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Jonah Galtberg: Feb 11, 2009

Holy poo poo Fraser was massive

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:08

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# ? May 2, 2024 00:22

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Holy poo poo Fraser was massive

Or maybe everyone else is just really tiny

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:10

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Malcolm Fraiser of the Globetrotters.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:10

SadisTech: Jun 26, 2013; Clem.

I voted for the Democrats back in the day because Natasha Stott Despoja wore Docs.

That was pretty much my entire thought process on it at the time

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:11

Beyond Satire: Oct 18, 2014

This Saturday, 4 April, the collection of bigoted, ignorant fuckwits from Reclaim Australia are holding rally's around Australia.

Unfortunately in Perth, they have chosen to rally in Solidarity Park. For anyone that doesn't know, Solidarity Park was created from a workers embassy that was established during a significant period in the union movement's history and ultimately become a monument to union workers and members who have died at work.

It is bad enough that this group is rallying but its absolutely unacceptable that they are doing so in a place that honours the struggle of the movement founded in values of equality for all.

A counter-protest is being organised by a range of activists groups and it would be great if any Perth-based goons could front up and support the cause.

We don't know how many of the Reclaim Australia mob will front up but however many do, they need to see a show of strength.

Counter-protest starts at 11.30am. Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/933188153379142/. Feel free to PM me if you want more details.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:11

CrazyTolradi: Oct 2, 2011; It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Mithranderp posted:

I'm assuming you'd also have to reapply for Centrelink. I know there's some time frame before you get taken off benefits (2 months?), but I wouldn't put it past the Government to reduce it to a month, so that if you get a month of work, you still have to drown in paperwork and wait for another ~6 weeks to get back on Newstart.

It's only an issue if you had been paid enough to get $0 from Centrelink for 6 consecutive fortnights, at which point your YA/NS is cancelled (due to you in theory no longer needing it). Therefore if people are hiring and firing in a month, it's not really going to impact these people in a welfare sense, just in the psychological sense of being fired and made unemployed once more.

Of course, the government can choose to change the period and shorten it down to say, 2 fortnights, at which point yes, it would likely completely gently caress over a lot of people.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:12

Jonah Galtberg: Feb 11, 2009

Mithranderp posted:

Or maybe everyone else is just really tiny

1.93m

nope

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:13

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Looking for an affordable 1294 square meter piece of land to build a dream home with a view of the Pacific Ocean ?…… Move to Malibu, California. For just $129,000 (US$99,000), this view in the above pic could be yours.

Alternatively, if you’re looking to build your dream home on vacant land in desert as far away from the ocean as you can get with limited resources, look no further than Alice Springs. But here is the problem..it will cost you more.

In the new Alice Springs suburb of Kilgariff, the asking price per square meter of land on blocks ranging between 700m2 and 1100m2 is $188-$228 per m2. This is very pricy when compared to the cost per square meter of land with a view in Malibu (AU$99).

image source: Land Development Corporation NT

When the cost of land per square meter in the middle of nowhere and as far away from the ocean as you can get costs more than a square meter of land in the middle of somewhere with a view, we have to ask ourselves, ‘does this sound normal?’

Does it sound sane that a piece of land in Alice Springs should cost more than a piece of land in Malibu with a view of the Pacific Ocean? Is Alice Springs the new New York? Is there such a dire desperation for the residents of the Northern Territory where there are more square kilometres than the arms and legs of its residents to get their hands on a piece of land? Is there an actual shortage of land in the Northern Territory? If the answer to that question is ‘yes’ than I would say this country has lost touch with reality.

Whether we are looking at the sky high land prices of our major cities or the middle of nowhere Australia, to suggest that there is no land bubble across this whole country is concerning. And today, there are towns like Emerald and Moranbrah that were once apparently suffering from a dire housing shortage now seeing their housing markets crash. Thats what happens when a nation consistently builds over the last twenty years a new dwelling for every 1.9 new residents. Slowly but surely this great Australian credit and property bubble is bursting.

