ewe2 posted:

They already check on people's criminal history, what Dutton wants is a test where applicants rule themselves out or can be caught in a lie to make rejecting them without review a simple rubber-stamp.

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A draft cabinet document obtained by Fairfax Media last year proposed changes to "create stronger controls over access to permanent residency and citizenship" and a renewed citizenship test (and pledge) to "strengthen accountability for commitments made at citizenship conferral

Cartoon posted:

ADF culture is completely toxic? Say it isn't so.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-04/insulting-training-material-was-in-relation-to-west-papua/8162284
Marise, you had one job!

Having been on numerous ADF sites and courses this does not surprise me at all. The ADF attitude to Indonesia is paternalistic at best. It is none the less an outstanding failure of diplomacy to not be able to placate Indonesia after a month of trying. Or given our clown car government maybe they didn't think it was important enough to expend much effort. On the flip side not being complicit with Indonesia's brutal repression in West Papua would be a nice change of pace. Ah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah. Like this government or indeed nation gives a single rats arse about that. Just keep chucking cheap Bali booze at our culturally insensitive unwashed and keep those wretched brown poors that are fleeing from our oil wars your side of the loving ditch. I mean is it really that hard monkey men?

ewe2 posted:

Sussan Ley's facebook is surprisingly popular right now.

iajanus posted:

ewe2 posted:

Rowan Dean in the Terrorgraph has multiple orgasms as he considers the triumph of Trump and the return of Abbott:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

A Queensland One Nation candidate has called the photo of a drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee “fabricated” news in a blog post, saying “as it turns out this kid was alive and well”.
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“Abbott couldnt act quick enough to get more of these so called poor people in here… The whole photo thing was fabricated, As it turns out this kid was alive and well.”

Rogers doesn’t provide evidence for how he thinks the photo was faked.

a very small part of the ravings of a dumbass posted:

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The wife was ‘a balloon’ in less than three hours ? The rate of decay to a dead body in water is not instant.

Bloated (2-6 days)
This stage of decomposition includes the first visible signs of decay, namely the inflation of the abdomen due to a build-up of various gases produced by bacteria inside the cadaver. This bloating is partic...

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

It would be nice if it made people realize when politicians talk about dole bludgers that they're talking about them (people, not politicians) not not some other group of bad people, like is usually imagined

Comstar posted:

foster carers with 38 children notified of debt

hooman posted:

This kind of dovetails with a question I asked earlier this month... what the gently caress is happening in Australia's public service that this poo poo goes on?

You Am I posted:

Just to poo poo on the news about Nalliah's group losing their charity status, billboards advertising Australia Day celebrations which included women in hijabs have been pulled down due to threats from fuckwit racist groups

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/17/australia-day-billboard-featuring-women-in-hijabs-removed-after-threats

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Hundreds of people criticised the image for being “too politically correct” or not a true reflection of Australia Day.

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“This isn’t a reflection of Australia Day, are we losing our own culture to be politically correct??,” Sydney woman Liz Parker wrote on Facebook.

hooman posted:

She's quite right, respecting others and being inclusive is definitely a massive subversion of Australian Culture.

"I think you'll find that this wide brown land is has no room for brown people."

Anidav posted:

How can you gently caress up this badly and ONLY be losing in the polls by 54-46?

adamantium|wang posted:

Lmao he's not even out the door and the state Nationals have withdrawn their support for forced council mergers

Inge posted:

Police presser stated directly wasn't terrorism related.

Countdown to newspapers headlining with "what if" scenarios though

e: although the guy was driving an old holden and doing doughies before the attack, so that was probably kind of apparent already

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In a video he uploaded to his own Facebook page, an organiser of Respect Australia can be seen with supporters out of the front of the theatre, accusing the ACT Government of being "un-Australian".

"This isn't a racial thing, it isn't any religious discrimination or anything, this is an Australian cultural thing," the organiser said in the videos.

Zenithe posted:

This is glorious.

Anidav posted:

Lmao Shorten is loving up that Australian journo at this press conference

Nibbles! posted:

Good Game got the chop

Anidav posted:

I still can't get over how owned that Journo was.

Shorten has become a worthy zinger jedi