The respect shown towards each other at the end was brilliant. Forehead against forehead. Sportsmanship at it’s finest. Nikita Tszyu…
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Also, today’s Mutt. Looks very, very good, a hell of a lot like ol Steely Grey, aka the Teflon Death…
Whale stranding in Dunsborough- mine wifey had a very early call from a dogwalker, buzzed down because wildlife in peril…
Australian PM’s censorship campaign has turned him into a ‘massive international joke’
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Frog Chicks
Apart from speaking that ‘orrible poofy lingo, I really don’t see the point.
They must have had more than 1.4 million in advertising surely. Then again there is the mandatory ABC freebie publicity for fellow travellers.
Farmer Gez – that’s cool.
I thought it was a long stretch until I saw the evidence…
Okay
From the West Australian. WA rich list.
There are four kids plus the wife who seemed to have split $100 million in 2008.
Four kids plus the wife – assume the hundi was split evenly and that’s $20 million apiece in 2008 dollars.
More from Wiki
Doesn’t sound as though Simey was the money making type, but then you don’t know if he bumbled his way into gains through the clean energy racket.
Frog Chicks, skinny, hairy, smell like Gauloises, bad goon and garlic. Horrible bunch of hags.
FitSimian really is a slimy little dickhead. No one calls it that; everyone knows the accusations were complete bullshit – dates/times/building features/chronology did not make sense.
Are they doing TV ads? All I’ve seen of the scumbags are front yard posters at supporters homes.
Oh, and shopping bags with Zoeeeee image on a side.
‘orrible bunch of hags …
For when one needs to be seen dead.
Hey Jupes – Lou, going that mighty li’l “D” thang …
Not sure, I try to avoid the TV so have not been keeping up with things that way.
I know zero about horse racing, but boy the Kentucky Derby was an incredibly exciting race.
Watch to the end
At least if Zoe gets into parliament it will be beautiful in its ugliness.
“Robert Holmes a’Court – pig excrement be unto him – was Australia’s first billionaire.’
Robert Holmes a Court was a crook and a thug.
Eddles, in one of his more lucid moments:
Putin’s lapdog dances to “American Boy” I bet the song is no longer on the play list.
Collectively blessed with fewer brain cells than a recently deceased slug.
#IPAsayswesterngliberaldemocracies
I feel blessed to have led a choko free life.
This is the best debate I’ve ever seen! After several minutes of snarling & yelling, Scomo & Albo are about to start slugging each other.
I’ve seen less exiting blues in the school playground.
The ending of Ozark sucked.
Not as bad as The Soprano’s which was what I reckon they wanted to be compared with.
The best bit of that finale was Journey.
Nah the daughter trying to park the car.
Started watching The Deuce. Well done.
All about the seedier aspects of New York in the 1970s.
Highlights of Phil Leotardo from The Sopranos – here, speaking about Tony Soprano:
‘He said I look like the Shah of Iran.’
And getting his head squished at the servo after being shot.
But various (allegedly) repulsive figures ended up dead, dead, dead.
However, did Jonah have it in him?
We’ve tapped into the huge pent-up frustration with parliament’s inability to address the big issues. Just three more strong independents and the Respect at Work report could be implemented and start to actually deliver respect for women in the workplace, we could have a federal integrity commission to weed out corruption, we could have sensible discussions around the Uluru Statement and so forth.
Yeah, caught up today with my god-daughter’s family. Refrigeration mechanics, a carpenter, a sparky, a roof plumber, a nurse and so on, and all they wanted to talk about was the Uluru Statement
Miss Hublitz?
Also:
‘That fuckin’ animal Blundetto’
Holmes a Court Snr certainly saw the writing was on the wall sooner than any of the others and exited stage left. His death prevented a lot of pertinent questions being asked. At the time Janet H a C made much of the poor widow status. We will never know what she knew and when so shouldn’t throw stones. Plenty of minority shareholders in Bell Resources might. If you were a minority shareholder in Bell Resources and didn’t sell out when Holmes a Court appeared you were along for the ride.
Stupid Goils … 🙂
Must have been a close call though, coz surely they spend a lot of time hoping for a Federal ICAC & worrying about there being insufficient Tesla charging stations across the Nullabor?
Ooh look! The Russian ambassador, several LDP luminaries such as John Ruddick and Ross Cameron, assorted far right cranks (including a real wacko in military uniform) and an illegal bikie gang all got together for a Soviet Victory Day cruise on Sydney Harbour over the weekend. Hysterical! How many Cat commenters were there? I bet a whole bunch of you went!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXQHTDYVvbA&t=519s
Including by our beloved politicians and braindead j’ismists.
What’s a guy in the ADF called “Averose” doing at a Putinist propaganda crankfest with the Russian ambassador?? Then there’s Tony Kevin, lunatic conspiracy theorist and former Australian ambassador to Cambodia, and the LDP!! I can’t believe the LDP showed up. Dotty please explain! Hilarious.
Alan Bond was the villain there – anyone questioning his appearance on the scene was advised that, “Well, he and the other partner in that deal will still own only less then 40% of the shares – “Minority” shareholders will still control 60% of the company.”
Fiskables – for goodness sake – so you’re not into the Poot.
Do you really think you’re able to distinguish fact from bovine excrement?
Disclosure: I think I may have stayed in a Holmes a Court family apartment in London around 1990, albeit being rented by a mate’s brother.
I hope you stole all the soap and toilet paper when you left…
Rabsy – don’t know, don’t care. It’s delicious trolling fodder and I’ll dine on this for months!
The Entire BDS Movement is a Fraud
Lovely dinner cruise in the Katharine gorge. Sunlight playing on the red sandstone, changing colour, the water shimmering. And the finale…stars. It’s a clear night and little light pollution.
Dinner partners were Boomer ES Greenies regaling us with stories of re-wilding and the wonders of evs. I will say no more for there are simply no words.
Bear – are you trying to unleash an avalanche of unrequited creditors on your ample ursine backside?
Timothy Neilson:
Really?!
You and yours are now on the list for After the Revolution.
Insufficient Fervour.
Zulu – playing with fire at any rate. There is a reason the takeover threshold is set at 20%.
Well, at least they’re not a bunch of nayzees. That would not be good.
WellKamps would be springing up all round. 😕
Needless to say, it was very conveniently located and I am certainly not one to look behind an offer of free accommodation.
