Senator Kimberley Kitching, Federal Labor’s spokeswoman for government accountability, was baffled at the Playschool-like training.

The Kimberly Kitching, who got her bottom smacked by the Royal Commission, and was rewarded with a Senate seat for not dropping the bruvvas into the manure?

Senator Kitching may be many things. However she is correct.
Wtf is NBN doing by using taxpayer money to pay for executives to play with Lego?

It costs $60 or so to buy a Lego set in K-Mart.
Anyone want to bet the extra outlay for NBN Lego was a helluva lot more than $60 per executive?

Two years without any increase in capacity and then they fired all the unvaxxed nurses.

I have a vague memory of some hunch-backed mong promising 4,000 ICU beds.
He was going to convert the Exhibition Buildings or Jeff’s Shed into massive ICU units I believe.
Now they get 500 people turn up requiring observation and medication twice daily and they are “in crisis”.
This whole “hospital crisis” is confected drama looking for a saviour.
And that saviour will be Albo, offering a Brazilian dollars for Elf about three weeks before the election.
I can see it now. The presser will start with a pleading Karen-nurse with circles painted under her eyes pleading “exhaustion”.
Albo will arrive with a bucket of cash.
And, instead of calling bullshit, ScoMo will validate the whole narrative by matching the offer.
Elf gouging will then become totally bipartisan.

I recall years ago reading an article outlining some of the jiggery-pokery used to make it look like the NBN was going to be profitable. I seem to remember there being such tricks as basing calculations of weighted cost of capital appropriate to other government programs but which would not apply to NBN.

But it was lower.

Doubtless that would be one of many.

Then Trumble took over when Abbott got in and supposedly cleaned it up. He may have, although he was rather distracted at the time by not being the boss. But any changes he made can be things Labor can bang on about.

Don’t think you can call them ‘midget’ submarines any more.

They are called ‘differently sized’.

Fat Tony,

It used to be when professional engineering jobs were advertised that among the qualifications was “eligible to be a Member of the Institute of Engineers” (now Engineers Australia IIRC). Is this still so?

At least the NBNCo waste wasn’t lining the executives’ pockets.

Erm… um… you may review that statement after you appraise yourself of their salaries & have a quick dekko at the visible public performance of their…er… product.

Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlsons commentary today is very good. I recommend it.

I just saw a film clip of that woman Bari Weiss (who left the NYT because of the strait jacket of woke politics making it impossible to work) on Bill Maher’s show, saying more or less what we have been saying here regarding Covid, the growth of bureaucracy and the societal problems the lockdowns have created…and being roundly cheered by the left wing audience.

She makes the point that she knows people on the left who already think this but are afraid to say so for fear of being labeled right wing – which is to invite a flood of abuse and a drought of dead friendships on the left.

In about 6 months expect the left to start uttering it here as well.

And blame it all on the right.

A storm is about to hit Brisbane. Thank Christ!

NER applicants need to meet the following eligibility criteria:

Mmm…wasn’t Yassmin Abdel-Magied EA’s pin-up girl a few years back?

Did she meet those criteria? I doubt it.

I thought it was $4 bn?

Yep.

Figure calculated on the back of a coaster on the aeroplane KRudd was flying on.

Next revised up to $40 bn when they realised they had forgot to multiply by how many houses there were in Australia. Adding that to the the $3.9 billion for salaries, incentives, bonuses, touring other nations to see what they have, stationary, office space, perks, rorts etc…

Frank:
February 2, 2022 at 3:14 pm

It’s a horrid looking thing.
Whatever is on its head looks like it has been wound up too tight.

She called me a dickhead.

No uptick for me then. ?

Someone is an uptickhead?

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews

It had to be a ‘Karen’.

the company’s file will be marked “don’t bother”.

Don’t bank on that Calli.
A tax audit on me found everything smooth to the exact cent.
So much so that the ATO auditor-in-charge of that section wrote a footnote that my bookkeeping & compliance was equal to the best & neatest they’d ever seen.

Three weeks later a pair of ATO officers (from a different regional office) turned up out of the blue & commenced an even more intense & thorough audit. They had no idea I’d just been audited & were stunned that they’d been sent to audit someone who’d just passed with flying colours.

A few days into it, when they realised the previous audit really did happen & did come up no trumps, & they’d accepted that I was a fair dinkum bloke with no intent to dodge taxes (yeah sure I am) they became quite chatty over tea & biscuits (I make a point of smoking with auditors) and went on with lots of inside stories on auditing in general & their personal views on tax law & so on & so forth, etc. etc. etc.
Something I found to be quite instructive.

Smokoing with auditors (curses to spellwrecker)
That was the year I had Four (4) tax audits.

