Open Thread – Wed 13 July 2022


Sacred Allegory, Giovanni Bellini, c. 1490–1500

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 8:15 pm

– must have been bloody cold!
– just another loon in that place.

I’m having a porterhouse steak – well done- with a glass – or two – of good shiraz – to celebrate the fact that that fvcking waste of space has left Perth…

Mater
July 13, 2022 8:18 pm

I never thought I would see a more abject act of cowardice that those Victorian police officers “taking a knee” in front of a howling BLM mob in Melbourne

Adding to the collection:

Chokehold the Bitch!

cohenite
July 13, 2022 8:21 pm

State of origin off to a good start: 3 off for medical reasons already

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 8:22 pm

Adding to the collection:

Chokehold the Bitch!

Pay that one, Mater!

calli
calli
July 13, 2022 8:23 pm

That’s a very powerful piece, Mater.

Add this.

They disgust me and I will never trust them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 8:24 pm

How will they ever live with the shame?

You’d never be able to look in the mirror for the rest of your life!

Ed Case
Ed Case
July 13, 2022 8:29 pm

Depends.
If you were performing a do it yourself Haemorrhoidectomy ..

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 13, 2022 8:31 pm

You’d never be able to look in the mirror for the rest of your life!

From a bloke that just cooked a steak – well done.
Was the Thermomix on the fritz?

Frank
Frank
July 13, 2022 8:31 pm

Chokehold the Bitch!
That one is pretty savage.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
July 13, 2022 8:35 pm

State of origin off to a good start: 3 off for medical reasons already

Straight up trying to kill their opponents.

And the NRL allows it. That swinging arm was a send off in any NRL round.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 8:45 pm

Vegan activist goes topless in Melbourne CBD. Two points (sorry, bad pun!):

– must have been bloody cold!
– just another loon in that place.

Sorting out some old papers from years ago – an article regarding a certain pop singer was beating the big drum for animal rights, by brandishing a fake lamb on stage “dripping blood from shearers cuts.” A group of farmers – of which I was one – offered said singer a chance to visit a shearing shed, and see lambs being shorn for themselves. You didn’t shear lambs that little anyway.

Funny, we never got a reply…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 8:48 pm

“a certain pop singer who was beating the big drum”

Winston Smith
July 13, 2022 8:56 pm

Cassie:

Quite so. In fact we now live in an age of “dumbness”.

Cassie, we are going through Heinleins “Crazy Years.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 13, 2022 8:58 pm

Hope I’m right but.

Queenslander!

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 13, 2022 9:01 pm

Winston, Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” are not as crazy as what we are going through. Heinlein was a hopeless optimist.

rickw
rickw
July 13, 2022 9:04 pm

Adding to the collection:

Chokehold the Bitch!

Never forget what those fucking dogs did.

Armed and stupid.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 9:04 pm

Step-brother of Cleo Smith’s kidnapper is accused of snatching a nine-year-old girl from a suburban street

A Perth man has been accused of snatching a nine-year-old girl from a park
Ashley Bropho was arrested by WA Police who claim he indecently dealt with her
It’s been revealed the accused is the step-brother of Cleo Smith’s kidnapper

By Jesse Hyland For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 20:06 AEST, 13 July 2022 | Updated: 20:43 AEST, 13 July 2022

The step-brother of Cleo Smith’s kidnapper has been accused of abducting a nine-year-old girl from a park before he indecently dealt with her.

Ashley Bropho, 39, allegedly approached the girl at Bennett park in Doubleview in Perth’s northern suburbs on Tuesday morning and coerced her to come back to his home 300 metres away.

Western Australian police later arrested and charged Bropho, claiming he encouraged her to engage in sexual behaviour once they arrived at his residence.

It has since been revealed that Bropho is the step-brother of Terence Kelly, who abducted four-year-old Cleo Smith in October last year in a case that made headlines around the world.

Kelly, 36, held Smith captive for 18 days after abducting her from a campground in Carnarvon.

He was later arrested by police and pled guilty to kidnapping the four-year-old.

Kelly is currently behind bars and is awaiting sentencing. He faced additional charges in January for assaulting a police officer.

Bropho……..that name is familiar for some reason..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 13, 2022 9:06 pm

Chokehold the Bitch!

Timeless.

That should be played on 400 big screens attached to trailers and towed by 400 utes, on continuous loops around 313 Spencer Street 24 hours a day.

rickw
rickw
July 13, 2022 9:12 pm

Everything in it aside from major fixings goes on the fire, along with everything that says ‘Uvalde Police’ on it.

Except for the guns. They get sold to the community that they so comprehensively failed. So they can sort shit out themselves.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 13, 2022 9:15 pm

Scanning through pics in the local rag of the talent at hand, as today was Ladies’ Day in the Darwin Cup Carnival.

My radar may be off, but not that far off. Very happy to assert that the Fashions on the Field winner is a dude.

rickw
rickw
July 13, 2022 9:23 pm

A Qantas plane is bogged on the tarmac at Rockhampton Airport after getting stuck when the pilot guided it across soft ground upon landing.

I wonder what he’s like at flying? Closest thing I’ve seen to that was a 767 that cut the corner at Melbourne. Not completely in the rough like that.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
July 13, 2022 9:25 pm

Except for the guns. They get sold to the community that they so comprehensively failed. So they can sort shit out themselves.

As it happened shit was sorted out by an off-duty Border Patrol officer who borrowed a gun from the local barber and had the courage to take out the murdering psycho – something the cowardly Uvalde Police failed to do for almost an hour listening to the murder of 19 children and two teachers. Infamy!

P
P
July 13, 2022 9:35 pm

Back in 1962 when I was a trainee nurse (then a four year apprenticeship type course) when this hit came out:
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (1962)
This song was very pertinent for me at that time as I had just witnessed my first death first-hand. I was but a minute before talking to him as I gave him his dish to wash himself. We had a good relationship esp as his birthday was the same date as my then boyfriend (who I later married). I remember to this day his name and whenever after that I heard the song by Louis Armstrong I thought of that moment when that patient was there and then he wasn’t. Witnessing this my first death was not easy and never forgotten.

Life is a gift. Life is precious.

