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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

freebooter posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeHockey/status/1744078492592197754

I do find it fascinating that we've basically let bulk billing vanish almost overnight without a fuss, let alone a fight.

It's nice that he's still mad about it ten years later.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2024 04:02

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:38

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Non Compos Mentis posted:

https://twitter.com/SlayerRules_420/status/1750385704386035915

I�m willing to believe in demonic possession in the case of Daisy Cousins.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2024 12:08

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Lube Enthusiast posted:

Ntata? Aint that the song from Lion King

No that�s vagina dentata.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2024 04:28

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Maybe I�m a bit cynical but anyone else a little surprised that passed out Barnaby wasn�t on the front page of any of the newspapers today?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 05:03

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Non Compos Mentis posted:

its weird that footage of his daughters tirade against him when he broke up the family never got out

The one where she was driving through the main street with a megaphone saying what a poo poo he was? Cause i'm beginning to think this never happened.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 05:49

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

we need a barnaby loss edit

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 06:28

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/DailyMailCeleb/status/1756548702590706032

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 04:07

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

The pair sat down for a much-talked-about interview with Good Weekend magazine last July, in which Bond, now a Sky News Australia presenter, said he had 'a thing for older women' and the first thought he had when he met Waterland was 'you're hot'.

At the time, Bond was 20 and Waterland was 33, and 'we found ourselves in a hotel room and didn't leave for five days. We just clicked.'

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 04:34

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Over 20 years ago, the Australian Liberal/National Party Federal Opposition had a set of policies with which it hoped to persuade the Australian people to return it to government in the election due in 1996. This particular collection of proposed initiatives was called "The things that matter". When the then leader of the opposition, Alexander Downer (later Australia's Foreign Minister 1996-2007 and now Australian High Commissioner in London), launched the Opposition's policy on family violence (the Coalition parties, like their Labor opponents, were and are against it in principle), his introductory line was: "From the things that matter to the things that batter". Not long afterwards he lost his job as Opposition Leader, his engagement with what was and is a serious and troubling issue having been deemed too glib by half by the shapers of public opinion.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 05:33

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

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

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 03:50

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/rachelrwithers/status/1757556813648843032

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 04:16

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/patbcaruana/status/1757878261370241031

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 05:06

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

We need to get Bucky into trains.

https://twitter.com/timothyjweber/status/1757932766954729924

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 06:53

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

We need to get Bucky into Taylor Swift.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2024 05:11

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

We need to get Bucky into Battlestar Galactica

# ¿ Feb 16, 2024 07:53

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

We need to get Bucky into Supreme.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2024 13:25

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Anthony Albanese has dismissed calls for forced divestiture powers to add competition to Australia�s food and grocery sector.

Former competition tsar Allan Fels has called for the watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, to get new powers to call for the break-up of corporate giants, describing the move as a potential �big stick� against anticompetitive behaviour.

Nationals leader David Littleproud is among advocates calling for supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths to be broken up, amid growing accusations of price gouging and a series of government reviews.

Speaking on ABC radio in Brisbane on Thursday, Albanese said calls for forced divestiture powers were dangerous.

�What we had the power to do is to encourage competition and encouraging new entrants,� he said.

�At the moment there�s a voluntary code of conduct and what the ACCC are looking at is whether some form of mandating is required.

�We have a private sector economy in Australia, and not a command and control economy. We�re not the old Soviet Union.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2024 02:59

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Putting aside Albo for the moment, how would you break up Coles and Woolworths as a practical matter? What would that look like?

Do like AT&T back in the day and split them into 6 or 7 regional operations?

Seperate distribution/warehousing/stores?

# ¿ Feb 22, 2024 04:56

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

You would have to break them up at the suburb/town level I think. So if there were 2 coles and 2 woolworths in a suburb you would have A Coles part A supermarket and a Coles Part B supermarket, and a Woolworths Part A supermarket and a Woolworths part B supermarket.

You would also need to look hard at land banking, where supermarket chains by up land to prevent competitors from building on them.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2024 07:03

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/jsin_59/status/1761682486906802253

# ¿ Feb 25, 2024 10:56

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Police uninvited from Mardi Gras.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 12:56

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/naveenjrazik/status/1762592910082793566

# ¿ Feb 28, 2024 04:58

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/john_macgowan/status/1333922659185303553

# ¿ Feb 28, 2024 11:11

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Who�s the traitor MP?

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 02:14

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

And is this related to the Kate Middleton dissapearance?

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 02:36

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

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.

The earliest version reported was a "Women's Day" organized by the Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909. This inspired German delegates at the 1910 International Socialist Women's Conference to propose "a special Women's Day" be organized annually, albeit with no set date;[8] the following year saw the first demonstrations and commemorations of International Women's Day across Europe. After women gained suffrage during the Russian Provisional Government in 1917, IWD was made a national holiday on March 8;[9] it was subsequently celebrated on that date by the socialist movement and communist countries. The holiday was associated with far-left movements and governments until its adoption by the global feminist movement in the late 1960s.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 03:41

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

I�ve been thinking about where the political parties are on housing and where they are headed.

