Auspol May: it's a Bloody Budget Bonanza!

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You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

God I hope Pell is found guilty just to see the reaction from Andrew Bolt and Tony Abbott.

As well as some closure for Pell's victims, of course.

# ¿ May 1, 2018 03:12

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 03:02

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

The Before Times posted:

look at all these hypocrites ITT who hate landlords but still pay one money for their lodgings

Yeah, well, look how far you get without paying :smith:

# ¿ May 1, 2018 05:34

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

So Coalition MP Andrew Laming has pretty well laid his boot into all teachers, saying that they are lazy, that the bad teachers get paid the same as good teachers thanks to UNIONS and they should have fewer holidays.

# ¿ May 2, 2018 01:34

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/triple-zero-outages-nsw-victoria-western-australia-cable-cut/9725860

Triple-0 outages in Victoria, NSW and WA.

Someone forgot to call "Dial before you Dig"

# ¿ May 3, 2018 22:26

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Doctor Spaceman posted:

ACT Senator Gallagher out due to Section 44. Possibly more to come.

Also the Centre Alliance member in the House of Reps has also been flagged as being illegitimate

# ¿ May 9, 2018 01:40

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-10/david-goodall-ends-life-in-a-powerful-statement-on-euthanasia/9742528

David Goodall, who is 104 years old, is travelling to Switzerland for euthanasia due to age rather than illness.

What's everyone's view on this?

I have a grandmother whose health has gone downhill the past 18 months, going from someone who was relatively mobile and able to do most things by herself to being petrified about going out of her room or to the toilet without assistance from a nurse or relative and spends most of her time in a bed or chair. She has mentioned a number of times the past few months that she just wants it all to end and wants to meet up with her parents and husband in the afterlife. Should Victoria's euthanasia laws be adjusted to allow people who are of sound mind, which she still is, to just go "well, I am 90+ years old, but it's time to clock out" rather than just wasting away?

# ¿ May 11, 2018 00:28

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Whitlam posted:

Ban all men.

Yeah, well let's see you try opening the jar without our help :smug:

But I have to agree with the view on men, we're just aggressive arseholes who just like to cause violence

# ¿ May 11, 2018 05:41

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The Before Times posted:

did the budget contain any new money for family violence prevention?

Probably received the same amount of attention as climate action does.

# ¿ May 11, 2018 05:42

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Gentleman Baller posted:

Wage slavery is a choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B4wcjANYjg

# ¿ May 11, 2018 11:09

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Anidav posted:

Super keen to quote this post when Victoria turns Liberal Majority in November

Quoting this so I can remember in November to throw it back at your face.

Unless you're too busy at that time land clearing rainforest and destroying the reef :smug:

# ¿ May 14, 2018 02:57

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Has anyone noticed that Pauline Hanson has had the constitution for the One Nation Party changed so it has her as President for Life of the party?

# ¿ May 14, 2018 07:01

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Brown Paper Bag posted:

The Ludlam dream is over, the Greens nominated some ex-Cop to run in Fremantle

I think Ludlam has well and truly burnt out mentally over his experiences in Parliament, so that's none too surprising. Although a cop (ex or current) that's a greenie? That's like expecting an army person to be left wing.

# ¿ May 15, 2018 03:25

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Lid posted:

The political career of one of the Liberal Party's newest members, Lucy Gichuhi, is at risk of coming to an abrupt end at the next election.

Senator Gichuhi defected to the Liberals in February, making the shock announcement alongside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who described the Kenyan-born senator as an "inspiration" and a "true Australian success story".

But the ABC has been told the party's right-faction has never embraced Senator Gichuhi — a social conservative — and is moving to install Adelaide City Councillor Alex Antic above her on the party's Senate ticket.

That would push Senator Gichuhi to the fourth position, which is considered unwinnable.

One source told the ABC that if Mr Antic is on the ticket, the former Family First senator would be "consigned to the dustbin".

Gotta make sure we have enough white men in the Liberal Party. We don't want those women-folk, especially non-white ones.

# ¿ May 15, 2018 05:01

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BBJoey posted:

yes, but by convention they will always nominate the candidate chosen by the party of the outgoing senator.

