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The Fall of Phaeton, Peter Paul Rubens, 1604

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lotocoti
lotocoti
December 3, 2021 12:32 pm

Looks like the Gauleiter of the North hasn’t taken the negative feedback well.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 12:34 pm

You know whats funny.
There is probably some glowie sitting in a FBI/ASIO/signals directorate trying to crack the “lathe code” on this site full of garage natzis.

“30NB upgrade spindles, hmmm, that could be a code for a 303 converted to full auto”????

Winston Smith
December 3, 2021 12:37 pm

Breaking: Two Years and 5.2 Million Deaths Later Chinese Doctors Admit They Have the Antibody That Can Neutralize All Strains of COVID.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/breaking-two-years-5-2-million-deaths-later-chinese-doctors-admit-antibody-can-neutralize-strains-covid/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

i have to admit to a large degree of scepticism.
Will they want us all now to to inject ourselves with a Chinese antibody that they’ve denied having for years?
They can just piss off.

Dot
Dot
December 3, 2021 12:39 pm

I am very close to blurting out Nancy Wakeisms.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 3, 2021 12:39 pm

Better to call a deliberate pause to allow people to recharge and take care of built up household chores. That way it doesn’t come across as a weakening of resolve.
Why not take a ‘well earned break’ like all of the ABC presenters who will be Back in March, refreshed with new levels of condescension.

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 12:39 pm

Looks like the Gauleiter of the North hasn’t taken the negative feedback well.

Drama queen.

Dot
Dot
December 3, 2021 12:42 pm

Bruce, you don’t have to pull that ‘its for a mate of a family member’ disclaimer. Its kind of DIY Australian Anchovy, and we know you are going to put it on pizza.
Riiight next to the pineapple.

LOL

Sis and BiL had “New Australians” (SE Asian) neighbours in the ACT – home made fish sauce produced in bulk for extended family – what a way to bring “character” to an entire apartment block.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 3, 2021 12:42 pm

Even if it were possible to sustain mass protests week after week, “familiarity breeds contempt” might kick in.

The contemporary Australian political process absolutely depends on the Voter Goldfish model.

If you can survive the first days/ weeks of any shock-horror imbroglio, you can hope that it will have sunk gently back into the ooze at the bottom of the cesspit.

It’s the job of the ‘media-as-political-agent’ to ensure that these turds are strategically resurfaced at opportune moments.
Or stay firmly buried.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 12:43 pm

Nancy Wakeisms.

This one?

I have only one thing to say: I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn’t kill more.

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1196877/quotes

[on not having affairs during World War II] And in my old age, I regret it. But you see, if I had accommodated one man, the word would spread around, and I would have had to accommodate the whole damn lot.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 3, 2021 12:46 pm

Jo Nova has a piece about the awful WHO wanting to kick off a new treaty so that all nations can be made toe the line on Pandemics as well as climate. Just what we need, another supra-national clusterferk of power hungry political hyenas.

And that’s why, seemingly the whole world’s elites were trying to get rid of Trump.
He understands their game and is willing to play against them.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 3, 2021 12:49 pm

Jeebus — making kangaroo jerky for my daughter’s pooch (’cause it’s $96 a kilo at the vet!!). It’s in the dehydrator out in the garage … and I can even smell it here, inside, in my study. It reeks!!
Bruce, you don’t have to pull that ‘its for a mate of a family member’ disclaimer. Its kind of DIY Australian Anchovy, and we know you are going to put it on pizza.
Riiight next to the pineapple.

Haha. My wife bought our dog a kangaroo tail bone which he happily trotted thru our house and dropped behind the couch. When I enquired as to ‘ WTF is that smell?’ Was then duley informed, scolded and received the quiet treatment for 2 weeks. It’s ok though I am serving this penance concurrently with several other misdemeanours. Allows me to get on with my Netflix and blogging in peace.

Dot
Dot
December 3, 2021 12:51 pm

The UN merely pushes the agenda of the US establishment.

It operates from and is largely funded by the United States.

Bruce in WA
December 3, 2021 12:51 pm

To the Perth Cats who are interested in lathes. (I know zip about them.) There’s a dude has an (old) one for sale on Northern Suburbs Marketplace.

It just says “Old lathe good for parts AL-340A” and has photos.

It may be of use.

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 12:52 pm

Sis and BiL had “New Australians” (SE Asian) neighbours in the ACT – home made fish sauce produced in bulk for extended family – what a way to bring “character” to an entire apartment block.

You haven’t lived until you’ve walked into a house where goat’s offal is being boiled up.

It was overseas, though…

Chris
Chris
December 3, 2021 12:57 pm

It just says “Old lathe good for parts AL-340A” and has photos.

It may be of use.

Mmmm! Right size and new enough to find parts. Sadly, it needs so much that you would save buying a new one.

Reminds me that since my little lathe went to another partner’s workshop, I have filled the floor space reserved for it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 3, 2021 1:00 pm

In case of an Omicron attack.
Duck and cover
Duck and cover.

Winston Smith
December 3, 2021 1:01 pm

Rugbyskier:

Why does this remind me of the Nazis accessing the meticulous Dutch census records after the 1940 invasion to find out who was Jewish?

Odd, isn’t it?
That’s the first thing I thought of, too!

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 1:01 pm

It just says “Old lathe good for parts AL-340A” and has photos.

It may be of use.

Don’t be to scared of the rust, relatively bright red so hasn’t been that way for to long. Big question is where’s the tailstock? D1-4 spindle nose, 40NB spindle nose. H&F can probably still get you parts for it, it may even still be a current model.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 1:04 pm

Nope, discontinued model (they will still be being made somewhere, H&F just won’t be importing them):

https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/L179

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 3, 2021 1:07 pm

The Benefits of Vaccinating Kids against COVID Far Outweigh the Risks of Myocarditis

Leaving aside the strong assumptions about the known unknown health effects on small children, the Scientific American piece actually strays across the key sensitivity in the modelling:

FDA researchers also modeled the risk-benefit tradeoff for vaccinating kids under higher and lower rates of COVID transmission and hospitalization. Under the lower-transmission scenario, the risks of myocarditis from vaccination could potentially exceed the benefits of vaccination, especially for males.

Very hard to justify a briskly confident “Far Outweigh” conclusion from modelling:

• which is based on no real data;
• shows an inconclusive benefit; and
• scenario testing that shows the opposite outcome.

In any other technical environment, anyone trying to support a risky proposal with major consequences on that basis would be shown the door.
Toot sweet.

(Disclaimer: Filthily vaccinated, COW, Whore to Socialism, awaiting certain death, etc etc.)

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 1:10 pm

Here’s a used one on Gummy, if anyone buys that one, you would want to be giving the guy a couple of hundred bucks for it, which he may accept. He has another in the background so he probably knows that it’s worth scrap value:

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/gatton/power-tools/metal-lathe-hafco-al-340a/1285517970

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 3, 2021 1:10 pm

The first ‘covid death’ in the NT.

A late 70s, heavily comorbid indig woman from a community outside Katherine. Got it in quarantine from Howard Springs, shipped to RDH where she dropped off the perch. No ICU. No ventilators.

Just doing what comorbid old people who don’t look after themselves do, but it will be viewed as Armageddon by what passes for government here.

I’m 30 minutes out from boarding. Just give me that half hour.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 1:12 pm

FDA researchers also modeled the risk-benefit tradeoff for vaccinating kids under higher and lower rates of COVID transmission and hospitalization. Under the lower-transmission scenario, the risks of myocarditis from vaccination could potentially exceed the benefits of vaccination, especially for males.

The FDA should STFU until the can explain the mortality rate from the Stage 1 trial of Pfizer.

My view is that Pfizer has the winning combination of being morally bankrupt and technically incompetent.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 3, 2021 1:13 pm

My wife bought our dog a kangaroo tail bone which he happily trotted thru our house and dropped behind the couch.

Our (late) dog performed a DIY version of this trick with a well-aged possum corpse.

Luckily we don’t have carpets.

Zatara
Zatara
December 3, 2021 1:18 pm

UN control over borders, lockdowns and medical supplies.

Dr. Ted Ross wants to set up a world government on the back of a virus that is no worse than the common cold.

The UN, a group of 193 unelected elites answerable only to whoever appointed them or bought their appointment, wants to set up a world government.

What could possibly go wrong?

Zipster
December 3, 2021 1:21 pm
cohenite
December 3, 2021 1:22 pm

That little shit who did the latest US school shooting is a real piece of work and so are his parents. As soon as the mongrel was arrested he demanded a lawyer and the parents have refused to cooperate. The gun he used was only bought by the father a few days before. The videos of him show a real methodical, emotionless person. Apparently he will be tried as an adult, so the death penalty will be on the books:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/01/us/michigan-oxford-high-school-shooting-wednesday/index.html

struth
struth
December 3, 2021 1:31 pm
Zatara
Zatara
December 3, 2021 1:32 pm

The UN merely pushes the agenda of the US establishment.

It operates from and is largely funded by the United States.

That rather depends on who is driving the train. This article, from the ‘United Nations University’, illustrates the international socialist panic when Trump was elected.

