Australia + New Zealand | The Antipodes

[Simple Minded]

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doing her best to make tennis interesting

completely charming, and open up all kinds of new possibilities in terms of product sponsorships.......

totally deserving of being the highest paid tennis player in the world.

[Simple Minded]

Crickey!

I thought only Merika was the home of these violent extremists!

Posting an opinion on Facebook? Only terrorists do that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSLeIh ... e=youtu.be

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Victoria isnt part of Australia, she was in trouble under their laws of incitement, aimed at muslims and neo nazis.

[YMix]

I was operating under the mistaken impression that country living is peaceful and relaxing.

[Simple Minded]

I was operating under the mistaken impression that country living is peaceful and relaxing.

Wow! Talk about hateful White Supremacy in action. Even worse than some parts of Merika!

If the domesticated animals had internet access, this abuse wouldn't happen!

I'll bet a lot of voter suppression occurs in the farmlands of Straya!

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the suffering is short and the rewards in heaven, high.

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[Simple Minded]

the suffering is short and the rewards in heaven, high.

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paraphrasing JFK "Ask not, what can the white man do for you, but rather, what can you do for the white man!"

You Strayans are doing a better job raising your livestock than some Merikins are doing raising their children.

Whoa! Epiphany! We should be eating our children!

thanks for the advice!

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

New Australian Navy Ship Commissioned By Twerking

[Nonc Hilaire]

New Australian Navy Ship Commissioned By Twerking

You are supposed to use a champagne bottle!

I want to see all those women with champagne bottles!

[noddy]

it has been a non stop source of memes in these parts, most amusing.


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[NapLajoieonSteroids]

"Get to twerking, we're landing in Hong Kong in a few weeks to fight our way up, and we'll need all our ships in order."

[noddy]

those playing along at home may have lost track of the chain of events in the China vs Australia escalation.

fox news has a handy refresher, and hilights the fact that like Europe, China has sanctioned us so much now, we dont have to care about losing them as a market - its already happened.

so the only thing left is irrelevance or war - stay tuned!

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy ... 221dddebd0

Foreign Minister Marise Payne takes the international lead in calling for a global inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, including China's handling of the initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan.

China places an import ban on four Australian abattoirs citing health labelling infringements on beef products. The four meatworks represent 35 per cent of Australia's $3.5 billion beef export trade to China.

Beijing imposes a massive 80 per cent tariff on Australian barley imports, saying the product has been imported against trade rules. The tax will stay for five years, and is expected to wipe out Australian sales - worth up to $1.5 billion a year - into China.

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism urges people not to travel to Australia, citing a "significant increase" in racist attacks in the wake of COVID-19. Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says Beijing's claims are false and have "no basis in fact".

The Government issues a new warning on travel to China, saying Australians may face “arbitrary detention”. Australians in China who are considering returning home are told to “do so as soon as possible”. China responds by saying Australians have nothing to fear if they obey the law.

Australia suspends Australia’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong and makes visa changes to allow workers and students to extend their stay in Australia, including pathways to citizenship.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs upgrades its travel advice for citizens, saying Australian “law enforcement authorities arbitrarily search Chinese citizens and seize their items”.

China launches an anti-dumping probe into Australian wine exports, making good on earlier threats to the sector. Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says our wine is highly sought after in China because of its quality. “Australian wine is not sold at below market prices and exports are not subsidised.”

Wang Xining, Beijing’s deputy ambassador in Canberra, gives a speech calling Australia treacherous and disrespectful, and says its actions on COVID-19 "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people".

New laws are announced to block undue Chinese influence over Australia, allowing the federal government to veto controversial agreements with foreign nations. The move threatens Victoria's controversial Belt and Road Initiative agreement, but also deals involving unis and local councils.

China hits Australian winemakers again, launching a second investigation into the $1.07 billion trade to determine if the industry unfairly benefits from up to 40 government subsidies.

The Government reiterates the risk of "arbitrary detention" for Australians in China after two journalists - the ABC's Bill Birtles and the AFR's Michael Smith - are rushed to safety. They spent days sheltering in diplomatic compounds after local police demanded interviews with them.

Another farming sector is dragged into Beijing's attacks on trade, with reports China’s General Administration of Customs will apply “enhanced inspection” efforts on shipments of Australian wheat. Shipments already sold to China for December and January are worth approximately $250 million.

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says the Government has contacted China through diplomatic channels over reports Chinese customs authorities had told companies to stop importing Australian coal - a move threatening $14 billion a year in exports.

