Auspol: Not with a bang but with a whisper

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Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Tony Abbott ate a raw onion

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Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

ewe2 posted:

In other crybaby news, big business is trying on the kidnap excuse for tax avoidance, but it's part of a bigger picture, says Jeffrey Knapp in a crosspost from The Conversation:

You'd think for people worried about being kidnapped that they would avoid talking about it in public. Some bright spark might think that it's actually a good idea. Wikipedia has a list of famous kidnappings and it turns out of the 5 Australians that were kidnapped, 2 were children, 1 woman, 1 faked and 1 winner of the opera house lottery in 1960. You'd think a wealthy businessperson would get a mention :shrug:

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 06:35

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

So they are worried about some German serial ransomers setting up shop in Australia? As far as legislation for your political donors goes, this is some very selective reasoning.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 06:46

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Unimpressed posted:

So not only are we treating refugees worse than other countries are, it's costing us more.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/01/australian-immigration-detention-costs-double-that-of-us-and-europe-report

Who knew that keeping refugees locked up on a remote Dr Evil island would be expensive.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 12:00

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

The Peccadillo posted:

Definitely, especially with the PR about the run for UN human rights council, but we might be stopping having concentration camps

they are using the whole island as the camp :ssh:

it will be just as poo poo outside as it is inside.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 05:01

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

The Peccadillo posted:

No, a given island might be a hosed up place to live, but it is not prison camp.

This is exactly what they want to make you think.

Whatever facilities the camp provided will likely be gone, and they will be left to contend with the local residents (who like them even less than the guards). But at least they will be able to walk the couple thousand metres from one side of the island to the other!

It is just as poo poo, and the government is offloading whatever obligations they pretended to have in the first place. Wait until you hear from your reffo hating workmates about what a wonderful and humane gesture the government is making.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 05:29

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

The Peccadillo posted:

This is an insanely big loving change, I genuinely, genuinely don't understand the blase attitude all up in

I imagine it has something to do with a thread full of people keeping up to date on Australian politics. Don't forget this was a policy change masterminded by the Liberal Party and Tony Abbott. A politician with just enough intelligence to understand the word semiotics, and to occasionally use it in public interviews.

I somehow doubt that they have good intentions for these asylum seekers. The press release that emphasised an increase in police numbers, and having one liaison officer for every two asylum seekers. The extra surf life savers is the cherry on top because it certainly wouldn't look good for the politicians if asylum seekers wound up drowning themselves with freedom.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Did the Nauruan government make this policy change unilaterally?

The Nauru press release said that the Australian government's money train was the impetuous for this announcement.

Tokamak fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Oct 5, 2015

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 06:31

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Pred1ct posted:

They're still alive, and for all those that crowdfunded the Labor Herald they can claim the glory for top notch content such as this:

https://www.laborherald.com.au/education/media/video-games-discover-dastyari-asks/

Bill Shorten went to a Taylor Swift concert.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 13:59

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Halo14 posted:

Shorten demands Government help alleged Nauru rape victim seeking abortion

The Government must stop acting like "robots with no hearts" and allow a pregnant alleged rape victim to come to Australia for medical treatment, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says.
Lawyers acting for the 23-year-old Somali woman say her pregnancy was the result of a "horrific" sexual assault in July and she is trying to reach Australia to get an abortion.

But the government promised more medical referrals for asylum seekers on Nauru this week. How.. how could this be.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 07:07

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Execu-speak posted:

The kind of work they're doing isn't ever going to yield a perfect strike rate. Intelligence agencies work off of limited information and then make the best judgement they can based upon it. We don't live in a perfect world where it's as simple as, "Theres the bad guys, let's get em". To expect that is just unrealistic.

If that's means sometimes a large operation is run with a small return then so what? If that's one or two people off the street who posed a genuine threat of doing something horrible then to me it's worth it.

You're happy to criticise the counter terrorism work our agencies are doing now. But I bet if something major happened you'd be the first to jump up and down screaming about them not doing enough.

You'd get a better strike rate finding lefty political forums, and raiding user's homes. Out of 100 users, there's probably at least 10 with drugs. And who knows, maybe one of them was reading radical political ideology about saving sharks, or climate change, or something.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 11:44

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Unimpressed posted:

drat Jews killed the forums too!

mods knew

# ¿ Oct 9, 2015 03:47

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Pickled Tink posted:

Senate votes in favour of cashless welfare card trials with Labor backing
I am so glad all that change from within happened to meaningfully distinguish the ALP from the LNP.

Aged pension excluded, what a surprise!

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 11:36

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Mithranderp posted:

Uhhh

how will people pay their rent under this system? even if the local real estate agent has an eftpos facility, it'd require physically going in and paying your rent at the office. What if you don't have access to reliable transport? Unless your rent is <20% of your payment, in which case, the entire system is still needlessly invasive and punitive.

"minor implementation challenges"

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 13:29

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

tithin posted:

http://www.nbnco.com.au/learn-about-the-nbn/three-year-construction-plan.html?cid=vanity%3A3yearplan

NBN rollout plans have been updated apparently. Looks like I'm getting "HFC" in 1st half of 2017.

Whatever HFC is.

What a mess. If they are putting in (using existing) HFC, I don't even know why they are bothering with the NBN at all. Lets all pretend to look forward to another 30 years putting up with garbage Internet.

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Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Not surprising coming from a journalist who has a history of non-consensual entry.
Chris Kenny is piece of poo poo.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2015 00:36

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