Open Thread – Weekend 21 May 2021


Landscape with bridge, Ivan Shishkin, late 1800s

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H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 9:16 am

Don’t worry I gave his old man some cash around 1990.
I assume that was not a voluntary donation.

Nah. The SGIC did it all for me. I just got the bill.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 9:16 am

Of course UAP was robbed by the dirty rotten cheating AEC.
And the Liberal party.
And KK.
And ON.
And the LDP.
Plain as the nose on your face.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 9:17 am

Oh and Labor in Griffith.

Struth
May 23, 2022 9:21 am

You are confused and angry St Ruth.
I understand.
The big yellow Titanic guy fell flat after promising the world.
It’s a let-down, I know.
But time to accept it and move on.

There are many ways people can be “receivers”
The only way I’d be one is if I was a television set.

However there are also those that drop their strides and bend over for government, and many other types of recivers.
However there are also the types like this example above, who can’t fathom anything bar sitting back and doing nothing and recieving benifits from others.
Clive never promised anything.
Nothing .
Zilch.
People had to vote for the UAP before they could do anything.
Actions, reactions.

This will be over Sancho’s head.
Way over.

Dot
Dot
May 23, 2022 9:23 am

Clive never promised anything.

The interest rate guarantee put a lot of educated people I know from voting for them.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 9:24 am

And they didn’t vote for them.
Obviously.

Struth
May 23, 2022 9:26 am

You don’t think all the minor freedom parties were robbed?
Really?
I had to pick a team to support out of the freedom parties.
All of them have obviously been swindled.
I’m not just banging on about UAP.
One Nation and the LDP also suffered from this obviously corrupted election.
To think these elections were fair after the last two years shows a level of delusion by denialism that is the true sickness of this blog.
And it is pushed and encouraged by only a few.

Dot
Dot
May 23, 2022 9:29 am

To think these elections were fair after the last two years shows a level of delusion by denialism that is the true sickness of this blog.

Maybe they were not fair and clean (and that would make sense), but we don’t have evidence.

SA, VIC and WA voted strongly for labor. It defies logic to us, but apparently, they love a police state.

They like tyranny. Some East Germans want communism back, too. (Die Lienke).

Struth
May 23, 2022 9:31 am

The Australian government kneel to Marxists and shoot unarmed freedom protestors on the steps of one of our nation’s most sacred spots, imprisons people in their homes, mandates jabs to leave the country, stops travel over five k’s away from homes, etc etc etc, destroys lives wholesale and yet the elections were fairly run.
And we are still under a state of emergency.
With all the socialists winning………………..
The people who will support Climate change lockdowns by the WHO.
You don’t even feel the need to look into them, so in denial as you are.
Sick.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 9:35 am

Clive never promised anything.

And he delivered in spades.

Struth
May 23, 2022 9:36 am

Maybe they were not fair and clean (and that would make sense), but we don’t have evidence.

And you won’t find it, if like Sancho, you scoff at the possibility…AFTER ALL THAT’S HAPPENED..

You people are so in denial, you can’t see the forest for the trees.
They have you right where they want you.

Deluded by choice.

MatrixTransform
May 23, 2022 9:39 am

Are women really so shallow?

*lol

Vicki
Vicki
May 23, 2022 9:39 am

Well, you get some things wrong. We were all right about the rage against Morrison & the distrust of Labor – both Parties each could only attract about a third of voters.

Personally, I thought UAP & especially One Nation would attract the disaffected. They did not – at least not in significant numbers to make a difference.

Instead, they made their acceptance of the myth of global warming clear. And the grievance female lobby also triumphed.

Sad – but in view of the dismal acceptance of government cruelty during the Covid panic – probably predictable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 9:42 am

Whatever you think of the Liars and Teals they have a much stronger ground game than the Lieborals. If politics is a contest of ideas the Lieborals have no choice but to win that. When you are in the trenches it is too late.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
May 23, 2022 9:43 am

all of whom were funded to the tune of millions of dollars by SSS, Sinister Svengali Simon.

My wonderful but brainwashed grandson worked for the Kylea Tink campaign in North Sydney. The sort of thing energetic young people do – pub debates, handing out HTV cards at pro-poling and election day, holding a party on the night of the election.

He was seriously prepped on how to answer questions from the public, including this: “Kylea is only funded 45% by Holmes a Court”.
Ah, that makes things better!

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 9:44 am

Well they’re saying the UAP Senate guy in Vicco might get up. I voted for him too so I hope I won’t be disappointed.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 9:45 am

KD @7:21

Now it symbolises wet docking and anal bleach. Nice society you’ve got there.

My vocabulary has been inadvertently widened.

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 9:45 am

Personally, I thought UAP & especially One Nation would attract the disaffected. They did not – at least not in significant numbers to make a difference.

me too

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 9:46 am

Was this the loss the Lieborals should have had in 2019 but nobody could bring themselves to vote for Peanut Head?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 9:47 am

I’m not sure about the rest of you , but Albo’ walking around with his little dog on a leash looks kinda gay to me , [ not that theres anything wrong with that ] , it just looks kinda gay.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
May 23, 2022 9:48 am

How many teals drive evs

To repeat an old joke, “With petrol prices at an all time high, I’ve converted my petrol driven car into an electric vehicle.
Every time I fill up, I get a shock.”

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 9:49 am

I think this result is the inevitable culmination malign Trumble coup of 2015.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 23, 2022 9:49 am

Plus the ads showing Craig Kelly as next PM. If Clive wants to play politics again he needs to start planning now and think purely about Senate and some key seats where might make a difference.

“The interest rate guarantee put a lot of educated people I know from voting for them”

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 23, 2022 9:49 am

How did I miss the federales doing an Odessa Steps?

Vicki
Vicki
May 23, 2022 9:50 am

You’ve got to wonder whether people actually read newspapers (as bad as they are) or just wallow in the pap that is TV these days.

Do they really understand the economic tidal wave, in the form of astronomical inflation & complete disruption of global trade and services, that is engulfing us? Do they have any understanding of the possibility of a war engulfing Europe within 12 months? Do they understand that the threat of hostile Chinese control of trade routes through the South China Sea is for real?

And Albo & his goons are going to save us?

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 9:51 am

Probably already noted but it’s sobering to note that in 2007 Krudd inherited a sound economy.
I’ll leave it at that.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 9:53 am

Out of curiosity , what is Albo’s dogs name?…I need answers.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 9:53 am

He was seriously prepped on how to answer questions from the public, including this: “Kylea is only funded 45% by Holmes a Court”.

