There’s no stoush like a Catholic stoush, I always say.

Stan Grant gets it right this time.

Australia’s media elite anoint Albo: Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons party with Labor leader and a Who’s Who of Sydney including The Project stars and Magda Szubanski

Labor leader Antony Albanese and his girlfriend Jodie Haydon were guests of honour at Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons’ glitzy star-studded shindig at the weekend.

The celebrity couple previously threw a regular Australia Day party at their palatial North Shore mansion until the annual event was derailed by the pandemic.

But now it has returned, rebranded in 2020 as an Independence Day party in honour of FitzSimons’ Republican movement – and pushed back a month to February 26.

A Who’s Who of Sydney’s progressive media elite queued up to get in at the sprawling harbourside home, including comic actor Magda Szubanski, stars from Ten’s The Project and ABC journalists.

But one notable omission was ABC’s Q+A host Stan Grant after he mercilessly mocked the get-together in print last year.

Grant branded the parties ‘a woke lefty love-in’ of ‘journos, actors, writers, a couple of ex-Wallabies, a few washed-up politicians…and a former managing director of the ABC’.

Saturday’s party guest list list largely matched Grant’s predictions, according to The Australian’s Media Diary, and even included former ABC MD Mark Scott

Mr Albanese and Ms Haydon joined NSW Opposition leader Chris Minns at the resurrected event, in what was seen as a clear signal of support for Labor.

Both Wilkinson and FitzSimons have been strident critics – through their roles on The Project and in the Sun Herald – of PM Scott Morrison and the Coalition government

They were also joined by Ten talent including Wilkinson’s Sunday Project co-hosts Hamish Macdonald and pregnant panellist Jan Fran, as well as Chris Taylor and Osher Gunsberg.

The Australian reported other guests included ex-Sydney Morning Herald editor Lisa Davies, investigative reporter Kate McClymont, columnists Jacqueline Maley and Jane Caro, as well as outspoken former columnist, Mike ­Carlton.

ABC names were said to include The Drum host Julia Baird, One Plus One host Kurt Fearnley, and Four Corners reporter Louise Milligan.

Also among guests was the bandana-wearing former Wallaby’s daughter, Billi FitzSimons.

Ukraine and Russia commence peace talks at Belarusian border

It’s an ambush.
Milla Jovovich will shoot all the Russkies while doing front flips.

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Putin is threatening nuclear war and Joe Biden took the weekend off.

A Google search for this person reveals the name and descriptor:

Billi Fitzsimons
Lisa Wilkinson’s Daughter

Naturally, she is a writer. For Mamamia.

I was just having a discussion at pub earlier about the third and final sitting of the Council of Trent (1545-63), and this in particular:

Prescriptions were given about pastoral care and the administration of the sacraments.

Obviously, this is why chemists these days are so uppity.

Dot:

I am probably on balance, an isolationist and I don’t want the UN to exist…at all. We’re better off with nukes and no allies. Switzerland but gone full ham. We certainly shouldn’t go to Ukraine or get dragged into ancillary conflict. Plus I don’t want to get lit up by hard X rays of a thermonuclear warhead exploding near me.

Moving ever closer to that position myself. I no longer have trust in any of our institutions to even try to do the tasks they were formed to do.
It looks like we will have to do the “drunk and waking up in the gutter trick” before we accept the reality of our position. It’s going to be painful.

I like the cut of this bloke’s jib:

I will never be gaslighted into believing this biological impossibility that a man can magically transform into a woman simply by saying so. And any so-called news outlet that spreads such an outrageous lie, such outrageous propaganda, cannot be trusted on anything.

Again, you want to call yourself a girl? I don’t care. You want to refer to yourself as a she? I don’t care. But I will have no part of it, and anyone who does is either a liar, a coward, a propagandist, or all three.
John Nolte at Breitbart in criticising the woke Fox News for describing a wapist as “she”.

Custard:

Anyone care to speculate wether this is in play.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/

Not sure why it would be, Custard.
Is something happening?

Bruce O’Newk:

Lefties have now decided that radioactive fallout isn’t as bad as catching Covid.
FEMA: In Case Of Nuclear Explosion, Maintain Social Distancing And Wear A Mask (28 Feb)
It’s a weird syndrome where anything lefties don’t like is literally worse than being nuked.

FEMA has just announced it is ideologically unsound and not fit for purpose.
Gut it.

New thread, dummies. I’ve already torn up the place.

New fred, TE.