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Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

Dude McAwesome posted:

loving dogs.

Completely unacceptable behaviour. I sincerely hope that young girl is okay, and the behaviour of these fucks hasn�t damaged her or her desire to help other people.

Does the SES have these issues? One of the guys doing it was the Brigade Commander.

As for Turnball and Co doing everything in their power to cheat out of losing more MP's - if they only do 1 MP, the High Court will be able to do it quicker - and judging by his past performance, he will lose that bet, and lose all the MP's faster than they would if they committed all of them.

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 16:10

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

gay picnic defence posted:

Advice: if you're worried about values, stay close to experts such as mortgage brokers and real estate agents. Don't be panicked � be informed.

If you have property: Get out. Get Out Now.

(Note I have been wrong for the last 6+ years, so what do I know).

# ¿ Dec 11, 2017 13:17

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Cuazl posted:

Take those statistics that came out lately on the tax paid by companies earning over $100m. I dropped those numbers into a spreadsheet to estimate the effective tax rate on big business in Australia: 2043 companies earning a total of $1.8 trillion paid a total of $38 billion in tax, for an effective tax rate of 2.11%.

732 companies with a total income of $506 billion paid no income tax whatsoever. Only 38 of those 2043 paid more than 10%; of those who paid anything, most (1139) paid less than 5%. Only four paid over 20%. The big four banks pay 7% tax between them. Wesfarmers pays 1.46% tax on its $63.4bn income, and Woolworths pays 1% on $49.4bn.

Part of the reason it's so low is that only 9.5% of that $1.8tn is considered taxable income. Woolies, for instance, is technically paying 26% income tax - except only 3.7% of their income is taxable in the first place. Those 732 companies with no taxable income had an average income of $700 million. That list includes News Corp, Foxtel, Adani, Exxon, Ford, General Motors, EnergyAustralia, BNP Paribas and Virgin Australia. The highest earning company to pay no tax is Glencore Investment at $18.3 billion, closely folled by Viva Energy at $16.8bn and Qantas at $15.8bn.

If that 2.1% was increased to 4%, the deficit would disappear immediately, with nearly a billion left over. Raising it to a backbreaking 10% would increase the federal budget by 40%. What could Australia do with a $147 billion surplus? That'd buy a lot of tortured refugees, for sure.

Note: that list doesn't even consider negative taxes (subsidies, rebates, etc). Reminder that Murdoch's News Corp got a billion dollar tax rebate just after Abbott got in, even though they don't pay taxes any more. They're sure as gently caress not the only ones.

Bloody hell. Why scream for lower taxes when you're at 0-2% already

# ¿ Dec 23, 2017 13:55

Comstar: Apr 20, 2007; Are you happy now?

cheese-cube posted:

Can someone give me the low-down on this "ADF spent $10B on weapons in the last four years" which the ABC has been running all loving day with zero context? Is it just a slow news day or what?

ABC News: Why is money being spent on defence?
Military Industrial Complex Professor: They need to spend more money on defence.
ABC News: Sounds important. Is that a good idea?
Military Industrial Complex Professor: It's always a good idea to spend more billions on defence. The UK is spending less and look what's happening to them! You don't want to be like them do you. Of course not. In these dangerous and precarious times, Defence Needs All The Money. And it should be US hardware because our own defence industries cost too much.
ABC News: And there you have it - spend all the money on Operation Blow Up Dirt - defiantly a good idea.

Q: When HAS IT NOT been dangerous and precarious times?!?!?!? My guess is it's in the news because there's going to be a scandal about weapon procurements coming out next year.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2017 13:02

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It sounds like ASIS heard about from Russian sources that they had an agent who was planning on running for US President. and sent the Ambassador to try and confirm if it was true. Downer passed it back and ASIS tried to tell the CIA/NSA that holy gently caress you have a Russian Agent trying to become the President of the United States.

Meanwhile 3 other western intelligences agencies (Germany, Netherlands and UK) heard the same thing and passed it to the CIA too.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2017 05:19

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 16:10

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The ABC Sydney-no-where-else-in-Australia-counts coverage was horrible. No year end pub trivia, just a 30 year COUNTDOWN episode (which seemed to have been cut from a 30 year anniversary show and the ABC Budget was cut so they shoved it into the end of the year) andthey kept cutting to commercials(!!) including at the end before the last firework went off.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2017 16:09

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