There was a much wider element to the Teals than just Climate 200. It was a popular anti-Lieboral movement with some strings being played in the background. Their success, particularly measured against the UAP, is undoubted.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 9:56 am

Oh, Liberal preferences could get UAP sixth spot in Victoria.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 9:56 am

rosiesays:
May 23, 2022 at 8:49 am
I have a question for Calli and anyone else with Japan.

Japan in late August first two weeks in September.
Tokyo Nagasaki Osaka home (week in each).
Anything special I could be doing? Anything to be careful of?

Get a JR rail pass. When in Nagasaki go to Arita for the porcelain known as Imari which was the port nearby. Gunkanjima, (Battleship Island). Dejima in Nagasaki and don’t forget Thomas Glover’s Home the supposed inspiration for Madam Butterfly. Thomas Glover that is. Osaka, go to Nara for the temples. Call in on Carpe, he lives west of Kobe, not very far. Kyoto is about 30 minutes away. There is a little museum with the Asian equivalent of the Book of Kells. Himeji Castle and Kirashiki as well. Look on Japan-Guide website. There is too much to do. I loved Western Japan. Tokyo is over the top for me, Nephew lived there for a few years.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 23, 2022 9:56 am

Somebody up thread mentioned the Herald Sun article about VIC schools and pronouns etc. I note they are now allowing comments as that could have got interesting.

Somebody needs to invite Jordan Peterson to VIC as his views on that agenda was what brought him to public attention.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 23, 2022 9:57 am

All of them have obviously been swindled.

All right. I’ll ask it.

By whom? Be specific.

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 9:57 am

Excellent too that Price got in. Morrison definitely deserved to lose particularly after the rebewbulls betrayal not mention all the anti man stuff spewing out of the Canbra coven (our watch, transexuals in Russell etc etc). Still horrified that anal is now PM.

The most heartening take away from Saturday is the Viet chick getting up Fowler. Maybe a cleaned out LNP is the way forward along with the abandonment of silvertail electorates. The UAP seems to have mostly flopped.

Fleeced
Fleeced
May 23, 2022 9:58 am

Shorten’s probably wondering how long before he can push Albo. I suspect he’ll have to join the queue.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 9:58 am

No doubt Bear, comfortable rich liberals definitely didn’t think the LNP were going hard enough to solve the climate emergency.
The signs on the multi million dollar houses west of me were a dead give away.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 9:59 am

Perth Tradersays:
May 23, 2022 at 9:53 am
Out of curiosity , what is Albo’s dogs name?…I need answers.

Elbow, he’s a dog. Not a very nice thing to compare Rub’n’Tug with a dog. I’d take the dog any day.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 9:59 am

Out of curiosity , what is Albo’s dogs name?…I need answers.

Tugger

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 10:00 am

I’m not sure about the rest of you , but Albo’ walking around with his little dog on a leash looks kinda gay to me , [ not that theres anything wrong with that ]

You have got to be very confident in your sexuality to own a small, fluffy white dog or a convertible 3 series BMW.

“Oh Mr Albo, you very big man.”

Franx
Franx
May 23, 2022 10:01 am

It can only be a good thing the UAP were out there and made a difference in ways seemingly not significant and that someone like Craig Kelly had enough courage to reflect the nature of a decent human being.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 23, 2022 10:01 am

Out of curiosity , what is Albo’s dogs name?…I need answers.

Toto.

Vicki
Vicki
May 23, 2022 10:01 am

Old School Conservative – had to laugh re your post about your grandson working for Tink in North Sydney. One of my closest friends was central to her campaign. All very awkward for us. Invited to celebration party last night but politely declined. Actually spoke to Tink on phone this morning. We had not met during campaign for obvious reasons, but we chatted about mutual friends in Ancient History Dept at Macquarie Uni.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:02 am

GreyRanga……NO NO No…..not Albo….the dog, the dog. I suspect the dog will be on the cover of ‘House & Garden’ soon.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 23, 2022 10:02 am

Pre Covid McDonalds and many coffee shops would have free newspapers to read. I could have $5 coffee and read The Weekend Oz and Courier Mail for free. Now those newspapers have not returned. In my case I did subscribe online but many will no longer be getting any news from their local food outlet newspapers. No big loss for Courier Mail but the Oz has had some great articles that deserved wider reading.

“You’ve got to wonder whether people actually read newspapers (as bad as they are) or just wallow in the pap that is TV these days”.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 10:02 am

Few people more pathetic right now than Clive troofers. LOL.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 10:03 am

Perth Tradersays:
May 23, 2022 at 9:47 am
I’m not sure about the rest of you , but Albo’ walking around with his little dog on a leash looks kinda gay to me , [ not that theres anything wrong with that ] , it just looks kinda gay.

My dog doesn’t mind me being on a lead and I’m not Ghey. The dog will be thinking ” who the effin hell is this idjit taking me for a walk. The dog was a prop.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
May 23, 2022 10:03 am

Some of the wealthiest people in Queensland supported quasi socialists. I laugh at their stupidity.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 23, 2022 10:04 am

Coalition risks becoming ‘relic’ over voice
Max Maddison
MAX MADDISON

Incoming Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney , pictured above, says the Coalition risks becoming a “relic of history” if it fails to support Labor in its effort to establish a constitutional Voice to Parliament.

In almost his first breath as he claimed victory for Labor, Anthony Albanese reiterated his commitment to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart and enshrine the Voice in the constitution

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 10:04 am

I thought GetUp (in other words the American left) was after Peter Dutton. Looks like they didn’t succeed. That’s interesting too.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 10:06 am

“It was a popular anti-Lieboral movement with some strings being played in the background.”

Not “some strings”…..many strings, including the Turnbull family.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:06 am

TOTO….?……oh for fuks sake?..what sort of man calls his poodle toto?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 10:07 am

Perth Tradersays:
May 23, 2022 at 10:02 am
GreyRanga……NO NO No…..not Albo….the dog, the dog. I suspect the dog will be on the cover of ‘House & Garden’ soon.

Rub’n’Tug isn’t smart enough to know the dogs name, he thought Elbow had a good ring to it, when he hasn’t been able to find any Tories to fight for 40 years.

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 10:09 am

The fat lump of lard is like a left wing version of st ruth.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 10:10 am

Thanks Greyranga
Just realised Japan was closed to tourists, reopening with quotas on 1 June.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 10:11 am

Fleecedsays:
May 23, 2022 at 9:58 am
Shorten’s probably wondering how long before he can push Albo. I suspect he’ll have to join the queue.

Invite him to Lindsay Fox’s place. There’s a set of stairs I believe.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:11 am

Maybe Albo called his dog TOTO cos’ its easy to spell?…..just throwin’ out the idea….

