TrippaSnippa

Specialist fees (and nowadays a lot of GP fees for that matter) are not fully covered by the Medicare rebate. Typically you'll pay about $300 for an standard consultation appointment and get not quite half of that back.

I didn't agree to a contract forbidding me from drinking and travelling privately!

Let's give your Big Unit SUV its own special roads too. Then we could attach multiples of them together to be able to fit even more people in them. We could then run electrical wires over the special roads so they wouldn't have to carry their own power source around.

Nah, it could never be done.

I'd say Eric is more like Buster because if they had a Michael they might not be in so much trouble.

Just announce that you're running for office, then the charges become election interference.

Almost like it's an ideological thing and not based on any kind of evidence or fiscal policy.

The bar for proving defamation is already high enough that there's no risk of accidentally chilling honest political speech.

Not in Australia, the bar for defo is stupidly low. The defendant basically has to prove their innocence. The law is fucked and the new "public interest" defence failed its first test in court. Defamation law is abused by the rich and powerful to suppress free speech and silence critics. Even if you can successfully prove substantial truth or genuinely held opinion you'll still be ruined by all the legal costs.

The door is still attached, obvious fake is obvious.

The true American patriots are the ones who take the case on the side of the prosecution.

That's the Spirit!

World of Star Trek-craft

So, Star Trek Online then?

The less cheap plastic crap that will end up in landfill and waterways on the 27th the better. What a stupid thing to kick up a stink about. I know why he's doing it but I'm sick of conservatives turning every little fucking thing into more culture war bullshit. Just fuck off already.