The jig is up: Guardian Essential poll indicates Australians no longer believe renewable electricity is the cheapest option. I guess…
Open Thread – Wed 1 June 2022
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- Open Thread – Thurs 18 April 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 15 April 2024
- Projects impending
I’m currently picking the eyes out of Netflix. Some of the offerings are quite good, mostly British although mostly woke.…
So much to wade through. The most obvious, banning the stabbing video on social media wouldn’t have made the slightest…
Bit quiet on the Catscape. Seems it’s Tom’s Toons what was bringing in the punters all along… The biggest story…
Aren’t they lucky that Captain Cook ‘stole’ them? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/gweagal-spears-captain-cook-took-handed-to-indigenous-community/103756446
More BoM adjustments underway to help the global warming narrative?
Was tracking temperature at Canberra Weather Observations and it reached -3.9C at about 07:30am.
Now the six temperature intervals between 07:00am and 07:53am are not there. So the lowest temperature recorded will report as -03:01C at 07:00am and not the -03:09C at about 07:30am.
WTF?
Someone I know flying Qantas to the UK.
Flight delay in Melbourne 12 hours, last minute so stuck in airport, delay again in Perth.
I’d be ropeable.
No, the problem is that stupid women insist on sending bike rack pics to randoms on the internet – unsolicited, and just as often as dick pics are sent – and then claim very public victimhood as soon as their ongoing behaviour results in blokes ghosting them.
monti-fa
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.
A suitable first case for the Federal ICAC?
No; the entire concept of hooking up for sexual encounters is rotten to the core, and part of the destruction of civilised society, everyone who participates in such an immoral activity is part of the problem.
Tinder, was after all, the child of grindr.
“Yes, I will delete the photos”.
You can file that with …
“Of course I will still love you in the morning”
“The cheque is in the mail”
“Trust me. I won’t [Perhaps not Sancho. A little too crude I think. Dover]
Smart politics, cancelling it college by college, one at a time.
Terrible policy.
Biden to Cancel All Student Debt From Defunct Corinthian Colleges
The U.S. will forgive all $5.8 billion in student loans tied to defunct Corinthian Colleges, the largest single debt cancellation by the government.
Amber Heard hot?
Not seeing it.
Pretty enough, but not what I would describe as smokin’ hot.
at least Abbott defunded the Climate Commission
Don’t worry, Elbow will fund the climate rort.
THE 2022 Federal Budget has failed to deliver any meaningful commitments to address escalating climate change in Australia.
Nicki Hutley, Climate Councillor, leading economist and former Partner at Deloitte Access Economics, who was in today’s Budget lockup, has calculated that just 0.3% of total expenditure for 2021-2024 has been committed to climate change initiatives, falling even lower, to just 0.2% in 2024-2026.
asked me for private photos*, nude photos**, as well as suggestive photos***
* Tits
** boobs and vagene
*** Household appliances/small pets/pot plants etc….
I am not a lawyer, Dot. That is what ICAC is for. There will be referrals and investigations, and hopefully the truth will out.
Kickbacks are the main problem here, but not the only one. The Morrison administration had very little in the way of proper governance. Dodginess was standard practice. Colour-coded spreadsheets are not illegal, but the corruption they engendered probably is. We shall have a lot of fun finding out, won’t we?
What is a woman?
What is a fish?
What is a bee?
I suppose if you believe everything is relative then you can indeed believe a bee is a fish.
A Bumblebee Needs Fins Like a Fish Needs A… (31 May)
works in reverse for me.
If I sit down to pee it makes me squint so I won’t get soap in my eyes
Dotsays:
June 2, 2022 at 8:20 am
m0ntysays:
June 2, 2022 at 8:03 am
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.
So what crimes did they commit?
Dot, Dot, Dot, their crimes are particularly egregious. They are not members of the Labor Party, or any other party of the fascist left.
ABCcess.
Still lying, all one direction as usual.
Sooner or later people will get shitty at the non stop propaganda drum pf ‘white man uniquely bad”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-02/canada-disturbing-legacy-residential-schools-indigenous-kids/101114586
The discovery last year of more than 200 unmarked graves in former residential school grounds at Kamloops, British Columbia, finally forced Canada to come face to face with the grim reality of the residential schools.
“[The Kamloops discovery] had such stark, dramatic impact, that it kind of shocked a general public into an awareness that this stuff is real,” Dr Hamilton said.
“This is not just a historic footnote.
“I think we should safely assume that children died from violence. Children died from neglect, children died from illness.”
vs
https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found
Somehow the layers and layers of fact checkers are unable to run a simple google search engine.
They obviously need more funding!
As for Mr Laxale, the Telly describes the charity grant as “several thousand dollars”. Ooh yeah, that sounds like a job for Federal ICAC. They will for sure get to that first before nine-figure rorts by Federal Ministers.
Steamin’.
Iran’s army has unveiled an underground base for its drones amid mounting tensions with Israel. The base is located in the Zagros mountain range in the west of Iran, as per a state TV reporter. The underground facility is located “several hundred metres underground”, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi told state media. Watch the video to know more about the Iran’s underground drone.
Scientists say Hydrogen if leaked into air can accelerate Global Warming | WION
The fat fascist is already making excuses for Labor politicians.
The UN has reason to believe that Iran has enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb. The revival of the Iran nuclear deal remains stalled. Tehran is negotiating from a position of strength. But within Iran, the regime is facing massive protests
wion
The Personality Disorders Behind Wokeness With Josh Slocum
Triggernometry
02:49 What Are Cluster B Personality Disorders?
06:18 Being Raised by a Parent with Personality Disorders
08:22 The Rise of Victimhood Culture
12:00 Narcissism is Socially Rewarded
14:44 How Many People Have Cluster B Personality Disorders?
17:41 Social Media and Personality Disorders
21:11 “We’re Living in a Cluster B World”
26:55 Why People Are Drawn to Leftist Politics
31:14 Why People on the Right Latch onto Conspiracy Theories
38:03 Normalisation of Cluster B Style Relations
44:55 How to Overcome Societal Cluster B Traits?
49:23 What to Do if Your Partner Has Cluster B Traits?
51:59 The Sweet Potato Question
all marxists are squeaky clean, ’cause they hate prosperity… at least for everyone except themselves
monti-fa
Kickbacks are the main problem here, but not the only one.
No Labor Party, state or federal has ever received a kickback? ROFLMAO. Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Give it up monti-fa, you have neither credibility nor standing when bleating about political corruption, when the party you support is up past its eyeballs in it.
