I’ll have such a tattoo – on my arze!
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Might have been the Chinese copy.
Definitely not the country we grew up in. ” A Sydney tattoo parlour has offered free tattoos of Hezbollah leader…
I know a bloke who broke wind – loud and long – during a “Welcome to Country.” His nickname, ever…
Twiki @timtron202017hMissed this from Day 12 of the #DawnSturgess inquiry, 6 Nov. Dr Soar and Prof Nolan say DSTL told…
Such fresh country air, but what are they smoking?
Missed pole position. Bugger…
Fifth!
I’m here under duress.
And so it begins …
From the Oz.
What?
I’m here under your dress?
Armadillo, didn’t I see you in a Çat link the other day?
A push is under way to repatriate dozens of Australian women and children held in camps for Islamic State families in northeast Syria
thanks for raising my blood pressure. Honestly as the son and grandson of war veterans, these people chose their lot (and allegiance). IMO rot in hell including progeny and I am not normally that intemperate.
Sleazy is fast expending political capital if his is one of his thought farts.
Gorgeous.
Last week: Elbow nodding furiously in agreement with Horse-Head that we shouldn’t send NZ crooks back to NZ.
This week: Elbow decides that Islamic State terrorists in Syria must “come home to Oz”.
How about some Tahiti 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZH8COjNaE
Tiger Woods (+9) missed the cut at the British Open. I think he would have made the cut if he was playing more competitive golf. His short game, particularly his putting, is so rusty even I could beat him on the greens.
I’d love to know what was going in that car on that February morning 18 months ago on the road into the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. If he hadn’t injured himself so badly in the single-vehicle crash he caused (without a hint of drug or alcohol impairment), he’d just be struggling with being the world’s best golfer in a former life and not his leg injuries.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Bob Moran.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
I dont think Mark Knight knows that The Labor Party sent advisers to Fiji to help to sucesfully install a Labor Party.
Big problem though it was an Indian party. If any one is going to be boiled with their boots its going to be Elbow I would have thought.
If you want to look at the social media equivalent of flogging a dead horse have a look at the PGA Instagram with Tiger Woods. He was possibly the most dominant golfer of his era but, as a role model (whatever that may mean) was the equivalent of Hunter Biden. Yeah Tom the in dash camera from that Genesis would make interesting viewing, possibly not to the TAC.
Below from Courier Mail. Originally the next National Cabinet meeting was going to be October. Then the Labor Premiers started bleating and scheduled for Monday. Now it is today but he has already announced the decision about the $750 payment.
Albo’s Govt was saying the budget was so bad could not afford it. How about refining the payments so only go to people under a certain pay level. People on big money should be able to support themselves for one week. It is the casuals where it is out of control kids who worked one day a week we’re getting the full payment so we’re more than happy to be a close contact and isolate.
Would have been nice if the Federal Govt had revealed the costings based on previous cost of jobkeeper. Clearly Sally McManus and Labor Premiers think there is a never ending money tree.
“Aussie workers who are forced to isolate due to Covid-19 will be guaranteed $750 payments, in a major policy reversal by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Mr Albanese came under pressure from some state leaders this week for allowing the payment to lapse over winter.
Luv Varvel’s donkey.
You suspect Tiger’s Genesis was the 2nd most lightly investigated car crash after the late Teddy Kennedys. The file is probably sitting on the shelf next to the Area 51 investigation at FBI Headquarters.
90% of UK Covid deaths are among the vaccinated and 94% of those are triple/Quadruple Vaxed
The Expose
… but, as a role model (whatever that may mean) was the equivalent of Hunter Biden.
That’s just stupid.
Hunter is a cool guy.
Tiger Woods is an arsehole.
90% of UK Covid deaths are among the vaccinated and 94% of those are triple/Quadruple Vaxed
The Expose
Yes but for those 94% think how much worse it would have been for them if they had not been vaccinated?
Big problem though it was an Indian party. If any one is going to be boiled with their boots its going to be Elbow I would have thought.
So, the cartoon should have represented the Fijian PM as a Tamil rather than as a Melanesian?
1st
Morning inmates
I’m in here under fifty.
Well, it’s better than eighty! 🙂
Beautiful happy people pic for the new day, Dover. Many thanks for your excellent choices.
