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towny

Shit squad but they'll avoid the spoon.

They will provide ugly, scrappy rugby for their diehard fans who'll be rewarded with the highest ticket pricing in world rugby.

towny

Yeah? I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better! We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism. Better convince the voters it's in their best interests to work for $2.33 an hour. If you t...

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Farva wrote:

Yeah, I realised that too late!

Come on. You've just invented a clean, inexhaustible energy source.

Next year's Noble, and perhaps even Booker, Prize is yours!!!!!

towny

mabunch78 wrote:
Farva wrote:Steam was the first energy source that drove the industrial revolution.
Care to revisit?

beat me to it.

towny

Steam was the first energy source that drove the industrial revolution. oh..... huge fail Farv... Steam isn't and wasn't an energy source. Coal was what boiled the water and created the steam. You can still invest in steam turbines worth tens of millions of dollars if you so wish. Steam turbines li...

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Team Green preferenced Clive Palmer over Assange....

Team Green was mauled at the election and lost 30% of their primary support.

Team Green had some power and voted against the ETS.

Team Green is back to 'minor party status' and deservedly so.

towny

Ali's Choice wrote:
towny wrote:
I felt a little dirty writing that. A little too much like a Greens voter. I deserved to be mocked.

It's so early in the political cycle. Now is the time to experiment.

towny

btw, I'm reading a lot lately about oil. test me. I'm ready to rumble. Has oil ever beaten the All Blacks? I wont consider it anything more than second rate until it does that. Without oil, there would be no international rugby. FACT. Without oil, the ABs are just some team you hear about over the ...

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kiwinoz wrote:What the average person can claim on tax as a legitimate deduction is very limited. Should be the same set of rules for politicians.

Perhaps not the same set; however their entitlements need to be greatly reigned in imo.

towny

btw, I'm reading a lot lately about oil.

test me. I'm ready to rumble.

towny

Absolutely Towny. Oil, what would we do without it? http://www.dosomething.org/files/styles/blog_landscape/public/pictures/oilspill982.jpg?itok=FO9MHA7H But as Ali said, we have other energy sources now. Better energy sources. Steam was the first energy source that drove the industrial revolution. ...

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I reckon this fellow is f**ked. A Liberal MP and member of the parliamentary committee that oversees MPs’ privileges and interests has spent more than $10,000 on questionable travel and billed taxpayers for about $2500 on books that bear no obvious relation to his job, Fairfax Media can reveal. My w...

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Let's be honest, the reason we are so rich today compared to 150 years ago is due to oil, and to a lesser extent, coal. Cheap energy has given us wealth our forefathers (and mothers) couldn't comprehend. Fossil fuels have transformed the world in a million ways. It's a much, much better world now. W...

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Australia's remaining handful of Labor voters need to buckle down for a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng time in the wilderness. Any one of the Williamson, Obeid, McDonald, or Craig Thomson stories would sink a political party for years. Add them all up, and the future is definitely blue as far as the eye can see...

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We become leading edge in alternative energy sources. Fact is Towny, to properly price a product, you need to be aware of all of the costs associated with the product. At the moment, the cost of coal and oil products does not include the cost on society of added pollution, both from an AGW perspect...

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Yeah? I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better! We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism. Better convince the voters it's in their best interests to work for $2.33 an hour. Might pa...

towny

Yeah? I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better! We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism. Fair enough Towny, I am happy to see some short term pain if the outcome is a long term ben...

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Yeah? I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better! We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism. The current value of the AUD is far more significant. We simply have to adapt, or we will b...

towny

Yeah?

I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better!

We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism.

towny

Australia could cut it's emissions to zero and the summers will continue to be hotter than ever. China and India will keep increasing their coal imports and we'll continue to keep selling them this carbon intensive fuel which they desperately need. If Australia was REALLY serious about emissions, we...

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Australia's remaining handful of Labor voters need to buckle down for a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng time in the wilderness. Any one of the Williamson, Obeid, McDonald, or Craig Thomson stories would sink a political party for years. Add them all up, and the future is definitely blue as far as the eye can see...

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I think the parents should be punished for their irresponsible behaviour.