Tianjin, China’s 3rd Big City in Outbreak: Students are under lockdown since Jan/Supply chain crisis
China Insights
As the outbreak in China’s capital, Beijing, resurfaces and continues to worsen, the neighboring city of Tianjin has again reported multiple local cases.
Since May 27th, the Tianjin municipal government has asked residents to “remain relatively still,” restricting the movement of people and vehicles, and implementing full-scale nucleic acid testing.
Tianjin University is one of the top universities in China with about 33,000 students. The footage shows the students chanting the slogan: “Down with formalism, down with bureaucracy!” The surrounding students are echoing their support.
Much wailing on Vic airwaves as the gas shortage and massive price increases hit home now the the heating is turned on for winter.
“Unforeseen” says the Vic junta.
“A perfect storm” says Jim Chalmers.
Climate change policy good and hard.
Terrible terrible stuff, now we find some sporting clubs build new toilet facilities.
How low can the liberals sink?
these allegations are shocking, in one case McKenzie was given a membership after she announced the funding and failed to declare it!
you’re not a fucking engineer either
monti-fa
They will for sure get to that first before nine-figure rorts by Federal Ministers.
You might consider using the word “alleged”, for the sake of your strained family finances.
If people received ‘kick backs’ that would be fraud, no icac puppetry required.
afaik yes
Idiots.
It is exactly the same as the personal ads that used to be in the papers – ‘Handsome woman seeking husband’ and so on. Motives vary according to the individual.
A mate informed me that there is no such thing as ‘casual online sex’. Theres a lot of effort put into it. Jus’ sayin’.
she is pushing the boundaries of the batshit crazy/hot matrix
#1 Emily Blunt.
#2 Amber Heard.
0900 here and the sun is just hitting my solar as it sneaks over the shading from the house next door.
the solar system is pushing about 998Watts and rising.
with about 15kW reverse cycle heating running at approx 1/2 load that’s say 8kW.
factor in some COP when heating of about 4.0
that means to move 8kW for free, I need the solar to deliver 8kW/4 = 2kW
just checked again and I’ve hit 1176W
whoo hoo
People should swing by Chelsea Manning’s twitter feed.
Sounding pretty pro 2A these days.
hows that jab jab booster booster going for you?
Dr. Sousa-Faro is one of almost 2,200 celebrities and European elites who have been erroneously vaccinated against Covid, according to a list compiled by National Police.
Our mainstream media know that that sort of thing is NOT news, which is why they didn’t bother to inform us
https://wentworthreport.com/2022/05/31/big-european-pharma-boss-caught-faking-his-covid-vaccination-status-injected-himself-with-salt-water-instead-now-facing-cr
Only if Mr Laxale is a spectacularly dim bulb and doesn’t play the ‘the guidelines are unclear and my staff advised me and, because of my greatness of spirit, I’ll be repaying the money out of my
electoral allowanceown pocket – so there can be no question’ Get Out of Jail card.Are you describing the deposit she left in Johnny’s bed?
Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 2, 2022 at 9:02 am
The fat fascist is already making excuses for Labor politicians.
Amazing stuff.
When presented with what would on the face of it, look like an open and shut case for at least an investigation he poo-poos the issue as not worthy of their time.
I dont support an ICAC, I support an Auto-de-fe run 24/7 on every pollie.
Followed 24/7 by a dedicated Judge empowered to automatically inflict the maximum sentence for every single offence on the spot.
Its only fair that those that make the laws are subject to its most extreme Majesty.
No no no.
Thot.
A few thousand?
Remind me.
How much is a bottle of Grange?
Pushing the boundaries?
I’d suggest she’s broken it.
Study finds latest Monkeypox Outbreak is result of Biolab manipulated Virus possibly released intentionally
ICAC is for processing ambit claims into indictments?
No monty.
As for the ALP guy and the grants, that is Federal jurisdiction.
Amber Turd?
Could be a useful expression for nurses dealing with certain cases.
CONFIRMED: 70K people dead within 28 Days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England; & 179K dead within 60 Days
I gather the dirty, filthy Lutefisk eaters are about to make the Nordic Doom Goblin very happy by passing the proposed amendments.
Or not, when they end up importing all that good stuff to avoid cratering their economy.
Well, now we know their priorities.
World Health Organization Says It’s ‘Important’ That Pride Celebrations Do Not Change Over Monkeypox Concerns
You’d need a log-log scale to graph the crazy against hot with this one.
Unelected German Individual Makes Bizarre Global Reset Claim
Umber Turd might avoid copyright problems.
Moslems in the cabinet. Will The Lord’s Prayer be heard agin before sitting?
Pressure on Anthony Albanese to stick to his word on Julian Assange
Asked during Tuesday night’s press conference if he would match his rhetoric as opposition leader now he is prime minister and encourage the United States to drop the charges, Albanese said “my position is that not all foreign affairs is best done with the loud hailer”.
10 nations reject China’s ‘security’ pact
As they used to say in less enlightened times: “all over the place like a mad woman’s shit”.
The Libs (and Nats) would not be so very much prey to things like these ‘hounds of the left’ ICACs if they any of them had the nads to hit back.
It is pathetic watching them every time an accusation comes out – their first instinct is to curl up in a ball and hope it all goes away. When it doesn’t they make bland motherhood statements supporting victims and then move to apology hoping that will satiate the beasts.
Of course it doesn’t, but by then they have effectively admitted to something they likely never did as holes begin to appear in the evidence, but the attacks continue.
Fight back now? Not on your nellie. Now is time to resign. They resign with everyone convinced of their guilt (why resign otherwise?). Their families shamed, the party now referred to as “the party of ‘X’”.
Done.
Uvalde and the Problem of Evil
On the gas situation : this can be fixed in a stroke by Govt mandating the sequesting of sufficient supplies from producers to meet our domestic needs at controlled pricing. In other words taking on Australia’s gas cartel. The libs were too gutless natch. Will Albo have the guts?
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources
Just what we need, missile carrying drones.
covid vaccine driven immune fixation/organ infection (nature/modern pathology study)
Why does a DNC law firm have an FBI portal & workspace in their office?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/
Surely not so DNC connected parties can look up whatever they want?
Chalmers has already said he’s reluctant to enact the government’s gas reservation powers.
And he’s flagged the fuel excise will have to go back on soon too.
Exactly what I was thinking. They were in on it from the beginning.
Guess who??
“Mushy pointless dangling overused floppy fish market,”
Gruiniad has a sad that the Umber turd case didnt find derp guilty of having a penis.
