Anidav posted:

Lmao, Abbott is flying John Howard to Canning.

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In his time on the Federal Circuit Court, Judge Street has heard an astonishing number of cases.

Between January and June this year, he delivered rulings in 286 cases. The other eight judges who sit on the Federal Circuit Court in Sydney delivered 357 cases combined.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

gently caress me sideways

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The child's parents were safe in Turkey. Turkey (for all its many faults) is a member of Nato, officially classified as free and democratic.

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One of two ­potential whistleblowers named by Mr Yates in the email, former Vodafone investigator Mark Burridge, has since committed suicide.

MikeJF posted:

The overwhelming saturation of American media we all stew in conditions everyone to think in presidential terms.

Serrath posted:

Did anything become of this or was it just hot air?

Raged posted:

I will cry, then laugh for days if Abbott survives this.

Birb Katter posted:

https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/643330156258553856

Orkin Mang posted:

i dont think its in his nature to resign.

Solemn Sloth posted:

No sleep till Malcolm

Anemone Thief posted:

https://www.facebook.com/ClivePalmerMP/videos/1047668161919387/

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Political Alert
‏@political_alert
Defence Minister Kevin Andrews will hold a press conference at 7.10pm #libspill #auspol

Political Alert
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Leader of the Government in the Senate, Eric Abetz, will hold a press conference at 7.25pm #libspill #auspol

Birb Katter posted:

Orkin Mang posted:

WMain00 posted:

For those of us in the UK who just saw the BBC report Abbott being ousted, what the gently caress what just happened?

Lid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysscL3uD4M

oh

my

god

Digiwizzard posted:

All I ask for is that Bill Shorten mysteriously disappear and is never seen or heard from ever again.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

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That is a 24-point gain on the 31 per cent primary vote Ms McGowan achieved in 2013, when she snatched the seat from Mrs Mirabella.

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Opinions from the Arsetralian posted:
Tony Abbott loyal to a fault: why Philip was knighted

THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 12:00AM Greg Sheridan Foreign Editor Melbourne

He can rightly claim that the new media environment made this exceptionally difficult. *laugh track* Abbott this week talked of the avalanche of sour, bitter commentary which much modern media comprises. This is especially so in digital media, particularly Twitter, which is designed it seems solely for ­extreme and most anonymous personal abuse. The politics of personal abuse have never been easier to practice. Nonetheless, Abbott is not ­exempt from his own failures as a communicator. Intelligent politicians like Abbott learn from the past. Politicians learn their most useful lessons from their mistakes. They learn the signals of when something is going wrong. Paradoxically, politicians learn the most dangerous lessons from their successes. The lessons they learn from their successes can be crippling. Abbott was an astonishingly successful opposition leader. He took the leadership by a single vote at a time when the Liberal Party was deeply riven and ­expected to lose many seats at the next election. Instead he united the party and took the Liberals to the brink of victory in 2010, and then won in 2013.

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He needed to become a ubiquitous and friendly presence in Australian life, to have an open an easy dialogue with the Australian people. He had the ­potential to be the Liberals’ Bob Hawke. *laugh track* He had the same easy presence in a bar or at a community barbecue, the same mainstream Aussie bloke manner, along with a powerful ­intellect. *laugh track* I thought he would be a hit with the Howard battlers, ­labelled only far too late, and unsuccessfully, in his prime ministership as “Tony’s tradies”. *laugh track* Friends tried to get him to ­participate in long-form TV interviews, to take the risks of showing Australia who he really was, and to become much more engaged in media discussion. Abbott is without question a fine person. *laugh track* *laugh track* *laugh track* *laugh track* *laugh track* The basic human ingredients are of the highest order. But so often his virtues got him into trouble. And to end at the ­beginning, never more was this the case than on the question of loyalty.

Negligent posted:

what are the odds that Wyatt Roy becomes a parliamentary secretary or a Minister on Monday because YOUNG PEOPLE

markgreyam posted:

ahahahahahaha

Birb Katter posted:

"all natural"

smh posted:

The Baird government has prepared a list of 27 TAFE sites to be sold this financial year to raise $63 million to fund a shortfall in the IT budget.

A document marked "cabinet in confidence", seen by The Sun-Herald, shows the list of campuses across NSW earmarked for sale, and price tags.

They include the full TAFE sites at Chullora, Epping, Belrose, Scone, Dapto, Vincentia, Maclean, Murwillumbah, Corowa, Narrandera and Grenfell.

In 21 regional towns, TAFE would be closed or reduced through a partial sale, with classes diverted to other campuses.

The document suggests selling off the west side of Belmont TAFE at Lake Macquarie for $2.96 million and replacing classes with a limited "pop-up" service in a leased building.

The Chullora TAFE campus in western Sydney is expected to fetch $22 million, while the Belrose annex of Northern Sydney Institute is worth $8.5 million.

The document states TAFE NSW requires a $54.5 million increase in capital spending this year, including $32 million for new projects, which are in addition to those approved in the June budget.

But more than half of this spending, $17.5 million, is earmarked for IT. Another $10 million is to relocate services from the campuses being sold.

It is understood the sale was prompted by a November report from Infrastructure NSW, which told TAFE NSW to prepare an asset management plan to fund the expansion of online courses.

Skills Minister John Barilaro​ told a budget estimates hearing this month the government was looking at "ways of rationalising our asset base and reinvesting every dollar of that into information technology, into fantastic campuses".

But NSW Greens MLC John Kaye said the fire sale of buildings revealed in the cabinet document, and the push to cheaper online delivery, would have a negative impact on students.

Communities with high levels of unemployment are in line to lose TAFE facilities, he said.

"Asset recycling means fewer opportunities for face-to-face teaching and more money squandered on dodgy information technology," he said.

TAFE has been plagued by a blowout in the cost of a $576 million IT administration system known as Learning Management and Business Reform (LMBR). Mr Barilaro has admitted to Parliament the IT system failed during the January enrolment period.

The partial sale of campuses at Granville, Wollongong, Goulburn, Forbes, Bourke, Muswellbrook, Ballina, Albury and Glendale are listed in the document.

At the Sydney Institute, land at the Enmore design campus would be leased out, and an Ultimo building "repurposed".

Asked about the list of sites for sale Mr Barilaro said: "TAFE NSW regularly reviews its assets to ensure they provide the best resources for students and teachers."

The NSW government would invest in "online learning capabilities –not the LMBR system", Mr Barilaro said.
"Businesses and students want a blended learning environment because they provide job pathways for students and deliver options to study online or offsite with industry partners," he said.

Dr Kaye said: "The IT spending is largely aimed at cutting teaching staff and replacing face-to-face learning with online packages. Struggling students will pay the price of a government that is trying to reduce its investment in TAFE."

The document shows $10 million of the sale proceeds would be spent relocating courses from the Crows Nest TAFE, which was sold in July, and Chullora.

Metal fabrication courses were axed at Chullora last year, and teachers sacked.

Birb Katter posted:

Penis in dead pigs mouth, photo evidence exists.

You Am I posted:

Wow Peter Costello has become a fat bastard

Birdstrike posted:

Bill spent nigh on 2 years playing small target games and not standing for anything because he was afraid of being wedged by his own shadow.

Now maybe this was fine because a drover's dog could beat NTATA, but that's 2 years he should have spent explaining actual policies for the future. Heck, even one year.