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thatbastardken posted:should have waited until new years imo
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CelestialScribe posted:People who were in those exposure areas should definitely not. But everyone else shouldn't have to abide by any restrictions just because there's one case in the city. It’s not one case and there is no link in the chain so someone is running around infected. Limiting to 15 people and masks in all locations is a good call.
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Dec 31, 2020 02:01
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Yeast posted:Victoria's closing the border to NSW within days. New Year’s Day midnight is my hope.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:52
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Yeast posted:Good call. 3 days for infections to show up from parties tonight. 1 day for test results. See you all in lockdown next week. Wouldn’t be surprised if Victoria does it and NSW is later.
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Dec 31, 2020 10:35
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The Artificial Kid posted:So that brings our cost over 6 weeks up to about 50c/day, or $2.5 million per case avoided in the above scenario. Do you want to pay millions or have a cost of billions. Clearly, you and the NSW LNP want it to cost billions.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:42
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If Google hits the nuclear button and shuts down Google Search, Youtube. Maps and the Android Playstore, I expect we'll have a successful insurrection in Parliament within 2 hours. It would be under 1 hour, but it will take time for everyone in the country to work out how to find Parliament without googling it.
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Jan 23, 2021 13:08
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crepeface posted:if you guys haven't been following, /r/wallstreetbets has pumped gamestop stock up and hosed up an investment bank costing them billions. Why did a billionaire decided to burn in a fire more money for presumably other billionaires? Also, can we set all billionaire's on fire.
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Jan 28, 2021 09:01
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10:30pm news conference in VIC to say we're back to masks in ALL indoor areas as of midnight. One of the Open hotels is a hot spot, with the British variant suspected to be able to go through one door, across the corridor, into the next room across. So...4 meters or so? The Open will continue with 10000 spectators!
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Feb 3, 2021 16:03
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Sierra Madre posted:Comforting to know that our representatives are being told to get out of the city before any announcement for the public. Lockdown tonight. See you on the other side. (You don't tell rich and powerful people to evacuate in your moment of triumph).
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Feb 12, 2021 02:51
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Here we go again. WFH again. Need to go shopping and there’s going to be long lines. On the upside no worry I didn’t book Valentine’s Day!
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Feb 12, 2021 07:00
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We have community transmission in Victoria. I expect another 2 weeks of lockdown. I blame Scomo. This should be a Federal responsibility, and its going to keep happening for years.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:34
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Gridlocked posted:Oh hi Comstar, are you feeling more stable about COVID now days? I would say I was right- we needed to go into a hard lockdown and block the borders. There was a distinct lack of urgency and taking this thing seriously for a month between Janurary and March last year, both by Scomo in the Federal level and this very thread. The Federal LNP STILL doesn't want to take any responsibility for Quarantine after a year because it's a disaster and that would be hard and they are quite happy for the States to get blamed for each, inevitable, outbreak. We have an entire state going into Stage IV lockdown and jobseeker is going back to normal. Still, it let me work from home for a few months, traffic was GONE once I had to go back, and now we're in lockdown again, I'm able to work from home for a week or two. We didn't get the complete catastrophe other countries did/are/still going through, so we were both lucky and the various levels of government and business finally took action just as it was getting a bit late. NZ took the right approach and we were 2-4 weeks behind and several hundred dead still. When everyone accused me of panicking, infection rates were doubling every 3 days. So, yes, I'm more "stable" now. I'm still surprised the LNP didn't do a Trump and take the whole thing as not worth the number must go up rather than worrying about it enough to decide to take some drastic action instead that saved a lot of our lives. Victoria went directly to stage IV lockdown from Stage I in 4 days. There's no way in hell you would have seen that a year ago. We all learnt something this last 12 months.
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Feb 14, 2021 07:40
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A third report has come out that the Prime Minister Did Not Know About. https://twitter.com/samanthamaiden/status/1363452656811925506?s=20 The Australian is really gunning for him (The PM I mean). Via Reddit thread quote:According to the account of the latest woman to come forward, the former male staffer — who was working in a minister’s office — bought several rounds of “double strength” vodkas and three tequila shots for the woman over the course of a night. She says she had never been drunk before and vomited in the nightclub bathroom. Soon after she was alone with the staffer and told him she was going to call an Uber and go home. Comstar fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Feb 21, 2021 14:01
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Animal Friend posted:Also happy to see Crown eating poo poo. There's no way they could lose a licence...right? Then again Dan Andrews is popular enough now that maybe he can do it. Though I can't imagine the casino itself would go away.
