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jambanja wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:22 am So 5 day lockdown for you guys, what does tat mean for the COVID open, no fans or are they canning it

No fans ... until at least the quarterfinal stage in week two.

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they see Australia probably as too far gone to the UK et al. That might be roughly so, but I wouldn't put it that way. The UK is trying to make a partial pivot to the east in seeking new friends for obvious reasons. Australia has been playing this as their main game all the while (even if it didn't...

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- why would the Federal Govt take responsibility for quarantine - on what level would that be a better outcome? The Feds are constitutionally responsible for quarantine, always have been. - is there any evidence that the states want the Federal govt to manage quarantine? The words 'management' and ...

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It's like a bookkeeper's convention.

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Well looky looky at all the accountants on here, eh ...

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The stoush continues. Google opens paid-for Australian platform in drive to undercut Government's proposed content payment laws Posted Yesterday at 6:01pm Google has launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for after striking its own content deals with publishers. Key points: The p...

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True test of vocal talent. I'll start with one of the greatest of all time. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Drugged-up povos who can't pay their electricity bill. True ... although if you didn't know who it was, might rate it higher. I always mondegreen lyrics, so took a look at this one. He left no ...

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The wheels keep rolling. Snippets via (yet another) amp link... Scott Morrison holds 'constructive, respectful' talks with global Google boss after threats to exit Australia By 9News Staff - 2 hours ago ... Scott Morrison has described this morning's meeting with the global CEO of Google's parent co...

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guy smiley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:55 am Nuff nuff doesn’t stack up.

Comes from the command "enough, enough". Means he's a dill.

guy smiley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:55 am Why try to diminish others who disagree with your opinion?

Disagree? And yet already conceded HQ isn't stopping transmission.

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Hotel quarantine doesn't work. https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/latest-hotel-quarantine-leak-proves-we-re-not-lear Also ... The Grand Hyatt was one of three quarantine hotels used by the Australian Open to quarantine more than 1,000 players and support staff ahead of the tournament. Are yo...

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Flyin Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 3:54 pm Probably a net money loser even in the best of times right?

I prefer the term "loss leader"

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Hotel quarantine doesn't work.

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinic ... e-not-lear

Also ...

The Grand Hyatt was one of three quarantine hotels used by the Australian Open to quarantine more than 1,000 players and support staff ahead of the tournament.

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Yeah, I saw it. I’m so firmly opposed I figured I’d just leave it alone. :thumbup: M8, that's nuts ... anyway, How do you propose running a 12 team comp in less than three months? I would model it from this year's TT crossover format. Would give in the order of 6 + 1 = 7 weeks required, or thereabo...

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I'm in favour, better than a UK based series. Perth has a lot of South African fans? A fair number. Probably only about 30k saffers in Perth (plus 10k whenwe's) but a lot would like rugby. Also one thing with Perth is 8.30pm time is 2.30pm in SA. By contrast, there's something like 170k GB&I born, ...

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How about the Saffas rejoin? It's ridiculous they're coming U brung em, u keep em. How do you propose running a 12 team comp in less than three months? Not with a copy of the same draft bounced from the printers. Will post a bit more in a bit once I get off my phone. It is copy and paste, just not ...

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guy smiley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:29 pm Oh, there’s no reason we can’t expand it out and go to a conference style format...

Nyahhhh nup no.

LOL fine. You mentioned the C word, not me

guy smiley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:29 pm 3 months worth of excitement.

Too long.

guy smiley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:29 pm Just keep Marinos away from it.

We have to suffer him ... and now so do you.

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Excellent news Flagg :thumbup: :thumbup: I shudder to think what a Fijian team with returned pros from Europe in its ranks could be like :lol: :lol: Indeed :lol: This is really good news for Growing The Game and my dream of a potential Pacific Rim type of pro comp. it’ll attract tv money as well. G...

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MungoMan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:44 pm Gee, I hope the story proves true. The Drua were marvellous to watch in the NRC.

Would like to see the NRC revive as well.

Vaccine dependent, probably.

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As a Fijian, I'm obviously stoked to have a team in the competition playing against some of the best. Just wondering how the news would be received by fans in Australia and NZ. FWIW I think it won't actually happen. Good news! I am in favour of Drua in Supe. It could happen. I understand a Fiji pro...

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What would Australia do if China forcibly took control of Taiwan? Send thoughts and prayers. What would Bojo do? But, put more rudely, the tacit agenda is one of strategic containment of China, allied with a surrounding ring of countries in the region, i.e. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Vietnam (and...

