General Australian Politics

[Ab]

The Christian Porter rape circus?

[Lightspeed]

That, and the context it's occurring in.

[Ab]

By the way since this site is hosted in an Australian datacentre now I wish to clarify that my post about the "Christian Porter rape circus" referred to the fact that this horrible crime involving the alleged rape of a teenager who later killed herself will need the full attention of the government's top lawyer, Attorney-General Christian Porter, who for some reason has been conspicuously absent from all press conferences regarding the matter and who seems to have dropped off the face of the earth all of a sudden. Also, a circus.

[Cyberbob]

Allegedly

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

the context it's occurring in

Oh fuck yeah, Australian politics makes NZ politics look like an Aro Valley lesbian arts collective. And NZ politics is misogynist enough.

[Ab]

Hashtag fellowkids

Milkshakes, tacos and consent: New government video slammed as confusing and concerning

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...mmed/100079682

Desperate GenX PR campaign manager run amok?

[StN]

I'm confused - he was her step brother - right? And pinball was a metaphor for a bukake party?

[Ab]

Afghans:




Australia:

Australia rescues just 26 people from Afghanistan on evacuation flight with space for 128

[Lightspeed]

[Lightspeed]

What's this all about you fullas in Aussie?

Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021

[Ab]

Simple, Australia is a surveillance state run by a bunch of pricks who don't care about human rights.

[Nich]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...ocracy/619940/

And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”

Jeeeehehehezus!

I've already stopped taking my mobile phone out of the house, now it's time to put it in landfill and look for a new country to live in.

[Ab]

Context: when people enter South Australia from overseas or a different state, rather than doing their 14 day quarantine at some shitty Federal quarantine facility or an MIQ hotel in the middle of a city, they will be allowed to isolate at private residences - provided they can prove that they're staying put.

No big, IMHO. And I ain't no Marshall govt fan.

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Ab

Simple, Australia is a surveillance state run by a bunch of pricks who don't care about human rights.

I know the first rule of OPSEC is you don't talk about OPSEC... but I hafta wonder how people protect themselves in such circumstances.

[Ab]

Don't ever make phone calls - Facetime, Signal, VOIP instead. Don't ever SMS. Don't ever send email from an ISP account. Don't access the net directly, always VPN. Don't access social media or web communities through anything other than pseudonymous accounts. Be prepared for any device you have to be taken off you and scanned at any moment, never to be returned. Bear in mind that any person with whom you're corresponding may do none of these things.

[Nich]

Originally Posted by Ab

Context: when people enter South Australia from overseas or a different state, rather than doing their 14 day quarantine at some shitty Federal quarantine facility or an MIQ hotel in the middle of a city, they will be allowed to isolate at private residences - provided they can prove that they're staying put.

No big, IMHO. And I ain't no Marshall govt fan.

After 9/11 all the emergency laws and policies were rushed through to combat Al Qaeda. Now that the Taliban is a "Partner in Afganistan" we'll just roll back all those laws passed in the name of War on Terror...

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Nich

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...ocracy/619940/



Jeeeehehehezus!

I've already stopped taking my mobile phone out of the house, now it's time to put it in landfill and look for a new country to live in.

Lol.

* This article originally failed to specify that South Australia's quarantine app will be required only of people quarantining at home, not those quarantining in hotels.

Nah, yeah, kinda important.

Fuck that's a funny article, with every reading it gets worse. The author is on the verge of crying about how Australians are being denied the right to privacy guaranteed to them by the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. They'll be coming for our guns next.

[Ab]

Why the fuck do we keep doing this over and over again

https://www.innovationaus.com/the-uk...ias-trying-it/

[Lightspeed]

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...20-p58t3q.html

At least the money is good in Aus I guess? It can't be too bad if you're still getting paid, amirite?

[Ab]

huh?

[Lightspeed]

Australia sucks.

[Ab]

Christian Porter certainly does. What a prick.

[StN]

I don't know anything about this Jacqui Lambie person, but the two rather animated videos of her I have seen do make a lot of sense.

Like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSldjsHs1WY

[Ab]

this is the standard of Australian politics:

MP banned from Facebook appointed to parliament’s social media inquiry

[Ab]

Australia, fuck yeah

https://theshot.net.au/general-news/...ocally-fucked/

[Nich]

Originally Posted by Ab

Australia, fuck yeah

https://theshot.net.au/general-news/...ocally-fucked/

This explains why our politicians somehow think coercion and inducement are the same as informed consent so long as the outcome is the same.

[Ab]

Happy clappers strike again

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-...camp/100756158

Of course, the likelihood of anything punitive happening to the Hillsong Church while Scotty from Marketing is Prime Minister is zero.

[Lightspeed]

Just take it out on tennis players I suppose.

[Ab]

You say misdirection, I say stopping the boats!

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Ab

Happy clappers strike again

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-...camp/100756158

Of course, the likelihood of anything punitive happening to the Hillsong Church while Scotty from Marketing is Prime Minister is zero.

“ NSW records 48,768 new COVID cases and 20 deaths as police confirm Hillsong won’t be fined”

Lol I’ve got the joy joy joy joy down in my lungs

[Lightspeed]

You guys have got a pretty flash PM:

[Ab]

sweet Jesus

[blynk]

"Its too hard to see through this tinted mask"

Is that other hand in the photo quickly reaching up to pull the mask down?

[Ab]

Presumably it's an actual welder shouting "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING"

[Ab]

OMG I think it really is:

https://youtu.be/siWNvU16Bi0?t=13

[Ab]

Seriously fuck this guy

Scott Morrison backs bill that allows exclusion of transgender people from single-sex sports

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...gle-sex-sports

[Ab]

Nothing says Scott Morrison like his office’s women’s network logo

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...logo/d1zbigg2j

[crocos]

That's something that we should expect from an arsehole version of The Onion, not from a government initiative. Fucking ScoMo

[Ab]

I was sure it was a parody when I saw it. I thought "this will be from The Chaser or The Betoota Advocate"... but no. It was real.

[Cyberbob]

"Those carrying coffins in Ukraine are not focused on climate change" - Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’.