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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? I assume about 90% of their members joined so they could get a little card saying they were in the sex party. 
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Yeah I joined the Tobacco and Gunpowder Party. It's a party for consenting adults who like to smoke the odd rollie and admire the craftsmanship of antique firearms. Nothing to do with any industry.
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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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Better than the 9-9-9 plan I guess.
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They're also completely deluded. People might be willing to accept that kind of thing if it's building towards something else, like the neo-liberal reforms of the 80s, but this wasn't promising a new world and a new way of living, it was just 'yeah well we've gotta tighten our belts, y'know'.
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Complacency about Christmas decorations on public buses is the reason we have school chaplains.
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Les Affaires posted:"Ah, well thank you for that appropriate gesture, now we, the labor party, will get on with the normal business of
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Well she does make one good point but it's kind of buried. quote:Doctors can be as crazy, unwise, mistaken and misguided as anyone. open24hours fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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I'm so outraged I might vote for the ALP.
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There's a thing on the Guardian blog about it. quote:The Greens have secured two amendments:
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EXAKT Science posted:Yeah, like, do you really want to Aus Greens to end up like the US Greens, i.e. a useless fringe party full of loons driven by ideological purity over practicality? It's this kind of thinking that got us the Labor party.
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If they'd estimated it correctly they would been called Labor shills and Abbott would have got the wrong estimates he wanted from someone else.
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I saw more skinheads when I lived in New Zealand than I see here.
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There goes whatever pathetic legacy the Rudd/Gillard government had left.
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freebooter posted:Nothing in the Constitution but the High Court has ruled that we have an implied right to freedom of speech based on the norms of the countries our constitution is based on, which has always struck me as a hilarious Australian "she'll be right" attitude towards a fundamental human freedom. People in this thread aren't so different from the masses they claim to hate. The ability for the government to punish deviants is much, much, more important than any right. After all, if you don't rock the boat you won't need them anyway.
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Time to start a start-up. Looking forward to trading while insolvent.
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Isn't it just that they're desperate for cash, and can't afford to restrict production?
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It adds crunch, which is vital.
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quote:http://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-advertiser/20151209/281900182145566/TextView  He's not doing a very good job of convincing me he doesn't want some apocalyptic showdown between good and evil.
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Even Newman wouldn't consider a fence a replacement for mental health services.
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That's well over ten times the GDP of Nauru. Could have lifted an entire nation out of poverty.
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I bet if you looked hard enough you could find politicians investing in and profiting from it. A fun project for an investigative journalist.
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Can you get vaccinated against chicken pox? [EDIT: You can. Bloody spoiled kids these days they should have to suffer like I did.]
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I see him more as a kind of Sarah Palin figure. Traveling around giving boring speeches, making jokes that only make sense if you have a very specific world view, and raking in the cash.
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More Santorum than Trump.
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Give the money to your mum or whatever if you're worried.
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They're still going ahead with the halal-free BBQ though.
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Seems inevitable. You don't want to be paying professors, or even lecturers, to do that crap if you don't have to.
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I heard of someone doing a data mining project who paid a guy in India like one cent per photo to go through thousands of them tagging things. I mean I know it's efficient or whatever, but goddamn. Union needs to get onto it before we're all out of a job.
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I'd really better get onto starting that market research firm.
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There are the novelties on Sportsbet. I won like $80 betting on the pope a few years ago.
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Cross posting from USPol because You have to admit Trump is very good at getting people who hate him to pay for his advertising.
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Laserface posted:In Tokyo, those 'all you can eat/drink for 2hrs' places wont let you in if you're australian. I dont blame them, because Im sure theres a reason, but it would be nice if my passport somehow identified me as 'not a racist' so that I could enjoy something. I've been to those and I've never even been asked where I'm from.
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No roundeyes. If Australians are banned from any of those places it's almost certainly because they're loud and they drink too much rather than because they're racist. There are about a million of them in Tokyo though so it shouldn't be hard to find one that will let you in. open24hours fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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Recoome posted:holy poo poo, canberra is so tiny why do they need light rail. I was staying in Manuka and I'd walk to places like Civic and ANU because it's so flat and easy to walk. I too enjoy walking an hour to work along the side of a freeway. Most people live further out than Manuka.
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While we're on light rail chat, they should have done it deep underground. I don't care if it costs ten billion, do it right the first time.
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We're moving underground one way or another, might as well get a head start.
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EXAKT Science posted:I was just chatting with my coworkers about how racist Australia is compared to the US, and brought up the refugee camps. One of them literally said "at least they have a place to stay." You know the US has its own network of migrant detention centres, right?
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As if putting them up wasn't bad enough, now they're profiting from it. quote:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-14/minions-themed-bus-wins-sydney%27s-annual-christmas-decoration/7026126 open24hours fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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