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Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Laserface posted:

If someone is a oval office (like you) and theyre not being being paid by your employer, why is it any of your employers business?

Don't use gendered slurs.

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Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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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.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Lid posted:

Abbott is P I S S E D


He was always going to go out screaming rather than quietly.

I think the second funniest thing Abbott ever said was that the adults are back in charge.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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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.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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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.

Yay.

What was the student startup payment? They didn't have that when I worked for C'link.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Spudd posted:

Hey, did Australia melt away today?

If not, why not?

I'm in an air conditioned library at the moment, but it wasn't fun getting here. Not looking forward to home time.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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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.

I got a mention in Parliament today (not by name) so I'm in Hansard now.

Maybe one day your words will molder in the basement of the University of Newcastle Auchmuty library!

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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quote:

A MUSLIM family from the Upper Hunter has been the subject of threats and online abuse after a far-right anti-Islamic social media page posted clandestine photos of them outside of their home.

The post was made late in November on a page dedicated to anti-Islamic abuse. It shows a number of photos of men of Muslim appearance exiting an identifiable home in the Upper Hunter.

It was accompanied with the caption “Taken Just now in Singleton NSW. Not wanted and not welcome. Put your daughters inside.”

A number of the comments include threats and abuse, one suggesting people should “burn there (sic) house down” and “throw bacon all over there (sic) front yard”.

It is not clear whether the family is aware of the abuse, and the Newcastle Herald has chosen not to identify the social media page containing the posts.

The Herald spoke to one of the site administrators online but, despite posting the identities of other people, they refused to disclose the names of the four people that supposedly run the page.

They claimed to know the identities of the people in the pictures, and said the intention was to “expose” them “to make people aware of what is going on around them” and to circumvent the “left-wing government a left-wing media that continue to lie and subvert the truth”. The page administrator likened Islamic people to Nazis and paedophiles.

Hunter Valley Local Area Command Chief Inspector Guy Guiana said the posts were “just rubbish”. He said any online posts that incited violence against others meant “the people putting the posts on and the page administrator can be held to account.”

He said the people who ran the page were “not helpful”, “very ill-informed” and “not that brave”.
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“They won’t identify themselves because they’re not that brave and they know by putting this sort of stuff up they’re leaving themselves liable if someone over steps the line and makes threats,” he said.

Can we just skip the 'genocide' phase and go straight to 'being occupied by a foreign power until we learn to stop being dipshits'?

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Negligent posted:

Someone post first dog i feel empty without all those words

You're not empty because of the lack of words, you're empty because you're a worthless, soulless husk of a so-called human being.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Laserface posted:

a bloo bloo bloo you dont have the same opinion as me.

Still salty because I told you not to use gendered insults? You'll get over it around the time your nuts drop.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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This is weird. I stopped giving a gently caress about Howard when he got voted out, but I still want to punch Abbott.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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SynthOrange posted:

The worst PM of all time.

I can just hear all the historians at my Uni saying poo poo like "ACTUALLY THE WORST PM WAS NIGEL GRINCHGIBBONS, ABBOTT IS ONLY THE SECOND WORST". But really. It's Abbott.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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QUACKTASTIC posted:

Evil and dumb gives us Iraq

Tony Blair isn't considered dumb and he still sold Britain on Iraq. There was obviously a lot going on there and the invasion was only a matter of time.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Zenithe posted:

Yeah, can we not make fun of genetic diseases thanks. The gently caress Auspol.



My wife has the exact same illness and she doesn't look like the Cookie Monster. The difference is, she sought treatment as soon as she noticed symptoms. Monckton brought it on himself.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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It helps if you're a complete loving idiot which, as chance would have it, Shorten is.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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If global warming then why intense storm cell with massive damaging winds

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Cleretic posted:

And I'd guess the only people who would actually support Tony are the type to be writing letters, anyway.

With typewriters. On Basildon Bond.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Guess the writer, no reading the spoiler until you guess.

