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Sadly I missed it with my children, they were not interested but we had a jolly good time when I…
More of British. Love it or hate it. Yum. Pork pies.
Nostalgic Brits reminiscing. Picture, As we were not so long ago. some of the comments; “Powell tried to warn us,…
Oh dear turkeys and chickens coming home to roost — looks like Labor has a woman problem and BTW so…
I don’t think Pharaohs could swim in those days.
Top 10, yay.
I notice Barnsey’s son, David Campbell (apprently a TV “personality”) is running cover for Elbow, saying that it was all his father’s idea.
Does Labor need to be reminded of their unfortunate history with superannuated rockers?
Present!
Certainly not Aussie crawl.
OldOzziesays:
April 19, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Genius’ shopping centre offers ‘husband storage pods’ where wives can leave their partners to play games while they browse the stores
I had always thought a Tool Shop of Gun Shop located in a shopping centre could do quite well!
7th!
Heaven!
Tractor.
Drinks boy!
Trying to purchase – Stihl GTA 26 10.8V 100mm Cordless Garden Pruner Saw Kit $279.00
Hi,
Thank you for your message.
Due to STIHL policy, they do not allow their items to be delivered. If you wish to purchase any STIHL items this will need to be organised via click and collect from your local STIHL dealership.
In response sent
Thanks,
Has to be a Role Model in how not to do business in the Modern Age – Stihl Dumb and possibly in contradiction of
Anti-competitive conduct
Section 45 of the Competition and Consumer Act prohibits contracts, arrangements, understandings or concerted practices that have the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition in a market, even if that conduct does not meet the stricter definitions of other anti-competitive conduct such as cartels.
Again thanks for responding and explaining the situation
Huh? Albanese (& Labor party) are acting on the advice of … Jimmy Barnes?
If they keep that up, Scomo will romp it in by a furlong.
ixnay! ixnay!
Putin: “Russia has withstood” Sanctions – Inside Russia Report
“Russia has withstood this unprecedented pressure. The situation is stabilizing, the ruble’s exchange rate has returned to the levels of the first half of February and is being defined by the objectively strong payment balance,”: https://tass.com/economy/1439247
Leftist comedy is as funny as herpes.
Jon Stewart’s ‘super-woke’ Apple TV+ show a ‘flop’: Report (18 Apr)
I suspect it didn’t help that Jon Stewart has been a tiny bit red pilled lately. The Left would regard him as a traitor to the cause and the Right wouldn’t ever watch him anyway.
“… averaged only about 180,000 U.S. homes within the first week.”
Better than CNN+ anyway…
More UAP policies released.
First $30,000 of interest on home loans to be tax deductible.
Living more than 200km from a capital city a 20% tax concession.
A Bill of Rights.
No Gov spying or accessing private info without permission and no sharing of any info.
Age pension increase of $180 fortnight.
Reduced tax on second jobs.
Nuclear subs asap and increase defence.
No HECS
Expand military gold card benefits.
Only products that have 95% min Australian content to be labelled as Australian.
Much more, the usual Clive haters and doomsayers here will denigrate the policies but there’s a lot to like there.
At their capped interest rates of 3%, that is a $1,000,000 loan.
Good.
I will just restructure my employment to two separate contracts.
How do you say “unintended consequences” without saying “unintended consequences”?
Sancho Panzer:
Yes, but they don’t come with the biological extras.
Old Aussie, Stihl are just doing Apple Store. (Might also have something to do with Cd-Li being a bit explodey) If that’s their bag, good luck to them.
My local dealership currently has a policy of having a spotty sprog try and talk you into battery powered “tools” and “mod systems” and “skins”- they are obviously flat out begging for brand capture- with the end result of me buying another 2-stroke and having fantasies of massacre’ing them all.
Visualizing the World’s Fertility Rate over 200 years
00:16 Fertility map 1900-2022
03:56 Causes: Intro
05:13 Causes: Wealth and labour
07:15 Causes: Education
09:29 Causes: Culture and religion
12:21 Fertility map projections 2022-2100
A federal judge has slashed a Black former contract worker’s payout to $15 million — from $137 million — in a racial discrimination lawsuit against Tesla.
Owen Diaz, who worked as a contract elevator operator at the automaker’s factory in Fremont, Calif., sued the company in 2017, alleging that he was subjected to racial discrimination.
After a federal jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla to pay Diaz $137 million last year, Tesla challenged the verdict.
Tesla must pay $137 million to a Black employee who sued for racial discrimination
On Wednesday, Judge William Orrick cut the award to $15 million.
Diaz testified that employees called him the N-word among other racial slurs. A Tesla supervisor called him the N-word “more than 30 times,” Diaz testified, according to court documents obtained by NPR.
Better than Nauru or PNG except it will like not to happen
Voters back Boris Johnson’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda by two to one, a poll revealed last night.
The survey for the Daily Mail found that even Labour voters are more likely to support it than oppose it – potentially causing problems for party leader Sir Keir Starmer.
It comes after the Prime Minister vowed to face down Left-wing lawyers who try to thwart the move.
Student loans? Like the US?
Only if you look from a distance of say 3ks.
We are going to see major movement in south and east this week.
I also see reports that civilians are also in the bunker below Azovstal. Why they haven’t been evacuated is instructive.
A Bill of Rights?
That always works.
I think one of the benefits of the time America came into existence was that their idea of rights was rooted in the Enlightenment, and much of the history of their rights has set a precedent as to how they are meant to be understood and applied.
Can you imagine how an Australian Bill of Rights, drafted, promulgated, and defended with the current period as the baseline, would be used to sodomise everything of worth in the country?
Word is that Zimbabwe also has a bill of rights.