The UN in the Era of Trump

P
P
December 3, 2021 1:34 pm
Mater
December 3, 2021 1:36 pm

Australia omicron and vaccinations
Dr. John Campbell

Who was that flog who talked in the video? What a load of shit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 3, 2021 1:42 pm

For agricultural Cats – $500 a tonne for AH1 wheat…..

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 1:45 pm

Much as parts of her stuff reduce men to ravaging caricatures, when shes right, shes right.

Bindel takes the whole MAP issue out behind the woodshed for a well deserved flogging.

https://thecritic.co.uk/call-a-child-rapist-a-child-rapist/

calli
calli
December 3, 2021 1:48 pm

The “flog” was clearly someone who will line up quite happily for booster #359 and say “thank you government for keeping me safe”.

He’ll look like a zombie, but he’ll be happy.

Razey
Razey
December 3, 2021 1:50 pm

John of Melsays:
December 3, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Jo Nova has a piece about the awful WHO wanting to kick off a new treaty so that all nations can be made toe the line on Pandemics as well as climate. Just what we need, another supra-national clusterferk of power hungry political hyenas.

And that’s why, seemingly the whole world’s elites were trying to get rid of Trump.
He understands their game and is willing to play against them.

Trump stated “they aren’t after me, they are after YOU.”

srr
srr
December 3, 2021 1:57 pm

From my post in Arky’s latest thread, a prelude to a few songs by our greatest living psalmist & in case I got the Arky thread rules wrong (I am claiming recent hospital & new human & dog baby pain & sleep deprived brain), I am kind of driven by something to share this –

Can’t buy, sell or trade without accepting this thing in our bodies, whether because of mentally believing in it or simply to keep doing the work of our hands … but it does not mean we will die without it … interesting times indeed.

Strange that so many of those who were championed for filling blogs with endless tales of how they survived lives of having less than nothing, great cruelties & injustices, to end up with lives rich in every way, have gone away & gone quite.

I have no doubt that just as there were those who looked down at others for not, ‘doing whatever it takes’, to climb out of poverty and become wealthy, when previous class systems broken open a little here & there, there will be those who got themselves & all their babies & children jabbed up regularly who will, ‘do very well, thank you’, and also look down on those who, ‘chose to take themselves out of the new, post Covid economy’.
I believe they will also believe all the excuses & lies they’re told for the new ‘bothers’ of modern living … just like people believe all the explanations they’re given for the now common childhood cancers, deadly allergies etc.

Meanwhile, good plumbing, clean food & water, active labour, care for community & wise husbandry etc., just as we were taught from The Old Testament, still keep missing out on the credit it deserves for strong & healthy populations, who’s worldly overlords keeps insisting we have to keep thanking those, (now proven time & again), unethical to the point of evil, healers & magicians, err, men of medicine & science, for.

Yep, we’re definitely in an interesting chapter of this, Greatest Story Ever Told.

OLD (with lyrics) –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Hr-j7CmU8

THE AFTERLIFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziFQntjPsMQ

YOU’RE THE ONE (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrf2zy2FQnk

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 3, 2021 2:01 pm

Thanks Eyrie, I got a 2.4 GHz transmitter / receiver set from the CCP. Will convert one to that and leave the other on 27MHz.

Good solution and cheaper than buying two. With any luck the Rx interface to servo is standard R/C 20 msec repetition rate with 1 to 2 msec range for the pulses.

My mini lathe is made by Mingxi and is the ZX 7*14 model. Now that it is all lined up it should work well for me. I did successfully use it before the upgrade for a few parts.
It uses a 420mm x 5mm toothed belt 10mm wide. Does that count as direct drive?
I think you sent me the feed rate fix stuff a while ago.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 3, 2021 2:04 pm

A group of 55 northern suburbs gym goers in Perth have won $1.5 million each after their syndicate won the $80 million Powerball on Thursday night.

Perth gym scene must be different to the Sydney gym scene.
You wouldn’t trust someone you met at a Sydney gym with your real name, let alone a lottery syndicate.
Watch this one blow up.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 3, 2021 2:04 pm

In late November, without warning, the Chinese government imposed a hefty fine and recovered taxes amounting to approximately $74.2 million US dollars in total on a Taiwanese company operating in China.

Just another bunch of government thugs running a protection racket. It is what governments everywhere do.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 2:08 pm

Omicron overcooked my poached egg this morning.

Tom
Tom
December 3, 2021 2:09 pm

In a previous life, I graduated from university as an actor with an associate diploma in theatre arts. Thankfully, it cured me of the idiotic desire to perform for strangers in a darkened room.

So it now sickens me to see a paid liar like Alec Baldwin, whose only professional skill is emoting on demand, “breaking down” for the cameras and denying he shot and killed a cinematographer on the set of the moving he was acting in when he admits the gun went off in his hands.

In other words, he’s trying to trick leftard idiots into believing he’s not guilty of manslaughter – in advance of any trial.

Baldwin is doing what every US Democrat has decided is the best way of avoiding justice – to buy, intimidate or otherwise influence the judge or jury.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 3, 2021 2:10 pm
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 3, 2021 2:11 pm

Perth gym scene must be different to the Sydney gym scene.
But there’ll be some feisty cougars prowling the weight stands at Curves now…

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 3, 2021 2:12 pm

I graduated from university as an actor with an associate diploma in theatre arts.

Damn, you would have been scoring left, right & centre you sonofabitch.

Tom
Tom
December 3, 2021 2:13 pm

D’oh. Movie, not moving.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 3, 2021 2:14 pm

Beryl : But I gave you my $5 for the powerball.

Shazza : No you didn’t Beryl, that was for the previous syndicate you owed us for.

Gab
Gab
December 3, 2021 2:19 pm

Paging DOT

How true do you reckon this is?:

A GLIMMER OF HOPE- the federal government passed legislation to cancel / override state laws. They have already said if this pandemic bill passes in Victoria (which it did today) they would look at cancelling it. They have already done so with the Andrews governments dodgy ‘belt and road’ bill last year.

Please email Scott Morrison – form online to contact- just google ‘contact PM’- and ask him to cancel the Health and Wellbeing pandemic bill 2021.

Please also email the Attorney General Micahaelia Cash and her assistant the Hon. Amanda Stoker to uphold their positions of power and cancel the bill. (Amanda Stoker is already on record as having said she would cancel it if it went through).

the Hon. Amanda Stoker- [email protected]

the Hon. Michaelia Cash- [email protected]

Let’s keep praying against this evil bill and pray for God to use an unexpected politician even at this late stage of parliamentary process!
Thank you.

Zipster
December 3, 2021 2:19 pm

In late November, without warning, the Chinese government imposed a hefty fine and recovered taxes amounting to approximately $74.2 million US dollars in total on a Taiwanese company operating in China.

Just another bunch of government thugs running a protection racket. It is what governments everywhere do.

they even made in clear in a press conference that if you want to make money in china, you tow the line or else.

Gab
Gab
December 3, 2021 2:19 pm

Block quote fail

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 2:20 pm

feelthebern says:
December 3, 2021 at 2:12 pm

I graduated from university as an actor with an associate diploma in theatre arts.

Damn, you would have been scoring left, right & centre you sonofabitch.

So true and that’s all that counts in your 20s.

Meanwhile the aussie is taking it up the rear.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 3, 2021 2:21 pm

Perhaps the best obituary for Christian Kerr was written 17 years ago. It also dates me, as I was subscribed to the Crikey mailing list in this era (never becoming paid up, though) before moving on to Bolt’s pre-blog letters-to-the-columnist page, Blair and The Cat. H/T.

Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt
July 4, 2004 — 10.00am

It started as an idea to expose what was going on behind the scenes in politics and the media.

It was fomented over a drink in a pub in Sydney with maverick Victorian journalist Stephen Mayne. It was named after an identity used by James Bond. And it became Australia’s most notorious tell-all political column.

Featured on the Crikey.com.au site since 2000, Hillary Bray’s funkily written grab-bag of tidbits, gossip and stories has caused blow-ups, political pile-ups, shunnings and shamings.

The curiosity about the well-placed gossip columnist took on a life of its own. A string of hapless politicians, staffers, journalists and others stood accused of being Hillary Bray, while others devoted time and resources to the quest.

Leads pointed to someone well connected in the Liberal Party, the press gallery, or maybe a lobbyist. Everyone had a theory.

Now the real Hillary has drawn up his 188-centimetre frame and confessed to The Sunday Age, telling a remarkable story of political pressure that took him to the bottom of the bottle and out again.

Backroom boy Christian Kerr, 39, former staff member to a string of federal Liberals and a premier, has spent four years stirring the political and media world with a constant stream of delicious and sometimes highly vicious gossip.

Writing runs in the blood. He comes from three generations of journalists, and by 14 was seriously interested in the confrontational tactics of punk rock, political image-making and getting a grounding in the mix of satire, gossip and investigative journalism by reading Britain’s Private Eye.

Kerr calls himself “a weird Liberal – an economic dry who needed the social dimension”. He did stints as a party office-bearer, worked for a string of moderates and in campaign headquarters in the 1996 federal election.

A former employer, Senator Robert Hill, earns the rating of “a secular saint”, his time with Senator Amanda Vanstone was “terribly frustrating”. Advising former South Australian premier John Olsen was “soul-destroying stuff”.

