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Koorong is an Australian bookshop that carries lots of resources including Bibles. They should have many of the different editions…
May I impose upon Cat expertise on an entirely other matter? My SLR camera is playing up…I think it’s a result of grit/salt and lots of travel wear and tear.
Should I have it looked at, and where should I go? Like my regularly serviced sewing machines, I’m picky about who mucks around with my precious stuff. Sydney or Newcastle will do just fine.
See above.
Sure. You may be right, the Teals are untested and they may end up like the Lib Dems in the UK, a bit of an annoyance but not really much of a force.
John Quiggin has pointed out that the Greens and independents have had a very good record at retaining their seats in recent years. Steggall, Bandt, Haines, Willie, McGowan… though he didn’t mention Windsor and Oakeshott. This term is going to be different though, things are going to get serious for the non-majors and they may not cope well with extra scrutiny.
Orwell just had the year a bit too soon-the thought police are a reality
engineers or mUnty
Engineers are incapable of grasping the number BTU in a unicorn fart.
No, not at all.
My argument is that the election results show that, what might conventionally have been expected to be a fairly strong Labor majority has been heavily eaten away by the Greens and Teals.
Whataboutism regarding the Coalition’s plight is irrelevant.
Whatever we think about the righteousness of the situation, Labor machine persons will currently be strategising about how to balance their legislative program with stopping the rot and getting re-elected in 2025.
Here is a Question for Bruce of Newcastle. What is Liquid Fuel when it is used as a term on AEMO. I looked it up in its definitions of terms and it wasn’t there. But it turned up on the fuel mix for SA tonight at 7.14pm. As depicted in chart: gas 1480 mg, Liquid Fuel 351 mg, Solar 0, Wind 1 mg, battery 8mg. SA was importing 342 from other states via interconnector. Your advice Sir would be welcome.
We are a very imperfect democracy, but I predict Australians won’t take kindly to being lectured by Labor politicians from the Canberra bully pulpit while their living standards are plummeting.
Elbow led Labor to victory because he’s not SloMo. Not much political capital to play with there.
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%
I’m so far ahead of the curve roaming the streets collecting pallets!
I can sell you three nice pallet “windows” for $1k! I’ll send a brochure, our top selling model is the Detroit followed by the Chicago!
John Quiggin has pointed out that the Greens and independents have had a very good record at retaining their seats in recent years.
Quiggin is a bigger slime then you montifa.
John Quiggin has pointed out that the Greens and independents have had a very good record at retaining their seats in recent years.
Virtue sells, until you find yourself wondering what sauce would go best with your neighbours cat….
Elbow led Labor to victory because he’s not SloMo. Not much political capital to play with there.
True Roger and as much as we have gone from bad to worse, if the Lieborals had been returned they would have just taken it as electoral endorsement of their squishy labor lite excuse of a government. Whether or not they learn from their loss remains to be seen.
Actually I don’t think there’s any hope for the lnp; david speirs, the lnp opposition leader in SA, endorse the climate emergency bullshit.
Not being in government has its upside.
The ousting of the photios bots in NSW is definitely a good thing. Wilson and Fraudenberg blew it too and will not be missed. Admittedly Wilson did some good work on superannuation but should have kept his private life out of the public domain.
Not really. Their weakness will allow a lot of the Green agenda to get waved through. Just wait until ICAC starts.
Farmer Gez says: June 1, 2022 at 6:21 pm
The further removed from the growing of their food be people who have no fear of starving, the further they correspondingly are from reality & even though totally incapable of growing their own, become more impractical and ‘moral’ in their demands about how their food should be grown.
It is very like dealing with teenagers.
Just wait until ICAC starts.
After they spend a decade in victoristan they can start in cane toad land with the new chunk virus hostel.
Are you feeling sick yet montifa.
Price up rewiring an old home.
It’s ghastly.
20k.
Roger
m0nty’s error is assuming that because they have electoral support their policies are valid.
He’s simply validating the efforts of an earlier member of the fascist left, from about 90 years ago.
Wot ‘e said!
File that alongside ‘Trump will go to jail’
Totally wrong.
I’ve pointed out a number of times that The Greens support Conventional Farming.
There’s nothing particularly alarming about any of their Policies, other than being huge fans of Compulsion.
The Third Reich had massive support from women, men were more lukewarm.
It’s a similar story with The Greens.
Actually I don’t think there’s any hope for the lnp; david speirs, the lnp opposition leader in SA, endorse the climate emergency bullshit.
yes it shows
1. the uniparty is a real problem
2. the political class are dilettantes incapable of understanding what real work is (both in human endeavour and force x distance)
Question is – is there anyone in the LNP outside of the square described above?
rosie
No-one can honestly say a first world country, without some unprecedented improvement in battery technology, can rely solely on wind and sun.
But, but, but, monti-fa has assured us that pumped hydro will make up the difference. His understanding of the practical aspects of pumped hydro is so weak that he seems unaware that it provides substantially less power output than the power input needed to pump the water uphill.
Little things like friction loss in the pipes are beyond his understanding, as is transmission loss in the many new interconnectors that are needed to link remote solar/wind generation to the main grid.
Something similar happened in Germany in the Thirties, the entire German Labour Party [the largest in Europe by membership] patched over to the NSDAP.
