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What is the best City in Australia
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Melbourne 47 13.09%
Sydney 21 5.85%
Canberra 16 4.46%
Perth 54 15.04%
Adelaide 26 7.24%
Darwin 8 2.23%
Alice Springs 12 3.34%
Brisbane 37 10.31%
Ipswich 8 2.23%
Logan 16 4.46%
Geelong 9 2.51%
Gold Coast 8 2.23%
Parramatta 7 1.95%
Bundaburg 6 1.67%
Newcastle 14 3.90%
Wollongong 10 2.79%
Bendigo 9 2.51%
Ballarat 11 3.06%
Wodonga 9 2.51%
Nimbin 31 8.64%
Total: 216 votes
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JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

BrigadierSensible posted:

I would like to hear more about this.

Was he claiming that the CCP was interfering in foreign state elections? How? Or was he saying that anyone who did not vote Liberal is a Mao-ist sympathizer. Or was it plain out racism against an Asian Labor/Greens/Independant candidate(s)

Jesus gently caress is that man dumb. Does he qualify for a parliamentary pension? i.e. was he an MP long enough to get one? Do state MPs even get that?

Parliamentary pensions were discontinued in like 2004

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meteor9
Nov 23, 2007

"That's why I put up with it."

lih posted:

government got a deal with pocock on the ir bill - just raising the minimum number of employees for businesses to be included in multi-employer bargaining a little, and setting up a new advisory body that's supposed to yell at the government for not raising welfare

slight problem is that said body is headed by the ministers responsible for not doing so and actively fighting against welfare advocates the entire time since the election

EDIT: also said body is apparently just...already how the system works anyway if the interpretations of the bill are correct

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002
Albanese has already rather helpfully said this is completely meaningless and won't change anything

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Pocock only really cares about visibility and he made a tweet about jobseeker that was poorly received

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.

meteor9 posted:

slight problem is that said body is headed by the ministers responsible for not doing so and actively fighting against welfare advocates the entire time since the election

EDIT: also said body is apparently just...already how the system works anyway if the interpretations of the bill are correct

yeah that part wasn't clear from the initial announcement lol. seems like pocock just got played there

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/freyalogann/status/1596641409976528897

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
Obligatory Ha Ha sucks to be LNP.

jeffreyw posted:

Basically a bit of every -ism, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was drunk while on that panel.
Ecept the most important one - Tism

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Every one else gets more votes than me. Does any one else, get that feeling?

Dire Lemming
Jan 19, 2016
If you don't coddle Nazis flat Earthers then you're literally as bad as them.
Yeah, I only get one but everyone else gets millions.

Amoeba102
Jan 22, 2010

????


Tim! The stop sign!

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




They're gonna (try to) censure scummo, I'm sure he's gonna be like totally sad and all.

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

MikeJF posted:

They're gonna (try to) censure scummo, I'm sure he's gonna be like totally sad and all.

Nah. He's not PM anymore. He is just a humble servant of Jesus, doing his best. He won't care what this earthly secular Parliament has to say about him. The only one who can judge him is the Lord himself.

So he'll wear his smug smile, whilst Dutton and the rest of the LNO clutch their pearls about how it is a leftist communist gay socialist trans agenda political attack.

And not a single Australian will notice or give a poo poo.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I don't know much about Morrison's Sydney seat or the voters in it but if he were to stand at the next election would he be a liability?

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

EoinCannon posted:

I don't know much about Morrison's Sydney seat or the voters in it but if he were to stand at the next election would he be a liability?

Pretty sure he’s on a huge margin - his seat is full of happy clappies.

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
liberals are apparently doubling down on the fundie right

will be interesting to see if any of their rusted on finally fall off

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...128-p5c1rw.html

Amoeba102
Jan 22, 2010

If he didn't lose it in the last election, why would he lose it going forward when sentiment on him is a thing of the past when he's a back bencher for the opp? It's an electorate of race rioters.
Morrison's continued existence would more likely contribute to the consolidation of Teal gains.

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

Our posts
There was a massive swing away from ALP here but instead of Liberals it mostly went to the DLP and Trots. Greens actually lost votes.

So given the DLPs platform, Liberals here would apparently be wise to adopt the more extreme christian fundie anti abortion anti gay deny climate change position of the DLP.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Amoeba102 posted:

If he didn't lose it in the last election, why would he lose it going forward when sentiment on him is a thing of the past when he's a back bencher for the opp? It's an electorate of race rioters.
Morrison's continued existence would more likely contribute to the consolidation of Teal gains.

I thought maybe cos he has loser stink now and just seems pathetic and like yesterday's man and he seems to have stopped giving a poo poo

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

EoinCannon posted:

I thought maybe cos he has loser stink now and just seems pathetic and like yesterday's man and he seems to have stopped giving a poo poo

It's the Morrison giving a poo poo and plastering his smug face everywhere whilst trying to look good and appealing and stuff that people hate.