Despite the excitement of the work, the pressures started mounting. A social drug habit (a bit of ecstasy, a bit of cocaine) had morphed into the beginnings of an alcohol problem as he got caught up in more compromise.

“On the surface I was pretending to be cool and unrattled,” he said. “I wore a double-breasted suit, french cuffs and a f–k-you tie during the day.” He wasn’t alone. He said any number of staff members were out of their depth, under pressure to make major decisions, not necessarily with the skills to do so.

The answer was: “Don’t worry, have another glass of red”, living on wine and takeaway at night in order to cope during the day.

He started suffering depression and “huge self-doubt” in a world where, he says: “There are no support mechanisms”.

By 1999 he was sick, burnt-out, disillusioned, and he left. In that mood he told journalist and former Jeff Kennett press secretary Mayne that he hated what Mayne was doing on the jeffed.com site, but “loved the way it was said. It was erratic, passionate and took enormous courage”.

The spin and the sheer amount of information kept from the public and understated by the media concerned them both.

Mayne offered Kerr the job as Crikey’s political gossip columnist. By then he had a corporate affairs position, so he had to take the Crikey job anonymously.

It was, he said, “a bit of a lark – I wasn’t doing anything else Sunday afternoons”. From the moment the column appeared with an email address dangling tantalisingly at the end, the gossip came flying in – from ministers, CEOs, insiders and outsiders.

Kerr used his extensive knowledge to add information and pull it together with devastating effect.

Virtually nothing was off limits – personal and lobbying relationships, spin and damage control were laid bare.

“Hillary became a grotesque caricature,” said Kerr. “She used too much alliteration, her style was tabloid infused with pop culture and historical references. She became a monster.”

Two years into it, he said, Hillary was almost out of control. While the information was pouring in, the columns were pouring out, he was pouring down the grog. “I think you will find there are enough journalists who do that,” he said. “Hillary was a manifestation of how unhappy I was.”

Kerr had “absolutely hit the wall” trying to cure anger and disillusionment with both the bottle and the pen.

Mayne pulled his star columnist up during the hard times and was, said Kerr, “incredibly supportive”. Kerr went teetotal about 15 months ago – “there were only two ways I could go”.

He does have regrets – losing himself, hurting some people with stories and the isolation.

“I did Hillary because I had a lack of belief in myself – that is why I am coming out now.”

Some stories under the byline were not his, some were wrong.

Kerr said he did not knowingly publish anything that was untrue, though asking if a senator had ordered Campari in a rural pub recently was a margin call.

Drawing on the speech Robert Kennedy gave the night Martin Luther King was shot, Kerr said his motivating factor was unpacking politics and shaking out the secrets and lies.

“It’s terribly important to me,” he said. “It’s what politics can be unspun.”

Coming out is not the end of Hillary Bray. But Kerr said he was relieved to have reclaimed himself.

He is doing a masters degree in politics at Adelaide University and, after being described as Australia’s most feared columnist, has decided to take a tilt at mainstream journalism.

Now that’s scary.

Chris
Chris
December 3, 2021 2:22 pm

Good comment Tom.
I was thinking Baldwin is a good example of ‘Sincerity: if you can fake that you’ve got it made”.

struth
struth
December 3, 2021 2:28 pm

The constitution overrides state law anyway.
Something scomo shat on along time ago.
It would have prevented alol thgis, and there are supreme constitutional Laws banning what Daniels has done.
The Victorian laws, are constitutionally invalid, because quarantine can only be practiced by the feds and you can’t coerce vaccines either.
So pray tell good citizen, what is Sco mo introducing a law for?

This is called theatre.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 2:31 pm

You’re a constitutional lawyer now, Struth?

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 3, 2021 2:36 pm

Tom, were you ever a member of the Film Actors Guild?

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 2:39 pm

Tom, were you ever a member of the Film Actors Guild?

F.A.G as in Team America.

struth
struth
December 3, 2021 2:44 pm

You’re a constitutional lawyer now, Struth?

Why?
I went to school and can read English.
It’s not efan gort big words or nuffink like that an it’s rool easy ‘n that.

calli
calli
December 3, 2021 2:47 pm

Omicron overcooked my poached egg this morning.

I hate it when it does that.

It’s about to ruin the Beloved’s golf.

In league with Flannery for sure.

Chris
Chris
December 3, 2021 2:48 pm

Watched Aussie movie ‘Mystery Road’ last night, because someone near and dear was peripherally involved in the prequel being filmed near Kalgoorlie now.
Interesting. To start with I thought it was going to be pretty ABC-ish, but actually there was a lot going for it.
It shows much misrepresentation and disrespect for the reality of outback policing and the disciplined people who do it. Also cartoonish flat characters for far-out rural white people.
In the end the shitty reality of life for many substance-affected white, aboriginal and mixed families was not too badly represented.
And the gunfight at the end! Bloody stupidity portrayed as bloody stupidity, a really fitting wrap to the rest of the story.

Winston Smith
December 3, 2021 2:49 pm

Dover0Beach:

This. People need to stop talking about communism as if it’s still the 70s. As Darren Beattie says, the enemy is the Global American Empire. It’s technocratic, managerial, and supranational. It’s an ideology of power. Communism was only ever an iteration, global American Empire is a newer iteration, but technocracy is the form.

I’m interested in your theory but don’t see how it becomes a Global American Empire.
A partitioning of the world into two empires I can understand, even three or four:
North America
Asia
Europe
But I don’t see how America would be able to impose itself as a model for the world.
Could you expand on this please?

struth
struth
December 3, 2021 2:51 pm

Tell us who can change the constitution JC.
The people or the judiciary?
Who’s owns it really?
If the people can read it in plain English yet the corrupt government interpreters decide to interpret it another way, who really gets the final say?
It’s what I’ve been saying all along, the sheeple are way too easily told they have no right in reading and interpreting the contract between the people and the government…a contract that only the people can change, proving who is really supposed to be in charge.
You have the heart of a mouse JC.
“da government told me I was too dumb to read it and understand it, so I leave it up to them to interpret it’.
FMD.

struth
struth
December 3, 2021 2:53 pm

America doesn’t have communist elites?
Since when?
Will people stop trying to muddy the waters with bullshit.
Call a fucking spade a spade.

Tom
Tom
December 3, 2021 2:55 pm

No, Bern at 2.36pm. Studying acting and why people do it cured me of any desire to do it for a living.

Chris
Chris
December 3, 2021 2:57 pm

It shows much misrepresentation and disrespect for the reality of outback policing and the disciplined people who do it. Also cartoonish flat characters for far-out rural white people.

And in a special for you struth, they tried to blame mysterious ‘truckies’ for murdering an aboriginal girl who was ‘on the game’ to be ‘on the gear’.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 2:59 pm

Professor Struth, explain to those of us lacking in your expertise on constitutional law , this statement :

The Victorian laws, are constitutionally invalid, because quarantine can only be practiced by the feds and you can’t coerce vaccines either.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 3:05 pm

Between fresh bread deliveries for Baker’s Delight, Professor Struth practices as well as teaches constitutional law at Stanford law School.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 3:12 pm

It uses a 420mm x 5mm toothed belt 10mm wide. Does that count as direct drive?

Sounds like it is, only has one lever over the back for changing feed direction? No second one directly on the back of the headstock for high and low range?

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 3:16 pm

She’s kind of cute too.

Madrid

Isabel Díaz Ayuso became something of a culinary sensation earlier this year. At least one restaurant named a pizza after the Spanish politician and leader of the Madrid regional government. Ms. Díaz Ayuso’s face also appeared on the label of an artisanal beer. Then there are Ayuso-style papas, which come with extra eggs; huevos is a Spanish slang term that means, roughly speaking, “guts.”

What prompted these tributes was Ms. Díaz Ayuso’s common-sense approach to Covid-19.

Ms. Díaz Ayuso, 43, was sworn in as president of the Community of Madrid—analogous to a U.S. state governor—in August 2019. By February 2020 the novel coronavirus was spreading throughout Spain. The country quickly became among the hardest hit in the world, with Madrid at the center of the crisis. In March 2020 the regional government ordered the closure of schools and most shops before the central government did so nationally.

“We were the region that warned the rest of Spain that we had to act against Covid because no decisions were being made,” Ms. Díaz Ayuso tells me in Spanish during a recent interview. “The first wave was very hard.” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez soon ordered a “state of alarm” restricting movement throughout the country. It lasted 98 days.

“It is true that back then nothing was known about Covid,” she continues. “I believe that the difference in management comes after the second, third wave, when one must have learned.” Over the spring of 2020 cases fell and some sense of normality returned in much of Spain by summer. But as fall approached, the number of cases rose again. “When everyone was asking to close, with no alternatives, we decided to go against the virus, not the people.”

I arrived in Madrid in October 2020, fleeing an impending lockdown in Germany, and stayed until April. Bars often seemed as full as they were during pre-pandemic visits, and the city center was buzzing with holiday shoppers. I visited offices filled with workers. Playgrounds echoed with the sounds of schoolchildren at play. Meantime, Catalonia’s regional government shut down its bars in mid-October, while in November the Valencian government imposed stringent capacity restrictions on churches, restaurants and stores. Countries like the U.K., France and Germany also imposed lockdowns and stay-at-home orders of varying severity.