cohenite
July 13, 2022 9:53 pm

A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Peter O’Brien
Quadrant online
July 13, 2022
NAIDOC Week has come and gone for another year, thank goodness. As a regular listener to ABC Classic FM, I’m inured to the constant mentions that the broadcast is coming from Gadigal (or whatever) land and treat it as background noise. It is irritating but not enough for me to turn it off. It rose to a deafening cacophony during NAIDOC.
That NAIDOC was capped off with the sight of the Wallabies singing the National Anthem in some obscure Aboriginal dialect and the insane decision of NSW Premier Perrottet to replace the NSW state flag on the Harbour Bridge with the Aboriginal one were the last straws for me. Once upon a time, a few years ago even, I guess I could stomach NAIDOC Week, but recently it has become so ‘in your face’ that it has become intolerable. I’ve had a gutful.
As regards the Wallabies, what immediately struck me watching this sickening virtue signalling was this: when was the last time anyone saw the members of any national or state football team join in ‘as one’ to sing the English language version, i.e. the official one, of the National Anthem?
As to the Harbour Bridge issue, that brought to mind Uluru. In deference to Aboriginal ownership, we now no longer refer to it as Ayres Rock and we accede to the wish not to climb it, despite the fact that there was never any tradition of not climbing. But the Harbour Bridge owes nothing whatsoever to Aboriginal tradition, history or technology. It was built by the people of New South Wales. Sixteen of them lost their lives in its construction. And yet the Premier of New South Wales has unilaterally decided to remove the flag symbolizing the efforts and sacrifices of those people and replace it with the Aboriginal flag. This was not done at the behest of the Commonwealth government. It was Perrottet’s own weak-kneed initiative. So much for federalism.
Which brings me to recognition.
The claim is made that recognition, in the Constitution, of Aboriginal people as the original owners/inhabitants of this continent will make them feel empowered and give them confidence to stride ahead into the future. Some will tell you this recognition is purely symbolic. Mostly it is white supporters who push this line. The most influential Indigenous activists reject mere symbolism. They are quite open about the fact that they want some form of self-government. However, for the moment let’s look at the idea of symbolic recognition.
My question is this: what would be the game-changing factor in this symbolic gesture that would trump all the other gestures and practical actions that have gone before? What is it about a mention in a document (which most Australians have never and will never read) , that would succeed where the gestures and measures outlined below have apparently failed?
Why wouldn’t Aborigines already feel empowered and included when they see their flag flying outside every public building in the land?
Why wouldn’t Aborigines already feel empowered and included when they are acknowledged at every public event?
Why wouldn’t Aborigines already feel empowered and included when they are invited to welcome us to their country at almost every public event?
Why would not Indigenous people already feel empowered and included when they see their culture mandated as a cross curriculum imperative in our schools?
Why wouldn’t Aborigines feel empowered and included when they see their culture front and centre at the opening ceremony of all major sporting events?
Why wouldn’t Aborigines already feel empowered and included when they remember that in 1970 Lionel Rose was named the ninth Australian of the Year, the first of nine who have been so honoured in the 62-year history of the award? That in 1995, David Unaipon featured on our $50 note? That in 1972 Pastor Douglas Nicholls was knighted and in 1976 became Governor of South Australia?
I could go on, but I’m sure you get my point.
The real agenda, hinted at in the Uluru Statement and openly expressed by many of the leading Indigenous activists, is for a separate Aboriginal sovereignty, of equal standing with the sovereignty that already forms the basis of Australia. This would be a recipe for disaster. Potentially, you might find yourself subject to a different set of laws than your next-door neighbour.
Here is an example already in train. The Yuin people of South-Eastern NSW have lodged a land title claim for the entire south coast for NSW, from Sutherland Shire to the Victorian border, including the inshore waters out to three nautical miles. One of the things sought is the unrestricted right to fish these waters. At the moment, Yuin people can take fish for consumption without having a fishing licence, but they are governed by bag limits, which are greater than for the general populace (ten abalone vs two, and twenty fish vs ten). But they can also apply to exceed these limits for ‘cultural purposes’.
Yuin man Kevin Mason says he has been fishing in his ancestral waters since he was a boy, providing much needed food for his community on the New South Wales South Coast. “That’s our livelihood, it’s the life blood of Aboriginal people,” he said. “How to feed [mob], that’s been handed down to me and I’ll hand it down to my next generation.” The proponents claim that the Yuin are a traditional fishing community and fishing is an essential cultural imperative for them, which leads one to wonder why Mr Mason has to feed his mob. Why aren’t they all doing it?
The proponents of this claim say that if they are successful it will open up commercial opportunities. If the claim is successful, it is possible the ruling might allow traditional owners to restrict access to other Australians.
People’s freedom to do what they like, or what they are used to doing in the past, is being constrained all the time in the name of the common good. Mr Mason might like to consider that restrictions on his fishing rights are offset by his ownership of a tinnie which considerably enhances his ability to catch fish, and his ownership of a fridge that allows him to store his catch, and that he doesn’t have to eat fish every day. When not fishing, he can eat a pizza and watch the footy on his flat screen TV, if he so desires.
In 2013, the Commonwealth Parliament passed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Recognition Act which recognized the prior occupation of the continent. This Act was intended to kick-start the process for a referendum on constitutional recognition. It allowed the Parliament to establish a review for the way forward and allowed two years for this process to commence. That review never took place and was eventually overtaken by the process of establishing the Uluru Statement. The Act lapsed in 2015. It could easily be resurrected in limited form to provide the same official recognition as the 2013 Act, from our foremost Parliament. It would be a foolish government that ever sought to repeal such an act.
Recently, in the wake of the childish actions of The Green’s Adam Bandt in ignoring the Australian flag, Tony Abbott suggested it might be time to reconsider the prominence given to the Aboriginal flag. Good on him I say, but let’s not stop there. Let’s cut back drastically on all this pointless and divisive symbolism. Let’s trash the ubiquitous welcome to country, the acknowledgement of traditional owners, the Aboriginal motifs on Qantas aircraft, the Aboriginal pride football rounds and all the rest of it. Aboriginal people are good at a lot of things but, just lately, they seem to excel at whinging.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 9:57 pm

Aboriginal people are good at a lot of things but, just lately, they seem to excel at whinging.

You’ll be off Bruce Pascoe’s Christmas card list..

duncanm
duncanm
July 13, 2022 10:03 pm

Old School Conservativesays:
July 13, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Tour de France brought to a standstill during stage 10 after climate activists blocked the route in the French Alps… with police and an official forced to drag protestors off the road to allow race to resume

Former rider Bradley Wiggins commenting at the scene:

Very funny.
https://youtu.be/WRPwcm13GEs?t=171

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiu3GwVqeI

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 13, 2022 10:08 pm

A Qantas plane is bogged on the tarmac at Rockhampton Airport after getting stuck when the pilot guided it across soft ground upon landing.

Bing-Bong!
You’re bogged.
Bing-Bong!

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 13, 2022 10:17 pm

Bropho……..that name is familiar for some reason..

Poppy Bropho – from stories my Aunty didn’t tell me. Sssh, it’s NAIDOC week.

duncanm
duncanm
July 13, 2022 10:20 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 10:23 pm

Poppy Bropho – from stories my Aunty didn’t tell me. Sssh, it’s NAIDOC week.

And his repulsive family….as you say, “Stories my Aunty didn’t tell me..”

Frank
Frank
July 13, 2022 10:24 pm

So this popped up today.

Alex Jones announced today what he understands the plan for Biden will be in the wake of the NYT editorial calling for his departure.

He said in the next 120 days the plan is to make him wet and blame the killing on a right wing extremist. Martial Law will cancel the fall elections and gun confiscation will be implemented.?

That is the plan.

Alex Jones, half clown half seer, it’s not like his stuff ever comes true or anything.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 13, 2022 10:30 pm

The pilot who took a two stroke penalty for driving into the water hazard was behind the wheel of a Boeing 717 (the aircraft formerly known as a DC-9).
Not an aircraft you’d want to take on an excursion off the tar macadam after buckets of rain, I wouldn’t think.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 13, 2022 10:36 pm

duncanm at 10:03.
The Bradley Wiggins commentary was not entirely impartial and quite funny.
He better leave that helmet on though.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 13, 2022 10:36 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bropho

Bropho told the court “I am the shadow of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.”

Zipster
Zipster
July 13, 2022 10:40 pm

He said in the next 120 days the plan is to make him wet and blame the killing on a right wing extremist. Martial Law will cancel the fall elections and gun confiscation will be implemented.?

That is the plan.

I wouldn’t put it past them

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 13, 2022 10:47 pm

Indolent, appreciate the links you post here. Some of them are a bit far out, but it’s good to know that some cats are casting wide.

cohenite
July 13, 2022 10:48 pm

He said in the next 120 days the plan is to make him wet and blame the killing on a right wing extremist. Martial Law will cancel the fall elections and gun confiscation will be implemented.?

