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Thank you Wally.
Carryover question- why are the S.F. Liberals so unpopular in the West? -I don’t think they’re unpopular, just totally uninspiring.…
That was the question I asked, Driller as you’re aware. The question I asked was when did superannuation come under ATO supervision?
Yeah.
But when did it come under the auspices of the ATO for regulatory purposes?
We got audited a while back.
I spoke to the accountant about some old shit.
He said, yeah that was last year after the audit.
I said, wtf …we got audited?
He said, yep
I said, no probs then?
He goes, nup
and that’s why we pay them a bomb every year.
Salvatore,
If there is a next time ask them if is in accordance with Admiralty Maritime Law.
I saw this in an educational American tv show.
Snap JC.
I can’t remember precisely when the ATO started running SGC, but it wasn’t from day one.
No it wasn’t Sanchez and this is where Sal Hilton’s ATO whine comes a little unstuck. Superannuation was not under ATO until well after 2000. In fact I think it came on stream in the teens decade. PPS or whatever you call it stopped in 2000? So Driller’s bullshit timeline is totally fucked. He lied.. Again!
I think the Ottawa truck thing is working a little bit.
Beertruk says: February 2, 2022 at 10:40 pm
Spot on!
That wasn’t a pub.
It is one of those “laneway bars” that Anna Bligh saw in Paris or Melbourne or somewhere, & thought they’d be sooooooooo fantastic to have in Qld.
The capital cost to set up one of those is about the same as a coffee shop. (or a fraction of the cost of a pub)
They’re usually in rented shopfront & the owners aren’t in the league of publicans – meaning many of them are in a position to walk if the heat gets to be too much.
There’s all sorts of limits on their licence, these include but are not limited to; capacity limits on the number of pax inside (at one stage this was a blanket fifty persons, it may have changed) they’re not allowed to sell takeaway alcohol (this may be temporarily eased during time of the covid “health emergency”) & so on & so forth.
I applaud their philosophy, however they were in deliberate, direct, and blatant breach of both liquor & health laws.
It was only ever going to have one ending.
Though I thought the cops were pretty bloody gutless to walk away from arresting them in front of the chanting crowd & instead raiding their homes in the wee hours of the morning.
You damned dirty ape, you HAVE NO STANDING!
Specifically, Driller’s ATO whine about the audit quartet.
As I said, the psychopath was bullshitting from the beginning and this is a great example in why generational inbreeding is such a problem.
The best rated pub in QLD is owned by Greensills.
Do they have Toby Jugs you can pick up by the ears?
Greensill.
Queensssland’s smartest banker.
Jeez, he has gone quiet.
Got a spare flying suit?
Size 7xl?
Sorry, didn’t even get one for myself when I was there.
I am now doing volunteer work at the museum workshop on the base in the imaging section.
Only flight suits are over on the display side and they are about four sizes smaller than the 7xl.
I would be lucky to fit a 7xl meself. A result of drinking too much beer, milk and eating too much butter.
Spot of spacechooking for Cats with an interest in history – Julieann Campbell’s book on “Bloody Sunday” makes interesting reading – her teenage uncle was the first person killed on that day. I do know that Catholics were discriminated against in Northern Ireland, but some of the incidents cited would make apartheid era South Africa look enlightened.
Dunning Krugman, you’re looking for a gotcha that isn’t there.
Don’t give yourself a burst blood vessel.
Cane farmer turned international banker. Get a load of the ears on this thing.
I’m guessing the ears are an evolutionary progression. They’re useful for wriggling around to keep the mozzies/malaria away in FNQ.
Have I pwned Dunning Krugman enough yet?
(for one night I mean)
Melbourne’s only Micro-Dairy … St David
Their milk makes the best coffee by a long shot
Sleep deprivation from all the honking, they seem to have hit on a winning formula.
You think? It’s a very pronounced milk taste. The problem is that if the coffee isn’t enough the strong milk taste breaks through and it’s awful.
Butter or biffo. Not much of a choice.
JC … you’re a Pod Person … you’ve probs never tasted a real coffee
The Hun:
Translated:
‘I think I can squeeze one more thimble of milk out of this decomposing Freisian.’
Matrix
That milk is really strong tasting. Maybe I just don’t go for dairy that much.
Also from The Hun – last night it was one head, but now:
Nothing of value, except for the heads. And:
I will now spend some time compiling a list for uses of unattached Italian noggins.
The Danish can’t make nafink.
I don’t even eat Danish danish pastries.
Ever since the Religion of Peace attacked that Dane for publishing those cartoons, I make sure there is at least one Danish product in my shopping trolley.
Every time.
It will be fixed the minute Albo is elected.
The Albocron variant will prevail.
Ok, seriously you probably have shares in a coffee mine so maybe you have tasted a real coffee.
When I ring “Pablo’s Bell” in the morning using proper full cream, I tend to overdo the cafeteria and use the milk more like an American creamer.
not macchiato, not latte … coffee.
horses for courses … I love it
Dunning Krugman, ready for your reaming?
