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Some bloke in a Holden Colorado drove past me and he had a bumper sticker saying that the banning of single use plastic bags was a 'green nwo conspiracy' to destroy society from within.
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I'm with first state super which I think is up there too.
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Jul 1, 2018 06:25
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All of the televisions at news corps are locked into sky news all day as are a lot of Queensland bus and train stations.
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Jul 1, 2018 13:08
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Bill Shorten lost more points changing his mind than he did sticking to his guns.
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Jul 1, 2018 13:35
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Uh, so you see guys, using the slang of a common street thug is the only way to properly communicate with the unbathed online masses so saying something sucks dick is a poetic form of communication.
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Jul 1, 2018 22:13
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JOB snobs and bludgers who refuse to apply for work will have amber and red traffic light colours flash on their phones to warn they are about to lose their welfare payments. In a major shake-up starting today, jobseekers face a demerit point system which is supported by a new Job Seeker app. It will provide constant reminders about meeting their obligations. The dashboard will use strong visual and written warnings. The no-more excuses plan, will use traffic light colours to show whether the job seeker is in the green (fully compliant) zone; the amber (warning) zone; or red (penalty) zone. Under the new system, if job seekers fail to attend interviews or apply for a required number of jobs, they will likely lose their Newstart payment. It will be reinstated once obligations are met. If they have no reasonable excuse for failing to meet requirements, a demerit point will be added to their record. If five demerit points are clocked up within six months, backpay will be withheld, even if they turn-up for interviews or apply for work. If requirements are met for three months, demerit points will return to zero. The amber indicator will show demerit points and how far to go to the red or penalty zone. Serious failures such as blatantly refusing to work, means immediate loss of payment for four weeks. The system will be managed by jobseekers, who will self-report and confirm they have met their requirements, and overseen by job active provider. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash said the system was designed to make the process of finding a job easier. “The new framework is fairer because it recognises that the majority of job seekers do the right thing and should therefore not receive financial penalties,’’ Senator Cash said. “It will, however, penalise those who exploit the welfare system by wilfully and repeatedly gaming the rules in order to receive income support payments. This system will reinforce the rights and obligations of both government and those seeking assistance.”
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Jul 2, 2018 02:01
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JBP posted:We should just have a points system where entering the red zone bans you from public places until you fix it. You also have to wear a hat with a light on it that uses the green, amber, red system. How long until it's logans run
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Jul 2, 2018 02:20
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Beetphyxious posted:G8 Education  God drat watching G8 crash was a lot of fun. People say only crypto does this but I disagree.
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Jul 2, 2018 08:04
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I am on the weed stocks train ride and it is a very fun ride.
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Jul 2, 2018 08:13
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Jul 2, 2018 08:14
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The thing about Australian politics is that the defacto political party identities just fling insults and memes at eachother for internet points but the LDP were doing that anyway so when everyone else started doing it with light hearted jabs, the LDP did it with a fuckload of venom but like most far right groups whenever they get called out on it they can say they were just kidding or free speech or a million and one excuses that right groups have online so really social media just heavily favours right wing groups near the fringe because they are going to be on the internet waging wars with virtual microbattles regardless of if Lionhat is in the Senate or Donald Trump is President. What I'm saying is that we are hosed eternally because the online world allows us to choose any perspective regardless of reality and also gamify politics via Twitter ect and meme warfare so I fully expect Australia to get its own populist in power. It won't be Xenophon or Palmer but I fully expect it to maybe be some fuckhead in the LNP who is right wing as gently caress and relatively competent at speaking but cannot gain the leadership of the party via the usual channels so goes off and starts his own party with Palmer or Katter or Twiggy or some rich gently caress and plays to the rural people and washes up a federal election due to rural vs city. Like imagine Tim Mander with the burns of Paul Keating and the policy of John Howard and that is basically the perfect Australian Populist.
