PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has reignited a war of words with Premier Daniel Andrews over the scrapped East West Link as he unveiled a “blame Labor” mobile billboard this morning.
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has reignited a war of words with Premier Daniel Andrews over the scrapped East West Link as he unveiled a “blame Labor” mobile billboard this morning.
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Wow, I guess "blame labor" really is the only line they've got.
This election is about many things, but in the end, it is a referendum on the East West Link.
For a guy who bangs on and on about election mandates and doing the job he was elected to do and that the opposition should respect the choice of the people he sure doesn't give a fuck about the choice of the Victorian people.
Also they're counting the money they're not spending on East West link as a savings in the federal budget while at the same time campaigning for the Victorian government to break their election promise and build it. Talk about having your cake and eating it.
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Every time I hear a government minister say "infrastructure" I remember the NBN and feel, what I can only describe as, devastated.
Every time I hear a government minister say "infrastructure" I remember the NBN and feel, what I can only describe as, devastated.
Didn't you see Mad Max? Internet is the past, highways are the future.
He's a shy overambitious dog-catcher on the wrong side of the law. She's an orphaned psychic mercenary with the power to bend men's minds. They fight crime!
The federal Labor party is expected to back a bill before parliament that would result in the blocking of websites facilitating piracy, Fairfax Media understands, but only if certain safeguards are agreed to by the Abbott government.
Campbell Live here in New Zealand just got the axe. It's a current affairs known for aggressively holding the government to account over numerous social issues including employment, education, child poverty and the earthquake relief effort in Christchurch, amidst allegations of political interference from the new head of the broadcasting company being buddy buddy with the governing party. Especially spurious are the claims that it's being done because of low viewership which holds no water as the ratings for this show are usually on equal with the evening news.
New Zealand loses it's last mainstream media show that will put the screws in on the current government
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Every time I hear a government minister say "infrastructure" I remember the NBN and feel, what I can only describe as, devastated.
I have this exact feeling every time. Turnbull rubbed salt in the wound when I received a letter from my local member telling me that my suburb is now classified as having the NBN because WiMax is available.
PrivateInternetAccess have reasonable prices and good speeds, though since the metadata retention technically applies to them to you need to exit in Hong Kong or Amsterdam. You mostly take a latency hit for things.
PrivateInternetAccess have reasonable prices and good speeds, though since the metadata retention technically applies to them to you need to exit in Hong Kong or Amsterdam. You mostly take a latency hit for things.
Have you heard anything about PureVPN? They have a sale going on now, and their VPN software allows you to specify 'Data Retention Security' as a general connection setting.
"Think of the children. There's pedophiles in them thar internets!" is a good enough reason to put enormous amounts of resources into spying on people's internet practices and history.
"Think of the children. There's pedophiles in them thar religious institutions!" isn't a good enough reason to request George Pell to come to Australia and give testament under oath.
I heard some conservative asshole on Jon Faine this morning saying that "unsubstantiated rumours" weren't enough of a reason for Pell to come and give testimony to the Royal Commission. These unsubstantiated rumours by the way, were sworn testimony from multiple witnesses.
The prime minister said it was his understanding that Pell in his written statement had agreed to reappear, but it was “ultimately a matter for him” whether the cardinal returned to Australia.
When you are potentially implicated in the mass cover-up of multiple rapes and sexual assaults, involving alleged bribes and intimidation, why do you get to choose whether to appear before a commission or not? He shouldn't be politely encouraged to testify at the royal commission, he should be extradited.
PrivateInternetAccess have reasonable prices and good speeds, though since the metadata retention technically applies to them to you need to exit in Hong Kong or Amsterdam. You mostly take a latency hit for things.
Wait what? I have PIA and i thought since they don't keep logs at all that it was safe from data retention?
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PrivateInternetAccess have reasonable prices and good speeds, though since the metadata retention technically applies to them to you need to exit in Hong Kong or Amsterdam. You mostly take a latency hit for things.
Wait what? I have PIA and i thought since they don't keep logs at all that it was safe from data retention?
At the moment yes. The problem is it's going to be a real short hop between requiring ISPs to do it and a law suit which technically classifies them as being ISP-like enough. Conversely by the letter of the law, there's no way to legally go after overseas exit points nor any practical way to do it.
EDIT: Hong Kong and San Francisco are where the PIPE fiber cables terminate anyway, so the for majority of the internet you're capped by the proxy bandwidth and not anything else.
