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This budget is going to be fun. How can ScoMo claw back some support in the polls while keeping the lunar right happy while producing something that actually has a chance of getting through the senate while sucking on the chode of big business?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Tony Abbott has called on Malcolm Turnbull to toughen his defence of the decision to scale back penalty rates. lol meanwhile, in marginal seats across the country quote:The Turnbull government is under growing pressure to overturn the Fair Work Commission decision to cut some penalty rates, with voter resentment particularly high in regional areas, according to new seat-by-seat polling commissioned by the ACTU.
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Mar 2, 2017 21:03
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if opening on a sunday isn't profitable why do it in the first place? maybe they should leave it to the better business operators who somehow manage to pay people properly and make a bit of money for themselves
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Mar 2, 2017 22:00
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Gorilla Salad posted:Holy poo poo, no. National security is about the only thing they can sell with any confidence. You can tell they're all secretly hoping for someone to blow themselves up in the Sydney CBD or something but failing that they might as well go for a new security agency
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Mar 6, 2017 21:18
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:WA Election seems like a good enough reason for Raptorfag to make an appearance. pretty sure he stabbed himself up the dick in the GBS thread a while back
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Mar 7, 2017 09:11
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Zenithe posted:Coffee is illegal now. wouldn't be the first time we tried to ban something with unintended consequences quote:Between 2011 and 2012, the Australian Federal Government was considering changes to the Australian Criminal Code that would classify any plants containing any amount of DMT as "controlled plants".[122] DMT itself was already controlled under current laws. The proposed changes included other similar blanket bans for other substances, such as a ban on any and all plants containing Mescaline or Ephedrine. The proposal was not pursued after political embarrassment on realisation that this would make the official Floral Emblem of Australia, Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle), illegal.
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Mar 8, 2017 09:14
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Konomex posted:Golden wattle contains mescaline? Nice. DMT actually, although you can buy cacti from bunnings that contain mescaline if you know what you're looking for
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Mar 8, 2017 21:33
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anyone have the stats on the number of jobs vacancies for each unemployed person in the country? I'd like to school someone who thinks it is just a case of lazy millennials refusing to work
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Mar 13, 2017 02:27
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Bogan King posted:If the biggest problem facing the economy is the money people are taking home and you are cutting the amount of money that people take home then maybe it is time you faced the fact that it is you who are the problem. No you see if he changes some laws and Gina Reinhardt is able to make an extra 20 million in a year as a result that means the average take home pay across the country is rising. Great success!
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Mar 13, 2017 08:45
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open24hours posted:Someone who thinks like that probably isn't going to be convinced by statistics, but here's a chart with links to the data. http://unemployedworkersunion.com/job-seekers-v-job-vacancy-data/ yeah, the notion of an unemployed workers union wasn't really well received, despite the fact that they're simply using ABS stats
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Mar 13, 2017 08:46
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NPR Journalizard posted:I am completely amazed. same is there a specific name for this phenomenon of people rejecting facts and authoritative sources of information in favour of whatever bullshit coincides with their worldview? I wouldn't mind doing some reading on it
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Mar 13, 2017 11:21
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Mar 13, 2017 12:15
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Comstar posted:Where can I put money there is going to be gas shortages in Australia? ACCC is screaming about it tomorrow. at least that is something that could be fixed overnight by reserving a certain percent for domestic consumption or introducing an export duty of course we'd need a government with a spine for that
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Mar 13, 2017 21:48
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Frogfingers posted:I'm in Tudge's electorate as well. How can I help unseat him? 
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Mar 14, 2017 07:36
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Nanpa posted:Backpedal complete. With an endorsement of marriage equality as well. That's quite a backpedal I'll probably avoid drinking their stuff in future anyway, apart from anything else they'll probably still donate to the Libs and religious groups, just quietly this time
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Mar 14, 2017 09:37
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It'll be interesting to see if this has long term consequences. Will people just forget, or is Coopers = fuckwits going to be seared into the mind of left wing drinkers? It'll be funny if they have to bring out a rainbow can or something to try get some market share back.
