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open24hours posted:In this age of rapid transport everyone is our neighbour. Better business relations will presumably happen anyway, there's too much money to be made for them not to. I'm all for teaching Asian languages in schools and organising cultural exchanges to support this though, it's the diplomatic side that I don't really get. I don't think the diplomats get it either because Asia isn't some homogeneous group of nations who you can easily 'align' with. We need to cuddle up to the US for protection, but we can't do it too much or China will crack the sads because we do flybys of their illegal manmade islands. Not being assertive enough against China's territorial ambitions annoys the hell out of China's neighbors (look at the recent stuff from the Philippines) who feel threatened by China. I think the biggest influence over how well we 'align' with Asia is how well we learn their culture etc so we are better positions to market stuff to those people. For example the wine industry recently bought out a list of flavour descriptors that Chinese drinkers can relate to better than western descriptors like 'apple' and 'pear'. It's got nothing to do with modernity, it's just that 'modern' has taken the place of 'e' at the start of everything in the 2000s for making it look like you're cutting edge. The irony is that China is an economic house of cards and the closer we align to it the more Australian businesses will depend on it for revenue and the harder they'll get reamed when China eventually implodes.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Everyone is missing the most important issue, how can we use these subs to stop the boats? I thought it was pretty obvious 
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Dude McAwesome posted:jfc, he just bellowed CAAAAAAAAAARP over and over again in qt, how the gently caress is this clown an elected official Barnaby being a fuckwit aside it's actually a pretty good plan. Releasing the virus itself is really cheap, most of that money will be for stopping the rivers from getting choked with dead carp.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/727007711133474821 Is anonymous av guy still around? I'd love a CAAAARRRP! av tia
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There is usually a lot of lovely and depressing news doing the rounds but this made me  quote:Police have questioned an elderly man who flouted new laws aimed at stopping protesters from harassing women outside abortion clinics.
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EvilElmo posted:Would you prefer the ALP to have the Greens asylum seeker policy and remain in opposition or for them to have the current policy with a chance of forming Government? If the ALP had shown a shred of leadership on the issue we might not have to make the choice you're offering.
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EvilElmo posted:Like when they got rid of Howard's measures then got slaughtered in the polls? Changing legislation alone isn't leadership. Leadership is selling an idea to people and bringing them along with you.
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May 2, 2016 11:56
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EvilElmo posted:Interesting definition. They are, people aren't listening though. Rudd had an opportunity when his approval rating was sky high to make a strong moral argument for it and people would've listened but he hosed it up and now any proposal to do anything gets drowned out by the shrieking from News Ltd.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Wow this episode of Four Corners just got wild. What are they looking at?
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EvilElmo posted:Abbott won in a huge way stopping the boats, ScoMo is very popular for that reason. Sorry, but asylum seeker policy is currently not being sold in marginal seats very well. The easiest one to sell is that if people want to risk their lives then it's on them. It might be even easier to set up an asylum application center in Indonesia and Malaysia but that never happened either. Instead we get the whole 'torturing people for their own good' poo poo.
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I didn't listen to the whole thing but it sounded like a pretty good speech. I still won't preference them ahead of the Greens because of the refugee stuff but maybe they'll end up ahead of some random independent.Anidav posted:But what about the slave labour bill Maybe he's keeping that powder dry until later in the campaign. I thought the 'soft skills' training is actually a pretty good idea in theory, it's just the whole thing of making it compulsory or you get to starve on the street thing that makes it a poo poo policy. Farming it out to JSAs probably ensures it will fail at every step too. I've come across a number of people who have the skills and ability to be a decent employee but are pretty much at the bottom of the pecking order because they don't know poo poo about stuff like communication or how businesses actually work, and no one really teaches it if you don;t have the opportunity to learn on the job.
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lmao Murdoch must be desperate to try and prove he can still influence a political process somewhere after Trump destroyed Fox News' hold over the GOP. Jokes on him because he might be unable to influence News Corp soon: http://www.theage.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/news-corp-faces-shareholder-revolt-after-2015-near-miss-20160505-gomt87.html open24hours posted:What do people think about parallel book imports? The current restrictions are apparently one reason why textbooks are so loving expensive. There is probably some sort of compromise that makes textbooks cheaper but retains protections for local authors and publishers.
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Tokamak posted:A browser extension removed the post code entry form, so I selected NSW. The first question was about refugees. Then I went back and entered my postcode. Now the first question is about a federal corruption watchdog. lmao. I live in a suburb full of old people and the first question is about euthanasia.
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open24hours posted:A simple solution would be to order them from overseas individually rather than through the university bookshop. I've tried this but they've had different editions and the end of chapter questions have been different to the ones bought in Australia. If there's a good place to buy textbooks from overseas without that problem though I'd be interested to hear about it.
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open24hours posted:Yeah I guess that relies on the publishers not intentionally making them different. I wish I was that lucky. My bill this semester was north of 500 dollarydoos for four books. Probably going to be the same next semester too.
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Seems to be a bit of a trend in countries with high inequality. He's certainly going to make the already delicate situation in the South China Sea even more interesting.
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This seems like it could be significant:quote:The Reserve Bank has expressed concern about negative gearing and the tax concession for capital gains, saying any change that discouraged negative gearing might be "a good thing" from a financial stability perspective.
