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Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
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To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
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And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Lid posted:

The Turnbull government will slash university funding by hundreds of millions of dollars in the May budget while hiking student fees and requiring graduates to pay back their loans faster.

The government will justify the cuts by pointing to a major new report which found universities receive adequate funding for most courses they teach and that their revenues are growing faster than costs.

Despite pleas from universities that they cannot absorb any more cuts, Fairfax Media understands they will be hit with a new efficiency dividend of between 2 and 3 per cent to be phased in over several years.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham, who will address university and business leaders on Monday night, is expected to release the government's higher education reform package in coming days.

The pain will be shared between universities and students, who will see a rise in course fees and a lowering of the HECS repayment threshold from the current $52,000. It is understood the fee increases will be significantly lower than a speculated 25 per cent hike.

A 3.25 per cent efficiency dividend, originally proposed by Labor, would reduce university funding by approximately $900 million over four years.

The government will soften the blow by increasing funding for dentistry and veterinary science courses, which are expensive to teach. It will also finally abandon plans, introduced in the 2014 budget, to reduce university course funding by 20 per cent.

Senator Birmingham will on Monday release a new report, commissioned by the government, that provides the most detailed picture ever compiled of the cost of delivering university degrees.

The Deloitte Access Economics study found universities receive sufficient revenue � through government funding and student fees � to cover the cost of teaching most degrees.

For example, the average annual cost of providing an engineering degree was $22,514 per student in 2015 compared to total funding of $26,623 per student.

A clinical psychology degree cost universities an average of $13,528 a year to deliver while attracting $18,711 in total funding.

Two clear exceptions are dentistry and veterinary science, which the study found to be significantly underfunded.

Fairfax Media understands the government will provide top-up funding for these subjects in the budget through new loadings.

The Deloitte report, based on data from 17 universities, shows the average cost of delivery for universities increased by 9.5 per cent from 2010 to 2015 while revenue grew by 15 per cent.

"This independent analysis speaks for itself," Senator Birmingham said.

"Funding for our universities is at record levels, but it has grown above and beyond the costs of their operations.

"Universities have a vital role to play in Australia but many mums and dads are feeling the pinch of tighter budgets at home and want to know their tax dollars are being used effectively and efficiently."

Senator Birmingham said he would not pre-empt the announcement of his reform package but added: "In the context of a tight national budget, the Turnbull government is focused on getting the best return for every taxpayer dollar invested."

The Deloitte report notes that universities also use their teaching revenue to cross-subsidise research and other activities.

Universities Australia last week released a report showing universities and students have contributed $4 billion to reduce the deficit since 2011 and that further cuts could put some universities in a precarious position.

"Universities and their students have already done more than their fair share of budget repair," chief executive Belinda Robinson said.

"In this context, it is difficult to justify further cuts that would affect student affordability and put at risk the quality of education and research on which Australia's prosperity depends."

Universities recorded an average profit margin of 5.3 per cent in 2015, with the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne recording strong surpluses of $157 million and $141 million respectively.

Vice-chancellor salaries have also soared over recent years, with nine vice-chancellors receiving annual pay packets over $1 million.

The government will also on Monday release an implementation plan on measures to increase the transparency of university admissions.

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Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
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An eye for an eye
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MysticalMachineGun posted:

I have no idea what to think of this one. If she has been framed how would the guy who planted it on her know where to get the stuff at the other end?

If she did do it, she must be monumentally stupid. At least she wasn't trying to smuggle drugs out of a country with a death sentence for it.

Lets leave it at that her story is she went to Colombia to pick up headphones.

Yeah she just got caught.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 05:52

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
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Bogan King posted:

That was the working part of her 'working holiday' they keep calling it? So guilty.

Shes a personal trainer. The working was a solo marketing trip to promote personal training, but not by her as she was leaving to go back to Australia. There are other issues with this being the work.

Edit here

“Although Cassie is a PT, she is not currently personal training and hasn’t been for six months. I don’t know why that was mentioned at all,” Mr Broadbridge wrote on the fundraising page.

This is her fiance.