That is the plan.

Even money.

pete m
pete m
July 13, 2022 10:48 pm

top game tonight

Qlder!!!

Zipster
Zipster
July 13, 2022 10:52 pm

BREAKING: US inflation rate accelerated in June to 9.1%, highest since late 1981 (well above Wall Street expectations) | #OOTT

they printed 5 trillion into a 20 trillion economy. what could possibly go wrong?

cohenite
July 13, 2022 10:52 pm

According to a CNN poll 94% of demorat voters want someone other than biden to run in 24.

The problem is even if they put a few rounds into the old zombie’s skull he may not notice.

struth
struth
July 13, 2022 10:53 pm

I read this blog and we see more and more getting the WEF/UN big picture leaving only the few hard core denialists making complete dicks of themselves.
It certainly has taken a while.
JC and the usual morons scream for proof ……It’s overwhelming of course…but they refuse to remove their heads from their arses.
Two long years and still they live in pathetic denial.
Over two long years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 13, 2022 11:02 pm

Slow day at the Furniture Store?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 13, 2022 11:10 pm

Usual morons. You know who you are.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Tintarella di Luna says: July 13, 2022 at 9:25 pm

Tinta, in the interests of accuracy & credit where it is due, the border patrol agent getting a haircut on his day off, who borrowed the barber’s shotgun, is not the border patrol agent who stormed the occupied classroom & engaged the gunman.

The bloke with the barber’s shotgun went to another wing of the school & helped shepherd one or more classrooms of kids to safety.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:02 am

9.1% right up the azzzzz.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Pedro the Loafer says: July 13, 2022 at 8:12 pm

I never thought I would see a more abject act of cowardice that those Victorian police officers “taking a knee” in front of a howling BLM mob in Melbourne

Pedro, I stand ready to be corrected, however AFAIK the only instance of Victoria Police (or any Australian police officer) actually kneeling in front of a BLM mob. was in Ballarat.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:12 am

In a better world they would be charged with dereliction of duty\involuntary manslaughter\culpable negligence. There definitely needs to be a legal action brought against the commanding officer\s.

There will be a civil settlement between the families and the city.
There will be no criminal charges.
The police have the right to do nothing in the US to stop a crime.
Crazy I know.
Supreme court has ruled as much.

Of course they are morally obliged.
But legally they are under no obligation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
July 14, 2022 12:14 am

I read this blog and we see more and more getting the WEF/UN big picture leaving only the few hard core denialists making complete dicks of themselves.

Dude, Where’s My DeAtH CaMp?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:14 am

Great to see Ben Hunt put the game away.
Hopefully will get the grand final monkey off his back where he dropped the kickoff in extra time.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The police have the right to do nothing in the US to stop a crime.

And the county has the right to summarily sack the police officers.
(Being sacked may be top of the list of unpleasantness those coppers are facing tonight)

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:20 am

feelthebern went to the movies tonight with his lady friend.
We saw Elvis.
Her choice.
Some of the sequences were some of Baz’s best work but jeebers he laid on some of the woke stuff with a trowel.
And nothing, absolutely nothing about Elvis & his relationship with Nixon.
Which was odd because LBJ & Carter made appearances.
And the Bobby Kennedy assassination – according to Baz – was one of the biggest events in Elvis’s life.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

whoops, being sacked may not be top of the list of unpleasantness… etc.
PIMF

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 12:24 am

Huge error there, Ender.

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 12:24 am

Snopes.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:24 am

The Uvalde cop who used the sanitiser is going to have a rough existence has soon as he is doxxed which is just a matter of time.

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 12:26 am

Bern

Inflation number is pretty ugly, but I think it’s peaked.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 12:30 am

Agree.
People weren’t serious about inflation during 2021.
Now they are getting too dire with their expectations.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 14, 2022 12:48 am

Oops, meant to click on older comments and accidentally hit report this comment.

Was JC post to Bern.

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 2:00 am

My view still; twitter isn’t ‘the room’.
In any case they won’t start #Istandwithsomeblokecalledmatthewguynow
apparently #istandwithdan types are now ticked off he’s ignoring the ‘health advice’ now it’s #istoodwithdan

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2022 4:14 am
win
win
July 14, 2022 4:54 am

Zipster, I have often wondered at the co incidence of Chinese agricultural epidemics and their less than salubrious agricultural practices and then soon after the emergence of human viruses. I got on to the WHO website when foot,hand and mouth ulcers went through our school but I cant research this anyfurther than it is a thought only.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 5:29 am

Why would Newsom show up to the Whitehouse when Biden is out of the country?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 5:30 am

And Elon taking the piss out of Hunter on twitter is going to make the big guy angry.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2022 5:58 am

It’s taken him over two years…..

“George Pell and Catholic Church to be sued: media report

The father of a former choir boy, who prosecutors alleged was sexually abused by George Pell in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, has brought a civil case against the cardinal and the Catholic Church, Nine newspapers report.

Cardinal Pell was found guilty in 2018 by a Victorian jury of abusing two teenage choir boys in 1996 and 1997. The convictions were overturned in 2020 by the High Court, which found there was reasonable doubt in the testimony of his sole living accuser, whose story was deemed improbable because of the timing, nature and location of the alleged ­offending. Cardinal Pell was released from prison after more than a year in custody.

One of the choir boys died from an accidental drug overdose in 2014, having never made a complaint against Cardinal Pell.

The deceased man’s father has lodged a civil case against the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and Cardinal Pell. The case is listed for a directions hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday.”

Hmm…now what could be the motivation here?

bespoke
bespoke
July 14, 2022 6:00 am

Morning inmates.
Cat972

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
July 14, 2022 6:18 am

Tinta, in the interests of accuracy & credit where it is due, the border patrol agent getting a haircut on his day off, who borrowed the barber’s shotgun, is not the border patrol agent who stormed the occupied classroom & engaged the gunman.

The bloke with the barber’s shotgun went to another wing of the school & helped shepherd one or more classrooms of kids to safety.

Thank you Salvatore for clearing that up – accuracy is all — bt I did get the part right that the powlice let a massacre most foul take place while they waited for the courage of someone else to put an end to the massacre.

bespoke
bespoke
July 14, 2022 6:25 am

Inflation number is pretty ugly, but I think it’s peaked.

I hope so, JC.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2022 6:58 am

Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner said the case did not warrant Fuentes — who is believed to be undocumented — to be held without bond.

What?
Three day old prawns and hot weather.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
July 14, 2022 7:10 am

bespoke says:
July 14, 2022 at 6:00 am

Morning inmates.
Cat972

Good Morning
Volvo A40D

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
July 14, 2022 7:11 am

The idea of handing back our guns and leaving the Police to arrive and take care of the baddies continues to get bitten by reality.
The Uvalde school debacle
Lindt cafe anyone?
Shootouts in Melbourne (so the baddies still have guns)
Closer to home African gangs breaking into homes and stabbing the occupants. Oh and courts letting the off with a hearty handshake and 18 months detention. Yesterday one of the fuckers has decided to change his plea to not guilty. Meaning the whole affair will drag the innocent victims through the courts. PTSD anyone?

will
will
July 14, 2022 7:12 am

feelthebernsays:
July 14, 2022 at 5:29 am
Why would Newsom show up to the Whitehouse when Biden is out of the country?

