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Shouldn't the Lockout map transparently favouring James Packer cause Mediocre Mike to get publicly executed? I dont understand why that Luke guy is still opposition leader.
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Brisbane election soon comrades.  Having a giggle at that teeny tiny LNP logo.
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Pretty sure Barnaby Joyce is the most hated at the moment judging polls wink.
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gay picnic defence posted:What the gently caress is someone like that doing in the Labor party in Australia? Sounds like he'd be right at home at some Ted Cruz rally. I think the DLP forgot to send him the memo.
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 Turnbull is tanking faster than a Kevin Rudd talking about immigration reform Yeehaw.
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iajanus posted:Queensland worst state, as ever.  This is some House of Cards poo poo Gentlemen and Lawrence Springborg is Frank Underwood and Campbell Newman is Doug.
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Brisbane City Council sold another block of public land to a Liberal National Party donor in 2013 without going to tender, but the Quirk-led LNP administration has rejected any suggestion of favourable treatment. Lot 2, 538 Nudgee Road was sold to the BMI Group for $1.5 million as part of a $10.5 million compensation package for a 13-hectare landfill at Murarrie, which the council resumed in 2010 to convert to parkland. The Nudgee Road property, which had been used as a spoil shed during the construction of Airport Link, was adjacent to another block of land Lot 1, 538 Nudgee Road which mired the LNP's council campaign in controversy last week. Like Lot 1, which the council had hoped to sell to LNP donor Tan Boon Seng before Local Government Minister Jackie Trad refused to allow the transaction, Lot 2 did not go to public tender, as was legally required. Both deals needed the approval of the sitting Queensland local government minister. The $1.5 million price tag for Lot 2 was more than $100,000 below market value, according to the council's own valuations. But a spokesman for BMI, which had made more than $80,000 in donations to the LNP in four years, said the company did not believe it had received special treatment. "We do not believe we have ever received any benefit from donations to any political party or candidate and actually believe that any transactions we have undertaken attract a higher level of external scrutiny because of past donations," he said. A spokesman for Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said BMI, the parent company of then-Murrarie site owner Siveressence, did not want to part with the southside property and "utterly rejected" any suggestion of favourable treatment. "Their (Murrarie) business was closed down and they sought compensation of $36 million, but settlement was later reached for $10.5 million," he said. "Part of the $10.5 million compensation included a land swap with an agreed purchase price of the Nudgee Road site for $1.5 million based on market value (remaining $9 million in cash). "The site was considered surplus to council's needs and by entering into a land swap it meant council did not need to find the total value from its cash reserves." Cr Quirk's spokesman said an independent valuation of the property gave it a sales value of $1.61 million, more than $100,000 above the agreed value reached by the two parties. "However, council considered it failed to take into account requirements of the Nudgee Road bikeway and the uncertainty at the time of getting a 'general industry' area designation," he said. Then-local government minister David Crisafulli signed off on the deal on February 28, 2013, about 1½ months after the council requested the exemption on November 23, 2012. Mr Crisafulli said it was just one of "dozens" of ministerial exemption requests he received as minister. "I had a simple rule. If council put forward a case that it was in the public interest and there was a valuation to ensure ratepayers dollars were protected I'd back the council," he said. "I'd do that whether it was Graham Quirk in Brisbane or Jenny Hill in Townsville. "Political affiliations or donations were never factored into my decision." According to Electoral Commission of Queensland disclosures, the BMI Group had made $82,700 in donations to the LNP between 2011 and 2015. BMI also sponsored a corporate golf day for Cr Quirk last year, photos of which were posted on its Facebook page. The BMI spokesman said the company believed the overall resumption compensation was "below the true value of the Murarrie asset". He said BMI also had to comply to what it considered to be "onerous" conditions to build its new waste facility on the site. "We believe that the amount which BMI was required to pay would have been well in excess of the market value of the property at the time, given that it was not approved for industry at that time and give that the MCU [material change of use] was an impact assessable application," he said. "A development application was lodged in April 2013 and in February 2014 it was approved subject to numerous conditions the most onerous of which required BMI to improve and signalise the intersection onto Nudgee Road. "Another condition removed direct access onto Nudgee Road from the property." Cr Quirk's spokesman said BMI's financial support of the LNP did not enter into the council's consideration. "There was no material personal interest on the part of any councillor in relation to the disposal of the property," he said. Labor lord mayoral candidate Rod Harding once again accused the LNP administration of making secret deals to escape scrutiny. "This is yet