Jezza of OZPOS posted:

its not 2024 until i stop writing 2023 when i do paper work

Spudd posted:

Who to vote for things to be not poo poo? tia

Guardian AU posted:

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has defended Australia Day and said everyone needs to “come together” for it.

Speaking on 2GB this morning, Minns also urged the organisers of sporting events happening on Friday to recognise the day.

He said:

"This is a day for us all to celebrate with your family and friends and recognise that we live in the greatest country on Earth. I definitely will be doing that. Both cricket and tennis should revisit this decision … This is a day that we need to come together as a nation for."

Asked if he thought the date would be changed, he said:

"I’m not anticipating that in the short run but the idea that you would take a national day away from any country, particularly Australia, is a strange one. We should be right now trying to pull each other together. This is the day that we’ve set aside to celebrate what it means to live in the greatest country on earth."

Non Compos Mentis posted:

change the 26th to national orgy day

GrandTheftAutism posted:

The referendum was poo poo and vague, the terms under which it was set were poo poo and vague, and the people responsible for it were poo poo and vague.

The regressives will continue to be racist no matter what; nothing that you or I say or do is going to make them any less racist, and passing the shambles of a referendum that we had wouldn't have made them any less bold than they were before.

Stop crying.

I don't give a poo poo. Change the date, don't change the date. I just want my country to have a national day to be celebrated on, and I will celebrate that day on whatever day that happens to be, with some grilled roo burgers and alcopops and no cheap Chinese-made merchandise.

Animal Friend posted:

"Kim Williams, a former chief executive of News Corp Australia, will replace Ita Buttrose as chair of the ABC."

Cool

Guardian AU posted:

A group of neo-Nazis wearing black balaclavas and brandishing Australian flags have been held by police after swarming a Sydney train.

The group of about 60 hooded men were seen at Artarmon station just before midday on Friday.

SecretOfSteel posted:

SkyNews has the best comment sections!

Guardian AU posted:

Nine apologises for ‘Photoshop’ image of Victorian MP

The Nine Network have apologised to a Victorian MP after an automated editing process resulted in an inaccurate image of her appearing on last night’s news bulletin.

Georgie Purcell, the Animal Justice party MP for Northern Victoria, had earlier posted on X that the edited image had “enlarged” her breasts and made it appear she was wearing a “more revealing” outfit which exposed her midriff. “Can’t imagine this happening to a male MP,” Purcell posted.

Hugh Nailon, the director of Nine News Melbourne, said the network sincerely and unreservedly apologised to Purcell. He said:
"I would like to sincerely apologise to Georgie Purcell for a graphic error that occurred in last night’s bulletin. Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting. As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original. This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for that we apologise to Ms Purcell unreservedly."

ShoeFly posted:

As a former employee, Channel 9 is trash OP

Mola Yam posted:

lmao neom

but I mean that truly is the ultimate gilded do-nothing and get paid squillions post-politics cushy gig. GG wyatt

JBP posted:

That's odd. He is called a journalist all the time, does journalistic reporting and produces video essays journaling public interest items. Do you have to work for a real newspaper to be a journalist?

Aware posted:

Not wearing a head condom is how you get head AIDS

Autisanal Cheese posted:

you know I thought it’d be hard to get a shittier mayor than basil zempilas but I stand corrected

HazCat posted:

Israel is committing genocide.

Also Israel openly admits they manipulate the media and just recently the Guardian did a big piece on how CNN runs all their Israel genocide articles by their Jerusalem branch before release, and how they had a strict style guideline that required anything about Gaza to emphasise how evil Hamas is.

If Jews don't want to be associated with the extremely real global manipulation of the media that Israel is openly engaged in, maybe they should start distancing themselves from Israel.

Breakfast Burrito posted:

This:

shows that you are in fact "walking around assuming every Jew supports Israel" until they prove otherwise, which is *incredibly* antisemitic, like, vintage dual loyalties antisemitism

the continued inability of people nominally on the left to oppose the ongoing horror in Gaza without resorting to antisemitism is not exactly giving me hope for the future

HazCat posted:

Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism.

HazCat posted:

If Jews do not want to be associated with Zionism they need to denounce Zionism because Zionism is intentionally actively associating Judaism with Zionism and if Jews do not fight then Zionists will successfully make that association.

You posted:

If Muslims do not want to be associated with Islamism they need to denounce Islamism because Islamism is intentionally actively associating Muslims with Islamism and if Muslims do not fight then Islamists will successfully make that association.

