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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-health-facing-criminal-prosecution-over-deaths-of-two-nurses-20230717-p5doue.htmlThe SMH posted:NSW Health is facing criminal prosecution over allegations the agency failed in its duty of care over two nurses who died while working at the largest psychiatric hospital in the state. NSW Health continues to unsurprisingly be an absolutely terrible employer. It's like they didn't learn anything in the past three years. Edit: 
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Lol Victoria
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Jul 18, 2023 01:14
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Recoome posted:Lol Victoria Lol. Probably the right thing to do though
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Jul 18, 2023 01:22
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EoinCannon posted:Lol. Probably the right thing to do though Absolutely. It would have completely hosed a nearly completely hosed Geelong.
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Jul 18, 2023 01:34
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Adelaide Metro has to be the worst loving public transport system in the entire country. Always late, terrible coverage, and they intentionally hosed up letting riders use debt card to pay instead of their lovely metrocards by 1) only placing debt readers on like 50% of the busses so you still had to keep a card on you every time you ride just in case 2) hiding the debt readers at the exit of the bus so nobody used them Now it seems they've ripped them all out because of lack of use. gently caress buses.
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Jul 18, 2023 01:45
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Pleasant Friend posted:Adelaide Metro has to be the worst loving public transport system in the entire country. They haven't ripped anything out yet, they just haven't finished the rollout. It started not too long ago on all Trams and O-Bahn buses, and is planned to be on all buses by the end of 2023. https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/about-us/news/news-items/2023/easy-ways-to-pay-on-buses
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Jul 18, 2023 01:57
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Didn’t Victoria only win this bid reasonably recently? Amazing whipsaw in the space of a year or so.
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Jul 18, 2023 02:04
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wish theyd cancel those bloody olympic games next
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Jul 18, 2023 02:13
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Recoome posted:Didn’t Victoria only win this bid reasonably recently? Amazing whipsaw in the space of a year or so. Not win, just say we’ll do it because no else will. And no no one will. King Chuck will never open a Commonwealth Games.
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Jul 18, 2023 02:16
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they were asked to do it a year ago because no one else was interested (because the games are a bad idea that don't make financial sense for anyone) but they significantly underestimated the costs then and realised it doesn't make any sense now
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Jul 18, 2023 02:34
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Recoome posted:Lol Victoria I thought your gimmick was pointing out Victoria doing stupid stuff???
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Jul 18, 2023 02:42
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Eediot Jedi posted:I thought your gimmick was pointing out Victoria doing stupid stuff??? the smart move would've been not to do it at all, but similarly to QLD Labor state governments have been horny for international sporting events at the expense of literally everything else
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Recoome posted:the smart move would've been not to do it at all, but similarly to QLD Labor state governments have been horny for international sporting events at the expense of literally everything else  I hear there's good facilities going to waste in Wagga Wagga though.
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Jul 18, 2023 02:56
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If the world still exists in 2032 I will probably fly to Brisbane for the Olympics so I can watch the climbing.
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Jul 18, 2023 03:00
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SMH posted:High-earning PwC partners were “almost bulletproof” against misconduct claims and the pursuit of profit meant ethics wobbled when prospective clients were being pursued, a former director of the major consulting firm told a Senate inquiry. Earlier on Monday at the inquiry into consulting giants, Deloitte confirmed an employee had been stood down over an “inadvertent breach” involving government information, while former competition watchdog chairman Allan Fels argued for the break-up of the big four consultancies – KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY. A shocked pikachu that is made up of smaller, shocked-er pikachus. Also lol using the term "wobbled" regarding ethics.
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Jul 18, 2023 03:41
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Eediot Jedi posted:I hear there's good facilities going to waste in Wagga Wagga though.
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Jul 18, 2023 04:00
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Senor Tron posted:They haven't ripped anything out yet, they just haven't finished the rollout. I don't know about trains or O-Bahn but I was talking to a bus driver today and he said they scrapped them. Adelaide Metro stinks.
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Jul 18, 2023 04:01
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Recoome posted:Didn’t Victoria only win this bid reasonably recently? Amazing whipsaw in the space of a year or so. Yes, and the context makes it dumber. South Australia withdrew their bid to host it in 2019 for reasons that might be familiar (people realised that it would cost billions more than it would generate). Commonwealth Games Australia spent another year or so lobbying SA to try to get them to reconsider and even got PwC to create a report that claimed it would generate billions in revenue for South Australia. They didn’t make any progress convincing SA and Victoria inexplicably made a bid after this, so Victoria’s bid was very last minute
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Jul 18, 2023 04:11
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Yes, and the context makes it dumber. South Australia withdrew their bid to host it in 2019 for reasons that might be familiar (people realised that it would cost billions more than it would generate). Commonwealth Games Australia spent another year or so lobbying SA to try to get them to reconsider and even got PwC to create a report that claimed it would generate billions in revenue for South Australia. They didn’t make any progress convincing SA and Victoria inexplicably made a bid after this, so Victoria’s bid was very last minute I wonder how much one of the big 4 got paid to write the bs that briefly conned Victoria. Of course, notorious idiot Basil Zemplis is all for Perth to host it. I am glad he is willing to throw money after useless bullshit while trying to not give any money to protect the "smelly" homeless in the city.