Well not quite. The Deutsche Arbeitsparty, German workers Party or DAP, was founded by Anton Drexler, as a right wing nationalist party. It was pretty small when it morphed into the NSDAP. The largest Labour type party was the Social Democrats, and they started hiding away.
You got any more good jokes like that? “A total ban on the use of animals for Food, Fiber or Fun?”
“just wait until ICAC starts.”
You see, this line and the adolescent and very juvenile sentiment behind it encapsulates everything about this troll. He’s not interested in exposing real corruption, rather he wants a cricket bat to bludgeon Liberals and Nationals so as to destroy their reputations, even if they’re innocent of any wrongdoing, which has happened quite a few times here in NSW. Anyone who thinks a federal ICAC won’t be used a political tool to attack the right is either dangerously naive or dangerously sinister and in the case of the writer of the above words, it’s the latter. Note how he says nothing about the rampant corruption in Victoria or Queensland……lol……I wonder why? Oh that’s right, these states are run by Labor.
and … mUnty knows it
which is why he pimps it
I am sure that Cats will be thrilled to learn that our brilliant new Foreign Minister has told us peons about her top priority. According to the West Australian of 21 May (p.37) Mr W said in an address to the Press Club:—
“Labor will deliver a First Nations foreign policy that weaves the voices and practices of the world’s oldest continuous culture into the way we tell talk to the world and the work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade”.
“We will appoint an ambassador for First Nations peoples and we will ensure First Nations peoples have a stronger voice in our engagement with the world and deepening their long-held ties across countries of the Indo-Pacific”.
I wonder if Uncle Professor Sir Bruce Pascoe wrote the speech for her.
I’ve pointed out a number of times that The Greens support Conventional Farming.
In another reality maybe.
Their support is predicated on your submission to phase out chemicals, manufactured fertilisers, live trade and the rejection of genetic science.
I am all for this Federal ICAC, ALP friends.
May your children live in interesting times.
May you come to the attention of those in high places.
May you find what you are looking for.
I’d wish you good luck, but you wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Mem – Either diesel generators or fuel oil burning thermal power. In SA it’s diesel. If they’re having to run their diesel gensets then it means there isn’t enough gas for their power stations and certainly not enough wind energy.
List of power stations in South Australia (wiki)
Dickless
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.
What are you smoking? More likely that the more rational members of the Liars will do a DLP.
Something similar happened in Germany in the Thirties, the entire German Labour Party [the largest in Europe by membership] patched over to the NSDAP.
You have finally accepted that the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was a socialist party? Congratulations.
Daily Mail. All right, which of you lot was this?
And EVERY FREAKIN’ TIME we hear about skyrocketing energy prices we are also advised to ‘shop around and get the best deal’.
Thus are we nudged into acceptance and compliance and diverted into chasing a mirage.
cohenitesays:
June 1, 2022 at 7:24 pm
John Quiggin has pointed out that the Greens and independents have had a very good record at retaining their seats in recent years.
Quiggin is a bigger slime then you montifa.
Hold on, let’s not rush to judgement here. monti-fa is doing his best to be top slime.
Dickless
I’ve pointed out a number of times that The Greens support Conventional Farming.
Define “conventional farming”.
Bought some 12 months ago.
Good quality.
Extra thick timber frames, double glazed, stainless steel fixings.
Two large, one medium, one small and a glazed door.
$12 large.
Just ordered another smallish one.
Five months lead time.
The guy is under the pump so I told him not to bother chewing up time giving me a quote, just give me the total of the tape at the end.
I’m allowing $3k.
Interesting, isn’t it, how woke-teal nuclear phobia fades the closer our haute bourgeois inner-city Left get to Paris: the capital of a country that relies on nuclear power.
I can only suppose that French nuclear power is tres chique, just as Comrade Brezhnev’s nukes were progressive peace and freedom-loving nuclear weapons, unlike those of the evil imperialist Americans.
Cassie
Note how he says nothing about the rampant corruption in Victoria or Queensland……lol……I wonder why? Oh that’s right, these states are run by Labor.
And each already has an ICAC equivalent, which knows on which side its bread is buttered. There is nothing as vicious as a leftist.
I’ve pointed out a number of times that The Greens support Conventional Farming.
That’s a fucking lie.
On a completely different subject, here are the oleaginous woke-left Scottish Nationalists being mugged by fiscal reality:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61645114
memsays:
June 1, 2022 at 7:19 pm
…Liquid Fuel … turned up on the fuel mix for SA tonight at 7.14pm. As depicted in chart: gas 1480 mg, Liquid Fuel 351 mg, Solar 0, Wind 1 mg, battery 8mg. SA was importing 342 from other states via interconnector.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 1, 2022 at 7:48 pm
What is Liquid Fuel when it is used as a term on AEMO.
Mem – Either diesel generators or fuel oil burning thermal power. In SA it’s diesel.
Seriously, if the Babylon Bee or some other satirist wrote those numbers they’d be pilloried.
Diesel is fulfilling well over 15% of SA’s power needs. Green as! And the 15+% from other states might just, possibly, perhaps, include some coal and gas. Wind, solar and batteries? Less than 1/2 of 1 %.
How long ago was it that Jay Weatherill demolished that coal fired power station?
I can’t imagine any action more calculated to make this country the laughing stock of the whole region.
How long ago was it that Jay Weatherill demolished that coal fired power station?
Absolutely nothing makes sense with these wankers.
Where does the Diesel com from? SE Asia.
