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by d_t_w 9y ago
I'm sorry to inform you that the internet is not an anodyne safe-place. Consider your emotional reaction and continued need to engage, down this off-topic path.
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by d_t_w 9y ago
I find it interesting that you choose to go into fine detail, again, about the facts of life and social problems in the Northern Territory as you understand them and to share your own personal anecdotes, as if these have some impact on the
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Satire would suggest humour? Like you I've read all sorts of discussion of the cartoon, not once have I heard it described as funny. Perhaps I'm reading the wrong articles. What is satire that is not funny, crap satire? I was fami
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Neither Britain or New Zealand have written constitutions, I'm not convinced that Australia's is the problem at hand, though I guess it could be that a poorly written one is worse than none at all.
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Thanks, what an intriguing level of detail to draw from the cartoon, I have to admit I never read even the slightest amount of that from it. To me the cartoon is staggeringly racist. Clearly, deliberately, outrageously racist. And I am deli
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Thanks for sharing your opinion. The earnest responses you've received are fairly representative of commonly expressed opinions in Australia. I don't believe it's the majority view, but certainly at large minority at least -
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Thanks. Personally I'm comfortable that both the location and further context are extraneous. His assertion that it united the nation is misguided enough (and clearly factually incorrect, though as an outsider you may not be aware of t
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by d_t_w 9y ago
This is the place to comment on the article about how political incompetency hobbled Australia's broadband, right? I understand if you are Australian and find the criticism uncomfortable, but it's a fair reflection of my experienc
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Luckily Australia is almost exclusively powered by excuses and whataboutery, not many people know that. My comment added some context about one of the main protagonists of the story, I'm comfortable it's cromulent. If not, please,
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Your opinion is a fairly common one in Australia, or at least it is one commonly expressed.
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Out of interest, do you think the extra context ameliorates the Prime Minister's proud defence of base racism?
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Do you want to hear a funny joke by the Australian Prime Minister? The "cartoon that united Australians" - Malcolm Turnbull, PM, 2017 (his comment, he's not the cartoonist) http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image&#x2F
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by d_t_w 9y ago
Country is a basket case politically, lowest calibre of politician I have ever encountered. A profound paucity of talent across the board and absolutely no end in sight to the endless stupidity. You can think of the shit infrastructure, cra
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by d_t_w 10y ago
In the USA do judges get assigned to cases because of their prior demonstrated ability to grasp a particular industry - or is this just a coincidence?
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Good luck!
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by d_t_w 10y ago
I agree, all markets go up and down. Hindsight being 20/20 and all that. What I think I underestimated is the length the government or reserve bank will go to in order to protect borrowers at the expense of everyone else.
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Similarly first home buyer grants or stamp duty concessions, they sound appealing to young couples struggling to enter the market but have repeatedly been shown to do nothing but inflate the market further. When confronted with a golden goo
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by d_t_w 10y ago
My language is a bit loose, of course the BoE is independent and controls the rate. But the government sets the BoE remit to use the rate to keep inflation within acceptable bounds, and Gordon Brown decided to move from RPI (which includes
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by d_t_w 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but it strikes me that there is safety and opportunity in behaving badly when the bulk of your peers are swept away in an orgy of debt fuelled spending. Ten years ago I bought a small flat in London to live in.
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by d_t_w 10y ago
What outcome did I prefer?
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by d_t_w 10y ago
What part of the brexit process do you think is not best described as an aberration with respect to the normal democratic process of the U.K? I'll give you one clue. It's extremely rare to hold a referendum of such huge consequenc
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by d_t_w 10y ago
It's Representative Democracy (via a Constitutional Monarchy) in action, that's wildly more complicated than taking profound action on the basis of a simple majority referendum. Regardless of your political beliefs and opinion, th
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by d_t_w 10y ago
As ludicrous as it sounds, when Starbucks was caught not paying any tax in the UK for over a decade it claimed VAT, NI and PAYE (later excluded) as taxes that it has paid. http://www.starbucks.co.uk/blog/starbucks-commi
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by d_t_w 10y ago
Imagine for a moment that you enter into an extremely complicated tax arrangement aimed to reduce your tax burden, quite aware of the risk that at a later date the authorities will judge you to owe that tax regardless and you will end up wi
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by d_t_w 10y ago
"Apple pays VAT" Apple do not pay VAT, consumers pay VAT. You don't also count the PAYE each of Apples employees pay as "tax that Apple pays" do you?
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by d_t_w 10y ago
IT Contractors in the UK right now are facing demands to pay retroactively for tax stretching back over a decade in some cases that they purposefully avoided at the time using a scheme called EBT (or, being paid in loans by a trust becaus
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by d_t_w 10y ago
A message to Apple from anyone who doesn't have rocks in their head: You shift profits to avoid tax, don't play coy. The era of tax being optional for multinationals is drawing to a close. You make your profit, you pay for access
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by d_t_w 10y ago
I don't know what you think this hyperbole adds to the conversation?
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by d_t_w 10y ago
"He wasn't voted in; the other party was voted out" He won the 2013 federal election as the leader of the Liberals, that's fairly conclusive. "The leadership here isn't dire" We disagree. "Besides, if
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by d_t_w 10y ago
"Coal is the future" - Tony Abbott, Australian PM, 2014. There are many things to take from Musk's master plan part deux, but the most important for me is the intent and aspiration. I live in Australia, the leadership here is

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