The ask the question is to answer it. To meet the puppet masters of PedoPete and probably the Idiot half Kenyan.

will
will
July 14, 2022 7:22 am

Pedro, I stand ready to be corrected, however AFAIK the only instance of Victoria Police (or any Australian police officer) actually kneeling in front of a BLM mob. was in Ballarat.

Here you go: Quadrant Policing in Victoria

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 14, 2022 7:37 am

There’s SOO3 exciting, then there’s International Women’s Rugby exciting.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2022 7:48 am

Haha, a size twelve army boot to the bum*.

Amber Heard loses bid to dismiss $10m Johnny Depp verdict as judge rejects new trial (13 Jul)

the Judge Penny Azcarate denied all of Heard’s post-trial requests on Wednesday.

Ms Heard has also repeatedly admitted that she is unable to pay the $10.35 million in damages she owes to her ex-husband.

Ooh, that sounds like it’s going to be painful. Maccas may be hiring Amber, you could try there.

(* I looked up Judge Azcarate: she did four years in the USMC. Semper fi.)

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 7:51 am

Very disappointing to see Cardinal Pell being dragged into court again.
This would be the man that abandoned his family to start a new life in the sex industry?
The Catholic church had nothing to do with the poor boy’s death.
I wonder what involvement his mother has in the case.

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 7:54 am

Fester

Does Amanda look like Heard?

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 7:57 am
rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 8:00 am
Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:03 am

NZ running out of bourbon and chicken nuggets.

Grim.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:05 am

Amanda?
I am losing track of the nick-names.
Who is Amanda?

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:06 am

Why would Newsom show up to the Whitehouse when Biden is out of the country?

Job interview?

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:06 am

Leak today is very good.

shatterzzz
July 14, 2022 8:09 am

Noice wakey wakey! this morning! wasn’t interested enuf to watch the “game” but did splash $10 on QLD to win 1-12 @ $4.40 ..
winnas is grinnas! .. LOL!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:12 am

From Rosie’s link at 8:00:-

Chris McGrath, 5B’s co-founder and CEO, said it was a “very difficult decision” to make, but maintained the job cuts were necessary to keep the business on “a more sustainable footing”.

Around that time, 5B raised $30 million from investors, which will instead be used to improve its product and supply chain. Its main innovation is a metallic device (an “array”), used to install solar panels on rooftops more quickly.

Some of its high-profile investors include former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, wealthy businessman Simon Holmes à Court (who helped fund the teal Independents at the May federal election), and US electricity company AES.

Since 2020, Mr McGrath’s workforce grew rapidly from 30 to over 200 employees (before a quarter of those jobs were culled).

Trumble and Holmes a Court have backed a loser it seems.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2022 8:13 am

Morning
MF5435

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:14 am

rosiesays:

July 14, 2022 at 8:00 am

More doom and gloom at the ABC
Tech firms cut thousands of jobs, as interest rates and recession risks climb

Maybe they could learn to code.
Oh, wait …

calli
calli
July 14, 2022 8:17 am

Its main innovation is a metallic device (an “array”), used to install solar panels on rooftops more quickly.

If you call it an “array” it sounds very “high tech”.

Is it a frame? And were supply chain problems the issue?

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 8:19 am

Sancho Panzer says:
July 14, 2022 at 8:05 am
Amanda?
I am losing track of the nick-names.
Who is Amanda?

Fester’s rechargeable sex doll.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:21 am

$10 on QLD to win 1-12 @ $4.40 ..

Wise choice! They really turned it on last night.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 14, 2022 8:25 am

Inflation number is pretty ugly, but I think it’s peaked.

Given that the *definition* of inflation is ‘an increase in the money supply’ (NOT a rise in prices), unless you think money printing is over, I doubt its peaked.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:25 am

Exactly my thoughts calli.
The guy has “invented” an extendable frame with maybe some quick-fix brackets.
Supply chain?
He now has to fly to China with his prototype to get it mass produced.
And shortry thereafter very simirar one appear on market.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:26 am

Fester’s rechargeable sex doll.

Riiiigght.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 14, 2022 8:27 am

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/dr.-ben-carson-the-fda-violated-the-law-with-its-relentless-crusade-against-ivermectin-25010d4e

Two prominent figures in the past Trump administration have come forward to declare the actions by federal agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others overstepped their boundaries, turning into what became an illegal crusade against the generic drug ivermectin.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 14, 2022 8:27 am

Further to the above, I am nearly done reading Ray Dalio’s ‘Principles for dealing with the changing world order’ and it lays out a pretty persuasive case for the fall of the West and the coming supremacy of China.

calli
calli
July 14, 2022 8:27 am

I’ve looks and looked and looked at that painting and I still can’t work it out. Probable the artist’s intent.

If it’s an “allegory” it’s definitely an obscure one. All I see is a bunch of Biblical and classical figures set like chess pieces on a terrace (nicely drawn to perspective) and a high definition rural background. The focal “point” is odd too – a triangular arrangement of child, the male figure (possibly St Peter, but who knows?) and the red shirted guy in the cave.

A cross, a centaur, a lamb – healing? And just who are those two figures lit up on the shore? Adam and Eve?

I’ve seen the original and it annoyed me then. Nothing has changed. 🙂

calli
calli
July 14, 2022 8:28 am

looked

Sheesh. You’d think proof reading would be enough.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:31 am

…it lays out a pretty persuasive case for the fall of the West and the coming supremacy of China.

Well they’d better get a move on….China falls off a demographic cliff after 2030.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 14, 2022 8:33 am

Maybe they could learn to code.
Oh, wait …

Apparently there is a real tech employment bloodbath going on in the US. When the world’s biggest and most profitable companies, ie Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft begin laying people off and imposing hiring freezes you know things are turning to shit real fast. These companies have the cash to tide over a year or two of downturn.

bespoke
bespoke
July 14, 2022 8:35 am

Well they’d better get a move on….China falls off a demographic cliff after 2030.

You don’t need a large population to be dominant.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 14, 2022 8:39 am

To speak to the person running the country ?

“Why would Newsom show up to the Whitehouse when Biden is out of the country?”

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 8:45 am

You don’t need a large population to be dominant.

Depends on the model you operate on. Population decline springs from a deeper malaise in Chinese society (even the abandonment of the one child policy hasn’t addressed birth rates) and brings with it a string of very difficult problems for the government to deal with that are already peaking over the horizon. Hence their recent bellicosity: Look, over there!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2022 8:49 am

Do I get the impression that the rugger crowd was required to stand for the Welcome To Your Country?
Cohenite, any thoughts…?

bespoke
bespoke
July 14, 2022 8:52 am

Hence their recent bellicosity: Look, over there!

Yes internal troubles leading them to attack Taiwan is a concern, Roger.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 14, 2022 8:54 am

Re the new Pell case:

The case is listed for a directions hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday.

You’d think then they’d chuck it out: not on the basis they don’t like it, but they can’t see it succeeding.

But then again, on the ABC:

Shine Lawyers, who are representing the father, said the plaintiff was making a claim of nervous shock relating to finding out about allegations his son was abused.

Aha! Shine Lawyers! Dad wants money not on the basis that anyone did something, but he was surprised and shocked by the allegation.

Zipster
Zipster
July 14, 2022 8:55 am

Allies sound alarm over plight of Ukraine’s public finances
Oleg Ustenko, an economic adviser to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the country now needed $9bn a month from its western backers to plug the budgetary shortfall, almost double its previous request.

will
will
July 14, 2022 8:57 am

unless you think money printing is over

maybe it is

duncanm
duncanm
July 14, 2022 8:58 am

Musk’ response to an MSNBC anchor is priceless.