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Mar 14, 2017 09:53
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Frydenberg has come out and had a huge whinge about SA's energy policy
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Mar 14, 2017 10:04
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The Turnbull government has refused to back an international investigation into atrocities against Rohingya Muslims despite a motion passed in the Senate urging Australia to call for a United Nations commission of inquiry. Australia's statement at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva called for Myanmar to conduct its own investigation with international help into what the UN says could amount to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in the country's western Rakhine state, home to more than one million Rohingya. But Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, called for a UN inquiry, the strongest form of intervention the council could take, citing evidence that Myanmar may be seeking to "expel" all ethnic Rohingya from the country where they have been living for generations. "I heard allegation after allegation of horrific events like these – slitting of throats, indiscriminate shootings, setting alight houses with people tied up inside and throwing very young people into the fire, as well as gang rapes and other sexual violence," Ms Lee told the 47-member council. Human rights groups condemned what they called Australia's weak position at the council, describing already established investigations into the violence by Myanmar as a whitewash. Htin Lynn, Myanmar's representative in Geneva, rejected any form of international inquiry and dismissed claims of crimes against humanity as "unverified, intentional and one sided". He said his government is seriously "addressing" the allegations. In its statement Australia referred to the "scale and complexity of the transition" that Myanmar is undergoing and acknowledged "positive steps" taken by its government since taking office in April last year. The statement said that while Australia is "deeply concerned" by evidence of serious human rights abuses affecting Muslim communities in Rakhine, Canberra "considers a collaborative approach is the best way to help Myanmar address its human rights challenges, and we remain ready to work with Myanmar in this regard". "We encourage Myanmar to continue its cooperation with relevant international human rights mechanisms," it said. On February 16, Australian senators passed a Greens motion without division calling on Myanmar to assert the religious and ethnic equality of all of its people, including Rohingya, and urging the Australian government to consider pushing for a UN commission of inquiry into abuses in the Buddhist-majority country. Scott Ludlam, who proposed the motion, described what was happening to Rohingya as "devastating". Australia's human rights policy has literally been at sea for so long with refugee boats that Canberra seems to now instinctively adopt the preferred policy of rights violating Asian nations. Emily Howie, director of advocacy and research at Australia's Human Rights Law Centre, told Fairfax Media the wording of Australia's statement in Geneva was "hopelessly weak" and "sweeps under the carpet" the country's crimes against humanity, "no doubt reflecting the Australian trade interests." She said Australia's position is a "real shame and sits uneasily with the serious concern showed by the Senate across all parties, including the government." Ms Howie said Australia's position also belies how ill-prepared the Turnbull government is to take a seat on the council. Australia has been campaigning for a two year term, starting in 2018. "If Australia acts like this when it sits on the council, its action would have real human consequences … it would be leaving thousands of victims to continue to suffer crimes against humanity without a good faith attempt to stop it," she said. Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said during the Geneva negotiations Australia was relegated to a corner as countries like the United States, European Union and even Bangladesh called for an international investigation. "Australia's human rights policy has literally been at sea for so long with refugee boats that Canberra seems to now instinctively adopt the preferred policy of rights violating Asian nations," he said. Almost 80,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine for refugee camps at the Bangladesh border since October when Myanmar's military launched a crackdown following attacks on police posts during which nine policemen were killed. Rohingya are denied basic rights in Rakhine, including citizenship. The UN Human Rights Council is expected to vote in late March on the human rights situation in Myanmar, which is also called Burma. A draft resolution being negotiated includes the establishment of a UN inquiry into "gross human rights violations by the military and security forces" in Rakhine after October 9 last year.
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So Turdball has apparently got the gas companies to promise to supply gas during peak periods to prevent blackouts... was a gas shortage actually behind any of the blackouts we had this summer? Sounds like a pretty meaningless move to me, even if they do keep their promise and don't just sell it all to Japan regardless.
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Mar 15, 2017 08:37
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Supply gas, or supply power? Because they didn't turn on another generator in SA at Pelican Point when they were asked to in February. The gas companies have promised to ensure gas supply is maintained. As far as I know the decision not to turn on Pelican Point was entirely due to the national regulator having NFI, not due to a shortage of fuel. Of course now Frydenberg is sooking because SA gave themselves the power to turn it on themselves to prevent it from happening again. There were a bunch of generators that couldn't run during NSW's heatwave but from memory that was due to them loving up for various reasons and not because they didn't have any gas to burn.
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quote:alcolm Turnbull's claim that Victoria is contributing to an energy crisis by locking up "an enormous" amount of conventional onshore gas has been strongly rebuffed by the state government.
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quote:Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will today reveal plans for a $2 billion expansion of the iconic Snowy Hydro scheme that could power up to 500,000 homes through a new network of tunnels and power stations. This doesn't strike me as a terrible idea which is surprising given the LNP came up with it. With enough storage capacity, the base load argument that has been keeping coal in the game disappears overnight.
