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Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 7:23 am

“Morrison the poll dancer again”

Perfect Janet…just perfect.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 9, 2022 7:25 am

132andBush says:
February 9, 2022 at 6:09 am
An anecdote worth a chuckle.

Another one.
A well known anti vaxxer in town is about the one person who hasn’t had Covid.
All his vocal critics are coofed up and praying for this blokes downfall but no dice.
No disease for me yet or nothing that I could say was an illness.

Gabor
Gabor
February 9, 2022 7:25 am

callie

Bear in mind that these “doses” are all superseded formulations for a variant that is no longer in the community.

They must know it, and still insisting on boosters with the same useless stuff has to be some kind of a ploy, or according to definition, “insanity”.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 7:26 am

In some ways he’s the Liberal Party’s Kevin Rudd, only less annoying.

The taint of fake.

Albo has it too.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 9, 2022 7:28 am

rosie says:
February 9, 2022 at 7:19 am
what on earth is an NFT?

No F..kn’ Talent.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 7:30 am

NFT = Non Fungible Tokens.
Obviously.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 7:31 am

And what Gez said.

Barry
Barry
February 9, 2022 7:31 am

Morro speaks like an orthotics salesman.
Albo speaks like a retard.

Oh God, it’s depressing.

Hugh
Hugh
February 9, 2022 7:32 am

local oaf says:
February 8, 2022 at 7:13 pm
Has this been posted before?

Convoy to Canberra has a givesendgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jas5GEeAEsI

Thanks for posting this local oaf.

Does anyone have any additional information about the legitimacy of this particular fundraiser?

rosie
rosie
February 9, 2022 7:34 am

NFT.
Pretend art then.

Razey
Razey
February 9, 2022 7:35 am

A Health Public Policy Nightmare
Vaccine spike antigen and mRNA persist for two months in lymph node germinal centers… protein production of spike is higher than those of severely ill COVID-19 patients!

Protein expression is not being turned off, because the immune response against the mRNA/pseudouridine complex is either not happening or is ineffective. It may also be that the mRNA/pseudouridine complex has a longer half-life than normal mRNA. The In either case, this is regulatory nightmare.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9?rss=yes#relatedArticles

https://gettr.com/post/ptar6a3c54

Razey
Razey
February 9, 2022 7:40 am

So what this MAY mean is that the mRNA clot shot becomes ineffective when you stop generating the pathogenic spike protein. This seems why they want to jab you with the clot shot every 3 months. IT turns you into a perpetual pathogenic spike protein factory.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 7:41 am

I received no negative feedback from family probably because none of them has the need to advertise it and I’m known to cut ties with cranks regardless of who they are.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 7:42 am

rosiesays:

February 9, 2022 at 7:34 am

NFT.
Pretend art then.

Well, they can’t sell them in New York, so yes.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 7:49 am

From the funding site:-

Hi all, help the truckers and all Aussies standing strong at the capital! 

No mandates!

No forced masks!

No forced jabs!

Give our jobs back!

Please send what you can to keep the truckers going! I will be personally going to Canberra and i will make sure these funds go to Graham Hood, who i will entrust to share the funds where they are needed among the protest camp.

Aaron
Aaron
February 9, 2022 7:52 am

“It is available to be used as a first and second dose, but at this stage it is not possible to book in for a booster”.

Well, ain’t that bad news for all those who have the Millenium or Vista versions…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 7:52 am

Stefanovic the Younger on Skah referring to the ‘match-awareness’-free Ms Higgins as ‘Brit’.

This, from a bloke firmly ensconced in an industry even more renowned for chicks rooting their way up the chain than politics.

This, from a bloke successfully targeted by a very tasty yet giggly weathergirl who then magically became a news presenter after her pregnancy and supermum status was sufficiently plastered over lady websites.

Aaron
Aaron
February 9, 2022 7:53 am

“It is available to be used as a first and second dose, but at this stage it is not possible to book in for a booster”.

Well, ain’t that bad news for all those who have the Millenium or Vista versions.

Aaron
Aaron
February 9, 2022 7:55 am

Whoops. 3rd World wireless here in outback Hervey Bay.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 7:59 am

“The taint of fake.

Albo has it too.”

The real Albo is a stinking, petty and vulgar Labor party apparatchik and all round thug who’s never had a real job in his life, who spent his youth in the 1980s turning up at Labor party branch meetings exuding menace and thuggery.

His Churchillian obsession is fighting and smashing Tories on the seas and oceans. LOL…that’s the real Albo but someone should finally tell him the truth, that in order to fight Tories he actually does need to cross seas and oceans because the fact is that there aren’t any Tories in this country. But he’ll be okay, when he does travel across seas and oceans to fight and smash Tories, he’ll be able to catch up for tea and scones with his great mate Jeremy Corbyn and the two of them can plan a combined assault on UK Tories….oh and Jews too.

Despite his desire to now appear middle of the road, unthreatening and an alternative PM, we still occasionally glimpse the real Albo, like the time a few yeas ago when he’s filmed in parliament shouting at Liberal Sussan Ley “smash her”….”smash her”…..”smash her”. But Albo never has to account for threatening to smash a female coz everything is always hunky dory for Albo, he’s not worried, he has the stinking biased progressive MSM scum in his corner, they’re not interested in such boring facts and of course then there are the feminist screechers who howl and scream “misogyneeeeeeeeeeee” at any opportunity and then we have the likes of the perpetually heroic hypocrite, Gracie Tame, who more and more looks, sounds and behaves like a creepy character from an Ira Levin book. Our Gracie isn’t interested in such boring facts about her best buddy Albo. But why be interested in truth and reality when the real villainous misogynist will always be Tony Abbott, for the crime of looking at his watch.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 8:00 am

“It is available to be used as a first and second dose, but at this stage it is not possible to book in for a booster”.

Another of ScoMo’s lies comes home to roost.

Last year, as good people rejected the current crop of “vaccines” in favour of waiting for Novavax, he explicitly informed that if and when it came it would only be available as boosters. He deliberately and cynically destroyed their hope of some sort of compromise with that statement.

He also couched the announcement in a sneering envelope of “so don’t bother waiting, it will do you no good”.

He is despicable. Like Rudd, a smooth and facile liar cloaked in a tawdry rag of stolen respectability.

Hugh
Hugh
February 9, 2022 8:00 am

Sancho Panzersays:
February 9, 2022 at 7:49 am
From the funding site:-

Thanks Sancho. I did see that, but just wondered if anyone might be able to provide independent confirmation that the funds will indeed be directed as stated.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 8:01 am

Bear at 1.05 this morning:

I doubt Sneakers will be leading the WA Liars to the next election.

No, and he will in all likelihood know this – which also means he is extremely likely to do some doubling-down before he goes, having finally been given the lemon and sars by a party with no opposition but which retains a healthy desire to be liked.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 8:06 am

Oof.

Like Rudd, a smooth and facile liar cloaked in a tawdry rag of stolen respectability

I watched one of the Hannibal Lecter movies once. At the end, Lecter walked past a dude in a crowded street, and without any overt or discernible movements punctured the bloke’s femoral artery with a small extremely sharp knife.

Lecter kept walking without looking back. The other bloke slowed, stopped and then bled out in the street.

calli’s line just now was like that. Brilliant.

mc
mc
February 9, 2022 8:06 am

Farmer Gezsays:
February 9, 2022 at 7:25 am

and another anectode…

My kids went to a church camp for the unvaxxed a couple of weeks ago. It was put on because a previous camp excluded the unvaxxed. The camp with only vaxxed kids ended up with about a 20% covid rate. The unvaxxed camp (100+ kids) had none.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:13 am

if anyone might be able to provide independent confirmation that the funds will indeed be directed as stated.

