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bumpunisher69
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2015 16:15 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:29 |
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quote:The Australian Border Force removed about 30 detainees from the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in a raid early on Friday that a witness described as "brutal and intimidating". http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/t...l#ixzz3kTIWwh8X
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 11:48 |
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"But the Coalition has already flagged its intention to call out Mr Windsor as a hypocrite for selling his farm to Whitehaven Coal" I've been hearing this poo poo for years now as if it's some trump card against Windsor but noone ever bothers to explain why, it's just a load of "well if he hates mines so much why did he sell his farm to a mine?? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM makes you think" bullshit that doesn't go anywhere. You'd think they'd have come up with something more substantial to throw at him by now.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 07:40 |
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QUACKTASTIC posted:You know who else ate whole raw onions probably? Stalin? Mao? Castro? Kim? Mugabe? Ahmadinejad? Stephen Conroy?
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2015 06:27 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/opinion/australias-brutal-treatment-of-migrants.html Read The drat Thing
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2015 12:20 |
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I don't want to argue against whichever public official ASIO is most closely monitoring, I want to commit crimes against them. Haha
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2015 13:39 |
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/immigration/2015/09/05/inside-border-forces-power/14413752002322 quote:Inside Border Force’s power
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2015 13:43 |
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"Illegal AND/OR unlawful maritime arrival" please.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2015 04:34 |
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say Cory Bernardi is probably a huge racist.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 15:43 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Is there a good article or book about political language in Australia? Specifically when repetition became the norm? I want to say I noticed some under Howard, a little under Rudd/Gillard and now we have a PM that can't go a single loving interview without uttering one of his stupid D alliterations. I can only assume it's deliberate. Abbott speaks that way because he can't manage anything more complex, basically. Go watch any interview where he's forced to address something outside of whatever narrow topic he's come to talk about and watch as he stammers for five seconds while his brain reboots.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 04:33 |
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~front door~
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 05:24 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:This is from the drum right? Guardian liveblog.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 06:59 |
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That reminds me, whatever happened to that antibogan guy who got framed for soliciting sex with minors or whatever?
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 10:17 |
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Just give WA to Canada, IMO
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 01:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGMrGlAHUq0
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 04:26 |
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SynthOrange posted:So it turns out that an 'australian jihadist' was actually an american idiot engaging in next level trolling to the point where he's instructing people on how to build bombs and encouraging attacks. In conversations with Fairfax Media, which were also cited in the affidavit, Mr Goldberg had said he did not expect any jihadist to actually carry out an attack because: "These guys are pussy keyboard warriors".
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 05:41 |
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I hope he's mauled by a bear.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 12:14 |
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So, Ruddock for PM, then?
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 02:34 |
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"Apart from David Marr's extremely unlikely story of Abbott punching a wall close a girl's head while at university - he would have presumably broken his hand - what evidence is there for that. There is none at all." Yeah, "extremely unlikely" if you ignore all the other accounts of him attacking people, threatening people or just being generally aggressive and obnoxious, not to mention how everyone who accused the woman in that story of lying had to publicly apologise and settle in court.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 08:06 |
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Unimpressed posted:Look out Warren, Barnaby's coming for your jugular: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/12/barnaby-joyce-says-business-case-for-big-new-coalmines-no-longer-stacks-up You are drawing a long bow. He's opposing the mine because his electorate doesn't want it, doesn't like him for letting it happen and will move to get rid of him the moment Tony Windsor confirm's he's going to make a comeback; he's not thinking about leadership, he's thinking about holding his seat.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 11:47 |
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The Nationals are in a "coalition" with the Liberals because they know they'll lose most of their seats if they have to contest them against a party with lots of money, so becoming Vichy Libs was seen as a compromise that would let them maintain some level of influence. It's a racket, basically.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 03:45 |