You need taking down a few notches. (teach you some manners)
Butter is the lube of choice in prisons; some even make their own:
Prison milk churned into gourmet butter
I am sure ISIS will be shitting housebricks when news of this stunning and brave retaliation reaches their ears.
If ya have any heart , can ya send us poor West Aussie’s food package’s that include danish butter and german sausage. Thankin’ ya.
Drills
You seem agitated . Calm down. A decent Sal Hilton bashathon is fun.
I’m sure Danish industry is likewise jumping with joy at this boost in their export sales.
Wait?
Wut?
Police?
Is that, like, against the law?
Nup.
Let them eat iron ore.
Perth Trader,
How are these food parcels going to get to you?
There seems to be an incident on the rail line and roadway.
Well well well, looky here:
Zyconoclast says:
February 2, 2022 at 10:32 pm
That will throw a cat amongst the pigeons…
Russian Federation is the top country by ammonium nitrate production in the world. As of 2019, ammonium nitrate production in Russian Federation was 10.2 million tonnes that accounts for 61.64% of the world’s ammonium nitrate production. The top 5 countries (others are Uzbekistan, Poland, the United States of America, and Canada) account for 89.82% of it. The world’s total ammonium nitrate production was estimated at 16.6 million tonnes in 2019.
Yeah, I can see the Australia-Pacific export rep at Lurpak ringing the big cow-bell when the Queensssland butter numbers come in every morning.
Someone is talking big bets.
This means they are very certain of their ground.
So brave, so bold!
Oohwaaaah! So daring, so dashing!
Yea buy a small slab of Danish butter and an ISIS douchebag dies somewhere in the world.
Watching him in the Commons question time live via Sky News Oz, you can see why Sir Keir Starmer is an electoral lemon even though the UK Liars are ahead in the polls. He looks and sounds like a drab City banker who drops smelly farts in the lift – every morning.
Driller
You’re lying and you know we know you’re lying. Go dust the bar.
Oh sweet jesus.
You’re so certain you’re prepared to bet big bucks on it!
So unwavering, so steadfast, of you.
That will throw a cat amongst the pigeons…
Bit of dieso and a detonator… 😉
Dot says: February 2, 2022 at 11:29 pm
Steady up Dot.
This one’s going to me.
Just back from skulking in a creekline in the middle of denuded canola paddocks.
Three foxes eradicated including one very pregnant vixen , so the body count should have an asterisk added.
For gun wanker Cats (H/T Liability Bob from ‘Woomba) tools were a CZ 452 in .22LR with a Leupold 4x scope, a tin whistle and a pair of ex Army 8x binos, eight rounds fired total.
Off to the pub to skite about my dead eye shooting ability. Not going to mention all were less than 50 metres away, by closing time the range will be 500 metres or better.
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Driller
You’re scaring me know. Please get off the roof.
Pedro,
Congratulations on your 5000m headshot kills.
Johns Hopkins says lockdowns are fucking useless
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/johns-hopkins-analysis-lockdowns-should-be-rejected-out-of-hand/?utm_source=recirc-mobile&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=hero&utm_content=related&utm_term=second
Dunning Krugman, you’re an ill mannered fuckwit, who hasn’t the balls to follow through with a bet.
I do hope you attach a tail to your aerial.
If you need skin tanning instructions, Googlery is the go-to.
“Wot, you shot eight foxes with a single bullet?”
“Yeah mate *bashfully* truth be told, they were only fifty yards off.”
Michigan High School Student Sues School for Suspending Him for Privately Talking About Christian Beliefs
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/high-school-student-sues-school-for-suspending-him-for-talking-about-christian-beliefs_4245709.html?utm_source=appan2028330?v=ul
Hoo, boy.
If you want to read some big noting gun talk, the Furniture Store is the place to be.
It’s time, apparently.
Pedro, at the pub:
‘The sea was angry that day, my friends…’
I don’t rate Dunning Krugman butter.
Too much A1 protein.
Yeah, it’s full of shit!
The best thing about dropping smelly farts in lifts is asking if someone trod in dogshit and watching them checking the soles of their shoes.
It takes a strong man or woman to keep a straight face.
I’ll mannered? Won’t take a bet? Really?
Driller, you’re always on the ropes when blowharding.
Bloke around the corner here used to shoot foxes regularly, and string them up on a fenceline. One night at 2 AM he drove his brace of dead around to the main road spot, and there were two hipsters by torchlight, trying to untwitch the last shoot’s quarry off the top wire. Stinking damn things at the best of times, these had been hanging head-down for a few March days, with brains blown out too.
“Err we just wanted some for taxidermy-ing…”
“OK kooks, tell you what, meet me back here the day after tomorrow with a bottle of Johnny Walker blue label, and I’ll bag some by belly shots, better carcass.”
Word got out, now the goth hotline has skinny wierdos travelling from Perth to barter for his grim harvest.
You’re talking $10,000
Ten Thousand freaking dollars! Over a little blog squabble on something you know nothing about.
You reckon that’s a fair amount to bet?
I waited.
And waited.
Squinting into the inky blackness, holding my spotlight just where I knew he would be.