The trial has turned into a public orgy of misogyny. While most of the vitriol is nominally directed at Heard, it is hard to shake the feeling that really, it is directed at all women – and in particular, at those of us who spoke out about gendered abuse and sexual violence during the height of the #MeToo movement. We are in a moment of virulent antifeminist backlash, and the modest gains that were made in that era are being retracted with a gleeful display of victim-blaming at a massive scale. One woman has been made into a symbol of a movement that many view with fear and hatred, and she’s being punished for that movement. In this way, Heard is still in an abusive relationship. But now, it’s not just with Depp, but with the whole country.
I dont suppose the issue could be 2 shitty people deserved to pay extraordinary sums to lawyers to prove to people they are both shitty assholes…??
ICAC is a squirrel. During covid in 2020 over 600 hundred elderly Australians died in Victoria mostly alone, due to the corruption, neglect and ineptitude of Andrew’s Labor Govt , quite deserving of a RC. But nothing. So diverting attention elsewhere is needed. Dickhead Scummo shied away from it because he thought he could make friends with the Labor scum in his National Cabinet. Good riddance to the pos.
On the bright side, the push for a republic and indigenous voice is full steam ahead!
I dont suppose the issue could be 2 shitty people deserved to pay extraordinary sums to lawyers to prove to people they are both shitty assholes…??
But… but …..won’t anyone think of poor Pistol and Boo?
I want to know how monty reckons he knows something is illegal, but can’t state what crime.l, at least in a general sense.
Neither the physical or thought element can be demonstrated for any examples.
Why would there be any investigation then?
Added to my rhyming slang lexicon.
“Just off to the little room to drop off Amber Heard”.
feelthebernsays:
June 2, 2022 at 9:54 am
Why does a DNC law firm have an FBI portal & workspace in their office?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/
Surely not so DNC connected parties can look up whatever they want?
Apparently and allegedly, Sussman, the suss bloke recently acquitted in a DC court, occupied that workstation for several months recently.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The first order of business for Dutton is make it abundantly clear he is not Scummo and not tied to any of his windsock positions. Then he can hammer the tar out of Labor to get gas sequestered. Make a huge noise all winter. Then summer. Eventually hip pocket pain will grab voters. Dutton has to quickly put pressure on Albo through bad polls. Then Labor will begin to panic a fk things up as they always do.
Just as soon as he finishes making it clear he’s not Peter Dutton.
Dotsays:
June 2, 2022 at 10:02 am
I want to know how monty reckons he knows something is illegal, but can’t state what crime.l, at least in a general sense.
monti-fa is channeling Beria. Show him the (non-Labor) person, and he will show you the crime.
The Gestapo acted similarly, but didn’t boast about it.
Here we go:
Newly appointed Assistant Minister for the Republic Matt Thistlethwaite has argued Australia is in the minority of founding Commonwealth countries still tied to the Monarchy, with 34 out of 54 countries having moved to becoming republics.
The Albanese government is reigniting a national conversation about Australia becoming a republic, flagging it as a second priority after holding a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Thistlethwaite said it would be the next natural step for Australia to have one of its own as head of state.
“It’s time we start the serious conversation once again … and looking to have one of our own as our head of state, to recognise that independence and maturity going forward,” Mr Thistlethwaite said.
“First priority will be about educating Australians about our constitutional arrangements.”
misogyny!! racism!! transphobia!!! get a dick up ya or cut it off!!!
the left is sodom & gommorah bathsit sick in the head
batshit, where’s the autocorrect when you need it
Malcolm Turnbull, anyone?
I don’t need an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Crimes Act to know that slinging your donors millions of taxpayer dollars for nothing is a crime.
Decoded: I have no idea if any crime was committed but I’m sure if we give a Labor lawyer a crack in front of a Labor judge, with the ABC, et al. poisoning the well all through the ‘investigation’, the facts won’t matter.
It may not be a crime. The system is designed that way.
The only way to combat it is to have a smaller public sector.
m0ntysays:
June 2, 2022 at 10:22 am
I don’t need an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Crimes Act to know that slinging your donors millions of taxpayer dollars for nothing is a crime.
But only when done by your political opponents.
A billion not to build a road, so the CFMMEU can be the relevant union for a different (failing) project? Nothing to see here. Industry unions using members money to fund a “news organ” that pushes one side of politics only? Nothing to see here.
Bye bye!
Disgraced Hey Dad! actor and convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes will be deported to the UK where he will spend the rest of his years with his wife in a decision announced by the State Parole Authority Thursday morning.
The disgraced actor, who was incarcerated in 2014 after being convicted of 10 sexual and indecent assault charges in the 1980s, has been told he has several weeks to prepare for deportation to Britain where he is a citizen.
The State Parole Authority revealed its parole decision at 10am.
The TV, film and theatre actor will be free to integrate into the community where he will be monitored now he has been granted parole.
He has been told he must inform Interpol of his address, holiday plans and movements when in the UK.
Daily Tele
monti-fa
PS, can you confirm that the “donors” didn’t actually provide a facility or service under a contract?
For Labor that is what counts as a basis for policy – other people are doing it.
I suppose if other countries were cutting their own throats by demolishing their ability to produce cheap and reliable power due to some campfire horror story about the ‘CO2 gas monster’ then…
Oh.
And it is not just Labor.
AEMO notification #96727
Notification of a Potential Gas Supply Shortfall Event
AEMO has a potential gas supply shortfall event for the VIC, SA, TAS regions for GD 02/06/22.
AEMO will convene a gas supply guarantee assessment conference with contacts that AEMO determines will be able to contribute or response to the potential gas supply shortfall to assess the event.
All good though, they’re just going to get a few ‘contacts’ to shut down.
But enough about Industry Super Funds.
Because Regime communications need to be seamless.
Gruiniad has a sad that the Umber turd case didnt find derp guilty of having a penis.
The very glum Moira thinks that evidence tested in court is an insufficient basis for determining veracity and therefore guilt.
Moira and her allies have busily built a scaffold for the likes of Depp but now find her efforts are not appreciated or rewarded by the judicial system.
Moira knows this is wrong because Moira is never wrong. Injustice for the individual is a small price to pay for progress of the many. Moira is a Marxist.
‘This cannot go on’: Ben Fordham calls upon government to end vaccine mandates
I’d be off to join the Cavaliers.
Expect ‘chronic’ COVID, yearly booster shots, Fauci says
Ukraine flees strategic Donbas region after suffering big losses against Russians
Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillaird?
Building the Education Revolution.
Interesting argument at Quadrant:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/aboriginal-sovereignty-and-section-44-of-the-australian-constitution/
Dual citizenship problems for those belong to various Indigenous nations?
