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Anyone can get a free trip to Israel if you're willing to say you're Jewish. A friend of mine managed to get one despite having no (known) Jewish heritage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel
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They're no worse (or better) than any other generation. If the people who are young now were young then we'd be in exactly the same situation.
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quote:http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...103-gtl6m5.html I always wonder about the poor public servants tasked with finding the magic set of questions that will convince terrorists/dole bludgers to turn themselves in.
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Starshark posted:I've never seen you put up a source in your life and I'm not about to waste my time by asking now, so here's my source (there are others, it's just the first one I picked up). quote:This means that the Conservatives probably shouldn’t be too worried about their support base thinning out and being replaced by younger, less conservative generations. If history repeats itself, then as people get older they will turn to the Conservatives. Our evidence suggests that this is probably not due to “social ageing” (getting married, having children or an increasing income), but rather to the direct psychological processes of ageing that tend to make people more resistant to change. This, in turn, makes people gravitate towards parties that defend the status quo.
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Recoome posted:I think that there is some unique Western phenomena going on here, because I've read (somewhat a while ago, I can't quite find the soure right now) that younger people in the Russian Federation are growing up more conservative on several points (I remember something about sexuality, and maybe womens rights or something) then the older generation who grew up under the Soviet Union. This isn't excusing or condoning the USSR, but it is somewhat of a counterpoint to the observation that everyone becomes relatively more conservative as they age. It's probably all relative, and we can't do a whole "what if" because everything about our current worldview is shaped by what's already happened. They might become even more conservative as they age. I think a lot of it has to do with acquiring wealth. Older people typically have more resources (a house, superannuation, other investments) than younger people, and have more reason to vote for someone who promises to protect those resources.
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Recoome posted:They might (which would align with Western trends), but it's really difficult to speculate but it's still an observation which is at odds with "people become more conservative with age". I don't know much about Russian politics or the day to day life of Russians, but it's easy to speculate. Maybe the withdrawal of the state made people more worried about their security so they turned to conservative politics to protect their safety? Maybe Russians who grew up after the fall of communism are relatively richer than their predecessors, and can't rely on the state to support them, so they turn to conservative politics to protect their wealth? Maybe all that family values propaganda is working? open24hours fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Saying that's a documented bug is really stretching it. That site looks like instructions for Centrelink staff investigating this sort of thing, not a user manual for the data matching software.
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If it is I doubt it's published anywhere accessible to the general public.
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If it's not accessible then how would you know if it's documented or not? Whether it's a software bug or not is irrelevant anyway, Centrelink have been doing this sort of thing long enough that they should be able to get it right.
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Ten Becquerels posted:It's accessible - http://operational.humanservices.gov.au/public/Pages/debts/107-02040020-01 That's the same page linked from Twitter though? I mean it even says that "Actual period(s) worked should be obtained so that averaging only occurs for periods worked." Whether this is a software bug or not is important (in an academic sense, not so much for the people getting the notices). If it is a software bug then it's trivial to fix, if it's a case of Centrelink ignoring their own advice that the estimates are unreliable then that's a much deeper problem. open24hours fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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The 'proof' was what I was responding to in the first place? I'm not trying to defend Centrelink if that's what you think. This appears to be an incredibly lazy and cynical exercise, but that page isn't any kind of gotcha. open24hours fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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New Zealanders must be one of our most valuable imports. They're educated, they assimilate, and they're ineligible for welfare. What more could you ask for? Howard cutting them off was an absolute dog act and it's a disgrace that the changes haven't been reversed.
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What site was it?
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These might not be what you're looking for, but a few books on the subject that I've read and enjoyed are: History of Australian Land Settlement, 1788-1920 , A Million Wild Acres , Botany Bay Mirages, The limits of hope, Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia. None of these really focus on Indigenous Australia from an Indigenous perspective, so hopefully someone can recommend something that does. open24hours fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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If you look at the other MPs who went on that trip they all spent a lot on ground transport. I'm guessing they must have had a staff with them?  http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P38_LEY_Sussan.pdf  http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P38_ROBB_Andrew.pdf  http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P38_COLBECK_Richard.pdf  http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P38_FRYDENBERG_Josh.pdf  http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P38_ROY_Wyatt.pdf
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Also, considering these expense reports are publicly available why don't journalists/bloggers/whoever go through everyone's expenses when this happens? Might take more than half an hour of research.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:It doesn't help the parliamentary interest register is just scanned PDFs of forms filled out by hand. Imagine what you could turn up if they were in a machine readable format and you could automate the process of going through them all. Outsource it to Mechanical Turk. I'm sure someone would be willing to put them into a database for 1˘ a page.