After what seemed like an eternity, those two red-eye reflections showed up in my spot.
I did a split second calculation of range.
1250 metres.
Maybe 1275.
I squeezed.
The red eyes exploded in a mist.
Yeah, I will have another Emu Export.
yea , it’s a blog squabble, but you’re a piece of shit.
Such strong words.
Oh my.
You reckon $10,000 is a fair bet? That amount of money? ffs.
Is that GST inclusive?
That won’t enter into it.
It’s just big talk, throwing large bet amounts around.
There won’t be a bet for a realistic amount.
Wally:
Do these blokes live in Footscray at all?
Driller
You’re implying you just read the bet now? Lol. You’re more dishonest than Adonis.
‘Twere Areff who floated the idea that taking the heads may have been a by-product of diversity, and they’re destined for use as props in a … multi-culti religious occasion.
Dunning Krugman, you seem to be getting all coy regards bet size.
You throw around fantastic amounts like $10,000 in an attempt to cut people out of the market.
You don’t bet in amounts we’d consider more appropriate.
Funny about that.
All the more money for you if you were being honest, driller. But you’re not. Obviously.
So you won’t make the bet for a more appropriate amount?
You don’t set any rules, driller.
Navy prepares F-35C recovery op in South China Sea as Japan issues salvage notice
A few weeks ago a British one landed in the sea just after take off. Recovery will be critical because the F 35 has the best radar cross section of any aircraft except perhaps the F 117. It is not just the special paint China and Russia will be interested in, the F 35 is jam packed with all the latest whiz bang stuff the USA can shove into one aircraft. This has always been a problem with stealth technology because it only takes one downed aircraft to potentially give away decades of research.
Sliante!
I’ve spent the recent deposit to my bank account, from DVA, on good single malt – all fourteen cents of it!
Tough talk, cheap talk:
Wowee.. Why so cheap? Only $10,000
You’re a big rich dude, always offering to squash other commenters with bets you believe will smother them. So brave of you, so bold.
You can do better than that. You need to.
You threw down the gauntlet.
You’re blowing so hard about how correct you are.
Put your money where your mouth is.
So bet on it. You’re so certain; Two-to-one odds.
No pussy-footing around, the bet will be for a real amount, Two Million Australian dollars on my part.
This means you put up Four Million Australian Dollars.
That is the amount you place into escrow & then contact DB.
(Btw, be sure to place it in properly, so that you’ll never be able to welch or get the money back, there’s no chickening out – see further down for more on this)
When Dover Beach contacts me to inform that the Four Million Dollars is placed in escrow, my preferred law firm will then verify that you’re not trying to chicken out.
A senior partner at the firm (a 35th floor metro CBD firm) will look into your deposit & the escrow documentation, to ensure it is in cleared funds & cannot be weaseled out of by you.
To ensure that you are unable to claw back or in any way wriggle out of the bet with cowardly tricks.
They will then deposit my stake, & show your nominated second the proof of four ATO audits within a 12 month period on entities of which I am a director.
(without those two formalities I’m prohibited from taking your money & making it mine – so I gotta produce)
After the proof has been shown to your nominated second (must be a law firm, coz confidentiality, as there won’t be any doxxing in this, of either party. Btw be sure to pay them in advance!) the entire funds will then be transferred into my personal account. This will all happen on the same day.
Now, back your mouth.
No need to waste any time about it, coz you’re so certain & all.
No need for any strong language or cuss-words. Not on this deal. Just money.
More popcorn, anyone?
Zulu,
You know I’m never going to get over that money.
Don’t rub it in.
There’s a veteran who lives up here, badly wounded in the “fun factory” – he lost a leg there.
Some piffling bureaucrat wrote to him, and said he would have to furnish regular documentation, to prove that he was entitled to draw benfits.
“Worry ye not, when I grow a new left leg, you’ll be the first to know.”
Zulu,
I’ve found the closer to the sharp end you were the more obstreperous DVA are.
Hmmmm. Thinking, thinking, thinking.
There’s a Mercedes Benz 300D for sale. It’s just up the road. Needs work, unlic, but the price is good. Nice colour, nice interior.
It would involve me flogging off the crippled Volvo, which might get the top of the market for it, what with the coming depression.
I could run the merc on canola oil.
I’ve got enough biscuit-tin cash to snap it up pronto…
Thinking, thinking.
Have friends with a 2012, low-km 535d BMW. Wasn’t getting run enough, DPF died, took out one turbo, which in turn took out top end. $24 000 later … took it in for relicensing. Refused. It’s a “new” licence, not a “relicence”! Over the pits again. Nope … failed … one bonnet gas strut is dodgy. Repair time? Three weeks!
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Johannes Leak.
Mark Knighr.
Woops. Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Matt Pritchett.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Driller
You ridiculous clown, if what you said earlier was the case, you would have lost the bet under what I suggested which was that you had one audit checking several things at once. Secondly, you don’t make the rules for any bets, you clown. And you don’t have CBD lawyers, you blowhard. You have a regional FNQ beer belly who would take care of your Fairwork complaints. You example of human degradation.
