Knorth posted:

https://twitter.com/Chambersgc/status/1046902052184457217
cool.....

Anidav posted:

I am a firm believer that immigration policy will shift into something good once they are in government. They are just playing me too at the moment so the Liberals have nothing to campaign about. The reason 2016 was almost a hung parliament was because Labor gave Turnbull nothing to campaign onand nothing to talk about. Bill Shorten is quite a carefully calculated operator, look what the ALP did with the Dutton leaks. They know how to cook a Tory government and I say let them cook a Tory government.

fiery_valkyrie posted:

Who is going to blink first? The Nauruan govt or the Australian govt?

It’s like a competition to see who can treat refugees the worst.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/06/nauru-orders-msf-to-stop-mental-health-work-on-island

snoremac posted:

It’s two colloquialisms tripping over each other since “having a go” means you’re attacking someone.

starkebn posted:

They're hell bent on opposing it just because they don't like being told what to do like big babies

Anidav posted:

The Morrison government will bring forward a $29.8 billion tax cut for millions of small employers in a dramatic move to lift investment and wages, turning attention back to the economy after a spate of spending promises from Labor.

Small companies will get their tax rate cut to 25 cents in the dollar five years earlier than previously planned under the significant new policy, which has been in planning for months and will be announced on Thursday.

Count Chocula posted:

https://www.news.com.au/national/br...JPieH6LNCW75rNs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the right level of medical support is available for people awaiting processing on Nauru, as calls grow for asylum seekers to come off the Pacific island.

Doctors who were recently asked to leave the island by the Nauruan government say asylum seekers are suffering "absolutely devastating" mental conditions.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said it treated 78 refugee patients who either attempted suicide, had suicidal thoughts or inflicted self-harm.


Mr Morrison on Friday said the government worked with a separate medical contractor - International Health and Medical Services - and appropriate medical support was available.

"We don't go around making a big song and dance about it, we just get on and help people and provide the care that is necessary," he told Sky News on Friday.

Mr Morrison said further medical assistance is organised by the federal government as required.

Aid worker organisation Save The Children joined MSF to express concern for the "devastating physical and mental impacts" on children in detention.

The organisation said it witnessed the deteriorating mental and physical health of detainees firsthand, calling on the prime minister to immediately remove children from the island.

Labor leader Bill Shorten said the government should accept New Zealand's offer to resettle detainees on Nauru.

"Five years has been too long to resettle some of the people we have in our regional processing," Mr Shorten told reporters in Melbourne on Friday.

"We support the American deal. I think the government should accept the offer of New Zealand to resettle some of the people on Nauru."

Mr Shorten fell short of rejecting offshore processing, saying Labor is committed to stopping the boats and preventing deaths at sea.

Save The Children's Mat Tinkler said the prime minister should urgently arrange for children and their families to be moved to Australia or an appropriate third country "until an enduring solution can be found".

The Nauruan government said that MSF staff had shown themselves to be "political activists".

"Although MSF claimed to be a partner to Nauru and the Nauruan people, instead of working with us, they conspired against us," the statement issued on Friday said.

"The facilities, care, welfare and homely environment offered to refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru are comparable or better than what other refugees and asylum seekers across the globe receive."

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What’s happening on Nauru is horrific, and I wish Labor would stand up to it.

Don Dongington posted:

I mean, shorten supporting the NZ offer is the most the ALP have done since 2012.

It's not enough, but it's a step forward, which I welcome over the alternative, which is more lovely bipartisan natsec theatre and dogwhistling

Anidav posted:

ALP is scared of 60 Minutes running fake news stories about boat people being kept in 5 star hotels while pensioners have to eat their grandchildren to survive.

Amoeba102 posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/alt-right-plans-shake-up-of-mainstream-politics-in-australia/10368972

Change from within. But not the change you were looking for. More details on the story of alt-right infiltration to major parties.

Frogfingers posted:

If anyone knows any of these people please let them know I'm offering an open challenge to their pencil-neck fight club. Holy hell, these people get their ideas from 90-minute-long Sargon of Akkad videos, why do they think they're in shape enough to fight?

quote:

Mr Cottrell denies the club is a white supremacist organisation, telling Background Briefing it is nothing more than a community group.

He also said he is a regular member of the club and, as such, is not involved in any of the decision making processes.

Mr Jennings is among those who attend the club's fight nights every Friday.

He told Background Briefing his only reason for going there is to "buy health supplements

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/mohammedzismail/status/1051336047089594368

Anidav posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Every question he answered by talking about small business tax cuts.

incredible flesh posted:

once my neighbours' steers got into my yard because an apple gum branch fell on the fence, they were standing their ground against me and i don't have much experience with cows so i was terrified but i asked ariel for help and he gave me the strength to dominate them, round them up, and herd them home. halfway across our paddock they all suddenly got very excited and frolicked away back to their home with their tails curled up (it's so cute when cows do this) and at that moment a double rainbow broke out overhead. feeling completely blissful and at one with the universe, with the cows and with my ghost husband, i walked back up to the house and only then did i find that someone had broken into our shed and stolen our ride-on lawn mower and both our water pumps, so for the rest of the weekend we were dealing with the police and we couldn't flush the loo. amen

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/David_Speers/status/1052051190937149440

It's happening?

iajanus posted:

I assume ship them over to NZ and then they just fly over here as NZ citizens

Knorth posted:

https://twitter.com/CroweDM/status/1052400899455377408
Do they have anyone that isn't a gross dickhead

quote:

The government has offended Pacific leaders in the past, with Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton caught on camera joking about rising sea levels after a visit to the region.

"Time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to have water lapping at your door," Mr Dutton said in September 2015.

quote:

BANDT: I am prepared to rephrase the question ... Why is the government slowly killing these children?

SPEAKER: The member for Melbourne needs to withdraw, a rephrase doesn't do it. There is one rule for everyone I'm afraid.

BANDT: I withdraw that part of the question.

SPEAKER: Thank you.

quote:

Victorian Liberal Russell Broadbent has made a personal appeal to Bill Shorten to back government legislation stopping any asylum seekers resettled in New Zealand coming to Australia, declaring people languishing on Nauru need parliament to deliver a breakthrough.

Broadbent – one of four Liberals lobbying Scott Morrison for a circuit-breaker to get at-risk children and their parents out of offshore detention – told Guardian Australia that Shorten “could be an enabler in this if he chooses to be”.

“I call on Bill Shorten to do everything he can possibly do to move this issue forward, including supporting the government’s legislation,” Broadbent said on Wednesday. “He has a moral obligation to back up his sentiment with action.”

Lid posted:

https://twitter.com/TheTodayShow/status/1053022303976546304

Lol

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

lol at Frydenberg's balding.

Blamestorm posted:

I swear this creeping Americanism is infectious. Core vote - assuming such a thing existed - doesn’t matter. We have mandatory voting. We have seats. You need to win more seats than anyone else to be a government. What your most crazy 10% think is irrelevant to winning power. Especially so as presumably your “core voters” will vote for you whatever you say or do, and unlike the US they have no option to stay home. It’s a meaningless term here.

Knorth posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/oct/23/coalition-labor-shorten-morrison-nauru-politics-liv

Jesus this dickhead