The idea of, “Hey, you want to turf Her Maj? Well, all those juicy Governor and Governor General gigs are gone too” kind of appeals to me.

When the troughers currently in those roles (as opposed to ‘in those jobs’) realise this, they will embark on a campaign for net zero monarchs by 2050.

Justice Brennan’s Mabo decision will always be criticised but he was a big figure by any estimation.
He made it known before he died that he did not want a state funeral.
Just a Requiem Mass.

I had a brief conversation with him once. Lovely man.

The ABC isn’t reporting on this yet:

A woman who was once involved in an online relationship with newly elected Labor MP Jerome Laxale claims the ALP brushed off several complaints alleging he possessed intimate photos of her.

The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, claimed she was involved in a relationship with the member for Bennelong when he solicited her for nude photos, The Daily Telegraph reported.

She alleged during the course of their relationship, which lasted from October 2020 to November 2021, Mr Laxale requested “private photos, nude photos, as well as suggestive photos”.

The relationship ended amicably, with the woman assuming Mr Laxale would delete the images.

However, when the woman worked for Mr Laxale in April this year as a Union member assigned to his campaign, she was told by rival Liberal campaigners they had “seen the pictures on Jerome’s laptop”.

1. Not sure how you have an “online relationship.”
2. Not sure why she shared intimate pictures with a bloke she wasn’t even going out with.
3. Not sure how Liberals could see what was on his laptop.

Is the tide turning?

Amber has to sling 15Mil to the pirate – not that he’ll ever see it – even if she won powerball the legal vultures would swallow it. Meanwhile Pistol & Boo continue to eat and shit.

And in Geelong according to the Hun…….

A woman who had sex with a Geelong plastic surgeon admits she lied to medical regulators about the affair because she felt “hard done by” when he cut contact with her.

But don’t get too optimistic lads. You’ll still need a signed declaration of consent witnessed by a JP if you want a stray root.

Even better, explain their partners/ family trust managed to perform unexpectedly well….

Luzu

I have gone through several variations of Monty’s name and settled on C**tifa. Monty – Munty – C**ty – C**tifa. Why? Because his very first thought when those children died in Uvalde was not the suffering of their parents but the utility of those deaths to persecute his political enemies. What a total c**t.

I use the “fa” on the end as a reference to his great mates, Antifa. It is an unsubtle dig at him for behaving like a fascist, while claiming to oppose fascism.

1. Not sure how you have an “online relationship.”

at a guess, one hand on the phone and one hand ….

The Sussman jury was rigged.

All right, again, can any of the bush lawyers here help out. Mabo declared Australia was “settled.” What would the legal status of the indigenous been, had Mabo declared Australia “invaded?”

It would have been easier for Mabo to win.
Under the law before Mabo overturned it English law applied automatically (more or less) to a “settled” colony, but in a “conquered” colony the pre-conquest law continued until and unless overruled by the relevant authorities of the conqueror (e.g. the Imperial Parliament at Westminster or a colonial legislature).
So if the Islands had been “conquered” Mabo would have owned his land unless the government could have proved that some law had deprived him of it. The Mabo decision basically abolished the distinction between “conquered” colonies and “settled” colonies where there were inhabitants already there at the time of “settlement”. The old rule now applies only to absolutely deserted territory.

CM article on day 4 of Qld Police vax mandate hearing. It cant be said enough but senior QPS command and Dr Griffin are scum. Made worse by the fact the press has gone along with it and clearly are intent to do so. It is clear to all the vax do not work as intended but lets keep jabbing anyway. Meanwhile their Union does nothing. The guys fighting the mandate are the ones I would want in the Police and my utmost respect to them.

4 days so far and nobody from Qld Health or CHO called. Do we even still have a CHO or is the smug Dr Griffin now it ?