Dover:
Ronery broke the agreement. There was not to be either any direct or indirect contact. Unless you can keep the cuckold to an agreement then the deal is off and it’s back to ensuring he doesn’t sleep well at night.
nil carbonara for WA
really close contacts are expected to test daily in SA, Canada Australia and NZ are stand outs for wasteful unnecessary stupid covid policies
I’m really disappointed that the majority of journos touch the forelock and endorse governments “following the health advice”. The health advice is a crock, it’s limited, it’s slanted, and it has foisted on the public a terrible combination of restrictions and experimental vaccines which don’t work as promised and in some cases just add to the damage.
Are there no close “advisers” to the PM or ministers reading more widely than what’s presented by those public service health advisers?
The demonisation of cheap and effective early treatments, the tyrannical restrictions on movements, the ludicrous mask mandates at times extending to outdoors, the promotion of vaccination to littlies, and now the reluctance to free up when the latest variant allows it, are all huge mistakes that we would hope our governments might avoid.
Albanese will be sending armed squads of vaccinators door to door if Labor wins.
I’d say the expectation was that Scotty woulda done that a year ago, perhaps the reason he’s getting such atrocious Press now?
So-called news outlets are happy to report that Glenn Wheatley died from “complications with covid”.
I don’t recall that sort of phrasing when reporting deaths from complications with pneumonia, complications with anything else that figures in the demise of people every day of the week.
More often than not the death of someone prominent is reported as “after a long (or short) illness”. Details come later. Leak had a cartoon recently of a casualty being delivered on a stretcher with a skateboard impaling his gut, but presented to the hospital as another covid case.
CNN’s Zucker is gonski, latest casualty of what Lucy in Peanuts might describe as “propinquity”. A colleague of 20 years, no less, flung together allegedly by the Wu Flu.
Who next? There has been quite a list in that organisation.
Helter Stelter?
Complications being that he got vaccinated?
I’d say very likely.
The death of a nobody goes unreported, but plenty of well known people are dying now and saying it was an adverse vaccine reaction will only cause mass panic.
Wonder how this would work here? This Swiss bloke changed his sex (on paper) to get a pension earlier. There must be many benefits like this that men here could game.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swiss-man-legally-declares-himself-woman-retire-pension-1-year-early
Plus what happened to summer? The 3rd of Feb and this is the second morning in a row that I’ve put the heater on.
Yeah, Leak is always a year or 2 behind where it’s at.
Gunshot victims were being called covid casualties 2 years ago, but there’s no need to do that anymore.
“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 2, 2022 at 10:55 pm
Spot of spacechooking for Cats with an interest in history – Julieann Campbell’s book on “Bloody Sunday” makes interesting reading – her teenage uncle was the first person killed on that day. I do know that Catholics were discriminated against in Northern Ireland, but some of the incidents cited would make apartheid era South Africa look enlightened”
Thank you. I will buy and read. You should read “Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland” by Patrick Keefe, a history of the “troubles” and the murder of Jean McConville. The poverty and the discrimination against Catholics, particularly in Belfast and Londonderry, was horrendous.
How deep is The Swamp?
Emerald Robinson does a deep dive at Substack to reveal the many connections of mild mannered christian man, Mike Pence. Too many for things to be mere coincidence.
The entire IRA leadership was put in place by MI6.
If the book doesn’t acknowledge that fact, then it might be useful as dunny paper but not much else.
Our taxes at work….
“Australia Arts Council grants ‘ideologically driven’: IPA
A ‘bum puppeteer’ and ‘bowel movement’ poet are among those awarded $80,000 in arts grants, sparking questions over why taxpayers are funding “identity politics”.
Sky News host Paul Murray says a Melbourne cabaret performer, dubbed as a “bum puppeteer” by the tabloids, performs an act which involves lying on her side with the face of the prime minister “drawn on her posterior”.
A queer cabaret artist who has created a “bum puppet” featuring a drawing of the PM on her posterior, and a Chinese Australian poet who writes on toilet rolls about bodily fluids have been given prestigious taxpayer fellowships worth $80,000.
The latest round of the Australia Council for the Arts scholarships for eight artists has drawn flak from the Institute of Public Affairs, who say the public should not have to fund “identity politics” and “anti-Australian” performances.
Cabaret performer Sarah Ward, whose character Yana Alana lays on her side on stage with the face of the PM Scott Morrison on her bottom, says her puppet character is called “Scat Morrison”.
She says she’s happy to “turn politicians who are up their arses into bum puppets”.
Yu Ouyang, who receives his $80,000 for his work in literature, says he is an experimentalist” and that “poetry always accompanies bowel movements, there is a mysterious connection between the two”. He also says white people don’t click “like” for Asian artists as there is a “latent racism”.
“Bowel movements are perhaps innately connected to the act of creative writing,” Mr Ouyang told an interviewer recently.
“If your bowels refuse to move, your mind is full of shit and you look shitty. While we pay so much attention to our appearances these days, our bowels, unmoved for days, are clogged up, like the world we live in today, clogged up with the shit of climate change.”
