Think of the children.
As long as they're not refugees in a detention centre and you're a doctor trying to report their sexual abuse. Fuck those children.
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Think of the children.
Also there was that time that an ex rugby league player became a senator and threatened to stick his finger in the bum of the Prime Minister.
And the ex olympic swimmer who told a tennis player to go back to where he came from.
And then it was lunch time.
Cant wait for this arvo will bring!
Tim the Wiz
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Wow, citizenship being contingent on sporting conduct? Who would have guessed Dawn Fraser is crazier than Pauline Hanson?
bobnowhere
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what's so racist about telling people to go back to where their parents came from anyhow? is that racist? is it racist to talk about where people's parents came from as if it invalidates their lived experience? to imply they're somehow not australians? is it racist to be a huge racist person oh i guess it is. i guess i dawn fraser am a huge goddamn racist and i can't see it because I'm Not Racist But is in full effect. good times
i really hope lazarus is just making fun of Tones for threatening to shirtfront putin, but somehow I doubt it
i really hope lazarus is just making fun of Tones for threatening to shirtfront putin, but somehow I doubt it
She's of the same era as that buffoon Margaret Court (tennis). She is a well known bigot when it comes to homosexuality.
Candescence
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At least, being a former rugby player, he actually knows what he's talking about, and it's in pursuit of a good cause. CSG mining really should be banned, period.
Hopefully before he votes in alignment with the government on covering up child abuse in refugee processing centres (again).
The cynic in me is reminded of the the gruen transfer's coverage of the last/or one b4 election
when kevin rudds publicist is recounting the story of when kevin was caught at a strip club and thought, thats it, his career is over
and then gets calls the next day that rudd is more popular than ever
some very cynical part of me thinks that this maybe engineered, and not inspired
edit: bless the backburner
bobnowhere
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Had the same feeling here. The language he uses is exactly the same as always, you learn nothing new and nothing about it seems natural or off the cuff. Same stump speech with a pretty average attempt to make it go viral.
At least he has worked on his presentation, we almost believe he believes it.
Aarglefarg
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Is a full video of the royal commission available? I watched a lot of it live but not after the lunch break.
It ends? http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...s-labor-leader-backfires-20150709-gi8e7p.html
Anyway, this clearly isn't about Shorten. It's about the existence of unions in general and trying to uncover general practices that the public would find unsavory enough to weaken them as a political force. I think.
Yeah basically, watching a bit now, the guy questioning Shorten seems pretty disorganised and ... I am not sure what his points are.
Anyway, this.
https://twitter.com/MitchellToy/status/618975904153251840
I have to admit I don't have the faintest idea how this will play with the public. I also have no idea what they will do with the findings, if any. Libs to use it as justification for some anti union laws I guess.
last commission into unions ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it and i can't see this one being any different
e: i mean, they completely failed to get the scalps of rudd & gillard so their last hope is with shorten but that'd just end up giving the labor party a good reason to dump an unpopular leader
what makes it even more hilarious is the turc isnt even looking into kathy jackson, the corrupt unionist that helped start the whole thing lmao
Last commission into unions was the justification for workchoices as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_the_Building_and_Construction_Industry
e: Well maybe not workchoices but some shitty law things anyway.
abcc is awful but there weren't any legal prosecutions afaik
Aarglefarg
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Abbott: "We need to strengthen our institutional arrangements so that the kinds of things we've seen highlighted at the royal commission can't happen in the future"
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/brea...r-industry-bodies/story-fni0xqi4-122743511058
and we'll do that by not letting people report child abuse anymore. or not? Noone knows how these fucking rules interact.
oh wait wrong comission
Aarglefarg
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Look over there at least until after the election please.
bobnowhere
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Every time the liberal party comes into power they do a RC into unions. It doesn't seem to go both ways, but I'm not sure there's an obvious target for the Labor party to return the favour.
They don't care anymore but I would like Labor to do one on NBNco, especially considering they more or less refuse to answer questions to the Senate. Then there are also multiple questions that need answering regarding immigration but I guess there would be blood on both hands there and Labor has essentially been towing the line anyway. /wishful thinking
Not a bad idea.
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viciouskillersquirrel
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So that's how we get decadent gays!
What about modest, sensible gays? Where do they come from?
Can you this Tony?
I mean, he might mean it, he might not. It's not like it was said this week for no reason.
Abetz was halfway there last week with the comments about her daughter.
He said it this week relatively unprompted? Hmm. Could mean something might be up within the party.
I'd go for Plibersek. Or Burke.
I'm thinking its to cover Shorten's Royal Inquiry business given there inevitably would be (and was) voices even from Labor backgrounds calling for him to step down. Since Albo was the near victor last time around, he'd be a natural point for those unhappy to rally behind.
Of course, he could also be pretty fed up with Federal politics and want to keep his head down. After the past few years I seriously couldn't blame him.
She'd be my pick too.
But the problem with debating with those kinds of people is that they spout such nonsense that it's impossible to argue against them because you get stuck trying to parse their attempts at logic.
Probably worth a watch just to see Bernardi pretend that he believes in science. Well... science against gays, anyway.
Probably worth a watch just to see Bernardi pretend that he believes in science. Well... science against gays, anyway.
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He said what now?
Wong is probably one of the most articulate of the current Labor lot, but being a Senator is probably the only real argument against her. Would be funny to see the LNP meltdowns as a result.
Wayne Swan would probably be the best of the safe options. He's only considered damaged goods if you're functionally illiterate like the entire LNP.
Just the usual "deprived of normal mother and father heterosexual" marriage business and Wong pointed out that blocking gay marriage isn't stopping a situation where same sex couples are raising children, using herself as an example.
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