I don’t know.
It sounded a bit vague to me.
I would prefer that it said something like “funds would be used for reasonable fuel costs, food and immediate needs”.
Just “giving it to Hoody to dole out” is a bit loosey-goosey for me.
Others may trust that it will be distributed fairly.
I’d hate to see some of those “pedo-pedo-pedo” loons getting my cash just for showing up.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 9, 2022 8:14 am

This from the ABC article about the Novavax arriving in Australia.

MRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna, and viral vector vaccines such as AstraZeneca, have been shown to be safe and effective at protecting people against COVID-19.

Safe? Thanks to trying to smother stories about bad reactions studies beyond the TGA’s control still report alarming (if not common) outcomes, but due to lack of discussion and honest assessment they have left people to draw the worst (or, in terms of watching out for your health, most conservative) conclusions – or trust the TGA that refuses to talk about any of the vaccines.

Effective – when they keep discovering that you need more boosters?

Protection against Covid? The best they are saying now is that it protects you against some symptoms, and even that claim is compromised by the fact that that is the very least they can claim in the series of diminishing benefits – if it doesn’t even protect you from symptoms then they will have to admit they are absolutely useless. So they will claim it even if not true.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:16 am

Cassie at 7:59.
Practically, that is the choice.
Albo or ScoMo.
Fat Cloive isn’t going to save us in the Reps.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 8:18 am

The fact that Albo is even in the running is a testament to the failures of the greasy pole dancer.

Crossie
Crossie
February 9, 2022 8:20 am

Albo or ScoMo?

Scylla or Charybdis?

I take it we are heading for a Greek tragedy.

Razey
Razey
February 9, 2022 8:22 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 9, 2022 at 8:18 am
The fact that Albo is even in the running is a testament to the failures of the greasy pole dancer.

Smirking scumbag Scummo is almost as bad as the pompous buffoon hunchback bat eared mong.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:22 am

This, from a bloke successfully targeted by a very tasty yet giggly weathergirl who then magically became a news presenter 

She always looked like a deer in the headlights on the telly, like she was going to burst into tears at any minute.
Since Stefanovic Minor has been “pursuing a different path” (ie got rissoled by Nein and ended up at Skah) his bride seems to have also lost the ‘one out-one back’ sit at Nein.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:25 am

Crossiesays:

February 9, 2022 at 8:20 am

Albo or ScoMo?

Scylla or Charybdis?

Or, as the more uncouth might say:-
“Would sir like his shit sandwich with white bread or wholemeal bread?”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:28 am

What do you care Razey?
You’ll be living it up in Japan.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 8:36 am

From the link OCO put up just after midnight:

Labor Shadow Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has given an emotional statement calling on the parliament not to rush through the bill in its current form…During his speech, Mr Jones also shared his admiration for his own gender non-conforming son and his worry that he may be attacked for his gender presentation.

OCO’s comment:

You have failed as a father.

Yes, Jones. Yes you have failed in the primary responsibility of any man, and that is to provide effective fatherhood.

What’s worse is you have both publicised your failure, which is one thing, but also politicised your own son, which is quite another.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 8:37 am

But yes, regional and rural centres are just great. And forget the “arrogant French” myth. People in the regions are generally accommodating, warm and friendly.

So I guess they don’t have the same ‘tree changer’ problem.

Pogria
Pogria
February 9, 2022 8:37 am

This years election will be a repeat of Rudd and Trumble.

What do we choose? A Turd Sandwich or a Giant Douche?

Decisions, decisions.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:41 am

So I guess they don’t have the same ‘tree changer’ problem.

I think they do.
Mostly Remainer Poms with holiday houses.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 8:41 am

That bill was unnecessary from the start.

Indolent
Indolent
February 9, 2022 8:42 am

Unvaccinated oral surgeon sues after his medical practice shut down in Rhode Island

The complaint specifically alleges that in closing Skoly’s medical practice in Cranston, the state “has violated (his) rights to Equal Protection and Due Process of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”

Additionally, it says a dozen staff members of his practice are now unemployed and his patients “have suffered an absence or shortage of critical surgery and other services.”

We need more of this.

Indolent
Indolent
February 9, 2022 8:44 am

This is from October 2020. They knew then.

Some COVID-19 vaccines could increase risk of HIV, researchers warn

Hugh
Hugh
February 9, 2022 8:44 am

Sancho Panzer says:
February 9, 2022 at 8:13 am
I don’t know.
It sounded a bit vague to me.

Agreed. I will wait and see if I can find some more concrete information.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:46 am

Former TV star Andrew O’Keefe to make a bid for freedom in the NSW Supreme Court

Former television star Andrew O’Keefe will take his urgent fight for bail to the NSW Supreme Court.

The former Channel Seven star has now spent 12 nights in custody, 11 of those in an isolation cell inside the high-security Metropolitan Remand Centre, inside Sydney’s Silverwater Prison.

Sources close to O’Keefe say he needs “urgent mental health treatment” – which can’t be administered inside a prison – and fear for his safety.

For those who are time poor and need a summarised version:-
“Cold turkey is a bitch”.

So desperate are his lawyers to get him out of prison and into health care, they will bring him before the NSW Supreme Court – the same court his late father, respected judge and barrister Barry O’Keefe, presided over.

Another variation on “Do you know who I am?”
Maybe best not to mention that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 8:47 am

“Would sir like his shit sandwich with white bread or wholemeal bread?”

I recall the mood on ExCat in 2019 after Shorten was thrown over a cliff by the electorate. For the first time in recorded history I really don’t care which side of the uniparty gets up because I know full well that whichever way it goes, it will be shit.

Both sides appear to be firmly on the ‘pandering to fuckwits’ platform – and as the Victorian parliament has amply demonstrated, a bunch of single-issue self-interested independents only too eager to be bought hold balances of power.

No I have not developed a fondness for the Faulty Method.

However, I take solace in knowing we are not Haiti or the Ivory Coast. Yet.

Hugh
Hugh
February 9, 2022 8:47 am

Crossie says:
February 9, 2022 at 8:20 am
Albo or ScoMo?

Scylla or Charybdis?

I take it we are heading for a Greek tragedy.

Sounds about right to me. Otototoi!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 9, 2022 8:47 am

Labor Shadow Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has given an emotional statement calling on the parliament not to rush through the bill in its current form…During his speech, Mr Jones also shared his admiration for his own gender non-conforming son and his worry that he may be attacked for his gender presentation.

The faithful are ridiculed and vilified every day.

Every day they live in a world that does not reflect their values but they accept that as a matter of course.

These non-gender conforming (or whatever other tortured neologism they come up with each time to escape the stink associated with the last one) have legislation, government departments, and special dispensations in places of employment – and they think they are the ones doing it tough.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:49 am

Yes, Hugh.
Most of these fund raisers have very explicit statements about how funds will be distributed.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 9, 2022 8:49 am

rosie says:
February 9, 2022 at 4:37 am
Clive in a spot of bother

Clive is a 360° ocean-going toad. And he’s obviously picked money out of his various companies to fund his political antics.

But – unless in doing so he’s somehow stiffed the ATO – I struggle to see how he has caused criminal damage to anyone. It’s his money and how he chooses to spend it is no business of the state.

#freeaussiecloive

Indolent
Indolent
February 9, 2022 8:50 am
Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 8:51 am

“Mother Lodesays:
February 9, 2022 at 8:47 am
Labor Shadow Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has given an emotional statement calling on the parliament not to rush through the bill in its current form…During his speech, Mr Jones also shared his admiration for his own gender non-conforming son and his worry that he may be attacked for his gender presentation.

The faithful are ridiculed and vilified every day.”

Worse….the normal are ridiculed and vilified every day.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 8:55 am

Indolent.
Are you going the full ussr?
That is, are you posting links based on headlines, or do you read the contents of the articles linked to?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 9, 2022 8:56 am

Former television star Andrew O’Keefe will take his urgent fight for bail to the NSW Supreme Court.

It’s not urgent.

Sources close to O’Keefe

His well-paid lawyers.

say he needs “urgent mental health treatment”

Another go at rehab.