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Feb 23, 2021 02:14
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kirbysuperstar posted:Oh, kinda. So it's a current Minister but Justice cannot be served because the victim is dead? Not Dutton I take it, he would have been in QLD at the time?
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Feb 26, 2021 09:09
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Reddit is reporting it's probably the current Attorney General. Funny how slow the Police were over this. And he's going to get away with it. The good news is that Scotty from marketing doesn't want to deal with it and Murdoch is in the lead to keep it in the news. We're not going to get an early election this year.
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Feb 28, 2021 13:27
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What? It’s Porter. The current AG. If it isn’t the PM can say who it is. He needs to step down and they investigate like it’s I don’t know the High Court of Australia did.
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Mar 1, 2021 02:48
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Can someone explain this to me: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-01/why-interest-rates-are-soaring-and-what-it-means-for-you/13201602 quote:In the past fortnight, and especially last week, global money markets have cratered and interest rates have soared. For many, it's a shrug-your-shoulders incident, an obscure and esoteric event that has little bearing on everyday life. The Money Markets are all betting that inflation will go up. Central banks are spending taxpayers money on it not. And Wages Will Not Go Up Because That's Government Policy. So inflation hasn't happened, isn't happening and won't happen. So who exactly is wrong here? I need someone to explain this too me.
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Mar 1, 2021 08:31
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EoinCannon posted:If we get inflation we need wage increases cos our wages buy less. But we know we won't get increases in wages. They know we won't get increases in wages because they spent 20 years stopping us getting increases in wages. Inflation is not happening except in assets (housing) and capital gains. And they continue and do everything in their power to stop any increases in wages. ..so I don't understand why they are betting money that inflation will happen and wages will increase.
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https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.co...ornton-in-1988/ Turnbull gave a very big hint that Porter or someone else was talking to the victim recently and that may have caused her to end her life. There’s a photo on news.com of Porter and the victim together in the night of the incident. https://www.news.com.au/national/po...d67967075284bbf With the AG invoked this is a national security threat. Comstar fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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The ABC was reporting that the defence minister is “embattled”.
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Mar 3, 2021 22:53
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I give it 2 days before the AG is embattled. https://twitter.com/criprights/status/1366992551647977474?s=20 He walks into a office and yells at a random worker for no reason. There are going to be more stories. The only question is, does Murdoch want him out of the job?
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The ABC sent me a survey to fill out. One of the questions was how concerned I was about left-wing extremism. There were no questions about my concern for right-wing extremism. Weird huh. In about a month or so I expect to see a news report on abc.net.au/news on how "some Australians are very concerned about left-wing extremism".
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Hmm Four Corners or the Meghan Markle interview, what to watch? Was there anything actually new in either of them? The Markle one seems to have leaked everything except that one unnamed-probably-someone-whose-in-hospital-now-for-completly-unrealted-reasons was worried about a baby's skin colour.
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What Are The Federal Implications? I have no idea how many Federal Liberal seats in WA there are.
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Is the Covid vaccine supposed to be free? As part of being a 1B group member, I got to call a local GP to get the jab as the media calls it, next week. But the GP is not my normal bulk billing one (who is not doing it). They told me when I called "it's an appointment to see the doctor for an evaluation". I found them on the government website as it's the same suburb. But I've now read that some doctor's are not fully covering the cost via bulk billing but the Federal Government is saying it should be. That's assuming of course that they even HAVE the supply available next week, as we've only got 200,000 doses for the entire country - so most GP's are going to run out the very first day. A complete failure in leadership by the LNP once again I suspect.
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BurgerQuest posted:[bold]bold[/bold] some more key words please Don't blame me, I'm just following the media guidelines. It's not a vaccination, it's the jab, said in a bold font. I'm guessing it's a a google search term optimization tactic or something.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:16
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Like what the gently caress is China going to do to us? The posturing of an authoritarian regime is only dangerous to the people living in it, what China would be and is perfectly happy to attack it's neighbors and if/when they decide to distract their internal issues with an external crisis, will and have done it.