The pope doing the important work
“We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,” the pope stated.
“Refugees are subdivided,” the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday interview on Italian television. “There’s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.”
There’s a shedload of rortability there, sfw
I agree, with caveats. I like the no HECS but I’d make the entry requirements more stringent. Unis should be about a half or a third of their current size.
Progressives.
If they weren’t projecting they would have nothing to complain about.
“Word is that Zimbabwe also has a bill of rights.”
Canada has one too. Yeah, that worked for them…
Hence need to be part of constitution, not a law than can say doesn’t apply in specific circumstances.
Bespoke, how about why you don’t like them?
Mother Lode, I was always against a bill of rights however the last two years have demonstrated that we need one. Of course any poorly written bill can be abused or not work, so if we had one it would need to be in the constitution and I would almost use the US one word for word, including the second amendment. I would’ve thought that the trashing of our rights over the wuflu period would’ve convinced most people how poorly our system worked in defending our freedom.
$1/2m a word, was it tupac?
These are not sensible policies, they’re brazen attempts to milk the votes of certain demographics.
No HECS (and forgiveness of existing HECS debt) is a greenfilth policy, BTW.
Wally Dalisays:
April 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Old Aussie, Stihl are just doing Apple Store. (Might also have something to do with Cd-Li being a bit explodey) If that’s their bag, good luck to them.
My local dealership currently has a policy of having a spotty sprog try and talk you into battery powered “tools” and “mod systems” and “skins”- they are obviously flat out begging for brand capture- with the end result of me buying another 2-stroke and having fantasies of massacre’ing them all.
I purchased EGO POWER+ Multi-Tool System with extensions, chainsaw and hedge trimmer – I have 2 stroke powered chainsaw, but find EGO Light and convenient and good for son-in-law to use (Big Garden)
As 77 and wife 75, have big manual cutters, but a bit too much for her – Stihl GTA 26 10.8V 100mm Cordless Garden Pruner Saw Kit small and easy to use, as is one handed Ryobi 18V Hedge Shears (Hedge Trimmer as well) which is excellent for Box Hedges and small Hedges
Wally all policies are open to abuse, I guess you prefer the status quo and the uniparty and steady as she goes.
Dover, I’m in two minds about the HECS, like you say there’s way too many people in uni already, most of whom shouldn’t be there. If the courses are free it will likely lead to more people attending and dropping out or doing useless (or harmful) degrees. Fewer places and competitive entry could fix that though.
There’s a shedload of rortability there, sfw
So no different from what we have now.
I took it to mean not that uni education was to be free, but that students would have to arrange their own finances.
I heard that, before Goof got in and decided to repair something that wasn’t broken, that there were numerous government funded scholarships – but that they had to be earned. Was that the old system?
America is definitely more free than other Anglophone nations.
It definitely worked.
As I remember it – yes – Commonwealth scholarships.
I’ll check if there’s any clarity on their website – and no, there isn’t.
The problem with universities is universities.
Law should be almost 100% correspondence and having a job… mathematics, stats, IT can all be done online. Chem, bio, physics, medicine…sure that’s gotta be in person, but the inefficiencies are massive.
If professions could grant their own degrees, universities would have their days numbered.
oops – please the following: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/hecs-holding-australias-smartest-minds-back-clive-palmer/
Mention of the dreaded term “free university”.
Rabz, I’m not promoting them however I fail to see why the policies are as bad as the majors and the greens. UAP wants votes and as always people want things, I guess it’s who gets stuff, Labor will enrich the public service and the unions and their mates and the Libs will do the same except for some unions.
“Wally Dalisays:
April 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Old Aussie, Stihl are just doing Apple Store. (Might also have something to do with Cd-Li being a bit explodey) If that’s their bag, good luck to them…”
You realise, of course, that under Australian consumer law (well, NSW at least) when the store says “Apple say the purchaser has to send it directly back to them for warranty work”, you can say “Consumer law says YOU have to take it, so if Apple won’t accept it from you then YOU can replace it or refund me, so which would you like to do?” When they arc up, you can always say “Not my fault you deal with a company that breaches consumer law – would you prefer I take this to the ACCC?”
Well, if they’re pissing you off, you can.
I don’t understand the fuss.
Practically anyone other than the usual Greens B.Arts voters* who acquires a HECS or FEE-HELP debt will inevitably pay it off within 5-7 years. It just takes a long time from the graduate’s first entry-level job.
I only noticed mine for about 4 or 5 years, because the WA Department of Health was incompetent and failed to correctly deduct the HECS every fortnight. And I thus had to pay a lump sum every EOFY on my tax return. And then it was suddenly gone.
* Because their chosen qualifications rarely translate into something workable. A Science or Engineering or Law, etc. degree or basic trades certificate will not necessarily give you the smarts and knowledge to jump straight into the dream role. But you can make a start in something.
They deserve your preferences on that alone.
Certainly here they’ve outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had and are now an inexcusable deadweight hindering this country’s progress. The foreign student rort being the most obvious.
Residential Schools. 2-3 week blocks of practical classes/exams. Everything else (assignments and major unit exams) can easily be done remotely.
I did my final year of B. Medical Science by correspondence. And later, a Grad. Cert and Grad. Dip in Sleep Medicine.
The Bill of Rights, curtailing of mass surveillance and taking the defence of the realm seriously is plenty enough for me.
SFW:
Bought a Sunbeam toaster and eclectic jug.
Got them home, Australia stamped all over the place.
Had to adjust the top opening catch so it could be opened -handy to enable putting water in.
4 Slice toaster – the bloody element is too small for the bread – only the central bottom corner of each slice is toasted – the rest is barely warm. It actually looks like a two slice element put into the bigger frame.
