Zenithe posted:

Whats the deal with the part near the SA NT border? Why is that cooler than the entire area around it?

webmeister posted:

This really needs to be a bit more complex

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The Australian desert region using the BoM classification scheme is shown in map S1. This shows that desert climates (or arid areas) occupy most of the western and central interior of the continent. It also shows that some areas traditionally thought of as deserts are, in fact, semi-arid under this classification, notably the area around Alice Springs (Northern Territory) and the coastal fringe of the Nullarbor Plain (Western and South Australia). Both these areas are cooler than surrounding regions (Alice Springs because of its high elevation, the Nullarbor because of its proximity to the moderating influence of the coast), and around Alice Springs the mountains also play a role in increasing rainfall relative to the surrounding plains.

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While the coldest air masses to affect the desert are usually far too dry for any precipitation by the time they get there, very occasionally, snow flurries may fall in a few parts of the region. Snow was observed falling at Uluru (Ayers Rock), in the Northern Territory, in July 1997 and east of Norseman (Western Australia) in June 2005, and probably occurs more frequently (possibly a couple of times per decade) on the highest peaks of the MacDonnell (Northern Territory) and Musgrave Ranges (northern South Australia) (image S6). On the southernmost fringe of the desert, the higher parts of the Flinders Ranges get snow heavy enough to settle once or twice per decade, with a particularly significant fall occurring, somewhat out of season, in October 1995.

Freudian Slip posted:

That would be pretty cool if it weren't for the Fairfax Ipsos poll showing 51-49 to Labor

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...102-11fraj.html

NTRabbit posted:

Which ones are the Greens? I already filled out my ballot

NTRabbit posted:

Ah, I'm in Thalassa ward. How young is young these days?

Quantum Mechanic posted:

What about Simms?

Quantum Mechanic posted:

If I have to hear one more screed about how offensive our lack of trust in our MPs is or how haaaaard she and her staffers work and how we all don't understand Parliament and that's why we need expert leadership and a strong Party Room voice at Conference and Council I'mma pitch her out a window.

Quasimango posted:

This is my ignorant/ cliched idea of each of the state Green parties:

NSW Greens: ex-communists
Victoria Greens: latte sipping/craft beer swilling hipsters
Queensland Greens: anti-GMO, anti vax, anti fluoride hippies
Tasmania Greens: tree-huggers
WA Greens: Scott Ludlam personality cult
SA Greens: um...something Sarah Hanson-Young
NT Greens: lol

Senor Tron posted:

You couldn't make that up. The only thing better would be if there were photos of her sombrely gazing upon the "memorial".

Quantum Mechanic posted:

The Labor candidate in my electorate sent me a friend request on Facebook

(for those playing at home I'm running for the Greens)

Halo14 posted:

Morgan Poll 2PP: L/NP 44.5 (-1) ALP 55.5 (+1)

http://roymorgan.com.au/findings/5935-morgan-poll-federal-voting-intention-november-17-2014-201411170449

@GhostWhoVotes posted:

#Newspoll 2 Party Preferred: L/NP 45 (-1) ALP 55 (+1) #auspol

@kevinbonham posted:

Largest primary lead for ALP over L-NP (3 pts) since Gillard honeymoon July 2010, before that March 2010.

Arse posted:

Business leaders’ confidence in the Abbott government has slumped to the lowest level since the Coalition won power, with almost two-thirds seeing no benefit in scrapping the carbon tax. The Director Sentiment Index fell 7.1 points during the second half of 2014 to minus 29, the same level as when Julia Gillard was an unpopular Labor prime minister in early 2013.

quote:

Vladimir Putin has left the G20 summit citing a need to catch up on sleep, after the Kremlin played down reports the Russian President was leaving due to the frosty reception awarded to him by other world leaders over Ukraine.

Mr Putin said the trip home would take 18 hours and he needs at least four hours' sleep before returning to work on Monday.

The Russian leader said he explained his reasons to his Australian host, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who, he said, responded with: "No problem."

Gough Suppressant posted:

Did someone say war against indigenous people?

Fruity Gordo posted:

Wait so is everyone doing Hockey as Shrek now or did Knight just flagrantly rip off Pope in isolation?

quote:

The resemblance was noted elsewhere before the cartoons. On TV I think.

Eyespy posted:

From a few pages back, but is there any easy way to debunk this horseshit? One of my co-workers will not shut up about it.

