The election thread - Two middle-late aged white men trying to be blokey and convincing..., same old shit, FFS.

Who will you vote for?

  • Liberals

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Labor

    Votes: 21 31.8%
  • Nationals

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Greens

    Votes: 21 31.8%
  • Independant

    Votes: 15 22.7%
  • The Clive Palmer shit show

    Votes: 4 6.1%
  • Shooters and Fishers Party

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • One Nation

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Donkey/Invalid vote

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Total voters
    66

Ben-e

Captain Critter!
Successive Australian govts should be tarred and feathered for the politicisation of national and critical infrastructure. The NBN is a national fucking embarrassment and it's the only choice we have. I share @Sky_Collapsed frustration, to be honest.
Its an international embarrassment; when you can get internet x4 speed in a developing nation like Indo. And still, no-one in Australia has been held accountable for utterly slow speeds and eye waveringly high prices.

There has been lots mentioned on Rotorburn regarding the NBN; this essential piece of infrastructure was f#$ked on two fronts;

1) Politicisation: Originally proposed in 2006 by ALP, the LNP has always been sore they didn't originally champion the tech. In 2010 Turnbull and Abbott proposed to decommission the NBN program, and in 2013 they proposed the insane mixed tech. Although NBN delivery was mostly done under LNP Govs, they always blame ALP for NBN issues (performance and construction cost blowout).

2) Corporate Influence: on LNP; redundant streaming products which were heavily threatened by NBN; the above LNP duo proposing the mixed tech under the guise of construction cost saving, knowing full well normal household consumers would be the ones to suffer, propping up corporations which were using older tech. Follow the money.

The Fed and State LNP has much to answer for in its failure to deliver infrastructure and policy; public money is used to build critical infrastructure such as roads, comms etc, but inevitably falls short due to some corporate influence. Look at Sydney toll roads; all built with public money and leased to the private sector; normal families fork out huge tolls on infrastructure they originally paid for. Or the lockout law policy; killed Sydney overnight, but the casino (highest rate of violence of any venue) retained 24 hour gaming and liquor license...
 

oldcorollas

Levin the moment
This sounds like an election winning policy :)
(For anyone sitting at home of an evening or weekend, wishing their boss would call them)

"Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election."
 

silentbutdeadly

has some good things to say
This sounds like an election winning policy :)
(For anyone sitting at home of an evening or weekend, wishing their boss would call them)

"Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election."
That's only because he and the rest of his mob would have to hire another full shift of press secretaries etc to stay legal.
 

Sky_Collapsed

Not particularly enlightened
Maybe give fast https://fast.com/ a try occasionally since Netflix seem to have something to do with it using your PC. You don't need that much bandwidth for HD hence wondering if a VPN might be to blame.
60mbps.

Seems to be weather dependant. wind seems to upset it alot.

Never used to have these issues.

Might be time they logged the bush around the tower.

Everyone else around me has also been having issues/
 

Mr Crudley

Glock in your sock
60mbps.

Seems to be weather dependant. wind seems to upset it alot.

Never used to have these issues.

Might be time they logged the bush around the tower.

Everyone else around me has also been having issues/
A likely cause. I have HFC cable here and it would go slow or disconnect in heavy rains. The rain entered the pit outside and the co-ax connectors ended up rusting and messing up the joint. They fixed it an I asked them to wrangle the co-ax connection to be on top side instead of at the bottom dirt facing side. All good since then.

Seems like some water ingress might be getting in there somewhere.
 

Ben-e

Captain Critter!
In his words, Ex Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby was sitting on a planter and fell, wobbly from mixing prescription medication and alcohol. How good is our country, that a serving politician can lay in a drunken heap in public

 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
I reckon this is bullshit. If that was the case his wife would have said so when she had a spit about it the following day. In that spit she even mentioned Barnaby helping someone once who had suffered a medical issue in the street.
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
I reckon this is bullshit. If that was the case his wife would have said so when she had a spit about it the following day. In that spit she even mentioned Barnaby helping someone once who had suffered a medical issue in the street.

I think you cross the line when you do this crap in public when you're a politician, ok in privacy but it's going too far. This is the garbage that our taxes pay for, if I was there I would have booted him in the balls.
 

Scotty T

Walks the walk
I reckon this is bullshit. If that was the case his wife would have said so when she had a spit about it the following day. In that spit she even mentioned Barnaby helping someone once who had suffered a medical issue in the street.
Yep, he was just fully schoonered, there is no medication. At least none that makes him more flogged than he usually gets.
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
I wouldn't have booted him in the balls, but I definitely would have taken better quality photos/video. Actually I have an idea for a film! Nit quite weekend at Bernie's, but similar...a couple of Canberra youths take the honourable very drunk member around town for more drinks and a trip to the strip club. It couldn't be too hard to inspire some enthusiasm with a bit "up you get big man. We need to keep moving..."
 
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