Hmmm… checks box – Designed in Australia – made in China in microfont.
No more Sunbeam products for this house.
sfw, I don’t disagree with a significant number of their policies, but it’s clangers like the ones noted that stick in the craw (the 3% fixed interest rate is another one).
Anyway, casting a legitimate vote in the HoR, at least in my electorate is a non starter. I will cast a legitimate vote in the senate, choosing most likely LDP, UAP and/or PHON, depending on the number of places available.
I certainly hope the useless bloody AEC gets their advice on how vote in the senate correct this time. Hint – it is not a double dissolution election.
More UAP policies released.
Given that UAP is not gonna be the majority party come May 22 whatever policies they have or don’t have are just thought bubbles .. more worrying is the possibility of Labor not only listening to Green rubbish but implementing any of it .. FFS!
Let’s hope enough of our countrymen are pissed off enough, can use Google or can break their conditioning.
https://www.ldp.org.au/freedom
Prelude
Australia is in peril. Typically when a nation faces a grave challenge it is because of international tension or an economic slump. The national trial we face is caused by a failure of political leadership. Our state and federal leaders from both major parties have proven themselves inept.
We will overcome this challenge and do so with strength, but we need real leadership.
Australia had the world’s fastest growing economy in the 20th century. Over the past decade however the major parties have abandoned the economic principles which delivered so much success. They still talk about low taxes and balanced budgets but in practice have become reform sloths.
Their extraordinary over-reaction to COVID has only magnified our accumulating economic woes. In the name of ‘zero-COVID’ we have doubled an already dangerously high commonwealth debt. Misplaced COVID hysteria has violated what many assumed were inviolable civil liberties. When citizens fear the police more than the virus, we have a crisis. We are now internationally infamous for going further down this dark COVID path than any other nation.
Australian federal politics needs a radical jolt.
The Liberal Democrats have advocated for citizen-trusting, freedom-loving and small government policies since 2001. We aim to cultivate a society of peace and prosperity based on individual freedom, personal responsibility, private property rights and voluntary association. This Freedom Manifesto outlines our priorities for the coming federal election.
Just to spur on discussion.
https://www.onenation.org.au/issues
God speed to upending the LN/P-ALP-GRN axis
ML
Word is that Zimbabwe also has a bill of rights.
So did the Soviet Union.
“You have the right to accommodation in a Gulag;
You have the right to be shot in the cellars of the Lubyanka; ….”
Joys of Life –Ice Cream Cone filled with 3 flavours of Ice Cream delivered by 5 Year Old Grandson to me on Computer
My concern is that the American rights considerably precede the current period, and they were very much reflected enlightenment values. It was written by ‘the winners’ – and the American Revolution was I think remarkable in that the guys who won it did not want to maintain control to enforce their vision of what victory was meant to look like.
It is not that I think a Bill of Rights is a bad thing, but I have difficulty seeing how we would get one now. Transgender rights to compete in whatever competitions they want, for example, is really only a fringe idea. Most Australians think it laughable. But it is treated very seriously by the elite establishment – almost as if it was a popular idea. Ten years ago it was nothing. Now it is forefront of the political conscience (as opposed to a real conscience).
So I suppose the question is how would a bill of rights be drafted and by whom? And when we get to vote on it? Look at the campaign to push SSM over the line. They created a false sense of what it was about and the good nature of ordinary people was used against them. Look at how easily people were persuaded that they were scared and the only security was locking people up in their own homes.
There may be a genius way to get a Bill that reflects Australian values, but it will have to sidestep the compromises and snares set up by political animals too.
No more Sunbeam products for this house.
Breville does a much better job
Toaster
and
Kettle
Uap policies.
Massive increase in social security expenditure.
Massive decrease in tax revenue.
What’s not to like?
We’ll be extinct in a thousand years. Since I shan’t be here, I view this with quiet equanimity.
Bought a Sunbeam toaster and eclectic jug.
Mrs Eyrie was complaining that there were rust particles coming out of the Sunbeam steam iron. We took it apart and found the plate above where the water goes in was around 40 square centimeters of badly corroded) galvanised steel. Everything else was fine.
FFS would it kill ya to use stainless steel ya mongs!
No more Sunbeam products for this house.
Breville does it better
Toaster
and
Kettle
Let me perhaps clarify – anything that solidifies and protects the right to free speech, free association, right to property, freedom of belief etc, such that it cannot be cynically turned around and used against those it is meant to protect sounds good to me.
There are plenty of places to cut fat in government spending.
And plenty of ways they can take their fat hobnailed boots off the necks of people who will happily produce wealth – which would actually cost the government less anyway.
… cut fat …
… fat hobnailed boots …
The constant fat referencing will have Clive a Craig worried.
If you’re going to have a reduced ‘second job tax’ why not a reduced overtime tax?
Or a reduced higher income tax?
The concern this addresses stems from people not understanding the tax free threshold is only applied to the amount of payg from your primary source of employment.
ML
And plenty of ways they can take their fat hobnailed boots off the necks of people who will happily produce wealth – which would actually cost the government less anyway.
They don’t care about the cost. To borrow a phrase, they lust for power over The Lives of Others.
Is that a fat.
I mean ‘fact’.
I’ll give it try Sfw
This will be absorbed by the mike all the ather schemes.
Could sold on the fact of less available services.
Need to see what they think is rights.
Sound good. Needs to be clear though that creeps have such protection.
Popular but inflation will out strip this.
Cheaper electricity ect to reduce the need for a second job.
Sound’s good. Cash!
Does nothing towards higher education reform.
Don’t no if it’s needed.
Empty jingoism.
Bottom line. It’s just the usual vote bying.