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 10:17 am

A number of my scrutineers said the count was done with every candidate having one pile of votes, but mine was in two piles. Then at some point one of my piles “disappeared” at each booth. Probably tacked onto the bottom of the Lib pile… 

Er, Fatso.
Newsflash.
Fat Cloive actually preferenced the Libs in a lot of seats.
If it was identified that the seat was going to be a LNP/ALP run-off, the AEC staff would start to prepare for preference distribution.
That is, for candidates with a HTV, divide them into two piles – those who followed the HTV and those who did not.
Once the primary count was done, the preference distribution is started.
Prior sorting of them just saves time.
Fat Cloive is a liar.
He knows that, having preferenced the LNP, a pile of his primary votes would get shifted to the Liberal pile eventually.
It’s how preferential voting works, Fatso.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
May 23, 2022 10:20 am

I watched a clip last night of Albo rushing to the stage to embrace that Wong chap. Albos partner was close behind but Albo completely ignored her in the moment.
If that were Scomo the media feminista would have their narrative for the next 6 months.

miltonf
miltonf
May 23, 2022 10:21 am

Some of the wealthiest people in Queensland supported quasi socialists. I laugh at their stupidity.

Socialism for others not for them I assume. It’s is hard to understand though I agree. It’s probably only over the last five years or so that I’ve noticed many many leftists are posh private school ‘educated’. It’s just speculation but I suspect they have an underlying disdain for or hatred of aspirational working people. Hence the wish to shut down mines, farms and factories.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 10:24 am

Bourne1879says:

May 23, 2022 at 9:49 am

Plus the ads showing Craig Kelly as next PM. If Clive wants to play politics again he needs to start planning now and think purely about Senate …

And keep his own name off the ballot.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
May 23, 2022 10:24 am

Toto is Japanese for toilet. Cos that’s what the band named themselves after.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:26 am

Toto is Japanese for toilet…….?……Really?….poor bloody dog. Does Albo know that?

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 10:28 am

ASX 200 up slightly in early trading. Welcome to the Albo era.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 10:29 am

A lot of people are happy when their piles disappear.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
May 23, 2022 10:30 am

Correction Toto is a brand of Japanese toilets.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
May 23, 2022 10:31 am

Left are already going after Dutton as next lib leader. The left never sleep.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 10:31 am

ASX 200 up slightly in early trading. Welcome to the Albo era.

mUnty, I don’t think that post will age well. Have you thought about breakfast TV?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:33 am

Whitehaven Coal steady at $5.26…..move along folks. Nothing to see here.

JC
JC
May 23, 2022 10:34 am

m0nty says:
May 23, 2022 at 10:28 am

ASX 200 up slightly in early trading. Welcome to the Albo era.

Fatboy, they’re fucked spending wise. If they try to increase spending, the RBA will set off the impact on the economy by tightening policy. The RBA will not let them get away with runaway spending with this level of debt, you lardball.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 10:35 am

miltonf

Maybe a cleaned out LNP is the way forward along with the abandonment of silvertail electorates.

I am old enough to remember when anyone even vaguely leftist sneered at “silvertails”. Now they are a key left demographic. It is a good illustration of how far the Labor Party has moved from its origins in the rural and urban working class.

The left (including our pet Kulak, munty) are all silvertails now.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:37 am

Fair Shake…I had a weird experience in a fully automated Japanese toilet….I dont want to talk about it.

Roger
Roger
May 23, 2022 10:38 am

Shorten’s probably wondering how long before he can push Albo. I suspect he’ll have to join the queue.

Remember, they were leaking against him in the first week of the campaign.

You’d think any move in the first 12 months would be unseemly…but let’s see how many stuff ups Elbow can execute in the meantime.

He’ll be feeling very much under pressure, caught as he is between the Mean Girls and the Teal Girls.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 10:39 am

m0ntysays:
May 23, 2022 at 10:02 am
Few people more pathetic right now than Clive troofers. LOL.

Almost, but not quite, as fascist leftists who come to a conservative blog to gloat at the defeat of the Liberals, only to discover that most present are happy at the event?

Are you proud to be a member of the silvertail party?

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 23, 2022 10:39 am

Have you thought about breakfast TV?

You may have forgotten a comma, Humphrey.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 10:41 am

Anthony Albanese reiterated his commitment to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart and enshrine the Voice in the constitution

AnAl can have all the commitment he likes, he has to convince a majority of voters in a majority of states.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 23, 2022 10:41 am

I hope these guys get this newish concept to work:
https://www.avalanche.energy/
I really like the idea of a home power pack for complete independence from the grid. You may even be able to power your car with a slightly larger version. Go beyond the “save the planet” boilerplate they have on the website. This is a real game changer. It is known that IEC (inertial Electrostatic Confinement) fusion works as you can buy a commercial neutron generator using the principle which was first noted by Philo Farnsworth, the American inventor of electronic colour TV, many decades ago. The problem, as with all fusion devices was getting nett energy out.
The late Robert W. Bussard had a concept also, as did LockMart Skunk Works. Seems to have all gone quiet.

Roger
Roger
May 23, 2022 10:42 am

It is a good illustration of how far the Labor Party has moved from its origins in the rural and urban working class.

Ditto the Democratic Party, now the party of choice in the richest zip codes in the US.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 10:44 am

miltonf

It’s just speculation but I suspect they have an underlying disdain for or hatred of aspirational working people. Hence the wish to shut down mines, farms and factories.

The “disdain for or hatred of aspirational working people” among the modern fascist left is real. See many of munty’s comments yesterday for examples.

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 23, 2022 10:44 am

Meanwhile, if you’re in a protected class, the rules do not apply.

Tom
Tom
May 23, 2022 10:44 am

He’ll be feeling very much under pressure, caught as he is between the Mean Girls and the Teal Girls.

Haha. Mr Thirty Per Cent surrounded by angry frightbats and unable to do anything without their permission.

He’ll be a global laughing stock inside six months.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 23, 2022 10:45 am

Sorry Mont.
Albo is not in charge of the fortunes of the economy at the moment.
He’d be wise to actually play the economic conservative line he promotes.
There is probably no time outside war that our economy is so driven by the winds of international events.
He can only make matters worse. Business, trade and the money markets are boss.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 10:46 am

mUnty’s level of thinking and crude collectivist analysis makes him a natural for Breakfast TV. Cons – he’s fat and a ranga. I don’t think Kochhead has anything to worry about.

Roger
Roger
May 23, 2022 10:49 am

It’s just speculation but I suspect they have an underlying disdain for or hatred of aspirational working people. Hence the wish to shut down mines, farms and factories.