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Mar 20, 2021 08:21
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Konomex posted:Trade allows you to grow fat, annexing a nation brings too many of its own problems. Chinas got a number of internal issues that are going to keep it busy in the coming decades anyway, their population issues, but also the growing 'middle class' of China. A content middle class is not content to wage war. Funny. The same reasons were given before WW1 AND WW2 on why they wouldn't happen. In all the cases, the middle class gets no actual say in the matter (and the same applied to us when we helped invade Iraq). I don't think any war's going to be started by anyone except China though. It would help destroy everyone's economies (ours included with all the stuff we buy from them) and China I think would ultimately lose because though they might be able to invade Taiwan, they can't hold it because it's too easy to sink any resupply fleets in an ongoing war once more than 1 US carrier battlegroup shows up. The problem will start when they think they actually can, and they aren't anywhere near that yet for a few decades.
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Mar 20, 2021 20:07
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The only reason wages are going to go up this year is because of 0 immigration we have, which is only because the government cannot open the borders to force wages down. And thanks to Scummo's complete incompetence and lack of leadership, it will be till next year before they can. So we have about 9 months to get a pay rise before the gate is shut. And it's going to give them a decade of excuse to not allow refugee's in because they won't be able to prove they have been vaccinated.
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Mar 21, 2021 04:46
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Anidav posted:I hope Murdoch turns on this fucker and we get the Dutton Emperor Hellscape we deserve. The PM was crying today because he knows he's on the brink of losing his power. There was a weird news article in The Age a week or so ago puffing up Frydenburg as the next successor. There's blood in the water and the PM know it's his.
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Mar 23, 2021 05:39
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#libspill is treading. The Jab trip report - saw doctor for "consultation". No cost (medicare covered it) but I get my first injection...in 3 weeks. Lucky we don't have any outbreaks right now. I'd put money on Smirko not being PM by the end of the year but Sportsbet doesn't have it listed. Someone gave him that info about the Sky HR claim and whoever that was, baited the trap and got it set off in spectacular style. But he's not embattled. Yet. He's being hunted now.
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Mar 23, 2021 10:51
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Labor MP says a NSW government MP raped female sex workerquote:A male MP in the Berejiklian government is under police investigation for allegedly raping a female sex worker at a secluded lookout in the Blue Mountains. The man is in the lower house of NSW Parliament. Someone wanna check whose wikipedia page is getting furiously updated/reset? edit- I should have checked reddit by newest post NSW Nationals MP Michael Johnsen to take leave effective immediately and steps aside from his Parliamentary Secretary role following "devastating" allegations https://twitter.com/GavinCoote/status/1374674918000922629?s=20 In other news, there's going to be a Fed Government Cabinet Reshuffle to get rid of the AG and Defense Minister. Word on the street is it's Dutton for Defense, which is a neat way Smirko can move his rival to a position that destroys careers. God help us if he gets Defense AND keeps Homeland Security. Smiko knows he's being hunted and has a really good reason for a reshuffle to get his hunters away in bad positions. Be very interesting where he puts Frydenburg. Comstar fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1375013778216128514?s=20 This is why that LNP member apologized today - an hour before it was on TV about his Facebook harassment and threats to two women who live in his seat. One helps run a homeless charity and the other is a wife of a local councilor. He stalked one when she was with her kids. There's multiple crimes here right? Threats over a communication line and stalking?
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Mar 25, 2021 11:50
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freebooter posted:One of the fascinating things in the discourse at the moment is the idea that the slow vaccine rollout is a "blunder" by a government that's presided over one of the most excellent COVID responses in the world. what They had nearly an entire YEAR to plan and roll this out.They can't even meet their own plan OR their revised plan OR the revised revised plan. It's been a near complete abrogation to "just get the GP's to do it". If that guy in QLD had it for a week AND got it from an unknown source it's a good chance it's already spread and we'll be in lockdown. Again. The States are the reason we got our response, and it took them 3 months to figure it out because the Federal Government refused to take any responsibility. Which they are STILL doing. And now doing to PNG who needs 8 million doses and got...800. Scott Morrison got people killed in the Fires and got people killed in the Pandemic and will keep getting people (and the environment) killed. He's a supervillain who conquered Australia but we don't have any superhero's in this time line.
