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Came here to say this. But he has to play Bond like River, all action, but a total fuck up.
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Thank you
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LMAO
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Another fight where I would root for injuries.
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Sink the Bismarck!
The Dam Busters
A bridge too Far
(Showing my age here)
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Congratulations!
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The voters who were 1 ALP or Green but preferenced Wilson over Daniel have a lot to answer for.
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I haven’t followed closely enough but there does seem to be some issues with the management of the samples. And some samples indicated death caps, some didn’t.
The “allegedly” comment was a play on how Australian journalists often drop it in at completely inappropriate places.
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“Allegedly” fed the rest…
She hasn’t been found guilty yet.
My favourite detail of this saga was the mycologist who stored samples from the meal in her home fridge. I seriously hope she put signs out for the housemates.
www.9news.com.au/national/dea...
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This is terrible and no one should have to suffer it.
But this guy is so stupid he doesn’t know Richard Harris was not English.
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Me too. I didn’t love Near Dark, but I could see why critics did.
And I like Jamie Lee a lot, so went to see Blue Steel.
I have avoided Bigelow since then.
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Look, call me crazy, but maybe Kapterian and Boele could join the Better Together party and share the seat.
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no weirder than a muslim woman as Citizens party candidate.
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The ending has stuck in my memory for nearly 50 years.
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Bridget Mckenzie is toast if they stay this way. I wonder if she has realised that?
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Also my memories of studying British history was that Edwardian society was so stuck in crises (suffragettes, Irish, working class discontent) that the war seemed like a relief.
That was when they thought it would all be over by Christmas.
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Went to the Great War museum near battle of the Marne last year. The exhibition starts with 1871, and how France and Germany responded to the Franco Prussian war.
They make the point that both countries were building up mentally for a re match for over forty years.
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trump crashing the us economy is a bigger reason for them to move their assets around. But does the afr report that?
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Where in that post do I say it is ok for a party leader? You seem to be arguing with someone other than me, because your replies never seem to address what I say.
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I’m sorry, where did I say that?
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When a leader loses they leave (or not) for good or bad reasons
Good: so new leader isn’t being second guessed
Bad: because they want to make more money.
Shorten stayed after he lost
Whitlam stayed as opposition leader even though he didn’t want to because no one else would take the job.
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There is no either there. The election as local rep is a parliamentary issue, the ministerial expectation is a party issue.
Someone who only wants to be member because they want to be minster are getting that confused.
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If you can’t see the difference I can’t make you see it.
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Albo ran as member for Grayndler and as leader of the parliamentary labor party. As labor won the election, he had the right to be sworn in as prime minister.
Caucus then selects who will be in ministry.
With the exception of Rudd 07, this is the way the ALP has always operated.
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He wasn’t demoted. He was AG in the last parliament, he doesn’t own that job.
He stood for parliament as member for Isaacs. Not as AG. Nothing has changed about that job, yet he (allegedly) wants to leave it after less than two weeks?
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I don’t really trust the age when it comes to labor, but if true this is disgraceful. He should be made to pay the cost of the by election.
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I wish politicians would stop this nonsense of "preferences from a bad party elected my opponent"
It annoyed me when some ALP pollie said it on electio night, now Greens are doing it too.
Preferences come from voters, not parties.
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Emphasis on could be. The film Industry is famously opaque in its accounting.
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I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m saying it’s unrepresentative. When the majors have 66% of the vote but 90% of the seats, there is a democratic deficit.
There is a whole discourse in UK about the failings of FPTP, but our system really is only marginally more representative
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Wouldn’t have to be 1500 reps. Our electorates are small compared to USA, cut it down to 30 electorates of 5 each.
(And yeah I don’t expect this to happe I think it needs a referendum, so it’s a dead letter)
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Works fine in Tasmania and ACT.
The real problem is that the current system is unstable. Small changes in votes or preference flows can cause dramatic changes in results.
The green votes in the house barely changed, but they were wiped out. Either 2022 was wrong or 2015 was wrong (maybe both)
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More and more I feel the single rep/electorate system is becoming dangerously unrepresentative. Non majors are about a third of the vote, but less than 10% of seats.
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Terrible trend in Goldstein.
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I mean, I'm a white CIS boomer, and I dont think putting a bin on his head is a) promoting violence nor b) going far enough.
His defamatory rant about the greens was totally inappropriate, and should not have been allowed.
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Also, 2004, which was a disaster for ALP, still left them with 60 seats. So they were about where the LNP were before last nights train wreck.
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If I could press like on this more than once I would
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Has Dutton ever had anything other than senseless hate? Has he ever offered a positive policy?
They wrecked it because it’s in their nature. Have the liberals ever supported a referendum they did not initiate?
In 1977 Fraser proposed a referendum that the liberals had opposed three years earlier
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Just thought of another key point.
We could never have an election like USA did in 2000, where counting was stopped.
If a result is close, there is a recount. If it cannot be resolved, there is a new election.
A few cycles ago the state of west Australia had to rerun the senate election.
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Bizarrely, there is no automatic voter registration in Australia!
It has been proposed at times, but rejected, partly on a privacy issue (gov agencies are not supposed to share information so motor registration cannot send its data to electoral commision.
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Everyone votes the same way, paper ballots
Voter suppression is harder because the aec has to make it easier to vote.
Gerrymandering is illegal, and aec (within certain well known constraints) strives to make electoral boundaries fair.
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But you have to go all the way with this. The other differences Australia has:
Elections are run by a non partisan government agency(aec) which controls electoral boundaries, with consultation with parties.
Because voting is compulsory, elections are run to make voting as accessible as possible. 1/2
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I hope the original post is a joke that I have missed the point of.
This is not based on anything anyone has suggested.
And of 18 million votes cast, most people wore clothes. It’s a nice photo opp to show people voting in speedos, but it’s not common.
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Just for fairness to pollsters, I might mitigate this by saying it probably isn’t a MASSIVE failure.
On current counting they had ALP about 2% under, and LNP about 1% over.
But it pushed an expected ALP win into one of their biggest wins ever.
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In Australia this has happened several times at the state level where an opposition just falls over the line into government, and then gives the other side a flogging at next election.
Hasn’t happened at federal level since 1940/1943, which were unusual elections, not just because of the war.
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so dorky, and he seemed on the edge of tears.
it was nice to see it like an office farewell.
I think Annabelle had heels on, I've passed both of them on the streets of Grayndler, and there is no way she is that much taller than him.