And now, report from the IPA gathering of members at the Sydney Mint for drinks and canapes (excellent food on offer there): this worthy organisation were on the hustlings during the election, especially in the mining areas, querying Net Zero and causing the Libs to come and try to defend that turf (good to put the Libs on their toes here). They are also forging ahead with their Western Civilisation research and teaching program, focussing especially on young people being educated away from any good sense by the appalling new curriculum. Bella d’Abrera recounted the ways in which the IPA representation, delving as they do deeply into the small print, has managed to create outrage and actually effect change in some of the worst parts of what is still a terrible National Curriculum document – worse even after Labor has been at it than the bad one the Libs let through. Bella is also doing terrific work starting up a new series of teaching materials that teachers can use to provide alternative perspectives to the dross they are expected to deliver. She is looking supporters, especially amongst teachers. Spread the word re her IPA site known as Class Action.
Report from the Sydney CBD during my visit there yesterday for family legal matters: about 20% of the people in the streets just before 9am were wearing masks, and they were mostly the young people. This shows just how brainwashed they are about Covid, and of course Covid’s team-mate of Climate Change. The work the IPA is doing to counteract such leftist indoctrination of Australia’s youth is shown here in its full necessity.
I went in by ferry; a gorgeous trip on a cold but sunny winter’s morning, huddled down as I was into my warmest coat and my new cashmere scarf, a birthday present from a very dear girlfriend. Walking up to the Wynyard area to sign some documents in a swank corporate legal setting, I mused at what had changed around Lower George Street and the Quay since I lived in a basement bed-sit room in The Rocks in 1963 doing my Leaving Certificate at Sydney Tech. Pictures of Edwardian Sydney on the hoardings surrounding a new high-rise build at the excavation stages seemed closer in time to my memories than the surroundings I was walking in the current day, resulting in a strange feeling of anachronism for me, of being in-place but out-of-time.
Thanks Groogs.
Morning Lizzie,
Another thing for the IPA is the brainwashing of people by the Aboriginal industry, particularly the mandatory “cultural and historical” presentations to corporate employees.
90% lies.
Temps rising 40+ in parts of the UK today. Bushfires in parts of Europe. Prepare for “Climate Change” to morph into “glowball warming” shortly.
Meanwhile, we are shivering here on the coldest morning so far.
I blame the stupid Axis. Perhaps we could change that along with the weather.
Albo brings forward National Cabinet meeting to this morning because “pressure”.
Though the cupboard is bare…there will be money. Much…much money. The Premiers, the unions and the AMA demand it.
Albo is a River to His People.
One for Lizzie:
Liberal MPs have ‘never been more separated’ from Party membership (16 Jul)
Yep. It won’t help though, since the hubris disease has afflicted the wets. They think that they have to save the world even if the party members regard it as a load of rubbish. Which it is.
I missed that Dover.
Without an atom on exaggeration, I said to wifey it was the best dessert I’ve ever had and she agreed. It was a thin filo pastry pie filled with custard – not very deep . I asked for seconds which embarrassed wifey to no end.
Lizzie,
Many thanks for that heads up. Will look it up and if it seems usable will pass the word.
Very punny name that shoots itself in the foot. Already on the 10th page of google search looking for ipa class action and all I see is class action lawsuits. It was on page 2 I saw the link for the iPa and can’t find it using the menus or the search function on their site.
winsays:
July 16, 2022 at 4:48 am
Thanks Tom.
I dont think Mark Knight knows that The Labor Party sent advisers to Fiji to help to sucesfully install a Labor Party.
Big problem though it was an Indian party. If any one is going to be boiled with their boots its going to be Elbow I would have thought.
While agitating for Constitutional recognition of aborigines, the Liars and Slime have long forgotten that after the second Fiji coup the new regime wanted to have an “indigenous” preference clause inserted in the Fijian Constitution. Australia, vociferously led by Gareth Gareth Evans, adamantly opposed the plan, citing “waascisssm”.
Now the Liars and Slime want to take such waaaascissst” action here.
Historical ignoramuses.
My latest rejected comment in relation to Covid article in the Oz today. The first para is from the article.
“Few counted on almost nine million infections and 8000 deaths in just the first 6½ months of this year”.
The above is yet another example of how the statistics are so generalised that they don’t provide an accurate picture.
The nine million infections refers to official Covid case statistics. Multiple experts have been quoted as saying it is much higher than that due to under reporting. It is more likely 15m by now. In my large extended family it is over 80% who have had Covid.
Then you have the 10,000 deaths. How many deaths would you normally expect in a population of 15m in 6 months? CHO Qld recently said 97% of the deaths were over 65. Even that is not detailed enough as ABS statistics show average age of those dying “with” Covid is 84 and they also have co-morbidities. CHO Qld months ago said most would not even have known they have had it.
Nobody likes to see or know 10,000 people have died but the reality is the huge majority are in the bracket that would be dying even if there was no Covid.
