Don Dongington posted:

Nthing folks as a useful substitute for 'guys'

Sorry that offends your fragile sensibilities Auspol, but I'm just not ready to walk into a room and say 'HEELO FELLOW HUMANS'

The Peccadillo posted:

Is Hambeet a clown who sucks?

hambeet posted:

Feeling targeted here.

quote:

Higher borrowing costs and unaffordable prices have pushed the housing slowdown that started in Sydney across the country, with not even Hobart immune to the cooling.

While home values fell more in the NSW capital than any other city over the year to August, with a 5.6 per cent decline – a slump Sydney last experienced in March 2009 – the contagion spread, with Melbourne's decline accelerating and values in the previously white-hot Hobart market slipping 0.1 per cent from July, CoreLogic figures showed on Monday.

Perth's quarterly pace of decline worsened to 1.9 per cent from 1.5 per cent. Brisbane values slipped 0.2 per cent after ticking up 0.1 per cent a month earlier.

"The story is that things are slowing everywhere," CoreLogic research analyst Cameron Kusher said.

Anidav posted:

Re: Max Brenner collapse

Anidav posted:

JBP posted:

They're not related policy areas. It's the kind of whataboutism we criticise when people scream about the homeless or whatever when immigration or foreign aid comes up. What about indigenous kids in broken communities because of oscillating government neglect and interference? How do they access this cash injection into early learning? We learned nothing about the policy or interrogated whether it's sound and instead watched an interview about something else altogether.

bell jar posted:

He is also Indigenous

Some Murdoch Rag posted:

THE state government is desperately working to broker a historic deal with the iconic Sydney Opera House to project a major light show on its sails for an international promotion of The Everest.

The light show, pitched to run for an hour on Tuesday night, has been designed alongside the company behind the renowned Vivid festival and would coincide with the barrier draw for the world’s richest turf race.

However, the plan was still at risk of falling at the final hurdle last night amid painstaking negotiations, with Opera House management resisting the idea of using the world-famous sails to promote racing, despite government officials proposed the concept to Racing NSW.

hambeet posted:

also jbp promising to join the greens in five years (back in 2013) if the alp internal party mechanics didn't improve

hambeet posted:

there's some journos who could probably benefit from this policy

Laserface posted:

This Everest Opera house poo poo is ridiculous. Alan jones is obviously using this as some kind of wedge to get Louise Herron out of the top position because he is sick of having concerts on the Opera House steps disturbing him. that can be the only explanation for him being so mad about it.

quote:

Expect to hear the words "a fair go for those who have a go" ad nauseam in coming months as Prime Minister Scott Morrison gears up for an election.

GoldStandardConure posted:

smdh if you don't just throw the bottle out after one use and go and buy a new one i don't want that crusty poo poo on my taint.

hambeet posted:

half that list are companies who solely target baby boomers anyway so i don't like their chances.

Aurubin posted:

I was going on a nuclear power bender last night and I read you idiots banned nuclear power despite having 33% of the world's uranium. Why do you dummies hate nuclear but love coal?

Count Chocula posted:

The damage caused by Fukushima has been completely exaggerated.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4397

Nanpa posted:

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

http://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2012C00801/Download


Literally banned by thread favourites, the democrats.

I can't be bothered to look up the mining regulations per state, but iirc NSW views uranium specifically as a contaminant so it's been taken off the geological ore or whatever maps, and per wiki Victoria has banned exploration outright.

Technically, unless you've a specific exemption, the nature of which escapes me, you aren't allowed to process or refine uranium beyond yellowcake, hence the past SA nuclear industry enquiry.

Also nice meltdown

Krazyface posted:

Seems to be some incompatibility between the forums and Apple devices.

fiery_valkyrie posted:

Ignoring for the minute all the already identified problems with expelling gay kids, have any of these idiots even thought about how you would police it?

You Am I posted:

WTF have I got ABC NSW news on in Melbourne?

NTRabbit posted:

It's the biggest and best sport in the country, they couldn't not include it in news bulletins nation wide.

Stevefin posted:

I would not get too excited, EA will just make it skins for their crappy C&C mobile game dota thing they tried to push, for those who who don't pay attention to gaming news EAs reputation is on par with our big banks right now, in that they can not help but make all the money no matter what

JBP posted:

Do goths still exist in high schools it seems pretty 90s.

Cartoon posted:

I ~work~ in a highschool is how I know.

GoldStandardConure posted:

stop hanging around high schools

The Peccadillo posted:

I don't think twilight, harry potter or my little pony are particularly goth. I think you're just describing dweebs

JBP posted:

It's lame but I don't understand how people liking Harry Potter enough to wear Harry Potter poo poo is in any way scary. Let people like things.