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Serrath posted:Interestingly (well, perhaps not since it didn't change anything), the seat has been held by the National party since the 1960's but the National member (Bruce Scott) changed parties to the Liberal party for the last election and the National party didn't run a candidate. He still won by an impressive margin but he's really well known for actively campaigning, visiting all the towns in the vast electorate, answering questions, and seeming like a member of the community. Whether this is a fair assessment or not, my partner's father said that members running for the Greens and Labor party were generally unknown and he suggested that a lot of his neighbors voted more for the person they've met on the belief that he'll represent their interests better. That's pretty much the sentiment I hear where I am (inland NSW), too - left-of-the-Nats parties will never gain any ground here because they don't, can't or don't want to cultivate or endorse local candidates.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 08:16 |
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Remember the last leadership challenge and how some journalist asked Abbott if it'd given him cause to reflect on his own failings and he was all "nah I don't do self-reflection, I'll leave that for the nerds in the press gallery"
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 05:19 |
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Oh cool I get home and Tony's about to be toppled and he gave the exact same speech as last time and Clive Palmer made another goodbye video and Abbott's preparing a loving Abbott/Dutton ticket. Good poo poo
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 09:47 |
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Spudd posted:Where is the writing that Abbott won't get the ex PM pension if he is kicked out in the next 4 day? My mother doesn't believe me in the slightest. Quoting evilbastard: It seems Section 19A of the Parlimentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948 agrees with you - it was updated in 2007, but the two year minimum still seems to be present. http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/0708/praa The Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948 s.19A period of service for Prime Minister to attain eligibility reduced from three years (1952) to two years. Additional retiring allowance for Prime Minister ranged from 2000 per annum for two years aggregate service to 3000 per annum for six years aggregate service and over. New benefit to widow of deceased Prime Minister: rate equalled one-half of the Prime Minister s retiring allowance per annum, payable until remarriage. Tony Abbott became president September 18th, 2015. He's 4 days short.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 10:19 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:I haven't been following Aussie politics, only found out about this latest spill by chance; what was this new embarrassment Abbott and Dutton cooked up? Was it worse than rattling sabers at Indonesia for executing a bunch of aussies that the AFP delivered to them on a silver platter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYe2ek8iFM Dutton later apologised for standing under that microphone.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 10:48 |
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Okay so other than losing his job and hopefully his pension, what''s the funniest PM Tony moment? The knighthood is an obvious pick but I'm sure I'm overlooking something grand.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 11:22 |
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Anidav posted:In Street Fighter 2 terms, if Abbott is M. Bison and Turnbull is Akuma then who is Bill Shorten? Abbott is Dan, Turnbull is Sakura. Shorten can be the new arabic character with the DBZ scouter, I don't care.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 11:38 |
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Wat's the news24 link?
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 12:05 |
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I'm so ready for Tony's "concession""" speech,.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 12:51 |
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prefect posted:Do you guys make concession speeches for this kind of event? Kevin Rudd did. He blubbered a lot and ended his speech with "I've gotta zip" Expect about half an hour of this from Abbott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amUNEsSdy_g
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 12:53 |
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I hope Chris Uhlmann is deposed by a fatal blow to the head
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:07 |
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Seagull posted:do we have the numbers 54-44 70-30 for deputy (Julie Bishop vs Kevin Andrews pfffffffffffff)
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:09 |
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xutech posted:Who ACTUALLY PAYS these fuckers to come on the telly and mash poo poo into a blender. It's the ABC, they settle for whoever puts their hand up.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:14 |
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Breetai posted:Didn't it turn out that Tones was in private debt up to his ears and basically needed the full PM pension to survive financially? I seem to remember something like that being bandied about at the last spill. The debt stuff was pretty old, I think. When he was in opposition he loudly complained about the smaller pay packet.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:15 |
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"Turnbull called me a moron for 15 minutes" -Uhlmann okay I've come around on this outcome
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:22 |
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Who the gently caress is this?
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:27 |
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Ferremit posted:So the nats are exploding in a huge ball of rage about turnballs getting leadership and threatening that they wont "Rush into a new coalition agreement" They (the Nationals, but also everyone else) are simpering idiots and are completely full of poo poo.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:29 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:We're not getting anything from Abbott tonight are we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PLnInsh7E
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 13:57 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:29 |
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Holy poo poo that boltome just keeps going, doesn't it.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 14:14 |