So much for a housing shortage.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:15

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

1.93m

nope

Hahahaha

I am the same height as Tony Abbott. If I ever meet him, I'l wear like 3 inch heels on purpose so that he's intimidated :getin:

6'4 is actually pretty massive for someone of Fraser's generation.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:15

Sulla Faex: May 14, 2010; No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with ENDLESS SHITPOSTING

I read about some annual neonazi march in Germany that people opposed in an interesting way. People raised sponsors and said for every 100m or whatever distance each rally goer marched, they would donate €X to an organisation that helps reforms neonazis. So tonnes of anti fascists turned up to cheer the skinheads on because each step they took was raising more money to oppose them. Got a tonne of publicity for the anti-fascist movement and turned a disgusting parade into a funny parody

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:17

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Bad thread, voted 1

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:21

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Holy poo poo Fraser was massive

Goo Whitlam was loving huge too, as was Margaret. It was basically how they met, since she was too tall for anybody else to dance with.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:28

sick of Applebees: Nov 7, 2008

politics

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:38

GoldStandardConure: Jun 11, 2010; I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow; Pillbug

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

I read about some annual neonazi march in Germany that people opposed in an interesting way. People raised sponsors and said for every 100m or whatever distance each rally goer marched, they would donate €X to an organisation that helps reforms neonazis. So tonnes of anti fascists turned up to cheer the skinheads on because each step they took was raising more money to oppose them. Got a tonne of publicity for the anti-fascist movement and turned a disgusting parade into a funny parody

The same organization also sells shirts at music festivals that fascists and neonazis rock up to, with right wing/neo-nazi slogans and logos on them (Thors hammer and all that poo poo), except when you wash the shirt the logo fades and contact details for the reform organization are on the shirt.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 14:55

Jonah Galtberg: Feb 11, 2009

I know he was a piece of poo poo but drat if I'm not horribly addicted to watching Keating QT videos

# ? Mar 31, 2015 15:15

GrandTheftAutism: Dec 24, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Endman posted:

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

They compounded the fuckup by using the wrong logo. That's RebootD's design: the official logo is still the old dark green and gold one.

I have been trying to come up with a newer one to submit to the Communications Committee, though.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 15:25

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Jonah Galtberg posted:

I know he was a piece of poo poo but drat if I'm not horribly addicted to watching Keating QT videos

Don't speak I'll of the greatest man to ever tear up the floor at question time

# ? Mar 31, 2015 15:29

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

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.

No, see, that is the best part of the OP.

If you got rid of it then the OP wouldn't be as good.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 16:22

Zetsubou-san: Jan 28, 2015; Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Looking for an affordable 1294 square meter piece of land to build a dream home with a view of the Pacific Ocean ?…… Move to Malibu, California. For just $129,000 (US$99,000), this view in the above pic could be yours.

Alternatively, if you’re looking to build your dream home on vacant land in desert as far away from the ocean as you can get with limited resources, look no further than Alice Springs. But here is the problem..it will cost you more.

In the new Alice Springs suburb of Kilgariff, the asking price per square meter of land on blocks ranging between 700m2 and 1100m2 is $188-$228 per m2. This is very pricy when compared to the cost per square meter of land with a view in Malibu (AU$99).

image source: Land Development Corporation NT

When the cost of land per square meter in the middle of nowhere and as far away from the ocean as you can get costs more than a square meter of land in the middle of somewhere with a view, we have to ask ourselves, ‘does this sound normal?’

Does it sound sane that a piece of land in Alice Springs should cost more than a piece of land in Malibu with a view of the Pacific Ocean? Is Alice Springs the new New York? Is there such a dire desperation for the residents of the Northern Territory where there are more square kilometres than the arms and legs of its residents to get their hands on a piece of land? Is there an actual shortage of land in the Northern Territory? If the answer to that question is ‘yes’ than I would say this country has lost touch with reality.