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turdbucket posted:On the subject of Centrelink. I can't find any information but if I started a degree in 2010 but dropped out due to sad brains and now want to return to uni as a mature age student to get a degree which will supposedly help me move up a bit in my industry (lol) will I able able to get Austudy? Your best bet would be to persist with trying to get through to centerlink and explain the complexities of your situation to the trained monkey you speak to first and hope they transfer you to a Austudy specialist. In my experience if you get the right person they can help with unusual personal circumstances. Getting a medical certificate for your sad brains may help, but honestly I don't think it'll come to that. You only get Newstart if you are unemployed and not studying. I think you can claim 4 years of undergrad study worth of Austudy, with a 5th if you need to finish some subjects. or 2 years of a masters degree with an extra semester for finishing any failed subjects (watch for the eligibility of the masters though, I got burnt thinking I would be eligible for a certain course). That would mean if you'd dropped out in 2nd year you should still be able to complete a 3 year degree with Austudy as long as you don't need an extra year. When I was going through to process of applying a few years ago you could apply for one course at each level (i.e. undergrad, honours, grad dip, masters) every 10 years, and after that it reset so you could go back and do another undergrad. So even if Centerlink are arses right now, try and find out when you will be eligible to claim Austudy again because you might only have to wait a couple of years. Finally, if you passed your subjects in your first attempt you could use them to claim credit for prior learning and shorten your current degree if you need to reduce the time you are studying to ensure you get Austudy until you finish.
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turdbucket posted:Thanks for the help everyone! You should be able to get failed subjects removed from your transcript if you present a medical certificate but I don't think that will count for Centerlink purposes. Give it a go though because Centerlink do seem to have a bit of leeway to make exceptions if you talk to the right person.
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The lawyer for a taxi driver who sexually assaulted a young woman in his cab has told a court the attack would not have happened if the woman had sat in the back seat.
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tithin posted:This seems a flawed argument that'll get loving torn apart by the prosecution. The magistrate dismissed it but the driver still only got a suspended sentence.
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tithin posted:loving Judges are soft on crime? Apparently the cabbie is a refugee from Ethiopia who has a young family and is dealing with PTSD. Meanwhile the woman can't bring herself to use taxis or public transport, feels unsafe around men, suffers nightmares and panic attacks, and is on medication that stops her from working and studying. I mean that is a lovely background for the cabbie to have come from but assault is assault and imo you should see at least some time behind bars if you commit it. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/no-prison-time-for-taxi-driver-omar-hassan-who-sexually-assaulted-passenger-20160511-gosnl5.html
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Firetrick posted:While dollar milk has a lot to answer for, the recent problem has a lot more to do with Devondale milk powder failing in China. They sold about a quarter what they projected in the first 6 months of the financial year and are nowhere near the years forecast. The prime buying season in terms of online sales to China is October through February and the powder stockpile will grow while loads of unsold product expires. This was my take on it too. There have been some trade restrictions put in place in China that have slowed demand for dairy products, plus I think the grey imports have been curtailed a bit as well. With the Chinese economy slowing (probably by a lot more than the made-up numbers their government puts out suggest) any industry that bet the farm on China is probably up poo poo creek now or in the not too distant future. But regardless of the cause of the price cuts, this is going to put a huge number of people out of business and gently caress over rural communities. At the very least there should be some sort of assistance package to help farmers adjust to a new crop or leave the land or something.
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Zenithe posted:I still don't get what this means, other than whoever mentions it is almost exclusively a colossal shithead. I think it is a term chosen by fuckheads for it's fairly strong negative connotation to refer to the changes in western culture and values towards a more progressive and inclusive society. They've realised you look like a bit of a tool in this day and age if you say 'racism is great or equal rights for women and minorities is a bad thing' so they dress it up a bit and call it cultural marxism.
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Frogmanv2 posted:If anyone has the spare cash to spend on such a pathetic waste of oxygen, they should donate it to a good cause instead. or the CAAARRRP av I wanted
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Recoome posted:I wish I was surprised by the actions of the Herald Sun but we gotta discredit the poor people somehow Especially this fucker. How dare he disrupt the trickle down narrative?
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Recoome posted:Forgive me for my ignorance, and it could be because I'm poor/not an economist, but how exactly is the Coalition plan of trickle-down economics going to create Turnbull's vision of a Strong New Economy. Actually it looks like the same type of economy we've had for a while and all it's really done is widen the inequality gap so I'm not sure how this is going to help families. It's not intended to improve the economy. It's designed to benefit the rich and any benefits that flow to anyone else is purely coincidental. It's easier to keep pumping rich peoples' veins with even more money and rely on News Corpse to convince the lumpenproletariat they've never had it so good or distract them with stuff like disabled people getting pensions.
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ScreamingLlama posted:I don't want alcohol criminalized, I want to be able to keep alcoholics and problem drinkers from doing stupid poo poo that can kill people WITHOUT punishing people who are doing the right thing. I dunno, maybe we'd be better off looking for the personal and societal root causes of substance abuse and like, doing something about those instead
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ScreamingLlama posted:True, but that's only one part of the equation. It's the answer to the equation you loving idiot.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:There was one, but it was about striking down the ACT's provision. In answer to your question, there is no comparable feature in our Constitution that would protect such rights. Which is why most of our religious institutions and socially conservative think tanks are opposed to Australia getting its own Bill of Rights; they think it will be used to get stuff like gay marriage legislated through the courts, instead of having to go through a political process which they are capable of influencing.
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http://www.theage.com.au/comment/blunt-instrument/crowds-bite-back-at-savage-response-to-duncan-storrars-simple-qa-question-20160516-gowmtsquote:The lives of the poor are hard. They are all too often short, nasty and complicated. For struggling truck driver turned national piñata, Duncan Storrar, this last, short week has been about as nasty and complicated as ordinary lives can be. Brutish, too. A short, nasty and brutish passage he will no doubt be happy to leave behind. Hopefully, he enjoys the money, just over sixty grand, from a Go Fund Me campaign set up by a sympathiser and generously supported by a couple of thousand punters.
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Ler posted:This ought to be a little bit good for the Greens who are a very close second place in the Batman electorate gently caress me Labor are incompetent.
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...517-goxhj1.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toL1tXrLA1c
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