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Previous Thread: Auspol Summer - I wish I could use posts to wipe my rear end ___________________________________ Our Australian Community Discord for Auspol: https://discord.gg/RnrnNXt AusGBS: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3910734 Auspol Chill out Zone: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3690833 In the interests of making sure all Australian communities are seen and heard. Please be on your best behaviour. ___________________________________ Anidav posted:It is time for Auspol Autumn. Australian News This man is the most popular PM in a decade.  Other News Some virus or something has hosed the world, if you don't know about it by now get back in your bunker and come back out in a few months. Senor Tron fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDiC0huVDs
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Apr 29, 2020 07:39
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wise from yo gwave
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Apr 29, 2020 07:41
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Couldn't even wait for the start of a new month, mister speaker
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Apr 29, 2020 07:42
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Who cares about months anymore
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Apr 29, 2020 07:44
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word cloud
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Apr 29, 2020 07:45
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Gas cloud
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Apr 29, 2020 07:46
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Anidav posted:Gas cloud Hehehe fart
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Apr 29, 2020 07:49
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-consul-general-crashes-hunt-s-press-conference-20200429-p54oa6.html Chinese consul general crashes Hunt’s press conference quote:Big business has swooped in on high-stakes political negotiations with China, parachuting in one of China’s top diplomats to speak at a Commonwealth office event as relationships between Canberra and Beijing deteriorate.
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Apr 29, 2020 07:52
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It's time all Australia agrees, the Morrison government's excellent handling of the coronavirus app's security and privacy issues grants them our complete confidence in their conception of a Dutton-lead data mega-agency
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Apr 29, 2020 07:56
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New Thread, New Shitposts. Post the reports Anidav.
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Apr 29, 2020 07:57
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Halo14 posted:https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-consul-general-crashes-hunt-s-press-conference-20200429-p54oa6.html As part of this there will apparently be enough tests to do 10 million in Australia by the end of the year. If that is staggered out (ie they can start soon, not that we'll have 10 million ready to go in December) it's really great news for health authorities being able to ramp up testing as part of re-opening the country.
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Apr 29, 2020 08:00
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The UwU virus
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Apr 29, 2020 08:06
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quick lets get to page 2 because the op sucks
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Apr 29, 2020 08:22
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hooman posted:New Thread, New Shitposts. Reporting JBP Is For Cowards
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Apr 29, 2020 08:25
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I said earlier I was going to make a new thread, but then I didn’t. I guess you could say I decided not to.
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Apr 29, 2020 08:26
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Gridlocked posted:Reporting JBP Is For Cowards old and busted - reporting jpb new and shiny - never replying to any jpb post
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Apr 29, 2020 08:29
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I am sorry I killed the last thread.
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Apr 29, 2020 08:29
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BurgerQuest posted:quick lets get to page 2 because the op sucks 
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Apr 29, 2020 08:34
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BurgerQuest posted:old and busted - reporting jpb Broke - reporting jbp Woke - never replying to jbp Bespoke - posting so badly you get the thread gassed Fake Edit: I don't actually condone reporting or not replying to JBP, because while I may disagree with some of their takes, they do post in good faith. Hell, let he who is without being a dumbass cast the first stone because gently caress knows I had a huge dumb argument because I totally misunderstood what labor was voting against just recently.
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Apr 29, 2020 08:38
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poo poo thread, poo poo country, poo poo post
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Apr 29, 2020 08:46
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Captain James Cock
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Apr 29, 2020 09:00
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Sweaty Captain James Cock on the HMS Bark End-Haver sails to Arse-straya
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Apr 29, 2020 09:03
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Senor Tron posted:As part of this there will apparently be enough tests to do 10 million in Australia by the end of the year. If that is staggered out (ie they can start soon, not that we'll have 10 million ready to go in December) it's really great news for health authorities being able to ramp up testing as part of re-opening the country. Who knows, maybe three or four of the tests might even work.
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Apr 29, 2020 09:11
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A Wild Animal posted:Captain James Cock Why can't we spend millions on that statue?
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Apr 29, 2020 09:25
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If there was this much whinging about some fairly mild deprivations in the 1940s we'd have surrendered to the Japs within 10 minutes
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Apr 29, 2020 09:48
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gay picnic defence posted:If there was this much whinging about some fairly mild deprivations in the 1940s we'd have surrendered to the Japs within 10 minutes the bunnings staff aren't paid enough to have to listen to you grandad, go home
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Apr 29, 2020 10:32
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On schools chat: so the Australian taxpayer is supposed to shoulder the burden just because some people don't want to be responsible for themselves and their own decisions? Sounds like communism to me Wait, I might be thinking of unemployment
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Apr 29, 2020 10:33
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Senor Tron posted:
Is this actually true?
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Apr 29, 2020 10:40
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freebooter posted:Is this actually true? How could it not be. E: pretty sure all premiers are also enjoying record approval ratings. It means nothing.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:40
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JBP posted:How could it not be. Except Queensland for some worrying reason. I dunno the reason lol.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:46
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The world runs much faster these days. Everyone has forgotten about the Bushfires stuff up, and by the next election I'd wager they forget all about this period too.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:47
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Pleasant Friend posted:The world runs much faster these days. Everyone has forgotten about the Bushfires stuff up, and by the next election I'd wager they forget all about this period too. They will live in the economic fallout and anyone standing for the ALP or Greens will be held accountable like they personally flew out of a cave on their leathery wings and began force feeding themselves to the initial victims of coronavirus, destroying the economy.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:51
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JBP posted:How could it not be. If you follow the Trump school of leadership?
