Birdstrike posted:

and yet still has more value than your combined posting history

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

What would you like to talk about?

ScreamingLlama posted:

Every auspol thread is like standing in a Greens echo chamber, listening to the endless echoes of Richard DiNatale/Sarah Hanson-Young worship and choking on pot smoke and patchouli vapour.

ScreamingLlama posted:

OK then, if you think breaking the law is completely acceptable, then why don't you just drug-traffick your way out of poverty OH WAIT DRUGS ARE BAD AREN'T THEY

thatfatkid posted:

Hahaha really? Comparing a self inflicted health issue to poverty? Wow, just wow...

Solemn Sloth posted:

imagine being a labor party shill so boring that not even the auspol thread buys you a custom avatar

Cartoon posted:

Last I checked this was supposed to be about Australian politics (as hideous as that is) and not about giving other posters poo poo.

Recoome posted:

REMOVE GREEN remove green
you are worst green. you are the green idiot you are the green smell. return to inner melbourne. to our brisbane cousins you may come our city. you may live in the zoo….ahahahaha ,melbourne we will never forgeve you. cetnik rascal gently caress but gently caress rear end in a top hat green stink melbourne sqhipere shqipare..left-wing genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead conhead..ahahahahahCONHEAD WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget cronulla .australia we kill the refugees , refugees return to your precious desert….hahahahaha idiot green and left-wing smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE GREEN FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. liberals+democrats+PUP+UPF=kill conheads…you will be deport/ harold holt alive in tasmania, holt making manifesto of liberals . fast rap holt tasmania. we are rich and have gold now hahahaha ha because of harold holt… you are ppoor stink greens… you live in a hovel hahahaha, you live in a yurt

harold holt alive numbr one #1 in tasmania ….gently caress the left-wing ,..FUCKk ashol greens no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur flag and party. Holt aliv and real strong wizard kill all the greens farm aminal with conervsative magic now we the liberals rule .ape of the zoo pm malcum turdntul fukc the great satan and lay egg this egg hatch and left-wing parti wa;s born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of pig. liberal greattst party

Vladimir Poutine posted:

For some reason I couldn't find a better version of this

Cartoon posted:

Perhaps to explain why Morrison is insane and this a good Labor policy>

Debt and Deficit are different things. At ~0% interest it is actually very sound for governments to borrow money. Maybe what the country should be asking Scotty is why he can't fund government debt more cheaply. That's definitely his job. Can't blame Labor for that. Debt can be used to make your government policies (long term) succeed.

Deficit is where you aren't bringing in as much as you are spending. Structural deficit is where you have made long term policy decisions that lock in the deficit for future years. This is what JWH did in spades. He took one off windfall revenue gains (and this is the cringeworthy part ->) with huge unprecedented long term revenue negative asset sales to cut taxes to the well off. The LNP have decided that this is clever economics And ala Britain, Greece, The USA have committed themselves to not only continue the tax cuts but to 'fix' the deficit by further (revenue negative) asset sales and savage cuts to everything. Neo-con government fundamentally questions the point to any government existing and sets about dismantling the bits that aren't directly lining the pockets of the wealthy.
Which would actually do what Negative Gearing was meant to achieve. Especially as the new houses would have to meet modern building codes and are much more likely to be redeveloped as medium density.

chyaroh posted:

It's more that there seems to be the assumption that anyone who may have a different opinion is automatically a scream fire and brimstone burn them at the stake hater. That's the attitude I take exception to. My theory, for want of a better term, is that like everyone else we have the right to put forward our opinion, one that hopefully makes our point without seeming hateful. Very difficult I know.

Lid posted:

"Correct. To look after them. And we need stolen generations.

"There are a whole heap of kids going before the courts now, or their families, mums going before the courts, and dads who are on top of the world with drugs or alcohol, and suddenly they go back into an environment where children are brought up in those circumstances,"

"Those children, for their own benefit, should be taken away.

AgentF posted:

What is the basis for the Greens' commitment to senate reform?

Birdstrike posted:

I swear Auspol gets dumber every month

A Saucy Bratwurst posted:

KingEup posted:

At some point you will get diminishing returns. I would be open to trialling a 12:30 lockout to test the hypothesis.

Birb Katter posted:

How about we make lockout laws from 3pm rather than 3am. When the suits can't get a beer after work the narrative will change.

gay picnic defence posted:

Clinton's been around Washington for so long that she's probably up to her eyeballs in some scandal just waiting to be exposed, and when that happens Trump will cruise to victory.

gay picnic defence posted:

Why do people always refer to her as 'Hillary' but all the male politicians by their surnames? People used to do it all the time with Gillard too.

Cartoon posted:

What the US is doing is lunacy. Us following is somehow even worse (What's more crazy than a lunatic? Kevin Andrews for starters). In Civ V sometimes your military adviser tells you that you should do what ever you can not piss off another nation because they could wipe you off the planet. We just got that advice and decided that denouncing the other nation was a great plan. Clown nation had it coming nothing of value was lost

EvilElmo posted:

SadisTech posted:

It's like a political party but with everything memorable sucked out of it, so it's just like a picture of a political party being tossed onto a table by someone who then wanders away with a blank expression. A+ performance art showing up the hollowness of Australian politics.

open24hours posted:

What helps you address the legislation the ALP has supported?

Amoeba102 posted:

I don't support the senate voting changes, but I still support the Greens.
I guess there are more important issues, and I can't expect a party to be an exact copy of my opinions all the time.

Frogmanv2 posted:

According to this handy dandy graph right here, a maximum of 6.

Trapezium Dave posted:

I haven't been following the double dissolution news, is there a reason why this is seriously an option? I didn't think we were at that stage of last resort yet.