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hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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From my reading if he stays 8 years he also gets an additional allowance.

From here:
http://www.aph.gov.au/about_parliament/parliamentary_departments/parliamentary_library/pubs/bn/1011/superannuationbenefits

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hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Hero.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Top Marxist's Plea: Kill the rich, not yourself.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Oh yes, there's that magnificent playful banter with Greek immigrants because Australians are just like that and why won't these other immigrants just toughen up it's all a bit of fun.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Frogfingers posted:

Somebody let Bronny off the burn. I've never seen anyone so salty, bitter and sour all at the same time.

This isn't the first time she's sounded off about reds under the bed since her retirement, is it?

Counterpoint: Bill Leak

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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asio posted:

Overthrowing capitalism just involves worshipping something other than money. Plenty of people care more about their family/community/pet/garden/anime collection/whatever than endlessly increasing their earnings. This is a seperate argument to making sure people earn their fair share, the space that unions (should) occupy.

Bring on the Animeritocracy.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Cartoon posted:

And Pantsu for all!

No pantsu, why voting?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Perverse incentives to rent seekers is basically all of Liberal Party Policy at this point.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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These rorts have gone from unsurprising through embarrassing and all the way into impressive.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Centrelink loving the poor while the health minister bills the state for her private flights to keep her commercial pilots license and buys property from party backers is possibly not the best optics.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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So about 7.5% of the population of the entire country is going to get a threatening letter from centrelink.... what the actual gently caress.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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"Tudge conceded he was not sure whether the $300m figure was the amount of debt recovered or simply the amount that had been identified. His office later confirmed that the $300m related to identified debt only, not debt that had been recovered."

Holy loving gently caress how loving incompetent are these guys?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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EDIT: ^^ To whatever the last address they had on file for you was.

Recoome posted:

Like I'm having a hard time reconciling the numbers. Either they actually don't know how much money they will recover, or they are misleading the public on purpose.

Because it's all a big numbers game, I am sure they'd know how much money they have recovered thus far, so the numbers don't actually make sense as it stands.

It's almost certainly the first, because even if debts do get served and start getting repaid you have no idea how long it will take, whether people will stay solvent, die etc. etc.

I do wonder how much of this is because the bureaucrats are hosed. I mean surely it was so clear this was completely idiotic, anyone with any shred of understanding would have gone, hey wait a second people are going to loving hate us for this, so I wonder if the top decision makers just aren't getting the information and all they're getting from the people below them is "everything is fine, we've recovered 300million, everything is going to plan!"

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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ha, ha-ha, hahahahahahahahahaha holy gently caress.

She loves a good solid kick down doesn't she.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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People 'expect' politicians to claim expenses for sporting events, says Steven Ciobo

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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I'm not sure Bronny knows what socialism is...

EDIT: The best part of this whole thing is that it was rent seeking that kicked the whole thing off. Buying a gold coast investment property exposed her parasitism on the public purse.

hooman fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jan 13, 2017

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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ewe2 posted:

Meanwhile Andrew Wilkie is putting up some serious poo poo for the Ombudsman to investigate:


Not surprising given the politicisation of the public service, but really undermines Tudge. The rage is maintained.

This kind of dovetails with a question I asked earlier this month... what the gently caress is happening in Australia's public service that this poo poo goes on?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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So what you're saying is that if I'm interested in public policy and research I shouldn't do a degree in it and try to get a job doing that and should instead toil away in something I don't care about but which isn't actively trying to screw me?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Well I've been convinced it's a shitshow and I should stay doing what I'm doing now.

Back to destroying the environment I guess.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Cleretic posted:

A legitimate career choice. If you turn Australia into Mad Max before you lose your job, you don't have to worry about getting another one.

HOOMAN RUN BARTER TOWN

EDIT: for reals I wish the government would change the energy policy of this country so that destroying the planet with climate change was economically unfeasible. I support the eventual end of the need for my job. Working in renewables would be a lot better.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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God these jackboots have got hardly any human teeth stuck in them, and what kind of limp wristed brown is that shirt? Bloody beigeshirts.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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She's quite right, respecting others and being inclusive is definitely a massive subversion of Australian Culture.

"I think you'll find that this wide brown land is has no room for brown people."

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Wait.. 1.7 million plus 3+ million = 4.7 million plus.

Coalition now sending accusatory debt letters to >20% of the population of Australia... holy gently caress... holy loving gently caress.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I saw your mistake.

PROVE IT FUCKO

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Kommando posted:

colonisation of Mars.

start over.

Colonise mars with only the richest and most successful, then laugh as they John Galt themselves into oblivion and die in vacuum. While the remainder of us stay here on lovely earth and live in harmony.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Trade unions made teaching bad, not funding cuts, curriculum fuckery or standardised national testing.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Yeah lets kick those bums out into the street... wait...

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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*gunfire in streets*

CatHat: BETTER BAN CARS EH?

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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God it's funny watching cathat calling people thin skinned after he got mad as gently caress about the chaser stunt. He's a trump level pissbaby with none of the personal magnetism or ability to read a crowd.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Doctor Spaceman posted:

Hanson came out against it earlier, didn't you see?

Perfect.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Federal ICAC Now

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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open24hours posted:

Surely making terrorist threats is illegal by now?

If you're white it isn't terrorism, it's either mental health, robust debate, or boys will be boys.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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I had a decent hottest 100 day, cold pool in the afternoon, hot spa at night.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Unsurprising but still depressing quote:

"NewsCorp can eat a gently caress. As i elaborated weeks ago. When i started leaking poo poo i was in contact with them,the dude i was talking too pretty much just flat out told me he wont be able to run with any of the info as senior editors killed ideas on running with anti govt information"

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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Konomex posted:

You know, as a teacher, I'm starting to wonder why I assess my own students. I should just leave it all up to National Standards Tests. It's not like I'm trained in how to assess the competency of a child over a period of time.

So you know what you need additional prep for the standardised testing of course!

Also so that you can prepare them for the stress of year one exams in a safe environment before being thrust into that anxiety filled situation.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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"won't run a commentary on the domestic policies of other countries"

Those are some historically loving scary words.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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"Scott Morrison has declined to criticise Donald Trump’s contentious travel ban, saying it is up to the United States to determine its border control arrangements, and noting the rest of the world is now “catching up” with Australia’s harsh deterrence policies."

gently caress me.

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hooman
Oct 11, 2007

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It's not smug and condescending enough to be cathat, I'm guessing one nation candidate?

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