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Welcome to the October AusPol thread! Abandon all hope ye who enter here! Didn't we get a new PM last month? Will we get another this month? Maybe it's time to review the players...  Prime Mobster of Australia, Leader of the Laceration Party, Scott Murderson After a dark and stormy night in Castle Canberra, Malcolm Burnbull was backstabbed by Potato Dirt-on but this only lead to Scummo getting the leadership. Despite the Coalition literally shutting down parliament during this saga, recently told Barrie Cassidy that the "ABC should stop talking about itself and get back to work".  Leader of the L-aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh-bor party, Thrill Sharten Formed from pieces of faceless men in the basement of the Labor Party caucus, Thrill Sharten is the ultimate small target opposition leader. Despite all reports, is actually ALLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE.  Groans Leader, Richard Do Nutally Wants to socialise everything! Oooooooo, spooky!  United Australian Party, Clive Dahmer Keeps interrupting the footy, the monster. Doesn't actually have any policies (or a party?)  Pauline Hanson Scary enough on her own, although Fraser Anning is coming for her crown.
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NTRabbit posted:That shop of Pauline is horrifying lol
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Oct 1, 2018 07:57
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Oh my God Do you think Bishop is salty Morrison got an Eagles guernsey?
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Oct 1, 2018 08:48
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I say folks when I'm referring to a large group, as I used to say "guys" which was an issue for obvious reasons.
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Oct 1, 2018 11:48
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Jonah Galtberg posted:spoilers: at least half of them think less of you because of it 
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Oct 1, 2018 11:57
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Considering we have people in Australia who genuinely believe we have a constitution with free speech enshrined there's worse things we can import from America than a word. Capitalism, for one.
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Oct 1, 2018 12:33
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Heard this morning (ABC 24) that despite protests from the left-wing of the Labor party, Shorten will not break up the mega department Dutton founded. Not really surprising e: got beat
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Oct 2, 2018 00:49
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hambeet posted:Feeling targeted here. Try and be smaller
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Oct 2, 2018 02:02
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While the Liberals are in power I can see "reasonable grounds" being "don't wanna" Good to see, though. This needs an education piece, though. Younger workers especially need to be informed of this as they're probably the most exploited.
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Oct 2, 2018 02:20
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He does nothing but talk about sports. This will appeal directly to braindead swing voters
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Oct 2, 2018 04:46
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Anidav posted:>Alright boys we need to boot a Labor State Government from power. How do we do it?
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Oct 2, 2018 13:36
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Senor Tron posted:Bombay Bicycle Club? We used to go there reasonably often and haven't been back since they did that. Yeah, aside from being a neoliberal shithead the guy that ran the place was racist too. We stopped going there after a friend of mine gave him a serve, and this was before his complaining about wages. When we saw that pop up we were already boycotting the place.
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Oct 3, 2018 03:56
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JBP posted:Just say that you think it's horseshit that your party is having its strings pulled by a small number of religious dickheads. Get a loving backbone. I will vote for the first visible backbone next election. Skeleton party wins in a landslide
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Oct 3, 2018 11:52
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Labor won't do anything about the camps because it's too late for them to do anything about them. We've seen from all politicians that at the end of the day they're about saving their skins (and their large pay packets) so Labor exposing the crimes on Nauru and Manus would simply blow back on them since Labor and Liberal have both been complicit. We would honestly need a new breed of Labor ministers (snerk, laffo) or for the Greens to get power to clean out those camps.
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Oct 4, 2018 04:51
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Once upon a time I would've said we could also wait for international intervention but lol, the UN is toothless
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Oct 4, 2018 04:52
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bigis posted:If I’m pooping at work is that time theft? According to neolib shithead small business owners any time you're not directly putting your own money into their pockets you are stealing from them! And sadly this trashing workers narrative won't turn away newspaper readers. They just think they're good little employees who will be the big boss one day as they spend hour 3 on the loo reading the Advertiser
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Oct 4, 2018 05:36
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JBP posted:It's (paid for by the IPA etc) blowback for workers saying making them do unpaid o/t is stealing, but then again if you treated them like people they'd do an extra 15 minutes a day without even batting an eyelid. Yeah my workplace treats staff really well so people offer to work back late and work through lunches and I have to tell them to not do that poo poo for free, either get flex or o/t for it
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Oct 4, 2018 06:20
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"A corporation's money overrides your right to choose" - the party of small government
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Oct 5, 2018 10:03
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Anidav posted:I think it's time to vote for the worst state or territory Can't you add a poll to the thread, IK? 