Iirc, it was Bertrand Russell who observed that much that passes in the world as idealism is either a disguised hatred of human beings or a cover for the love of power over others.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 23, 2022 10:50 am

C.L has a ripping take on the election at his site.
It’s Devine providence that leads us to disaster.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 10:56 am

Perth Tradersays:
May 23, 2022 at 10:37 am
Fair Shake…I had a weird experience in a fully automated Japanese toilet….I don’t want to talk about it.

You didn’t press the tampon remover button?

will
will
May 23, 2022 10:57 am

Farmer Gezsays:
May 23, 2022 at 10:50 am
C.L has a ripping take on the election at his site.
It’s Devine providence that leads us to disaster.

linky please

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 10:57 am

GreyRangasays:
May 23, 2022 at 10:56 am,…..’I said I dont want to talk about it’….

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 10:58 am

I’d hesitate to call Monty a Kulak.
He’s the type who sent the Kulaks to the salt mines.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 11:00 am

Fatboy, they’re fucked spending wise. If they try to increase spending, the RBA will set off the impact on the economy by tightening policy. The RBA will not let them get away with runaway spending with this level of debt, you lardball.

Have you not been paying attention the last thirty years, JC. Ever since Hawke/Keating, Labor has been the party of low taxes and responsible spending. It is the Libs who blow out the deficit with handouts to their mates, while raising taxes to record levels. The stats across decades don’t lie.

There is a cubic bumload of wastage from Lib corruption for Albo to slash. So much trousering of taxpayer cash by corporate lobbyists to stop. The biggest positive effect on the budget bottom line may be ICAC, as it unravels the LNP rorts one by one.

The Greens will get an exhumation of the CEFC or something similar to keep them happy. There will be a lot of hair-on-fire screaming about interest rates returning to historically normal levels, but there won’t be much to actually complain about if you’re not insanely over-leveraged.

The adults are back in charge, basically.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
May 23, 2022 11:01 am

he has to convince a majority of voters in a majority of states.

or convince (pay) the right people at the AEC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 11:02 am

When asked for actual evidence and locations, the We Wuz Robbed party spokesman has suddenly gone quiet.

Delta A
Delta A
May 23, 2022 11:03 am

Toto is Japanese for toilet…….?……Really?….poor bloody dog. Does Albo know that?

Bugger Albo. Does Dorothy know?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 11:06 am

DOROTHY?…..who the fuk is Dorothy?…I really need to get up to speed on the ‘who’s , who’ in Canberra.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:07 am

Yes, a linky to C.L’s post please…

shatterzzz
May 23, 2022 11:12 am

When you can’t tell a cat from a pussy .. bad things can happen .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1528440538566893569

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:13 am

OT – But I ask cats, who are far more learned than me… does anyone have any good book recommendations on the history of Anglo Saxonism from the early days of Wessex, Vikings and Ireland and how King Athelstan came to be the first King of England?

Our family has been Irish for hundreds of years (if not more) and, while I wasn’t surprised to learn that recent DNA studies show up-to-a 20% Norwegian DNA in Irish blood, I was alarmed at my ignorance on the Vikings who bought and stole Irish (and British) women to populate Iceland.. anyway, Athelstan seems to be the “high point” of these many ventures…

Given I live in a totalitarian State (WA) with now a totalitarian Federal Government, I may as well get used to not tuning into Lamestream and reading by candlelight…. 😛

bons
bons
May 23, 2022 11:15 am

Hug your wealth.
Sorry I mean hug the People’s wealth.
Twostix will be overjoyed about the forthcoming war on the Boomers.
Sorry Buddy, you still aren’t getting through house. That’s going to the cronies.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 23, 2022 11:15 am

Lysander says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:07 am
Yes, a linky to C.L’s post please…

Perhaps my phone is different to a computer but if you scroll down on this site to Blogroll CL is there.
Link
https://thecurrencylad.com/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 11:16 am

Bons at 11:15.
Snort, cackle.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 23, 2022 11:18 am

While you’re looking at links make sure you don’t miss the Lotus Eaters.
I put their podcasts on the Bluetooth in the ute or tractor. Humour an added bonus.

Delta A
Delta A
May 23, 2022 11:19 am

DOROTHY?

I was going to say “over the rainbow,” but you sound a tad frazzled, Trader, and that might confuse you further.

Dorothy (and Toto) from Wizard of Oz.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 11:19 am

Sports Illustrated to bring in topless models, yay!

The Last Frontier of Justice-Oriented Body Positivity (21 May, via Instapundit)

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
May 23, 2022 11:21 am

Bend over and spread em Australia, you are about to get it good and very hard!

People get the governments they deserve! FMD at no time in my life did I do anything to deserve Albo and that Wong chap.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 11:23 am

C.L has a ripping take on the election at his site.

Here you go. Pls bookmark CL while you are there, his is a fine blog.

Violet Lites and Silent Types (23 May)

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:23 am

Thanks Farmer Gez; linky works fine 🙂

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 23, 2022 11:23 am

132andBush says:
May 23, 2022 at 10:58 am
I’d hesitate to call Monty a Kulak.
He’s the type who sent the Kulaks to the salt mines.

I’m pretty sure the Kulaks are us Bush, or aspirational Kulaks at the very least.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 11:29 am

FRAZZLED?…..now theres a word I have’nt heard in ages. I might use that in my next speech . Thanks Delta. Ohhh,…I’m not frazzled?. just confused by all the new personalities in Canberra.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
May 23, 2022 11:30 am

m0nty says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:00 am
Have you not been paying attention the last thirty years, JC. Ever since Hawke/Keating, Labor has been…………………………………………………

FMD what rock does this guy live under?? Denial of all the economic history of the last 50 years or what?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 11:35 am

Where to now for Fat Cloive?
After the obligatory shadow-boxing and threats of litigation against the AEC, that is.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 23, 2022 11:39 am

he has to convince a majority of voters in a majority of states.

I’m betting good money Albo thinks it can be done by legislation.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 11:40 am

Bosi ran fifth in a field of eight in Greenway.
With 3.4% of the vote, just behind UAP and just ahead of LDP.
The People have spoken.
He has no standing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 11:40 am

Ever since Hawke/Keating, Labor has been the party of low taxes and responsible spending.

ROFLMAO.

munty can’t even remember the discussion a couple of days ago, when he tried this preposterous line of spin.

Reminder, munty. R-G-R took Australia from zero nett Commonwealth debt when KRudd was elected to 30% of GDP nett Commonwealth debt six years later when they were rightly thrown out on their fat arses. Average increase of 5% pa increase across their time in government.

