Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Wed 1 June 2022
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Iowahawk put it best:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a6ba70d6-df84-11ec-baab-53d14c642149?shareToken=7a61dce8fac7b10fd9602aa770a0364e
Awesome.
Rationed power in the UK.
We must go harder here in Oz or we won’t be a serious country anymore!
Ah, yes; but it’s all Vlad’s fault, see…
From “The Age.”
How does the saying go?
Anyone who’s not a Socialist at 20 has no heart.
Anyone who’s still a Socialist at 40 has no brain.
Roger says: June 1, 2022 at 11:27 am
The particular Labor MP in question doesn’t strike me as having a helluva lot of brainpower.
Good Lord.
I forgot the Swill.
At this stage, it’s hard to imagine what the Dutton/Ley opposition actually will oppose.
Having said that, the gate is wide open for the ALP to engage in strategic voting to bring in exciting social engineering – blame free – via the Greens.
As a wise man once said: ‘Be proud Australia! You voted for these clowns!’
Lysandersays:
June 1, 2022 at 11:16 am
New Labor MP says “Gough is God” for ending White Australia Policy.
does he not know it was Holt who did this? (while Labor continued to push for it?)
The effect of a couple of generations of fascist left propaganda. He probably also believes that Gough Witless was the prime mover behind the 1967 referendum, and withdrew Australian combat troops from Vietnam, even before he was not so much elected, as crowned.
He’d better tread very carefully; c. 32% of the primary vote isn’t a lot of political capital to play with.
Psays:
June 1, 2022 at 11:22 am
Dave Sharma looking for a Senate seat.
Photios will make sure he gets it, even if he has to personally poison another Lieboral senator.
Roger
if that’s what he prefers, but it does raise the question of what he was doing reading the lessons in a Catholic Church in Punchbowl on Good Friday?
Being a total hypocrite, like all lefties (hello, monti-fa)?
that would “fucking viet balts” Gough ?
Sharma is likely to be a victim – for the second time – of the progressive politics he espouses.
They’ll be looking for a female.
Especially if it is a female who is being replaced. (Rumour Marise Payne)
lol SA Climate emergency.
despite the BOM’s numberwang, half the continent was 1-2C below max average for May.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=maxanom&period=month&area=nat
LOL, next you’ll be telling us about the ‘ultra conservative’ Bill Kristol.
Funny how nobody mentions how “more jerbs in ruinable energy”, means more people being paid equals more expensive electricity.
despite the BOM’s numberwang, half the continent was 1-2C below max average for May
I have not trusted the BOM since they lowered the historic records for Australian temperatures so they could make gerbil warming appear worse.
Has anyone seen any kind of logical or acceptable explanation as to why passport applications are apparently taking upwards of ten weeks to process?
Or is this another braindead lamestream meeja beat up?
Oh come onsays:
June 1, 2022 at 11:51 am
Man, I remember back when you lot were ecstatic over John Durham
Man, I remember when m0nty told everyone here about how he loves molesting livestock.
Has he abandoned his preference for killing dogs?
OLD AND BUSTED: Smell the Glove.
The New Hotness? Smell The Napalm: The Story Behind This Incredible Scene in Apocalypse Now (Video).
Salvatore
The particular Labor MP in question doesn’t strike me as having a helluva lot of brainpower.
If you join or follow a political party that doesn’t allow any flexibility in how you vote for legislation, you are not likely to be the sharpest tool in the shed.
Progs have touting green jobs for decades.
Fortunately even montyservatives haven’t been holding their breath.
Having said that, the gate is wide open for the ALP to engage in strategic voting to bring in exciting social engineering – blame free – via the Greens.
They will. Remember the aftermath of the 2010 election? Gillard could have just told Bandt “you can support me or you can tell your voters that you’re supporting Abbott. Now get out of my office”. But she “negotiated” with the Greens to get them to support the ALP. Or at least that’s what she and Bandt told everyone was what happened.
Pend up demand and no extra staff?
This financial year, more than 1.1 million passports have been issued, with 800,000 of those since November 1, 2021 when Australia’s international borders re-opened.
duncanmsays:
June 1, 2022 at 12:42 pm
Lysandersays:
June 1, 2022 at 11:16 am
New Labor MP says “Gough is God” for ending White Australia Policy.
that would “fucking viet balts” Gough ?
John Button’s autobiography tells of how in 1975 he approached Whitlam about some East Timorese refugees. Button records Whitlam’s response:
“What are you worried about them for, comrade? They’re all mulattos.”
Will be interesting to have a look at the factional numbers in the ALP caucus.
There will be some very robust discussions should Elbow choose to go down that path.
Exactly my concern.
The temptation for Labor will be to arrange to be ‘forced’ to adopt Greens policies (that also suit Labor) – with an eye to the next election.
Why should the postal vote rule change dot?
Because this year you don’t like it?
As long as postal votes are allowed then there must be a reasonable time for votes from remote parts of Australia to arrive at the AEC.
I remember when “you lot” were telling us how wussiagate was 100% ironclad and Trump was going to jail as a result.
What happened with that, doofus?
WA eases mandatory COVID vaccination requirements for most workers as cases slow
The ABC *really* wanted those mandates to stay. They obviously got wind of this and ran the following article YESTERDAY to try and arm-twist McFuckface into changing his mind:
WA’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination rules set to stay as experts see no reason to change
Oh yair? What does “the government” say?
And when was his “most recent public advice” provided?
Oh. To present this as the government’s current thinking is a little dishonest, is it not, ABC?
Again, look at the timeline – the article claiming that experts and the government say there isn’t going to be any change to the vaxx mandates appeared yesterday. Today, the government lifts the vaxx mandate.
The ABC sure tried like hell to keep the mandates in place. Enemies of the people.
Nice one !
A true movie legend . . . who’s still alive.
Yes, I suppose it’s possible Elbow is that stupid. 😀
As I wrote in response to Tim, that would provoke some “robust” discussions in the Labor caucus & I don’t think Elbow is a strong enough personality to carry the day. And Labor’s vote has fallen 6% since the halcyon days of 2010. The battlers will not be enthused by a Labor-Green alliance, whatever rationale is offered for it.
No, it’s real. My kid’s passport reissue is taking AAAAAGES.
Since 2015 every major temperature index except GISSTEMP, the most hysterical of the land based records, has shown a decline in global temp.
NR is cuckservative central. A bunch of establishment losers. And William F Buckley is immensely overrated.
The end result of years of climate and economic stupidity – stretching back to Blair.
For 20+ years UK governments have been preventing, restricting and/or hobbling oil and gas exploration in the UK North Sea and Shetland sectors.
Better to import gas than produce your own filthy pollution; carbon accounting appears better that way.
