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Pred1ct posted:Kevin Andrews, our not long gone defence minister has belched out some garbage on The Spectator.
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Starshark posted:Can we just skip the 'genocide' phase and go straight to 'being occupied by a foreign power until we learn to stop being dipshits'? This whole mess started because Australia was occupied by a foreign power.
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Birb Katter posted:13.5% swing against Libs at North Sydney by-election. Labor didn't even run a candidate. Solemn Sloth posted:That probably helped with the swing Yup. The member before Hockey was Ted Mack, who was a popular local independent and prominently backed the independent candidate who came in second (Stephen Ruff). It's literally never been won by Labor, and the drop in the Liberal primary vote is as much to do with there being a more palatable alternative as anything else.
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TheIllestVillain posted:fruit does not belong in chocolate chocolate coated cranberries say you're wrong
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SynthOrange posted:Ambassador Joe Hockey ahahaha I support moving Joe Hockey as far away from Australia as possible.
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EXAKT Science posted:So Tones is the Aussie answer to Trump? Trump has a bully's charisma and showmanship, whereas Abbott generally looked pretty awkward unless he was in full attack mode. Their personal histories have basically no similarities either. I guess they both like talking about how attractive their daughters are?
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If only Australia had an eccentric billionaire who spent shitloads of his own money to get into politics running as an outsider candidate... But sadly we don't, so Abbott is clearly the most Trump-like figure we have.
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EXAKT Science posted:Who's the Kermit-looking dude? Greg Hunt, which is surprisingly not rhyming slang for "oval office". He literally wrote a thesis on the implementation of an emissions trading scheme, so some people considered it a bit hypocritical that he was the environment minister for a government that tore down the ETS. 
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Hahaha how have I never seen this one before. It's from mid-2011, which might explain it. I found it on his twitter account when I was looking for how he'd previously caricatured Hunt.
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open24hours posted:You have to admit Trump is very good at getting people who hate him to pay for his advertising. On some level the networks love him because viewership for the debates are at record highs. Laserface posted:Im not following the US election stuff at all. is it actually looking like Trump is going to be elected? surely they arent that stupid? It's not like electing Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Bush or literally anybody on that list would be smart.
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thatbastardken posted:I wanna know how it feels to spend US $2.7m and get literally nothing. Graham's a Khorne Bloodthirster, he is just happy to tell people how awesome war is.
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hooman posted:Ah yes, the very large and much coveted muslim vote at a whopping 2.2% of Australians. Nah mate, it's about 20%.
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This is a good way to view Leak's work.gay picnic defence posted:Imagine the poll bounce when Trump starts throwing a bit more money at advertising. He doesn't need to. The far more interesting and concerning thing is that he's actually spending money on a ground game; if he was just doing this as a book selling / trolling he wouldn't need to bother with that.
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adamantium|wang posted:The LNP executive has blocked Ian MacFarlane's defection to the National Party. Hahahaha, suck poo poo.
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EXAKT Science posted:Would someone please explain the process of switching party allegiance and also who Ian MacFarlane is? The Coalition is a formal agreement between two parties: the Liberals and the Nationals. At the Federal level the Liberals are by far the dominant party, but they make certain concessions to the Nationals because they need their votes; this includes things like the Deputy PM being the head of the Nats. A certain number of ministries go to the Nats too. When Turnbull took over he dropped Macfarlane from the ministry. Macfarlane wasn't a particularly terrible minister (and actually supported Turnbull in the leadership change), but he was seen as being a bit too much of the Howard-era old guard, and Turnbull wanted some fresh faces. Macfarlane decided to defect to the Nats (possibly with some accomplices), which would increase their numbers to the point where they'd be allocated another ministry. Naturally he would get that ministry. Except the whole thing blew up in his face because people don't like you gaming the system for your own end, especially when you do it so openly.
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I'm not sure if he left the Libs or just got approval (from his local branch) to do so. He's going to retire or be forced to though.
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It's going to be funny when a Macfarlane retires, and a Nat gets preselected, forcing a reshuffle anyway.
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He's also a pretty decent painter, but you wouldn't know it from his editorial cartoon work.
