Oh, I suspect Malcolm 2 was there to do a bit more than give some bureaucrats a smooth run.
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Interesting the way the artist has arranged the near wing- quite effective. If one such appeared on your porch of…
Bit like my Prostate removal .. 3 to 6 weeks they said then things will improve .. 3 months later…
Anyone accessed the Herald Sun today.?I can just see the headlines, there seems to be three articles detailing things going…
Said it much better than me!
He’s getting rattled. Suffer. you prick!
I will predict that there will be enthusiastic support for the ongoing closure of the WA border amongst rank and file Sandgropers. The morning news will be instructive.
One of the dominant characteristics of Western Australians is rampant parochialism. It has been a feature since before Federation.
You have to live here to realise how deep this sense of isolation and separation from the rest of Australia runs in the average punter and the Wuflu crisis has only deepened this characteristic, especially in regional WA.
Sneakers admitting his exemption criteria are just to stop murderous Sandgropers caught out by his new rules by going interstate or overseas from acting on their fury.
Mark is keeping you safest.
Goodness gracious.
It sounds very much like Mr McGowan is within sight of the bridge.
At Remagen.
Dan couldn’t beat the virus but Mark can.
Pedro nails it as usual
Great news Rex. Little Kerry must have heard the drumbeats.
Sneakers trying to blame Ohmigod! for the economic woes in the East he is locking us away from.
Not the panic the policies of stooges like him have stoked for the last 2 years.
First I’ve heard of economic woes.
The lights on the codpiece have gone out.
The Kicker, dear Cats:
“How long do you think you can keep this up?”
Sneakers dismissive of legal action by business or if Ohmigod keeps spreading unchallenged. While continuing to evade a date.
The drums. The drums!
It is a feature of frontier towns.
Filthy Omicron-ridden Eastern States furriners.
Twitter going nuts, obviously my feed is biased against McGowan but still.
Western Australia went into Federation under protest. The Colonial Office in London had planned that, if Western Australia voted “NO” to Federation, the colony would be divided in two. There would be a new colony encompassing the Goldfields, with the capital at Kalgoorlie, and the port at Esperance, and largely populated by “T’Othersiders, who had migrated from the Eastern States to join the gold rush. They would vote “yes” to join the Federation, while the agricultural and pastoral districts on the coast could sink or swim, as they pleased.
On the wearing of masks.
“Restrictions will just increase”
Fuck.Off!!
I’m told that WA is Northwest of here.
Only sandgropers would name a state with the wrong direction.
I’m still listening to the commo McGowistan
Yes back in 1900 there must have been thousands and thousands of people with their roots firmly established in WA for untold number of generations and desperately wanted to remain a British colony.
They could have been sort of a West New Zealand.
McGowhatever and Dan of the dead have been hired to destroy their state’s economies.
Nothing else makes sense.
You’re a better man then I am, Gunga Dinh.
East Argentina.
I live-tweeted the Sneakers presser to winnow out who the really unreachable fascists/surrender monkeys were in my friends list. Man, I’m glad I tuned in and paid attention to the end- I really believe that MaoGowan’s rail run will now be tripped up, the press have finally risen up to him and he’s gone full Dan Andrews with his dismissive nasty responses.
And it is on fire…
#ArooRooRooRooRuff!
#That’sMyOtherDogImpression
Wait and see how many of them can be found tomorrow.
Vee haff vays to halt zee bad mouth.
Regarding requirements for travelling. I don’t know what the situation is to leave Australia, but I doubt anything will be required to go to England if they drop all their vaccine mandates and passports and Israel is starting to recognise that it’s all pretty pointless in terms of outcomes, although obviously that may take a while to percolate through to any action to remove mandates. And didn’t a change of government eliminate the vax mandate in the Czech Republic?
There seem to be some hopeful signs so waiting as long as possible to do anything would appear to be the best option.
I expect they will be given their riding instructions before anyone goes home.
Signs of Hope
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After COVID, Never Again
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Entire Medical Establishment Threatened By Comedian Who Gets High And Talks About MMA And Aliens
Entire Medical Establishment Threatened By Comedian Who Gets High And Talks About MMA And Aliens
U.S. – The political and medical establishments throughout the world are sounding the alarm about the dangers of Joe Rogan, a comedian who gets high and talks about MMA and aliens.’JOE ROGAN! HE MUST BE STOPPED!’ said Dr. Fauci in a very calmly writt…
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Wait and see how many of them can be found tomorrow.
Saturday’s West will be a doozy, expect record sales.
The Oz will have nothing until Saturday- one advantage of a late west coast presser.
Brief look on fecechook.
One contact is literally saying “ thank you for locking us down harder daddy”.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/cerylean.tumblr.com/post/161952461775/amp
Sandgropers!
Unite behind our great leader Kim Il McGowan! Line up and bare your arms to have your fifteenth vaccination needle! The borders will be open in 2050! What does the rest of Australia have that we need, anyway?
Bruce in WA,
If you need a care package of durries let us know.
I’m sure we can help.
My Big Sis sent her son to Cranbrook for primary school when she was doing her residency: it was a good school then and now. Her kid went off the wires over dope and later other drugs in the 80’s and at another private school in his mid-teen years he didn’t stop going downhill. She brought him back to Sydney and tried hard to keep him in school, or tech, or something, but it became a losing battle. She had several new relationships. The child felt unstable and lived in a cloud of marihuana and petty crime and later heoin addiction (he’s the one who died recently of pancreatic cancer, leaving a child and a grandchild, both of whom Bis Sis’s grandparenting has pulled back from the brink). This follows a pattern I note in my recent Quadrant article that was repeated with the easy break-up relationships culturally encouraged during that period by the ‘progressive’ left. My own two boys from my first marriage were similarly badly affected, dope use leading to school failures. Hairy was a good stepfather who tried hard with them when their own father partially opted out, but they were testing times for our marriage also rearing two very small children at that time of teenager rebellion. The boys, now in their forties, both feel positively towards him these days and he likewise has more understanding of them and their reactions. It is never ideal and the culture in those days was terrible for the kids of divorce. Stay with the biological mum and dad if you can is still a good maxim. And keep those kids busy and within the new family as much as you can if you separate.