Gough did trash the system. He felt poor students weren’t able to afford the cost.Commonwealth offered two different types. A full scholarship covered whatever degree one wanted to enroll in, the other, a teaching scholarship consisting of one year at uni followed by a year at teachers college.
An allowance was included as well, extra for living away from home. Unfortunately I know a number of people who weren’t able to go because the allowance was small. The bureaucracy did not help as it took forever to actually get the money into one’s hand. The one remedy to fix the problem, an increase, was not considered.
Many of top 200 companies offered cadet ships, along with both state & federal government departments. These required a bond of a number of years work thereafter.
Students could pay their way, I know one federal politician who attained his degree this way. A certain standard was required to enroll.
Yes, a good system was destroyed.
Zipster:
Quite interesting video. The Current world population is peaking, and yet the Greens are still trying to get more people to have less children.
This leaves us in a quandary – are the people who are demanding less even when it appears the result at the end of the century will see their wishes granted. Is it because they want to be the ones who solved the population problem and cannot bear any other generation solving it? Or are they just megalomaniacs to whom life outside their own has no value?
the greens are idiots.
The best way to a sustainable world population is through the growth (note: not redistribution) of wealth.
The data clearly shows that lifting people out of poverty reduces their birth rates.
Get some decent democracy, rule of law and capitalism into the third world shitholes and many problems are solved.
#This will be absorbed by the market like all the ather schemes.
#Could be sold on the fact there’s service’s available.
#Need to see what they think is rights.
#Sound good. Needs to be clear though that creeps don’t get such protection.
#Popular but inflation will out strip this.
#Cheaper electricity ect to reduce the need for a second job.
#Sound’s good. Cash!
#Does nothing towards higher education reform.
#Don’t no if it’s needed.
#Empty jingoism.
ZK2A:
Perhaps the Morrison Government should just piss off and mind their own business.
We all know that this $75 million will go nowhere but into the pockets of maaates and the department that will have to be created to administer the loans.
And in 5 years time it will cost a billion dollars.
FFS would it kill ya to use stainless steel ya mongs!
Just a wild guess but the number of folk who take apart their iron to check out the rust marks may not be enough to keep Sunbeam quality control on high alert .. LOL!
As the holder of a “Gold card” I can’t see any further benefits being needed, but I would like to see a similar scheme for police officers injured in the line of duty.
and the department that will have to be created to administer the loans.
But .. think how good it looks on the employment stats .. LOL!
zyconoclast:
Can I sue the WA/NT/Qld/NSW health departments for the multiple times I’ve been called an ‘effing white c…’?
That will be $60 million, ta!
Ka ching! The song of my peoples, I tells ya!
From “The Age.”
“Co designed, culturally appropriate properties..” Perhaps if “First Nations” peoples took a little care of the houses they already had..
Mother Lode:
And the USSR, right up until it didn’t.
Just a quick question. Were the other employees and the supervisor also black? Seems to be OK when they use it amongst themselves.
I saw The Duke yesterday with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren funny , quirky, and sadness . I observed unresolved grief from a family death 12 years previously and when a friend asked what I thought that’s what I said the family fell apart from then. Rubbish she shouted it was guilt nothing to do with grief and would not accept that grieving people often suffer from guilt says me trained in grief counselling as well as diagnosing psychological problems . Any Cats seen it care to comment .
Another observation saw widows, children of a dead parent, losses from injuries in accidents whilst men, only in grief and loss after losing their jobs Many when the banks got rid of middle managers.
The pledge of$75 million to buy Ag land probably is an attempt to keep youngsters on the land, as conglomerates (especially with OS origins) have been buying up large aggregates for some time- for a very long time. But viable acreage involves enormous size of purchases & enormous sums of money.
This sounds like a token gesture which will fool no one in the bush. What they should consider is restricting the ability of conservation conglomerates to outbid farmers who want to work the land.
DoverBeach:
Technical stuff only.
No humanities.
If they have a passion for ART, they can get together the funds to go to England, or the US, or Rwanda.
Apologies it’s after 8am and I’m sundowning as usual.
I wouldn’t want to limit the price of what a retiring farmer can get.
The single objective of the Democratic Party’s fake moral panic over waaaacism and Ukraine/Putin is to head off criticism in main street USA about rampant inflation caused by the DNC’s decision to pump trillions of dollars into the American money supply to pay for an explosion in government spending. Tucker Carlson Tonight has the numbers that show it has nothing to do with Putin or waaaacism, just home-grown fiscal recklessness and incompetence.
So I can shoot down any council drones whilst sitting on the back porch guzzling tinnies?
Count me in!
Our old mate Numbers is at Quadrant On-Line, the Spirit of Australia thread, saying that our problem is that e aren’t not voting for a John Curtin.
He doesn’t mention if he regards AnAl as a Curtin equivalent.
I never realised until today that Rise of Soywalker has a scene with African American POCs with front holes riding on an enemy (Imperial) Star Destroyer in outer space…with no spacesuits for themselves or their steeds.
Cool story bro. Needed more dragons.
What an abysmal move, I am glad I have never seen it.
Anyone defending it is on crack. I hope them the finest NY rock for their discerning dopamine receptors.
Bubbles
Students could pay their way, I know one federal politician who attained his degree this way. A certain standard was required to enroll.
Yes, a good system was destroyed.
Universities now see themselves as businesses, and numbers of students (“turnover”), not their abilities (standards) are seen as the key to commercial success.
Of course. That was the intent.
You can’t march through an institution if everyone is gainfully employed/learning/has excellent job prospects.
You have to create dissatisfaction, ennui, unrealistic expectations.
Then, and only then, do you put on your hobnail boots and march. Preferably over the faces of class enemies.
Numbers. Conscription. Curtin.
LOL.
