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Where is that article from? 'Ablo' means nothing to me. e: Oh, Albanese. Right. But is it so hard to post a link? Where did that come from? Orkin Mang fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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bell jar posted:twitter.com/rudd2000 you're welcome ablo eat ebola
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Aug 1, 2014 08:07
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Look at his steely resolve. Now there's a man of conviction, a man of action, standing up for hard truths no matter what the consequences.
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Aug 4, 2014 02:21
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Gough Suppressant posted:The Abbott Government has given up on reforming 18c. Too many lobby groups hate free speech. And the reforms were badly sold. I suspect the country will be poorer for this. Won't anyone take just a single loving moment to consider the feelings of Andrew Bolt on this?
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Aug 5, 2014 06:59
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Haters Objector posted:Like, they've burned through all their political capital in less than 12 months and achieved absolutely nothing apart from the carbon tax repeal. Yeah, it's pretty sweet.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:04
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Cartoon posted:McEwan/Gorton/McMahon achieved essentially gently caress all in 5 years. Fraser was about as bad over 8 years. Those years in power worry me as I was hoping that the Abbott government would be a one-term government.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:10
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I'm glad the government are focusing on the most important issue facing Australia today: the hordes of home-grown terrorist cells.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:16
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The Myki system is pretty sweet too. Like with Perth, if the machines aren't working then you ride for free (not sure if the bus drivers are supposed to do that but that's what they always do). It's a pain in the rear end to have to keep buying new Mykis every time you lose one, though.
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lol ozemail account
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Gough Suppressant posted:I know racists aren't that smart as a general rule, but how in the name of gently caress can anyone not look at that and immediately realise it's a loving lovely joke? They're idiots. You'd be amazed just how dense people can be when it comes to recognising satire.
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Aug 5, 2014 16:42
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Contra Duck posted:Good news everyone, police have made an arrest in relation to the secret and undeclared $60,000 gift given to Tony Abbott's daughter! gently caress's sake....
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Aug 6, 2014 01:29
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i'll believe the law is serious and not racist when australian jews returning from israel are detained as being potentially involved in terrorist activities. until then it's just a dogwhistle muslim thing
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Aug 6, 2014 03:52
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Ragingsheep posted:Tim Wilson was against the changes on Twitter this morning. Seems like the only group this government hasn't upset yet is the christian religious right. Yeah, who is that guy? I saw him on ABC this morning and it said he was a representative of the human right commission or some such body.
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Aug 6, 2014 04:56
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hoo rah
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Gough Suppressant posted:Ferguson is the best interviewer on Australian TV since Kerry o'brian(other than Shaun micallef, watching him grill professor Ian orbspider was a rare treat) Got a link to the Micallef thing?
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Aug 7, 2014 03:40
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Haters Objector posted:I derive a great deal of enjoyment out of seeing Brandis, a man who has made no attempt to hide the esteem in which he holds his own intelligence, be constantly made to look a blundering fool. I didn't know he considered himself to be intelligent. Every time I hear him speak he sounds like nothing more than a moderately articulate lawyer suffering from late-stage vampirism. His brainless stammering in that Sky News interview was not the performance of a man of any real intelligence or insight.
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Aug 7, 2014 04:40
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Murodese posted:You don't get scholarships with a D average. You rarely even get an APA with an HD average, it's usually an HD average + excellent thesis + published papers o_o Yeah, nobody get's a 60,000 dollar scholarship on the basis of a D average. It's laughable.
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Uh What discipline was it in, and when? I have an APA but had an upper HD average with first class honours and from everything I've heard nowadays getting an APA on anything less than an HD average, or a high D with publications, is practically impossible.
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Aug 9, 2014 01:06
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Nanotechnology. One of the sciences then. For the humanities, a D without publications will pretty much never get you an APA Francis Abbott was doing a bloody design course. A D average is hardly impressive.
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Aug 9, 2014 01:31
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Are all the Coalition's policies formulated on the basis of gut-feelings and random anecdotes? Because it seems like they've done practically no research, not even preliminary research, in the areas in which they're trying to pass legislation. A moment's thought would tell you that poorer people will be hit harder than the richer on average by an increase in the fuel excise.