Eyrie – re the jabs, plus the ‘boosters’ and travel, it’s not just my problem as you call it, it’s everyone’s problem. This country operates in a contemporary economy of international travel for business as well as for pleasure. Get your head in the sand and keep it there, if that is your choice, but more sensible people recognise the reality of the vaxx passport for the economic as well as social problem that it is. Boris it seems has seen the light. We. Need. To. Travel. No fortress Australia. No tryanny of distance.
I’m somewhat chuffed to discover that I , near as dammit, share a birthday with Judge Dredd.
Looks like there’s a new Chairman in town.
Zulu,
I find your optimism inspiring.
In a smug, East Coast sort of way.
Trending on Twatter: #McClown
(Politically) Dead Man Sneakin’…
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WA will never open with McClown as Premier
He has backed himself into a political corner he can’t get out of
from the Worst Australian
How dare they criticize leader for life , the all powerful, benevolent and kind, St Mark McShitstain.
What happens with that nonstop flight to London that used to leave from Perth?
It was moved out of Darwin last year
Guess its never going back back
I have been banned from taking my wife to medical appointments at the RNS hospital.
The explanatory letter was signed “Warm Regards”.
That’s just twisting the knife in the wound.
Time to gird the loins for a battle with bureaucracy.
Old School
Bastards.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Patrick Blower.
Graeme Bandeira.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Robert Ariail.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Ate you kidding? The PM of our country would never be too gutless and myopic to allow such a situation to occur.
ScoMo will do the right thing. You’ll see.
Not as buoyant as the UK then.
“I tell you clearly, even attenuated, this virus is not trivial,” said Jean Castex. “It is absolutely not a simple flu. A single figure to demonstrate this during a normal year, the flu epidemic causes an average of 10,000 hospitalizations over the entire winter period. With Omicron, we reach this figure in three months, but in only five days.””
en France
This!
The grandmother may not have custody but what they call in my state ‘Kinship care’(gag). This effectively gives her no more right than a foster parent.
She would also have no right to litigate custody away from the department. Politicians have made these departments a law unto themselves on the black of public hysteria.
Democrat plan for voting reform inspired by Hugo Chavez!
link
Black is the key to this. The stolen generations were actually children being protected from such as these two. So they were rescued and placed with foster carers, grannies and aunts.
Now nobody dares do anything like that, the kids suffer horrifically and the whole festering disease has spread to the wider community. Mal Brough tried to do something, but the entire Left closed shop against him to perpetuate this foul endless mess.
Are the Democrats becoming a fascist party?
John Hinderaker at Powerline blog.
They have looked like that for some time, and the so-called antifa brigades are their running dogs, not anti fascist at all.
Is it just me, or is getting a comment through the gatekeepers at The Australian harder than it used to be?
re ‘Kinship care’ for our grandson at risk, both I and our son’s father (my first husband) wanted to take over care of the child, but our legal situation would have been tenuous and useless in combatting the mother’s tendency to up with the child and move to yet another State; also her serious psychotic episodes when the child was in her ‘care’. It was better to support our son to exercise his paternal legal rights in a Court of Law to gain full custody with oversight of the mother’s state of mental health. This gave him the ability to refuse access if he deemed it necessary due to defined evidenced reasons (such as active psychosis, amphetamine use, the presence of undesirable male associates etc).
We could then support our son (who had his own mild autism issues with coping) in the care of our grandson, having the child stay grandparentally for holidays and weekends as needed and for me, paying for and supervising karate lessons, music lessons, extra tutoring, school uniforms and requirements etc. as well as subsidising the household expenses of my son. Our son said thank you by starting another relationship and producing another son, this one autism spectrum level 2. But the mother there is competent and we work with her to assist her child and financially help out as well; she doesn’t live with my son but has been another significant figure in the life of the grandchild at risk.
There are grandparents’ aelf-help organisations for the thousands upon thousands of grandparents who have grandchildren in a similar sort of situation. But the legal rights are undefined. I looked on the internet but never joined any because we were lucky enough to have found a way to manage.
The mother of the schizophrenic woman has done it extra tough as a grandmother. Not just having a schizo daughter but also an amphetamine addict son, so took over the son’s little daughter, who also went off the rails and got pregnant at seventeen, producing a great-granddaughter for this woman to also rear. Now the great-granddaughter is showing signs of disturbance. A very well known Labor family originally, btw, where dad left this mum with four children to ‘find himself’ elsewhere in his magnificent career which she had worked so hard to help him gain. She and I are good friends in regular contact now over her daughter, whom I keep a weather-eye on and to whom I offer support.
One becomes fairly familiar with the public housing areas of large cities with these problems in your life. They are full of people damaged by the loss of identity, jobs and a future, often sick, and using drugs and alcohol for escape and for ‘meaningful’ relationships based on drug sharing with others. It’s a cultural thing, and it is inter-generational too. We have fought against that; our grandson is now in work and wanting to stay that way, drug-free too. My two kids with Hairy, his aunt and uncle, both in stable marraiges with good careers, have been a support and role model for him too and well as his two aunts in Qld; for in his mother’s middle-class family of four kids, two who were older during the break-up did well, and the two who were younger both went in their own ways off the rails.
The system has moved away from the public expectations to using the vulnerable as a Petri dish of social experiments to feed the bureaucracy. It’s also an insight on what is install for the rest of society.
Re commenting on the Oz. About the time I renewed a sub after Hairy eschewed and dumped one in his name, they did seem to have a less censorious approach, but I have noticed some tightening recently. I’ve had a couple reinstated after protest, but there’s not a lot of point in that because things have then moved on. It does, however, help to keep those journo-school moderators on their toes. I’ve been too busy lately to comment much there anyway. One they do won’t tolerate is criticism of their journos.