– which can’t be administered inside a prison – and fear for his safety.

This is the same defence that each and every iced-out mongbean uses when put before a court with no other prospect of bail. O’Keeffe is finding out that he is not special.

Of course he fears for his safety. He’s about to go out to ‘mainstream’ on remand after his initial 14 days of ‘classo’ (classification, where the screws work out where to put him), where he will encounter quite a few large units who do not take kindly to Little Lord Fauntleroy ponces who beat up women.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 9, 2022 9:08 am

bespoke says:
February 9, 2022 at 8:37 am
But yes, regional and rural centres are just great. And forget the “arrogant French” myth. People in the regions are generally accommodating, warm and friendly.

Very true.
Years ago, on travels with my wife, we were being ignored and disdained by a snotty sales woman in a shop in a small regional city.
A tall well dressed older man noticed and gave her a complete dressing down about manners. He said something about city people and apologised to us for her behaviour.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 9:18 am

Sancho’s words Gez.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 9:20 am

Knuckles, Carpe, Tails, bois

One writer to watch on Medium is Ossiana Tepfenhart.

She is probably the craziest cat lady of them all.

Maybe she thinks she can shame men into becoming cucks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 9:21 am

KD.
I was looking for the phrase that would tell me Mr O’Keefe was really keen to get elf treatment and nothing else.
The phrase that never came.
Something like:-
“Mr O’Keefe’s lawyers indicated that their client would agree to remaining in 24 hour care and wear a monitoring bracelet to ensure compliance with existing AVOs. Any application for variation to these conditions would be returned to Court for adjudication.”
Why did that get missed?
Well, the plan is to get bailed to the Sydney clinic for mental elf, not drug rehab.
Two weeks of treatment with increasing levels of free time outside the clinic each day after which a tame psych says “all better” and off he goes again.
I don’t think that is going to fly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 9:22 am

bespokesays:

February 9, 2022 at 9:18 am

Sancho’s words Gez.

People can’t tell?
OMG!
OMFG!

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 9:25 am

Knuckle Dragger

However, I take solace in knowing we are not Haiti or the Ivory Coast. Yet.

As they say, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 9:26 am

large units who do not take kindly to Little Lord Fauntleroy ponces who beat up women.

This is bullshit though. What are they in for? Australian prisons are a joke.

They should have kept going with prison reform in Victoria. The worst criminals flipped out because they couldn’t get their own way. That dickhead Chopper Read carried on about how mentally damaging (sob sob) it was that they couldn’t impose their will on other prisoners and guards.

Fuck em. Scum like Chopper used to rule countries, clearly we didn’t execute nearly enough of them in 1789.

Chris
Chris
February 9, 2022 9:28 am

Worse….the normal are ridiculed and vilified every day.

Even the word, the concept, normal appears to be banned.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m time poor & need a summarized version:
How did FlyingDuk wind up in the hoosegow?

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 9:34 am

A glowie walked in front of his car, Duk stopped, glowie banged hands on bonnet, conviently three Act communidee police were watching, “saw the whole thing” with no video they recorded, initially charged him with a minor (false) driving charge, it got upgraded (falsely) and did not accept bail terms as the terms would have (seemingly illegally, reading their bail act) “deported” him from the ACT.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 9:36 am

Poor old SloMo. The J’ismist Club throws another Lieboral to the lions. It’s not anything we haven’t seen before but it’s great entertainment.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 9:38 am

Sal, DocDuk was in Canberra for the protest. He attracted the ire of a hi-viz something while driving other who banged on his car hood. The AFP appeared as if by magic.

After a short and very instructive interaction with the AFP, he was popped in the divvy van and driven to the watch house. His driving infringement of which no film appears to be available was upped to “dangerous driving”.

He appeared before the beak and was offered bail on condition he leave Canberra. He declined.

He is currently in the go slow awaiting his court hearing on March 21.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 9:39 am

Don’t know where that “other” came from.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 9, 2022 9:42 am

People in the regions are generally accommodating, warm and friendly.

We had lunch, in a cafe in Villiers Bretonneux. The waiter identified the Australian accents, and declined payment for the meal……

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 9:42 am

Dot

Many prisoners develop a ex smoke mentality when it comes to violence. Not saying they are reformed it’s just that proving they are is key to gaining privileges.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Duk was in Canbra?
ffs. Duk is banged up, possibly for weeks, over that?
The Canbra cops should be required to turn in their man-card, exchange it for a tranny-card.

I’ve seen that same thing, though years ago. Coppers booked the glowie for jaywalking, not paying due care and attention (or somesuch) & informally advised that a repeat offence would likely lead to a good coshing.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 9:45 am

Clive in a spot of bother

I suspect this is a politically motivated prosecution.

If so, what a country.

JC
JC
February 9, 2022 9:45 am

Seen a lot but yesterday’s was pretty unique. I was around Ripponlea, which is a Hasidic hangout. There was a Hasidic dude in full uniform traipsing around on one of those E-Scooters.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 9:47 am

I suspect the Religious Freedom bill is headed towards the graveyard….and this might not be a bad thing.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 9:49 am

nd this might not be a bad thing.

Correct!

It was a trap.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Slomo is inflicting new “workplace safety” laws upon us.
This will be to punish private sector employers for what they did to Britney?

I’m struggling with the concept that Liberals are only 80% as bad as Labor.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 9:53 am

Editorial from The Daily Telegraph…

“Daily Telegraph Editorial: apology that went too far

Giant steps have been taken in recent decades to address sexism and sexist bullying in Australia..

Further steps must follow, of course. But as a nation, we have definitely made significant improvements throughout all elements our society.

That process moved ahead again yesterday as Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese offered apologies to victims of abuse in Parliament House.

Morrison and Albanese also acknowledged the bravery of those who had contributed to a 2021 review by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, which remarkably found that half of all parliament staff had at some times experienced bullying, harassment or assault.

The Prime Minister said that by apologising, every parliamentarian was taking on ­“accountability for change”.

“For those of us who have perpetuated the bullying and violence, the light will come to those behaviours,” the Prime Minister said. “As it must.”

The Prime Minister is correct. Justice should prevail.

But in another part of his apology, the PM may have veered into troubling territory.

Morrison specifically apologised to former Liberal staffer and alleged sexual assault victim Brittany Higgins, saying he was sorry for the “terrible things that took place here”.

“The place that should have been a place for safety and contribution turned out to be a nightmare,” Morrison said. “I am sorry for far more than that.”

The Prime Minister must make sure his words do not convict Higgins’s alleged assailant, who has pleaded not guilty.

This matter is currently before the courts. A trial is scheduled for early June.

Until then, any decisions over guilt or innocence must be suspended. This is done, obviously, to ensure fairness in any court proceedings.

It is right for the Prime Minister and his fellow MPs to apologise in general terms for the mistreatment of people in parliament.

To apologise in such a very specific way, over a case that is presently unresolved, is actually a backward step. It may imperil a just outcome.

The quest for justice is always a case-by-case pursuit. Justice cannot be reached through a blanket view that does not acknowledge the evidence involved in a particular case.

It may imperil a just outcome.”….not “may“…….will imperil a just outcome.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 9:54 am

“I suspect this is a politically motivated prosecution.”

Correct….I wonder if they’ll look into Mr Simon Holmes a Court?

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 9:56 am

Maybe Morrison himself is the house bigger.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 9:56 am

Labor reportedly in urgently convened discussions on the religious discrimination bill this morning.

The leadership knows not backing it will hurt them in the crucial Sydney seats they’ve been carefully cultivating over the last two years.

Otoh, the alphabet crowd will be very angry if they do back it.

Which means Albo won’t get an invite to the next Mardi Gras.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 10:00 am

The quest for justice is always a case-by-case pursuit. Justice cannot be reached through a blanket view that does not acknowledge the evidence involved in a particular case.

