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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?
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Aarglefarg
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Ooh, ooh! "No boats good, two boats better!"
bobnowhere
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That's amazing, it could be something straight out of Yes, Minister.
Next thread title when we get to it?
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A More Normal Bird
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But that would be two boat related titles in a row, which implies that this is some sort of perennial and continuing issue in Australian politics.
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It's also those fucking boat people clogging up the roads
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A More Normal Bird
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Hit my hand with a hammer on the weekend, guess that's what happens when the Liberals are in power, no concern for the welfare of the ordinary person.
Because we all know that the Liberals would jump at the chance to raise carpark taxes and improve public transport thus encouraging people to not drive into town. Right? Right?
(They're going to fund more roads, which don't ease congestion at all)
Anyway watch Q&A tonight? you damn well should have because I was intimately pretty connected to the program tonight.. considering it was a. set in geelong and b. I was literally outside the building getting people to sign petitions, holding banners calling to end mandatory detention, talking to some of the audience people about politics with a number of other activists.
Also knew personally at least 2 of the people who asked questions in that panel!
Also knew personally at least 2 of the people who asked questions in that panel!
CrankyKong
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hey! another geelong person.
bobnowhere
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I feel sorry for the people of Geelong, their local pollies are a Labor, third-way I imagine, man more interested in feel good stories about football, an LNP woman who couldn't even tout the talking points correctly let alone think for herself and a pink haired lunatic. Those three alone will probably bring about rapture before the next election.
Again the most interesting person was the one from the Bob Brown wing of the Greens.
I also loved the ex Lib candidate who had the last question asking whereabouts in the last election the Libs thought they had a mandate to target the weakest amongst us.
Get off your bloody phone when you're driving, Pyne!
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A More Normal Bird
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A lot of the time yes but I caught snippets of tonight's and it seemed pretty good, because when I was listening the Labor and Greens people got claps and the Liberals didn't.
More seriously when it has a bit more focus (like this Geelong one did) you can get something actually worth listening to, and Richard Di Natale (who I'm pretty sure is just Adam Bandt in a wig only slightly longer than his normal hair) gave a good answer about asylum seekers in reference to the individual who took their own life in Geelong. The Liberal MP tried to downplay the connection between the death and any Government policies by raising some truths about suicide and depression, but that kind of came undone when someone who knew the individual said that he was keenly aware of (and afraid of) Scott Morrison's statement that all Tamils must be returned.
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They're not even subtle, not in the slightest. The optimist in me hopes it's this very zealotry that gets them destroyed at the next election.
They're not even subtle, not in the slightest. The optimist in me hopes it's this very zealotry that gets them destroyed at the next election.
You think Pyne drives himself? :>
Yo.
PS. Fucking Lyons :/
PPS. I don't know that who that woman was who said she was the head of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce. Last time I checked, I'm pretty fucking sure my sister is.
That's if it's true. I noticed on the main site that there's also a CEO (which surprisingly, is different to "President") but it didn't look much like the woman who was on Q&A. I've emailed my sister to ask, I'm sure she would've been watching it.
since when have state governors been respectable citizens?
The new SA governor seems like a cool dude.
Triple kill
They all have red(ish) hair so who is it?
Actually that is an interesting point though - maybe you should tell her to contact ABC as the views of her CCI were possibly severely misrepresented by an imposter.
They all have red(ish) hair so who is it?
Actually that is an interesting point though - maybe you should tell her to contact ABC as the views of her CCI were possibly severely misrepresented by an imposter.
I can't find any mention of the GCC on the episode's page...
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4012281.htm
EDIT: I watched some of the episode. It's laughable that they seem to think that if they it back employment will just appear from the ether and their welfare cuts won't hurt anyone.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4012281.htm
EDIT: I watched some of the episode. It's laughable that they seem to think that if they it back employment will just appear from the ether and their welfare cuts won't hurt anyone.
Well, logically it would be an obviously high position... so you'd think President would be right, wouldn't you?
I doubt she was misrepresented as such (unless it was the CEO who spoke... but I don't think so), moreso the actual chamber. I'll have to rewatch it and make my own judgement.
The funny thing is lexi, you forgot to include the link yourself.
Bloody hell. Fixed.
Just double-checked, she's the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce. Not sure what the difference is between the CEO and the President, guess one's the founder and one actually runs the joint.
Is there a Dictator for Life position on the board?
bobnowhere
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Don't worry they have a plan to get rid of those meddlesome environmental groups as well!
Liberal push to strip environmental groups of charitable tax status
Wonder if they'll go after the religious groups that run commercial businesses tax free against and undercutting tax paying companies? lol, no!
Fuck's sake. Ugh.
Dastardly Jerks
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I regret not watching seeing as how I'm from around the area. I'll watch it tomorrow.
While the president and the CEO are often the same person, they constitute different roles.
I'm convinced we elected a parody government.
Dastardly Jerks
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UPDATE: Reports 153 Tamil asylum seekers handed over to Sri Lankan Navy. If this is true the Australian Gov has just handed over people to the very government they claim is torturing them, without assessing their refugee claims. Downright murderous & evil.
http://t.co/vhX6LoYPMj
If this is true, our government has just reached a new level of barbaric.
UPDATE: Reports 153 Tamil asylum seekers handed over to Sri Lankan Navy. If this is true the Australian Gov has just handed over people to the very government they claim is torturing them, without assessing their refugee claims. Downright murderous & evil.
http://t.co/vhX6LoYPMj
If this is true, our government has just reached a new level of barbaric.
Which kind, the kind where Morrison admits it or the kind where the boat just silently disappears and we infer it from the hole it left behind
(First post in this thread - hi all!)
Wow, just amazing. It shouldn't surprise me, but yet it still does.
Wow, just amazing. It shouldn't surprise me, but yet it still does.
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