If you counted the CO2 emissions on shipping the Diesel then SA is taken a massive leap backwards.
Sit back and enjoy the Third Worldening!
Evidently this needs to be explained:
A federal ICAC deals with federal matters. State ICACs deal with state matters.
Here endeth the lesson.
Taking to the fuseboxes in Green’s party electorate offices and homes with an axe is a policy of sorts, not a legal one mind you.
I’ve pointed out a number of times that The Greens support Conventional Farming.
That’s a fucking lie.
When he says conventional, he means a plough pulled by either a horse or your wife or your kids.
According to Rodney Cullerton, she’s a paid agent for the CCP.
I think you just doxxed KD.
That link didn’t work, try again….
Former Senator Rodney Culleton – Exposing the 2022 Australian Federal Election
It has never ceased to amaze me that people who live in an inner city concrete jungle, never see a tree or a patch of grass outside a carefully manicured pocket handkerchief sized park, and have never seen an animal in the wild, are incredibly passionate about “saving the environment”.
The same dickheads curse the farmers who supply their food and the miners who supply their energy and wealth and wish them gone from the face of the earth.
Be careful what you wish for, you cretins.
Embalmers finding blood clots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzo_i0i4x2o
A true Green would insist on your wife and kids pulling the plough. A horse drawn plough would be demeaning to the horse.
Okay monty.
Give us an example of either, or how that relates to the anti Morrison memes about corruption.
So I ask, what actual “Federal corruption” is there?
We secure our ballot boxes with plastic cable ties.
They took all the steel reinforced timber boxes that could be padlocked and threw them out. Now you know why.
The officers of a marine battalion, unhappy with being given orders to begin and/or continue an attack and even more unhappy the Russians located their start line, are now appealing to the public to use social media to influence their brigade and higher command to change their minds.
In any other conflict those officers on the ground would be lined up and shot, had they survived the shelling and the assault. It’s probably still on the cards.
The fuckwits think the world can be fed by turning over suburban golf courses to organic community garden groups.
easy 20k … sky’s the limit
wait until you start with high CRI downlights at $75 a pop
an electronic dimmer/switch now costs me $110 each and I get a discount
it’s nuts
A federal ICAC deals with federal matters. State ICACs deal with state matters.
You so dumb you fat little turd; for example the hunchback’s manslaughter of nearly 800 old folks in nursing homes which have both fed and state purview. Likewise the stupid palachook’s building of a chunk virus guest home covers both fed and state oversight. A fed ICAC could look at both.
You’re such an idiot.
….
Well I was at a costume party just the other evening.
Anyway, they’re amateurs. They involved other people, and nobody thought to disappear into the scrub for 18 hours, sunburnt and claiming concussion after an unknown medical event must have caused this horrible crash and I still don’t feel well at all and now it’s a medical/welfare problem.
Certain people of pasta-loving descent in the big southern cities are masters at that one.
First Nations peoples have a stronger voice in our engagement with the world and deepening their long-held ties across countries of the Indo-Pacific”.
While there was contact with fishermen from parts of Indonesia, and some traffic across Torres Strait, can Benny explain exactly how these “long-held ties” were maintained with Polynesia, Micronesia and the rest of Melanesia before the eeeevillll whites brought their ocean going ships to Australia.
monti-fa
State ICACs deal with state matters.
Preferably only with Liberal or National Party members, though some particularly egregious Labor types can be in trouble, but only after their party has left office.
Here endeth the lesson.
In regards to the delays in processing Passports
It has something to do with the massive influx of Form 11B’s asking for a refund for the 2 years your Australian passport was unable to be freely used
Or Plan B, KD.
Bolt home, put a dozen empties out of the bin on the kitchen table and put your pyjamas on in case they come calling.
If they do, act surprised and say the car has been stolen.
If they don’t turn up report the car stolen first thing the next morning.
….
This may not be the best plan if the work car is a cop car, but.
rickw
When he says conventional, he means a plough pulled by either a horse or your wife or your kids.
And fertilised with human or animal shit.
Dickless is a dickwit.
Another snippet of the underlying hate.
I’ve encountered the mindset that it’s somehow immoral for a farmer to make money out of supplying said dickheads with food…
cohenite
You so dumb you fat little turd; for example the hunchback’s manslaughter of nearly 800 old folks in nursing homes which have both fed and state purview. Likewise the stupid palachook’s building of a chunk virus guest home covers both fed and state oversight. A fed ICAC could look at both.
munty knows that the chain of ICACs never looks at the Labor Party unless the actions are particularly egregious, AND the particular branch is not in power.
Anything else would lead to regrettable repercussions.
132andBush
Another snippet of the underlying hate.
It is no longer underlying, it is now out and proud.
Many thanks for response. So much for the renewable state of South Australia! I have just won a bet and would share the winnings if one could send you half a bottle of malt via the net. Cheers.
I heard a story. Impeccable source.
Quite high-up jack, on the piss at a casino one night. Stacks his company car on the way home into a tree. No damage to other cars, or anyone else, or him for that matter. The bloke scarpers home, opens a bottle of whisky and jumps in the spa.
He’s still there an hour and half later, sitting in the spa up to his waist, sipping on the ski when the on-duty senior jack walks down his driveway and into the backyard. He spies the bloke in the spa.
‘Hello Ian. Whash going on?’
‘Hello Gary. Here about your car. You know where it is?’
