Australia + New Zealand | The Antipodes

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Ukrainian vandalism which will readily be justified by all Russia haters. Nazi practices by Nazi-minded people who are now America's and Europe's favourite allies...

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A tram has collided with a beer truck in the Melbourne city fringe suburb of Parkville, derailing the tram...

The devastation is clear, and palpable.

A warning that the following images contain GRAPHIC CONTENT.

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertain ... 5e14ab.htm

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A tram has collided with a beer truck in the Melbourne city fringe suburb of Parkville, derailing the tram...

The devastation is clear, and palpable.

A warning that the following images contain GRAPHIC CONTENT.

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertain ... 5e14ab.htm

absolutely brutal.

Has the Stralian media ruled out that this is not the work of Portuguese-Anglo-Zionist terrorists yet?

Are the Stralian flags flying at half staff?

When I was about 14 me, my older brother, and one of his friends salvaged 120 cases of Genesee beer from a train wreck. Every teenager's summer night's dream. good times!

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Has the Stralian media ruled out that this is not the work of Portuguese-Anglo-Zionist terrorists yet?

We have some pretty good beer for which we are trying to find export markets...

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shame its a lager, i enjoy strong ales and find lagers/pilseners a bit nothing.

if i see it, ill try it.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Income fall lays bare Australia fragility
Despite solid growth, many businesses and young people are struggling

“It is as bad as I’ve seen it in my industry,” says the 51-year-old self-employed driver. “Competition is very tough, construction companies are going bust leaving me unpaid and my take-home pay is down 20 per cent in two years.”

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“Australia experienced an income recession in the second and third quarters of 2014, due to sharply falling prices of its main commodity exports,” says Saul Eslake, economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “But this didn’t show up in the GDP statistics as they don’t capture swings in the ‘terms of trade’.”

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“The economic transition in Australia from the resources boom to east coast recovery has stalled,” said Morgan Stanley in a note published in November.

much more @ FT link above

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Looks like there was no trickle down


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trickle down was fine, the problem is lack of replacements for the mining boom.

we dont offer the world much except raw materials so once demand for them goes to lavender, so does our economy.

blah blah, knowledge economy, service economy etc, hasnt happened, now we get to suffer for a bit until it all scales back to normal.

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Australia is seen as a safer place to bet
China High-Rollers Avoiding Macau
Gambling Elsewhere


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sadly not true.

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sadly not true.

That he is going to spend $64 on combatting terrorism on home soil?

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sadly not true.

Depending upon caliber, 64 bucks can buy a couple thousand bullets. Stralian paranoia is outa control.

sooner or later, somebody is gonna get hurt.

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they forgot a few millions from the headline.

good ole tones is falling over himself to make sure every part of our communications is heavily recorded and monitored and also changing the free speech laws so that radical speech is illegal.

doubleplusgood times ahead, praise the emporer, etc etc.

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the alleged reason we need to live in a police state is that we apparently now have jihadi immigrants.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-24/t ... se/6249890

Baryalei suggests Azari kill a tourist

A transcript of telephone calls between Azari and Baryalei on September 14, 2014 were read to the court.

In the calls Baryalei instructs Azari to kill a random civilian on the street and then put up an IS flag.

"Finish him, finish her, when you are finished, put the flag in the background," Baryalei said.

"If you kill our people, we will also kill your people one by one."

He then suggested that Azari kill a tourist from the United States, United Kingdom or France.

"A person who is a tourist or backpacker, American, French or British, that's even better," Baryalei said.

"Yeah, yeah," Azari agreed.

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Giorgio Agamben suggests that we create states-of-exception which we pay lip service to being provisional, has been the most active method of ruling for the last 100 years. [in this case, spying on bad guys who are outside the protection of the law becomes spying on everyone regardless of your standing with the law.] The War of Terror is just another state of exception that has become the new norm as a war on politics and popular sovereignty.

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Giorgio Agamben suggests that we create states-of-exception which we pay lip service to being provisional, has been the most active method of ruling for the last 100 years. [in this case, spying on bad guys who are outside the protection of the law becomes spying on everyone regardless of your standing with the law.] The War of Terror is just another state of exception that has become the new norm as a war on politics and popular sovereignty.

Do tell.

“That’s... our window on the outside,” Burdeaux said. “That whole world of the permanent expediency out there, that whole world is TV. And we watch it through...”
“Permanent expediency?” Dasein tried to raise himself on his elbows, but the effect set his burned arms to throbbing. He sank back, kept his gaze on Burdeaux.
“Why, of course, sir. The outside works on the temporary expedient, Doctor Gil. You must know that. And the temporary always turns into the permanent, somehow. The temporary tax, the necessary little war, the temporary brutality that will cease as soon as certain conditions end... the government agency created for the permanent interim...”

- The Santaroga Barrier, Frank Herbert, 1968

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Giorgio Agamben suggests that we create states-of-exception which we pay lip service to being provisional, has been the most active method of ruling for the last 100 years. [in this case, spying on bad guys who are outside the protection of the law becomes spying on everyone regardless of your standing with the law.] The War of Terror is just another state of exception that has become the new norm as a war on politics and popular sovereignty.

the australian federal government is itself a state of exception, powers given for unifying the ww2 effort never got returned.

as for mr agamben, its easy to agree - thats pretty much what we have all been saying for quite some time now.

bringing back the orwell theme - the sad part is the message from animal farm beats the message from 1984 - namely that the revolution will be revolting and not worth the effort.

