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quote:“The Liberals will deliver a Berlin Wall down the central spine of Sydney, dividing the CBD into east and west. In the years after the transport war, the communist suburbs of the inner west would attempt to starve the residents of the east, depriving them of supplies for their chai lattes and economically critical gym and weightlifting equipment. Only through continual air-drops fuelled by Border Security Force F35 jets (and only on days without any rain, or cloud, or any other psychic disturbances which could affect aircraft instruments) were the eastern suburbs and capitalism saved. Goddamn NSW Labor is doubling down on opposition at all costs. There's absolutely no reason why cars should be running through the very centre of the city to create a huge chokepoint, having solely trams and pedestrian areas is entirely sensible. And surely this would pit them against Sydney Council too?? I don't know who they think they're appealing to here. Jumpingmanjim posted:Here In Australia horse racing is subject to Anti-money laundering laws but real estate and luxury cars are not. This is unbelievable. I remember from my old job the large administration changes my company had to make for AML laws relating to share purchases/movements. Real estate is an obvious place to launder money, I can't believe there's nothing in place.
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Suggesting that it's all money laundering is probably taking it a bit far. I'm not sure what incentive the Australian government has to crack down on it though, all that Chinese money is pretty good for our economy.
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I dunno, this new pope seems to be pretty keen to reform the church.
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open24hours posted:Suggesting that it's all money laundering is probably taking it a bit far. I'm not sure what incentive the Australian government has to crack down on it though, all that Chinese money is pretty good for our economy. Yeah but now the boats have stopped they need another foreign invader to scare the voters with. They can't touch the 457 visa holders because then how would Important Election Campaign Donors get their hands on easily exploitable labour?
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Why are we even stripping people of their dual citizenship? If we know who people are to strip them, wouldn't it be preferable to arrest them when they return and hold them to account?
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gay picnic defence posted:Yeah but now the boats have stopped they need another foreign invader to scare the voters with. They can't touch the 457 visa holders because then how would Important Election Campaign Donors get their hands on easily exploitable labour? Where will the other important campaign donors find people to buy their firetraps at inflated prices?
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Nibbles! posted:Why are we even stripping people of their dual citizenship? If we know who people are to strip them, wouldn't it be preferable to arrest them when they return and hold them to account?  TERROR!!!!!
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Nibbles! posted:Why are we even stripping people of their dual citizenship? If we know who people are to strip them, wouldn't it be preferable to arrest them when they return and hold them to account? That is waaay too complicated for the government to come across as tough. If they really wanted to improve security they'd be using the people returning a propaganda against ISIS but that is too complicated too. The point of stripping citizenship isn't to be effective, it is to create an impression for the voters.
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Nibbles! posted:Why are we even stripping people of their dual citizenship? If we know who people are to strip them, wouldn't it be preferable to arrest them when they return and hold them to account? It would if you believe in reform but this legislation is all about keeping undesirables out of our country.
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open24hours posted:Where will the other important campaign donors find people to buy their firetraps at inflated prices? I imagine they'll just introduce $500 home loan deposits for centerlink recipients or something and that will fill in the gap pretty fast.
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open24hours posted:Suggesting that it's all money laundering is probably taking it a bit far. You aren't allowed to take more than 50 thousand dollars out of China
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That's only partially true. http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1551510/how-elude-chinese-foreign-exchange-laws-take-your-pick-ways?page=all
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quote:Treasury secretary John Fraser appeared in Parliament today and did not mince his words: http://www.afr.com/real-estate/residential/sydney-unequivocally-in-housing-bubble-says-john-fraser-20150601-ghdv05 So how long has the treasury been telling the treasurer this?
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open24hours posted:That's only partially true. Those methods look awfully dodgy.
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I want the marriage bill to pass, but I'm also always prepared to be badly disappointed by Australia.
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SynthOrange posted:I want the marriage bill to pass, but I'm also always prepared to be badly disappointed by Australia. You will always be badly disappointed by Australia.
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I'm optimistic about Australia. Specifically Brisbane.
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Some people say the glass of piss is half empty, I say it is half full.
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Anidav posted:Some people say the glass of piss is half empty, I say it is half full. No the piss glass is empty cause everyone keeps drinking from it.
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Anidav posted:I'm optimistic about Australia. Specifically Brisbane. I bet you were optimistic about Bitcoin, too. kingcom posted:No the piss glass is empty cause
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MysticalMachineGun posted:
The best way to launder money is to run it through legitimate profit making businesses. All the big banks have existing schemes that will hold your hand through the process. Depending on the volume of transaction, real estate is not as preferable because it's slow as you need to sell it to recover your money. Also someone's name will inevitably end up on the deed/register which is available for public viewing for a small fee which isn't the smartest thing to do if you're trying to hide money.
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kingcom posted:No the piss glass is empty cause everyone keeps drinking from it. It's a really big glass, and there's a lot of piss to go around
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SynthOrange posted:
what the gently caress is that the reading of the marriage equality bill?
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Mithranderp posted:what the gently caress you got it in one 
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Well, at least now I don't have to worry about the LNP taking credit for something good happening under them.
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God, Australia is poo poo.
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Tony Abbott is ruling his party with an iron fist.
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What a pack of brattish, spoiled children
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Quickly do the second and third reading while they are away Bill
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So wait, does that mean that because they didn't show up, only labour can vote on it, or is it that there won't be enough people to pass it?
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Surely there has to be shenanigans they can pull in these instances. Not that they would, but what is the limit when the government doesn't show up to the chamber?
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Isn't it doomed anyway if Tony doesn't support it? (idk how these things work)
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The quorum is 30 for the HoR
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Jumpingmanjim posted:The quorum is 30 for the HoR Thanks Mr. Underwood.
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Cartoon posted:We are number 1! Thanks to our efforts, other countries north of us are getting on the turn back the boats wagon. Soon we won't be number one and we can stop buying lovely Vietnamese fishing boats to push people to possible death at sea. Of course, the end goal here must be some sort of Kevin Costners Water World. Right? Jumpingmanjim posted:The quorum is 30 for the HoR So they have a quorum but because Labor is poo poo it wouldn't pass? Noice.
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This is just the first reading, they're not voting on it yet.bowmore posted:Isn't it doomed anyway if Tony doesn't support it? It's doomed without at least a Liberal conscience vote. I think there's actually a majority within Labor that support SSM, but I can't see it passing (under a Coalition government) without both a Liberal conscience vote and a Labor binding vote. Under a hypothetical Labor government it might be possible to get away with conscience votes on both sides.
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