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In other news Dutton is literally blaming Shorten on Asylum seekers. By not saying "the government is right" people smugglers are emboldened to load up they boats.
So following a Labor crackdown on welfare fraud, and a Liberal crackdown previously, they're setting up yet another taskforce (they really love taskforces) to do the same thing again.
"We think that up to $1 billion a year can be defrauded because people are not being upfront about their income, so it's important that we ensure that people are being straight with us," he said.
One billion dollars. Uh huh. Whatever you say, dudes.
Relevant quote from our actual goddamn opposition party:
Greens senator Rachel Siewert said it was ironic the taskforce was announced in the same week it was revealed that half the calls to Centrelink have not been answered and addressed.
Ms Siewert said the Centrelink system was overly complex and most of the errors that occur are administrative mistakes by Centrelink staff or genuine mistakes by recipients.
"The Government's choosing to address this as fraud rather than addressing the complexity of the system, acknowledging that the system is failing and choosing to blame income support recipients," she said.
Can't wait to go into Centrelink for a third time in as many months to confirm that yes, I do have a diagnosis for my DSP. Yes, I do work one day a week. Ok, thank you bye.
What's even more bullshit is last time I found the letter with the appointment time on it on the same day as the appointment.
My girlfriend has an anxiety condition and is constantly exhausted with the stress of Uni. She doesn't drive, I do. Except I'm doing a clinical masters degree and am busy all the time so I'm often unable to drive her to appointments and the like. She was summoned in to centrelink for a meeting once - and I'm sure everyone knows what happens if you miss those meetings. They turn your payment off and drop it like a hot potato.
So she forced herself in, waited the hour it takes to be seen, only to be told that the automatic summons she was sent for that date and time was an ERROR and she did not actually have to come in that day because she was only in a fucking fortnight before that.
However, as annoying and incompetent as centrelink can be. Whenever I tell my friends from America that I get paid (albeit not much) to study, they think Australia is full of Vegemite and Unicorns.
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I wonder if the government has considered the court costs of prosecuting the thousands of backpackers who will now tax dodge the living fuck out of Australia while they're here.
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Not to mention Abbott's whole 'if you can't find a job, you can do four weeks work experience!"
I'm sure that won't result in every single company hiring people for 'work experience', ditching them, finding more people for 'work experience' and repeating ad nauseum. As it is, bars in Cairns hire people on a three day trial peroid, let them go, and find someone new that same day. Four weeks without pay is just free fucking labor.
Not to mention Abbott's whole 'if you can't find a job, you can do four weeks work experience!"
I'm sure that won't result in every single company hiring people for 'work experience', ditching them, finding more people for 'work experience' and repeating ad nauseum. As it is, bars in Cairns hire people on a three day trial peroid, let them go, and find someone new that same day. Four weeks without pay is just free fucking labor.
Abbott made the comments during an address to the Queensland Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday morning, where he was highlighting a new initiative which allowed people who have been unemployed for more than six months to work for a private enterprise for a month before losing the dole benefits.
“That person can do up to four weeks of work experience with your business, with a private sector business, without losing unemployment benefits so it gives you a chance to have a kind of try-before-you-buy look at unemployed people,” Abbott said. “What we have permitted for the first time in this budget is, if you like, real work for the dole. Work in a business for the dole,” he said.
Doing actual work for an actual company that needs work done is called being employed and you do it because they pay you
If you're unemployed under this scheme it's not because you can't find work, it's because employing you is no longer necessary
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$37 dollars a day is what you get on newstart. Unless that gets boosted to reward wage for the work they're doing:
The liberals can FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.
Not as great as it sounds, unfortunately, as Labor will be doing a conscience vote rather than a binding party vote. Even if the LNP allow a conscience vote as well (which I'd put as 50/50 at best), it's unlikely it'd pass going by recent articles. That said, the Irish referendum may sway some who are on the fence.
All in all, quite a performance, and Hockey ended with an attempt at a joke, citing the Vatican - "There's no women in the Vatican apparently" - as a companion state to Australia in holding out on same-sex marriage. He guffawed like he'd zinged it for Australia.
A literal theocracy. That's, uh... that's great company, there. Yup.
I'm very unhappy about multinationals missing the $18000 tax free threshold. Let alone them paying tax UP TO $80000. This will hit backpackers hard, and the thing about backpackers is they earn the money and immediately spend it within the month, and they spend it on small businesses. Cutting their income by 30% is a huge blow and a lot of people will see that and turn right the fuck around and travel somewhere else.