We need more honesty in the statistics otherwise they are going to be used to justify more measures constantly being pushed by the experts.
I for one will not be taking any more of these vaccines”.
The repeated failure of the press to properly analyse the death stats produces one of the main reasons for Governments to implement stronger measures. We are being manipulated to accept more vaccines in the future.
See also articles in Courier Mail etc today about new drugs being worked on that will cover all possible Covid variants. Not sure if that will be after the 5th (ie. Omicron) or 6th (combined flu / Covid).
Don’t forget it is still an emergency so the manufacturers still indemnified.
I hereby declare this thread open, and may she bear and protect all those those who rail* within her.
Except that doughnut scoffing poltroon, the spook obsessed attention-craving prat, and (if this thread and migrating patterns coincide) that anti-Semiticsm vomiting buzzard.
* rail includes: ranting, retelling, ruminating, reminiscing, raving, reasoning, recollecting, ridiculing, and perhaps even ribaldry (within the bounds of decorum, natch). Even posting rinks.
here’s an interview sfw will enjoy
Oh its broken
last try
Elbow nodding furiously in agreement with Horse-Head that we shouldn’t send NZ crooks back to NZ.
This week: Elbow decides that Islamic State terrorists in Syria must “come home to Oz”.
What do you expect from a fucking idiot?
Gerbil warming in the UK:
“Even as a climate scientist who studies this stuff, this is scary,” said Professor Hannah Cloke, a natural hazards researcher at the University of Reading.
“This feels real. At the start of the week, I was worried about my goldfish getting too hot. Now I’m worried about the survival of my family and my neighbours.”
Temps across England are forcecast to range from 32c-39c.
In September 2019, their ABC (of course) ran a puff piece on these Australian ISIS “brides” on Four Corners (one of the few times over the last decade that I’ve watched the ABC). A film team went to the camp in Turkey with a mother of one of the females and the father of another of the females. The Four Corners piece painted these Australian ISIS brides as “victims” and how they were forced to live in squalor with their children in this camp and basically inferred that the Australian government was negligent in allowing this to happen. Being their ABC, and particularly when it comes to one of their favourite ideologies, no hard questions were asked about what crimes these women may have witnessed and participated in, certainly nothing was asked about what these women knew or saw when Yazidi and Christian women were raped and sexually enslaved, certainly nothing was asked about about what these women knew or saw about Yazidi and Christian men and boys being butchered, and given the fact that at least two of the women were married to senior ISIS fighters, it can be safely assumed that these females not only witnessed but also participated in murderous crimes…..no, no, no, instead our ABC conducted a soft puff piece that portrayed these females as misled victims and how these females were “tricked” into going to Lebanon and then onto Syria to join a militant, anti-West, Jew hating, Christian hating, Yazidi hating, Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group that liked to chop people’s heads off. The chutzpah was that the “daddy” of one of the females spent the time blaming the Australian government for their conditions.
Anyway, the next night I went to a friend’s home for dinner and there was a woman there who’s a great leftist. I don’t know how we started talking about the piece on Four Corners but we did. This women lives in great affluence in a nice apartment in a beach side suburb here in Sydney’s East. We started talking about the “ISIS brides” and she said that they needed to be brought back to Oz pronto. Well, that was like a red flag to a bull, I was in no mood to tolerate such fucking bunkum and so I smacked her down as follows…
“okiedokes then, yes, let’s bring them back to Oz, let’s bring them to Sydney but let’s not dump them in Sydney’s Western Suburbs, let’s bring them to Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, let’s bring them to your leafy suburb, let’s bring them to your leafy street, let’s bring them to your nice apartment block, an apartment block filled with Jewish families, and let’s see just how safe you and other Jews will be in this apartment block and suburb when you have dangerous human crows running around the apartment block with their children screaming Jew hating invective and every other Islamist trope they can muster, threatening people with having their heads lobbed off because as we know, they just love lobbing off heads, Jewish and non-Jewish. How about it? Let’s see how you’ll like it, let’s see how safe you’ll feel with such human garbage as these “ISIS brides” living in your apartment block Ah but no, you just want to dump them in Sydney’s Western suburbs and then you can wash your hands of the whole thing and just feel good in your progressive heart and mind because then it will be someone’s else problem. No, my take on the programme last night is quite simple, these dregs are a danger to Australian society and they can rot where they are.
She didn’t respond.
here’s the class action site Diogenes
we went through this the other day. The UK is 80% vaxxed, 60% boostered, and 75% ‘fully vaccinated’.
