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« Reply #25 on: June 14, 2021, 05:01:22 AM »
« edited: June 14, 2021, 05:07:02 AM by GoTfan »

This is seriously f**king disturbing.



Some background:

friendlyjordies, real name Jordan Shanks, is a YouTube comedian. Very much pro-Labor, and attacks Liberal/National corruption wherever he finds it.

Recently, he's made an ongoing series of videos showcasing the textbook corruption of NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro. His stories of Barilaro's corruption date back to a sort of mini-documentary called 'Secret Dictatorship' about a town called Narrandera that exists in a Nationals electorate. Since then, he's been going after the man, and hard.

Recently, Barilaro escalated it to a lawsuit. Shanks was fully prepared to go to court, and had lawyered up with Mark Davis, a Gold Walkely winner and now law partners with former SA Senator Nick Xenophon.

Things underwent a dramatic escalation as plain clothes officer from the Fixated Persons Unit, a sub-unit of the NSW Police's counterterrorism division, arrested Kristo Langker, Shanks' producer, at his home. Langkor attempted to hand his phone to his mother, and then the officer in charge apparently lost it, bowling over Langker's 51-year old arthritic mother and nearly killing his dog. What prompted this? Langker had earlier in the month attempted to hand the lawsuit papers back to Barilaro for corrections as the man was supposedly exiting a funeral, though I find this unlikely as video evidence suggest they were near Macquarie University. Langker attends classes there regularly.

The FPU was set up in the aftermath of the Lindt Cafe Siege to monitor individuals deemed at risk of committing 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks. Shanks and Langker do not fall into this category. What's more, Langkor has been handed extremely strict and unusual bail conditions, which forbid him from participating in the making of Shanks' videos. It also appears that the police statement given alleging Barilaro's version of events is riddled with outright lies.

This, Avi Yemeni, is what an actual police state looks like. Sending a specialised unit of the counterterrorism division to arrest someone who has been openly critical of Barilaro and exposed his corruption to Australia on false pretense.

I've donated to Shanks' legal fund already.
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« Reply #26 on: June 14, 2021, 05:51:43 AM »

Utterly disgusting.
I wish Shanks the best of luck in his lawsuit.
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« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2021, 07:11:19 AM »

ScoMo may have been influenced by QAnon-adherent friend during recent speech.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/scott-morrison-says-he-wont-answer-the-abcs-questions-on-his-ties-to-qanon/news-story/2d00165b5e9ba5ee83a843bb96c746da
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« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2021, 07:16:02 AM »

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/david-o-byrne-takes-labor-leadership-tasmania/100217724

David O'Byrne has won the Tasmanian ALP leadership in a landslide, beating Shane Broad 74% to 26%. O'Byrne is very much the same old Tassie Labor Lefty, an ex-secretary of the Missos with very close ties to fellow union powerbrokers and faceless men. Meanwhile Broad is a moderate reformist and prominent critic of the entrenched left faction within the party, and had burned many bridges with fellow members due to his public criticisms.
Last election Labor lost all but one polling booth in the entire north of the state, a truly shocking performance. And as long as the Liberals can keep that performance they have a solid grip on government even if their vote plummets in Hobart.
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« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2021, 02:30:20 AM »

Update on the friendlyjordies situation: Langker has been schedule to appear in court on the 24th. That wuld be the 23rd for anyone living in the States.
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« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2021, 01:16:54 AM »

Financial Review reports that Joyce is planning another challenge against McCormack, allegedly set to go off on Monday. The trigger is ScoMo's perceived endorsement of Net Zero emissions by 2050 at the G7, a policy Nationals cannot abide. McCormack's standard weak performance as Acting PM didn't help him either, as he melted under the pressure from the opposition as he always does. This would be yet another coup right in the killing season, the last week of sitting in June before the long winter recess. This very week was when both Rudd and Gillard were toppled.