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Oct 5, 2018 11:05
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kirbysuperstar posted:Where's the preference guide? It's an Anidav poll, all votes for Queensland add +1 to all other states
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Oct 5, 2018 11:11
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Count Chocula posted:I wrote a poem about dreaming about Sydney’s destruction. I perform it in a yelling style. Call in to Alan Jones to recite it
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Oct 6, 2018 11:49
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Just need a visit from IWC and Raptorfag and we've really got the ol' Auspol Crew back together
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Oct 6, 2018 12:27
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TheMightyHandful posted:They're just plain and white, why not put something on there so they aren't so boring. And here I was thinking Aussies had a problem with things that weren't plain and white
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Oct 7, 2018 09:36
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Zenithe posted:All are welcome, the cream, the bone, the white, the off-white, the ivory or the beige. 
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Oct 7, 2018 10:28
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Anidav posted:https://www.alp.org.au/fairgoactionplan The Coalition could collapse at any moment, you know this But seriously there's a by-election in two weeks and then two state elections before the fed, it's a good time to get the messaging sorted and start pumping out those sound bites
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Oct 7, 2018 11:40
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I can sometimes see how neoliberals might truly believe that austerity is a good thing, or that trickle-down economics are real But I can never understand how they can look at countries like the US and go "healthcare more like their system please, I'm not an evil piece of poo poo at all!"
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Oct 8, 2018 01:18
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Anidav posted:What is it with the term action plan that both Abbott and Shorten use it I'm surprised you haven't heard it more often since working at NewsCorp. It's just corporate speak to make plans sound more interesting.
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Oct 8, 2018 02:26
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hambeet posted:*1920's newsy voice* it's not that, it's just that thems with the monies wants to pay less taxes mister. so they want to get rid of the things that costs thems the monies. Listening to Morrison speak is driving me up the wall lately. He just says Labor want more taxes but then promises government money to prop up the GST or drought-affected farmers and what do you know, taxes don't get a mention when he does it
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Oct 8, 2018 02:29
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MysticalMachineGun posted:I'm surprised you haven't heard it more often since working at NewsCorp. It's just corporate speak to make plans sound more interesting. Mechanically though it's meant to be a plan with clear, outlined steps. I'll get asked to make an action plan to complete a certain project, for example.
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Oct 8, 2018 02:31
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froglet posted:Fucks sake. Because they don't want to fund them either, they're trying to kill them via a thousand cuts
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Oct 8, 2018 04:31
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Got a Labor survey for what they should be campaigning on. Y'know, better hospitals, rolling back penalty rates changes, taxing multinationals. All good stuff. Absolutely no mention of asylum seekers whatsoever. Luckily there's a free text field to finish the survey with a fairly high character count, I discovered 
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Oct 9, 2018 00:59
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Don't forget how Jacqui Lambie was in every political party under the sun until finally landing a seat with PUP (and rapidly becoming independent). Some people just want to be in power, regardless of party.
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Oct 9, 2018 01:30
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You Am I posted:What topic? Whatever Alan Jones wants to talk about today
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Oct 9, 2018 05:51
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asio posted:Look at what the uranium is under. Solemn Sloth posted:The southern cross 
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Oct 9, 2018 23:41
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This religious freedoms poo poo is the most arrogant garbage I've ever seen. States already allow discrimination against staff on sexual orientation and now they want to expand it so they can put those little gay kids in their place too! The fact that it's called "religious freedom" when they apparently already have carte blanche to do whatever they gently caress they want is maddening.
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Oct 9, 2018 23:45
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MysticalMachineGun posted:This religious freedoms poo poo is the most arrogant garbage I've ever seen. States already allow discrimination against staff on sexual orientation and now they want to expand it so they can put those little gay kids in their place too! They literally say "don't discriminate against us, but we can discriminate against you"  quote:Entrenching the power to hire and fire gay teachers and eject gay students was one of the central demands of the Catholic church, the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and Christian Schools Australia in submissions to the Ruddock review.
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Oct 10, 2018 00:09
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Don Dongington posted:The thing I look forward the most to in the 2019 election is the increasingly likely removal of Cory Bernardi and Senator Lionhat from public office. Sorry mate, next year at the earliest  What conspiracy theories are out there regarding Port Arthur?
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Oct 10, 2018 02:10
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You Am I posted:You don't wanna go down that rabbit hole Yeah I do. I love rabbit holes. Don Dongington posted:I love that Port Arthur is a conspiracy, but the Tampa/Children overboard affairs are cool and good and had nothing to do with keeping an unpopular government in power. It does worry me sometimes. Stuff we on the left can point to as a provable conspiracy but nothing ever happens so maybe we're just as paranoid sometimes, y'know? Then I remember that the right-wing execute their conspiracies out in the open with a compliant press saying it's a good thing and go back to being angry.
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Oct 10, 2018 03:10
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If weed isn't legalised then testing to see if you've had it in your system at any point is valid, I guess If it were legalised they'd have to change to measuring impairment level in some way
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JBP posted:In Vic it's two warnings before you're in trouble, so why isn't it a warning if I'm not impaired but get done. It's a stupid rule and a stupid test. Fair enough
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