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Birdstrike posted:I think it’s a mix, his whole approach was trying to undermine a few footnotes in other people’s work without offering anything approaching a coherent alternative theory. It's a lot of work for just sea-lioning, I think he has more invested in it than that. It's a performance with the intention to impress right-wingers and provide a home-grown racial theory to feel oppressed with. Except Bolt does it better and doesn't bother with academic papers.
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Birdstrike posted:yeah I said he was poo poo, sorry you can’t read Where did they all go? Must be aliens   snoremac posted:Bolt has worked in Melbourne CBD for decades and rushed to his blog a year ago to report that he saw people sleeping in the street while walking down Flinders Street. Noted Non-Anglo Andrew Bolt.
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Lmao just how dumb is Australia: Australia is joining forces with the United States and Japan to pull more private infrastructure investment into poor countries in Asia and the Pacific in what will be a rival vision to China’s massive state-led Belt and Road Initiative. While the Turnbull government provided little detail on the plan, it appears aimed at giving private investors greater assurance in buying into much-needed projects in countries they might otherwise deem risky, while persuading those countries that an economically open region is in their long-term interests. Canberra, Washington and Tokyo have been watching with rising concern as Beijing embarks on an infrastructure-building spree across Asia and the Pacific under President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI. The Chinese state-sponsored initiative has constructed billions of dollars worth of ports, roads, bridges, railways and communication networks but is regarded by critics as a strategic play that is not always in the interests of the countries receiving the infrastructure. Stephen Kirchner, a trade and investment expert at the US Studies Centre at Sydney University, said the scheme announced on Tuesday was an “attempt to provide a private sector-led alternative to China’s BRI”. “It becomes very tempting for countries in the region to access that [Chinese] finance rather than the much more demanding task of the attracting that [private] investment,” Dr Kirchner said. “There’s a role for [Australia, the US and Japan] to explain to countries in the region that although China sets a lower bar, this comes with all sorts of geopolitical strings attached that can compromise your sovereignty.” Australia has long been worried that some development projects under the BRI are murky and will leave poor countries saddled with unsustainable debts that make them vulnerable to Chinese coercion. The rival vehicle, Dr Kirchner said, would aim to persuade countries needing infrastructure that while private investment imposed tougher standards in the short term, being part of a “free and open Indo-Pacific region” would be better for them in the future. The joint statement between Australia, the US and Japan, issued by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s office, focussed strongly on the need for a “free, open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific” region and promoted their own values of “transparency ... and avoiding unsustainable debt burdens”. It stated the priority projects would be in energy, transportation, tourism, and communications technology”. Because it aims to attract private capital, it is unlikely to cost Australian taxpayers. Dr Kirchner said the plan was “very much a work in progress”. “Are there any barriers to greater private sector participation in funding regional infrastructure that they can jointly address? This is very much a process for doing that.” The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation, through which the US will be involved, helps American companies operate in emerging markets by giving the companies loans, guarantees and political risk insurance. Rory Medcalf, who heads the Australian National University's National Security College, said there was no sense in Australia and others trying to match China dollar-for-dollar in infrastructure spending - a view shared by Dr Kirchner. "The value from advanced democracies is going to be in quality infrastructure, digital infrastructure and strategically picking countries to interrupt the continuity of the BRI to make sure China can't dominate the region," Professor Medcalf said. - If Australia wasn't such a Yellow Peril rear end in a top hat we would probably be a part of the BRI and have the NBN & High Speed Rail by now plus god knows what else Better sign up with Trump and Abe instead so that they can...[???????????]
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Noted Non-Anglo Andrew Bolt. He has also described himself as "indigenous" because he is a smug fuckhead with low intelligence and zero nuance.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Noted Non-Anglo Andrew Bolt. He's actually Dutch. It's similar to how he really cares about Catholicism and Christianity despite not actually being religious.
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Anidav posted:While the Turnbull government provided little detail on the plan, it appears aimed at giving private investors greater assurance in buying into much-needed projects in countries they might otherwise deem risky, while persuading those countries that an economically open region is in their long-term interests. This just means the government takes on all the risk doesn't it e: I don't get it, China's doing stuff that mightn't be in the interest of other countries, so we're going to make sure our private for-profit companies get a piece of the pie by having the government accept the risk, is that the deal bandaid.friend fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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bandaid.friend posted:This just means the government takes on all the risk doesn't it because free market is better than insidious communism domino theory v2
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the baby boomers all getting really into their genealogy right now is pretty funny, i overhear the ads on sbs (sbs!! what the gently caress happened) and they're all like "i thought my ancestry was aussie as aussie can be... but i got tested through ancestry.com.au and i found out that i have roots in england, ireland, and *shocked voice* the netherlands"
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I want to get this done because I'm legit curious about if I've got any ancestors from interesting places. couldn't give a gently caress how pure my bloodline is. gonna be disappointed af if it's just germans and brits all the way down.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/health-minister-backs-down-on-my-health-record-20180731-p4zuqo.html I would not trust them on this.