The hospitality industry—one of Spain’s most economically and socially important—flourished in Madrid. Earlier this year it became the Spanish region with the most hospitality workers, beating out Andalusia and Catalonia, which are more populous. “What makes me proud is to think that we have been one of the most punished regions in Europe and the world by the pandemic’s first wave,” Ms. Díaz Ayuso says. “Now it has become the opposite, and that shows you the character of the citizen who comes to live in Madrid.”

The Spanish capital wasn’t Florida. Some restrictions remained, including a curfew, neighborhood-based controls on movement, and a mask mandate, strangely even outdoors. I recall often walking through uncrowded streets with a mask on, only to remove it to eat once seated in a busy restaurant. Though locals sometimes described dodging targeted lockdowns, Spaniards seemed less resistant to masking than most. It was rare to see someone outside with an uncovered face, and plenty continued to wear masks after the mandate was narrowed to apply indoors only.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 3:17 pm

Labor to target inner-city Greens voters with community battery rollout

Will be delicious when the first one shorts and explodes at the end of their street. These are the same people who complain about having a electrical substation anywhere in their suburb.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 3:22 pm

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

https://imgur.com/gallery/6gNv8ai

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Chrissays: December 3, 2021 at 2:48 pm

Watched Aussie movie ‘Mystery Road’ last night

Would that be the one filmed in & around Winton in central Qld?

Pretty good depiction all in all, with as you say a few ..er… parts where quite some theatrical licence is employed.
It’d be better were Aaron Pedersen able to act .. beyond a portrayal of “angry & bitter young man”.
He’s not so young any more, so that one role he plays is starting to turn into “bitter old coot”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 3, 2021 3:27 pm

True Crime AustraliaPolice & Courts NSW

Alleged terrorist Tuki Lawrence feared paralysed after Goulburn Supermax stand-off

Cydonee Mardon
and
Linda Silmalis
less than 2 min read
December 3, 2021 – 11:38AM
The Saturday Telegraph
Goulburn Supermax. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Taylor

An alleged extremist facing terrorism offences is waiting to see if he is a quadriplegic after a violent stand-off with prison officers while on remand in Goulburn’s Supermax last weekend.

Tuki Lawrence, 24, who is facing charges for allegedly plotting to attack police, military and Corrective Services officers, was among several inmates involved in the stand-off which sources say related to “prayer times”.

It is understood officers fired a gas canister at Lawrence, who allegedly has been linked to Islamic State sympathisers, during the exchange as he was going back to his cell.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 3:31 pm

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

Looking good, Rick!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 3:34 pm

New series of Mystery Road is currently being filmed at Coolgardie in WA.

A crew and I had to drive up to Kalgoorlie to do a ballasting job down at Salmon Gums about 2 weeks ago, and had to do a big detour around Main Street. The place is old and semi-desert outpost, so perfect for a Western-style show like that.

Pogria
Pogria
December 3, 2021 3:40 pm

struthsays:
December 3, 2021 at 2:19 pm
You can’t really deny we are living in the times that may be called the Revenge of the Nazis.

struth, if you go back to the tweet you posted, scroll down to see the standard of Oz journalism. hint, it’s not pronounced “appateed”.

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 3:41 pm

An alleged extremist facing terrorism offences is waiting to see if he is a quadriplegic after a violent stand-off with prison officers while on remand in Goulburn’s Supermax last weekend.

Tuki Lawrence, 24, who is facing charges for allegedly plotting to attack police, military and Corrective Services officers, was among several inmates involved in the stand-off which sources say related to “prayer times”.

It is understood officers fired a gas canister at Lawrence, who allegedly has been linked to Islamic State sympathisers, during the exchange as he was going back to his cell.

How dreadfully, terribly, awfully sad! (There’s sarc in there…)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 3:48 pm

The constitution overrides state law anyway.

No it does not, you old fool.

The Constitution and Federation permit States to follow their own Constitutions (whether clearly enunciated in State Consitutions like NSW, or scattered between 7 or 8 separate pieces of Legislation like WA’s). Each allows for every State to act in the name of the good governance of it people. That includes Environmental regulations, health and quarantine, policing, taxation and so forth.

The only time the Federal Government can involve itself (s.51 Powers) is where a State’s planned or enacted activity will interfere with a Federal responsibility (e.g. Defence) or something that is internationally binding. The Tasmanian Dams case under Bob Hawke is a deliberately stretched example (using a UN Treaty as an excuse to interfere on behalf of Tasmanian Greens and leftwits for local political advantage).

Quarantines amd various Emergency Acts always were and are a State purview. Before any Federal legislation to harmonise or deal with international requirements (i.e. international port and airport arrivals) get brought in.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 3, 2021 3:51 pm

Aaron Pedersen was quite good in that Melbourne based Lawyer cum Detective Jack Irish thing with Guy Pierce. A few years backs I was having breakfast at a place in Bondi, he was sitting at the table next to us. He was quite amiable, talking like anyone, not up himself. I wonder now if something happened in his life to be angry now.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 3, 2021 3:52 pm

says:
December 3, 2021 at 3:38 pm

Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain Episode 5 “Please Explain Climate Change” Guest Star #GretaThunberg

I’d vote for her for that alone.

Winston Smith
December 3, 2021 3:57 pm

rickw:

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

You are an awesome dad.
Would you like to adopt me?

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 4:05 pm

Australia’s wine business with China is reported in the WSJ in a vid. It’s quite interesting to see the lengths Australian exporters have gone to sell wine there.
It’s now fucked because of the trade restrictions the fuckers imposed due to hurt feelings.

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/in-depth-features/another-victim-of-chinas-trade-battles-australian-wine/48955C8F-5B12-40C7-8FD6-3D6D517A3032?mod=automatedsf_trending_now_video_pos4

Dot
Dot
December 3, 2021 4:10 pm

Please email Scott Morrison – form online to contact- just google ‘contact PM’- and ask him to cancel the Health and Wellbeing pandemic bill 2021.

Please also email the Attorney General Micahaelia Cash and her assistant the Hon. Amanda Stoker to uphold their positions of power and cancel the bill. (Amanda Stoker is already on record as having said she would cancel it if it went through).

By what mechanism would it be *cancelled*?

I can’t see them doing this, even though they have the power to do this, and in my opinion, a moral obligation.

I have a feeling Morrison would gladly join the Happiness Patrol. Stoker would be happy he was glad. Cash would be glad she’s happy.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 3, 2021 4:11 pm

Gab could only give a little but Dr Hobart has some more support. Cheers for the link.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 4:12 pm

Quarantines amd various Emergency Acts always were and are a State purview. Before any Federal legislation to harmonise or deal with international requirements (i.e. international port and airport arrivals) get brought in.

This is why the National Cabinet exists. To harmonise the States’responses with the Feds and their various legal requirements. In a Struth-level explanation: “To stop everyone stepping on each others’ toes, mate!”

That this has never, ever been adequately explained to anyone is an indictment on our Education system and the media.

The PM is not a US President, with direct involvement and final veto power or his own legislative enacting capability through Executive Orders. We understand their system better than ours, due to the power of Pop Culture.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 4:13 pm

Yay! Top O’ De Page!

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 3, 2021 4:13 pm

The only time the Federal Government can involve itself (s.51 Powers) is where a State’s planned or enacted activity will interfere with a Federal responsibility (e.g. Defence) or something that is internationally binding.

So the Universal Declaration of human rights doesn’t fit under the this condition?

sfw
sfw
December 3, 2021 4:14 pm

Clive Palmer is looking to challenge Andrews Pandemic Bill in court, he’ll take it all the way, using his own money. Now I know a lot here despise him but he is about the only one doing anything about it and using his own money. So tell me again how bad he is.

sfw
sfw
December 3, 2021 4:16 pm

That last sentence is rather awkward isn’t it?

shatterzzz
December 3, 2021 4:21 pm

The only time the Federal Government can involve itself (s.51 Powers) is where a State’s planned or enacted activity will interfere with a Federal responsibility (e.g. Defence) or something that is internationally binding.

Then BRADBURY should have no trouble invalidating Stairman Dan’s Pandemic Bill .. after all, the 1st duty of the Federal gummint is ensuring fairness, well-being & security of the of ALL the people regardless of gummint segregationary acts ..!
‘course, BRADBURY growing a big enuf pair to act may be the more problematic issue here .. LOL!

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 3, 2021 4:21 pm

Sounds like it is, only has one lever over the back for changing feed direction?

Yes, that’s it.

shatterzzz
December 3, 2021 4:25 pm

Clive Palmer is looking to challenge Andrews Pandemic Bill in court, he’ll take it all the way, using his own money. Now I know a lot here despise him but he is about the only one doing anything about it and using his own money. So tell me again how bad he is.

Challenging this bill thru ALL the courts is REALLY WHY we payz BRADBURY big bucks! This shouldn’t be up to Cloive & his wallet to follow thru ……. FFS!

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 4:26 pm

Clive Palmer is looking to challenge Andrews Pandemic Bill in court, he’ll take it all the way, using his own money. Now I know a lot here despise him but he is about the only one doing anything about it and using his own money. So tell me again how bad he is.

