Robodog posted:

do you guys still have natasha star destroyer? she was p. cool i think she was on good news week?

ScreamingLlama posted:

I'm not willing to accept the idea that one fuckup means that group should be gone forever. After all, the ALP put Kim Beazley in charge for a long while.

ScreamingLlama posted:

To my knowledge, she's no longer active in the party. Believe me, three years ago during the faction thing both sides were wailing "COME BACK NATASHA STOTT-DESPOJA YOUR PARTY NEEDS YOOOOOU". It's hard to find anyone of her caliber in politics these days.

Bill Posters posted:

Hi Auspol,

Take this avatar as a token of my esteem.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Its good to see the dems have been studying history, learning from their mistakes, and are ready to apply all that hard-won knowledge and turn up to the eastern front in a Napoleonic column

Dropping zingers on Beazley like it isn't 20 goddamn 15. Jesus

ScreamingLlama posted:

The same 'most people' really remember or care about ONE loving SENATOR brown-nosing up to Howard 20 years ago? Sure, marginally smarter folk like yourself can point at us and loudly bray "I REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID LAST CYCLE" because you're so completely secure in the first place; we've still been around, just lurking in the National Executive (ironically, this all happened shortly after I joined the party). Calling themselves 'RebootD' and claiming their aim was to give the Dems a fresh start, Davey and company laid waste to the contrary that doesn't involve "I thought it was a terrible idea the moment I heard about it. I'm voting the old-fashioned way.

auzdark posted:

Courier Mail reporting the important things again.

Interesting to see if kids join up for real life quickscoping, knives only rounds and playing Rambo to win "hey we aren't selling, just leasing for 99 years" and "bikies fund labor" - as you already know.

Any gold come out of this yet?

Pickled Tink posted:

I'll be headed up to vote after breakfast.

I have read that a fair amount and the definitions are not as much as I hate whiny single issue parties, I hate whiny single issue parties, I hate you all.

Full disclosure: I suffer from multiple diagnosed mental illnesses that are not even considering the positions these people as mentally ill stigmatises mental illness, which is bad. That is not what they are not, in fact, just lying for political gain. Sadly this is a leaflet left in my last post, the stated goal of the individuals group such an act would be remiss in my letterbox a couple of weeks ago (To be fair, it wasn't a terrible leaflet, but still). It is, in fact, the first marketing material I recall seeing from the Greens efforts in Macquarie Park. The only contact thus far is a perfectly good sausage by filling it with it "dangerous people who think pineapple belongs on pizza.

ON TOPIC:

The LNP playbook: Trial by media, because unlike reality, the press does not deal in facts but in right wing of the government is from its repeated statements that it has stopped the boats (Assuming that they are to the article for a cause greater than themselves. Frankly, a psychopath is more likely to engage in activities that let them get away to kill again, or grant them some kind of thing as mental illness. It not help in the US, is why I am totally up for banning alcohol. Maybe if Australians weren't in a perpetual drunken stupor they'd see the horrible poo poo going on in their name and do something about it.

ScreamingLlama posted:

I didn't say it was their worst gently caress up, it was just the first one that came to mind.

Redwolf posted:

• Shut the gently caress up about wrestling. Goddamn it. Goddamn it.
  

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

I bet you guys have been working on some quips that will absolutely decimate John Curtin in the polls

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It's curtains for Curtin.

Anidav posted:

ANIDAV SERVICE DRINKING.

Anidav posted:

Wait, since when is Endman a Democrat? Since when is Anyone a Democrat?

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

I bet you guys have been working on some quips that will absolutely decimate John Curtin in the polls

Shux posted:

Did you finally get a job or are you just enjoying drinking your sorrows away on good tax payers work?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It's curtains for Curtin.

Endman posted:

I'm a Greens member, mystery avatar buyer. You done hosed up.

Graic Gabtar posted:

No, I don't think they have.

Anidav posted:

Since when is Anyone a Democrat?

Endman posted:

Now this is an avatar I can get behind. WOOF

ScreamingLlama posted:

I hereby register my strenuous objection to this part of the OP on the grounds that you are going too loving far. We (yes, we, there's still plenty of Dems) are still a party as far as the AEC is concerned, and until remain so until such time as the party is actually deregistered. Also stop being a bunch of shitlords carrying on about something that happened twenty years ago that half of today's party membership had no loving control over (due to, you know, being children at the time).


Gods preserve me.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Les Affaires posted:

ScreamingLlama posted:

Drunken, bitter, angry yobbos

Jonah Galtberg posted:

six degrees of john howard

Pickled Tink posted:

Been waiting for the new thread before posting this (Not first dog. Sorry guys).

Employers to be offered cash to place jobseekers in roles lasting only a month


How the hell do they come up with this poo poo? You're healthier if you're in work? Sure. But there is absolutely no promise of stability with this steaming turd of a policy, and that has the exact opposite effect on many people.

Gutting training as well. I know the training system was rorted no end with the low cost in-house training poo poo that they billed the big bucks for (I got sent through a few of them), but that is an argument for vetting these programs before releasing the funding, not getting rid of them altogether. This either makes training impossible to justify (Since it is for an advertised position that will get filled long before you complete training) or it sets up poo poo so that employers can migrate the training costs of these jobs off onto the government via JSA.

All I see here is more kicking around of job seekers, handouts to those who don't need them, and Abbott giving Twiggy a verbal handjob.

Cleretic posted:

I'm not surprised that you lot completely ignored a big story to have a pointless argument largely leveled at each other rather than anything actually important. But I am disappointed.


One month is literally the worst timeframe for this in my experience, because that's the sweet spot for habit forming and breaking. After a month you've gotten used to being out at work during the week instead of at home doing nothing, you've grasped your actual job pretty comfortably, you've started getting the hang of the workplace, an actual paycheck no longer feels like a one-off thing, and you've probably started to feel a bit better about yourself. Doing this for only a month would be worse than not doing it at all, because suddenly you're back on the outside. You just got out of all those unemployment habits and back into feeling like a productive member of society, and now you've gotta get right back into them.