Abbott-Turdballs-SloMo took that to 48% in nine years, average of 2% pa increase across their time in government.

Fat idiot!

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
May 23, 2022 11:42 am

Sancho Panzer says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:35 am

Where to now for Fat Cloive?
After the obligatory shadow-boxing and threats of litigation against the AEC, that is.

Back to counting his money, elections are just an entertaining interlude for Clive.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 11:45 am

Big_Nambassays:
May 23, 2022 at 11:30 am
m0nty says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:00 am
Have you not been paying attention the last thirty years, JC. Ever since Hawke/Keating, Labor has been…………………………………………………

FMD what rock does this guy live under?? Denial of all the economic history of the last 50 years or what?

The sacred talking points of the fascist left must be believed and regurgitated, lest he be cast into outer darkness. These are his “truths”, not necessarily connected to reality.

Frank
Frank
May 23, 2022 11:45 am

He’ll be a global laughing stock inside six months.

Strutting around with Trudeau and the rest for the photo ops, can’t wait for the fawning local coverage of the statesmanlike image.

I give it about a year before the wheels fall off and thereafter it’s a matter of available options or how savagely they control the messaging before something has to give.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 11:46 am

I’m pretty sure the Kulaks are us Bush, or aspirational Kulaks at the very least.

Yes. If “Aspirational Kulak” appears on the blog you’ll know who it is.

Frank
Frank
May 23, 2022 11:46 am

Zoe Daniel on the other hand, six months tops.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
May 23, 2022 11:47 am

Canavan, “Labor, Green, Bant, Teal Government” LGBT go woke go broke.

jupes
jupes
May 23, 2022 11:49 am

Here is a perfect example of why the Liberals lost and will continue into irrelevance. First, they backed Clive Palmer’s WA hard border challenge. But then they pulled out because apparently it wasn’t popular.

The lesson they should take from this, is that they should have stuck to the principle of free movement between states, you know, as stated in the constitution. But no, the lesson they have taken from this, is that they should never have backed Clive in the first place, because that was unpopular.

They chose popularity over principle therefore pissing off both conservatives and gullible Covid loons. Morons.

Tom
Tom
May 23, 2022 11:49 am

I hope the Fat Bastard sticks to extracting money from the Chinese Communist Party’s Australian mining tenements. He has no future in politics.

The political junk food he attempted to foist on low-IQ voters in this year’s election campaign, instead of being a vote magnet, was a vote repellant that, along with the LNP incompetence and treason, helped clear the field of all but leftwing neo-religious climate loonies.

The 2022 election will be remembered as a political leadership vacuum, the inevitable conclusion of Malcolm Turnbull’s disastrous prime ministership which ended the career of his chosen successor, a political nobody named Scott Morrison.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 11:51 am

Back to counting his money, elections are just an entertaining interlude for Clive.

He’s got a bit less to count than he had six weeks ago.
Probably not a huge dint in his reserves, but you wonder how long he can put up with the public humiliation of throwing cash into a black hole election after election.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 11:52 am

The political junk food he attempted to foist on low-IQ voters in this year’s election campaign, instead of being a vote magnet, was a vote repellant that, along with the LNP incompetence and treason, helped clear the field of all but leftwing neo-religious climate loonies.

He did the same in 2013 and screwed the senate as a result.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:52 am

I really do think, with less than 1 in 3 preferencing Labor 1st, Albo and Labor will quickly go into negative territory (as Cats have stated above). The pressure will be on, despite the luvvies in the media.

I don’t think the Libs will have to do much at all to see that happening – which means this is the chance to get back to proper Liberal values and disavow the Kean’s, Zimmerman’s, Falinsky’s and other wankers’ woke shite.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 23, 2022 11:53 am

So why isn’t Novavax approved as a booster?

ATAGI recommended it on 2 April. Why the holdup?

It was a gateway trick to get the ‘reluctant’ and ‘hesitant’ onto the mRNA subscription.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 11:54 am

I think Monty is a teal.
Rorts. Rorts. ICAC. Rorts.
Can’t name a single one but they’re there.
The only rort that springs to my mind is wind and solar subsidies and I’m betting teals are knee deep in those.
Anyhow will enjoy seeing all the rortie rorters being brought to icaccy justice.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:56 am

But what a happy time for Xi eh? The US in economic turmoil, militarily spent. Europe on the precipice of a major energy crisis, a new soft-on-China Government in Australia that haven’t been fully briefed on the real “strategic situation…”

This could be “fun”

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 11:57 am

Monty,
Please state the Fed balance sheet for the day after Rudd was elected.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 11:57 am

Clive fancies himself Australia’s Trump.
He ain’t.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 11:58 am

I think Monty is a teal.

Ugh Rosie!!! Picturing fatboy Munty in lycra, taking his kids for a soy latte in Tamarama…. that’s ruined my day…

Bluey
Bluey
May 23, 2022 12:01 pm

All the talk of a federal corruption commission, and I can’t help but wonder why? Isn’t investigating federal corruption the job of the federal police? Or are they lapdogs the way Vicpol are?

If that’s the case I can’t see a federal corruption commission being effective, look at the Vic one and how little has been done.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:02 pm

Rorts. Rorts. ICAC. Rorts.
Can’t name a single one but they’re there.

A complete list of the Liberal Party’s corruption over the last 7 years

Frank
Frank
May 23, 2022 12:05 pm

Lysander says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:52 am

Or they may just choose to wait it out and not change at all.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 12:05 pm

Geeze Munty, why don’t you just send a link to the Labor Party website? Fuck me, “the Chaser” is your authoritative source of information?

YOU’RE A FUCKING MORON!

Frank
Frank
May 23, 2022 12:06 pm

The Chaser. Really?

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 12:07 pm

Maybe Frank but Albo is starting off like Krudd’s 2nd term: Nobody likes him (but they “liked” him a bit more than Scomo)… there will be no honeymoon period – it’s all downhill from today onward.

rosie
rosie
May 23, 2022 12:08 pm

Okay Monty.
A bunch of allegations, many of them a trifle bizarre.
Perhaps I was wrong, you prefer to wear a red tshirt.

Dot
Dot
May 23, 2022 12:09 pm

rosiesays:
May 23, 2022 at 11:54 am
I think Monty is a teal.
Rorts. Rorts. ICAC. Rorts.
Can’t name a single one but they’re there.
The only rort that springs to my mind is wind and solar subsidies and I’m betting teals are knee deep in those.
Anyhow will enjoy seeing all the rortie rorters being brought to icaccy justice.

Military contractors.

Get those treasonous bastards and perfidious foreigners before the Senate on the hook for a life sentence.

