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Wrageowrapper posted:Oh I totally agree with that, I wish there are more crossbench senators to come. But does it have to be Lambie? I cringe everytime she comes on TV and is introduced as "Tasmanian senator". Why can't she become a Qld senator instead. Because while the fuckwit demographic is larger in Queensland, it still a significant minority in the rest of the country and thus deserves representation. Senator Lambie provides - oh gently caress it
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turdbucket posted:The alternative is to let people like Di Natale take over the party from the top and move rightward, killing the party like nick clegg or the democrats here. Look at what Nick McKim did in coalition with the ALP in Tasmania for an example of what happens when you value unity and winning seats over grassroots democracy. Where the gently caress does language like this come from? RDN has in no way moved in on the Greens trying to gently caress it up. He's intelligent, compassionate, knowledgeable, perfect for the job. What has he done that is so against Greens values that make him so different to Bob Brown?
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 01:46 |
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starkebn posted:Where the gently caress does language like this come from? RDN has in no way moved in on the Greens trying to gently caress it up. He's intelligent, compassionate, knowledgeable, perfect for the job. What has he done that is so against Greens values that make him so different to Bob Brown? They passed something through the senate that the Libs wanted, once. Clearly this means Di Natale is secretly hoping to be the next Libs leader.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:19 |
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The freshest of the batch is a poll crediting Labor with a 51-49 lead in the northern Tasmanian seat of Bass. This suggests a 5% swing against Liberal member Andrew Nikolic, who gained it with a 10.8% swing in 2013. The poll was conducted on Tuesday for GetUp! from a sample of 824. The Advertiser reports troubling numbers for the Liberals from South Australia in further polling conducted for GetUp! Christopher Pyne is credited with 41% of the primary vote in his seat of Sturt, compared with 21% for Nick Xenophon Team candidate Matthew Wright and 20% for Labor’s Matt Loader and 8% for the Greens. In Mayo, Liberal member Jamie Briggs is at 40%, against 23.5% for Rebekha Sharkie of the Nick Xenophon Team, 18% for Labor and 10% for the Greens. Either seat would be under threat from NXT on those numbers, provided their candidates were able to get ahead of Labor. The scale of the threat would also depend on whether the remainders include an undecided component, as is usually the case in ReachTEL’s electorate polling. If so, distributing the undecided would push the Liberal primary vote up high enough that they would most likely make it over the line, although only just. The Sturt poll was conducted on May 22 from a sample of 762, and the Mayo poll was on May 16 from a sample of 681. The West Australian reports a poll of the Perth seat of Cowan credited Labor’s Anne Aly with a 51-49 lead over Liberal member Luke Simkins, whose 7.5% margin has been pared back to 4.0% in the redistribution. The implied swing of 5% is actually at the low end of the Labor’s recent form in polling from Western Australia. However, this poll is showing its age a little, having been conducted on May 10 for the United Voice union from a sample of 731. The West’s report also relates that the Liberals’ internal pollsters, Crosby-Textor, have recorded a 6% swing to Labor in the new seat of Burt, which has a notional Liberal margin of 4.9%.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:19 |
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Dear God, Please make Pyne lose.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:20 |
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People I know in Sturt are giving NXT their first or second preference purely because they hate Pyne.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:23 |
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Is it actually possible for NXT to get all of SA's seats just because?
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:29 |
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All? It's possible for him to get 2 or 3 max. Some seats in metro Adelaide are the safest Labor seats in the country.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:32 |
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How about just all of the Lib seats?
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:33 |
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He might get all the Lib seats in Adelaide but the huge regional ones that are the size of Belgium or whatever are hardcore Lib territory and I'm not even sure if he's running a lower house candidate in them anyway.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 02:35 |
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lmaoquote:The sharp rise in the construction of new apartments may be the catalyst for a "dramatic and destabilising" end to the current housing boom, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/03/aboriginal-sacred-site-up-to-8000-years-old-destroyed-by-cultural-vandals Aboriginal sacred site up to 8,000 years old destroyed by 'cultural vandals' quote:Scratching out of ochre stencils on Derwent valley cave wall is ‘devastating’, says Clyde Mansell, chairman of Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 06:56 |
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maybe he has a bag carrier because he wants to create an extra job for someone. he's a job creator.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:00 |
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turdbucket posted:whys it so easy to stick lib/green deal with the new leader? because it's a good narrative for both the LNP and ALP and it makes for a good media story, you hysterical madman
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:05 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:10 |
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It's like they can't help but make all these ads blatantly exploitable anymore.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:14 |
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Do the greens normally attract so many targetted attacks during election cycles? Seems like they must be doing something right....
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:24 |
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Tomberforce posted:Do the greens normally attract so many targetted attacks during election cycles? Seems like they must be doing something right....
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:30 |
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I think the constant attacks and mentions are potentially increasingly their viability and breaking the 2PP strategy.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:31 |
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Tomberforce posted:Do the greens normally attract so many targetted attacks during election cycles? Seems like they must be doing something right.... Both majors have basically sniffed a few votes out of demonising the Greens, so they're both trying to take a "WE HATE THE GREENS MORE THAN THAT OTHER PARTY HATE THE GREENS" in the same way they smell votes in torturing and locking up people fleeing the threat of death. It's a shameful reflection on the current state of Australian politics
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:35 |
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good
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:37 |
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this checks out, global warming is going to kill us all, terrorists are only gonna kill some of us
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:47 |
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Yeah and it is
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:55 |
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should make one that says CORY BERNADI THINKS THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS A BIGGER THREAT TO HUMAN SOCIETY THAN DROUGHT, FLOODING, AND BUSHFIRES
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:56 |
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CORY BERNADI THINKS THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS A BIGGER AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY THAN POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 07:56 |
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BBJoey posted:because it's a good narrative for both the LNP and ALP and it makes for a good media story, you hysterical madman even greens voters I know believe it because of the way di natale presents himself, why is this thread so reactive against anyone criticising an MP just because he's from a progressive party? not criticising the MPs is why labor is full of hacks. hardly splitting the party to say a couple of the MPs are poo poo boo loving hoo
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 08:07 |
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CORY BERNADI WANTS TO MOLEST YOUR DOGS! ... Wait that's not right, I'm doing this wrong.
