You Am I posted:

How does one come to this conclusion when you include the carbon costs of building multiple homes versus a single building with a number of apartments, as well as the pollution of people living on the fringes usually having to travel to work in a car or having to travel in a car to public transport?

simmyb posted:

I'm pretty sure right from the start that the LNP only developed a paid parental leave policy was because "they have PPL policy so we need one". I doubt they ever intended to actually fight for it at all

Sir Shion posted:

fliptophead posted:

What the gently caress is this pile of poo poo?

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

I think I understand why there was so little reaction to this. After all, I could hardly come up with words to express my utter disgust at the callous, cynical and inhumane actions of the Australian government with regards to the treatment of refugees. I find my reactions to the brutality of the Australian government dull and numbed. I hope there are people in Australia that can still feel true anger at these injustices, all I can feel anymore is tiredness and futility.

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

I was talking about the thread reaction. I already knew the public's general reaction ranges from total apathy to an enthusiastic thumbs-up for murdering asylum seekers.

Halo14 posted:

Amethyst posted:

Nah they're just incompetent.

Splode posted:

They gave up on the HECS thing too! Things could be worse, for once!

Anidav posted:

Essential Research is 51-49 to ALP. I'm worried that the voting public will eventually even out to a "This Government is average" then proceed to give them 2 more terms while Bill Shorten is replaced by Albo, Bowen or a mystery person who no one can remember the name of. Like... Tanya Plebesdegbdvcnotangloenoughlastname

Ragingsheep posted:

Apparently Joe just suggested the brilliantly suicidal idea of including a pensioner's own home in the means test for a pension on channel 7.

Goffer posted:

Australians winning something in WW1 that is not Gallipoli

Jumpingmanjim posted:

here's a question, what the gently caress does the herald sun put on their front cover tomorrow? I predict they will blame labor some how.

Ler posted:

no link yet but Mike Carlton has left SMH.

ewe2 posted:

Sharri Markson has been trumpeting her success about it on twitter this morning. She put together a pdf of all of Mike Carlton's responses as proof of his abuse. She forwarded 15 of his emails to the SMH editor, who then pressured Carlton to resign.

So how did she get the emails and what was Carlton responding to? I don't think the guy was smart to do what he did, because clearly Murdoch Ltd has decided if they can't win the circulation wars, they'll just whittle down the other side.

adamantium|wang posted:

Notes from the Managing Director of Tinkler's company. Joe is Tripodi:

Orkin Mang posted:

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.

Murodese posted:

If Loughnane goes down over this I will literally loving die laughing

Kate McClymont posted:

Andrew Cornwell's dad Brien said Libs funded "attractive young ladies" from Cornwell family's backpacker hostel 2 hold up Lib placards

Nibbles! posted:

Aren't we about 10 years late for the overreaching laws to protect us from TERRORISM?

Splode posted:

source?

That is absolutely hilarious.

Nibbles! posted:

Better then whichever senator it was asking why they couldn't print 'metadata' and store it.

ewe2 posted:

Speaking of funny videos check this out

George Brandis on Sky News "explaining" metadata

Gives Mad As Hell a run for their money.

Ragingsheep posted:

Weren't they attacking Rudd for doing the same thing?

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Rudd was different in that he would micromanage his pet initiatives/policies to the last detail and leave the appropriate ministers with nothing to do, wheras Abbott just farts out thought bubbles and expects cojent policies to magically coalesce around them.

Mad Katter posted:

The photo is of Wyatt Roy, who was the youngest Australian elected to parliament back on 2010.

Sam Dastyari posted it on Facebook and called him out, but Wyatt Roy come along and posted that he he took it to commemorate the first world war or something: https://m.facebook.com/senator.sam.dastyari/photos/a.280027748812387.1073741829.269334213215074/341317172683444/?type=1&source=46

gently caress knows how waving a gun around is an appropriate way to commemorate the enormous and senseless waste of life though.

Murodese posted:

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but when I did history in year 6-10 we were taught that Gallipoli was a great victory for Australia and our soldiers were hard men who fought against ten times their number and managed to get away cleanly by being ingenious.

SynthOrange posted:

Who was it that asked for meta-data to be stored in paper format? I read it a few days ago but didnt save it!

Murodese posted:

e; when did Latika Bourke leave the ABC? She has Age articles now?

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Do people in this thread refer to Eric Abetz as Erica Betz because they sincerely believe that's his name or because they are insulting him by demoting him to the status of a woman by feminising his name? It happens every he's brought up. Don't get me wrong, he's a vapid, mealy-mouthed carbon blob, but that line of attack is still pretty questionable.

Amethyst posted:

What am I looking at?

ColtMcAsskick posted:

The full page anti Abbott IPA ad was hilarious though.

Les Affaires posted:

Relevant:

ewe2 posted:

Hint: doing it to Americans and not filthy browns.