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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol 2023 - fuck off Pauline

adeadcrab: Feb 1, 2006; Objectifying women is cool and normal

Non Compos Mentis posted:

Mummy milkers

Mmmmmmmbop

# ? Jul 31, 2023 20:35

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# ? May 24, 2024 02:34

Regular Wario: Mar 27, 2010; Slippery Tilde

adeadcrab posted:

Mmmmmmmbop

Imagine i made a handsard/hanson joke

# ? Aug 1, 2023 05:18

Jezza of OZPOS: Mar 21, 2018; GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺

albo has been feeding dd speculation around the housing bill again, kind of feels like hes just playing brinkmanship with the greens which feels incredibly stupid but maybe the government knows something i dont

# ? Aug 1, 2023 06:25

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

There's nothing in the world that milquetoast centrists hate more than the Greens.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 06:30

Eediot Jedi: Dec 25, 2007; This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's nothing in the world that milquetoast centrists hate more than the Greens.

What makes a man turn centrist? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

# ? Aug 1, 2023 06:46

lih: May 15, 2013; Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

albo has been feeding dd speculation around the housing bill again, kind of feels like hes just playing brinkmanship with the greens which feels incredibly stupid but maybe the government knows something i dont

the latest is he's floating the idea of a double dissolution in jan-march 2025 which makes even less sense than just a regular election in early 2025, as it would not possibly make the senate easier to work with and would require a half-senate election by ~may 2027.

i think they just want to blame the housing crisis entirely on the greens over the haff bill in a weird stubborn attempt to try to win back griffith next election? that doesn't seem like a great strategy but what do i know. they're not exactly trying to present themselves as the ones negotiating in good faith and sincerely trying to get a deal with those stubborn greens or anything, they're just making these weird attempts at bullying them into submission.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 06:59

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Astronaut floating in space meme: the two major parties are the same?

# ? Aug 1, 2023 08:28

hooman: Oct 11, 2007; This guy seems legit.; Fun Shoe

lih posted:

the latest is he's floating the idea of a double dissolution in jan-march 2025 which makes even less sense than just a regular election in early 2025, as it would not possibly make the senate easier to work with and would require a half-senate election by ~may 2027.

i think they just want to blame the housing crisis entirely on the greens over the haff bill in a weird stubborn attempt to try to win back griffith next election? that doesn't seem like a great strategy but what do i know. they're not exactly trying to present themselves as the ones negotiating in good faith and sincerely trying to get a deal with those stubborn greens or anything, they're just making these weird attempts at bullying them into submission.

Labor having "bully into submission" as their only negotiating strategy? Say it ain't so!

# ? Aug 1, 2023 14:37

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

It's so bizarre to see Labor acting so craven regarding the media and new taxes but then acting like a big bully to the Greens - who's going to give them positive coverage on this?

# ? Aug 2, 2023 00:12

lih: May 15, 2013; Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.

most of the press hates the greens even more than they hate labor and are happy to attack the greens over this

# ? Aug 2, 2023 00:36

Recoome: Nov 9, 2013; Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

The Australian Landlord Party

# ? Aug 2, 2023 01:48

Eediot Jedi: Dec 25, 2007; This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

MysticalMachineGun posted:

It's so bizarre to see Labor acting so craven regarding the media and new taxes but then acting like a big bully to the Greens - who's going to give them positive coverage on this?

They are still haunted by the ghosts of minority governments past, where they opened themselves up to accusations of actually having to negotiate and compromise with the communist greens to govern, instead of the Australia way of shouting "munted senate" a lot and throwing a bone to a couple of independents.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 01:57

Spookydonut: Sep 13, 2010; "Hello alien thoughtbeasts! We murder children!"
~our children?~
"Not recently, no!"
~we cool bro~

Paingod556 posted:

Perth- Our train lines are up almost all the time.
But they take an extra 5 years to make any extensions or additions.

That said, the Armadale line works are gonna gently caress over a lot of people for the next 18 months, while they raise the track to gently caress off the level crossings

its also replacing/upgrading it so its all at least 100km/h

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:28

Beardcrumb: Sep 24, 2018; An absolute gronk with a face like a chewed mango.

