thatbastardken posted:

first (preference)

KennyTheFish posted:

And a reminder about what the specific change suggested was. Currently the press has a statutory exemption from the prohibition on deceptive and misleading conduct in the trade practices act. the government proposed to remove that. The press fought the government for the ability to deliberately lie to people.

The Peccadillo posted:

Redcordial posted:

CORY BERNADI WANTS TO MOLEST YOUR DOGS! ... Wait that's not right, I'm doing this wrong.

SynthOrange posted:

ScreamingLlama posted:

It's kind of a silly idea, but I've always wondered if you couldn't just fill up a building with pedal dynamos and hire people to operate them. Literal human power. How's that for job creation?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/AntonyGreenABC/status/741133973817053184

Solemn Sloth posted:

lol, Labor are preferencing Abbott ahead of that dude who isn't Abbott

Frogmanv2 posted:

And its still stupid, because its not like the LNP doesnt have a plethora of other walking talking attack lines. Anyone with half a brain could come up with decent talking points to crush the LNP in the polls.

Anidav posted:

Whoever illustrates the cartoons for the front page of The Australian.

Starshark posted:

Van Badham on fb took a swing at them too. Then I saw a post where she gave a speech about Australia's horrible refugee policy.

Anidav posted:

I like how friendlyjordies recent videos have just devolved into him yelling at the camera.

LibertyCat posted:

Sure, but "it will take an enormous amount of resources that would have a far larger benefit elsewhere" is.

Kommando posted:

how much of labors policy falling in line with the liberals is courting the racist bigot vote rather than based on firm intelligence?

Meat Miracle posted:

Billy Shorten glances down at his debate notes, which are entirely blank save for 14 words.

norp posted:

Also when it's only 6 numbers who the hell bothers following the cards?

LibertyCat posted:

I think most of the parties being preferenced are in fact strongly opposed to Muslim Extremists. You know, like the guy who did the crime.

This election I think I'm voting LDP #1, ALA #2, then ALP.

Also lol at the Shooters fishers & Farmers "How to Vote" card for the Qld Senate.

1: Shooters (naturally)
2: Katter (sure)
3: Pauline Hanson's One Nation (errr what happened guys?)
4: Fred Nile (huh?)
5: Australian Liberty Alliance (why behind One Nation & Freddy?)
6: Liberals (who were behind 1996 and recently tried to ban the Adler shotgun because it was new and dangerous, despite the design being around for a century).

LDP are not mentioned at all, nether is Ricky Muir. Either is way better than Hanson.

Birdstrike posted:

how fukken good is yilmaz but ayy lmao

Recoome posted:

Well I mean every case is different, so it's almost impossible to generalise here but the initial media reports on e.g. Monis vs. Thomas Muir are completely different, which is kind of my point.

Also the general ease of attributing blame towards extremist elements of the Brown People's Religion that we don't like as opposed to the reluctance to go "hey, these people here are calling for a civil war and extermination of the left wing traitors".

LibertyCat posted:

A phobia is rational if they (extremists) really do want you dead.

The Narrator posted:

Isn't Shorten's position to skip the plebiscite and hold a HoR vote in the first 100 days of a Labor government?

Solemn Sloth posted:

If only parliament could be run on such an efficient budget

gay picnic defence posted:

Presumably this means MPs can vote for gay marriage if voters reject it in a plebiscite

Skellybones posted: