hooman posted:

Never apologise, you're news corp now, just print a retraction right at the end of the thread and then close it.

Lid posted:

The most important AusPol news

After three years of near but not quite near enough, SBS is prosecuting its most aggressive play for a win at the Eurovision Song Contest since formally entering the competition in 2015.
The broadcaster has named the first performers who will compete for Eurovision glory at Australia Decides, a pre-competition playoff intended to put our representing artist and song to a national vote.

The first four acts locked in for the event are award-winning singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, the indie pop band Sheppard, the pop-opera star Mark Vincent and the modern electric-soul duo Electric Fields.

The Before Times posted:

ABC posted:

Sir David Attenborough says the "collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon" unless urgent action is taken against global warming.

The 92-year-old famed British naturalist and BBC presenter blamed humans for the, "man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years".

"The world's people have spoken, their message is clear: time is running out," he said.

"They want you, the decision makers, to act now."

GoldStandardConure posted:

this sounds more like a problem for Elon Musk to solve.

GoldStandardConure posted:

no i just want elon to make a skittergate to throw rats through

asio posted:

According to one academic

"Slashdot posted:

Japan is Giving Away Free Houses
There are some 8 million abandoned homes -- or akiya -- in Japanese suburbia, according to The Japan Times . And if you've got a visa allowing you to live in Japan, some of them can be yours for free or very low prices, and the government may give you a subsidy to renovate one. From a report:
There are even databases devoted to helping people find these homes, known as "akiya banks." What's driving the government to give away homes? In part, it has to do with Japan's aging population: According to the World Bank, the country's population decreased by -0.2% in 2017 alone, while China and the U.S. slowly grew 0.6% and 0.7% respectively. There are simply fewer people in Japan than there once were -- roughly 1.3 million fewer people than in 2010 by one count.

Jibs Monteef posted:

let's split the difference and become weaboomers

GoldStandardConure posted:

Its a matter of scale. We are both awful but America can be more awful due to having a higher population, being richer and having a larger global reach.

bandaid.friend posted:

There was a news article a couple of days ago about Australia claiming credit for beating the Kyoto agreement as counting towards our commitment for this Paris agreement. Also the reason we beat the Kyoto target was because land clearance didn't count? It's was difficult to understand

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/australia-likely-to-use-controversial-kyoto-loophole-to-meet-paris-agreement

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/BevanShields/status/1074458521930878977

Box of Bunnies posted:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedOzPol/status/1074535711452229633

avshalemon posted:

"how will your policies ensure a stable future for the mallee region, not just in the short term but over the long haul?"

"*builds a huge mound of rotting vegetation, lays an egg in it and disappears into the right*"

bell jar posted:

I can and do donate and I can confirm the red cross has never called me to say hey your blood is too stoned

Doctor Spaceman posted:

They care about pork though.

Lid posted:

The depressing thing is it was called paleo nonsense beef bone broth yadda yadda yadda

Essentially it was just a worse version of pho, and pho rules.

Knobb Manwich posted:

That's the polar opposite of service because while they were chasing something that doesn't matter in the slightest, they could've been helping someone else waiting.

teacup posted:

He’s a smart guy too, like worked as a chemical engineer for Decades. Just an old stupid boomer.

tithin posted:

Assessors always assess on the relative life of the P&I - ie, if you do 25/5 split, the assessor is supposed to assess on 25 principle loan term, not 30

Doesn't always happen, but then that's what credit governance is supposed to pick up and correct.

screaden posted:

https://twitter.com/rharris334/status/1075160328034349058?s=21

bell jar posted:

Comstar posted:

What's going on here? Is the LNP now billing their travel costs based on flying in a F35? I think Air Ambulance is cheaper than this.

https://twitter.com/JTHewz/status/1075227725021962241

hambeet posted:

weird crimbo discussions this year auspol. what happened to water bottles and bus decorations?

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/gallo_ways/status/1075711450893537281?s=21

the hun posted:

No evidence of criminality was uncovered, but it is understood that inquiries were inhibited because investigators could not access encrypted messages the MP sent online.

Solemn Sloth posted:

bell jar posted:

actually it will make the airport double in value

Anidav posted:

Literally no one is saying this.

tithin posted:

wait, was it seriously Christensen that was caught going to seedy brothels in south east asia? are you kidding me?