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Atlassian doesn’t pay tax because the firm hasn’t made a profit and can carry forward losses to offset future profits (which is not going to happen). As much as people despise Mick and Scottie, there is zero wrong with what Atlassian is doing tax wise according to your comment. Please remain silent about these matters unless you’re advising the Albanian on tax matters.

First G&T of the season on the verandah, watching the Angus cows down on the river flat with calves at foot busily putting on the $$$.
Wish I owned them.

You claim no one knew they should not have submitted because they didn’t hear of the plan?????
There was never a plan.

Your idea is that everyone refusing the vaxx would have stopped the mandates is likely true. But there was no reason for anyone to do that for that purpose if they did not know if anyone much else was doing it. They instead made their decisions based on what they did know, whether it was right or not.

Think of this parallel case. What if everyone refused to pay taxes. It would certainly shake up the government. But unless you know everyone else is doing it you can expect a visit from the ATO and the government will not even have notice.

Your second ‘fact’ requires people to see the Australian government as ‘the unlawful communist government of Australia’. This is overwrought opinion. Communist? Is that just a word to communicate outrage, not meaning? You can hardly expect people to act according to your own overblown characterisations. You scarcely have a grip on your own reality, let alone anyone else’s.

Mother lode may wish to know we are very real and in our millions.

Do the millions know?

Look, we speak different languages. I do (as best I can) dialectic. You do diatribe. Your posts are replete with coloured language meant to trigger emotion while I use colour as a matter of ornamenting what are essentially argument. I would like to think I am at least moderately successful in rational argument.

So here we are.

I believe you adhere to the conviction that the last person who posts in a dispute is the winner. Presumably it is meant to be understood as ‘proof’ that your antagonist has run out of ideas. So you will always strive to have the last word.

I on the other hand am content that my arguments stand by themselves. I do not need to respond to every moronic thing you say. I would invite anyone to look back and evaluate your and my arguments on their own merits. And if they side with you then well and good.

But I do believe you are lamentably dull-witted and possessed of a singularly unpleasant personality. I am going to leave it there because I do not feel like trudging off to the duelling thread and I do not need to have the last word.

You can say what you like from now and I would only ask people look back to my previous comments.

Now I must prepare my dinner – eye fillet ($99.99/kg – glad I am saving on the cent), red wine jus, and 2016 Pauillac. There is no way I am going to engage in some tit-for-tat while I can be dining on that.

Tres, tres bon voyage to all current and future travellers. Grandpa Simpsom spluttering and shaking his fist at the sky will dampen your enjoyment not one iota.

Impossible to do everything Old Ozzie
I’m going to go back and visit Calabria etc, perhaps next time, or maybe the time after that.
I have spent a little time on the east coast of Italy, it’s never enough though.

News
Victoria
State Election

Victorian Greens unveil plans to close Barwon Prison and Loddon Prison next year

Dan Andrews has asked “where would prisoners go” as he blasted a Greens’ proposal to shut two prisons to redirect money to prevent crime.
November 5, 2022 – 3:33PM
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Daniel Andrews has blasted the Victorian Greens’ proposal to close two prisons and redirect criminals to other facilities, suggesting the plan could end with criminals being directed to Brunswick.

Two of Victoria’s jails would be closed and about 850 prisoners transferred to other facilities, while perpetrators of victimless crimes would be given a presumption of bail under the bold plan to dramatically reduce the state’s prison system.

The Premier said the bold plan, as revealed by the Saturday Herald Sun, was a “really curious” idea that deceived voters.

“Where would those prisoners go? Would those prisoners go to Prahran or Windsor? Would they go to Flemington or Kensington?” he questioned.

“If you shut a prison and there’s prisoners in it – that are there because a magistrate or a judge has determined independently that those people should be incarcerated – where do those people go?

“I’m not following this. I’m not sure what they are saying but they ought to be upfront with their voters and they ought to be clear with the communities they pretend to represent about where all these prisoners would go.”

The comments come despite Greens justice spokesman Tim Read outlining the prisoners would be sent to existing facilities, such as Ravenhall, Hopkins, Marngoneet and Fulham.

Sounds like half the people here have already been to Malta.

Megansays:
November 5, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Both Malta and Sicily great – Malta they drive on the left like Oz

Two of my favourite places. Malta is full of former Aussies who have returned to look after aging parents.

I know a couple of old Maltesers.
Sure, they go back for family visits and such.
But they harbour no romantic illusions about the “good old days” of grinding poverty in the old country.
One in particular I would happily let loose on those here making empty threats to depart this “shithole”.

Former Liberal opposition leader Dr Brendan Nelson has claimed Malcolm Turnbull consciously tried to “make life difficult” for him every day he led the party.

Zipstersays:
November 5, 2022 at 6:45 pm

Home to 9 million and powered by renewable energy: camel farts, pixie dust and wind gusts from burqas.

rosiesays: November 5, 2022 at 6:06 pm
I’m watching the Peter Temple.

