gay picnic defence posted:

Wow. Just goes to show you should do a bit of research before buying shares. are almost exclusively a means of redistributing wealth from the middle class to the ultra rich.

Birb Katter posted:

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, we should drag these people out of bed in the middle of the night and shoot them dead in the street

GoldStandardConure posted:

The Ironic War Criminal tactic.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Funnily enough I can't find any record of him talking about FGM previously.

Laserface posted:

I dont approach women because Im in a relationship.

Theres numerous examples of the roles being reversed and no one batting an eye.

Laserface posted:

if his comments were off camera, would this still be the same problem?

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

3. Men and women have broadly different methods of romantically propositioning the opposite sex.

Recoome posted:

What do you do with nuclear waste?

Cleretic posted:

As I recall, Ludlam went over the reasons the Greens aren't pro-nuclear last year, and it was something along the lines of 'it's better than what we do have now, but it's not better than what we could have now'.

Birb Katter posted:

Anidav posted:

Being above the law sounds fun.

Zenithe posted:

My recollection is that it was like a wasp sting that lasts longer. Bluebottles wasn't that bad.

SynthOrange posted:

Think of the people running our energy industries right now and now think about them running nuclear.

EXAKT Science posted:

Hamburgers are sandwiches you loving troglodyte

EXAKT Science posted:

Eat the rich

Mad Katter posted:

Okonomiyaki sauce and kewpie mayonnaise is amazing good on a sausage in bread.

You'll feel like the fattest pig afterwards though.

Graic Gabtar posted:

I didn't say it was! A vegetarian pizza usually has the best imaginative ingredients not stodgy or by the numbers.

Ham just makes it awesome.

It's like going to Gopal's on Swanston St in Melbourne and being able to take in a nicely cooked eye fillet.

You Am I posted:

Auspol is an rear end sandwich

Cartoon posted:

rear end - A kind of four legged beast. Jesus' mum rode one apparently.
Arse - The bit where the poo comes out. The bit we rode on Jesus' mum.

Let's at least pretend we aren't in the US already.

Recoome posted:

*puts hand across heart* I pledge allegiance to the Flag of Australia, and to the Commonwealth for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

We the People decide how we spell things here, champ

Anidav posted:

Slow News Day.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Simplest answer, kill sports

Guardian Au posted:

TPP trade deal will expand Australia's economy by less than 1%, World Bank reveals
Government continues to trumpet Trans-Pacific Partnership’s ‘enormous benefits’ despite analysis showing Australia’s growth will be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries in the deal

The federal government maintains the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will deliver “enormous benefits”, despite World Bank analysis showing Australia’s economy will grow by less than 1% as a result of the deal.

Australia’s increased growth is projected to be worse than 11 of the other 12 countries that signed the deal last year, according to the report on the global implications of the deal. Only the US fares worse.

By 2030, Australia’s gross domestic product could increase by just 0.7% as a result of the historic trade agreement. By contrast, Vietnam’s GDP could rise by 10%, and Malaysia’s by 8%, the World Bank finds.

The analysis concedes that the impact for developed nations like Australia and the US will be “modest” because “existing barriers to their trade ... are already low for the most traded commodities”.

“If ratified by all, the agreement could raise GDP in member countries by an average of 1.1% by 2030. It could also increase member countries’ trade by 11% by 2030, and represent a boost to regional trade growth,” the analysis said.

The trade minister, Andrew Robb, has defended the agreement, which has been described as one of the largest and most diverse trade deals in history.

“The historic Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will deliver enormous benefits to Australia by enhancing our competitiveness, and promoting job creation, growth and higher living standards,” a spokeswoman for Robb told Guardian Australia.

“As well as slashing tariff barriers, it will drive Australia’s integration in the fast-growing Asia Pacific, and improve access to regional value chains by establishing one set of trading rules across 12 countries.

“The World Bank report demonstrates that all 12 TPP member countries – representing around 40% of global GDP – will experience economic growth and increased exports under the agreement.”