Video: Col. Richard Black — U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War
There’s also a transcript below. Long but very interesting, not to mention frightening.
Again, does anyone have a link to the meme of the Obama/Clinton 16 year plan because I’m pretty sure that a nuclear war was part of it.
My knowledge of the Act isn’t what it used to be, but Holmes a Court was skating on thin ice on that deal.
Rita Panahi
@RitaPanahi
Actually plenty of people did understand this but whenever we spoke about it the hysterical authoritarians lost their tiny minds.
World renowned infectious disease experts like
@MartinKulldorf & @DrJBhattacharya
were attacked for saying this.
Rita Panahi on Bill Gates admission that the fatality rate of Covid was low, with the elderly most at risk, similar to the flu. There’s a clip of him at the link saying it.
USAID Granted Millions In Taxpayer Dollars To Fund Overseas Abortions Under The Guise Of Covid Relief
People like to breathe free. Who knew.
Zulu – the were a lot of things done by a range of parties that were a bit iffy. Holmes a Court definitely took advantage of options not available to his fellow shareholders. Not strictly illegal but not looked upon favourably by those who do this stuff for a living.
The Takeover Panel did find that SGIC and Bond were acting in concert and made Bond make a full takeover offer for Bell Resources. Yes, some skullduggery afoot.
As an aside, Tank Chats discusses the JagdPanther and its doctrinal use. Excellent video. It looks like thay’ve finally finished restoring one of the REME built ones. Nifty paint job.
Brilliant run. The last 400m is through the eye of the needle.
What a great race call. He was astounded. So much better than the pre planned line.
Calli:
This is where you need one of these gadgets to record their words and play them back in ten years time when their ‘Paradise’ goes tits up.
But don’t buy the one I’ve linked to. You can buy these things on Alibaba for about $10 each and they are the SAME thing.
The reason I’ve put up the two products is to show the absolute rip offs thar are happening.
2 items – no discernable difference but $900+ Vs $10… there is a subclass of people in this country who produce nothing, but are becoming millionaires because people don’t, or are too bloody lazy to shop around.
Fisk
What illegal bikie gang was it?
Dugin’s Daggers?
Ask rabz. He knows why.
Zero Hedge posts something useful:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/last-two-times-used-car-prices-fell-much-there-was-financial-crisis
Don’t tell JC. Even if it’s not correct how good is an index of second hand vehicles?
We have to rely on Carsales for 2nd hand Miata prices and usually make a few calls around the Club.
Dennis Waterman dies aged 74: Actor best known for roles in Minder, the Sweeney and New Tricks passes away at his home in Spain with his wife by his side
Woke up wondwering who won the slanging match on Channel 9 tonight . ulaman could not get Albo to admit he told lies about his ability to answer The 6 points of NDIS . He lied about the lies .
Even South Front’s most ardent and enthusiastic admit to things being pretty static for the last few weeks.
When you’re down to tit-for-tat village swaps and hopeful statements about prospective (albeit seemingly limited) breakouts on one hand, and the other side seems to be pushing the flank of that main effort out and away from Kharkov and back towards the Russian border, nobody appears to really be doing any better or any worse than each other.
What I do find fascinating, is that Mariupol is still somehow not completely pacified. Despite every numerical, tactical and firepower advantage held by the attacking side, and both Ukrainian and Russian officials saying that every last civilian has now been evacuated from the Azovstal plant…
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Morten Morland.
Peter Brookes.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Warren Brown is savage this morning, Tom.
Savagely accurate…
And on the subject of Tina Brown’s cartoon,
Sydney Watson presents: When ‘Men Giving Birth’ Goes Too Far–
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1IWn1Ktj2Tg
As is Leak.
Below from Gateway Pundit in relatin to 2000 Mules. Many of the mules were tracked going to and from stash houses on their ballot dropping runs. One of them was Stacey Abrams HQ.
Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips announced they will be releasing ALL the addresses of the stash houses.
Stecey Abrams may want to find a good lawyer.
On Saturday night political columnist Brian Cates posted this on the stash houses:
Tonight during the virtual premiere of 2000 Mules, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips announced they will be releasing ALL the addresses of the stash houses run by the NGO’s that were orchestrating this massive criminal racketeering operation in multiple states.
This also helps explain how a radical Marxist candidate like Rafael Warnock can win in Georgia”.
Another Gateway Pundit post mentions social media already blocking posts related to 2000 Mules. Reason being might incite violence.
What’s all this about?
IBAC: $10,000 for developer’s dumplings with Daniel Andrews paywalled at the oz
Elbow rat backtrack
Not just her.
Can’t wait for the ABC to report on this…
News.com is a joke.
Trying to pull a sexism angle on the two leaders but the comments posted point clearly to the empowered moderator lacking the skills needed.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/who-is-hosting-channel-9-leaders-debate/news-story/63ea900497f75b5e88be32b10ba0a139
Have none of these Teal Independents realised they have forever linked themselves to the Port Adelaide Football Club?
It’s the worst strategy since Hewson thought ‘I reckon I’ll wing this presser. They won’t ask about cake.’
That might be awkward- Stacey Abrams is supposed to be the Dems’ celebrity politician for electoral ‘integrity…’
From Gez’ link:
Yes they have. Concern with the apparent inability to find a moderator with the gravitas and/or presence to civilise a debate between two blokes who’ve been in politics all their lives, and who are desperate to gain some cred and therefore run the country for the next three years. Mind you, your average ten year old should have been able to sort those two mincers out.
Reminds me of a couple of years ago when Mongyang Lord Mayor Sally Capp had to be dragged to safety in the Melbourne CBD, after deciding to intervene in a post-match drunken punch-on between Collingwood and Essendon supporters.
At least Capp had the decency to admit she was wrong to even think about it. ‘I just thought I’d use my mother’s voice’, she said later.
Admittedly, Ms Abo rocked a great pantsuit and had the ‘power stance’ going. Couldn’t back it up though.
Tom Switzer’s ABC radio program this morning featured an interesting chat with John Howard. In a departure from common sense both agreed that Trump was terribly wrong to say the 2020 election was rigged.
At the same time, today’s review of “2000 Mules” by Andrea Widburg at American Thinker adds to the mountain of evidence of foul play.
There are too many inconsistencies in those election results, too many instances of manipulation – not just faked or harvested ballots, possibly also alteration of tallies in machines – for 2020 to do anything but undermine faith in the electoral process.
