Who Cares: The 2013 Australian Federal Election Thread

226 short campaign days to go

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speccy jules, today

is she a president

is she running against some protofascist aboriginal-disenfranchising prude? Who was that one guy you had? I hear the weather is nice.

they are both pretty terrible so

Thats a Bobs Burgers caricature level pic of dear presidant. Unfortnate, not that I'm defending her. I'm a labour voter and wish I could but fuck off with the reduction of funding to single mothers and state schools AARGH

so do you guys want to borrow Dr. Morbius?

not to mention destroying marriage equality xp

If Morbs could hold a legitemate argument against left wing aus politics knowing what he's talking about, I'd welcome it. I'm not kidding. I respect anyone who takes the time.

left wing aus politics is such a bag of shit that he's welcome to it imo

Yeah morbs' scorched earth approach is highly warranted when it comes to oz politics.

Suggest abolishing government, replace with quasi-parliamentary system whose participants are the last 150 people Newspolled in "Western" "Sydney".

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~discourse~

lol at "best news" brag on the Age

'we can print "Sept 14" in a more authoritative font than any other source'

The actual Herald Sun front cover is better, something like "Australia's babies on red alert".

Why isnt Andrew Blot dead yet btw

because

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...we won’t shirk the hard decisions, such as being up front with people that the Schoolkids Bonus will go – because it’s a cash splash with borrowed money that has nothing to do with education,” Mr Abbott told the audience.

Damn those poor kids and their buying of uniforms and school camps and textbooks, how dare they.

Fuuuck I should not be reading this transcript of his pressclub speech. I want to shreik CITE! At every weaselly lie.

"Australia was a stronger society because we had a stronger economy. Between 1996 and 2007, real wages increased more than 20 per cent, real household wealth per person more than doubled, and there were more than two million new jobs.

Since then, real household wealth has declined, productivity has stagnated and 2011 was the first year since 1992 without a net increase in jobs."

HEY TONES THERE WAS THIS LITTLE THING CALLED THE GFC I DONNO MAYBE U HEARD OF IT OR SOMETHING.

they're happy with 'borrowed money' when it's falsely inflating an untenable property market

I love how he proudly bleats about how orrsome Job Network was. Like fuck i was. I had to use that program at one point while on the dole. It got me a remarkable zero leads for work. No interviews. Nothing. They had no idea how to hadle jobseekers who were actually skilled professionals - they didt even have an IT category! It wasted my fucking time having to show up to the damn things AND spend time seeing recriters/Seek etc.

gah typos galore, I need a new laptop.

they're happy with 'borrowed money' when it's falsely inflating an untenable property market

Shh, don't mention that. It's not the most important issue facing a bunch of people today, certainly not... surely brown people on boats taking our jobs is more important than THAT.

THIS. Why is nothing being done about the fucking cost of fucking housing in this country? Shitsnacks, we pay NYC prices for housing in the major cities. I'll never afford to own even a flat. It toads the wet sprocket.

No party currently in Parliament has any plans of doing anything about housing affordability, and each one actually has beliefs that actively work against people who aren't on "the ladder of opportunity" getting on it - all they do is pull it up behind them. It genuinely is the most important human rights AND economics issue facing the country. Oh no, you can't build that medium-density housing in this area that's perfect for it because of amenities, it'll reduce the value of my home, and it's the government's job to protect my investment. But not other people's, luvvy.

Indeed. NIMBYism and "I got mine mate, fuck you" attitudes are so rife. It angries up the blood.

...christ I have got to stop using Simpsons/Futurama quotes in everything I post.

Like curently the Vic govt are looking at selling off the parklands/playgrounds around some of the inner city housing estates to build SHOPS. As if Brunswick st needs more shops when half the ones there are empty as it is. FFS.

If I were dictator, these are the first people against the wall:

People who introduced the first home buyer's grant
People who believe in the free market for everyone else but think government's should protect their investment (home value)
People who think fucking ugly old buildings that use shitloads more energy are "heritage" when they should be bulldozed and replaced with apartments
People who block public transport and public space developments

governments, not government's

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NEWSFLASH, WE ARE NOT IN ANY DANGER OF RUNNING OUT OF THESE THINGS.

