Amethyst posted:Why is Twiggy Forrest's idiotic plan to put all welfare recipients on income management getting so much press? Is this Liberal strategy? Publicize something horrible so their own policy looks mild in comparison? Yes
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Endman posted:I'm actually shocked it worked. Something I was a part of actually worked. Don't get too excited, death is still certain
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Aug 1, 2014 07:46
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Thank You for this boss new avatar!
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Aug 1, 2014 07:47
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Props to the OP for using "drivel" instead of "dribble"
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Aug 1, 2014 09:38
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I love stealing content. Piracy makes me feel good.
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Aug 1, 2014 11:28
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quote:That story is wrong because it fails to take into account a range of things like the fact that higher income households pay half their income in tax wat
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Aug 4, 2014 01:10
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adamantium|wang posted:People seem to be incapable of understanding marginal tax rates. "People" in this case being the Treasurer of Australia
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Aug 4, 2014 01:52
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please attach trigger warnings to phelps content tia
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Aug 4, 2014 11:23
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Missed the start because House Husbands ran over
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Aug 4, 2014 13:20
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Has there ever been a government this bad at prosecuting their policy agenda?
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Aug 5, 2014 07:01
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Like, they've burned through all their political capital in less than 12 months and achieved absolutely nothing apart from the carbon tax repeal.
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Aug 5, 2014 07:02
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George Brandis is a potato with a pair of glasses glued to it
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Aug 5, 2014 07:35
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He's deffo reading his mail on a Windows 98 PC with Outlook Express
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Aug 5, 2014 09:06
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The subtext here is that Tony Abbott didn't give a poo poo what the Muslims of Australia thought about 18c until he needed their support for his imaginary terrorist smoke and mirrors act
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Aug 5, 2014 13:23
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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? Because they want it to be true.
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Aug 5, 2014 23:10
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"they believe"
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Aug 6, 2014 00:59
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Those On My Left posted:Does anyone here use a credit union or a small bank or something like that? I'm really tired of being screwed around by Westpac and would like to at least consider moving my money out of the Big Four. I'm only interested in going with someone who has an excellent online banking system, though. I'm with bankMECU and they would win hands-down any "most ethical bank" contest. They also apparently just won an award for having the best internet banking experience in the credit union/member owned bank category. http://www.bankmecu.com.au/why-bank-with-us/sustainability-and-community.html Their twitter account is pretty openly activist about leftish things Drugs fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Aug 6, 2014 05:00
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Why does he melt down so hard over a forum game?
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Aug 6, 2014 06:12
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*looks at map* Caulfield is south of the Yarra so gently caress those guys
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Aug 6, 2014 08:21
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Scylo posted:How is it possible to be this bad at explaining it? I've read one article about metadata and I could do it better than he is. He's trying (and failing) to explain it in a dishonest way, such that the take home message isn't "we are going to look at all your internet stuff"
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Aug 6, 2014 09:39
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These are dark days for the Classical* Liberals** *liber **tarians
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Aug 6, 2014 10:25
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I've never met a nice South African
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Aug 6, 2014 11:13
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Was also reading today on exactly how terrible Mandela and the ANC were at economics, and how in a few short years they managed to make economic inequality significantly worse than it was under apartheid
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Aug 6, 2014 11:15
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http://www.theage.com.au/business/t...806-10110y.htmlquote:Australia’s political elite are among the country’s most enthusiastic real estate investors, with records showing one freeholding Nationals member owns 50 properties and another holds 17. String the fuckers up.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:19
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Senor Tron posted:It's almost as if a significant chunk of the population had been denied equal access to education and career opportunities. Also whitey booby-trapped the government on their way out by forcing them to pay back the apartheid debt and give lifelong pensions to all the racist civil servants who got kicked out. Their debt obligations forced them to privatise all their poo poo, selling public companies back to the white robber barons. They also got sucked in the World Bank/IMF/USA neoliberal dogma and went full Thatcherite.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:29
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Israel have caused otherwise ambivalent people to become actual anti-semites, in the same way that Al Qaeda have caused people to become Islamophobes
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Aug 6, 2014 14:26
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Quantum Mechanic posted:I'm in UniSuper. I'm mostly thinking for my parents, who are looking at doing an investment fund for a few years as a way of saving up for a place in a new suburb. Since we're all offering financial advice: Now that the First Home Saver Accounts are dead, my partner and I are looking for somewhere to put some money to save for a house deposit, where we don't get scrub-tier savings account interest rates. Should I just set up a managed fund with regular contributions from Australian Ethical? Is there a better place that I could be putting my money so that it isn't going to fund coal mining and has a realistic likelihood of returns greater than the ~3.5% we can get from a savings account or a term deposit?