Glenn Greenwald amplifying a story today.
JP Morgan & former Obama AG colluded to stitch up one of their clients to give information to the Jan 6th committee.
Which looks like it’s unconstitutional (under the Quinn v USA SCOTUS ruling).
I would expect Tucker will have Glenn on today to further amplify it.
aarg. Loss of syntax. Mind ahead of fingers. Tea urgently needed. Or coffee.
I was told yesterday Unvaccinated parents and Carers can not take sick children to the Brisbane Childrens Hospital.
Well said, Bruce, at 6.32am.
It is the same problem, black or white or brindle, as they used to say but we no longer can.
Cleaning up voter rolls the Democrat way!
31 states have subscribed to a dodgy system developed with funding by …
link
“I would expect Tucker will have Glenn on today to further amplify it.“
Indeed.
If people are not watching Carlson, Ingraham and the others on Fox News they are getting a very abbreviated view of what’s going on in the USA.
Meanwhile over at News dot com dot au they are doing the usual scantily clad female stories and noted authority Norman Swan about the efficacy of masks.
Quinn v USA was one of the SCOTUS rulings that ended the gotcha moments at the McCarthy hearings & ended their effectiveness.
PS I’ve always found it amazing how Bobby Kennedy was airbrushed out of all the unpleasantness surrounding McCarthy.
“PS I’ve always found it amazing how Bobby Kennedy was airbrushed out of all the unpleasantness surrounding McCarthy.”
Joe McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy were good friends.
From The Daily Telegraph…
Police claim Charlise Mutten’s mum was living in caravan before alleged murder
Charlise Mutten’s mother was staying 80km away from a lavish wedding venue in the NSW Blue Mountains where the nine-year-old was allegedly murdered. See the photos.
Police say it has been difficult to speak with Charlise Mutten’s mother Kallista as they try to uncover the details of her daughter’s death.
Charlise Mutten’s mother was staying at a ramshackle caravan park on the secluded banks of the Hawkesbury River when police allege her fiance murdered the nine-year-old schoolgirl more than an hour’s drive away.
Kallista Mutten is understood to have been staying at the Riviera Ski Park at Lower Portland in the lead-up to her daughter’s death last week, with police swarming the park over the weekend as part of their search for answers.
The caravan park is 80km east of Wildenstein, the lavish wedding venue where Charlise was allegedly murdered by Justin Laurens Stein between 7pm on January 11 and 10am on January 12.
Residents at the park said they believed Charlise and her alleged killer Stein even joined Ms Mutten there in the time leading up to Charlise’s death.
“The daughter was there for a couple of days, she was playing around with the daughter of a friend of mine,” one witnesses said.
The owner of a nearby caravan park in the town said detectives had been seen taping off a caravan near the water’s edge and carrying evidence bags out over the weekend.
When the owner of Riviera Ski Park was approached for comment he said: “Why do you want to talk to me? I have spoken to police, f*** off.”
It comes as The Daily Telegraph sheds more light on the movements of little Charlise, her mother and her alleged murderer over her final days.
A ute towing a boat similar to that police allege Stein tried to use to dump Charlise’s body was captured on CCTV passing the popular Tractor 828 cafe at Ebenezer about 2.20am last Friday, January 14; six hours before Ms Mutten made the call to triple-0 to report her daughter missing.”
A left turn off Sackville Rd onto West Portland Rd takes drivers up towards the Colo River, where Charlise’s body was found late on Tuesday.
Locals in the area said a man believed to be Stein had been seen travelling with Charlise around the area in the days before she was killed, even using the ferry to travel across into Lower Portland, where Ms Mutten was staying.
One ferry driver said his colleague claimed to have spoken to the “chatty” little girl, but noted “the bloke with her wouldn’t look him in the eye and just kept staring straight ahead”.
Police are also understood to have seized CCTV from the ferries that ship cars across the Hawkesbury River at Lower Portland and Sackville.
Detectives were also seen on Thursday visiting businesses along Bells Line of Road, which leads from the Colo River towards Mount Wilson.
Charlise’s trip to NSW to stay with her once-jailed mother for the school holidays was not due to a court order, it can also be revealed.
The decision to let the Tweed Heads schoolgirl stay with her mother and soon-to-be stepfather two weeks ago was made by her grandmother in Coolangatta, who was given sole custody of Charlise in 2018 while former ice addict Ms Mutten was in jail.
It is understood that there were no court orders to let the mother spend any time with her daughter but any visits were left up to her grandmother. The distressed grandmother could not be contacted yesterday.
There were also no court orders for the little girl to spend time with her biological father, who lives in northern NSW.”
Pleasing to see rssrrsss has added the Bee (at 11.43 last night) to her collection of satire sites.
Not before time.
Ok Cheers Cassie.
A completely legitimate way to treat reporters. Should be more of it.
No wonder they then took petty revenge with the “ramshackle” slur.
Slackster at 12.56:
Bang on. McGowan, having painted himself into this corner and then barricaded himself into a couch fort in said corner, will never open WA while he is in office.
He’s gone too far for that, and can’t walk it back.
Governments with no opposition to rail against invariably turn on themselves, because nature abhors a vacuum and ‘damn dirty East Coasters’ are a poor substitute.
“A completely legitimate way to treat reporters. Should be more of it.”
I’m reminded of when I was approached by a journalist with a film crew at CPAC in November 2020. I simply said that I don’t speak to garbage media. The look on her face was priceless.
“Bang on. McGowan, having painted himself into this corner and then barricaded himself into a couch fort in said corner, will never open WA while he is in office.”
I reckon he’ll open up again after the federal election. This is all politics.
calli, that’s what I call a ‘gratuitous adjective’, a favourite tool of journalists to add their prejudiced opinion into a story.
Done the same to wheedling ambulance chasers too, Cassie.
After letting them run on the timer for a while. Why not? I wasn’t paying. 😀
I know the area at Lower Portland quite well. The van parks are definitely not “Big 4” or glamping.