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MLP:FiM is out at 1pm today, so we get to see exactly how deep in the toilet the budget is. it's past the u-bend
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The Guardian posted:Here are your key points, via my colleague Lenore Taylor.
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Anidav posted:Lmao the budget drops a few more billion and all they can do is CRACKDOWN ON WELFARE MATE. It's just extending a planned crackdown too. quote:The new cuts include $650m over four years through changes to bulk-billing incentives. The government says it will remove incentives for pathology services and reduce the incentive for MRI services. It says it will align incentives for diagnostic imaging services to the ones that apply to GP services, with incentives continuing to apply for patients with concession cards and children under 16.
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Birdstrike posted:lol myefo "let's improve integrity measures," cuts back enforcement spending It really feels like they are just hoping the economic situation improves rather than actually doing anything about it. Again.
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The China FTA is costing us 4.2B in lost tariffs, but this will be offset by the ??? in additional revenue.
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Amethyst posted:Most hostage takers are terrorists unless they're trying to rob a bank or whatever. If you think terrorism has to have a political element to it, no.
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Amethyst posted:Uh that's what I was saying. Duh. Yeah, and "most hostage situations are terrorism, assuming you ignore most hostage situations" seemed like a pretty loving dumb thing to say.
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Amethyst posted:The raw numbers argument again. Piss off with that dull poo poo. It's hardly a revelatory gotcha "Most hostage-taking terrorists are terrorists" is a glib, pointless tautology rather than an actual argument about whether and why he was a terrorist.
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Amethyst posted:lmfao. Good faith poo poo my man. "Most people who take hostages are terrorists, unless they aren't" is a dumb thing to say, because it's essentially a tautology but also because the weasel-word of 'most' suggests that hostage-taking is related to terrorism far more frequently than not, which is clearly not true in Australia. How should I engage with that in good faith?
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Recoome posted:I don't agree with the breeding part. The problems aren't racial, they are ideological. If, for example, one can breed with a Muslim woman and raise the children non-Muslim, then that is removing those potential Muslims from being born (as they would be if the male were Muslim), while creating more non-Muslims. If the partner and children are treated well and educated in both Arabic and Western culture, they can further intermingle and more easily convert other Muslims, while making reproduction with western males look more appealing to other Muslim women. (How could it not be more appealing than marrying an oppressive Muslim male?) Take their women, and you take their reproductive capacity. Mohammed understood this, as do the Muslim invaders of Europe... Don't you have a doco to work on Andrew?
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There's a budget to go before the election.
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The review of QandA is in. Some of the findings
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MonoAus posted:How does the audience effect the content of the program? Sorry, specifically the (studio) audience who asks questions.
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meteor9 posted:What the crap is RTPDS Rio Tinto.
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MonoAus posted:Of course, duh. For some reason I understood it as television audience and was thinking it was some criticism of the content of tweets or something. They did have some comments on the tweets too. Sadly the recommendation wasn't "don't".
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Mr Chips posted:What's the relationship between the two? If you sort the AFR list by income, Rio Tinto Ltd is just below RTPDS, and Rio Tinto Ltd is supposed to have paid 3.05B tax on 10.705B income. RTPDS' ABN is 21099346899, but I don't have access to the paid ASIC results. E: And a director's report from 2013. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:So has NSW addressed the issue of insurance when they legalised Uber? Or just going to wait until the first big crash and let the driver and his insurance company fight it out in court? Vaguely related: we bought car insurance yesterday and there was a "are you using the vehicle for ridesharing?" option in the form.
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gay picnic defence posted:Is it legalised over there now? I hadn't heard. The taxi industry must be making GBS threads itself.
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The old "give us more money or we'll invite left-wing panelists onto our shows" racket.
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Solemn Sloth posted:I'm pretty happy that the liberals are going with a full throated defence of companies earning billions of dollars and paying zero tax. If we cut company tax then fewer companies would try and avoid it. It's simple economics mate.
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KennyTheFish posted:what happened in 1971? The two data points are 1972 and 1977, so possibly Medicare in 1975?
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