Seven years to “integrate” an already working munition into our platforms our largest ally has?

I smell so many corpulent rats.

Frank
Frank
May 23, 2022 12:11 pm

Lysander, I meant the libs and how developing a spine might be too much to ask for. It runs counter to all the political instincts of the type.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:12 pm

It’s so easy to trigger you lot. All I have to do is link to a long (very long) list of corruption by your boys, and you start shouting like a Canberra cooker.

One can only imagine how loud you will bleat when ICAC has LNP Cabinet ministers on the stand day after day.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 12:13 pm

Lysander, I meant the libs and how developing a spine might be too much to ask for. It runs counter to all the political instincts of the type.

I agree with Rowan and Rita on yesterday’s Outsiders that now is the time to get back to what you actually stand for. Canavan was great on their show saying “McDonalds doesn’t pretend to sell health food so why are the Libs pretending to sell socialist policies?” But sadly, your Devines and Bishops say “avoid the lurch to the right.”

They haven’t learned in WA that’s for sure. Seems the same to me in Vic (?) with that Guy….

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
May 23, 2022 12:13 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
May 23, 2022 at 11:51 am

Back to counting his money, elections are just an entertaining interlude for Clive.

He’s got a bit less to count than he had six weeks ago.
Probably not a huge dint in his reserves, but you wonder how long he can put up with the public humiliation of throwing cash into a black hole election after election.

Public humiliation? If you saw Cloive in his too small tee shirt at one of his rallies you would know that public humiliation does not compute with Cloive.

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 12:15 pm

Munt, your side might be for **feels** (as evidenced by the many lefty/alp convictions in this space) but those of us on the other side prefer facts. A link to The Chaser Boys (avg age of 47) is hardly fact.

Send me a link to a court transcript/finding on this non-list. Go fatboy go.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 12:18 pm

How about a list of Labor pedo ph iles?

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 12:19 pm

“Geeze Munty, why don’t you just send a link to the Labor Party website? Fuck me, “the Chaser” is your authoritative source of information?

YOU’RE A FUCKING MORON!”

Too kind.

Dot
Dot
May 23, 2022 12:19 pm

your boys

????

May your children live in interesting times. May you come to the attention of the authorities. May you find what you are looking for.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:21 pm

Send me a link to a court transcript/finding on this non-list.

Give it a few months, the new federal ICAC will be right on that.

Struth
May 23, 2022 12:21 pm

Same old pompous, moronic “Liberal club members” having a go at Palmer voters for being low IQ.

Yet these same voters have the brains to know the level of shit we are in, the intellect to put freedom above some stupid kooky side policies of the UAP that would have never got up because what we were voting for, we knew, was a hung parliament at best.

Those of you so pompous as to do the typical Liberal “Club” wank of throwing it all away because you don’t like the candidates tie, or can’t fathom what the lack of alternatives there are, and therefore what we had to work with, might one day, take a good hard long look at their unpractical arrogance and idiocy before calling others low IQ.
Fuck wits.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 23, 2022 12:22 pm

A short train ride from Hiroshima is Kure, a seaport, which is home to the Yamato Museum. She was one of two huge battleships the Imperial Japanese Navy lost at the end of the war, and is commemorated there in the biggest model I’ve ever seen. Lots of other good stuff in the museum. There is a modern diesel-electric submarine on display outside, and you can walk through it.

A tram ride in Hiroshima is memorable too.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
May 23, 2022 12:24 pm

A complete list of the Liberal Party’s corruption over the last 7 years

AAAAAAAahahahahahahahahahaha *snort* hahahahahahahahahahaha

Champagne comedy Munty

pete of perth
pete of perth
May 23, 2022 12:26 pm

Elbow’s win. Does that mean French subs are back on the order books?

Struth
May 23, 2022 12:26 pm

Low IQ is deciding you can’t bring yourself to vote for a party based on their economic policies while they are fighting for the freedom, against the parties you gave away your country to, via your submission to tyranny.

Think twice before you talk of IQ.
And think even more than that before you start spouting off about morality and responsibility.

Roger
Roger
May 23, 2022 12:27 pm

I agree with Rowan and Rita on yesterday’s Outsiders that now is the time to get back to what you actually stand for.

The problem is parliamentary members have different notions of what they do actually stand for stand for.

Bridget Archer (yes, first time I’d heard of her too; holds Bass by the tighest of margins) told Patricia Karvelas on AM today that she will potentially put her hat in the ring for deputy leader and fight hard to prevent the Liberal Party going “further right”. The Liberal Party belongs “in the centre”, she opined.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 23, 2022 12:30 pm

All I have to do is link to a long (very long) list of corruption by your boys, and you start shouting like a Canberra cooker.

Oh no, not more Aldi bags? heaven forfend

Lysander
Lysander
May 23, 2022 12:35 pm

Give it a few months, the new federal ICAC will be right on that.

So you’ve actually got nothing lol!

You send a link listing “lnp corruption” and now you say give it a few months? You don’t happen to work for VicPol do you?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 12:35 pm

Give it a few months, the new federal ICAC will be right on that.

Hey M0nty will the Federal ICAC investigate the rivers of gold flowing from “Industry Superfunds” to Labor, or will they leave that to ASIC and the AFP?

Corruption is only bad if it isn’t done by the Left eh?

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 12:42 pm

What about “Industry Super funds” investing heavily in “renewables” which in turn hoover up vast sums of public cash in the form of RECs etc.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:42 pm

The LNP weren’t even hiding their corruption. Morrison used to say it was just local members knowing where to put the money because they knew their electorates.

ICAC will have a target-rich environment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 12:43 pm

Hey St Ruth.
Didn’t you predict an election fix with ScoMo getting up because he was the preferred Klaus WEF GloBaList candidate?

calli
calli
May 23, 2022 12:44 pm

The Diamantina is flowing brown and fast – this is water that fell at Easter finding its way down through the channel country. It is just slipping under the new bridge. The old crossing is well and truly inundated, as is the normal route to the Burke and Wills tree.

Undeterred, we used another route over the dunes via the yards where the horses are kept for the Birdsville races. After a bit of hunting we find it, old and gnarled with a star picket and a sign. I thought a while about Burke, Wills and King and their ill fated journey from this point down to where two finally perished in great distress. Heroes, regardless of some of the decisions they made… I am standing in the shadow of great courage and endurance.

The drowned, tree studded channels are filling, there will be more water coming after the recent rains, so now was our window of opportunity. We drove the few kilometres down to the SA border for a photo of the Track, then stopped at the Humpy Café for elevenses. Sitting in the yard, an old cable spool for a table, and out comes our coffee complete with a French press and demitasses! My only comparable experience was morning tea in a corner diner in Winslow, AZ, sipping icecream sodas. And yes, it was that corner.