Liberals have sort of become the party of the top hat and monocle wearing negatively geared investor class.

Labor is sort of the same but is better at at least pretending to care about the issue.

The only major party promoting home ownership over landlords seems to be the greens? What would zombie Robert Menzies think.

For as long as I can remember politics is about pandering to property owning boomers. But that can�t last, the boomers are dying out and now people born in 2006 can vote.

There just won�t be enough boomers to keep the Liberals in power like they used to.

But neither major party tries to appeal to young people priced out of home ownership.

Something�s got to change. I hope.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 05:35

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Nice try we all know Aggro is Kyle Sandilands

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 06:56

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Funny thing about the CGT discount was it was brought in because some rich people wanted Australians to buy more shares in their dogshit companies.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 12:05

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Do you think the housing crisis will just become a permanent feature of our economy or is there a way out?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 02:10

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

outside of speculation on housing and mining we don't have much of an economy though.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 04:02

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Non Compos Mentis posted:

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1764395564198682816

what beach did Holt go missing at? lets take him there

Bro Charles will be dead by then.

https://twitter.com/fictillius/status/1764196943184740570

# ¿ Mar 4, 2024 05:30

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Woah that was weird. Took me too long to figure out they were standing in front of a picture of themselves?

i'm still not sure what's going on.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2024 06:54

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

I'm sorry but vaping is cringe. It should be banned on that basis alone.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 04:24

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

We get it, you vape.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 05:18

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Greens fire first election salvo with $12b housing policy

A new federal housing department would build 360,000 affordable homes over five years for people to buy or rent at a net cost of $12.5 billion, under a hugely ambitious housing policy the Greens will take to the next election.

The Greens� proposal, which will be announced by its housing spokesman, Max Chandler-Mather, during a debate with Property Council of Australia boss Mike Zorbas at the National Press Club on Wednesday, is the party�s first major policy announcement for the next federal poll, due by May 2025.

The Greens have been pressuring Labor over its housing policies in a bid to connect with younger voters who will also be targeted by the opposition�s new assistant spokesman for housing affordability, Andrew Bragg.

The NSW senator, who was appointed to the role on Tuesday, promised the Coalition would also be releasing ambitious policies to increase the supply of homes without amending tax rules on negative gearing and capital gains tax discount.

�For younger and aspirational Australians, this is the number one issue and so we�ll have tangible options that can get people into houses,� Bragg said in an interview.

�We�ve always been the party of home ownership going back to [Robert] Menzies and I think the challenge is now very acute because of the constrained supply and the emergence of compulsory super.

Under the Greens� plan, property developers would stand to make $2.2 billion in the first five years of the scheme alone to manage and maintain the properties, and billions more building them.

Seventy per cent of the homes would be rented out, with a fifth of those reserved for the lowest income earners. Rent would be set at 25 per cent of the national average household income, with that money flowing back to the government.

The other 30 per cent of homes would be sold to owner-occupiers at 5 per cent over the cost of procurement. The houses could only be sold back to the government, at cost price plus inflation.

If Labor was only able to form minority government with the help of the crossbench after the next election, the Greens would have a strong chance of retaining a share of the balance of power in both houses of parliament, putting them in the box seat to negotiate for some form of this proposal to be enacted.

Chandler-Mather said the cost of the scheme would be partially offset by scrapping $27 billion in tax breaks for property investors.

�The Greens� public developer would save an average renter participating in the program $5200 a year on their rent, and an average first home buyer participating in the program $260,000 on the price of a home, by cutting out the profit margin and building good-quality homes for people, the way governments used to,� he will say in his speech.

�Relying on private developers to tackle the housing crisis is like relying on Coles and Woolworths not to rip you off.�

The Greens would seek the waiving of state, territory and local government taxes on the properties, 20 per cent of which would be houses, 20 per cent townhouses, 50 per cent medium density and 10 per cent high rise and density, spread around Australia.

After the first five years of the scheme, another 50,000 homes a year would be built for the next five years, bringing the total net cost to the budget over 10 years to $27.89 billion for 610,000 homes.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-fire-first-election-salvo-with-12b-housing-policy-20240305-p5f9z3.html

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 13:22

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Non Compos Mentis posted:

https://twitter.com/ProfTerryHughes/status/1765119163067199854

this good?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2024 05:36

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Thinking about those new suburbs far from the coast and the cool sea breeze. Could be in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne whatever. Concrete and black roofs crammed together. Not a tree or even a lawn for miles. Just absolutely loving roasting in the summer. And then the air conditioning stops cause the power goes out.

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:38

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Robodog posted:

because the last time Kerr was GG it worked out so well

lmao

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 13:59

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