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Jul 2, 2018 12:12
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Lol gently caress
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Jul 2, 2018 12:26
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https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1013338824804425729?s=19
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Jul 2, 2018 22:08
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I like how Centrelink is going to be this robo debt face scanning phone flashing monster
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Jul 2, 2018 22:13
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The Coalition is trying to turn Centrelink into a robot that climbs through your window and murders you.
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Jul 3, 2018 01:57
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A normal Australian eats meat and votes One Nation and drives a Hyundai i20.
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Jul 4, 2018 08:12
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MEET Queensland’s most entrepreneurial 11-year-old. Dimitri Vogiatzis might be only in Year 6, but he’s already working three jobs to save for a house deposit. The Mackay schoolboy wakes up before 6am every Wednesday to man the counter of his dad’s coffee van at the Great Whitsunday Farmers’ Market, before heading to school. He also sells mandarins grown on the family farm and hawks toy helicopters. The Mackay Daily Mercury reports that while the budding entrepreneur declined to reveal exactly how much money is sitting in his savings account, he confirmed he has already set aside close to a quarter of the first homeowners’ grant he will use to help crack in to the property market. And the budding homeowner has grand plans for his first investment – it won’t be a Queenslander doer-upper or run-of-the-mill kit home. “It’s going to be a two-storey mansion,” he said. Dimitri doesn’t only serve early coffee to the bleary-eyed but loves the business as well. “I absolutely love mathematics,” he said. “To me it is a huge learning experience that I get to indulge in heaps and heaps of numbers and I understand them more every time I work here.” His proud father Israel Vogiatzis said while his son had always been entrepreneurial, his talent for running a business and talking to people became obvious when he chose to run the coffee trailer all by himself at a busy event. “He made some good money for himself that night.” Working as a real estate agent for more years than Dimitri has been alive, Mackay’s Di Franettovich said while she had heard of 18 or 19 year olds entering the property market, this was something new. “We have definitely never seen anyone that young though, that is for sure,” Ms Franettovich said. “It is amazing; he would definitely have a shot if he keeps saving.”
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Jul 5, 2018 04:37
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Born too early to colonise space Born to late to walk in the moon Born just in time to keep the property bubble growing.
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Jul 5, 2018 04:40
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Employed at the age of 1, young Billy is saving for his house by selling his own feces. A true blue entrepreneur
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Jul 5, 2018 04:44
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Breaking News: I need to buy lettuce
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Jul 5, 2018 06:27
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Some low wage Checkout girls posted about the plastic bag ban and the abuse they copped in the Brisbane Centrelink support group and rather than support them, the comments section erupted in rage and calling them whores ect and suddenly more than half of the groups members got banned. All this over bags.
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Jul 5, 2018 08:15
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  An Brisbane Man after being banned from a Centrelink support network for calling cashier girls sluts after the plastic bag ban - 2018
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Jul 5, 2018 08:23
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We will defend our plastic bags from the females *male noises*
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Jul 5, 2018 08:28
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lol Coles announced just now they are going to give away free bags indefinitely pending future announcement per Seven News QLD
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Jul 7, 2018 23:11
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Birdstrike posted:how much did you donate? $14.89
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Jul 7, 2018 23:52
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Anyone else sort of feeling down about Fairfax? I'm a daily reader of the Brisbane Times and they used to be fairly hard hitting about local and national politics and if I recall they also hired a bunch of former Guardian Australia people but recently within the last few months I feel like their editorial has shifted to be extremely pro-Turnbull and I don't know if its because of them republishing Sydney Morning Herald pieces or not because I know they used to have there own Brisbane journalist opinion pieces that were quite fair and reasonable but recently I've noticed a lot of republished stuff from The Age and SMH that is quite cheerleader of Turnbull and his tax cuts and the Brisbane journalists seem to not be posting opinion pieces anymore. So I feel like the company ordered that the opinion pieces section be exclusive to known dickheads like David Crowe & Jessica Irvine. It's depressing, I'm not sure what happened, its just one day SMH was all over the website when before it wasn't. Job cuts maybe?
