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Serrath posted:Sorry for the odd request but does anyone know if there's a print article anywhere that summaries the extent of the human rights abuses in the overseas detention camps? Searching for information on the topic brings up a lot of different articles that each focus on one awful element of it at a time but none that I can find that give a big-picture overview and the more specific articles require some understanding of what is happening already. I think Amnesty have published a couple of reports over the years
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 20:41 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:05 |
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Cleretic posted:In happier news, I would like to thank whoever it was who suggested fighting against a falsely issued VEC fine like an angry pensioner. It worked, it was fun, and now I don't have to pay money for somebody else's fuckup! I got out of mine too For future reference the guy at the VEC told me what they look for is a lot of detail in your explanation so if you mention a specific mail box and time of day that you went and posted your vote you'll probably get away with it. Or you could do your duty and vote for your preferred property developer lackey
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 10:39 |
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Bogan King posted:Be the change you want to see and become that developers lackey. good idea, it's probably more agile and innovative than rotting away on the minimum wage
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 10:59 |
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Cleretic posted:Hey, I did, it's not my fault! I asked the guy what I needed to do in the future to prove I had voted and he said that with postal voting there is no way to actually prove someone didn't vote and all they look for is consistency and detail in peoples' explanations. So saying Australia Post lost it won't be enough, but saying you went to vote on X day, it felt weird because you never actually send anything via the post anymore, you took it to mailbox Y and on the way you stopped and filled a script for Z at the pharmacy, and assuming day X is within the voting period, there is actually a mailbox at Y and there is drug called Z you'll be fine. Moving on from getting away with not voting, it sounds like they really REALLY want to discredit this guy: quote:The funds management firm that sold everything and returned the cash to investors citing a looming market correction was unprofitable as at November 2016, according to an analyst report.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 22:30 |
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aejix posted:I don't really know if Adani giving a green light to their own project really changes that much. They are still up poo poo creek with regards to financing the thing. Despite QLD Labor being all too keen to wolf down on Adani dick, I can't see any bank being loving dumb enough to spank a few billion up against the wall on this project. They certainly won't be refusing funding because of ethical, moral, or environmental reasons, but I just don't see how there is any justifiable business case that would present a return on investment good enough to justify the risk. Well, at least until Canavan announces a $5bn gift to fund the entire construction phase with public money and no requirement for Adani to repay any meaningful amount of it. There was an article in The Age some weeks back that argued that Adani knows full well that the mine is not worth building, but as long as they have the rights to mine those rights are an asset on their books that helps offset the fuckload of debt they have
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 08:49 |
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bugger i guess that's what happens when you take the piss out of the conservatives too often these days
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 09:38 |
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relatedquote:Meanwhile, a far more reliable indication of whether Tuesday's announcement should be taken seriously can be found in the response to Downer EDI's share price. This is the company Adani said on Tuesday had been given the very large and valuable contract to build the mine. The share price didn't move.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 20:54 |
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quote:Several recommendations for Yacqub Khayre to participate in deradicalisation programs were rejected or ignored by law enforcement agencies and government-funded community groups, despite repeated warnings he was a potential jihadist.
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 22:20 |
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better sell them more guns I guess
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 20:47 |
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Kommando posted:Shorten is thinking of emulating the UK labour platform and is copping poo poo from his own party. change from within
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2017 23:41 |
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'market led' sounds like a diplomatic way of saying they're just letting their mates get a free run to do whatever the gently caress they want and no it isn't a coincidence the relevant minister ended up working for them when they retired from politics why do you ask
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2017 06:41 |
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Kommando posted:David, im from Perth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDhmdbVk0l4
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 01:03 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/melbourne-man-says-powerwall-2-will-drop-his-power-bill-to-0/ I suppose half the country moving off the grid over the next few years is one advantage of an incompetent national energy policy
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 05:09 |
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Whatever happened to that QLD LNP MP who is supposedly about to retire due to health concerns and cause a by-election?
