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When Jones asked why Ms Herron would not project the text and logo on the Opera House, she replied: “It’s not a billboard".

Jones replied: “Who said? You. Who the hell do you think… who do you think you are?”

Aurubin posted:

Which country has a fuckton of nuclear, and which eliminated it in favor of solar in a country where the sun shines like 10 percent of the time?

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You should Vote [1] Revive, because we are the only ticket to propose the following six simple policies:

Stop the ban on pro-life student organisations
Deliver a smoking area to your student bar
Bring the number of students on campus to a sustainable level
Save you $300 a year by axing the SSAF
Ban the Confucius Institute on campus
Support the introduction of the Ramsay Centre's Western Civilisation Degree

BBJoey posted:

How'd Lucy Giuchi vote?

Anidav posted:

Jesus Christ if that swing flips my growing up electorate of Ryan.

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Government 'won't horse trade' on asylum seekers
Scott Morrison has responded to Labor’s offer to support the ‘one-off’ lifetime ban for children and their families accepted by New Zealand, but not the blanket ban.

Morrison says the government won’t horse trade on the issue:

"The bill we put into the Parliament was the right answer. And, as I said, you don’t horsetrade on border protection. You don’t do it. Because you run the risk of creating a perverse incentive.

Let’s think this through. The perverse incentive that if you put a child onto a boat, well, you’re more likely at the other end to get the particular outcome you’re looking for.

I understand the grief. I understand the great level of community passion and anxiety on this. I do.

But I also understand that I must take decisions that don’t put more children at risk, which is the great folly of how the Labor Party have always engaged on this issue.

That’s not how this works. I will consider and take serious advice from people within Operation Sovereign Borders about the potential impact of all of those things.

When it comes to the New Zealand legislation, we’ve had that in place for some time. It has never been my preferred outcome. Never been my preferred outcome.

We’ve been dealing with our partners in the United States with great effect and one of the other problems with this issue being pursued in this way by the Opposition is it can work to actually say to people on Nauru at the moment, “Oh, I won’t take the US offer because the Labor Party might be offering me a better offer.”

And so they’re still on there.

And so I would caution people to think carefully about the ramifications of this. I’ll be listening carefully to those who are responsible for protecting our borders and stopping kids getting on boats. I’m not sure - to the best of my knowledge, the Labor Party did not seek advice from those agencies in the position they’ve put to us. I’m not here to horsetrade on children.

I’m here to help them.”

Anidav posted: