Scott Morrison's Island of Boomers - (Auspol June - Aug)

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JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

There's a coffee shop in Docklands all the border force go to. They're the most uniformly Ringwood looking fuckers.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 02:46

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:35

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

JBP posted:

There's a coffee shop in Docklands all the border force go to. They're the most uniformly Ringwood looking fuckers.

Shame it�s not on central pier

# ? Aug 30, 2019 02:50

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

https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1167225346707443713

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:17

cohsae: Jun 19, 2015

$20 million for the Amazon. From 7 countries.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:26

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

The Peccadillo posted:

https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1167225346707443713

It better have a moat with crocodiles in it for that kind of money.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:35

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

It better have a moat with crocodiles in it for that kind of money.

I�d settle for the walls to be rendered polystyrene and sending the thing up in flames

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:42

NPR Journalizard: Feb 14, 2008

cohsae posted:

$20 million for the Amazon. From 7 countries.

Netflix paid $100mil so they could stream friends.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 03:50

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Way more people care about Friends than the Amazon tbf.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:07

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Tokamak posted:

Way more people care about Friends than the Amazon tbf.

idk plenty of people seem to have signed up for amazon prime

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:10

bell jar: Feb 25, 2009

the new amazon fire is pretty hosed up. it has alexa now

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:16

Pleasant Friend: Dec 30, 2008

NPR Journalizard posted:

Netflix paid $100mil so they could stream friends.

Remember when Activision bought Candy Crush for $5.9 billion dollars.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:28

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

Lady was int he post office at the same time as me to pay her rates, loudly complaining it's just as expensive as renting.

I fucken wish.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:53

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY: Feb 3, 2006

Pleasant Friend posted:

Remember when Activision bought Candy Crush for $5.9 billion dollars.

I've kept up with the yospos tech bubble thread for years, big corporations paying prices like that to buy useless crap are all too common.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 04:57

Purk: Aug 9, 2017

Great Barrier Reef outlook downgraded to very poor from poor. Whoops.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 05:07

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

Surprised Cairns Pikachu

# ? Aug 30, 2019 05:10

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Lies and the lying liars who tell them

quote:

The former New South Wales MP Ernest Wong has been accused of lying to an anti-corruption investigation about whether he sold seats at Bill Shorten�s table to the Chinese billionaire and banned donor Huang Xiangmo for $100,000.

Wong, a state upper house member until earlier this year, helped organise a Chinese Friends of Labor fundraising dinner featuring Shorten, the then federal Labor leader, and other high-profile party figures shortly before the 2015 state election. That dinner is at the centre of an investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which has already led to the suspension of the Labor�s NSW general secretary, Kaila Murnain.

The inquiry has heard allegations and evidence that Huang � a property developer and prolific political donor � gave $100,000 in cash to the party but his contributions were masked by a series of straw, or fake, donors.

Wong was pressed on Friday about whether he sold the head table to Huang for $100,000. Huang was pictured on the night sitting with Shorten, the then NSW Labor leader, Luke Foley, Wong and other guests.

Icac�s counsel assisting, Scott Robertson, pushed Wong from the outset of his evidence about whether he had ever told anyone that he had sold the head table for $100,000. Robertson was forced to ask the same question at least six times and accused Wong of seeking to evade answering it.

�Have you ever said to anyone that the head table for the Chinese Friends of Labor dinner on the 12th March 2015 had been taken for $100,000?� Robertson asked.

Eventually Wong said he had not.

The hearing was then shown an email from Wong to a man named Joseph Law. Law had asked: �The table with Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen, how much is it?�

Wong had replied: �Sorry that the head table has already been taken for $100,000.�

Robertson then accused Wong of giving �false evidence� to Icac. �It was knowingly false because when you answered that question ... you first sought to evade the question, and you then told a lie,� he said.

Wong responded: �No I didn�t tell a lie. I tried to search my memory.�

Later Wong was asked whether he had ever sold seats to the head table. Wong replied: �I did not sell seats on the head table.�

The hearing was then shown an email from Jonathan Yee, a senior figure in the Chinese Friends of Labor group, which set out revenue targets for the dinner.

In the email Yee said: �Head table at $10,000 per person (Ernest Wong is responsible for this table).�

Robertson then pressed Wong on whether he had sold the table to Huang for $100,000. Wong said he had not.

�You sold that table to Mr Huang Xiangmo, didn�t you?� Robertson asked. Wong replied that he had not.

Robertson continued to press Wong: �In exchange for Mr Huang Xiangmo agreeing to pay $100,000 in connection with the head table of the Chinese Friends of Labor dinner on 12th March 2015, he was permitted to sit at the head table with Mr Shorten, Mr Foley and you with four other guests?�

Wong said he had not.

�I want to suggest to you that that is false evidence that you�ve given to this commission, and in point in fact you � sold it to Mr Huang, and you sold it for a sum like $100,000?�

Wong denied the suggestion.

Evidence was then produced to Icac showing $12,200 raised at the 2015 dinner was moved to a bank account controlled by the Friends of Chinese Community Incorporated. Wong was the convener of the Friends of Chinese Community group, which he said helped organise events for the Chinese community. It is not formally associated with any political party.

Wong said he had obtained the consent of an official in the NSW Labor branch, Kenrick Cheah, to transfer the money to the private company. He said the money was to be used to help cover its expenses in organising lunar new year events and media costs.

Wong later conceded that the Labor official who had given him consent would not have had the authority to speak on behalf of Labor on the matter.