Another artist Kate Just uses knitting to question histories of “female and queer representation” and “crafting feminist representations of the body”.
The awards, which are paid over two years, are open to established artists, and “support creative activity and professional development”.
IPA Foundations of Western Civilisation Program director Bella d’Abrera said the artists were perfectly entitled to pursue their own political and agendas, but it should not be on the taxpayer’s dime.
She said the Canberra based bureaucratic Arts Council is run at arm’s length by the arts community elite which is answerable to no-one and solely interested in pushing identity politics.
“The Minister of the Arts should control funding, not unelected bureaucrats,” she said.
“This is pure politics masquerading as the arts.
“This type of funding shows that taxpayers are not getting value for money. What they are paying for is self-indulgent, politically shallow and ideologically driven content which divides the community rather than unites it.”
“It is clear from the Council’s 2020 strategy that unless Australian artists are prepared to play the political game and subscribe to identity politics, they will not see a cent between now and 2050.”
Other recipients of the fellowship money include a core member of the art collective Hissy Fit, a “queer feminist collaboration”, who tweets on politics, praising Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and retweeting material saying that former Minister Christian Porter was a “creepier piece of garbage”.
“You can’t have it both ways,” Ms d’Abrera said.
“You can’t criticise the Coalition and then take $80,000 from it. If these recipients were truly principled, they would not take money from the Coalition.”
Other artists given the fellowships say they work to raise awareness on climate change in the Pacific, while another recipient was an Ethiopian reggae “Ethio-pop” musician.
In response to the criticism, spokeswoman for the Australia Council for the Arts said in a statement that the fellowships were assessed in a competitive process by industry experts, according to published criteria.
“The Australia Council has a statutory function to uphold and promote freedom of expression in the arts, to promote community participation in the arts, and support Australian arts practice that reflects the diversity of Australia,” the statement read.
“The Fellowships reflect the diversity and depth of Australian artistic and creative talent and the vibrancy of contemporary Australia.”
The recipients are required to complete a grant report on completion of their projects but these are not made public.”
Firstly, question for Hissy Fit and the tweet about Porter being a “creepier piece of garbage”.”…anything to say about Bill Shorten?
Secondly, re. the funding of the above, note that this is after eight years of a Liberal/National government. This is the kind of offensive garbage that a coalition government and a credible Minister of Arts with any spine would immediately shut down but no, right of centre governments continue to refuse to fight the culture wars. Fighting culture wars begin with putting a kibosh on this perverted muck.
Thirdly, any society that nurtures and provides succour to the above is fucked.
Oz lead story, with, unusually, some of the audio referred to:
Union leader John Setka faces new abuse allegations from estranged wife Emma Walters
BRAD NORINGTON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
27 MINUTES AGO FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Union leader John Setka faces new allegations of verbal abuse and making threats against his estranged wife, Emma Walters.
Ms Walters has given a signed statement to police in which she alleges Mr Setka, Victorian secretary of the CFMEU, called her a “dog c..t” during a heated phone conversation on Wednesday last week, and said her job could be “taken away”.
Ms Walters, a lawyer, is employed as a traffic management officer on a Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union-controlled building site in Melbourne – a job she secured with Mr Setka’s help when the couple was on good terms.
She and Mr Setka have lived apart since an alleged assault in August last year, when Ms Walters went to police alleging her husband had become violent at their family home in Melbourne’s western suburbs, repeatedly hitting her head against a table.
In her sworn statement lodged with Victoria Police, signed on Saturday and obtained by The Australian, Ms Walters says she answered a call from Mr Setka on Wednesday last week because she knew “a mediator” had had contact with him to “discuss negotiations we had been having in regards to financial separation and a parenting plan”.
Ms Walters says in the statement that she used the voice mode of another phone in her house to record the conversation, which she then gave to close friend, lawyer and former Fair Work Commission deputy president Anne Gooley to hand to Victoria Police on her behalf.
“The phone call became abusive,” Ms Walters says in her police statement. “He started calling my brother a ‘dog c..t’. He told me that I was a ‘give-up dog c..t’ for talking to Footscray police station (in the past).
“He called a friend of mine, Anne Gooley, a ‘dog c..t’ and words to that effect, and that I should not listen to her advice.
“He also threatened me, and threats came in the form of ‘I shouldn’t listen to Footscray Police because everyone at Footscray Police thinks that I’m a give-up dog c..t, and that everyone at Footscray Police thinks that what I did (in previously reporting Mr Setka to police) was a dog’s act’.
“During the conversation, he said everyone thinks I am a drug-f..ked alcoholic and that they won’t believe anything I say.
“John articulated to me that the mediator thought I was a drunk dog c..t and everyone at the job site where I currently work thinks I am a dog and I should be grateful to him and the union for allowing me to have that job and that that job can be taken away and I will not receive the income.”
Ms Walters says in her statement that the conversation with her estranged husband “sent my stomach into turmoil”. She adds: “I genuinely felt that no one would be able to help me in this position that I’m in. It made me feel powerless and afraid. It made me afraid of reporting this incident to the police.”