That this even needs to be said is an indicator of how far neo-Marxist notions of collective justice have penetrated the public consciousness. This first became evident in the Pell case.

Rabz
February 9, 2022 10:01 am

I suspect the Religious Freedom bill is headed towards the graveyard….and this might not be a bad thing

These idiots couldn’t “legislate” their way out of wet paper bag. Although you have to admire their unrelenting stupidity (in a slow motion train wreck type manner).

They’ve been bullied into attempting to enact some utterly unnecessary legislation guaranteed to get every possible self interested party pissed off, including a bunch of other unconnected grievance mongers (e.g. homosexuals, disabled people) resulting in a dog’s breakfast liberally laced with unintended consequences, more stupid endless litigation and taxpayers have their pockets incessantly picked (again).

In other words, there is absolutely no need for this stupid legislation.

The political system in this country needs to obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki style and rebuilt from the charred ground up.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 9, 2022 10:03 am

Don’t know where that “other” came from.

Must be the unknowable ‘other’ that progressive artists bang on about.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:04 am

I reckon the AFP had run DocDuk’s plates.

“Known to SA Police” would have come up. All they had to do was wait.

Our surveillance country is getting worse and worse. Or better if you’re a psychopathic bureaucrat.

Warwick
February 9, 2022 10:04 am

The ACT court should declare a mistrial in the Brittany case and ensure the accused is never tried for the offence. I don’t know the law so don’t know if thats even possible. However, clearly the accused can never get a fair trial now in any jurisdiction. It would serve as a very good lesson.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 9, 2022 10:05 am

Their ABccess this morning on the Canadian truckers.

“Theres very few of them
If they didnt have trucks no one would care.
Only 1/3 of people support them (after saying there was 90 + 80% support for mandatory vaccines/passports)
They are supported by the “international far right” ( that would be garage nazis that have brought up one of those multi level carpark facilities)
Even the carefully curated guest was a bit surprised at the ABC chikettes allegations.

Also_
Why lady Vulcans cant crew starships.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:05 am

Lode, I think I was going to type “hi-viz something or other” but the groceries arrived on the kitchen bench and demanded my immediate attention.

The hunter gatherer had returned fully laden.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 9, 2022 10:06 am

saying he was sorry for the “terrible things that took place here”.

Yet he has a spring in his step and a song in his heart
when the rest of us get dorked up the squeakhole
by those other “terrible things that took place here”.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 10:08 am

“Warwicksays:
February 9, 2022 at 10:04 am
The ACT court should declare a mistrial in the Brittany case and ensure the accused is never tried for the offence. I don’t know the law so don’t know if thats even possible. However, clearly the accused can never get a fair trial now in any jurisdiction. It would serve as a very good lesson.”

Umm, you’d think they would have learnt something from the L’affaire Pell….but from Scumbag Morrison down, they’ve learnt nothing. Prejudicing trials is considered hunky dory if it suits the narrative…until the inevitable acquittal.

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 10:08 am

During his speech, Mr Jones also shared his admiration for his own gender non-conforming son and his worry that he may be attacked for his gender presentation.

Try see what it’s like being unvaccinated, faggot.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:09 am

Otoh, the alphabet crowd will be very angry if they do back it.
Which means Albo won’t get an invite to the next Mardi Gras

Wedged with a bejewelled buttplug. Ouch!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 9, 2022 10:09 am

The ACT court should declare a mistrial in the Brittany case and ensure the accused is never tried for the offence.

If there is no trial, can La Higgins claim compensation as a victim of crime?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:11 am

twostix – yeah, (s)he can still get a cup of coffee with a friend.

rickw
rickw
February 9, 2022 10:17 am

All Australian politicians should be required to provide their height and weight.

So we can get the length of drop right.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 9, 2022 10:18 am

Julian Wright ducks mega costs bill in his losing battle to get back one-third of Wright Prospecting
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Neale Prior
The West Australian
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Neale Prior
Julian Wright has fought off an application by his relatives for him to pay them high-level indemnity legal costs in his failed Supreme Court action about family dealings going back to 1987.

The financial outcast from the Wright Prospecting iron ore empire has enjoyed a win of sorts in his uphill fight to recover a one-third cut of the action.

Julian Wright has fought off an application by his relatives for him to pay them high-level indemnity legal costs in his failed Supreme Court action about family dealings going back to 1987.

But the youngest son of Wright Prospecting founder, the late Peter Wright, will have to pay a big chunk of the legal bills incurred by sister Angela Bennett, nieces Leonie Baldock and Andrea Burt and various trustees and companies enmeshed in his complex claims.

Julian Wright sold out of Wright Prospecting in 1987 for $6.8 million and tried other business ventures, including funding the expansion of the Cash Converters pawnbroking group.

The family company is now worth upwards of $8 billion.

Justice Rene Le Miere ruled against Julian Wright’s claim in July last year despite finding he was given false information about Peter Wright’s estate and was underpaid by Mrs Bennett and late brother Michael Wright for his share of Wright Prospecting.

Justice Le Miere threw out the action for a variety of reasons, including that Julian Wright signed a settlement deed in 2008 directing money towards his children and barring him from litigation against the family.

The judge rejected arguments by Julian Wright that his action was not covered by the 2008 settlement.

Julian Wright has appealed against the decision.

Justice Le Miere’s costs decision published on Tuesday was based on his management of the case from shortly after its launch in 2017, through a hearing in 2020 and to his 206-page judgment seven months ago.

He said legal costs paid by the case’s loser should be higher than usual because of the “unusual difficulty and the complexity and the importance of the matter”.

The winning side argued Julian Wright should pay higher indemnity costs because he should have known with proper legal advice that his case had no chance of succeeding.

Justice Le Miere said the question cannot be looked at with hindsight, but had to consider the case as it appeared to Julian Wright when he launched and continued the proceedings.

The judge said he was not persuaded Julian Wright’s arguments about the 2008 settlement deed were so hopeless that he should be ordered to pay legal costs on an indemnity basis.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 9, 2022 10:19 am

“I suspect this is a politically motivated prosecution.”

Correct….I wonder if they’ll look into Mr Simon Holmes a Court?

In Australia government, courts and police are all on the same side and work together. That side isn’t the one of the people.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

All Australian politicians should be required to provide their height and weight.
So we can get the length of drop right.

And here was me, all this time, thinking that once the other end of the rope is tied to the lamp post, the mule is slapped with the reins & the tumbril simply rolls onward toward the next lamp post.

Silly me.

Delta A
Delta A
February 9, 2022 10:22 am

The ACT court should declare a mistrial in the Brittany case and ensure the accused is never tried for the offence.

Unfortunately, that would only confirm Higgins’ innocence in the view of the MSM, and condemn the accused. She needs to face hard questions and explain the anomalies in her claims, and he needs the chance to publicly defend himself.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 9, 2022 10:23 am

The chap who outed his “son”in parliment comes from a defective geneline.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/my-nephew-was-beautiful-and-courageous-the-love-and-acceptance-of-his-family-was-not-enough
Last week my family said farewell to my nephew Ollie. He was just 15 when he took his own life. He was a beautiful, creative, courageous young man. He was loved and accepted by his parents, brothers and friends. His mum and dad are in anguish. We all are. He was gay. He was uncertain about his gender and struggled with his mental health.* Now he is gone and we will no longer be able to love him and support him on his journey throughout life. Clearly the love and acceptance of his family and friends was not enough.

My own son is also a beautiful, creative, intelligent 14-year-old. He designs and makes clothes, is a gifted makeup artist, moves seamlessly between the wardrobes of men and women. He wears heels that give me vertigo and has more handbags than his sister.

He has more courage than any boy I have met. He swims against the tide.

I love and support him unconditionally and brag about his talents to whoever will listen.

But I worry myself sick every time he leaves the house. I know that the love and protection that he enjoys with his mother, with his friends and family is very different to the reception he may receive in the world outside.