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Bogan King posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/842181014600400897 I wonder if they're poo poo scared of the bubble popping before the boomers have a chance to use their houses to fund their retirement homes I mean greed and fear of the inevitable recession happening on their watch may be also be big motivations but needing to fund 10-15 years of aged care for old farts with little equity in their homes would be a pretty big burden on whichever department pays for that poo poo
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Mar 16, 2017 08:24
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Solemn Sloth posted:So Victoria has been floating some potential changes to the Residential Tenancies Act including support for 5/10 year leases, limiting rent increases, allowing long term tenants to make modifications and banning no pet clauses. what are they going to do? stop renting out their houses and cop the new vacancy tax? speaking of which, I'm trying to get my landlord/agent to fix some poo poo and it's been dragging out even though I've sent in one of those notice to landlord forms. The handy man has checked it all out, should I just say gently caress it and get consumer affairs to get involved? I'm not fussed if I don't get offered a renewal on this place at the end of the lease
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I wonder how you'd go about organising some sort of homebuyers strike where no current or would-be owner occupiers bought property for a few months
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JBP posted:Bury the spent rods in Mal's anus.
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Mar 17, 2017 08:04
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Toys For rear end Bum posted:LOL so pretty much, Dutton is making the government look like it's cowering under the might of probably a ham fisted attempt at making himself look a bit anti-establishment or something also I suppose he feels he needs to be getting a few more mentions in the media and be seen to be showing some 'leadership' to support his pitch for the top job so we'll probably see more of this
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Mar 18, 2017 22:57
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Solemn Sloth posted:gotta build on the momentum of that 3% probably thinks it's merely due to his lower profile than some of the alternatives I still reckon Morrison will be the next PM though
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Mar 18, 2017 23:05
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Solemn Sloth posted:Depends how much people in the party think of him as legit, imo they don't want to put anyone up that they actually want to see lead because they've given up on the next election. That would rely on Bishop being dumb enough to take the job. She might be an evil piece of poo poo but she's also cunning as an outhouse rat and I doubt she'd let herself be set up to take the fall like that
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maybe we should start a goon project to have everyone email Dutton and tell him how great we think he would be as PM
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Mar 19, 2017 00:52
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it seemed to flow kinda naturally until he got to the bit about shorten
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Bogan King posted:https://twitter.com/australian/status/844485731124887553 lmao
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freebooter posted:I agree. I'm a Green through and through and I disagree with many of his positions and if I lived in his electorate I would preference him near the bottom, but I nonetheless prefer his straight-up attitude to the bullshit focus group driven blathering of most of the LNP crowd. Australia would be a better place if most Australian pollies stood up for what they thought the way that Barnaby does. Sure, what you think might be shithouse, but at least own it. This. I feel the same way about Lambie too
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Mar 24, 2017 08:59
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the NT News conducting an ongoing campaign against the lnp would be something to behold
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Mar 24, 2017 21:39
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lol imagine him on Sky with no reason to hold in all the dirt he must have on people the lnp would be safer with him still in parliament because at least there are some limits to what he can say
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Mar 26, 2017 07:08
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Ten Becquerels posted:Barnaby wants to take the Leadbeater's Possum off the endangered list so they can cut down more trees in Victoria and save 250 JOBS. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing or why he thinks people will go along with his idea to threaten a very cute animal. Should have picked an uglier animal to try and justify the likely extinction of. funny that the thing the greenies and hippies have been warning about for yonks has finally happened and we're running out of timber I remember a few years back there was some forestry hack from Tassie on the radio having a whinge because there was some type of native timber that he couldn't get a hold of and he was for some reason having a bit of difficulty explaining how his apparently sustainable industry could run out of something... if it was sustainable you wouldn't actually run out you fuckwit
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Mar 27, 2017 07:31
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Lid posted:Counter-counter-riposte That's unusual, Michael West is generally not terrible for a business columnist
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Mar 27, 2017 11:32
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Xenophon's throwing a cat among the pigeons by demanding an emissions intensity scheme in exchange for his support of the full company tax cuts lol As much as I dislike the prospect of those tax cuts getting through I am looking forward to the squawking from the LNP back bench over this
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Anidav posted:Saviour of penalty rates...Some crazy assholes? holy poo poo hahaha I like how turdball finally gave in and backed the decision, and having done that everyone else is saying it's hosed and he's the one left all alone holding on to a steaming turd
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