Earlier evidence to Icac suggested that in September 2016 a distressed Wong approached Murnain to say Huang had donated large sums of money to the Labor party and others had claimed to have donated when they had not.

Murnain said she had sought the advice of the federal Labor senator Sam Dastyari, who was then engulfed in his own scandal involving Huang and his company, Yuhu Group. That scandal had forced him from the Labor frontbench eight days earlier.

Dastyari is said to have told Murnain to approach Labor�s lawyers. Murnain said she was told to keep quiet about what she knew.

what a loving disaster

# ? Aug 30, 2019 05:17

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

JBP posted:

There's a coffee shop in Docklands all the border force go to. They're the most uniformly Ringwood looking fuckers.

There�s a career aptitude survey website used by the local high school. No matter how you answer the questions between the accountancy, nursing and IT matches Border Force always pops in ranked at about four or five.

They do this in year nine.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 06:37

bell jar: Feb 25, 2009

Graic Gabtar posted:

There’s a career aptitude survey website used by the local high school. No matter how you answer the questions between the accountancy, nursing and IT matches Border Force always pops in ranked at about four or five.

They do this in year nine.

that sounds ethical

# ? Aug 30, 2019 06:39

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Graic Gabtar posted:

There’s a career aptitude survey website used by the local high school. No matter how you answer the questions between the accountancy, nursing and IT matches Border Force always pops in ranked at about four or five.

They do this in year nine.

lmao

# ? Aug 30, 2019 06:39

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

Graic Gabtar posted:

There’s a career aptitude survey website used by the local high school. No matter how you answer the questions between the accountancy, nursing and IT matches Border Force always pops in ranked at about four or five.

They do this in year nine.

I took the test and got journalist.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 06:41

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

I�ll dig up the name of it and pic when I get a chance to wrestle daughter�s ipad out of her hands.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 07:27

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

Anidav posted:

I took the test and got journalist.

Sorry

# ? Aug 30, 2019 07:29

nankeen: Mar 20, 2019; by Cyrano4747

Graic Gabtar posted:

There�s a career aptitude survey website used by the local high school. No matter how you answer the questions between the accountancy, nursing and IT matches Border Force always pops in ranked at about four or five.

They do this in year nine.

they also do naplan in year 9. you know what would be really great, tying naplan results to job outcomes so the kids get that it's important to do maths

# ? Aug 30, 2019 07:33

ColtMcAsskick: Nov 7, 2010

Lid posted:

Lies and the lying liars who tell them

what a loving disaster

Oh wow, no way. The party of Eddie Obeid would never do this. Wow, shocking.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 07:52

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

ColtMcAsskick posted:

Oh wow, no way. The party of Eddie Obeid would never do this. Wow, shocking.

at least Obeid got results

# ? Aug 30, 2019 08:52

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

Very ballsy calling it Chinese Friends of Labor rather than like, United Freedom Coalition

# ? Aug 30, 2019 09:09

Centusin: Aug 5, 2009

Solemn Sloth posted:

Imagine the kind of cretin that works for border force and doesn�t hang themselves

My Indonesian teacher suggested immigration + border force as potentially being places that would value a fluent Indonesian speaker and its just like, as much as I would love a job I can never bring myself to do it

# ? Aug 30, 2019 09:15

im alan jones: Feb 1, 2009; the muhammad ali of radio

Bernstrike posted:

at least Obeid got results

every now and then i remember there was a four corners ep that basically gave him a platform to rant about union leaders not letting them sell off public assets to his corrupt mates when it was basically an open secret at the time and no one in the abc editorial bothered to even try and shitcan it. diseased country

https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/off-the-rails/1088230

# ? Aug 30, 2019 09:15

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Scylo posted:

My Indonesian teacher suggested immigration + border force as potentially being places that would value a fluent Indonesian speaker and its just like, as much as I would love a job I can never bring myself to do it

You�re a good person

# ? Aug 30, 2019 09:33

nankeen: Mar 20, 2019; by Cyrano4747

on the other hand if you always dreamt of being able to do secret heroics against the nazis and have a genuine backbone underneath the flesh of a goon, border force might offer you opportunities

# ? Aug 30, 2019 09:56

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

Kill me

# ? Aug 30, 2019 10:59

nankeen: Mar 20, 2019; by Cyrano4747

https://twitter.com/MdmAbsentMinded/status/1167219289515888640

# ? Aug 30, 2019 11:05

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

Read the tweet it's responding to, they also separated them for what I can only imagine is literally no reason other than cruelty.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 11:17

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

What does the exiled infant think of the unpopular Queensland Premier though

# ? Aug 30, 2019 11:19

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Why are people warming to Deb! ?

# ? Aug 30, 2019 11:48

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

*looks at Gridlocked*

Gentlemen it was a pleasure.

*jumps into Brisbane River*

# ? Aug 30, 2019 11:49

thatbastardken: Apr 23, 2010; A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

Bernstrike posted:

what kind of acid?

hydroflouric

# ? Aug 30, 2019 13:16

birdstrike: Oct 30, 2008; i;m gay

thatbastardken posted:

hydroflouric

correct!

# ? Aug 30, 2019 23:16

Gridlocked: Aug 2, 2014; MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

Anidav posted:

*looks at Gridlocked*

Gentlemen it was a pleasure.

*jumps into Brisbane River*

We all new this was coming Dave. With ScoMo in, The Adani Issue (ignoring all the other mining projects green lit away from the spotlight) and Pappy Murdoch in a bad mood; the writing was on the wall.

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:35

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

HELP I NEED SOMEBODY

# ? Aug 30, 2019 23:42

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