The UK is
Look at the age standardised mortality rate / 100k person-years.
eg: For May, deaths involving Covid-19 (Table 1, Rows 302-310 of the UK data linked in the article)
Unvaccinated: 77.6
First dose, at least 21 days ago: 122.4
Second dose, less than 21 days ago: –
Second dose, between 21 days and 6 months ago: –
Second dose, at least 6 months ago: 106.3
Ever Vaccinated: 35.5
Triple Zapped: 33.1
Beginning to warm to the accelerationist view.
Not only because of the perpetual laff-riot that would be Preznit Kameltoe,
but also Hillary! stroking out when she loses that First Evah! crown to a pole smoker.
Cassie – that’s an awesome smack-down. (Polite clapping).
I thought we beat that lot in the last world war.
We need more honesty in the statistics otherwise they are going to be used to justify more measures constantly being pushed by the experts.
Worksafe Victoria running the lie that the vaccines are less dangerous than COVID so everyone should be vaxxed. Of course these baked statistics ignore the fact that the vaccines are most dangerous to the working age and COVID is most dangerous to the elderly.
The parasite class is full of lying arseholes. Little do they realise that genuinely fucking with people will turn the blowtorch onto their pointless and damaging work.
“Cassie – that’s an awesome smack-down. (Polite clapping).”
As those Cats here who know me personally can attest, I’m rather good at smack-downs.
I retract my comment from a few weeks ago about Cassie for MP for Wentworth.
Let’s go the whole way. Cassie for PM !
When an uptick is just not enough.
how about not banning people from going to work?
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elbow is a statesman of Whitlamesque proportions adeptly navigating the hazardous channels of international diplomacy while drawing up new charts as he goes.
The ship of state is in safe hands, comrades!
(Mutiny planned for forenoon today.)
How about people take sick leave if they are sick.
Old fashioned notion?
How could she?
Do these “journos” proof read what they write? .. now I’ve got all the sympathy in the world for these folks plight .. BUT! .. how do you drive a tractor 4kms thru muddy/flooded fields when you can’t shower yourself because of disability? .. shirley if you can get aboard and navigate a tractor 4kms showering yourself can’t be impossible?…..
far too many of these ‘sob’ stories just don’t add up!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-16/nsw-upper-colo-residents-suffer-without-washed-away-bridge/101240020
Each year Australia deports approx. 1000 Kiwis back to NZ for various reasons.
This makes Australia bad.
Each year NZ deports approx. 1000 punters back to various Polynesian countries for a range of reasons.
Crickets.
Fortunately, the UK seems fairly open with their numbers.
report and data.
Table 2a, COVID-19 re-infection hazard ratios by characteristics, UK
Hazard ratio for re-infection with COVID-19
14-89 days after second vaccine (Reference): 1
Unvaccinated: 1.72
First vaccine to 13 days after second vaccine: 0.86
90 days or more after second vaccine: 1.28
14 days or more after third vaccine: 1.30
ie: one vaccine seems to help.. anything after that is in the negative territory (ie: more likely to be reinfected).
Also of note:
Delta variant period, 17 May to 19 December 2021 (Reference): 1
Alpha variant period, before 17 May 2021: 0.53
Omicron variants period, 20 December 2021 onwards: 6.68
I’ve got to admit that ABC Weekend Breakfast has two very appealing hosts in Johanna Nicholson and Fauziah Ibrahim.
There, I’ve said it – prove me wrong.
Shatterrzz.. you missed the best part!
Can tractor, can kayak, can’t wash.
Alex Berenson has a substack you can subscribe to for free.
Each day this week he’s been posting mRNA data/stats.
FMD there’s a problem.
rosiesays:
July 16, 2022 at 8:19 am
last try
Thanks Rosie – have bookmarked and downloaded to watch later today
It’s the smoke from all the fireplaces now that electric heating is too expensive.
Tom mentioned Tiger Woods at start of thread.
I heard on radio the other day that he turned down $850 million to be part of the Saudi / Greg Norman golf saga.
Never followed golf but Greg Norman must be on a big earner from the Saudies.
The last post on the OOT is from Mater.
It’s a link to a very short clip, titled ‘Undisciplined Boys Make Undisciplined Men’, and it’s a chap on TV responding to a question from a lady person who wanted her husband to adopt her own free-range mode pf parenting.
I’ve seen some impressive stuff on teh webs this year, but this is comfortably in the top three. It is the essence of fatherhood, and it is also the reason so many father-free boys end up fucked.
Shhh Calli, we cannot have real science and physics taught to the kids. How else will they be so easily fooled by the global renewables carpetbaggers?
One of the reasons why this blog is so informative. Have never subscribed to anybody on Substack but read plenty of great articles from some great journalists.