Is there a link, sfw? This could be awesome if true because we know the Slomo will do nothing to protect the rights of Victorians.

Gab
Gab
December 3, 2021 4:27 pm

struthsays:
December 3, 2021 at 2:51 pm

Yep. Spot on.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 4:29 pm

So the Universal Declaration of human rights doesn’t fit under the this condition?

No. Regardless of its ratification status in Parliament, that is a figleaf/bureaucratic compliance statement like the Victorian Human Rights Bill. I.E. “This Act complies with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by…”

Remember that the Tasmanian Dams case was predicated on a UN Treaty obligation. And really it was a stretch to justify it.

The Belt and Road Bill was canned under some other assessment of being an international sovereign risk. Like if a State tried to contract Huawei for some big IT job.

Or if WA enacted some legislation that would screw with SA and the NT. It could be struck down by Canberra under s.51 if WA refused to amend it.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 3, 2021 4:31 pm

Or if WA enacted some legislation that would screw with SA and the NT. It could be struck down by Canberra under s.51 if WA refused to amend it.
Hasn’t WA already screwed with all the other States? Certainly their people.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 3, 2021 4:35 pm

Screw it.

Sick of the sleepless nights.

I was in the local IGA a couple of months ago, and happen to overhear a couple of the checkout chicks. As they walked past I heard one say “Aut cum scuto, aut in scuto”*. And it occurred to me that when you want to sound erudite in English, you sprinkle in some Latin. But when the Romans wanted to seem well educated, the sprinkled in Greek.

So what did the Greeks sprinkle their language with when they wanted to seem clever?

Or did the pompous old sodomites think that to sound clever in Greek it was enough to be speaking Greek already.

Phtt!

Typical. Lolling about on their couches leering at the the serving boys who had long since marked out which slobbering old fool was going to be their ticket to the big time.

*A Latin rendition of a Spartan expression where women would beg their sons marching to battle to return “with your shield, or upon it”, either carrying it in victory or being carried as one of the noble slain. Romans would doubtless have used the Greek language version.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 3, 2021 4:37 pm

Meanwhile in the Territory:

A MAJOR Crimes Unit investigation is looking into the source of the latest cluster after a woman in her 70s, who was hospitalised with Covid-19, passed away.

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said confirmed police were involved and would be investigating potential criminal charges relating to a breach of Chief Health Officer directions.

“It appeared to be the seed that started the spread of Covid within the Northern Territory and as such major crime any undertaking an investigation,” Mr Chalker said.

Mr Chalker would not disclose the scope or the identities of anyone who may become part of the investigation.

“We will now investigate to identify what the causation may have been that ultimately led to Covid being contracted by the lady that passed away last night, and whether there’s any criminality in relation to that.”

“Suffice to say that the Northern Territory community can be satisfied that the Northern Territory Police are investigating the causation and links.”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 3, 2021 4:40 pm

A MAJOR Crimes Unit investigation is looking into the source of the latest cluster after a woman in her 70s

For God’s sake, man!

What more will it take to convince people of the urgency of injecting 5-year olds!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 4:45 pm

Hasn’t WA already screwed with all the other States? Certainly their people.

But still within the limitations of its own State Constitution and laws and the Australian one.

If you were to take WA to court or raise its issues in Federal Parliament, you would need a Constitutional Lawyer to go through the 8 pieces of legislation that contain the bits of WA’s Constitution (it isn’t a discrete document), then compare it with the Australian one, then look at every preceding case involving the WA Constitution to see how a particular clause was argued (because they will need to be struck down by the court fornthis case to succeed), then prove ultra vires and/or an objective wrong done to the neighbouring States.

This is no mere Castle case, and extremely expensive. And it assumes your Court or Parliamentary Inquiry does not dismiss it put of hand because your homework is incomplete.

Arguing against the Emergency Act as in place and permitted under WA law on the subjective basis of (justifiably) angry people not allowed to come.in or go out will not fly in a court or Parliamentary debate.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 4:48 pm

Or if WA enacted some legislation that would screw with SA and the NT. It could be struck down by Canberra under s.51 if WA refused to amend it.

ahem..
https://auspublaw.org/2020/09/clive-palmer-takes-a-sovereign-risk-challenging-the-authority-of-wa-parliament/
On 13 August 2020, the Western Australian Parliament amended the Mineralogy State Agreement (referred to by commentators as the ‘Palmer Act’). The Palmer Act abolishes the rights of particular companies and persons (the rights of Mineralogy Pty Ltd, International Minerals Pty Ltd and Clive Palmer as a director of Mineralogy) to seek damages for an alleged breach of a State Agreement term, namely, the State Development Minister’s (Colin Barnett’s) 2012 failure to approve the Balmoral South Iron Ore Project development proposal (‘Balmoral mine’). Mr Palmer’s statement that the legislation is ‘draconian and disgraceful’ was joined by commentators who have described the Act as ‘an outrageous abuse of power’ that ‘violates fundamental legal principles’. The WA Law Society stated that the new law departs from the ‘rule of law’, which entails that ‘all people whatever their status are subject to the ordinary law of the land. Departure from that principle has the capacity to affect the foundation of our democracy’. While the Act is unusual, it is within the power of the state legislature to acquire property rights including rights to a cause of action without compensation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 4:55 pm

While the Act is unusual, it is within the power of the state legislature to acquire property rights including rights to a cause of action without compensation.

This was within the bounds of WA’s Law, and so, they took it. Despite making themselves look foolish and petty in the process.

Furthermore, Clive still retains the capacity to pop up again in a different hat (I.E. A new $2 Proprietary Limited Company) and be a legal nuisance at his leisure.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 5:00 pm

Is there anyone more despicable that a White Reporter. FMD, they’re awful scumbags.

Get a load of this vs the way the scum treated the previous female. I have to keep repeating it. They’re just fucking detestable.

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1466125357631741956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1466125357631741956%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Fjen-psaki-shouts-down-african-journalist-testy-moment%2F

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 5:01 pm

The mongoloid horde in charge of WA are fiercely protecting us from…

/spins wheel…

Rapid antigen testing kits being available for use.

Im supposed to design a way to get the site out of restrictions, yet the only tool i have available is banned on penalty of 20/100 thousand dollar fines.

Theres not even a figleaf of rationale behind this.
This is pretty well the entire act.
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2021-09/Prohibition-on-the-use-of-Rapid-Antigen-Testing-No2.pdf
I, Dr Andrew Robertson, the Chief Health Officer, authorised as an emergency officer under
section 4 of the Act to exercise any of the emergency powers while the public health state of
emergency declaration in respect of COVID-19 is in force, consider it reasonably necessary to
give the following directions to all persons in Western Australia to prevent, control or abate
the serious public health risk presented by COVID-19 pursuant to sections 157(1)(k) and
190(1)(p) of the Act.
PREAMBLE
1. The purpose of these directions is to prohibit a person from using a SARS-Co V-2 rapid
antigen test (“Rapid Antigen Test”) as an acute illness diagnostic tool for COVID-19,
as their use may adversely affect the prevention, control and abatement of the serious
public health risk presented by COVID-19.
*
CITATION
2. These directions may be referred to as the Prohibition on the Use of Rapid Antigen
Test Directions (No 2).
COMMENCEMENT
3. These directions come into effect upon signing.
DIRECTIONS
4. Unless otherwise directed under the Act, a person must not use a Rapid Antigen Test
as a tool to detect or diagnose COVID-19.
5. Despite the operation of paragraph 4 above, a person may undertake a Rapid Antigen
Test as a tool to detect COVID-19 as directed under paragraph 14 of the Transport,
Freight and Logistics Directions (No 4) as amended or replaced from time to time.
PENALTIES
It is an offence for a person to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any of these
directions, punishable by a fine of up to $20,000 for individuals and $100,000 for bodies
corporate
.

*Bullshit, just spastic bullshit. “oooh if we let people test themselves they might not get vaccinated”….

So if someone gets the coof in my remote location i shall swab their nasal cavities, then freight out the sample and wait the 2-3 days for a result.
Awesome logic.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 3, 2021 5:07 pm

*Bullshit, just spastic bullshit. “oooh if we let people test themselves they might not get vaccinated”….

They are openly laughing in our faces while checking how much deeper they can screw us.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 5:10 pm

custardsays:
December 3, 2021 at 4:57 pm
Excellent

+++
They couldnt wait to slobber over government choad, I hope it costs them a shitton.

sfw
sfw
December 3, 2021 5:12 pm

I don’t have a link to the Palmer challenge to Andrews Bill but it’s true. Should be public soon. Someone said some named Bradbury(?) should be challenging it. I don’t know who Bradbury is but if he’s in the Morrisons government he won’t do anything. The Libs are utterly useless, there is nothing to redeem them, the only thing they’ve got right since they were elected is subs, other than that they may as well been a Shorten Gov.

Woolfe
Woolfe
December 3, 2021 5:15 pm

World Rugby 7’s on YouTube from Dubai.

Not one team taking the knee.

sfw
sfw
December 3, 2021 5:15 pm

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Palmer to challenge Andrews’ unconstitutional pandemic laws

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Chairman of the United Australia Party, Clive Palmer, has vowed to fight the Victorian Government’s contentious pandemic legislation in the courts, blasting them as draconian and undemocratic.

