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[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

The toppings contain Potassium Benzoate

That's bad

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

The toppings contain Potassium Benzoate...
That's bad

Can I go now?

 

[Sethius]

When will the idiots get back to running the country and stop bickering about each others BS. Would love to vote a no confidence motion in the lot of them..

 

[Skydome]

enjoy being water boarded while electroshocked on the nuts

how big is the electric shock?

A nice little electrical tingling on the balls kinda turns me on

 

[pharmaboy]

Can I go now?

Yes homer, you can go...

 

[Skydome]

So apparently there could be as many as 14 pollies getting sent to the high court to sort their citizenship out.

this shit is really just getting annoying now. i think it's time to just dissolve parliament and either do a fresh election now or do a fresh one come January to clean shit up (Hopefully).

 

[johnny]

Maybe a referrendum with the next election too in order to clean up S44.

 

[Oddjob]

Maybe a referrendum with the next election too in order to clean up S44.

Why bother. It should be relatively simple for the AEC to issue a yes/no eligibility questionnaire to nominees.

Were you born in Australia yes/no

Were your parents born in Australia yes/no etc.

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[Mica]

To go down a different political tangent I’ve just come across Dick Smith Fair Go after stumbling across their ad in the paper.

https://www.dicksmithfairgo.com.au

I think SouthPark sums up their policies best

Sadly I can see them getting a bit of traction.

 

[pharmaboy]

Why bother. It should be relatively simple for the AEC to issue a yes/no eligibility questionnaire to nominees.

Were you born in Australia yes/no

Were your parents born in Australia yes/no etc.

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Well that doesn’t get you anywhere. What?, only third generation Aussies are allowed in parliament ?

It’s not the question per se, it’s the complication of the answer.

People keep on blaming the pollies which just shows an ignorance of what has happened.

Before this last 2 months, no one had been considered a citizen of another country who had An inherited citizenship - moreover also one which they hadn’t sought or applied for. Add to that a person who had never held a foreign passport . These few things have added the dozen, maybe 2 dozen now in some sort of question, because now we have to also figure out is reasonable steps to apply to the date of acceptance, a date of sending an application, a date of accepting money, offical notification received?

Going by what I see on social media and the media generally the level of knowledge of this problem is extreme - or perhaps the willingness to comment is strongest from those with no idea. For that reason alone, a referendum is pointless because the population is too stupid or lazy to make even a ham fisted effort to understand (same goes for their leaders in the media)

The high court had the chance to draw a line in the sand, and now they are going to have to have another go. No matter how much they abstain sooner or later, they are going to have to draw really clear lines in the sand so everyone knows precisely what these new rules are that they are playing to.

 

[Tubbsy]

Let's all get gay

 

[Oddjob]

The high court has ruled on this many times previously so the eligibility question is nothing new.

Any Australian citizen can stand as an mp as long as they have taken reasonable steps to renounce any other citizenship they may be entitled to. This includes migrants and their children.

Dick Smith is in a tight political spot. The easiest way to limit population growth is to limit immigration. This makes the blood and soil far right his natural allies and that opens a can of worms.

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[pink poodle]

Do you think they deliberately used Shanghai as their comparative city to appeal the racist fear of too many Asians in Sydney? Or is it just a coincidence?

 

[Skydome]

Maybe a referrendum with the next election too in order to clean up S44.

as in to make it more clear or remove s44?

if remove absolutely not, it's there for a reason but if to make it more of a clear cut case and less of a maze, then sure.

 

[hifiandmtb]

To go down a different political tangent I’ve just come across Dick Smith Fair Go after stumbling across their ad in the paper.

https://www.dicksmithfairgo.com.au

I think SouthPark sums up their policies best

Sadly I can see them getting a bit of traction.

The Dickster is not about targeting certain demographics or immigration per se - he's just calling out that we parasitic humans CAN"T CONTINUE TO GROW TO INFINITY!

It's fucking obvious.

 

[pharmaboy]

Long term, maybe the question we should be asking is how many are too many and at what point does the quality of life decline for the inhabitants of Australia

At 3% I make the population 66m by 2050. Sydney will have to be 15m by then which would be highrises more like Singapore density.

Who is the govt responsible for, the global population of people who want to come here? Or the people who are already here? If it’s the latter, then what is in their best interests?

 

[Skydome]

Long term, maybe the question we should be asking is how many are too many and at what point does the quality of life decline for the inhabitants of Australia

Already is declining but this is due to a multitude of issues.

-Politicians not actually giving a shit about actuon Australian's and only been in it for themselves

-Failure to keep with the times and changing technology. As an example had we started upgrading the net infra back in 200-2005 we could have been a smaller brother to silicone valley and wouldn't have to ship our talent off to cali all the time.

-Failure to help low income Aussies stay afloat and stay ahead

-And much muich more but i don't want to bore people too much

 

[pink poodle]

-Politicians not actually giving a shit about actuon Australian's and only been in it for themselves

-Failure to keep with the times and changing technology. As an example had we started upgrading the net infra back in 200-2005 we could have been a smaller brother to silicone valley and wouldn't have to ship our talent off to cali all the time.

I see the government doesn't have a particularly strong game across the 3 Rs.

Optus tried to roll out fibre optic cable a long long long time ago. They intended to hang it with the power lines. People complained it was ugly and that was the end of the roll out. The internet was new and nobody really understood just how much porn they would have access too...

 

[Tubbsy]

Optus tried to roll out fibre optic cable a long long long time ago. They intended to hang it with the power lines. People complained it was ugly and that was the end of the roll out.

I had a job one summer door knocking for Optus Vision as it was called, wearing an embroidered polo shirt and cap. My job was to find the person in charge of the body corporate in apartment blocks and tell them the building could be connected for free to allow people in the units to sign up. It was more about cable tv, not sure whether the internet was much of a thing then.

I had a lot of doors slam in my face. People hated those extra cables.

 

[pink poodle]

The internet was so young...but great opportunity to actually have kind of up to date technology rolled out at no cost to the government pissed away. If you'd have just told people about the porn!