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Shut up about religion, you dickheads.
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Aug 13, 2014 14:30
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rudatron posted:'Nothing' is actually more valid via parsimony, but you're missing the point: by assuming it's a part of human nature, you're projecting your own way of thinking onto the 'space' of all possible human thought. Under this world view, atheists are somehow...not human? Sub-human? The special exception? And if they're the special exception, why are they a growing subgroup in western countries? Stop talking out your rear end.
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What are the facts about petrol consumption? If what I read somewhere is right and poorer people, while they spend less overall than the wealthy in fuel, spend a greater proportion of their income on fuel expenses, then it stands to reason that they'll be hit harder by any excise.
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Haters Objector posted:Everything is absolute, which is why it's a travesty that rich people pay* a greater proportion of their income in tax Well that's dumb.
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Aug 14, 2014 01:23
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Shadeoses posted:Well the Ebola is mostly killing Africans so it's not really a concern unless they manage to sneak over here, which is impossible because all the boats are stopped. http://www.theonion.com/articles/experts-ebola-vaccine-at-least-50-white-people-awa,36580/
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Murodese posted:e; also, they're really pushing the "overall tax burden $" hard over the more appropriate "tax burden as a percentage of income" Which makes little sense as the only reasonable interpretation of what a 'burden' is in these circumstances is the proportional influence it has on one's overall income. How much one pays as an absolute amount is meaningless unless it's put in the context of their overall earnings. Does he really think that paying (say) $10,000 out of a $50,000 income exacts the same burden on the individual as the same amount on someone with an income of $500,000? Orkin Mang fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Aug 14, 2014 04:29
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Who the hell carries $1500 in their wallet.
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John Hewson on Hockey's (less than luminous) performance as treasurer. Talking about just how easy it is in politics to gaffe, he gives his own example:quote:One of my classics was to suggest that "you can always tell the rented house on the street", made towards the end of a very long speech to the Housing Industry Association in 1992. The line, originally written by my then press secretary, Tony Abbott, was moved in and out of the speech by various advisers before being finally reinstated and was only noticed by one journalist at the time. But that was enough. The media bushfire was ignited. I was very soon flat out back-pedalling.
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Gough Suppressant posted:This is a pretty big element of why conservatives aren't funny. That and the patrician bitterness they mistake in their comedy for insightful mocking.
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:Entirely true, but the sarcastic and pedantic neuroticism involved in leftist political comedy ain't much better. True as well.
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Nibbles! posted:CARBON TAX = LIES ELECTION NOW The amount of major policies that the government are trying to implement that they never campaigned on, and in many cases explicitly disavowed from ever pursuing, are so great that Abbott's occasional claim that the government have a mandate is pretty close to absurd. If the carbon tax was enough to go to an election then the current situation gives even greater reason to do have one. Orkin Mang fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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Aug 15, 2014 08:15
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Hockey's amazing. First he sounds completely out of touch with the realities of those living on low-incomes, acting stubborn, flustered and annoyed at the fact that people are apparently unable to deal with the facts of the case (even though the facts he cites are irrelevant to the question of the concrete burden a tax excise would have on individuals). Now he does an apologetic interview where he comes across as a pleading, simpering loser.
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Sounds like they're circling the wagons around Hockey. Is there any precedent for ditching a treasurer?
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Nibbles! posted:I forget who it was, one of the Fear of a Brown Planet guys, but they were talking about gigs and how everyone's laughing at the brown jokes, everyone's laughing at the Muslim jokes and then when the white jokes come it all dies down a bit and sounds nervous. People walk out too. Split their sides laughing at the Indian call centre jokes though.
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No, he's saying, vote for me sports fans.
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Aug 18, 2014 07:35
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open24hours posted:The reason we have a welfare state is because without one people might turn into communists. Best one so far.
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So what is negative gearing, and what are these superannuation tax concessions I keep seeing allusions to, and why are they both allegedly so bad?
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Does anyone even read these crappy shock rags anymore? By the way, thanks to everyone who responded for their excellent explanations of negative gearing and superannuationcon essions. I have a few follow up questions I'd like to ask when I'm not on my drat phone. Orkin Mang fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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