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BrigadierSensible posted:A silly little thing. thinking about that story about her destroying a parliament house microwave by putting something in it wrapped in aluminium foil.
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freebooter posted:Without seeing the full context, would not be surprised if What People Should Be Wearing is the first hint of a dog whistle that eventually segued into some trans culture war poo poo I would argue more it's some dress-code decorum poo poo, (men should always dress like a private schoolboy at a job interview), that branches off of the slut shaming style dress code stuff that the right wing establishment has for women. I remember recently there was a thing where ABC Journalist Patricia Karvelas was kicked out of the press box because her shirt showed too much of her shoulders, (or something similar), for the Parliament dress code. Which, to be fair is not a million miles away from what you are saying.
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May 26, 2023 13:23
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Pocock never wears a tie but he's a brick shithouse so nobody mentions it.
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May 26, 2023 14:43
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the libs all melted down about chandler-mather and bates not wearing ties in parliament on their first day
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May 26, 2023 16:17
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It's gate keeping bullshit to shame the common people
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May 27, 2023 00:42
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-28/hirewire-philippe-petit-sydney-harbour-bridge-street-artist/102394658 Even high wire performers find 
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QUACKTASTIC posted:McGowan just resigned What! No not the God Emperor!? I guess it’s a good time to refresh the government a bit so it doesn’t get stale. And hopefully he makes a move into federal politics after his rest. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 07:04 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 06:58
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I think he pulled an Ardern. Get out while they still think kindly of you.
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QUACKTASTIC posted:McGowan just resigned State daddy noooooo. Who will lead the Glorious Westralia now?
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Call it a Cincinnatus. Someone retiring from politics is someone who's actually been doing a job.
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Getting ready to be the fall guy for the Perth Mint poo poo
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Call it a Cincinnatus. Someone retiring from politics is someone who's actually been doing a job.
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https://theshovel.com.au/2023/05/29/voice-to-parliament-scrapped-hire-pwc-instead/The Shovel posted:Plans for a First Nation’s Voice to Parliament have been abandoned, with Indigenous leaders saying it will be easier to have a say on Government policy via a rolling contract with consulting firm PwC instead.
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https://youtu.be/5CD5CIlScZ0 Why can't our troops have a beer when they are conducting operations??? Can't sink a few and kill an enemy any more!!! I feel gross for having to get that link with my regular youtube account, i think i need to scrub it now
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Reading across a bunch of different media I'm surprised how many claim that WA was "closed to the world" or "closed to the rest of Australia" for the entirety of the pandemic. It reopened the state border in December 2020 and remained open in 2021 to the states that didn't have major outbreaks and lockdowns, i.e. every state except NSW, Victoria and the ACT.
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freebooter posted:Reading across a bunch of different media I'm surprised how many claim that WA was "closed to the world" or "closed to the rest of Australia" for the entirety of the pandemic. It reopened the state border in December 2020 and remained open in 2021 to the states that didn't have major outbreaks and lockdowns, i.e. every state except NSW, Victoria and the ACT. I don't know what media you're reading but they sound like shitheads, OP
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MysticalMachineGun posted:TBH I'm somewhat glad this is coming out and being investigated rather than the pollies shrugging and letting PWC continue Ftfy. Financial Review posted:PwC was behind 15 schemes designed to help multinationals sidestep tax laws, Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan told a parliamentary committee late on Tuesday. Financial Review posted:The Tax Office shared information with federal police in 2018 about former PwC partner Peter Collins leaking confidential Treasury documents, Commissioner Chris Jordan told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. If there was ever a time to talk about a social contract to operate... I pray PwC gets absolutely blasted into the ground financially over this, as well as every single company who used them to cheat the laws.
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freebooter posted:Reading across a bunch of different media I'm surprised how many claim that WA was "closed to the world" or "closed to the rest of Australia" for the entirety of the pandemic. It reopened the state border in December 2020 and remained open in 2021 to the states that didn't have major outbreaks and lockdowns, i.e. every state except NSW, Victoria and the ACT. There are other states besides NSW???