How the half terms will go remains to be seen. It’s already evident that the Dems can’t win by fair means, but who thinks they’ll give up and say “ yes, it’s a fair cop, we concede”?
Link to Andrea Widburg article.
From Gateway Pundit:
“ According to the evidence discussed in the movie, if you factor in just the Mule ballot traffickers: Trump won with 305 electoral votes. That does not even count all the other fraud that occurred during the election like the mysterious ballot drops at 3 in the morning or the questionable machines.”
link
John Howard should have kept his mouth shut in order to keep some dignity but no, he had to join Kevni and Trumble. My guess is he is sliding into second childhood and had to better the other two.
Anchor – Before the 2020 election I had noticed that the Dems were very complacent and unworried, despite Joe bringing in crowds of 6 people while Trump was filling and overflowing the biggest venues they could find.
The Dems are again complacent. The MSM are saying woe, woe, and lower level Dem congresscritters have been retiring. But not the Dem hierarchy, they don’t seem worried at all.
I witch on Sky News and the first thing that comes on is the Libs’ committing harakiri (or do I mean sepuku?) They intend to cross the floor to vote against the religious freedom bill. Yes, that will win them the election. They are too stupid to remember the ancient Greek proverb that those whom gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
Bruce, if the Dems pull another electoral steal in November they will leave ordinary voters no other option but partition.
Former dreadlocked footballer Harry O’Brien, aka Hertier Lumumba has scrawled down some alleged specifics on bad behaviour from Collingwood executives before he was traded away two years after the 2010 flag win, and who then drifted into obscurity without the lifestyle he felt entitled to.
Apropos of Gary Pert:
‘Demanded’ an apology. ‘Felt’ retaliation. Got it. On Buckley:
A lot of ‘demanding’ going on. Everybody knew about the Chimp name, which he actually encouraged for years. More Buckley bastardry:
‘Walking incorrectly’. Righto. Then, this bloke who suffered so much – who was publicly nailed to a cross and abused by an entire football club for not being an albino, and who was then traded off – was so relieved, and so happy to walk out the door and be rid of this horrible racism, what did he do?
He went to Eddie McGuire to try and stay where he was. Lumumbabrien’s notes on McGuire:
Which involved Adam Goodes from the Sydney Poofs, not O’Brien.
What fucking horseshit. Way to double down, Harry. Clearly your LA lifestyle (that’s where he lives now) is getting beyond your means, or you’re doing this for cred with your new circle of mates.
Either way – fuck off.
I see DaStink overnight making mockery of a local remembrance of the Soviet war effort in World War II and trying to make out that it was attended by a cabal of “far-right cranks”…..oh the irony. Remind me, just how how many Russians were butchered by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945? Oh that’s right, between twenty-five and twenty-seven million. But DaStink thinks that’s funny. Stay classy DaStink.
I recall Jim Molan on ABC several times during the campaign saying he was backing Hillary Clinton.
Most Australian Liberals would fit quite comfortably into the “moderate” wing of the Democratic Party.
John Hinderaker at Powerline is correct but late to the conclusion that “liberals are evil”.
He is of course talking about the Dems and extreme left in America, not our light green nuclear energy avoiders and coal fired power wreckers the Liberal National Coalition.
The moderate wing of the democrats?
It’s just Manchin and Sinema.
Rogersays:
May 9, 2022 at 6:40 am
Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips announced they will be releasing ALL the addresses of the stash houses.
Stecey Abrams may want to find a good lawyer.
Not just her.
Can’t wait for the ABC to report on this…
Don’t hold your breath, puce is an even less attractive facial colour than teal.
Gnu’s poll.
Our election is very similar to Davey’s cartoon that Tom posted above. Labor has a vehicle that does sort of go, whereas the LNP have had their tyres stolen by the Teals and have
Net Zerono engine under the hood.Labor extends lead in two party basis with Anthony Albanese closing in on Scott Morrison as preferred prime minister (Sky News, 9 May)
You’d think the LNP would realize their policies suck, especially in the eyes of their base. A primary vote of 35% is pretty clear they’re not appealing to voters. Maybe they should do something different, like actually have conservative policies not green-lite ones.
“I recall Jim Molan on ABC several times during the campaign saying he was backing Hillary Clinton.”
Yep……as did John Howard.
Hence the inverted commas.
If you listen to them, Australian Liberals like Switzer, Howard & Molan regard Clinton, Obama and Biden as “moderates”.
And none of them expected, or wanted, Trump to win.
The new Dr Who is everything you expected the BBC would choose. Here’s some more background.
Sigh.
Cassie
Remind me, just how how many Russians were butchered by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945? Oh that’s right, between twenty-five and twenty-seven million.
Don’t forget that a fair percentage of those were killed either by their own side (tens of thousands of executions) or by the use of tactics that would have been considered primitive on the Western Front in 1916.
Not to detract from the Russian sacrifice, but some was self-inflicted (but that certainly would not have been mentioned during the commemoration).
Tel’s brown bread.
John Bell Biotech
Appointed UK life sciences champion in 2011, Bell has been advising the government on how to turbocharge the industry, which is second only to the US’s in size. According to figures from the BioIndustry Association (BIA), £4.5bn of investment poured into UK biotech last year, a 16-fold increase from 2012
Who’da thunk it news.
Power Grid Operators Warn of Electricity Shortages (Newsmax, 8 May)
It’s so unthunkable that Teal Man, who appears to be a new superhero, has not thunk it either.
‘A lot of reasons’ to close AGL’s fossil fuel assets early: Cannon-Brookes (Sky News, 8 May)
“Cheaper” in teal-speak now seems to mean “catastrophically expensive”. And “stable and reliable grid” means rolling blackouts.
Don’t worry about Fisk, Cassie.
He’s a fake PHON supporter and controlled opposition to boot.
“We will never have a PM better than Johnny Howard”
That sounds like a knock off of one of those “ancient Chinese curses”.
I find it curious that medicos seem to think that challenging the immune system over and over again with weird stuff, strengthens it. It might work with muscles, but I somehow think immunity could possibly be different.
You’d think the LNP would realize their policies suck, especially in the eyes of their base. A primary vote of 35% is pretty clear they’re not appealing to voters.
The LNP thinks a poor primary vote means that their policies don’t suck enough.
Rosie, for you.
I don’t get why these “manosphere” yutzes are glorifying the now dead Kevin Samuels as “the GOAT”.
Pros: Called out African American women as delusional and hate black men.
