Senate counting is being finalised this week mates. Everywhere has reported in except NSW and Qld. The likely final senate make-up is below:
30 – Coalition LIB (24) NAT (6)
26 – ALP
9 – GRN
3 – NXT
3 – One Nation
1 – Family First
1 – Lambie
1 – Hinch
1 – Unknown QLD
1 – Unknown NSW
The two unknowns might end up being LDP. Lionhelm in NSW and some bloke in Qld.
Does anyone have an opinion on whether I should buy pic related?
What does a car like that say about its driver?
Hello?
Please respond.
I just want to get out of this pathetic country. I hate it here.
m8 troll some other thread with that crap.
this thread is all about me.
Buy me a plane ticket to New Zealand.
I'll put you on a slow boat to China m8.
Fine, anywhere is better than this dump.
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hello friends what did you get up to today
You can't stop me. I'm coming over.
I am happy about all the votes for One Nation but I think they are a high chance of imploding.
The WA guy elected id probably not eligible and the other people on the ticket with him are all his family. They also don't seem racist enough for my liking.
How does this bode for us lads? Are we going to just watch them duke it out for another 3 years and not do anything again or are we truly fucked this time?
To pass any legislation that bothe the ALP and Greens oppose, the government will need to get 9 out of 11 cross benchers on their side.
This will be pretty tough and so I don't like their chances of passing much that is controversial.
Hopefully they will not be able to take away my autismbux.
We're fucked next election when cucked labor gets in
Hi m8, I went shopping this morning and then did some uni work because I have a compulsory little quiz every fucking week.
Can people comment on the car posted here please:
A lot of (seemingly) nationalist parties this time too so hopefully we at least get something pushed through
Have faith One Nation will (forgive the pun) explode after the illusion is shattered when Australian soil is terrorised.
>something pushed through
In what respect m8? You think the coalition are going to suddenly become opposed to immigration or something just because there are a few one nation senators on the crossbench?
thats good mate i hope you had a good day
it seems decent how much is it
>how much is it
$8000
But I am more concerned about the image of the car than the price.
I don't know much about cars and I don't want to accidentally buy a car that is for try-hards or old ladies or something you know what I mean.
is that a mitsi 380?
if so, they're not bad cars, but stupid decision to do a 3.8L V6 FWD
It was a vague admission that our country will be at another standstill for 3 years tbqh senpai
>is that a mitsi 380?
Yeah.
>but stupid decision to do a 3.8L V6 FWD
I don't know what any of that means.
A standstill is better than them actively making things worse. Which is what they would do given the chance.
>Hopefully they will not be able to take away my autismbux.
Just did my BAS today. I have to find $8k to pay in the next few days.
Fuck you and fuck your autismbux.
They brought out the car to try and get into the Ford/Holden large sedan market. but instead of using a Rear wheel drive setup, they went front wheel drive.
Not the optimal setup for an almost 4L capacity engine, also no donuts for you.
Aside from that its a pretty solid ride, was aimed at the mid-life businessman
t. mitsi dealer mechanic
yeah get it then
it's a bit poofy but it'll be ok
Id prefer the lesser of two evils any day, but it will probably only delay the shafting everyone but close friends of our pm
>I have to find $8k to pay in the next few days
You should have planned better m8. Put some aside instead of indulging yourself all the time.
I am about to spend $8k of autismbux on a car. Stick that in your pipe.
hi everybody *waves and smiles*
after you save up a years' dole for the ticket?
>mitsubishi
kill it with fire
>was aimed at the mid-life businessman
This is what I am concerned about. I am not a mid-life businessman.
The sun roof really worries me image wise. It seems a bit much.
M8, that car is going to get keyed all down one side on the first night you bring it home.
G'day m8.
Keen for Hansen and a few Lolbertairans (Xenophon team) to hold the balance of power. It's gonna be a great few years lads
>mitsubishi
At least it was made in Aus m8. No chink tricks and shortcuts.
>Image
How young are you mate?
I am 26.
You faggot adelaidian. Gtfo!
>not stacking away coin every month to appease the ato jews
it's like you want to get fucked by interest charges
but i know the feel m8, mine are just shy of 10k now and probably going up after i get my return done
if you want to buy aussie-made, at least go a falcon or a camry hybrid maybe so you're not supporting the backwards shithole that is SA
buy something respectable and fit for purpose. fwiw, i'm 30 and i would buy it if it checks out and has ok kms.
what else had you considered?
>has ok kms
What would you consider okay? It is a 2007 model and has done 130,000km.
>what else had you considered?
I am looking at a 2004 VZ Commodore Lumina which has done 110,000km. It is $6,500
They're good cars, packed full of features for the price because nobody wanted one after Mitsu said they were pulling the plug.
Its not that bad if you can handle torque steer.
>got home an hour and a half ago
>already 7 beers deep
send help lads. i can't live without booze.
>send help
Are you saying you want to stop drinking? Or do you want someone to bring more booze?
I guess I just realised my alcohol dependency.
I really like it a lot, but apparently alcoholism is bad.
Are you meant to haggle when buying a used car from a dealer?
How much is reasonable to get them to knock off a $8000 sticker price?