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hooman posted:I pray PwC gets absolutely blasted into the ground financially over this, as well as every single company who used them to cheat the laws. Absolutely agreed. Funnily enough my workplace has had PWC consultants before (not about tax dodging of course) so I’m looking forward to the next time someone suggests it.
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freebooter posted:Reading across a bunch of different media I'm surprised how many claim that WA was "closed to the world" or "closed to the rest of Australia" for the entirety of the pandemic. It reopened the state border in December 2020 and remained open in 2021 to the states that didn't have major outbreaks and lockdowns, i.e. every state except NSW, Victoria and the ACT. To be fair... us sandgroppers were deliberately egging them on to get the eastern stater tears flowing. Especially when it was after years of people outside WA constantly asking why WA exists, theres nothing there, Perth isn't a real city, I wouldn't be caught dead there, etc. and then the second the lockdowns hit the same people demanded to be allowed to fly over Also consider that the reason WA locked down in the first place was due to being the first state to have an outbreak. Daddy Mac got us locked down fast and things were under control in about a month, while everywhere else seemed to go to poo poo
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The Head of the Reserve Bank of Australia wants two things: People to not have homes to reduce the cost of them A recession to force wages low. He needs to be sacked, immediately, for failing the 3rd part of the Reserve Bank: for the general wellfare of Australia. And if it's not his job, it will soon be his actual one. Because Guillotines have very high....productivity.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Silver linings people. Silver linings. What . The . gently caress ?
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starkebn posted:What . The . gently caress ? We've had it wrong all along, landlords and real estate agents, benevolent and altruistic, are just trying to help you.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Silver linings people. Silver linings. Hey stop working from home and rent that home office out to make some extra money
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SecretOfSteel posted:Silver linings people. Silver linings. This is what happens when we outsource economic decisions to a central bank though. We are seeing results of the sins of previous Liberal and Labor governments at various levels. hooman posted:I pray PwC gets absolutely blasted into the ground financially over this, as well as every single company who used them to cheat the laws. Nothing will happen, I'm afraid due to the way these firms are constructed.
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Recoome posted:This is what happens when we outsource economic decisions to a central bank though. We are seeing results of the sins of previous Liberal and Labor governments at various levels. Hard to find the time to read through the solid wall of text that is First Dog on the Moon, but essentially a repeat of this from the Banking Royal Commission:
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The ABC Finance guy was positively gleeful when he said on the the radio that the Governor of the Reserve Bank plans to drive the country into a Recession because wages might be going above...3%. When the inflation rate is above 6%. Expect further interest rate raises before he gets canned to enjoy his multiple millions and cushy job reward in the finance industry where he'll take advantage of the Recession to make his number go up. And so he can buy more properties to allow his family to become land lords.
