Auspol January 2015: bad neoliberal hangover thread

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Drugs: Jul 16, 2010; I don't like people who take drugs. Customs agents, for example - Albert Einstein

hooman posted:

Holy gently caress this seems dodgy.

Thanks FB.

That engineer's suit is fuckin shiny

# ? Jan 7, 2015 10:49

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# ? May 22, 2024 12:31

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

"Help, this suit is made of lead, I cannot move"

# ? Jan 7, 2015 10:51

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

Anidav posted:

"Help, this suit is made of lead, I cannot move"

Hey you'd be smug too if you had a stylish guard against gamma radiation

(although he wont be so smug when Neutron radiation eats his brain. To be really safe needs concrete helmet.)

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:02

Splode: Jun 18, 2013; put some clothes on you little freak

Drugs posted:

That engineer's suit is fuckin shiny

Made from the World's Finest Polyester

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:03

Nuclear Spy: Jun 10, 2008; feeling under?

I have put together a categorised list of all the Campbell Newman news articles that I have archiving over the past few months/years.

I have tried to put a little message to consider voting minor party or independent this election but if there is a better way to word it, let me know (as well as any other feedback).

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:08

Lizard Combatant: Sep 29, 2010; I have some notes.

Nuclear Spy posted:

I have put together a categorised list of all the Campbell Newman news articles that I have archiving over the past few months/years.

I have tried to put a little message to consider voting minor party or independent this election but if there is a better way to word it, let me know (as well as any other feedback).

First up, start from the "Deliver better services and a better society" section. Debt is the least interesting (to most swing voters) and contains some pretty minor things like the picnic and personal home security.
A clear table of contents with links at the start would be an invaluable addition too.

Great work!

Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jan 7, 2015

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:18

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai

Mithranderp posted:

Holy poo poo. What a scumbag.

I have mirrored it on imgur:

Schoolyard bully, like the rest of the assholes who run the LNP

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:19

iajanus: Aug 17, 2004; NUMBER 1 QUEENSLAND SUPPORTER
MAROONS 2023 STATE OF ORIGIN CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE

Registering my disgust at Newman, hopefully my birthday present will be voting his corrupt, fuckwit arse out on the street. It'd be a nice salve for moving to this godforsaken state, anyway.

If anyone could make those minutes into something easily sharable on social media it'd be awesome; I'd love to push it through every channel available to me but I don't have any talent in that area or faith in the audience being able to digest something that complicated.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:24

Ler: Mar 23, 2005; I believe...

Not really auspol, but gently caress it. I went to Ireland & Northern Ireland over New Years. Here's some snaps of murals in West Belfast https://www.flickr.com/photos/118247583@N07/sets/72157650159522441/

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:31

Nuclear Spy: Jun 10, 2008; feeling under?

Lizard Combatant posted:

First up, start from the "Deliver better services and a better society" section. Debt is the least interesting (to most swing voters) and contains some pretty minor things like the picnic and personal home security.
A clear table of contents with links at the start would be an invaluable addition too.

Great work!

Thanks, I've made the changes and I'll put in the table of contents once T-1000 has finished proof-reading the links (thanks a bunch!).

iajanus posted:

Registering my disgust at Newman, hopefully my birthday present will be voting his corrupt, fuckwit arse out on the street. It'd be a nice salve for moving to this godforsaken state, anyway.

If anyone could make those minutes into something easily sharable on social media it'd be awesome; I'd love to push it through every channel available to me but I don't have any talent in that area or faith in the audience being able to digest something that complicated.

When I produced the first 100 days of the Abbott Government document, it was published on AIMN (Australian Independent Media Network) and received about 25,000 views in two days and hundreds of shares on Facebook. Ideally it could be used as a tool to make infographics in various specific areas. I tend to use these lists as ways to quickly produce effort posts or simply quickly reference something.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:35

duck monster: Dec 15, 2004

Anidav posted:

Sorry for any typos but I think duckmonster or someone else said he had a folder of party resignation statements and was waiting for mine.