Losing their only child isn't penalty enough. Only a fine and/or short term imprisonment will act as a deterrent for others.

towny

He's got to kick her bogan arse imo, but disendorsing someone would only lead to internal grief; something the ALP needs to avoid. I'm not sure what disciplinary methods he's got at his disposal though..... maybe it's best if he just ignores her whinging and gets on with the job. He needs to start ...

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Yeah I was never a big fan of Anna Burke, and her epic dummy spit will have won her no friends within the ALP. Shorten has vowed to crack down on disunity, I hope he comes down on her hard. We can't have lowly backbenchers airing the party's dirty laundry through the media. i'd seriously consider d...

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Yeah I was never a big fan of Anna Burke, and her epic dummy spit will have won her no friends within the ALP. Shorten has vowed to crack down on disunity, I hope he comes down on her hard. We can't have lowly backbenchers airing the party's dirty laundry through the media. i'd seriously consider d...

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The ALP has a new front bench. Anna Burke is carrying on like a pork chop as she didn't get a front bench position, This apparently it means the party is run by 'faceless MEN'. She doesn't like factions either.... Maybe she didn't get a spot as she comes across as a dumb bogan? No... it can't be tha...

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Bump for a surprisingly ignorant Shanky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtDNXfMyD0 In my defence, I never watched that show. :blush: You're f**king lucky. You can now watch one of the great TV shows of all time. I was going to compile a whole load of the lexicon but let me just leave you with this...

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Abbott enjoys power too much. Although the current IR laws are pretty f**king shit, I reckon Abbott will leave IR alone and enjoy being PM. It's the ALP's fantasy that he'll bring back workchoices. That's almost their only line of attack...... for the time being. I don't think anyone thinks Abbott ...

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Considering that 2013 Australia hates the union movement, perhaps it's some of those from the other side of the politics stuck in the olden days. ;) Some people hate the union movement because they now take for granted the rights and conditions which unions have worked so hard to gain and protect o...

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Abbott enjoys power too much.

Although the current IR laws are pretty f**king shit, I reckon Abbott will leave IR alone and enjoy being PM.

It's the ALP's fantasy that he'll bring back workchoices. That's almost their only line of attack...... for the time being.

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guy smiley wrote:
towny wrote: Considering that 2013 Australia hates the union movement, perhaps it's some of those from the other side of the politics stuck in the olden days.
Which 2013 Australia is that? The bit stuck in the 1950s?

The facebook loving, Reality TV show watching Australia of today.

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Bill Shorten aged 46 Tanya Plibersek aged 43 Tony Abbott aged 55 Warren Truss aged 66 The contrast in age, gender balance and ideology between the two leadership teams could not be more stark. To be fair, Abbott's got the energy of a 20 year old though. He may have the energy of a 20 year old, but ...

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I saw him speaking in tv this morning. I think he'll have the same issue as Julia in that she found it hard to read anything scripted without sounding insincere and as if she was "babying" the audience. He should speak with no notes he's more convincing and appears more trustworthy that way. I reme...

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I just Googled this, and in 2010-2011 Chinese police rescued more than 13,000 abducted children! http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-china-crime-kidnapping-idUSBRE98R02H20130928 In the United States, about 80 percent of the children reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited...

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_fatprop wrote:It will be interesting to see how they play opposition, do they emulate Abbott and oppose everything or do they try to be constructive?

It's going to be hard opposing everything Abbott does; he's doing many things he opposed himself.

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140 thousand kids go missing in the UK EACH YEAR: https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/missing-people/116-000/big-tweet-coming-soon 275 thousand people in total go missing EACH YEAR in the UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html Wha...

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140 thousand kids go missing in the UK EACH YEAR: https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/missing-people/116-000/big-tweet-coming-soon 275 thousand people in total go missing EACH YEAR in the UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html f**...

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The people I know that know Shorten don't like, and more importantly, don't trust him. Bad choice imo. I've read the opposite: that Shorten is universally well liked. In the words of the politically neutral Financial Review: Yeah, I reckon you're right. The blokes that I know have spent the past fe...

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6roucho wrote:Yeah, London was much better when it wasn't a multi-enthic global city. In 1355.

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