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drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

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

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 09:17

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 06:22

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

spill

spill

spilll

https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/981450894293180416

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 13:52

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

spill spill spilll

:siren:

https://twitter.com/AndrewJaffrey/status/981764639603109893

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 07:39

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

a non sitting week makes sense too, gives time for a changeover before labour lambasts them for a week straight of question times.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 07:50

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

BBJoey posted:

the politicians all go home to their electorates on non-sitting weeks, so they�re dispersed all over the country. if they wanted to call a party meeting they�d all need to pack up on a plane and come to canberra or wherever which would be a pain in the rear end for everyone. there�s nothing stopping them from holding a party room meeting in a non-sitting week but logistically it�s too much of a pain in the rear end to bother.

newspoll is out monday morning. meeting for 10am monday morning.

lol

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 07:58

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Agreed, split up and sell off the NBN to fund and build the:

Countrywide
Ultra
Network
Telecommunication
System

# ¿ Apr 6, 2018 05:08

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Joyce has extended the deadline. Said Turnbull has to improve by christmas or he should consider standing down.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 11:23

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

wow, what a read. bold the whole thing

Also:
https://twitter.com/markhumphries/status/983289452817608704

# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 15:11

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

https://twitter.com/MitchellToy/status/983570589444009984?s=19

:madmax:

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 09:07

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Victorian liberals are boycotting or too scared to go on the ABC drivetime program for a grilling. None of them have gone on his show for 3 months.

https://twitter.com/Raf_Epstein/status/983941723066851329

I guess they can say whatever they want without being called out on 3AW.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2018 11:18

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Malcolm attempting to bail out the Victorian Liberal party (and the federal libs too)

https://twitter.com/tminear/status/984038918105411585

State budget is out in a few weeks and Dandrews would have given partial funding to begin work on the rail link next year. 50-50 split of funding with state and federal government, so I guess they'll be extending the Racecourse line and tunneling under Vic Uni and Highpoint to the airport instead of the cheaper and longer route via Sunshine.

drunkill fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Apr 11, 2018

# ¿ Apr 11, 2018 13:11

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Why does new train lines mean he is toast?

Pork Barreling. Blow a bunch of money in the Budget to win over votes.

Abbott made sure the $3bn in federal funding for the Melbourne Metro was re-directed to the East West Link to help out the Vic libs when they signed the contract days before the Victorian elections. They lost, so that 3bn is sitting in an account awaiting the day that project is revived (decades because it does not stack up financially) or a future PM re-directs it to another specific project or puts it back into the general infrastructure pool.

Vic Labor sold the port lease (both parties were planning on doing it) and funded the metro tunnel mostly on their own and have spruiked that fact that the federal government has not been helping victoria for the past few years.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2018 13:51

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Train to the Node

# ¿ Apr 11, 2018 14:43

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

It has subtitles

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 00:33

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Of course.

Malcolm sent the airport rail funding letter to Dan Andrews at a quarter past midnight this morning (basically saying find 5 billion quickly or you won't get this train line) hours after it had gone up on the herald sun.

https://twitter.com/rwillingham/status/984189913795936256?s=19

The fed government also spent $50m to do a study... which had the same results and same 4 route options as a study done by vicgov only a few years ago

https://twitter.com/UrbanMelbourne/status/984066846063083520?s=19

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 01:46

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Speaking of trains and Victoria, watch Opposition Lobster Matthew Guy hide from the cameras when a station announcement tells them to stop filming on the platform without permission

https://twitter.com/Qldaah/status/983858812422533121?s=09

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 03:45

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

How is this thread not talking about the contractor for President Malcolms Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme being raided by the AFP for corruption?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/engineering-firm-working-on-snowy-hydro-investigated-overseas/9647482

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/turnbull-s-energy-project-lead-contractor-under-corruption-cloud-20180411-p4z8zt.html

quote:

The chairman and several top executives of the lead contractor on the Government's Snowy 2.0 project are under federal police investigation for covering up alleged financial crime.

In February, the federal police raided the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) over suspicions that SMEC Holdings chairman Max Findlay, recently departed chief executive Andrew Goodwin and several still-serving top executives were involved in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to cover up international graft.

A subsidiary company, SMEC Australia, was hired by the government-owned Snowy Hydro company in May 2017 to perform the major $29 million feasibility contract on the initial phase of Malcolm Turnbull's signature Snowy 2.0 project.

The company won the work even though SMEC's overseas operations were facing an earlier and still ongoing federal police inquiry for paying bribes or engaging in other financial crimes overseas.

The latest federal police investigation targets several senior Australian company figures who are suspected of engaging in an alleged conspiracy to thwart the earlier federal police probe.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 10:18

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7K-ij6O6pA

I would laugh, if it wasn't actually very sad.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 16:25

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

ColtMcAsskick posted:

Hey can anyone tell me about the RAFFWU? I�d rather not join SDA but was wondering if the alternative can get tings done

SDA is a union for employers not workers, so unless you own a business, you probably want to join the RAFFWU.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 11:36

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

So, noted friend-of-the-mafia Matthew Guy is actually not just taking donations from the Mafia for the liberal party but well, helping them out.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/liberal-figure-promoted-alleged-mafia-don-to-italian-business-chamber-20180413-p4z9hv.html

quote:

A Liberal Party figure appointed by Opposition leader Matthew Guy to lead the state's property development agency personally promoted the alleged head of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia to a prominent business body.

Tony De Domenico used his position last October as president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Melbourne to make alleged mafia boss Tony Madafferi, a chamber member.

The move prompted the intervention of the Italian embassy, which demanded Mr Madafferi�s membership be blocked because of his notorious reputation.

Mr De Domenico pushed for Mr Madafferi�s membership of the chamber�s Melbourne chapter just weeks after Mr Guy was enveloped in a public scandal over revelations that he met Mr Madafferi at a lobster restaurant in April 2017.

Mr Madafferi would have been able to use his membership to move among the chamber�s business and political networks.

Mr Guy appointed Mr De Domenico as chair of the state�s property development agency Places Victoria (now Development Victoria) in 2014.

Mr De Domenico is a former Liberal deputy chief minister in the Australian Capital Territory and more recently the head of Victorian branch of the private sector development lobby, the Urban Development Institute of Australia.

He is, and has been, a member of a slew of semi-government boards and was formerly a deputy chancellor of Latrobe University. Treasurer Scott Morrison, in his former role as social services minister, appointed Mr De Domenico to chair the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute in 2014. He has also served as Trade Commissioner to Italy.

Mr De Domenico was, until last month, also the chairman of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a committee part funded by the Italian government that promotes business and political links between Australia and Italy.

After eight years as chamber chairman, he was voted off the board in March partly, The Age understands, because of concerns about his support for Mr Madafferi.

In an interview with The Age, Mr De Domenico denied he had pushed for the alleged mafia figure to be given chamber membership, describing the allegation as "crap".

"That�s not true mate,�� he said when asked specifically about the October chamber of commerce meeting.

Mr De Domenico said he had neither a personal nor a commercial relationship with Mr Madafferi: "No relationship whatsoever".

"I know who he (Madafferi) is, but I don�t know him.��

Mr De Domenico did not respond to repeated attempts for further comment.

But documents reveal that in October, De Domenico nominated Market Europa, a chain of green groceries owned by the alleged mafia chief for corporate membership of the Italian chamber.

Confidential chamber documents created in October and November last year show a resolution in which the chamber accepted, as a group, 10 new individual and corporate members.

The following resolution records that Mr De Domenico then "handed up a duly filled up application��, seeking membership for "Europa Market (sic), run by T. Madafferi��.

The documents show that the following month, Mr Madafferi's proposed membership was withdrawn.

Leaked files seen by Fairfax Media reveal the nomination of Mr Madafferi caused grave concerns among Italian diplomats and some chamber members because of his alleged Calabrian mafia involvement.