Whether we are looking at the sky high land prices of our major cities or the middle of nowhere Australia, to suggest that there is no land bubble across this whole country is concerning. And today, there are towns like Emerald and Moranbrah that were once apparently suffering from a dire housing shortage now seeing their housing markets crash. Thats what happens when a nation consistently builds over the last twenty years a new dwelling for every 1.9 new residents. Slowly but surely this great Australian credit and property bubble is bursting.

So much for a housing shortage.

this is nothing new

there is a shortage of land of suitable zoning around Alice Springs. West of Alice we have the West MacDonnell National Park. There's an historic reserve to the north. To the south we've got the sewage works (locally called "the poo ponds") and the airport, and to the east we've got a 1200 sq km cattle station. What's left over is either under Native Title, on a flood plain, or has big loving rocks jutting out of it.

pictured: big loving rocks

Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Mar 31, 2015

# ? Mar 31, 2015 19:16

Zetsubou-san: Jan 28, 2015; Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

# ? Mar 31, 2015 19:20

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

A second ALP MP in Queensland has had Domestic violence claims pushed on him with a former partner claiming she got beaten by a leather belt regularly.

I've never seen Springborg so happy. It's up on Brisbane Times.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 21:52

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

GoldStandardConure posted:

The same organization also sells shirts at music festivals that fascists and neonazis rock up to, with right wing/neo-nazi slogans and logos on them (Thors hammer and all that poo poo), except when you wash the shirt the logo fades and contact details for the reform organization are on the shirt.

No, I suspect we'll just have the rabid mob trying to deny others the right of free assembly (I have no idea who's protesting about what by the way).

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:00

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

Anidav posted:

A second ALP MP in Queensland has had Domestic violence claims pushed on him with a former partner claiming she got beaten by a leather belt regularly.

I've never seen Springborg so happy. It's up on Brisbane Times.

Sadly why do I not find this surprising.

There's no excuse for this poo poo.

Unfortunately we're going to go from the verified track record cases to the murky world of "he said, she said".

Sorry Queensland, you're a long way from being out of the woods.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:06

Thinking: Jan 22, 2009

Endman posted:

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

cpaf posted:

Reminder that the Jackie Lambie Network will soon be a registered Australian political party and the Democrats won't

I think they had the hope of doing the whole first page and probably just ran out of money and effort, just like the real democrats

e: rip riker

Thinking fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Mar 31, 2015

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:07

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

SadisTech posted:

I voted for the Democrats back in the day because Natasha Stott Despoja wore Docs.

That was pretty much my entire thought process on it at the time

You probably put more thought into your vote than most.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:16

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Redwolf posted:

The Australian Greens

The Australian Greens are a motley band of belligerent anarchist rabble whose supporters are heavily represented in the thread. Led by Christine Milne they believe in Scott Ludlum's dreamy, luxiourus hair, free lattes for all, and probably the same things you do unless you're an absolute shitstain of a human being.

I love scott ludlam.

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.

Litterally a racist strawman for a policy.

"The government throws money at them to give them fake jobs just because theyre black!"

Wtg lnp.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Mar 31, 2015

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:21

CATTASTIC: Mar 31, 2010; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anidav posted:

I've never seen Springborg so happy. It's up on Brisbane Times.

Glass houses and all that

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:50

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

News Ltd is blaming The Greens NSW victories in weed :drugnerd:

quote:

IT’S not easy being Green, even in the hippie haven of northern NSW.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Nimbin and Lismore, home of the Australian Hemp Party and new Greens’ heartland, have one of the highest rates of welfare recipients in the state.

The north coast region, where the Greens claimed a historic win in Ballina and came close to taking Lismore at the weekend election, has more than 32,000 residents on welfare, including 14,000 on the Newstart allowance.

The unemployment rate in the Richmond-Tweed region, which includes Nimbin, is a whopping 10.2 per cent, compared to 6.6 per cent in Parramatta in Sydney’s west. The Department of Employment lists the region’s youth unemployment rate at 15.8 per cent.

Drug raids in Nimbin are a daily way of life.

