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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?
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Bam!
bobnowhere
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Oh snap!
Yeah, Labor Herald is a weird one. There's some good articles on there by Laurie Oaks, Wendy Harmer and Albo but the Buzzfeedy 'Things Shorten likes/Lol Bishop memes!' are pretty lame.
I'm having trouble finding details of his level of support. It sounds like he wants GST to apply to financial services, but not raise it, which doesn't sound like a bad idea.
bobnowhere
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Yeah I think he is being verballed. All he said was he was going to go into talks not ruling anything out unlike the libs who have already ruled everything out that isn't GST. He did mention the financial services stuff.
Helicopter Bronnie in the background. Best thing about all the rorts is Bronnie will forever be drawn as a helicopter or at least have one of the propeller hats from now on!
Ah, sorry, that much is true. I just assume that a response without a quote is a response to the most recent post, or the most recent obvious one.
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A More Normal Bird
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1) What's good.
2) What's right.
3) What's fair.
4) What's proper.
5) What's liked.
6) What's Australian.
7) What's just.
8) What's best.
9) What's decent.
10) What's reasonable.
11) What's Collingwood?
That said I do give him some props for including DV on the list, he seems to take quite a strong stance on the issue in general.
Right, Bishop is being treated the same way any Speaker involved in an expense scandal would
bobnowhere
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Don Randall has died RIP
www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-mp-don-randall-found-dead-20150721-gihgds.html
I believe he was of the chief protagonists in trying to remove Abbott earlier in the year.
www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-mp-don-randall-found-dead-20150721-gihgds.html
I believe he was of the chief protagonists in trying to remove Abbott earlier in the year.
John Safran's thing on the Reclaim Australia rally is a great read: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...than-he-expected/story-fnu2q5nu-1227451292484
It's free "speech", not free "lists". If anything, lists are preventing speech, so a ban would be pro free speech.
It's free "speech", not free "lists". If anything, lists are preventing speech, so a ban would be pro free speech.
Labor to set renewable energy target at 50% by 2030. A result of the largest rank and file grassroots campaign in the party. Very happy to see.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-to-unveil-50-renewable-energy-target-at-labor-conference-20150721-gih4bp.html
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-to-unveil-50-renewable-energy-target-at-labor-conference-20150721-gih4bp.html
I'm curious with Bill Shorten being accused of ott travel pricing, that it seemed like a perfect opportunity for him to step down with out being accused of back stabbing. Also makes labour look like the bigger party who deal with BS when it happens, and gives consequences to its members.
Or that might be an idealistic view of a potential situation.
Or that might be an idealistic view of a potential situation.
If they really have managed to reduce the processing costs, I have no problem with this.
Dammit. Building a boardgame collection at the moment is hard enough as it is.
I find it interesting that Brisbane and Melbourne are going after her, but the Tele in Sydney is mostly silent. That just happens to line up with what those cities think of the Libs at the moment. I think it shows just how reflective and populist those papers are, when we sometimes fall into the trap of thinking they.. whats the opposite of reflective... make people do stuff.
Proactive? Coercive?
Influencing?
They don't seem to have any problem throwing them under the bus for blatantly stupid shit like this and the Prince Phillip thing, but heaven forbid they critisise substantive policy.
Can't really see the processing cost being low enough to make collecting ~$2 of tax worth it.
Ballsy as fuck. I think that'll help them. They need to set themselves apart from the Libs as much as possible, and all they've really done lately is agree.
I heard Plibersek's name getting mentioned in the context of something recently... could this be heading towards that? Make some big calls, make Labor look great and the Libs look shit, put in a new leader *after* the union thing as kind of blown over so as to not make it look reactionary.
Yes it's very annoying, and you're dreaming if you think they will go to task on the goverement for their environmental policies, which reading this:
isn't surprising.
There is one thing if you are a board gamer you have to accept. And that is a high cost of entry.
Exactly. Populism. No one buys the Tele for substantial policy debate.
This bit in particular:
Reclaim Australia is a concerning amalgam of far right Christianity and far far far right neo nazi racism. Or centrist racism if you calibrated your political spectrum against John Howard's.
We tried to stop the boats, but those damn unions! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-...-action-not-to-blame-for-boat-arrival/6639372
God, the comments.
Helicopter Bronnie in the background. Best thing about all the rorts is Bronnie will forever be drawn as a helicopter or at least have one of the propeller hats from now on!
Haha, that's amazing.
Labor's 50% RET for 2030 is also amazing. I hope they keep their word.
To be fair, they stopped the boats. Customs' boats.
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The gall of these jokers to demand a "mature debate" about the GST barely a week after they resurrected the carbon pricing bogeyman.
But we stopped the boats? Someone should tell those Asylum seekers that we stopped the boats.
Aarglefarg
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What is a boat?
the car of the ocean
That could apply to any week of the year. The modus operandi of this government is to avoid debate as much as possible. That's the intended result of slogans and repetition, repeating the same phrase in answer to questions is a refusal to engage. "Mature debate" is just another method of silencing debate, implying that any disagreement on principled grounds is not sufficiently "mature".
bobnowhere
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Time to buy another investment property to claim allowances for.
As for Don Randall, not to speak ill of the dead, but I had no respect for him seeing as he didn't want to be in parliament for the apology to stolen generations.
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