IF you want to understand why the liberal, democratic Western world is losing ground to the ideology of Islamic extremists look no further than the weak-kneed responses of the NSW and federal governments to a convicted criminal who refuses to obey the directions of its court officers.

In NSW an accused person must stand to hear the charge and respond with a guilty or not guilty plea, and it is protocol to stand when a judge enters or leaves but for more than a year now Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah al-Ahmadzai, 25, has refused to stand in court before at least four judges claiming that he is “not at the behest of any authority other than Islam”.

He has also refused directions to kneel during a routine security process when prison officers enter his cell at NSW’s Supermax prison facility. The failure of the NSW government to take decisive action demonstrates the weakness endemic to Western nations that have pandered to extremist members of one religious minority — Islam — despite assurances from many self-appointed Islamic community leaders that there is nothing in Islam that prevents its followers from honouring the laws of their host nations.

From Sweden to Australia, apologists for Islam have capitulated to a nauseating political correctness which has seen Christian-based culture demeaned and imagined Islamic sensitivities embraced.

Merry Christmas — about as inoffensive a greeting as it can get — is shunned and replaced by the saccharine Happy Holidays.

At schools, Easter Bonnet parades for children are banned because some toddler might want to know what Easter is, if he or she can get over their fascination with funny hats.

In Sydney, students at Christian schools are regularly bussed to mosques so they can “learn” about Islam but there is no two-way traffic. Islamic students are forbidden to study the Bible or learn about Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism.

And this is what the West is doing to its own children. This doesn’t address the Islamist propaganda being pumped out by extremist imams and mullahs pimping for IS and other death cults.

It took this month’s Paris shootings and bombings to get the French and Belgian governments to react to a problem which they have been aware of for years.

That both European capitals have no-go areas has never been kept secret but no action was ever taken to enforce the laws of either France or Belgium in their Muslim-dominated bainlieues until the Paris riots of 2005, when nearly 9000 cars were burnt over a 20-day period.

Despite tougher laws requiring immigrants seeking residency permits or citizenship to learn French and integrate, with a crackdown on fraudulent marriage, anti-racism groups claimed that greater scrutiny of immigrants would only create more racism.

France’s failure to stand up for its own culture and ensure that immigrants assimilate is reflected in a recent ICM poll which reported that 16 per cent of French citizens have a positive view of Islamic State, rising to 27 per cent among 18-24 year olds.

As Toby Young noted in The Spectator magazine: “That is more than a quarter of all French 18-24 year olds who think it’s just fine to behead aid workers, throw homosexuals off buildings and sexually enslave 12-year-old girls.”

Australian governments, which have emphasised multiculturalism over multiracialism have ensured our society will be as fragmented, with some cultures refusing to assimilate and actively encouraging young people to ­ignore Australian laws.

The case of the convicted criminal al-Ahmadzai is a glaring example of the failure of the state to administer the law equally.

Instead of treating his refusal to obey the law within our courts and the regulations that govern our prisons as acts of contempt that should have been immediately punished, the NSW government, through Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton and the prison system via Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin, has proceeded down the same policy path which has so demonstratively failed European nations.

Al-Ahmadzai began his standing boycott before District Court Judge Ian McClintock in May last year, when he sat as he pleaded guilty to threatening to “slit” the throat and crack the neck of an ASIO officer.

Last November 26 he refused to stand to be arraigned in front of Judge Colefax for aggravated break and enter. And at his District Court trial on that charge in September he again refused to stand, this time for Judge Jane Culver.

It is a year since Judge Colefax referred al-Ahmadzai’s actions to the Attorney-General for investigation for a possible charge of contempt but the state showed its weakness and has taken no action.

Crown Prosecutor Craig Everson said the Attorney-General determined to take no action beyond that of the referral for possible action.