another land deal with a mate they didn't want to tell us about and this deal got the rubber stamp from Campbell Newman," he said. "The question for Graham Quirk and the LNP remains: if it was such a good deal, why keep it a secret all this time?" Greens lord mayoral candidate Ben Pennings said political donations would continue to cloud council decisions as long as they continued to be made. "These matters will continue to arise while it's legal for political parties to accept donations from vested interests," he said. The attempted sale of Lot 1 has been referred to the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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I think NSW is worse than QLD politically because we got rid of Campbell Newman pretty quickly and actually paid attention to all the poo poo he was doing. NSW seems to be under some hypersleep and Baird is ticking off every single Conservative wet dream one by one while still being extremely popular. On top of this, the worse QLD has to worry about is one or two Katters whereas NSW has to deal with Shooters and CDP
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Mar 8, 2016 02:05
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Lmao at this pace, Bill Shorten will be PM. Turdball is just absolutely suffocating in negative press. Jesus Christ it's like watching a Jeep try to swim.
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Mar 8, 2016 11:34
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Haha, what the gently caress did he do to his hair.
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Mar 8, 2016 12:52
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Rumor mill is saying a 3rd MP wants to resign from QLD Labor, potentially giving the LNP back government. Some media outlets are reporting an early election announcement this week in order to beat an incoming resignation announcement.
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Mar 9, 2016 00:15
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It always happens in either party. Some rural QLD MP just randomly decides to quit the party because "you fat cats in Brisbane are not representing the North!" Campbell Newman had similar issues.
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Mar 9, 2016 00:53
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   This plus the lord mayor race makes for an exciting political hotspot.
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Mar 9, 2016 01:09
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Wouldn't it be funny if the coalition moved to on shore processing before the ALP did in some crazy election manoeuvre.
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Mar 9, 2016 02:57
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My Jsa appointments last 5 minutes You still studyin You still applyin See you next fortnight
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Mar 9, 2016 09:17
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Lmao the amount of people I talk to who say they will vote 1 green and liberal 2 "We must stop climate change but also have a healthy economy"
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Mar 9, 2016 12:50
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I'm willing to forgive the ALP, in return for Rod Harding being mayor and the Courier Mail running wild with dick jokes as headlines.
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Mar 9, 2016 12:58
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I occasionally run into people who are homosexual and vote Liberal. Which is odd, I'm not sure which circumstances such a political opinion is allowed to form.
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Mar 9, 2016 13:02
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I love reading facebook and seeing head empty greens thinking that turtleneck means The Greens will form a Coalition with the Liberals.
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Mar 9, 2016 13:46
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*watches bifauxnen wear a turtle neck for the rest of her life in ordering to enter a coalition agreement with negligent*
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Hey everyone. Good news. Camps is back!
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Mar 10, 2016 01:45
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QLD is the best state you simple-minded hooligan.
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Mar 10, 2016 02:32
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Bogan King posted:Counterpoint: Newman. Counter Counter Point: Larissa Waters
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Mar 10, 2016 02:50
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Lego pieces covered in piss, poo poo, dorito dust and Peter Duttons dandruff
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Mar 10, 2016 07:17
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Graic Gabtar posted:Wow, where were all of you when I was being told to kill myself, die in a fire and being threatened with rape? For me, it was Tuesday.
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Mar 10, 2016 08:12
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Eh. I don't mind you. I just furiously disagreed with you at that particular moment.
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Mar 10, 2016 08:23
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Is asking about milk a threat?
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Mar 10, 2016 09:19
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I envy the dead who see no parliament
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Mar 10, 2016 10:16
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Milky Moor, what brand of milk do you drink?