While simultaneously closing the coal-fired generation fleet and abandoning nuclear – and relying on gas backup to windmills and the inter-connectors to Europe.
It all came crashing home to stupid Boris: too late, too late the maiden cried…
According to Daily Mail Ben Fordham on his show today had callers about the vaccine mandates and how it had impacted and ruined their lives.
This is one aspect of Covid that the MSM seems to have totally avoided. If anything they are all in on mandates. However I would like to see them tell us their mandate policy for their own staff in relation to first jabs and boosters. How many have they sacked or do they just let them work from home.
Yesterday the Courier Mail had an article about the first day of Supreme Court hearing brought by police and some paramedics in relation to the mandates. By sheer co-incidence there was an equally large article next to it about the higher death rate for unvaxxed v vaxxed. The source of the information was unnamed from Qld Health. Naturally the CM just ran with what they were given so as usual no mention of age or comorbidities. To make a bland claim an unvaxxed more likely to die without more detail is the usual way CM handles those stories. Obviously an unvaxxed healthy 40 year old is at far less risk of dying with Covid than a triple or quadruple vaxxed 83 year old with comorbidities.
Just to show how inept CM is they had another short article on another page saying that Qld Health Minister had now said unvaxxed could now visit public and private hospitals. You might think that could have a bearing on paramedics case v mandate.
Since any stories about adverse effects are clearly also taboo in MSM then we only get the jab jab side of the story.
MSM have failed in their duty to hold Governments to account. They just love the next beat up story from whichever expert is willing to give them copy.
Fuck off montifa; and get very sick.
From Dr Faustus’s link above:
There have been a lot of such warnings over the decades. I guess the answer is “never”, in that case.
Timothy N
John Button’s autobiography tells of how in 1975 he approached Whitlam about some East Timorese refugees. Button records Whitlam’s response:
“What are you worried about them for, comrade? They’re all mulattos.”
Shock horror, are you telling us that John Button recorded an exchange with the Greta Man, which indicates fairly clearly that Whitless was a waaaayyyyyycisssst? Colour me unsurprised.
I read that and agree.
In essence, what we are relying on here is self discipline by a weak government.
Be of good cheer.
Dr F
The temptation for Labor will be to arrange to be ‘forced’ to adopt Greens policies (that also suit Labor) – with an eye to the next election.
Those of the more rational members of Caucus who remember the devastation of 2013 might succumb to the temptation to suggest that the idiots on the extreme left go join the Slime, while they cut a deal with the rural socialists, who might (just) be able to keep them in power.
To borrow from monti-fa, a new split might loom, just not where he expects it to occur?
Fromlast night: Rosie’s walk.
Hang on, is m0nty saying that a senior member of a government that has just been thrown out of office isn’t very popular?? This is shocking news. Absolutely shocking.
Anyway, who gives a shit. I haven’t seen any Dutton cheerleading going on here. Again, m0nts makes a fool out of himself with his sad trolling attempts using crap he thinks will be provocative here. What a dummy.
When will any media organisation actually question a Health Minister or CHO about the fact the 3rd and 4th shots were created before Delta and have clearly been shown to wane after short period of time.
It should be noted that we don’t even have the Omicron Vax yet so we can look forward to mandates for that despite the majority of the population probably already having had Covid.
What is particularly noticeable in Qld is that CM rarely mentions CHO but has a regular group of experts on call to maintain the scare campaign.
In the old days people used to say the lowest of the low for occupations were lawyers and used car salesmen. My list now has epidemiologists well below them.
“Dr Robertson said the workplace mandates were still appropriate and proportionate in the workplace, given people with only two doses were over-represented by a factor of three in hospitalisations”
Hey
Top Ender says:
June 1, 2022 at 3:12 am
And in a piece of brilliant governing:
Just seven people are isolating at Queensland’s 1000-bed Covid quarantine facility, which is costing taxpayers close to $4m each week.
Wellcamp has housed only 652 people since it opened in February – an average of 41 guests each week – but those numbers have dwindled since mandatory quarantine was scrapped for unvaccinated international arrivals last month.
Details of the project have been shrouded in secrecy, with the Palaszczuk government repeatedly refusing to reveal how much it has spent on Wellcamp, privately owned by the Toowoomba-based Wagner Corporation. The government has not disputed reports the total cost of Wellcamp is at least $190m in its first year of operation, including the state’s leasing of the facility.
BloJo can match that
Covid-19: Nightingale hospitals set to shut down after seeing few patients
The mothballing of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, some of which have yet to treat a single covid-19 patient, has raised questions about whether resources to fight the pandemic were disproportionately focused on building intensive care capacity.
Five emergency hospitals, with the capacity to treat almost 10?000 covid-19 cases, were opened last month at sites across the country1 for fear the NHS might be overwhelmed following scenes of northern Italian intensive care units swamped with seriously ill patients.
But such high demand for intensive care never materialised. Just 51 patients have been treated at the 4000 bed medical facility situated in the refurbished Excel Centre in London’s Docklands since it opened. Nightingale units in Birmingham and Harrogate have not treated a single patient, while a facility in Manchester has had just a handful of admissions.
Charles Knight, the chief executive of Nightingale London, announced on 4 May that no more covid-19 patients were likely to be admitted to the facility. “As a result, after the last patient leaves, the hospital will be placed on standby, ready to resume operations as needed, in line with others around the country,” he said in a statement.
But some doctors have questioned the need for so much extra capacity.
One consultant, who works in mental health at a London teaching hospital and wanted to remain anonymous, said, “Was it a disproportionate use of funding and resources, given what’s happened in care homes, dementia wards, and prisons? The Nightingale hospitals might have been done for the best reasons, but there’s a danger that they’re going to be seen as white elephants.”
Richard Sullivan, director of the Institute of Cancer Policy at King’s College London, said that the government and senior NHS officials had overreacted to the media coverage of scenes in Italian hospitals and had been unduly swayed by “simplistic” modelling of the pandemic.
“The Italian doctors were intubating far too many people. That would not have happened in British intensive care units,” he said. “The trouble is that Neil Ferguson’s modelling was wildly exaggerated. You cannot rely on a model to predict what happens with a pandemic. There are too many variables.
“You need good local intelligence to work out what transmissions rates really are; this did not appear to have happened.”
Earlier projections by Ferguson of Imperial College on swine flu in 2009, and BSE in 2001, were wide of the mark. On 5 May Ferguson resigned from his position on the government scientific panel that advises ministers on covid-19, after it emerged he had contradicted his own advice on social distancing.
Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, defended the extra capacity the NHS built, saying that had the government not taken these measures and hospitals were overwhelmed with cases it would also have been criticised.
