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[Osmosis Jones]

Breaking news!

Abbott government can't even send a consistent diplomatic message to our nearest neighbours!

You'd think, given how pissed they are, the least you could do is make sure your foreign minister and PM are on the same wavelength.

[Superblackcat]

So... China, 1 of the two countries I know stuff about... Is included in this!?

[Max White]

China is a different foreign policy stuff up, but a some what small one. At least we didn't send military aircraft over that damn oil field!

No, the situation with Indonesia is what happens when you promise something that can never be delivered, and include another country in the ride. It will take three years to settle this, or less, if we have a double dissolution.

[Max White]

So this is the Australisia thread, time for something that isn't me bitching about Australian politics...

The Thai government has folded to protesters and dissolved parliament! An election is on the way for out friends in Thailand! Yingluck will hold power as a caretaker until the results are in.
A good day for peaceful protest I guess.

[Sheb]

I don't really see this as progress. What will happen is that the Reds are going to win again, then the yellows will bitch again. It'd be nice to see a government holding for once.

[Max White]

Well there was little in the way of mass riots and looting from what I hear, so that is certainly a plus.
I'm no expert on their politics, so won't take sides, but the fact that this went to ballots rather than bullets is a win in my books.

[Sheb]

The Reds simply don't have the kind of support in the army needed to crush protests violently. If anything, the army pressured the government into stepping down.

ADIT: I'd suggest reading this.

[Max White]

And so gay marriage in the ACT was ruled out, and the marriages that have already happened annulled.

Can't say nobody say this coming by this point, but still pretty unhappy news. Still, the silver lining here is that once it gets passed on a federal level no state or territory will have any legal right to make their region an exception. Senator Young reintroduced the bill into federal parliament today, but with a conservative majority I'm not sure it will make it anytime in the next three years.

In other news, Amnesty International is pinging us on those pesky old human rights again. Yes we are violating human rights, but you don't understand! It is for their own good!

[Max White]

Well lets have something a little more cheerful for once... Might not get another chance for a while.

Opinion polls continue to drop for the Coalition, and I hear there is infighting. The feds are wrecking the Coalitions reputation, and it is going to hurt in the coming up state elections, leading to inflated conflicts. The nats have remembered that they are actually opposed to economic libertarianizm  and don't like being the libs minions. The senators don't like the level of control that Abbott is demanding... And nobody will dare to let this spill publicly, because they all saw what happened to Labor.

EDIT:
In other news, we are fucked!

[Max White]

Conflict between the Manus Island security force and PNG military, covered by the Australian government.

It is playing out like an Orwell novel, and as always, nobody even seems to give a damn.

[Sheb]

Given that the Coalition's approach to refugees seems to be "out if sight, out of mind", I'm hardly surprised.

[Max White]

Oh you don't even know the half of it...
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop praised condition at the Nauru detention camp for this living standards. It was later revealed she never actually visited the camp itself, just the staff quarters. Once again out of sight, out of mind. In the mean time everybody that actually goes there comes back with complains about human rights abuse including the docters involved, but nope, the govenment just shrugs it off as if none of it really matters.
Scott Morrison has stopped giving his weekly briefings, and is instead giving us a weekly written press release, with no chance for journalists to ask questions, ever.
Asylum seekers already living here are being forced to sign a somewhat vaguely worded code of conduct that includes a 'do as we tell you to, what ever we tell you to' clause.

It is such bullshit, and yet so many people actually think this is justified.

[Evilsx]

Oh you don't even know the half of it...
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop praised condition at the Nauru detention camp for this living standards. It was later revealed she never actually visited the camp itself, just the staff quarters. Once again out of sight, out of mind. In the mean time everybody that actually goes there comes back with complains about human rights abuse including the docters involved, but nope, the govenment just shrugs it off as if none of it really matters.
Scott Morrison has stopped giving his weekly briefings, and is instead giving us a weekly written press release, with no chance for journalists to ask questions, ever.
Asylum seekers already living here are being forced to sign a somewhat vaguely worded code of conduct that includes a 'do as we tell you to, what ever we tell you to' clause.

It is such bullshit, and yet so many people actually think this is justified.

I just think every time i come to this thread "Why the fuck are they doing that when you can do things that will HELP PEOPLE" and "Why say bullshit that can be called out with anyone that knowns what is going on" 
Best way to sum up my idea of the government and PM right now

[Max White]

In other news: A man required emergency service workers to oil up his naked body after he got stuck in a washing machine while playing hide and seek with his partner.

Yep. Good day.

[Mech#4]

In other news: A man required emergency service workers to oil up his naked body after he got stuck in a washing machine while playing hide and seek with his partner.

Yep. Good day.

But of course.

Still, that is quite the impressive display of flexibility. For a moment I thought it was a dryer and not a washing machine.