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Yeah Nah 122 53.51%
Nah Yeah 64 28.07%
Nah Yee 18 7.89%
No Yes 9 3.95%
Yes No 15 6.58%
Total: 228 votes
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Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
NSW Labor are hopeless and more importantly the whole narrative that Gladys has hosed up and her strategy is a mistake is coming almost entirely from alarmists and out of state people brain rattled to the point they're petrified by any number that isn't 0

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Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
If you don't lock down now and demand people wear masks 24/7, it'll soon turn into a mismanaged disaster like NSW, with it's zero new cases

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

freebooter posted:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...104-p56rob.html

This is such a pointless battle of semantics. There is absolutely no definitional difference between elimination and "zero community transmission."

Elimination and zero community transmission are the same thing, he's actually advocating eradication but without openly saying it, probably to avoid the pesky question of "so does that mean a hard closing of our international borders" since that's the only practical way to get there even with vaccination

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/theage/status/1346401161050521601

You don't even need that womans sad story to mock this farcical nonsense

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Konomex posted:

Why? Did they forget the horrid poo poo she said or did they think she deserved it for coping all that flak for being a total dumpster fire of a person?

Last year they gave one to Bettina Arndt. It's entirely deliberate.

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/theage/status/1354406280778174464

Albo is so pissweak he's capitulated to Joel Fitzgibbon

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
This is looking to be the greatest catastrophe since NSW allowed Christmas, Boxing Day, New Years Eve and the Sydney cricket test to go ahead

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1364027591984746501

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

quote:

Labor has left the door open to going to the next federal election without committing to a specific increase in JobSeeker despite previously saying it would do so.

The party has for months called for an increase to the current $570-a-fortnight unemployment benefit but is reconsidering its options following the $50-a-fortnight bump in the rate announced this week.
While the addition of $3.57 to the existing $40-a-day is widely considered inadequate by Labor MPs, party hard heads are concerned further increases would leave little money for other election commitments.

Labor social services spokeswoman Linda Burney last year said the party’s position was that JobSeeker should increase “well above” $40 a day and an exact figure would be announced “closer to the election”.
Though Labor will support the modest increase proposed by the government, the shadow cabinet is yet to decide on a pathway forward and Ms Burney on Thursday declined to say whether the previous commitment still stood.

“Labor will finalise all of our policies before the next election,” she told The Australian Financial Review. “In every budget, a Labor government will make addressing poverty a priority.”
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers said Labor would “address and evaluate the rate that we inherit and weigh that up against other priorities”.

...

Labor sources suggested the party could revert to its pre-2019 election policy of holding a review into the rate, if it wins government, before considering further increases.

quelle surprise

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/jamesglenday/status/1366656207268716544

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
It's pretty much rubbing it in peoples faces spite at this point rather than some ignorant tone deafness. They have nothing to stand for other than poo poo like this

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/1371698659197218821

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Shocked that the cop who thinks sexually assaulting minors is good because he likes young people needing to fear police doesn't understand consent

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Given the current political situation I can't tell whether that tweet is trying to say 'how can we not address how hosed it is that tony and peta were having an affair' or 'how can we not talk about how the affair rumours were an example of the disgusting misogyny women in Canberra face'

It's the former, not the latter.

She just got busted within the last couple of days lying about the desk-nutter to puff up herself and Abbott and put dirt on Turnbull, she's they're not holding her up as an ally to that cause.

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Capt.Whorebags posted:

No I think it’s a fair question and speaks of the root of the problem the LNP has. In reality Scotty should be prime minister for all, there should not need be a prime minister for women. His identifying one of his ministers as such tells of how this is a marketing band aid, someone to “deal with it” rather than acknowledging that the problems are core to the nature of the party, the parliament, and the system.

The best part is he no doubt spent a bunch of time workshopping that horseshit and it was totally wasted since he abandoned it within an hour and started trotting out "I meant she's the PRIMARY minister for women!" damage control when people called him out for that exact aspect of it

Marketing is all he knows and he's completely shithouse at it

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

Somehow Im not online enough to know the full story but from what I can tell van Badham ran her face through a gender swap filter and set up an account with it using an anagram of her middle and last name for one of the alts and twitter is rightfully losing their poo poo at how funny it is

People dug her having completely inhuman conversations between her alts and one of them putting entirely too much effort into roleplaying as a reply-guy

But "Adam Van Besther" with a faceapp'd picture is truly amateur

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
In case you were worried Morrison might make a clear and definitive statement

https://twitter.com/KarenMMiddleton/status/1380093302465175558

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
The luck was that we have states that looked at who was in charge of the Covid response federally and promptly sidelined them almost completely.