“Alex Berenson has a substack you can subscribe to for free.
Each day this week he’s been posting mRNA data/stats.
FMD there’s a problem”.
They’re not smoking – its a Samovar for hot tea.
There are a couple of spent wine or beer bottles in the grass, though!
Cassie a hand slap would be enough not a demolition of the whole building. I wish I had your way with words. The thing with this sort of lefty is they’re all for everything that doesn’t affect them. No foresight into the possibilities and probabilities of any decision. After that its not my problem.
The icing on the cake would have been to suggest her apartment block host some ‘affordable housing’ spaces for the incoming ISIS brides and their dozen (per family) progeny.
Bad cattitude is another insightful substack worth visiting.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/
Samuel Davidson. Killed three children and permanently damaged another because of a deliberate lifestyle choice.
Had excuses made for him. No consequence.
ISIS fighters from Australia. Lucky not to have been slaughtered. Want to return to Australia.
Having excuses made for them. No consequence.
ISIS ‘brides’. Also lucky not to have been slaughtered. Also want to return to Australia.
Having excuses made for them. No consequence.
Garden variety fuckwits like Andrew O’Keefe who used celebrity status to cover for years of smacking up women.
Had excuses made for him. In rehab rather than prison getting his ring ploughed. No consequence.
Bourne 1879
The repeated failure of the press to properly analyse the death stats produces one of the main reasons for Governments to implement stronger measures.
The presstitutes have no idea about numbers, and are (with very few exceptions) intellectually incapable of detailed understanding of any but the simplest statistics.
Geeze.. those sanctions sure are hurting Russia.
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/current-account
The Melbourne ones can be housed in Braaaghton, as close to Rebecca Judd’s house as possible. Then she can talk about ‘crime waves’ with some authority, rather than the occasional theft of hedge clippings which occurs in that part of town.
But it is, because they vote.
lotocoti
but also Hillary! stroking out when she loses that First Evah! crown to a pole smoker.
Rug muncher loses to pole smoker?
Free range education, not fatherhood.
Are we back to the S&M daddy of Special K again?
Thanks all, for the background info on the hopeful litigant and Shine & Co.
Whoever it was who said “nothing to see here” got it sadly wrong.
Ruh roh.
From lil’ Timmy Pool.
“Abuse doctor” (WTF!?) manipulated situation, failed to report abuse. Criminally liable under state law.
https://youtu.be/XC8DFymorcc
duncanm
Shatterrzz.. you missed the best part!
In 2021, the road was in such bad condition he used a kayak to cross the flood-stricken Hawkesbury River and source groceries.
Can tractor, can kayak, can’t wash.
And the Hawkesbury in full flood would be a daunting crossing for a fully fit kayaker ….
Were they that bad? #1 – The Beginning
Have they installed the portable shower on Everest’s peak yet?
safe and effective
Undisciplined boys grow to be undisciplined men
Thanks all, for the background info on the hopeful litigant and Shine & Co.
Whoever it was who said “nothing to see here” got it sadly wrong.
Perverting the course of justice one gimp at a time.
Steve Kirsch
The UK government’s official data shows they made a huge mistake
the mask karens are back
falling off the wagon and heading for rock bottom
MEME
https://substack.com/redirect/30996e91-b17c-4360-9b10-9a7b23e2d8cb?u=29685295
Another
https://substack.com/redirect/865e0be1-d135-4740-a639-8a5abeb0a8ee?u=29685295
Tom mentioned Tiger Woods at start of thread.
I heard on radio the other day that he turned down $850 million to be part of the Saudi / Greg Norman golf saga.
Never followed golf but Greg Norman must be on a big earner from the Saudies.
The one thing that baffles me about this LIV PGA saga is .. WHY?
Why are the Saudis throwing so much money creating a competitor in golf .. of all sports?
What/where is the advantage/profit for Saudi throwing millions at a”niche” sport funded mainly by “big” business’ obsession with advertising ..?