‘No. Isn’t it out the front? It must have been stolen. Goodness gracious me’ etc etc.
‘Gary”s master plan fell apart when he then realised that from the shoulders up, he was covered in the powder from his car’s deployed airbags.
‘Gary’, subsequently known as ‘Snowy’, took early retirement.
The tanking of TV ratings turkey Piers Morgan on Sky News appears to be accelerating.
When Morgan premiered in the 9pm slot a month ago, his idea for a talk show – rightwing Never Trumpism – appeared salvageable.
He was chasing nighttime Sky ratings king Paul Murray who gets north of 70,000 viewers a night (bearing in mind that only a third of Australian households have the local pay TV monopoly Foxtel). Morgan opened his account with a respectable 55,000 viewers.
But not for long. On Tuesday this week, Morgan was down to 31,000 viewers.
Even the fill-in on his night off (Morgan appears only on Tuesdays to Fridays), Monday’s Rita Panahi Show – with none of the staff or Morgan’s global reputation – consistently outrates him with 40,000+ viewers.
Morgan has already become nighttime Sky’s dunce, attracting a tiny audience compared with Sky’s other big names, Peta Credlin and Andrew Blot, who get around 60,000 viewers each.
Once he starts getting less than daytime Sky’s 20,000-30,000 viewers, Morgan will become an embarrassment, after which he will become unviable for the sales staff trying to sell ads for his show.
Voice of experience……
In other news:
Doctors warning to stop peeing in the shower NOW
…um have an IQ above that of the ambient room temperature….F or C, either is fine.
FFS you stupid bints, just shut up and give me penicillin every few years when I get a cold I can’t shake off.
They will stop me peeing in the shower when they pry my…. Oh… as you were
I say again, special Ed is a random word generator bot.
Angus Taylor Grassgate and Watergate
Bridget McKenzie sports rorts
Sussan Ley allowance rorts
Alan Tudge car park rorts
Andrew Laming rugby rorts
Leppington Triangle scandal
Sonic Health contracts
That’s for starters.
Just had dinner with a raving leftie who was chortling about Albo’s win.
He asked if I thought they’d do well. I said no they’d get sidetracked by their pet preoccupations such as the Voice, green stuff, and a republic, amongst others.
What republic, he said. “Haven’t you heard mate, they’ve just declared a minister for it.”
What’s the bet Labor will change the date for next January?
Labor might.
The rest of the country might not.
I am guessing Gary was probably sub-par at catching crims.
Because he doesn’t think like one.
Obviously the car was started with a key. One set of keys would be at the station.
I’ll bet the only other set of keys to the “stolen” car were on Gary’s hall table. When they badly needed to be somewhere else.
Details, Gary.
Details.
Nicely put.
Spoiled, pampered, insular, walking contradictions.
Hoping the paddocks dry out enough by the weekend so we can finish sowing.
” So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that’s a real worry for the people in the bush.” (Tim Flannery)
but but but saving da planet
wow next level animation on netflix
Jibaro | Love, Death and Robots
Isn’t it the height of recycle, re-use, yada, yada to piss in the shower?
Washing water doubles as flushing water.
It’s a Gaia saver.
Trudeau’s Vaccine Rollout Task Force is Hiring – The Center for Immunization Surveillance
Anyone here got Irish ancestors? Sounds like a ripper of a Sunday lunch…….
m0ntysays:
June 1, 2022 at 9:29 pm
Angus Taylor Grassgate and Watergate
Bridget McKenzie sports rorts
Sussan Ley allowance rorts
Alan Tudge car park rorts
Andrew Laming rugby rorts
Leppington Triangle scandal
Sonic Health contracts
That’s for starters.
monti-fa’s got a little list, he’s got you on the list.
Sieg Heil!
It’s been a while since someone abused pixels quoting Quiggin.
Siberian Rock! Not the Hu..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqwrwwOzVcQ
Sounds like m0nster likes the “fighting Torries” bit.
Serious policy?
Not interested.
Albo’s got some problems. Wayne Goosteen’s brain’s trust knows this. Albo doesn’t yet.
What next?
A ban on wetting the bed?
Funny how the territorial integrity of Syria never arises.
The utter crap that is written.
monty
I have qualms with putting corruption to the sword. I don’t want to live in a mafia run fascist state.
“Car park rorts” is very lame. I mean really. Who is particularly outraged about this? Sure, it’s scummy. He’s not taking bribes for administrative decisions or bribing judges, right?
I don’t get how building new sports stadiums (Liberal and ALP) in NSW and QLD isn’t worse than any of the above. Or getting donations plowed back in and then the parties pay for crap like study leave or directorships in their party controlled think tanks. Yeah that’s scummy too.
Pretty sure McKenzie’s stuff is just par for the course. FAGs are doled out by local members or duty Senators with local shire GMs.
What crimes would they be accused of?
Surely you could say what crime was committed, if it was corrupt?
Licit but ethically corrupt behaviour can only end with better people or ending particular practices or institutions.
Surely if it’s unethical, the electors can decide?
We don’t want a system of government where each incoming government morally grandstands in a half arsed court that has, well, no standing – note that a Federal ICAC has been pooh poohed by the High Court before.
Does there really need to be 40+ ministers, assistant ministers and parliamentary secretaries?
…and no, sure I am picking on Albo right now. Not that we’ve really seen restraint here at all in the 21st century by either major party.