Off to the Big Red dune this afternoon for another glimpse of natural beauty.

Dot
Dot
May 23, 2022 12:46 pm

m0ntysays:
May 23, 2022 at 12:42 pm
The LNP weren’t even hiding their corruption. Morrison used to say it was just local members knowing where to put the money because they knew their electorates.

Everyone knows that’s how Federal Assistance Grants (FAGS) work and have done so since their inception. The local State and Federal members are consulted. Sheeeeeiiiit, they have interests.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 12:48 pm

ICAC will have a target-rich environment.

Well it would be if it didn’t wear a blindfold when anything of the Left was visible.
Maybe it could take shooting lessons from Stormtroopers.
Wouldn’t want to hit a lefty target accidentally.
That would be bad for the collective.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:49 pm

Everyone knows that’s how Federal Assistance Grants (FAGS) work and have done so since their inception. The local State and Federal members are consulted. Sheeeeeiiiit, they have interests.

Clay Davis would have been proud of some of the pork barrelling. Somehow very little of it went to Labor safe seats. Funny, that.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 23, 2022 12:49 pm

A political mannequin pulled from the window.

what a beautiful description – and one of Malcolm’s Mannequins at that — also loved the description coined by Lizzie about the performing Teals – the Stepford candidates

calli
calli
May 23, 2022 12:49 pm

I suppose the most important thing for small, insignificant types is wreaking revenge on opponents rather than building or mending.

This is nothing new.

Such are the pigmies who govern us and those who bray and grunt in satisfaction.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 12:50 pm

I love Lefties and their projection.
You could use them to launch shells at Russians they’re so projectish.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 12:51 pm

Let’s not leave this stranded over the page:-

Tomsays:

May 23, 2022 at 11:49 am

I hope the Fat Bastard sticks to extracting money from the Chinese Communist Party’s Australian mining tenements. He has no future in politics.

The political junk food he attempted to foist on low-IQ voters in this year’s election campaign, instead of being a vote magnet, was a vote repellant that, along with the LNP incompetence and treason, helped clear the field of all but leftwing neo-religious climate loonies ….

Indeed.
Along with the disaster he served up from 2013 – 2016, and siding with Trumble and the ABC to whiteant Abbott the best hope Conservative Australians have had for twenty years.
And if any Abbott Derangement Syndrome types want to take issue, they need to tell me how any of Rudd, Gillard, Scomo or Trumble were better than Abbott.
Fat Cloive doesn’t give a shit about conservative politics. He is looking for influence to advance the interests of a certain XXXXXL sized Queenssslander.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 23, 2022 12:52 pm

Everyone knows that’s how Federal Assistance Grants (FAGS) work and have done so since their inception.

Very big whiteboards get used, apparently.
Showing my age.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 12:53 pm

A federal ICAC based on the NSW model will only ever be used to bludgeon conservatives. We’ve all seen what’s gone on here in NSW with ICAC…and how, oddly, it was missing in action for the seventeen years of arguably the most venally corrupt Labor governments in NSW history…Carr, Iemma, Rees and Keneally.

I once spoke at length to Margaret Cunneen about what she endured at the hands of ICAC here in NSW. The ICAC probe into Cunneen was purely political and a very deliberate attempt at destroying Cunneen’s character and career, it had nothing to do with corruption. It was petty and vindictive. It only failed because Cunneen, being a seasoned lawyer, knew how to fight. However there have been many individuals who’ve had their lives destroyed by ICAC here in NSW.

I note that the adolescent Monty says nothing about corruption in the Andrews’ government or the QLD Labor government. All of this confirms to me that Monty isn’t particularly concerned about corruption per se, it just depends on the ideological side and he wants another useful weapon to use against conservatives.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 23, 2022 12:56 pm

Talisker single malt aged 10 years is very nice.

m0nty
m0nty
May 23, 2022 12:58 pm

A federal ICAC based on the NSW model will only ever be used to bludgeon conservatives.

Hmm, so you’re saying the NSW ICAC never went after Labor figures? Think you might be mistaken there, Cassie.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 1:01 pm

“Think you might be mistaken there, Cassie.”

No, I’m not. ICAC only investigated Obeid after Labor lost the 2011 election.

It’s you who’s mistaken….as usual.

My God you’re a cretin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 1:02 pm

Thanks for reminding us about Cuneen, Cassie.
I often wonder whether she was pursued because of her prosecution of the Skaf gang.
Not so much because she secured convictions, but because she went hard and demonstrated that they were basically a racially based rape gang with a pre-determined plan to prey on ‘Skip’ girls.
That did not fit the multi-culti narrative.
I think she was meant to try them separately and offer up a soft “four with a minimum of two” deal for a quick guilty plea, and no awkward testimony from the traumatised victims.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 1:04 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
May 23, 2022 at 1:02 pm”

All correct…and she’s a well known conservative. The ICAC set up was a very deliberate and malicious persecution.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 1:06 pm

If there’s going to be federal ICAC one of the first things they can look at is the Slug gate affair and Albanese’s ties to it.

I won’t hold my breath.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 1:09 pm

m0ntysays:
May 23, 2022 at 12:02 pm
Rorts. Rorts. ICAC. Rorts.
Can’t name a single one but they’re there.

A complete list of the Liberal Party’s corruption over the last 7 years

Now, can you do one on the Victorian Labor Party? Start with a billion $ to not build a road.

Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2022 1:15 pm

NSW ICAC is worse than a kangaroo court, it’s akin to the Moscow show trials….overseen by characters similar to Andrey Vyshinskiy.

No wonder the adolescent approves.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 1:16 pm

Clay Davis would have been proud of some of the pork barrelling. Somehow very little of it went to Labor safe seats. Funny, that.

Watch the next three years, and get back to us on what constitutes “corruption”, idiot.

Are you wearing your Red Shirt today?

Real Deal
Real Deal
May 23, 2022 1:19 pm

NSW ICAC is worse than a kangaroo court, it’s akin to the Moscow show trials….overseen by characters similar to Andrey Vyshinskiy.

Megan Latham with her “pulling wings off butterflies” quote resembled Roland Freisler of the People’s Court. He had a very poetic ending.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 23, 2022 1:20 pm

Cassie

.overseen by characters similar to Andrey Vyshinskiy.

munty now furiously Googling Vyshinskiy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 1:21 pm

Sports Illustrated to bring in topless models, yay!

As they say, be careful what you wish for.

dopey
dopey
May 23, 2022 1:25 pm

One of the Skafs got 55 years. Greatly reduced on appeal unfortunately.