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bandaid.friend posted:e: I don't get it, China's doing stuff that mightn't be in the interest of other countries, so we're going to make sure our private for-profit companies get a piece of the pie by having the government accept the risk, is that the deal the deal is we're getting into a bidding war with China over who builds undersea cables across the Pacific and we're definitely going to win
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Reclines Obesily posted:don’t do these gene tests, they share that poo poo with law enforcement and corps and sell it to big pharma https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/gsk-to-access-dna-data-from-millions-by-partnering-with-google-funded-23andme-4859151.html quote:The drug discovery giant, GlaxoSmithKline, has hedged a $300 million bet on genetics by buying a stake in the Silicon Valley gene testing company 23andMe.The move will secure GSK exclusive access to the Google-backed firm’s vast DNA database, which it hopes will help unlock new treatments for a range of diseases.It won’t yield new products overnight, but GSK's President of Research & Development Hal Barron believes it will accelerate GSK’s drug development work, which has lagged behind rivals in producing multi-billion dollar blockbuster drugs.While 23andMe is best known for saliva-based test kits that offer users a glimpse into their genetic ancestry, it also has a three-year-old drug R&D unit, whose efforts will now merge with those of GSK researchers.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/health-minister-backs-down-on-my-health-record-20180731-p4zuqo.html How many people have opted out Give us the numbers
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/health-minister-backs-down-on-my-health-record-20180731-p4zuqo.html How likely is this legislation to get done before the deadline and how likely is it they pass some watered down bullshit after the deadline lapses?
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Beetphyxious posted:Found it, and gently caress it was like two days ago. my brain is fried. Ding dong your source is wrong
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Like even with a critical lens (some of the free speech poo poo out of the JCU branch), there’s just so much wrong with that article that it basically looks like it’s supposed to be wrong on purpose. I also love the fact that it’s effectivly excusing the LNP from any wrong-doing, almost like it’s written by some amazing deep-cover agent (I know the SEP is real though). Maybe the SEP can try to use the invasion day rallies to sell more of their poo poo again
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Recoome posted:Ding dong your source is wrong it’s not wrong, it just needs to rebrand!
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Five by-elections held across Australia on Saturday gave a further revealing indication of widespread hostility towards the openly pro-big business program of the Liberal-National Coalition government, and disaffection from all parties of the official political establishment. On the surface, the result means that the government’s majority in the lower house of parliament remains the same, just one seat. The opposition Labor Party retained the four seats it previously held, and the right-wing nationalist Centre Alliance (formerly the Nick Xenophon Team) kept its single seat. But beneath the surface, the results point to a further breakup of the two-party parliamentary system that has served the interests of the corporate and financial elites since World War II. Candidates claiming to oppose the major parties picked up sizeable votes, as they have during the past decade. Within the twisted framework of official politics, the voting patterns provided only a pale and distorted picture of the deep discontent over falling real wages, the rise of insecure work, the deteriorating state of health, education and other essential social services, and the rapidly escalating burden of housing and utility costs. Despite large swings against the Coalition, and its decision to not even stand candidates in two of the five electorates, the opposition Labor Party’s vote barely rose from its historic lows. Nor did the vote for the Greens, who propped up the last Labor government from 2007 to 2013. Among wide layers of the population, the Greens are recognised as providing no progressive alternative to the two party setup. Significantly, the four MPs who had been forced to quit their seats—due to a High Court ruling that they were possibly entitled to citizenship of another country—were returned to parliament. In fact, the reactionary nationalist “dual citizenship” furore created by the media, the political establishment and the High Court over the past year, was barely mentioned during the protracted by-election campaigns. This suggests that the witch hunt—designed to whip up patriotism and xenophobia—has so far failed to win any substantial popular support. For Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his government, the most spectacular defeat came in Longman, an electorate that spans outer working-class suburbs and semi-rural areas north of Brisbane, the Queensland state capital. One of the most impoverished electorates in the country, Longman epitomises the worsening social crisis, particularly appallingly low wages and the lack of health and other basic services. In Longman, the Liberal National Party (LNP) vote crashed by 9.5 percentage points to just 29.5 percent, an historic collapse from almost 45 percent at the 2013 federal election. If that result were replicated at the next federal election, due before May 2019, the government could lose seven seats in Queensland alone, ensuring its defeat. The Coalition vote was not helped by its choice of candidate, a