Daniel Andrews’ controversial new laws will come into effect from December 16 after passing Victoria’s upper house today, a move which should be deeply concerning for all Australians who value liberty and freedom, Mr Palmer said.

The laws give the government legal basis for lockdowns, mandatory mask wearing, vaccine mandates and curfews.

“These laws are unconstitutional and infringe the rights of all Australians. They are a major overaction and yet another sad reminder of the Andrews Government’s totalitarian approach,’’ Mr Palmer said.

“I would have no hesitation in mounting a court challenge to fight these laws. Discussions are already underway with my legal team,’’ Mr Palmer said.

Mr Palmer said only the United Australia Party was committed to protecting the values that have been built and developed in Australia since federation.

“We will be putting freedom over fear, liberty over lockdowns and choice over compulsion,’’ he said.

“Our party will protect the constitution and the rule of law, which underpins our democratic society and protects the rights, freedoms and liberties of every Australian citizen,’’ he said.

Baba
Baba
December 3, 2021 5:16 pm

rickw!

BHP’s vaccine mandate unlawful, Fair Work Commission finds

mc
mc
December 3, 2021 5:19 pm

G Scale railway progress

Father of the year! Well done RickW

Delta A
Delta A
December 3, 2021 5:19 pm

Hasn’t WA already screwed with all the other States?

BiL had just landed in Perth for a family visit (Saturday) when he was told he either had to hotel quarantine for 14 days at his expense, or fly back immediately without leaving the terminal.

A political numpty, he had always believed that McGowan was a great premier. Not so enamoured now.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 5:20 pm

So if someone gets the coof in my remote location i shall swab their nasal cavities, then freight out the sample and wait the 2-3 days for a result.
Awesome logic.

Propping up PathWest, anyone?

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
December 3, 2021 5:22 pm

I don’t know who Bradbury is

It’s Morrison. Nicknamed for his falling over the line performance in 2019, like Steve Bradbury’s gold medal in speed skating at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics when all the other competitors took each other out 10 metres from the finish line and he skated through.

Baba
Baba
December 3, 2021 5:24 pm

The purpose of these directions is to prohibit a person from using a SARS-Co V-2 rapid
antigen test (“Rapid Antigen Test”) as an acute illness diagnostic tool for COVID-19,
as their use may adversely affect the prevention, control and abatement of the serious
public health risk presented by COVID-19.*

The purpose is to prevent the unvaxxed treating themselves with horse pellets +.

The health nabobs want to control testing, detain positive unvaxxed, delay treatment, then ventilate.

Out of pure spite.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 5:24 pm

You are useless Arek Barwin you are useless Arek Barwin…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/03/alec-baldwin-questions-how-bullet-got-on-rust-set-in-emotional-abc-interview
In a clip from the interview released Wednesday, Stephanopoulos asked Baldwin, who was also a producer on the film, to confirm that the script didn’t call for the trigger to be pulled. “Well, the trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin says.

“So you never pulled the trigger?” Stephanopoulos asks. “No, no, no, no. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never,” Baldwin responded.

The actor said he “let go of the hammer” on the weapon and the gun went off. “I never pulled the trigger,” he said.

So he basically did the idiot equivalent of “fanning the hammer’
From 1:45 on this clip shows it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0azVhRZUQ

Pulling the hammer back (cocking the pistol) and releasing the hammer before it locked and engaged the trigger.

I may be wring, Im going off an old rifle my granddad had where you could fire it just pulling the hammer back about 2/3 of the way then letting it go.

miltonf
miltonf
December 3, 2021 5:31 pm

This. People need to stop talking about communism as if it’s still the 70s. As Darren Beattie says, the enemy is the Global American Empire. It’s technocratic, managerial, and supranational. It’s an ideology of power. Communism was only ever an iteration, global American Empire is a newer iteration, but technocracy is the form.

Thanks Dover- that explains a lot. I could never get my head around powerful US companies hating ‘Amerikkka’. Shows that Bush-O’bumma were estenially the same. Just like our loathsome uniparty.

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 5:32 pm

Ya gotta admit that slomo is no different to trumble, he just has a different smirk on his face as he fks us over.
The old bullshit of vote for lnp because they aren’t labor is total dogshit, they are labor.
The next election will define the future of Australia, if either of these shithouse party traitors get the reins again we are fkd.

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 5:34 pm

“These laws are unconstitutional and infringe the rights of all Australians. They are a major overaction and yet another sad reminder of the Andrews Government’s totalitarian approach,’’ Mr Palmer said.

“I would have no hesitation in mounting a court challenge to fight these laws. Discussions are already underway with my legal team,’’ Mr Palmer said.

Thank you, sfw. Let’s see if Big Clive puts his money where his mouth is. (I don’t want to hold my breath!)

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 3, 2021 5:36 pm

Scomo has the same judgement as Turnbull. Fatally flawed.

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 5:38 pm

JMH, please tell me what your input to these draconian laws are?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 5:38 pm

Gruinaid commentators showing they really truely care about “a society”, not individuals.

Note: These are all acceptable comments on the ferociously moderated comments.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/omicron-restrictions-prejudice-against-unvaccinated-people-virus#comments
Deny the unvaccinated NHS treatment or unemployment benefits, it’s very simple.
Don’t want to fulfil the (tiny) obligations of living in a society? Then you don’t get the benefits that brings either.
What an absolute bunch of cry babies these people are.

….
Being prejudiced against the unvaccinated is rather like being prejudiced against drunk drivers. It’s their choice not only to put their own lives at risk but also everyone else’s by creating conditions in which the virus can spread and mutate.

I have no sympathy with those who could get vaccinated from shirking their duty to do so. It’s anti-social and they act are breeding grounds for mutations that they then pass on to vulnerable people.

The reason why the vaccinated are being put on to a hamster wheel of vaccination every three months isn’t to protect them – it’s to protect the unvaccinated.

If you’ve had two vaccinations you have protection against serious illness and death. But our immunity is to be kept topped up to maximum to keep cases down, lest the unvaccinated catch Covid. They are vulnerable, but they refuse to protect themselves.

The lunacy on display is bracing.

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 5:41 pm

Runnybumsays:
December 3, 2021 at 5:38 pm
JMH, please tell me what your input to these draconian laws are?

WTF are you talking about?

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 5:43 pm

JMH, instead of having a dig at Palmer, support him?

Indolent
Indolent
December 3, 2021 5:44 pm

An article in The Onion in 1927.

I wonder what precipitated it.

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 5:48 pm

Runnybumsays:
December 3, 2021 at 5:43 pm
JMH, instead of having a dig at Palmer, support him?

FFS! If Palmer is a man of his word – and goes the Dictator – then I will praise him from on high. I have already slotted in UAP – if they stand candidates in my electorate. Do you have a problem with that?

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 5:54 pm

JMH, I have no problem with that, but you insinuated that clive put his money where his mouth is, i merely asked what you were doing in support?
Instead you have a dig at me.

Aaron
Aaron
December 3, 2021 5:55 pm

You people are a bit optimistic are you not?

Arguing Australian constitutional law.

Hell, these people are getting ready to overrule Nuremberg.

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines
December 3, 2021 5:57 pm

I’m somewhat bemused to read the debate about the relative weight of Commonwealth versus State law. It’s not as if Australia is presently operating under the rule of law. Wherever the ALP is in office, the law is whatever the ALP wants it to be. And the Libs are almost exactly the same: wherever the Libs are in office, the law is still whatever the ALP wants it to be. If the Libs had sense or courage or principle or just a basic decent respect for fellow citizens, they’d recognise Diktator Dan’s Enabling Act for what it is and either find or (if necessary) create a legal basis to smash it.* But no. The Libs can’t ever fight back. Because . . . reasons.

* And, at the same time, conduct an eye-wateringly proctological special investigation of ALP / union crime in Victoria that would focus Dan Andrews’ time and energy on staying out prison.

Indolent
Indolent
December 3, 2021 5:57 pm

Meanwhile in Australia….
This is from an American site. Nearly 400,000 people have watched it in 3 days.

Bruce in WA
December 3, 2021 6:02 pm

So he basically did the idiot equivalent of “fanning the hammer’
From 1:45 on this clip shows it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0azVhRZUQ

Pulling the hammer back (cocking the pistol) and releasing the hammer before it locked and engaged the trigger.

Good point, Frollicking … or, what I suspect may have happened:

He’s pulled the gun from a cross draw, finger through the guard and unintentionally squeezed the trigger back. Then he’s pulled the hammer back to cock it, but when released it’s gone straight forward because of the held trigger … and BLAM!

areff
areff
December 3, 2021 6:02 pm

I heard one say “Aut cum scuto, aut in scuto”

Assuming you introduced yourself as Biggus Dickus and offered the young ladies dibs on first and second conjugations.

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 6:06 pm

Indolent you post some very good stuff, but do you actually think our owners give a fuck?
Marching up & down the streets with placards & shouting Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi will achieve precisely fk all.
IMHO

Indolent
Indolent
December 3, 2021 6:06 pm

The health nabobs want to control testing, detain positive unvaxxed, delay treatment, then ventilate.

There’s a single word to describe this approach – murder.