People go up there for weekends for the water skiing, and of course being a budget type of place, the permanent sites have the usual array of misfits and druggies and people down on their luck.
The gentrification of the outskirts of Sydney has been slow to reach the place, but it’s getting there. It’s beautiful and quiet and time has passed it by – until the boats and jetskis start up. I used to go there for stitch n’ bitch retreats.
Justin Castro’s Junior Spies.
Hitler youth!
Latest Pauline Hanson cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiYF_o6ho1U
By any measure Israel and its triple/quadruple jab policy is a spectacular failure in controlling omicron infections.
Active cases peaked at around 100,000 cases during the Delta wave and now stand at 500,000.
Hospitalisations are at 73% of the previous high points. The desperate health establishment would put this down vaccines but a quick look at South Africa pulls the rug out.
Omicron hit SA at about 25% fully vaccinated, that number stands at 27% now and yet the wave of infection has passed. Not vaccination at work but variants.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/covid-19-new-data-on-south-africa-hospitalisations-reveals-how-omicron-dodges-vaccines-81151
The sun appeared to rise today but we can’t be sure until experts confirm it.
rickw that clip had me in tears.
Curious non-mention of social workers and child services. Only that the stay was “not due to a court order”. There are many other ways that custodial parents can be coerced into “making decisions” which let the busybodies keep their hands clean.
Either they were truly not involved, or they were guilty as hell.
You choose.
Maybe it would have been easier at the start to say:
“The Chinese are messing around with biological weapons and viruses and have had an accident.
But don’t worry we have big pharma working on an antidote”.
Fucking clown World we are living in.
CDC finally says that prior infection should be taken into account.
How will the Cathedral spin this?
Twitter saying McGowan sure does hate easterners for a chap from Newcastle.
Please note, I haven’t googled to see if McGowan really is from Newcastle.
Thank you. In a morning of rubbish and depressing “news”, that made me laugh.
Yes he was born in Newcastle. Edumacated at Casino and Coffs. Indoctrinated in Brisbane.
Exported in 1994. No warranty, so buyer beware.
George Christensen interview –
The “Vaccines” Are Experimental Therapies — with Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky
A little digging, after reading an account from the Crimean War:
Mrs Evans and her pal Beeky Box.
Apparently Mrs Box was running her own forward area hospital
long before Florence Nightingale turned up at Scutari.
I’m sure that some nudging happened Barry. Only the ones with PC credentials get scrutiny free pass. I know of one case a woman and her girlfriend with a history of trafficking and house partly collapsed got custody of her niece.
A neighbour had three foster kids all siblings. Child services said we’re going to take one of them and put them with someone else. Neighbour said in reply, come and pick them all up. What do the arrogant fools think they are doing. How many have families of their own and if they do should be investigate for potential child cruelty? It makes me so mad. Children are so precious.
Just saw a promotion on the teev for an AFLW double-header being televised on the weekend.
Seriously.
I understand that network contracts have been signed and all those sorts of things, but – why would you advertise something like that?
In McClown World WA there are signs all is not in line with their Dear Leader’s announcement late last night.
Front page of the West Australian has a big pic of him and the headline ‘658 days and he’s still not ready” with the editorial leader under that: “McGowan’s abject failure of leadership”.
Now the Oz is running a lead story “Perth’s Lord Mayor slams WA border plan”:
Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas says it’s time for Western Australia to safely open up to the rest of the country.
Mr Zempilas said no doubt many residents supported Mark McGowan’s decision to indefinitely delay the opening of the state, but they may not need to travel, have business interests interstate or rely on tourists.
You forgot the sarc tag.
‘Nudging’.
The DHHS and like organisations all across this land will, if given the chance (and they are), operate on a ‘let’s try this and see what happens’ model.
Naturally, there are no consequences for those decision makers because they live in an abstract, theory-based environment. They will never see the results of their actions, and never carry small bodies out of stinking houso flats.
On the very rare occasions they are asked questions in a formal environment, they have the now-standard Ruby Princess defence only available to unaccountable public servants:
‘Yeah, but we’re trying really hard.’
Firstly, if I understand it correctly, it cannot be attenuated because the virus hasn’t actually ever been isolated. Isn’t that the case? And secondly, what is that point anyway if the vaccine doesn’t stop infection and spread and, in fact, now appears to make it worse.
By the right thing, I assume you mean he’ll put a horse blanket over the chair in the library, before reaching for the Webley.
Canada’s phucked.
Some commentators yesterday mentioned Cranbrook.
Please don’t. This is not that sort of blog.
Now lead story on the UK Daily Mail site…looks like this is going to be the Brit version of the USA wedding cake scandal:
‘We are Christians… we’ve done nothing wrong’: Church-going wife who banned gay couple from buying her £650,000 Surrey home due to their sexuality says they are just sticking to their beliefs
Daily Mail
For the first time, in a long time, I will buy a hard copy of the “West Australian.” That would the the first criticism of a Labor Government, printed in that newspaper, in, oh, thirty five years?
““McGowan’s abject failure of leadership”.”
A truth bomb.
“Now lead story on the UK Daily Mail site…looks like this is going to be the Brit version of the USA wedding cake scandal:
‘We are Christians… we’ve done nothing wrong’: Church-going wife who banned gay couple from buying her £650,000 Surrey home due to their sexuality says they are just sticking to their beliefs”
I don’t see the comparison to the wedding cake…….I can’t understand why you’d not sell a house to a gay couple.
Æthelred has already claimed the sobriquet The Unready,
what’s left for the King of the West?
This will be fun:
UN adopts Israeli resolution to combat Holocaust denial (20 Jan)
Since the UN General Assembly routinely votes overwhelmingly against Israel anytime a vote comes up, the results of this one will be most revealing.
Correct. And why not refuse the offer and give no reason.
Yes everyone remembers the previous National Cabinet – where premiers and PM used to meet in secret every single month micromanaging the country and claiming their deliberations secret as a formal arm of the Commonwealth government under its cabinet protections, before 2020.
Which was already found to be unconstitutional last year and as roger points out they are simply ignoring the law and the ruling against them meeting like this and Morrison has been creating legislation to formalize “National Cabinet” it as an official new arm of the commonwealth government in response. A junta.
But yeah. It’s just the yearly COAG talkfest.
The fact that you and fellow dumbo Rex don’t know any of this, yet still have a strong opinion based off “the vibe”. Lol.
It will be a cold, cold day before I sell my house to a ranga.
Just saying.
Brexit was not the end of the world: CONFIRMED.
ABC RN AM today said US SoS Anthony Blinken spent the day “cleaning up after his boss” in regard to Biden’s “minor incursion” blunder.
When a Democratic POTUS loses the ABC, he’s in trouble.
I don’t see the comparison to the wedding cake…….I can’t understand why you’d not sell a house to a gay couple.
I can’t either actually – but that’s not the point. The media will beat it up now to say that the couple should be forced to sell it to the gay couple.
That will result in a pile-on on social media against the home owners….and so on, and so on.
Just like COAG…except needs vast fundamental changes in the law and structure to of federal government to cover what they’re doingdoimg:
the introduction of new federal structures and
to expand the meaning of Cabinet
…
to protect from disclosure the deliberations and decisions of the Cabinet
This place is in serious danger of being overwhelmed by mediocre shit posters.
Surely we must be approaching peak stupidity by now:
A flight from Miami to London Wednesday night turned around and went back to the point of departure because a passenger refused to follow the federal mask mandate on planes, causing her flight to be canceled and her fellow travelers forced into hotels until they could re-book the trip.
The airline called Miami-Dade police and once the plane landed, officers escorted a woman off the plane at Miami International Airport Wednesday evening without incident.
A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department said American Airlines staff dealt ‘administratively’ with the passenger, which involved her being placed on the airline’s no-fly list pending further investigation.
The passenger, a woman in her 40s, was not arrested. It was unclear if she was British or American. She was put on American Airlines’ internal no-fly list pending further investigation. In September, President Joe Biden increased the fine for people refusing to mask up on planes to $500.
The flight was canceled as a result of the incident. Many passengers had to stay overnight in Miami to catch a re-booked flight on Thursday.
Link
The “national cabinet”, if allowed to stand, will (and already has) made Australia similar to the EU. Where legislation and direction is created and debated by a secret highly corrupt insider “council” in a distant city, and Parliaments only get to vote on and rubber stamp it.
I just had a long and heartfelt talk with a wonderful ER Nurse. We were both pretty misty eyed by the time the conversation was done.
Most of her friends lost their jobs over refusing the vax. She almost lost hers but got vaxxed at the last minute. I explained that I had lost my job over vax.
“We’re in code brown and there are highly qualified people sitting at home doing nothing”
“Omicron? Let it rip! I’ve been doing check ups via phone and almost everyone is OK, it’s no worse than the flu!”
“The world is moving on and Australia is still in this insane lockdown mentality. The number of people with mental health issues that we’ve been treating has skyrocketed, I even fell like my own mental health has been damaged, I need to get out of Australia!”
She is leaving for Germany in a month.
I’m leaving for ME as soon as I get work squared away.
Australia has been destroyed.
Good work rickw.
Hope you get over there and make a squillion bucks.
Transferable skills are transferable.
Morning all.
Jab Heil!
A collectors edition. Buy one for the kids too. Will go well alongside the WA Inc editions.
Remember all those arguments with leftards at the old Cat who could never accept that Hitler and fascism were a branch of leftism – and there was just an internal dispute among leftists about which was the better way to crush their opponents and impose fascism on the unwilling proletariat.
Well it turns out leftism and leftards n the 21st century have done the full circle all the way back to the Third Reich.
Look at what pollster Rasmussen found out about the attitudes of American Democrats and. by extension,those supporting leftard parties in the rest of the world, including the ALP and Greens in Australia – all enthusiastic supporters of the road to Auschwitz:
* 59% of Democrats favor legislation that would confine all unvaccinated people in their homes, except in case of emergency.
* 48% of Democrats think the government should fine or imprison individuals “who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.”
* 45% of Democrats would favor requiring unvaccinated citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations.
* 47% of Democrats favor a government program using digital devices to track unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others.
Rasmussen polling here (h/t Anchor What at 6.43am).
I noted yesterday that in August a Federal Court Justice ruled that the NC minutes were not the subject of Cabinet confidentiality and should be available for scrutiny via FOI and that Morrison’s office, on his orders no doubt, had since failed to comply. Somehow the September legislation referred to by twostix above has escaped my attention (too much time on the Cat, perhaps!). Thanks for drawing our attention to it today, stix.
Aside from the obvious problem of very weighty decisions on the freedoms (such as they are) of Australians not being subject to close scrutiny there is another aspect to this would normally mystify me:
The press coverage has been mild, to say the least, even though Labor, Greens & Independent senators have been vocal in their criticism.
In AU that would be 100% of Gangrenes and 997% of LNP.
rickw.
You may cross paths with my older brother who fly’s in for busines. I think you’ll get a long.
Good luck, Rickw.
As for Australia being ruined…we’ll see. I still have hope for the place.
Today, again, I am vewy, vewy cwoss.
Dogs would be well advised to walk the other side of the street.
Seems Sneakers has not got his tummy rub from Teh Worst. There could be some ugly scenes at The Big Mark today. The codpiece has been removed and placed in storage as a precaution. Viewer discretion advised.
Well I don’t know about that. Three stories I saw this morning:
Gaia hates fridges
M&Ms are sexist
Joe Biden is black
More summits to scale yet methinks.
Dogs aren’t the only ones advised to walk the other side of the street.
For fecks sake.