They seem to be a P-platers car. Looks decent, reasonably reliable, aussie so parts and labour might be cheaper.
You will look like less of a flog than in an old commondore and look like less of a sudo/pajeet than in a Camery.
enjoy your beer gut
Not a bad option. Certainly economical considering the size of the engine. It will do you well for transport, but no good for fun. Get something rear/all wheel drive if you are interested in fuckin hooning.
There is nothing you can do about the under steer through corners, though. Not with a car that size.
>if you are interested in fuckin hooning
Not my scene m8.
I am, m8.
don't really care about my body since I only fuck prozzies.
I'm actually glad to hear that. We have far too many hoons on our roads in public areas. Most dickheads can't wait for a quiet street to light up the tyres in the commodore.
You'll be pleased with the 380, how much?
This is the best Senate ever
>Are you meant to haggle when buying a used car from a dealer?
Yes. I think you can haggle them down to 25% off the sticker price but I've never bought a used car myself before.
>how much?
It is $8000 plus government charges.
It has done 130,000km. Is that too many?
>9 GRN
>best
That's 9 too many m8.
>9 Greens Senators
>Nine Greens Senators
>NINE FUCKING GREENS SENATORS
JUST
>25% off the sticker price
That seems like a lot. this car is $8000 and I was thinking starting at $7000 and settling for $7,500.
It is one less than they went into the election with, look at it that way.
Definitely haggle on the price, but 130 should be fine if you take care of it and dont hoon [spoiler]much[/spoiler]
Is this a good thing or a bad thing for you ausbros?
Bought my first Mitsubishi Magna in 2009, and about to replace it with a 2005 380 that was my Dad's. They're a great car, reliable, and they look half decent.
But I'm 29 and have a home loan and don't give a shit about cars, as long as they work, I drive my cars into the ground.
Nobody can pass their agenda. This is excellent.
>Literally 3 years of political deadlock
RIP Australia
Sad to admit, but if Tones was in it would be even worse
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>18:36:19 No.83947059
It's like losing one of the bazillion genders on the ""spectrum"". Still too many.
We're all fucked no matter what happens. Nobody knows where this country wants to go.
>Chinese company Shanghai Zhongfu has bought one of Australia’s prized cattle stations in the Kimberley for about $100 million
>“The matter was assessed by the government prior to the election and not deemed to be contrary to the national interest,” the Treasurer’s spokesman said last night.
At least they can't move the land out of the country.
We can take it back once the day of the rope arrives.
>have to subscribe to read it
get fucked cunt. Copypaste that shit.
Chinese company Shanghai Zhongfu has bought one of Australia’s prized cattle stations in the Kimberley for about $100 million, opening the way for massive new cropping development and food processing in the Ord irrigation region on an unprecedented scale.
The sale of 476,000ha Carlton Hill near Kununurra by Australia’s largest private cattle holding Consolidated Pastoral Company, owned by Britain-based investment firm Terra Firma, was quietly approved in March by the Foreign Investment Review Board and Scott Morrison.
“The matter was assessed by the government prior to the election and not deemed to be contrary to the national interest,” the Treasurer’s spokesman said last night.
The deal delivers property and agricultural developer Shanghai Zhongfu, trading in Australia as Kimberley Agricultural Investment, enough new rich cropping country in the Ord irrigation scheme — including 13,000ha of freehold arable land — to justify investment in associated value-added food processing plants in nearby Kununurra.
On the potential drawing board are a long-discussed $400m sugar and biofuel mill, a possible cotton gin, cattle abattoir, grain grading facility and other food processing factories, including a fermented sorghum baijiu plant, all building on Australia’s reputation as a source of clean, green, safe and healthy foods for export to China.
KAI won the right in 2012 to develop 14,000ha of irrigated cropping land — opened up by the public purse — in the Ord irrigation scheme stage 2, paying $1 a year rent for the 50-year lease in return for pledging to invest more than $600m in land clearing, irrigation development, farming, processing plants and jobs.
With just 1650ha of cultivated land fed by irrigation channels developed and sown to chia, quinoa and maize this year, achieving critical mass for the Chinese cropping company has proved slow and elusive.
Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan said approval of the sale of Carlton Hill and associated Ivanhoe Station to the Chinese — with one of the biggest single station price tags seen for many years — proved the Coalition government was not opposed to all foreign investment in agriculture.
The Turnbull government blocked the $371m sale of the Kidman cattle empire for a second time in April, prior to the federal election, to a Chinese consortium dominated by Shanghai Pengxin, raising claims of xenophobia and anti-Chinese bias within the junior Coalition party, the Nationals, and particularly by its leader, Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Senator Canavan said Shanghai Zhongfu was a welcome new owner of Carlton Hill station, with a reputation established in the Ord region as a good local citizen, employer and agricultural business.
He said the hefty further Chinese investment in Kimberley irrigated cropping country also showed northern agricultural development was happening, and was more than just hot air and talk.
KAI’s purchase of Carlton Hill — the flagship of the CPC’s 19 station empire — gives the Chinese giant enough land to grow sugar, cotton, sorghum, chia and other grain crops on an unprecedented scale to justify its earlier plans to build value-adding food processing factories near Kununurra.