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Mar 26, 2021 11:46
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freebooter posted:What external border gently caress-ups? If you're talking about the Ruby Princess that was brought under control pretty quick and nobody who didn't contract COVID on the ship died from it. what As of Wednesday, about one in every 10 cases of coronavirus in Australia could be linked to the Ruby Princess.. quote:Fast-forward more than a month and NSW recorded eight Ruby Princess passenger deaths and of the state's 2,971 coronavirus cases, almost 13 per cent were linked to the ship. That was dated 23rd of April last year. The Ruby Princess outbreak infected 663 Australians on board and led to 28 deaths, including 20 domestically and eight in the United States. Now that report went on to blame the ENTIRE thing on NSW Heath, so well done Dutton, well done. And we had much worse outbreaks later, but this was completely avoidable if the man in charge of quarantine and border "protection" and the Government Leadership of this country had done his job like we (but not you it seems) expect them too. quote:The federal government absolutely deserves the blame it gets for jockeying at state border closures and the Victorian lockdown, but also deserves more credit than it gets for its early interventions, IMO. What, say, like New Zealand did? If we'd closed the borders we'd have had a much larger impact like NZ did. Sure there would have been outbreaks...but if the Fed Government had done it's job the quarantine would have been done at purpose made facilities instead of whatever Hotel chain needed cash for it's owners. quote:We live in a COVID-free country, our systems have improved to the point that it'll stay that way, and I'm not fussed whether we get the vaccine next week or next year. Did...you not hear the news today? Brisbane COVID case confirmed to be UK variant with link to Princess Alexandra Hospital cluster quote:Queensland Health said the genomic testing confirmed the man had the B117 variant, also known as the UK strain. So this is the UK version that's twice as deadly and it's broken containment. It's not going to cause an outbreak across the country like the Ruby Princess disaster did, but I expect the borders to QLD will be closed by VIC if they don't track it down in the next 1-2 days. If just one person got it and walked through Tullarmarine we will be back in lockdown next Monday. And you can now walk through Tullarmarine without a mask. And we need to continue to do this until the vaccine rollout is completed...which right now won't be till May next year. Also, WTF is that shitfucker Avolshoam not permabanned? The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Disease & Disaster > Auspol: The Moderation is worse than the Federal Government quarantine Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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freebooter posted:What is it that getting vaccinated will allow you to do which you can't currently do? Well this post aged quickly. Health department tells anyone from coming from Brisbane to self-isolate quote:Anyone who has entered Victoria from the City of Brisbane and Moreton Bay area since March 12 must immediately self isolate, the health department says. They sent a tweet and made an announcement at a Football match, which I'm sure everyone from Brisbane will get right on getting tested. And we just removed nearly all the restrictions in Victoria (beyond Health care and public transport) To answer your question - not be in a state going back to having to wear a mask everywhere and be without a lockdown. The one thing I did like was the complete lack of traffic and my commute was cut in half. The office was a lot quieter too. If we're very very lucky it didn't get here, but we just invited a few 1000 people FROM BRISBANE down here, removed most mask wearing and limiting people at locations, and it's been nearly 2 weeks since it could have got here. Now, this may actually NOT be a Federal Government fuckup..but if we have proper containment facilities built..I don't know...6 months ago...we might not have had this possible disaster occurring. And with the fuckup of the vaccine rollout, we have to keep being very very lucky for another year. It probably won't kill or infect as many people THIS time, but only because the State governments will lock down a lot faster than they did this time last year. Aren't we all glad they removed social distancing and mask wearing at 6pm! Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 13:17
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Anidav posted:Move on to a new topic or I will gas this thread and restart the Nintendo 64. Um....the NWS picture of male full frontal nudity was not a cause for concern? It was up for more than an hour. In other news, I thought this was pretty funny, but we need someone to write the whole song out. https://twitter.com/CapybaraHappy/status/1375429291626749956 So I'd say Andrew Lanning has ROCKETED to the Embattled stage and passed Prime Minister Smirko who was merely at the Beleaguered level. I'd put money on Sportsbet there's more people who got harassed and/or stalked by him, if there was such a bet to be made. Comstar fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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freebooter posted:Even if we accept that the NW Tasmania cluster can be traced back to the Ruby Princess: 138 cases and 10 deaths is an average single day in Melbourne last winter.  I don't often do gifs, but this seemed appropriate. So is Andrew Lanning going to be "former" soon? The up-skirting was seemingly being held in reserve until he was already out in the open and vulnerable. Is what he did illegal under QLD law? Channel 9 seems to have decided to get rid of him, and this government. I mean, look at the photo they ran with: 
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