Eediot Jedi posted:

What makes a man turn centrist? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Fatigue and apathy in my case.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:59

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Eediot Jedi posted:

They are still haunted by the ghosts of minority governments past, where they opened themselves up to accusations of actually having to negotiate and compromise with the communist greens to govern, instead of the Australia way of shouting "munted senate" a lot and throwing a bone to a couple of independents.

lih posted:

most of the press hates the greens even more than they hate labor and are happy to attack the greens over this

Probably this, that and they're just the go-to easy target. I dunno if they're actually expecting this to result in material gains, though they've certainly been happy to appeal solely to the rusted-ons for a good while. Maybe their CIA handlers demanding they get rid of those loving commies somehow.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 03:43

The Peccadillo: Mar 4, 2013; We Have Important Work To Do

I just got a short youtube ad for being a cop and the new recruitment slogan is literally "you should be a cop". At least the military has like a "hey we can pay for higher education in a bunch of fields" thing in their campaigns

# ? Aug 2, 2023 05:52

Autisanal Cheese: Nov 29, 2010

The Peccadillo posted:

I just got a short youtube ad for being a cop and the new recruitment slogan is literally "you should be a cop". At least the military has like a "hey we can pay for higher education in a bunch of fields" thing in their campaigns

I heard a radio ad that said that if you joined the police they'd waive up to $20k of HECS debt or something. They must be desperate.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 05:56

Regular Wario: Mar 27, 2010; Slippery Tilde

The Peccadillo posted:

I just got a short youtube ad for being a cop and the new recruitment slogan is literally "you should be a cop". At least the military has like a "hey we can pay for higher education in a bunch of fields" thing in their campaigns

They can't exactly advertise for corrupt abusers can they

# ? Aug 2, 2023 06:32

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/minns-sacks-crakanthorp-from-cabinet-over-family-holdings-conflict-of-interest-20230802-p5dtcz.html

nsw icac speedrun any%

# ? Aug 2, 2023 07:35

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

lol this loving country

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1686685257624678400

# ? Aug 2, 2023 14:50

SecretOfSteel: Apr 29, 2007; The secret of steel has always
carried with it a mystery.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

lol this loving country

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1686685257624678400

I'm sure Albo's mum would have been ok with it. Why, Albo understands what it is to be truly from a lower socioeconomic class and has never lost his roots etc... etc...

# ? Aug 2, 2023 14:58

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Joe Aston is always good

quote:

Alan Joyce puts Albo�s son in Qantas Chairman�s Lounge

It�s easy to forget that Anthony Albanese has been in Canberra for a very long time. Entitlement to largesse is a lifelong practice.

The recent decision by the Albanese government to block Qatar Airways from launching 28 new flights per week between Doha and Australia has caused quiet amazement in the corridors of Parliament House.

Transport Minister Catherine King�s clarification last week elevated the matter to high farce. She insisted the decision was not related to a human rights incident at Doha Airport in 2020 and instead linked it to her desire �to decarbonise the transport sector�. That was such an arrant non sequitur that the only rational response was laughter.

The dazzling irony is that King offered this implausible explanation for yet another government measure fortifying Qantas� market power as she stood in London touring Britain�s high-speed rail lines � a mode of travel Qantas� lobbying machine has successfully obstructed in Australia for at least the past 30 years.

It is genuinely difficult to fathom the hold Qantas seems to have over this government. Air fares are at record highs (and a key factor in high inflation) while customer service levels are recovering from record lows.

In the year to June 30, 2022, the Australian Competition and Consumer Competition received more complaints about Qantas than any other company � the airline blamed COVID-19 disruption but claimed �things have improved and we are getting Qantas back to its best�.

Breaking news: the ACCC told this column on Wednesday that Qantas remained the most complained about company in Australia in the year to June 30, 2023!

And yet King forced the ACCC to discontinue its airline monitoring program in June by refusing to extend its funding. It�s scandalous, but it�s only in keeping with the long tradition of every Australian government indulging Qantas to an immoderate extent. If there�s any evidence to the contrary, please show it to me.

To be understood, all of this must be viewed through the lens of Anthony Albanese�s incredibly tight relationship with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, a bond that jars so badly with Albo�s misty-eyed working-class origin story.