Eh, I'm on the fence wrt heritage protection. I like old buildings! And tbh a lot of new apartments are built so cheaply and badly that the energy usage/enviro concerns arent always allayed. Its an interesting challop tho :)

Know where some of the most wasteful, old, uninsulated dwellings are? Bandt country - the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. Okay, it's mostly because they're renters, but it's an interesting irony.

I've made like five posts in this thread without calling Tony Abbott a cunt, so I've got to do something about that. Tony Abbott is a cunt.

I WANT TO PRINT OUT WALLOGINA.JPG AND SEND IT TO HIM, WITH AN ARROW POINTING TO ONE OF THE GINAS SAYING "YOU" ON IT

I <3 u EdO

THo now I just had a horrible vision of a "wallogina" being a wall of this:

http://www.themonthly.com.au/files/imagecache/home_content_listing_large_thumbnail/Whatginawants-a.jpg

Do you think there is a shortage of inner urban apartment developments in melbourne edward?

I certainly dislike privileged suburban nimbyism, but it seems to me that (new) supply is outstripping demand, at least here.

Though a lot of that may be b/c of a mismatch between where people want to live and where large apartment blocks can be built now (other than south yarra/prahran/docklands). Enormous apartment blocks going up in South Preston and no-one's buying, perhaps because they're marketing to young professionals who think the world ends about 6.5k north of the city.

actually lol at me for implying people want to live in docklands

Tim thats a good point, but the problem is they're all overpriced apartments and often pretty pissy for the price (tiny, badly built). I'm not surprised they arent selling. Also haha yes Docklands urgh what an urban planning disaster thats been.

My comment about there being not enough _affordable_ urban development is a Sydney-centric gripe.

tbf when I nearly took a job in Melbs two years ago I actually considered Docklands as that's where work would have been!

If I were dictator, these are the first people against the wall:

adding:

- people who bitch and moan at the *TINY TINY* national debt because debt is a bad thing, yet in the same breath nag the hell out of ME (yes ME actual ME) to take out a 25yr home loan on a $700k house

^^^^ that, a hundred times.
THOSE PEOPLE. Most of whom probably bought a few houses at 30k each and now earn that on each one as a rental.

btw if there were genuinely a housing shortage here, this is what would happen

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and that is not happening

THOSE PEOPLE. Most of whom probably bought a few houses at 30k each and now earn that on each one as a rental.

dead set they are fucking evangelists. they bought a house back when they were $150k (roughly 30% of annual income) and just expect that we can afford to drop 4–5 times that despite wages not going up anything like 4–5 times, and they nag and nag and nag and nag and nag and nag and nag

WEll sure, but people who want to buy are forced to rent. When in a healthy market, people who want to buy should be able to buy, while those who want to rent would continue to rent.

x-post

wtf did i leave that '30% of annual income' figure in the post for, ignore ignore xp

precisely

300%?

300% pure love.

sick to death of saying 'fuck this country' for, what, 12 years now but fuck this country

people who are more worried about some personnel changes than a massive bigot can go to hell

personnel changes in what organisation

I voted on tuesday, I advise everyone to go to a polling station before saturday, unless you really want a sausage.

(tbh probably going anyway to get a sausage)

also can now tell people to fuck off i've already voted if any conversation regarding the election looks like it's about to start.

Can you early vote tomorrow (Friday)? I thought they closed early votes off err.. early. But Ive been too fuckin busy to vote early, ironically.

don't know don't care

personnel changes in what organisation

labor

ALso dont they charge for the fuckin sausages? Also also I'd have to put up with Rokwiz if I vote on sat, I'm gonna vote tomorrow.

abbott will do the internet filter

that's it then

this country is an actual fucking joke

Personnel changes in the actual govt are genuinely a big deal

(Depending on who they are, which yr still opaque on)

voted on tuesday, I advise everyone to go to a polling station before saturday, unless you really want a saus

I voted on Tuesday at the consulate in San Francisco, felt great

how is saus sitch there?

saus sidg sitch

no sausages, how-to-vote cards only for Labor & Liberal

You can get Bundy ginger beer in both diners & underground dance clubs in SF though!

Good luck Australia.