duncanm says:
July 16, 2022 at 8:55 am
Ah, never heard of them. Open to different interpretations in modern times. 🙂
Tesla asks Texans not to charge their car to avoid overloading national grid
Re the Warren Brown cartoonie on foot and mouth. Probably not really a beat up but foot and mouth plus screw worm fly has been in Indonesia and whatever they call Dutch New Guinea since the indons took the joint over donkeys years ago so it isn’t something that has just popped up for the Federal Government knew all about that back in about 1980 and we people in surveillance and Customs knew all about it. Bali isn’t so much of the problem unless the usual yobbos get foot in mouth disease from swallowing too much turps or smoking something powerful, the problem is Cape York Peninsular for it is just a hop, step, and a jump from PNG and no prize for guessing who the custodians of most of Cape York Peninsular are these days, and guess where the scrubbers run freely along with the wild pigs in their millions, and guess who couldn’t give a rats rectum so once F&M plus Screw Worm gets in there we are buggered. There was and maybe still is, a disease in bananas in PNG so we went into the various Island Airstrips in Torres Strait to attempt to make the Islanders aware of the disease and effects, and not carry bananas from one place to the other, but up there we had to employ locals as observers on board our Aero Commanders and I recall one day after giving a lecture on that to come back to the aeroplane and discover that our observers had several bunches of bananas on board to take back to Bamaga. That my friends is but a small example of the local mentality and their mentality is far superior to those on the mainland. Poor fellow my country.
China Insights
Abe’s legacy: A world better prepared to confront CCP; 1st in 50 years! Taiwan’s VP visited Japan
Japan and its longtime friends have looked at the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo with shock and concern for its future. The only exception is mainland China under the CCP rule.
Business as usual.
Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Millions In Chip Stocks Right Before Vote On Massive Chip Subsidy
Professional golf is a prestige sport and a therefore means whereby the Saudis can improve their public image abroad.
Something occurs to me reading through the background stuff on Special K’s daddy and others.
I can’t believe the ambulance chasers would want to put this fruit-loop in a witness box.
These cases of mental anguish are speculative at best, so a defence strategy might be to accept the “trauma” argument but explore other possible causes. Like, maybe the kid got on the juice because his old man was a pervert?
I wonder if the ambulance chasers are, in fact, reluctant, but JR is pushing hard and maybe has some cash to fund the initial stages.
After all, he thinks there is a million dollar payday at the end.
That’s a lotta whips and chains.
Given all the pointless “news” that the media inflict on us daily why do “important’ facts get pidgeon-holed ..?
Was gonna go to Melbourne to visit Grandees next week and being an OAP planned on using the train and my “freebie” travel pass ..
Guess what! .. seems that last week cos of all this wet weather the XPT train line around Gunning was washed out and 3 kms (25 000 sleepers) need replacing & relaying soooooo no passenger service for 3 weeks (buses if your keen enuf!) …
Yet here am I an avid reader most mornings of several Oz online media outlets and nowhere did I encounter a story of cancelled XPT Sydney/Melbourne trains ……….
The least I’d expect is something on “our” ABC given that I’ve read umpteen dozen “sob” stories on the “inclement” weather but, apparently, closure of this main train artery isn’t as important as whinge-ing about individual discomfort with NDIS service(s) ……
Wadeye: The NT bush town at war with itself
Brothers Patrick, left, Cassima and Gregory Narndu with Patrick’s burnt-out truck outside his ransacked house in Wadeye. Picture: Amos Aikman
Outside the shop at the heart of Wadeye, there is a sign proclaiming “no violence”. Four hands reach skywards behind a blood-red cross as if imploring everyone to stop fighting. You could be forgiven for thinking no one reads it.
This year alone, more than a hundred houses have been damaged or destroyed in the community, 420km southwest of Darwin. Cars have been burned, people injured and a young man is dead after weeks of violence. He was the third member of one family group to die in similar circumstances since 2002.
The catalyst for the worst eruptions was the death over the Easter long weekend of a 32-year-old man known as Mr Tcherna.
Up to 300 people embarked on armed rampages causing significant injuries and property damage. Police have made at least 25 arrests and about 500 residents were displaced.
The Weekend Australian travelled to Wadeye at the invitation of Kardu Diminin traditional owners, the first media to visit the town since the unrest broke out in March.
More than four months after Mr Tcherna’s death, scores of those on the other side of the conflict remain sheltering out bush, their homes in ruins. Many are missing work, blocked from moving around town or visiting the shop. They say they are miserable, short of supplies and their children aren’t attending school.
Elders scrambling to calm the situation have had some success. But although there is now an uneasy calm in Wadeye, relatives anticipate the dead man’s funeral in August could rekindle animosities.
The latest violence has been variously described as clan feuding, tribal fighting and gang warfare. According to locals, all of those are wrong. “This is family fighting. We call it mum versus dad,” says traditional owner Stephen Bunduck.
“We are fighting with our own family, with our relations.”
Wadeye has a long history of social strife and secrecy. In 2006, then Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough made headlines when he visited Wadeye and likened it to Soweto. He lamented in an interview with this newspaper last weekend that little seemed to have changed.
