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LibertyCat posted:They can demand sovereignty, insist that they never signed a treaty, and that the Australia Government has no claim - but if you can't pass your own laws , collect your own taxes and boot out everyone who isn't a "citizen" you're obviously not a Sovereign Nation. Recognizing the "Continuing Sovereignty of First Nations" (as NIRS announces each day) is ignoring reality. Actual sovereignty is a pipe dream. Your three tests of a sovereign nation (that you pulled out of the air) already happen though? LibertyCat posted:Let's be blunt; when the Europeans arrived, they were not greeted by a collection of civilized nations. Australia was inhabited by illiterate stone-age tribes that could never have defended their homeland from any settlement by other groups. I wish it hadn't involved bloodshed but I don't see any feasible way the original inhabitants could have kept ownership of the continent into the 1900s. Illiterate - wrong Stone-age - white man category Defended from settlement - happened, lots of white people were killed, but the boats kept coming with more white people. Kept ownership - if white people hadn't invaded You're talking about a group of peoples that has the least evidence of large-scale destructive wars, had solved the population crisis, invented sustainable living on a continent scale, and in Thursday Island formed a southern Constantinople of international trade. What did white man bring? Individualism as religion. Oh yeah and white man has slowly been losing since federation, genocide was so much easier when Australia was a colony.
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LibertyCat posted:As I said earlier I don't have a problem calling it an Invasion, although it'd have to be the easiest invasion on record. Uh it wasn't easy? And this is from the white man side too
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LibertyCat posted:Which invasions had a higher km^2 territory gained : aggressor death ratio? Lol the colonies almost fell apart multiple times and was only ever saved by more boats propping up the population until the zerg factor overcame incompetence. Also please look up the definition of genocide.
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The Peccadillo posted:gently caress 'im, no one's tryna fix his ideas, he came here and sucked and we told him he sucked I'm so happy for you that you've found somewhere you feel validated, but keep the circlejerk to your side of the computer screen. http://act.350.org/signup/snap-action-qld-its-time-put-coral-ahead-coal/ This is the info for the snap action tomorrow morning to protest the decision to burn off the reef. 9:15-10am outside parliament in Brisbane. Molotovs to be in the coral reef/finding nemo design style
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/your-brisbane/the-tivoli-saved-by-lovers-of-live-music-20160405-gnyuw9.html The tivoli survives the threat of development. Sold for ~9mil and will stay open as a performance/event venue
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EvilElmo posted:I really like the alp Ok so first of all LC is right, qld best state and the north is the best. All you southern fuckers can gently caress up about your jealousy wank. And you only have to look at one thing and everything else falls into place: donations. Alp looks after who can pay them, that's the start and the end of the whole argument. The adani mine is going to kill a zillion tourism/hospitality jobs. Due to demarcation agreements the union responsible for these workers(united voice) can't campaign against the mine because it's on AWU turf. They (literally the people working in the office) like to think of themselves as "labor left", "green friendly", "human", but they've been cowed by big money. The 1500 mining jobs, at the cost of the entire qld tourism industry, has government approval because awu has more money than uv. I'm just a hick queenslander whose only markerable skills are cow-tipping and smoking weed so this is entirely restricted to qld, glad to hear fed alp doesn't take dodgy donations that influence their decisions (aka corruption).
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EvilElmo posted:Greens don't take donations? Ok so lets make this simple: Qld needs tourism to live This mine will kill the reef which is most of where our tourism money comes from. More jobs lost than gained as a result. Qld Greens don't take corporate donations. The alp, however, does, e.g. that $40k from Macquarie bank, who negotiated the deal between mine and government. (And also ran one of their former employees for lord mayor) This is why the alp approved the mine, despite the fact it is anti-worker. Are you still not understanding how corruption works? Outside seq is awu territory, so uv can't go against awu's interests. Again, $ working as the real power.
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gay picnic defence posted:That's a bit of a reach. The reef is being killed by climate change, of which that mine is just a small part. I reckon can-do could have made it happen. The alp is under the assumption that the mine won't be built anyway to save face - how insulting to the environmental, indigenous, community etc groups that fought the miners and helped bring it to this point. But the mines size is historically massive and the port would be sitting right on top of the reef. I don't think that's a stretch.
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It wasn't until I had children of my own that I developed empathy for other people, this is how a healthy human being thinks, vote liberal
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Anidav posted:I wonder if there's a crazy Asian Mafia underbelly in Sunnybank. No underbelly. These guys: http://www.atccq.com.au
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V for Vegas posted:Blog post from Antony on using preference flows from the last election with this year's primary polling - http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2016/04/a-few-thoughts-on-this-mornings-newpoll.html NXT are running nationally, not just sa
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Anidav posted:Oh no. Uh the party who deregulated the market proposes further deregulation. Don't let the beard distract you
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LibertyCat posted:keywords: "designed for going fast on". Yeah so we should be building seperated bicycle lanes and proper bike paths and identifying where suburban roads need traffic calming to discourage rat running to ease traffic flow along main corridors and thereby encourage more people to ride a bicycle in these streets - Greens policy - the only party that has committed to building separate streets for bikes and cars. Don't worry about the helmet thing, we're going to defund the police force so that they can't enforce that law anyway. (Sorry that there's no specific policy about helmets but basically no one gaf about that when we still expect bicycles to share lanes with buses) Re: uber chat. It's not a customer service argument, it's a sharing economy argument. Sharing economy sounds nice to the ears, but there is a danger of putting a price on goods and services that previously didn't have one. Perhaps a *regulated sharing economy* would be the better option, and that's the discussion the government is now having (well, they're trying to put off, so, the current one). Basically: is uber more effective at redistributing wealth downwards than a normal taxi (learning from proudhon that wealth needs be redistributed back downwards for the economy to work)? Sort of, not really, has the potential to.
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The Greens want to legislate to give casuals and employees on successive fixed-term contracts who have been in a workplace for more than 12 months a right to request secure and ongoing work. Employees whose request for permanent work is refused would be able to ask the Fair Work Commission to order their employer to give them a permanent full-time or part-time job. The Greens’ policy would also allow unions and employer organisations to apply to the commission for orders that prospective employees, casual employees or those on rolling contracts be given permanent work. Bill Shorten Will Never Be PM
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Brayds2006 posted:Bill Shorten with a Man Bun to capture the youth vote. He's balding too quickly, he'd end up looking like trevor in gta 5
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gay picnic defence posted:Apparently Turnbull is promising to pay for kids dental care or something. Hopefully the ALP responds by making dental covered by medicare in reply. Malcolm adopting greens policy? This is exactly what tony warned us about!
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bigis posted:My post was in response to dumb stuff like Dissolve the ADF and send them all to the Hague
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Negligent posted:I'm the infrastructure prime minister - Tony "toned abs" Abbott Chris Bowen trimmed his beard and it looks worse now
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All you fuckers better be at the snap rallies that are happening soon. Disrupt traffic just for the graics and lc's in the country. The guy died at the rbh earlier.
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