It is unclear whether NHS England plans to use the Nightingale units to help hospitals restore some of their other services, such as elective surgery, that have been severely impeded by the lockdown.
The BMJ understands, however, that there are ongoing discussions between Barts Health Trust, which has managed the Nightingale at the Excel, and the NHS over how the facility might be repurposed, at least in part, in a capacity other than a giant intensive care unit.
But the Department of Health and Social Care has stipulated that the Nightingale hospitals must be able to resume some of their intensive care capability with 48 hours notice, in case there is a new surge of covid-19 cases when social distancing is relaxed or seasonal changes alter infection rates. “The department is concerned about the seasonal element of covid-19 and it fears a new surge in cases come October or November,” said a source.
A spokesperson for the Nightingale hospitals told The BMJ, “The whole point of the Nightingales has been to build extra capacity to help local hospitals ensure all those who need care can get it, and it will be a mark of success if they continue not to operate at full capacity, because that will mean that the rest of the NHS has managed well and because the public have helped slow the spread of the virus, meaning fewer people needing care and ultimately fewer people losing their lives.
“Over the coming months, the Nightingales will still have a role to play supporting the NHS, based on what local clinical leaders think will best complement other care available in the region in meeting the needs of their communities.”
BJ: Ultimately anything is possible in the septic soup of Canberra.
But Albanese sits in a slightly less strangulated position than Gillard did. I’d personally be doubting a first term split; you can bet on Labor running fierce internal discipline.
The one thing that’s clear though is that the next three years is going to be either a Uniparty snuggle bunny through the Senate – which I think deeply unlikely – or an uneasy quasi coalition with the Greens. But not both, or alternating.
This must be nightmare territory for Labor, who will be desperate to avoid a Greenslide in 2025, on the back of Bandit et al presenting as a ‘responsible party of government’.
Dr F earlier.
Correct.
Bat Ears did precisely that in Victoria.
Had to “negotiate” with the Greens, Animals Straya and Fiona Patton in the Upper House to get his pandemic bills through.
In reality, all he was doing was unleashing his inner student politics Marxist with the plausible deniability that he had to do it for a higher cause.
Oh yes, this is Labor’s worst case scenario: majority government with only the Greens to negotiate with in the Senate. What a terrible position, they are crying into their muesli.
Meanwhile the Liberals are sitting pretty with a strong endorsement from the forgotten people who just delivered them an undeniable mandate.
Listen to yourselves, geez.
Woman assaulted on NYC subway as bystanders do nothing
NYC transit crime incidents have increased nearly 58% year-over-year
Includes video
Rabz says: June 1, 2022 at 1:08 pm
They’ve all become quite accustomed to
workingwatching Netflix from home & aren’t yet back into the groove of working at 40% of private sector pace.They’re speed demons compared to the Immigration Dept – there’s never been so few tourists wanting to come here, yet tourist visas are taking months to assess.
Does he know what the great sainted Gough said about Vietnamese fleeing communism? Does he know how much he valued them as prospective Australians.
Can’t blame the MP himself really. He was taught by teachers.
Spare us the “Liberals will never govern again” lines – heard ’em all before. Things change fast.
When the lights go out, the power bills go up, interest rates go through the roof & people start losing their houses, businesses feel the pinch & stop hiring ergo nobody can find a job;
Is it feasible that Dutton could lead the Liberals to an election win in Three years? Yep.
Some shuffling on the victim hood totem pole?
Isimemen Etute was arrested June 2, 2021, and charged with the May 31 murder of Jerry Smith, a local Blacksburg man who had posed as a woman online to meet straight, college-aged men.
According to testimony, Etute first connected with Smith in April 2021 on the dating app Tinder, with Smith posing as a woman going by the name “Angie Renee.” Along with teammate Da’Shawn Elder, Etute went to Smith’s Blacksburg apartment on April 10 under the assumption that he was meeting a woman. Elder testified that he was disturbed by the circumstances of the meeting, in which Smith hid his face and kept his apartment nearly pitch dark. Both players initially left, but Etute returned to the apartment, and testified that he received oral sex and a $50 gift from Smith.
CHINESE SCIENTISTS REPORTEDLY PLOTTING HOW TO DESTROY SPACEX SATELLITES
THE COUNTRY IS INVESTIGATING “”SOFT AND HARD KILL METHODS.”
SPACEX
Hard Kill
Chinese researchers, including several associated with the country’s defense industry, are investigating ways to disable or even destroy SpaceX’s Starlink satellites if they ever prove to be a threat to national security, the South China Morning Post reports, in a sign that the Chinese military community increasingly sees SpaceX’s orbital infrastructure as a potential adversary.
The MP in question arrived in Australia aged 45yo, as a “successful businessman”, then joined the police force.
I’d be surprised if the MP in question knows a bluddee thing about Australian history or culture.
What happens if the lights don’t go out? What is plan B?
There is a lot of wishing going on here. You have painted yourselves into a corner, and assumed Marty McFly on a hoverboard as your escape route. It’s going to take a lot of jiggawatts.
Who is stupid, those who think the pollies are, or the pollies at war with us.
The activists at war with us?
I might send him an email and let him know. 😛
It means Dutton has been elected.
Yes it should change and it should change because I don’t like it. I have good reasons not to like it.* Two-three weeks after an election? My god that is ludicrous in 2022.
Online voting is an option in NSW, plus the votes can be picked up by couriers.
*What are you going to do, force your dumb ideas on me?
This may work quite well in the square mile of the CBD.
Yes it should change and it should change because I don’t like it. I have good reasons not to like it.* Two-three weeks after an election? My god that is ludicrous in 2022.
Given that it can take up to a month for letter delivery under the, streamlined & much improved, Oz Post system these days maybe it is time to look into postal voting ..
the days of “thru sleet & snow the mail must get thru” are long, long gone .. LOL!
m0ntysays:
June 1, 2022 at 1:37 pm
We’ve been through this before m0nty. It’s totally immaterial.
In the last 100 years of Commonwealth politics no-one who has been the first post-election defeat leader of a political party has ever been the one to lead it back into power, unless you count John Curtin taking over from ousted PM James Scullin four years and a second election defeat after Labor got punted in 1931.
Pure Fabianism.
Amoebae like Monty, who have signed up for every leftard brainfart that aims to destroy Western culture and capitalism, have no friends who don’t vote for the Liars and the Filth, so they have no idea what it’s like being an independent thinker who was rejected the left’s herd mentality.
They guess that, if you don’t vote for the Liars and the Filth, you must support the Libs, who just went into an election campaign with no major policies of their own and stole theirs from Labor and the left.
So, having alienated their own base, the Libs lost and were replaced in government with the support of just 22% of the electorate, as Angus Black pointed out here at 9.18am.