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Apr 29, 2020 10:58
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Finally C-spam gets an Auspol thread
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Apr 29, 2020 11:02
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a mate told me that if PM/government support goes up during a crisis it apparently usually goes down again hard the next year, and PM/gov support usually goes down in the lead up to an election, so for anybody interested in polls, there should be some interesting swings to obsessively track before it all inevitably gets discarded and murdoch just lays the crown on whomever he wants
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Apr 29, 2020 11:03
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A Wild Animal posted:Captain James Cock I also would have accepted Captain James Cooked
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Apr 29, 2020 11:29
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Is coronavirus over yet? Need to know whether I can still get away with wearing casual at work
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Apr 29, 2020 11:39
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Re: schoolchat I'm a secondary teacher, we started back on Tuesday. We're open for kids of essential workers, those who can't leave their children home alone (which if they're in secondary, means they're either special needs or you don't trust them... for some reason...), or really, anyone who feels like sending them to school - there's no follow up or judgement or whatever, we just ask you keep you child at home for now if you can but we'll take them if you can't/won't. To me, this seems like the most common-sense middle ground for the time being. What it looks like: The students need constant reminders to not be touching each other's devices and learning materials, sitting close together, etc. I'd say half of it is forgetting, half is not caring/not taking it seriously. Ball games are on at recess and lunch, etc. IMO it's not surprising the government has now said that social distancing doesn't have to take place in schools; the idea that it could is an absolute farce and contradicts their narrative that schools are definitely safe. As neither a virologist nor an epidmeiologist I'm not saying they're conclusively unsafe, but from the extremely limited dataset used in the report, coupled with the very clear agenda being pushed and gaps in logic you could drive a freight train through, I'm skeptical and think we should give it another month or so. We started off with about 10% attendance yesterday, maybe an additional 2-3% more attending today. This is a fair bit more than we had at the end of Term 1. Seems to be a mix of kids with special learning needs, those who don't have a choice, a few who wanted to come for a change of scenery/to see their mates, and some whose parents are probably sick of dealing with them as the teachers get  The ones who come in work on the online stuff, with teachers rostered on to float around and help as needed. We've bulked up some of the supervisory requirements by engaging some of our regular CRTs for crowd control, but at current numbers the regular classroom teachers also need to do a few 50 minute supervision sessions per week, on top of managing the online stuff.The general, unofficial consensus among staff is that barring a serious outbreak in our area, we'll be at a critical mass of students attending in a few weeks time, to where the online stuff is going to have to go by the wayside as the number of staff needed to supervise the face-to-face students rises. There is no way any of us have the time to manage a dual-track system so those kids are going to be left with whatever scraps they get sent. Personally, the pessimist in me thinks Andrews is right: bank on Term 2 being online only and try to do as good a job with that as you can (with an eye towards hopefully opening in Term 3). Asking teachers to pivot to distance learning on a dime is hard enough, asking us to do it with half-arsed support and resources, with the potential of having the rug jerked out from under us on short notice makes it impossible, and incredibly demoralising. Remember that the median teacher is middle-aged (the 50% attrition rate in the first five years helps skew the figure), so there are a lot of teething issues with adapting to a digital mode of instruction. I've heard of absolutely nobody at my school balking at it, but a lot of them have a big hill to climb. For my part, as a relatively young and tech-savvy teacher, it has been an awesome feeling being able to finally help out many of the vastly more experienced colleagues whom I've been learning on for advice, resources, etc in my first few years. With that said, we've been getting some really positive feedback from students and parents alike about the online learning. A *lot* of time went in to getting these first few weeks ready, and some students are actually doing better - being able to watch lectures at their own pace, email the teacher privately as opposed to facing ~*~uLtiMaTe hUmiLiAtIoN~*~ by raising their hand and asking a question in class, or not have the lesson interrupted by ratbags has been helpful. Obviously it's not everyone's cup of tea, and students in disadvantaged households will likely be more disadvantaged (we are actually already on a "two track" system, with separate hard copy packs developed and posted home or available for pickup), but it's not as if online learning means everyone's education gets flushed down the toilet for the duration. Overall my workload has gone down a fair bit, but that just means I'm working all day at a "comfortable, diligent" pace rather than "feverish, I stay late, everything still doesn't get done" pace - my school isn't putting onerous requirements on us to contact families for trivial reasons or hold live Zoom sessions (this seems to be big in America, some Independent schools in my area are doing this - it is a massive can of worms). It's amazing being able to not worry about your next toilet break and be able to have a cup of tea while you work. On the other hand, they've done the absolute bare-arse minimum for work from home provisions, leave entitlements, etc, so it's kind of a wash. Personally I'm fine (no "at risk" members of my household), but the stinginess and mistrust of teachers has burnt up a lot of the goodwill I had - not looking for a new job over it, but I definitely look forward to grilling future employers as to how they handled Covid-19. Ethics_Gradient fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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JBP posted:How could it not be. McGowan is the most popular politician in Australia, perhaps even the world. So that's good. Ethics_Gradient posted:Re: schoolchat Hello fellow secondary teacher goon. School went back today for students in WA, my school had 3/5 of the kids show up. Obviously social distancing was pretty impossible though we spread them out as best we could. We've been told under no circumstances do we teach in two modes, that they'll hire relief teachers to cover the students working from home. It seems doubtful, but maybe they'll pull it off. Every teacher got a free bottle of hand sanitizer with unlimited refills, it makes my hands feel like I dipped them in butter.
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