Reuters posted:

Carbon capture tech a 'complete falsehood', says Fortescue Metals chairman

PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Carbon capture is not a solution for the energy transition and political leaders need to provide real, non-greenwashed, commitments to encourage investment, Andrew Forrest, executive chairman of Fortescue Metals, said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the 50th anniversary meeting of the International Energy Agency, Australian billionaire Forrest said the investment community needs a level-playing field and honest answers from political leaders on phasing out fossil fuels in order to invest. "There's a simple question from business leaders...when do we stop burning fossil fuels?" Forrest said at the Paris conference. "If you want to drive capital...we must have clear and obvious disincentives for what is doing harm and clear incentives for what is doing good."

Countries including the U.S. have rolled out public subsidies for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects as part of their incentives to push the green energy transition. CCS technologies capture carbon dioxide emissions, often from a source like a factory smoke stack, to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere. The captured CO2 can then be stored permanently underground, or repurposed in industrial processes that use CO2. Oil demand growth is not set to peak until the end of this decade at the earliest and Forrest said carbon capture was not a viable solution. "We're going to keep burning fossil fuels and somehow magically get rid of the carbon down into the ground where there is no proof that it will stay there, but heaps of proof that it fails," Forrest told the conference.

"I say for policy makers everywhere do not be the next idiot waiting for the old lie to be trotted out and say I believe in carbon sequestration. It has only failed for 75 years...It's a complete falsehood." Australia's Fortescue is a major iron ore producer, which is used in steel-making and it announced a new project last year to produce green steel on a commercial scale. Iron and steel-making account for a major share of global heavy industry emissions, and its trade has become source of contention between the United States and the EU, which have so far failed to negotiate a "green steel" trade deal.

Guardian AU posted:

Nationals leader asks Barnaby Joyce to consider taking personal leave

David Littleproud has confirmed he has asked Barnaby Joyce to consider taking personal leave. This comes after Joyce was filmed lying on a Canberra street speaking profanities into his phone late on Wednesday night. Joyce has blamed the incident on mixing prescription medication with alcohol.

Littleproud told the ABC early this morning he wanted Joyce to take time to deal with some issues in his private life.

NPR Journalizard posted:

Billionaire says "Pay me or I will keep doing the poo poo that I know is harming the planet"

fucken sociopaths

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What a truly magnificent idea. Just imagine being able to down tools, switch off and tell the management to bugger off (“Crossbench close to workplace deal”).

I would like to propose the right for employers to disconnect staff from their Facebook, Instagram, Superbowl and WhatsApp messages from family and friends during work hours.

And insist that employees do not take their phones to the toilet for extend periods. We lose so much time to staff sitting in the loo on their phones, continually engaging in non work. I once measured one employee’s engagement, and he was losing two hours a day.

Any takers, Albo?

Tom Marinov, Pennant Hills, NSW

kirbysuperstar posted:

Yes that's it thank you, I actually looked on your site but yeah

mostly because i saw this on the side of a bus today and was having a giggle with a mate about it

The Artificial Kid posted:

She’s like a Vogon that went to an elite prep school.

Anidav posted:

We must give him mayoralty of a small town where it will be bike paths and dome hexagonal homes everywhere.

Guardian AU posted:

Barnaby Joyce denies drinking problem

Nationals frontbencher Barnaby Joyce has denied having a drinking problem, after independent MP Zali Steggall yesterday suggested in parliament random drug and alcohol testing for MPs.

Joyce told Sky News last night:

It’s been confirmed I don’t have a drinking problem, just shouldn’t drink on medication.

He says he goes long periods without drinking. It came following a week of focus on Joyce after a video emerged of him on the ground after falling off a flower bed on a street in Canberra last week. Joyce blamed mixing prescription drugs with alcohol for his behaviour.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, rejected the drug and alcohol testing proposal.

Non Compos Mentis posted:

SMH posted:

Former prime minister Scott Morrison has accused the United Nations of antisemitism at a rally in Sydney while warning a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not currently viable.

Guardian AU posted:

Sydney’s Star casino to face second inquiry

A second inquiry will be held into the Star casino in Sydney after a gaming watchdog was left unsatisfied by its progress in proving it should regain its licence.

Unlike the first inquiry, the next round of hearings will not be held publicly, but a report will be made public after its conclusion in May, the NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) said in a statement on Monday.

The commission suspended the casino’s licence and issued a $100m fine in October 2022 following the release of the earlier inquiry’s report by Adam Bell SC, who found the Star unfit to hold a casino licence after exposing a litany of compliance failures.

