Australia General Discussion Thread

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

Oh my god, best origin game ever!

Yas! I ended up going after all lol. It was so awesome. NSW was pitiful

Wow, you were there? That must have been great!

Oh my god, best origin game ever!

I mean, that's certainly one way of winning. I wonder how much Gallen will be whinging today.

The tries just kept on coming and coming

Well that was shit.

[Zadiner]

Just came aback from Liverpool vs brisbane Roar. Pretty good game, of course nearly everyone was goin for Liverpool cos it woul proba be their only time i wear their stuff out in public

[Sebtopiaris]

Anyone here interested in a post-apocalyptic RP region set in Eastern Australia?

[Reddogkeno101]

Anyone here interested in a post-apocalyptic RP region set in Eastern Australia?

If I can make time for it, then yeah.

[Sebtopiaris]

Anyone here interested in a post-apocalyptic RP region set in Eastern Australia?

If I can make time for it, then yeah.

oyus sukcess
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=348090&p=25303852&hilit=commonshire#p25303852
app here, link to region is in green and gold title, send puppetz pls, have a nice day. :3

[Sebtopiaris]

And how is everyone, anyway?

[Reddogkeno101]

If I can make time for it, then yeah.

oyus sukcess
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=348090&p=25303852&hilit=commonshire#p25303852
app here, link to region is in green and gold title, send puppetz pls, have a nice day. :3

I have an idea for you, make it in P2TM. I have a strict policy of P2TM only.

[Sebtopiaris]

oyus sukcess
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=348090&p=25303852&hilit=commonshire#p25303852
app here, link to region is in green and gold title, send puppetz pls, have a nice day. :3

I have an idea for you, make it in P2TM. I have a strict policy of P2TM only.

but muh zetabrods

[Zadiner]

With two magnitude 5 earthquakes and their share of aftershocks to hit Queensland in the past three days, how's everyone? I live in brisbane and while i didnt feel the one on Thursday, I just felt the one today. I was walkin round the house when there was an unusual sound coming from the windows. I realised they were shaking and it was followed by a quiet, deep rumbling sound and the birds flying away

[Hyfling]

Just woke up to this.

Hasn't snowed down here in decades. Not in my lifetime, anyway.

[The Republic of Pantalleria]

Just woke up to this.

Hasn't snowed down here in decades. Not in my lifetime, anyway.

Yeah, well apparently it hasn't snowed (it was more like sleet) in Burnie in decades, no wonder I woke up from the cold last night... It was darn snowing.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

Just woke up to this.

Hasn't snowed down here in decades. Not in my lifetime, anyway.

Oh wow, that's glorious! I haven't seen snow ever!

[Zadiner]

Just woke up to this.

Hasn't snowed down here in decades. Not in my lifetime, anyway.

0.0
Please invite me to your place

[New Chalcedon]

So.....Madame Chopper has finally resigned from the Speakership. After two weeks of intense and growing controversy, what eventually forced Bronwyn Bishop out of the Speaker's chair?

Was it a sense of honour? No.
A sense of consistency, with how past Speakers have acted when such rorts become known (more on this later)? No.
Perhaps it was simply a desire to make it all go away? Not that either.

What forced Bishop out...was uncertainty over whether the Government had the numbers to keep her in office (76 votes required). Think on that a moment - the Government, which controls 90 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives - was uncertain whether it could stop enough of its own people defecting to keep 76 votes on this issue....so then, and only then, did Kerosene Bronny resign.

On a related subject (consistency), place the following quote:

The Speaker's resignation reflects a government that is in chaos. The Govt has lost its way, lost its majority and now lost its speaker.

Who said this, I wonder: a Labor commentator? No. A Labor or Green Member of Parliament? No. A member of the public? No.

The person who said this was...Tony Abbott, back in 2012 when he'd successfully hounded Peter Slipper out of office over $900 in improperly claimed taxi fares.