Winston
Is it because they want to be the ones who solved the population problem and cannot bear any other generation solving it? Or are they just megalomaniacs to whom life outside their own has no value?
Megalomaniacs.
John Curtin? A man completely beholden to the Union movement, and completely unable to take any action regarding their appalling record of strikes and industrial anarchy?
Winston.
How about forbidding all activities that can be served outside of public universities.
I think this will go a long way to pop the bubble.
min – re unresolved grief:
You are so right. Many many years ago my GP, who was also a close personal friend, was killed in a car accident. Her husband was driving & her much wanted toddler thankfully escaped injury in the back seat.
He asked me to deliver the eulogy, which I did, at her graveside, before hundreds of her grieving friends & patients. It was a harrowing ask – particularly as her little one inexplicably walked up to the coffin & said “Mum…mum”. I was numb throughout the Wake .
For years & years afterwards I would tear up at the thought of her. It seemed strange how very affected I remained. Finally, during a course in self awareness, I dissolved into terrible grief & when this was explored I understood that my responsibility on the day of her funeral prevented me from properly grieving with others. Thereafter I have only remembered her great affection.
Amusingly China is currently censoring their own national anthem because of its first line:
“Stand up! Those who refuse to be slaves!”
Coof prisoners in Shanghai are using it as a protest. Maybe we need to change the second line of ours, since it no longer works either.
SFW, from what you sampled the UAP is just working over the same ground as the Uniparty. New grants, new schemes, new exemptions, new rates, new announcements.
Home loan interest tax deductibility- same ground as the execrable, and infaltionary, First Homeowners Grant. Decide whether or not the family home is meant to be a tax haven, and either go all in or all out.
Capital distance tax concession- arse-about-face. Nowhere near a tax reduction or simplification.
Increased pension- how about the inflationary money-printing uniparty gov getting out of the command economy instead?
Reduced tax on second jobs- already debunked here.
Subs and bombs- fine. Uniparty are all there, it’s just a bluffing bid.
HECS- either deregulate, and get the gov the hell out of tertiary education, or you’re kidding yourself.
Increased gold card- again, get the gov out of the marketplace.
More supermarket logo rash. That’ll totally not be a compliance burden on producers, and win so many millions of patriotic shoppers’ hearts and minds who just don’t know how to look at labels yet eh?
In short- same uniparty, different colours. I wish it were not so, but change my mind.
Vote LDP.
Join LDP.
Popped in to my local pharmacy today to get the sparingly doled out ‘pain relief’ now available to elderly people with chronic pain conditions, e.g. bones rubbing up against each other where joints used to be.
Anyway, I discovered that it is also a methadone dispensery. In short order, three people came up to swallow a poofteenth of methadone followed by a glass of orange juice.
Two men, one woman. Toothless, ancient looking, harmless. All met up outside, quite probably to discuss how to score.
One of their doses of methadone would kill my bone pain, but no, not allowed.
When my mother got breast cancer 60 years ago, it took a long time for her to die. The worst part was dickhead ‘doctors’ refusing to prescribe decent painkillers ‘in case she got addicted’ – to a woman dying of cancer.
Finally, the old man put her into a private nursing home, and she died peacefully.
Stupid gubbmint – faced with a problem, let’s ban everything.
A US judge has quashed the Biden administration’s mask mandate for planes, buses, taxis, trains and airports, causing confusion among travellers and paving the way for a legal showdown if the US government appeals to maintain the increasingly unpopular policy.
Florida District Court judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled that the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that determines the Biden administration’s Covid-19 rules, didn’t have the authority to require passengers to wear masks.
“Our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends,” Judge Mizelle wrote, arguing a 1944 law giving Washington the power to make rules about “sanitation” did not extend to mandatory masking.
“Wearing a mask cleans nothing. At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ‘sanitises’ the person wearing the mask nor ‘sanitises’ the conveyance,” the Tampa judge wrote in her 59-page judgment.
and
“This is obviously a disappointing decision. The CDC continues recommending wearing a mask in public transit,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday (Tuesday AEST), stopping short of signalling an appeal.
The Transport Security Administration, which governs US airports, said it would no longer enforce the mask mandate until it had more clarity on the administration’s position.
Oz
Inside a Shanghai mass quarantine center: No showers, lights on 24/7
People being treated like cattle. Don’t think for a second they wouldn’t do the same here if they thought they could get away with it.
“If you’re going to have a reduced ‘second job tax’ why not a reduced overtime tax?
Or a reduced higher income tax?”
Raise tax free threshhold to 60-75% of average weekly earnings, indexed to that every year, then 10-20% flat income tax above that amount, no deductions. Same for business except that you can deduct wages/salaries that are taxable, and any business or individual that you pay for goods/services that has an ABN/ACN that you can document (so only pay tax on it once), and it’s on GP, not income, maybe 10% business and 20% personal.
Your tax return is a single page, and no-one is concerned about which tax agent knows the most dodgy ways to get you more back, as a business there are no tax benefits to leasing vs purchasing assets, or other dodgy ways to reduce your tax bill that don’t create more economic activity. As a business, you know EXACTLY how much you will need to pay when you get paid for the goods/services you supply, and can “put it away” for tax time, or pay it incrementally like GST.
If GovCo wants to “encourage” certain economic activities, they can subsidise them directly on a company by company (or person by person) basis with grants, not tax deductions – such grants being fully open and transparent as to who is getting how much and for what purpose.