Unless it was Sir Joh making the choice

# ¿ May 15, 2018 12:24

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Yet another "celebrity" shithead chef underpaying his staff:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-16/workers-owed-thousands-intimidated-at-burch-purhese-sweet-studio/9762844

Also throw in some staff intimidation for extra spice.

# ¿ May 16, 2018 00:24

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Dude McAwesome posted:

The pensioners retiring overseas because they can't afford Australia

Fuckin' leaners on welfare going on overseas trips. God drat bludgers.

On the ABC news last night they had an article on about rising housing cost effecting people on social security.

So did they use a young person as their case study? Or a single mother with children? No, some baby boomer who used to run a business complaining about not affording rent in her inner city suburb.

# ¿ May 16, 2018 02:51

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Holy loving poo poo this government has raised the bar for bungling

Or lowered it, depending on the half empty/half full glass scenario

# ¿ May 16, 2018 06:17

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"You're a SoyBoy!"

# ¿ May 17, 2018 03:01

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JBP posted:

Freehills are bad

I have never heard of them, but googling comes up with them being a Lawyers firm.

And all Lawyers are bad, so yeah, kinda redundant

# ¿ May 17, 2018 23:35

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bandaid.friend posted:

Never answer the phone for anyone. Distribute carrier pigeons to your contacts

smh if you don't use dead drops and microfilm

# ¿ May 18, 2018 02:44

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bandaid.friend posted:

Guessing they don't have similar for the banking and child abuse inquiries?

Or a counter on how much land clearing has been done in Queensland during the week

# ¿ May 18, 2018 08:58

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Tony Abbott everyone (in Italics) from The Guardian Live Blog:

quote:

Ladies and gentlemen � Tony Abbott, a former minister for health:

Depression can be crippling, there is no doubt about that, but it also, also can be cured, and a lot of people, if they were more active, they would probably have a better approach to things.

And certainly, muscular-skeletal issues � there are a few middle-aged blokes who don�t have them � but on the other hand, if we look after ourselves, and if we get them looked after properly, well, then they can be active and proactive.

He was talking about the NDIS and his concerns over how �everyone not in the system will want to get into the system, because the system provides a much higher level of service�.

Now, if people really are genuinely incapacitated, obviously they have to be looked after, but there are a lot of people who are on the disability support pension, for instance, who you wouldn�t think have got particularly severe or particularly long-lasting conditions, and that is the thing that I fear.

The � pressure for people with disabilities of one sort or another, that aren�t necessarily incapacitating, trying to get themselves into the system and the system just getting more and more and more. It is that pressure, that in the end, will be more serious. I am not minimising the problem of people ripping us off. There�s if you like, the pressure of compassion.

We all want to be compassionate, but unfortunately we are being compassionate here with taxpayer dollars. And just how far can that go. That is the big question.

So, the man who just four minutes ago called for the government to use taxpayer funds to buy back a power station the NSW government only sold to AGL because of a policy HIS government created (anyone remember the $5bn asset recycling infrastructure fund? Anyone?) is now arguing we have to be careful of using taxpayer funds for compassionate reasons.

But don�t worry � cure your depression with exercise. HAVE YOU TRIED YOGA? GO SEE A SUNRISE. That will definitely fix the chemical imbalances in your brain.

I can not even with today.

You Am I fucked around with this message at 01:45 on May 21, 2018

# ¿ May 21, 2018 01:27

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CrazyTolradi posted:

Vic LNP must be running on fumes money wise because Matthew Guy and a bunch of MP's were having lunch at my local pizza joint.

I always suspected that place had Mafia links but drat.

Wrong account, mith

# ¿ May 21, 2018 06:09

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Anidav posted:

Victorians can't even take a crew thread joke

I know, tell me

# ¿ May 21, 2018 08:54

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Lid posted:

The Australian Public Service commissioner, John Lloyd, has repeatedly refused to say whether he is under investigation for his relationship with the Institute of Public Affairs.

Lloyd’s contact with the rightwing thinktank, of which he is a longtime member and former director, has come under scrutiny. Labor is claiming it as proof that he is acting in a partisan manner, including in an email revealed on Monday in which Lloyd complained about Labor questioning during an earlier hearing in October.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has rejected a freedom-of-information request seeking emails it holds about Lloyd, claiming that to do so“could reasonably be expected to prejudice the conduct of an investigation of a breach, or possible breach, of the law”.