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"Colossal Defeat" For Obama As Australia Joins China's Regional Bank
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/16/2015 23:15 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-1 ... ional-bank

Having attacked its "closest ally" UK for "constant accomodation" with China, we suspect President Obama will be greatly displeased at yet another close-ally's decision to partner up with the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). As The Australian reports, "make no mistake," the decision by Australia's Abbott government to sign on for negotiations to join China’s regional bank, foreshadowed by Tony Abbott at the weekend, "represents a colossal defeat for the Obama administration’s incompetent, distracted, ham-fisted diplomacy in Asia."

Later news indicate that Germany, France and Italy will also join the new bank. Time for the US to start electing smart people to run the show...

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http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/ ... aus1_0.jpg

Should Australians start learning Greek?...

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i have quite consistently whined about my government and its debt addiction since day one so if you think you are highlighting some hypocrisy on my part you are mistaken, im living the nightmare.

we got carried out of the GFC by chinese stimulus and unfortuantely some dick brained pus puppet fucktards think that means we are too clever to crash so loaded us up with debt, both public and private.

as bad as that is, we arent quite retarded enough to join some undemoractic supra-state so its not quite greece levels of dumb yet, we can just crash our currency and sell all our assets to china.

im looking forward to being a thirdworld stranger in my own country - begging for scraps from my asian masters

least im not durian enough to blame ze germanz, i know exactly who is at fault - the middle class of my own country and their festering gubmint.


the less venom filled version is http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/07 ... xt-greece/

The basic outlines of this are right. Australia has bet on the wrong horse in commodities, has hollowed out the non-mining tradable economy and become a kind of developed economy Banana Republic that can’t grow without borrowing offshore, yet can’t change owing to the paralysing politics of vested interests.

But Australia is not the next Greece for one simple reason. We have a floating currency and it does not. The more the rent seekers in mining and banking slow the reform process the lower the currency will go as what could be a managed process of adjustment simply becomes a market rout instead as the offshore debt grows to crisis point. Eventually the currency turns it around via increased competitiveness.

We’ll be OK in the long run and at some stage we may even get leadership to help rather that hinder the process. The great Australian adjustment can’t be stopped and it will be very painful but we’ll be much better for it in the long run.

Greece won’t.

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It is a bit surprising that people using common sense don't mind maximum speeds on the road to prevent serious and deadly crashes..but that this common sense has not yet arrived at a demand for maximum national debt to prevent serious deadly crashes of the entire country.

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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... j96kq.html

The electronically logged data of mobile, landline voice (including missed and failed) calls and text messages, all emails, download volumes and location information will be mandatorily retained by Australian telcos and ISPs.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies will have immediate, warrantless and accumulating access to all telephone and internet metadata required by law, with a $2 million penalty for telcos and ISPs that don't comply.
There is no sunset clause in the Abbott government's legislation, which was waved through parliament by Bill Shorten's Labor with only minor tweaks. The service providers are to keep a secret register of the agency seeking access to metadata and the identity of the persons being targeted. There is nothing in the Act to prevent investigative "fishing expeditions" or systemic abuse of power except for retrospective oversight by the Commonwealth Ombudsman. That's if you somehow found out about an agency looking into your metadata - which is unlikely, as there's a two-year jail sentence for anyone caught revealing information about instances of metadata access.
Over time, your metadata will expose your private email, SMS and fixed-line caller traffic, consumer, work and professional activities and habits, showing the patterns of all your communications, your commercial transactions and monetised subscriptions or downloads, exactly who you communicate with, and how often.

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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... j96kq.html

The electronically logged data of mobile, landline voice (including missed and failed) calls and text messages, all emails, download volumes and location information will be mandatorily retained by Australian telcos and ISPs.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies will have immediate, warrantless and accumulating access to all telephone and internet metadata required by law, with a $2 million penalty for telcos and ISPs that don't comply.
There is no sunset clause in the Abbott government's legislation, which was waved through parliament by Bill Shorten's Labor with only minor tweaks. The service providers are to keep a secret register of the agency seeking access to metadata and the identity of the persons being targeted. There is nothing in the Act to prevent investigative "fishing expeditions" or systemic abuse of power except for retrospective oversight by the Commonwealth Ombudsman. That's if you somehow found out about an agency looking into your metadata - which is unlikely, as there's a two-year jail sentence for anyone caught revealing information about instances of metadata access.
Over time, your metadata will expose your private email, SMS and fixed-line caller traffic, consumer, work and professional activities and habits, showing the patterns of all your communications, your commercial transactions and monetised subscriptions or downloads, exactly who you communicate with, and how often.

In the old times we called that fascism...

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its bipartisan proper socialism with a post modern blend of fascism and communism depending on which main groups you are aligned with.

as for actual free people, or independant small business, you are either a terrorist, a tax cheat or a drug dealer unless proven otherwise.

its horrible when our politicians actually agree on things and make new laws, their should be a law against it - viva la gridlock (ghost of cd)

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today is a great day for my country, today we have started breaking new ground in retarded incompetence.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-10/a ... er/6080126


we are about to break the record for most leaders in the least amount of time - the previous government managed 3 in 2 terms, the current is about to kick out its prime minister less than 2 years into the term - all the state governments have been busy aswell, backstabbing away like the little psychopaths they are.

it makes me proud to be an australian.

the detail on this one is that the completely incompetent tony abbot (speedo man) has not only alienated the country he has also alienated his own base so much they are going to swap him for the wet-left 'rino' who used to be on the other side of the house but switched teams because he wasnt getting enough attention over there.

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/09 ... ge-abbott/



great times, brilliant leadership.


the opposition is a unionist rat who manages to combine the perfect attributes of creepy and boring and causes his own party to vote for the other guy

great times.


in pictures.


this ego monster (who has his own website and own name on his branding, not the his parties ones)



is backstabbing this broken durian



while this terminal failure wishes it was him




can i sneek in with the syrians somewhere ?

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