Lid fucked around with this message at 06:07 on May 1, 2017

# ¿ May 1, 2017 05:59

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Here�s What�s Going On With Those Ridiculous Young Property Stories

# ¿ May 1, 2017 08:58

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
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G-Spot Run posted:

Haha nobody can get a graduate job after graduating so they're not paying the debt, clearly the solution is to tighten up the repayment threshold and not the broke as gently caress job market

What we need is 100% Soviet style employment. Or you know acknowledgment job based capitalism is dead alongside globalisation.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 11:25

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://fundrazr.com/51EP39

guys the comments here are hilarious.

Waiting for them to break out the chestnut of that the headphones were to be secretly taken by a syndicate of baggage handlers, because right now they've said literally nothing on what was meant to happen with the head phones in the mysterious packaging once she got back. "My headphones are missing!" The alternative was she was to take them somwhere else first and yeah.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 12:18

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Ora Tzo posted:

The new Corby?

Problem is in the last decade feelings have changed, especially as the years went on people realised "oh, she was guilty and here I look like a sucker". Schapelle also had the advantage of her drug was just weed, and it was in Indonesia a skip away. This one is in South America and the drug is not as sympathetically viewed.

If you want to be sympathetic in these, do the Michelle Leslie - be a literal model, pay off the judges, claim to convert to their religion and then never talk about it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Leslie

Lid fucked around with this message at 12:26 on May 1, 2017

# ¿ May 1, 2017 12:24

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An eye for an eye
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freebooter posted:

Okay so I'm watching qanda and I realised why I've long respected Barnaby Joyce, in general, even though I don't like him. I used to think it was because he sticks up for his beliefs, but actually plenty of conservatives do that. It's because he sticks up for his beliefs and explains them in a face-to-face way that most ordinary, reasonably people can parse. And that is so loving easy to do! Yet nobody else in Australian parliament, that I can think of, does that. Even the Greens are slaves to talking points and focus groups.

edit - OK as soon as I typed that he said "people up and down the street were furious about it," re: the Muslim ABC lady's Anzac comment who even I can't remember the name of, let alone the mums and dads up and down the street. Bu anyway, in general, for the most part, more or less, I respect Barnaby Joyce despite very much disliking him.

I had a similar begruding respect for Kevin Andrews. He was someone who looked evil, was a conservatice Christian through and through, but always believed and had reasoning for his positions. It didn't feel like he was off the cuff or overly focus tested but that he was exactly who he appeared to be, and purity like that is something that (during the short lived second Rudd prime ministership) was in short supply. Next to Abbott he looked positively genuine.

Edit: contrast with how deeply I respect Penny Wong but how much it literally hurt to watch her argue on QandA against same sex marriage because it was the party line. That was so painful.

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# ¿ May 1, 2017 13:19

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An eye for an eye
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And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

what is this i don't even?

Enemy Combatant Enhanced Interrogation Technique

# ¿ May 1, 2017 14:52

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
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An eye for an eye
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"Daily Mail Australia also understands there were never any headphones in the package and it only contained concealed cocaine."

What.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 04:56

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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bisexual-teacher-denies-sexual-relationship-with-male-and-female-students-20170503-gvy3ag.html

This man is unbelievably dumb and deserves to have the book thrown at him. Don't treat people like idiots.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 07:57

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRqnNEOpe0

I too drop trou randomly outside cars

# ¿ May 3, 2017 08:59

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Bogan King posted:

OK so maybe the power of boobies is enough to negate the shite of Abbott.

----------------------------

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/859696930863030272

I know, I will threaten the press. That will make them not go to the press.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 10:52

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JBP posted:

The that cocaine traveler apparently owed thousands of dollars in rent before skipping the country to mule coke around. Debtors prisons are real, Mr Speaker.

But she saved up money for the trip how could she have saved 20k when in deb...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

# ¿ May 4, 2017 01:35

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Anidav posted:

AUSEXIT NOW

https://www.facebook.com/FreedomOfSpeechProductions/

RIGHT WING MEMES

# ¿ May 4, 2017 01:56

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Something very very urgent is happening at Buckingham Palace

Quite possibly the Queen has died, or Prince Phillip.