The double-standard is breathtaking: Besides one fraudulently claimed $5,227 expense (from Melbourne to attend a party fundraiser in Geelong - 65km away!), other abuses have emerged on Mrs. Bishop's part - $6,000 to attend a colleague's wedding, $88,000 for a two-week junket touring Europe (where she auditioned unsuccessfully for a nothingburger job, losing to the Bangladeshi candidate!), just over $6,000 to attend another party fundraiser, two weeks into the controversy no less, thousands of dollars for luxury limousines to attend the opera(!) - all this, at a time when Australia's poorest are being told to cut their belts and live in poverty!

And what was Tony Abbott's response? To defend his Speaker, his political mentor, at every turn - right up until it became clear he couldn't keep her in the job, at which point he cheerfully threw her under the bus.

If there's one take-away from this, it's that Tony Abbott is a unique blend of pomposity, aristocracy and pugnaciousness - and that every day he squats, toadlike, in the PM's office, is another disgrace upon Australia!

And while no-one might be as poisonous as Tony "The Captain" Abbott, the rest of the Liberal frontbench are hardly in a position to understand the financial problems of Joe or Jane Citizen.

Just look at Joe Hockey (Treasurer of Australia), who claims $50,000 per year in travel allowances for staying in his wife's Canberra home (one of the biggest and most lavish properties in Canberra, the taxpayer has generously paid the Hockeys its entire value in travel allowances over Mr. Hockey's tenure in Parliament!). Or Barnaby Joyce (Minister for Agriculture) or Julie Bishop (Foreign Minister), who each claimed $4,000 to return from a friend of a friend's wedding in India as official expenses (the friend in question, Gina Rinehart, gave them - free - a trip to India in her luxury jet to attend there...a gift which somehow failed to ever be declared by the pair of Ministers of the Crown as required by law). Or, for that matter, Tony Abbott himself - who claimed nearly $500,000 in the six months before he won the 2013 election and continues to claim tens of thousands of dollars annually in "official expenses" to attend and occasionally compete in athletic events.

I hope that the next Labor Government holds a Royal Commission into the illegal, unethical and downright corrupt dealings of the present rabble who occupy the Treasury benches!

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

So.....Madame Chopper has finally resigned from the Speakership. After two weeks of intense and growing controversy, what eventually forced Bronwyn Bishop out of the Speaker's chair?

Was it a sense of honour? No.
A sense of consistency, with how past Speakers have acted when such rorts become known (more on this later)? No.
Perhaps it was simply a desire to make it all go away? Not that either.

What forced Bishop out...was uncertainty over whether the Government had the numbers to keep her in office (76 votes required). Think on that a moment - the Government, which controls 90 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives - was uncertain whether it could stop enough of its own people defecting to keep 76 votes on this issue....so then, and only then, did Kerosene Bronny resign.

On a related subject (consistency), place the following quote:

The Speaker's resignation reflects a government that is in chaos. The Govt has lost its way, lost its majority and now lost its speaker.

Who said this, I wonder: a Labor commentator? No. A Labor or Green Member of Parliament? No. A member of the public? No.

The person who said this was...Tony Abbott, back in 2012 when he'd successfully hounded Peter Slipper out of office over $900 in improperly claimed taxi fares.

The double-standard is breathtaking: Besides one fraudulently claimed $5,227 expense (from Melbourne to attend a party fundraiser in Geelong - 65km away!), other abuses have emerged on Mrs. Bishop's part - $6,000 to attend a colleague's wedding, $88,000 for a two-week junket touring Europe (where she auditioned unsuccessfully for a nothingburger job, losing to the Bangladeshi candidate!), just over $6,000 to attend another party fundraiser, two weeks into the controversy no less, thousands of dollars for luxury limousines to attend the opera(!) - all this, at a time when Australia's poorest are being told to cut their belts and live in poverty!

And what was Tony Abbott's response? To defend his Speaker, his political mentor, at every turn - right up until it became clear he couldn't keep her in the job, at which point he cheerfully threw her under the bus.