Good stuff isn’t it?
Wikipedia says that Malta story is the only surviving episode from the entire first two seasons.
I’d never before heard of Peter Temple, even google didn’t autocomplete the name, suggesting something else entirely.

Trash me all day, but it’ll cost $8

Went for a round trip today in the sporty Beemer to pick up a few boxes of my favourite cool climate Cabernet and drop one off at my brother’s for the use of his holiday house.
Taking a road I don’t normally take past a wind farm and … WTF!
There is a viewing platform to watch the monstrosities and they take tours FFS.
I don’t want to know if they charge for the tours.

Razey.
The name of the School of Death!
Now!!

Zipstersays:
November 5, 2022 at 7:57 pm
Motion To Dismiss Civil Suit Against Kyle Rittenhouse is Denied
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Fucked but typical. The left never give up. Kyle will have to counter-sue since costs do not follow the event in yank suits so that even if he successfully defends the grotesque action against him recovery of his costs are not guaranteed. He has to bring his own action. But again, the vermin who attacked him are not only dead but impecunious.

Look, I detest the Messiah brothers as much as anyone. They are guilty of many sins, but tax evasion isn’t one of them.

It was reported that Jeff Bezos started the Amazon Cloud to soak up excess cash so that Amazon did not have to pay tax. Which of course backfired spectacularly, but it did make him one of the richest men in the world.

Knuckle Draggersays:

November 5, 2022 at 8:23 pm

At least 30 children in every Australian primary school died last week of unexplained causes.

Big if true.

Fake news.
It’s 70 in Victoria alone.
Although my DoE contact tells me last week’s total from all causes was [0].
And the week before that.
And …

rooster

It’s important to correct an anodyne comment like that without qualification. You often do that and in this case we can’t be certain if you thought losses should be taxed. I hope you don’t mind.

SPECIAL REPORT: David James Koch’s Latest Investment Has Experts in Awe And Big Banks Terrified

Coroner to visit ‘memory house’ as Kumanjayi Walker inquest heads to Yuendumu this month
8 min read
November 5, 2022 – 12:43PM

Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage will tour significant sites in Yuendumu as part of an ongoing inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, including the “memory house” where he was fatally shot by police.

Zach Rolfe was acquitted on all charges in March over the 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man’s death in November 2019, with the ongoing inquest adjourning for a week on Friday as his family mark the third anniversary of his passing.

When the hearing resumes, up to 12 lawyers representing Mr Walker’s family, Constable Rolfe and various other parties will make the 300km journey north of Alice Springs.

Barrister for the Parumpurru Committee of Yuendumu, Julian McMahon SC, told the court there had been significant work behind the scenes since Warlpiri elder Robin Japanangka Granites first extended the invitation at the beginning of the inquest in September.

“A lot of people have actually been working to make that hoped visit a reality and it looks like it is now a reality,” he said.

“So the Parumpurru Committee is inviting your honour and everybody here, all of your honour’s staff and all the parties at the bar table to come to Yuendumu.”

Mr McMahon said while the visit would serve several purposes, “perhaps the most important” was “to allow the community to speak to your honour as was foreshadowed on that very first day”.

“So that your honour can hear the voice of the community in a way which is not normally done, and not normally possible in a court proceeding,” he said.

“It’s the hope of the community that through the events that they’ve planned, for your honour and all of us, to share their voice about at least some of the matters that have led into this inquest.”

Mr McMahon said Ms Armitage would first be welcomed on November 14 by elders nearby house 511, where the fatal confrontation occurred, now referred to as “the memory house”.

“Once that’s done, there may be some discussion with your honour about Kumanjayi’s passing from a spiritual perspective and how that is understood in Warlpiri culture,” he said.

A closed “truth telling meeting” is expected to follow and the next morning, Ms Armitage will be shown key locations from the first two months of hearings, including the nurses quarters, airport and police station.

“Various family members will probably walk with your honour and talk with your honour about what the place means to them in the context of the history since November 2019,” Mr McMahon said.

“I expect that to be an opportunity, particularly for individuals most closely connected to these events, just to be able to talk to your honour.”

Finally, Mr McMahon said Ms Armitage would join a yarning circle with elders and Mr Walker’s peers.

“The elders and the younger people will talk to your honour about a whole range of issues to do with Warlpiri culture,” he said.

“A yarning circle with elders and Mr Walkers peers….”seriously?

UKRAINE IS PAYING A HEAVY PRICE FOR ITS TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON THE WEST

Knuckle Draggersays:

November 5, 2022 at 8:35 pm

It’s 70 in Victoria alone.

I didn’t want to scare people. The real number is 110.

Every week.

That’s Melbourne state schools.
My trusted sources on the innernet tell me if we include regional and private schools the number is 250.
A week.
Of course, you won’t hear anything.
The parents are all paid actors, you see.

You know, like pondering the use of G-Strings and/or giving detailed explanations of how to undress unconscious women.

Wot Mater said!

Five off the last over required.
FMD.