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I remember back in the 90s here in Vic when shitbag premier Jeff Kennett sold off a whole lot of public institutions including a bunch of schools which got bulldozed to make way for new housing estates. Oops, turns out we may have needed those ....
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Antony Green called it for the LNP by 8pm There's a faint swing to the Greens but no real surprises
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Eediot Jedi posted:Oh and one of the cops was supposed to be wearing body cam, but wasn't for some reason. If only their perfectly reasonable behavior could've been exonerated almost instantly with video evidence! What a shame! Note that only one was supposed to be wearing a bodycam, the other two weren't because there was a supposed shortage of cams
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Captain Theron posted:XR seems so much more focused on stunts and performance art. Can you imagine a bunch of unionists dressing up in disco outfits and dancing to one song on repeat for hours on end to protest low pay or safety conditions? No one would take anything they say seriously. Yeah they remind me of PETA in that respect
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starkebn posted:You're not wrong, but climate change is making those things even worse than they might otherwise be. Unfortunately we're not very good at analysing big complex systems when we've got to work to put food on the table. It doesn't help that there's a whole misinformation industry busily propagandising at the same time. The City of Melbourne just had to cancel the annual Moomba parade due to the worst heatwave since 1942 but most of the discussion I saw about that in the media didn't mention climate change Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Non Compos Mentis posted:its actually because peter helliar was made king of the parade Yellow Wiggle Emma was a great choice but Helliar was loving awful, I can't stand the guy.  It's often been a PR buy-in stunt, back in 1977 they had Mickey Mouse as King of Moomba because channel 10 had just bought the TV rights to Mickey's Clubhouse and wanted a promotional boost. The parade originally started out as part of the festivities during the Queen's visit in 1954 and it boosted business in the CBD so much that the Bourke St shop owners petitioned to make it an annual event and that's how the Moomba Festival came about, occurring every year on the Labour Day long weekend and replacing the traditional Labour Day parade which had petered out in the 1940s and had last been held in 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIH2ExQ88g The Melb Uni medical students float at 7:30 is pretty great  The word 'moomba' was put forward by indigenous rights activist Bill Onus and he told the committee it meant "Let's get together and have fun" but a few decades later someone actually checked and found out that mum meant 'bottom, rump' and the suffix ba meant 'at, in, on' so 'moomba' actually means 'up your arse'. Bill was a unionist and he was mad that they replaced the Labour Day parade with this bullshit
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Non Compos Mentis posted:you know what would save music festivals? bike paths to the music festivals I used to get a regular gig with some guys I know at the Boogie music festival up in Tallarook, roughly 100km north of Melbourne. It was a real pain in the rear end to get our stuff all the way out there, better transportation would have saved us a lot of pain (A bike path wouldn't have helped much, though)
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As you can no doubt tell from my av I fukken LOVE stats and graphs and I would have totally bought a LIVE GRAPH LOVE mug, I'm mad it's just an Aprils Fool post
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TheIllestVillain posted:These rw types are shameless cretins so i'm guessing they will pretend it never happened. Yeah just like all the people who were apparently convinced that the eclipse on Monday was going to usher in The Rapture. 
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birdstrike posted:sooner queensland is erased the better  mahershalalhashbaz posted:lol the original source for the cohen fake news was the aussie cossack Media Watch is going to need a special extended episode to cover all this bullshit
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 Comstar posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol 2024 Mark 3: He was convicted of rape His defamation case failed but he hasn't actually been convicted* * Yet
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Non Compos Mentis posted:They asked the computer and the computer said it was okay There's been recent reports about AI-generated mushroom foraging books being sold on Amazon which were full of bullshit advice
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froglet posted:This reminded me that way back when there was an auspoller who shared in the thread that (for reasons that remain unclear to me) their housemate (? Or possibly partner?) got a full-sized cardboard cutout of Julia Gillard and it's shadow/silhouette in their house was regularly scaring the living daylights out of them and their guests. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/154895435058 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152928819286 
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gay picnic defence posted:Those guys are often the worst, it's rarely some cute little ma and pa and mostly waspish karens indignant that 'their' renter wants a toilet that flushes. My next door neighbour doesn't have a functioning oven, when the gas lines to her rental were updated recently they somehow hosed up the line to the kitchen and the landlord never got it fixed and they just gave her a lovely portable electrical cooktop instead. It's pretty much a camping stove.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Gotta fund various unions generously to help deliver these messages on site too Maybe also a fundraiser morning tea at office sites, perhaps even a Facebook profile template to really push awareness
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Breetai posted:the company who installed the lifts has now also installed a video screen on the ground floor that has a 2-minute video presentation on a loop about how to correctly use this newfangled lift system. I saw one recently where the terrible touchscreen layout could only show some of the floors and someone from the office had printed out a sign explaining how to scroll through to other screens to select the other floors
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I guess someone must have offered to bankroll him again?
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Synthbuttrange posted:yeah very much so, they're already reporting that he's been refered to cops and mental health and school. Also the incident sounds more like "suicide via cop" than terrorism, he actually called the cops beforehand and told them he was going to stab someone
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Fwiw I dont really think homophobia is imported culture war bullshit. This councillor specifically seems like an Eric abetz brained moron but the imported stuff was always going to wind up regressing back to where conservatives were at in the early 90s Yeah the underlying homophobia is endemic and has been for a long long time but the attempts at banning pro-LGBTQ+ books from public libraries bit is bandwagoning on the movement in the US, where they've expanded from organised efforts on banning those books in school libraries and have moved on to loving up public libraries
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It's all about the Pentiums baby E: that song is 25 years old lol Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 02:19 on May 10, 2024 |
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hooman posted:A car I often see when driving to work has a huge Donald Trump face decal on the back window, which is a deeply weird thing to have. In my area we briefly had a store which sold American candy and bongs/shisha and their logo was a gigantic chibi Trump smoking a massive joint, it was hilarious and grotesque. They closed down pretty quickly and google maps street view didn't save a photo of their storefront
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EoinCannon posted:I just saw some of the other portraits in the exhibition. Gina Reinhardt is the biggest loving sook, hers isn't even the least flattering That portrait of QE2 is amazing, it should be on stamps 
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