Ruh roh. They’ve benched Whoopi.

For the record I did not send that SloMo text.

Driller

You did NOT have four tax audits. You had one audit, which subsequently led to other matters they felt needed to be investigated. You did NOT have four different case leaders at the ATO investigating you for different matters. You had one arsehole making your life difficult. Furthermore, if you had decent representation, the attorney would have stopped them in their tracks for harassment. I’ll say this in the least hurtful manner without an ounce of exaggeration. You’re the biggest blowhard south of the equator . STFU and go dust the bar, you idiot.

You had one audit, which subsequently led to other matters they felt needed to be investigated.

No

You did NOT have four different case leaders at the ATO investigating you for different matters.

Yes.
STFU & stay in your lane.
You’re the pussy to trembles in terrifying fear of them. (Stick to that, you may be good at it)

feelthebern says:
February 2, 2022 at 4:57 pm

JC, sure we saw it play it as you say.
But I think it’s great that he got his mitts on a genuine source document.
And that proves the administration was still in la la land up until the week before.
Which we knew, but now it’s there in black & white.

Sure. We also need to ask ourselves if this dickweed would have published the story at a point when it would have done maximum damage to the Brandons. I don’t think so, but that’s just an opinion. And by the way, Trump handled the interview pretty badly, I believe. He should have carved the little fuckhead.

Driller

Do you have 10 K handy for a bet. I would like to see 4 separately identifiable requests for an audit by four different ATO auditors on four different matter. Also, seeing you’re so certain, you’d offer odds.

Stay in you lane is one of the stupidest comments anyone could make. Trust you to pick up something dense like that.

It would also mean there would be nothing for you to do other than clean the toilets and dust off the unused bar. You’re such a fucking moron. Only generational inbreeding could produce an idiot like you.

Tim

A decent attorney would immediately complain/appeal of harassment with four different audits. The ATO would likely retreat.

Also, the odds of that happening in one year are tiny. I think it’s worth the bet that he’s blowharding.

Occasionally, there are just no words……

I will let this unhinged, desperate and weird description of the protesters in Canberra today. BTW “Jack the Insider” knows damn well what people are protesting about… but calling THEM “eugenicists” is rather sick:

This is the Jack the Insider column in The Australian, posted later in the day:

Numbers were down, ratings were poor. Rather than shift the battlelines to Covid vaccinations for children, which seemed the logical next step, anti-vaxxers have jumped the shark, embracing the sovereign citizen movement on the basis that if you don’t like the laws of the state, you can simply make up your own.

A mob assembled outside the National Press Club on Tuesday, briefly blocking the Prime Minister’s access to the venue. The PM’s speech went ahead and afterwards, the crowd was kept away with a strident few charging Comm Car One and giving the PM a gob full through the passenger window.

The mob in Canberra who tried to block the Prime Minister’s access to the National Press Club on Tuesday have been invariably called anti-vaxxers in the media but this is only half true. It’s a human potpourri of grievance based on the gamut of conspiracy theories, Woodstock for Q-cooked middle-aged saddos who spent much of Monday afternoon in the nation’s capital, shouting at an empty building.

If this was a protest about vaccine mandates it would make sense, but nothing makes sense about this mob. Take a look at any one of their interminable ‘lives’ and it will not take long before the word ‘paedophile’ is not just uttered but shrieked, along with gnarled accusatory fingers pointed at the windows of the parliament.

A man yells abuse at Scott Morrison through his car window. Picture: NCA/Gary Ramage Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage
A man yells abuse at Scott Morrison through his car window. Picture: NCA/Gary Ramage Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage
Stay watching the footage for long enough and you’ll hear blubbering about satanic rituals, and the torture of children which only they can see. Police preventing them from storming public buildings are labelled with spit-speckled vehemence, “paedophile protectors.”

This is not Q-Anon although it retains the cult’s broad bizarre claims. It is Q-Anon Australian-style, replete with the red ensign waving while the blue ensign appears alongside it, upside down, the international semaphoric symbol of distress. Q-Australia’s adherents don’t babble about the Clintons or the Obamas. Rather they impute Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, and Dan Andrews.

The organiser of what’s become known as the Canberra freedom convoy calls himself Ironbark Thunderbolt. Not content with the admittedly impressive sobriquet, Mr Thunderbolt was running around last year serving fake legal documents on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, signing them as “Post-Master General-Commander-in-Chief, Terra Australis-New Holland-and Surrounding Waters, known commonly as Australia.”

His real name is the not-quite-so-exciting James Edward Greer.

Those who have become used to sov-cit legal mumbo jumbo which turns out to be just about everyone from the Governor-General to a 16-year-old girl working a shift at the local pharmacy accused of treason, will recognise the gibberish:

“Notice to agent is notice to principal. Notice to principal is notice to agent.”

