Australian politics thread.

2013-05-02 05:06:44

#2826

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5456|Sydney

Dilbert_X wrote:
Jaekus wrote:
lol, saying the LNP are great at running the economy. The QLD LNP government recently and very narrowly avoided a recession, nine months after taking office and after their first budget was handed down complete with job cuts. Abbott will be much worse. Labor might be fucking up their execution but they did navigate us through the GFC in a manner that makes the rest of the world envious.
Well, Queensland was pretty messed up after however many years of Labor, nine months in they've barely started.

While Australia did OK through the GFC - thanks to a Chinese boom, maintaing interest rates and unprecedented terms of trade, the govt has been borrowing at an unprecdented rate.

Billions of dollars credit/deficit.

If Howard had actually done his job properly it wouldn't have been necessary.

It's easy to claim fiscal competence when sailing through an economic boom whilst cutting services and sorely needed infrastructure projects, and spending over $2 billion on self promotion. The IMF rated the Howard government as having the most wasteful spending in Australian history.

2013-05-02 05:07:58

#2827

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6384|eXtreme to the maX

Beer is GBP5/pint at the current exchange rate, an average property in cheap Adelaide is $400k = GBP266k.

I think I'll buy some pounds while the rate is so good....

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2013-05-02 05:11:07

#2828

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6994

Dilbert_X wrote:
Beer is GBP5/pint at the current exchange rate, an average property in cheap Adelaide is $400k = GBP266k.

I think I'll buy some pounds while the rate is so good....

I pay 2.50 for a schooner at uni bar. you just need to go to uni bar more xD

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2013-05-02 05:17:12

#2829

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6384|eXtreme to the maX

Yeah, no, they stopped me doing that.

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2013-05-02 05:20:06

#2830

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5456|Sydney

Hey, big spender: Howard the king of the loose purse strings

Australia's most needlessly wasteful spending took place under the John Howard-led Coalition government rather than under the Whitlam, Rudd or Gillard Labor governments, an international study has found.

The International Monetary Fund examined 200 years of government financial records across 55 leading economies.

It identifies only two periods of Australian "fiscal profligacy" in recent years, both during John Howard's term in office - in 2003 at the start of the mining boom and during his final years in office between 2005 and 2007.

https://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/11/3944355/AW-friont-420x0.jpg

The IMF study mirrors findings of a 2008 Australian Treasury study that found real government spending grew faster in the final four years of the Howard government than in any four-year period since the 1990s recession.

The number of spending decisions worth more than $1 billion climbed from one in the first Howard budget to nine in the last. The proportion of savings measures fell from one-third of budget measures at the start of the Howard era to 1.5 per cent at the end.

2013-05-02 05:23:52

#2831

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4532

Cybargs wrote:
Uzique The Lesser wrote:
also you guys are total pussies, whining about property prices. try london. i'm willing to bet property in my tiny ass town or area in the country costs more than most property in most cities.
Barring some unimaginable economic catastrophe, though, neither party can reduce Sydney home prices from the present median of $646,400. Doing so would wreak havoc.
Housing costs have risen exponentially since World War II. In March 1953, you could buy a two-storey brick house with a slate roof in Balmain for £4000. If prices had only risen with inflation that would be a steal today at $124,000 - about one-tenth of the actual price.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/sydney-ho … z2S8VCKL91
Sydney housing prices are pretty fucked bro. 1.2 mil for a two storey brick house in balmain lol

you should compare those prices with a 2-story "slate roofed" place in brixton from 1953->2013.

2013-05-02 05:24:42

#2832

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4532

Dilbert_X wrote:
Uzique The Cat-Hater wrote:
a) a racist and homogeneous shithole (see france) or
b) just another version of england in the sun
lol

tell me one reason why australia would appeal to a european, let alone a 'continental' european who lives in some place like rome, or vienna, or paris.

i'd sure leave the rive gauche for a bit of this.