If some want to do a Google on Dr Griffin you find he works for an Aussie company called Nucleus Network ($600m value) who conduct many medical trials, mainly for overseas pharma, in Oz. Speed is one of their key offerings to clients. He features prominently in their promotional material and in their Youtube clips. One of the trials he led in Oz was for Novovax and his comments prior to approval in Oz was that it would probably be used as a booster shot. This turned out not to be the case as it was initially approved for 2 first shots but not as a booster. Call me cynical but it was only approved as a booster after initial take up of Novovax was so bad. Naturally the trials were conducted well before Omicron but I guess when you are such an expert that is a minor matter.

Griffin appears regularly on TV (the Project on Monday and mentioned in Daily Mail), radio and pretty much weekly in the CM. He constantly pushes getting the next jab as he did in his evidence below. When he is referred to in the press it is as an expert from the Mater Hospital. Since he must get significant financial benefit from Nucleus Network (ie. big pharma) would it be a conflict to be one of the most prominent in the country advocating for more booster shots. Or at least mention his connection to Nucleus.

So the question is to those QPS cops who took the first shots, how many do you think the organisation is going to want to impose ?

On 1 November 2021 Nucleus Network was taken over by a well known international company. Go to end of post to see which !

“A deputy police commissioner has denied recommending that a mandatory vaccination direction be introduced to stop some police officers’ resentment of unvaccinated officers. Deputy Commissioner Doug Smith said he knew that an earlier direction requiring police on border control be vaccinated against Covid-19 caused “some disquiet’’.

Mr Smith was under cross-examination by counsel for police trying to overturn a mandatory vaccination direction. More than 60 police and 12 ambulance officers are involved in the first legal challenge to mandatory vaccination, in a civil trial in Brisbane Supreme Court.

Mr Smith said he was aware of speculation that police who did not want to work on border control refused to get vaccinated so they could avoid that work. He said he also was aware of speculation that officers who had been vaccinated and were eligible to be sent to border control resented unvaccinated colleagues who were deployed elsewhere. Dominic Villa SC put to Mr Smith that he recommended to Commissioner Katarina Carroll that a vaccination direction be introduced to remove the source of resentment among officers.

“That is not correct,’’ replied Mr Smith, who was involved in helping Ms Carroll prepare her vaccination directions. He also was responsible for monitoring compliance with vaccination directions. Mr Villa put to Mr Smith that he understood that the only way police could access stage one of the vaccination rollout was to introduce mandatory vaccination. (am I reading this right – the only way frontline officers could be in first to get vax was if it was mandatory for all). “There was a connection there,’’ Mr Smith said, but he denied it was why he recommended that the Commissioner introduce a mandatory vaccination direction last year.

“It is your own feeling that it is unjust for Queensland police officers and staff members to remain unvaccinated, correct?’’ Mr Villa said.“I’m not passionate about it, no,’’ Mr Smith said. He denied Mr Villa’s suggestion that he regarded the police applicants in the Supreme Court proceeding as “troublemakers’’.

Under a court stay order, QPS is not allowed to take disciplinary action against the unvaccinated police who are suspended on pay, while their application is before the court. It was put to the Mr Smith in instructing Crown law to seek to have the stay lifted earlier this year it was to provide the basis for termination of the officers’ jobs. “It was to get the culmination of proceedings which had been on foot for some time,’’ Mr Smith said. He agreed that until the stay was lifted he was hamstrung in instituting proceedings against the officers.

Infectious diseases expert Professor Paul Griffin also was cross-examined about a report he provided to the court, for the Police Commissioner and Queensland Ambulance Service. He agreed the Omicron variant appeared to accentuate rapid waning of vaccine protection. Prof Griffin also was asked if vaccines provided limited or no protection against infection from Omicron. “I wouldn’t say it’s limited to no (protection), it’s certainly reduced compared to previous variants,” Prof Griffin said.

Prof Griffin agreed that for any benefit against transmissibility of Omicron it was necessary for regular boosters to be administered.

The hearing is continuing.

BLACKSTONE.

Bourne, thanks for posting that.
Famous trials, blow by blow: Depp v Heard, Ben Roberts-Smith, Brittany Higgins Pty Ltd.
Trials that never actually happened: Maxwell, Sussmann, Jab Command resistance… anyone taking on the Lizard People.

Johannes Leak.

Warren Brown.

