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Tony Abbott blamed over failure of Western civilisation

hooman posted:

Because of all the people who suddenly feel poorer stopping spending money on things bankrupting business etc etc etc

bell jar posted:

I meant like the real estate industry. In my eyes home owners fall under the investor category

bell jar posted:

buying a home is an investment.

EoinCannon posted:

Jonah Galtberg posted:

mentioning the 'tism in anything resembling a negative context is possibly the single most surefire way of uniting goons against you

hooman posted:

Acutally thinking about it you could do a pretty good "politically incorect" party in Australia, but how do I come as an aboriginal footballer raising awareness about issues aboriginal people face?

Lid posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics

Grouchio posted:

Does RCV voting usually take a week to count after an election or primary day? I'm asking as a Maine voter who just participated in RCV for the first time.

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

Hopefully people feel stonger about protecting the ABC than they did the NBN.

The Before Times posted:

Yeah even in Australia you'd be approaching top quintile of income on 200k.

Konomex posted:

She's not saying 'it's not a lot of money', she's saying 'it's not as much money as YOU think it is'. Is it so hard to grasp the concept of buying power?

JBP posted:

What's the tax cut story I've glossed over this. Why is it a problem?

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From 2024-25 all the tax cuts combined will reduce revenue by an average of $21.8bn a year, but $13.5bn – or 62% – of that is for tax cuts overwhelmingly for those earning over $120,000.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Embattled Liberal senator Lucy Gichuhi was taken to court seven times for failing to pay $8,359 worth of council rates and $1,372 in water bills.

Court documents obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia show the Kenyan-born federal MP faced legal action from City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, Whyalla City Council and the South Australian Water Corporation in 2013, 2014 and 2017.

The Turnbull Government senator, who is on a $203,000 salary, was ordered by local court magistrates to pay $9,731 in seven unpaid bills, related to two investment properties in Adelaide and one in regional Whyalla.

One unpaid council bill went to court just three weeks before she was sworn in last year as a senator, and another bill was taken to a magistrate four months after she became a member of Parliament.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

See it wouldn't surprise me to see a Lib/conservative thinking bills are below them (see: Bob Day, same party) but also it's the Daily Mail so I automatically think it's made up.

Anidav posted:

Julie "I wrecked forgien policy for 2 decades" bishop

BBJoey posted:

not as left as many in this thread would like.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Who's Christian Porter?

Anidav posted:

LONGMAN voters – particularly young people – believe Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a better plan for Queensland than Opposition leader Bill Shorten, according to exclusive polling.

Couriermail.com.au is this evening publishing key poll data for Longman – including surprise two-party preferred results for the key by-election seat.

ReachTEL polling, of 814 Longman residents on June 26, showed that 58.7 per cent of voters thought Mr Turnbull had the best plan for Queensland, compared to 41.3 per cent who backed the Labor leader.

But it was 18 to 34 year olds who were the PM’s biggest supporters, with 71.7 per cent backing in the LNP leader.

Mr Shorten’s strongest support came from the 51 to 65 year old age bracket, where he had the support of 48.8 per cent of voters.

The Opposition leader has consistently trailed the Prime Minister in preferred leader polling conducted by Newspoll, despite Labor remaining ahead in the polls 52-48.

Longman polling results for company tax were published at 5pm, with the two-party preferred outcome to be revealed at couriermail.com.au at 9pm, and full details and comprehensive coverage in tomorrow’s Courier-Mail

JBP posted:

Why do they think history faculties don't offer units regarding every facet of western history?

Anidav posted:

So I noticed every article today about Bill Shorten has this little coloured subtitle

The Peccadillo posted:

The point of the outrage where he was banished from the rest of the media was weird

Dude loudly advocated for white kids to hunt out immigrant kids in their communities, confront trans kids about their bodies and direct a call to attack Leslie Jones as a "friend of the family" on twitter because of Ghostbusters

Why wasn't any of this and the community defending itself from it enough? Dude's unequivocally gotta say children are the predators in pedophilic relationships to be deemed a fuckin' freak? Low. Bar.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

I assume they got the story [about Gichuhi's financial issues] from somewhere else.

Since they don't appear to have stolen the story from another media organisation my guess is that someone who wants to hurt her preselection chances has been doing some digging.