Also there's really no obligation to run a "this is fine actually, what's the big deal" type defense when they've badly mismanaged the vaccine rollout, missed all of their promised targets and timelines by an enormous margin, and lied and spun their way around it constantly. They were spruiking the safety of the AZ vaccine and how minuscule the risk involved with it is and how the rollout was going exactly as planned today!

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

iajanus posted:

Was very heartening to see them basically cancelling the AZ shot the day after I got my first one

You'll be fully vaccinated by the middle of the year while the majority of the country just got their first shot punted into 2022

So uh, enjoy?

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Military industrial complex ghouls having to pretend to be human is always great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExulpIuZH5A&t=1505s

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/IllyBocean/status/1383954719811399680

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Jordies gunna be paying the deposit for Barilaro's next investment property

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
4d chessmaster

https://twitter.com/GrogsGamut/status/1390184774979911684

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

BrigadierSensible posted:

For all of Tony Abbott's faults, (and the racist fundie sociopath had many), he was the perfect opposition leader and Labor could do well to copy him.

lol they're doing exactly that, they just decided the bit they wanted to copy was the "debt and deficit disaster" rubbish

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/rightsagenda/status/1392694486526959618

Labor just voted in support of this. They're not an opposition.

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/redrabbleroz/status/1394505017197879303

Good messaging Albo :waycool:

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Albo has an extremely good chance of beating his opponent, if you believe his main opponent is the Greens

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
https://twitter.com/ABCMediaComms/status/1399233619369992195

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Laserface posted:

e: so The ABC didnt actually publish Porters name in the original article, he sued for defamation knowing this, they went to mediation before taking it to court and (I assume) realised that he was barbara streisand-ing himself and dropped the case?

how is any of this at all humiliating for anyone except the rapist that outed himself as the accused?

The original article is not only staying online without change, thanks to this settlement it now explicitly names him as a bonus

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Starting to think this innocent man with nothing to hide may not have 'won' that settlement

https://twitter.com/samanthamaiden/status/1399338922270887938

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Pile Of Garbage posted:

Jordies usually posts like 2-3 videos a week and yet he hasn't posted another video since that one which was just over a week ago. I think he may have gotten himself in the poo poo this time :lol:

Edit: he's even gone quiet on Twitter and has made only four RTs since that video, no actual tweets or replies. Either he is cooked or he's been told to shut the gently caress up by legal counsel.

Turns out the reason he went quiet after that video may be because the day it was posted his producer was arrested for stalking Barilaro

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/14/friendlyjordies-jordan-shanks-producer-charged-allegedly-stalking-john-barilaro

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

Robodog posted:

Literally lovely Chaser level 'run up to a pollie and be a dickhead' gets anti-terror shooter cops kicking in your door now? NSW does it again

I didn't actually know until the article today that the anti-stalker unit was founded as an anti-terror unit which raises pretty huge red flags, but I don't think they jumped on this guy just because of one Chaser style incident, I'm pretty sure there'd been at least one previous story of FJ getting reported for doing poo poo like lurking around Barilaro's house at night and showing up at his wifes work or something? It's something that's been going on for a while.

This isn't a good thing but the guy who thinks he's an untouchable ace reporter walked himself and his staff into this one, it feels like. Along with the defamation case stuff he just does not know when to shut up and thinks posting through it works when the law is involved.

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
This is what the four LGAs make up, to visualize it

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

quote:

OK, something very odd has just happened at the NSW press conference. A man has just rushed towards the police commissioner asking: Did you receive my notice of cease and desist? He was quickly surrounded by security and ushered away, while loudly stating “I am the prime creator of this earth”.

:shobon:

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Six of the seven states outright think lockdowns are a tool of first resort not last, so I'm not even sure what the argument there was

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Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
I honestly thought that article would be satire when I first saw it linked.

It's not. It's 100% unironic.

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