In it goes!

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:35

CheGayvara: Oct 30, 2010

Struck off the roll because I live overseas but instead of voting Campbell Newman out I get to have a 'flat top' in an American Starbucks.

I really like David Marr so I hope it is tolerable. More than a year since I've had a flat white come to think of it.

Oh another thing I haven't had in a year is lamb; Americans don't seem to eat it much at all. Some seem to think it's somehow fancy as well. There is this burger place near where I live and each month they have a new 'exotic meat' (usually ranging from things like goat to ostrich) and a couple months ago it was lamb.

Edit: IMPORTANT! If you are a Queensland resident overseas and will be on Election Day go to the ECQ website to apply for a postal vote. You should be able to apply online rather than using a paper form since time is of the essence.

If you are moving around a lot there are a bunch of Consulate-Generals and little consulates that have been opened up in places like Denver and Chicago and Honolulu so go on the DFAT website and give them a call ASAP. You may need an appointment first for one of the smaller offices like Denver.

Links:

http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/2015QLD.aspx?id=11880 (includes postal vote application)

http://dfat.gov.au/missions/ (click on the relevant mission link to get information. Like I said some are small offices with limited services and require appointments so call ahead)

http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/pdf/forms/overseas/er016osw-0813.pdf (You can enrol to vote from overseas as well, can also be uploaded directly to the AEC website http://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/send-form.htm so do it now!)

UNRELATED:
http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/British_subjects.htm some Indians can vote apparently.

CheGayvara fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Jan 7, 2015

# ? Jan 7, 2015 11:38

Turks: Nov 16, 2006

Nuclear Spy posted:

I have put together a categorised list of all the Campbell Newman news articles that I have archiving over the past few months/years.

I have tried to put a little message to consider voting minor party or independent this election but if there is a better way to word it, let me know (as well as any other feedback).

I just told everyone on my facebook wall the voting Lib/Labor is morally reprehensible.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:19

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

Ler posted:

Not really auspol, but gently caress it. I went to Ireland & Northern Ireland over New Years. Here's some snaps of murals in West Belfast https://www.flickr.com/photos/118247583@N07/sets/72157650159522441/

These are amazing!

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:29

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

So what's the deal with Northern Ireland? Are they socialist or something, why so anti-Israel?

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:35

shalcar: Oct 21, 2009; At my signal, DEAL WITH IT.; Taco Defender

Anidav posted:

So what's the deal with Northern Ireland? Are they socialist or something, why so anti-Israel?

Because the Irish suffered heavy persecution at the hands of the British and were forced to slowly cede their land to a culture that viewed them as inferior and was dedicated to wiping them out. They were forced to fight a bloody war against an aggressor that was vastly stronger than they were and that was bent on their relegation to the history books.

So yeah, no idea.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:40

duck monster: Dec 15, 2004

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

The racist woman at work was convinced that Australia has property based voting rights and that people living in India who own property get a vote in our elections. She tried to assure me that this system was called gerrymandering and that it's all true because she read it on the website about "how voting really works" . Does anyone have any idea what website this might be?

Thats actually KIND of how a lot of councils work. And its hosed up. Not sure about the bit about indians though lol

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:41

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Yeah, that's probably why. Sorry, I've never researched Irish history past the separation between the monarchy.

In other news, the QLD Greens probably need web designers. I'm not one of them unfortunately.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 12:51

KennyTheFish: Jan 13, 2004

Anidav posted:

So what's the deal with Northern Ireland? Are they socialist or something, why so anti-Israel?

solidarity with other separatist and revolutionary movements around the world. The IRA and the PLA were bff.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 13:01

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

Anidav posted:

Yeah, that's probably why. Sorry, I've never researched Irish history past the separation between the monarchy.

In other news, the QLD Greens probably need web designers. I'm not one of them unfortunately.