Reasoning: no-one likes paying tax, everyone thinks they pay too much and that someone else is not paying their share. If you make it simple, straightforward and easy, everyone will know it’s fair and it’s not even worth trying some “bottom of the harbour” tax scheme (they won’t exist anyway!) Grants are better than tax deductions when the grants are transparently documented because they are entity specific and you don’t get people setting up dodgy crap that doesn’t actually do anything other than meet the rules to gain a tax deduction, so better targeted. And such targeting can also focus on startups/small businesses etc if that is deemed “better”, or any other way that improves the economy, as well as being on a year-by-year basis, so you can yank them whenever and whereever you need to.
President Nick Reece 4 Life then?
Victoria should break away from the rest of Australia because it is constantly short changed by federal government funding, Melbourne’s deputy mayor claims.
Nicholas Reece, who was a senior advisor to former prime minister Julia Gilliard, said Victoria was ‘ripped off’ in this year’s federal budget.
He said it was time for Victorians to consider separating from the rest of the country for ‘our own best interests’.
Daily Mail, with Our Julia’s name misspelt at least twice.
The lying Slapper then Abbott to his ever enduring embarrassment told us it would cost n0 more than $10 billion. Realists projected 30 billion.
Now this late term abortion.
$60 billion a year!
Continuing my cars of East Vic Park – today an Aston Martin SUV. I suspect even JC would not be seen in one. Just buy a Range Rover FFS.
Wally, looked at the LDP website, not much in the way of policies I guess you like that.
OK.
Great idea. They’ve been one of the mendicant States for some time now.
That should be enough to disqualify anyone from public life. We need to borrow from the Ancient Greeks and reintroduce exile .
Humphrey, I suspect every low-rent, BMW-driving poser in Perth (and quite a few other places) would kill for an Aston Martin badge on his SUV — the ultimate look-at-moi wank.
A Bill of Rights? Before endorsing such, absorb the wisdom of James Allan whose many thoughts on this can probably be found in the archives of The Speccie.
https://www.spectator.com.au/author/james-allan/
For example,
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/07/the-last-thing-we-need-is-a-bill-of-rights/
SFW
Change my mind. I’m not into ad hom.
Two years of COVID bullshit and still shilling for the ethereal visage of A V Dicey to defend our common law rights in Parliament with Alf Deakin and Hank Parkes.
Prof. Allan is dreaming.
What he should do, is actually to try write a bill of rights. He has the knowledge, wisdom and intelligence to guide us through this important change.
What is the cost of administering HECS?
There is a possibility it might even lose money with the money collected. It seems absurd, but remember NSW Transport didn’t even know it had an inscrutable celestial cleaner sleeping in a closet at town hall for over a year.
Those Sydneysiders should be credited, keeping those trains sparkling clean and smelling like roses in lieu of Uncle Chang not doing his job.
Hopefully they build the world’s greatest border wall as well.
Eisenhower would be marveled with self containing communism.
Tom – the level of wealth in Perth is on another level – even in East Vic Park. A friend returning from Sydney (a place not averse to ostentatious displays of wealth) is having problems dealing with it. Iron ore back around $150 a ton will do that.
Oh oh I know.
Abolish HECs and create a higher tax rate for white collar employment.
Getting in first. First on the thread, anyway.
Ryan Campbell. Decent keeper/batsman.
Rod Marsh.
Shane Warne.
It hunts out cricketers.
I confess to being initially sucked into the mythology of the NDIS. Many years ago, when he had some sort of junior position Bill Shorten gave an impressive (yes!) speech to the Sydney Institute on the need for immediate redress of the despair of many carers of invalids and the variously disabled. He gave a moving account of the position of such family carers who had not had a holiday in decades & who despaired about the future of their loved ones when they died. I foolishly thought that the scheme he outlined would actually be a REAL insurance policy scheme underwritten by the government.
That it would in reality descend into unmonitored government largesse to a vast number of citizens with varying degrees of ability to care for themselves was far from what he described at that time.
Silly me. Trust Labor? Sure can.
Raise the Murray!
I’m more infaver of a strong Constitution restricting what governments can do.
Don’t worry, only another month or so to go of the media & politicians of the uniparty lying like fuck to us & the dumb arse voters giving them another term to fuck us over.
Happiness.
I liked paying tax in the 80’s early 90’s. Never earnt so much or paid so little in tax. The accountant was cheap, not like the grifters today. Every year the latest one we had sends us out a bill for just in case the taxman audits you for all those things you didn’t declare. The first time he did it I rang and asked if his will was up to date. No joke. We now ring the ATO for anything that needs clarifying and apart from the first time when they suggested we get an accountant wife asked if they didn’t know the current legislation. No problem since.
Very insightful comment Ted. Which bananas did you pick today?
I have no experience of the pre NDIS world. I cannot recall what test my OT said they applied to someone in my position but basically it was sufficient if you could get to/from the letterbox to get the daily mail. As usual, the number of service providers has expanded to meet the dollars available. As with anything associated with the Cth it is impenetrable without specialist advice.
Use Sydney as infill.
Agreed, think of what could be achieved if government wasn’t there to help, I mean get in the way.
Dot.
I think Prof Allan’s main objection is that a Bill of Rights will give unelected, activist Judges lots of opportunities for interpretations that will not be favourable to the people, no matter how cleverly the Bill may be written.
Moreover, I advocate that a country (we are no longer a nation) should only ever consider such a Bill provided there is a concomitant Bill of Responsibilities.
Head Prefect, I packed a travel pack of bananas for you in your travel pack in your hunt to get Putin.
If you want I will get your bananas packed for your trip to NYC, you will need them, either way hurry up & fuck off.
Don’t forget to do your vote for the uniparty before you go.
Just asking for trouble, no thanks.
Never liked a solution that involves more legislation.
Go ahead…make my day.