The Canberra assembly began as a lazy pinch of Canada’s truck convoy to Ottawa. For a little while the Australian protest even appropriated the Canadian moniker for protesters – “Yellow Vests” which in turn had been swiped from the French – but the colour coding doesn’t quite cut it in Australia where the preferred nomenclature is fluoro.

While the Canadian truck convoy blocked streets and briefly caused mayhem in the Canadian capital last weekend, in Australia, the parliamentary lawns have become home to just a handful of trucks and at least one of those went only for a sneaky peek and then took off to Melbourne. It turns out truck drivers have jobs, things to do, better places to be. This forced a quick rebranding of the Truck Convoy to Canberra to now become the Convoy for Freedom.

One of the predictable solicitations for cash was a Go Fund Me which had raised more than $100,000 as of Sunday. I watched as convoy members en route asked for help with petrol money from the fundraiser and found their comments were subsequently removed and their social media identities blocked from making further comment. The fund drive has now been frozen by Go Fund Me until such a time as the drive’s organisers can provide a proper accounting of how they will disperse the donated funds.

A police officer speak to a man during the Canberra protest. Picture: NCA/Gary Ramage
A police officer speak to a man during the Canberra protest. Picture: NCA/Gary Ramage
As the non-articulated vehicles began to gather at the nation’s capital on Monday, an even more motley group descended on Sydney’s Surry Hills Police Station. They had flagged their visit on social media and like clockwork turned up at the assigned hour – ten o’clock in the morning, and began muttering about paedophiles outside the cop shop. Sov-cits are unerringly punctual.

Before long an acting sergeant and a young constable appeared. The leader of the protest, Steve Sukkar, announced to the cops that his group was heading to the NSW Parliament to affect the arrests of Premier Dom Perrotet and Health Minister Brad Hazzard and with them in irons, they would be moving on to arrest Gladys Berejiklian at her home.

The two cops shrugged their shoulders which Sukkar et al took as permission to go forth and apprehend the ne’er-do-wells. They marched to the parliament only to find themselves locked out with a small contingent of police lining Macquarie Street. Foiled, Sukkar and his mob earnestly went from police officer to police officer, most of them young cops not long out of the academy, sticking smartphones in their faces, issuing fake arrest warrants, telling them in sov-cit legal babble that every cop present was “guilty of aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise.” For those wondering, Sukkar is a hairdresser.

The protesters lacked the will and the athleticism to scale the two-metre-high fence outside the New South Wales Parliament. No arrests were made and a new government of hairdressers by hairdressers for hairdressers was not installed.

The protesters among these mobs who may still have some tenuous connection to reality must surely be uncomfortable having to reconcile the endless calls for donations and the utterance of mad conspiracies, like the one put about by an elderly woman in Canberra on Monday who smugly pronounced Covid vaccines and Covid tests were dastardly means of subcutaneously placing nano tracking devices into the general populace.

“The technology is something we’ve never seen before,” she said, with the certainty of someone who’d been given unfettered access to Elon Musk’s man cave, “Then they start controlling our thoughts through 5G waves.”

The mob at Canberra will continue to grow for now, with their ragbag collection of gripes and dispersal of sov-cit paper terrorism. They can call it freedom, they can make casual allusions to apartheid and Nazi Germany, and they almost always do but the fact remains what they continue to try and persuade people to do is casually discard the rights of the elderly, those with chronic illness and the immunocompromised and hurl them all onto the pandemic scrap heap.

Pull the conspiracist’s veil from it and it is eugenics by indifference, and they are all guilty of it. Every single one of them.

JACK THE INSIDERCOLUMNIST
Peter Hoysted is Jack the Insider: a highly placed, dedicated servant of the nation with close ties to leading figures in politics, business and the union movement.

Should read:

“I will let this unhinged, desperate and weird description of the protesters in Canberra today speak for itself”

From what I could see, about five police cars turned up to ensure Clive & Craig didn’t get to solicit for votes that “don’t belong to them.

This is scary: cops turning up to close down free speech which goes against the narrative. And it can happen anywhere, to anyone: just ask flyingduk. His experience was particularly worrying for me because the person who sent police to shut him up is my state rep.

He’ll be placed last on my state ballot slip.

Is there a putsch underway in the Liberal Party to replace Morrison as the leader?
They got any talent who might lead them to victory? They’d probably replace him with some soft cock lefty.

Best US President in my lifetime.

At least since George Washington.

You’re the biggest blowhard south of the equator . STFU and go dust the bar, you idiot.

South of the equator?
Sal, JC is saying you’re not world class.
You’re not going to just take that lying down, are you?
🙂