Nah, that's fine. Particular for a politics website. Links to polices is front and center, impossible to miss. Has a clear navigation bar at the top which as far as I can see remain through out each page. A search function (which actually seems to work pretty decently) is included in the navigation bar, and all the main sections that a candidate would want to highlight (about, volunteer, donate, contact) are easy to find.

Only fault I could find is the 'busy times' section. Its not clear what its meant for -looks like collection of news articles-, and none of the links working on it as its 'under-construction'. Which is yeah honestly not great. Particularly as the front page slideshow has working links to what looks to be the same material they were meaning to link there. But that's a bit of a minor thing. All the basics work and its easy to navigate, which surprisingly makes it a lot better then quite a lot of candidate sites.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 13:32

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Maybe its just me but the black background and such makes it look like its from nationbuilder. Nationbuilder was the ALPs web design platform and drat did that poo poo get ugly.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 13:50

Implants: Feb 14, 2007

The Qld ALP website is a lovely WordPress mess that should be shot out of mercy if nothing else. The federal ALP website is the NationBuilder one. It's pretty good.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 15:06

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

Yeah no doubt its built from a template, and aesthetically its not the greatest, I'll certainly give you that, but the layouts not a busy confusing eyesore and the navigation is easy to use. Been to far to many websites that looked terrific but were unusable mess to use.

something like this, I find far uglier:

https://www.scottmorrison.com.au/

Not just becasue Scott Morrison, and remember that's the website of one of the most prominent front-benchers in parliament at the moment who would of had far, far more to spend on it.

Edit: I mean just look at. the drat title graphics even has noticeable jpeg artifacting.

Edit 2: HAHAHAHAHAHA

dr_rat fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jan 7, 2015

# ? Jan 7, 2015 15:11

Shanakin: Mar 26, 2010; The whole point of stats are lost if you keep it a secret. Why Didn't you tell the world eh?

Anidav posted:

Yeah, that's probably why. Sorry, I've never researched Irish history past the separation between the monarchy.

In other news, the QLD Greens probably need web designers. I'm not one of them unfortunately.

The biggest complaint I have for this is that it makes me think more of "Imgur" than "The Greens". Other than that branding issue it seems okay, if a bit bland.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 15:20

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Okay never mind, the fact that the Warren Truss website is not from 1999 makes me retract everything.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 15:30

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

quote:

Channel Seven provoked racism and contempt for an Amazonian tribe by portraying them as stone age people who killed innocent babies, the broadcasting authority said in a report which was suppressed for two and a half years after a legal challenge from the network.

Completed in August 2012, the Australian Communication and Media Authority investigation into Sunday Night’s 2011 story about the Suruwaha Indians could not be published before now because Seven did not accept the findings and pursued a judicial review which went all the way to the federal court.

Last month the full federal court dismissed Channel Seven’s appeal and ordered it to pay Acma’s costs, ending what has been the most contentious complaint in recent years.

Acma found that the ordinary, reasonable viewer would have taken from the program that it is “an uncontroverted, undisputed and established fact that the Suruwaha currently believe that children born with birth defects or to a single mother are evil and should be killed”.

Survival International, a London-based lobby group which lodged the complaint in 2011, said infanticide was rarely if ever practiced in modern times. Survival’s complaint to Acma was that the program was factually inaccurate and racially offensive.

The licensee was found to have breached two clauses in the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2010 by broadcasting material which was inaccurate and likely to provoke racist sentiments.

The offending statements in the prime-time report by Tim Noonan and adventurer Paul Raffaele included: “These lost tribes encourage the murder of disabled children” and “the Suruwaha believe that children born with birth defects or born to a single mother are evil spirits and should be killed in the most gruesome way possible”.

“The Acma is satisfied that given the highly evocative language used in the report to describe the killing of babies and the judgmental tone used by [Paul Raffaele] and the reporter condemning the alleged practice, it is likely that in all the circumstances these contributory factors would have perpetuated and provoked an intense dislike and serious contempt for the Suruwaha.