Sarah Ruhle got stuck into him about his Hunter Biden tweet..

@SRuhle
Imagine the positive impact you could have on the world if you used the extraordinary amount of influence and power you have to spread decency, kindness and positivity?

@elonmusk Replying to @SRuhle
Imagine if MSNBC did that

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/07/13/elon-musk-embarrasses-msnbc-host-with-one-tweet-n2610194?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1

Vicki
Vicki
July 14, 2022 8:59 am

Re the aging population of China:

John Lee wrote a very good China article in the Weekend Australian. He says they have a window of 5-7 years before the aging population causes restrictions on expansion of the economy. These calculations explain and relate to the belief of military analysts that Chinese aggression will be most dangerous in those years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 8:59 am

Diogenes at 8:33.
Interesting in the article about tech jobs going. It started out with the example of the guy working for a company which it implied had good, solid contracts (with Police, Emergency Services).
Next minute, he is saying jerbs are going because “cash burn”.
Err, if your employer has profitable contracts with better than neutral payment terms, there is no cash burn.

Zipster
Zipster
July 14, 2022 9:00 am

Australians ‘can go to hell’: Solomons snub amid ‘newfound love affair’ with China

looks like the wong chap lacked a certain attractiveness

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 9:00 am

As someone said, China’s zero covid policy resembles the Cultural Revolution. Everything there is becoming top down management. The economy is rooted longer term.

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 9:00 am

China is reverting to type.

Zipster
Zipster
July 14, 2022 9:01 am

The ‘Universal Vaccine’ Agenda for Annual Vaccinations and an Endless Pandemic | Crossroads
Pfizer is developing a “universal vaccine,” which can modify the new mRNA vaccines to fight against new viruses as they emerge. The new type of vaccine isn’t just being developed by Pfizer either, and officials including Dr. Anthony Fauci have touted the vision of the vaccines as being an end-goal of dealing with COVID-19.

The agenda behind universal vaccines goes far beyond COVID-19, however, with Fauci discussing the idea going back as far as 2009. And Pfizer, meanwhile, has also pushed for a similar agenda under the banner of an annual vaccine.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2022 9:02 am

Population decline springs from a deeper malaise in Chinese society (even the abandonment of the one child policy hasn’t addressed birth rates) and brings with it a string of very difficult problems for the government to deal with that are already peaking over the horizon. Hence their recent bellicosity: Look, over there!

Yeah, when you look under the hood you can see there’re a few problems with the engine.

Beijing Scraps China’s First COVID Vaccine Mandate In Just 48 Hours After Furious Social Response (13 Jul)

As Bloomberg reports, last week, Beijing’s city leadership rolled out China’s first Covid-19 vaccine mandate last week. The policy made boosters mandatory for some professions, while entry to busy public venues like movie theaters and gyms was restricted to the vaccinated. Unlike Europe and the US where such mandates are now a way of life as the population is too terrified to oppose the state, in Beijing the public reacted far less snowflakily, with many residents turning to social media to declare the mandate an illegal usurpation of their rights. Beijing’s response was just as quick: Less than 48 hours after announcing the policy, the city government rescinded it.

Given the Chinese obsession with “face” that is pretty amazing. I suspect someone very high up whispered a word into their shell-likes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 14, 2022 9:02 am

Indolentsays:
July 13, 2022 at 10:24 pm
REVEALED: Jan 6 Commission Chairman Bennie Thompson Backed Extremist, Secessionist Group Seeking Violent U.S. Takeover.

So, the Commission enquiring into the January 6 unarmed “insurrection” is chaired by someone who supports actual, armed, insurrection? How very fascist left.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
July 14, 2022 9:04 am

bespokesays:
July 14, 2022 at 6:52 am
Gershon Fuentes, a ‘believed to be undocumented’ immigrant, arrested for the rape of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion

Hmm, that’s interesting.
First of all, it’s once again one person making an allegation -i.e. that they were in the courtroom when the charges were presented. One would expect that’s true, since (although it’s hard to prove a negative conclusively) it would be difficult to make that sort of false story stand up to scrutiny.
But what’s not said is when it happened, or why the kid was taken to Indiana.
Odds on the abortionist’s “6 weeks and 3 days” story being totally false now shorten, so “stage managed beatup” is the favourite.

duncanm
duncanm
July 14, 2022 9:04 am

Top Endersays:
July 14, 2022 at 8:54 am
Re the new Pell case:

But then again, on the ABC:

Shine Lawyers, who are representing the father, said the plaintiff was making a claim of nervous shock relating to finding out about allegations his son was abused.

Aha! Shine Lawyers! Dad wants money not on the basis that anyone did something, but he was surprised and shocked by the allegation.

Shouldn’t he be suing the ABC and seven-nil again?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 9:04 am

TE earlier.

Shine Lawyers, who are representing the father, said the plaintiff was making a claim of nervous shock relating to finding out about allegations his son was abused.

Aha! Shine Lawyers! Dad wants money not on the basis that anyone did something, but he was surprised and shocked by the allegation.

Surely his action is against Seven-Nilligan, then.
If she had kept mum, he wouldn’t have been shocked.
Sounds like this is just a minor speculative shake-down suit.
But I’ll wait for Rumpole’s view.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 9:05 am

Snap duncanm!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 14, 2022 9:05 am

Good Bolt clip on Youtube regarding Avi and police apology.

‘Brutal authoritarianism’: Something ‘seriously wrong’ with Victoria Police

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 14, 2022 9:05 am

feelthebernsays:
July 14, 2022 at 12:12 am
In a better world they would be charged with dereliction of duty\involuntary manslaughter\culpable negligence. There definitely needs to be a legal action brought against the commanding officer\s.

There will be a civil settlement between the families and the city.
There will be no criminal charges.
The police have the right to do nothing in the US to stop a crime.
Crazy I know.
Supreme court has ruled as much.

Of course they are morally obliged.
But legally they are under no obligation.

If they are at all smart, they will all resign and move to another state, perhaps California or New York.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 14, 2022 9:06 am

You don’t need a large population to be dominant.

Check Brigitte Gabriel below – ‘The majority are irrelevant…’ from 4m36s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vvoRwJSPc

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 14, 2022 9:07 am

‘Brutal authoritarianism’: Something ‘seriously wrong’ with Victoria Police

Im sure its nothing

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2022 9:07 am

Kimberley stockman gives statement in class action over wages
Jane MurphyBroome Advertiser
Tue, 12 July 2022 11:24AM

The last witnesses in a class action against the WA Government over allegedly unpaid wages stood before the Federal Court in New Norcia last week, bringing an end to a fortnight of statements.

Thirty Aboriginal men and women who worked on cattle stations as labourers, station workers and domestic staff between December 11, 1936, and June 9, 1972, have appeared in makeshift courtrooms across regional and remote WA over the past two weeks, speaking of how they and many working alongside them allegedly failed to receive monetary payment for their work.

The action is led by Gooniyandi Traditional Owner Mervyn Street, who made his statement in Fitzroy Crossing last week, recounting his time working on a cattle station in the central Kimberley.

Shine Lawyers, the class action’s legal representation, argued that the State Government failed to release the wages which were being held in trust accounts when the laws changed in 1972.

They also allege the conduct of the State was in breach of certain articles in relation to racial discrimination and civil rights and failing to release the funds was a breach of fiduciary duty.