Could this be the day when we get a call telling us that something has happened? That he has been attacked just for being who he is?

This is about my kids, but it’s not … this is about the families and every child who has the courage to swim against the tide just to be themselves.

RTWT, but have the sick bucket ready.

* And of course 2 years of lockdowns/restrictions/hair on fire fearmongering didnt have any effect?

Razey
Razey
February 9, 2022 10:24 am
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

If Duk is banged up for a few weeks in the Canbra nick, on remand for “in charge of a motor vehicle that contained wrong opinions”, are we allowed to send him 6-pak of fruit juice & some Commando comics to read?

Or are privileges denied to enemies of the regime?

Chris
Chris
February 9, 2022 10:27 am

Newsflash:
Roughly 93.1% of sexual assaults* are committed on hopelessly drunk women by taxi drivers and security guards.
.
* Rounded and seasonally adjusted.

LOL. Sancho, can I hire you for my government-funded stats department?

Chris
Chris
February 9, 2022 10:28 am

Unclosed quotes, the bane of Parliamentary Reporters everywhere.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 9, 2022 10:29 am

The family company is now worth upwards of $8 billion.

I hope all these fractious lefty sprogs of Wright and Hancock realize that if Albo goes with Bandt, as seems quite possible, their shares will collapse in value overnight?

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 10:30 am

In Nineveh level depraved Australia, Parliament wrings its hands and tears its clothes over the mental state of three “non-gender conforming sons”, while dumping buckets of the most vile mob-maniacal filth over the heads of a million normal people who won’t hop on board a never ending intravenous drug regime.

Thousands have sat in sick worry when their children or loved one go to hospital and they cannot follow them in because they wont accept a drug and the state arbitrarily bans them. At least two people have self-immolated in public because of it. At least tens, if not hundreds have committed suicide or are falling into deep depression that suicide will eventually follow because of the violence of the mob rage being directed by the ruling class against their person.

The people of this nation are doomed, old testament style. Our godless “leaders” hate our guts – while they engage in sadomasochistic persecution of us they loudly boast of swamping us with millions more Indians and Chinamen and Afghani’s to replace us. Our womens wombs are barren, our sons are ordered by the state to become effeminate and wear tutu’s (this is real) at state schools on free dress day. We drown in estrogen – women and their issues dominated every social and now economic issue, their pet “men” in power in business and politics both patronise them for their own gain and lose their minds. Any lingering men are Me-too’d into oblivion.

And, the bitterest ironies, is it’s a pentecostal old-testament listening “christian” that really took us over the edge into the abyss.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 10:30 am

If there is no trial, can La Higgins claim compensation as a victim of crime?

Such applications are hedged about with a number of conditions.

There are a number of issues in her case – publicly known – that might make that difficult. Was she legally in the office where the offence is alleged to have happened? Did she conspire with the alleged perpetrator to commit an offence? Did she report the assault to police within the designated time frame?

Otoh, the very public nature of her case might be in her favour.

As I wrote yesterday, feminism means the poor choices of middle class girls are rarely questioned. Working class girls generally don’t enjoy such privilege.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:31 am

It’s odd.

I’ve never seen my brother as some sort of cultural “hero”, just as my brother. He too is gifted in many ways, and has always been “accepted” by his family. Some weirdo halfwits even congratulate me on having a gay brother. Like it was a badge of honour or something. No one ever congratulates me on having three productive, clever and loving heterosexual children.

My observation is that the demons that afflict some (not all) gay people come from within, not the broader community. Why that is I don’t know.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 9, 2022 10:35 am

He swims against the tide.

I’d say the problem with this poor kid is he swims with the tide.
If he wants to swim against the tide he should become a Christian.
Guaranteed then to be mercilessly flamed by the qwerty lobby.
But the payoff is worth it, since you avoid other flames.

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
February 9, 2022 10:36 am

During his speech, Mr Jones also shared his admiration for his own gender non-conforming son and his worry that he may be attacked for his gender presentation.

Why isn’t this considered a huge conflict of interest? We expect that politicians refrain from voting on matters that they stand to personally gain from financially. Why do we overlook those who have non financial skin in the game? After all, are they not meant to represent their constituents interests rather than push their own personal wheelbarrow?

Delta A
Delta A
February 9, 2022 10:36 am

twostixsays:
February 9, 2022 at 10:30 am

Very well said, stix.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:37 am

Janet Albrechtsen on fire in Teh Paywallian

Sorry PM but you’re just not up to the job

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 9, 2022 10:38 am

Dotsays:

February 9, 2022 at 9:26 am

large units who do not take kindly to Little Lord Fauntleroy ponces who beat up women.

This is bullshit though. What are they in for? Australian prisons are a joke.

Dot.
O’Keefe has been refused bail for a number of reasons:-
.1 Repeatedly breaching AVOs which attracts a “do not pass Go” outcome.
.2 The Magistrate has assessed the likliehood of conviction as high and the that a jail term is probable. May as well get started now, son.
.3 He’s a dick.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:39 am

And, the bitterest ironies, is it’s a pentecostal old-testament listening “christian” that really took us over the edge into the abyss.

Oh, I don’t think he listens to the OT at all.

If he did, he might have been warned. There are plenty of examples of slow, inexorable decline and its consequences.

C.L.
C.L.
February 9, 2022 10:42 am

My advice to Stephen Jones would be to get out of politics and try looking after his clearly troubled family instead.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 9, 2022 10:42 am
Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 10:44 am

.3 He’s a dick.

.4 He’s a hypocrite.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:44 am

SloMo is the proverbial pork chop in the synagogue at the moment. Another Christine Holgate under the bus won’t make any difference at this point.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:44 am

The Alphabet People always try to force the “acceptance” card onto the unsuspecting public. Much to their chagrin, they then find the card is already well in hand, so much so that the public doesn’t even realise it’s there.

The next card must then be “approval”. One step higher on the emotional and intellectual scale. Almost there…almost.

Next will be forced “celebration”. The hands will clap, they eyes will register hatred.

They don’t quite understand where this will lead them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:46 am

The tranny panzer force leading the charge.

local oaf
February 9, 2022 10:46 am

But I worry myself sick every time he leaves the house. I know that the love and protection that he enjoys with his mother, with his friends and family is very different to the reception he may receive in the world outside.

He’s worried about the behaviour of the “world outside”?

He just used the MSM megaphone to alert the “world outside” to the fact that his kid was a soft and east target.

Is there no-one the Left won’t use as a weapon to attack Western Civilisation?

C.L.
C.L.
February 9, 2022 10:47 am

Janet Albrechtsen on fire in Teh Paywallian

Right up to when she nominated the “gold standard” for a Liberal prime minister…

Though his colleagues may describe him as “horrible” and a “psycho” and a “liar”, my disappointment with him is less gaudy but no less real. I can’t put my finger on a single important policy Morrison has made his own, where he has chanced his arm in the political marketplace of ideas because he believes it is important to carry people with him.

The gold standard is John Howard and guns, taking on his opponents in the Coalition barely six weeks into his first term as prime minister. Three years into the job, Morrison hasn’t met the bronze level of conviction.

Sounds familiar: a TRUE Liberal always proves himself by “taking on” conservatives.

Sorry, Janet. You’re part of the problem.

duncanm
duncanm
February 9, 2022 10:48 am

wow

Could Victoria be a more corrupt cesspit?

Victoria Police told barrister Nicola Gobbo they would pay for her to flee overseas, including to a country without extradition treaties with Australia, so she could avoid criminal investigation or prosecution into her work as a police informer.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 9, 2022 10:48 am

Umm, you’d think they would have learnt something from the L’affaire Pell….but from Scumbag Morrison down, they’ve learnt nothing. Prejudicing trials is considered hunky dory if it suits the narrative…until the inevitable acquittal.