What Australian company has in recent years done more to bleed mug punters and even its own workers? Qantas illegally sacked 1700 baggage handlers in November 2020 (all while sucking back $2.7 billion of non-recourse government COVID-19 subsidies). An appeal was heard in May by the High Court, where every presiding justice is a member of the Chairman�s Lounge.

Tinpot republics
Speaking of the Chairman�s Lounge, which comfortably generates the highest return on invested capital in the entire Qantas Group, you would not believe who has earned himself access to the pleasures hidden behind its discreet entrance. None other than the prime minister�s 23-year-old son, Nathan Albanese. It�s the stuff tinpot African republics are made of.

Everyone knows Joyce personally curates the Chairman�s Lounge membership list. Did Qantas offer this extravagant benefit to Albanese or did Albanese request it for his son? When asked this week, neither the airline nor the Prime Minister�s Office would explain. But did any of them really think a university student sweeping into the Chairman�s Lounge like a lord wouldn�t stand out like dog�s balls?

Albanese has never disclosed Nathan�s membership in his statement of registrable interests with the parliament. The PM might argue it�s not required if his son is not technically a dependent (although the Labor leader did say in 2022 that �We�re close, we live together�).

Irrespective of the sophistry relied upon, his son has received this benefit only because of his father�s position. It should be declared, especially by the guy who was elected on an integrity platform. Ask yourself: would Ben Chifley have done this?

Otherwise, where does it end? Should young Nathan get an unlimited balance in his SportsBet account or perhaps a discount from Meriton on his first apartment, all beyond our line of sight?

I have sympathy for Nathan. This is not even about him. This is about the prime minister�s inability to resist a secret freebie, a sly gratuity of public office, or to grasp how compromised he looks.

Albanese was regulating Qantas as transport minister for six years in the Rudd and Gillard governments. What other favours might Qantas have done him (or those close to him) that he felt were unnecessary to declare?

It�s easy to forget Albo has been in Canberra for a very long time. Entitlement to largesse is a lifelong practice. He will barely have opened his own wallet in 30 years. Yet, he�s no worse than the next institutionalised MP, just one inhabitant of a swamp full of chancers.

Remember, it always starts small. It�s the little favours. Please, let the valet take your car. Only the best table in the house. Don�t worry, I know a guy. We�ll make your problem disappear. Before you know it, it�s become normal for your family to be ushered through airports like royalty.

This is what ultimately comes from public officials accepting gifts from Qantas, an industrial-scale, multi-generational influence peddler. They are better than the mafia.

This is how they do it, and why Qantas gets whatever it wants from government, whenever it wants it. It�s why no matter how poorly the company treats Australian voters, the officials that voters depend upon to keep the company accountable can be depended upon to look the other way.

https://www.afr.com/rear-window/alan-joyce-puts-albo-s-son-in-qantas-chairman-s-lounge-20230802-p5dtf3

# ? Aug 2, 2023 15:08

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

lol this loving country

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1686685257624678400

"I grew up in publicly owned airplanes."

# ? Aug 2, 2023 21:55

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

here at labor we're all about the

stage three taxiing cuts

cost of landing relief

bpaff (boarding priority affordability future fund)

# ? Aug 2, 2023 23:33

G-Spot Run: Jun 28, 2005

it's funny because people are starving irl

# ? Aug 2, 2023 23:38

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

In the Qantas lounge at Heathrow earlier this month, there were sadly no special mezze plates. The provenance of the wines on offer there cannot be pinpointed to a single growing region or even state, described imprecisely as products of �South Eastern Australia�. The Berri Estates unoaked chardonnay, produced in vats the size of Olympic Dam, was one, which I found available online at $5.90 per bottle. Just imagine the wholesale price. This lounge is overrun with bewildered souls who�ve paid anywhere from $13,000 to $18,000 for the dissatisfaction, and Qantas serves them cooking wine.

Seventeen-thousand kilometres away, Joyce is knocking up a spag bol with half a cup of Ch�teau Lafite to give it that je ne sais quoi.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 04:04

NPR Journalizard: Feb 14, 2008

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

In the Qantas lounge at Heathrow earlier this month, there were sadly no special mezze plates. The provenance of the wines on offer there cannot be pinpointed to a single growing region or even state, described imprecisely as products of �South Eastern Australia�. The Berri Estates unoaked chardonnay, produced in vats the size of Olympic Dam, was one, which I found available online at $5.90 per bottle. Just imagine the wholesale price. This lounge is overrun with bewildered souls who�ve paid anywhere from $13,000 to $18,000 for the dissatisfaction, and Qantas serves them cooking wine.