Between 8000 and 10,000 people have joined the class action — some of whom are relatives of workers who have since passed away — with many hoping it will bring about declarations, orders for compensations, damages including aggravates and exemplary damages, plus interests and costs.

The mitigation is set for later this year.

Shine Lawyers..

Zipster
Zipster
July 14, 2022 9:07 am
Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 9:08 am

Yeah, when you look under the hood you can see there’re a few problems with the engine.

The CCP’s decades long unwritten contract with the people is based on submission in exchange for ever growing prosperity. With cheap young labour drying up, manufacturing moving elsewhere & a state pension system that is unsustainable, that’s about to end. Once it does, all bets are off.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2022 9:10 am

‘The majority are irrelevant…’

Sri Lanka’s ex-president found out the hard way that that’s not always the case.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 14, 2022 9:15 am

Meme

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Indolent
Indolent
July 14, 2022 9:17 am

We don’t really need the Expose to tell us that children, who are not at serious risk from Covid, are vastly more at risk from injections which officially have a closely written page of potential side effects.

Whilst you were distracted by Boris resigning the UK Gov. published a report confirming Fully Vaccinated Children are 13,633% more likely to die of COVID than Unvaccinated Children

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 14, 2022 9:18 am

‘Brutal authoritarianism’: Something ‘seriously wrong’ with Victoria Police

Perfectly captured by Earth Ball-impersonator Luke Cornelius running the ‘I can’t remember, don’t recall that, don’t have notes, didn’t write anything down’ during the Gobbo examinations, and then telling Joe Public ‘don’t take us for fools’ during a covid presser less than 12 months later.

They are a different caste, who honestly believe people have the memories of goldfish.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 14, 2022 9:23 am

The “get Pell” coven at their ABC has saddled up for another tilt, and commandeered the National Broadcaster to hurl sludge across the airwaves.

Indolent
Indolent
July 14, 2022 9:28 am

In the footsteps of Obama.

Biden, the Manchurian Candidate

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2022 9:32 am

Nothing green ever works part 998 and a half.

California is Running Out of Cans to Put Beer In (13 Jul)

California’s creaking recycling system can’t collect enough cans, one consequence of a program that has been crippled by redemption center closures and out-of-date policies that have made it harder for people to recycle effectively.

“The problem that we have, particularly in the United States on cans, is that we don’t recycle them enough,” said Matt Meenan, vice president of external affairs at the Aluminum Assn. The overall can recycling rate in the U.S. is 45%, meaning that more than half of the cans wind up in landfills.

In 2015, there were 2,245 buyback centers, or places where consumers could go to claim their nickel deposit on a bottle or can in the California Refund Value program. Those centers make their money by selling aluminum — as well as paper, glass and some plastic — on the scrap market. The price of scrap metals caved that year, falling 30.8%, and the centers began to close en masse.

Some 420 centers couldn’t pay their bills and closed. An additional 600 shuttered during the next five years. CalRecycle, the state agency in charge, did little to stem the tide, according to critics.

RTWT for the full tale of woe. California is so hopeless they can’t even design a subsidized can recycling system which doesn’t collapse. I wonder how their Very Fast Train project is going?

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 14, 2022 9:35 am

Big_Nambassays:
July 14, 2022 at 8:27 am
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/dr.-ben-carson-the-fda-violated-the-law-with-its-relentless-crusade-against-ivermectin-25010d4e

Two prominent figures in the past Trump administration have come forward to declare the actions by federal agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others overstepped their boundaries, turning into what became an illegal crusade against the generic drug ivermectin.

Another case for the Supreme Court? Add in the Departrment of Transportation going all in on “Klimate Change” without any obvious legislative backing, and soon the administrative state will lose the ability to run the country (at least, according to m0nty-fa).

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 14, 2022 9:37 am

flyingduksays:
July 14, 2022 at 8:27 am
Further to the above, I am nearly done reading Ray Dalio’s ‘Principles for dealing with the changing world order’ and it lays out a pretty persuasive case for the fall of the West and the coming supremacy of China.

The west is only beaten when the people of the west accept that they are beaten, not when the tools of the so-called “elite” decide that we are.

Indolent
Indolent
July 14, 2022 9:43 am

So, the Commission enquiring into the January 6 unarmed “insurrection” is chaired by someone who supports actual, armed, insurrection? How very fascist left.

And just to underline the point

J6 panel shuns live testimony from Trump associates, prefers to slice and dice taped depositions

will
will
July 14, 2022 9:57 am

administrative state will lose the ability to run the country

sounds like a good outcome

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 14, 2022 10:06 am

Next minute, he is saying jerbs are going because “cash burn”.
Err, if your employer has profitable contracts with better than neutral payment terms, there is no cash burn.

Sancho,
I suspect he means cashflow,

Dot
Dot
July 14, 2022 10:07 am

Shine Lawyers, who are representing the father, said the plaintiff was making a claim of nervous shock relating to finding out about allegations his son was abused.

Weak sauce. The authoritative case law refers to minors dying far away as a jackaroo or IIRC, a horrible train station accident.

Dot
Dot
July 14, 2022 10:09 am

I mean really, every family member of someone who raises an allegation could then claim damages.

Just absurd.

Imagine the abuse of this in family law. A veritable nightmare.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2022 10:16 am

Census 2021: Homes away from home suit Albanese’s ministers
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Alice Workman
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11:43PM July 12, 2022
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There’s no housing affordability crisis in the Albanese government. The average minister owns two or three homes and pockets $5500 more each week than the average Australian.

The 42 members of the ministry have around $90m tied up in the property market, a conservative estimate based on the assumption that each of their 100-odd pieces of real estate is worth less than the median capital city house price of $937k.

Every one of Anthony Albanese’s ministers owns at least one home, with a majority opting for a house in their electorate and another apartment in Canberra.

Thirty per cent of the ministry have declared one property, 33 per cent have two properties and 26 per cent have three properties, according to analysis by The Australian. This includes residential homes, second homes, holiday homes, investments, farms, land and commercial buildings, but does not include any owned by partners or other family members.

That figure shows the gulf between the government’s key decision-makers and the people they represent. Across the nation, census 2021 found 66 per cent of the population either own their homes outright or are paying them off, while one-third rent.

There is not a single renter sitting in the cabinet room where housing policies – often focused on getting into the property market over easing rent price pressure – are pitched, scrutinised and signed off by ministers.

Rising interest rates and rents played a significant role in the Morrison government’s defeat in May. The Liberals lost Reid, Bennelong and Chisholm, the three highest-ranked seats for mortgage stress (households that pay more than 30 per cent of their income on loan repayments).

Labor won eight of the nation’s top 10 seats for percentage of homes owned with a mortgage – Pearce, WA; Holt, Victoria; Hasluck, WA; McEwen, Victoria; Calwell, Victoria; Brand, WA; Burt, WA, and; Hawke, Victoria.

Among the Albanese ministry, there are around 75 mortgage policies. With salaries starting from $271k for assistant ministers, to $341k for cabinet members, the Prime Minister taking home $564k, they can all afford it.

Repayments are helped along by the generous taxpayer-funded travel allowance of $291 to $481 ministers can claim, which jumps to $583 for the Prime Minister.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney tops the government list, with an interest in five properties. (A drop in the ownership ocean compared to the seven properties, including dairy farms, WA Liberal Nola Marino has an interest in. Queensland Liberal Karen Andrews, the shadow minister for home affairs, also owns seven.)