www.afr.com/politics/federal/joyce-prepares-to-move-on-mccormack-20210619-p582f5
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« Reply #31 on: June 19, 2021, 03:40:20 AM »

Financial Review reports that Joyce is planning another challenge against McCormack, allegedly set to go off on Monday. The trigger is ScoMo's perceived endorsement of Net Zero emissions by 2050 at the G7, a policy Nationals cannot abide. McCormack's standard weak performance as Acting PM didn't help him either, as he melted under the pressure from the opposition as he always does. This would be yet another coup right in the killing season, the last week of sitting in June before the long winter recess. This very week was when both Rudd and Gillard were toppled.

www.afr.com/politics/federal/joyce-prepares-to-move-on-mccormack-20210619-p582f5

Why are the Nationals so against any form of climate legislation? The rural communities are already getting hit hard by extreme heatwaves and teprestures that go above 50.
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« Reply #32 on: June 19, 2021, 05:18:42 AM »

Financial Review reports that Joyce is planning another challenge against McCormack, allegedly set to go off on Monday. The trigger is ScoMo's perceived endorsement of Net Zero emissions by 2050 at the G7, a policy Nationals cannot abide. McCormack's standard weak performance as Acting PM didn't help him either, as he melted under the pressure from the opposition as he always does. This would be yet another coup right in the killing season, the last week of sitting in June before the long winter recess. This very week was when both Rudd and Gillard were toppled.

www.afr.com/politics/federal/joyce-prepares-to-move-on-mccormack-20210619-p582f5

Why are the Nationals so against any form of climate legislation? The rural communities are already getting hit hard by extreme heatwaves and teprestures that go above 50.

Australia’s rural agricultural population has tanked over the last century, and the Nats faced political extinction because of it. So they have grown their base by flipping rural Mining communities like Mt Isa, Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie which were historically Labor heartlands. This process has been a massive success which has rejuvenated the future of the National party, ensuring their continued survival and influence within the Coalition.

The downside of this is while the Nationals can still dominate agricultural regions with Countrymindedness, localism and social conservatism, to win over old Labor mining towns they must fully embrace the mining sector and anti-climate policies to protect it and it’s workers. This has alienated a small share of their base, not so much farmers but small town businessmen and workers with more enlightened politics and world views.

You shouldn’t think this is alien to country voters. Farmers are also quite anti-environmentalist, such as supporting continued land clearing for farmland and opposing endangered species protections that impact their farmland. While Farmers may not be rabidly anti-climate action they are not environmentalists either. Rather, it is the country town business owners, employees providers and retirees who are alienated.
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« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2021, 08:40:38 PM »
« Edited: June 20, 2021, 10:05:56 PM by AustralianSwingVoter »

The media are now all reporting Barnaby has won back the leadership per sources, with the official announcement expected imminently.

Edit: Damian Drum makes it official. And this means Barnaby will be Acting PM for Question Time.
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« Reply #34 on: June 20, 2021, 11:42:07 PM »

The media are now all reporting Barnaby has won back the leadership per sources, with the official announcement expected imminently.

Edit: Damian Drum makes it official. And this means Barnaby will be Acting PM for Question Time.

Come on Albo, don't let them off the hook . . .
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« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2021, 01:29:24 AM »

Given he’s sabotaging my beloved ALP at every turn and boasting about how he’ll force us to bring back the toxic in the electorate carbon tax, can someone unable to be traceable to our party please do an Airey Neave to Adam Bandts car, or failing that, remove his voice box?