The Before Times posted:

Do away with tests entirely IMO

quote:

New South Wales and Norfolk Island
Since 1 July 2018 within NSW it is illegal to protest within 150m of an abortion service.[23][24]

Since the year 1900, within New South Wales abortion is explicitly listed as a crime under sections 82–84 of the Crimes Act 1900,[25] but the interpretation of the law is subject to the Levine ruling, from R v Wald of 1971,[3] itself derived from the Victorian Menhennitt ruling, which held an abortion to be legal if a doctor had an honest and reasonable belief that, due to 'any economic, social or medical ground or reason', the abortion was necessary to 'preserve the woman involved from serious danger to her life or physical or mental health which the continuance of the pregnancy would entail'.[3]

This was expanded by CES v Superclinics Australia Pty Ltd (1995),[26] which extended the period during which health concerns might be considered from the duration of pregnancy to any period during the woman's life, even after the birth of the child. This arguably precludes any successful prosecutions for illegal abortions. Despite this, in 2006, a doctor, Suman Sood, was convicted of two counts of performing an illegal abortion where she failed to enquire as to whether a lawful reason for performing the abortion did exist.[27][28]

Since 1 July 2016 all NSW laws also apply to the approximately 2,000 residents on Norfolk Island, under both the Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment Act 2015 and the Territories Legislation Amendment Act 2016 – because the Norfolk Legislative Assembly was abolished on 1 July 2015.[29][30][31]

In August 2016, Greens MP Dr Mehreen Faruqi released an exposure draft of the Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2016 to "Repeal sections 82–84 of the Crimes Act, relating to abortion offences; Provide for a 150m safe access zone around abortion clinics and service providers to ensure a patient's right to medical privacy; and Require doctors to disclose conscientious objection at the start of the consultation and refer patients to another doctor who does not have such an objection or to the local Women's Health NSW centre".[32]

On the eve of the introduction of the bill on 23 June 2016, it was removed from the order of business for the following day, despite being first in the order of precedence for months, scheduled and publicly announced.[33] Dr Mehreen Faruqi "introduced the first ever abortion law reform bill into NSW Parliament" on 11 August 2016.[34]

Lid posted:

Australia’s spy agency warned ministers that Scott Morrison’s proposed shift in Middle East policy to relocate the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may “provoke protest, unrest and possibly some violence in Gaza and the West Bank”.
Guardian Australia has obtained an Asio bulletin, marked secret, AUSTEO(Australian eyes only), circulated on 15 October – the day before Morrison’s announcement – that notes that the putative shift would “attract international attention”.
“We expect any announcement on the possible relocation of the Australian embassy to Jerusalem or consideration of voting against Palestinians in the United Nations may provoke protest, unrest and possibly some violence in Gaza and the West Bank,” the bulletin says.

Wheezle posted:

If Phelps helped bring down the government, the libs would regain Wentworth in a landslide at the general. Wentworth doesn't want a Labor government.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I think it’s time for ScoMo to break out the raw onions. After all, there’s still a handful of escaped mental patients who think Tony Abbott should make a comeback, and if ScoMo could possibly swing them behind him by necking a fistful of stinking fresh bulbs and stripping down to a pair of bright, red dick-stickers, why not just go for it? The alternative is going limp in the middle of the road and just waiting for the eighteen wheel road train that’s coming to turn him into street pizza. And it could hardly be less ill-considered than trashing decades of bipartisan agreement not to gently caress around with the septic mess of Isreali-Palestinian politics for the sake of a few votes.
But ScoMo’s accidental prime ministership is now so terminal that even the magic onion might not save him. What a loving disaster his soon to be short-lived Turd Reich turned out to be. An imploding supermassive shitshow of desperate incompetence so violently bunglefucked six ways from Sunday that even listing the major oh-no moments feels like shamewanking over grief porn.
This week alone — and just this week — heading into a history-making beatdown from the unforgiving voters of Malcolm Turnbull’s old seat, ScoMo and Co managed to poo poo the bed not once, but on four separate occasions:
Not just voting in favour of a white power meme cunningly disguised as a white power meme by red-headed white-power She-Ra cosplay champion, Fraulein Hanson…
But also letting Melissa Price, the very surprising Environment Minister and sentient coal-fired killdozer get loose in a Canberra restaurant where multiple witnesses saw her monster the former president of Kiribati and poo poo-talk the rest of the Pacific Islands community in a way that sounded a bit like your drunken Uncle Bob getting pantsless and punchy at a family barbecue.
Not content to piss off pretty much every island nation that Beijing has earmarked to bury in a tsunami wave train of hard currency loans and developmental ‘assistance’, ScoMo personally stepped up to the crease and promptly tripped over his own cock by flopping it out to wave in the face of the entire Muslim world with his brainfart about moving the Australian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Israel (two way trade worth about a billion dollars a year) was stoked, thanks mate.
Jakarta (two way trade worth a lazy sixteen billion dollars a year) was not so loving stoked.
Nor were the dozen or more Arab ambassadors who met in Canberra to release a joint statement detailing their extreme lack of stoke for ScoMo’s desperate pursuit of the Jewish vote in Wentworth. (A demographic the witless idiot already had in the bag).
The free trade agreement with Indonesia is now in play, along with billions of dollars of agricultural exports to the Middle East. The National Party’s farmland constituents would be probably displeased, if the National Party had not decided to distract them and everyone else by floating the prospect of getting ruddy-cheeked pork swordsman Bonerby Joyce back as leader.
And that was just this week.
It will be over, sort of, by the time cocktail hour rolls around at Bondi Beach and the polls close in Wentworth. Maybe the government hangs on. Maybe they get beaten like a giant novelty gong. Either way, ScoMo has proved that the only thing he was ever good for was remotely torturing refugees, when nobody could actually see what he was up to. And by the end of the week, with both the UN and thousands of local doctors demanding the release of children imprisoned in our Pacific gulags, it looked like ScoMo couldn’t even fall back on his proud legacy as a prison camp overseer to save his worthless arse.