The nomination came just weeks after the The Age�s August revelation that Mr Guy secretly dined with Mr Madafferi, his cousin, market gardener Frank Lamattina, and others, at the Lobster Cave restaurant at Beaumaris in Melbourne�s south east in April 2017.

The Andrews government seized on the revelations, claiming it was gross hypocrisy for a tough-on-crime crusader like Guy to dine with a man police had had banned from Crown Casino and all Victorian race tracks.

In his last day as planning minister in 2014 � ahead of the caretaker period prior to the 2014 state election � Mr Guy appointed Mr De Domenico to a three-year contract as chairman of Places Victoria, the precursor to Development Victoria.

Development Victoria is responsible for developing state government-owned buildings and land such as Docklands.

Labor saw Mr De Domenico's appointment as a provocative move so close to the election, particularly since Mr De Domenico had often voiced opposition to government having a role in property development. Still, Labor re-appointed him as deputy chairman in 2017.

The saga leaves a major cloud over Mr De Domenico, especially given his membership of government boards where high standards of probity are crucial. In an affidavit filed in court in June 2017 in support of Mr Madafferi's ban from the casino and race tracks, Detective Superintendent Peter Brigham said the police hold "substantial intelligence" indicating Mr Madafferi had "substantial and close involvement with serious criminal conduct including drug importation, murder and extortion".

Mr Madafferi, who also part owns the national pizza chain La Porchetta, has never been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.

In the early 2000s, police intelligence linking Mr Madafferi to allegations of "murder, gunshot wounding and arson" was detailed in court but vehemently denied by Mr Madafferi.

Prior to that, he was named as a suspected hitman in two coronial inquests in the 1990s. He was identified in a recent police intelligence briefing as the leader of a Calabrian Mafia cell in Melbourne that remains a powerful presence at Victoria's wholesale fruit and vegetable market.

Mr Madafferi�s cousin Frank Lamattina is a long standing supporter of the Liberal party.

In September, The Sunday Age also revealed that Mr Madafferi was pressing through one of his companies, Madan Nominees, for government approval to develop a semi-rural/green wedge property he owned in Melbourne�s south east that would deliver him a windfall of as much as $120 million.

On Friday a spokesman for the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry stressed that the chamber had elected a new, more youthful board, had overhauled its governance and accountability arrangements, and and that problems like the Madafferi membership saga would not occur again.

The fruit, veg and pizza mafia. Brought to you by the Liberal Party of Victoria.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2018 06:54

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

1000 new centrelink call centre staff. good.

private contractors, casual positions, serco. bad.

jobs for mates (who own call centres) is very much alive

drunkill fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Apr 22, 2018

# ¿ Apr 22, 2018 23:37

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Nobody posted this yet?

200 shipbuilding jobs to go in SA, election was won, no need for them anymore

https://twitter.com/theamwu/status/988272050132238337

# ¿ Apr 23, 2018 14:01

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

I just has a HSP at 1am, so my anzac day is complete, goodnihgt.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2018 16:57

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Schlesische posted:

A bank for all peoples from Australia and, you know what, hell lets throw in those New Zealanders too.

Maybe we could go a step further and make a bank that caters to all peoples in the Western Pacific.

Nah, forget about the West Pac, just focus on ANZ.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2018 17:57

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Dimebag posted:

Speaking of unscrupulous decision making:

Perhaps FTTN was not the correct technology for the NBN.

The comments are pretty good, much like the RC into the banks a whole lot of people calling for Turnbull & Abbott to be Mussolini'd.

Nice, thanks CEO who is leaving his $3m a year job to maybe say it is not all roses and sunshine after you had a chance to sway policy but decided to brownnose the government for multiple years and be a good little lapdog.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2018 17:59

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 06:22

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

Zenithe posted:

At a recent placement I was doing some pre job interview tests on Vicpol applicants I learnt a fun fact: every other state holds applications when they need a demand, but Vicpol almost never stops recruiting.

Because of the boost to police numbers (by 2500) since the Andrews government came to power, or just generally?

Because the libs did sack 500 staff and cops from vicpolice last time they were in government under napthine.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2018 10:38

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