Morrison who is just another bland middle aged white man in a suit running under the LNP banner in a hardcore Blue Ribbon seat not giving a poo poo, nobody gives cares about. A Teal might be able to steal the seat from him by constantly pointing out to locals that he is Scott "I don't hold a hose mate" Morrison. but even then, will people remember him and his cuntery by the next election?

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE
He suffered an 8% swing at the last election but he still won 55% of first preferences. I very much doubt he’s going anywhere unless it’s on his terms.

lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
morrison will quit parliament sometime before the next election, likely when the attention has been off him for a little bit

all the vic lib leadership candidates except pesutto have indicated they think the party needs to move to the right so maybe they will manage to actually destroy the party this term

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
lol the most senior nsw female liberal lost preselection to some ex-staffer

tanglewood1420
Oct 28, 2010

The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized

lih posted:

morrison will quit parliament sometime before the next election, likely when the attention has been off him for a little bit

all the vic lib leadership candidates except pesutto have indicated they think the party needs to move to the right so maybe they will manage to actually destroy the party this term

It's mindboggling. Trumpist 'energise the base' strategy doesn't work with mandatory voting and mandatory preferencing via single transferable vote. The Sky News watchers are going to vote for you anyway and all the total nutcase Family First / Pauline Hanson types will preference you above Labor and Greens so why chase them? Just monumentally stupid electoral strategy.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

G-Spot Run posted:

liberals are apparently doubling down on the fundie right

will be interesting to see if any of their rusted on finally fall off

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...128-p5c1rw.html

Just came here to talk about this, but there's at least one less vote they're getting.

I was talking with one of our stuffed suits after a meeting and, apropos of nothing, he mentioned he'd voted non-Liberal for the first time in his life. All Scotty's secret portfolio bullshit and the rising fundie tide in the Victorian Libs turned him off.

This is a man with 40 years in big business and absolutely no personal moral compass or human decency and even he's turned off by it all.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

tanglewood1420 posted:

It's mindboggling. Trumpist 'energise the base' strategy doesn't work with mandatory voting and mandatory preferencing via single transferable vote. The Sky News watchers are going to vote for you anyway and all the total nutcase Family First / Pauline Hanson types will preference you above Labor and Greens so why chase them? Just monumentally stupid electoral strategy.

Thing is they have literally no other ideas.

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

lih posted:

morrison will quit parliament sometime before the next election, likely when the attention has been off him for a little bit

all the vic lib leadership candidates except pesutto have indicated they think the party needs to move to the right so maybe they will manage to actually destroy the party this term

he'll only quit if he lines up another job, who would want him though?

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

lih posted:

morrison will quit parliament sometime before the next election, likely when the attention has been off him for a little bit

all the vic lib leadership candidates except pesutto have indicated they think the party needs to move to the right so maybe they will manage to actually destroy the party this term

I'm actually thinking the job's already done, and was sometime around 2020/21. Between the happy clappers taking over at the party level and refusing to preselect anyone who doesn't watch Handmaid's tale and consider that "a step in the right direction anyway"; the damage to the brand done by Scomo personally; and the MSM choosing to double down rather than back the obvious winner, ripping the veil off and making it impossible for even the dumbest low information voters to realise they've been getting conned for 20+ years, the project is dead.

Only question now is what horrible poo poo steps nearly into the vaccum and takes its place.

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-29/mould-in-apartments-leads-to-huge-damage-bills/101692710

Weeeeeeeeeeeelp

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I’m honestly a bit stunned that someone can write that long an article about building defects and not mention once that since 1993 developers have been able to pick whatever surveyor they want to certify their plans, perform inspections, and issue an occupancy permit.

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



EoinCannon posted:

I don't know much about Morrison's Sydney seat or the voters in it but if he were to stand at the next election would he be a liability?

After losing the last election, he just straight up told people not to put faith in parliament, and that he doesn't trust government or the UN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCoCdCVBmT8

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

When you see the mushrooms :allbuttons:

Urcher
Jun 16, 2006


Word cloud for October:



Bucky Fullminster posted:

Could who ever does the Word Cloud possibly please put The Article through there? I'm curious to see the data on how many different words are used and how often etc.

It's now finally finished btw if anyone's interested, did a first take of a video version this week and made a few more edits and will give it another go in a few days, then just wait for Walkley I guess.

And here's a special bonus word cloud just for Bucky:

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Tasmania looking good.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
LNP Leader ADHD Diagnosis would certainly be a novel twist.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
Foreign gently caress

tanglewood1420
Oct 28, 2010

The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized
gently caress enough antivaxers made tax right

Kazzah
Jul 15, 2011

Formerly known as
Krazyface
Hair Elf
What if instead of tasmania we had tasMania, and it was for guys only

Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

Urcher posted:

And here's a special bonus word cloud just for Bucky:



Ah awesome thanks heaps

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Political intimidation lmao

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lih
May 15, 2013

Just a friendly reminder of what it looks like.

We'll do punctuation later.
a bunch of the victorian liberals are going around talking about how their path back to power is 'regional victoria' and they need to be winning seats in geelong, ballarat and bendigo (which they haven't held in decades and are largely very safe for labor) so i think they're on track to go the way of the wa libs

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