surreptitiouswalk

A similar thing is happening with the stage 3 tax cuts and people thinking Albo can be an authoritarian dictator and just delete that policy since he's the PM, ignoring that it's a piece of policy that won the Coalition the unwinnable election of 2019.

I'm no fan of the tax cuts myself, but he also can't just do what he likes as PM without consulting his colleagues and convincing the electorate. PMs are not dictators here and nor would we want them to be.

And he stopped being the PM the second he took a microstep on climate change. So that's really proof that he didn't have any real power.

So he had what 5-6 decades to become a citizen? And he chose not to?

I get that not all cases are clear cut and I'm all for human rights lawyers fighting for cases like the Biloela family, who have done nothing wrong. But this guy's case is pretty black and white. He had ample opportunities to become a citizen, and to stop being a dickhead, but chose not to at every turn. Meet consequences.

I would argue fighting cases like this is more likely to create precedent that ends up being more conservative than it should be. If the case was someone who was sentenced to > 12 months in prison for some trivial like not paying a traffic fine because they didn't receive the fine due to not having a permanent address and then having their visa cancelled, that's worth fighting. But because this guy fought to stay, the traffic fine guy is gonna have to also fight this precedent that didn't need to happen.

This is my point. Don't fight cases that don't pass the pub test unless you want to set a precedent that closes legal openings for those that are worth fighting for.

And no we're not responsible for this guy. We're responsible for our citizens for legal reasons, but this guy chose not to become a citizen. He had decades to take it but didn't. He doesn't get to now choose to put the responsibility on our country because it now suits him.

This is probably a ragebait article, but I'm surprised that the ABC published it. I really feel no sympathy for this man, especially since this was not his first conviction. His first conviction, where he escaped the cancellation of his visa, should've been the shot across the bow that caused him to clean up his act. But not, he chose to commit again, despite his kids.

What I'm also surprised by is that a human rights lawyer too up his case. There are far more worthy human rights cases to take up. This guy's is cut and dry if you ask me. Yes he has a sob story, but it was also predictable, and the law is clear as mud.

His kids and family are the real losers here. They're stuck with a deadbeat dad who they won't be able to send off properly, all because of their dad's choices.

And sadly people don't understand that the RBA has no way to change how the pain is distributed. If that's what people are upset about, it's the government they should direct that at.

Not to mention high speed till roads allows governments to mandate trucks be forced to use them, which makes free local free roads less dangerous, more durable and less congested.

The "Non-Emergency" part of NEPTs might have something to do with that. The drivers are not paramedics. They have a first aid certificate at best.

There's something not right about the article. It's talking about non-emergency patient transport but referring to a bus crash with trauma patients. Whatever their bosses told them, the NEPT interviewed were not going anywhere near that incident since they're not paramedics and are not trained to provide clinical assistance, so their shift with Victoria Ambulance is completely unrelated to the incident.

And the quote referred to how Nick felt gutted about transporting patients to doctors appointments like it's a waste of resource. That's literally the point of NEPT. The staff are not paramedics and the vehicle are not ambulances. The NEPT at best would've been involved with transporting uninjured children at the incident, which Victoria Ambulance had already arranged with a bus (which is far better for traceability and logistics than a dozen NEPT being called).

The general point of private operators not meeting their contractual obligations is fair. The government just needs to enforce its contract better and apply penalties if they don't provide the number of staff they're obligated to.

I've actually gone back to using cash when most merchants are Charing a 1.5% card fee. Fuck that shit.

It's funny in a sad way that 2FA was supposed to be real secure but like all other security, the human element is the biggest weak point, and the custodians of it (telcos) are asleep behind the wheel.