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now you can join the 'fuck you got mine' brigade that is so rife throughout Australian society

Hey, if someone's going to run 100meg fibre to my house and stick an ethernet socket in the wall AT NO COST you better believe I'm saying "yes please".

I feel guilty now. Just a little bit.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-la...215-2zf8y.html


This post brought to you over Labor's taxpayer-funded fibre.

This fucken guy is unbelievable

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...honours-system

Following on from NZ being ranked as the place with the most freedom, I present to you:

Australia - where hating on a corporate will get you thrown in jail.

Are there still any good reasons to move to Australia?

Having Tony Abbott's Liberal party in power is certainly not one of them.

Hot beaches
Hot weather
Hot girls
Hot salaries
Sunshine coast
An actual summer
A winter where you can wear shorts and t-shirts and still be comfortable (in QLD anyway - not so much in other areas) :)

[PS: I know this is all superficial stuff, please don't take this as my be-all and end-all for being here :p]

true neff, sounds like a mean place to creep on some aunties

Budget: it will be chaplains, not secular social workers, at schools

Moments like these I'm loving having my kids in a secular private school.

wtf

The tax rate is higher for those on hot salaries isn't it?

It is a bit higher in each bracket, yes (averages around 3% higher in each bracket). The highest tax bracket is $180k and over, not $70k and over as in NZ (according to IRD page). I have yet to reach such lofty heights and am thus unaffected by that top rate. Obviously this won't apply to everyone, but when I left NZ, it was to accept a role that literally doubled my salary, so the additional tax was negligible.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Rates/Individ...ome-tax-rates/

Was tempted to put this in vid of the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=F4carpZWlVU

lols@Tony Abbott

Don't blame me, I voted for kodos

This is awesome - the guy is a bit of a dickhead (as per legendary cameo by old guy).

Dickhead. That's golden.

Everything the guy says just sounds so insincere, it's hard to believe anything he says. I know he's a politician but he'd be the last guy I'd ever call a straight shooter.

After seeing this vid, I went through and watched a bunch of vids of previous Australian politicians over the years. Paul Keating came across as a point-scorer in the debating chamber, loving to hear himself speak. Even more than most politicians.

Bob Hawke and John Howard are conservative old farts...the only one that seemed rather constructive and earnest was Gillard even looking across the spectrum back as far as Hawke.

the bit with the epilepsy when he was talking to the reporter is just amazing. how is it that someone with those kind of debating skillz can make it to being PM?

In Aussie they can!

Abbott was simply in the right place at the right time. He happened to be leader of the opposition when AU Labor self-destructed and the electorate collectively went "we don't care who you are or what your policies are, so long as you are not the Labor party we will elect you"

Tony Abbott to keep secular workers out of school chaplaincy program

Holy-loly.

Don't get me fucking started, been raging hard for 24 hours.

How long until the next Aussie Election to get rid of these bumbling religious fuckwits?

From: http://peakenergy.blogspot.co.nz/201...australia.html

Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed

Let's hope these laws don't creep over here...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0HC2FJ20140918

Not at all surprising following that. Could push anything anti-terror related through no problemo.

Holy shit @ 7 Sharp Tonight: They had a Kiwi with what is essentially a neckbeard being accosted as a muslim. Supposedly Aussie rednecks were yelling at him while he's stopped at a light something along the lines of "We'd better not see you walking around here or we'll cut your head off, bloody muslim" and then he responds "I'm not a muslim I'm a kiwi" and they respond "After we're done with them, you're next" and then he talks about how he's been afraid to drive since, because he's afraid they'll recognize his car and afraid to wear a silver fern in general.

People are animals

edit: segment here - http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/muslim-fear-video-6096704

It's on.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-0...-spill/6075470

::facepalm::

I'm more surprised about Newman though. Labor was obliterated during the last elections, fucken amazing turn around.

Has anyone even posed the biggest question of them all - do the curtains match the carpet?

I wonder if this current Liberal-National coalition govt led by Tony Abbott may be literally the worst government that any Western parliamentary democracy has ever seen. By almost any measure you can think of it is a trainwreck.

So I guess the left aren't incompetent enough to hide the fact of how bad the government is.
Or do Australians care less about the opposition and focus more on what the actual government is doing.

It really is an abortion of epic proportions. Nothing quite like a religious, homophobic misogynist being in charge.

But it's not even a conservative Christian government. The thing about theocracies is at least they have principles. This government is just plain corrupt. It's about paying off its backers, nothing else.

A CONSERVATIVE government would be in favour of, say, marriage equality. Because marriage holds families together and the family is the fundamental unit of conservative social policy. The more people getting married the better, a conservative should say.

A CHRISTIAN government would be in favour of accepting refugees from wars, because that's what Jebus would do. Show those refugees some charity, a Christian would say.

A quote-unquote NEOLIBERAL government would be in favour of, say, renewable energy projects because there's a possibility of making shitloads of money out of it. Or in favour of Internet infrastructure because bitchinfast Internet means innovation and startups and new tech shit we haven't even thought of and there's a possibility of making shitloads of money out of it. Let's get fucking rich before some other fucker somewhere else does, a neoliberal would say.

The Abbott Government is saying none of those things and is in favour of none of those things. It's fucking over families, so it can't be conservative; it's running fucking concentration camps, so it can't be Christian; it's stomping all over tech development and the jobs and money and market domination that could result, so it can't be quote-unquote neoliberal.

Sure is bending over backwards for mining companies and traditional media companies though. If you want to dig up some coal or print some newspapers, the Abbott government will accept your paper bag without question.

At least it's not K Rudd though, right?

Yep.