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Laserface posted:oh im sorry i forgot this is a saaaafe spaaace for loving dags who cant handle words on a screen they are voluntarily reading. If you have to bring women down to get your burns in, you're doing it wrong. You're not Negligent, strive to be a better poster.
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BCR posted:*Just in case you don't know* *nods approvingly*
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Lid posted:Abbott is P I S S E D I think the second funniest thing Abbott ever said was that the adults are back in charge.
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fairfax does a multimedia extravaganza, it would be most unlike toned abs to take it sitting down.
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Starshark posted:I think the second funniest thing Abbott ever said was that the adults are back in charge. Was the funniest "Aaaah, umm, ahh"?
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Dec 1, 2015 08:38
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Cleretic posted:Was the funniest "Aaaah, umm, ahh"? It's a personal thing so I don't expect you to agree with me, but it's when he called carbon dioxide, among other things, a weightless substance. e: JOHN LAWS: And imagine the administration costs of doing that? What’s the point of it if you take it away with one hand and give it back with the other? TONY ABBOTT: Exactly right. Even if they were trying to give it all back to you, there would still be the deadweight costs, all the extra bureaucrats. See, one of the things that people haven’t quite twigged to is that carbon dioxide is invisible, it’s weightless and it’s odourless. How are we going to police these emissions… JOHN LAWS: I don’t know. TONYABBOTT: …I mean, how are we going to police these emissions? This carbon cop is going to be an extraordinarily intrusive instrumentality, running around trying to make sure that all these businesses aren’t actually emitting given that you can’t actually see, smell or touch what’s going on. JOHN LAWS: Well, I just don’t know how it can be measured. TONY ABBOTT: Well, it can be measured but it’s a very difficult process.
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I know you've all been hanging out for it so here are a couple of brand new episodes of the Conez and Doh show where we discuss all sorts of hot button issues like: - driverless cars - the shaping of masculinity, from outward bound treks to care bear videos - virtual reality cyber prisons and exciting new pathways in torture and suffering - was Pacman a crack addict? did Donkey Kong unleash AIDS on the world? - How Nickleback could have stopped the Bataclan massacre and the disturbing commonalities between the belgian mastermind of the terror attacks and Hollywood Victim Charlie Sheen - Trump's authoritarianism vs 'P.C. fascism' - what kind of handicap does the Queen have - Weed, weed and weather - Doh gets reader mail on sensitive indigenous topics - Cecil Rhodes gets a chub-on and Stalin shows his sensitive side and much much more, loaded with the laughs and wisdom and bookended by some great original tunes Listen to it (also available on itunes for you Wozniak knob-slobberers)  https://soundcloud.com/user-456894491
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quote:She said the former prime minister was undone by his own performance as leader. 
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Labor are supporting a move to scrap the student startup payment for students on youth allowance and austudy. Instead, students will be forced to go into even more HECS-HELP debt, just so they can afford clothing, electricity, and textbooks. Yay.
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Mithranderp posted:Labor are supporting a move to scrap the student startup payment for students on youth allowance and austudy. Instead, students will be forced to go into even more HECS-HELP debt, just so they can afford clothing, electricity, and textbooks. What was the student startup payment? They didn't have that when I worked for C'link.
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:
I have to say I legitimately liked "On The Hill" a few weeks ago.
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Starshark posted:What was the student startup payment? They didn't have that when I worked for C'link. Isn't the start-up paying the twice yearly CL payments of approximately $1200 for people studying full time to help pay for books/incidental expenses related to your education? I'm on Aus-study now and every February and August there's a large bonus paid. It's always helped because it always seemed to coincide with some large expense that popped up. Are Labor proposing to put anything in its place or are they talking about just scrapping it outright? If Labor supports it, whats the soonest this change in policy could take effect? **edit** here it is: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/student-start-up-scholarship **edit 2** Centrelink has posted an article about the budget proposal to remove it: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/corporate/publications-and-resources/budget/1415/measures/young-people-and-students/17-000618 Except centrelink says it's been removed as of 1 January 2015... I'm sure I got the scholarship through 2015, does that mean that they just extended me a loan or has this not passed yet so the information that it will not be part of 2015 payments not up to date? Serrath fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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SynthOrange posted:Lmao black lung is making a comeback in qld. Lmao, we might have an epidemic of an incurable illness due to neglect of mining companies and some will probably die from it.