The accused has no profile – unlike the Cardinal. His acquittal, if he ever gets one, will be scarce reported. Plus when he comes out he will be a thoroughly broken man who will say whatever they want. Pell was cut from a different…ahem…cloth.

The other thing is that while a staffer is in the dock, it is the LNP who is on trial. That has been the game all along. It does not really matter if the guy is found guilty in court as long as the MSM can declare the Liberal party guilty.

And there is also the chance that young Brittney has a case and this guy deserves what he gets – I do not know enough of the details. The sistah-hood is adept at seizing naifs and molding them to their own agenda.

calli
calli
February 9, 2022 10:50 am

Victoria is a gangster state. I understand why people are leaving in droves.

House prices up here have done another leap over the Christmas break. People have visited and they like it. A lot.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 9, 2022 10:50 am

SloMo is the proverbial pork chop in the synagogue at the moment.

Maybe he should ring up Macquarie Bank. I hear they’re hiring.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:54 am

SloMo would be flat out opening a funny door at the moment.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 10:56 am

Janet Albrechtsen has always been a big Howard booster. Neil?

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 10:57 am

Howard’s legacy should be taken to the woodshed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 9, 2022 11:02 am

I hope all these fractious lefty sprogs of Wright and Hancock realize that if Albo goes with Bandt, as seems quite possible, their shares will collapse in value overnight?

Like all true Lefties, they believe that someone else will suffer the consequences…

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:02 am

John Howard nostalgia:

45% income tax rates
Gun confiscation
Kyoto treaty
Dismissal of any bill of rights proposals
Committing troops to ultimately pointless wars with no final objective
Jobs for maaates, re Manildra, Max Moore Wilton and other double barrelled parasites
The legacy of Artie Sinodinos, Malturd Trumble, Dutton and Brandis..

He may as well be Hillary Clinton.

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 11:04 am

Protestors in Canberra finding out that ABC Canberra broadcasts on the frequency “666” . LOL.

Oh there’s so much more you don’t know about that sicko town, Australia, hang around a while and you’ll see so much more!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

SloMo would be flat out opening a funny door at the moment.

That’d be quite a laugh.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 9, 2022 11:12 am

Is there no-one the Left won’t use as a weapon to attack Western Civilisation?

Should his kid run afoul of one of those vibrant communities who believe he should be tossed from a high place, doubtless that will be the fault of Western Civilisation.

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 11:20 am

Oh, I don’t think he listens to the OT at all.

If he did, he might have been warned. There are plenty of examples of slow, inexorable decline and its consequences.

He’s a pentecostal, he’s sat through many a sermon warning of the decline from the OT – particularly in the 2000’s. But he was probably sleeping like an idiot, dreaming of his dreamy “spiritual mentor” Brian Houston.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 9, 2022 11:21 am

Great editorial from the Tele today posted above. Yet my simple post on The Oz saying inappropriate to comment on case as pending trial was rejected.

Actually the actions of VICPOL were more so they could avoid Gobbo talking about their disgraceful conduct.
“so she could avoid criminal investigation or prosecution into her work as a police informer”.

Gab
Gab
February 9, 2022 11:23 am

No one ever congratulates me on having three productive, clever and loving heterosexual children.

It would be deemed ”homophobic” to do so.

Speedbox
February 9, 2022 11:24 am

duncanm says:
February 9, 2022 at 10:48 am
Victoria Police told barrister Nicola Gobbo they would pay for her to flee overseas, including to a country without extradition treaties with Australia, so she could avoid criminal investigation or prosecution into her work as a police informer.

That’s …….(lost for words). Wow indeed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 11:25 am

Listening to ALPBC radio News. We should give the trannies what they want or they might top themselves. Teh Paywallian is running a series of nonarticles that Victoriastan corruption body should have acted when warned people under investigation might top themselves.

Sorry. Suicide is not a criteria for determining public policy.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:28 am

All of them, struth.

Thanks for the article. Their list of references is impressive.

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 11:29 am

The gold standard is John Howard and guns

The reason Trudeau immediately fled and the Canadian police are frightened of laying a brutal smack down on the working class uprising currently occupying Ottawa – as they did here in Sydney and Victoria is Canadians own guns and the government are frightened of them as a whole.

It’s that simple.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 11:29 am

Victoriastan really is (or should be) another country.

miltonf
miltonf
February 9, 2022 11:30 am

John Howard nostalgia:

45% income tax rates
Gun confiscation
Kyoto treaty
Dismissal of any bill of rights proposals
Committing troops to ultimately pointless wars with no final objective
Jobs for maaates, re Manildra, Max Moore Wilton and other double barrelled parasites
The legacy of Artie Sinodinos, Malturd Trumble, Dutton and Brandis..

Assault on property rights via Kemp
Signing us up to the ICC
Mass migration
RET

Struth
February 9, 2022 11:33 am

From the jabbed I’ve known who mysteriously got shingles….well shit like that isn’t new, so nothing to see here, to the fact that of all the videos and the one girl in my town who I know was a jab jive performer…they’ve all been female. Look it up and try and find a male shaking after the jab. If you push and force people to take jabs when you know they maim and kill, are you not a murderer. If they kill in 2 , 4, or ten years, when people had 60 years to go of a nutural life……the autoimmune diswases we expect….ETC ETC ETC, are we going to be satisfied in just voting them out? Is that justice to you? Especially you who have been jabbed and will now die earlier and maybe, for example, slowly of Parkinsons in your fifties when you would have seen your great grandchildren married otherwise…..
And any life you have left, spent under the boot of extreme tyranny by the same people…..what does justice look like to you?

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:33 am

duncanm says:
February 9, 2022 at 10:48 am
Victoria Police told barrister Nicola Gobbo they would pay for her to flee overseas, including to a country without extradition treaties with Australia, so she could avoid criminal investigation or prosecution into her work as a police informer.

That’s …….(lost for words). Wow indeed.

OH COME ON NOW! WHEN ARE THESE CRIMINAL FUCKHEADS GOING TO GAOL?

This might be a rule to have an exception to a bill of attainder made ex post facto.

These parasitic fucks need to be ejected and the system needs cleansing.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:36 am

Novavax seems to be safe. Still don’t want it as it is coercive.

Struth
February 9, 2022 11:38 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
February 9, 2022 11:39 am

callisays:
February 9, 2022 at 10:04 am
I reckon the AFP had run DocDuk’s plates.

“Known to SA Police” would have come up. All they had to do was wait.

Or did they set it up? Who was that hi-vized man?(Apologies to the Lone Ranger.)

miltonf
miltonf
February 9, 2022 11:40 am

Sancho and Rosie- thanks for your comments re France. I haven’t visited since the mid 90s and I found the people to be very nice even in Paris. Never liked the Riviera- too built up. Overall I thought it was great.

I’m told Alstom HQ is in one of the shittier parts of Paris (St Denis iirc) and visiting it can be interesting.

C.L.
C.L.
February 9, 2022 11:40 am

I see Andrews has passed a law preventing anyone from suing Sutton.
Totally normal in the new, communist Australia.

Struth
February 9, 2022 11:40 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 11:42 am

Put me down with the loony antivaxxers if you like, too much here going on that I do not understand. And too many people who do not understand saying, “Don’t worry.they’re safe.”

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 11:44 am

Old and Broke: Howard was a sissy who’s afraid of guns and banned them because.

Woke: Howard was a globalist berserker who declared economic war on the Australian everyman and explicitly disarmed us in preparation for this vision of the future: the total state ruling every aspect of our replaceable cog like lives.

Megan
Megan
February 9, 2022 11:46 am

Novavax seems to be safe. Still don’t want it as it is coercive.

Exactly. I’m one of those people that has a great aversion to being pushed into doing things. Especially when it’s a political weasel doing the pushing.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:46 am

Who was that hi-vized man?

Glowie McGlowGlow of the Bosi squad of the ASIO – AFP CT – SAPOL – Pfeizer – ALP – AAR JTF.