Indolent says:
June 2, 2022 at 9:48 am
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources. Just what we need, missile carrying drones.
The Ukraine/Russia stoush is an excellent test-bed for new arms to be trialled in actual war-like circumstances. The equipment’s performance data is invaluable and the manufacturers will use it for enhancements and subsequent marketing/sales to client countries.
Quite so.
I happened to have a mercifully brief stint back in the early 2000’s working with one of the grifters running the NSW branch of BER.
When it was revealed that BER in NSW was paying 50% over the odds when compared with similar non-BER projects, the answer was “Meh. Stimulus … urgency … whatevs”
The spend was $7 billion. The overspend (ie tipped into pockets of Labor maaaates) was potentially $2 billion.
Does that meet m0nster’s threshold for being “worth a look”?
Ukranian drones via Ace of Spades. Some cool footage of off the shelf drones being used to deliver mortars and hand grenades, through the open sunroof of a car on one occasion.
Sancho
The spend was $7 billion. The overspend (ie tipped into pockets of Labor maaaates) was potentially $2 billion.
Does that meet m0nster’s threshold for being “worth a look”?
Unionists overpaid, contractors overpaid, but monti-fa can’t see any possibility at all for “kickbacks” into ALP funds?
Pull the other one!
mUnty walks into his usual rake forest.
I suggest that the first priority of a Federal ICAC should be to look into Malcolm Turnbull’s allocation of grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. As a memory jotter here were reports at the time.
Malcolm Bligh hits a Reef: Turnbull’s coal half a billion handout may scupper PM (independentaustralia.net)
Controversial Great Barrier Reef grant did not comply with transparency rules, National Audit Office says – ABC News
PM personally approved $443m fund for tiny Barrier Reef foundation | Australia news | The Guardian
Crikey! The going rate used to be 25%.
Moira fails to distinguish between merely insulting opinion (Depp’s texts calling her a limp fish or whatever) and actual actionable defamation (accusing someone of criminality – in this case rape – with no evidence).
Interesting to reflect on the accusation of rape. Did Amber Turd not give consent? Or did she simply have regrets afterwards?
Which leads me to predict another contortion in consent laws … “I did signal consent at the time, but I would never have consented if I knew then what I know now about him.”
PS, and because of the examples mentioned above, AnAl will see the essentiality of restricting any Federal ICAC only to “one term of government retrospectivity”, so as not to hamper the work of the current government.
Hypocrisy, hatred, envy and fear, the bases of leftism.
Speaking of Marxism.
Who would have thought that state control and planning would lead to market failure in gas production for consumers?
Central plans are never fail, it’s just the people who are failing the plan
memsays:
June 2, 2022 at 10:59 am
I suggest that the first priority of a Federal ICAC should be to look into Malcolm Turnbull’s allocation of grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
Many here might feel that would be appropriate, but that defies the principle of using an un-elected band of maaaaates to go after political opponents. (Though Turdballs was to all intents and purposes a member of the Liars.)
Personally I don’t care which colour politician ends up in stir if it causes the rest of them to think twice. I’m not even sure it does.
One of the saner and more pragmatic organisations working in the field.
Probably why The Guardian developed such an animus against them.
Apols couldn’t get the links to work first. This should work.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/malcolm-bligh-hits-a-reef-turnbulls-half-a-billion-buck-handout-may-scupper-pm,11756
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-16/great-barrier-reef-funding-grant-scrutinised-auditor-general/10720928
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/30/malcolm-turnbull-present-when-443-million-dollars-offered-to-small-group-without-tender-inquiry-hears
Old ones too.
Hence Raytheon’s windfall contract to update and replace the US Army’s Stinger inventory.
Interestingly, the Kraut’s promised non-obsolete air defence vehicles will have to be built from scratch. The Bundeswehr don’t have any runners to spare for a lost cause.
Disgraced Hey Dad! actor and convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes will be deported to the UK where he will spend the rest of his years with his wife in a decision announced by the State Parole Authority Thursday morning.
Cruel and unusual punishment.
Republic referendum second-term priority
AAP – MAEVE BANNISTER, JUN 01, 2022
Australians will be offered a vote on becoming a republic if Labor is re-elected for a second term.
The first priority for the government will be a referendum for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, the new assistant minister for the republic says.
In the UK, Starmer’s New NuLabour will get it right, this time.
Yet all I hear this morning is people giving energy companies shit.
Barely a word about banned gas exploration in Victoria and all the “Lock The Gate” bullshit elsewhere.
And bitching about the price for shiploads of gas being exported on twenty year contracts being cheaper than the retail gas through the meter.
I seem to remember that, when those export deals were done, there was a lot of noses turned up at “dirty stinking gas” when we got abundant solar and wind powah.
I hate the idea of us becoming a republic. It’ll no doubt be written in up in the worst possible way, giving citizens even less protections than we enjoy now. There won’t be new consitution that gives actual rights, it’ll all be amorphic bullshit that means nothing.
Flicked the car radio to 3AW, Mitchell was on, he was banging on about Brett Sutton not being available for months and that Mitchell thinks the gov has ordered Sutton to stay quite. Mitchell then goes on to say that without Suttons health advice being public we don’t know why the gov makes the rules it does. I thought that perhaps Mitchell is slowly waking up, then he goes on to say that we need to bring back mask mandates because cases are rising. He’s an utter fool.
I used to work for Big Armaments back in the ’90’s.
I once picked up my US boss from the airport and, as we were driving back into town, I joked about how great it was that whatever the hot-spot was at the time was raising tensions and increasing defence spend.
He replied, “Nah. Stand-offs aren’t enough. We need a shootin’ war. Use up some inventory.”
I am not entirely sure he was joking.
It’ll give the prog left a new bully pupit from which to berate the populace.
Whatever one may think of the prospect of King Charles, at least he’s 17 000 km away most of the time and he has a sense of humour.
Interesting question, indeed. From “Quadrant.”
The long game is this.
Push for a “Voice to Parliament” in this term, selling it as relatively benign, even ceremonial and symbolic.
In the second term, they start pushing for a Republic. What odds that “The Voice” ends up being central to Presidential elections and veto powers of a President?
What do Australia, New Zealand, Canada and communist China have in common? They’ve all disarmed their populations. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Indolentsays:
June 2, 2022 at 9:33 am
CONFIRMED: 70K people dead within 28 Days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England; & 179K dead within 60 Days
Assuming they really mean “England” and not the UK:
England’s population is about 56 million.
Assuming a life expectancy of about 80 years (actually about 81.5) you’d expect deaths per year to be about 700,000. (Actually less because the population would have been smaller in past years and there’d thus be a lag effect, but let’s go with 700,000.)
That should translate into about 2,000 deaths per day.
So if 70,000 are dying within 28 days of a covid jab, that looks like a significant excess mortality rate.
If they actually mean the UK, with a population of about 68.5 million, then on the raw figures it’s about a 10% excess mortality rate – but that doesn’t allow for the lag factor, so it’s likely to be greater.
So if the numbers are right, it really should be looked into.
He’s an utter fool.
Mitchell 3aw has a lot to answer for his blind adherence to covid regulation and demonising any poor soul who fell foul of the arbitrary enforcement by VicPlod.
Every protestor was an idiot and any questions about the “science” was rebuffed as ignorance and stupidity.
Mitchell should be ashamed of himself, if he had any shame left.
He’s an utter fool.
Mitchell’s love affair with himself has reached the point where Trioli on 774, noxious as she is, makes for better listening. At least you know her agenda.
So far this morning on Mitchell he’s had
1/ People out of work and lives ruined because of the jab mandate. Callers reporting why they wouldn’t have it — side effects and adverse reactions after the first jab mostly. He doesn’t dispute the swollen hearts etc., which is the exact opposite of the days when he was sneering at “tin-foil hatters” and insisting the jabs were “safe and effective” and opposed only by those who delight in urinating on The Shrine.
2/ A spotty youth who wants to move us to “cheaper” renewables ASAP. The kids claims are accepted without critique
3AW’s decline began in earnest when Clark Forbes, the program director, retired. Since then the Nine mindset so evident in The Age — only one side, the left one, fit for publishing.
Were we as organised as the Left we’d be calling his advertisers.
So after a lifetime of bludging on the working taxpayers, aboriginals are to now get access to aged pensions earlier than the workers that have been fleeced to carried them through life? Wonderful system. Well Dutton, are you going into bat for the people who actually work for a living. The forgotten Aussie toilers with every man and his dog in our pockets?
After a lifetime of doing sfa why the need to make access early? Oh right, because they’ve drank themselves into an early grave or been beaten to a pulp by their noble savage hubbies.
Try this as a toppering, Rosie. I arrived in LA 2 weeks ago at around 7pm.
The American Airlines flight was cancelled, ostensibly because of bad weather on the North East. Neither Qantas nor American had anything available for the next two days. My kid organised a flight to SF at 6 am the next morning and then a flight to NY at 9am..
You feel like wanting to kill Fatboy.
I’ve been opposed to a republic because whatever “constitutional model” the staggeringly stupid vindictive incompetent mediocrities foist on us, it will inevitably be worse than what we have now.
As for Prince Tampon Chilla Big Ears, he’s an execution worthy inbred imbecile. He has no place spouting the collectivist garbage he’s become notorious for over many decades. The last thing I’m interested in tolerating is some out of touch inbred silver spooned hypocrite who’s never done a day’s work in his pointless life demanding that the plebs be impoverished on the basis of his harking back to the “divine right of kings”.
Just shut the f*ck up, you preposterous pratt and be thankful for every remaining day on this planet you don’t end up going the way of the Romonoffs.
The advertisers (mainly pre-paid funeral plans, orthopedic mattress makers, retirement homes and made-to-measure blind manufacturers) suggest that the 3AW demographic isn’t millenials.
monti-fa
Here’s a couple of issues a federal ICAC might like to consider.
.1 The Commonwealth grant (under Gillard) to Adelaide, and the “purely coincidental” pseudo professorship that Gillard received there after leaving Parliament.
.2 The very large Commonwealth grant (again under Gillard) to the Clinton “Charitable” Foundation, and the again “purely coincidental” job that she received with one of the subordinate elements of the Foundation after she left Parliament.
Masks on a 13 hour flight?
Presumably whilst you are asleep as well.
Fuck ’em.
Ask them if the air-con is running at max capacity (I’ll bet it isn’t) and what standard of air filters they have installed.
One thing I will check on before I book a flight.
The Parliament of this country has absolutely nothing to do with government, governing, or governance. It is solely about controlling the sheep and extracting anything and everything from them for personal gain. Penury for all…except the self appointed elite.
Rabz, if we’re going to have a republic it has to be on the US model: a president with veto power who has to actively campaign for the job.
Given the way one of the world’s most blessed land masses has managed to blow all the advantages Providence has bestowed — we’re floating on gas but facing a shortage, for God’s sake — the republic push will see a further slide down the scree slope of inspired idiocy.
President Grace Tame anyone?
Today in MSM told us this never happened:
All you heroes cheering to be screwed royally by the Australian Gas Cartel, you would have to be some kind of simpleton not to understand that this is just fascism pure and simple. Govt and corps in bed together, giggling behind closed doors while they collectively fleece the nation. Looking after our own interest by demanding relieving and commonplace intervention in a fkd market is just another facet of the far from free market we already have in Straya.
UK Daily Mail:
Matt Kean joined ABC staff, Hollywood actors, TV and radio personalities as well as Labor politicians to celebrate Mr Albanese’s victory on May 21 at the home of Lisa Wilkinson & Peter FitzSimons.
As I understand it they’re locked in by long term contracts. Overriding such things is what totalitarian crooks do, and leads to Venezuela/Zimbabwe. Don’t blame the companies for what the government has done. They’re the nitwits who caused this.
What are the chances this federal ICAC would include a portal to one of the Labor law firms?
Last state election I had a simple rule: I would not vote for any candidate who was against coal seam gas.
I had to spoil my lower house ballot since all five or six candidates were against CSG – Labor, Lib, Green and all the independents, every single one of them.
There’s your problem right there.
A veritable gold mine.
What about Madgwick and the missing legal files.
Good job monty. We really need this Federal ICAC!
Whenever the opportunity arises from now on, I will be ticking the Aboriginal/Torres Straight islander box.
Treasurer Chalmers has promised some cost of living relief measures in his October budget, while at the same time warning that he will be constrained by the poor budgetary position inherited from the Morrison government. With Chalmer’s Right faction being a minority in the caucus, it’s going to be fun watching him juggle community expections of a Labor government with all those lefty ministers knocking on Katy Gallagher’s door with funding requests for their portfolios, starting with Linda Burney.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nt-police-locate-body-of-woman-after-leg-was-discovered-on-stuart-highway-two-people-arrested/ar-AAXZ62w?li=AAaeSy5&ocid=mailsignout
Mystery solvered
The ABC is saying that the Beaches Tunnel (which will take pressure off the Harbour Bridge and the Spit Bridge) and the Blue Mountains Tunnel are being canned.
