By all means let's abolish the criminal justice system then since accusations have now suddenly become meaningless
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By all means let's abolish the criminal justice system then since accusations have now suddenly become meaningless
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A More Normal Bird
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The best part is how her example doesn't even match the question. The asylum seekers are the ones making the claims of mistreatment and not being interviewed. No, the authorities mightn't leap straight to interrogating Tony Jones, but they'd probably want to hear from the person making the allegations in the first place.
Wow. Floored.
So George Brandis said IN PARLIAMENT that Australians have a right to be bigoted and to be offensive to other people.
Awesome, so I can get on T.V tomorrow and tell the whole country that if you look at Brandis front on and let your vision blur a bit, he looks like a circumcised penis wearing a suit and there is nothing he can do about it.
Awesome, so I can get on T.V tomorrow and tell the whole country that if you look at Brandis front on and let your vision blur a bit, he looks like a circumcised penis wearing a suit and there is nothing he can do about it.
bobnowhere
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Oh lordy, Abbott is reintroducing Knighthoods. Sir John Howard incoming in 3...2...
came to post exactly the same thing
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A More Normal Bird
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If this means I get to joust him then I'm all for it.
roosters93
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hugh with the sweet burn
10/10 absolutely amazing!
bobnowhere
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Hahahaha!
So Sir Piers Ackerman, Sir Ray Hadley, Dame Alan Jones, Sir Andrew of Bolt, Dame Janet Albrectsen...
All great contributors to Australia, none of them went looking for power, but power was thrust upon them and with their higher calling they strode out onto the great field that is Australia and brought the truth to us all!
I agree to an extent. That extent being I like Andrew bolt feeling like a martyr and demanding apologies for being called a racist.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Hahaha can't stop laughing.
Seems kind of....pointless if it's not a knighthood granted by a monarch.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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We knew this was coming. Sell everything!
They government accrued almost a billion in dividends from them since they went for-profit in 2011. $4 billion is fucking chump change.
The only way this could get even more worse for today is if FB decided to buy medibank.
Senate inquiry concludes what everyone already knew, nobody will listen. That said I read bits of the full report and everything's pretty confined to it's party's section of the document.
http://christine-milne.greensmps.or.../direct-action-slogan-rejected-senate-inquiry
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Also now we're getting a commissioner to tackle cyber-bullying... something's a bit off with this government's messaging...
http://christine-milne.greensmps.or.../direct-action-slogan-rejected-senate-inquiry
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Also now we're getting a commissioner to tackle cyber-bullying... something's a bit off with this government's messaging...
Elaugaufein
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But it's completely consistent with their actual goals (Internet Control = Good , Bolt Control = Bad)
Wow, the Daily Tele has actually just deleted their 3 month old article quoting Abbott saying he won't bring back knighthoods.
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news...-and-dames-in-oz/story-fni0cx4q-1226788026229
Google has a partial of it: I'm sure someone will forward a complete copy to Media Watch
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news...-and-dames-in-oz/story-fni0cx4q-1226788026229
Google has a partial of it: I'm sure someone will forward a complete copy to Media Watch
Box of Bunnies
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We've always been at war with Eastasia.
roosters93
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University tutes are killing my vibe.
Somehow gets onto racism and a guy suggests refugees who come from the middle east and deserty places should live in the middle of Australia. I can't deal.
Somehow gets onto racism and a guy suggests refugees who come from the middle east and deserty places should live in the middle of Australia. I can't deal.
Just came back from a tutorial where we discussed social class and inequality.. and it ended into a discussion about how good the rich have got it and how unfair it is with lots of discontent towards the rich.
bobnowhere
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Lol, just saw the highlights and Pyne was claiming that exact thing!
Interesting for all the weird regalia and ceremony and er... after hours stuff, Peter Slipper was a pretty good, straight down the middle speaker.
Jenkins also.
What subject? Any engineering orientated sustainable development subject I've done is filled with people that have that sort of opinion. You get to hear a lot of reprehensible opinions in those.
I once worked with a partner who unironically spent the first workshop telling an international student about his Dutch heritage and the glory days of the Dutch Empire. I don't think the international student really cared but it definitely made me feel uncomfortable to hear someone seriously talk about how amazing Dutch Imperialism was to someone with an Indonesian background.
Thankfully most human geographers I've met are not huge pieces of shit.