# ¿ May 4, 2017 03:45

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mitra posted:

The Games is on iView in it's entirety. RIPeace John Clarke

Ninety four metres...

# ¿ May 4, 2017 18:11

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The all-around competition in the discipline of women's artistic gymnastics (WAG) was marred by three separate scandals. The vault apparatus was set incorrectly for more than half of the meet; consequently many gymnasts fell or were injured on the event. The apparatus was adjusted during the third rotation and those gymnasts who had vaulted on the incorrectly set equipment were invited to re-do the event at the end of the competition.

Never forget this actually happened at the Olympics.

# ¿ May 4, 2017 18:17

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Frogfingers posted:

It's almost as if the people championing harmony in diversity don't have skin in an ethno/sectarian conflict and the ones who aren't there yet might have some healing to do.

The ability to fight the racism against Indian's while at the same tine acknowledging the culture of dowry and caste is inherently misogynistic and not compatible with appeals to multiculturalism, to use an example from the last page, is a difficult balance.

# ¿ May 5, 2017 17:57

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not linking because its domain but its one of their only articles that has given the impression "oh look, a bubble and we're all totally hosed"

quote:

There are now only four Sydney suburbs where the median house price is below $500,000, new data shows. And they�re all more than 45 kilometres west of the CBD.

Five years ago, there were more than 150 suburbs out of 467 in Sydney that could make this claim. This included areas like Auburn, South Granville, Westmead and Campbelltown.

Now, the only areas with median house prices under half a million dollars are the City of Blacktown�s Willmot, Tregear, Lethbridge Park and Blackett.

this all happened in five years.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 11:57

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Solemn Sloth posted:

ITS FINE

Incidentally looking at an old Clarke and Dawe

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2098073.htm

A criticism was interest rate rises, six in four years under Howard. In 2017 we'd kill for interest rates to stop being artificially suppressed to stop the house of cards.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 13:29

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Who would ever want to own Domain

# ¿ May 7, 2017 06:54

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JBP posted:

This. They spun it out into its own business so that SMH/The Age don't take it down in the explosion.

I meant morally

# ¿ May 7, 2017 08:46

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

IPA member for working poor social welfare

Somethings wrong here

# ¿ May 7, 2017 16:17

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Many parents want their children to be educated in non-government schools to learn the morality and scripture of their faith. The alternative is becoming less appealing as Labor state governments introduce radical sexual and social programming in public schools and preschools. Liberal and Labor conservatives joined forces to push back against the radical Queer Safe Schools program that enjoyed the support of La Trobe University and Victoria’s socialist Labor government. While Shorten opposes the Gonski reform plan endorsed by Turnbull, it is unlikely that the ALP will attract many rationalists and conservatives while the content of its school curriculum is so destructive.

*checks notes*

# ¿ May 7, 2017 16:19

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Nibbles! posted:

I'd argue 99% of parents send their kids to lower and mid level private schools on the presumption they'll receive a better education. The high level ones I assume to would definitely be the case.

This is the case.

# ¿ May 7, 2017 17:16

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This marvellous school community at St Thomas Moore’s, what we see is a school community of about 150 students. There’s half of the kids here whose parents work in defence. This school community is faced, because of Mr Turnbull’s cuts to education and schools funding, this school community faces every parent paying an extra $5,000 per year – an extra $5,000 increase in fees per year because of Mr Turnbull’s cuts.

- Bill upon checking his notes

# ¿ May 8, 2017 05:18

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Aesculus posted:

Greens update: Parliamentary right in NSW is now openly defying the membership's decision making and boycotting the party, instead crying to RDN and the federal right to impose top-down MP leadership control. You heard it here first. Now don't go leaking it to the arsetrayan

What was the decision made?