Weird thing to do in an election year.
Does anyone know if it is true, or what the ABC is twisting into something not true?
Yes tindr is actually the same as people advertising in the likes of the Catholic weekly for potential husbands and wives.
Sounds a bit like a prostitute claiming their chosen employment is exactly the same as marriage but wives get paid in new washing machines.
Not one of Albo’s appointed Ministers has small business experience…
I’m sort of okay with this, as long as the other side of that coin is played as well. A non-exhaustive selection:
King Aed – killed by his successor, 878AD
Edmund I – murdered by a thief, 946
Edward the Martyr – killed by his stepmother, 978
Edward II – killed by having a red hot poker inserted in the ring gear, 1327
Richard II – starved to death by gaolers, 1400
James I – assassinated by disaffected Scots, 1437
Henry VI – murdered in the Tower, 1471
Charles I – found guilty of high treason by 59 commissioners (presumably of The People) and beheaded, 1649
The future Charles III better dial it down a bit, I think.
A woman has complained to Labor that a new MP has nude pictures on his phone of her following the break up of an affair. She’s told Daily Mail that ALP complaints process has been horrendous.
A few points here:
-Federal ICAC now!
-Why are we only finding out about this after the election?
Indeedy, Roger.
He gives a good speech and he cherishes a great animus for the press.
Slack can be cut.
Your daily dose of ABC retardation:
There’s a lack of diversity in Australian leadership roles. These experts are trying to fix that
OMG! What terrible discrimination did this poor man experience?
Um…okay…not normally a very horrible mistake, but who knows – perhaps this sartorial selection activates the inner racist that we all know every white Australian possesses. Let’s find out.
Oh. Now I see the significance of the “very terrible mistake”. Let me get this straight – a young guy, dressed like a waiter in a place where you’d expect to find waiters, was mistaken as a waiter. That’s his harrowing tale of the ‘bamboo ceiling’? Seriously? He doesn’t think this kind of thing could – and does – happen to anyone, regardless of race? When I was in my late teens and early-to-mid 20s, I don’t know how many times I was asked ‘do you work here?’ in any number of places where service was provided.
I guess you have to be the director of some bullshit grievance studies centre at ANU to possess the smarts to realise that you were mistaken for a waiter NOT because you looked like a waiter because you dressed like a waiter and you were a young guy at the time and young people usually perform this kind of low-skill work…oh, no. It wasn’t that. It was racial discrimination. Racial profiling. Clearly. If you were young, white and dressed like a waiter in a place people generally expect to find waiters, there is no way you would ever have been mistaken as a waiter. When was the last time anyone saw a young, white waiter? They simply don’t exist. Don’t know about you, but I just assume that whenever I find someone who isn’t white, they must be there in order to serve me. Anyway, the story gets worse:
All right. Now I’m calling bullshit on this. Does anyone seriously believe this exchange occurred? Does it sound even remotely plausible? He probably was mistaken for a waiter – that kind of thing happens all the time. I’m surprised it only happened to him once. But the next but about how he wasn’t believed – I’d bet the farm he just made that up to make the rather dull story of that time he was mistaken for a waiter slightly less dull. And more wacist, somehow. Maybe. Even if I’m wrong and it did happen exactly as he described (highly doubtful), I still don’t see how the purported ‘bamboo ceiling’ has anything to do with it.
But it gets even worse! People have wrongly attributed other professions to him:
OH MY GOODNESS. SAY IT AIN’T SO. How insulting it must be to be confused as an accountant or IT worker. What lowly professions they are. I spit on every accountant and IT worker I see. And they’re all Asians. Everyone knows all accountants and IT workers are Asian. Seems I’ve spat on a lot of Asians.
How? How could the experiences he described have impeded his career progress? Even if one presumes the ‘bamboo ceiling’ is an actual thing and not what it really is, ie. some bullshit created and maintained by race hustlers like this fuckwad that enables them to grift their way into cushy identity-centred sinecures – how did being mistaken for a waiter or an accountant or an IT worker impede his career progress?
Not going to bother with the rest of the article. If it kicks off on the basis of this incredibly weak premise, I can’t see things getting any better.
Rather drastic treatment for hemorrhoids, don’t you think?
While his Minister for Small Business has never had a job outside the Tasmanian public service or the Labor Party.
May have misheard but it sounds like Wong is changing short term work visas for Pacific Islander to allow them to bring their families with them.
Oh and isn’t China going to be ticked off Australia seems to have scuttled their deals in that region?
So much for the Australia China Labor love in.
If climbevery is keen on looking for ‘kickbacks’ there’s a rock worth turning over.
I should add that his being mistaken for a waiter or accountant or IT worker seems to have helped his career, given he’s now the director of Asian grievance studies at ANU and these are his tales of horrible discrimination that he dines out on to this very day.
His Minister for Agriculture has been a lawyer and politician all his working life..
Bruce, the mechanism already exists to reserve gas for domestic purposes. All parties know this. So spare me the bleeding heart crap for the capitalist integrity of our beloved Gas Cartel. They will manage this handsomely. Albo should pull the trigger right now and not after we have been screwed sideways by horrific winter power bills.
i’ll just drop this here again
The Personality Disorders Behind Wokeness With Josh Slocum
00:00 Intro
02:49 What Are Cluster B Personality Disorders?
06:18 Being Raised by a Parent with Personality Disorders
08:22 The Rise of Victimhood Culture
12:00 Narcissism is Socially Rewarded
14:44 How Many People Have Cluster B Personality Disorders?
17:41 Social Media and Personality Disorders
21:11 “We’re Living in a Cluster B World”
26:55 Why People Are Drawn to Leftist Politics
31:14 Why People on the Right Latch onto Conspiracy Theories
38:03 Normalisation of Cluster B Style Relations
44:55 How to Overcome Societal Cluster B Traits?
49:23 What to Do if Your Partner Has Cluster B Traits?
51:59 The Sweet Potato Question
Young and naïve.
You couldn’t possibly expect an ICAC to look back further than about 9 years.
It’s a natural justice sort of thing.
Statue of Imitations and all that…
Rogersays:
June 2, 2022 at 12:19 pm
UK Daily Mail:
Matt Kean joined ABC staff, Hollywood actors, TV and radio personalities as well as Labor politicians to celebrate Mr Albanese’s victory on May 21 at the home of Lisa Wilkinson & Peter FitzSimons.
Why would anyone be surprised? Another in the Turdballs mould (in two senses of the word).