I happened to visit Groote Eyelandt in 1977 — a tour of the island showed many houses built for indigenous people — but on closer inspection the houses were shells with the timbers used to build fires – there were many dogs — a number were actually in the houses — it was an absolute disaster — I was told by the person driving us around that in many of the houses the sewer pipes were just sunk into the ground with no connections to sewerage so the sewage had nowhere to go — nice builders probably on government contracts — nothing ever improves for remote aboriginal communities just more violence and dysfunction — could be the left’s way to commit genocide while saying “we’re here to help”
Remember the Rudd government was going to spend $5.5 billion on housing for aboriginal people , half way through I recall there being only about 75 houses built; to say nothing of the $625 million Rudd thought bubble overseen by that great economic paragon Tanya Plibersek, where they were going to build smaller dwellings in cheaper areas housing scheme devised by former prime minister Kevin Rudd … these gains by building smaller dwellings in cheaper areas, (The National Rental Affordability Scheme) funny how that scheme was concentrated mostly in Tanya’s electorate providing cheap rental housing for Chinese students while developers made a killing.
The great mind of Kevni Rudd
A Bill of Rights written today would be incomprehensible woke sludge.
With Infowars going tits up does anyone have alternate suppliers for colloidal silver or whatever that shit was?
Really, has that maniac Alex Jones, gone bust?
apparently yes.
Well more like it’s asset protection against the families whose children were murdered at Sandy Hook.
H B Bear — it’s become Rortville because it was designed and is administered by the bureaucracy — do you know there are 16,500 employed in the administration of the NDIS — not one of them provides direct care as in showering, changing, assisting with daily activities etc…
A local chemist sells colloidal silver. Anything to make a buck.
Head Prefect the bananas need to be kept fresh, when are you off to hunt Putin down as you said?
Or was it more bullshit that you normally gob off about?
I agree with Nicholas Reece:
Make Australia’s day bloke, & be sure to take Tasmania with you.
Btw Nick, good luck with keeping the lights on, Australia is not an electricity exporting nation.
Hi Bundy.
On your own today?
Whenever I venture to the local shopping “mall” I notice people in various stages of disability accompanied by usually uniformed folk who often appear to be migrants from Africa or the subcontinent. I assume this is a service paid for by NDIS. It’s great that they can get about, but the funny thing is a lot of the time they are also accompanied by someone who appears to be a family member.
Once I observed a uniformed fellow with a disabled chap in his company who appeared to be collecting an Uber Eats order for delivery. So this disabled chap’s “care”, at least when he was in the hands of this carer, consisted of being driven about by his carer while he moonlighted for Uber Eats.
Rortsville, all right.
If Victoria left the commonwealth it would save WA the trouble.
Oh Roger the stories I could tell
Colloidal silver is legitimate an old treatment** but it isn’t a panacea and don’t turn blue.*
*It’s pretty funny reading articles trashing it. Not am essential mineral? So why are we getting gene therapy vaccines now?
**May have interactions with drugs, but these claims by shills aren’t referenced well. I can’t see why a beta lactam would bind to silver.
Very interesting.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-4484/16/9/082
Nanotechnology
Synergistic antibacterial effects of ?-lactam antibiotic combined with silver nanoparticles
Ping Li1,2, Juan Li2, Changzhu Wu1, Qingsheng Wu1 and Jian Li2
Published 28 July 2005 • IOP Publishing Ltd
Nanotechnology, Volume 16, Number 9
Citation Ping Li et al 2005 Nanotechnology 16 1912
Wow. The establishment really is full of shit.
Mak Siccarsays:
April 19, 2022 at 4:33 pm
Dot.
I think Prof Allan’s main objection is that a Bill of Rights will give unelected, activist Judges lots of opportunities for interpretations that will not be favourable to the people, no matter how cleverly the Bill may be written.
I vaguely recall a later article by Prof Allan in Quadrant, in which he said that he had changed his mind after the COVID disaster, and now favours a Bill of Rights, but probably not one that the polliemuppets would like.
Tinta
to say nothing of the $625 million Rudd thought bubble overseen by that great economic paragon Tanya Plibersek, where they were going to build smaller dwellings in cheaper areas housing scheme devised by former prime minister Kevin Rudd … these gains by building smaller dwellings in cheaper areas, (The National Rental Affordability Scheme) funny how that scheme was concentrated mostly in Tanya’s electorate providing cheap rental housing for Chinese students while developers made a killing.
That scheme funded a lot of student accommodation in Sydney and Canberra (and probably elsewhere). Not so sure that many Australian homeless benefited. Look for big unit blocks near inner city universities.
It isn’t all horrible though. I have a friend who is employed as a “carer” for a few “clients”, but they have become almost family.
She picks them up and takes them shopping, makes sure their homes are ship shape and they have enough food and other essentials. Mostly mental/developmental disabilities or minor mobility issues. When we meet, it’s always an introduction and a few words – the community contact is so important for people who would otherwise be shut-ins. Naturally, they suffered terribly when the lockdowns happened.
She loves the work. At the non-bureaucratic pointy end.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
April 19, 2022 at 5:05 pm
I agree with Nicholas Reece:
He said it was time for Victorians to consider separating from the rest of the country for ‘our own best interests’.
Make Australia’s day bloke, & be sure to take Tasmania with you.
Btw Nick, good luck with keeping the lights on, Australia is not an electricity exporting nation
Knickerless Grease and Dan Xi Man would immediately head off to Beijing to cut a deal under Belt and Road.
I wonder would many Victorians away from Melbourne and its environs really go along with the idea. Reduce Vicco to Melbourne, Geelong and a few places near them, let the rest stay?
Indeed it did Boambee John — that is exactly what was the outcome — and most in Labor electorates certainly in the seat of Sydney
You don’t imagine politicians actually care about people with disabilities do you?