As far as I can make out, Monty was of average intelligence before he voluntarily signed up for leftism, which has made him as dumb as dogshit, arguing the same positions that are taken by three-year-old girls because their parents won’t give them a pony.
This election saw the Greens eat a third of Labor’s lunch. The Teals had most of the rest.
Despite 10 years of consistently chaotic, poor Coalition government, Albanese has barely fallen over the line. So, not a huge shout out there from voterland.
Three years of Labor and Greens working seamlessly, hand in glove is going to encourage even more punters, who previously thought of Team Bandt as reckless nutcases, to vote Green in 2025. Most of them were never going to vote for a conservative candidate.
Hello Labor/Green, or Green/Labor Coalition.
Hence the nightmare.
If you’re comfortable with that, you are probably a siren singing the SS Albo onto Green rocks.
If you join or follow a political party that doesn’t allow any flexibility in how you vote for legislation, you are not likely to be the sharpest tool in the shed.
Isn’t this rule no. 1 of all political parties! .. tho to be honest when I look at the evidence/pay packets associated with political troughin’ methinx those of us who never/haven’t considered a political career may be the ones who aren’t the “sharpest” of tools .. LOL!
mUnty getting ready for the 1,000 year reign of the Reich. The problem? See under R-G-R.
Three years of Labor and Greens working seamlessly, hand in glove is going to encourage even more punters, who previously thought of Team Bandt as reckless nutcases, to vote Green in 2025. Most of them were never going to vote for a conservative candidate.
Aided and abetted by both Libs & Nats who elected both”Dudzy Biloela” and “nuttin’ to be proud of” opposition party leaders .. LOL!
The Greens don’t want to be anywhere near government. Ask Cheryl Kernot why.
OCO
Again, m0nts makes a fool out of himself with his sad trolling attempts using crap he thinks will be provocative here. What a dummy.
It shows how little attention he has been paying. He is essentially going by his own stereotype of “you lot”, and can’t understand why we are not imitating his reaction to the Trump election in 2016.
Foxtrot Uniform, Charlie Kilo Whiskey India Tango!
Online voting is an option in NSW, plus the votes can be picked up by couriers.
Shirley, NO ONE is silly enuf to PAY to vote .. picked up by courier .. LOL!
What happens if the lights don’t go out? What is plan B?
There is a lot of wishing going on here. You have painted yourselves into a corner, and assumed Marty McFly on a hoverboard as your escape route. It’s going to take a lot of jiggawatts.
The lights will go out, just as they have gone out everywhere in the world where green fucktards have had their way with the electricity supply. Now its our turn. Let’s hope shitheads like you really wail when the lights go out.
monti-fa
What happens if the lights don’t go out? What is plan B?
Let’s reverse the hypothetical.
What happens to Labor (and the Slime) if the lights do go out? What is their plan B?
Australia on the ‘precipice’ of a UK-style energy crisis as soaring costs push retailers out
H B Bearsays:
June 1, 2022 at 2:54 pm
The Greens don’t want to be anywhere near government. Ask Cheryl Kernot why.
Indeed. The Cheryl Kernot who was “negotiating” horizontally with Gareth Gareth before switching parties, then watched both her old party, and her hopes of a long career in her new party, go down the gurgler.
When is the cut off for postal votes being received to be included in the count?
Indeed. The Cheryl Kernot who was “negotiating” horizontally with Gareth Gareth before switching parties, then watched both her old party, and her hopes of a long career in her new party, go down the gurgler.
sometimes there is justice in this world. That old stinker would give nobody’s gal serious competition in the stinker stakes.
Thank heaven for small mercies.
Ray Warren retires.
The bloke has been border line blind for the last 2 or 3 years.
He wrecked the four times I watched FTA TV during 2021 (GF & Origins).
Answering my own question.
This Friday.
https://www.aec.gov.au/election/pva.htm
By this time next week we’ll be able to see how big the didn’t bother to vote crowd is.
Everything that’s wrong with the Lieboral Pardy. Sorry if this has been posted earlier.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/change-divisive-australia-day-tasmanian-premier-jeremy-rockliff-says/news-story/f32271b460c25101b9261ba715e85f21
A day after talking about an indefinite extension of the Jab Command- and less than twelve hours of talkback radio about it- MaoGowan has backed off from it, at least for non-healthcare.
I’d say the worm has turned, and bitten hard.
what is this lutruwita rubbish?
Top of the smh website, Tony Burke & his bible.
I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
h/t Dodgeball.
I’m surprised Tony Bourkqa didn’t use the Koran. Must feel comfortable with his margin.
Yes, but think of the company you’d have to keep.
Awesome news.
Based on this all men should be allowed to retire 4 years younger than women as well.
Case to lower pension age for Indigenous Australians goes to full federal court
Legal challenge argues that lower life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples means holding them to the retirement age is discriminatory
See, not discriminating is discriminatory!
…
On Tuesday, Justice Debra Mortimer ordered that the full federal court consider the legal case brought against the commonwealth by a 64-year-old Indigenous man seeking early access to the age pension. The pension is set at 66 years and six months and set to increase to 67 in 2023.
Dennis, a Wakka Wakka man who was raised on an Aboriginal settlement in Queensland and later moved to Melbourne where he has worked at Indigenous radio station 3KND, argues it is fair for him to access the pension early because his lower life expectancy means he is likely to be able to receive the payment for a shorter period of time than others.
…
Dennis said it was “only fair for the pension age to be lowered” because the payment is “an important part of caring for and looking after our people when they can’t work any more”.
“As an Aboriginal man, I’ve seen too many of my people dying at a very early age. We are lucky to get to 50 years old,” he said.
“White people are living longer because they haven’t lost what we have lost. So many things that Aboriginal people are suffering from today are because of how we have been treated since colonisation,” Dennis said.
While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people die on average nine years earlier than non-Indigenous Australians, hearings for the case so far have discussed lowering the eligibility age by no less than three years.
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Nick Espie, legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre – which brought the action along with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and firm DLA Piper – said while he was pleased the case will be considered by the full federal court, governments are well aware of the gap in life expectancy.
He called on the new Albanese government to move ahead of the legal action and change eligibility rules.
“It shouldn’t take a court order for our people to get equal rights,” he said. “Until we have equality in life expectancy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be able to access the pension earlier,” Espie said.
Nerita Waight, chief executive of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, said “our people have shorter lives because the government has failed to provide the support services needed to close the gap”.
“This means our people are much more likely to not reach the pension age and if they do reach it, enjoy it for less years than the rest of the population,” Weight said.
The more I see of our elites the more I think they are a mass of marsupial molesting mediocrities.