Vicki
Vicki
February 9, 2022 11:49 am

Novavax seems to be safe.

Dot – you should review the post of the conversation of our own FlyingDuk with Emeritus Prof. Bob Clancy a while back.

The very excellent discussion mentioned the various reasons why Novavax is not worth considering at this stage. Amongst them was the cogent argument that it was developed originally for the Wuhan strain. There is no indication that it has been “tweaked” to effectively combat Delta or Omicron.

What, then, is the point of using it?

C.L.
C.L.
February 9, 2022 11:50 am

Something I want to point out about the homo-swamping of the Religious Discrimination Bill…

Now forgotten by apparently everybody is that the Bill’s earlier protection for conscientiously objecting doctors who refuse to ‘refer-on’ the elderly to be killed was dropped by Morrison months ago.

Nobody in the ‘conservative’ commentariat or the Sky Right cares.

Forced by law to arrange homicide.

In Queensland from 1 January, VAD assassins will be allowed to enter any religiously objecting hospital to kill a patient. The Archbishop of Brisbane’s Twitter profile pic tells you all you need to know about his inclination to fight the establishment.

Vicki
Vicki
February 9, 2022 11:51 am

Re my last point. The only argument for using Novavax now, is that it would qualify you for mandate exception. However, will they then require you to update with current mRNA vacxx?????

Razey
Razey
February 9, 2022 11:52 am

Struthsays:
February 9, 2022 at 11:23 am
Will the jabbed read this or prefer not to know? It’s as obvious as tits on a bull that this is correct information from the evidence now in. So again I ask, how many jabs are you going to get?

As many as ‘govern-me-harder’ Dan tells us to.

Dot
Dot
February 9, 2022 11:53 am

Vicki

I am probably already immune, people around me (vaxxxxxxed) got sick, Pureblood Dot did not, alas, most of those who got Omni-rona whom I know just had a fever for a couple of days. One bloke had a bad cold with phlegm on his chest for a few days. One bloke had nothing, but tested positive.

We all know it was a mail in vote fraud scam someone decided to monetise.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 9, 2022 11:58 am

From Mak Sikkar’s link to the Spectator:

It resembles the WEF’s Global Digital Identity Project, which continues the role that lockdowns have played in shifting the global economy away from private ownership and into what they have labelled an ‘access model’ whereby one would have to rent goods and services from global corporations and billionaires. It is, as One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts has described it, ‘life via subscription.’ The WEF have said that in this world, ‘you will own nothing and you will be happy,’ but I can guarantee you the only happiness in the ‘utopia’ of the WEF is reserved for elites.

Altogether now, a rousing chorus of “I owe my soul to the company store.”

The left used to be against that philosophy, but now are fully on board.

mizaris
mizaris
February 9, 2022 11:59 am

Did AnAl apologise to Kathy Sheriff?

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 11:59 am

“Sorry, Janet. You’re part of the problem.”

Quite so, I always find her mea culpas quite laughable. I distinctly recall her waxing lyrical back in September 2015 when Turdbull knifed Abbott.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 11:59 am

H B Bearsays:
February 9, 2022 at 11:42 am
H B Bearsays:
February 9, 2022 at 11:42 am
Put me down with the loony antivaxxers if you like, too much here going on that I do not understand.

Na! Only total capitulation will get you a free pass.

Vicki
Vicki
February 9, 2022 12:02 pm

twostix says:
February 9, 2022 at 10:30 am
In Nineveh level depraved Australia……..

My God, that was a great rant. twostix!!!!

I am a woman, but completely agree that the enforced feminisation of our society (as well as the other lop-sided, erroneous cultural and biological distortions) is leading to a dangerous level of cognitive dissonance in western society.

Bret Weinstein and other evolutionary biologists are right to draw urgent attention to the dangerous grounds we are entering.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 9, 2022 12:04 pm

OH COME ON NOW! WHEN ARE THESE CRIMINAL FUCKHEADS GOING TO GAOL?

We need a montage! Of the investigation uderway by the top men… TOP…MEN!!!

Ill take “lessons were learned, weve moved on” for the million dollars Eddie.

twostix
twostix
February 9, 2022 12:05 pm

It’s not tongue in cheek re the total state – Howard aggressively consolidated the federal government departments into a single unified whole. The “Department of Human Services”, now “Services Australia”, is a dystopian nightmare merging of The Child Support Agency, Medicare and Centrelink into one single great big fat all-seeing department. It “touches 99% of Australian’s lives” it boasts.

The backdrop to this was these departments continually getting in trouble for sharing Australian’s private data with each other for data-processing fishing expeditions. One handy outcome of the merge is now all that data is available to be processed and analysised and snooped on without oversight.

Its ethos during the transformation was government care and oversight of all Australians “cradle to grave”.

Thanks super-duper “Conservative” Howard.

miltonf
miltonf
February 9, 2022 12:06 pm

So they’re giving Clive the Pauline treatment?

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 12:06 pm

The Archbishop of Brisbane’s Twitter profile pic tells you all you need to know about his inclination to fight the establishment.

Good Lord!

Re fighting the establishment, it’s not as if he doesn’t have potent weapons at his disposal:

All those hospitals the archdiocese owns? The state system is reliant on their existence.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 9, 2022 12:06 pm

Excellent lunchtime reading: rant of the year so far. Erudite too!

Sic Semper Tyrannis (7 Feb, via Instapundit)

It’s become axiomatic that inside every leftist is a totalitarian screaming to get out. So if there’s one positive thing Covid has done is identify those people for all to see: the slave-muzzle wearers, proudly exhibiting their servile natures. They’re the Karens, the mask nazis, the buttinskis who can’t leave you or your family alone, the ones who screech at the sight of the unmasked like Donald Sutherland ratting out a real human being at the end of the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers:

These are the same people who want to force you into electric cars but not provide a reliable source of electricity for them. Who wish to destroy the energy industries that built our nation, and leave you freezing or sweltering in the dark. Who condone and even encourage mass looting of shops, the murder of small Asian women waiting for a subway train, the shooting of policemen by the underclass, and the flouting of nearly every law of civilized behavior on the streets in the name of “social justice.” And these are the people who, under the rubric of “climate change” and “the Great Reset,” want to strip you of your home, your cars, your livelihood and, eventually, your life. No matter which office they hold, high or low or none at all, these people are your enemies and should be treated accordingly.

Make no mistake: Covid was only a beta-test, one that a submissive population passed with flying colors.

Michael Walsh sounds like a Cat. Amazing that he wrote for Time magazine for 16 years because he’s awesomely red-pilled now. I think his latest book has been mentioned in these pages:

Last Stands, a study of military history from the Greeks to the present (Walsh, 2020)

Off to buy it on Kindle.

Frank
Frank
February 9, 2022 12:07 pm

rickw says:
February 9, 2022 at 10:17 am

Given the consequences of getting the length wrong–beheading or slow twitching strangulation–getting it right doesn’t really matter much. A synchronised group affair on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with accompanying fireworks display would lend itself to being televised quite nicely.

JMH
JMH
February 9, 2022 12:07 pm

“I owe my soul to the company store.”

“Another day older and deeper in debt” Sixteen Tons.

Sorry, just had to do it!

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 9, 2022 12:08 pm

Vicki

What, then, is the point of using it?

Eligibility (on a very selective basis) for favours from Bug Pharma?

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 12:08 pm

“twostixsays:
February 9, 2022 at 10:30 am”

All true.

Vicki
Vicki
February 9, 2022 12:08 pm

Vicki
I am probably already immune, people around me (vaxxxxxxed) got sick, Pureblood Dot did not

Yep – same for husband and myself (unvaxed). We had 9 (!) nineteen year old friends of my grandson visit a few weeks ago – a test of faith for us in our natural immunity bolstered by a healthy lifestyle. All good.