The Australian sought comment from Mr Setka about his conversation with Ms Walters last week, and about her sworn statement to police.
A spokeswoman for Mr Setka declined to comment.
The Australian has heard the recording of Ms Walters’ conversation with Mr Setka, which Ms Gooley gave to Victoria Police and which was also posted on Ms Walters’ Facebook on Wednesday. The recorded conversation appears to be consistent with Ms Walters’ statement to police.
In the recording, Mr Setka calls Ms Walters a “f..king dog” and says she has “made a c..t of yourself” and her family is a “pack of c..ts”. He talks about possibly withholding funds until a settlement is reached between them, and says she could lose her job.
Ms Walters told The Australian on Wednesday that she had become frustrated with the time taken for Victoria Police to respond to her allegations, while accepting that Covid-19 had placed an added burden on them.
“I am exhausted, I am frustrated,” she said. “I understand the difficulties Victoria Police are encountering at this time. However, the emotional, physical turmoil this is causing my family is quite significant. I can only hope something can be done.”
Mr Setka has attracted headlines in recent years over his aggressive style of union leadership and the industrially militant tactics of his union.
Attention turned to Mr Setka’s conduct towards his wife in 2019 when he was convicted of harassing her and breaching court orders with more than 25 calls and 45 text messages.
Following his conviction, Mr Setka resisted pressure from within the union movement to resign from his CFMEU position.
Ms Walters told The Australian: “The power John Setka has over my life is indescribable. The machine that protects him that I have knowledge of will do anything to stop me from speaking out. I am living fight or flight to protect myself and my children from everything he can do to me.”
QEII also bombed those John Bull chippos all by herself too, right?
No problems at CNN. None. Everything is going swimmingly.
Daily Tele:
Plans by NSW Police to train 315 officers to become special Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers for a huge World Pride event next year are “disproportionate” according to One Nation MP Mark Latham, who says police should instead consider special training for dealing with housing estate and elderly residents.
The NSW government has already sent 255 generalist officers to the special LGBTIQA+ training to become Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers (GLLO) and plan to train up to 100 more this year.
The officers do the same core policing duties like other police officers but also “engage positively and support members of the LGBTIQA+ communities in NSW”.
No it’s because it’s shit.
The only one I use. Lurpak is expensive and looks insipid. Butter has to be yellow. Butter yellow.
On the audit – the ATO knew what they were looking for but I get the “tree shaking premise”. Nothing fell out. The tree was bare. As Sal pointed out, you pay your accountant the big bucks and you expressly instruct them that if anything seems a bit dodgy to let you know so it can be corrected and documented.
Key in any business where cash runs free. The ATO is always on the lookout and they like to target particular industries. Over the years I’ve had customers pay me large sums in cash and I’ve known they were cheating the system. A great big pile of Not My Problem. Their circus, their monkeys.
He’s not an artist, he’s a degenerate, parasitic moron.
People probably don’t click “Like” because they don’t like it.
Complex, I know.
The Australia council is another canbra cultural Marxist abomination. Canbra filthy parasites take money from productive people and give it too degenerates while having a bit of a giggle no doubt. Why do we need such ‘grants’ at all.
I’m amused by the conceit that these so-called artists have that they’re cutting edge and avant-garde, when really they are formulaic with tired old leftist dogma. There’s a reason why there are crowds at the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay and the Uffizi Gallery and why the National Gallery of Australia regularly runs ‘blockbuster’ exhibitions – they have art that people like.
How long will the average family with kids cope with having to test twice a week , the masks , etc .My bet the bacteria breeding masks will bring on other school nasties . The only parent driven to do all this is highly and
anxious and probably OCD . A big revolt will happen soon
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The grubby “art” is a natural manifestation of a corrupt, uncreative heart.
You don’t have to be a Christian to understand why Saint Paul gave this instruction:
If the “art” we supposedly praise and reward is a reflection of our society, it definitely paints a grim picture. Perhaps it’s just a reflection of the artist and the rewarders. I hope so.
CNN ceo resigns. Must have done something really disgusting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTY02dFo9Q&t=231s
Rugbyskier, the conceit is that the “masses” don’t know True Art.
The slur of the bourgeoisie has always amused me. The ones who pay their way simply have a blind spot for real talent.
It’s pathetic.
Blojob is a grotesque clown and dilletante. A toff trash parasite. Now he’s taking on Putin. Yeah sure. Just fuck off you waste of space.
Min
My teen daughter’s response to the RAT test for school “I’m not sick and I’m not doing it.”
Then they’re using food colouring. American butter is therefore insipid according to you.
Re tax. Stop talking nonsense. Driller has not pointed anything out worthwhile. Making a comment that you pay an accountant the big bucks is nonsense. It’s a meaningless bignoting comment.
What other profession can you just identify as and get grants?
The Australia council is just cultural Marxist attempt to trash society with the added benefit of outraging regular citizens who need to be taught a lesson.
My teen daughter’s response to the RAT test for school “I’m not sick and I’m not doing it.”
My daughter said the same.
The yellow comes from carotene consumed by the cow, JC. It’s natural.