It just looks like a gravy train. Half of your sitting members get a bump? I call bullshit.
“Civilians don’t need access to assault rifles.”
Ex Captain, Australian Special Forces, at the height of the gun buyback ..
I was going to see who won the Cat Call for Election 2022 but it appears the poll results are some way off.
No…qualms
No qualms.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#LNP
If he thinks a .223 can “blow targets apart”, let’s hope he never sees what a PowerShok slug from a 12g can do. He’d wet his little pantaloons.
CM has article up about Qld Police Commissioner evidence in Supreme Court about Vax mandate for cops.
“Ms Carroll said when she encouraged staff to get vaccinated it was “extraordinarily difficult’’ to get high vaccination rates within the police service”.
So naturally she imposed a mandate to get higher Vax rate. No jab, no job is so much easier.
Looks like she was given a hard time as one of the SC’s said she had some homework to do and needed to find the information she relied upon that suggested cops at higher risk. She will return on Friday which I am guessing was not her original plan.
The article did not mention if she was given information or direction by Qld Health or sought guidance.
Based on the article it seems she had little to back up her decision imposing the mandate.
It’s not about health but all about getting high Vax rates.
Can’t wait.
Exquisite timing – imagine all the fuckups that 40+ neophyte ministers will make.
Personally, I loathe grift and pork barrelling – and the entire concept of discretionary grants is ground-bait for corrupt conduct.
Having said all that, as a statutory body, you have to stomach the existence of yet another, uneasy political play pen.
There goes the cure for boat rowers’ blisters on their hands.
Apropos of earlier comment, another UAF brigade fed-up with being sent forward without cover sans officers:
Shitty situation all round.
From Dover’s link:
Ukrainian grunt: what are we, expendable material?
Collective West: no, we’ve never considered you material.
What a surprise. You don’t worship an idol of the Regime, no funding for you.
At least he’s now “first” at something.
I have that nagging feeling the Albanian is going to end up like Hiden and because of Liar’s party rules about ditching leaders, they’re stuck with him. How funny would that be!.
Hope so JC. A nasty piece of work.
An aparatchik who got his big start in Mr Urine’s office
Cronkite
The jury, in the Sussmann, was correct in finding he (Sussmann) didn’t lie to the FBI. That’s because the FBI knew he was bullshitting. 🙂
Well Cats, I’m in London at the start of a few weeks in Europe. Got here yesterday and it’s great. The flight not so much.
We took the 17 hour flight from Perth and it was mask hell. At the Qantas club they couldn’t have cared less but on the flight they were Nazis. I must have been chipped about eight times to put my mask back on. When we arrived they told us that masks must be worn when we exited the plane and kept on in the terminal. Fucking liars! The Poms do not have a mask mandate in the terminal or anywhere else for that matter. Embarrassing to see that well over half the flight complied with their stupid order. Interesting though, that we weren’t asked for a vaccine passport at either end. Maybe we will have to show it to be allowed to return. We’ll see.
In tourist London – Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square, Mayfair etc – I would estimate there are only about 1 per 1000 people wearing masks. Many cafes and shops don’t even have hand sanitiser. In other words, they are completely over it here. A far cry from Perth.
Went for a walk to see Queen Liz today but couldn’t get anywhere near her joint. Her Jubilee celebrations kick off tomorrow and the barricades are up already. Thousands of people were there just to see the preparations. London has flags everywhere – streets, cafes pubs – and it really is a magnificent sight. Despite the absurd levels of immigration, there is a national pride here that has gone in Australia. The first headline I saw today from Australia, was that a Liberal premier wants to change the date of Australia day. Disgraceful.
As I write this, I’m quaffing a M&S no 34 Bordeaux Claret that came in a plastic bottle. Superb drop!
Anyhoo, while you’re waiting for Tom’s toons, sit back, relax and have listen to a track featuring, as Rabz would say, the greatest guitarist of his generation. Well, for a few years at least.
There is no Minister for the Republic. There is only an Assistant Minister for the Republic. How can you have an Assistant to a non existent ministerial position? Only in the LayBore Gov’ment, that’s how…………………
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Daily Dutton Deraangement from Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Patrick Blower.
Dave Simonds.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Chip Bok.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Education was Gillard’s brief in the first Rudd Ministry.
Albanese has a long memory.
Patrick Cross.
Lisa Benson.
Ha ha ha ha. Bob Moran, the best cartoonist in the world at the minute, draws a great Trudeau.
Thanks Tom.
Jupes in Londinistan . Thank You and I do hope you will have time to give us further vicarious enjoyment of the Queens Jubilee celebrations deliberately denied to us by our miserable media.
I see in the comments on Cassies climate change thread that Ed Case will be getting the tax payer funded pension in three years time. In view of his scroll over comments, I am surprised.
win says:
June 2, 2022 at 5:00 am
Agree, it won’t be long now that it all ends, sadly.
The media, all media (except their ABC), rely on advertising revenue to survive. this includes magazines and newspapers, whose cover price basely covers the cost of printing and distribution. So to get an advertiser, the media needs to deliver eyeballs, and I suspect the demographic interested in the Jubilee are old pensioners, who spend nothing, that ain’t going to happen.
Dilbert
Johnny Depp: ‘Truth never perishes’
Did Johnny Depp really win?
Or is the news a hoax?
Gabor says:
June 2, 2022 at 6:08 am
He has been awarded $15m by the court.
The question is, can he get it?