“The Acma is of the view that the negative reactions would be on the grounds of the cultural/ethnic practice of the tribe given that the report conveyed the impression that the practice of killing children who are born with birth defects or born to a single mother, was based on the tribes’ beliefs.”

The 38-page report makes fascinating reading on the way popular current affairs shows operate.

An official who accompanied Seven’s crew to meet the Suruwaha told the authority that the journalists only wanted to show the “strongest and best-looking” Suruwaha “without industrialised clothes, like caps or T-shirts”.

“The Suruwaha asked to be filmed as they really are, not as actors. They ignored the Australians’ insistence that they paint and decorate themselves before a hunting scene,” he said.

But Seven denies this account, saying they did not on any occasion request that a member of the Suruwaha remove any garments they may have been wearing.

In a curious legal argument, Seven defended itself against the charge of factual inaccuracy by saying it didn’t have to present all sides of the story.

“Seven submits that current affairs programs are not obliged to present all or even opposing viewpoints on a matter being reported on,” the network argued.

“Accordingly, Seven does not believe that [Paul Raffael’s] comment should be considered as ‘unfair’ due to the fact there were no other comments presented at the time which rejected the statement that infanticide occurs.”

But Acma didn’t accept Seven’s argument. “The Acma does not accept the licensee’s submissions on this issue. The Acma has found, in relation to accuracy, that the licensee failed to include reference to the fact that there was a significant level of dispute and controversy about this topic, which it presented as factually uncontroversial. In these circumstances the Acma is not satisfied that the relevant comments can be regarded as fair comment.”

Seven took Acma to court over another two preliminary investigations, both of which they also lost.

Any action to be taken against Seven is still under consideration, a spokeswoman for Acma said.

Where there has been a breach of code or practice, the authority may agree to accept measures offered by the broadcaster to improve compliance or impose an additional licence condition.

The authority cannot fine or prosecute a broadcaster for breaching a code and – unlike the Australian Press Council – neither can it order a licensee to broadcast an apology or correction.

According to channel seven saying that someone murders babies is not unfair because it was the only view given. That is amazing.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 15:54

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

quote:

�Seven submits that current affairs programs are not obliged to present all or even opposing viewpoints on a matter being reported on,� the network argued.

God. drat.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 16:34

Kim Jong ill: Jul 28, 2010; NORTH KOREA IS ONLY KOREA.

Anidav come to Brisbane airport this morning and I will buy you a drink for seeing the light, before I promptly piss off and flee the country.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 20:12

Birb Katter: Sep 18, 2010; BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
TURNBULL AS PM
LIBERALS WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN A LANDSLIDE

Gorilla Salad posted:

God. drat.

I'd argue this is true but not the way they mean it. If there is a true and a false side to the argument you should only need to present the true side.

# ? Jan 7, 2015 20:51

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Kim Jong ill posted:

Anidav come to Brisbane airport this morning and I will buy you a drink for seeing the light, before I promptly piss off and flee the country.

I don't know if I can do that. I'm happy to do another thing for you. Good luck on your flight.

Implants posted:

The Qld ALP website is a lovely WordPress mess that should be shot out of mercy if nothing else. The federal ALP website is the NationBuilder one. It's pretty good.

Yeah, recent Nationbuilder sites have been pretty good but before that NationBuilder produced a similar result to that Greens site.

Anidav fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jan 7, 2015

# ? Jan 7, 2015 22:13

Nuclear Spy: Jun 10, 2008; feeling under?

Nuclear Spy posted:

I have put together a categorised list of all the Campbell Newman news articles that I have archiving over the past few months/years.

I have tried to put a little message to consider voting minor party or independent this election but if there is a better way to word it, let me know (as well as any other feedback).

Here are some various links to this document, I'll start sharing it online this morning.

