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Yeah, their economies were just more... localised. You see, it's pretty hard to have access to the global stock exchange when you don't have any methods of communication.
"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina
HGW XX/7
edited 4th Jul '14 8:12:36 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Sierra 117
Ugh, I am just so used to these gaffs from Abbott I barely notice them any more.
I'm not surprised he holds that view. In his mind the Aboriginals were wallowing in ignorance before Europeans brought them farming. After all, he doesn't seem to care at all about society, just the economy.
Neoliberalism honestly makes me sick. How much longer do we have to wait until it implodes under the weight of its own contradictions? We need a new Marx.
edited 4th Jul '14 4:58:34 PM by medicus
It's not over. Not yet.
I'm pretty sure 'unsettled' has never been a synonym for 'bereft of an economy'. Certainly, any Australian who uses the word in that sense given our history and culture is being obtuse beyond reason.
Australian law recognises that Australia was settled by sophisticated cultures with a claim to the land prior to British colonisation. The idea that Australia was 'unsettled' before the British arrived should be dead. Abbott is just not mentally in this century, he's a dinosaur.
Also, this guy appointed himself Prime Minister for Indigenous Australia! No, Abbott. Fuck off.
Happy New Year!
I think Tony Abbott may of been accidentally insightful considering the fact he was using the 'wonders' of the British settlement of aboriginal Australia to defend china's surge of investment in australia's real estate and mining.
edited 4th Jul '14 8:38:07 PM by joeyjojo
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Problem Child
I go on holiday for a week and the Libs have dug a slightly deeper grave.
And yet they're still congratulating themselves on every clump of dirt they shovel.
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The concept of "Brits coming in and saving the native savages from their own ignorance" should be at the top of the dead, buried, cremated list.
edited 5th Jul '14 5:52:11 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
Hey: don't just accuse us Limeys of having had that! The Jesuits and Dutch got into that first! (And, both them and us have retracted it and said "sorry" since: bad idea was bad.)
edited 5th Jul '14 7:28:15 AM by Euodiachloris
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And before that, the Catholic Church did the same thingnote ...
Bid to axe Carbon Tax early fails
Blocked by Labor, Greens, Nick Xenophon, John Madigan from the Democratic Labour Party, and Ricky Muir the car guy. To me, Lambie and Muir are contributing fine so far, despite media predictions that as the 'bogan' Senators they would create a shambles or whatever.
Wondering what this means - is this just flagging further negotiation?
edited 9th Jul '14 12:44:25 AM by editerguy
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I would think Muir's vote could be because Palmer wants to be able to hold that for negotiation a little longer. Wait up though, did Palmer even vote against it, or did Muir vote against lord Palmer's orders? Good that the fundamentalist Christians in the senate (Madigan) are at least doing SOME good I suppose.
edited 9th Jul '14 1:35:53 AM by CardsOfWar
"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina
PUP voted in favour, Muir against.
The govt conceded to PUP's demand to keep the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Maybe Muir is going to try to get a better deal for the Agency.
Curious, then maybe Ricky Muir isn't just a simple bogan as the media portrayed him to be.
Sierra 117
The Xinhua news agency, the state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China, has launched a scathing attack on Mr Abbott accusing him of crossing the “moral bottom line” with his overtures to Mr Abe.
It described Mr Abbott as “appalling and insensible” for showing such admiration for Japan’s wartime aggression.
More than 20 million Chinese perished at the hands of Japanese troops in the lead up to and during the war.
Xinhua’s Canberra correspondent quoted Mr Abbott’s speech to a special joint sitting of Parliament.
“We admired the skill and the sense of honour that they brought to their task although we disagreed with what they did. Perhaps we grasped, even then, that with a change of heart the fiercest of opponents could be the best of friends,” the prime minister said.
The correspondent said that Mr Abbott “probably wasn’t aware that the Japanese troops possessed other “skills”, skills to loot, to rape, to torture and to kill”.
“All these had been committed under the name of ‘honour’ almost 70 years ago,” Xinhua said.
“By making such a comment, Abbott showed how insensible he is towards people in China and other countries who had suffered greatly as a result of the ‘advanced’ war skills of Japanese troops and their sense of honour during their aggression.
“It also makes people wonder how far Australia under his leadership would go to support Japan.”
The highly critical comments must have been sanctioned by the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party leadership.
Xinhua also attacked Abe’s plan to alter the nation’s pacifist constitution and Mr Abbott’s support for the move.
“While Japan has earned the reputation of a good international citizen, how much does it owe to its pacifist constitution, of which Abe and his cabinet are trying to change by reinterpreting its key article,” the agency said.
“Abbott, under fire for his unpopular budget, must have felt attached to Abe, who is also trying to push forward structural reforms in Japan.”
Xinhua also warned that personal favours should never be put ahead of national interests.
“Nor should it go under a moral bottom line.”
The attack by Xinhua is unprecedented from a nation that rarely ventures publicly into the internal affairs of another country.
Such is the level of feeling in Beijing against Japan that it approved a ferocious written attack that would never be tolerated inside China itself.
edited 9th Jul '14 3:42:34 PM by medicus
It's not over. Not yet.
Indiana Solo
Only response I can think of.
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^I got a 404 not found, but that's accurate if you're talking about his brain...
"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj
Abbot must be flipping tables in private now. The Carbon Tax repeal has been voted down AGAIN, thanks to Palmer accusing the government of backstabbing him.
Same person who wanted it refunded? Are they doing it just out of spite/obstructionism now?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I'm seeing Abbot become less of a supervillain and more of an ineffectual laughing stock every day. It requires a special level of stupid to say something like that. I wonder how the Murdoch press is going to manage to spin this one... Maybe they'll just pretend it didn't happen.
edited 10th Jul '14 12:51:15 AM by CardsOfWar
"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina
Apparently, Palmer found out at the last minute that the amendments he demanded in exchange for his party's vote weren't included in the repeal bill, which he chalked up to either government backstabbing or incompetence.
PUP has come out swinging after Libs' 'betrayal', even calling for a sacking
Palmer isn't going to rule out deliberate trickery...
Meanwhile, Lambie wants Abetz gone.
"We try to give them a little bit of trust and they've just blown it out of the water, so I guess she's open-slather."
The Tasmanian senator has also called for the Coalition's chief negotiator Senator Abetz - who is also from Tasmania - to be sacked.
She says the Government's negotiations have been "absolutely disgraceful" and she hasn't seen any "charm" emanating from Coalition senators.
"I must've missed that bit. It certainly didn't work for me. You can't charm the PU Ps, we're full of bite," she said.
"Eric Abetz needs to be sacked immediately and they need to put someone up there that's got some communications skills and that's not prepared to try and trick you because that's not the way forward."
This is priceless ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
The Abbott govt can't cut a break.
@Cronosonic
Yeah I mean he staked his reputation on this, now what's he supposed to do?
edited 10th Jul '14 5:16:13 AM by editerguy
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Abbott has done nothing but implode gracelessly and destructively since he formed his government.
I just wish that the cost of his downward spiral into a laughingstock didn't endanger so many of the things that make Australia great.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
Extraordinary. They managed to screw it up so bad that even a party with a leader of a mining background voted against the carbon tax repeal?
Their incompetence have reached a new level.
HGW XX/7
Indiana Solo
See shit like this is why america needs a multi party system. votes actually happen instead of two sides just glaring at each other all year.
I'm baaaaaaack
I'm pretty sure that Indigeous Australians had trade.