MissEchelon posted:That one gets pushed to the "most read" section every month or so. It's pretty great. I mean something something fairfax jihad Hello new person, welcome to the thread. ScreamingLlama posted:Just so you know, I did NOT vote for Barnaby Joyce and am therefore not responsible for having such an utter disgrace of an MP. Hey, you didn't answer me in the last thread, and I was genuinely curious, how is the AEC appeal going? Beetphyxious posted:We've done some lobbying in the social housing sector to try get access to super to fund social housing developments. no dice. Thing is though, that super builds up over a lifetime. Even if hypothetically they allow access to super to appease the blood gods of housing, unless it's an older (mid 40s) person accessing it, then it's not going to be enough for a deposit and it's nominally the first home buyer that they're aiming to entice with this.
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Pickled Tink posted:First Dog!
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EvilElmo posted:Also worth noting that large chunks of ISIS ground is literally nothing but sand. Looks bad on map, but strategically they're only really in a handful of spaces in that zone. That's in the first paragraph of the accompanying text.
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tithin posted:
Oh we were thinking larger. 1% of all super is put into a social housing management borrowing fund that social housing providers can lend from and provide a ROI of at least the going cash rate. So that 1% of everyone's super would keep pace with inflation but wouldn't outpace it like (hopefully) the rest of their super would be doing. It's not either party that is against the idea, well the libs probably would be more so than Labor, but it's the superfunds themselves who don't want a bar of it. It'a funny because I came up with the idea a few years back all on my own, drafted up a business case and took it to the ceo and he laughed and laughed because they already had been trying that exact thing for a few years by that point.
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Kommando posted:Arg, while its nice to have on the public record that it was found to be valid for Barnaby Joyce to be called a wanker and an idiot, I don't want Sandilands to be credited with the victory. can't have everything in life mate tithin posted:Hey, you didn't answer me in the last thread, and I was genuinely curious, how is the AEC appeal going? It goes. That's pretty much all I can tell you at this point: I'm only a member of the NSW state executive, not the national one.
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 14:38 |
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For the op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKEAB_jaXKk
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John Oliver was just updated on the most important politic story of the year."John Oliver’s hilarious reaction to Tony Abbott eating a raw, unpeeled onion posted:
One day a few decades from now all that will be remembered of Abbott will be that he, for no reason ate more than one raw onion while in office.
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 15:24 |
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Rarely has there been a clearer example of cultural cringe than Australia's recent wankfest over John Oliver criticising our government
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 16:47 |
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freebooter posted:Rarely has there been a clearer example of cultural cringe than Australia's recent wankfest over John Oliver criticising our government Hahah have a gluten free 100% organic, chai flavored joint and chill. People just like it when we can share with others around the world the weirdness that is Tony Abbott, as allowing us to see it fresh through foreign eyes, unaffected by his lovely polices that does tend to take a bit of the humour away.
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Over the past week I've been linked to about half a dozen articles about John Oliver's hilaaaaaaaarious takes on Australian politics, usually in Buzzfeed or Junkee or whatever, and the tone of every single one of them has been irritatingly sycophantic. HOW GREAT IS IT THAT THE FAMOUS COMEDIAN FINDS THE SAME THINGS WE DO FUNNY YOU GUYSSSSS! It's embarrassing. Nothing against you, you just broke the camel's back.
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Well maybe we wake up every day still in shock that everything went so hosed, so quickly, and we need a foreign to agree with us that yes it is hosed and "The Rover" is going to be a documentary in two years time.
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 19:39 |
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John Oliver sucks. I hate that fake histrionic style he and Jon Stewart have.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:25 |
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I hate jokes.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:33 |
open24hours posted:John Oliver sucks. I hate that fake histrionic style he and Jon Stewart have. So what's it like to have such a horrible sense of humour?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:34 |
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freebooter posted:Over the past week I've been linked to about half a dozen articles about John Oliver's hilaaaaaaaarious takes on Australian politics, usually in Buzzfeed or Junkee or whatever, and the tone of every single one of them has been irritatingly sycophantic. HOW GREAT IS IT THAT THE FAMOUS COMEDIAN FINDS THE SAME THINGS WE DO FUNNY YOU GUYSSSSS! It's embarrassing. Nothing against you, you just broke the camel's back. Can you link them? they sound really funny.
