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Comstar posted:The Professor being interviewed wanted to offshore his paper work, the daily routines he wants to get someone else to do, so he could spend more time teaching students. We could offshore his department and just have the students watch a video conference from a singaporean international school. I guess that means we don't need the professor to remain in his position either. More money saved!
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Another Worst Straya election update Got home to one of these.    This thread clued me into this bullshit, thanks guys. What's this in aid of, again? Just building a database of people who postal vote?
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It's a sexual fetish thing. You pay $1.75 million and you get to be humiliated by the most powerful man in the world.
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ewe2 posted:Let me know when you figure out the reading thing, kid. The rest of the kindergarten are ahead of you. Actually it is you who is wrong and dumb
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DancingShade posted:Offshore education? Ok sure, import cheap overseas trained teachers and the locals can go pick fruit on the work for the dole program. Not quite. The idea is to train teachers up here, and then send them offshore to teach other people. Same with a bunch of other industries. Train them to our standards and send them overseas to teach others, with only the vaguest sniff of cultural imperialism about it. My b-i-l does this a bit. He is a metallurgist who gets sent to china by groups like fortesque to make sure that their rail line order is manufactured according to spec.
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In Australia service exports is code for higher education (international students coming here to study) and tourism, both of which sectors are aimed at foreign markets and are relatively sizable. There is other stuff that better economies do at the top end of value chains in services (e.g. design services, research services) but it's mostly those two for Oz.
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quote:WA One Nation candidate under fire over 'sexually explicit interests' http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-one-nations-candidate-under-fire-over-sexually-explicit-interests-on-facebook-20170202-gu4biw.html
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Paingod556 posted:Another Worst Straya election update Found one of those in my mailbox this arvo, it's still sitting on my counter unopened, thanks for saving me the trouble!
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well why not posted:If i were a teen now I'd be learning a second or even third language in hope of making a career teaching English somewhere in Asia. It's one of the few things that we can do better than other countries in SE Asia. My mom does this. China just throws her a house free of charge just for knowing English and being in China. The perks atm are immense.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-one-nations-candidate-under-fire-over-sexually-explicit-interests-on-facebook-20170202-gu4biw.html it'll be the 'hot booty ebony' page that gets him dumped as a candidate
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NPR Journalizard posted:Not quite. The idea is to train teachers up here, and then send them offshore to teach other people. Same with a bunch of other industries. Train them to our standards and send them overseas to teach others, with only the vaguest sniff of cultural imperialism about it. Oh cool, so we just copy the Philippines and send our youth into the Dubai slave pits? That could work.
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DancingShade posted:Oh cool, so we just copy the Philippines and send our youth into the Dubai slave pits? Don't give the conservatives ideas
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-one-nations-candidate-under-fire-over-sexually-explicit-interests-on-facebook-20170202-gu4biw.html i love the weekly one nation candidate expulsions, they're all that keep me going
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BBJoey posted:i love the weekly one nation candidate expulsions, they're all that keep me going Sorry they are daily now.
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gay picnic defence posted:i wonder if turnbull has the balls to cancel the joint strike fighter deal or something in retaliation Haha yes. First the tpp then that
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Blamestorm posted:In Australia service exports is code for higher education (international students coming here to study) and tourism, both of which sectors are aimed at foreign markets and are relatively sizable. There is other stuff that better economies do at the top end of value chains in services (e.g. design services, research services) but it's mostly those two for Oz. It isn't just higher ed. Schooling (even primary) in Australia is very attractive to Chinese with money. Partly it is a solid classically liberal education in a very safe place, partly it is the first rung on the family immigration ladder.
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Solemn Sloth posted:I'd never heard of the mx missile crisis The refugee deal issue Some people need to realise that there are broadly three simultaneous narratives going on. The American domestic one. Trump makes a whole bunch of noise about the 'bad deal' but plays along anyway. Locals blame Obama, cheer Trump for being a no nonsense straight shooter. The American/Australian international relationship one. Business as usual. The Australian domestic one. Newscorpse are trying to make Turdball look as bad as possible when the reality is business as usual. If it suited them this would be a major win for Turdball standing up against the American president. Because it doesn't we get option A.
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quote:Rodney Culleton was never elected to Senate, High Court rules http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rodney-culleton-was-never-elected-to-senate-high-court-rules-20170202-gu4kfu.html
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Solemn Sloth posted:I'd never heard of the mx missile crisis they wouldn't have had nuclear material in them
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quote:Hockey heads to the White House amid refugee deal row Bwahahahahahah
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Synthbuttrange posted:Bwahahahahahah Yeah the deal is definitely off now.
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Can anyone post this article: https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/02/02/turnbulls-refugee-deal-and-whats-left-of-his-authority-collapses/ Morbidly curious.