Ms Upton denies that, saying she had asked her legal advisers for “options” on how to deal with al-Ahmadzai and her spokesman later said it was the Solicitor-General, and not the Attorney-General, who had decided that there were no grounds for contempt proceedings.

This is buck-passing of the most egregious sort. It cedes power to criminals.

Avoiding confrontation to shield the extremist minority has only one outcome — the monstrous Paris option.

Show some spine and stand up for our own laws.


Piers Fatterman

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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This is buck-passing of the most egregious sort. It cedes power to criminals.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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There hasn't been a helicopter meme on facebook for weeks!

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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SynthOrange posted:

Review headed by broadcaster Ray Martin and former SBS executive Shaun Brown effectively dismisses widespread criticism from Coalition MPs over the show’s political balance.

WELL THAT WAS A GOOD USE OF MONEY.

I want some witches burned over a pyre, dammit!

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Solemn Sloth posted:

"The security breach was caused by human error"

Someone's going to need retraining on whether to hit the button labelled "let the sword wielding goon into the station" or the one labelled "don't let the sword wielding goon into the station"

Maybe not retraining per se, I'm sure the buttons are right next to each other and it could've been an accident.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-15/martin-place-siege-what-we-do-and-do-not-know/7021524

quote:

It has been exactly one year since Man Haron Monis :devil:unleashed hell:devil: in Sydney's Martin Place and yet many questions about the siege remain unanswered.

Reminder that two people were killed.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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lol

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Amethyst, do you think you could at least change your shitted pants before continuing to post? You're starting to ming a bit.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Amethyst posted:

Do you think you could post a single original thought, ever? Even a single thing? Because the only thing I've ever seen you do is agree with the majority of posters in this thread, and occasionally interject to more closely align yourself with them. You're a pathetic little hanger on, basically.

Dude, who started this whole derail? I'm a trendsetter.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Anidav posted:

And it'll be a softball.

The budget or the Leigh Sales interview?

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Tirade posted:

DV and road tolls and non-terrorist sieges have a higher body count than racially-motivated violence in Australia so the thread should stop saying Australia has a racism problem.

Wait that's dumb because ideology matters beyond mortality rates.

loving hell auspol.

If only there was another indicator of racism besides racially-motivated violence.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Birb Katter posted:

Monis was a terrorist in the same way Bryant was a terrorist. It's just that Monis had many more years of the media screaming about Daesh and was brown.

No! gently caress you! Die in a fire.


(sorry, I'll be playing the part of Amethyst while he serves out his probation)

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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That Leak article is some amazing qq. "Police? I wish I only had to deal with police, now I have to deal with academics calling me names and that's 10000000% worse!"

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Didn't people on twitter post a bunch of Leak cartoons that were inarguably racist? I mean it's a bit rich to say you were called out for the wrong reason when you've got a pattern of doing. Boy who cried something-something.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Gorilla Salad posted:

I've noticed for years that all the crappy jobs I did when I was young/at uni now seem to be staffed mainly by people in their forties and fifties.

Servos, restaurants and retail are all filled with people who discovered there simply aren't jobs going anymore. All the traditional options are getting thinner on the ground unless you're in a professional career and, even then, you better hope it's not one about to be outsourced.

So many still have that old mindset of hard work gets you there, be loyal to the company and they'll do right by you - all that "meat and veg morality" that just gets you nowhere anymore.

One day I hope they all wake the hell up and stop voting LNP :(

I've voted Labor and I've voted Dems, but you have my assurance I've never voted LNP.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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"Cordon Bleu cooking for convicted criminals outrage" is a staple of the Mail in Britain.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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Merry Christmas, Auspol! Show you care for the less fortunate by giving a present to an asylum seeker. The best part is, it'll be sent back to you unopened so it won't cost you anything except postage! I'm sending them a copy of Bloodborne.

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Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
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If the foodchat doesn't shift to byob I'm going to find a Piers Akerman article and post it. AND a Miranda Devine.

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