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Aware posted:Countercounterpoint: Luigi from WA Salvage He is still around?
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rolf harris dead
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May 23, 2023 14:26
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Good riddance to him
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Aware posted:Countercounterpoint: Luigi from WA Salvage I SAVA YOU DA MONEY!
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May 23, 2023 15:41
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Electric Wrigglies posted:He is still around? It seems likely, I feel like their would have been a state funeral if he'd passed.
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May 23, 2023 21:09
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Aware posted:It seems likely, I feel like their would have been a state funeral if he'd passed. I'd be interested to know what a "not fancy, but cheap" state funeral would be like.
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May 24, 2023 00:22
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BrigadierSensible posted:Counterpoint: Basil Zempilas You know what, you're right, gently caress City of Perth. The rest is ok.
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May 24, 2023 02:03
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froglet posted:I'd be interested to know what a "not fancy, but cheap" state funeral would be like. Save'a'da'money!
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May 24, 2023 02:04
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froglet posted:I'd be interested to know what a "not fancy, but cheap" state funeral would be like. If you watched the coronation it'd be like that.
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ABC News posted:Amid a cost-of-living crisis, meet the people turning to side hustles to make ends meet In spite of the rosy face the ABC puts on this, this is pretty grim. Ah everyone following their passion to survive because their lives and incomes are so unstable and at the whims of capital!
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May 24, 2023 03:26
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I have had to sell my body to make money
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May 24, 2023 04:33
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In more hilarious news:Guardian AU posted:Australian jobseekers told to use ChatGPT to apply for jobs and shown irrelevant videos https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/23/jobseekers-told-use-chatgpt-write-resumes-and-study-laws-attraction Phew, imagine how hard jobseekers would have it in the current economy without their vision boards!
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May 24, 2023 05:36
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To be fair doing pointless visioning exercises, watching random nonsense videos on YouTube and using chatGPT to produce content at speed sounds ideal preparation for jobs in the modern knowledge workforce. Especially for government policy roles.
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hooman posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-21/side-hustles-to-help-cost-of-living-crisis-/102323588 In the last 6 months my second job has gone from something I do to make some extra cash, which I could happily walk away from and eventually planned to, to something that I need to do if I actually want to accumulate savings instead of merely treading water. Not looking forward to assessing what it means to me in another 6 months!
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May 24, 2023 08:28
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You guys are accumulating savings?!?
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May 24, 2023 10:40
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LMAO. https://twitter.com/DavidShoebridge/status/1661535457451335681 Almost like we need some social contract to operate a business in this country, and if you break it, you get loving nationalised. EDIT: Double LMAO. Guardian AU posted:The former Australian government continued to pay millions of taxpayer dollars to a businessman convicted of corruption to provide offshore processing services on Nauru, even after he had pleaded guilty to bribing Nauruan government officials. Almost like we need some kind of laws for politicians in this country, and if you break it, you go to jail. hooman fucked around with this message at 04:06 on May 25, 2023 |
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May 25, 2023 04:03
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hooman posted:
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What about lawyers who leave government, then go on to represent a client suing the government, the lawyer having learned privileged information about the case while they were in government? Surely that's OK right and wouldn't need the senate to get involved?
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May 25, 2023 05:08
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This whole time i thought PwC was a government office or something, it's loving pricewaterhousecoopers
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May 25, 2023 05:11
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Yet if a low-level union office bearer forgets to include something on a register of interests, misses a second signature on an expense form or doesn't re-sit financial governance training after being elected to a different office, the RoC can deregister the entire union. Def got our priorities in order on the governance front folks.
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May 25, 2023 07:34
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stay classy, Prue
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May 25, 2023 07:43
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Straw poll which is about our east-coast-centric media: how many people here, barring those in WA, heard that there was a school shooting in Perth yesterday? (Zero casualties, but still shots fired)
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May 25, 2023 08:34
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It was all over ABC news, but I do leave that open while working, plus also a Perthite. Two kids, two rifles, firing into the school.