Campbell Newman and his cabinet just got awarded a $70,000 payrise from an "independent body". There's the salary of a couple of public servants he just got done sacking.
The last minute cash grab before they're all thrown out on their arses.
Also this stuff about Bishop. Yes, she is undoubtedly a biased tool for the Coalition to dominate QT, but this is the first time the Coalition have had an outright majority of government since 2007. It doesn't surprise me at all that they're taking liberties with their power. I suspect they also have a niggling fear that they will only get one term (which current polling backs up) so they're desperate to push their agenda through before the fat lady sings, only for Labor to roll it all back themselves when they return to government.
I suspect we will see a lot of this style of pendulum, all or nothing politics going forward.
The last minute cash grab before they're all thrown out on their arses.
Also this stuff about Bishop. Yes, she is undoubtedly a biased tool for the Coalition to dominate QT, but this is the first time the Coalition have had an outright majority of government since 2007. It doesn't surprise me at all that they're taking liberties with their power. I suspect they also have a niggling fear that they will only get one term (which current polling backs up) so they're desperate to push their agenda through before the fat lady sings, only for Labor to roll it all back themselves when they return to government.
I suspect we will see a lot of this style of pendulum, all or nothing politics going forward.
One can certainly hope. They do have like a fucking 50 seat margin.
The only clip I've seen of Bishop as speaker was her backing a motion to have the Labor MPs stop calling Liberal MPs names. Not five minutes later Pyne was spitting Electricity Bill Shorten across the chamber multiple times and she didn't even take any notice.
That was really all I needed to see.
That was really all I needed to see.
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A More Normal Bird
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See, what did I say? You just insulted the speaker, who is a woman. Therefore you are another typical left-wing misogynist.
Seriously these people seem to simultaneously believe that things such as gender and race are just another aspect of someone's personality - and therefore fair game - and that they only get called bigots for daring to criticise women or minorities; a standard they then apply to others. Brandis is constantly saying that we should be allowed to insult and humiliate people, omitting that the RDA doesn't stop that, it stops it being done on the basis of race. Pointing out that Parliament and politics in general is dominated by men is misandry. Marcia Langton saying that Bolt's articles relied on him believing in race theory is just her calling him a racist because he dared to criticise Aboriginal people. Criticising Bishop for being biased is just as sexist as calling Gillard deliberately barren or saying she should make an honest woman of herself. Hell, Gillard wasn't even discriminated against on the basis of gender because all PMs have it rough!
About Slipper; ideally I think it's a role that should be filled by an unelected android or perhaps a specially trained pre-school worker but if someone's going to take the role so seriously that they want a gown, a wig, a mace, a chainmail hauberk and a throne engraved with dragons and griffins then by all means pomp that shit up.
roosters93
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"Labor was raucous and rowdy from the first question and a number of times Bishop noted that a deliberate Labor campaign of destabilisation was underway. Visibly riled at one point, Tony Abbott complained Bill Shorten was humming Rule Britannia in a nod to the prime minister’s reinstatement of knights and dames."
the guardian on question time
I didn't think Shorten had it in him to be such a good troll.
Newcastle actually. So it wasn't cashed up white guys, more white bogans.
hahah oh wow
This was Audience Studies. Can't remember how we got onto the subject of racism but it included all the standards like 'we're not a racist nation because everywhere is racist!' and 'In France the police beat up arabs so point moot!'.
I almost worked up to replying but I was overcome by a feeling of malaise and disheartenment.
the guardian on question time
I didn't think Shorten had it in him to be such a good troll.
Newcastle actually. So it wasn't cashed up white guys, more white bogans.
hahah oh wow
This was Audience Studies. Can't remember how we got onto the subject of racism but it included all the standards like 'we're not a racist nation because everywhere is racist!' and 'In France the police beat up arabs so point moot!'.
I almost worked up to replying but I was overcome by a feeling of malaise and disheartenment.
Can't say I sympathise, Queenslanders in their infinite wisdom voted this Bjelke wannabe in and I don't see how he won't get another term or two.
Yeeeeeeees I love those answers because those are the sort of answers that get you mocked.
The tutors should really ridicule these sort of responses because 99% of the time, they're absolutely juvenile, thoughtless and really not logical at all.
roosters93
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Nah not politics, CMNS2600 Audience Studies.
I did do POLI1010 once which yeah was pretty left-wing. It's refreshing when the people doing the shouting down are progressive!
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