Personnel changes in the actual govt are genuinely a big deal

(Depending on who they are, which yr still opaque on)

just a little thing, two prime ministers knifing each other nbd

anyway why does it matter, my point was pretty clearly about bigots

spent all night raging against this incoming government of bigots

still angry

at least the filter was a mistake

um, lol?

how is the rob sitch there, morelike

"Who cares if one of them is prepared to play a massive bigot to pander to the imaginary base of the other bigot, the other bigot means it so yaayy pretend bigot"? Rudd is proven, over and over, to be an untrustworthy liability to his own party, so that matters wrt electing the party, and str8-up enacting a 'FUCK OFF TO PNG, WE'RE FULL' policy must have made Howard green w/ envy

yes

Well I can't sleep. What a shitty day.

Abbott is a cunt. He would rubbish our great institutions so much that Australians don't realise that they are excellent by world standards. Rudd is a cunt. He used to be for a Big Australia. What happened? Gillard was a cunt. Nobody did more to make Abbott look like a Prime Minister than she did.

I am going to give my preference to Tanya Plibersek because I don't see any point in replacing her with a Green. I do see a very large benefit in replacing that cunt Ursula Stephens with a Green though, so I'll be voting Green in the Senate, turning the barbecue on and then practising my Swedish intently because I am going to need it.

Nobody did more to make Abbott look like a Prime Minister than she did.

perfect summary of election 2013 imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUk7JklvjT4

blue saturday

i have not seen a boat all day so

Can I just bitch that FINALLY the Greens put up a candidate in NSW I actually liked and gave my vote to and it looks like she won't even bloody win. FOR. FUCK'S. SAKE. FUCKING LYING CHEATING ARSEHOLES THE SO CALLED "LIBERAL DEMOCRATS" AND THEIR FUCKING DISHONEST NAME JAGGING THE LEFTMOST POSITION ON THE BALLOT AND GETTING VOTES FROM FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DO NOT READ, BUT EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE FUCKING IDIOTS WOULD STILL BE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO VOTE FOR LIBERTARIANS IF THEY WERE PRESENTED AS SUCH.

Hate forever.

i put those fuckers right near the bottom fwiw

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FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL OF BRYLCREEM AND GIANT EARS

twooter is telling me this about first preferences:

- lab 33.85%
- lib 31.72%
- grn 8.42%
- nat 4.57%

go home proportional representation you're drunk

too depressed/angry to have anything to add here

oh wait there is: the senate is now full of halfwits and extreme right nutbags, well done senate voting system

thankfully a certain poster in this thread's incredible impersonation of julie bishop last night amazingly cheered my spirits

just hearing about it has lifted mine, i loathe julie bishop with a vengeance.

it really is too depressing to talk about, what is there to say.

what will you do when she's prime minister

Does doing this work or

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I was looking up Jamie Briggs (my bastard MP) on Wikipedia to see who he slept with to get his safe seat, and saw his categories incolude "Category:Coprophagous animals"

Does doing this work or

yes but i can't see what you're doing

Who Cares: The 2013 Australian Federal Election Thread

ahhhh

My seat's rusted-on labor, but not for the reason you'd expect (unless you kno where I live). Danby's been in the seat nigh 20 years now. He's one of only 2 jewish MOP. He ain't ever gonna lose while he's running. He won again of course. I'm cool with this, tho a green candidate in my area would seem as possible as in Melb so I'm not sure why all the StKilda hippie parents didnt get in.

I was on the phone to mum y'day and heard dad in the background come in the door and realise she was talking to me and he yelled "LOL HOW ABOUT THOSE GREENS OF YOURS" at the phone, and I calmly advised mum "actually Adam Bandt won his seat as it happens" and that shut him up.

bahaha. does he know they have three senate seats too?

gillard hate will not be a patch on abbott hate six months in

― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:52 PM (1 year ago)

eight months in but still

to quote the Washington Post, "one of the world's most hated Prime Ministers"

old but still funny

http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott-lame-gay-churchy-loser-says-his-daughter-20090813-eiu1.html

sounds like a kid to invest in

thankfully a certain poster in this thread's incredible impersonation of julie bishop last night amazingly cheered my spirits

― hipster racist (King Boy Pato), Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every time i see her rancid smug face i think of this and lol, even though i didn't even see the impersonation.

to quote the Washington Post, "one of the world's most hated Prime Ministers"

― "that guy from nokia mobile phones!" "what mobile phones?" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:17 PM (1 year ago)

haaaaaaaaaaaaaa