I fucking love hostelling and I see every time I go how much many of them are struggling to feed themselves at times. This is going to send a lot of good people, who do good rural work, right the fuck home.
The federal budget proposed removing the tax-free threshold for those on working holiday visas, forcing them to pay at least $32.5 per cent tax on every dollar then earned.
Matthew Simpson, owner of a labour hire company at Mildura in north-west Victoria, said the local farming industry relied on thousands of these workers to pick and prune fruit properties each year, but travellers, on seeing what was proposed, were now planning to go to places like Canada and New Zealand instead.
"The damage in many ways is already done," he said. "Because the hot topic now in Korea is 'do not go to Australia, do not go to Australia, tax is going to kill you. You are not going to be able to eat, survive, live.'
"So they're not going to come here."
Mr Simpson said it used to be the "golden egg and promised land" for travellers and workers to come to Australia and work, travel and learn English, but this has changed everything.
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All in all, quite a performance, and Hockey ended with an attempt at a joke, citing the Vatican - "There's no women in the Vatican apparently" - as a companion state to Australia in holding out on same-sex marriage. He guffawed like he'd zinged it for Australia.
A literal theocracy. That's, uh... that's great company, there. Yup.
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is this even english? What does he even think he is saying?
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I'm very unhappy about multinationals missing the $18000 tax free threshold. Let alone them paying tax UP TO $80000. This will hit backpackers hard, and the thing about backpackers is they earn the money and immediately spend it within the month, and they spend it on small businesses. Cutting their income by 30% is a huge blow and a lot of people will see that and turn right the fuck around and travel somewhere else.
I fucking love hostelling and I see every time I go how much many of them are struggling to feed themselves at times. This is going to send a lot of good people, who do good rural work, right the fuck home.
The federal budget proposed removing the tax-free threshold for those on working holiday visas, forcing them to pay at least $32.5 per cent tax on every dollar then earned.
Matthew Simpson, owner of a labour hire company at Mildura in north-west Victoria, said the local farming industry relied on thousands of these workers to pick and prune fruit properties each year, but travellers, on seeing what was proposed, were now planning to go to places like Canada and New Zealand instead.
"The damage in many ways is already done," he said. "Because the hot topic now in Korea is 'do not go to Australia, do not go to Australia, tax is going to kill you. You are not going to be able to eat, survive, live.'
"So they're not going to come here."
Mr Simpson said it used to be the "golden egg and promised land" for travellers and workers to come to Australia and work, travel and learn English, but this has changed everything.
You called it! Step right up for your prize. The prize is sadness.
I'm very unhappy about multinationals missing the $18000 tax free threshold. Let alone them paying tax UP TO $80000. This will hit backpackers hard, and the thing about backpackers is they earn the money and immediately spend it within the month, and they spend it on small businesses. Cutting their income by 30% is a huge blow and a lot of people will see that and turn right the fuck around and travel somewhere else.
I fucking love hostelling and I see every time I go how much many of them are struggling to feed themselves at times. This is going to send a lot of good people, who do good rural work, right the fuck home.
The federal budget proposed removing the tax-free threshold for those on working holiday visas, forcing them to pay at least $32.5 per cent tax on every dollar then earned.
Matthew Simpson, owner of a labour hire company at Mildura in north-west Victoria, said the local farming industry relied on thousands of these workers to pick and prune fruit properties each year, but travellers, on seeing what was proposed, were now planning to go to places like Canada and New Zealand instead.
"The damage in many ways is already done," he said. "Because the hot topic now in Korea is 'do not go to Australia, do not go to Australia, tax is going to kill you. You are not going to be able to eat, survive, live.'
"So they're not going to come here."
Mr Simpson said it used to be the "golden egg and promised land" for travellers and workers to come to Australia and work, travel and learn English, but this has changed everything.
You called it! Step right up for your prize. The prize is sadness.
Feels soooo good to be right.
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Quick question how on Earth did this current government get into power?
The countries population of gullible boomer voters certainly helped
1) Labor's leadershop woes doomed them. Above everything else, this is what caused it.
2) The Liberals had a great media messaging strategy, portraying a sense of consistency, strength, and playing on fears over the debt.
3) Labor had a last-minute lurch to the right to try and poach LNP voters, especially on refugees, which just made them look inconsistent on policy.