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Dec 1, 2015 09:23
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Serrath posted:Isn't the start-up paying the twice yearly CL payments of approximately $1200 for people studying full time to help pay for books/incidental expenses related to your education? I'm on Aus-study now and every February and August there's a large bonus paid. It's always helped because it always seemed to coincide with some large expense that popped up. It was $1025/semester (at least for me on youth allowance it was). It's probably a typo/old page (lol at LNP hubris) TBH since this cut has been on the cards since the first budget. So they probably want to start it as of semester 1, 2016. I'm also interested to see if they let students borrow more than $2000/y for it.
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Hey, did Australia melt away today? If not, why not?
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Spudd posted:Hey, did Australia melt away today? I'm in an air conditioned library at the moment, but it wasn't fun getting here. Not looking forward to home time.
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Dec 1, 2015 10:01
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I'm pretty sure anyone who was already on austudy had their existing startup scholarship payments grandfathered in rather than transferred to a loan system. Which means: fygm
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MC Eating Disorder posted:Wait I missed the hive mind consensus on the sex party, did we decide they are good for disagreeing with amethyst on abortion protestors or are they a libertarian party run by the sex industry? It's a group of people who need to represent themselves in the discourse, but it is a business lobby in a lot of respects, so take what they say with a grain of salt.
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SynthOrange posted:Lmao black lung is making a comeback in qld. And state departments have had the info about it for a while too
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The Medicare changes got cancelled till next year(?), and this morning the Minister was saying it would be totally going to the Senate today. I got a mention in Parliament today (not by name) so I'm in Hansard now.
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Dec 1, 2015 11:26
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Comstar posted:The Medicare changes got cancelled till next year(?), and this morning the Minister was saying it would be totally going to the Senate today. Maybe one day your words will molder in the basement of the University of Newcastle Auchmuty library!
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http://gu.com/p/4eke4 A good thing was accidentally done. quote:
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SynthOrange posted:Lmao black lung is making a comeback in qld. From 2013: http://www.qt.com.au/news/owen-jacques-apn-newsdeska-group-of-activist-docto/1882270/ posted:The Doctors for the Environment Australia report - The Health Factor: ignored by industry, overlooked by government - warns of health dangers stemming from coal and gas projects whether planned or already in action. The monitoring consisted of taking hundreds of thousands of chest X-rays to give workers the impression they were being monitored, then not bothering to have the X-rays examined.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:21
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Hmm who to believe doctors or coal companies
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DAAS Kapitalist posted:From 2013: Dear Australia: how? Way too many news stories I see featuring Australia feature astounding institutional incompetence. Is it your national sport? Is it malice? Is it amazing regulatory capture?
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i'm so glad it's malcolm turnbull and not noted climate denialist and coal fetishist toned abs talking for australia in paris
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Ian Winthorpe III posted:Conez and Doh show Your talents are best spent with more podcasting and less posting. That's really backhanded but I like your podcast dude.
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Metaconcert posted:Dear Australia: how? Institutional low-hanging fruit greed. With the backup excuse of "we followed the best practice of the time" 20 years later when they've destroyed enough evidence.
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http://www.smh.com.au/business/bank...127-gl9q2i.htmlquote:Treasurer Scott Morrison has put ordinary Australian workers on notice that they should no longer expect to receive an age pension from the government when they retire.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:20
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lmao
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So glad that politicians lifelong retirement payments will be removed as well.
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This is why states need to be able to raise their own taxes. [edit: "But the age pension should not be regarded as an entitlement for all, but rather a "welfare payment for those who do not have the ability to save enough to fund their own retirement", Mr Morrison said." TBH he kind of has a point. The aged pension hasn't been enough to live comfortably for a long time (if it ever was)]
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holy gently caress
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Never gets old that one.
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Merry Christmas Island. a classic. I've noticed that it's inside, not outside, someone's house. we all knew this as gen x and Ys, we're never getting a pension. Age of entitlement and all that.
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BCR posted:*Just in case you don't know* To add to this, lots of people at my work didn't realise that salaries are to be paid at 25% above award (like casual) but you get sick leave and annual leave (unlike casual). That's for the general hospitality award at least. Big Willy Style fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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Kommando posted:Merry Christmas Island. a classic. What? No, that's definitely outside.
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