former minister in the last LNP state government of 2012–15, which slashed health and social spending. But the outcome was a wider rejection of the Turnbull government’s economic program, particularly its centrepiece of multi-billion dollar tax cuts for the major banks and other big corporations. Government ministers had depicted the by-elections as a plebiscite on the tax cut plan, which they have been unable to pass through the Senate. This enabled the Labor Party and its trade union backers to rail demagogically against handouts to the “big banks and multinationals,” in order to tap into the mass social and political disaffection. However, despite the enormous shift against the government, Labor’s vote in Longman rose only 4.6 points to just below 40 percent. This was less than the historical average anti-government swing in by-elections, due to Labor’s own anti-working class record in office and its patently phony rhetoric. Party leader Bill Shorten had backed similar company tax cuts as a key minister in the last Labor government. As a result, Pauline Hanson’s right-wing One Nation party, which sought to exploit social distress in regional areas and divert political hostility into an anti-immigrant, nationalist direction, gained 16 percent of the vote. This was up 6.5 points since the 2016 federal election, although down on the highs of over 20 percent at last November’s state election. A similar, but not quite as dramatic, pattern emerged in Braddon, covering areas of north-western Tasmania, which have been blighted by corporate job destruction and cuts to social services. The Coalition’s primary vote fell by 2.5 points to 39 percent, while Labor’s also dropped by 3 points to 37 percent. A local fisherman, who depicted himself as an “anti-politician” independent, gained nearly 11 percent of the vote. Labor retained the seat on the back of his second preference votes. Both major parties suffered a debacle in the semi-rural seat of Mayo, near the South Australian capital of Adelaide. By presenting herself as an alternative to the two-party system, the Centre Alliance candidate garnered 45 percent of the vote, 10 points up from the 2016 election. High-profile Coalition candidate Georgina Downer, daughter of a former party leader and foreign minister, won just 37 percent, down 1 point. Labor got barely 6 percent of the vote—less than the Greens and far below Labor’s 25 percent vote in 2010. In the two Western Australian seats, which the government did not bother to contest, Labor candidates were returned, but only with marginally larger votes. In inner-city Perth, the state capital, Labor’s primary vote was just 39.5 percent, up 2 points, and in nearby Fremantle, a once working-class port city, Labor only just won a majority—52 percent, up 11 points. In these two seats, the Greens picked up 16–18 percent of the vote, largely from disenchanted Coalition voters, but in the more working-class electorates of Longman and Braddon, the Greens vote languished or fell to around 4 percent, expressing growing dissatisfaction towards their orientation to affluent upper-middle class layers, at the direct expense of the interests of the working class. At the same time, the proportion of people who cast an informal vote, increased from 3.5 percent in Mayo to 9.2 percent in Perth. No statistics are yet available on the numbers who refused to vote at all. Corporate media commentators voiced alarm at the outcome. Fairfax Media political editor Peter Hartcher warned this morning of a “great fracturing” and a “subterranean upheaval across Australia’s political landscape.” Hartcher, the spearhead of a vicious anti-Chinese campaign over the past two years, lamented the fact that voters were “untroubled” that their MPs had been “ineligible to sit in parliament because they were dual citizens.” Most of the commentary focussed on the electoral blow to Turnbull’s government. Today’s Australian editorial declared: “It is brutally clear that the government’s political strategy, whatever that is, isn’t working. Nationally it has no strategy to deal with Labor’s anti-business, class war campaign.” Initial speculation centred on the likelihood that the government would have to drop or modify its company tax cut legislation. This would intensify frustration within the financial elites, with the Coalition seemingly incapable of pushing its agenda through. In reality, the political crisis is rapidly intensifying. Neither the Coalition nor Labor has been able to form a stable government since the 2008 global financial crash, some 10 years ago. The latest by-elections portend social and political upheavals, intensified by the potentially disastrous fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war measures and a possible meltdown in the property market and banking system. Turnbull’s position as prime minister is under threat, even if he has no immediate challengers. While Shorten’s leadership may survive for now, that is only because Labor has made a limited and utterly fraudulent populist appeal to mass anti-establishment sentiment. Not discussed at all during the by-elections was the bipartisan agenda of alignment with the US in advanced war preparations against China and ongoing austerity to restore the budget to surplus. 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Recoome posted:Five by-elections held across Australia on Saturday gave a further revealing indication of widespread hostility towards the openly pro-big business program of the Liberal-National Coalition government, and disaffection from all parties of the official political establishment. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/30/aust-j30.html Australian by-elections underscore deepening alienation from political establishment By Mike Head 30 July 2018 Five by-elections held across Australia on Saturday gave a further revealing indication of widespread hostility towards the openly pro-big business program of the Liberal-National Coalition government, and disaffection from all parties of the official political establishment. On the surface, the result means that the government’s majority in the lower house of parliament remains the same, just one seat. The opposition Labor Party retained the four seats it previously held, and the right-wing nationalist Centre Alliance (formerly the Nick Xenophon Team) kept its single seat. But beneath the surface, the results point to a further breakup of the two-party parliamentary system that has served the interests of the corporate and financial elites since World War II. Candidates claiming to oppose the major parties picked up sizeable votes, as they have during the past decade. Within the twisted framework of official politics, the voting patterns provided only a pale and distorted picture of the deep discontent over falling real wages, the rise of insecure work, the deteriorating state of health, education and other essential social services, and the rapidly escalating burden of housing and utility costs. Despite large swings against the Coalition, and its decision to not even stand candidates in two of the five electorates, the opposition Labor Party’s vote barely rose from its historic lows. Nor did the vote for the Greens, who propped up the last Labor government from 2007 to 2013. Among wide layers of the population, the Greens are recognised as providing no progressive alternative to the two party setup. Significantly, the four MPs who had been forced to quit their seats—due to a High Court ruling that they were possibly entitled to citizenship of another country—were returned to parliament. In fact, the reactionary nationalist “dual citizenship” furore created by the media, the political establishment and the High Court over the past year, was barely mentioned during the protracted by-election campaigns. This suggests that the witch hunt—designed to whip up patriotism and xenophobia—has so far failed to win any substantial popular support. For Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his government, the most spectacular defeat came in Longman, an electorate that spans outer working-class suburbs and semi-rural areas north of Brisbane, the Queensland state capital. One of the most impoverished electorates in the country, Longman epitomises the worsening social crisis, particularly appallingly low wages and the lack of health and other basic services. In Longman, the Liberal National Party (LNP) vote crashed by 9.5 percentage points to just 29.5 percent, an historic collapse from almost 45 percent at the 2013 federal election. If that result were replicated at the next federal election, due before May 2019, the government could lose seven seats in Queensland alone, ensuring its defeat. The Coalition vote was not helped by its choice of candidate, a former minister in the last LNP state government of 2012–15, which slashed health and social spending. But the outcome was a wider rejection of the Turnbull government’s economic program, particularly its centrepiece of multi-billion dollar tax cuts for the major banks and other big corporations. Government ministers had depicted the by-elections as a plebiscite on the tax cut plan, which they have been unable to pass through the Senate. This enabled the Labor Party and its trade union backers to rail demagogically against handouts to the “big banks and multinationals,” in order to tap into the mass social and political disaffection. However, despite the enormous shift against the government, Labor’s vote in Longman rose only 4.6 points to just below 40 percent. This was less than the historical average anti-government swing in by-elections, due to Labor’s own anti-working class record in office and its patently phony rhetoric. Party leader Bill Shorten had backed similar company tax cuts as a key minister in the last Labor government. As a result, Pauline Hanson’s right-wing One Nation party, which sought to exploit social distress in regional areas and divert political hostility into an anti-immigrant, nationalist direction, gained 16 percent of the vote. This was up 6.5 points since the 2016 federal election, although down on the highs of over 20 percent at last November’s state election. A similar, but not quite as dramatic, pattern emerged in Braddon, covering areas of north-western Tasmania, which have been blighted by corporate job destruction and cuts to social services. The Coalition’s primary vote fell by 2.5 points to 39 percent, while Labor’s also dropped by 3 points to 37 percent. A local fisherman, who depicted himself as an “anti-politician” independent, gained nearly 11 percent of the vote. Labor retained the seat on the back of his second preference votes. Both major parties suffered a debacle in the semi-rural seat of Mayo, near the South Australian capital of Adelaide. By presenting herself as an alternative to the two-party system, the Centre Alliance candidate garnered 45 percent of the vote, 10 points up from the 2016 election. High-profile Coalition candidate Georgina Downer, daughter of a former party leader and foreign minister, won just 37 percent, down 1 point. Labor got barely 6 percent of the vote—less than the Greens and far below Labor’s 25 percent vote in 2010. In the two Western Australian seats, which the government did not bother to contest, Labor candidates were returned, but only with marginally larger votes. In inner-city Perth, the state capital, Labor’s primary vote was just 39.5 percent, up 2 points, and in nearby Fremantle, a once working-class port city, Labor only just won a majority—52 percent, up 11 points. In these two seats, the Greens picked up 16–18 percent of the vote, largely from disenchanted Coalition voters, but in the more working-class electorates of