Franx
Franx
May 23, 2022 1:26 pm

Federal ICAC may be worth their salt if they take up what IBAC has thus far ignored in relation to Pell in Victoria.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 1:28 pm

Ever since Hawke/Keating, Labor has been the party of low taxes and responsible spending …

mUnty, The 80s called. They want their salmon pink Stubbies and lemon penguin shirt back. Excuse me, I’ve just to change sides on my Talking Heads cassette.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 1:34 pm

Kure is great TE, the day I was there it was packed and that was during the week.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 23, 2022 1:34 pm

Holy ‘climate change’…. if it rains anymore here i’m going to need a bigger rainwater tank.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 23, 2022 1:36 pm

Was that Munty on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

Jorge
Jorge
May 23, 2022 1:40 pm

On the subject of political mannequins (thanks, Gez), is Albo’s new squeeze up to date with her actors’ equity dues ?

duncanm
duncanm
May 23, 2022 1:48 pm

Was that Munty on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

Is that like Meg’s career in foot porn?

Fleeced
Fleeced
May 23, 2022 1:50 pm

C.L has a ripping take on the election at his site.

C.L has a site?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 1:51 pm

Reports this morning of a degree of mayhem during and after the “Dreamtime” game at the MCG.
One person still in hospital after being struck with … wait for it … a didgeridoo.
Of course, Plod trying to play it down this morning:-
“Investigation continuing. Working through it. Progress being made. Blah, blah, blah.”
Bullshit.
The MCG is covered by overlapping CCTV cameras everywhere.
How many didgeridoos would there be at the footy?
They could have tracked the clubber back from the incident right to his seat and ID’d him in an hour if they wanted to.
How do I know this?
Because every time someone goes homophobic, islamophobic, waaacist whatever, they get a knock on the door very early the next morning and, if they are a club member, they are drummed out of the Brownies before lunchtime.
Was the clubber part of the First Nations pre-game charade?
Speaking of which, is it any wonder tensions rise when you run a puerile display of white-fella prostrating himself at the feet of the black-fella, and call it entertainment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 1:52 pm

Sorry.
Italics fail.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 23, 2022 1:54 pm

Fleeced.
Under “Currency Lad” in the blogroll below (or to the right depending on your device).

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 1:54 pm

C.L has a site?

Yes, CL has a site, which is quite a sight, that needs to be cited more often.

calli
calli
May 23, 2022 1:56 pm

Fleeced, here is C.L.’s blog.

He has a new and improved feature. Dickless upticks.

Zipster
Zipster
May 23, 2022 1:58 pm

Anthony Albanese has made a historic change to the backdrop of the Australian Prime Minister.

Prior to his press conference, staff replaced two of the three Australian flags behind the podium to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.

Albanese did not make note of the big change while speaking to reporters for the first time as Prime Minister, but he did make reference to his plans to move forward with the Uluru statement.

let the enwokening begin!

shatterzzz
May 23, 2022 2:01 pm

The back-tracking begins early! .. Bill Shitten has “quietly” dumped the review of CentreLink benefits promised a month ago …!

shatterzzz
May 23, 2022 2:04 pm

Was the clubber part of the First Nations pre-game charade?

If not they’ll need to review their carry-in baggage policy .. not many didgez that’ll fit in yer pocket, I’m guessin’ .. LOL!

Tom
Tom
May 23, 2022 2:07 pm

Terry McCrann (Paywallian):

Australia is now embarked on a classic big-spending Whitlam-style Labor agenda mixed up with a new-age big-spending Dark Green agenda. It is not going to end well.
Even if Labor gets to the 76 seats and majority government in its own right, it will be effectively in a de facto coalition government with certainly the formal Dark Greens and essentially also with the so-called ‘Teals’.
It both has to be, and it will willingly seize the opportunity to do so, because Labor and the Greens will together have a majority in the Senate, even without counting the likely support from Tasmania’s Jacqui Lambie and her possible-to-likely second senator.
Both the formal Dark Greens and the ‘independent’ Teal-Greens demand the same thing: the destruction of our national electricity generation system that has given us plentiful, cheap and reliable power for the last 80 years – albeit, increasingly less so in recent years.
And the speedier the ‘better’, in a mad, bad and dangerous – and utterly pointless – race to 2030.
These assorted Greens also demand a ban on any new coal, gas and oil projects; and then, where it starts to get really ‘interesting’, the actual closures of our existing mines and oil and especially gas production.
That does suggest it will become an increasingly fractious marriage; as the crazy-Green agenda collides with the reality of government and trying to keep the economy this side of Venezuela, far less North Korea.
But at least initially it will be hugs all around as Labor, Dark-Green and Teal-Green rejoice in taking “real action on Climate Change”.
‘Action’ that will have zero effect on either the world’s or our local climate, thanks to China belching more and more CO2, and even ‘woke’ Europe deciding it actually wants to keep its lights on.
Pointless ‘action’, that will have massively destructive impacts on our industry and on household budgets.
Then add on the classic big-spending Labor agenda, which WILL produce bigger deficits and keep the national government debt heading from $1tr to $2tr.
Labor has ‘fessed up to spending at least another $20bn – but that’s only the amount spent over the four years of the formal budget out to 2025-26. And it WILL prove a massive underestimate.
As it unfolds it will grow to a much bigger sum, just in those four years – and build in ever-increasing spending in every year after that.
Look at the NDIS. It was supposed to start at $15bn-a-year and grow ‘modestly’ year-to-year. It’s already at $30bn this year and is projected to hit $46bn by 2025-26.
All this is going to be happening as inflation runs at its highest level since the early 1990s and we are facing the very real risk of a wages-inflation spiral developing.
The Reserve Bank is already going to put up interest rates; if the spiral develops it will have to hike them savagely even if the economy plunges into recession.
Further, it’s not as if all this will be taking place against a benign global backdrop. Globally, things are getting seriously complicated and nasty.
Buckle up. With a full racing harness.

132andBush
132andBush
May 23, 2022 2:07 pm

Gez,
Emerald Grain have 22/23 APW MG del Melb @ $500/t

Worth a nibble I think.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 23, 2022 2:08 pm

Looks like we will be going full on treaty stuff. Funny how it was never highlighted before the election. We can expect more wokeness.

“Prior to his press conference, staff replaced two of the three Australian flags behind the podium to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 23, 2022 2:08 pm

On the subject of political mannequins (thanks, Gez), is Albo’s new squeeze up to date with her actors’ equity dues ?

Is Gillard’s “man” still in a caravan on the Murray or was that just a rumour?

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