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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. A bit late, but I reckon social housing is only fraught with risk now because it has become "last resort" housing. Back in the day my grandparents lived in social housing, but so did almost everyone in their town. freebooter posted:Reading across a bunch of different media I'm surprised how many claim that WA was "closed to the world" or "closed to the rest of Australia" for the entirety of the pandemic. It reopened the state border in December 2020 and remained open in 2021 to the states that didn't have major outbreaks and lockdowns, i.e. every state except NSW, Victoria and the ACT. Yeah, and there were times where it was difficult, but not entirely impossible. I was kinda surprised how upset people from those states were about not being able to come to WA.... And stuff like the bit in bold below was why: Paingod556 posted:To be fair... us sandgroppers were deliberately egging them on to get the eastern stater tears flowing. Especially when it was after years of people outside WA constantly asking why WA exists, theres nothing there, Perth isn't a real city, I wouldn't be caught dead there, etc. and then the second the lockdowns hit the same people demanded to be allowed to fly over I mean, from a WA perspective it seemed the eastern states people were asking us to throw open our borders so they could come and infect us all because of some mix of "it's not fair that we have lockdowns and live music bans and you don't, let 'er rip  " and "I want to enjoy a holiday/see my family like the good old days, gently caress the rest of you". I know it's not as simple as that, but it's not like us sandgropers didn't miss out, either - I couldn't see my grandmother before she died, and while I could have gone to her funeral, I would have been locked out of the state for months until I could come home. So we attended her funeral online... Which was a good decision, considering that some of our extended family came down with covid not long after (presumably from the funeral - where everyone was wearing masks). Does anyone else remember that article (I think it was from Crikey? But I can't find it) about how throwing open the borders had all downside and minimal upside to WA people, so of course we were reluctant? froglet fucked around with this message at 15:27 on May 31, 2023 |
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Nothing wrong with social housing, what is important is to avoid the projects effect in the UK that actively (and to some extent, by design) segregated socio economic classes. this is done by spreading it throughput the community. Don't put all the people exiting a rehab program in one massive building in the light industrial area no matter how much cheaper it is (and how much someone from Nedlands despises having an ex-con in their community), for instance. Bit of the WA vs east coast is a bit of jealousy, I think. WA did have more restrictive setting for the general population, but was able to keep the main economic wheels turning on the boomtown iron ore and other mining industries that allowed WA (government at least, but also a lot of middle class workers) to keep saving up for the inevitable price rises that were built into world-wide lockdowns of productivity. Tourist sector in QLD and Tasmania was far more impacted than the gold mining and O&G industries as an example.
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Friendly reminder social housing and public housing are two different things.
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froglet posted:Yeah, and there were times where it was difficult, but not entirely impossible. I was kinda surprised how upset people from those states were about not being able to come to WA.... And stuff like the bit in bold below was why: I was fascinated by the people on the east coast who have never been to WA, have no connection to WA, have no family in WA and had no particular plans to go to WA who got red-hot mad about McGowan and the border closures. People who did have family there, it's more understandable, but I mean - my entire family is there, I didn't see them for two years, and while that sucked it was worth them living a completely free 2019-esque life. If Victoria and WA had both been in lockdown nobody would have been seeing anybody. And going beyond the utilitarianism of it I find it bizarre that WA and Qld copped so much flak when SA and Tasmania, who had largely identical policies, didn't. Obviously both had Liberal premiers so the media plays a role in that, but I think it's also possibly because they kept more quiet about it all whereas McGowan and Palascuk were acutely aware that no premier from a smaller state ever loses votes by criticising Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. There seemed to be a lot of people livid at the fact that a premier's job is first and foremost to protect the interests of their state, and whose own premiers would have acted exactly the same if the shoe was on the other foot. quote:Does anyone else remember that article (I think it was from Crikey? But I can't find it) about how throwing open the borders had all downside and minimal upside to WA people, so of course we were reluctant? Paywalled, but I also recall it being very good if anyone wants to post it: https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/09/03/two-counries-border-closures/ Electric Wrigglies posted:WA did have more restrictive setting for the general population I presume you're talking about the state border closure here? In terms of day to day life WA was more free and open than pretty much anywhere in the world. (Except certain American red states I guess, but also without being swamped in COVID.)
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froglet posted:Back in the day my grandparents lived in social housing, but so did almost everyone in their town. "Guvvie" housing in Canberra never had a stigma attached to it because it usually meant government housing constructed for public servants as departments relocated to the capital. Huge swathes of suburbs were built by the federal government (and I think actually by govt employed workers, not subbied out to companies) and then rented to workers at a fixed proportion of their salary. Residents had the option to buy the homes after they'd lived in them for a while. Guvvies also included public housing for people who needed assistance but there was really no way to tell where/who these were.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Silver linings people. Silver linings. How the hell does this rear end in a top hat still have a job? He literally presided over what is nominally the biggest loss in bank history and he dares still try to think he's qualified to say poo poo
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