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Ahahaha I just saw the best and probably most scarily accurate reasoning for why Trump chewed out Turnbull. The  Liberal Party.
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This was never not going to blow up, when it was announced during the lame duck period was there actually anyone who thought it was going to happen? Let alone anyone in the government who knows how this poo poo works. Edit: I'm pretty sure at least one person pointed that out in this thread at the time of the announcement, it may even have been me
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Why would we need clean energy - can't you do the maths. If we install just one new coal plant, and it is emitting 20% LESS Co2 emissions, then if we put in 5 then that is a 100% reduction in our carbon emissions. Literally if we put in 5 coal fired power plants we will be a zero emissions country with the words best green credentials. I don't understand why we would even need a renewable energy fund if we can achieve that ! This is the problem with Greens today - they are so hell bent on using wind power (a technology which predates even coal and steam, its literally 15th century wind mills) that when a new technology like coal fired power plants come along offering to make us 100% Green with zero emissions they reject it out of some sort of idealistic dream to have old sail cloth strapped to lumber creaking beside the river making grain. How is that going to help us in a war with China ?
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You Am I posted:It's great because even the Liberal's usual cheerleaders, like business councils, are against it, saying that it's too expensive to implement and no bank will touch it Luckily there is the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which funds clean technology like C L E A N C O A L
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It's called clean coal dummy, of course it applies for funding from the clean energy finance corp. can't you read!!
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Luckily there is the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which funds clean technology like C L E A N C O A L I'm dying internally too much
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DancingShade posted:Offshore finance? Yeah maybe. too loving late
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Starshark posted:Can anyone post this article: Turnbull's refugee deal (and what's left of his authority) collapses following Trump call In an unprecedented low in US-Australian relations, Donald Trump has humiliated Malcolm Turnbull via leaked details of an abusive phone call between the men and a tweeted abandonment of any refugee resettlement deal. In a remarkable and unprecedented collapse of confidentiality and decorum between Australia and the United States, President Donald Trump has backed away from any deal with the Turnbull government to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru — and the White House has leaked extraordinary and embarrassing details of an abruptly terminated phone call between the two leaders on Sunday. After days of assuring the media that Trump had agreed to honour the Obama administration’s deal with Turnbull to take approximately 1250 refugees out of Australia’s offshore processing camps, the government found itself humiliated when Trump, this afternoon (Australian time), tweeted: quote:“Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!” Despite the government’s assurances, doubt had been repeatedly cast on whether a firm commitment had been secured, with mixed signals coming from the US State Department and White House officials about whether Trump had agreed to honour it (Trump’s already-notorious spokesman Sean Spicer indicated this week it would be honoured but with “extreme vetting” of refugees), agreed only for the time being to honour it, or that a decision was yet to be made. That didn’t prevent the Turnbull government from spinning the “agreement” as a major achievement with the new administration. In a story dropped to The Australian yesterday, it was portrayed as “a particular favour” and “a special favour to Australia” — suggesting Turnbull was securing results through quiet diplomacy despite criticism of his silence on Trump’s ban on Muslims entering the United States. However, in a bombshell report in The Washington Post this morning, extensive details of the call between Trump and Turnbull over the deal were revealed — details that seem unlikely to have come from anyone outside the Oval Office during the call. The report suggests Trump was bitterly opposed to agreeing to honour the deal, and addressed Turnbull with overt hostility, claiming the refugee agreement was “the worst deal ever”, that he was “going to get killed” politically and that Australia was in effect sending the “next Boston bombers” to America. Turnbull refused to comment on the report today, but background sources within the government quickly confirmed the tenor of the report to media outlets, albeit with the caveats that Trump had definitively agreed to honour the commitment by the previous administration, and the claim that the animosity during the phone call was because of Turnbull “standing up” to Trump. Even that fig leaf was torn away by Trump’s tweet, which now leaves any deal in serious doubt. In an attempt to play down the development, Turnbull this afternoon insisted he had an agreement with Trump and dismissed Trump’s tweet as “that is his tweet”, repeated that he would not be engaging in public commentary but also insisted the call did not end abruptly but “courteously”. He also professed to be “disappointed” that the details of the call had been leaked. In retrospect, leaking the phone call’s details to the Washington Post seems to have been a calculated White House tactic to provide distance between Trump and the refugee deal — with Trump’s tweet administering the coup de grace. The outcome is deeply humiliating for the beleaguered Turnbull, who has consistently maintained that he will not comment on Trump but instead keep his communications and views on Trump’s policies confidential. What he failed to understand is that Trump evidently feels no such compunction — not even for a fellow conservative and Prime Minister of a loyal vassal state of the US like Australia.
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