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Australia Strikes Deal To Resettle 55 Million Dollars In Cambodia http://www.theshovel.com.au/2015/09/02/australia-strikes-deal-to-resettle-55-million-dollars-in-cambodia/ quote:Fifty-five million helpless Australian dollars will be given a new home in Cambodia, after a diplomatic arrangement was struck between the two countries.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:55 |
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John Oliver: Funny and famous for being funny Freebooter: some fuckwit from the internet. with that settled, can we talk more about John Oliver being funny?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:08 |
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I find him more informal than funny most times. He is probably more funny live.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:11 |
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Can you link them? they sound really funny. He did one series on Australian gun control after Port Arthur which included interviews with John Howard. It goes on a bit long but is pretty well done. There was another one about the lead up to the last election, and one making fun of Barnaby for that business with Depp's dogs.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:27 |
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I saw John Oliver live in Melbourne, can confirm he was funny. Obviously he made fun of Abbott a bit here too, but he was well known for that already from the show and people expect it of him I guess.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:28 |
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It's less cultural cringe and more that we now have a Prime Minister so drastically incompetent that he's internationally famous for it.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:32 |
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Hmm page four was the start of the slide into the shitter this month. Gratz everybody who made this possible! Good loving job! You are nearly as good at running a thread into the ground as our muppet masters. http://www.theage.com.au/comment/get-ready-for-a-recession-every-decade-experts-warn-20150830-gjb9kw.html quote:Get ready for a recession every decade, experts warn September 1, 2015 Peter Martin Economics Editor, The Age It really says something when two Labor state premiers and NSW opposition leader Luke Foley undermine their federal counterparts on the China free trade agreement. Who do these people think they represent any more? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-12/china-free-trade-agreement-cost-australian-jobs-fact-check/6653214 quote:The verdict Muppet thread, muppet government.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:36 |
Firetrick posted:I saw John Oliver live in Melbourne, can confirm he was funny. Obviously he made fun of Abbott a bit here too, but he was well known for that already from the show and people expect it of him I guess. I saw him too, right up until I heckled him and he called me an idiot. He seemed to be on point.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:01 |
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GDP is out. 0.2% for the quarter putting it at 2% for the year. Hockeys Budget posted:Real GDP is forecast to grow by 2¾ per cent in 2015-16, before increasing to around trend growth of 3¼ per cent in 2016-17. RBA GDP graph shows this
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:41 |
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Someone make a version of that graph with the "Recovery!" from the climate change graph.gif
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Quantum Mechanic posted:It's less cultural cringe and more that we now have a Prime Minister so drastically incompetent that he's internationally famous for it. I feel like, with a huge chunk of the news media so desperately wanting to convince us that the LNP are both Smart and Good At Their Jobs when it's quite clear they're not (and without a proper opposition to call them out on their poo poo), people like John Oliver are almost a sanity check. It's a bit of a relief when someone from another country that's quite good at analyzing politics can look at ours and say 'your government is composed of complete idiots', it's fantastic assurance that we're not crazy and we actually have a group this horrendously incompetent in government.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:56 |
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I'm going to leave these here without comment https://twitter.com/TheKouk/status/638888487530295296 https://twitter.com/TheKouk/status/638888761510641664 https://twitter.com/pipfreebairn/status/638888407091965952
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:58 |
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Somebody else wrote a better thing on Abbotts Onions. It's a pub trick. It's a unpleasant thing that you can do because of much practice that demostrates how hard you are to the rest of the pub, like putting a cigarette out on your tongue. That's why he's out there skulling pints instead of asking for a white wine shandy, again.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:07 |
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Anidav posted:Someone make a version of that graph with the "Recovery!" from the climate change graph.gif Someone out there knows what I hunger.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:11 |
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has denied claims by a Western Australian shipping company that a senior Federal Government bureaucrat suggested it consider sacking its Australian workforce and replacing it with foreign labour, under a proposed Coalition overhaul of the shipping industry. Mr Abbott said the allegations were "just not true" and his Government wants to "restore the situation which operated under the Howard government and end Labor's job-destroying, cost-inflating, coastal shipping regime".
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:13 |
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"Cost inflating" is code for local workers.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:15 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/is-labor-running-dead-in-canning-to-protect-tony-abbott-20150901-gjd1m5.html hahahahahahah
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:18 |
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Those GDP numbers are bad, but at least we got rid of that dysfunctional labor mob.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:22 |
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tithin posted:I saw him too, right up until I heckled him and he called me an idiot. Hmmm...checks out.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/is-labor-running-dead-in-canning-to-protect-tony-abbott-20150901-gjd1m5.html quote:Labor strategists concede the government's unpopularity, and that of the Prime Minister in particular, provide the opposition's best hopes for victory in 2016. Thus, they fear a shock byelection loss for the government would shatter the party room resolve and could see Mr Abbott replaced by the more centrist and popular Malcolm Turnbull.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 03:25 |
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That's nice to see, thank you
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The Peccadillo posted:The phrase "Screw you, Takriti!", does not do a bunch to heighten the "sobreity". Please high five your girlfriend for me and tell her she's awesome.
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If Labor can't take Canning I'm tipping a Doctor Who / Bill Shorten / Bill Hayden time portal thing from Pope.
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