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 08:12 |
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Australia's next generation stealth fighter jets have been beset with yet more problems, with the US Air Force grounding a fleet of F-35s after the aircraft started starving their pilots of oxygen. The US has ordered an indefinite flight ban at the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona - where Australians are among those training to fly the planes - while it investigates the cause of the potentially fatal problem. The F35 jet program has had its share of troubles. Overpriced, too slow, too visible on radar, billions over budget and years behind schedule, critics are worried we are falling behind our adversaries. There have been five such hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, incidents since early May. The ban is expected to last at least a week. A US Air Force spokesperson said the incidents were not considered serious and pilots used their training to land safely. Backup oxygen systems kicked in as designed when the problems emerged. "In order to synchronise operations and maintenance efforts toward safe flying operations we have cancelled local F-35A flying," said Brigadier General Brook Leonard, commander of the base's 56th Fighter Wing. "The Air Force takes these physiological incidents seriously, and our focus is on the safety and well-being of our pilots. We are taking the necessary steps to find the root cause of these incidents." A team of pilots, maintainers, medical professionals, and military and industry experts will investigate the issue. Comment was sought from Defence Minister Marise Payne. Proponents of the Lockheed Martin-built planes tout their radar-dodging stealth technology, supersonic speeds, close air-support capabilities, agility and massive array of sensors that give pilots unparalleled information. But this is another setback for the program, which has faced repeated delays, cost overruns and problems, including an engine fire in 2014 that led commanders to ground planes until the problem could be resolved. Other issues have included software bugs, technical glitches and even a faulty ejection system. The aircraft made its debut at a showcase in Australia earlier this year, 15 years after the Howard government first announced Australia would participate in the weapons program. The RAAF's first eight planes are expected to be delivered to Australia in 2018 and enter service in 2020. The remainder are expected to be delivered by 2023 and stay in service until 2070. Under the original plan, the first planes were supposed to be in operation in 2012. The government stands by the JSF purchase and says 2500 Australians are working on the F-35 now and this will grow to 5000 by 2023.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 09:44 |
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i reckon pineapple and beetroot in a burger would be pretty good. pineapple is nice on pizza too and it doesn't have to be a hawaiian pizza, i've put it on pizzas with chicken and prawns and it was pretty good. dad made a pizza with beetroot on it once, it wasn't bad (lamb backstrap, fetta, spinach, sweet potato and beetroot) but not something i'd rush to buy
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 09:47 |
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so what did mia freedman actually do/say to trigger all this crap in the first place? i remember seeing something in the news about someone being fat and then next thing there's 300 unread posts in the AusPol thread
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 06:42 |
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JBP posted:Literally this. Hobo is a milquetoast small business job creator respector.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 07:35 |
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there's been like three whole pages and no one has mentioned mia freedman, what the gently caress happened?
