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 Welcome to So, you find yourself in a country that's not Canada? Well, maybe take a boat. I hear that's the popular way to get to better countries these days. Anyway, if you're stuck in Australia, here's what the last month looked like:  Just kidding, that's probably actually kinder than the reality. I can summarize it all with this handy questionnaire - Are you white, male, over 30 and rich? If yes, go to A. If no, go to B. A. You'll be ok. You've got nine months for your accountant to help you dodge the extra 2% tax, with the tax dodge loophole built in. B. You're hosed. You just are. So Who's In Charge? The Liberal Party, aka The Adults  They were never going to land it. I don't even know how they got elected, since anyone with half a brain knew this was what was going to happen, but there you go. The Murdoch press certainly helped. Now they're loving things up at an incredible speed. The whole month, summarized in one incredibly creepy image:  Also, it's getting bad enough that even the rest of the world is starting to notice how awful they are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ers/?tid=pm_pop The Labor Party, aka Kevin Rudd? gently caress, I forgot who their leader is now.  Seriously, they might as well replace Bill Shorten with a blob of Jell-O and he'd be more memorable. This is prime time to go after the government, and they're not doing it because who the gently caress knows. The Green Party, aka The Good Guys  Tree huggers! Led by Christine Milne they're the only major party that actually fights for things like not putting refugees in concentration camps and not encouraging jobless youth to kill themselves because it's their only option. Palmer United Party aka All Aboard the Crazy Train!  I don't even know what's going on with Palmer. As far as I can tell he's a populist who wants to basically be Robin Hood without actually giving money to the poor, but generally trying to help them with laws, and also with laws that will help him get richer. I think there's also a general side dish of wanting to gently caress over the LNP. But either way, apart from the Greens he's the only person/party in Australian politics that isn't a complete psychopath, so he has that going for him. And he's not bad at getting press, so that's also something. We'll just have to wait and see what station the crazy train decides to derail at and take out completely. Whoever else is still technically a party  I guess Bob Katter exists, and also that car dude from WA. So what should we do? There is only one solution.  and come to the magical land where this exists:  Now, some actually important stuff: We have an IRC! Check out #auspol on SynIRC for the latest news in this ongoing campaign against the poors and young people. Also these shameless plugs are courtesy of NuclearSpy, so thank you for these resources: AusPol Wiki - A wiki that attempts to educate as well as opinionate. I try to archive anything I come across in here and elsewhere online for later reference. Includes such favourites as: • Tony's Mandate - The massively long (and depressing) list of news articles about the Abbott Government • The Tony Abbott Files - A page that I have started to revisit to keep track of all the 'Abbottisms' that are now beginning to pop up • How evil is Campbell Newman? - The man that inspired the archiving in the first place, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and his trail of destruction 100+ days in Government - A categorised version of Tony's Mandate which works better as a shareable link South Australian Young Greens Social Group - A Facebook group that (forums user) Kim Jong Ill and myself have set up which helps keep Adelgoons (and non-goons) up to date with events etc. I highly encourage lurkers from Adelaide to sign up! Also, Sulla's link archive, courtesy of TOML: here I leave you with this gif that just perfectly sums up what we all feel when we read the news these days: 
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Given the last few pages of the previous thread, this post from the pictures thread seemed relevant. This_is_what_rich_people_actually_believe.txt ekuNNN posted:Also, someone polled Americans making 1 million or more a year:
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May 31, 2014 05:32
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Great OP! How long before global warming makes Canada's climate OK for real Australians?
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May 31, 2014 05:35
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Cartoon posted:Great OP! How long before global warming makes Canada's climate OK for real Australians? Did you see how much snow the Moose was running through? Give it at least five years.
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May 31, 2014 05:36
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Top-class OP, except that it's Christine Milne that leads the Greens. I'm sure Sarah Hanson Young wants to, but she doesn't.
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May 31, 2014 05:40
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Cleretic posted:Top-class OP, except that it's Christine Milne that leads the Greens. I'm sure Sarah Hanson Young wants to, but she doesn't. Oops, thanks, changed it. I actually thought it was Christine Milne then went "no, don't be dumb, it's obviously SHY" and then of course I didn't look it up so I wouldn't look like an idiot in my own OP.
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May 31, 2014 05:43
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The Op is appropriately Canadian, thank for your work Hookshot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM3W5XBrVEA
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May 31, 2014 05:43
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A Good OP.
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May 31, 2014 05:45
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I hope you enjoy living in the icy wastes of Notaustralia you smug gently caress! 
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May 31, 2014 05:49
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It's not even June yet. This thread is a lie just like Tony Abbott.
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May 31, 2014 05:50
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rudatron posted:The Op is appropriately Canadian, thank for your work Hookshot I can't believe I've never seen that before. Amazing. The Nickleback wig makes it perfect. Ragingsheep posted:It's not even June yet. I'm not staying up until like 3am just to post at midnight in your weird time zone 
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May 31, 2014 05:52
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Outsourced our OPs offshore?
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May 31, 2014 05:56
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Those On My Beet posted:Outsourced our OPs offshore? Australian workers are too lazy.
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May 31, 2014 05:59
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Canada is just like Australia except it has more snow and fewer Australians and is therefore an objectively nicer place.
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May 31, 2014 06:01
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Australian politics and current events text flowchart: A. [thing] happens, go to B. B. Is [thing] good or bad? For "good" go to B, for bad go to C. C. Kill you are self. 
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May 31, 2014 06:02
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You guys like hockey? You hear about Rob Ford? Man that guy's crazy eh?
