YOUR WAY OF LIFE is watching Friends, Breaking Bad, the AFL team, supporting the national cricket team, going to gigs

The thing is: Theres worst things than being caught up than that.

So, go with it!

Edited by condemned666: 10/12/2015 05:57:53 PM

What incredulous waffle. At one what point did Abbott, say, or even hint, any of that? Ridiculous, cheesy, absurd allegations. I bet the mentality of joining "team Australia" existed around the time of your daddy, did he react by strapping explosives to himself or did he do what most of the Italian community did and join team Australia? The amount of paranoia and forensic analysis that goes into every utterance made by Tony is hysterical, I've never seen anything like it.

Every immigrant to Australia should join our team. In fact it should be mandatory, or you don't come here.

Trumps recent reprehensible, sickening and repulsive comments are the embodiment of what occurs when right wing nuts are allowed to spew their hate unbridled on a public forum. The UK's moves toward banning him is to be applauded and Australia needs to follow if we consider ourselves a progressive nation.

Can't ban a bloke for being a nut job.

Yeah but my team Australia or your team Australia? Somehow I'd say they are different things.

Trumps recent reprehensible, sickening and repulsive comments are the embodiment of what occurs when right wing nuts are allowed to spew their hate unbridled on a public forum.

So...any of the deficit hawks want to comment on the government again failing on their promise to bring the budget to surplus?

So...any of the deficit hawks want to comment on the government again failing on their promise to bring the budget to surplus?

The senate isn't helping. We need a DD to clear out all the deadwood. Australia will continue to backwards with the likes of Lazarus, Lambie and Ricky Muir holding the balance of power. Of course it's easy to kick the government but if you are honest you will admit there's things beyond the governments control stifling their reforms.

Funny that the deficit as a result of the global financial crisis wasn't beyond Labor's control...

Might as well blame GFC for the current woes then

Depends whether we rely on Joe Hockey's statement in March 2013 that "the budget will be in surplus in the first year of a Liberal government"

The senate isn't helping. We need a DD to clear out all the deadwood. Australia will continue to backwards with the likes of Lazarus, Lambie and Ricky Muir holding the balance of power. Of course it's easy to kick the government but if you are honest you will admit there's things beyond the governments control stifling their reforms.

The senate isn't helping. We need a DD to clear out all the deadwood. Australia will continue to backwards with the likes of Lazarus, Lambie and Ricky Muir holding the balance of power. Of course it's easy to kick the government but if you are honest you will admit there's things beyond the governments control stifling their reforms.

They went to the polls promising budget surpluses without austerity. Give me one example of a policy they campaigned on that was blocked in the senate by those 3?

My stance on deficits is that it's stupid to focus on them, we have ridiculous levels of private debt in this country and that is directly due to the government holding surpluses. That's putting aside the fact that revenues are down due to global factors outside of Australia's control.

However... they campaigned on this ridiculous notion and they haven't delivered. Liberal governments have never been good economic managers and they deserve to be crucified(metaphorically of course AFP :lol:) for it

The idea that Liberals have never been good economic managers is mindless partisan nonsense so I'm not going to bother to address that.

Give me one example of a reform policy that can be compared with austerity? Most of the changes proposed have been fairly benign but it't gotten to the point where any proposed cut no matter how small will draw howls of protest and rabid claims of austerity. The GP co payment for instance provoked an outrageous backlash and was spun as an attack on the sick, poor and elderly, yet we're talking about a $5 fee here not slashing pensions in half. People who complain about austerity clearly haven't lived in Greece or Ireland (which I'm pleased to say is growing again despite austerity measures

The idea that we can continue to run up endless is dangerous and stupid. Money isn't endless and neither is economic growth. We were one of a few countries to escape recession during the GFC and that is directly due to our no debt safety net leading into it, which provided us with the elasticity to stimulate the economy through borrowings, unlike other countries whose debt was too high to significantly borrow. Lefty types must live with their heads in the clouds where every day the sun shines and it never rains, they are essentially gambling the nations finances on the hope that tomorrow and every day after it will be bright and sunny.

It's Labor's fault

Joe's only mistake was to rely on massively fudged Labor figures.

So...any of the deficit hawks want to comment on the government again failing on their promise to bring the budget to surplus?

Well well well;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-17/tax-transparency-report/7036708

Don't really hear much from other news outlets about this?

-PB

Oh ho hum, another day another racist bus rant recorded on Sydney's public trains

My solution? More quiet carriages

We don't have some speaking on the phone in a LOTE (most likely too loud) and we won't have an Australian retaliating for the volume of their calls!

Blaming the victim isnt a solution

be afraid, be very afraid....this is what stuff like Brandis MetaData Laws brings in


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/australian-federal-police-remotely-turning-phones-of-criminals-into-listening-devices/news-story/c4e8904a5b5009ff5aa23468dc8649f1

POLICE are secretly turning the mobile phones of criminals into listening devices to record their face-to-face meetings.


The hi-tech spying tactic ­involves officers remotely ­uploading a hidden program to a phone, which turns it into a microphone and records its unwitting user’s offline ­conversations.

Two alleged drug traffickers launched an appeal against the investigative technique after one of their phones was bugged by the Australian Federal Police.

The pair are facing a County Court trial charged with conspiracy to traffic a large commercial quantity of ecstasy or MDMA in 2013.

But the Court of Appeal last week rejected their bid to stop the AFP using evidence it ­obtained from conversations recorded through the phone.

Instead, a panel of three judges determined that the sneaky crime-fighting tactic was legal under the Surveillance Devices Act.

AFP officers had obtained a warrant to use “listening, ­optical, data and tracking surveillance devices” as part of the investigation.

The court heard the AFP secretly uploaded software to the accused’s mobile phone ­“remotely via the mobile telephone network”.


“The telephone with the microphone thus activated by the software permitted the transmission of face-to-face conversations via the mobile telephone network to police at a remote location where they were recorded,” Justice Phillip Priest said.

“At least several conversations involving the accused, sought to be relied upon by the Crown, had been recorded as a result of software having been remotely uploaded to (the ­accused’s) mobile phone.”

The alleged traffickers ­argued the conversations could not be used against them because the recordings were ­illegally obtained, claiming the phone was not an approved surveillance device.

But lawyers for the AFP ­argued that the phone was a surveillance device because it was “clearly capable of being used to record, monitor or ­listen to a conversation”.

Justice Priest said it was “tolerably clear” that the phone was a legal listening ­device and the conversations police recorded were not ­obtained by “illegality”.

tom.minear@news.com.au


Edited by tard news: 24/12/2015 10:04:47 AM