Pauline on Q&A

[idzy]

The only slightly more disappointing thing is that the media pack just stood around like stale bottles of piss and let it slide. Surely one of them could of piped up and said something like " Sorry Bill, but what the **** are you talking about??" or "What the hell does that have to do with the voting in of a bunch of ignorant, intolerant, disrespectful, far right rednecks?"

I wonder how many of the less than one hour a week vote ON. Dey terk er Jerbs!

 

[idzy]

All this talk of employment reminds me a of dude on an episode of SBS Insight. Talking about the requirements for a job. This programmer said to this other guy, "At that stage, I didn't have a job, the requirement was, go get a job, any job, just get something..."

I think this is missing in our dialogue and not having desire to get a job is a pretty crappy excuse.

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/273290307757/insight-entitled

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Billy is right about the change to the voting, but he could have also mentioned that neither major party has any talent in it and she has also scored the protest votes and pensioners votes.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

* the right wing protest vote

I remember reading an article from the gympie paper or some other such rag asking people who they were voting for and why - virtually everyone who said ON was because they were mad about Abbott getting the arse, and a liberal (in the social policy sense) being the leader of the Liberals.

 

[LAGERFRENZY]

At the previous election virtually the same number of voters went for Pigsy Palmer and many of those were small L Libs who hated Abbott. Labour's primary vote seems to be stuck in the 30's and inner city seats going greener all of the time. Things are getting more volatile all of time and the majors really need to lift their game.

 

[madpierre06]

Maybe they could just try sticking to working FOr the people who live in this country, and for the actual good of the country....a bit of actual honesty wouldn't go astray either. Yeah, I know, I've been drinking.

 

[Vini2ton]

It's a reflex now of all sides to just keep bagging each other. Non-stop campaigning, throw enough mud and some of it's bound to stick. The senate is gonna be a freak-show. Roll up! Roll up!

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Well little Billy got my protest vote, I was far from happy, not with the sacking of Abbot, but the appointment of Malcolm, he was hopeless the first time round, and by the time of the election it was obvious he hadn't improved.
The 200 million dollar poser.

 

[LAGERFRENZY]

Final Senate Numbers:
Coalition - 30
Labour - 26
Greens - 9
One Nation - 4
Xenophon - 3
Lib Dem - 1
Hinch - 1
Family First - 1
Lambie - 1

TOTAL 76

39 votes required to pass legislation

I'd say any threat of another DD a very remote one.

 

[Vini2ton]

Michael Roberts will be amusing. Today at his presser he was asking each journo their name before answering their question. Conspiracies abound and climate-science is corrupted by the world banks. Mulder? Scully? You banana benders throw up some interesting types.

 

[LAGERFRENZY]

Don't you Southerners worry about that!

 

[Vini2ton]

Don't you Southerners worry about that!

Remember when Joh said, "We don't want you you southerners coming up here and shoving it down our throat!" I think it was when they were trying to ban Playboy in Qld.

 

[LAGERFRENZY]

I think his speechwriter pinched the line from a famous Rex Mossop quote when talking about streakers - "I have nothing against genitalia - I just object to having it shoved down my throat!"

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Final Senate Numbers:
Coalition - 30
Labour - 26
Greens - 9
One Nation - 4
Xenophon - 3
Lib Dem - 1
Hinch - 1
Family First - 1
Lambie - 1

TOTAL 76

39 votes required to pass legislation

I'd say any threat of another DD a very remote one.

I think the Coalition is going to find the going very,very tough. They have only just enough seats to form government, and if they have any, even the slightest hickup they are fucked

As for the senate... well Labor will just sit back with the popcorn and enjoy the show. They wont even have to do anything.

If the coalition though it was tough getting legislation thru before, then its going to be 10 times worse now. And its all of there own making

 

[Maheel]

talking about votes anyone else get a "you did not vote" letter and did vote?

I did a postal a few weeks before the day
last week i got the "you did not vote" letter / bill
sent them back informing them to ask oz post about it.......
day later i get the "sorry we found your vote" letter (well before ozpost would have sorted my response letter)

One N might have got an extra seat if mine had been counted....... jokes

 

[Vini2ton]

There'll be a royal commission into Australia Post after the "Census Debarcle" and guess what? It'll be privatised. And remember... foreign investment is good.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I can imagine there will be investors falling over each other to buy shares in a company that makes a $200 million a year loss (that's on a good year) :lol:

 

[Bridges]

I can imagine there will be investors falling over each other to buy shares in a company that makes a $200 million a year loss (that's on a good year) :lol:

Don't get started on this crap again. I hope it won't be privatized but they make a bomb on parcel delivery so overall they have only shown a loss in the last financial year. ($222 million) the year before was a $116 million profit. This was their first loss in 30 years. Revenues have been pretty stable at around $6.5 billion for the last couple of years. Yep letters are down but parcels are up.Swings and roundabouts, and last year they spent $190 million retraining and moving staff around ahead of the trend in their deliveries. It seems pretty clear that the muppet running Auspost wants it to look like its performing badly so he could justify increased prices and reduced service in their letter delivery service.

 

[Maheel]

I can imagine there will be investors falling over each other to buy shares in a company that makes a $200 million a year loss (that's on a good year) :lol:

have you heard of Dick Smith Electronics.............

maybe Oz Post have already started writing down / off the cost of all that shit sitting in their shops...... then next year profit looks awesome as COGS's(cost of goods sold) is zero...

pump and dump, pump and dump is the IPO motto for some :blink:

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I was talking to an Auspost driver on Monday arvo at the pub. He comes up every fortnight and does a change over bringing the truck from Sydney then taking the Casino one back then he does other runs.

2 B Doubles choc full go the coast from Sydney just to service the east coast to Casino ( not including Newcastle ) every night,

I didnt ask what they payed him, but judging that he was drinking New wearing tracksuit pants made me think he earnt slightly less than a train driver