Dave Brown.

Michael Ramirez.

Tom Stiglich.

Chip Bok.

Ben Garrison.

Another shipment of tanks from Poland to Ukraine

JP Morgan CEO Screams Economic Collapse | Unseen Interview

Zipster says:
June 3, 2022 at 5:37 am

Another shipment of tanks from Poland to Ukraine

Bit disappointed by the Polish action, sucking up to Brussels maybe?

Smart move but, getting rid of the old decrepit armament.
But accordingly, to Zelensky they are winning so why the need for new weapons ?

EXPOSED: The left’s 10 steps to DESIGN a national emergency

Glenn Beck

There are 3 pillars needed to transform America outside of the Constitution, and the Biden administration is crossing each one off its list. In fact, a 10 step ‘action plan’ to remedy climate change — presented to President Biden when he took office — eerily represents nearly all actions the left is taking today. THIS is their roadmap, Glenn explains, to gain more control over your life. They’re looking for a national emergency — a crisis they can design that will allow more power, more legislation, and more rules by which you’ll live. THIS is the way they’re doing it…

Dilbert

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The only time I shop at Coles is when I want something on special that I need on the off weeks when its not on special at woolworths. I only shop at woolworths if Aldi don’t stock a certain product.

Looks like business as usual in WA:

WA’s deputy premier has defended spending millions preparing land in East Perth for a prime waterfront development by proponents Andrew Forrest and Kerry Stokes.
Key points:

The state government has so far spent nearly $70 million on the site
It says there are a lot of issues with the site, including contamination
It is confident it can be turned into a world-class “statement” for WA

The state budget has detailed $9.2 million for works at the East Perth Power Station site, on top of some $60 million already committed.

Deputy Premier Roger Cook said the spend was necessary.

“East Perth Power Station has been a dilapidated and run down site,” he said.

“We need to act decisively to activate and really bring that whole precinct to life.

“It has the potential to be a magnificent opportunity for us to really invigorate that particular park.

and

In 2020, Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo Group (which later changed its name to Tattarang) was named as a preferred proponent, along with Kerry Stokes’s Australian Capital Equity.

At the time, Minderoo predicted an investment of $218 million to transform the old power station into a residential, commercial, recreational and tourism site.

The state had valued the site at just $1, due to the issues associated with it.

I wonder who decided that the prime waterfront site was worth one dollar, and next thing we know, taxpayers are spending $70 million to remediate it after it was bought by developers?

Yup. Business as usual in WA.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is couched in indistinct folkloric terms. It obviously means different things to different people and the underlying concepts (or what appear to be concepts) – Makarrata, ‘truth telling’, ‘agreement making’ – are left deliberately vague. The Constitutional amendments are completely unstated.

Yet we have talking heads assuring us that it’s all crystal clear, carefully and rigorously drafted – and backed by all Australians except the Neanderthal Right.

Chris Kenny:

From a constitutional perspective he says the care taken in crafting the strategy also gave him assurance the changes wouldn’t lead to “judicial activism”.

“We need to make sure that those people on the right of centre understand that this is not a progressive idea and it is not a symbolic idea,” Mr Kenny said.

“It’s an idea to unite the country behind measures that can actually close the gap. Something we all want.”

Julian Leeser

…was won over by the care taken in crafting the changes and the possibility for more effective reform.

“I do think this is practical. The whole point of having consultative advisory bodies – and that’s all they are – is to make better policy on the ground,” Mr Leeser said.

An Expert

“I think this is bigger than ordinary political divides and I think there’s a tonne of goodwill on the political right for this issue,” she said.

“I think the advocates in this issue have done the groundwork to do everything possible to get conservatives on side to minimise that nasty side of the debate.

“This is the only constitutional reform proposal on the table that empowers Indigenous people with a voice in their affairs on the one hand, but also upholds and protects the Constitution, protects parliamentary supremacy.”

Yet, Gwenda Stanley, a Gomeroi woman and caretaker of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, discredited the Uluru Statement:

“I would like to know what is in this constitution and how will it benefit us as Aboriginal people in this country.