(Swiftian enough?)
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« Reply #36 on: June 26, 2021, 02:53:30 AM »

So back in lockdown for Greater Sydney (and Wollongong, Blue Mountains and the Central Coast)
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« Reply #37 on: June 26, 2021, 09:17:23 AM »

And it appears vaccination numbers are shockingly low in Oz, things could easily get ugly there.
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« Reply #38 on: June 26, 2021, 10:07:23 AM »

Why is the Australian political realingment going so slowly ?
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« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2021, 06:18:08 PM »

So um, it's only Tuesday but a lot going on!
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« Reply #40 on: June 29, 2021, 12:44:08 AM »

The AEC has announced the final boundaries for the Victorian Federal Redistribution. Along with the usual minor changes they have made two major changes;
Firstly, they have reverted the proposed Division of Tucker's name back to the current Corangamite after many submissions opposing the change, noting how Corangamite is a Federal division and an Aboriginal name while Margaret Tucker was not local to the region (being Yorta Yorta from the Murray valley) and also noting that the name can easily be changed to F#cker with graffiti.
Secondly, they have reverted the proposed changes to the boundary between Macnamara and Higgins, returning Caulfield to Macnamara and South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor to Higgins. The proposed changes were incredibly unpopular with the large Jewish community, and the reversion is unsurprising. This significantly helps the Labor position in Macnamara where they were at risk of falling behind the Greens on the draft borders while slightly strengthening the Greens position in Higgins. Overall this change helps Labor in Macnamara while helping the Greens in Higgins.

And tomorrow the VEC will be releasing their draft report for the Victorian State Redistribution, which will have major changes and is eagerly awaited by both parties.
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« Reply #41 on: June 29, 2021, 12:59:42 AM »

The AEC has announced the final boundaries for the Victorian Federal Redistribution. Along with the usual minor changes they have made two major changes;
Firstly, they have reverted the proposed Division of Tucker's name back to the current Corangamite after many submissions opposing the change, noting how Corangamite is a Federal division and an Aboriginal name while Margaret Tucker was not local to the region (being Yorta Yorta from the Murray valley) and also noting that the name can easily be changed to F#cker with graffiti.
Secondly, they have reverted the proposed changes to the boundary between Macnamara and Higgins, returning Caulfield to Macnamara and South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor to Higgins. The proposed changes were incredibly unpopular with the large Jewish community, and the reversion is unsurprising. This significantly helps the Labor position in Macnamara where they were at risk of falling behind the Greens on the draft borders while slightly strengthening the Greens position in Higgins. Overall this change helps Labor in Macnamara while helping the Greens in Higgins.

And tomorrow the VEC will be releasing their draft report for the Victorian State Redistribution, which will have major changes and is eagerly awaited by both parties.
Why did they suggest the changes to the border between Macnamara and Higgins to begin with?
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« Reply #42 on: June 29, 2021, 04:13:39 AM »
« Edited: June 29, 2021, 04:20:01 AM by AustralianSwingVoter »

The AEC has announced the final boundaries for the Victorian Federal Redistribution. Along with the usual minor changes they have made two major changes;
Firstly, they have reverted the proposed Division of Tucker's name back to the current Corangamite after many submissions opposing the change, noting how Corangamite is a Federal division and an Aboriginal name while Margaret Tucker was not local to the region (being Yorta Yorta from the Murray valley) and also noting that the name can easily be changed to F#cker with graffiti.
Secondly, they have reverted the proposed changes to the boundary between Macnamara and Higgins, returning Caulfield to Macnamara and South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor to Higgins. The proposed changes were incredibly unpopular with the large Jewish community, and the reversion is unsurprising. This significantly helps the Labor position in Macnamara where they were at risk of falling behind the Greens on the draft borders while slightly strengthening the Greens position in Higgins. Overall this change helps Labor in Macnamara while helping the Greens in Higgins.

And tomorrow the VEC will be releasing their draft report for the Victorian State Redistribution, which will have major changes and is eagerly awaited by both parties.
Why did they suggest the changes to the border between Macnamara and Higgins to begin with?


Red Lines are the existing Division boundaries, Blue Lines were the Draft Redistribution proposals.

