https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/26/a-thousand-australian-uni...


So first the Albo government opened the gates and encouraged everyone to move here.
Than we’re shocked that nobody could find somewhere to live ( so out of touch).

Apologise ( hard to find on google but they did admit they got it completely wrong).
Australian university’s now midway through their business plan under Albo find the “ cash cow” overseas students dry up are left the only real option to stay finically viable.

Sack staff.

So now Albo plan is to give away Degress at bargain prices ( plus you get a free set of steak knives) therefore totally undermines the cost of the education tens of thousands have paid to hold the same piece of paper?

Seems fair if you think about it?
Not

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 5^th, 2024 at 10:10pm:


No. It is not. You just need to have your name marked off on the electoral roll. After that, people don't care if you walk out the door with the ballot paper, unmarked.

Daves2017 wrote on Nov 5^th, 2024 at 10:10pm:

The will of the people is ignored by both sides of the UNIPARTY.


Universities , with very few exceptions, are despicable hothouses of ideological conformity and self-serving finkery. When the VCs of PUBLICLY funded non-profit educational institutions make 3- 4 times as much as their top professors or the PM, you know you are dealing with self-serving spivs and sellouts.

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 5^th, 2024 at 11:46pm:


We have had this discussion before. Theoretically, you would be correct. Realistically, you have not much of a clue.

As a 17 y.o., I walked into my high school to vote in the Federal Election. Having marked off my attendance, I was a little confused how the voting process worked. It took me 30 minutes of "heavy thinking" a 700mL bottle of bourbon before I could stagger over to the boxes and put the paper aeroplane ballot paper into the right bin... from 7 metres away.

Emmaus College was only a couple klicks walk from my parents' place. Guess who sobered up inside 3 hours with 2 litres of water consumed and a school bag full of toilet paper? I was showered and ready to vote again at Emmaus College.

All I needed was a phone book to choose a name of a nearby resident. I did not look like a Jack, as people knew my real name. So I chose the name John Cricket (*name changed to not dox the person) out of a 1995 era phone book. The real John was a retiree who could not be bothered voting anymore. He did not have to vote. But, since I looked like his drugged out nephew, Peter (*not his real name), it was only fitting that I could go and vote for him.

My girlfriend (pregnant at the time -- not that I knew it) supervised (aided and abetted) my orientation to the polling booth. She also assume the name "Carmen".

Person marking the role: *Peter, have you voted anywhere else today?
17 y.o. USR: .........no...
Pmtr: Have you been drinking today?
USR: I have just had a few bourbons last night and I am feeling a little hungover
Pmtr: Well, *Peter, you are 18 years old. But you should know better than to be drunk before an election. What would your father think?
USR: My father thinks I am pretty cool for someone turning 19 next month.

The volunteer marked off "Peter's" name and gave me another ballot form. I forgot to take off my sunglasses during the whole thing. I went over and voted again for the party of my choice.

Later, I walked over to a radio announcer's table and sang along with him. Eventually, my stomach was giving me enough trouble that I belched for 5 seconds, during the radio interview. Then I continued on about how Paul Keating was such a good bloke to be giving 17 y.o. people the right to vote in a democracy, even though no one really voted for Mr Keating in the first place.

I made the evening and late local news. People wanted me to be arrested for drunken and disorderly behaviour. Had they known what I did the weekend at the Glenmore school, I would have been convicted and gaoled.

My eldest daughter is only 18 years younger than me. I am so proud of her.

p.s. "Stay away from my bourbon!". No, not you Brian. The idiot from Gladstone.

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 7^th, 2024 at 1:52pm:


I have worked at numerous elections and what you did was illegal.  Before an election we are invariably given the same speech by the electoral officials about our responsibilities.  We are to mark the voters name off the electoral roll after asking if they had not voted before.  We hand them ballot papers and direct them to the voting booth.  We make sure that they do not try and exit from the ballot station with a valid unmarked ballot paper.  If they cause trouble we alert the electoral officials.  I have never had anybody cause trouble.  I have never witnessed anybody causing trouble.  You need to be 18 years of older to cast a vote.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Oh, alright. I drink sometimes. I don't mind Peruvian-ing my morning coffee. That stops me from going hypoglycemic.

if universities are dependent upon people coming here to get permanent residency under the guises of 'study' and education then they need to get another business model, i hope they all go broke for ruining this country

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 8^th, 2024 at 7:48pm:

Moron.

You are very keen to show just how uninterested you are in all the topics you are too stupid to articulate even a single coherent sentence on.