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Jul 18, 2023 05:13
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At this point it's pretty much a contest between who realises it's a massive white elephant and city-destroying grift vs who wants at this point mostly imaginary prestige and clout. Do people even care that much about the Olympics anymore? I feel it was a bigger thing when I was a kid, though maybe that's just nostalgia talking. At this point I feel like Sonic and Mario get more attention than the actual games do.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:At this point it's pretty much a contest between who realises it's a massive white elephant and city-destroying grift vs who wants at this point mostly imaginary prestige and clout. The negative reality of hosting an Olympics, who it really benefits, and the corruption involved in bidding and the IOC is more widely known than it used to be. There's a pretty big anti Olympics organisation for the LA games. It's probably in decline as far as what governments are willing to spend on it, but sports are still a pretty powerful and bankable spectacle.
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i hope dan andrews ran it by the big four before cancelling it..
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Jul 18, 2023 07:36
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EoinCannon posted:The negative reality of hosting an Olympics, who it really benefits, and the corruption involved in bidding and the IOC is more widely known than it used to be. There's a pretty big anti Olympics organisation for the LA games. It's probably in decline as far as what governments are willing to spend on it, but sports are still a pretty powerful and bankable spectacle. Yeah but we have worldwide broadcast media, why does one place need to host "the olympics" and build a billion loving stupid useless stadiums. Here, I have a solution. Track and field is in Denver. Swimming is in Hokkaido. Combat sports in Milan. Stick different sport groupings in different cities, simulcast.
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hooman posted:Yeah but we have worldwide broadcast media, why does one place need to host "the olympics" and build a billion loving stupid useless stadiums. lol no idea why. It's a mystery. Just like why everyone likes medicare but for some reason it's never properly funded. It's super weird!
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Pleasant Friend posted:I don't know about trains or O-Bahn but I was talking to a bus driver today and he said they scrapped them. Adelaide Metro stinks. Sounds like the bus driver doesn't know what he was talking about, unless this is hot off the presses in the last few hours.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:At this point it's pretty much a contest between who realises it's a massive white elephant and city-destroying grift vs who wants at this point mostly imaginary prestige and clout. On this note, I hope we gently caress the F1 back off to Adelaide next
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Jul 18, 2023 07:58
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I mean this is also the state that had a defence lawyer as a police informant and literally went "welp, nothing to see here" with pollies criticising the person they brought in to investigate this mess. The Victorian state government weren't tricked into this, they knew the cost when they signed up to it.
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Jul 18, 2023 08:27
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freebooter posted:On this note, I hope we gently caress the F1 back off to Adelaide next F1 is boring as poo poo, and I hate the tourists jamming up trams when I'm trying to get to work, but at least all the infrastructure is already there
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Eediot Jedi posted:
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I get the games are stupidly expensive, what happens to the costs if the same country just keeps rehosting each time?
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Why empty office spaces could be bad news for your super - ABC news Want your super to keep rising, well get back into the office you bum. Its your fault the overly inflated and propped up business leasing bubble is floundering and they're having to *shock horror* drop their prices. Oh dear, it's as if certain investments are meant to be guarantees and banks aren't at all concerned about this shipload of commercial property being leveraged and it's the poors fault for not commuting hours to and from work each day to keep the prices meaty. Get hosed and convert them to liveable space since there's now magically fuckloads of demand.
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snickothemule posted:Why empty office spaces could be bad news for your super - ABC news There's a discussion in some other thread I can't remember at the moment, turns out it's not easy or cheap to convert office buildings to apartments, and they tend to turn out poo poo It was the tech nightmares thread EoinCannon fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Jul 18, 2023 10:54
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Yeh it's the same with shipping containers. Turns out poo poo that wasn't made to live in is bad to live in and requires so much modification that it makes far more sense to build elsewhere. Also there's already plenty of good homes ready to go right now. On Airbnb there are hundreds for tonight rn in Melbourne CBD. Hundreds of entire apartments.
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EoinCannon posted:There's a discussion in some other thread I can't remember at the moment, turns out it's not easy or cheap to convert office buildings to apartments, and they tend to turn out poo poo I had a look and I gotta post this listing from that thread Rebel Blob posted:Relating to the conversation about converting offices to housing, here is an office in San Rafael that has done just that. Not inside a major city, but an interesting example. Listed for $520,000 for a 1,066 ft² 1 bedroom/1 bath condo (with $655 a month in HOA fees).
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Jul 18, 2023 11:18
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that looks really nice its just a shame about the flourescent lights
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Jul 18, 2023 11:33
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the government should repossess the land and tear down the office buildings and build flats local council and state government gets no say
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Recoome posted:I mean this is also the state that had a defence lawyer as a police informant and literally went "welp, nothing to see here" with pollies criticising the person they brought in to investigate this mess. I didn't really follow the Gobbo case closely, but I know that one of the results was a massive (and possibly counter-productive) strengthening of disclosure requirements to the point where Victoria's are now the strictest in the country, so I don't think it's fair to say the result was "welp"
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GrandMaster posted:F1 is boring as poo poo, and I hate the tourists jamming up trams when I'm trying to get to work, but at least all the infrastructure is already there Yeah but it's still an event where the government claims it brings in more money than it costs us to host, and we're supposed to take them at their word for it. And not ask "money for whom"
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Jul 18, 2023 12:21
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I like F1 it's cool. Fun day watching cars.
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freebooter posted:I didn't really follow the Gobbo case closely, but I know that one of the results was a massive (and possibly counter-productive) strengthening of disclosure requirements to the point where Victoria's are now the strictest in the country, so I don't think it's fair to say the result was "welp" Hold the people accountable tbh - it’s just classic public service mentality of “it’s too hard to challenge” and lack of bravery to hold VicPol accountable, never mind the trust in the courts.
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