Cons: Fashion SIMP.
Said Nicki Minaj was a 9/10 (barf).
Made fun of female virgins – effectively encouraging them to be less marriageable. He also wanted more black men and women to get married and form families, huh?
Died alone after having “a lot of red bull” whilst he was boning a 30 something nurse who couldn’t give him first aid.
It’s as though a lot of the guys in the “field” who aren’t supportive of traditional values or self improvement are grifters in it solely for the poosy or heaven forbid, are pickup coaches err, roaches, who just want SIMP blood and treasure.
Imagine how that 35 year old nurse feels.
Couldn’t save her lover’s life and now she’s basically a walking headstone.
At least she can claim she has “deadly bomb pussy”.
Kids’ book Our Skin blames racism on white people
An “inflammatory” children’s book being distributed to New York City schools teaches kids as young as two that the concept of race was created by white people who claimed they were “better, smarter, prettier, and that they deserve more than everybody else.”
The book Our Skin was penned by Harlem activist Megan Madison and Brooklynite and library worker Jessica Ralli, and published last year.
It begins with a simple discussion of skin tones — then launches into a screed that blames the idea of race on white people along with an illustration of scary-looking human skulls encased in glass and sitting on shelves, NY Post reports.
“A long time ago, way before you were born, a group of white people made up an idea called race. They sorted people by skin colour and said that white people were better, smarter, prettier, and that they deserve more than everybody else,” the book declares.
It goes on to say “That isn’t true or fair at all!” with a picture of a “caucasian” man holding up the “Most beautiful skull.”
The book, aimed at those aged two to five, has been distributed to at least one Manhattan kindergarten, one on Staten Island as well as a school in Brooklyn and appears to be part of the Department of Education’s new “Universal Mosaic Curriculum.”
More at news.com
You Assumed My Gender
from
No Matter What Weird Language Biden Prefers, Today Is Still Mothers’ Day
The word “mother” is being erased by the federal government, in accordance with the executive order that President Biden signed on his first day in office on January 20, 2021. Along with other sexed words (father, brother, husband, wife, daughter, son), the edict “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” is leading to the elimination of traditional terminology.
The proliferating bastardization of the language would be laughable if it weren’t so insulting:
. Birthing parents
. Childbearing people
. Gestational carriers
. Bodies with vaginas
. Menstruators
. Postnatal people
. People with a uterus
The Ministry of Truth (AKA the new Disinformation Governance Board that has been created under the Department of Homeland Security) no doubt will be helping us all get used to the new usage.
As George Orwell observed, “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
At Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, the Wokerati have started instructing students on the care and treatment of pregnant males, and future midwives are being trained to be able to catheterize a penis during “labor.”
I’m not a biologist, but I did pay sufficient attention in high school to know that a uterus and cervix are required equipment for giving birth. I also understand biology sufficiently to know that it is not possible for any mammal to change sex. Sex is not just the obvious features such as genitalia; sex is embodied in every cell of the body and plays a part in every aspect of health and wellness. Sex is determined at conception and remains static until death.
Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
A REAL TRAGEDY
AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY
these were never really experts
mistaking sheep for shepherds
Usually in an election the press picks a side (well, defaults to it) and is then selective with their stories and shameless in how they present the stories they do report.
Is that happening this time round? I mean the pair of them are pretty shabby and half-hearted facsimiles of humans. Are the press finding they don’t have to present Morro in a bad light, and has their previous zeal for Labor (+Greens) shifted to the flotsam washed by by the Teal sea?
Vaccine study of 23 million shows risk of ‘heart problems’ from Moderna or Pfizer jab
Could do with a better class of troll, at least be amusing rather than boring.
We need him too.
Florida Textbook Publishers Surrender to DeSantis, Scrub Woke Content
President of Ireland Says Musk Relaxing Twitter Censorship Would Be ‘Dangerous Narcissism’
George Soros Drops $1 Million Into Stacey Abrams’ Campaign for Georgia Governor
From the Comments on the above post – No Matter What Weird Language Biden Prefers, Today Is Still Mothers’ Day
– “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities”
Voltaire
– Happy Non-Binary, Half a Parental Unit, Pseudo-Mom Day!
Btw, what’s for dinner, it?
– You cannot call someone a women because it reduces them to biological attributes.
So we call them people with uterus now.
– Roses are red,
Kamalas not black,
Joe has dementia,,
and Hunter’s
on Crack…
Fit only to be collected and burned by the public hangman.
Dot
Zero fucking Hedge. You too, Brutus?
Used car pricing took off during the pandemic so it’s no shock there’s a correction. Those idiots think this natural correction is an economic indicator? FFS.
It’s Not Over. It’s Just Begun
Walgreens – Unvaxxed are testing positive for Covid-19 at the lowest rate, Triple Vaxxed at the highest
“The Whole Planet Is A Pot, And We’re All Frogs”
The lockdown in China: if the powerful are doing something that looks stupid, it’s because whatever they’re doing IS actually stupid
I received several comments on my post “The Shanghai Lockdown: a Memetic Analysis,” and I think that some were so interesting to be worth reproducing in a full-fledged post. The first comment comes from an anonymous commenter living in China. It seems to me believable, and also consistent with my interpretation.
In practice, the Chinese were (and are) not the only one who are conditioned by factors such as avoiding a loss of face.
Italians did the same during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.
There seems to be an enormous psychological problem that when you discover that you have been conned, you don’t want to admit that. It makes little difference if you are Chinese, Italian, or another nationality.
There follows a comment by “Mon Seul Desir” on which I fully agree. So much that I used it in a condensed version for the title of this post.
When something looks insane, most likely, it IS insane.
Thoughts on the Informed Medical Options Party?
Calm down JC, it is interesting.
There’s a hole in your budget, dear Labor
One of the ABC’s go to expert epidemiologists on covid was an expert in handwashing in the hospital setting in 3rd world countries. Seriously, that’s what her PhD was on, and they were consulting her on vaccine safety and efficacy.
oops. Dover – accidently reported Toms comment at 04:06. Please disregard.
About the best political advertisement I’ve seen for a long time.
Sowing update:
Last of the canola went in the ground on Saturday, stretching the planting window a bit even for a shorter season variety but given a full profile of moisture, the seasonal outlook and prices on offer it’s worth the risk.
800ha of the longer season canola already out of ground as is all the long season wheat.