If there's one take-away from this, it's that Tony Abbott is a unique blend of pomposity, aristocracy and pugnaciousness - and that every day he squats, toadlike, in the PM's office, is another disgrace upon Australia!

And while no-one might be as poisonous as Tony "The Captain" Abbott, the rest of the Liberal frontbench are hardly in a position to understand the financial problems of Joe or Jane Citizen.

Just look at Joe Hockey (Treasurer of Australia), who claims $50,000 per year in travel allowances for staying in his wife's Canberra home (one of the biggest and most lavish properties in Canberra, the taxpayer has generously paid the Hockeys its entire value in travel allowances over Mr. Hockey's tenure in Parliament!). Or Barnaby Joyce (Minister for Agriculture) or Julie Bishop (Foreign Minister), who each claimed $4,000 to return from a friend of a friend's wedding in India as official expenses (the friend in question, Gina Rinehart, gave them - free - a trip to India in her luxury jet to attend there...a gift which somehow failed to ever be declared by the pair of Ministers of the Crown as required by law). Or, for that matter, Tony Abbott himself - who claimed nearly $500,000 in the six months before he won the 2013 election and continues to claim tens of thousands of dollars annually in "official expenses" to attend and occasionally compete in athletic events.

I hope that the next Labor Government holds a Royal Commission into the illegal, unethical and downright corrupt dealings of the present rabble who occupy the Treasury benches!

I very much agree with this. Especially the very last bit.

[Zadiner]

Ugh politics

[Cedoria]

So.....Madame Chopper has finally resigned from the Speakership. After two weeks of intense and growing controversy, what eventually forced Bronwyn Bishop out of the Speaker's chair?

Was it a sense of honour? No.
A sense of consistency, with how past Speakers have acted when such rorts become known (more on this later)? No.
Perhaps it was simply a desire to make it all go away? Not that either.

What forced Bishop out...was uncertainty over whether the Government had the numbers to keep her in office (76 votes required). Think on that a moment - the Government, which controls 90 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives - was uncertain whether it could stop enough of its own people defecting to keep 76 votes on this issue....so then, and only then, did Kerosene Bronny resign.

On a related subject (consistency), place the following quote:

The Speaker's resignation reflects a government that is in chaos. The Govt has lost its way, lost its majority and now lost its speaker.

Who said this, I wonder: a Labor commentator? No. A Labor or Green Member of Parliament? No. A member of the public? No.

The person who said this was...Tony Abbott, back in 2012 when he'd successfully hounded Peter Slipper out of office over $900 in improperly claimed taxi fares.

The double-standard is breathtaking: Besides one fraudulently claimed $5,227 expense (from Melbourne to attend a party fundraiser in Geelong - 65km away!), other abuses have emerged on Mrs. Bishop's part - $6,000 to attend a colleague's wedding, $88,000 for a two-week junket touring Europe (where she auditioned unsuccessfully for a nothingburger job, losing to the Bangladeshi candidate!), just over $6,000 to attend another party fundraiser, two weeks into the controversy no less, thousands of dollars for luxury limousines to attend the opera(!) - all this, at a time when Australia's poorest are being told to cut their belts and live in poverty!

And what was Tony Abbott's response? To defend his Speaker, his political mentor, at every turn - right up until it became clear he couldn't keep her in the job, at which point he cheerfully threw her under the bus.

If there's one take-away from this, it's that Tony Abbott is a unique blend of pomposity, aristocracy and pugnaciousness - and that every day he squats, toadlike, in the PM's office, is another disgrace upon Australia!

And while no-one might be as poisonous as Tony "The Captain" Abbott, the rest of the Liberal frontbench are hardly in a position to understand the financial problems of Joe or Jane Citizen.

