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Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:24 pm

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Post by Tero » Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:34 pm

Lachlan Murdoch, the Fox Corp. CEO and executive chairman, has departed Los Angeles and returned to Australia with his wife and children, according to three people with ties to the Murdoch family.
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Post by JimC » Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:04 am

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-06/ ... /100051756
The Legalise Cannabis WA Party has secured a second seat in the Legislative Council, with candidate Brian Walker winning the sixth seat in the East Metropolitan Region.

Last week Legalise Cannabis WA's Sophia Moermond secured a seat in the South West region from 2 per cent of votes, while the Daylight Saving Party's Wilson Tucker was elected in the Mining and Pastoral Region with just 98 primary votes.

The election of these micro-parties was possible due to preference harvesting deals, where parties take turns in preferencing each other high in one region to boost their percentage of the vote.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:32 pm

Go Brian go!!
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Post by JimC » Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:09 pm

They'll form a powerful voting block - daylight saving and dope...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:59 am

Never trusted Aldi. Mind you I would never use them.

Snakes and lettuce: shoppers in Australia find venomous snake in Aldi fresh produce bag
After finding the baby pale-headed snake, Alexander White had a troubling thought: ‘What if the snake has come from something else?’
Well it is Ozland after all. :biggrin:
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Post by JimC » Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:16 pm

We'd consider it a valuable bonus, and chuck it on the BBQ!
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Apr 15, 2021 5:29 pm

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Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:35 pm

:lol: I'm not clicking that, tempted, but no.

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Post by JimC » Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:18 pm

Given all the current angst about sexual harassment and disrespect for women in Australia's political institutions, it was a poor choice...
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Post by Hermit » Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:21 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:
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:lol: I'm not clicking that, tempted, but no.
It's a nothingburger. Two right wing pundits desperate to find things to talk about.

The host, Peta Credlin, takes a puritan line about the routine, which is pretty tame. Credlin used to be Chief of Staff and key advisor to one of our weirdest conservative Prime Ministers, Tony "noddy onions" Abbott. Abbott was sacked by his own party when it realised that it was bound to lose the next general election if he remained at the helm.

Credlin's guest, Mark Latham, quite liked the show. Latham is a psychopath. During a dispute over a taxi fare he broke the driver's arm. Later he somehow managed to become the leader of the Labor Party. We dodged a bullet when Labor lost the general election under his leadership. After the loss he resigned from the party and eventually finished up with Pauline Hanson's United Australia Party. It's roughly equivalent to UKIP.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:39 pm

‘Confusing’ milkshake consent video pulled from campaign that cost Australian government $3.8m
A digital media agency created the sexual education campaign, which included a heavily criticised video showing a woman smearing a milkshake over a man’s face
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Post by JimC » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:14 pm

It was a very stupid video, utterly confusing and basically irrelevant. Some ad agency hot shot will now lose face...
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