KAI general manager Jim Engelke said obtaining cropping scale and freehold land ownership land was the key reason for the purchase. The sale is understood to include a cash payment of about $70m to CPC.
CPC will also benefit from 10-year free leaseback deal valued at about $30m for 90 per cent of the property’s non-arable grazing land, where it will continue to run its 50,000 cattle.
You're fine. It's those fucking Chinese I hate. They buy all the real estate and our govt are just fine with it as it keeps the boomers happy.
Whats your thoughts on LDP. I hate how thier three policy areas seem to be guns, low taxes and pot. These are not popular issues. They should be extolling the virtues of immigration/free trade and being vehemently anti-war. What the fuck are they doing?
Mates what is your opinion on the census?
Should I fill mine out?
They say there are huge fines but will they really be that committed to collecting them?
WW#3 will have kicked off well before then. Who knows if there will even be an election at that stage
I voted for them, they really align with my political views because at the end of the day, I don't know what's best for people, I try remain as impartial as possible.
Love their policy on guns, drugs and immigration desu.
>Love their policy on guns, drugs and immigration desu.
So do I but these issues (bar immigration) are not close enough in the public concience to be serious vote winners.
I mean when people hear about 'libertarians' do we really want their first thought to be 'oh, they are just Liberals who like pot and guns'?
Yeah, you're spot on there.
I think they really need to market the 'end the nanny state' slogan much more. Our country has too much red tape, the poofters running the show make life way too hard for us.
Bloody over labour and liberal though, Greens can fuck right off too.
It was all good but I copped $30k in building repairs last quarter.
Now I have to find $8k to give all the NEETs their autismbux.
You got a problem with bashing wogs mate?
Maybe I do, what's it to ya?
You know where the airport is,
You can catch the 11 O'clock fuck off flight to Canada.
Can one of you ausfags post a brief explanation for each party? We burgers are not familiar with your political landscape. And slowly, please.
Get a 4 door ute. Thats what I'm looking towards. Holden colorada, ford ranger type of deal.
>Bloody over labour and liberal though, Greens can fuck right off too.
This man, this. It's pains me to be the closest to the greens out of the lot.
>Get a 4 door ute
Yeah I like those things but they are a real tradie type car and I am not a tradie type person. I would feel like a fucking faker driving one of them with no practical use for it.
Also they are expensive as fuck.
I'll try make it short and quick.
We have two major parties, Labour and Liberal.
Labour basically represent the working class Aussie, the "battlers".
Liberal represent the upper class, or big business generally speaking.
We also have a Greens party, bunch of socialist fags, mostly Uni students vote for them for.
I've personally voted both Labour and Liberal, but I'm sick of both of them desu.
Melbourne doesn't have enough faggots for you mate?
The Liberal Party,
Conservative dickweeds who took our guns and support thier mates first and formost.
Hates Illegal Immigrants, loves cheap working Immigrants
The National Party,
Stuck in the liberal parties arsehole, meant to support the farmers but support whatever Santos wants.
Hates Illegal Immigrants, loves cheap working Immigrants
The Labor Party,
used to be the workers party, funded by unions, pused workers rights but is now nothing but a cuck fest and back stabbing lawyers who cant defend one another, just in it for themselves.
Hates whoever its currently popular to hate.
The Greens,
Obsessed with weed, and Feminism.
Loves boat people, wants more Islamic people in the nation to "Culturally enrich us"
The Shooters and Fishers party,
The guys who get votes because fuck it.
Paulina Hanson,
Common sense for a common bogan. Shes stupid, but has Australia's best interests at heat.
The Nick Xenophon Team,
Nick Xenophon has a massive ego, and hates gambling.
Motoring Enthusiasts Party,
Cars cunt.
mhmmm, cant think of much else
I'm not a tradie but just moved up the coast. Seems the most convenient for me over a van. The 4 door seems spacious with the 4wd deal opposed to the classic 4 door ute looks funny.
But yea seemed more convenient over getting a van to lug surfboard and music amps etc.
>pused workers rights
pushed, fuck
Get a Volvo you pleb.
GOAT cars for their price. Mid-2000s S40/60 are cheap as fuck and look really new.
>Nick Xenophon has a massive ego, and hates gambling.
I still can't believe that fucking pokies are such a big issue. It's this exact kind of shit that keeps the nanny state going.
>I still can't believe that fucking pokies are such a big issue
Well they have destroyed entire suburbs and communities so they have earned big issue status. They should be an even bigger issue than they are but the Libs and Labs are both drunk on pokie funding of their parties.
To be fair, the clubs can be very fucked.
Used to work in a few, they would encourage the elderly to gamble away to such a point they had no money for food. Its gotten pretty bad, and the clubs have encouraged it the entire time.
The clubs used to be a place to go with your mates, now they are mini casinos with buses to pick up the regulars.
Nah but I know where your mums place is. I reckon I'll go there at 11 o'clock and catch a flight around the world, know what I'm saying?
What happens if that WA One Nation bloke isn't allowed to be a senator?
Does One Nation just put their second choice as senator or does it go to the next highest candidate?