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Mar 10, 2016 10:43
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Go away friendlyjordies
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Mar 10, 2016 12:09
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All this shitposting crawling underneath my skin Causing me to change from within
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Mar 10, 2016 12:22
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Yes but I don't vote for a party that locks up men, women and children. Also known as the party that backstabbed Penny Wong at the national conference to turn a potential hard stance on legalizing gay marriage into a carrot on a stick promise* (IF WE WIN THE ELECTION ;-) ) Also known as the party that shapeshifts on climate change while in government Also known as the party that still hasn't replaced Bill Snoreton.
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Mar 10, 2016 13:01
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Video games are like 20 dollars more expensive though. A 89 dollar game is about 110 over there.
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Mar 11, 2016 06:09
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Did some Goon finally create Anidav Simulator? I think someone was making it and had some opening scenarios all written up and that link reminds me of that hilarious little project.
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WELFARE CARS CROSSING DETENTION POINT Writes Herald Sun Contributer.
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Mar 12, 2016 05:57
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The best comedy comes from ourselves. Your personality bounces dad jokes off itself 24/7.
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Mar 13, 2016 01:38
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How does a 14 year old kid get a property portfolio????
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Rob Pyne's resignation shows North Queensland is a state of mind One of the mistakes of our federation is that North Queensland is not a separate state. Politicians from north of Capricorn have long complained about the neglect of tropical Queensland by Brisbane-based governments. Last week former Labor MP now independent Member for Cairns Rob Pyne complained that: "Far north Queensland has been the victim of historic neglect over recent years...We have double digit unemployment and youth unemployment of over 20 per cent, and we are badly in need of state funding for important infrastructure, like our local schools." Nothing new here. In 1948 the redoubtable Tommy Aikens, the Independent member for Mundingburra (1944-1977), complained that " in North Queensland working-class families of long standing are preparing to leave the North and its long slack period unemployment, and migrate to Brisbane with its near-permanence of employment and abundant and varied recreation during the long week-ends". Indeed, how can the leaders of the Queensland government, ensconced in the outer urban Struggle Street seat of Inala, and the inner urban Uber-connected seat South Brisbane, understand the needs of provincial city electorates in the tropics, "a thousand miles away"? History tells us that long serving, successful premiers in Queensland are those who come from the north. 'Red Ted' Theodore, premier 1919-25 came from Chillagoe; William Forgan Smith, premier 1932-42, was the member for Mackay, Peter Beattie, premier 1998-2007, was raised in Atherton. History also tells us that northern Independents have longevity. Aikens was a railwayman elected in the state seat of Mundingburra (later Townsville South) in 1944, who held the seat until 1977. He founded the Hermit Park branch of the ALP in 1940 but was booted by the anti-communist ALP Queensland Central Executive in 1941 for his pro-Soviet views. His branch soon followed, and together they formed the North Queensland Labor Party, successfully contesting the 1944 state poll. Tommy was a parliamentary rabble rouser. He and Ted Walsh (ALP Bundaberg) went several rounds in the lobby of the Legislative Assembly in 1944. His obituary records that he once told an unnamed premier: "You are so narrow-minded you could look through a keyhole with both eyes." The "Voice of the North", as he was known, advocated castration for sex offenders long before Russ Hinze's infamous comment was made, criticised militant trade unions, and called on universities to expel students taking part in demonstrations. While there is no suggestion that former left faction member Pyne shares these views, he does share the North Queensland cargo cult mindset that delivers government goodies not on the basis of need but simply because they are for North Queensland. Pyne told Brisbane Times last week, "It doesn't matter whether it has been schools in the Cairns electorate, or hospital in Atherton for far north Queensland. I'll be putting my hand up for the people of Cairns and be a very powerful advocate for my city, and hopefully achieve a number of more significant wins in terms of service and infrastructure".
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Put Quirk last today. Hope he shoves his unnecessary road upgrades the same place we shoved Newman's privatisation plans.
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Smith creaned his pants and went home.
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