There are often competing versions of what happened when something goes wrong in the bush. According to an account checked with leaders from rival groups, this strife began when Mr Tcherna, a young man from the Kinthari family, got drunk and smashed up a car belonging to a cousin-brother from the Thchinburur family.
The cousin-brother took offence and gave the young man “a good hiding”. Both families were upset. A “fair-go fight” (think bare-knuckle boxing) was convened to settle the problem, but the young man, now sober, unexpectedly knocked his relative down.
The cousin-brother’s family was angry and confronted the young man’s family. It’s not entirely clear what happened next, but soon Wadeye’s notorious gangs were involved.
Mr Tcherna was a relative of Ezekiel Narndu, 19, who has been charged with manslaughter over Mr Tcherna’s death.
Ezekiel’s dad, Patrick Narndu, grew up with one of Mr Tcherna’s older brothers, Romolo Tcherna. The two spoke after the tragedy and attempted to broker peace. But Romolo got locked up for his own misdeeds, so anguish and fears of retribution linger on even though the Tchernas and Narndus are descended from siblings.
Mr Tcherna’s grieving partner, Rebecca Bunduck, warns there may be no peace until another young man is hurt as payback – a form of revenge. “My son was talking about his dad,” she says. “He was saying, ‘I want a payback for what they’ve done’. He’s just eight years old, and he already knows that … if (the alleged assailant) goes to jail for a long time, maybe things will settle down. But if my family or my partner’s family see him walking around in Wadeye, they will do the same to him.”
Wadeye, a coastal township of up to 3000 people is one of the Northern Territory’s largest Aboriginal communities. It began as a mission settlement bringing associated but competitive clan groups together. It is today a tapestry of ceremonial, tribal, language and family affiliations overprinted with Christianity and the modern adjunct of gang identity.
Most of Wadeye’s gangs are named after heavy metal bands: the Manowar Boys, the Metallica Boys, the Iron Maiden Girls. Two of the most prominent are the Judas Priests and the Evil Warriors. Children are born into a gang identity but may change it through marriage. Each gang occupies turf ranging from a few houses to a small suburb. Some people associate the gangs with crime and violence, while others say they are a social construct underscoring family loyalties and giving kids a further sense of belonging.
After the car incident in early March, things spiralled. By Easter, when Mr Tcherna died, mobs of tens or hundreds of armed youths fought pitched street battles. The violence seems to have been about everything and nothing. No one is sure why it got so out of hand.
Jake Clark, a self-described “bush kid” who manages Kardu Diminin Corporation and the Murrinhpatha Nimmipa Store on behalf of Wadeye’s traditional owners, speaks of a pressure-cooker atmosphere fed by unemployment, overcrowding and Covid-19 lockdowns. He says government agencies were warned long before the violence started.
“I’ve never seen it so tense here,” he says. Clark says pandemic welfare payments increased the supply of alcohol, even though most pubs and clubs were closed. “What they ended up doing was forming a black market where you could buy a bottle of rum for $500. That never really went away.”
Mystery death
Wadeye’s dusty main street advertises a bakery, a butcher’s shop and a takeaway – all closed. There is a “T house” (also closed), a weedy skatepark, a barren pool and a gloomy sports and recreation hall. Fighting that used to happen on the main street moved to the suburbs (closer to the houses) after security cameras were installed.
At one end of the town’s potholed thoroughfare, there is a neat street where service staff live a mercenary existence behind locked gates, their cars in cages and bins ranked along the kerb. Some barely visit the shop; their food gets barged from Darwin.
Mobile phone footage of the fatal Easter incident shows two large groups of armed youngsters facing off in Kolumboort Street. Other people watching appear to be there partly for entertainment. The atmosphere seems redolent of bravado and showmanship as much as of genuine intent to commit violence.
Locals say the groups divided loosely into those from an area of town known as Chicken Oval (there was once a chicken farm there), where the Judas Priests dominate, and others from an area known as Creek Camp, where the Evil Warriors dominate.
Handfuls of youngsters advance and retreat, shouting and throwing things towards each other. Two police officers and a paddywagon stand between the groups. Mr Tcherna loiters unsteadily with some other men, talking to the police. Leaders from both sides agree he was trying to stop the violence but was also very drunk. Then a young man emerges from the “Chicken Oval mob” brandishing axes. Attempts to contain him fail, and he looks set on hurling the axes at the opposing side. The police officers dash to their ute and drive away.
Just as the two groups lunge at each other, Mr Tcherna, standing off to one side, falls heavily to the ground. The circumstances of his injuries will be the subject of a court case, but it is understood he was allegedly wounded by a piece of stiff wire that entered his head through or close to his nose. He was hospitalised but could not be saved. Leaders from both sides say his death was unintentional.