This should scare the shit out of every Australian, Morrison and his little gang of six are attempting to create a permanent, new superior arm of government in the Commonwealth. Renaming “National Cabinet” permanently to “First Ministers Council” and giving it formal recognition and protection in law inside the Commonwealth:
“Schedule 2: to replace references in legislation to ‘COAG’ with references to the generic concept of a ‘First Ministers’ Council’. In addition, the term Ministerial Council would be redefined and references to specific names of a Council (such as COAG Health Council) would be replaced with the term ‘Ministerial Council’”
“Schedule 3: to amend the definition of ‘Cabinet’ in the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) so that documents of the National Cabinet and its committees are subject to the existing Cabinet documents exemption in section 34 of that Act. Schedule 3 also amend numerous other Acts, expanding the meaning of ‘Cabinet’ and providing that where legislation includes provisions to protect from disclosure the deliberations and decisions of the Cabinet and its committees, these provisions apply to the deliberations and decisions of National Cabinet and its committees.”
The premiers and PM are already operating like this, it is the “National Cabinet”. They have been ordered not to, they are ignoring the order against them to release their deliberations which they illegally claimed are secret because too-clever Morrison declared that state premiers are actually part of a brand new never before seen concept of a commonwealth cabinet that doesn’t involve the commonwealth – by his personal invite. And are now attempting to pass this legislation to cover what they have been doing and make it permanent: operating as a secret junta inside the Commonwealth government.
What “fear”? Hyperventilating slop.
My family member was murdered in her own home by a random nutcase. Doesn’t mean I’m carrying around unspecified “fear” and looking askance at debbildebbil men. And neither are any of my family.
Rotten things happen to people who don’t deserve it. Always has, always will.
They will rely on s. 62. of Ch II of the Commonwealth Constitution to try to get around it.
“No no, they are Executive Councillors, by gum they are certainly not Ministers”
…but being in Cabinet…
Nah yeah nah mate, that’s against the vibe, per s. 64 (cl. 3).
Come on Fat Clive, get onto the lawyers…
Didn’t Democrats treat Trump like an uncouth interloper who had no right to be in “the big house”?
Teddy Roosevelt bought the US another 100 years.
Without his trust busting, could you imagine FDR’s expansion of big government working hand in hand with unbroken up monopolies ?
It’s happening now, but at least they had a few more years.
Perhaps it should be called the “National Wardrobe” instead, seeing it is filled with empty suits.
Mr Justice Dot would rule they can choose to be subject to the three month limit on being a Commonwealth Minister without a seat OR they are not subject to the FOIA exemptions.
This should scare the shit out of every Australian,
It does.
But remember, Australia is a good place for the draw bridge boomers.
How the hell did this FOI request get into the public domain with usable data?
The UK needs to learn from the Victorian government Borg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHvwWWcjYw
Just another ghoul attaching themselves to promote their own story.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
There is a strange cult of “dont separate from family/peers” which prevails in a lot of child protection.
A real unwillingness to admit that it might actually be family/peers that are wrecking the kids life, and exposing them to a new better set of peers is a good thing.
I think back to one of our shearers who used to take on kids from detention and have them work on the shearing team for a month or so at a time.
The pattern went… every time.
1: Street clothes/ shit attitude/ tough talk
2: Clothes you can work in, curiosity at the work, being exposed to actual hard blokes.
3: Worked out why we dress like greasy hobos and is the same, had a few goes on the handpiece & run the board now, Has some serious farm fitness & strength happening.
Every time.
Keeping kids with defective peers is a way to wreck them.
The “First Ministers Council”, aka the “National Cabinet”, if made permanent as is proposed is similar in operation to the utterly loathed by brexiteers Council of the European Union.
Except, unbelievably (believable in clownworld though) our version that they’re attempting to sneak in, is a million times worse, because the Council of the European Union at least has to operate and debate in public, the president of the council rotates and there are known rules and procedures on voting for its outcomes.
Our equivalent – foisted upon us without a change in a single law yet:
– Meets in top secrecy
– Doesn’t have a rotating presidency
– Nobody knows who is voting for what and nobody can be held accountable for anything – by design.
You literally could not come up with a more clear case definition of a proper attempt to create a new branch of government and fundamentally alter the governance of the country. Which as we all know, in Australia requires a referendum.
stix
If they want to keep their council, they’re better off not formalising anything.
The current challenge would be they are ultra vires. This might be very hard to prove.
The proposed law is weak at face value and should be belted over the boundary for seven runs.
Victoria needs to pull its socks up.
18,176 cases of coof today. 3K down on yesterday.
Not nearly good enough, complacent fools. You’ll never get to 100,000 a day at this rate.
rickw
Awful stupid shit being done to you.
Our site nurse, a “covid Karen” of the first water, is teary today because Premier smooth brain slammed the borders on her seeing her family (planned for middle Feb).
I dont expect any scales to fall from eyes, but i think the codpiece might only be brass studded with cubic Zircon not glittering gold and gems after all.
On National Cabinet:
Like most things Morrison touches, National Cabinet is a pigs breakfast of poorly thought out political expediency and happy-clappy sloganry – as well as an astonishing administrative failure.
Australia went into 2020 with an existing, lavishly resourced, and tested mechanism to ensure the Commonwealth Government was informed of the needs and objectives of the States and Territories.
It was called ‘Parliament’.
Unsurprisingly, Moron was unable to make 120 years worth of constitutional arrangements work in a way that tailored the National interest to the issues of Australians.
Not wholly Moron’s fault – Canberra is fully stocked with grotesque careerists who will instantly sell-out the National interest for any one of hundreds of personal and factional interests.
But National Cabinet is entirely Moron’s creature: created wholly to cover over the personal, political and administrative inadequacy of his Government.
In the result, thanks to his personal weakness, Moron has managed to degrade his own stopgap, so that its only obvious purpose is as political cover for the warlords running Australia.
Nobody (other than, perhaps, Moron himself) even slightly pretends that it’s a unifying experience, or that it delivers anything that coordinates the States and Territories to better respond to Covid. Whether it’s kids on forklifts, internal and external borders, or the provision of medical arrangements – it’s a 360° fuckup.