It depends on the type of pasture and possibly the herd, ie. Friesian, Jersey or other. The family had a pure Jersey herd down in Bega years ago – yellow butter.
If you’re worried, look on the pack. I don’t think they do it in Australia, but if it has beta-carotene on it, it’s coloured. That horrible orange cheese in America is a prime suspect. Otherwise, it’s natural.
Why are some butters more yellow than others?
Butter has a natural pale-yellow color but can range from deep yellow to white depending on feed used and the breed of cow the milk originates from. In the United States, the diet of cows varies from those in Europe and Oceania, and there are also breed differences. The level of the natural pigment carotene in milk, derived from the diet of cows, is the strongest determinant in whether butter appears yellow. For areas preferring butter that is more on the yellow side, coloring can be used.
To state the obvious, artists are artists because they can’t get jobs.
Compounding their emo angsty existence is the knowledge that they will never know if they’re any good at drawing pictures. They will be well aware that almost every major brush-wielder found success after death.
It’s like being at a gym full of roiders throwing iron around and checking each other out to see their ‘massive gains’, except it’s a beehive of incompetents competing for the title of Most Tortured Genius.
I tried to give you an uptick for that comment, but it didn’t work. So consider yourself multiply upticked.
I think this kind of ‘art’ is just part of a demoralisation campaign that’s sucked in a bunch of yo-yos. Most ppl have some level of innate aesthetic sensibility and know this stuff is garbage. Those lacking confidence in their own instincts will follow the party line and buy into some really stupid ideas.
I’m not big noting about paying an accountant “big bucks”. Paying anyone to me is “big bucks” – I’d rather have it in my pocket.
I’d say the same about paying the dry cleaner to launder my clothes.
Smart girls!
Any RATs we get from the school are going straight onto Gumtree.com.au
Peeps like their salmon pink- Atlantic salmon gets its hue from estuarine krill in the food chain- so salmon farms give the fish a fair bit of beta c.
Is all this butter talk really a priority right now?
Depends. Pass the toast please.
Beats infantile biffo. I admit that isn’t a high standard.
Watching the ladies have a bash at Pipeline this morning.
Could be a quid to made by a trans lad.
Good coin and apparently you can keep your cock…
Also raises the broader question is why people allow themselves to be championed by others with mental issues.
Artists who hit the gas on their metier never look back. Buonarotti, Picasso, Warhol, Whitely, Dalí, all prodigious output, all selling well in their own lifetime.
Pity the generation of artists to whom unsaleability is a mark of intellectual purity. Such unsaleability is subsidised by the welfare state and/or the Gramsci managerial elite. Such artists never admit that they are wholly owned by doubleplusgood rightthink.
You butter believe it!
Infact, this discussion of butter should be spread.
I know, I know, that was only marginally funny.
On butter, we know who should have the final word.
She knows. She just knows.
In Gorne For All Money news:
Morrison urged to take over NSW Liberal division after ‘psycho’ texts
But why?
Shirley not another leak?
Luckily, Morrison’s allies are steadying the ship:
Great time to be talking about yourselves to aroused journalists.
Voters love it.
Swirling round the pan…
Every cow I’ve known asks for beta carotene in the morning for breakfast. It’s natural.
No covid and vaxes are. They have been done here much.
Gladys is now the gold standard for character assessment?
Long term Covid symptom – amnesia.
Tatura butter varies in colour and flavour over the seasons. Well, it used to when I could find it for a normal price.
Their spring time butter was deeper yellow and more buttery and I used to look forward to it every year
Calli
Of course it’s blowharding. There is nothing an accountant can do for you to lower the tax rate unless it’s dealing with super.
An accountant can only do what you give him as revenue and expenses. That’s it so stop talking crap.
Whoops haven’t
I am wondering what realm this ‘clicking’ he speaks of (literally or metaphorically) might be.
Most Australians have no interest in the Arts industry, the habitues of which despise all but their own rarefied sphere where they all sit around sniffing each others farts and congratulating themselves. They are Eloi and those other people mere Morlocks.
Most Australians would not be ‘clicking’ any Anglo artists either.
And the Arts industry has deliberately cut itself off from ordinary Australians. They don’t need them to see their performances or excretions – they get their money from government.
So the people not clicking ‘like’ for Asian artists would be other luvvies. The racism he speaks of must be the racism in the Arts scene.
But, of course, he is not really saying that at all. It is just in the cesspit that is Australian Arts, these are the sort of things you say to score points when grants are handed out. He is manipulating the Luvvies.
Butter.
Can I hear the ring of the separator?
Store bought experts.
I can think of more gross things to eat then butter but not much.
River roaches then.
The recipients are required to complete a grant report on completion of their projects but these are not made public.”
All in the true spirit of openness and transparency? ROFLMAO!
yep, that’s my missus.
she thinks different
bordering on synesthesia
photos, images, and paintings they ‘talk’ to her
she sees different too.
that woman can find the sublime and capture it while the rest of us don’t see a damned thing.
“With talented breezes that blow off you hat with a sneer” — Ryan Adams
Nice RA reference, MT
That’s interesting, JC.