“Does anyone else know what they’re voting for because last time I sat at a Labor women’s rank-and-file [meeting] last year and not one of those Labor members could tell me what was in the constitution.

Hopefully someone will stop talking in riddles and insiderspeak and crack on with actually consulting and exposing the details to the voting public – 97.3% of whom have no idea what is being proposed.

Because if the 2022 election results tell us anything, it’s that the punters are pissed off with the insiders…

Given what else they came up with, I’m not sure a claim that the porn lawyer would have been worse holds water.

“an important step for Coles’ commitment to Champion LGBTQI+ inclusion in the workplace and further into the Australian community”.

they left out the P, how is that “inclushive”?

we need to have recall on judges urgently!!

Yes.

A constitutional republic demands democratic checks and balances.

While Coles has been competing with Woolworths to be the most inclusive employer for LGBTQ+, both companies have been underpaying their staff.”
Stunning.
Coles will give employees full pay if they don’t like their junk, but all employees must have the batflu jab, forever.

Biden’s Latest Plan To Divide America
Bill O’Reilly

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1532236805143027713
Or
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1532236805143027713.html

I didn’t download the report he’s talking about, but the thread makes interesting reading. Jells with what I’ve been saying for a few years now, that the legitimacy of institutions and government in the western world is declining.
People no long believe the government works for their interests, or the justice system delivers actual justice. No accountability, no justice, etc. etc. People stop being invested in the system and eventually the system fails.
Police no one trusts, a justice system that lets criminals go with a slap on the wrist regularly, and governments carrying on like they have a mandate to do whatever they want when no one trusts them. Looking around right now, where are we in the process? How long until people stop playing in the bounds of the system? How long until they reject the whole thing?

Liberals will let teal seats stew on lack of power for now

Peter Dutton said the path back to government runs through the suburbs, regions and small business. In reality, he has not abandoned the blue-ribbon seats lost to teal independents.

Much has been made about how Anthony Albanese is just the fourth Labor leader since World War II to take the party from opposition to government. The other three were Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd.

The task will be enormous. The Coalition has been reduced to 58 seats, meaning it needs a minium of 18 more to win back power. The Nationals retained all their seats at the election, meaning the recovery pretty much rests solely with the Liberal Party, whose losses included the six blue-ribbon seats in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth that went to teal independents.

From Albanese’s perspective, none of the teals occupies a seat that Labor has a chance of winning. They are Dutton’s challenge, not his.

Dutton all but ignored this aspect of the catastrophe on Tuesday when he outlined the path back to power as running through the suburbs, the regions and the small business constituency.

“Similarly with the electricity bills. There’ll be an increase under Labor. Let’s be clear, electricity prices will up under Labor.”

There was no humility, just defiance.

To back his stated course of action, Dutton cited initial post-election analysis that showed while 200,000 voters deserted the Coalition for the teals, 700,000 left the Coalition to vote for parties on the right.

None of these swings to the right cost the Liberals seats, but many of them were rendered more marginal.

Let them stew for a while

Inside the party, there is a prevailing view to let those who abandoned the Liberal Party stew for a while on the fact that their seat no longer has any pull in Canberra.

After three years of constant complaint about how useless the Morrison government was at everything, Labor’s first response to the crisis was to blame its predecessor and say there is nothing that can immediately be done.

Not quite “I don’t hold a hose”, but definitely not what voters want to hear.

The AFR View

Labor gets mugged by global energy reality

The coal and gas supply crisis shows that old energy can’t be dumped before the new is ready to pick up the load.

A full-blown national energy crisis has dropped into the lap of the Albanese government two weeks after it won an election in which it promised to ease cost of living pressures.

The immediate crisis is the result of a perfect storm including the early winter cold snap on the east coast, a sharp reduction in solar electricity generation and disruptions to the coal-fired power stations that still account for most of Australia’s baseload electricity.

The most readily available fix may be Origin Energy CEO Frank Calabria’s call to get coal-fired power stations fully operational again.