Just look at Joe Hockey (Treasurer of Australia), who claims $50,000 per year in travel allowances for staying in his wife's Canberra home (one of the biggest and most lavish properties in Canberra, the taxpayer has generously paid the Hockeys its entire value in travel allowances over Mr. Hockey's tenure in Parliament!). Or Barnaby Joyce (Minister for Agriculture) or Julie Bishop (Foreign Minister), who each claimed $4,000 to return from a friend of a friend's wedding in India as official expenses (the friend in question, Gina Rinehart, gave them - free - a trip to India in her luxury jet to attend there...a gift which somehow failed to ever be declared by the pair of Ministers of the Crown as required by law). Or, for that matter, Tony Abbott himself - who claimed nearly $500,000 in the six months before he won the 2013 election and continues to claim tens of thousands of dollars annually in "official expenses" to attend and occasionally compete in athletic events.

I hope that the next Labor Government holds a Royal Commission into the illegal, unethical and downright corrupt dealings of the present rabble who occupy the Treasury benches!

Here Here!

Ah well, it's not much more than I expect. There is one promise old Bonehead has kept, being a 'no surprises' government. It is of no surprise whatsoever that they are a bunch of lying, deceitful, incompetent, kleptocratic, tea-partyist Reaganite hillbilly flat-earthers. It's exactly what I expected.

Australia made a huge error, and soon we'll correct it. We should've have listened to Paul Keating.

"If Tony Abbott ends up the Prime Minister of Australia, you've gotta say, God help us, God help us. Truly an intellectual nobody, and no policy ambition".

He was right, as usual.
But I am happy that old Dolores Umbridge is gone from the chair. Could never stand her.

The only one of the current mob I can remotely tolerate is Turnbull. The rest? They're just the same, always so mean. Such mean little people with inferiority complexes, bad economic and social policies and a leader who makes George W Bush sound like something other than a catastrophe on two legs.

[The Foxes Swamp]

i said it before and i'll say it again cut their wages they earn to much, its time to sack them all and take back all their benefits, imagine how much cash we would save.

[Napkiraly]

I hear Australians have Internet. Is this true?

[Sam Hyde]

If American English is Arial, and British English is Times New Roman, then Australian English is Comic Sans.

[Reddogkeno101]

If American English is Arial, and British English is Times New Roman, then Australian English is Comic Sans.

I'm not sure what to think of this; I feel as though it's supposed to be some sort of insult consider it's Comic Sans, but it's a bad comparison, because we all know Strayan English is the best.

I hear Australians have Internet. Is this true?

Apparently, yes my compatriots and I have access to some form of this "internet" thing. Apparently we will soon have speeds faster than...Romania.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

If American English is Arial, and British English is Times New Roman, then Australian English is Comic Sans.

Mate, I don't appreciate Ya comparision there. Remove yaself before I chuck a wobbly.

I hear Australians have Internet. Is this true?

We wish.

Once again, Tony struck again by watering down the NBN plan.

[Registug]

"who has need for winter clothes?" I asked rhetorically some months ago. "Not I!" I continued to no one. "For I am a Queenslander! And it doesn't get cold in Queensland!"

lo and behold the folly of my errors, for it is fucking colder than a witch's tit I sware mate you wouldn't believe it.

[Napkiraly]

If American English is Arial, and British English is Times New Roman, then Australian English is Comic Sans.

I'm not sure what to think of this; I feel as though it's supposed to be some sort of insult consider it's Comic Sans, but it's a bad comparison, because we all know Strayan English is the best.

I hear Australians have Internet. Is this true?

Apparently, yes my compatriots and I have access to some form of this "internet" thing. Apparently we will soon have speeds faster than...Romania.

That's basically still using telegrams.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

"who has need for winter clothes?" I asked rhetorically some months ago. "Not I!" I continued to no one. "For I am a Queenslander! And it doesn't get cold in Queensland!"

lo and behold the folly of my errors, for it is fucking colder than a witch's tit I sware mate you wouldn't believe it.

I woken up yesterday morning and I swear it was in the negatives. You'd think I'd get used to after living on a mountain for 15 years.