Winston Smith
December 3, 2021 6:08 pm

As an aside:
A crew of a submarine is roughly around 120?
Space is at a premium?
The boat is at sea for three months?
So where do they store three months worth of date rolls for 120 men/women/confused?
Or do they have bidets?
Or ‘Family Cloths’?
or just use their left hands?
So many questions!

Cassie of Sydney
December 3, 2021 6:12 pm

The other day in Canberra, the PM and the leader of the Opposition joined together to place presents under a Christmas tree in parliament house. It was supposed to be a nice, civil and bipartisan event but clearly Albanese or someone in his office decided to politicise the event, as only the left can do, by filling a box with presents that were nasty political digs at Morrison. The gifts included….

1. A jigsaw puzzle of the Eiffel Tower….a snide reference to the frosty Australia/France relationship due to the cancellation of the shonky French sub deal.

2. A toy submarine (plastic I think)….another snide reference to the frosty Australia/France relationship due to the cancellation of the shonky French sub deal.

3. A toy fire engine…..a snide reference to Morrison and the bush fires in 2019/2020.

So, perhaps some anonymous person could sneakily put another box of presents under the parliament house Christmas tree…..aimed at Anthony Albanese. I have some ideas for presents….they’re probably not for children…but so what…

1. A book on Thai massage. Here’s one available on Amazon Thai Table Massage: Applying the traditional Thai Massage techniques on the table“. I reckon Albo would find such a book quite therapeutic.

2. A framed copy of the Hamas charter, a genocidal blueprint for the annihilation of Israel and all the Jews within it…..a reference to Albo’s great mate in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn, the uber anti-Semite. Albo always makes time to have tea with Corbyn when in London.

Any other ideas?

Delta A
Delta A
December 3, 2021 6:18 pm

Any other ideas?

These?

Aaron
Aaron
December 3, 2021 6:19 pm

From that Aus Clinical info site

“Overlapping and combined phases of clinical trials, the urgency of a need for a safe and effective vaccine, international collaborative efforts, funding and pre-planning in manufacturing have allowed vaccine development time-frame to be compressed to about 10 months. COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out for emergency use authorisation in several countries. However, as there are limited safety data, full registration of the vaccine will only be given after extended safety monitoring, which will take several years (refer to Figure 2)”.

Which means I may roll up for a jab.

In several years.

calli
calli
December 3, 2021 6:20 pm

A nice family photo?

Cassie of Sydney
December 3, 2021 6:20 pm

“Delta Asays:
December 3, 2021 at 6:18 pm
Any other ideas?

These?”

Perfect!

Cassie of Sydney
December 3, 2021 6:21 pm

“callisays:
December 3, 2021 at 6:20 pm
A nice family photo?”

Perfect.

JMH
JMH
December 3, 2021 6:21 pm

Runnybumsays:
December 3, 2021 at 5:54 pm
JMH, I have no problem with that, but you insinuated that clive put his money where his mouth is, i merely asked what you were doing in support?
Instead you have a dig at me.

Listen up. I was not having a go at you. You came in guns blazing re whether I support/non-support Clive and I answered your question. I’m sure my replies were in basic English!

Chris
Chris
December 3, 2021 6:24 pm

Any other ideas?

For Labor?
A packet of brown paper bags.
A diploma “To whom it may concern” in the name field.
A top hat, to symbolise their sell-out to Big Corporate.
A white bathroom tile, a spare for Julia Gillard’s young and naive bathroom.
A red shirt. Vic corruption, as well as just being commies.
A song sheet with ‘The Internationale’.
A judges gavel with 7-Nil written on it.
A framed copy of Bill Leak’s cartoon of a guy waking up in his bedroom to two burglars, wearing Liberal and Labor rosettes. “What are you doing here??!” “Campaigning fo ryour vote, mate – now where have you hidden your Super?”

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 3, 2021 6:24 pm

Peace JMH.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 6:30 pm

As an aside:
A crew of a submarine is roughly around 120?
Space is at a premium?
The boat is at sea for three months?
So where do they store three months worth of date rolls for 120 men/women/confused?

Accounts I have read of USN SSN and SSBN patrols indicate that every spare space, including walkways is crammed solid with all provisions needed for all hands for an average patrol of 3 months (~90 days). Tinned food, bogroll and more.

Packed so deep that all non-shortarses need to remember to duck their heads so as to not tear them open on the overhead ducts and pipework. For at least the first few weeks, anyway…

Zipster
December 3, 2021 6:32 pm

Gruinaid commentators showing they really truely care about “a society”, not individuals.

scratch the left’s “compassion” and it is clearly utterly fake

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 6:37 pm

Jennifer Westacott & Innes Willox falling over themselves to praise Labor’s emissions target.

Clearly big business are expecting to do very well out of it.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 6:37 pm

Sounds like it is, only has one lever over the back for changing feed direction?

Yes, that’s it.

Cool, I’ll send you a spindle when I run a few off.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 6:37 pm

@5.00 pm comment

White House.

cohenite
December 3, 2021 6:38 pm

Pauline’s latest cartoon. These are rather good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS5i6eCVx2A

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 6:42 pm

Gruinaid commentators showing they really truely care about “a society”, not individuals.

More often than not Leftists are misanthropes who only like humanity in the abstract, not in the flesh.

That at least partly explains why they are so dismissive of individual rights if they stand in the way of their ideals for society.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 6:48 pm

Pulling the hammer back (cocking the pistol) and releasing the hammer before it locked and engaged the trigger.

If it’s an accurate replica of that period then it will most probably be single action and it won’t have a transfer bar. The transfer bar basically stops the gun from being able to fire unless the trigger is pulled and the hammer falls with sufficient energy at the same time. On old revolvers if you snag and drop the hammer or lower the hammer too quickly the gun will go off no matter what is going on with the trigger. If he actually didn’t point it anyone then possibly this all happened when he was attempting to lower the hammer. The gun rotating upwards to meet the hammer because he had a good grip on the hammer but not on the pistols grip.

cohenite
December 3, 2021 6:53 pm

If you see an aboriginal woman getting thumped don’t intervene:

Borroloola cattle station workers found guilty over high-speed chase on remote outback highway, not guilty of firing gunshots

From the abc report:

A Darwin Local Court judge accepted the pair had formed that belief but said their actions in response were not justified and there was not enough evidence to support their view that a woman was at risk.

John H.
John H.
December 3, 2021 6:53 pm

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA’s DART mission

JC we discussed this months ago. The approach here doesn’t require nukes or high falutin missiles just a big enough mass to hit the rock off its trajectory. Simple, smart, hopefully effective. We need something like this to work because over time it is inevitable a big rock will come our way.

shatterzzz
December 3, 2021 6:56 pm

Accounts I have read of USN SSN and SSBN patrols indicate that every spare space, including walkways is crammed solid with all provisions needed for all hands for an average patrol of 3 months (~90 days). Tinned food, bogroll and more.

Can’t be right! .. I watched VIGIL .. rooms(cabins) as big as my house, clear 3 metres wide passageways and 8 feet ceilings even the dining room could have held a rock concert .. LOL!
Mind I’ve been on a Oz sub (way back in the 1970s) and they were a wee bit smaller in those days tho I don’t think Collins class had crews of 120 .. half of them would have been bunked on deck even whilst submerged .. LOL!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 3, 2021 7:01 pm

Listen up. I was not having a go at you. You came in guns blazing re whether I support/non-support Clive and I answered your question.

JMH is absolutely right.

There is good reason to be a little cautious with regards to Fat Bastard. Look at what he offered at the last election. Would we ever have had the execrable Lambie foist upon us otherwise? We also know that he has a range of squabbles with the existing parties which now infest our governments.

His motives may be honourable and inspired, and they may be cynical and opportunistic.

BUT…

He seems to have gathered some good people around himself – like the precious layers of a pearl that accrete around the commonest grain of sand.

It is the pearl that I am interested in, and which makes Clive’s party worthwhile.

The piece of grit still has to prove himself.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 7:01 pm

Any enterprising chemists looking for a opening?

It only requires a little chemical finangleing, childs play, Id do it myself but my brain is too smooth.

2 rumors: Kenworth are basically going to close their books on truck orders in the next couple of weeks, wait times are out to 2024…..

And the biggie, Austfailure is going to run out of Adblue..

Thats is bad.
How bad?
Most diesel trucks/vehicles stop moving bad.
https://www.ampol.com.au/fuels-and-oils/petrols-and-diesels/adblue

In order to meet ever tightening emission regulations, vehicle manufacturers have adopted exhaust after treatment technologies to significantly reduce harmful emissions from their vehicles.

One of the key technologies for manufacturers to comply with strict EURO emissions regulations is Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR). This approach is centred around the injection of a Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) into the exhaust stream to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide emissions.

Vehicles fitted with SCR will have a dedicated tank to hold AdBlue and an integrated control system to manage the injection of the solution. The SCR system is usually located after the diesel particulate filter (DPF) – if fitted. A fine mist of AdBlue is injected into the exhaust stream where it heats up and splits into Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide. The nitrogen oxide gases in the exhaust react with the ammonia and the catalyst and are converted into nitrogen gas and water vapour and released into the atmosphere via the tailpipe.