It’s an emblem of the failure of the Commonwealth that will outlive the pandemic and the Moron Government.
And it’s 100% owned by the Coalition.
A reaction to the time when children were too readily separated from family, mole.
But families are often not what they’re intended to be anymore, thanks in large part to government policies over several decades, illustrating Reagan’s dictum that there is no problem that government intervention won’t make worse.
Oh, enough with the hysteria. The Commonwealth cannot compel States/Territories to do anything different, including participation in whatever the heads of government meetings are called this year. They do not have to attend, they do not have to provide information if they don’t want to, and they are not in any way bound by its ‘decisions’, except those the Commonwealth already has power over, like funding.
As for the secrecy provisions, in practice they are not going to stop a State/Territory from leaking if it is to their advantage, as has happened since such meetings began. If something appears in the Adelaide Advertiser that is supposed to be a secret, what are they gonna do? Arrest the SA Premier? Get real.
The impact of these changes are primarily on Commonwealth public servants, who do stand to be prosecuted if leaks can be pinned on them. But that is not where the leaks come from, in the vast, vast majority of cases. They come from State/Territory politicians who are less than gruntled about something, usually to do with money.
I can understand the appeal of conspiracy theories about these matters. But in this case, few would claim that the National Cabinet (spooky!) has been much of a bonus for the Commonwealth, or indeed for any of the other players. It has been shambolic rather than sinister.
If any of the other jurisdictions thought that the legislation is unconstitutional, don’t you think they would have challenged it in the High Court?
There have also been, for decades, annual or bi-annual meetings of portfolio Ministers from the Commonwealth and the other jurisdictions, including Health Ministers. I wonder if the Health Ministers have been getting together over the last couple of years? They may have been muscled out by their media tart bosses since COVID arrived with attendant publicity opportunities. 🙂
Indeed; if it’s a cabinet entitled to secrecy provisions where is the cabinet solidarity?
It’s only a “cabinet” in name. At best it’s an intergovernmental panel, at worst it’s an attempt to install a layer of government by executive fiat.
The fallacy behind it is that covid put us on a “war footing” that demanded a commensurate response from government.
But wait, there’s more.
Oirish TVs ChiComPox Doc decided to test his new found celebrity way outside his lane.
The UK Daily Mail admitting that Biden is not in charge.
Biden won’t fire his all-powerful, Master of Disaster, Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who is behind the White House’s biggest failures. Maybe that’s because Joe’s not really in charge, writes JOHN FUND
A people’s history of an aussie coup:
1. Scott Morrison creates a fake new “Cabinet” in the Commonwealth government. He lies and claims “it’s just COAG” – retards believe him.
2. As PM he personally invites outsiders – state premiers into this secret new “Cabinet” that nobody else is allowed into.
3. He claims that this conglomeration of the countries political ‘leaders’ are all now part of the Commonwealth as a “Cabinet” – this is the obviously “unconstitutional” bit. A defacto new arm of the Commonwealth government, under its protection – and they begin meeting bi-monthly and micromanaging the country as a secret council, secretly voting, binding each other, making promises to one another and the public is not allowed to see what is going on. Very EU like no?
4. Last year a brave senator notices this and takes it to the law, who immediately laugh in Morrison’s face and tell him no, without a change to the law it is just an ordinary meeting and the deliberations must be made public.
5. He and his junta – having all the guns which they showed they are more than happy to use last year, laughs back in their face, completely ignores them, continues operating in secret – now illegally, and now attempts to formalise this tricky setup as a permanent council that governs the country like this forever. Relegating our parliaments to the rubber-stamp cuck impotents that all parliaments inside the EU are.
It was a coup, and it’s a junta, and whether you like it or not you’re living in it, complete with violent police states, empty supermarket shelves, collapsing medical system, hospitals without doctors and nurses and schools begging for volunteers to operate, all of which, every single thing that has happened 100% was created directly from the decisions and machinations of the command and control, “National Cabinet”.
Friend of a friend heading stateside to work on the newk boats for Aus. This guy makes stuff happen so this might actually happen. Fingers xed.
Fresh post: How many in England and Wales died solely from COVID without any underlying causes between 2020- 2021 Q3?
Ronald Reagan:
government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem…
Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
That was a scheme practiced by the Child Welfare Department, in Western Australia, in the mid 1960’s – get them “out of the city, and away from “the mates”, and gainfully employed, learning farm work. We would have had eight of these youths on the payroll over the years, and only one ever relapsed.
Roger the problem is the Labor and Liberal parties utterly loathe federation, and the people who gave Morrison the idea for this have big plans for this country, and competitive federalism isn’t one of them.
But they know the population will never in a million years vote yes in a referendum to abolish the states and create a single central government in Canberra that they want to happen.
That’s why nobody is kicking up much of a fuss, particularly Labor. Both because of that, and once Labor get hold of the Commonwealth, with Vic, Qld, WA and soon NSW in their pockets, imagine what they can do with this secret new ‘council’.
Knuckle Dragger says:
January 21, 2022 at 10:42 am
Victoria needs to pull its socks up.
18,176 cases of coof today. 3K down on yesterday.
Maybe, just maybe, the punters aren’t bothering with tests and just sitting out a case of the sniffles and their close contacts without symptoms are just getting on with life.
As my Doctor said to me, over a year ago “stop testing”
Friend of a friend heading stateside to work on the newk boats for Aus. This guy makes stuff happen so this might actually happen.
Albosleazy will reverse the decision.
Now they get them to chase useless certificates separated by weeks and months. Credentialism and cronyism is poison.
Nothing wrong with a brass codpiece. Best to have a manservant prewarm it in winter though.
Had to laugh at the discomfort and confusion of Breakfast TV presenters (you can’t call them journalists) this morning when they raised the issue of the release of Novavax.
Some knew people who had been “waiting” for this traditional vaccine. They grilled the pollies and medicos regarding why this wasn’t released sooner, and why it was “safer” than the vaccines that they had been persuaded to have.