If the Greens lose Lismore, where their candidate Adam Guise was last night trailing Nationals incumbent Thomas George by 252 votes, it could ironically be linked to the number of apathetic locals who are not registered to vote.

While the Nimbin booth traditionally registers a high Greens vote, The Daily Telegraph has learned many residents living in the hills around Nimbin and Uki were not registered and failed to vote for the anti-CSG activist.

“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said. A non-voter said: “Nimbin is already the greenest area of Australia.”

Other Greens supporters who moved to the north coast said they were registered in other states and ineligible to vote despite having lived in the region for years.

Nimbin Mardi Grass celebrates the region’s drug culture. Picture: Adam Smith

Greens candidate Tamara Smith, who cleaned-up in the historically green Byron Shire region, yesterday looked set to claim Ballina. Outgoing MP Don Page had held the seat for the Nationals since 1988.

Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham has dismissed the idea of the “hippie” and “tree hugger” vote being behind the party’s popularity in the north.

As well as apparent voter apathy, the north coast – once a thriving farming and fishing hub – is home to the country’s worst immunisation rates and anti-fluoride activists.

It is also over-represented in annual drug statistics released by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

Nimbin has a high percentage of the population on welfare. Picture: Jason O'Brien

The National Health Performance Authority last year listed the NSW north coast as having the worst immunisation rates in Australia.

In Byron Shire, only 66.7 per cent of children aged five were fully immunised.

NSW Police targets the region through annual cannabis eradication programs unearthing massive marijuana crops.

An ice and speed syndicate allegedly linked to the Ballina Rebels was smashed by local police last December, and LSD and MDMA have also been targeted.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 22:56

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Anidav posted:

News Ltd is blaming The Greens NSW victories in weed

This wouldn't look out of place on conservapedia. See also:
*greens voters and obesity
*thin liberal dancers with long beautiful hair

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:08

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Glass houses and all that

Yes, being smug in any way could only be classed as a high-risk manoeuvre.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:15

Endman: May 18, 2010; That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die

Anidav posted:

News Ltd is blaming The Greens NSW victories in weed

I loving hate this nation's media.

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:15

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Smoke weed, flip Nationals seats.

What's wrong with this plan again?

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:17

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Anidav posted:

Smoke weed, flip Nationals seats.

What's wrong with this plan again?

Not enough weed :2bong:

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:23

gay picnic defence: Oct 5, 2009; I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Anidav posted:

Smoke weed, flip Nationals seats.

What's wrong with this plan again?

Someone forgot to bring the shrooms?

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:28

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Anidav posted:

Smoke weed, flip Nationals seats.

What's wrong with this plan again?

Suddenly it all falls into place!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-30/nsw-police-destroy-thousands-plants-in-cannabis-operation/6358244

quote:

NSW police have seized and destroyed 12,000 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of over $22 million in the past year.

The Cannabis Eradication Program, a drug protection program run by NSW Police, targeted cannabis crops in New England, Richmond, Coffs Clarence and Tweed Byron Local Area Commands.

Police destroyed 12,000 plants, with over 4,800 plants found in New England alone, a substantial increase on recent years

*coffee mug falls and shatters in slow motion*

# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:32

Birb Katter: Sep 18, 2010; BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
TURNBULL AS PM
LIBERALS WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN A LANDSLIDE

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# ? Mar 31, 2015 23:50

open24hours: Jan 7, 2001

How can one man be so lame?

# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:00

Graic Gabtar: Dec 19, 2014; squat my posts

katlington posted:

*bong falls and shatters in slow motion*

# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:06

Quantum Mechanic: Apr 25, 2010; Just another fuckwit who thrives on fake moral outrage.
Waaaah the Christians are out to get me

lol abbottsgonnawin

# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:15

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# ? May 2, 2024 00:22

Mad Katter: Aug 23, 2010; STOP THE BATS

Anidav posted:

News Ltd is blaming The Greens NSW victories in weed

420 vote Greens every day

# ? Apr 1, 2015 00:19

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