Shortened links
http://tinyurl.com/CN1000plus
http://goo.gl/KysfSI

Mirrors:
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/doc/251988662/Campbell-Newman-1000plus-Days
Google doc mirror: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WBelDYLX1YYbj3N_9dFdSzZDMFW3FHNPdeqB64P3fU8/

Nuclear Spy fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jan 8, 2015

# ? Jan 8, 2015 00:53

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

So the independent candidate for Brisbane Central is on my train and talking to strangers like a latter day saint.

Kai Jones.

Edit: This guy has to be a goon. kaijones.info/
Amateur radio expert and hates taxpayer funded bailouts.

Anidav fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jan 8, 2015

# ? Jan 8, 2015 01:01

UrbanLabyrinth: Jan 28, 2009; When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence; College Slice

Anidav posted:

Edit: This guy has to be a goon. kaijones.info/
Amateur radio expert and hates taxpayer funded bailouts.

Ask him about stairs?

# ? Jan 8, 2015 01:22

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

Anidav posted:

So the independent candidate for Brisbane Central is on my train and talking to strangers like a latter day saint.

Kai Jones.

Edit: This guy has to be a goon. kaijones.info/
Amateur radio expert and hates taxpayer funded bailouts.

I like how he chose one of the places in Brisbane where people are least likely to belong to his electorate.

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:16

Birb Katter: Sep 18, 2010; BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
TURNBULL AS PM
LIBERALS WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN A LANDSLIDE

Queensland is fuckt

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:43

Les Affaires: Nov 15, 2004

IslamoNazi posted:

Queensland is fuckt

What the hell? What were the charges for this?

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:47

Mr Chips: Jun 27, 2007; Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Anidav posted:

Yeah, that's probably why. Sorry, I've never researched Irish history past the separation between the monarchy.

In other news, the QLD Greens probably need web designers. I'm not one of them unfortunately.

Someone writing copy who knows the difference between 'break' and 'brake' might help too

e: and weird capitalisation in the headline

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:51

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Being a free thinker

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:51

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai

Les Affaires posted:

What the hell? What were the charges for this?

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...76b6cfb70e8c220

quote:

Queensland Election 2015: Man wearing �I�m with stupid� T-shirt among LNP campaigners arrested by 10 police in Brisbane

THE Queensland campaign has been marred by its first arrest, with police taking a man wearing an �I�m with stupid� T-shirt into custody for allegedly being a �public nuisance�.

The arrest occurred Thursday morning on the Corner of Martin and Brunswick Streets in Fortitude Valley, where campaign teams from the Labor and Liberal parties had set up on opposite sides of the road.

Queensland Votes: Full coverage of Election 2015

The arrested man, Iain Fogerty of New Farm, was released on watchhouse bail, and is due back in court on February 4.

Mr Fogerty operates the Not Campbell Newman parody account on Twitter.

Senator Claire Moore, who was with Labor candidate Grace Grace�s team, described the police response as �just ridiculous�.

Ten police attend the �public nuisance� call to arrest Iain Fogerty, a man wearing an �I�
Ten police attend the �public nuisance� call to arrest Iain Fogerty, a man wearing an �I�m with stupid� t-shirt and standing among LNP campaigners on a Brisbane street. Picture: Judi Jabour
�I have been campaigning for more years than I care to recall and I have never seen anything like this before,� she said.

Ms Moore said the man in the �I�m with stupid� shirt � which she said was not associated with the ALP campaign � inserted himself among the LNP campaigners much to the amusement of onlookers.

Before long three patrol cars and a paddy wagon with an estimated 10 police officers arrived to arrest Mr Fogerty on the basis of having received two complaints.

�It was just totally over the top,� Ms Moore said.

�Rather than telling the bloke to just move on, they arrest him.�

Great start to the campaign for the LNP!

# ? Jan 8, 2015 02:53

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Birb Katter: Sep 18, 2010; BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
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