I made it perfectly clear that I have instructed my accountant to warn of anything I do that is dodgy or even just marginal (according to the ATO). It was about business practice, not tax rates. I have sat in his office and discussed certain write-offs and other matters. For someone like me, it’s hopelessly complex and I never ever wanted to get caught on the wrong side.
This all started when talking about Glenn Wheatley, who clearly did skate on super thin ice and was caught.
The double-vaxxed, fully boosted narrative is on a ventilator:
Why have there been more vaccinated than unvaccinated people in intensive care?
B-b-b-but what about muh ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’?? Muh ‘vaccines reduce serious illness and death’? Quick, ABC, tell me what to think!
Why do we need such ‘grants’ at all.
Michelangelo, Raphael et al had wealthy patrons who supported them. If they produced shit work, the patronage ceased. If the Australia Arts Council was a serious organisation, it would follow a similar policy, but it isn’t, so it doesn’t.
Just another cash form maaaaates shitshow.
I hear that margarine is an appetising grey colour before they pour agent orange into it or whatever they put in it to make it look more like butter.
Miltonfsays:
February 3, 2022 at 8:03 am
The Australia council is just cultural Marxist attempt to trash society with the added benefit of outraging regular citizens who need to be taught a lesson.
I don’t recall who it was who said, but I am reminded of the comment that “You can only be avant garde for so long, before you become garde”. The Australia Arts Council and the “artists” it sponsors have long since become garde.
Can’t happen soon enough. I have been going in to work these 2 weeks. On the first day,at first we were all diligent about wearing masks, then as the day wore on there was a lot of “fuck this” and masks came off. Yesterday we had a full staffroom as it was our staffroom’s turn to supervise the 19 that showed up. Masks came off as soon as people saw unmasked sitting there. I cannot work with a mask on as my glasses fog up every exhalation.
No, it’s not interesting at all.
There’s nothing an accountant can do other than account for the year’s expenses and revenues. What else is there, Calli, that you say you and the pubbler agree on in reference to paying thems big bucks? There are allowances running at the moment such as being about to purchase machinery etc and write it off the first year and jobkeeper. We’re not talking about this though. We’re talking about run of the mill accounting. What are the big bucks for? I paid PWC to do mine for years and they were overcharging for a regular job. So yes, it’s blowharding to say you’re paying the big bucks.
yep, our pencil-necks do that.
and they have a financial advice/planning division
and they have a in-house legal team
it’s kind of holistic accountancy which is what they charge for
the only thing they don’t do is bookkeeping and BAS
we have a separate bunch for making that ticketty-boo
our accountants are not some bloke working from a rent-an-office
everything goes through them and they shuffle it, business, personal, self-super, trusts etc
but yes, generally all they do is make sure stuff is filed in the correct folders
Oh come onsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:06 am
Interesting link OCO. ABC expert says unvaccinated ICU are 1.5% of unvaccinated cases and vaccincated ICU are 0.1% of vaccinated cases. When you look at the raw numbers, (215 vaxed and 55 not vaxed) you get 79.6% vaxed and 20.3% unvaxed. That is pretty close to the Australia wide vaccination stats. This would suggest to me either/or;
1. Vaccination does nothing.
2. Unvaxed don’t test and report at the same rate as vaxed. (only when sick)
is that comment about skimming?
cant tell if it refers to butter or accountancy
And matrix, that falls pretty much in the exceptions and superannuation columns I mentioned.
Nonsense.
Unless you are making it from unrefined, unfiltered sunflower oil.
Or it goes rancid, or you have darker olive oil, which pretty much won’t go rancid.
Aggh … semantics
The Cat needs a ‘definitions’ appendix
I blame Sanchez for starting the butter wars.
Coronavirus Mandates Start Dropping in Canada as Freedom Convoy Rolls On
Beta-carotene mainly. Which is a natural yellow-orangey colour and a Vitamin A precursor. So it’s OK.
Oz has an article quoting Greg Hunt. Not long now till vaccinated means having had 3 shots.
With all the gotcha questions thrown at PM the other day seems none question the mandates and efficiency of the vaccines.
Meanwhile the Courier Mail had 4 Covid related articles none of which allow comments.
Canadian opposition leader O’Toole booted by his own party for not getting behind the truckers.
If you want a diversion from the butter wars, let’s go back to Italian actresses.
Sad news today. The luminous Monica Vitti has crossed over.
She had a pretty good innings though.
Good morning all.
Is this a sex thing?
This is from December.
Breaking News: Pfizer’s Own Stats: 1200+/40,000 Trial Participants Dead | Interview with Dr. Nagase
Canadian convoy delivers.
Coronavirus Mandates Start Dropping in Canada as Freedom Convoy Rolls On
Quebec Dumps Plans to Tax Unvaccinated
“Canadian opposition leader O’Toole booted by his own party for not getting behind the truckers.”
Good, this means that politicians on the right might finally be listening to the people. O’Toole didn’t want to provide any support for the truckers. His ousting is very good news. The Canadian Conservatives make our Liberals look like right-wing warriors.