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May 31, 2014 06:02
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Hookshot! Nice OP  You should chuck in a link to Sulla's link database: http://www.marianminds.com/linkarchive/
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May 31, 2014 06:02
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Those On My Left posted:Hookshot! Nice OP Sweet, thanks! Dreylad posted:You guys like hockey? You hear about Rob Ford? Man that guy's crazy eh? THE ONE TRUE SPORT
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May 31, 2014 06:04
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OP of the century
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May 31, 2014 06:05
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May 31, 2014 06:08
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May 31, 2014 06:12
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Good OP, needs more Canada
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May 31, 2014 06:31
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HookShot irl.
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May 31, 2014 06:32
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I'm trying to figure out whether I should risk putting the 15 minutes I am required to come into work before my shift starts into my timesheet, as well as the 15 to 45 minutes I often need to stay behind for. I'm worried because I'm a casual and I can just be arbitrarily dismissed I assume, so I don't want to piss my boss off.
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May 31, 2014 07:00
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Congrats on surviving another month, everyone!
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May 31, 2014 07:05
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Captain Pissweak posted:HookShot irl. I wish, Robin Sparkles is sexy.
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May 31, 2014 07:12
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Ok real talk, if I had to, say, do some sort of course for a job that's in very high demand in Adelaide, one that I could complete rather quickly and be physically capable of doing (ie something that doesn't strain my back, hardore labour or something) what would that look like, because of this budget poo poo passes unscathed I'm pretty much completely hosed.
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May 31, 2014 07:14
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cat doter posted:Ok real talk, if I had to, say, do some sort of course for a job that's in very high demand in Adelaide, one that I could complete rather quickly and be physically capable of doing (ie something that doesn't strain my back, hardore labour or something) what would that look like, because of this budget poo poo passes unscathed I'm pretty much completely hosed. Depending on how bad your back is, aged care is in high demand everywhere and you can get a (bad) qualification in a couple of months. 6 months - 1 year for a not-lovely qualification
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May 31, 2014 07:21
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No idea what it's like in Adelaide, but cable location was always in demand at my last job and it's pretty light work. http://www.coateshire.com.au/training/telstra-copper-cable-locating One day course. [EDIT: There is some light lifting involved and you'll be on your feet a lot.]
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May 31, 2014 07:23
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Haters Objector posted:Depending on how bad your back is, aged care is in high demand everywhere and you can get a (bad) qualification in a couple of months. 6 months - 1 year for a not-lovely qualification Oh god, really? OH GOD PLEASE NOT THAT. My back is bad but not I'm not...totally crippled I guess? I spend most of the day in bed but that's just because my back is shaped really weirdly and chairs are really uncomfortable.
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May 31, 2014 07:23
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Apparently Bernardi & Gay are in Brisbane today. They're tweeting stuff about protesters. So, who's there & who's not?
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May 31, 2014 07:27
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This was brought to my attention via a personal finance interest group on Facebook- According to figures on the front page of the Australian, quoted by that notorious paragon of Australian journalism Alan loving Jones, (http://www.2gb.com/article/alarming-welfare-figures#.U4ls6vmSwcG) a single working parent is entitled to $54,417 in Government payments:quote:$18,192 Single Parenting Payment People in the group are grizzling that 'it's too generous, drat dole-bludging single breeders would never have an incentive to get a job!' My suspicion is that this list of numbers is of potential payments, and that it'd be nigh on impossible for anyone to access literally all of them in a year. How/where do I go to check so I have ammunition to counter this ridiculous spin on things? Thanks Auspol.
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nyerf posted:This was brought to my attention via a personal finance interest group on Facebook- According to figures on the front page of the Australian, quoted by that notorious paragon of Australian journalism Alan loving Jones, (http://www.2gb.com/article/alarming-welfare-figures#.U4ls6vmSwcG) a single working parent is entitled to $54,417 in Government payments: My sister is a single parent and gets nowhere near that amount, so I'm not so sure about that. open24hours posted:No idea what it's like in Adelaide, but cable location was always in demand at my last job and it's pretty light work. What does this involve, exactly?
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May 31, 2014 07:30
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Basically walking around with a thing that looks like a metal detector and spraying lines on the ground. Sometimes you'll have to open a manhole but that's about as strenuous as it gets.
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May 31, 2014 07:32
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nyerf posted:
Ringing Centrelink to find out would be a good start. Or even going to their website.
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May 31, 2014 07:37
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open24hours posted:Basically walking around with a thing that looks like a metal detector and spraying lines on the ground. Sometimes you'll have to open a manhole but that's about as strenuous as it gets. It's in demand and has a one day training period? The heck.
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May 31, 2014 07:41
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ASIC v Danny Bro posted:Ringing Centrelink to find out would be a good start. Or even going to their website. Why would Alan Jones ever send his unpaid research intern to a website for filthy poors, when it's easier to just read the figures Abbott's chief of staff sends him?
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May 31, 2014 07:43
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cat doter posted:It's in demand and has a one day training period? The heck. You'd have to do an OH&S course too, so that's another day. As I said, I have no idea what the situation in Adelaide is like. If you're interested call some local businesses and ask for a job, they might even pay for the course. Of course it's also entirely possible they won't have anything.
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May 31, 2014 07:46
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Traffic Management is another high demand one- Only downside is your gonna spend hours standing and your feet will want to murder you by the end of the week.
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Ferremit posted:Traffic Management is another high demand one- Only downside is your gonna spend hours standing and your feet will want to murder you by the end of the week. Standing a bunch tends to put a fair amount of stress on my back, one of the major reasons I've had so much trouble finding something.
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