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quote:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/09/ration-days-again-cashless-welfare-card-ignites-shame Decent article.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/09/sussan-ley-used-taxpayer-money-for-gold-coast-events-with-multi-millionaire Of all the terrible businesses she could have been involved in, this is up there with the worst of them. Might as well be manufacturing land mines.
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Those seem like two of their more sensible suggestions. Identity politics got us Trump and a lack of direct democracy is why we'll never have a federal ICAC.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:gently caress off, no it didn't. I'm pretty sure appeals to White working class identity had something to do with it. Identity politics isn't about embracing people with diverse identities. Senor Tron posted:It takes some strange cognitive dissonance to advocate direct democracy at the same time as policies the majority of the Australian public would never support. You don't think a federal ICAC would get up? open24hours fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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That kind of usage should be rejected. Conflating identity politics with the politics of inclusion and non-discrimination is counter productive at best. That someone as seemingly unelectable as Trump was even able to make it a close race, let alone win, shows how powerful appeals to fear and identity can be.
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Yeah, just like when people talk about anarchism they're obviously talking about a Mad Max style society of roving gangs.
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Jan 10, 2017 00:41
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But Slipper was a traitor. Ley is a valuable member of the team.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/liberal-donor-denies-link-to-sussan-ley-gold-coast-unit-sale/news-story/abc2ebe4ef382ec3e1db20708b9966a3  I bet they'll love that.
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Doesn't MyGov basically do that?
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I don't see why they don't get all this stuff sorted out at the same time they issue birth certificates. Could register people to vote too.
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Is that in response to anything in particular? Are there seriously feminists out there who push a tough-on-crime approach as a singular solution to domestic violence?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Get rid of her quickly Turnbull, I don't want to miss the Nintendo presentation. It better be cheaper than the Wii U.
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It's still available through Google's cache. Whatever his guilt, he seems very naive for collecting all that stuff and dealing with the police directly instead of through a lawyer.
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It really does feel just like when Gillard was in. They're hosed if they stay the course but they don't have any other credible options. I can't see them winning by bringing back Abbott, but like Rudd he'd probably be happy to lose an election if he could humiliate Turnbull.
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Senor Tron posted:https://twitter.com/GhostWhoVotes/status/820624573448134656 quote:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/16/coalition-hits-new-low-and-greens-trail-one-nation-in-poll-showing-centrelink-anger I think this is interesting, and I wonder what's behind it. Are people who vote Greens as a protest switching to One Nation?
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hooman posted: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? Read all about it. Or a summary if you prefer.
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Blamestorm posted:Many of the most knowledgeable staff took redundancies and work for the big 4 or private consultancies. At least in my experience this is a huge issue, and the public service desperately needs more technical expertise. In a lot of cases the people commissioning the analyses don't know what they need or even what's possible. The people who have those technical skills know they can get a job in the private sector where they'll probably be paid more, won't have to deal with as many arbitrary rules and won't have to deal with the government calling them bludgers, so why wouldn't they leave?
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hooman posted: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? You could always work for the IPA. The public service is still a solid career choice, and the skills you learn working in it are generally pretty portable.
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Good to know making racist threats is an effective means of achieving your political aims. Thanks QMS.
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There are probably terabytes of data that will never be released, but even they were and you could prove that the card didn't work it wouldn't matter. This, the intervention, 'mutual obligation' for welfare recipients and similar programs are about forcing people weaker than you to do something humiliating. Arguing that the basics card doesn't meet its stated aims is a waste of time, because the stated aims have nothing to do with the real aims.
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What are some alternative options?
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We really should have a space program. If we'd bought one of those instead of school halls and giving everyone $900 we could be on Mars by now.
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