Presumably Dennis is against this close the gap stuff too. He has a bright future in the Aboriginal Industry.
where’s the rest? how racist!!
what is this lutruwita rubbish?
That’s takeover by stealth, if you didn’t know. lutruwita/Tasmania is gonna be what the place is going to be called, if the local activists get their say. And they are.
Same as Mt Wellington in Hobart is now kunanyi/Mt Wellington on the signs.
Notice the lower case “aboriginal” words? That’s another rejection of whitey.
I wrote to the The Mercury – the local paper – about it once, when down in Hobart visiting the rellies, asking what it was all about, seeing as the locals didn’t actually have a written language, let alone lower and upper case words. Guess what – not printed.
If you do object, you’re of course a raaaacist! And if you don’t – then on to the next challenge for those wishing to overthrow the white patriarchy. Or at least convert it so they have the power and money.
Psays:
June 1, 2022 at 3:04 pm
Australia on the ‘precipice’ of a UK-style energy crisis as soaring costs push retailers out
At least on the eastern seaboard, “soaring costs” are overwhelmingly a product of green/left idiocy.
No doubt the wiseacres will be blaming high coal and gas prices in export markets for the disaster. Sure, that doesn’t help. But brown coal can’t be exported. It’s basically uninsurable as a shipping cargo. So we should be able to have a pretty fair chunk of baseload electricity provided from the Latrobe Valley without world price pressure adding a cent to the cost.
But CLIMATE!!!!
“White people are living longer because they haven’t lost what we have lost. So many things that Aboriginal people are suffering from today are because of how we have been treated since colonisation,” Dennis said.
If they did this as stand-up comedy with a straight face they wouldn’t need an early pension they’d of made enuf to retire on years earlier .. LOL!
what have they lost compared to their gains .. $30billion a year and CentreLink benefits .. LOL!
Dennis, a Wakka Wakka man who was raised on an Aboriginal settlement in Queensland and later moved to Melbourne where he has worked at Indigenous radio station 3KND, argues it is fair for him to access the pension early because his lower life expectancy means he is likely to be able to receive the payment for a shorter period of time than others.
…
Dennis said it was “only fair for the pension age to be lowered” because the payment is “an important part of caring for and looking after our people when they can’t work any more”.
Two concepts that don’t match up.
Where’s the data that says aboriginals become unable to work earlier than non-aboriginals?
we’ve lost that stone age feeling, woah woah woah, we’ve lost that stone age feeling yea yea yea
Boring stats but some perspective on pure folly.
Australia.
-Since 25th Jan 2020 94% of all recorded covid cases have occurred in the first five months of 2022.
-Since 1st March 2020 73.5% of all deaths with covid have occurred in the first five months of this year.
What precisely have our health experts, mandatory vaccines and human rights abuses stopped?
miltonf
sometimes there is justice in this world. That old stinker would give nobody’s gal serious competition in the stinker stakes.
There is also the minor (???) matter of her alleged affair with one of her students, while she was a teacher, before entering politics. What was the name of that bloke who got into trouble over an alleged (less conflicted) matter last year? Oh, yes, Porter.
Top Gun sequel apparently breaking records. One of the reasons might be that Cruise’s jacket, worn in the original, with the Taiwanese flag, had in the promos for the sequel the Taiwanese flag replaced by the chunk flag. After some protest the Taiwanese flag was returned.
lower life expectancy means he is likely to be able to receive the payment for a shorter period of time than others.
Based on this premise I’m assuming the family members of anyone who drops-of-the-perch before reaching retirement age will be entitled to compensation .. for lost inheritance! .. LOL!
After attending a Reconciliation Week event, Jeremy Rockliff on Wednesday said he was concerned January 26 had become “increasingly divisive”, backing a shift to the last weekend in January.
If there is to be a change, then 1 January, anniversary of the date of Federation, is the only reasonable option.
Sorry about the lost long weekend. Blame the activists.
Wait!
Wut?
He’s not a proud Wakka Wakka man?
And what is a Wakka Wakka man?
A helicopter pilot?
Good news if we get an unmasking.
Avi Yemini won his case to have the identity of TaliDan’s chief troll and fluffer PRGuy exposed.
Apart from Fowler, all 15 seats changing hands have been at the expense of the Liberals. The lunch being eaten is Morrison’s, and Dutton is now in charge of the scraps.
Hahaha, what a post from a right-wing Cat. I must note that one down for future use.
What precisely have our health experts, mandatory vaccines and human rights abuses stopped?
Accountability my dear sir, accountability.
mole
The more I see of our elites the more I think they are a mass of marsupial molesting mediocrities
You flatter them.
Huge shock! horror! Headline in today’s Worst Australian:
SCHOOL SHOCK AT GUN THREAT
Read in a bit further:
Oh, shit. Not good. Some deranged kid had a gun at school and was seen loading it and videoed. Just as well they got him before another Texas-style school massacre!
Well, no, actually.
Read on:
So, (a) no-one even knows if it was a real gun or not, and (b) it was never on school grounds!!
The whole thing then is a media beat-up. Once the truth is out, no-one will take the event seriously … surely.
Not quite. Enter stage left our budding dictator-in-chief.
The stupid; it burns!
I take it he’s not a proud wakka wakka man.
using that logic women should have to wait longer since they live longer than men
A wokka wokka man is a Navy helicopter pilot.
One of the funniest service moments ever. Was at a lunch the day after a dinner where a lot of newly qualified helo pilots had been congratulating themselves. Many of the pilots were there with their wings prominently displayed on uniforms.
A line of “lesser” specialisations came into the lunch wearing slippers; scraping them along the deck, and all making “wokka wokka” sounds while doing circular arm moments. After 20 “wokka wokkas” they burst into “Simply the Best”.
Lotsa red faces from the pilots.
Compared to fighter pilots though….
Hahaha, what a post from a right-wing Cat. I must note that one down for future use.
Monty still posing from the alternate dimension where we all loved Morriswine.
At best most people here were ‘at lest hes not Labour”.
It must be so reassuring to live in a wold made up of what you wish things were where its binary goodies/baddies and you can see into the hearts of men by the mighty, mighty powers of your own self cogitation.
monti-fa
Despite 10 years of consistently chaotic, poor Coalition government, Albanese has barely fallen over the line. So, not a huge shout out there from voterland.
Hahaha, what a post from a right-wing Cat. I must note that one down for future use.
Either you have major difficulty with reading comprehension, or you have not been paying attention.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Oldie but a goodie.
Woman runs into a Police Station shouting, “Help! Help! I’ve been raped by a fighter pilot!”
“How do you know it was a fighter pilot, ma’am?”
“Well, he had a big watch, a small dick and talked about himself all the way through.”