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 2, 2022 at 12:26 pm
All you heroes cheering to be screwed royally by the Australian Gas Cartel, you would have to be some kind of simpleton not to understand that this is just fascism pure and simple.
As I understand it they’re locked in by long term contracts. Overriding such things is what totalitarian crooks do, and leads to Venezuela/Zimbabwe. Don’t blame the companies for what the government has done. They’re the nitwits who caused this.
And doing it is entirely unnecessary. There are multiple companies looking to exploit gas for local consumption, notably the PEP-11 area on the Central Coast, blocked by Morriswine with the enthusiastic support of the (no longer) local federal member.
So after a lifetime of bludging on the working taxpayers, aboriginals are to now get access to aged pensions earlier than the workers that have been fleeced to carried them through life? Wonderful system. Well Dutton, are you going into bat for the people who actually work for a living. The forgotten Aussie toilers with every man and his dog in our pockets?
The matter hasn’t been settled but referred to the High Court and won’t be heard for several months yet .. tho why it is being referred hasn’t been explained .. cos if, as the gummint keeps telling us, we is ALL equal then everyone already on the OAP will have to be compensated back to whatever age Dennis getz a win at .. I meanz fair’s fair in’t it? .. LOL!
I”m also guessing that most miss the irony of the bloody thing as well! .. cos the media isn’t gonna make a big play of the fact that the mug tax-payer, once again, is paying for it all! .. Dennis, isn’t paiying for his case but it is all being financed by the Aboriginal Legal Service, a gummint (as in taxpayer) funded operation ..
Soooo, Dennis, Wacka Wacka man (tho not proud! LOL!) not only wants his cake and eat it he is getting the taxpayers to bake it! ..
I’m also expecting that should Dennis fail that he (us, that is!) won’t be liable for costs, the lettuce leaf Oz justice system will, no doubt, ensure that! .. so win or lose Dennis still WINS! ……!
dover0beachsays:
June 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm
What are the chances this federal ICAC would include a portal to one of the Labor law firms?
Extremely high, maybe 99%?
IIRC, it was Otto Von Bismark, who decided on the Old Age Pension being paid at sixty, because most German workers didn’t live long past that age..
Scuttled? Pretty racist there, Rosie.
The ‘region’ seems very wised up to the opportunity to get a China-Australia bidding war going.
Ooops.
I might have just been racist myself.
No climate fearmongering from the ABC at the moment just reports of ski season opening early.
In other important news they’re all over Johnny Depp blah blah blah.
There’s a fairly simple way to get encourage the gas and oil industries, be like the US where the landowner has mineral rights over the property. The current system here does nothing to encourage landowners to support extraction, nothing at all, but give a farmer a sniff of a royalty income and things would change rapidly. The current system makes sense for landowners to fight exploration and extraction and so puts them on the same side as the greens.
He says many Asian Australians will have experienced the bamboo ceiling at some point in their lives.
And many haven’t. Around a quarter of a century ago, the Chief of Reserves in the Australian Army was one Major General Low Choy. The “waiter/accountant/IT guy/councillor” might be a bit young to be aware of that.
Minister for Small Business never had a job outside of Tassie public sector
Minister for Agriculture a lawyer with no farm experience
Treasurer has a Law degree
Finance Minister Arts degree (and is a Cellist)
Minister for Health and Aged Care has an Arts and Law degree
Minister for Water and Environment has a Masters in Public Policy
Minister for Industry has an Arts degree
Minister for NDIS is a retard.
Was sTan Grant there, I wonder. If I recall correctly, sTan and Pirate Pete got stuck into each other at one of Lisa’s parties after one of them contested the result of a leftist purity test.
sTan was probably there. After all, his people own the land the house is built on. There’s probably a neon sign visible from space that Lisa and Pete installed that runs along the entire length of their metres high security fencing proclaiming as much. Why wouldn’t sTan be there? At the very least, he could evict his tenants.
Yep the mechanism to go full fascist already exists. We experienced it in the Covid “emergency”.
Contracts either mean something or they don’t. If the government overrides contracts then industry and society stops because no one has an incentive to invest any more.
Fix the real problem, which is stupid bloody government insanity. Like the ban on gas drilling off Newcastle put in place by Scott Morrison. Like the endless hurdles placed in front of the Narrabri gas project. I am amazed the company has stuck with it and not pulled the plug in disgust – and now it’s the bright eyed thing that will save us all. The irony is immense.
‘And doing it is entirely unnecessary. There are multiple companies looking to exploit gas for local consumption, notably the PEP-11 area on the Central Coast, blocked by Morriswine with the enthusiastic support of the (no longer) local federal member.’
Can they deliver gas next week? No thought not. In case it’s misunderstood, the prices rocket in about a fortnight. Do the math.
We are obliged to work the tools we have, rather than the resources which are years away , if ever at all. In Vic there is a zero chance of exploiting more gas. Andrew’s will have frozen bodies carried out each morning and blaming it on not enough renewable capacity , thwarted by the nasty denialists. Many Sicktorians will agree.
Liars Party growing the public service – new/changed departments with all the peripheral costs (stationery/logos/signage/badging/office space etc) – extract copied from The RiotACT email.
The two new departments are the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations to implement and administer the government’s workplace relations, jobs, skills and training agenda, and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to deliver the government’s climate change and energy agenda and “give Australia’s environment the protection it deserves”.
The Department of Health will be renamed the Department of Health and Aged Care, and Arts will be added to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.
Non-productive growth in jobs created that Sleazy will crow about.
This means Water will no longer be paired with Agriculture, which had been a controversial decision of the previous government..
From “The Guardian.”
sfwsays:
June 2, 2022 at 1:19 pm
There’s a fairly simple way to get encourage the gas and oil industries, be like the US where the landowner has mineral rights over the property. The current system here does nothing to encourage landowners to support extraction, nothing at all, but give a farmer a sniff of a royalty income and things would change rapidly. The current system makes sense for landowners to fight exploration and extraction and so puts them on the same side as the greens.
Note that our “oppressed” indigenes get access to royalties under Native Title. Racism, straight up if non-indigs don’t get the same opportunity.
‘Fix the real problem, which is stupid bloody government insanity’
That battle was lost years go. Grow the fk up. This battle is coming at you in a few weeks. Waving the ‘ I have a solution flag’ is not going to stop exhorbitant gas prices in June.
We can maybe deal with the war later but not for at least 3 years.
Makkasays:
June 2, 2022 at 1:22 pm
‘And doing it is entirely unnecessary. There are multiple companies looking to exploit gas for local consumption, notably the PEP-11 area on the Central Coast, blocked by Morriswine with the enthusiastic support of the (no longer) local federal member.’
