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Ahh the old classic "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (who guards the guardians?)" The old standard around who watches those who are tasked watching those in power. Interestingly, this comes from Juvenal, who was actually referring to the situation where he accuses his wife of sleeping around and...

and yet - Conduent rolled out the ticketing system in Flanders, Belgium, which does have contactless payments through phone and card. Cubic did say that Conduent hadn't rolled out in Montreal, Dubai or Paris - but so what -was that ever part of the contract there? The fact is that Cubic are...

Na - those leading the no vote are more interested in whipping up hysteria and engaging in dog whistles, this doesn't fit into the narrative, despite bureaucracy being a reasonably valid argument. Then there will be (and are) those that say this doesn't go far enough and again the no vote will...

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Gay marriage is not a constitutional matter, the jurisdiction for the legislation for or against is a state matter - and there is no concept of 'constitution' at state level. The Voice is specifically around indigenous opinion being heard at federal level. Could it have been legislated instead...

You have to be paid to do a good thing that costs you nothing? You'd rather make other people miserable because you are not getting paid?? Fortunately not everyone is FIGJAM like you, some people just want to do the right thing and expect nothing in return.

That's a cynical view and not really how government works. When government civil servants make briefs for their ministers to act on, they do so in quite some depth and will have to include the "voice's input" as a stakeholder where it is pertinent and such briefs include recommendations that are...

There was a bit too much promise matching - the vline one was the worst. Guy proposed $2 fares, Andrews matches with $9.60 max. Both terrible proposals. I live on the Bendigo line, its a reasonably good service. But by making it so cheap, they'll stop investing in improving the service. And it...

Actually what you say about geezers and geriatrics made me think of the major benefit of having it in Bendigo. The meeting was always going to a dumpster fire that was always going to attract the worst elements no matter where held. By doing this in Bendigo, which is strong labor, the more...

Suspect it was an attempt to reduce the number of Deeming supporters, and while it wasn't great, possibly a better result than holding it in Melbourne somewhere.

These sort of comments don’t gather support for anyone on the fence. Just classic right type behaviour that anyones the worst extremity of a view if they aren’t 100% on board.

Do you really need to know the color choice of any government cars being issued? The target is to make up a 'council' representing different territories that can then contribute to the information that the goverment needs before they they make poor decisions based on ill-information. Questioning...

Poppycock - it is quite common. Liberal Party itself rose from the demise of the United Australia Party and is not very old at all. Aus Democrats - where are they now? Europe has seen many parties come, rise, rule and disappear over the course. It doesn't happen in the US, but that is only...

no but the guy who wrote the article obviously has a thing for spreadsheets. Likes to imagine them on peoples computers, in colours, getting up to all types of mischief - spreadsheets are bad ok - naughty spreadsheets!

This a great example of a lack of strategic thinking. The idea of conscription is reasonably popular, introduce discipline, contribute to society. Perhaps even travel the world. My dad, who was english, whilse doing a year of national service with The Australian navy, met my mum in Thailand -...

Who knows how much it will really cost? Not being cynical, but projects of this size and complexity, especially in ground works have a lot of engineering challenges which massively affect the cost. Not to mention that stadium has not actually even been designed or any architects appointed. Just...

EFA

Well it was British trade that was the whole impetus of colonisation and subsequent indigenous decimation, so not totally unrelated.

If the defence department were a footy team, they would have just spent 80% of their cap on obtaining and securing Nick Daicos for the next 15 years.

As if the ambos crews were witness to the witness. Ambos just make a bit of a note of the general scene and more interested in the injuries. I haven't seen the photos but if the side of the car is damaged, it is pretty hard to claim that the car hit the cyclist, but the general gist of the note...

Not a lot - but voting above the line is voting for a template for votes, designed by a party, not just a 'party'. It's a basic electoral tenet that we vote for people, not anythng else. FWIW, nothing technically wrong with her behaviour, she is allowed to represent her constituents in any...

Out of the earlier discussion about what are 'Liberal' party traditional values I really wanted to know what they are, given that the Liberals website doesn't list any. So I thought I'd go back to close to the founding of the Libs and dug up this article from Ming in the run-up to the 1949...

Interesting article on Leonara - where Dutton allegedly canvassed the views on the voice - turns out it was barely mentioned, and intrestingly enough, he seemed to be 'pro-voice' then...

From what I understand - this is all about race and was the main target of the 1967 referendum. Before 67, the commonwealth could make laws around specific races, usually some group of migrants, but explicitly not for indigenous populations, which I guess was seen as the state's reposnsibility...

RIP Bruce Petty

Is that possibly because they dont exist? Seriously, I went to the Liberal website and cannot find any values listed (except for, ironically, the vic libs). If they did exist - they have been officially turfed. I did find their 'beliefs' so lets have a quick look at them: 1. In the inalienable...

Prob is that you have to be really well researched. When you have to respond immediately to an untruth, you actually need to know what the truth and able to reference evidence, otherwise you end up looking petty or worse, you get the facts wrong yourself.

So Bridget talks about the 'crossroads' - what is that exactly and what happens when that is crossed, move on to the next crossroad? At what point do you or Bridget think, "actually the beliefs I have, the values I have, are just not reflected in this party and it is time to move on". Are you or...

Rennick is ******* serial pest. He regular hassles the BOM executive with his 'research' of bunkum science and always in every senate estimates. And because he is a senator the BOM cant just glibly 'dismiss' his crackpot theories, so they end up wasting public funds committing senior resources...

https://www.theshovel.com.au/2023/04/04/the-liberal-mp-is-on-the-brink-of-extinction/