Auspol Infinity: Front of the queue off a cliff

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bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Very excited for 2021 in the great state of New South Wales, it's good of Victoria to join us in welcoming back Covid-19

# ¿ Dec 30, 2020 13:08

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 08:14

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Last time tons of people were wearing masks but. Like everyone's behaviour is totally different

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 05:23

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

i got a mask in the mail from the council

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 12:59

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

the masks are good because they stop ten people getting sick, because a hundred people would get sick after them, then a thousand, then we're in lockdown, which is more expensive than masks

# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 13:31

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Tommunist posted:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-put-rest-of-country-at-risk-by-playing-the-odds-on-masks-ama-says-20210101-p56r91.html

"Australia’s peak medical group says the NSW government has put the rest of the country at risk by its decision not to go “hard and early” in its response to the outbreak on Sydney's northern beaches, which is suspected to have seeded cases in Victoria. "

Lmao

"AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said he believed Victoria should have closed its borders to NSW sooner, saying the significant period of time between the transmission event at the Thai restaurant on December 21 and when cases were first detected on Wednesday afternoon, nine days later, was a concern.
“Maybe this can be jumped on, but there is so much prospect of it being back out there, it’s really scary,” Dr Khorshid said.
The AMA has called for the NSW government to make masks mandatory indoors and have criticised a decision to allow about 20,000 people to attend the Sydney cricket Test"

A brave move for the AMA to support compulsory masks indoors when this would hurt both bus drivers and the economy

This makes the national AMA and the NSW AMA, which said the same thing about masks a few days ago, as well as the epidemiologists going on about it. They're probably ignorant as to the needle-eye between contact tracing and lockdowns

# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 01:27

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/sydney-hungry-panda-riders-battle-dismissal/13169176

quote:

Two food delivery drivers who say they were unfairly dismissed by Hungry Panda are taking their fight to the Fair Work Commission in a bid to have their jobs reinstated.

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Mr Yang, 51, told the ABC he worked for Hungry Panda in Sydney for more than a year, working at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week to provide for his wife and four children in China.
Mr Li said he used the money he made delivering food on his motorbike for Hungry Panda to provide for his wife and son.
The unfair dismissal claims are the latest in the men's fight against the food delivery giant.
Earlier this month the pair organised a small strike in Burwood to protest changes to the company's pay structure, which they say significantly reduced their wages.
That afternoon the men received messages from Hungry Panda stating it had decided to "terminate the cooperative relationship" and immediately blocked them from the app.

"terminate the cooperative relationship"

# ¿ Feb 18, 2021 22:34

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/20/inhumane-woman-held-in-isolation-for-seven-years-disability-royal-commission-hears

quote:

For seven years, Melanie was locked in a room with no natural light, often for more than 23 hours a day.
On the walls, she was said to have �graffitied the room with her own blood� and two advocates who visited her and saw the conditions she was kept in say the experience will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
�I have had a bad upbringing,� Melanie, 39, told the disability royal commission in a pre-recorded statement, �but I�m a strong, proud, black Aboriginal woman that is here before you today to come and get help where I need it and fight for my rights.�
In hearings this week in Brisbane, the commission began examining the treatment of people with cognitive disability in the criminal justice system, hearing from experts and advocates about the complex issue.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2021 23:55

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...t-morrison-says

quote:

Scott Morrison has indicated that he has reprimanded his staff for not bringing a former government staffer�s rape allegations to his attention as soon as a reporter submitted questions earlier this month.

Yeah, right

# ¿ Feb 21, 2021 06:18

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Don't even call it a rise imo, it's a 100 dollar a fortnight reduction. You're supposed to be thankful it's not 150 dollars

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 03:20

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...etail-body-says

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However, another leading employer group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, believes the phone line is worth trialling provided it does not �increase the punitive elements� employment services program.
Jenny Lambert, acting chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said there was �anecdotal evidence� of jobseeker payment recipients turning down work, but the peak body did not have �visibility as to the number�.
�We think gaining information from the market is very important to improve how the system is managed but we don�t believe the way to help people into jobs is to increase the punitive elements of the program,� she said.

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Asked about the need for the reporting line on Tuesday, the social services minister, Anne Ruston, said the employment minister, Michaelia Cash, was �very keen� for the hotline to provide �some kind of understanding of the quantum of this particular issue�.
�We certainly hear a lot from employers and employer groups that that is the case,� she said. �And so we believe if these employers are refusing jobs when the employer believes they are capable of taking them, we want to follow up on that up.�
Cash, whose department will administer the phone line, also said the government received �so many reports� of people turning down work after turning up to interviews to �tick a box�.
�My department will, of course, investigate all of this,� she told 2GB on Wednesday.

We already know the tactic here, they're declaring vague fraud to justify punitive measures. They're also saying the phone line is to collect information. It's just to help us understand the situation!

quote:

�This will then mean that my department can follow up with that person or alternatively, Jobactive can follow up with that person, to ascertain exactly why they said no to a suitable job,� Cash said.

