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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?

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wonzo

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Rubixcuba

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I saw that headline earlier and combined with the Courier Mail's from yesterday about Clive Palmer and the Chinese, the amount of racial fearmongering by News Corp this week is staggering.
 
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Dryk

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That's strange, because one of the top stories in the local nightly news yesterday was about a man who stabbed his son to death for apparently no reason. Doubt we'll be hearing about that for the next three years.
 
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Dastardly Jerks

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I love Fact Check so much.

Then again, it was pretty obvious to... oh, I dunno... everybody when he says that carbon schemes are being phased out worldwide.

I swear to fuck he's either a compulsive liar or exists in his own snowglobe of shit.

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I wish Media Watch wasn't so awesome. They're only as good as their material, after all, and the fact that their material comes virtue of the dailies on this country having devolved into party press propaganda rags is just so depressing.
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Totally. It's almost a bit like saying "this car full of innocent children crashing into a flaming bus is going to be awesome to watch".
 
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Arksy said:
It's a fair point, at least it would be if it weren't so bloody hypocritical. They did they exact same thing again and again when they had power.
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I'd wager she'd be vocally against it behind the scenes, but you'd never convince her to point that out during an official speech. Too bad it rings hollow if you don't.
 
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lexi

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Mr Christensen began his speech by acknowledging he was not a scientist or climatologist but was a fan of the television series Star Trek, pointing out he only liked the original "before the show went all liberal ... and started saving whales".
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SMFH seriously.
 
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Yagharek

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lexi said:
SMFH seriously.
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What is it with proudly uneducated anti-science fucks who think calling something "liberal" is an insult? Are they that proud of their own profound stupidity, or are they truly and utterly clueless? When did it become a badge of honour to be a fucking moron?
 
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The Prime Minister says asylum seeker policy will not be held "over a moral barrel" by the attempted suicide of people being held in detention.
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What a gross human being.

Greens spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young says the situation is "appalling". "It's a little hard to succumb to moral blackmail when you're already morally bankrupt," she said.
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HA!
 
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lexi

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Speaking of snaps:

“Conservatives around the world are taking action on climate change, including Britain and Germany. It’s in the DNA of conservatives to hand on a better world to your children and I hate that Australia is letting down conservatives around the world.”
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Tommy DJ

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So basically the message here is that not even the conservatives like Tony Abbott? Is there a single group that this government hasn't pissed off?
 
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hidys

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lexi said:
SMFH seriously.
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God damn it HOW CAN HE NOT LIKE THE VOYAGE HOME??? What is this nonsense.

And when was Star Trek not a "liberal" show. It has always reflected a socialist paradise.

Oh and the climate change thing.

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Never been so proud to be a TNG fan.
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DS9 > TNG but it was still a fantastic show.

Though the environmental episode (It was obviously an allegory for climate change) where in the end they had to limit the ships speed to warp 5 was pretty bad.

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I appreciate Deben's (I refuse to use the term Lord) comments but yeah the idea that Tories want to leave a better world for "your" children is silly.

Unless of course they mean their own children in which case...
 
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hidys said:
And when was Star Trek not a "liberal" show. It has always reflected a socialist paradise.
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He probably never thought about the implications of the show. Or read any of the material laying it out (because that's for nerds)
 
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I loved the quote I heard on the radio this morning. Something along the lines of the Japanese Prime Minister saying "Japan considers Australia it's friend in trade and commerce" (or whatever) and Tony replies with "I consider Mr. Abe my friend".

What an out-and-out fucking loser.

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Mr Abbott, who earlier on Wednesday accompanied Mr Abe on a visit to the joint Australian-Japanese iron mine in the Pilbara, said the partnership with Japan had deepened in extraordinary ways in the past few days.

He said Mr Abe was his friend.
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"But I actually believe that we had a deeper, deeper discussion on the flight," he said.

The pair's obviously warm relationship was emphasised by Mr Abbott's multiples references to "my friend Shinzo Abe".
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Ugh.
 
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Dryk

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DEEP discussion

Also Palmer says that his senators won't be passing the repeal bill today because their amendment didn't get in. This senate is so much fun.
 
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Yrael

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China's official news agency has slammed Prime Minister Tony Abbott for praising Japan's World War II military prowess in his welcome to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Xinhua believes Mr Abbott's admiration of Japanese war skills was appalling and "insensible" (sic) to victim countries.

"He probably wasn't aware that the Japanese troops possessed other 'skills', skills to loot, to rape, to torture and to kill. All these had been committed under the name of honour almost 70 years ago," Xinhua said in a commentary on its website.

The agency is regarded as reflecting the views of China's government.

This comes amid growing Chinese assertiveness in regional territorial disputes. Japan is also shrugging off the pacifist foreign policy it has had since its defeat in World War II.

More than any other nation, China suffered under Japan's 14-year military occupation with as many as 20 million dead.

In his address to the parliamentary sitting attended by Mr Abe, Mr Abbott cited the bravery of Japanese submariners killed in the 1942 raid on Sydney harbour.

"We admired the skill and the sense of honour that they brought to their task although we disagreed with what they did. Perhaps we grasped, even then, that with a change of heart the fiercest of opponents could be the best of friends," Mr Abbott said.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...na-rebukes-abbott-praising-japans-wwii-skills

*sigh*
 
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