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Redcordial posted:CORY BERNADI WANTS TO MOLEST YOUR DOGS! ... Wait that's not right, I'm doing this wrong. No, it seems oddly appropriate
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 08:22 |
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Redcordial posted:CORY BERNADI WANTS TO MOLEST YOUR DOGS! ... Wait that's not right, I'm doing this wrong. photoshop his face onto kenny's, see how far you can get the legal proceedings going
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 08:24 |
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I'm a bit confused, both of those ads seem to be targeting people that wouldn't be voting Greens anyway.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 09:07 |
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These ads are especially good because you have to delve really deep into the weird UPF part of Australia to find anyone who takes this kind of stuff seriously. People may hate the greens and think they'll ruin this country if they ever form government but even johnny two utes isn't scared of commies under the beds and everyone I talk to about these ads is kind of bemused by them even from the most conservative old people I know
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turdbucket posted:even greens voters I know believe it because of the way di natale presents himself, why is this thread so reactive against anyone criticising an MP just because he's from a progressive party? not criticising the MPs is why labor is full of hacks. hardly splitting the party to say a couple of the MPs are poo poo boo loving hoo Mostly because your claims are predominantly the kind of unfounded heresay that rusted-on labor voters love belching at each other down the pub. Also because a fucktonne of us are actually members and know better.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 09:13 |
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quote:Election 2016: Cash for candidacy: Leaked documents show $500,000 offer to become Liberal Democratic senate candidate
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adamantium|wang posted:This week, Senator Leyonhjelm blamed a Liberal Party "spy" in the Liberal Democrat federal executive for leaking damaging documents to the media. And why does that diminish the allegations of bribery?
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turdbucket posted:even greens voters I know believe it because of the way di natale presents himself, why is this thread so reactive against anyone criticising an MP just because he's from a progressive party? not criticising the MPs is why labor is full of hacks. hardly splitting the party to say a couple of the MPs are poo poo boo loving hoo People can disagree. I think nucleae power is a good idea
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 09:23 |
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The Federal Court has ordered Woolworths to pay penalties totalling $9 million for its involvement in a laundry detergent cartel. Woolworths admitted to effectively colluding with laundry detergent giants Colgate-Palmolive, PZ Cussons and Unilever over how they would switch from standard concentrates to ultra concentrates. The companies all agreed that they would stop supplying standard concentrates to Woolworths in early 2009 and supply only ultra concentrates. The more concentrated detergents are cheaper to produce, store and ship and therefore should have been cheaper per wash than the standard detergents, but the competition watchdog alleged that the agreement meant those savings were not passed on to customers. The ACCC's chairman Rod Sims said Woolworths benefited from the arrangement through a range of logistical cost savings. "We certainly reached agreement that they achieved a range of logistical benefits in terms of transport, storage, shelf space and the like," he told the ABC's PM program. Mr Sims also said the scheme would not have been possible without the supermarket's involvement which was the reason the ACCC was so keen to see it penalised. Cartel may have cost consumers $150m in lost savings Colgate has already been ordered to pay $18 million in penalties for admitted breaches of the Competition and Consumer Act (CCA) in relation to the cartel conduct. Unilever applied for immunity protection in the matter as an informer and action is still underway in the Federal Court against Cussons. While the companies have faced some of the stiffest penalties handed down for anti-competitive conduct, Mr Sims acknowledged that the four firms may still have come out ahead. "There certainly was discussion among the parties at an early stage of around about a $150 million benefit, but you never know how much prices would've gone down without this activity," he told PM. However Mr Sims defended the agreed outcome. "In this case the penalties are appropriate, we wouldn't have settled for them otherwise," he added. Mr Sims also admitted the ACCC did not know if prices had fallen as a result of the court case. "I hope they have, the honest answer is I haven't been following them recently, I hope they have come down," he said. Woolworths blames rogue buyer For its part, Woolworths has blamed the conduct of a former staff member for its breach of the CCA. "Woolworths acknowledges that the behaviour of one of its former buyers was not consistent with the high standards of competition law compliance we seek to achieve," the company said in a statement. "The proceedings have been settled with Woolworths making limited admissions in relation to one of the claims made by the ACCC." However, Mr Sims said the blame goes far beyond individuals at the companies involved. "We believe, with senior staff members, other people can observe what they're doing and we believe ultimately companies have got to have compliance systems in place to prevent that sort of thing happening," he responded. Woolworths said it has updated its compliance program and training to help avoid such situations in the future.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 10:39 |
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Nationalise all retail stores
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 10:47 |
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tithin posted:And why does that diminish the allegations of bribery? The man is an idiot, you're asking a lot.
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When they ask people "What is the worst thing mankind has created?", and others say the gun, the internal combustion engine, pesticides, and the nuclear bomb, I will stand up and say "the middle man"
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