A third of east coast coal-fired capacity was offline last month because of mishaps, maintenance, or problems at coal mines. The surge in global coal prices has further diverted gas from industrial use and heating into electricity generation, lifting east coast gas demand by a third amid a global gas market already in severe undersupply.

“The east coast is a prime example of what happens if the energy transition is focused only on stopping new oil and gas projects”, says Santos boss Kevin Gallagher, who is trying to accelerate the company’s huge Narrabri gas development in NSW, due to open in 2026.

Sounds like Dutton is aware of the right moves to make. Heard the correct lines before though. Guess we will see if he follows through.

Interesting:

1) “We know that we have at least 900 team members who identify as transgender or gender diverse,” Coles Chief Legal and Safety Officer and chair of the Coles Pride Steering Committee David Brewster said.

3) Coles Supermarkets/Number of employees 112,269

What does that say about Coles people?

Sancho Panzersays:
June 3, 2022 at 9:05 am
What’s that Shakespeare quote again?

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”

It is among Shakespeare’s most famous lines

Reckon that’s an accident?

An oversight, Shirley.

The coal and gas supply crisis shows that old energy can’t be dumped before the new is ready to pick up the load.

Reminds me of an old Dutch proverb which translates as:

Never throw out old shoes before you have new ones.

Drummed into me as a child, never let me down.

Bruce of Newcastle says:
June 3, 2022 at 9:26 am

Coles Supermarkets/Number of employees 112,269

And expanding rapidly from the look of it. I was in Coles yesterday, it’s dodgems. The young ladies with their trolleys picking out stuff for online shoppers have multiplied like tribbles.

There’s an irony in this, since Coles spent lots of effort to get people to use their robot checkouts in order to reduce their number of checkout chicks, thereby infuriating shoppers, only to now have a dozen or more full-timers wandering around the store with large trolleys.

I don’t know what is causing this phenomenon. Maybe there’re lots and lots of people terrified to go into virus-ridden Coles stores now that normal people have given up on stupid useless masks, sanitizers, social distancing and green vaccination certificates. I can’t see how shopping online could be any quicker really. And it’s got to be more expensive or Coles wouldn’t be able to employ all these trolley chicks.

Same experience here at Coles. Almost every aisle is clogged with the online shopping trolleys. And, they are big, taking up twice the space of an individual shopper with a trolley.

I can imagine the business model where everyone orders online and they don’t have to have supermarkets anymore. But I suspect that it is a long way away, if ever.

The Marxists running the White House have just wheeled out the puppet president to redeliver the same old Democrat speech about the need to confiscate guns from Republican voters.

Tucker Carlson, who led yesterday’s show with a piece on gun confiscation by communist regimes like China’s and their sympathisers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, starts his show in a few minutes. Can’t wait.

Everyone I know at my work who had it eventually had bizarre side effects.

Everyone I know who had Pfizer is not 100%.

Let’s skip the class action and go straight to lynching.

The ‘First Nation’ is apparently not on the same page:

The Uluru Statement of the Heart came under heavy fire during an episode of Q+A that tackled the issues surrounding Indigenous rights, on the 30th anniversary of the landmark Mabo ruling.
Key points:

Minister for Indigenous Affairs Linda Burney said she would listen to concerns about the Uluru Statement
Tent Embassy caretaker Gwenda Stanley heavily criticised the statement
Ms Stanley made accusations that some Indigenous communities were “concentration camps”

Audience guest Gwenda Stanley, a Gomeroi woman and caretaker of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, discredited the Uluru Statement as she raised her concerns that it, Mabo and native title have done nothing for Indigenous people in Australia.

“When is this government, an Australian government going to address the Holocaust and the genocide in this country?” she said

“We do not support the Uluru Statement.

“I was one of those delegates that was locked out of the constitution summit meeting.

I read yesterday that Gina’s company has pulled out of an option to redevelop a Queensland island resort, formerly Great Keppel.

When I read the number of government agencies that needed to be aligned (about six) and then the local Aborigines were divided into factions for unrelated reasons, and they had also to be appeased, you can see why no sane person would touch it.

What does that say about Coles people?

They’re the ones that work in the “fruit and vege section”.