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Albo will need to lift his game if he wants to be a winning Prime Minister. He doesn't seem able to sell any policies.

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Bindi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:02 am It's sickening that Albo is giving more people greater tax cuts, while the rich will still get a tax cut.

That's politics.

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The Hurled gives RR's career a lot of coverage today. Worth reading.

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jono45 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:20 am
wamberal wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:03 am We should never forget how corrupt the NSW Police used to be.
Lol....just the NSW police force.....?

I was born in NSW, and worked in the courts for a few years. Illegal gambling dens, sly grog shops, etc etc were just taken for granted. Sydney was absolutely riddled with corruption.

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We should never forget how corrupt the NSW Police used to be.

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I have a similar worry with my daughter with downs who just turned 1. 90% of the time everything is fine apart from the usual young kids thing, then you get the fear about what happens in 30 years, do I have enough time to set her up (unlikely except for our house), will her older sister do a Eug a...

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I hate my 40s with a passion. Having said that recently I started dating again and I have met someone I really like, so things are starting to look up again. I did not take any notice of this fred, being in my 80's!! I just stumbled over it and was struck by the depth of feeling being expressed. Th...

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wasnt non -white immigration mostly banned until the 1970s in australia? We had what was known as "The White Australia Policy" until about 1949. It was progressively dismantled until the advent of the Whitlam Labor government in 1972, at which point it was done away with. Our indigenous brothers an...

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I think wambers is the only other one here who can share your experience of 1950's Australia... I remember that my mother used to walk a long way to patronise a fruit shop that was run by two Chinese couples: the Lings. They were just like us (we assumed) just looked a bit different. At High School...

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Let's not wet our pants just yet. Iowa was always going to pick Drump. There's a long way to go until he wins the nomination. Haley could win New Hampshire.

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JPNZ wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:38 pm Have heard some great things about this Australian series on NF

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/boy_s ... iverse/s01

"Boy swallows universe" is a highly regarded novel, if anybody still reads these days.

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Spinbad wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:01 am

It was telling, I thought, that the President mentioned during closing arguments Engeron's nauseating incapacity to attentively listen (throughout the abortive proceedings).

Drump is not the President. He is the former President.

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grievous wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:59 am Its looking serious, nowhere to buy our Oz flag thongs and wifebeaters for OZ day.

Is there a chance these same retailers could also ban hot cross buns and xmas sales?

They'll sell whatever they can make money from. Obviously the Australia Day stuff is not profitable.

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7,305 days ago, on 11 January 2004, I woke soaked in sweat from a brutal nightmare involving alcohol. I took our dog for her morning walk and when I sat down for breakfast, my wife passed me the contact information for the local sobriety support group, with a gentle "maybe it is time to give them a...

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He would be in my all time XV. Fabulous player.

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On the general subject of scrums and idiocy, how about the shambles that follows when a hooker gets a card.

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A neighbour of ours flies for Qantas. He loves Boeing. Or at least he prefers Boeing to Airbus, thanks.

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Admittedly, Brunswick Heads is more doable when there's only two of you. Those donga-equivalents in the camping ground are not too bad out of high season. Used to love the pub at Brunswick Heads, but have not been down there for a fair while, due to Covid and also we had friends who lived there and...

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I imagine some people might have changed their travel plans when the tornado ripped through the Goldie?

Plus heaps of storms up the coast as well. Port Douglas has been cut off.

Better to stay at home.

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He went the same way a Seymour Hersch. He may once have been an actual journalist of moral integrity, but in the end he he became a fully paid up apologist for monsters. He got old sadly Show me someone who got old happily and I'll show you someone with dementia Mmmmm. Getting old is not for wimps,...

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You're a bit late, mate.

Happy New Year to you and yours, and the whole bloody world (except for all warmongers, despoilers of the natural environment, corporations who exploit the poor and self-interested, selfish, politicians).

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It's pretty obvious that there is no obvious and workable solution that would be acceptable to all the actors.

The Palestinians threw away the chance of a two state solution.

Sad situation.

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True Blue wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:19 am Australia's bowling attack certainly is very strong. Three excellent pace bowlers and a very useful spinner.

Useful? 500 Test wickets is more than useful.

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MungoMan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:19 am Susan Ley, ey? I'd cut her head off and shit down her windpipe.

Just sayin', like.

Sussan - nassty name. Almost as bad as Michaelia. No wonder they grew up hating the world.

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None.

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I don't mean to cast aspersions, but I do remember as a youngster in the late 80s, that people at the time were talking about Alan Jones' close relationship with player Brian Smith. I thought it was just innuendo, but now as these revelations come to light, I'm beginning to wonder if there was some...

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I wonder how many of these stories SMH/The Age have in the can... https://www.theage.com.au/national/schoolboy-went-to-police-over-alan-jones-indecent-assault-allegation-20231210-p5eqe3.html More than they need to squash him like a bug. Are they going to drip feed them so that several politicians a...

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Slim 293 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:41 am I wonder how many of these stories SMH/The Age have in the can...

https://www.theage.com.au/national/scho ... 5eqe3.html

More than they need to squash him like a bug.

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Sounds like he didnt want to be there, toxic environment, poorly managed game by RA, getting smashed in the press every week. More may go for the same reasons. Mungoes having a field day in SMH comments. And we are not even sure what we are getting with Sualli. However that hasnt stopped Waugh sayi...

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If "Hamas and their supporters need to be totally eliminated" I suppose that means World War 3?

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ticketlessinseattle wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:03 am
wamberal wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:55 pm Slow Horses Series 3!!!! Worth the wait.
yup, looking forward to it

It is available in Australia on Apple.

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Don't put ice in your G & Ts.

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QLD will almost certainly change hands at the next State election.

If it does, that will be good news for the Feds. There are some hillbillies in the QLD LNP.

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The SMH is predicting that Albo is looking like a one-term wonder. I preferred him to Shorten but he has underperformed amazingly.

Minority ALP Government next time around unless they pull their socks up.

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Slow Horses Series 3!!!! Worth the wait.

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I've done a lot of travelling in the last 10 years and regional and rural Australian towns are just getting worse. Esk is pretty enough but then you encounter the "fuggenyoulookenatyafuggenkuntfuggenstabya" types. All those small towns are weird now. Full of "Sovereign Citizens", anti-vaxes, and so...

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In political terms, what saves this policy is the existence of the Catholic school system. Indeed. But, mistakes in Policies back in the day shouldn't be used as an excuse for an unfair system There are probably zero private schools with demountables on the playing fields It's politics though, noth...

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In political terms, what saves this policy is the existence of the Catholic school system.

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Back when I left school in the early 2000s the Brisbane GPS schools were hands down the best academically in terms of year 12 marks and placement into uni. Different to nsw with the selective schools. No idea if it’s changed now though. It's shifted somewhat but there are no state high schools in t...

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I’m a bit sick of this lose:lose approach to the NRL. They’ve got a better club comp in only this part of the world. Union has a superior international game. For union to succeed it needs a portion of league people to pick it up as a secondary sporting interest. Gee, if only we had thought of this....

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