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Jul 8, 2018 03:22
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But where will I get my local news now?!
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Jul 8, 2018 04:41
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Birdstrike posted:pretty much all of what you posted coincides with David Crowe taking over as editor Pretty sure she wrote recently that the tampon tax should be kept in place so the money from the GST on tampons can be used for women's education. Something which is basically impossible so long as conservative forces exist and therefore the point is sort of fanciful. Might as well remove it because its just going to be used to fund boat hunting drones instead.
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Jul 8, 2018 06:14
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Birdstrike posted:pretty much all of what you posted coincides with David Crowe taking over as editor Oh she also thinks compulsory super is bad.
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Jul 8, 2018 06:17
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Les Affaires posted:in that it binds all workers to adopting a pro-sharemarket and investment attitude? or for some other reason Young people can't buy their first home. Irvine posted:Since I entered the workforce, I’ve had 9 cents in every dollar I earn automatically taken away from me and put – safely out of reach – in super. As my income rose out of uni, I also had up to 9 per cent of my salary seized to pay back my HECS debt.
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Jul 8, 2018 06:22
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gently caress SMH, they ruined Fairfax.
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Jul 8, 2018 06:27
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Birdstrike posted:If Anidav had thought this through he’d go sovcit and stop paying one cent of tax because some portion of it is used for bad things *opens a copy of The Courier Mail.* Dear god Pooh no, that's not journalism, that's IPA TALKING POINTS! "Taxation is theft"
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Jul 8, 2018 07:20
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She's nowhere near as bad as Crowe, I've just been disagreeing with her recently. Crowe basically pollutes the airwaves though, the guy has a new article up almost twice a day or something and they are all LNP wank fests.
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Jul 8, 2018 07:29
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He still does publish articles for The Australian as far as I know, Basically the whole media industry is full of News Corp moles. Even now in the ABC the LNP have put a Foxtel mole in charge of a budget efficiency committee.
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Jul 8, 2018 08:01
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Yeah but *takes a chug of Four X* Don't horses enjoy racing eachother? I mean they run along side eachother in the wild all the time according to my large collection of movies from Foxtel On Demand.
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Jul 8, 2018 13:43
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And yet they are going to win Lamb's seat? What's up with the LNP love coming out of WA?
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Jul 8, 2018 22:46
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Beetphyxious posted:They are the 2nd worse state, possible worst currently, with Qld temporarily being less uh worse.  Queensland LNP announced at thier annual conference that if elected they would create a body that represents non-unionised workers at EBA negotiations. 
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Jul 8, 2018 23:11
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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. In a speech to be delivered today at the National Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association, Senator Birmingham will say every school will have to have at least one teacher with specialist skills in math and science. “It’s unacceptable that secondary school students are taught science or maths subjects by people without specialist skills in science and maths,” he said. “Every high school should have access to specialist teachers to teach specialist science and maths subjects. And we should strive to achieve this within the next five to 10 years.” Australian Council for Educational Research in 2013 showed almost 20 per cent of general science teachers in years 7 to 10 had not completed at least one year of tertiary study in that area. While the Federal Government does not directly hire and fire teachers, it would work with the states to ensure each school had at least one teacher each in math and science with specialised tertiary training in that areas. Senator Birmingham said the state governments should make clear to universities where employment priorities were and incentivise people to specialise in physics, chemistry, biology, technology or maths. “If need be, federal funding powers over university places could be used to influence enrolment to secure the science teachers we need for the future,” he said. Math is compulsory in schools in Sweden, Japan, Korea, Russia, Finland, Taiwan and Estonia, with each of those countries outperforming Australia in the 2016 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). A recent report from Australia’s chief scientist noted there was no national requirement for math and science teachers to undertake specified hours of professional learning in discipline specific content.
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