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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?
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bobnowhere
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Seems like an interesting idea on how to get rid the National Party. Stop porkbarrelling their seats with things like roads, bridges, water, internet and move them all to the cities. In fact just imagine the colour Barnaby would have turned if it read:
Something that almost past me by:
It's from the 24th of last month and you might need a crikey account. Very sneaky, if you can't destroy it from outside, destroy it from within.
Edit: Holy crap, Abbott just suggest a "Taxpayer funded truth campaign" over some funding issues with pensioner contributions with the SA government. The shear hypocrisy.
Something that almost past me by:
Crikey said:
It's from the 24th of last month and you might need a crikey account. Very sneaky, if you can't destroy it from outside, destroy it from within.
Edit: Holy crap, Abbott just suggest a "Taxpayer funded truth campaign" over some funding issues with pensioner contributions with the SA government. The shear hypocrisy.
I see we accidentally got the Republican Party in Australia.
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A More Normal Bird
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I accept and tolerate these people and treat them with basic human decency and respect, but we can't have their existence normalised by these militant anti-bullying programs.
Bishop too. #IdesofMarch
Yep, Peter Costello too. The only two who seem to like the idea are Hockey and Abbott.
When it was first proposed I was worried that this would become policy.
I guess it still could but it's hard to do that when members of your own ministry hate it.
I've been seeing this photo of a little boy head-desking in front of Tony Abbott making the rounds recently - so good:
Lol exactly. Christ, what an awful person.
Lol exactly. Christ, what an awful person.
Box of Bunnies
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Good thing we've got all those chaplains in schools, then. They'll ward off this ever-looming threat against the moral fiber of our nation.
bobnowhere
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And then there was Wang.
The brick with eyes has quit the PUP. The turnover in the state and federal membership for the PUP is really quite a sight to behold. Palmer must be a nightmare to work with/for.
He's been subtly positioning himself for a while now, but this one is about unsubtle as you get. He also made a big speech recently about bringing people along with the changes/reforms, a conversation you might say! I imagine when/if he takes over, the conversation will be reset and and election called no more that 6 months later. Hockey will be completely forgotten about by then.
The brick with eyes has quit the PUP. The turnover in the state and federal membership for the PUP is really quite a sight to behold. Palmer must be a nightmare to work with/for.
He's been subtly positioning himself for a while now, but this one is about unsubtle as you get. He also made a big speech recently about bringing people along with the changes/reforms, a conversation you might say! I imagine when/if he takes over, the conversation will be reset and and election called no more that 6 months later. Hockey will be completely forgotten about by then.
Mr Burke said in a statement it was "disappointing for the thousands of members of the Palmer United Party that individuals have put their personal interests ahead of party priorities and what can be achieved for Australia".
The PALMER United Party accusing an exiting member of narcissism. First Dog on the Moon was right to bury satire. How are people this stupid in charge?
The PALMER United Party accusing an exiting member of narcissism. First Dog on the Moon was right to bury satire. How are people this stupid in charge?
Palmer United Party reaching Democratic Republic of ____ levels of disingenuous naming
It's your tax money funding their lifestyle choices
Elaugaufein
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Glen Lazarus might have been able to carry a senate campaign himself but yeah none of the others would have had a chance running as independents. On the other hand you can't really restrict things on the basis of party since if a member feels a party isn't serving their constituents they should leave it and there are legitimate independents and they aren't a block (there's no reason an independent shouldn't be able to join a party if they think its appropriate).
It's off topic, but your comment reminded me of a nice rebuttal I read the other day to the "tax is my money" meme that gets around a lot: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/08/17/it-isnt-your-money/
I doubt it.
I laughed
Cheers for the link.
Elaugaufein
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Honestly, so do I. I don't think he had the connections or the financial backing it would take but he had a name people actually recognized unlike the others.
Even Clive Palmer was relatively unknown before his split with the LNP, ie known as a rich person but not a name that most people would have recognised in casual conversation but that's much less of an issue for a House seat, where the area is more concentrated and costs are smaller.
While I'm linking, I've been thinking about this one a lot after having read it a few days ago: http://crosscut.com/2012/08/ayn-rand-seattle-u-philosophy-professor/
As a teenage randroid I think that argument gets the the heart of her ideas better than most. It seems obvious maybe, but I think it's very well stated in this case and logically undercuts a lot of the "business is everything, workers and the state just get in their way" that is the basis for a lot of the rubbish ideology we have to deal with today.
Yeah, I think brute force marketing got him there. Seems unlikely to keep him there.
Also...weird for them in that no matter what they do they'll be out of a job then.
Elaugaufein
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They might do a really good job and get re-elected by their own personal vote.
[I can't even type that without smirking.
What in the fuck? Which rag printed that shite?
Fucking hell. Now I have a face to put to the name? Ugh.
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A More Normal Bird
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MIRANDA DEVINE AND OPINIONS: A FORMULA FOR EMETICS
She was taught to believe in something very bad and ended up a fanatical believer of something far worse.
She was taught to believe in something very bad and ended up a fanatical believer of something far worse.
You see this a lot when people cite capitalism as being solely responsible for advances in living standards across the western world. Universal education and healthcare, computers, the internet, national and international communication and transit networks; all products of the free market with no government involvement whatsoever. Think science and technology can advance under anything but a laissez faire system? Look at North Korea. Point proven. Deal with it commie.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-15/pyne-declaring-victory-on-university-deregulation/6320478
Pyne back to blackmail again.
What a snivling asshole of the highest (or is that lowest) order.
Pyne back to blackmail again.
What a snivling asshole of the highest (or is that lowest) order.
Tim the Wiz
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The Senate better not cave again. The long-term damage of the legislation is worse than the cuts being threatened, as magnificently stupid and short-sighted as they might be too.
Me too, guess I will see you there.
What an obnoxious shitstain.
They've already murdered half the science sector as-is, so
"Axe the labs!"
Tbh they've already cut science, this might potentially kill it. A lot of people are coming out of university into the science area to find next to no jobs.
However tertiary covers so much more than science. If he goes through with the science cuts, Australia might suffer massive brain drain as Scientists twig that you can avoid HECS overseas.
bobnowhere
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Even Cory Bernardi, of all people, is not happy about Pyne's 1700 research job blackmail! It takes some real political "talent" to unite the left, the centre, and the far right against you.
We know Bernardi is unhappy with the party, not conservative enough in his eyes, maybe he is just agitating for a more conservative candidate other than Turnbull. Andrew Robb's name keeps popping up.
We know Bernardi is unhappy with the party, not conservative enough in his eyes, maybe he is just agitating for a more conservative candidate other than Turnbull. Andrew Robb's name keeps popping up.
It's already accelerating because the Senate hold-up has cut funding to all those institutions. Australia's place in the world is going to be producing other people's researchers for free apparently. All of this is naturally super healthy for the education sector because everyone knows that when there's no job prospects demand for training in those jobs will just keep rising forever.
This fucking country man. Everyone else has poached our rocks and now they're going to poach our brains, and we're too stupid to do anything about it.
Heh. I bet they've been thinking about that for a while.
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