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He did say that the intention is to store it here.

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Two days. Gee, it must be lonely here for you, Bill. How does it feel to be so right, when just about every other poster is so wrong. Come to think of it, that is pretty much Trump's modus operandi. Then again, two days is about how long it takes him to change his position completely on just about ...

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That's just crazy talk. You're mental. All the people I know who watch/follow one of the codes also follow the other - sure they will always have a preferred code but they will have a knowledge and interest in both. My guess would be that it might have something to do with one's age, and where one ...

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Are you saying these are not quotes by Trump, Bill? Forget Trump, just consider the actions on their own. Quite frankly, your defence of it is baffling. No its not baffling at all. It is just par for the course for the tiny claque of weird Trumpanistas who hang around the bored fouling it up with t...

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Ummm ... who is non-white? Be a smart arse if you like. Abdo is privately, well educated Management Consultant. Not sure of where his love of league comes from. I don't like the game much, but there are a lot of people in Australia who like it, from all backgrounds. Some of them went to private sch...

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https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2020-andrew-abdo-nrl-ceo-todd-greenberg-blake-solly-don-furner-dave-donaghy-rugby-league/news-story/969799a554a05a53f39e0b89af42623a Which is Super Rugby's main competitor. Let's hope he is influenced by the Ghost of Doc Craven, who is the main r...

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BillW: Surprising nobody.... So Trump was right then. He repeatedly stressed that it may not work. If a person in a position of great power makes enough outrageous claims and outright lies, occasionally he will get something right by default. Trump does not "repeatedly stress" anything factual, Bill...

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Pat the Ex Mat wrote:
I used up all my points upgrading to premium economy to the US last month

I redeemed our points for some very nice wine. Then again, I renewed our Golden Wing membership a couple of weeks before Ansett went tits up. Still rankles.

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Ali's Choice wrote: And I say this is a Rugby fan because we won't want the NRL hoovering up every talented youngster in the country.

Gee, they're getting most of them.

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merry! wrote:
and this is one of the brighter of the never trumpers..

Says one of the uniformly dumb Trumpanistas.

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In Brisbane you can get tested if you have symptoms. I assume there could be carriers who are asymptomatic? For the moment, I'd say Australia is on top of it. Could change rapidly of course, but it's great news. Yes, it is. Here's hoping. This has been the easy bit, I reckon, opening things up is w...

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Bindi wrote:Zero new cases in Queensland overnight! No cases in WA, SA and NT for a few days. Only 6 Australia wide.

Although I do wonder what we might find if we did more testing?

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Pat the Ex Mat wrote:"Leadership":

Politicians including Barnaby Joyce are refusing to use the official COVID-19 contact tracing app,

I am a bit ashamed to admit that I would be quite happy for this loon to be struck down with the pestilence.

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Qantas is etched into the National psyche, if that fails there would be consequences beyond just a company going bust. My neighbour is a Qantas pilot. Three or four months ago he was told that he would be relocating to Perth early next year as part of the flight crew contingent for the planned dire...

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Do the Trump supporters realise that these people are a reflection of them? This is how they are seen. This is how they are judged. Before the Presidential election, Trump said something to the effect that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight and his supporters would still vote for him. If tha...

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I thought Hillary campaigned okay. She certainly made an effort, and the fact that she won the popular national vote by over a million suggests that others felt the same way. Her "deplorables" comment was regrettable and a mistake, but it's also fact. Huge swathes of Trump's supporters are absolute...

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Floppykid wrote:They kinda have a kicking coming after electing Trump, let's be frank.

Hillary has a kicking coming to her, for sure. Her inept campaigning, crowned by her totally idiotic "deplorables" quote is what did it.

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Yet the Qld state government has let another Chinese backed energy company force a new contract in quick time just to get some positive investment news. This is the sort of offshore resource based dependency we need to wean ourselves away from. All apparently for 1000 jobs. We could create 1000 job...

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I don't understand Australians, ScoMo really is as thick as shit. A big stinking log. Not his fault he is stupid, maybe we didn't have any better options, but he is a reflection of Australia, old, catholic, science-skeptic, hypocrite and mentally rigid. Far be it for me to defend Scummo. However, h...