It’s all just another access point to buckets of public money to shore up support for their filthy hides. That the merest trickle makes it to someone who needs it is a miracle.
I was thinking, how would the union movement and Labor deal with a little piece of shit like Matt Kean?
A big hand on the shoulder and a walk around the back of the building for some constructive advice.
Plibbers went vewy quiet after that low income housing gig. Unsurprisingly.
Tinta
Indeed it did Boambee John — that is exactly what was the outcome — and most in Labor electorates certainly in the seat of Sydney
Also a lot near the ANU, in another Labor electorate.
There’s always a pattern, always
calli at 5:26 – I do 2 or 3 hours with a lovely Balinese woman on a Monday morning. While I am basically in supported accommodation it has been basically just walking for about an hour but now I am getting ready to go home it is more running around doing chores. The sort of thing you used to do without even thinking about it. When you are right at the coal front it makes a real difference.
Though she did try the plausible deniability schtick. If she becomes ‘leader’ perhaps Jonathan Lea can ask her a question about affordable housing.
The lockdowns and isolation are terrible for people whose lives are already narrowed by their disabilities. I often think of the intellectually disabled people in Victoria — how did they fare? were they chemically restrained for the duration? I wonder about that all the time knowing what i know.
Yes, I think I’ve referenced this previously.
Jacinta Price defends Katherine Deves; that bald prick matt kean criticises her. That’s all you need to know about Katherine Deves.
I “know a bloke wot knows a bloke” who builds houses in some of those communities. He says the lurk practiced by some of the “big men” is to have two houses – one in your “whitefella ” name, the other in your “tribal” name. You live in one, while the other is repaired… rinse and repeat. He photographs each house as it’s handed over…
Reparations anyone?
Btw Nick, good luck with keeping the lights on, Australia is not an electricity exporting nation.
That might be a benefit of the idea.
Victoria would have to ratchet up the brown coal fired turbines.
Cheap electricity could well become a new retro fad.
It might become feasible for a business to operate in Victoria.
Spike-Only Vaccine a Colossal Blunder: Michigan State University Shows SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Escape is Due to Vaccination
Earlier analyses had shown correlation of new COVID-19 cases with vaccine uptake, indicating vaccine escape. Now that causality is confirmed, the question is: Will policy makers stop making it worse?
Ukraine: Russia begins new eastern offensive | DW News
Russia appears to have started its anticipated push in the east of the country, according to Ukraine’s top security official. Earlier, Ukraine’s armed forces command said Russia’s main efforts were focused on establishing complete control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with military action also intensifying in Kharkiv.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi warns Israel against hostile moves | International News | WION
Russia’s main efforts were focused on establishing complete control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions
Can I take ‘No more territorial demands’ for a thousand?
Is Albo is about to be eaten alive by worms?
‘To err is human’: Labor’s Bill Shorten compares Anthony Albanese’s gaffes on the campaign trail to Jesus’ crucifixion (19 Apr)
Or is he the other Herod? Maybe he should get Plibs to ask Albo for Morrison’s head on a platter. I’ve never seen her dance though.
Hey Beyonce, still in the spelling bee comp?
I can’t help but notice that Elbow speaks through gritted teeth, he seems incapable speaking naturally – all the practice seems to have made it worse -I’m reminded of a lip-curled snarling corgi
Fighting Tories will do that to you.
And biting them.
Thick hides.
Journalist Finds US Troops Running Ukraine Volunteers
Richard Medhurst
I’m a Red Tory.
That would confuse Elbow no end.
Cronkite, you were singing Kean’s praises recently. Talk about a 180.
Neil Oliver – Can We Still Tell Fact From Fiction & Do We Care?
he’s had a excellent head start
Cronkite, you were singing Kean’s praises recently. Talk about a 180.
Bullshit.
thought so
The only person I can imagine singing Keans praises would be Bandt.
Certainly not Cohenite.
Really good news, Bear
I know. I was just kidding. Calm down please.
and his girlfriend Eleni Petinos recently elevated to cabinet, I wonder why?
ELBOW I AM OVERJOYED
TO MEET YOU FACE TO FACE…
You’ve been leaving a lot of spittle
All around the place
Performing gaffes and
Raising zombie policies
Now I understand you’re god?
At least that’s what Tit’s said!
unbelievable
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jeez
I was just kidding, folks. Wasn’t it fucking obvious because the last person on this site praising that bald prick would be Cronkite (but after me). There’s something very wrong about the bald idiot who’s also a climate nancy.
No need to separate Victoria from Australia. Just Melbourne and suburbs.
Country Victoria is lovely.
Ok. I just think of those special times we had together and I can’t stay mad at you.
??????
On remote housing….
Australia can have as much of this disaster of a policy area as it want to pay for. Billions upon billions, forever.
Know a bloke who has spent a lot of time building in such places. It’s a no-win situation. They go in and build a house. It gets tenanted by a lot of the locals. As they practise a basic communism based on relationships the tenants can’t refuse to take in relatives. This means overcrowding. Alcohol and drugs make matters worse with fighting. Place gets wrecked.
Governments get criticised for wrecked housing. Eventually they get pulled down and more put up.
My mate once suggested a much stronger house – basically a slab with steel girders and plug and play walls. Just replace the walls when they get wrecked. This was dismissed as being “sub-standard”.
Enjoy!
Very interesting. Yes John H has warned about not having multiple papers confirming a result, but the idea that “colloidal silver for COVID was debunked!” really is a trash tier Pavlovian programmatic response.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24524838/
Inhibitory effect of silver nanomaterials on transmissible virus-induced host cell infections
Xiaonan Lv et al. Biomaterials. 2014 Apr.
It is indeed; but it’s also honeycombed with Melburnian hobby farmers.