The Greens spokesman for trade, Peter Whish-Wilson, said the World Bank report was “evidence that the highly politicised TPP agreement will not deliver anything like the government’s overhyped spin”.

“Its economic impact will be negligible,” he said. “This latest World Bank analysis simply backs up all the evidence that has previously been presented regarding the lack of benefits to Australia.

“Andrew Robb has his head in the sand and no amount of credible evidence presented is going to shift him from his spin.”

Whish-Wilson argued the cost of controversial clauses which allowed multinational corporations to sue governments if they thought domestic laws harmed their investments had not been taken into account by the government.

The government is “in total denial about the future costs to Australia of Trojan horse investor-state dispute settlement provisions,” Whish-Wilson said.

Labor has vowed to examine the agreement.

“The trans-Pacific partnership is a major agreement involving some of Australia’s most important trading partners. Labor supports trade negotiations that promote growth and create jobs,” Labor’s acting spokesman on trade, Jim Chalmers, told Guardian Australia.

“The World Bank also notes that the agreement could be an important counterweight to the post-GFC global trade slowdown. Analysis by the World Bank and others will be considered by Labor as we consider the agreement.”

The 6,000-page deal was put online in October, but had previously been criticised for its secrecy. The wide-ranging deal includes changes to tariffs, drug patents and intellectual property.

The 12 countries to sign the deal are: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, US and Vietnam.

Global economic giant China was excluded from the deal, as was South Korea.

Anidav posted:

US uses post WW2 cultural imperialism to gently caress over Asian nations + Australia.

freebooter posted:

In order to institute this we would actually have to be letting them into the country.

Well actually I guess we wouldn't, but confiscating valuables while throwing people in camps is probably too Nazi Germany at this stage. Watch out for it in 2017 after Malcolm's landslide election victory and sweeping mandate!

freebooter posted:

The clause about seeking asylum in the first country you get to is something clung to by Australian right-wingers who are furious that asylum seekers don't stay put in Pakistan or Indonesia or whatever lovely poverty-stricken hellhole they end up in. If Australia bordered Afghanistan or Sri Lanka and we really were the first country many refugees arrived in, somehow I don't think you'd hear about it so much. It's a legitimate-sounding front (much like "concern for your safety at sea") to mask the base desire; it's not the founding doctrine of the convention.

So to return to the current situation: do you really think that it's the best situation for any of the three parties involved, including Germany, for millions of refugees to be permanently settled in Greece? And bear in mind that economic considerations aside, Germany has eight times the population of Greece.

Amethyst posted:

You may remember a long while back I posted this article about the private equity firm who pumped and dumped dick smith's profit prospectus to make a fortune from naive investors: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/14/one-of-the-brains-behind-the-dick-smith-windfall-just-got-appointed-to-the-reserve-bank/

Well, the guy behnind that heist has just been appointed to the Reserve Bank. Plutocracy is cool

https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/14/one-of-the-brains-behind-the-dick-smith-windfall-just-got-appointed-to-the-reserve-bank/

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Counterpoint: nothing ever changes and Anime David will probably die alone with his hentais

Recoome posted:

I have a job and I work in Brisbane, AMA

Orkin Mang posted:

my torso hurts

Birb Katter posted:

There is a lot of piss taken in here. Anidav is doing fine, he's just in the transition phase of moving rental places which is always poo poo. Orkin is my sex slave and anything I say to him he deserves. Brown isn't even a colour so Blitzkrieg Of Colour is a lie. Loads of us know each other irl at least semi professionally or at least well enough from various threads and chatrooms that we're OK with taking the piss out of each other. The only person we really hate is willus and neither he or his chin read this thread so it doesn't matter.

Laserface posted:

so a factual retelling of the settlement of Australia is banned?

SynthOrange posted:

He had a tv show?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

There's a huge tennis match-fixing scandal, which is the most interesting that has ever happened in the sport.