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Peter Dutton has been accused of misleading parliament over the au pair visa saga. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/31/peter-dutton-accused-of-misleading-parliament-over-au-pair-visa-saga posted:On 27 March, Greens MP Adam Bandt asked Dutton in question time to categorically rule out “any personal connection or any other relationship between you and the intended employer of either of the au pairs.” Last month we rebranded the Greens and managed to our way through August. Now we have a new Prime Minister! He likes sports and caps. What wacky antics will the Liberals get up to this month? And what's the bloody go with those Au Pairs?! Go the Sharks. Yeeeeeew. PM WhoMo bell jar fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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# ? May 3, 2024 00:49 |
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not even a picture of our daggy dad pm in the op, voted sharks.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 00:44 |
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According to the poll the new name for the greens is Stalin.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 00:44 |
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bad poster, bad thread. Gas.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:03 |
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Who do I have to email to get special permission for someone to come into the thread on a lurking visa and look after my posts while I’m earning shitloads of cash and not paying them?
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:08 |
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You Am I posted:bad poster, bad thread. Gas.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:09 |
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I suppose quality OPs are a thing of the past. I personally welcome our new agile and innovative OP.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:22 |
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From last thread:Zenithe posted:QLD: Best state? QLD Labor: TAFE is now free *single finger on monkey paw curls in* QLD Labor: But we've knocked them all down and replaced them with blocks of flats
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:28 |
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Victoria did that on a courses fulfilling needs basis that I think is open to anyone. Better state.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 01:33 |
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A neighbour has a Rhodesia veterans sticker and a home made "I proudly served in Rhodesia" sign on the back of their car. They also let their dog wander around to poo poo up the place.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 02:14 |
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Amoeba102 posted:A neighbour has a Rhodesia veterans sticker and a home made "I proudly served in Rhodesia" sign on the back of their car. They also let their dog wander around to poo poo up the place. any car with that sticker on it should be on fire
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 02:47 |
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Heres a picture of our tasteless PM who we didn't expect. Add it to OP.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 03:58 |
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These events put the lie to the big myth around the challenge: that it somehow took its own organisers by surprise. Those who backed Dutton now object to being called “plotters” and deny they were up to anything before Turnbull took the biggest gamble of his political career: calling a surprise vote on his own leadership when Liberals assembled on Tuesday, August 21, for a regular meeting. The failure of the Dutton campaign has left its architects denying it was their own work. Asked on Tuesday about what happened the week before, Victorian Liberal Michael Sukkar told Sky News said this: “All of us, including me, went into last week thinking it would be a perhaps lively but unexceptional week in Parliament, in all honesty.” South Australian MP Tony Pasin, who also backed Dutton, told Sky News this week that he turned up expecting “business as usual” in Parliament on the day before the spill. It is an astonishing claim – to expect an “unexceptional” week after days of coverage of the leadership question, not least a front page story in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age saying 'Dutton set to strike' because his supporters claimed to hold a majority in the party room. Yet this is the core argument now being made to excuse the shambolic coup: that the Dutton camp were not organising until Turnbull called the vote on the Tuesday. “There’s a lot of rewriting of history going on,” says one Liberal. Another is more blunt: “It’s complete bullshit.” Says a third: “The idea they hit Tuesday from a standing start is fanciful.”