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Aug 7, 2014 03:18
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George Brandis knows he is right. He is right, and the fault lies with those who cannot grasp the fundamental issue of free speech at the same level as he and his mighty intellect can.
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Aug 7, 2014 04:31
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Those On My Left posted:My partner is a bit hesitant about Australian Ethical managed funds because she doesn't want to pay fees, but I'm not really sure there are too many ethical alternatives that don't. It's a thing we're still trying to work out. Yeah the other thing I was thinking of was an ethical index fund, but everything I've found apart from AE so far have lovely screening processes, which let a whole bunch of nasty stuff companies through, with the word "ethical" slapped on the front to make people feel a bit better about themselves. I think an actively managed fund is going to be the only way to get my money going into the companies that I want it to.
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Aug 7, 2014 04:36
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Captain Pissweak posted:Mighty intellect is funny as poo poo in light of recent events. 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.
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Aug 7, 2014 04:38
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Orkin Mang posted: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. *He calls himself a QC, despite never having practiced law as one *He bought two big-rear end book walls for his parliamentary office to show everybody how many books he has read *He likened himself to Voltaire in a valiant defence of racists and climate change deniers *He had a huge dummy spit over being wrong about the legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and forced a bunch of colleagues to give interviews the next day and deliver verbatim testimony as to what a "fine intellect" he possessed *He attributed his massive failure to sell the merits of racial abuse to Australia to the inability of the plebs to understand freedom at the same level that he, an acolyte of John Stuart Mill, does.
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Aug 7, 2014 05:26
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Remember when Phelps voted to remove right to silence laws because he cared more about keeping his job as party whip than about his belief system?
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Aug 7, 2014 11:32
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I just listened to Tony Shepherd talk on the radio and the fact that we lost the war of economic ideology to this clown and his mates has made me super despondent
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Aug 8, 2014 00:13
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Highlight: Shepherd - If the public sector was in charge of an infrastructure project it would never get finished Faine - That's not an argument, that's just something you would say to your mates over drinks at an IPA dinner Shepherd - Yeah we do say that *silence*
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Aug 8, 2014 00:15
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He was also talking about how grouse it would be to privatise 50% of DHS, because "sometimes you need to trade jobs for efficiency, and the private sector is always more efficient"
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Aug 8, 2014 00:22
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Yes. He specifically said that Transurban had done nothing wrong. E: Reminder that this bloke is one of the most trusted economic advisors to the Prime Minister of AustraliaE: Drugs fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Aug 8, 2014 00:23
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Antlions posted:So, something I'm not sure about : ICAC good? ICAC bad? ICAC good but run by bad people? I hear bits and pieces about it but I don't really have any context to go on. ICAC is outstanding
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Aug 8, 2014 01:44
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I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to spend $38,000 to say it
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Aug 8, 2014 03:32
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It wasn't a serious attempt to sway government policy or embarrass Tony Abbott, it was a 38 thousand dollar advertisement for IPA membership, unwittingly and directly paid for by their current membership of ageing racists.
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ewe2 posted:Keane and Dyer offer some advice to Joe Hockey Point 4 claims that the budget is unfair because low-income earners receive the most government assistance, and point 5 correctly says that we spend a catastrophic amount of money on tax welfare for millionaires. How do the authors reconcile these two points? Why is welfare for rich people considered a different class of expenditure than welfare for poor people?
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