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TBH, I just want to watch some rugby. Please????

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If you get the LRB I can only suggest the obvious: New Statesman, Spectator, Oldie, New Yorker, Economist. Of those, the New Statesman is easily the worst. The others are a matter of taste. I think the Spectator is the best combination of politics, books, lifestyle and so on, without the New Yorker...

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This will be a huge test for the Murcan system. No health insurance? Sorry to hear that. Try to die quietly, please. We don't want to upset King Orangeface.

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Tehui wrote:Speaking of players, can we get a little love for Jean Condom?

IIRC he could play either prop or hooker.

As for my picks, Gavin Hastings and Matthew Burke.

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Ali's Choice wrote:
I reckon 90% of Super Rugby viewers wouldn't even know who the head of SANZAAR is.

Make that 99.5% and you would be a lot closer to the mark.

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It's looking more and more like a Public relations misstep/disaster. V'Landys has had a fair bit of success when he has bullied politicians in his previous incarnation. Bluff and bluster has worked for him. Unless this was an attempt to placate the broadcasting partners it does look like massive mi...

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Who cares?

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Demilich wrote:Tigers could sure use someone like Jordan Petaia - hopefully enquiries are being made.

Bugger off. The Pussycats might want him, but why on earth would he want to stoop so low?

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Whilst it would be nice to think we will come out of this to a better world, will we? Too many vested interests. I hope I'm wrong Well, one thing is for sure, governments are going to have to tighten the belt when the worst is over, and they will be looking for the most obvious revenue targets. Tha...

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Once upon a time rugby was much stronger in rural NSW simply because there was a lot more employment (often on the family-owned property) available for the rah rah demographic. NSW Country used to beat City as often as not, in their annual game. Those were the days when the graziers and other countr...

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Kiwias wrote:Ray Price, the Aussie flanker from way back

He played through his last (only?) UK tour with a hernia. It was not a secret, everybody knew about it. Madman.

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Bindi wrote:Matthew Burke at 15 ffs.

Na. Don Clarke. Simply the best, especially considering the heavy old leather ball that he used, the lack of tees, etc etc.

The only thing lacking is that, unlike Matthew, he did not play for Eastwood.

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BBB wrote: The NRL are saying Hazzard told them at that last meeting to deal with his deputy (Barilaro) from then on.

Even these thickos would know that Barilaro is not Hazzard's deputy. In point of fact, Barilaro is actually the Deputy Premier.

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I heard an interview with Brad Hazzard, the NSW Minister for Health, whose approval would presumably be essentisl (along with other authorities of course). He said, clearly and unequivocally, that he had had no contact with the NRL for more than a month, and as far as he was concerned there was no a...

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Here's my fearless forecast. It will not happen.

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I would have thought that the ABS would release figures like this? 6 million according to the ABC this morning. In the past they've been released monthly but the last figures I can find are from early Feb. I am absolutely not a statistician, but I could imagine that the sheer scale of the impact on...

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BokJock wrote:Trump flat out lying about voter fraud again

1 million people illegally voted in California, apparently

Straight out of the Joseph Goebbels play book. "If you tell a lie that is big enough......."

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I would have thought that the ABS would release figures like this? 6 million according to the ABC this morning.

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The old FIA would almost certainly have been the major Union involved. You may remember it was headed for yonks by Laurie Short, a former Trotskyist who got so thoroughly sick of the Communist Party giving him grief he eventually ended up quite right-wing. I worked at the Port Kembla steelworks in ...

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Yes, Black Jack McEwen was the Master of Tarrifs. The Whitlam Government began chipping away at that vast edifice only to be replaced by a Fraser regime that did nowt. I sat next to the late Margaret Whitlam on a flight back from Adelaide to Sydney on one memorable occasion. It was a party from beg...

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:blush: Change the thread title Does anyone else have nagging doubts about Pell's ‘innocence’? He comes across as very pedoe to me. Funny how you can gather that from looking at someone. Looking at pictures of all the convicted priests you just say to yourself “yep, he’s a fiddler”. Then wonder how ...

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