Longman and Braddon, the Greens vote languished or fell to around 4 percent, expressing growing dissatisfaction towards their orientation to affluent upper-middle class layers, at the direct expense of the interests of the working class. At the same time, the proportion of people who cast an informal vote, increased from 3.5 percent in Mayo to 9.2 percent in Perth. No statistics are yet available on the numbers who refused to vote at all. Corporate media commentators voiced alarm at the outcome. Fairfax Media political editor Peter Hartcher warned this morning of a “great fracturing” and a “subterranean upheaval across Australia’s political landscape.” Hartcher, the spearhead of a vicious anti-Chinese campaign over the past two years, lamented the fact that voters were “untroubled” that their MPs had been “ineligible to sit in parliament because they were dual citizens.” Most of the commentary focussed on the electoral blow to Turnbull’s government. Today’s Australian editorial declared: “It is brutally clear that the government’s political strategy, whatever that is, isn’t working. Nationally it has no strategy to deal with Labor’s anti-business, class war campaign.” Initial speculation centred on the likelihood that the government would have to drop or modify its company tax cut legislation. This would intensify frustration within the financial elites, with the Coalition seemingly incapable of pushing its agenda through. In reality, the political crisis is rapidly intensifying. Neither the Coalition nor Labor has been able to form a stable government since the 2008 global financial crash, some 10 years ago. The latest by-elections portend social and political upheavals, intensified by the potentially disastrous fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war measures and a possible meltdown in the property market and banking system. Turnbull’s position as prime minister is under threat, even if he has no immediate challengers. While Shorten’s leadership may survive for now, that is only because Labor has made a limited and utterly fraudulent populist appeal to mass anti-establishment sentiment. Not discussed at all during the by-elections was the bipartisan agenda of alignment with the US in advanced war preparations against China and ongoing austerity to restore the budget to surplus. 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Recoome posted:Like even with a critical lens (some of the free speech poo poo out of the JCU branch), there’s just so much wrong with that article that it basically looks like it’s supposed to be wrong on purpose. Yeah I'm trying to figure the dude out, because the stuff about the NTEU is easily disproved.
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Beetphyxious posted:Yeah I'm trying to figure the dude out, because the stuff about the NTEU is easily disproved. look he's an increasingly irrelevant Ur-Trot who has given up on attacking class enemies and is now resigned to fighting the true enemy of the people, anyone who takes a left-wing platform and isn't part of the SEP. Ironically I think he has tenure, or is on track for tenure at UWS so I think that the anti-NTEU is due to the belief that unions are now part of the system that oppresses workers (SDA is an example of this), which is consistent with the overall belief of the SEP. The great irony is that no-one types their name out as "Doctor Firstname Lastname", because it looks really dumb, and also he is a professor so it should be "Professor XY" at least. At least shorten it to Dr, it's loving obvious what honorific to use due to the PhD qualification.
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Coles has hoisted a white flag in the face of angry shoppers aggrieved by having to bring their own bags or pay 15¢ for a "reusable" one, and has promised to give plastic bags away for free indefinitely. The supermarket chain and its rival Woolworths removed thin "single-use" plastic bags from their checkouts in July and late June, respectively, as a growing number of state governments ban the environmentally damaging items. But offering only thicker, "reusable" plastic bags for 15¢ each has elicited howls of outrage from some quarters, and led to a series of backflips - including giving the reusable bags away for free for a short period of time while customers adapted to the changes - to quell the outcry. In the latest backflip, a Coles spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday that the supermarket would give the 15¢ bags away for free indefinitely. “When Coles phased out single-use plastic bags on 1 July in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and WA, some customers told us they needed more time to make the transition to reusable bags," she said. "We’ve been delighted to see customers grow more accustomed to bringing their reusable bags from home so they are relying less on complimentary bags at the checkout. "Many customers bringing bags from home are still finding themselves short a bag or two, so we are offering complimentary reusable Better Bags to help them complete their shopping.” Customers will continue to pay 15¢ for the reusable bags in Tasmania, where single-use bags have been outlawed since 2014, and in South Australia, where they have been banned since 2009, the Coles spokeswoman said.
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Anidav posted:Coles has hoisted a white flag in the face of angry shoppers aggrieved by having to bring their own bags or pay 15¢ for a "reusable" one, and has promised to give plastic bags away for free indefinitely. "the age of entitlement is over." -Joe Hockey 2014
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Clive is just an internet troll with a shitload of money
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Aug 1, 2018 00:19
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