Where does it come from??
80% China.
Whats it made from?
Urea.
Whats else is Urea used for?
Fertilizer.
What does China have a shortage of and prices are rocketing?
Urea.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-coal-shortage-threatens-farmers-in-india-and-truckers-in-south-korea-11636635601

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/selective-catalytic-reduction

Time to stock up on ammonia and deionised water like its 2021 hand sanitizer!

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 3, 2021 7:04 pm

Sounds like it is, only has one lever over the back for changing feed direction?

Yes, that’s it.

Cool, I’ll send you a spindle when I run a few off.

Thanks, much appreciated. How much for the spindle plus postage?

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 3, 2021 7:05 pm

Makes me happy that I drive an old 1HZ landcruiser, no damaging emission control gear in it!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 3, 2021 7:05 pm

@ shatterzzz-

Collins are about 58 pers.

I think the 120 is in reference to something the size of a Los Angeles or Virginia SSGN.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 3, 2021 7:07 pm

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth?

We could pass a law. Threaten to estrange it from the society of other asteroids. Appear in press conferences without a tie and, exhaustedly, talk about the necessity to…I dunno…avoid carbs?…or something to prevent asteroids.

Would that work?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 7:10 pm

I always thought a better option to defelct an aseroid would be

/Strokes bald cat, raises pinky to mouth

A giant frikkin lazer.

Surely heating one section of an object would cause it to “gas off” therefore changing its trajectory??

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 7:13 pm

And the biggie, Austfailure is going to run out of Adblue.

That’s not just a rumour, it’s a distinct possibility.

We need to find sources of urea other than China.

Along with the rest of the world.

rickw
rickw
December 3, 2021 7:16 pm

Arguing Australian constitutional law.

Hell, these people are getting ready to overrule Nuremberg.

We’re in Post Law times. The Law is whatever the hell the elite want it to be.

MatrixTransform
December 3, 2021 7:21 pm

The Law is whatever the hell the elite want it to be

this is how it happens

areff
areff
December 3, 2021 7:22 pm

We need to find sources of urea other than China.

Couldn’t it be distilled from sewage? Werribee stink farm could be a goldmine

areff
areff
December 3, 2021 7:24 pm

Guardian headline:

Asteroid Hits Earth!
Women, Gays and Aborigines suffer most

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 7:24 pm

Couldn’t it be distilled from sewage?

I’ll defer to BoN or any other chemist presnrt on that one.

I suspect the presence of urea would be rather low as compared to water, rendering the extraction process uneconomical.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 7:25 pm

Its unfortunate Austfailure is so poor in reserves of coal or gas used to make the urea…

If only we had some.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 7:27 pm

John H. says:
December 3, 2021 at 6:53 pm

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA’s DART mission

JC we discussed this months ago. The approach here doesn’t require nukes or high falutin missiles just a big enough mass to hit the rock off its trajectory. Simple, smart, hopefully effective. We need something like this to work because over time it is inevitable a big rock will come our way.

John H

Do they/we have the technology to be able to change the direction when its so distant? Wouldn’t it be better just blowing it up (although you aren’t able to control where the debris is going to float off to)?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 3, 2021 7:28 pm

Lets take over the Collie council and declare independence from McClown based on producing stuff thats useful from coal
https://www.collie.wa.gov.au/

Doing this.

https://broadleaf.com.au/work/coal-to-urea-plant-construction-bid/

Mater
December 3, 2021 7:30 pm

We need something like this to work because over time it is inevitable a big rock will come our way.

Don’t be so rash. It might be heading for Canberra.

Tom
Tom
December 3, 2021 7:31 pm

I’ve been shouting at the TV and the incompetent public service scum barracking for more lockdowns and their enablers in the journalism business who hate freedom.

The worst of them are those who pretend they love the common people, but actually loathe them. I’m looking at you, A Current Affair, who make me ashamed to have spent a lifetime in journalism.

JC
JC
December 3, 2021 7:34 pm

Media Watch Dog: Fran Kelly gets the usual self-indulgent ABC send-off

Hey, Tractor Kelly has resigned/retired.

Media Watch Dog: Fran Kelly gets the usual self-indulgent ABC send-off

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 3, 2021 7:36 pm

Could also ditch the ridiculous emission standards being driven by the Eurotrash as well & have no need for adblue. Great idea let’s waste perfectly good fertiliser to save Gaia.

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 7:41 pm

The Law is whatever the hell the elite want it to be.

If that does come to fruition it will be a reversal of 800 years of English history – the Magna Carta, the 1628 Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights of 1689 and later developments which extended lawful rights to an ever widening circle of the general population. It is just extraordinary to contemplate how fragile liberty is, especially in Australia, which is the only heir to the English parliamentary and legal tradition which lacks a Bill of RIghts enhrined in law

Roger
Roger
December 3, 2021 7:43 pm

Hey, Tractor Kelly has resigned/retired.

Nobody at the ABC retires. She’ll be producing podcasts and other boutique projects and enjoying longer WEBs on our dime.

Pogria
Pogria
December 3, 2021 7:44 pm

The internet is Magic sometimes.

This is the best two minutes I have spent watching a music video in I don’t know how long.

Please enjoy and pass it on.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 3, 2021 7:44 pm

Investigators lift lid on Defence Force ‘culture of silence’
Toby Crockford
By Toby Crockford
December 3, 2021 — 4.38pm

Two women who have previously investigated the culture and treatment of women in the Australian Defence Force have highlighted the “culture of silence” and policy of “not jacking on your mate”.

The first week of hearings for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide came to an end in Brisbane on Friday, having covered plenty of ground in the past five days.

Elizabeth Broderick was the 2016 NSW Australian of the Year and has conducted 16 cultural reviews into Australia’s largest institutions, including the ADF.

Ms Broderick completed a review into the treatment of women in the ADF in 2011-14 and told the royal commission on Friday about the dangers attached to the culture of “mateship”.

“There is significant pressure placed on cadets not to ‘jack on your mate’. As outlined by one cadet, while there may be an expectation among cadets that those who behave inappropriately will come forward, cadets generally will not report on each other,” her four-year review noted.

Ms Broderick referred to a testimony given by one ADF member as part of her review.

“I think that the biggest sin is selling out your mates, ’cause you’re all living together; if you sell out one of your mates, you’re gone … usually people have the integrity to come forward,” they said.

“If they’ve done something bad, they will usually go forward and say it, because that’s one of the things we’re taught. You don’t really ever have to tell on anyone and you’re not going to anyway.”

Ms Broderick said ‘mateship’ had bred a culture within the ADF of “what happens in the family, stays in the family”.

“The idea that you don’t jack on your mates is about a culture of silence because if something happens to you in the team, then as this quote says, you essentially suck it up,” she said.

“You can speak out about it, but that comes at a huge personal cost to your reputation, it’s the cost that you may be victimised and ostracised – you’ll actually be put outside of the group … Generally cadets won’t report on each other.”

In the 2011 ADF Academy’s unacceptable behaviour survey, which asked cadets about their experiences in the past 12 months, 74 per cent of female cadets and 30 per cent of male cadets reported experiencing an ‘unacceptable’ gender or sex-related harassment behaviour.

In addition, 53 per cent of female cadets and 33 per cent of male cadets reported experiencing a ‘unacceptable’ general harassment or discrimination behaviour.

Alexandra Shehadie was the former Director of the ADF Cultural Reform Program and has also been involved in previous reviews of ADF culture.

When she requested ADF data on sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual discrimination, she received a considerable amount, but there were issues – different figures came from different areas of the ADF, the information was not collected by a central branch.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 3, 2021 7:45 pm

Winston

So where do they store three months worth of date rolls for 120 men/women/confused?

Heard from an ex-sailor, order from the Captain. “Three sheets only. One to dry, one to clean, one to polish.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 3, 2021 7:47 pm

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth?

Launch SHY or Albo at it.
Albo has invincible ignorance and SHY has enough mass and momentum to stop anything.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 3, 2021 7:54 pm

All Fire and Emergency Services volunteers in Western Australia to be fully vaccinated by the end of January 2022….

John H.
John H.
December 3, 2021 7:55 pm

JCsays:
December 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm
John H. says:
December 3, 2021 at 6:53 pm

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA’s DART mission

JC we discussed this months ago. The approach here doesn’t require nukes or high falutin missiles just a big enough mass to hit the rock off its trajectory. Simple, smart, hopefully effective. We need something like this to work because over time it is inevitable a big rock will come our way.

John H

Do they/we have the technology to be able to change the direction when its so distant? Wouldn’t it be better just blowing it up (although you aren’t able to control where the debris is going to float off to)?

It is very difficult to blow something with a surface explosion because most of the energy goes outward. They would need the equivalent of a bunker buster and then hit the rock at just the right angle. In short, exploding the rock is an unnecessarily complex and problematic way to address the problem. Much easier to knock it off course.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 3, 2021 7:57 pm

This is the best two minutes I have spent watching a music video in I don’t know how long.

Pogria – That’s very subversive. If you keep watching videos like that you could turn into a righty.

New York Times Complains That Cat Videos Are Being Used To Spread “Misinformation” (2 Dec)

  1. Janet Albrechtsen has a couple of articles in the Oz which are perfectly pointed at the bureaucracy which has grown…

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