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Has Kiap always had a raging hard-on for News Ltd, and Rupert Murdoch, and I've simply missed this side of his posting? Let's see... Who has paid Murdoch $1,500 a year for 25 years to gleefully rub one out nightly to Sky After Dark? Not I. ... all the while boasting about it daily to middle-aged me...

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Step back and consider why Google are fighting so hard over this. It's clearly a massive, free, windfall for them at present. Ya reckon? No possibility that they’re fighting hard to protect themselves from unreasonable and impractical regulation that clearly favours one side? None. Mat hasn't sudde...

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Layering on shit is an art form.

It's not about spraying a uniform, unending slurry of turd. That's boring as fvck.

You have to vary the rate of application.

A small crouton of dung, then follow up with a large steamer...

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As for the upper house... I threw the idea up as a starting point, not a solution. Discuss it if you want. Maybe even suggest something rather than simply oppose another point of view. The Westminster system has an inherent duality, as you well know. That is why there are opposing benches in every ...

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All the while lovingly sucking Rupert's old wrinkled sac.

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Can the head of Australian government be from the Australian Senate, and if this theoretically happened would this be socially acceptable to the electorate? Yes, and it is not theoretical, it has happened in the past (John Gorton, PM 1968-71) . I covered the "Washminister" nature of the Australian ...

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But as I said earlier the Queensland border is a much better example. there's just under a million people in the GC/Northern Rivers region with a couple more million 100km away up the motorway. We don't need to make up theoreticals about Sydney to Newcastle. I got a bit bored and pasted a flipped m...

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Midfieldmaestro wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:30 am List of things not in nz today :
1. No New Covid 19 cases
2. No Rugby World Cup

Does the Women's RWC look like happening there this year?

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The balance is for a system that arguably died a hundred years ago. You have a king that's not supposed to have any power and you have an upper house that's not supposed to have any power. Not really. The system has evolved over time. Most national examples are less than a hundred years old. In Aus...

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I'd support a republic, but wouldn't spend $5 to achieve it. OK, $4.99 it is then ... each. So, times twenny five point something, carry the one, That's 100 million bucks. When do we start? When you convince 25 million people to fork over. Knock it down to 40%, can't say fairer than that. That's 40...

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Zakar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:59 pm I'd support a republic, but wouldn't spend $5 to achieve it.

OK, $4.99 it is then ... each. So, times twenny five point something, carry the one,

That's 100 million bucks.

When do we start?

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Who are these parties? Don’t be silly Kiap. Just answer the question, senator. :) Despite clear shifts in voter intentions over recent years there has been a clear duality in parliament for decades, entrenched to the extent that only some massive upheaval will see that change. It’s unrepresentative...

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a ‘preferential’ voting system that sees votes from candidates redistributed to determine a first past the post winner, And deliberately so ... although your use of 'first past the post' is unfortunate as it refers to a different method. the result is that realistically only two parties ever share ...

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... weakness of Canadian party mechanisms that force executives to bend to Parliamentary caucus will. This makes removal of party leaders by cabinet and elected members more difficult than other Westminster democracies. The so-called presidentialization has occurred in most Westminster democracies,...

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Bindi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:23 am A colour is going to be selected. I don't see how anyone could not go for 80s gold.

8, 7, 2, 5,
3, 4, 4, 5.

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OK, won't post something from my usual favoured Australia Day schtick of eighties to noughties this time. Will try something old/new instead I hadn't heard or seen before today. This is from the Gore Hill ABC studio. I went to a few live TV audiences there when I lived in Sydney a while ago, but tha...

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So, who is supporting this payment for news content?

Both major parties ... Greens ...

National broadcast doyen?

Is this law 100% about propping up Murdoch’s empire? => The answer is no.

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Most cities in Australia have one paper - generally owned by Murdoch. So what does the Australian-domiciled written news media landscape look like these days? It has changed quite a lot in the last 7 or so years and resembles this across multiple platforms: https://i.imgur.com/iIUOa2c.png Online is...

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So we shouldn’t discuss things unless we will have influence .. Dreams are free. My point is that this law is 100% propping up Murdoch’s empire. There is no justification otherwise, and the media goes along with it because of the conflict of interest that comes with being direct beneficiaries. 100%...

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Kiap, care to respond to Towny's lengthy post, 2 comments up? Yep, although it was addressed to you not me. It's a ramshackle bird's nest. i.e. pieced together from picked up sticks and random bits of fluff ... then glued with guano. Sorry. Which bit do you need explained more slowly? Look, it's en...

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