I am Fatty McFatboy.
Because of my mental health I have a shocking diet of fast food, confectionary, and full strength Coke, which has made me 120kg overweight and a Type 2 diabetic. I also drink 2 bottles of rosé and a six pack of Woodstock cans every afternoon.
Doctor has told me I’m killing myself, so I need to go on the pension without delay because fairness and equity.
monti-fa
You have still not responded to this question. Shirley there is a plan B from Labor, which, as you continually remind us, is the government.
What happens if the lights don’t go out? What is plan B?
Let’s reverse the hypothetical.
What happens to Labor (and the Slime) if the lights do go out? What is their plan B?
And what is a Wakka Wakka man?
A helicopter pilot?
This is a waka waka
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
FBI maintains a workspace, including computer portal, inside law firm of Perkins-Coie.
Going back to 2012.
Nothing to see here.
Not a story.
Move along.
The Swamp Inc.
This is the new normal.
Pay attention to monkeypox and war in the Ukraine.
Fozzie is a proud wakka wakka bear.
You will have to refer that to the Chief Wakka Wakka Man.
Fozzie Bear.
I am Fatty McFatboy.
Because of my mental health I have a shocking diet of fast food, confectionary, and full strength Coke, which has made me 120kg overweight and a Type 2 diabetic. I also drink 2 bottles of rosé and a six pack of Woodstock cans every afternoon.
Doctor has told me I’m killing myself, so I need to go on the pension without delay because fairness and equity.
DSP sliding smoothly into retirement while living in the 3 bedroom house in inner Melbourne supplied to me by the government.
And being assigned a carer on the NDIS to wipe my upper and lower jowls and find the remote control that has lodged in one of my blowholes.
Oooooh. One second earlier and I would have had that.
Six minutes!
“Online voting is an option in NSW, plus the votes can be picked up by couriers”
Both suggestions par excellence.
The Fix is in………………..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/scapegoat-sussmanns-biased-jury/
Apart from Fowler, all 15 seats changing hands have been at the expense of the Liberals.
The AEC is suggesting Labor lost Griffith to the Greens. So if Labor hasn’t had it’s lunch fully eaten by the Greens, the Greens have certainly been snacking.
26th January is “Australia Day. Always was, always will be.
The QLD Auditor-General recently slammed the Palaszczuk govt for poor contract management leading to project cost blowouts for which tax payers have to foot the bill.
He hasn’t even been able to get his eyes on the Wellcamp contract yet.
This is the government Elbow cited as his model on one of his visits to the state during the campaign.
I am Fatty McFatboy.
Because of my mental health I have a shocking diet of fast food, confectionary, and full strength Coke, which has made me 120kg overweight and a Type 2 diabetic. I also drink 2 bottles of rosé and a six pack of Woodstock cans every afternoon.
The parallel universe NDIS from the school of hard knocks has now decided to send you to the Philippines for extensive recuperation. There is no Welfare System there with next to no support from Charities either. There are lots of mangoes though. Good Luck and have a Nice Day. Next in line please………………………
As someone who was initially spooked, like many people, by the Covid visuals coming out of the hospitals in Northern Italy in early 2020, I find this an important commentary. I recall regularly reading the twitter feed of a very overworked and scared (understandably) ICU nurse – I think – in Lombardy. I also recall watching a doco on the nurses and doctors looking after Covid patients, and being distressed at the number (of medical staff) succumbing to the virus and dying.
In retrospect, it seems that many worked with inferior PPE, for too long hours, and probably – with heavy & accumulating viral loads. We now understand that the majority of the deaths were those of elderly patients in this ageing part of Italy.
But it is important to understand how that initial spread of the virus in Europe assisted in the narrative that caused the global panic.
You can imagine everyone who decides to do a postal vote thinking awesome, I don’t have to even walk/drive down to the letter box, I’ll just book a courier pick up.
BTW – it would be interesting to get flying duk’s opinion on this.
Linda Burney – half Scots – sworn in, wearing the obligatory kangaroo skin cloak…
Vicki-
good rread, maybe a bit silly with ragging the eyeties, but an important timeline mapped out.
I was just like you in the early stages, but I smelt a rat early on too. My biases against the CCP brutalizing their peasants blinded me to the fact that the CCP would also put out psy-ops. My experience of the Italian taxpayer-funded free health system- well equipped, badly staffed, and full of Mafia management on the take- tipped me off.
The fun part: Them who most needs to postal vote don’t have couriers calling.
Anyone who believes couriers go “everywhere” ain’t been beyond the Black Stump.
The first leg or two of a courier pickup is done by………… the mailman.
Correct – under the NHS nobody will ever be accusing British intensive care units of overdoing it.
And apart from Terri Butler in Griffith.
Labor’s ‘lunch’ was the size of its working majority to be taken from a tired government.
In Qld three Greens got up, in each case because Labor was less attractive through the preferences. Elsewhere 7 independents got up, again because not Labor.
Plus 3 additional Green Senators – to the ALP’s nil.
All up, a ringing endorsement and a rock-solid performance by Team Albo – or ‘The 21%ers’ as we must now call them.
Do feel free.
It may seem unusual, but it’s only the truth as I see it.
I’d say almost all the seats Labor have picked up have been because of Green preferences. In NSW, Bennelong and Robertson won on Greens preferences. Reid, no. In Vic, Chisholm no, but Higgins, yes, and the size of the Green vote would worry Labor there. And if you compare Goldstein to Higgins, they are very similar demographically, it would have gone Labor on Green preferences without a Teal that probably hoovered the vote that was already going to Labor and Greens.
The Fix is in………………..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/scapegoat-sussmanns-biased-jury/
We’ll see what happens in the appeals. But generally I agree with you.
There seems to be a load of crap about a Minister for the Republic but I can see no one listed in the list of Ministers. There is an Assistant Minister for the Republic and that is Matt Thistlethwaite. So what gives here? Also, isn’t there some sort of swearing in process where the “Pollies”/Ministers/Assistant Ministers swear allegiance to Australia (and the Crown)?
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02942fad91e7200c-pi
Any way you toss it the filth now own australia. The liars no longer exist and the lnp have one foot over the cliff. The quality of insight in the chattering class is demonstrated by what comes out of the arse of the resident troll, montifa, who we all agree and hope does not come down with any bad disease.
Wonder what indigenous life expectancy is pre and post whitey arriving on the scene.
obligatory kangaroo skin cloak…
Was it untanned?
Whichever way you slice it – 21%, 22% or 32% – Labor’s support at the ballot box is not a mandate for radical change. The size of their cabinet indicates they haven’t grasped this yet.