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2013-05-02 05:29:19

#2833

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6384|eXtreme to the maX

Uzique The Lesser wrote:
tell me one reason why australia would appeal to a european, let alone a 'continental' european who lives in some place like rome, or vienna, or paris.

Hardly any black people for one thing.

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2013-05-02 05:31:51

#2834

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4532

2013-05-02 16:33:53

#2835

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,054|6900|Little Bentcock

Well its true.

2013-05-03 06:23:01

#2836

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|6959|Disaster Free Zone

Uzique The Lesser wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Uzique The Cat-Hater wrote:
a) a racist and homogeneous shithole (see france) or
b) just another version of england in the sun
lol
tell me one reason why australia would appeal to a european, let alone a 'continental' european who lives in some place like rome, or vienna, or paris.

i'd sure leave the rive gauche for a bit of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6J6PF47CM

2013-05-03 06:43:42

#2837

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4532

DrunkFace wrote:
Uzique The Lesser wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:

lol
tell me one reason why australia would appeal to a european, let alone a 'continental' european who lives in some place like rome, or vienna, or paris.

i'd sure leave the rive gauche for a bit of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6J6PF47CM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORZd85ccD0

lol.

2013-05-04 02:09:48

#2838

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6384|eXtreme to the maX

Apparently its worth $5m for a Chinese guy to bring his family here.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati … 6634922284

If hipsters don't want to come to Aus its fine with me. They can enjoy their contrived 'culture'.

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2013-05-04 02:20:35

#2839

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6994

Dilbert_X wrote:
Apparently its worth $5m for a Chinese guy to bring his family here.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati … 6634922284

If hipsters don't want to come to Aus its fine with me. They can enjoy their contrived 'culture'.

Every government does this. The US has an investment green card that you need to sink in only 500k USD.

2013-05-04 08:30:30

#2840

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4532

Dilbert_X wrote:
Apparently its worth $5m for a Chinese guy to bring his family here.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati … 6634922284

If hipsters don't want to come to Aus its fine with me. They can enjoy their contrived 'culture'.

heaven forbid anyone should want to live somewhere for all that "contrived culture".

you must live in a very bland universe, when the only thing that qualifies as unpretentious enough to be worth tolerating is the strictly scientific.

oh wait, yeah, that's exactly the lifestyle you have.

2013-05-04 11:20:16

#2841

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5456|Sydney

I like a varied spectrum of culture. I'd hate to live in Adelaide.

2013-05-04 21:55:33

#2842

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6384|eXtreme to the maX

Of course, Australia and Adelaide have no 'culture' at all.

And what cultural activities do you partake of in Sydney? Putting on makeup and hanging around Kings Cross at night doesn't count.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2013-05-05 00:45:25)

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2013-05-05 02:29:13

#2843

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,054|6900|Little Bentcock

Lol

2013-05-05 03:06:14

#2844

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5456|Sydney

A 40 year old engineer who lives with his parents in Adelaide is questioning the cultural merit of a musician who lives on the inner north shore of Sydney.

lol

2013-05-05 03:38:50

#2845

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6953|Canberra, AUS

any bets on when this descends into sydney vs. melbourne

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2013-05-05 03:39:40

#2846

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|6959|Disaster Free Zone

Now.

Sydney > Melbourne

2013-05-05 03:41:35

#2847

Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5456|Sydney

I don't think I could live in Melbourne simply because of the weather but I think it's a great city.

2013-05-05 03:43:18

#2848

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6994

notice how there aren't any people from melbourne posting on bf2s? just shows the superiority of sydney.

2013-05-05 04:03:17

#2849

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6953|Canberra, AUS

i prefer walking around melbourne's cbd tbh

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2013-05-05 04:05:15

#2850

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|6994

Spark wrote:
i prefer walking around melbourne's cbd tbh

sydney is seriously the worst designed city when it comes to roads tbh.

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