A bit of mid season wheat (Rockstar) in on a couple of paddocks but main focus for now is Lentils and Durum on this farm.
I’m 240ha through a 540ha paddock of Lentils and the smaller linkage seeder has just started on the Durum.
Pre plant urea spreading still happening as is the usual pre plant spraying.
The latest seasonal update still brings once in a generation good news for Australian Ag.
A lingering LaNina leading to above average winter rains.
Continuing drought in large parts of the US and Sth America.
Also a “crunched” planting window for the corn/soybean belt because of two reasons.
1. Wet weather (ironically)
2. Late spring frost and generally cold weather (because the planet is heating up)
They’ve got a window just about now to get it all in but this means virtually the whole lot will be at the same stage of maturity through the season and any adverse weather will effect the whole crop, not just portions. This will make the markets very jumpy and should keep our prices up.
Europe and Black Sea area also forecast to go dry, so on top of all the other crap they may also be headed for a dry season.
Hopefully we see a lowered urea price as a result.
We have over a month’s worth of Flanneries forecast from Wednesday onwards.
300ha of lentils and about 500 of durum to get in before it hits.
main focus for now is Lentils and Durum on this farm.
Bloody Italian hippies.
In the hope of avoiding the usual crowds of idiots and HTV pushers, I’m planning to hit up one of the early voting centers today. Having checked out the majorslast.com list I’m happy to see there’s an alternative to voting Labor or greens for a change. The Liberals only really put up a token candidate here, but this time around there LDP, ONP, UAP as well.
Mothers Day was marked in my area of the woods with lots of excitement and heavy traffic to florists and full bookings at local restaurants.
I do hope Matthew Guy and the rest of the Libs had an enjoyable day. No doubt they’ll be back to normal today moving to expel antiabortionist extremist Bernie Finn.
Modern politics: celebrate Mothers Day on Sunday; on Monday talk up abortion.
I know!
It takes all sorts.
Great post, Bushie.
Farming has certainly come a long way in my lifetime. Apart from all the region specific crops, Internet access to weather patterns – locally and nationally – helps to plan for the best product and, hopefully, the best return.
More then just chucking a few seeds in the ground and praying for rain.
The new Dr Who is everything you expected the BBC would choose. Here’s some more background.
Sigh.
Haven’t watched that shit since this guy.
132andBush. You old sow and sow.
Getting them in the ground is the easy bit.
Getting them the right way up is the trick.
Nah, the female voiceover neuters it.
That sort of message needs a menacing basso profundo.
I don’t know why Libs insist on thinking women only listen to women. My observations indicate the contrary.
JB,
Not old
But feeling it right now.
How are things going for you, Gez?
I put in the last crop, before I retired, using an onboard computer, and satnav, on ground my grandfather originally tilled with horses…
HIGHER CULTURE: Mother’s Day With the Beatles
Below is a clip of Paul McCartney explaining how the song connects so much to mothers and how they nurture us throughout our lives, on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”:
McCartney also shared more details during an episode of Wired magazine’s YouTube series, “The Autocomplete Interview”:
I had a dream. It was in the years when we were probably overdoing everything–drinking and staying out too late and getting crazy.
So, I was a bit… sort of, exhausted, and I went to bed. Anyway, I had a dream.
And my mother, who died probably about 10 years previously, was in the dream. She came to me in the dream.
It’s a magic moment, ’cause you’re actually there with your mother.
So, she seemed to know that I was a bit stressed out. And she said: “Don’t worry, it’s going to be fine. Just let it be.”
As he explained in the Corden clip, when he woke up the next day, he went to the piano and–ho hum–wrote one of the greatest songs of all time. And really, one of the signs you’ve managed to do that is when great performers cover your songs.
Roger Franklin nails it, and I’ll soon be taking his advice in the last paragraph.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sicktoria/2022/05/the-ever-narrowing-church-of-victorian-liberalism/
I put in the last crop, before I retired, using an onboard computer, and satnav, on ground my grandfather originally tilled with horses…
Don’t fret, they’ll have us back to horses soon…..
132andBush says:
May 9, 2022 at 10:08 am
How are things going for you, Gez?
Carting wheat on contract at the moment and hoping I don’t get a call from the seeding operation. You know what that means.
Very slow start due to lots of little things and not rushing so we take advantage of a weed germination for a complete kill. That’s my excuse anyway.
Broke a drive shaft on the seeder clutch. We replaced the drive chain but it wasn’t exactly the same as the original and snap it went.
Beans and vetch in and now onto canola. I’m delaying hay oats so we don’t get rank growth and blow the budget on fungicides. Can’t get inoculants around here and most are happy to avoid the extra gunk on the seed.
Thank you Mak.
The take away for me is that politicians know exactly what they are doing when they auction off ‘yum cha specials’.
Made the mistake of looking at the David Rowe cartoon this morning.
It strikes me that his drawing style may reflect that which is of the left in Canberra. Degenerate, sloppy, and blinkered with stale ideas.
Read it if you dare but this critique applies to all states and federally.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/outsider-experience/
An extract.
I was actually told that, by one rabid Greenie …”Farmers will just have to go back to using horses…..”
I saw that about used car prices.
People were chasing a second car to avoid using public transport because germs, and paying insane prices.
My son watches a lot of YouTuber car enthusiasts and they were all remarking/complaining about insane price surges.
Now demand is petering and prices are falling.
Song and dance time.
REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff,
You know what would be great?
Elon telling every Twitter staff member to write a brief 100 word statement.
The subject:-
“How my job contributes directly to Twitter revenue growth, cost control and profit growth.”
It would be simpler and more effective to remove the 1000 by starting at the top of the organisation chart and working the way down.
And you’ll have to go back to thin gruel twice a day.
If you’re lucky.
Areff.
It’s no better over the border.
Vote minor parties and try and keep the b***ards honest.
Lewis Hamilton has called on Formula 1’s governing body the FIA to back down in its strict approach to drivers wearing jewellery in their cars.
Race director Niels Wittich reiterated before the inaugural Miami Grand Prix it is prohibited to wear body piercings or neck chains in competition.
Hamilton described the new focus on the issue as “almost a step backwards”.
“It seems unnecessary to get into this. I am here to be an ally of the sport – we have bigger fish to fry,” he said.
Zyco at 10:40.
My proposed homework project for Twatter “workers” was two-fold.
Firstly to sort out those for the first wave of the cull.
