AusPol: Commemorating 100 years since the Ottomans stopped the boats

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Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

So it looks like someone is burning down churches connected to pedophiles.

Good.

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Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

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�One other problem that happened for me. I went to buy some chocolate and I ask a guard to bring me chocolate and after two days the guard he brought back the plastic of the lollies with a USB � and he put a porno film inside on a USB,� she said.

�Because they know I was single in that area and maybe something happened. They didn�t care if you were married or single, if they get positive feedback.�

She also described how some asylum seekers deliberately avoided going to the toilet during the night, because they felt unsafe around the male Nauru guards.

�The Nauruan guards are all men. They can walk around the camp at night, and at front of the camp and bathroom and they put security officers there who are male, and there is no suitable area. We were not relaxed to go to the toilet during the night time.

�Because we were too scared to go to the toilet we would wet the bed.�

She said conditions on the island remain poor for the asylum seekers: �Most of the people have kidney stones due to lack of enough water in that situation, and also the phosphate in the water.�

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/10/women-who-come-forward-about-sex-abuse-on-nauru-face-threats

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 07:00

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Julia Gillard is apparently writing game of thrones recaps now.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/14/julia-gillard-on-game-of-thrones-series-five-enjoy-carefully

# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 06:06

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Fresh in _{my mammaries}

# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 00:59

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Victoria to pay $339m to East West Link consortium over contracts

The Victorian Government will pay $339 million to the consortium behind Melbourne's East West Link after it cancelled the contracts for the road project.

Welp

# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 03:12

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

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Government's council of asylum-seeker advisers has stood empty for five months
The Minister�s Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention is there to provide independent immigration advice to Peter Dutton but has been vacant since 2014

welp.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 01:30

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Commemorating 100 years since the Ottomans stopped the boats

# ¿ Apr 25, 2015 03:26

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Jet fuel can melt your genes

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 04:22

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

http://www.theage.com.au/business/m...430-1mwl4r.html

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US miner Cliffs Natural Resources says the seaborne supply of iron ore to China is a "doomed, horrible business", and declared it can't wait to finish mining in Western Australia.

Speaking after a decision to cut jobs and close one of its three iron ore pits in Western Australia, Cliffs chief executive Lourenco Goncalves said big miners like BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto were trying to scare the iron ore market into pessimism with their expansion plans, but could no longer afford those expansions.

Cliffs' Koolyanobbing operations in Western Australia made a slim profit of $0.26 per tonne during the March quarter, and the Cleveland-based company responded by reducing the remaining life of the operation from 4.5 years down to 3.5 years.

"The seaborne market is doomed, is cursed, is a place not to be in. I can't wait to get out of Australia," said Mr Goncalves.

"As soon as I get to the end of life of mine in Australia, I'm out of there ... I can't wait to get out of the seaborne trade and let the Australians take that horrible business on their own hands."

Mr Goncalves has previously criticised the iron ore expansion plans of Rio, BHP and Vale, and on Thursday said those plans were now just empty threats.

"My thesis is they are threatening a capital expansion that they are not planning to deploy ... it is a lot more of lip service and empty threats and bad advertisements," he said.

"The biggest problem for the iron ore price at this point is not even the fact that the world is being flooded with iron ore. It is the fact that the market and the press and investors are being flooded with bad information about the expansion plans of three companies."

Mr Goncalves pointed to BHP's decision last week to defer spending on iron ore expansions at Port Hedland, and said Rio and Vale would soon follow suit.

"None of the three majors can continue to support their massive capex needs without allowing the iron ore price to increase," he said.

"If they still decide to keep iron ore prices artificially low, as they have been doing so far, their advertised massive capacity increases will not materialise due to insufficient cash flow generation.

"A long story short, these big projects are not coming. When the rubber hits the road, you are going to see a lot more of these BHP decisions of postponing the de-bottlenecking project and this and that."

The comments come as Brazilian miner Vale prepares to update the market on its $US19 billion iron ore expansion plan on Friday morning.

Mr Goncalves said while the management teams at the big miners wanted to continue expanding, board members would soon find themselves struggling to justify approvals for further spending on iron ore expansions.

"I am convinced that as soon as the board members of Rio Tinto, BHP and Vale realise that they are enabling their management teams to do something that goes against their shareholders, at least one or two or three or five will get scared because their fiduciary duty is associated with that," he said.

BHP says it will still reach its expansion target of 290 million tonnes per year despite the slower pace of expansion, and Goldman Sachs said last week it expects the big miners to complete their planned expansions.

"We don't expect any of the major iron ore producers to alter plans," said Goldman Sachs in a note to clients.

Cliffs will focus on supplying North American iron ore to US steel mills once its Australian operations reach the end of their working life.

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Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Jesus christ if you think Transperth is great, dont come to Melbourne. You'd die from the shock.

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