Climbevery forgot
Ministership rorts.
Leak – brilliant. Gets the Dealer’s Missus perfectly.
Ahahahaaaaaaa.
Jury sides with Captain Sparrow.
This is what happens to petulant bints who leave grogans in your bed, and act in whatever manner they please believing themselves to be under the all-conquering umbrella of ‘but wimmin’.
Make no mistake, Depp’s a drug-fucked cockhead – but this mole’s very public actions and their consequences warm yer cockles.
Anyone who thinks a Federal ICAC will not be used like the NSW iteration against the LNP or even right leaning minor parties is not serious in their argument.
I’m not against the idea but am to be convinced of it after seeing scalps from NSW and the lack there of from Victoria where on the surface corruption is now many times worse than anything Sir Jo presided over. Not to mention Queensland where the slimiest of Premiers the state has ever had just changed the laws in our Unicameral parliament to hobble it’s investigations into his government. Na Labor, Greens, Teals will be a protected species.
My take anyway and am off. Work beckons.
jupes
QF are mask zealots, even the subsidiaries in the QF livery like Sunstate (Qantaslink) same. Yup have found the lounges don’t care anymore.
Ms Heard, you will remember today as the day you almost caught Jack Sparrow!
“Rockdoctorsays:
June 2, 2022 at 6:38 am
Anyone who thinks a Federal ICAC will not be used like the NSW iteration against the LNP or even right leaning minor parties is not serious in their argument.”
Yes and anyone living or who has lived in NSW knows this. But this is why the left want it. As for the flat blob here who’s salivating at the idea of it, if he was serious about corruption, federally and state, he’d have a lot to say about the endemic corruption in his home state of Victoria under Daniel Andrews…but he has nothing to say, nada, zero, zilch. He wants a federal ICAC so he and his ilk will have another tool to bludgeon the LNP, bludgeon small right leaning parties and bludgeon ordinary citizens whose crime is that they’re conservative or right of centre.
And if we do get a federal ICAC, one of its first investigations should be into Anthony Albanese and slug gate.
Gabor
Right wing lunatic Reikata Law livestreamed Law and Crime’s livestream.
It’s real.
Amber Heard has now shit the bed (again).
I wouldn’t want to be her cleaner, Consuela after she drowns her sorrows…
We should investigate the delays into approving Novavax.
Spiteful, dangerous idiots made those decisions.
Amber ‘Shit-the-Bed’ Heard post-trial (syndicated in the NT News):
The does not include the right to publicly call people rapists, you stupid stupid woman. One of Depp’s lawyers:
‘Believe all women’ just copped a massive smack across the chops.
More importantly – Heard just made the attempts of women genuinely suffering the sort of thing she claims Depp inflicted on her to seek justice much, much harder, and for that alone she should be condemned.
What I should have said:
That does not include the right to publicly call people rapists without justification.
“‘Believe all women’ just copped a massive smack across the chops.”
I’ll wait for the decision in the Higgins’ trial before I agree or disagree.
Weather girl speaks out on the filth-ridden urban death maze that is Braaaaghton (the Hun):
Operation Bin Chicken, targeting Brighton. Perfect.
Um
Amber Heard was the abuser, gaslight Johnny and defamed him, falsely accusing him.
She should be in gaol, not whinging about her non existent right to defame and cause injurious falsehood.
For example a 192E (b) of the NSW Crimes Act – a financial disadvantage by deception, has the same culpability as plain old fraud (financial advantage by deception).
Amber pee’s in front garden every chance she gets. Amber is the pitbull next door. True.
You will never get rid of this behaviour, but the way around this is to make it fair.
Provide every member with the HoR with an equal sized bucket of cash. Their pay and parliamentary expenses should also come out of this bucket, which they can set at the level they wish.
All fully disclosed, of course.
my front garden
Anyone saying Amber Heard will not work again is very wrong.
She is hot.
Crazy/hot.
She’ll be back.
From The Daily Telegraph…
“Woman’s plea to Anthony Albanese over claims new Labor MP has her nudes
A woman previously in an online relationship with Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale is angry over how her complaint was handled, pleading with Anthony Albanese to take up her case.
A young woman who is concerned a newly elected Labor MP still has intimate photos of her said she felt betrayed by the party and challenged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take up her case after she said the ALP tried to brush off her complaints about the alleged behaviour during the recent federal election campaign.
The woman, who has asked The Daily Telegraph not to reveal her identity, claimed she was in an intimate online relationship with Jerome Laxale, who recently won the seat of Bennelong for Labor by a thin margin of just 1,500 votes, from October 2020 to November of last year.
She alleges that Mr Laxale “asked me for private photos, nude photos, as well as suggestive photos” during the course of their exchanges but that she assumed he would delete them.
While she says the relationship ended amicably, the woman claims that when she went to work for Mr Laxale’s get out the vote effort in April as a friend and member of the union assigned to the campaign, rival Liberals made remarks to her claiming they had “seen the pictures on Jerome’s laptop”.
The woman said that when she raised her concern with the party after the initial incident, she was told “here’s the rule book, here you go.”
No suggestion is made that Mr Laxale inappropriately shared images, only that there are concerns around NSW Labor’s complaints processes.
In a formal complaint made to NSW Labor after the election the woman also claimed that after she raised the issue with Mr Laxale and other officials she was booted from the campaign and blocked from its social media channels.