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2017 11:55 |
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it's dutton time
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2017 22:10 |
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JBP posted:Because shitloads of labor voters send their kids to $3k a year Catholic schools. maybe they should just nationalise the el cheapo catholic schools or something
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 20:45 |
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Hobo Erotica posted:I was going to spare the thread the full text, but since JBP so lovingly created a cover, here it is:
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 11:50 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:He's saying that Trabants are bad cars which is true. i dunno, when i was in hungary they reckoned trabants were pretty cool because no matter what was wrong with them you could fix them with a hammer gay picnic defence fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 11:55 |
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good, bring on the splits
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 20:44 |
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Birdstrike posted:At present we're in this sort of weird equilibrium position where the RBA can't raise interest rates because the economy and wages are underperforming but it can't raise rates (by say .5%) because the housing market will tank. Interest rates are already rising on the international bond markets which raises the cost of borrowing for our banks because they borrow money through those to lend to people. Our banks aren't just going to sit there and cop a hit to their revenue so they'll pass on those rate rises on to people who borrow from them. freebooter posted:Looking at the graphs, Japanese land did fall back to the mean in the same amount of time it went up - which I guess is what a deflating rather than bursting bubble is. EoinCannon posted:I don't know much about economics but are real estate bubbles different from other kinds of bubbles due to the fact that every person needs a dwelling and the amount of people will always (for the forseeable future) increase? It's not like other speculative bubbles where the commodity has no real value and it bursts dropping prices down to zero/gently caress all, like the tech bubble or the Dutch Tulip mania. The number of investors relying on a capital gain make our situation unique. A plateau or slow decline risks causing a rapid sell off by investors looking to cash in before their capital gain is whittled away. It all stems from negative gearing and the capital gain discount, most of these investors are making losses to reduce their effective income in the short term and cash in eventually when they sell their properties for a big, fat, favourably taxed profit. Without that capital gain at the end they've just been making losses for a decade or so, so you can imagine they'll be pretty quick to sell if they think the market has peaked. From memory something like 40% of properties in Australia are owned by investors. A sizable chunk of those are bought using interest only loans, which leaves the investor dependent on rising house prices in order to not go completely underwater. So in some respects the housing market is like a speculative bubble - they've speculated that prices will keep rising forever and left themselves horribly exposed in the event that it doesn't. I guess in some ways it's worse than a share market bubble because where most of those leave you with just a bunch of worthless shares (assuming you haven't borrowed to buy in), this has the potential to leave people with debt worth far more than the asset i.e. less than nothing.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 11:23 |
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Futuresight posted:I so want to see a government slap down a ban on residential investment property. Just BAM no more owning residential property you don't live in. Oh, this property you own is classified as residential and you don't live in it? Well you better sell it to someone who will right sharpish or it's government property for free and we'll auction it off with no minimum, or turn it into social housing. You can probably achieve more or less the same thing without turfing every tenant in the country onto the street by implementing a Great Big New Tax on vacant properties
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 11:51 |
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The shame of it is that when it all collapses like a house of cards you can guarantee the government of the day will ride up and bail all the shithead property flippers out of their millions of dollars in debt and they'll probably increase HECS repayments or something to pay for it all
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 12:07 |
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To be fair that probably isn't the worst idea. If we're going to get new submarines they might as well be able to go years without refueling
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 09:47 |
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Lid posted:(We don't have crews for them) 457s my friend
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 09:57 |
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snoremac posted:I wonder if he's insulated from the truth by the soothing praise of sycophants like Bolt. Probably, and that's probably why he keeps sniping and generally carrying on to undermine the PM because he thinks that he's the anointed one
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 09:59 |
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Lid posted:a lot of people dont want to be on sub crews because its so claustrophobic. that, and the fact that at least on a surface vessel or a plane you can jump out and have a reasonable chance of survival if something goes wrong but in a sub you're pretty much hosed
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 20:54 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Does anyone remember Helen Dale/Darville/Demidenko? is conservatism in some/most people the consequence of some kind of mental illness or impairment?
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 20:55 |
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NTRabbit posted:As a rule of thumb the size of the Submarine Arm is driven by the number of qualified crew at sea, for every person at sea the Arm should contain another 1.6 – 1.8 people. So the crew size of the chosen SSN is a key determinant. For a fleet of ten of the larger British or American SSNs, an Australian submarine arm of about 3,400 would be required. The smaller French SSN would require half this number. I don't think anyone (other than Tones perhaps) thinks its as simple as walking up to the US with a suitcase of case and going "10 SSNs thanks" but in the long run the unlimited range of a nuclear warship would probably be pretty useful potentially to the point of making all the effort and lead time worthwhile
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 21:01 |
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This is coolquote:From the outside, it looks like a green shipping container on an industrial block in the suburbs. But on the inside, there's plenty going on.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 22:27 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:05 |
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hahaha http://www.theage.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/domain-enters-mortgage-broking-game-with-lendi-20170622-gww3o5.html i guess you can expect even less unbiased articles about the housing bubble from fairfax now
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