Borderline corrupt behavior by the corruption commissioner okay because he didn't mean it. Ok.
spiffmeister
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Isn't this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?
Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.
It's not massively surprising that Greens would be replaced with independents. They had the smaller primary vote share afaik, and Thomas Emmerson having Pococks support probably makes a difference.
It's not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:
“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.
This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.
Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.
If they're "permitted to year shorts" why not just skip the skirt and let them wear shorts?
Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university's poor financial performance.
Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn't probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.
Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I'm about to graduate from ANU and I'm glad to be leaving tbh.
I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can't be excused.
Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.
That's not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.
It really can't be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.
Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they'll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there's none left in the region
Advance has already said they will be targeting the Greens this election, and given both parties opposed the "truth in political advertising" bill you can bet it's going to be a shitshow of misinfo.