Timeline: Laxale’s relationship
? First marriage ends “after 2019 state election”
? October 2020 to November 2021: Conducted online relationship with new woman
? Laxale later moves in with Jo Taranto (current partner): undetermined time to present
? 26 March 2022: Laxale’s candidacy announced
? 16 April 2022: Alleged incident at Emerton Shops (Liberal campaign volunteers said they “saw me on Jerome’s private laptop”):
? The woman raised issue with Laxale campaign team who acknowledged her complaint. He blocked her on social media and she was removed from the campaign. The woman was told there was a complaint against her.
? Made complaint to NSW Labor soon after – “she acknowledged it but didn’t do anything with it”. Then raised with head office. Was referred to sex harassment. rulebook
? 21 May – election
? 23 May – further formal complaint.
A text message sighted by this newspaper from a campaign official to the woman read, “I want to ensure that you have all information available so that you can make an informed decision about how your would like your complaints to be dealt with,” and attached a number of Labor Party documents relating to rules and complaints.
It is also understood that the woman’s complaint raised the alarm among senior figures involved with the ALP’s NSW campaign who were concerned that if word of the issue got out it could derail their Bennelong campaign.
Mr Laxale was the subject of controversy during his campaign for Bennelong, with revelations that as Mayor of Ryde he failed to declare his friendship with a woman who would later become his partner after the dissolution of his marriage, and whose environmental charity received a small grant from Ryde City Council.
“They’ve put me in the dark and it really impacts me, not just my emotional wellbeing but my future prospects if those pictures come out,” she said.
“I want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to look into this personally.”
“I feel like it’s sort of a double standard, the party all supported Brittany Higgins but when it comes to one of their own it’s different.”
When contacted by email and text message, Mr Laxale responded, “please contact NSW Labor.”
A NSW Labor spokesman said, “NSW Labor takes all complaints very seriously and treats them with the utmost confidentiality.”
Firstly, memo to this woman, don’t hold your breath. There’s one rule for Labor and another rule for the Liberals. Perhaps this woman should have a discussion with Emma Husar.
Secondly, look here, when federal ICAC comes into being, here’s its first case….
“Mr Laxale was the subject of controversy during his campaign for Bennelong, with revelations that as Mayor of Ryde he failed to declare his friendship with a woman who would later become his partner after the dissolution of his marriage, and whose environmental charity received a small grant from Ryde City Council.
On This Day – the Roman Empire wound up:
That’s what happens when you eat baby sparrows in pre-orgy banquets. If you’re thinking of doing that – don’t. Just say no.
First of all, it was an on line relationship, whatever that is. The recipient could have been anyone. Anyone at all.
A woman dumb enough, vain enough, to send intimate selfies to some random internet person is now complaining that he might not have deleted them? Really?
There is a level of stupidity here that beggars belief. It’s also the old “look at me, look at me! How DARE you look at me!” caper. I see why Dot is so dismissive and wary of modern women.
RTWT
Talking our Way out of Rocky Horror:
MAY 31, 2022
Why Gender Restoration is the Culture War
Part 1: Introduction
by Kilts Khalfan
Will there be any culture left when the culture war is over? Our culture is what we hand on to our children, but the West isn’t having children. The birth rates are down, and people are wondering why we aren’t having babies. Our men and women aren’t making big families and our communities are becoming sterile and childless. This is a crisis that’s been building for generations. Sterility is the real climate change crisis of our time. The poles are melting but it’s not the ice caps, it’s the sex symbols.
We have trashed our sex symbols in only three generations. The icons of male and female have been ruined by equality of the sexes, and the West has become almost indistinguishable from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We’re being terrorized by maniacal transvestites who want a genderless future. And yet the men and women who are opposed to the destruction of their sex are not unifying to revolt and create families. Without cultivating families, we have no culture. So how were we spoiled and sterilized in the first place?
We dressed our children in pink and blue, but we didn’t colour their language. We forgot to talk to children as future mothers and fathers. How we talk to our children is how we cultivate them, and the LGBT cultists grooming your kids understand this. They want to destroy sexual dimorphism and warp gender from the cradle. Their obsession with linguistics and sexual identity hits the foundation of our civilization. It’s why they are in kindergartens to enforce their barbarous dialect on your children. Our mother tongue is under attack and the maniacs are on target. They understand what conservatives have forgotten: that masculine men and feminine women are created through language.
Look
These women come out of the woodwork when they have something to gain and the bloke loses.
She let him take pictures of her and he didn’t do anything them with them?
Fuck off, I don’t care.
Sing it, baby.
Groove is in the heart.
One sparrow does not a banquet make.
I guess there goes my new reality program WAGs of South Sudan.
It’s worse than that.
‘I sent risque nekkid pics to someone I don’t know during an online relationship, which ended. I don’t know if they have been deleted. I made a lot of assumptions.
‘Behold me, your victim. Cash or direct transfer accepted.’
“callisays:
June 2, 2022 at 7:43 am”
Agree entirely calli…but since the left like to dish it out, they can also be put to the sword using their own standards. Let’s ask Christian Porter, Andrew Laming and Alan Tudge.
Heh. The latest trend in wearing backsideless bikinis is a good example.
Chicks at an NT waterhole – no bums in their cozzies, wearing t-shirts. The rear view was something to behold – wobbling bare cheeks for all the world as though they were naked from the waist down.
