Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (XII)

by skully Thu 04 Aug 2016, 03:19

Good luck handling the new Senate, Turncoat.

by Bradman Thu 04 Aug 2016, 04:47

You think he'll even bother with the DD bills? Not sure he has to and there's been some maths to suggest he can do it.

by JGK Thu 04 Aug 2016, 05:05

Funnily enough, it looks like he will get the DD through with FF, ON and NXT being ambivalent about it all.

by horace Sun 07 Aug 2016, 12:07

sounds like a bloody great mess to me...just back from a net free period and did not know the whacko bloodnut has 3 colleagues in the Senate.

by skully Sun 07 Aug 2016, 13:20

Aye h, how farked is that?? Shocked

by embee Sun 07 Aug 2016, 13:32

just replacing the Pups as right wing redneck protest vote recipients

by skully Sun 07 Aug 2016, 13:37

Aye. I almost prefer Pauline to that fat qunt Palmer.

by horace Sun 07 Aug 2016, 13:42

I am just back in Costa Rica from two weeks in Cuba and I had not known the Senate result.

Oddly enough I was asked by a Cuban were there similarities between Trump and Hanson.

I innocently said there were few - pointing to H's lack of influence and that her financial means are modest. Said she had more in common with Palin (minus the religious triumphalism of the latter). The one thing Hanson has in common with both is a complete disregard for facts (and a reliance on Wikipedia).

None of the big parties in Oz, USA, Pomgolia or other western powers have a convincing narrative for those unhappy folk who feel they have missed the gravy train. It seems more people are prone to the siren song of demagogues.

by JGK Sun 07 Aug 2016, 15:29

horace wrote:sounds like a bloody great mess to me...just back from a net free period and did not know the whacko bloodnut has 3 colleagues in the Senate.

I hears the second ON Qld Senator on Insiders this morning. Completely batshit crazy.

by skully Sun 07 Aug 2016, 22:08

Aye. It's real worry when loons like him can control Aus law and finance.

by Bradman Tue 09 Aug 2016, 04:39

Half a million votes would suggest =he's not the only one who's batshit crazy.

by Henry Tue 09 Aug 2016, 13:44

So after assurances from the ABS that their website would "easily" be able to withstand census night, their website has.....crashed. And I myself haven't been able to get on to it since 8pm (It's now 10.45pm)

What a f*cking debacle.

by skully Tue 09 Aug 2016, 13:45

Meh, had no trouble at 6.30 pm.

by embee Tue 09 Aug 2016, 14:10

Did it yesterday

by Henry Tue 09 Aug 2016, 14:23

Yesterday? Isn't one of the main purposes of the census to capture one night in the life of the nation? Where you are, who you're with, how many of you are in the house etc.....

by embee Tue 09 Aug 2016, 14:46

I know ...luckily its the same

by horace Tue 09 Aug 2016, 17:10

missed....excluded by not being there it seems...sent a query re how I could fill in the form and that I needed the code...ABS said they would get back but have not.

I am a big Census fan and of ABS in general...but I think their chronic underfunding has caught them out. Personally I am in favour of identifiers being used and think much of the privacy camp argument is flawed.

If someone like me is happy to identify (to allow better tracking of what happens to people and so help evidence based policy), given my political views being opposed to the current mob of 19thC wannabes, then others should have little to fear.

by horace Tue 09 Aug 2016, 17:12

Have just caught up on the RC into youth detention in the NT and the 4 Corners show that sparked it. No surprises in the show, other than they had vision.

by lardbucket Tue 09 Aug 2016, 22:00

Did not complete it - site inaccessible.

Would have been very frustrating if I had not been trained by years of increasingly useless IT at work.

by Nath Tue 09 Aug 2016, 23:29

hey, someone we know is featured in this article:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/the-funniest-responses-to-the-great-census-bungle-of-2016/news-story/7d0b6f1eae4c4addffc2841e84d82837

by skully Wed 10 Aug 2016, 00:05

Nice find, Nath. I can imagine him fuming away as the site crashed. Very Happy

by embee Wed 10 Aug 2016, 01:01

The person in question put it on facebook

by JGK Wed 10 Aug 2016, 01:17

I asked for a paper version which I filled out in 10 minutes last night - leaving out names and DOBs.

For my "what are your daily tasks at work" I put down "Making magic happen".

by Bradman Wed 10 Aug 2016, 04:43

Forgot about it. At least now I don't have to do 12 rounds with the ABS over a fine.

"Mate I tried but your fkng website was down, and the blokes down the pub with me until midnight all tried too."

by embee Wed 10 Aug 2016, 05:04

you have until Sep 23 to lodge the census ...that's a lot of time down the pub qmy

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