The quality of insight in the chattering class is demonstrated by what comes out of the arse of the resident troll, montifa, who we all agree and hope does not come down with any bad disease.
It’s kind of funny to see a whole load of fuck-knuckles completely unsuited to survival anywhere else but in The West, working so hard to destroy The West.
Online voting works. I trust couriers over Australia Post.
They are far better suggestions than letting people vote weeks after an election.
Yeah, the lifestyle of a Stone Age hunter gatherer, precolonisation was just Paradise, wasn’t it?
Monty was wrong again…
Oh no..
In 2020 there were more than 200 explosions and 360 shootings. The murder rate for 2020 was Sweden’s highest in 18 years: 124 people were killed and 39 per cent of the killings involved guns. Sweden is the only country in Europe in which fatal shootings have surged since the year 2000. Even the once Sweden-adoring Guardian has had to admit, with not a little perplexion, that Sweden has gone from having ‘one of the lowest rates of gun violence on the continent to one of the highest in less than a decade’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/05/sweden-and-the-crisis-of-integration/
When Donald Trump and others said there were no-go zones in Sweden, where the authorities and others didn’t dare to tread, they were roundly mocked. Yet now Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledges the existence of ‘61 areas around the country that have become increasingly exposed to crime, social unrest and insecurity’ and the Swedish prime minister raises concerns about ‘parallel societies’. Now that the PM herself has said that certain communities in Sweden live in ‘completely different realities’,
Online voting cannot be properly scrutineered, therefore will be manipulated.
Transport of postal or courier votes likewise.
The only scrutineerable and therefore fair option is in-person voting with index finger dipped in ink.
The most corrupt nations on earth do it that way, but somehow we think we’re better.
No, it cannot be scrutineered, so your vote cannot be changed by the scrutineers.
From “The Age.”
Barrysays:
June 1, 2022 at 6:06 pm….I’ve been to the Indonesian Consulate here in Perth during there presidential voting. Guess what?…after voting ya dipped ya finger in purple ink.
They’ve got a Mandate to Legislate NetZero, thanks to Matt Canavan announcing a new Coalition Policy [Death of NetZero] in the middle of the campaign and the National Party letting him get away with it.
LOL
We don’t even do voter ID here!
And Green policies already starting to bite. Visited an elderly, disabled relative in Canberra today. She is confined to a wheelchair. She was sitting in her living room with the heating off, complaining of severe arthritis pain in her hands. Canberra was very cold today but no colder than it will be as winter progresses. I was cold in the house even though wearing a thick sweater and a down coat.
Reason given for no heating was that she had heard on the TV that electricity prices were skyrocketing. And she felt she could not afford higher prices. We did persuade her to turn on the heating and warmed a wheatbag for her hands. Before we left she had turned off the heating again. She is not poor, just terrified.
There will be a lot of collateral damage from Net Zero.
I don’t think you understand what scrutineering is about. It’s to prevent the AEC employees changing your vote. Scrutineers, one from each party, supervise the collection and counting of votes in an adversarial arrangement to prevent corrupt state employees from interfering in the conduct of the election.
It’s about stealing votes from each other and minor parties. The AEC can cheat anytime they like.
We secure our ballot boxes with plastic cable ties.
20,000 “extra votes” in 2010 for example.
If people aren’t prosecuted for voting twice, where are the votes coming from?
Hahaha, so your argument is that Labor should have had a larger majority. Which would have been great for them obviously, but they have a majority of two which is more than enough to pass legislation.
The post-bipolar reality is that the Greens and Teals are here to stay, they are legit and they have a valid point of view. You can pull your hair about it but the Liberals have very little power at the moment. Morrison destroyed them, basically.
Labor can absolutely get its agenda passed in the current Parliament. Rudd made the mistake of ignoring the Greens; Gillard did not. Albo was instrumental in the Gillard government and I suspect he is more Gillard than Rudd.
As I have said, you lot are not going to like this term much at all. Stuff you hate is going to happen. You are hoping it will fail, and maybe it will… but maybe it won’t. Then you’ll be stuffed.
Why do city people vote green and Teal in such numbers?
There’s seems to be a pathology of irrational thinking in concentrated urbanisations.
People seem to yearn for nature without ever understanding it’s capricious and random reality.
Many think the regimentation and social order of their lives and the certainty of a constructed environment can be supplanted on the fluid state of the natural world.
Nature don’t care, even if you do.
They need to watch Kirk Sorensen and Gordon McDowell on You Tube.
Interesting stats when you look past the percentages
2019, Australia’s population about 25 million, Greens’ HoR and Senate 1st pref votes about 1,480 to 1,490 thousand each.
2022, Australia’s population about 26 million, Greens’ HoR and Senate 1st pref votes about 1,506,000 and 1,437,000 respectively.
So it doesn’t look like the Greens are getting any sort of surge in popular support, and their percentages are being inflated by the lower turnout. (I know figures won’t be final till post Friday but it does look like there’s well over a million fewer votes this time than in 2019 despite the larger population.)
I suppose we need to add the teals’ votes to get a truer picture of national conceit and stupidity, though. So things are probably getting worse.
The post-bipolar reality is that the Greens and Teals are here to stay, they are legit and they have a valid point of view.
Let’s hope the fat little turd’s power goes off soon and he shivers in the dark.
Just a guess.
Labor operatives are supplied with lists of names of Postal Voters.
They go to PrePoll early, present the name, have it marked off the roll, and vote the name.
Since PrePoll is counted on the night of the election now, that’s the vote that counts.
Meanwhile, the real person’s Postal Vote is processed and rejected on account of having already been marked off the Roll.
The person isn’t advised of that, though, otherwise there might be trouble.
Any Prosecution would uncover a tin of worms, so no prosecutions are mounted.
They have a point of view; to label it valid without subjecting it to analysis is begging the question.
The Greens did better at the Booths in the Seats they targeted than they have ever done, in absolute numbers.
The Swing was on, Albanese and The Greens won a clear combined victory, that’s unarguable.
And a lot of anger.
subjecting it to analysis is begging the question.
Well they’re not hippies that’s for sure.
None of them are getting back to the garden.
Australia’s new vehicle sales grew 1.2 per cent in March 2022 to 101,233 units – though once again brands say they could have sold a lot more if they had stock to deliver.
Sales over the first quarter of the 2022 calendar year sit at a cumulative 262,436 units, down 0.5 per cent on 2021’s running tally over the same pTesla has been joined by new market entrant, and fellow electric carmaker, Polestar.
The reported Model 3 monthly sales figure for March made it the nation’s fifth top-selling vehicle overall, but in the passenger car-specific sales race it topped the charts ahead of the Hyundai i30 and Toyota Corolla………….. I was right about seeing all those new teslas.
