ewe2 posted:

Mostly economics chat for LesAffaires benefit. There are many many links that I didn't put in, sorry.


The tl;dr is that behind the scenes there is a lot of bad lending going on. The banks won't lose either way, in fact they stand to gain from a dive in the market. Other financial institutions may not be so lucky.

Small Keating posted:

Looks like Abbott's killed the changes to 18C.

quote:

The Abbott government has backed down on plans to water down the Racial Discrimination Act.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was a ‘‘leadership call’’ to bin the proposed changes to Section 18C of the act which had been roundly criticised by ethnic community leaders and was unpopular with the wider public
"Leadership is about preserving national identity and the essentials and that is why I have taken this position," Mr Abbott said.

Last week, Fairfax media revealed the Coalition's plan to water down race hate laws has been rejected by a marked majority of respondents to a government review.

More than 76 per cent of 4100 submissions to Attorney-General George Brandis' draft changes to the Racial Discrimination Act were opposed to the proposal - known as the ''Bolt law'' after conservative columnist Andrew Bolt.

The government has proposed to wind back section 18C, which makes it unlawful to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate someone based on their race or ethnicity.

But just 20.5 per cent of submissions were in favour of the changes, according to documents obtained under freedom of information laws by Simon Rice of the Australian National University. Three per cent called for a complete repeal of all racial discrimination protections.

Splode posted:

source?

That is absolutely hilarious.

quote:

The IPA has emailed its supporters pleading for cash to fund a $38,000 attack ad which will use the Prime Minister's own words against him.

"Tony Abbott has given up but the IPA never will," the email says.

The IPA will quote from Mr Abbott's speech to the IPA in 2012 when he said "freedom of speech is an essential foundation of democracy".

And in a further rebuff of the Prime Minister, the IPA is offering donors a copy of his comments signed by the News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt, who was successfully prosecuted under the current laws.

Quantum Mechanic posted:

Actually I think in this case it's the Coalition wanting to dodge very real and accurate accusations that they may be encouraging/forcing women into sex work because of their changes.

Nibbles! posted:

Instead of asking for repeals of laws to make Andrew Bolt not racist why don't these groups push for a federal bill of rights to enshrine these rights? The Constitution was originally written with an assumption a Bill of Rights would follow, wasn't it?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

ahahahahahahhahahaha they hosed that up didn't they?

Australia exports more than $400 million in agricultural products to Russia each year.

According to Department of Foreign Affairs statistics, Australian beef exports to Russia were worth $150 million in 2013, while butter exports accounted for $64 million.

Live animals excluding seafood were worth $55 million and meats excluding beef were worth a further $48 million.

Overall, two-way trade between Australia and Russia in 2013 was worth about $1.79 billion in 2013.

WebDog posted:

Gough Suppressant posted:

Isn't the idea of advertising that you do it in something which has an actual circulation?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Nah, something changed late 2008 / early 2009.

Haters Objector posted:

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?

SynthOrange posted:

says ABC's scrolling newsbar.

Captain Pissweak posted:

That was a joke post, I know engineers are not inherently pieces of poo poo.

quote:

...but Gambetta and Hertog found that engineers, in particular, were three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.

CrazyTolradi posted:

When it comes to resumes, a lot of it comes down to the look. You're competing with anywhere over 200-1000 odd other applications, you need your resume to look professional and stand out. I cannot help but laugh whenever I see a word doc resume because it just looks like no effort went in at all.

Indesign is good for resume making if you can...acquire a copy, for a fair price.

Quantum Mechanic posted:

Remember, you're talking about a government that already tried changing an entire state electoral law to get Clover Moore out of the mayoral chains.

Murodese posted:

webmeister posted:

It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't care.

Murodese posted:

You're like 4/4 for dumb posts now. Would you agree that a depiction of Aboriginals as apemen in a cartoon wouldn't offend you, and why are you so racist?

(you can be offended by something that's not targetting you)

Murodese posted:

the difference is that he's an avid commenter on andrew bolt's blog and is unaware of the existence of hypocrisy

Pred1ct posted:

So the guy suing under 18C is not Jewish and previously said that people that don't support 18C should invoke it as a protest.

Yeah he's not going to have any standing whatsoever.

Anidav posted:

Can anyone tell me if Lindt 90% is a struggling product?

froglet posted:

Hey guys I'm at my new job and the things I have heard help

"I agree with Lang Hancock's aboriginal solution"
"This program hangs like a friend of the family from a tree"
"You're one of the good lefties froglet coz you don't expect the government to do everything for you"

Kommando posted:

I got a reply from Wayne Swans electorate officer.

I emailed Wayne Swan on Thursday.


And the reply:


I'm reasonably satisfied with that response.

Anidav posted:

Quickly, how do you deal with a person who says the "inflated welfare state" will destroy first world nations and lead them down a path of "government reliance and degeneracy"?

Anidav posted:

But you see guys, those who rely on welfare will eventually make us sink like the Titanic because a bunch of bludgers will ruin it for the rest of us. We must stop them now and get them jobs before it's too late.

Anidav posted:

I showed him a consumer confidence graph from Roy Morgan and he said Roy Morgan is biased. So I should probably disengage here and let him enjoy his fantasy land economics.

Anidav posted:

His experience with the system is "all my best high school friends became bludgers"

epipen posted:

we're going revolutioning