As you can see from the map, the existing boundary isn't that compact, while Williams Road is a nice straight main road that looks very nice on paper, which always appeal to redistribution panels. But while it looks nice on paper, the current boundary makes much more sense on the ground. Caulfield and St Kilda both have large Jewish populations and are very closely linked, while South Yarra & Prahran are more integrated with the rest of Stonnington to their east. The current boundary follows Dandenong Road which is a major artery and a very strong boundary.
The changes where very strongly opposed by many submissions to the AEC, so they've reverted back to the original boundaries, and to make up population they've moved Windsor into Higgins which is good on the ground and unites the entire Stonnington council within one Division.

In case you're interested in the full announcement and the Commission's reasoning for their proposals and changes, here's a link to it:
https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2021/vic/announce-names-boundaries.htm
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« Reply #43 on: June 29, 2021, 04:42:59 PM »

The media are now all reporting Barnaby has won back the leadership per sources, with the official announcement expected imminently.

Edit: Damian Drum makes it official. And this means Barnaby will be Acting PM for Question Time.

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« Reply #44 on: June 29, 2021, 09:43:46 PM »

The draft Victorian state redistribution was released this morning. The sum of the changes is three seats are abolished across Melbourne's eastern & south eastern suburbs (Ferntree Gully, Keysborough & Mt Waverley), and three new seats are created in the booming outer suburbs (Pakenham on the southeastern fringe, Kalkallo in the sprawling northern fringe and Laverton in the western suburbs).

Tomorrow Antony Green will release calculations for the political consequences of the shakeup, however it's safe to say Labor will benefit from the new boundaries.
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« Reply #45 on: June 29, 2021, 11:36:37 PM »

In breaking news, the ABC is reporting sexual harassment allegations against new Tassie Labor leader David O'Byrne. He's giving a statement in an hour. If true this may bring an abrupt end to his leadership and force another long and costly leadership vote.

www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/labor-investigates-sexual-harassment-claims-against-david-obyrne/100253560
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« Reply #46 on: June 30, 2021, 03:15:47 AM »

In breaking news, the ABC is reporting sexual harassment allegations against new Tassie Labor leader David O'Byrne. He's giving a statement in an hour. If true this may bring an abrupt end to his leadership and force another long and costly leadership vote.

www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/labor-investigates-sexual-harassment-claims-against-david-obyrne/100253560

David O'Byrne has decided to "stand aside" as Opposition Leader while the allegations are investigated internally by the party. To be clear he's not actually resigning yet, but he may be forced to do so if the party can't sweep this under the rug.
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« Reply #47 on: July 02, 2021, 09:59:09 AM »

Knox, a municipality in the Melbourne area has introduced a 24 hour curfew for cats.

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It's known that felines like to roam, but from the start of October they will be subject to a "24-hour cat curfew" in one municipality in the Australian city of Melbourne.

Introduced by the Knox City Council, the new rule will require owners to keep their cats on their property at all times.

“When allowed to roam, cats are at a much higher risk of illness and injury,” Mayor Lisa Cooper said in a statement. “Keeping cats within their owners’ property also protects wildlife and prevents them causing nuisance for neighbors and their pets.”

Wandering cats may be picked up and fines may be issued, the council said.

The rule was introduced after a trial period last year which required cats to be confined overnight. It will come into force Oct. 1.

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« Reply #48 on: July 03, 2021, 12:58:10 PM »

During the 2019 election, the Liberal government promoted a car park program, however chose to build the parks disproportionately in vulnerable Labor seats or seats that the Liberals feared they might lose. This may have boosted their electoral prospects: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/when-47-car-parks-660-million-and-one-election-collide-20210630-p585h9.html
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« Reply #49 on: July 04, 2021, 01:34:46 AM »

In a shocking turn of events David O'Byrne has resigned as leader of the Tasmanian ALP after just 20 days in office. Without a doubt a new record for shortest term as leader, this shocking turn of events has put the Tassie ALP in turmoil and may even lead to a new leader from the Right.

abc.net.au/news/2021-07-04/david-o-byrne-resigns-as-labor-leader/100266864
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