Federal Icac now

# ¿ May 21, 2018 09:58

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Anidav posted:

She de-gooned herself last year and requested to be deleted from the facebook group.

Bummer, I did like her posts about social services

# ¿ May 21, 2018 10:56

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JBP posted:

Oh no not the UN

The governing body equivalent of the Monty Python's "Spanish Inquisition"

# ¿ May 22, 2018 00:35

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fiery_valkyrie posted:

Clive Palmer is planning on building Adani 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Given the rapidly decreasing price of renewables how on earth are they assuming that coal will be price competitive in 12 years time?

No one in their right mind would give him the money to do that.

*Checks latest updates from the Banking Royal Commission*

Oh...

# ¿ May 22, 2018 07:18

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/23/coalition-says-there-is-no-persuasive-evidence-federal-icac-needed

Hey, when you are wrong about corruption in a particular area (like banks), might as well keep that same line about a Federal Icac.

OH WAIT

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/may/23/malcolm-turnbull-andrew-hastie-china-donor-estimates-politics-live

I wonder if the media will be attacking Hastie over his Chinese donor like they were for Sam Dastyari

You Am I fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 23, 2018

# ¿ May 23, 2018 00:43

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

^^^ Jesus, NSW the worst state ^^^

Zenithe posted:

Always more, always worse:

https://twitter.com/Kon__K/status/999170942688358401

Yet there is going to be News Corpse shitheads and their cheerleaders going "well, he should have not been coming into the country illegally and jumping the queue :smug:

"

God I can't wait for this poo poo show of a government to be voted out. The sad thing is occasionally seeing my leftie mate getting stuck into Federal Liberal Facebook posts and seeing the number of people who are terrified about a Labor Government because of "socialists" and "unions" with a spattering of "Greenies"

You Am I fucked around with this message at 23:42 on May 23, 2018

# ¿ May 23, 2018 23:38

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/24/don-dale-no-charges-to-be-laid-over-royal-commission-findings

Hey guys it is all good, there's nothing wrong without our youth detention system! Nothing to see here, move on!

Christ what a waste of money. Crippled by the Liberals from the start.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 06:54

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ewe2 posted:

Sorry to add to the tweetfest but it's news from this morning:

https://twitter.com/RossAndJohn/status/999415141467807744

but

https://twitter.com/JmarrMarr/status/999488791223005184

well she was doing actual journalism on Sky whoops.

That's sad, she seemed to be a good journalist there, compared to the right wing morons that overfill most of Sky News these days.

And white flight is god drat racist stop being a loving prat about things JBP you private school twit.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 11:53

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The Before Times posted:

The piece of poo poo who murdered Tialeigh Palmer got life in prison.

Good, that whole family deserves to be locked away for the same amount of time for what they did to poor Tiahleigh.

# ¿ May 25, 2018 04:39

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Dude McAwesome posted:

420 all day erryday

"Imagine a ball of weed, the size of the sun" - Richard "Blaze It" DiNartie

# ¿ May 25, 2018 09:12

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Brown Paper Bag posted:

Victoria in good state news:

https://twitter.com/theage/status/1000104391037345793

https://twitter.com/theage/status/1000196647488548864

Lock all bosses away Dandrews, even if they haven't done anything wrong

# ¿ May 26, 2018 04:10

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Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/nickykmartin/status/1000281360433537024

Blair hates the Catholic Church?

# ¿ May 26, 2018 14:11

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JBP posted:

They're not going to change the policy because the numbers are not there. Forcing a debate to divide the party and gently caress the election up is cool and good strategy

Labor bad, unions happy for families to be kept in detention centres.

Cool.

# ¿ May 27, 2018 07:36

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JBP posted:

I'm not speaking for myself it's dogshit. On balance politically it's a nothing policy if you leave it and a potenitaly threat if you change it. That's the problem.

Doing nothing is the best solution - Labor's 2019 Election Policy standpoint

# ¿ May 27, 2018 07:44

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MysticalMachineGun posted:

Why is this moving so slowly? Wasn't she being investigated by the AFP?

I think she keeps on weaselling her way out of answering questions

# ¿ May 29, 2018 00:19

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 03:02

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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

He's apparently blaming his partner for selling the interview. What a top bloke.

That poor partner of his has been the scapegoat for nearly every situation he's had the past two years.

# ¿ May 29, 2018 10:38

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