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Amoeba102 posted:A neighbour has a Rhodesia veterans sticker and a home made "I proudly served in Rhodesia" sign on the back of their car. They also let their dog wander around to poo poo up the place. So why haven't you keyed it/slashed their tires yet? Ora Tzo posted:Heres a picture of our tasteless PM who we didn't expect. Add it to OP. Hey now, Colin Baker doesn't deserve that Box of Bunnies fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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Cormann urged colleagues to sign the petition, as did conservative Liberal Senator James Paterson and Victorian MP Jason Wood. Hastie did the same. There were five different sheets of paper and various members of the Dutton side put the case to their friends. The astonishing development was the lack of progress. By Thursday evening, some estimated there were fewer than 25 names on the petition – a subject of dispute given there were five sheets of paper in different hands. The response was disbelief that the Dutton campaign could be so incompetent. “That was the moment we realised what was happening – that they were all lying,” says one MP. The numbers for Dutton were not there. The misinformation campaign had worked but there had been a failure to lock in the numbers. Labor MPs who know how to mount a spill are amazed that Dutton campaigners headed to dinner on Thursday night rather than sweat over a spreadsheet full of names. Ciobo and Keenan dined at the upmarket Ottoman restaurant. Sukkar, Taylor, Hastie, Pasin and Seselja gathered over a Japanese meal. They were counting their teriyaki chicken too soon. The petition only gained a majority because it was signed by MPs who had no intention of voting for Dutton. The crucial factor was the decision by Morrison to enter the contest, which in turn followed the fateful meeting with the Prime Minister on Thursday morning when Cormann had withdrawn his support. This is why the recriminations will never end. The Dutton supporters stand condemned by some for lying about their numbers and unleashing havoc at the top of the Australian government. And for what? It is extraordinary that senior Victorian Liberals like Hunt and Sukkar sided with Dutton when polling showed Turnbull had stronger support in their own state. Sometimes the most intriguing aspect of a spill is what does not happen. At no point did a group of cabinet ministers gather in a courtyard to stare down Dutton. Just as his silence spoke volumes on the Friday, so did theirs the following week. Turnbull only needed three more people to stand by him to win the Friday ballot, but the Dutton campaign would have kept going. “They had so damaged him there was no coming back,” says one MP. It is easier to wreck than rebuild in Australian politics. The nonchalant claims from ministers that they can all move on, that the public has no interesting in “tea-leaf gazing” over the spill, is a glaring false confidence about their ability to unify their party. This may be the biggest myth of all from the spill: the idea that Morrison can “heal the wounds” in time for the election.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 04:13 |
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https://twitter.com/joshbutler/status/1035723278495535104?s=21
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 04:43 |
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it brings me so much joy that turnbull's son hates him
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 05:22 |
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If you've got a better OP, do you launch a thread challenge?
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 05:25 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1035683311308308480
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 05:48 |
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Ora Tzo posted:If you've got a better OP, do you launch a thread challenge?
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 06:02 |
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OP updated.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 06:28 |
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Also Latham has quit the Lib Dems, maybe for One Nation.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 06:35 |
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I have launched my thread challenge. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3867506
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 06:35 |
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Lol at everything in this https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...e66b0a74297a59f Channelling the bra burning protests of feminists in the 1960s, the six men discussed whether burning their undergarments was an appropriate response to a “ridiculous” awareness-raising stunt by Russian student Anna Dovgalyuk, who flashed her pants at commuters to raise awareness for “upskirting” laws in her homeland. Some suggested a necktie might be more appropriate, but nevertheless, the idea was warmly received and put on the backburner for discussion at a later date. There was an update on their next big upcoming event on International Men’s Day although it was announced, regrettably, that they had only sold 18 tickets. They then proposed taking legal action against the student union, which had called them “neo-Nazis” in pamphlets leading up to Saturday’s march. Being associated with the far-right is taken as offensive by some in the group, which claims to welcome Aussies of all political strains. Some even claimed to have centre-left ideals. MRS member Alan Ward told news.com.au that, if men’s rights were “continually eroded”, Australia would be plunged into “civil war” because our economy would be destroyed by policies that “incentivise single parenting”.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 06:53 |
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quote:There’s the issue of the gender pay gap, which even MRS members admitted was a problem (albeit arguing men should be “compensated” because they have shorter life expectancies). That's a new one.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 07:21 |
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Lid posted:Lol at everything in this They're gonna burn neckties?
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 07:29 |
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I'd like to assure the OP that my support is behind this candidate thread, and it has the numbers
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:03 |
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This is my Auspol September thread awkward shoulder hug And I'm ambitious for it
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:07 |
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First in first serve. Your king has spoken.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:09 |
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Do you know who your OP is this morning?
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:10 |
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The scomo of threads. The dad thread.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:12 |
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Anidav posted:First in first serve.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:17 |
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Anidav posted:First in first serve. Well may we say "God save the King", because nothing will save Anime Dave!
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We don't have the numbers. We can't risk a thread
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:38 |
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that other thread was very duttonesque. i look forward to another thread popping up on tuesday
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 08:41 |
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bell jar posted:that other thread was very duttonesque. i look forward to another thread popping up on tuesday I must say I support OP, in spite of what happened in the past, and I hope he will serve us well till the next month. Ora Tzo fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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Lid posted:Lol at everything in this There is exactly one thing that incentivises single parenting and it is the other parent. No financial support is as good as taking a poo poo in peace. No surpriss some would rather spend 24/7 no breaks parenting than deal with manchild MRA nonsense.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 09:42 |
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Ora Tzo posted:Heres a picture of our tasteless PM who we didn't expect. Add it to OP. He IS the Prime Minister. Whether you like it... or not.
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# ? Sep 1, 2018 10:00 |
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Ora Tzo posted:I must say I support OP, in spite of what happened in the past, and I hope he will serve us well till the next month. I liked your OP
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in a concilliatory gesture i have added this to the op
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