Those included a notorious gang-linked junket operator running an illicit cage at the casino and Chinese debit card transactions being disguised as hotel expenses.

Bell will also conduct the second inquiry.

Guardian AU posted:

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has continued his attacks against the Albanese government over unauthorised boat arrivals over the weekend, accusing the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, of giving people smugglers a “green light” to restart their operations.

On Friday, the Australian Border Force announced more than 40 people had arrived in a remote part of Western Australia by boat. The men, believed to be from Bangladesh and Pakistan, were found on a beach about two hours north of Broome in good health. Guardian Australia understands the men have been taken to Nauru.

JBP posted:

It was an issue then, but you had to ask for masks and people have to work. That was the universal way business was being conducted. You couldn't open your store and make money without accepting this risk. I'm sure there were plenty of WorkCover claims due to that behaviour and the cost of these was accepted as part of being open at that time.

If stickers/badges are inciting or potentially inciting customers to abuse staff more than they would with plain name tags then of course the whs officer and lawyers are going to say stop allowing it. Risk management is about risk, not what has already happened*. If there is a potential increase in risk to staff that are wearing a pride pin, then you can just remove the risk.

If people want to turn pride pin at work into political biffo with the employer and the public I don't begrudge them that and say good on you, but the insurance beancounters might not agree with me.

* and returning to the Dutton led anger directed at the business over miniature Australia day flags I would guess the risk of fuckheads has increased

SecretOfSteel posted:

I had a girlfriend in my very late teens that introduced me to politics and among the events she took me too, she took me to IWD marches and working bees back in 1997. The people and the vibe were so very different to the RSVP emails I now get from my work about an IWD coffee and cupcake morning tea to celebrate the achievements of women. Strong women vs corporate hacks, I just loving hate having to go along and watch how watered down it is and eat my lovely cupcake and feel like a class traitor.

edit: I should point out when I say the "celebrate achievements of women", its a celebration of corporate achievements and is as far removed from any social struggle as possible.

JBP posted:

There's no way out because nobody is going to create a situation where normal people can get a 20% deposit at the expense of the huge national wealth held in the property market. 66% of people are home owners. This falls every year so maybe in 2050 we will reach a balance of owners to renters that democracy can sort out.

Shedding value from the market by design is a non-starter for a lot of reasons. So the government is pumping cash into the lower end of the market. We all know how that's going to end! Probably with the housing market getting zeroed because that's how government investment tends to work cosmically.

go_banana posted:

Generally I agree with you however it exists when I am forced to sell my house as I can no longer afford a mortgage due to an unforeseen event and the sale price does not meet the amount outstanding on my mortgage.

Comstar posted:

Have you watched the horror stories on Site Inspections? Just one nightmare after another of the quality of housing .

Some of the houses are multiple millions and just as bad if not worse than the sub 1 million ones out in the edges of the city.


I usually can't finish the video's because it's so depressing and/or horrifying.

DRINK ME posted:

NT police minister defends sharing Facebook posts quoting Hitler general, anti-Black Lives Matter comments

I don’t disagree people change and regret poo poo they did but I’m pretty sure he did agree with the posts at that time, and it was in his 20s not when he was 14. So it might be 8-10 years but how much will his politics really have changed? I bet he says that poo poo behind closed doors.

I’d think going into politics you might remove those types of things from your history before it becomes a national news story. The NT - which I’ve never visited - seems like such a loving mess of poverty and racism.

Also lol that the “facts and logic” video is little Ben Shapiro

The Artificial Kid posted:

Racial villification laws are so unfair to white people, who don’t want to say racial stuff anyway so why ban them from saying that stuff? If only there were a way that racial villification laws could be used to further entrench existing racial power structures normal society (for everyone’s comfort and security) instead of disrupting things.

Edit - I’m being told that UK police have found a way

Electric Wrigglies posted:

when I was a kid in Thursday Island, I had to be escorted home by a police car as a year one student (along with my two older siblings, year four and year six). The reason why is the day before we got chased down by high school students, one my sisters yelled "run, get mum" turned around to face them. They beat the piss out of her, tore out about half of her hair. Blood everywhere and chunks of her scalp missing. I can still remember my mum running out with a thong in her hand, jumping the back fence and heading the way I had come. We moved to Longreach after that.

I have lived and worked in Africa for the last 10 years and travelled extensively. If you think that locals outside Australia are above a bit of picking on outsiders, you are loving stupid.