Ms Burney resides in Marrickville, a stone’s throw from the PM’s family home, in her south Sydney seat of Barton. As a cabinet minister, she pockets around $7200 a week. She has investment properties in Marrickville, Cooks Hill, Canberra and the small town of Whitton.

Ms Burney, 65, is $5000 a week better off than most of her neighbours in Marrickville. The median age is 37, weekly household income is $2170, monthly mortgage payments are $2600 and renters make up nearly half the suburb. Nearly 15 per cent are in mortgage stress and 30 per cent in rental stress. That is on par with the rest of the country, with 14.5 per cent of Aussies suffering from mortgage stress and 32.2 from rental stress.

Mr Albanese owns two houses in Marrickville, within his Sydney inner-west seat of Grayndler, and a unit in Canberra. Until last year, he held four properties. He doubled his money when he sold another Marrickville home, owned with ex-wife Carmel Tebbutt, for $2.35m. The former couple purchased it for $1.115m 10 years ago and offloaded it for $250,000 above the price guide.

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has just one family home. He sold in Moonee Ponds in late 2019 and bought a new home in Travancore for $3m.

Tony Burke, Tanya Plibersek and Madeleine King own four homes each. Deputy PM Richard Marles, Penny Wong, Amanda Rishworth, Brendan O’Connor, Michelle Rowland, Anne Aly, Kristy McBain, Justine Elliot, Jenny McAllister, Carol Brown and Ged Kearney have investments in three.

How does the old ditty go? “The working class can kiss my arse, I’ve got the bosses job at last!”

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:18 am

I see the Ohio 10-year-old rape victim story has been confirmed.

The religious fundamentalists who screamed that it was fake can now have a bit of shush.

JC
JC
July 14, 2022 10:26 am

It’s a very curious story, Fatboy. Everyone appears to have known of the rape except the Ohio AG? How’s that?

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 10:27 am

It’s a bit more complicated than that it’s it Monty?
No-one said it could never have happened but that the facts put forward were dubious.
Yesterday, the governor of Ohio was also in the dark.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 14, 2022 10:27 am

Whew. Leak is savagely good this morning.

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:29 am

Odds on the abortionist’s “6 weeks and 3 days” story being totally false now shorten, so “stage managed beatup” is the favourite.

Tim N, you were completely wrong about this. Shush, lest you look even more of a fool.

P
P
July 14, 2022 10:30 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 14, 2022 10:31 am

I wonder how their Very Fast Train project is going?

The VFT will eventually stand for Variably Fast Train, with the variability will be between ‘Sort of’ and ‘No way you could describe it as’.

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 10:31 am

Oh stop it Monty with your silly shushing.

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:35 am

It’s a very curious story, Fatboy. Everyone appears to have known of the rape except the Ohio AG? How’s that?

Yesterday, the governor of Ohio was also in the dark.

It turns out that the AG and governor of a US state are not briefed immediately on the details of every single case involving health and law enforcement. This is not controversial.

It’s a bit more complicated than that it’s it Monty?
No-one said it could never have happened but that the facts put forward were dubious.

All of the details in the initial story were correct, despite the skepticism of those who were upset by facing the inevitable consequences of their worldview.

Your hurt feelings about experiencing cognitive dissonance have no relevance to the facts of the story.

John
John
July 14, 2022 10:37 am

Leftist politicised Courts are now weapons of legalised harassment and extortion against Marxist enemies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2022 10:37 am

The Solomons guy should have a talk with the Sri Lankan President if they can find him.

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:38 am

One might further ask why the AG of Ohio went on a media tour of Fox News and the cable shows whining that he hadn’t heard about the case thus it might not exist… instead of doing his job and finding out about its existence. Maybe he’s an incompetent boob?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 10:39 am

Diogenes.
From the article.

So there’s been a movement to reduce the [cash] burn rate, and preserve capital.

“Cash burn” is a term used in start ups.
Yes, it relates to cash-flow (ie big outflows, no inflows).
It used to be a badge of honour – a demonstration of “investment” in whizz-bang new apps.
Investors are now looking at the possibility that their money might be being pissed up against the wall.
See also, “Atlassian”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2022 10:40 am

It turns out that the AG and governor of a US state are not briefed immediately on the details of every single case involving health and law enforcement. This

Bwahahahahaaaaa. “We’re going to need more rakes over here.”

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 10:42 am

Given the international coverage I’d have thought it very appropriate to brief the AG.
As usual Monty has a spurious excuse for everything.
And of course the issue isn’t the nonsense about 6 weeks 3 days had to go all the way to Indiana, it’s the rape itself being used to pursue a political agenda.
Incidentally, if the people of Ohio want to change their abortion laws, they can.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2022 10:43 am

If you are selling clothing to women it helps to know what a woman is.

Last year, I said Victoria’s Secret was declaring bankruptcy by swapping its “Angels” for trans models and hoo boy do I feel prophetic right now (13 Jul, via Instapundit)

How it started:

Victoria’s Secret is swapping its “Angels” for lesbian soccer player Megan Rapinoe, a transgender model, and more

How it’s going:

Victoria’s Secret cuts 160 management roles in reorganization

“[T]he financial numbers for Victoria’s Secret suggest that intersectionality might not provide a successful foundation for underwear sales. The company’s stock has declined 32 percent since its peak immediately after the reorganization last year. The company recently forecasted declining sales numbers and, in a survey conducted by Bank of America, 23 percent of women said that they liked Victoria’s Secret less than they did pre-Covid, compared with 13 percent who said they liked it more. Executives have even tried to blame poor financial performance on the war in Ukraine, which doesn’t suggest confidence.”

LOL. I love how they’re blaming Vladimir Putin for women not wanting to buy their underwear.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2022 10:46 am

Mother Lode at 10:31.
Very Farce Train?

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2022 10:49 am

“Tim N, you were completely wrong about this. Shush, lest you look even more of a fool.”

You’ve been wrong many times, and yet not once have you ever apologised or acknowledged that you’ve ever been wrong. It isn’t Tim N who’s the fool, it’s you.

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:49 am

Given the international coverage I’d have thought it very appropriate to brief the AG.

It is not the job of the doctors or police involved to think about the media profile of the attorney-general. That he now looks like a damn fool is not their fault.

Fox News and the WSJ were all over this as being fake news, now they look stupid too. Also not the fault of the doctors and police.

And of course the issue isn’t the nonsense about 6 weeks 3 days had to go all the way to Indiana, it’s the rape itself being used to pursue a political agenda.

The facts speak for themselves, rosie. They make pro-Dobbs people look bad. That is entirely the fault of pro-Dobbs people for supporting a barbaric law.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2022 10:53 am

I thought Victoria’s Secret went under because it was associated with Miranda Kerr who is sort of an Australian version of Brooke Shields to anyone/anything successful.

Almost by definition anything in fashion goes out of fashion.

m0nty
July 14, 2022 10:53 am

Six days after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, lupus patient Becky Schwarz got an unexpected message from her rheumatologist.

“This is a notice to let you know that we are pausing all prescriptions and subsequent refills of methotrexate,” the message read. “This decision has been made in response to the reversal of Roe vs. Wade.”

Schwarz was stunned. Methotrexate is a cheap, common drug prescribed to millions of Americans. Like her, many have rheumatic illnesses. Others take it to treat inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis or cancer.

Yet few are aware that it is used off-label to end ectopic pregnancies, or that it could be restricted by doctors or pharmacists even in states like Virginia that do not ban abortion.