# ¿ May 8, 2017 11:56

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This week on the new horror serial

It Came From Domain

https://www.domain.com.au/advice/i-sold-my-investment-property-because-i-couldnt-deal-with-tenants-any-more-20170508-gw03dx/

# ¿ May 8, 2017 22:10

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Bogan King posted:

now turn it upside down

# ¿ May 9, 2017 03:25

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4-nPTmO6M

I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOOOOOOOME

# ¿ May 9, 2017 03:48

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There is no sign of respite for the nation's struggling retailers, particularly department stores, as shoppers refuse to spend in the face on an uncertain economy.

The latest retail sales data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed a 0.1 per cent fall in March at the same time as many economists had been tipping a rise.

So now not only are people not buying houses, they aren't buying anything else either. Hmmm.

# ¿ May 9, 2017 06:17

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The man who pied Alan Joyce

quote:

Today Tony Overheu identified himself as the man responsible, going on Perth�s 6PR breakfast show to explain his actions.

In a bizarre and rambling statement provided to 6PR, Mr Overheu implied that his actions were triggered by corporate support for same sex marriage.

So it's baddies vs baddies.

# ¿ May 10, 2017 15:28

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Anidav posted:

It's extremely weird to go on Crikey and New Matilda's comments section and find a bunch of usually left wing commenters cheering on the Government to drug test welfare recipients.

Some leftists have extrapolated from their opposition to addictive legal activities - cigarettes, alcohol, gambling - and the dangers it brings in as well as its social/health issues it too should apply to all drugs. It carries with it an element of judgment of the participants as being "weak" and that they are participating in an activity that is actually damaging them which is causing issue to the greater society. It's this whole lot of stuff about body purity and bullshit like that.

It's not a stretch from the entire unease people have about watching welfare recipients dump their money in the pokies. The change is people move to ban pokies because pokies are legal, if illegal they'd treat it the same way they do drugs - blame the user.

Lid fucked around with this message at 05:29 on May 11, 2017

# ¿ May 11, 2017 05:27

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The Before Times posted:

Jobseekers shouldn't be allowed to spend their money on anything that doesn't directly help them to get a job.

All clothes bought must be work-appropriate. No cigarettes. All food is now in the form of a nutritionally complete paste. Jobseekers will be weighed upon application. Overweight jobseekers will be sent to a fat camp because studies show being overweight negatively impacts your chance of getting employment.

Try talking about cigarettes with other pro-drug people and you'll find a fair number have a huge blindspot for it. Not a smoker but sometimes their logic is all drugs should be legal, except alcohol and tobacco which should be illegal, in this weird invert. Cigarettes to them are not a drug, they're just pure evil.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 05:33

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Birdstrike posted:

question time

actually useful for something today

If a tree falls in the woods...

# ¿ May 11, 2017 05:57

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And I'm not afraid to die.

Could the previous three posters all present their piss for inspection at the nearest office.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 06:08

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And I'm not afraid to die.

Random tangent: if weed were made legal would there be support for plain packaging and making dispensaries as utilitarian as possible?

I have a strong sense those in support would find themselves on the side of but the colourssssss without health considerations and the underlying motive of leaving out appealing to children.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 06:14

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Bogan King posted:

It's quite amazing just how many people think that they're the only ones deserving and everyone else is scamming the system. Probably the most blatant example is that woman in the USA who voted Trump and had her husband deported by ICE. She tried complaining about how he was 'one of the good ones' without any hint of a clue that passing the paper bag test is what makes you a good one not anything else.

Heres one closer to home

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/06/george-christensen-questions-deportation-of-man-who-fled-us-amid-drug-allegations

# ¿ May 11, 2017 06:22

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:07

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open24hours posted:

It would be treated the same way cigarettes and alcohol are now, but probably with even more restrictions. The only advocacy for legalisation that gets taken seriously is based on arguments like 'think how much money we could make by taxing it' and 'it would be safer if it was regulated'.

I'm not suggesting that wouldn't be the government position, but for decades now weed culture is imbued with bright colours are ornate bongs and getting a grinder from the tobacconist with some lame decal. All of that stuff being ripped away, justifiably, will ruffle feathers and that weed is now part of the big pharna sterility. Just a train of thought from seeing American dispensaries that look like, and are to be, full of whimsy and Willy Wonka-esque and considering it happening here.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 06:49

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