way more to Japan (for now) than we ever did to China. I agree but I also think there is also a public perception aspect to this. The average Australian has no love for China, so complaining to loudly about it, is liable to get a potential mass response along the lines of "so what? gently caress China, our Government is doing the right thing". Hell I feel there was a Hollow Men episode on this very thing.
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Nov 26, 2020 01:32
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IM on my phone, someone post a screenshot of uhlmanns latest article
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Nov 26, 2020 02:15
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I'm also on my phone but the twitter screenshot is more than enough imo 
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Nov 26, 2020 02:32
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I imagine no one in the coal industry is screaming about it because they had already taken this into account as a possibility because China has been doing this a lot to a great many nations. A lot of the industries that are actually hurting from it are smaller and can't really spread themselves out the way fossil fuel industries can, and as far as I'm aware we sell way more to Japan (for now) than we ever did to China. Isn't part of the problem that yes for higher quality coal there are still quite a few markets open, but China was basically the dumping ground for our garbage tier stuff?
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I'm also on my phone but the twitter screenshot is more than enough imo didnt that wanker write multiple novels about himself as the brave self-insert journalist taking the fight to china at great personal risk lol
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