Husband had a possible Omicron infection early in January but we hit it hard with steroid inhaler, aspirin and Bisolvin & he was back in business in about 36 hours or so.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 12:10 pm

Thanks super-duper “Conservative” Howard.

The drive to centralise power is the story of Australia since 1942.

The “Liberals”, including Menzies & Howard, have driven it just as hard, if not harder than, Labor.

Frank
Frank
February 9, 2022 12:10 pm

We should give the trannies what they want or they might top themselves.

Given the suicide rates of post op trannies the same argument should apply to not providing sex changes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 12:11 pm

I think we can agree Pony Girl is leading the charge for strong, effective female leaders. Sorry Jacinta.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 9, 2022 12:12 pm

Cassie of Sydney says: Gracie Tame, who more and more looks, sounds and behaves like a creepy character from an Ira Levin book.

Great author. This Perfect Day is coming more true every passing month.

As the Wiki article at the link says, yet to be made into a film, but maybe not needed if we’re moving steadily along that path. Great book – grab a read before it’s banned.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 12:13 pm

You always got the feeling Lieboral support for States rights was one of those noncore promises.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 9, 2022 12:15 pm

JMHsays:
February 9, 2022 at 12:07 pm
“I owe my soul to the company store.”

“Another day older and deeper in debt” Sixteen Tons.

Sorry, just had to do it!

But it summarises quite nicely the objectives behind : You will own nothing, and you will be happy”.

Vicki
Vicki
February 9, 2022 12:15 pm

“A philosophical and spiritual defense of the premodern world, of the tragic view, of physical courage, and of masculinity and self-sacrifice in an age when those ancient virtues are too often caricatured and dismissed.”
?Victor Davis Hanson

Bruce, I looked up Amazon for info on the book on “Last Stands…” & found this excellent endorsement by my hero Victor Davis Hanson. Will also try & order the book.

We feel a certain affinity here on the farm with the concept!

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 9, 2022 12:17 pm

Rogersays:
February 9, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Thanks super-duper “Conservative” Howard.

The drive to centralise power is the story of Australia since 1942.

Hence my support yesterday for using this “crisis” to drive the Commonwealth back to its limited Constitutional responsibilities, and force the states to fund their own policies.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 9, 2022 12:17 pm

Called in at an ACT Bunnings this morning…

On duty at the front door was the “greeter” or whatever they call them. In this case a middle-aged Karen (lady variety). She was chipping everyone, including me, who walked in without a mask.

Funny thing was she was getting it right back as she was not wearing one herself. Her response was “I’m at work”. Most of the tradies walking past said something like: “So am I”, and kept going.

Roger
Roger
February 9, 2022 12:19 pm

You always got the feeling Lieboral support for States rights was one of those noncore promises.

As always with the Liberals, don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.

I must confess to a bit of schadenfreude watching the hitherto supine states rediscover their sovereign powers during the covid thing. Being politicians they naturally went too far though.

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 12:23 pm

This place is just weird. One day a call for more fed intervention then the next a bitch about how much states rights have been lost. Done by many of the same people.

I blame gen x and libertarians.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 12:23 pm

Off to the red Colesworths for a lucky dip formerly known as shopping in the Hermit Kingdom. Might even stop and look pleadingly inside for a coffee on the way back.
It’s like a dry run for Socialism.

Good practice I guess.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Her response was “I’m at work”. Most of the tradies walking past said something like: “So am I”, and kept going.

Classic!

srr
srr
February 9, 2022 12:26 pm

Hey, remember when the usual bully clowns went right off about anyone suggesting that another key purpose of this whole Wu Flu Farce was to fine tune Tracking & Tracing Everyone.

It didn’t matter how many examples were shared of turned off phones not QR checking still being traced, the bully clowns attacked the topic until only the brave pursued it.

Anyway …

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Barry
Barry
February 9, 2022 12:26 pm

Vicki says:
February 9, 2022 at 11:51 am
Re my last point. The only argument for using Novavax now, is that it would qualify you for mandate exception. However, will they then require you to update with current mRNA vacxx?????

Novavax published booster study pre-print data at the end of last year. Not yet peer reviewed and published as far as I can see. The booster shot was given at 6months post the first two. Some work was done at the Alfred in Melbourne.

Given no-one knows how or even whether the Novavax immunity wanes like the mRNA shot, I think that it will be some time before it is clear what the regimen should be. Approval would follow once that’s clear.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 12:27 pm

States rights used to be a proxy for decentralised power and decision making. Not standing up in support of a series of tin pot dictators. Did you skip Civics 101?

bespoke
bespoke
February 9, 2022 12:27 pm

remember when the usual bully clowns went right off about anyone suggesting that another key purpose of this whole Wu Flu Farce was to fine tune Tracking & Tracing Everyone.

No.

Cassie of Sydney
February 9, 2022 12:30 pm

From the Oz…

“The Australian Christian Lobby has warned Anthony Albanese and Labor MPs that a watered-down religious bill will be rejected by faith groups.

ACL national director Wendy Francis said the ACL will “not support a bill that is gutted by ALP and Greens amendments”.

“We expect other faith groups will follow. Eighty-one percent of Australians believe the government should pass religious discrimination legislation to ensure that people cannot be discriminated against based on their religion, just as on the basis of age, race and gender,” Ms Francis told The Australian.

“The ALP and Mr Albanese have been saying all along that they support religious freedom and at the eleventh hour we now hear they are gutting the RDB with hasty amendments, they are taking the proper legal process regarding the Sex Discrimination Act out of the hands of the ALRC and the end result ignores competing rights of every Australian.

“If moderate Liberals vote for these amendments, they are supporting Albanese as their leader in an election year.”

She’s right.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 9, 2022 12:31 pm

It’s sad. Howard was quite simpatico with W, and W has lately turned into a sort of Malcolm Fraser. With pants, unlike Malcolm.

It’s very Conquest’s 2nd. The Libs wetly oozed leftwards over many years and now we get Lib guys turning en-mass into Hewsons. I used to support Howard’s firearm buyback, but that was when I thought making firearms scarce would be a useful way to keep the underclass to the kitchen-knife level. Narrowly, it worked. Unfortunately now that all Australian governments have turned into 1930’s grade fascists I can see my error. Sorry.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 9, 2022 12:31 pm

States have always had lots of powers. There problem has traditionally being able to pay for it.

Speedbox
February 9, 2022 12:33 pm

twostix says:
February 9, 2022 at 11:29 am
…… the government are frightened of them as a whole.

I’m not sure any government should be ‘frightened’ of their population (frightened governments/people can do stupid irrational things) but they must respect their population and respect dissenting opinion. But, it is clear that our Governments and the para-military police services have no compunction in using an array of methods/weapons against the populace despite little/no provocation. That smacks of supreme arrogance that they control the armoury and will unleash it when they see fit and ‘you’ have no means to protect yourself.

The arrogance is compounded by civilians being prohibited from importing, selling or owning a range of non-lethal defensive equipment such as body armour, designed riot shields or helmets. Non-lethal equipment such as pepper spray and extendable batons are also beyond the reach of the general population and even paintball markers require Border Force and local police approval for importation.

Of course, some of these things do exist in the general population and others can be home-made but the numbers are tiny. In the last couple of years, in particular, we have seen many instances where the police acted with impunity and arrogance because the civilians cannot protect themselves from overzealous police who seemed very eager to try out their suppression methodology on the protesters.

P
P
February 9, 2022 12:33 pm
miltonf
miltonf
February 9, 2022 12:41 pm

I used to support Howard’s firearm buyback, but that was when I thought making firearms scarce would be a useful way to keep the underclass to the kitchen-knife level. Narrowly, it worked. Unfortunately now that all Australian governments have turned into 1930’s grade fascists I can see my error. Sorry.

Same with me and I too have changed my mind. My assessment of Howard is he was a Bush globalist who liked being PM. All the ‘ordinary working Australians’ stuff were just props for his act. Show biz for ugly people but real consequences for ordinary people.

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