Net zero has a nice year zero ring to it which would would thrill the dead souls of the left.
Re , new car sales. If things are so bad out there , whose buying all the new cars?
Teals have gardeners.
I’m not even sure if the latest abomination occupying the treasury benches in Canbra would be too concerned that they are governing without a mandate. They despise the electorate and think they are born to rule.
monti-af
Rudd made the mistake of ignoring the Greens; Gillard did not.
That went well. How many seats did Abbott get in the Reps?
The politics of spite, always a sensible way to make decisions.
Since when did scrutineers get to handle votes being counted by the AEC?
And I suspect they wouldn’t get either the biblical or musical references there, Gez.
m0nty’s error is assuming that because they have electoral support their policies are valid.
It’s an informal logical fallacy; in this instance we might call it the democratic fallacy.
As I have said, you lot are not going to like this term much at all. Stuff you hate is going to happen. You are hoping it will fail, and maybe it will… but maybe it won’t. Then you’ll be stuffed.
As for LayBore’s Climate Change Agenda then yes, it may well be implemented in full. However, the Laws of Physics will prevail with the Electricity Grid eventually falling over in a heap. The Grid will have caught the “montypox virus”. Then we are all stuffed.
Government, NGO, and private Fleets?
Let’s hope so! It ended so well last time ’round.
Only this time they’re on a mere 32% of the primary vote (adjust down due to turnout as you wish).
deakin up to 92.1% Sukkar still ahead by just over 500 votes, still 1500 envelopes awaiting processing.
“The post-bipolar reality is that the Greens and Teals are here to stay, “
“reality”….you can’t be sure of that. But then again I didn’t know you could predict the future. Actually, I’m pretty sure you can’t predict the future. I’m inclined to agree that the Greens will probably solidify their representation in certain electorates, as Adam Bandt has done…..but the Teals, I’m not so sure about. I’ll certainly be keeping tabs on Princess Allegra and how she performs. How about we discuss this in three year’s time and if every current Teal is reelected, I’ll acknowledge you were right and I was wrong. Oh and whilst we’re on the topic of “being wrong”, that’s something you’re never quite capable of doing because acknowledging faults within oneself and acknowledging that you are sometimes wrong requires a certain level of maturity and such maturity is only found in a man and that you most certainly are not.
Sales over the first quarter of the 2022 calendar year sit at a cumulative 262,436 units,..passenger and suv. Thats a lot of fleet, Govt and NGO’s. And all companies report they could have sold more but supply was down.
who are you gonna trust with the calculations, the engineers or mUnty?
the thing is, and this is being swept under the table, that short supply will deliver higher prices.
increasing efficiency and curtailing consumption ie LED bulbs as an example, will guarantee increased prices.
mal-investment in plated 10x over-capacity to try and achieve unicorn-goals, will guarantee increased prices
and to be honest this is exactly what we have been seeing.
despite the rhetoric, there is no policy or plan that can possibly deliver lower prices and more stable and reliable supply
mUntard wanks on as if the suppliers actually give a fuck about whether your lights are on.
truth is, they don’t … and by god, somebody will pay
the real question is, how screwed up can the process get without bankrupting everybody in the process and destroying the very market and infrastructure that delivers it
this is a game of brinkmanship
turn off the coal … then ask the question again
There’s seems to be a pathology of irrational thinking in concentrated urbanisations.
Disconnection from all aspects of underlying reality.
Their irrational thinking never gets properly tested until they destroy the society that permits their irrational thinking without any immediate and dire consequences.
How will we lot be stuffed?
Life goes on irrespective of which government is in power.
The European example suggests power prices will continue to rise but unlike the Euros we won’t be able to ‘borrow’ electricity from other countries who have coal or nuclear generation.
No-one can honestly say a first world country, without some unprecedented improvement in battery technology, can rely solely on wind and sun.
True.
dover0beachsays:
June 1, 2022 at 5:54 pm
“We are a separate 18th Marine Battalion of the 35th Brigade, appealing to the public for help, to influence the top leadership of the brigade for their criminal orders, sending us to attack with the enemy under their shelling.”
That clip is disturbing. Those marines see their mission as utterly futile. It has led to the loss of 80 of their comrades in the past 4 days. The town is deserted and the Russians are simply pouring artillery into the Ukrainian soldiers position – they said they are sitting like ducks waiting to be killed.
I have no military experience so can only imagine the desperation those men must feel that they should resort to social media in an appeal for public pressure to their commanders to authorise withdrawal.
Me too. And looking forward to the near future when they can also be termed the underperforming performing teals.
What sort of a country am I bothering to come back to?
Heading for Heathrow from Richmond very soon, excxept Hairy isn’t ready.
No way will he hurry, we’re online checked in, so they can wait for us is his view.
My view is that we will be stuck in traffic on the way and watch helplessly as the plane takes off.
All part of life’s great marital battle, as Dr. Faustus outlines so well above re furniture assembly.
Wives have a very definite role to play holding a trident and Pointing Things Out.
Thats a lot of fleet, Govt and NGO’s.
In the fleet buyers there’s contractors with fat government contracts, it seems that pretty much everyone on these projects except the blokes on the tools gets a hilux.
well, that would be a win-win right?
mUnty, your champions have control of the levers
turn off the coal then ask the question again
faster fuck-wit, faster
As far as the marxists are concerned the laws of physics are racist white man stuff. In reality it’s too brainie hurtie for them. The whole grobull warming/windmill abomination reeks of lysenkoism.
Do not go opinion shopping from my brother and his wife about how long it takes to get to Heathrow around half-term, I have been warned already in the car over here.
Hrrumph. Opinion shopping indeed.
His brother’s wife has already offered hers, unasked.
His brother turns to Google and offers a different one.
Opinions at six paces have been called between them.
Par for the marital course, I believe. It’s not just us.
Well…not while remaining a first world country anyway.
Roger, there is no need for Labor to “grasp” anything. They are in power, the only “grasp” they need.
And they will do as they please. While demanding others do their will.
It has been ever thus.
It won’t happen like that.
Bandt is just a place holder and the Greens can’t realistically claim to be responsible.
What can happen is manufactured chaos and enough Labor MPs patching over to the Greens to make it the senior member in a coalition of The Right.
Something similar happened in Germany in the Thirties, the entire German Labour Party [the largest in Europe by membership] patched over to the NSDAP.
I got quote yesterday to change out 3 windows
$5.5k inc GST
got a call today,
wood or aluminium, don’t care … add 19%
this this going to shit pretty damned fast
hell in a hand-basket
Ya.
Because that’s how easy it is to rig the election in USA.
That’s all it takes??
And if that really is all it took, then everyone else in the chain knew what to do next.