Hmm that doesn't sound like research

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 22:36

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

I figured the point of JSP torture was to make people desperate for a job so they'll take any rate and lower wages

# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 01:41

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-25/transport-minister-demanded-millions-of-trees-be-cleared-in-nsw/13194146

quote:

The NSW Roads Minister ordered his top bureaucrat to clear millions of trees along every highway in NSW even though the agency said it had no authority to do so, it has emerged.
Andrew Constance made the direction in the aftermath of the Black Summer bushfires in a letter to then secretary of Transport for NSW (TfNSW) Rodd Staples.
Mr Staples was terminated last year and received a severance of more than $830,000.
Mr Constance told a budget estimates inquiry today that the failure to comply with this instruction was one of the reasons he believed the department needed to go in a "new direction".
"What's gone on there is a classic example of what needs to change," Mr Constance said.
"Because after that event when lives were put at risk ... my expectation is we get the trees back from our highways because I'm sick of people dying, running off roads hitting trees ... I've got photos on my phone of an example where a tree came down on a car and could have killed someone.

He wanted them to destroy every tree within 40 metres of a road. The power-tripping delusional idiots running this loving state

# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 11:02

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

I envision a continent of asphalt girt by sea

# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 13:07

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Probably tons of shitheads went to Sydney in 1988 for the bicentenary?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 09:33

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/07/backlash-grows-over-independent-assessments-plan-for-disability-scheme

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The Morrison government is facing growing backlash from the disability community over a plan to introduce �independent assessments� to the national disability insurance scheme by the middle of the year.
Under the current process, applicants submit evidence from experts, including their specialists, and these reports are evaluated by the National Disability Insurance Agency.
From mid-2021 they will undergo an �independent assessment� by an allied health professional employed by one of eight contracted providers paid by the government.

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Aaron Carpenter, a 41-year-old who lives with autism and agreed to take part in the pilot program, told the Guardian the experience had been �dehumanising�.
When he applied for the scheme, Carpenter�s own clinical psychologist wrote a report outlining the functional impact of his disability.
He questioned why his independent assessment was instead conducted by a physiotherapist.
Carpenter said he was asked many �yes or no� questions with �no context� and was at one point asked to complete a �task�, which was to make a cup of tea.
The NDIA has told participants the assessments include questions �about your life and what matters to you, and ask to see how you approach some everyday tasks�, and will also include some �standardised assessment tools�.
He was dismayed when he saw a section titled �self-harm� was listed as �not-applicable�.
�When I have a bit of a sensory meltdown, it�s not nice,� he said. �I will punch things, I�ll punch myself, I�ll pull my clothing off.

The "assessed by a physio" bit feels so typical of the NDIS, the whole thing seems geared for people with physical disability, I think they resent having people with ongoing impairments, especially ones you can't see

# ¿ Mar 7, 2021 02:49

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Zenithe posted:

Making a cup of tea and toast is actually a legit test done by usually physios and OTs. The whole process seems really bad but putting it in scare quotes in this context is not helpful.

It's really lovely to assume every disabled person has a physical impairment or that a one-size-fits-all assessment tailored towards physically impaired people is remotely fair. The context of the "scare quotes" is that a physiotherapist is not qualified to assess the capacity of an autistic person. An autistic person does not have difficulty making a cup of tea in the same manner a physically impaired person would

And this is a historical and ongoing issue with the NDIS generally

# ¿ Mar 7, 2021 07:41

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/08/most-rural-land-exempt-from-new-nsw-coalition-rules-to-protect-koala-habitat

quote:

The NSW Coalition has agreed to new rules to protect koala habitat but will effectively exempt most rural land from more stringent rules administered through the planning process.
Instead, koala habitat on rural land will be covered by yet-to-be-announced protections under land-clearing laws administered by NSW Local Land Services through the primary industries portfolio.
The Nature Conservation Council on Monday said �excising farming and forestry zones from the koala Sepp is a catastrophic setback for the species�.

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�We have ambitious plans to double koala populations in NSW by 2050 and that means we need the right policy tools in place to protect and preserve wildlife and their habitat,� Kean said. �This is a good first step.�
Kean has set a target to double the state�s koala population from a �baseline� of 20,000 to 40,000 despite expert advice urging him not to set such targets.
But documents obtained under freedom of information laws by Labor revealed an expert asked: �How can you set a target for a population when you have no idea how many there are now?�

Koalas will be protected everywhere except where we really, really want to kill them

# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 08:09

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Spookydonut posted:

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/10/boss-of-law-firm-minterellison-reportedly-steps-down-over-christian-porter-furore

I wonder what part of the board are connected to the party, or have fond memories of their own time on the debate team

# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 13:29

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

thatbastardken posted:

joride had his team invade the young greens minecraft server, set up flaming swastikas, and spam the chat with "n****r".

if he's not fash with a red coat i'll be surprised.

Is this something his lot were directly involved in or is it one of those 'well i signaled them to do it and who could possibly have predicted this' sort of thing

# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 11:11

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 08:14

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

This government passed legislation permitting them to deploy the defence force at home against Australians

# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 06:35

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