Oh and it just so happens that George Christensen is our parliamentary rep too.

Pig in the City posted:

i've been writing a bunch of stuff for SBS Comedy about auspol. most of it trash. all of it trash.
but if anyone's interested in checking it out sometime it's at:
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/person/backburner

NTRabbit posted:

In the Fisher by-election here next week the favourite to win is the Liberal candidate, a staffer from the office of shadow minister Duncan McFetridge who unsuccessfully ran for the seat of Elder in 2002, was one of 8 ignored in favour of parachuting Work Choices architect Jamie Briggs into Downer's safe federal seat, and lost a preselection battle to run for the seat of Mawson in 2009.

Because it's all about locals representing their community.

The only marginal positive is that she's not from the right faction, the Liberal members in the area finally and belatedly telling Iain Evans and his cavalcade of allstar ultra conservative disciples to gently caress off.

Haters Objector posted:

Have you resigned yet and if not why not?

Anidav posted:

Until I have actual friends in the Queensland Greens, which I don't.

Nuclear Spy posted:

I checked out #fisher on Twitter and saw this tweet about one of the candidates:

NTRabbit posted:

Stephen Marshall was apparently up and down my street handing out how to vote cards and having a chat with residents about Heidi Harris today. Wish I'd been about.

I'm voting for the Green candidate. Will be interesting to see if she improves on her primary from the main election, but really on a hiding to nothing in an electorate filled with retirement villages.

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During a campaign event, there was an awkward hug between Mr Abbott and Mr Napthine that prompted one of the Victorian Premier’s staffers to say, “Oh s---’’, in front of reporters, a moment that was recorded on a journalist’s tape recorder.

The Welfare Lobby posted:

I'm a polling booth captain too; have you got many other people on yours?

It looks like it might just be me all on my lonesome for the whole day.

I, Butthole posted:

From The Guardian Liveblog, from the Coalition party room on the ABC. Bold it all

quote:

Shorten to Abbott: Somebody was on SBS saying there will be no cuts to the ABC and SBS. Who was that?

Of course I made that statement, says Abbott, to loud applause from Labor.

Murodese posted:

I wonder if they're actually aware of what's happening at the moment

Adnar posted:

Nuclear Spy posted:

I, Butthole posted:

From The Guardian Liveblog, from the Coalition party room on the ABC. Bold it all

I want to see this clip

quote:

Shorten to Abbott: Somebody was on SBS saying there will be no cuts to the ABC and SBS. Who was that?

Of course I made that statement, says Abbott, to loud applause from Labor.

Ler posted:

Brandis refusing to answer Greens senator Penny Wright on terror law questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBZyoUaWKzg

adamantium|wang posted:

I've never been to SS before. There is something deeply, deeply wrong with these people

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

I grew up amongst the cuntry, about two hours inland of Perth. Moved to Brisbane when I was 13; Sydney in my mid-20s; then to Shizuoka, then Melbourne, then Tokyo, then Melbourne again, now Utsunomiya. So until recently it's been a series of upgrades, more-or-less.

Country Australians are racist, boring rednecks, ignorant of the wider world; city Australians are elitist, tiresome wankers, ignorant of the country. (City's heaps better though.)

The Four Yorkshiremen is originally a sketch from 'At Last the 1948 Show'; it became a Monty Python sketch when they started doing live shows, if I'm remembering right. So if you only watch the TV series you'll miss it totally, along with a lot of their more famous songs, etc.

Fruity Gordo posted:

I'm tempted to post the pic of you and Bags in the bath now to see if they develop a crush.

Gorilla Salad posted:

There's a report (whose name escapes me at the moment) detailing from exactly where the government wanted the cuts to come. They have refused to make it public.

But consider the Abbott government for a moment. Where do you think they decided to cut first?

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Malcolm Turnbull says that “All of the savings can be found in operational efficiencies of the kind canvassed in the Peter Lewis efficiency study,’’. Who exactly is Peter Lewis? Mr Lewis is an experienced media executive who spent 15 years at Seven West Media. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has ordered the Government to publish this secret review claiming it is grossly irresponsible for the Communications Minister to consider such cuts behind closed doors while claiming in public to be a “friend of the ABC”.

When/If the Lewis efficiency is revealed, we can make a clear judgement whether this Government-commissioned report highlighted that services to rural and regional towns should be removed as part of the suite of recommended cuts.

Anidav posted:

My Body is ready.