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Yeah, it made the national news, at least on the abc.
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May 25, 2023 09:20
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Yeah I heard about it on Triple J
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May 25, 2023 09:26
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Hmmm OK I guess I pay less attention to the news than I used to. Anyway I saw the bodycam footage on Twitter and found it really disconcerting to see the sort of imagery I associate with America (cops running through a locked down school) with what's not just Australia, but Perth https://twitter.com/9NewsPerth/status/1661586961029812224
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I had not heard about it, though I guess I was at work all day and then just kinda stopped existing for the night
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May 25, 2023 09:48
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I read the guardian and the Brisbane times, and I heard about it. I don’t watch or listen to news on TV or radio.
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May 25, 2023 10:48
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Yay, WA going to give Toryism a whirl.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Yay, WA going to give Toryism a whirl. If you read the article he doesn't say that. Kind of a lovely headline from a lovely "paper"
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Konomex posted:If you read the article he doesn't say that. Kind of a lovely headline from a lovely "paper" subscriber honeypot trap sprung
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Recoome posted:subscriber honeypot trap sprung archive.is Edit: For anyone not Perth, the demolition of Brownlie towers was unambiguously a good thing, concentrated poverty housing is a terrible idea and that place constantly had people coming in and out for corpses. However, I don't think that's a defence at all for the number of social housing units falling, because yes you needed to get rid of that, but you also needed to at the same time produce places for the people displaced by that change to live. The West is a poo poo paper and you should never trust the reporting but it's also a pretty poo poo defence of lower public housing units by McGowan. hooman fucked around with this message at 02:57 on May 26, 2023 |
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hooman posted:archive.is That's somewhat of a relief. I guess I'll return Labor back to their "poo poo, but not as poo poo as the LNP" status. Man, lucky I wasn't watching A Current Affair if I'm going to bite that easy... 
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SecretOfSteel posted:That's somewhat of a relief. I guess I'll return Labor back to their "poo poo, but not as poo poo as the LNP" status. Oh Lord, I shouldn't have looked and now I do want a bite...
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hooman posted:archive.is I'm not going to read the West, was the lower social housing only as compared to just before the estate housing was demolished? Or is it an overall longer term decline without replacement? I have no doubt the West would happily not report if the govt had recently increased social housing in anticipation of the demolishment but just don't know. In any event, concentrated social housing is fraught with risk and WA used to be good in social housing front by insisting that every development, no matter how fancy or expensive, would have an allocation for social housing. Specifically to avoid "white flight" and concentrated poverty.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Oh Lord, I shouldn't have looked and now I do want a bite... 
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There has been an observable drop in social housing in WA. Social housing availability was an issue long before the current general housing availability crisis in WA but the rise in homelessness was basically the signature criticism of his govt for their first 2 years in office. I live in a low SES suburb, and moved in just after McGowan was elected for the first time. Within 6 months, 3 homeswest places within 50m of my place were put on the market and sold to private buyers. Even if that was part of an effort to spread social housing out and away from areas of entrenched intergenerational property, a 4 bedroom house in my suburb costs half what it would cost in a more "gentrified" area, so the economics of it dictate a hit to supply. Of course, now we have a cost of living crisis and a general housing availability crisis on top of that, so you can imagine it's a shitshow.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:I'm not going to read the West, was the lower social housing only as compared to just before the estate housing was demolished? Or is it an overall longer term decline without replacement? I have no doubt the West would happily not report if the govt had recently increased social housing in anticipation of the demolishment but just don't know. https://www.watoday.com.au/national...501-p5d4n4.html other reporting suggests that yes, there is an issue of longer term decline without replacement because despite investments in social housing it hasn't been enough even to replace what's been sold off/demolished yet, and the waitlist has blown out as a result
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A silly little thing. https://twitter.com/reardon_shaun/status/1661262453395832839 A LNP Senator condescendingly asking a department secretary why he isn't wearing a tie, and once wore a T-Shirt in Queensland. Really clamping down on the important issues of the day.
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