But secondly to re-set the organisation “culture”. That is, reminding them they work for a social media organisation. With subscribers/users, advertisers and shareholders.
The anti-Russian bigotry campaign continues relentlessly and on many fronts over at the ABC. In both its news website homepage and on its news app, the headline for this article is “Russians to be deported from Bali for 0bscene Instagram content”, but when you click through to the article itself,”Russians” is replaced with “Foreigners in Bali” in the headline. Nevertheless, the focus is on a pair of kooky new age-y Russian Instagram influencers who posted photos of nude yoga poses in a ‘culturally significant’ tree. Or some shit.
Seriously? Does anyone believe this would be being reported if these people were Swedes? Or Australians, for that matter.
Generally speaking, I’d say Australian news outlets are on pretty thin ice if they’re scolding foreign tourists for obscene behaviour whilst holidaying in Bali. It would seem that maintaining the rage against Russia demands the jettisoning of any sense of self-perspective.
Things are so static around the Donbass pocket that RUS have widened their bridgehead south of Izyum, taken Rubéžnoye (not quite a village with 50K pop) and reports indicate that they crossed the river and passed through the forest and are now fighting near Bilohorivka which puts Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in danger of encirclement. Then we have the recent loss of Popasnaya which occupies the high ground in the immediate area of the Donbass and brings their southern line of defense into question. And then we have NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg only today in not so many words saying that the RUS general offensive in the Donbass hasn’t even began. Which indicates that the RUS have been shaping the battlefield this last month and are now getting ready to conduct the breakthrough and exploitation stages of the operations.
I am looking forward to Piers Morgan’s movie review of 2000 Mules.
Zyconoclastsays:
May 9, 2022 at 10:47 am
Lewis Hamilton has called on Formula 1’s governing body the FIA to back down in its strict approach to drivers wearing jewellery in their cars.
Race director Niels Wittich reiterated before the inaugural Miami Grand Prix it is prohibited to wear body piercings or neck chains in competition.
As Jenson Button said during discussions Miami F1 Friday (he supports ban), the F1 concern is if MRI is needed after crash
Do you have to take piercings out for MRI scan?
Do you have to take piercings out for MRI scan? Lucille January 23, 2022 Body Piercing
Studies have shown that removing piercing jewelry is generally not necessary for X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and many other procedures, unless the piercing is directly in the area of examination or treatment.
People who have body piercings are asked if they can be removed. If they cannot, the clinic may decide to go through with the scan, but will offer an important caveat. … Some MRI clinics get patients with tattoos to cover them with ice packs during the procedure.
Also, do you have to take out nose piercings for MRI? Piercings/Jewelry: Many people are concerned about removing piercings or jewelry before their exam. The clinic will most likely ask you to have all metal removed before your arrival. And this is the safest and most convenient action.
White House Won’t Condemn Supreme Doxxing
By Susan Crabtree – RCP Staff
Guest Post: Speedbox -Postcard from Kislovodsk #2 now up.
Check the video
I’m killing the babies!’ Swimsuit-wearing pro-choice protester called Crackhead Barney screams and dangles doll as she and others target NYC Catholic Churches…
‘God killed his son, why can’t I?’ Crackhead Barney yelled, dangling a baby doll
HoR vote: Green last. Teal second last. Lib after that, ALP after that, whoever else above this odious bunch. Prolly LDP first.
Senate: will vote above the line for the first time ever, so I don’t give anything to the majors or the Greens. LDP first, PHON second, UAP third, whatever other small parties I like until I’ve used up my six or four or whatever the hell number of preferences I must award.
Very difficult for me to remove all the metal in my body. None of it can be seen, just the scars. Usually have a good discussion with screening staff at airports.
Am preferencing ALP above LNP in HoR because the ALP candidate has zero chance of winning – in 2PP it’s LNP incumbent vs Teal, so my vote will end up in the LNP column.
This election I’d preference the ALP above LNP, regardless of electorate. Australia will have an ALP government sooner or later, and I reckon an Albo-led ALP government will be about as good as could be expected for the foreseeable future.
Lol.
Friday night we had a magneto fail on one of the grouper engines, a 10hp B&S.
We have two Heaslip groupers on a skel trailer, one for seed, one for fert. The seed one failed with a batch of freshly inoculated lupins on board.
Farmers will know what that means.
Had to change the engine over from the fert grouper after filling airseeder.
Did someone say there’s an election coming up?
Therapeutic Albanese is the Prince Harry of Australian politics, constantly whining about his ‘difficult’ childhood
Multi-millionaire property tycoon.
Pity what haven’t you Albo.
Thank you Coochin Kid for the inspiration!
Oops.
Accidentally reported Rosie at 10:45.
Ignore please Dover.
HITHER AND YON
POTATUS Speaks, A Nation Groans
A shot and a chaser from a drowning man.
It’s hard to single out just one thing which came out of the Biden administration this past week which best illustrates how transformationally awful it is.
We’ll have to settle on two of them, which together made up a one-two punch to the gut of American morale.
First was his hyperbolic bromide against MAGA/revivalist conservatism. The president, showing off his status as a thoroughgoing nincompoop, thought it would be a good idea to verbally assault some 75 million Americans by predicting that since “this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history,” that red-state legislatures will pass laws segregating gay and “trans” kids from their classmates in schools.
No, Joe. Maybe just the bathrooms, though — there seem to be fewer rapes that way.
That was the shot. The chaser was a day later, when after several Supreme Court justices were set upon by angry mobs protesting at their residences and a speaking engagement scheduled for Associate Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the draft majority opinion in the Dobbs case, had to be canceled due to violent threats, the administration refused to condemn the behavior of the pro-abortion extremists.
Let’s remember something. Joe Biden isn’t the leader of the country. Joe Biden is more like a talking potato. That’s why I’m calling him POTATUS now. Joe Biden is Ron Burgundy. He says whatever is on his cheat-sheet flash cards or his teleprompter.
He isn’t capable of reasoned, intelligent speech. At his best he was one of the dumbest, shallowest members of the U.S. Senate; Biden said what he was told to say by the people who paid him and by his political advisors. He never had much in the way of independent thought, which is why he was constantly caught plagiarizing others’ speeches when he wasn’t engaging in whiplash-inducing reversals of his positions. Joe Biden has always been a dim bulb, and that was before his cognition went into sleep mode.
Ouch!
Harsh, but fair.
Flip flop flip flop…
When Biden’s own people don’t trust him to speak, we have no real president
There is nothing more symbolic of American political power than a president of the United States holding court in the Oval Office.
