Australian Federal Election
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<p>This is what's wrong with democracies:</p>
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<p><strong><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-04/final-senate-make-up-confirmed-with-11-crossbenchers/7689788'>Malcolm Roberts: One Nation senator-elect says UN trying to impose global government through climate chance policy</a></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Mr Roberts, a prominent climate change sceptic with the Galileo Movement, also renewed calls for an inquiry into CSIRO's climate change research.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Mr Roberts, whose latest press release stated that he "spent the last nine years working pro bono checking alarmist climate claims", said he wanted to repeal any legislation put in place "as a result of the claim that humans affect global climate as a result of our use of hydrocarbons fuels, coal, oil, natural gas".</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Describing himself as a scientist, he said "we need to stop these ridiculous lies based on climate".</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"I went looking into the agencies that have been spreading the climate science," he said.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"I started finding out things about the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"That led me then to the UN, which has been driving this.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"Then I started following the money trails. It's important to understand the motives."</p> -
<p>Is this the fluffybunny who got in to the senate despite only getting 77 primary votes? Or is that another one of the One Nation retards. </p>
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<p>No, it's him. And of course he's from Queensland. Fuck.</p>
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<p>And, hilariously, it's only 5 years since he tried to claim he was a sovereign citizen, and therefore exempt from the carbon tax.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>One Nation's newly elected senator Malcolm Roberts has denied being a member of a controversial anti-government movement based in the United States and Canada.<br><br>The senator has been quizzed about his knowledge of the Sovereign Citizens movement because of the existence of documents he began writing five years ago in a style similar to that used by the group's adherents.<br><br>In a series of letters and documents in 2011 and 2012 he appeared to use the unusual style of writing.<br><br>Many were addressed to politicians and prominent figures in which he rails against orthodox climate change science and the carbon tax.<br><br>Among the documents' distinctive characteristics was an unusual style of punctuation.<br><br>For example, in one he identifies himself thus:<br><br>Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts.<br>Beneficiary, Administrator for<br>MALCOM IEUAN ROBERTS<br>Another, a self-declared court affidavit, is addressed to a former Labor PM.<br><br>The Woman, Julia-Eileen: Gillard., acting as The Honourable JULIA EILEEN GILLARD<br>Prime Minister of Australia<br>Parliament House<br>Canberra ACT 2600<br>The affidavit goes on to outline his case for hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the carbon tax.<br><br>I, Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul has not seen or been presented with any<br>material facts or evidence that I, Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul am not living<br>in a free and equal society or should pay for it in some further spurious tax levied<br>supposedly on carbon dioxide, and believe that none exist.<br>The documents can be found on the website of a group of climate change deniers calling themselves the Galileo Movement.<br><br>The site identified Mr Roberts as the group's "project leader", who identified himself as the author of the documents.<br><br>Similar stylisation of names is often employed by those within the Sovereign Citizen movement, in the belief that hyphens and colons can help them evade governments' use of grammar to enslave their citizens.<br><br>Adherents claim to exist outside the country's legal and taxation systems, denying authorities have any legitimate power over them.</p></blockquote><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442</a><br><br>Thanks Turnbull you muppet.
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442</a><br><br>
Thanks Turnbull you muppet.</p>
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<p>I see this lament a fair bit. People tend to awfully quiet when I say a normal half senate election got us Jacqui Lambie, Ricky Muir, etc.</p> -
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<p>Not to my recollection. I remember alot of noise about Jacqui Lambie and Ricky Muir.<br>
We should also consider that these no name senators were mostly elected in as part of the party ticket vote which has since been scrapped.</p>
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<p>There was noise at the time but that wasn't my point; they were elected in a normal half senate election.</p>
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<p>The party ticket hasn't been scrapped. Hence how the loon One Nation Senator got in despite only 77 first preferences.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="603720" data-time="1470549643"><p>There was noise at the time but that wasn't my point; they were elected in a normal half senate election.<br> <br>The party ticket hasn't been scrapped. Hence how the loon One Nation Senator got in despite only 77 first preferences.</p></blockquote>Sorry I meant to say Group Voting ticket.
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If you are a far right anti immigration group and you want to dress up in Muslim clothes and shout anti Islamic slogans where would be the best place to do this?<br><br>
A a church?<br>
Or B a mosque<br><br>
See where these clowns went <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/wake-up-aussies-farright-pauline-hanson-supporters-dressed-as-muslims-storm-church-20160814-gqsclh.html'>http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/wake-up-aussies-farright-pauline-hanson-supporters-dressed-as-muslims-storm-church-20160814-gqsclh.html</a> -
so, not election, but general politics.
When i first got here, I sort of liked what Australia Day was , especially compared to Waitangi Day. At first it was just a celebration of 'straya, and how fucken awesome it was. That sort of morphed a little in to a bit of 'merica! over-the-top-ness, but i still liked it was positive. While back home, thanks to the media, and protesters, Waitangi Day had become pretty divisive.
However, over the past couple of years, there has been a growing "Invasion Day" narrative surrounding aboriginal people, who have used it as an opportunity to air their grievances, and highlight their issues. No problem with that, it's a huge problem that should get all the attention it can. The left of the country, especially those from inner-city areas who have never been within 1,000km of a community, have jumped on-board now, and pressure is attempting to be applied to governments to make Australia Day changes.
The first step was the Western Australian government cancelling the annual Aus Day fireworks out of respect to Aboriginal people. Now however, i have seen a report that Triple J, the leftest of the left radio stations, is "considering" moving the annual Aus Day Hottest 100 to another, less divisive day. Now, this is an unsourced article, without quotes from the ABC/Triple J, but it appears to have gained traction from an online petition signed by a whopping 2,300 people.
If this isn't a beat up (and in all honesty, it wouldn't take much for me to believe Triple J would change it) what the actual fuck?
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@mariner4life look, as long as I get a day off to drink piss in the sun, I don't give a fuck WHEN it is. But having it in summer is nice.
In any case, its a big issue and the ATSI people have been fucked over pretty hard. So go figure that out, recognise them constitutionally or whatever, and then tell me what day I get to watch cricket without work getting in the way.