Needless to say, the”experts” soothed their concerns with platitudes and untruths.
I always thought the brass codpiece warmers were monkeys.
There goes another myth.
Likely the case.
In my own family circle, three of us are just about finished isolating with Covid + two close contacts.
We infected went down with runny noses and sneezing last Thursday/Friday, self tested with RAT’s, and have been working from our various homes for the past week.
Sensible personal hygiene, no reporting, or nanny state supervision required.
I suspect this approach is becoming the standard ‘model’ – and control of the plague is slipping away from governments because they really have nothing to add.
Bronze would be better.
You could play Testicular Bells.
Their (Labor’s) first strike against it was rescinding income tax powers from the states under the guise of the “war emergency” in 1942. Surprise, the emergency ended but the powers were retained. On the financial basis that income tax afforded, Menzies – for all his ostenisble conservatism – expanded the role of the Commonwealth in health, education, marriage, aboriginal affairts, and so on, laying the foundations for the Canberra Leviathan which every government since has built on.
Scott Morrison is the worst prime minister in Australian history.
Only if you have fallen on hard times.
Maternal grandmothers can find it very hard when their beloved daughters go off the rails. There is at first a lot of denial and a tendency to think that the daughter can never really harm her own child, or more to the point, put her own child in harm’s way. There can also be a lot of emotional pressure by the daughter on her mother, and claims of not loving or helping the daughter in a time of trial and missing her child. We had this situation at first with the maternal garndmother of my grandson at risk, who at first tried to block us in getting custody for my son. She was not prepared herself to go for legal custody of her daughter’s child against her daughter’s fierce determination to keep her child, which might have been more favorably looked upon than me and my first husband’s initial grandparental desires for this, as mother’s rellies in court are deemed somehow to matter more. She may have tried to block us in favour of her daughter. Later, she came to realise how serious matters were, and now we are friends, sharing tales of trials and where possible, cheering good news. Since turning twelve our grandson and his mother regularly holiday with his family in Queensland. She pays for the tickets and supervises his welfare.
When I attended the Family Court in both WA and NSW in support of my son, women at first rushed up to me and offered me tea, biccies and legal aid and a domestic violence support worker and a special comfortable waiting room – until they found I was there for my son. Then it was cold hard chairs in the open area, a cold shoulder, and no comfort for us. I’ve said this here before but it is worth repeating to fill in newbies.
80% of West Aussies agree with Mcgowan.
FFS, get me out of here.
Courier Mail reporting possibility of meat rationing and electricity grid shutting down for “weeks.”
S’ok, though. Scotty is going to build a nuclear submarine.
The High Court certainly hasn’t done it any favours over the years.
All Cabinets, State and Federal, have secrecy provisions. That has not stopped the occasional Cabinet Minister from spitting the dummy, but in most cases they understand that it is in their interest that Cabinet meetings and internal disputes not be put on the front page so that the Opposition can make hay.
There seems to be a fair amount of naivete around here about how governments actually work, as opposed to how they might in some unattainable Utopia.
A very different mood today in the McGowistan mass psychosis industrial complex with previously silent people becoming very vocal about the lack of a clear direction.
Marky Mark was smashed on social media last night.
Many people are commenting on how nervous he looked at the presser.
I was told a couple of weeks ago that the ANF had threatened to go on strike if he opened up on Feb 5th.
Maybe this was the reason for the backflip…
Thanks Johanna. And to Doc Faustus as well.
TwoStix’ Hanrahan-esque narrative about total power and control by a secret cabal of elites who will oppress us into the ground is crumbling as hard as his Thought-Leader Struth’s is.
Karen Albanese.
Jo, the utopian vision is that more government is the answer.
Nobody here holds to it.
We want less government and more accountability.
Also consider the immediate failure of “National Cabinet” in this context: in a private company, who thinks that say, Gladys had it in her, personally, to go toe to toe with the likes of Daniel Andrews in high stakes, high emotion, secret meetings that are personally binding?
Who do you think would get their way 10/10 times? When Andrews, beyond simply being an overt menacing shit, also has a bunch of maaaates at the meeting, McGowan and Gunner and their mole Palachook vs feeble Gladys and cuck Morrison, who do you think is going to utterly dominate those meetings?
Exactly.
Ultimately a ‘council’ comes down to a couple of people screaming at each other in secret. A handful of individual humans acting like losers.
This is why after 1000 years of effort we figured out that humans that sit at such things must make their deliberations open to all of us, and we created ‘constitutions’ and vast frameworks of rules to tell those people how they must act and when they are allowed to meet and in what context. Our laws made no mention of any sort of secret ‘council’ of premiers and PM, for this exact reason. It’s not just for our benefit, it’s for theirs too. To deliberately separate them so we don’t end up with this exact situation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/after_covid1984_never_again.html
I always thought the brass codpiece warmers were monkeys.
Please don’t go the naval brass monkeys cannonball myth.
Just don’t.
Dr Faustus
I suspect this approach is becoming the standard ‘model’ – and control of the plague is slipping away from governments because they really have nothing to add.
They have fines to add! Although a fine for neg RAT seems harder to enforce than they imagined (what were they thinking – I mean do they even think at all?)
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/nsw-customer-service-minister-concedes-1000-rapid-antigen-test-fine-very-hard-to-enforce/news-story/fc3db56b1ae9c41174b9984325e98aa8
I had a similar experience in the Family Court in Western Australia – the sisterhood offered the Creature From The Black Lagoon tea, biscuits, support and sympathy, while I was treated as though I had a highly contagious, highly virulent disease.
Notice how they’re all ALP and LNP Premiers?
Craig Kelly and David Leyonhjelm are not State Premiers.
Parliamentarians are certainly keen to have as little oversight of their activities as possible. The WA Upper House has been keen to get one of their laptops back from the CCC for some reason. I think they failed.
Know a bloke who works in male DV victim support.
He reckons the chicks working in female DV victim support don’t even talk to him!