And now we know why. According to new reporting, the reason we don’t see Joe in the Oval very often is that his team can’t install a teleprompter to keep the gaffer-in-chief on script.
So yeah, that’s where we are regarding the leader of the free world.
We have a president today who is incapable of this most basic element of his job. And whatever unelected group of White House flunkies there are — who are actually the president — can’t trust him to even open his mouth unless he can stare at a teleprompter and mouth their insights like the weatherman.
Things have gotten so obvious and awkward of late that even when Biden does have his trusty large print screen scrolling his supposed ideas he can’t even push them out. His struggle with the word “kleptocracy” in recent remarks was just sad. And fine, he grew up with a stutter, but he’s been in the public spotlight since “The Godfather” was in movie theaters.
The darkest and most troubling possibility here, but one we must face, is that we functionally have no actual President of the United States. If he can’t appear in public, in his own office, for want of a digital cheat sheet, then of course he has little if anything to do with the actual running of the country. And he’s not even a good false figurehead — using the teleprompter he often looks and sounds like he’s reading the bottom line of the eye exam.
Let’s face it. Even for an administration that thinks it’s a TV show, the construction of a White House set where Biden can wax incoherently was bizarre. But now we know this sound studio was set up to protect Biden, as much as possible, from his own words and actions. Maybe soon the president will only do live events in virtual reality where his handlers can correct his errors in deep fake real-time. Why not have the president be a programmed hologram? Is that so different from the current reality?
‘Method based on heart’: Dennis Waterman dies aged 74
By the age of 16 Dennis Waterman could boast a CV that included Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, The Music Man in the West End, Richmal Crompton’s William on television and a sitcom in Hollywood. Yet unlike many child actors he went on to an even more successful adult career.
For 15 years in the 1970s and 1980s he had star billing in The Sweeney and Minder, two of the most successful television series of the time. In both he played essentially the same character, the rough-hewn, streetwise but likeable Londoner, and it was a persona from which he rarely escaped.
In The Sweeney, a drama based on the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad, his tough-nut DS George Carter was teamed with John Thaw’s DI Jack Regan, both attired in modish flared trousers and kipper ties. It was one of the first police shows in which the cops behaved as badly as the villains and, with its staple diet of car chases, fisticuffs and gunfights, set new levels of violence on television, albeit mitigated by a vein of dark humour to which Waterman strongly contributed.
Almost as soon as The Sweeney had finished he signed up for Minder. “They said, ‘It’s set in west London,’ and I thought, ‘Hmm, should I do this, or should I actually be thinking of veering away from the Sweeney image?’ And then I read it and thought, ‘Sod the image! This is going to be massive, it’s so funny and so good’.”
As Terry McCann, former prisoner 147639 who becomes bodyguard to Arthur Daley, a used-car salesman, he was nominally the lead character. However, he was soon eclipsed by George Cole, who made Daley a by-word for dodgy dealing. Yet, stooge or not, Waterman’s role was invaluable. He also sang the Minder theme, I Could be so Good For You, taking it to No 3 in the charts in October 1980.
Despite a lifetime on the screen and stage, Waterman was modest about his career longevity, shrugging it off as nothing more than luck. “I’ve been unbelievably lucky that I keep falling into really good work. I’ve never thought, ‘I must play Hamlet before I’m 70,” he said in 2009, with a guffaw. “And now I’m not really thinking of Lear.”
Dennis Waterman was born into a working-class family in Clapham, south London, in 1948, the youngest of nine children of Rose (nee Saunders) and her husband Harry, an upholsterer, railway ticket collector and amateur boxer who encouraged his sons in the art of pugilism. His siblings were Allen, who died at a young age, Joy, Ken, Myrna, Norma, Peter, who boxed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Stella and Vera.
They grew up on a Putney council estate and Dennis was encouraged by his thespian sisters to tread the boards. “We were all dragged into Joy’s amateur theatricals,” he said. “I made my debut at Brixton town hall when I was nine, wrestling with a snake as Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost.”
After Waterman failed the 11-plus, Norma paid for him to join the Corona Stage School, where his contemporaries included Francesca Annis and Susan George. “It was thought best to have a posh accent at the Corona,” he said. “South London was out. Streatham and Stockwell became St Reatham and St Ockwell. Very genteel.” Within months he was centre forward in the school’s football team.
His professional career started in the film Night Train for Inverness (1960). As Ted he was kidnapped by his father, who has just been released from jail but is unaware that his son is diabetic and needs regular insulin injections. That same year he made his Shakespeare debut in The Taming of the Shrew and at 14 he flew to Hollywood to play Neville Finch in the comedy series Fair Exchange about two families, one American the other British, who swap teenage daughters for a year. He was earning pounds 340 a week, while his father was still making pounds 8 a week clipping tickets.
While still in his teens he was at the Royal Court Theatre, appearing in a season of plays by new writers, the most notorious of which was Edward Bond’s Saved, in which Waterman was one of a group of youths who stone a baby to death. His first starring role was in Up the Junction (1968), Nell Dunn’s study of working-class life in Battersea, which took him back to his roots. The premiere was at the Granada in Clapham Junction, which was packed, he recalled, with the local lads: “At that point in the film where I said, in huge close-up, to Suzy Kendall, ‘Do me a favour, seduce me,’ the cinema erupted with catcalls and laughter. That brought me back to earth.”
Waterman’s personal life was rarely out of the public gaze and the tabloid press seized gleefully on the heavy drinking of “Dennis the menace”. It led to two driving bans and a string of well-documented affairs. Cheerfully conceding that he found it difficult to be either faithful or abstemious, Waterman did little to contradict a reputation for a laddish lifestyle centred on booze, women and football. His marriages to the actresses Penny Dixon (in 1967), Patricia Maynard (1977) and Rula Lenska (1987), whom he met on the set of Minder, were dissolved. The break-up with Lenska led to public recriminations and he was later criticised for trivialising domestic violence when he described how he hit her but insisted that she was not “a beaten wife”.
He is survived by his fourth wife, Pam Flint, whom he married in 2011, and by his daughters, both from his second marriage: Hannah, who played the nanny Laura Dunn in EastEnders, and Julia, who leads a private life. He once told how he had been convinced that Hannah would be a boy. “I got all this blue-and-white Chelsea stuff for the baby’s room,” he told The Sunday Times, referring to the team he supported passionately. “I mean, being a sports freak and a drinker, it was only logical that I’d have a son. You take your son to football, then the pub. But the baby was a f***ing girl.” Those feelings did not last.