4) "We won't cut education." "We won't cut health." "We won't cut the ABC or SBS." "We won't raise taxes." the usual LNP magical money tree approach to revenue.
5) The media.
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Wow, I guess "blame labor" really is the only line they've got.
Like Steve Ballmer's Developers speech, only "Labor's fault"
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What a huge fucking insult.
Didn't you see Mad Max? Internet is the past, highways are the future.
Labor, you spineless godforsaken morons.
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Just a quick skim though gave me the impression that they're really trying to nickle and dime money out of random people.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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I have this exact feeling every time. Turnbull rubbed salt in the wound when I received a letter from my local member telling me that my suburb is now classified as having the NBN because WiMax is available.
PrivateInternetAccess have reasonable prices and good speeds, though since the metadata retention technically applies to them to you need to exit in Hong Kong or Amsterdam. You mostly take a latency hit for things.
Have you heard anything about PureVPN? They have a sale going on now, and their VPN software allows you to specify 'Data Retention Security' as a general connection setting.
They don't fully support OpenVPN yet, though.
"Think of the children. There's pedophiles in them thar internets!" is a good enough reason to put enormous amounts of resources into spying on people's internet practices and history.
"Think of the children. There's pedophiles in them thar religious institutions!" isn't a good enough reason to request George Pell to come to Australia and give testament under oath.
I heard some conservative asshole on Jon Faine this morning saying that "unsubstantiated rumours" weren't enough of a reason for Pell to come and give testimony to the Royal Commission. These unsubstantiated rumours by the way, were sworn testimony from multiple witnesses.
Wait what? I have PIA and i thought since they don't keep logs at all that it was safe from data retention?
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At the moment yes. The problem is it's going to be a real short hop between requiring ISPs to do it and a law suit which technically classifies them as being ISP-like enough. Conversely by the letter of the law, there's no way to legally go after overseas exit points nor any practical way to do it.
EDIT: Hong Kong and San Francisco are where the PIPE fiber cables terminate anyway, so the for majority of the internet you're capped by the proxy bandwidth and not anything else.
One billion dollars. Uh huh. Whatever you say, dudes.
Relevant quote from our actual goddamn opposition party:
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What's even more bullshit is last time I found the letter with the appointment time on it on the same day as the appointment.
So she forced herself in, waited the hour it takes to be seen, only to be told that the automatic summons she was sent for that date and time was an ERROR and she did not actually have to come in that day because she was only in a fucking fortnight before that.
However, as annoying and incompetent as centrelink can be. Whenever I tell my friends from America that I get paid (albeit not much) to study, they think Australia is full of Vegemite and Unicorns.
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I'm sure that won't result in every single company hiring people for 'work experience', ditching them, finding more people for 'work experience' and repeating ad nauseum. As it is, bars in Cairns hire people on a three day trial peroid, let them go, and find someone new that same day. Four weeks without pay is just free fucking labor.
You say that like it's not an intended effect.
Literally.
Edit: Oh, and when called out on it, pretty much told anyone offended to go fuck themselves because, hey, business was fine with it.
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literal slavery
Doing actual work for an actual company that needs work done is called being employed and you do it because they pay you
If you're unemployed under this scheme it's not because you can't find work, it's because employing you is no longer necessary
The liberals can FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.
Labor: COMING MONDAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
Not as great as it sounds, unfortunately, as Labor will be doing a conscience vote rather than a binding party vote. Even if the LNP allow a conscience vote as well (which I'd put as 50/50 at best), it's unlikely it'd pass going by recent articles. That said, the Irish referendum may sway some who are on the fence.
Leave it to Hockey to lead the Liberal Party forward: A literal theocracy. That's, uh... that's great company, there. Yup.
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is this even english? What does he even think he is saying?
Feels soooo good to be right.
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then he blamed labor
I've always detested this line of thinking since A: I used to believe it myself, and B: look what it's done to the UK.
1) Labor's leadershop woes doomed them. Above everything else, this is what caused it.
2) The Liberals had a great media messaging strategy, portraying a sense of consistency, strength, and playing on fears over the debt.
3) Labor had a last-minute lurch to the right to try and poach LNP voters, especially on refugees, which just made them look inconsistent on policy.
4) "We won't cut education." "We won't cut health." "We won't cut the ABC or SBS." "We won't raise taxes." the usual LNP magical money tree approach to revenue.
5) The media.
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