Can they deliver gas next week? No thought not. In case it’s misunderstood, the prices rocket in about a fortnight. Do the math.
If not for political opposition, they might have had the field already in operation.
The ABC is saying that the Beaches Tunnel (which will take pressure off the Harbour Bridge and the Spit Bridge) and the Blue Mountains Tunnel are being canned.
Yep, dum parrothead sez they has to prioritize cos lotza money involved sooo the Parramatta/city rail thingy comes 1st and the others will have to wait their turn ..
it was fairly prominent in the media yesterday afternoon but seems to have vanished today .. LOL!
Just returned from the post office where I lodged a passport application for the youngest Miss Speedbox. Nice lady at the PO told me that standard* applications are now taking 8-12 weeks to process (formerly 2-3 weeks). Therefore, any Cats who may need a new passport would be advised to consider the very long processing time.
*A ‘priority’ application is available but that costs an addition $225 on top of the standard fee (adult $308 child $155). Priority processing was previously 2 days but I am told that has now pushed out to 7 days.
areff – thanks for the response. I’ve thought about a suitable republican model over the years and of late in particular have come to realise that the options are invariably diabolical. I’m no fan of the model you’ve suggested, as we either retain the primacy of parliament or we cease bothering with it and go full Gaddafi – and as we’ve seen, you never go full Gaddafi, especially if you happen to be him (although no doubt it was fun for him while it lasted – the average Glibyan, not so much).
It’s been advocated in the past that the simplest model would involve swapping out the role of Governor General to President, but I have major problems with that as well.
a. they’re appointed by the government of the day, b. it is not a purely ceremonial or symbolic role (the reserve powers in particular are likely to be abused) and c. the position of GG has been debased by grandiose wankers inserting themselves into politics and political debate. The latter should be an absolute no no.
As for a president appointed by the parliament, fuuggeddaboodit – this is simply not an acceptable option under any circumstances.
Quite frankly, the push for a republic needs to be seen for what it is – a blatant power grab by the usual suspects that would inevitably leave the populace worse off.
For that reason alone, it should be resisted with every fibre of our beings.
Mr Lo says one of his most painful experiences of this form of discrimination took place about a decade ago, when he attended a Victorian conference as a local government councillor.
So voters in this racist hellhole elected him to a position of authority, but the “bamboo ceiling” exists because he dressed like a waiter and was mistaken for a waiter…
Got it.
Energy companies.
“Please don’t blame us for artificially reducing supply so we have to increase prices and make uber bucks.”
Government.
“Sorry maaate, we’ll appoint an “independent” regulator so it all looks like it’s got nothing to do with us.”
Energy Companies.
“Sweeet”
That’s a better credential than the rest of them.
Why is the media carrying on about Tanya Plibersek’s ‘demotion’ from Education to Environment? It seems pretty clear to me that Shorten is the one who was snubbed. Minister for the NDIS and Centrelink? I realise this means he’s in charge of departments that dole out huuuuuuuuuge wads of government cheese, but these portfolios are not and have never been prestigious.
This is not blatant corruption, how exactly? Perhaps we would be better off going full Gaddafi and becoming a republic. At least we have plenty of bananas (until the next government induced shortage of course).
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Not only caring & generous but a good lookin’ sort too!
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Gez,
There is plentiful supply. Ample. It’s just going overseas. That’s all . Change that equation, put households first for a change and the problem is remedied.
Yes there will be usual bleating and crying. But fk em. If Labor do this where the Libs never have, another term gets much much more doable. Serves the SFL right.
Lol.
Makka, causing a far worse problem to fix a present irritation is stupid and pointless.
I’ve been fighting this nutty ersatz religion for 15 years. In that time despite masses of evidence against it it just gets crazier and crazier. This current gas price crisis is what we’ve been predicting for years. I’ve written thousands of words about it just on the Cat blogs.
You want my suggestion? Here it is: nationalize the coal fired power stations, keep them open for a minimum of 20 more years and build new ones. That is no worse than breaking the gas export contracts for immediate expediency and it will actually fix the problem. Much as I hate nationalization. But to fix insanity you need external medical attention beyond what the patient wants, and the entire energy industry is currently infected with this mental illness at the moment.
Pandering to the insanity by breaking inconvenient contracts is like agreeing with an insane person that his voices are real. It may make him feel better and make you feel better but the problem remains unsolved and as awful.
Also, it isn’t obvious to me that Education is a more senior portfolio than Environment. At a state level, absolutely. But federally? I think Environment is probably a step up, to be honest. A lot more opportunities to grandstand, unveil ambitious schemes and programs, make lofty, well-publicised promises that will never be fulfilled and so forth. However, who gives a shit about what the federal Minister for Education says or does?
A few decades ago my wife had to pay a “priority fee” to a government official to get her money out of her country of birth.
We’ve just made it official.
Meanwhile in the Territory:
Two people arrested over alleged severed leg hit-and-run, body recovered: Police
The only climate change policy I would have would be a 30 year tax holiday (all taxes, rates, charges and levies) on anything nuclear.
‘Makka, causing a far worse problem to fix a present irritation is stupid and pointless.’
Ridiculous. It’s a pricing mechanism . That can be switched on and off and not interfere with the ongoing struggle to bring common sense to our power generation and grid. It’s absurd not to use it in these circumstances.
Re. the 3AW mornings ‘host’. He interviewed Bernie Finn (ex Lib – thanks to that Guy lobster) today. Bernie is now a proud member of the LDP and it’s first sitting member in the Lower House. Because of his following, I’d be surprised if Finn doesn’t hang onto his seat in November State Election. What’s even better, Bernie is now the Victorian State LDP leader and said they will be going hard after the Patten thing’s Senate seat and I suspect no-Animal Justice’s Andy Meddick as well. Both those grubs pushed Victoria into the sewer by supporting the hunchback’s pandemic legislation. Good luck, Bernie and up you good and hard, Matthew Guy.
‘Pandering to the insanity by breaking inconvenient contracts’
They are not broken this is legislated as a mechanism for use by Govt. Which for nearly a decade was supposed to be conservative if you hadn’t noticed. Cut the hyperbole.
I kind of expected this, it is great news for the LDP.
It is sad for Victoria though. The Liberals are like a battered wife to Dan Andrews.
Re: Masks on aeroplanes
Was finally able to travel to see family last month
When asked to mask up while boarding I politely declared I had an exemption . Staff took my seat # and apparently let the rest of the flight crew know as I was not bothered by anyone the entire flight.
At no point was I ever asked to show any proof of an exemption.