Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

prime minister adam bandt

Animal Friend posted:

they were way ahead on the supermarket prices thing too

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

jfc it got worse

leigh sales posted:

and b, wouldnt their direct charitable spending be a more efficient and sort of i guess direct use of their resources than having it siphoned through government and then reallocated

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Like Bill Gate's Sterilise The Poor In Africa Because There Are Too Many Black People Foundation.

Or the Jeffrey Epstein Pacific Island Adventure Foundation For Wayward Children.

Animal Friend posted:

everybody go and look up how many adult men the Gates Foundation circumcised in Africa

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Like Bill Gate's Sterilise The Poor In Africa Because There Are Too Many Black People Foundation.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

My generous interpretation of that was that presumably the Fed government would subsidize the banks. No I'm not sure how this would work in practice and I assume neither are they.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

What... why?

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

Wish they'd put a cap on my posting

Bargearse posted:

It pains me that “cum” caught on as the slang term for semen, rather than the objectively superior “jizz”.

Bargearse posted:

It pains me that “cum” caught on as the slang term for semen, rather than the objectively superior “jizz”.

Don Dongington posted:

I mean, the Reserve Bank don't HAVE to raise interest rates as the sole "economic lever" to reign in inflation.

The methods employed to control inflation are all centred around restricting the supply of currency available. They seem to include:

- making it harder to borrow money by raising interest rates, or

- forcing banks to keep a higher portion of what they loan on hand, causing them to tighten borrowing requirements

- controlling wages growth

- raising taxes

The only reason it's the "sole option" in western economies is that wages have been basically pegged to or lagging behind inflation since the Accords; reducing bank's lending capacity risks tanking the property market as overcooked investors start getting knocked back for their 3rd mortgage; and raising taxes places the burden squarely on those who can most afford it, which Just Isn't on.

So yeah, tanking what little disposable income the working class had is the only option, apparently.

Bargearse posted:

It pains me that “cum” caught on as the slang term for semen, rather than the objectively superior “jizz”.

Animal Friend posted:

Gentleman Baller posted:

This sounds a lot like the Planned Parenthood Hates Black People argument, but all my googling leads to dumb vaccine conspiracy theories, could you elaborate or share a link?

TheMostFrench posted:

AFR: "I’m travelling with Scott Morrison and we haven’t met a real voter yet[...]

Interactions with members of the public are risky. Real people have strong opinions, and they often aren’t afraid to share them, especially when cameras are rolling[...]

There is a tour of the location, where photos are taken and camera footage collected,
Mr Morrison asks questions and has a go at whichever equipment available.
Once a day, there is also a press conference where the Prime Minister delivers his message, introduces the local candidate or MP, and then fields questions.
The media, represented by one person per outlet, generally do not know where they are travelling, or for what purpose, until shortly before arrival.
We move to a new hotel every day. Flight times and destinations are also a mystery, but that won’t stop us from guessing where to next."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/i-m-travelling-with-scott-morrison-and-we-haven-t-met-a-real-voter-yet-20220414-p5adgr

Anidav posted:

North Sydney Poll
Victor Kline (TNL) 14.5
Kylea Tink (Ind) 15.8
Catherine Renshaw (ALP) 19.6
Trent Zimmerman (LIB) 30.2

DRINK ME posted:

Can’t do any research if you don’t know where you’re going. Might as well just use the black bags and toss them in the boot

Forgive me if this is a dumb one because I can’t see the article on my phone: does the campaign pay for the journalists travel and accomodation? I can’t imagine it’s just a mad scramble of reporters trying to find a vacancy or flight to the next location, so there must be some arrangement…
In my mind they just sort of followed the candidate around, like the candidate was doing the tour and the media were covering it as much or little as they wanted to. I imagined a schedule and they’d know Thursday two weeks from now at 1pm that Morrison and the candidate for Sydney are visiting a local ball pit.

Synthbuttrange posted:

attaboy albo, give everyone an answer on refugees everyone will be unhappy with

quote:

“We’ll turn boats back. Turning boats back means that you don’t need offshore detention,” Albanese told reporters in Cessnock on Thursday.

Less than three hours later, Albanese clarified his statement by saying “of course” Labor still supported offshore detention.

“It was established in 2013 when I was the deputy prime minister. I was asked today about boat turnbacks - our position is clear, we continue to support them,” he said.

He said boat turnbacks were the “preference” to offshore detention.

“At the moment there aren’t people who have gone into offshore detention because the boats have been turned back. It’s been effective.”

TheMostFrench posted:

AFR: "I’m travelling with Scott Morrison and we haven’t met a real voter yet[...]

Interactions with members of the public are risky. Real people have strong opinions, and they often aren’t afraid to share them, especially when cameras are rolling[...]

There is a tour of the location, where photos are taken and camera footage collected,
Mr Morrison asks questions and has a go at whichever equipment available.
Once a day, there is also a press conference where the Prime Minister delivers his message, introduces the local candidate or MP, and then fields questions.
The media, represented by one person per outlet, generally do not know where they are travelling, or for what purpose, until shortly before arrival.
We move to a new hotel every day. Flight times and destinations are also a mystery, but that won’t stop us from guessing where to next."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/i-m-travelling-with-scott-morrison-and-we-haven-t-met-a-real-voter-yet-20220414-p5adgr

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

what did barnaby do

quote:

WA senator Ben Small has resigned because he is a dual citizen with New Zealand, meaning a breach of section 44 of the Australian Constitution.

Mr Small, who took former finance minister Mathias Cormann’s Senate position in a casual vacancy in 2021, rendered his resignation with President of the Senate, Slade Brockman, on Friday morning.

Mr Small discovered last week that he was a dual citizen with New Zealand, when the Liberal Party was conducting checks ahead of the Federal election on May 21.

“While the question of my ineligibility to have been appointed to a Senate casual vacancy would need to be confirmed by the Court of Disputed Returns, I believe that my circumstances are sufficiently clear and it is most appropriate that I promptly resign from the Senate myself,” Mr Small told The West Australian.

Mr Small was born in Perth but his father was a New Zealand citizen at the time of his birth.

He discovered last week that there may be an issue when Liberal Party officers said his full declaration was not updated properly in paperwork to go to the Australian Electoral Commission.

It was only this week that the New Zealand High Commission confirmed he was indeed a Kiwi citizen and on Thursday at 12.27pm, Mr Small renounced his citizenship.

Mr Small formally resigned from his Senate position at 11am on Friday.

He can still run as a candidate at the election but if the Liberal Party retain three Senate spots, he will not be able to return until July 1.

Subsection 44(i) of the Constitution states that any person who has allegiance to a foreign power or is a subject or citizen of another country “shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a Senator or a member of the House of Representatives”.

In 2017 a spate of parliamentarians were forced to resign because it emerged they were dual citizens.