CrazyTolradi posted:

But how else can community sports clubs continue to thrive off the suffering and devastation imposed on families?

Anidav posted:

From an observation,Tasmania is looking kinda close? No?

adamantium|wang posted:

Hey assholes, my daughter is doing an assignment about perceptions of feminism across generations and genders. If you had a spare 5 minutes and need a distraction from the abysmal state of Auspol check it out.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQ91ubBSaXBeORsK1pZN0Wg-wlhjxS2CWtiDKTbvkeWT7e-Q/viewform

kirbysuperstar posted:

Barnaby gettin' more action than Caleb

JBP posted:

What possible political compensation does Barnaby see coming of throwing baby mama under the bus?

I mean I know it usually works. This doesn't seem like a bus throwing situation though.

Anidav posted:

It's very suspect that Fairfax is currently going after Julie Bishop's throat.

After Barnaby it's almost like some sort of media emperor has given permission to start loving up the Liberal Party but such a figure doesn't exist.

But Dutton has not been a target at all. Even when journalists are clearly looking for dirt.

Anidav posted:

drat. Retail Food Group, Doughnut Time and Aussie Farmers direct all going under in one day.

Seems like a pretty crazy day for retail food businesses and suppliers.

Anidav posted:

Retail food group got caught ripping off franchisers and not paying employees and closed trading back in December. Trading reopened today and stock went from 5 bux to 1 dollar and will probably tumble further tomorrow into the abyss.

Doughnut Time just said they ran out of money and all the stores are gonna close.

Same for Aussie Farmers Direct owners just got up and left into bankruptcy.

Coucho Marx posted:

what up fellow outer-easter

gently caress tudge, so much

Birdstrike posted:

nationalise the waste

fiery_valkyrie posted:

How many tampons do these men think women use??

The way they’re all carrying on you’d think that 90% of government revenue comes from the gst on tampons.

Forget the companies with turnover in the billions that pay no tax - we’re going to bring the budget back into surplus by keeping the tax on tampons!

Ora Tzo posted:

https://twitter.com/Henry_Belot/status/971855016297312256

Extreme measures.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/lif...307-p4z3dd.html

Anidav posted:

"Oh, absolutely, but I relied upon the banks to work this out," she said.

"I relied upon the banks to sit down and work it all out with me."

quote:

Ms Schmidt has taken her case to the Financial Ombudsman Service claiming the loan was unaffordable in the first place.

She claims she only saw three pages of the loan application form which she signed.

When she applied recently for the full form, she said she was shocked by its contents.

Ms Schmidt claims the document overstated her assets, including her superannuation, and underestimated her existing debts.

quote:

At 71, Linda Schmidt should be enjoying retirement.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Who the gently caress signs a loving contract for a six or seven figure debt without loving reading it Jesus Christ I spent ages going through ours and going back to people to make sure I understood the bits that didn’t make sense to me

Birdstrike posted:

Big Willy Style posted:

No the greens are literally throwing journalists they sleep with in front of trains etc

Birdstrike posted:

especially the porn star stuff

GoldStandardConure posted:

i posted this a few days ago you fucko!!!

Anidav posted:

If Labor swings to the left at the national conference I might consider rejoining

Solemn Sloth posted:

lol the Australian had to change their articles late overnight from saying newspoll was a clear reflection of people’s views on shortens great big new tax when they got the actual results

Solemn Sloth posted:

Zero change on 2pp, still 53-47 Labor lead, Labor +1 in primary

Guardian posted:

Granting a visa to a foreign au pair was in the public interest, Peter Dutton has said, after using his ministerial powers to intervene in her case.

The visa was granted after a young woman’s bid to enter Australia was ruled unlawful following her detention at Brisbane airport.

The young woman had her eVisitor visa cancelled at the Brisbane airport on 17 June 2015, rendering her an “unlawful non-citizen” under migration laws.
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AAP understands she made a phone call to a contact while detained at the airport and was “quickly” granted a new visa which allowed her to lawfully enter Australia.

A document tabled in parliament shows the woman was granted a tourist visa (subclass 600) after Dutton, who was the immigration minister at the time and is now the home affairs minister, used his ministerial discretion to intervene in the case.

“Having regard to this person’s particular circumstances and personal characteristics, I have decided to exercise my discretionary powers … as it would be in the public interest to grant this person a visa,” the parliamentary document says.

“I have decided that as a discretionary and humanitarian act to an individual with ongoing needs it is in the interests of Australia as a humane and generous society to grant this person a [visa].”

An immigration official familiar with the visa cancellation process at the airport was “very surprised at this unusual set of events”.

“It is not very common for visas to be granted at the border after the visa a person arrived on is cancelled,” the source told AAP. They said usually people were put on the next available flight home.

Analysis of ministerial discretion statements for 2015 tabled in parliament shows the bulk of these visas are granted to asylum seekers requiring bridging or temporary humanitarian visas or former residents returning to Australia.

A former department official told AAP under the ministerial discretion powers “the minister is God. He can do whatever he likes.”

Ministerial submissions concerning the au pair did not involve consultation with the department secretary or the head of customs.

Dutton has declined to explain why it was in the public interest to grant a visa to the woman and refused to shed light on her “ongoing needs”. Dutton has denied he personally knew the au pair and that she worked for him or his family. The minister and his wife, Kirilly, have three young children.

“The decision did not breach the statement of ministerial standards,” Dutton told AAP in 2016.

Ministerial standards under the Turnbull and Abbott governments state: “It is critical that ministers do not use public office for private purposes.

“Ministers are required to ensure official decisions made by them as ministers are unaffected by bias or … considerations of private advantage.

“Ministers must ensure they act with integrity – that is through the lawful and disinterested exercise of statutory and other powers available to their office.”

Over the past two years Dutton’s department has been trying to suppress key details of the case and the reasons underpinning the decision.

AAP sought access to details surrounding the case under freedom of information laws, but documents supplied were heavily redacted citing privacy concerns. AAP is now awaiting an outcome from the administrative appeals tribunal.

During the tribunal’s hearing earlier this month, AAP argued the news outlet was not seeking the woman’s name and that releasing details which might relate to her employer would not specifically identify her.

AAP’s lawyer Surya Palaniappan said there were strong public interest grounds for disclosing further information from the FOI documents.

“Even if the minister has somewhat of an unfettered discretion under the Migration Act, he’s nevertheless subject to these [ministerial] standards,” she told the hearing.

The department’s lawyer, Brooke Griffin, argued disclosure of personal information of the au pair, including country of origin, employer and conversations with Border Force officials, would be unreasonable because it would breach privacy and make her identifiable.

“There is no evidence whatsoever, before the tribunal, of any personal link between the minister and the [au pair],” Griffin told the tribunal.

“Nor could it be said that the release of the personal information … will shed any light whatsoever on the allegation … at the moment it is mere speculation.”

Tribunal member Chris Puplick, a former Liberal senator, promised to make a decision on the case “reasonably expeditiously” but gave no time frame