Grouchio posted:

So Australia is basically less ready than even the US to surviving climate change this century?

drunkill posted:

who needs a backyards anyway

Les Affaires posted:

From the GoFundMe terms of service page here (https://au.gofundme.com/terms):


If anybody is feeling frisky, there is a "Report Campaign" link at the bottom.

Anidav posted:

Young people can't buy their first home.

norp posted:

You'd be surprised at how many employers attempt to quote wages as "package" (i.e. including super) during negotiation when you get enough above award.

Hell my contract has a clause stating that if the employer contribution goes up then it comes out of my take home wage.

Anidav posted:

ALL high schools would have to have specialist math and science teachers under a Federal government plan to stop Australian students falling behind nations like Russia and Estonia.

Education minister Simon Birmingham also flagged cash could be withheld from universities unless they enrol students in science teaching courses to fill the need.
It is also intended to reverse the falling numbers of students choosing to take advanced math and science classes in Years 11 and 12.

Etc

JBP posted:

I don't think a single one of my science student friends is still here. Most are in California, a couple have gone to the UK. I remember one mate who has gone to the US was doing some interesting thing with plants and biomedicine that sounded extremely galaxy brain, but then he told me they paid him $62,000 a year...

drunkill posted:

Some jokers in the army

Starshark posted:

what is this poo poo election now

https://twitter.com/kypros1992/status/1016921022702817280

Anidav posted:

The report concludes that privatisation is bad but competition is good and therefore Queensland should privatise its electricity grid because it will create competition despite the fact that real competition under capitalism hasn't existed in decades and in the case of electricity prices has led to companies simply agreeing prices should be higher rather than competition forcing the prices downwards. It's almost as if despite years of evidence, this report cannot fathom that an industry that merely feigns competition in order to look like a healthy market cannot exist.

racing identity posted:

my experience in professional services firms is that the actual work is going to be done by grads straight out of uni, and the only thing a partner is going to do is some quality control on the report they give you at the end to make sure there isn’t anything in there that will get them sued.

iajanus posted:

So it hasn't been pasteurised. Thanks for confirming.

Mr Chips posted:

I wonder what that milk sellers angle is...hundreds of megapascals are needed to get any sort of useful antimicrobial effect, which is probably going to gently caress with the milk mixture as much as pasteurisation.

The Peccadillo posted:

You know what fucks your food up

Microwaves

You know what those "micro"waves are made of? Radiation, the cancer boy

Conventions posted:

74 TRADE UNIONS METRO WEST REGION
That this Convention of the LNP calls upon the Federal Coalition Government to reduce the influence of trade unions in Australia.

75 NGO FUNDING YOUNG LNP
That this Convention of the LNP calls on the Federal Coalition Government to end funding to any NGO that provides abortion services.

76 URANNAH DAM DAWSON FDC
That this Convention of the LNP congratulates the LNP State Opposition for their commitment, at the last election, to construct Urannah Dam and urge both them and the Federal Coalition Government to commit to this project and other North Queensland dams.

77 ABORTION COERCION LNP WOMEN
That this Convention of the LNP calls on an incoming LNP State Government to research and introduce policies to address the serious issue of abortion coercion in Qld.

78 BIRTH CERTIFICATES MOUNT OMMANEY SEC METRO WEST REGION
That this Convention of the LNP calls on an incoming LNP State Government to legislate that (a) Birth Certificates must contain a publicly available record of every persons actual biological sex at birth as either male or female; and (b) that no other sex or gender is to be recorded on a persons Birth Certificate or any other post birth Government record

79 WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT CALLIDE SEC
That this Convention of the LNP calls on an incoming LNP State Government to undertake a review of the SANTOS CSG wastewater management at SCOTIA field

80 HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS BULIMBA SEC
That this Convention of the LNP urges an incoming LNP State Government to commit to carrying out yearly hydrographic surveys to establish a 3D model of the Brisbane River between Ipswich and the Hamilton Wharf in order to mitigate future flooding events.

SMH posted:

Mr Turnbull told the Queensland voters the idea of selling the ABC was rubbish.

"The ABC will be publicly owned forever," Mr Turnbull told the group

"Is that a promise?" the man asked.

"Absolutely," Mr Turnbull said.

froglet posted:

Wasn't there a goon that had a Julia Gillard cardboard cutout for a while? Apparently there's nothing more frightening than unexpectedly seeing her after your housemate moved her.

avshalemon posted:

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 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.