In 1972 Waterman joined Denholm Elliott, Billie Whitelaw and others in The Sextet, a BBC initiative to create a TV repertory company with the same six actors appearing in a season of plays. Then came The Sweeney, for which he was chosen after appearing in Special Branch.
During a break from Minder he starred in, and part-financed, The World Cup: a Captain’s Tale (1982), an engaging fact-based television film about an amateur football team from the Durham coalfields that won an early (1910) version of the World Cup by beating Juventus in Italy.
Meanwhile, in the Dennis Waterman XI charity football team he was known as the centre-forward Terry McCann, after his character in Minder. Their matches always ended in the local hostelry, with Waterman/McCann picking up the tab. “As soon as I’m in company with a drink in my hand, I’m the life and soul of the party,” he explained. “I do enjoy and need that.”
By the end of the 1980s he had gone into film production, setting up East End Films with two colleagues. He sank much of his own money into its inaugural project, Cold Justice (1991), in which he played a boxer-turned-priest and co-starred with Roger Daltrey, but the film was a commercial disaster and its failure left him with large debts.
After leaving Minder he played another of his cheery duckers and divers in the ITV comedy drama Stay Lucky and starred in the BBC sitcom On the Up as a self-made cockney millionaire at odds with his socially superior wife. When they ended, he tried for a grittier image in Circles of Deceit, playing an SAS man who goes undercover for the intelligence services.
During the 1990s Waterman was increasingly seen in the theatre. He played the legendary Soho drunk in Keith Waterhouse’s Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell in Australia and on a British tour, appeared in a West End revival of the 1960s musical A Slice of Saturday Night, and toured in another Waterhouse play, Bing Bong. When appearing in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, he built a bar in the corner of his dressing room. “Everyone would pile in after the show,” a friend said.
Although Waterman was lampooned on the sketch show Little Britain as an actor who keeps losing contracts because he insists on singing the theme song for his shows, he did just that again on his next long-running television show, New Tricks, in which he played the old-school Cockney detective Gerry Standing. It ran for 12 series from 2003 to 2014 featuring the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, a fictional division within the Met responsible for re-examining unsolved crimes.
Looking back on his characters in Sweeney and The Minder, Waterman said that he could have done either of them in his sleep because neither required him to stray much outside a version of himself. “I’m about as far removed from an intellectual actor as you can get,” he said. “My method is mostly based on heart and bollocks.”
(Dennis Waterman, actor, was born on February 24, 1948. He died on May 8, 2022, aged 74)
The Times
90% of this is on the ball.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/americas-unwarranted-pessimism/
It’s about us too.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/americas-unwarranted-pessimism/
Wut?
Bing Bong?
That was a brilliant performance!!
An actor who wasn’t bothered about being typecast and made the most of it, much to the enjoyment of his fans.
A breath of fresh air given the pretentious nature of the acting profession these days.
JC.
There is a Netflix show called “7 Days Out”, a series of fly on the wall documentaries about the lead up to various big events.
There is one on the Kentucky Derby.
From memory the year they covered was the wettest on record and the dirt track turned to slop.
Rules and norms.
More like an incipient insurrection in action.
Well, I went and voted. More or less ended up following the LDP HTV. Gave the Liberal and Labor HTV people a serve about both being corrupt useless leaches when they tried to hand me something. They were busy chatting like best mates when I rocked up. Looked like they were the types just entering the party machine to get into politics.
The UAP people seemed like average working Aussies, pretty much settled for saying Clive is a flog but at least he’s done something outside politics. They tried to emphasize their candidate wasn’t a politician.
The greens clown, strolled over when I was talking to the UAP people and tried to tell me they’re the party that’s not corrupt. Bloody fat disgustingly thing had tits bigger than most women. Had that typical socialist uni student attitude. Lisped “ohh, hostile” and ran away when I gave it a serve about their party would see us back living in caves.
God I hope we’re not doing this again in a couple of months.
The Chris Dawson trial has begun in Sydney.
Judge only. His Nibs refused to impose a media blackout. Prosecution has started by listing various reasons why it looks like Dawson murdered his wife.
He’s baaaaaack!
The man whose treatment in a notorious youth detention centre triggered a royal commission has faced court over an alleged act of domestic violence.
Dylan Voller is alleged to have assaulted his girlfriend Colleen Cook on April 24 between 4pm and 4.15pm, court documents state.
The 25-year-old was charged with one count of DV-related common assault on April 27 and has entered no plea.
On Wednesday he appeared in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court where his legal representative asked magistrate Susan McIntyre to urgently vary the conditions of an apprehended violence order (AVO) put in place to protect Ms Cook.
After Ms McIntyre indicated the conditions would not be varied, Mr Voller rose from his seat in the public gallery and demanded to address the court.
“He’s sacked from this case,” Mr Voller yelled in reference to his legal representative who advised Mr Voller that he could not address the court. “If I can’t speak for myself and be given my right, what’s the point of staying in the court?”
The court was told that Mr Voller’s health was deteriorating, and after police moved towards him to respond to the behaviour, he lashed out at officers.
“Don’t intimidate me, don’t scare me, get the f**k away from me,” Mr Voller said.
After Mr Voller left the court briefly and returned, Ms McIntyre told him to watch his behaviour.
“Don’t come back in here aggressively like that, you’ll be removed,” she said.
The case was adjourned to May 18 when a plea is due to be entered.
Mr Voller came to public attention in 2016 after the ABC’s Four Corners program highlighted the horrific abuse and torture children at the Northern Territory’s Youth Detention Centre endured.
The image of Mr Voller in a spit hood, restrained in a mechanical chair, sparked widespread outrage and led to a royal commission.
Children who were mistreated in facilities such as Don Dale won a $35m payout last year after the NT government reached a landmark settlement agreement.
The class action covered an estimated 1200 young people who were mistreated between 2006 and 2017.
The gall of Musk wanting to turn a profit on his 43 billion dollar investment.
I stayed in Louisville once.
Very miffed I couldn’t get a mint julep at the bar.
Only during racing season said the barman.
I wonder how much Voller banked personally from Don Dale? Must have been a few million. I wonder if he’ll have spent it all before he winds up dead.
I’m kind of surprised he’s lasted this long, to be honest.