[…]

Since its reversal, many patients have been delayed or denied this “gold-standard” treatment for conditions that have nothing to do with pregnancy.

“I have gotten some reports where children have been denied methotrexate for their juvenile arthritis until they’ve proven they’re not pregnant,” said Dr. Cuoghi Edens, an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at University of Chicago Medicine and a rheumatology expert who treats adults and children.

In one case, a pharmacist initially refused to dispense methotrexate to an 8-year-old girl in Texas. In a note the child’s doctor shared with Edens, the pharmacist wrote, “Females of possible child bearing potential have to have diagnosis on hard copy with state abortion laws.”

This is madness.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 14, 2022 10:54 am

Very Farce Train?

Subtle. Both pronounced the same. Spelling won’t be an issue since I expect there is no time to learn spelling – what with all the injustice in the world to study.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2022 10:55 am

Surrounded by rakes, mUnty reaches for a shovel.

cohenite
July 14, 2022 10:55 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
July 14, 2022 at 5:58 am
It’s taken him over two years…..

“George Pell and Catholic Church to be sued: media report

Some comparison between the OJ Simpson civil case and this civil case against Pell. With Simpson there was a proved criminal offence: the murder of his ex-wife and boyfriend. OJ could not be convicted to a criminal standard for those proven murders. But at the lessor civil standard of proof was convicted and had to pay damages to the relatives.

With Pell there was an alleged criminal offence: the molestation of 2 choir boys, one deceased, who had disavowed the molestation before he died. The lower courts found Pell guilty of that alleged criminal offence of molestation. The High Court, however, found there was no criminal offence. With no criminal offence there cannot be liability at either the higher criminal standard or the lessor civil standard so as to sustain a claim for damages by the parent.

But who knows what can happen in the courts.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2022 10:57 am

“But who knows what can happen in the courts.”

Let me just amend that slightly…

“But who knows what can happen in the Victorian courts.”

Frank
Frank
July 14, 2022 11:01 am

Turns out the guy that raped the minor was an illegal immigrant.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
July 14, 2022 11:02 am

m0ntysays:
July 14, 2022 at 10:29 am
Odds on the abortionist’s “6 weeks and 3 days” story being totally false now shorten, so “stage managed beatup” is the favourite.

Tim N, you were completely wrong about this. Shush, lest you look even more of a fool.

m0nty you fat dissembling idiot.

All along I’ve said that the two most likely scenarios were that the story was totally false or it was a stage managed beatup. As I pointed out above, nothing in the current assertions tells us whether the alleged rape happened in the three day window necessary for the abortionist’s story to be fully true. Also, even if it did happen that way, nothing in the current assertions is even the slightest bit inconsistent with it being a stage managed beatup.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 14, 2022 11:02 am

Meanwhile in Viktoraistan:

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been asked to explain a $1900 bill that was sent to a family who rushed their unconscious 15-month-old son to hospital themselves because they could not get an ambulance after six Triple Zero calls.

Sky

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2022 11:05 am

As any law student would know nervous shock is a very particular kind of injury and head of damage. The success or failure of the case has almost no relation to events surrounding the criminal case. It probably doesn’t hurt to be in Victoriastan though.

Frank
Frank
July 14, 2022 11:06 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 14, 2022 11:07 am

Things that are dead & buried in so-called liberal democracies.
Lateral thought.
Critical thinking.
Civics.

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 11:09 am

I really don’t care if someone has to travel interstate to get an abortion.
It’s a big nothing.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 14, 2022 11:10 am

Interesting history story:

Indiana Jones of art with relic that put fear of god into thief

By BRUNO WATERFIELD
THE TIMES

A priceless relic said to contain the “precious blood of Christ” that was stolen from a Norman abbey has been recovered by a ­renowned art detective after the thief panicked, believing he risked being cursed.

The ornate reliquary was ­stolen with other valuables by a thief who hid overnight on June 1 in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Fecamp, on the coast near Le Havre. The crime was denounced by the Bishop of Le Havre, Jean-Luc Brunin, as an attack on all Christians.

The bejewelled copper casket has now been handed back to ­Arthur Brand, known as “the Indiana Jones of the art world” for his work tracking down stolen or missing masterpieces, at his home in Amsterdam.

Mr Brand, 53, said the thief had lost his nerve when he realised that what had been taken was an object venerated by the faithful for more than 1000 years.

“To have the ultimate relic, the blood of Christ, which you have stolen, in your home is a curse, even if you are not a believer,” he said.

“To have an artefact that is the ultimate relic for over a billion believers on Earth is a curse.

“The thief had no idea what it was to begin with. Then he googled it, found out and panicked. When they realised what it was, that you in fact cannot sell it, they knew they had to get rid of it.”

The thief had an accomplice, Mr Brand discovered. “The other person panicked too and contacted me,” he said, noting that such objects are often destroyed rather than handed back. “They said: ‘This is important. You must help us because we cannot go to the abbey as there are cameras.’ ”

The casket holds lead vials said to contain drops of blood taken by Joseph of Arimathea, who is recorded in the Bible as having tended Christ’s body after the crucifixion. According to ­legend, the saint threw the casket into the sea on a fig branch to avoid seizure by the Romans while travelling to Britain.

The casket washed ashore in France, giving rise to a miraculous spring and after surviving Viking raids in the 8th and 9th centuries, it has been venerated by pilgrims for 1000 years at Fecamp.

The legend of Joseph of Arimathea also links the relic to King ­Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail, giving the object a special mystical significance for many people, including Mr Brand.

The theft took place less than two weeks before an annual mass celebrating the relic in a tradition of worship that dates back to the 10th century.

The sacred relic is in the possession of the Dutch police and will be handed back once they ­receive a request for mutual ­assistance from France.

Mr Brand’s record of recovering masterpieces ranges from Hitler’s favourite sculptures to Picasso paintings and priceless Persian medieval manuscripts, but his latest adventure had extra significance. “I am a Catholic myself so this was more than an artefact,” he said. “It was a religious experience.”

The Times

m0nty
July 14, 2022 11:13 am

All along I’ve said that the two most likely scenarios were that the story was totally false or it was a stage managed beatup. As I pointed out above, nothing in the current assertions tells us whether the alleged rape happened in the three day window necessary for the abortionist’s story to be fully true. Also, even if it did happen that way, nothing in the current assertions is even the slightest bit inconsistent with it being a stage managed beatup.

There was nothing stage managed about it. A man raped a 10-year-old and got her pregnant, so due to Ohio’s abortion laws she had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion. That’s it. No stage, just a vulnerable girl who was forced to prolong her trauma by Republicans and their 18th-century laws.

You and the other skeptics on the right were utterly and fully wrong about this.

Dot
Dot
July 14, 2022 11:15 am

Incidentally, if the people of Ohio want to change their abortion laws, they can.

There is no need to. “Had to travel interstate” is completely made up with monty’s made up medical board rules.

He should shush.

rosie
rosie
July 14, 2022 11:17 am

Only in the mind of Monty could a car journey of perhaps a couple of hours six or seven weeks after the event add utterly and fully to the trauma of being raped.

Frank
Frank
July 14, 2022 11:18 am

No stage, just a vulnerable girl who was forced to prolong her trauma by Republicans and their 18th-century laws.

Monty only cares for the children.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2022 11:19 am

” just a vulnerable girl who was forced to prolong her trauma by Republicans and their 18th-century laws.”

I hate to break it to you but there are also some Democrats who oppose abortion.

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