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that picture's not from Normandy.
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drunkill posted:I'm surprised Tony Abbot is going to D-Day services because it commemorates tons of foreigners arriving in boats to invade a country. They were mostly white.
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Jun 2, 2014 15:44
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He can also look around and count the number of sitting members of the last minor party to deal with the Libs on an unpopular budget.
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Jun 6, 2014 09:01
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Nothing will change with the Liberals while the Murdoch press continues to dominate Australia's media. When the Liberals can pick up the majority of the major newspapers in the country and see support for their cruel policies and support for the dehumanisation of their target groups it affirms their world view, normalises their radical positions and mentally shields them from other criticism. It will take two years of solid campaigning to get an alternative message out to ensure that the current polls carry through to the next election. The real problem is that Labor aren't up to the job.
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Jun 12, 2014 16:48
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Kegslayer posted:If your ordinary Australian gave half a poo poo about not torturing asylum seekers compared to say negative gearing or estate taxes then we'd have a completely different set of policies. Those attitudes will always be there, but it doesn't help when the media normalises them in editorial content, and when stories that might challenge them aren't reported, and when the media actively participates in spreading the Govermnent's lies, in the case of Lateline and the Aboriginal child abuse allegations from a few pages ago. There used to be a difference between Australian media (even the Murdoch owned parts) and the tabloid rags in the UK and Fox News in the US, but that has completely disappeared, especially since the Gillard hung parliament. The Murdoch papers were always poo poo, but never as virulent as they are now. If you gave someone from 1994 a newspaper from today I think they'd be fairly shocked.
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Jun 12, 2014 19:30
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Jessica Irvine posted:Rather than a debate about what is affordable in the current budget environment, it has turned into an attack on the very idea of paid parental leave — a concept which all Australians should inherently support. So rather than universal medical care and education, a fair go for the unemployed, action on climate change, the NDIS, the NBN, not building loving concentration camps and a whole raft of other concepts that Australians should inherently support, the important one is a beefed up paid parental leave scheme which is blatant middle-upper class welfare targeted at the Liberal Party's social set. Right.
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Jun 17, 2014 22:48
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Ragingsheep posted:So when someone who is disabled is "paid" $1.85/hr, is the government paying the difference or is it just totally designed for loving people over? I think they're still on a disability support payment until their income meets a certain level - the work is part of the mutual obligation. In theory the assessment is to allow people who can do part of a job to be paid according to what they can do. In practice, as in this case, it's for loving people over. The sections of the assessment are supposed to be weighted according to the proportion of the work they apply to, so that someone mowing lawns isn't awarded or docked pay for items that apply to office work. It looks like in these cases, the adjustment wasn't performed when it favoured the worker. http://www.crsaustralia.gov.au/bswt_faq.htm
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Jun 19, 2014 00:42
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It's hard enough to motivate school children to begin with without teaching them things that are completely irrelevant, especially when there are equivalent relevant subjects they could be taught.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:20
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Besides, our welfare system is being rebuilt on the premise that (poor) Australians have enough body fat to survive six months without food. Excessive exercise is bad for your long term health.
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Andrew Robb had a mental illness and he's a minister now. Why can't they all do it?
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Jun 30, 2014 11:15
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