Seventeen-thousand kilometres away, Joyce is knocking up a spag bol with half a cup of Ch�teau Lafite to give it that je ne sais quoi.

Note the difference between the qantas lounge and the chairmans lounge.

Do you honestly think that Joyce would deign to sit with any common tradie who can buy access for $60?

# ? Aug 3, 2023 06:25

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Berri estates makes cask wine too.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 07:51

Wizard Master: Mar 25, 2008

It appears Brittany Higgins has deactivated all social media accounts

# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:08

Eediot Jedi: Dec 25, 2007; This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Brittany Higgins is getting sued by Linda Reynolds for defamation.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:15

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

She hasn't deleted her something awful account though.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:15

SecretOfSteel: Apr 29, 2007; The secret of steel has always
carried with it a mystery.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Brittany Higgins is getting sued by Linda Reynolds for defamation.

Linda Reynolds? Oh yeah...

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ins-a-lying-cow

# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:30

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

WTF happened in the ACT where the inquiry head leaked his report to the Murdoch press?!?

# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:04

Robodog: Oct 22, 2004; ...how does that work?

Comstar posted:

WTF happened in the ACT where the inquiry head leaked his report to the Murdoch press?!?

totally false

the inquiry head gave the report to the australian in full confidence they'll respect an embargo tp keep mum until the ACT govt. was done reading it and released their findings

lol

# ? Aug 3, 2023 14:05

Yeast: Dec 25, 2006; $1900 Grande Latte

Beardcrumb posted:

Fatigue and apathy in my case.

Same, mostly.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 22:52

Rust Martialis: May 8, 2007; At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Eediot Jedi posted:

What makes a man turn centrist? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

A succulent chinese meal?

# ? Aug 3, 2023 22:57

MysticalMachineGun: Apr 5, 2005

Robodog posted:

totally false

the inquiry head gave the report to the australian in full confidence they'll respect an embargo tp keep mum until the ACT govt. was done reading it and released their findings

lol

Oh, this time they'll definitely learn their less- oh wait

# ? Aug 4, 2023 00:44

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Qantas boss Alan Joyce has said it�s �nonsense� to suggest the airline has an outsized influence over the Albanese government, following the refusal of expanded air rights to a key rival carrier and revelations the prime minister�s son had been granted access to the airline�s prestigious chairman�s lounge.

Joyce, speaking in Brisbane on Thursday where he appeared at a Tourism and Events Queensland panel, attempted to hose down speculation the government�s refusal of Qatar Airway�s push to run an additional 21 weekly flights to Australia�s major airports, was related to his relationship with Anthony Albanese � he said he has �been good mates with Albo for some time� � or any decisions regarding chairman�s lounge access.

�If the government was doing the bidding of Qantas then it would�ve knocked on the head multi-employer bargaining which is a much bigger issue,� Joyce was reported as saying. �It�s a nonsense that Qantas has this unbelievable influence that it can dictate anything to the government because that�s just not right.�

Joyce�s comments follow comments from the Australian government on Thursday that approving Qatar Airways�s push to increase flights to the country would go against Australia�s �national interest�, even as seats on international flights remain scarce and expensive.

# ? Aug 4, 2023 03:01

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

Sky News is running some rubbish about 'hidden documents' from the Uluru Statement saying that taxpayers will be forced to pay reperations if the voice to parliament gets voted in.

lol
lmao

# ? Aug 4, 2023 03:34

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# ? May 24, 2024 02:34

Bucky Fullminster: Apr 13, 2007

GoldStandardConure posted:

Sky News is running some rubbish about 'hidden documents' from the Uluru Statement saying that taxpayers will be forced to pay reperations if the voice to parliament gets voted in.

Speaking of batshit excuses for racism, here's a good look at some of the narratives that are winding their way into the No campaign, specifically the intellectual journey of Josephine Cashman, if anyone wants some good ol' deep-diving independent journalism:

https://medium.com/@pestcontrolau/josephine-cashman-and-the-unoriginal-voice-to-parliament-b6812eed3e53

# ? Aug 4, 2023 04:08

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