The Australian reports government officials had advised China-exposed businesses in Australia to “find other markets”, as reports in a Chinese state-controlled tabloid appeared to confirm unprecedented bans on Australian wine, lobster, copper, sugar, timber and coal.

The Australian reveals coal exports to China have plunged by 96 per cent in the first three weeks of November amid a go-slow by Chinese officials. More than 80 ships with cargo worth $1.1bn are stuck off the Chinese coast.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce says Australian winemakers have been found guilty of dumping wine in China and harming its local industry. Tariffs of between 107% and 212% are imposed, with Trade Minister Simon Birmingham saying they make the Chinese market "largely unmarketable, unviable".

After China targets timber exports and more beef suppliers, cotton and wheat farmers are warned they are likely to be next in line, taking the total of Australian agricultural goods banned, disrupted by customs or hit by tariffs to more than $7 billion.

News emerges that Beijing has formalised its black-listing of Australia’s $14 billion coal export industry at a high-level meeting. Meanwhile, The Australian reports ASIO is investigating after it revealed Chinese Communist Party members had infiltrated Western embassies, including Australia’s.

Australian Ambassador Graham Fletcher tells the Australia China Business Council that businesses could lose their China market at any time because “Beijing has decided to send a message to Canberra”. He says the tactic has left China exposed as an unreliable trading partner and "even vindictive".

Foreign Minister Marise Payne tears up Victoria’s controversial Belt and Road agreements with China under veto powers that allow the Commonwealth to block deals deemed against the national interest. The Chinese Embassy says Australia "will only end up hurting itself".

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

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From the tweet attached to that article from Hu Xijin, affialated with Chinese state media:

A formal agreement has been cancelled so easily. Australians, is your country a uncivilized rogue that deserves stern admonition and punishment?

Now, obviously the tweet in that article is meant to inflame. Who knows Hu Xijin from a hole in the wall?

But "uncivilized rogue that deserves stern admonition and punishment" is funny. I know it's supposed to be serious, and its a serious matter, but I laughed.

He should've went with the classic, "Canberra is @sshoe"

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the chinese "wolf warriors" are comically schoolyard, its actually fun

they had a consensus with a left wing state government, which the federals shutdown - they know that, they do the same thing all the time.

its all theatre, when they shout at us, they are really shouting at america and europe but are too spineless to do so.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

"I'd say they're unraveling in Australia. We could've ended up like this here [Italy] as well."

[Simple Minded]

"I'd say they're unraveling in Australia. We could've ended up like this here [Italy] as well."

I've been saying that my whole life!!!! White Women appropriating my culture!!!!

I don't know whether I should be offended or flattered.......

[Nonc Hilaire]

In my experience, the probability of Strayans not being friendly is exactly zero.

[Nonc Hilaire]

When the police kill citizens by shooting them in the back ‘to protect their health’ it’s a problem.

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When the police kill citizens by shooting them in the back ‘to protect their health’ it’s a problem.

Where did that happen ?

after 3 days of protests blocking a main road and getting increasingly violent, the Melbourne police, who are thuggish at the best of times, went full riot squad and started using rubber bullets, pepper spray and illegal tackles .

no deaths, no guns, and nothing to do with "protecting their health".

if you block the main road into town, urinate everywhere, attack nurses and police and generally carry on like a rioter, you get smashed by every police force on the planet.

except some of the progressive ones in usa during BLM.

[YMix]

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i love a pie floater but I wouldnt put tomato sauce on it, that sounds a bit gross.

pea and ham soup is delicious, flaky pastry as a dip in soup is delicious, meat in gravy is delicious.

its a full dinner, meat and vege, in cold night comfort food form.

its also just the obvious outcome of late night food carts selling street food to workers - they offered soup, the offered pies, some guys just shoved the pie in the soup so they didnt have to carry 2 things.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Headline: "Australia Puts Spartacus of the New World in Chains, For the Fun of It"

a response from spartacus's father:

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[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Not only is he the role model of all nations, creeds and classes; he is the greatest (and Serbia by proxity) athlete to have ever lived.

And the Australians saw this joy, this water-bearer to humanity, and had to crush it lest he enlighten their darkened, beastly minds.

[noddy]

its actually quite funny as i understand it.

the authoritarian state with strict vax rules gave him an exemption, pissing off all the people forced to comply with vax.

the anti vax prime minister, then used the federal border rules to ban him, trying for populist support in that state.

a clusterfuck of irony and idiocy.