Lid posted:

Guess whose leadership ambitions are back, back again

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...021-p50az0.html

Rudd really is a committed christian.

hooman posted:

Silent but deadly.

snoremac posted:

Bad on East Timor

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

You’re all talking nonsense. Metal is Ronnie James Dio and anything that sounds more-or-less exactly like Ronnie James Dio. Everything else is not-metal.

Metal goes like this, in this order:

• Wicked guitar riff
• The dude goes “WAAAAAOOOOOOOW!!!” in a high voice
• The dude sings about dragons, skeletons, the Sword of Blood, the night, etc.

GoldStandardConure posted:

The Neon Demon is currently on Netflix.

tithin posted:

Did anyone listen to am this morning? They had Joyce on and he was chucking a massive tanty and hung up after being asked about the allegations of sexual assault.

"nothing was proven so stop bringing it up, I'm very effective"

Don Dongington posted:

Isn't yellowcake mostly inert? Or I guess over a long enough timescale it wouldn't matter, 'mostly' would still kill you.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

this may come as a shock but there are plenty of lgbt people that vote liberal for economic reasons

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Nah, it’s way older than that.

I reckon it’s Cartoon’s fault somehow.

Synthbuttrange posted:

for me to poop on

Don Dongington posted:

Bishop couldn't even take the leadership from loving Scomo. Or Dutton for that matter, so don't tell me she's any kind of operator.

PoPcornTG posted:

Tell me more about the things you don’t find funny.

quote:

Abbott open to police in remote schools Daniel McCullochAAP Wednesday, 31 October 2018 7:55PM

There have been mixed reactions to Tony Abbott's appointment as special envoy on indigenous affairs.

Tony Abbott is not ruling out putting police officers in schools as he looks for ways to improve attendance and performance in remote communities. Mr Abbott is spending the week touring South Australia in his new role as special envoy on indigenous affairs. His appointment to the position earlier this year was highly controversial, with many indigenous leaders cynical about the choice and angry about the lack of consultation. Mr Abbott concedes there are "very passionate" mixed opinions about his appointment but says he is getting a pretty good response from remote communities. "There's a degree of gratitude to get the ear of a senior* politician. The more remote someone one is, the keener they are to get someone out from Canberra to listen," he told ABC radio from Coober Pedy on Wednesday. Mr Abbott said he was not surprised Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion first learned about his new role through the media. "When I was a minister in the Howard government, I often discovered things in the newspaper. That's just the way government works," he said.

Mr Abbott is considering the possibility of stationing police in high schools.

"It's by no means unusual to have a very strong relationship between the police and some secondary schools and I think that can be a very valuable thing to have," he said. "Each school is unique. We need to try to find systems which can accommodate the uniqueness of schools and communities. But certainly if we're talking about secondary schools in troubled communities, I think some close linkage between the local police and the school is often good for the police and for the schools."

Mr Abbott said he had no doubt more funding was also part of the answer.

"I don't think it's the whole answer by any means but certainly more funding - particularity where communities want to step up and make more of an effort themselves - is going to be important." A remote school attendance strategy has been in place since 2014, when Mr Abbott was prime minister. He concedes attendance has not improved dramatically since but says there has been success in some places and he would like to see the program continue. As prime minister, Mr Abbott was heavily criticised for arguing taxpayers should not have to fund the "lifestyle choices" of people living in remote communities. He made the comments as 150 remote Western Australian indigenous communities were facing potential closure. He does not resile from his views, saying the extent to which government supports small communities is a very important question. "If people want to go and live in a place that's very remote and in company with just a few other people, that's obviously their choice," he told the ABC.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Dude, what the gently caress

JBP posted: