LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

There is straight up too much sugar in almost everything, but there's no way to get companies to cut that poo poo out.

Lid posted:

Not up to date, whats SW?

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

Power corrupts, especially very small amounts of power.

Laserface posted:

lmao if you expect Pell to be convicted of literally anything and if he is, actually be punished in accordance with the severity of the crimes.

hes already had a number of the charges thrown out as if he will even do hard time.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

https://twitter.com/GuidoTresoldi/status/991654792043806720

I'd be surprised if this hadn't already happened.

JBP posted:

Does anyone in Sydney or Melbourne pay less than $200 rent a week? I guess if you're in a shareholder with 4+ people maybe?

Laserface posted:

you cant/wont find a place to rent for $200/wk on your own though. Granny flats and studios are still $350+/wk

there is basically no way to live as a single person in sydney on anything under say 90k/year.

Cheap Trick posted:

I see that Australia's co-alignment with China is moving at a rapid pace.

The Before Times posted:

but what else will we do with all this inner city retail frontage? we couldn't *possibly* turn it into affordable housing

hooman posted:

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/993798867127681025

Who keeps inviting this guy to Budget Night and why

bigis posted:

Surely you plan to run as a pollie for a long time before the election.

Tough poo poo if you don’t get it done in time.

bigis posted:

Ok? If you don’t want to give it up citizenship then don’t apply to be an MP.

bigis posted:

I’d also like to please change the constitution because it makes applying for a specific job difficult.

JBP posted:

Why is this an election budget when the liberals can roll out another budget next year since we won't poll until AFL grand final 2019?

JBP posted:

Eh, I guess. Who cares about that though it isn't the Billpocalypse

JBP posted:

I can't recall having a more cowardly government though

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/994411580258304001

G-Spot Run posted:

I always read it as eye-cack too, don't know if I heard it spoken out loud before then.

quote:

What took her so long [to check her citizenship status]? Part of it would have been her surprise candidature. Aly had probably given no thought at all to her Egyptian citizenship for years, until Labor asked her to run for Cowan. The other part is the complexity of renouncing Egyptian citizenship. The consulate gave her the relevant form, but it was in Arabic and asked her for things she didn’t have, like her Egyptian ID number. Labor gave her “a lot of help in filling out the form,” she later told the ABC. “I then had to get the form signed by a justice of the peace, and then by a notary public, and then take it to our offices here in Australia and get it signed by our Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and get a seal on it and then send it back to Egypt.” Even with her party’s help, it took her at least three months just to complete the paperwork.

quote:

But its consequence for future candidates like Aly is crystal clear. The political practice of drafting high-profile figures into political office as an election looms (or the preselected candidate quits) must now exclude the half of the population who might have inherited an unwanted foreign citizenship. The parties may be willing to punt on a British or Canadian or New Zealand Australian sometime, as those countries’ bureaucracies are amenable to being hurried along. But no party will ever take such a risk with someone with a more obscure citizenship that requires navigating an unfamiliar language or culture or legal system. Those folks can wait until next time, if at all.

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This week, the High Court provided an escape for people like Aly. The constitutional bar on electing dual citizens doesn’t apply where foreign law contains “an insurmountable obstacle, such as a requirement with which compliance is not possible.” The majority gave just one example of such a law: a requirement to travel to a dangerous country. A further example was given by another judge: a requirement to complete overseas military service first...

The irony with the High Court’s “insurmountable obstacle” test is that there is an insurmountable obstacle to its being tested. Before the court can rule on whether a particular country’s requirements are insurmountable, a dual citizen from that country must first run for office, be elected, and then be challenged. But what party would risk nominating such a candidate? Instead, dual citizens’ only practical option in such cases is to surmount the insurmountable (and to do so long before they seek preselection).

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I can't even remember who ran against Turnbull in the last election. Was it actually Shorten?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Apparently Andrew Bolt has strong opinions about the black Archbishop that gave the sermon at the royal wedding.

this broken hill posted:

there's no way clive palmer will still be alive in 2030

Cleretic posted:

If we're redistributing the ABC, can we have one station that's just devoted to the real fuckin' good comedies that got made for it? Because I feel like that's the thing that the ABC does real well that it never gets credit for. I straight-up can't think of a good Australian comedy that wasn't on the ABC.