Dirty looks towards the elderly ogglers of course. They only wanted to attract the attention of the “right” type of man. Hilarious.
I’m sick and tired of the double standards.
So a bloke who has an “online” relationship with a woman (weird point #1)…
…asks her for porn (weird point #2 given the nature of said relationship)…
…she actually sends him some and he still has them even though he’s in a new relationship, this time with a “live in” partner (weird point #3)…
This bloke is now a labor MP.
Actually makes sense.
OAP?
When the economy truly tanks, when inflation corrodes the value of what money he might get, he will discover that pensioners are in fact a very low priority for governments.
Perrottet didn’t fall for the trap the “independent” infrastructure body set.
The ongoing Parramatta infrastructure spend continues.
If he shelved it, the ALP would have gone to town on it every day until the next state election.
Now he has to view everything they “advise” with a level of distrust (if he wasn’t already).
And another thing. Those chicks were sitting at a cafe with their bare *rses on chairs that others would have to use.
That cafe needed more than hand sanitiser at the door. 😀
Rowe will be right onto this.
I can see it now – a picture of Morrison, Dutton and Abbott handing a bucket of faeces to poor Albo, saying “We are stupid people who hate Australians and are jealous of the economic genius that Labor is about to bring to bear.”
Dot does not care about corruption by LNP ministers worth hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars but he is very concerned about the size of the Labor ministry, and he thinks those two things are equally troublesome. Yeah right.
Calli the “ladies” would be more upset if no one looked.
So Warren is blaming the electricity providers for the price of electricity. This despite the fact government has done everything they could to disincentivise cheap reliable electricity to instead send arcs of electrons across to the electrodes of the Renewables Frankenstein* that they have assembled from the lifeless parts of Green promises.
I gather that, for example, when a renewable shows the least spark of life the reliables have to disconnect to that extent. The reliables are thus denied the opportunity to charge for the power – everything must make way for the cosseted little upstart who is in no way up to the task.
When they say Renewables have provided 13% of supply, what they mean is that they worked 13% of the time.
*Yes, I know Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster, but I am appealing to the 1950’s style monster that has the bolts on its neck and the flat head, which was invariably called ‘Frankenstein’.
A morning thought. I think it’s time we threw it back. I’m tired, very tired, of the right turning the other cheek. Of course the woman above was a fool but Mr Laxale is now the member for Bennelong. The next time there’s a rape allegation against a Labor MP, as was the case back in 2014, if the Liberals do the decent thing and keep shtum about it, like they did back in 2014, then they’re fools who never ever deserve to be in government again.
Just look at what was done to Cardinal Pell, to Christian Porter, to Andrew Laming, to Alan Tudge, to the accused in the Higgins’ case. All have had their lives/careers destroyed.
ML I think you meant bare, unless of course you meant a grizzly moment.
Love is love.
Stop the Spread by Not Having Sex, UK Tells Monkeypox Sufferers (1 Jun)
Saying “a pox on the MSM” now has more than one connotation.
Those who spoke against the proposal included former Labor minister Graham Richardson, who said he probably wouldn’t have enrolled his son at the school if he had known of the transformation in advance.
Richo doesn’t want girls at Cranbrook.
Everyone that uses tinder for hooking up is part of the problem.
“corruption by LNP ministers worth hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars but”
About as factual as man made climate science.
So what crimes did they commit?
“Brushes away 30 million victorian hotel quarantine contracts like an annoying gnat”
Money for nothing.
Do we know which member of Andrews massive pr team Prguy17 is yet?
Richo knows girls belong on harbour cruises at a reasonable hourly rate. Preferably with someone else picking up the tab.
14 months ago
Premier Daniel Andrews has assembled himself an army that dwarfs the resources available to the Prime Minister – and it keeps growing.
And not one doing dodgy political stuff.
Amber Heard says she thought she was free to speak her mind in America! she is a member of the Hollywood celebrity leftist crew who admonish all speech they don’t agree with. Hypocrites the lot of them.
This is a job for Troy Buswell.
Dot
I don’t want to live in a mafia run fascist state.
Neither does monti-fa(scist), unless his side is running the Mafia. But he does want each and every person who disagrees with his politics to be hounded from pillar to post under a Mafia/fascist system run by his ideological associates.
Like most leftists, monti-fa’s personality comprises large elements of hatred, hypocrisy, envy and fear, and the first and last of those dominate. Look at his behaviour since he crawled out of his hole just before the election. He hates those who disagree with him politically, and fears that, in power, they will behave like his side.
He could vent his emotions at his own blog, but like a puffed up Mussolini, he craves an audience. At his own blog, he would have Steve from Brissy and Homer P chiding him for perceived ideological impurities, and Rex A pulling his chain, but no other audience, and so he is here.
Every time he appears, he should be treated as he so richly deserves.
Disney will find something for her if she drops hard wood for Axminster.
These are you could say something about anything allegations.
Marginal targeted solar panel roasted pork.
what happened to the ‘class action’?
Exactly. It will not glance the ALP.
There is a nice template: Victoria. Dan. IBAC.
“The Albanese government has promised $2.2b for the rail loop, but Victoria wants $9.3b more”
Peanuts for a white elephant
I wonder when a certain rape case about to begin gets the same result as aAmber’s did can the defendent launch a defamation case.
Remember those ‘green audits’ which iirc resulted in zero people implementing the ‘advice’ received?
everything government touches turns to rorts