Much of the violence that followed was in retribution for Mr Tcherna’s death, locals say. Houses in Mollinjin Street (part of Creek Camp) appear to have been systematically ransacked. An enclave of Kinthari homes in the Chicken Oval area has also been damaged. The roof of the home of a gang loyalist is plastered with weapons, while a neighbouring house belonging to a sickly lady looks untouched.
Patrick Narndu, whose son Ezekiel is in jail, kicks mournfully through the ashes of his vehicles and the wreckage of his home as he reflects on what happened. He calls himself a bush mechanic but says his entire workshop went up in flames. “There’s the funeral coming up, and there’s going to be payback, more trouble,” he says. “We just want to go home.”
Many Narndus are among those now sheltering out bush. In an irony of the conflict, he and three brothers are on the Creek Camp side, while a fourth brother joined the Chicken Oval mob after moving to escape “women trouble”.
“We are victims in this,” says Cassima Narndu, one of Patrick’s brothers. “They are saying we’re troublemakers, but we’re not.”
Clare Jongmin, a senior figure on the Chicken Oval side, doesn’t see it that way. In 2002, an 18-year-old Jongmin boy was fatally shot by a policeman who, a coroner found, acted “in a blind panic” on seeing the boy struggling with another teenager over a shotgun.
The incident happened during police-sanctioned fair-go fighting between Judas Priests and Evil Warriors members. The Priests blamed the Warriors because their boy apparently brought the gun. About 10 years later, another Jongmin man died in a dispute over land rights. Old rivalries and gang ties were once again ignited.
“All the family were there again, worrying for the young ones and crying for the blood on Kardu Diminin land. Now, this is number three,” she says.
“We don’t know how to stop it. It’s going to take a long time.”
Clark maintains close relationships with community members who regularly visit his shop. Every group has its grievances. He believes trauma is a big part of what lies behind the violence: people have moved past tragedies without moving on from them.
“People haven’t let it (trauma) go – they haven’t been shown how,” Clark says. “I think what we’re seeing is the expressions of a lot of frustrated, angry people.”
Wadeye has a large youth population but few jobs and little for the young people to do.
Economy in trouble
The pandemic became an excuse for providers to cut services, locals say. The region’s main Aboriginal corporation, Thamarrurr Development Corporation, and the West Daly Regional Council are both headquartered in Darwin.
Stephen Bunduck is related to Mr Tcherna but moves easily between the groups and devotes significant energy to trying to calm things down. “It’s always the same fight,” he says. “I’m always the one talking to people saying, ‘I want you mob to let it go’.”
Bunduck wants to convene a meeting of elders after the funeral to try to hash out some lasting peace. He knows it won’t tackle Wadeye’s economic decline or problems with service delivery.
A government taskforce was established in May to “co-ordinate resources … build community resilience … develop a longer-term strategic vision … and a high-level implementation plan”. The taskforce has no local Aboriginal members.
The Labor government in Darwin claims to be working with all parties. But none of the Wadeye traditional owners or other local leaders The Weekend Australian met was attending taskforce meetings. A handful who once tried were asked to wait outside.
Wadeye is on Kardu Diminin land, but Kardu Diminin leaders say they have had great difficulty getting attention from government ministers.
The NT government says all agencies and organisations are invited to attend emergency co-ordination meetings and “provide input into decisions and actions”.
“Out of respect, the Kardu Diminin traditional owners were the first group to be met with by Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison on her last visit,” a spokeswoman says. “The minister also met with other traditional owners of the region, locals including displaced families and government agencies. We know local decisions are the best decisions; this is why a government taskforce was established in May 2022.”
TDC boss Scott McIntyre declined to comment.
Locals have hashed out their own plan for transforming Wadeye, in meetings of up to 100 people in Clark’s tea room. It includes fixing the houses before the wet season, a major works program, measures to improve productivity and accountability of services, a town plan and improvements to work-for-the-dole.
Desperate for solutions
One of the more counterintuitive ideas is a licensed club. Locals say it would reduce dangerous drinking, keep money in the community, provide entertainment and give traditional owners something to threaten to remove if things get out of hand. “We are still trying to get our foot in the door with the Chief Minister,” Clark says.
In a hotel in Darwin, a group of Wadeye traditional owners is working to make a better future. They are going to see the Office of Township Leasing about a possible new deal for Wadeye. Township leasing was one of Brough’s ideas to help streamline land tenure and economic development, and tackle the perennial problem of remote Aboriginal people being land rich but dirt poor.
Margaret Perdjert and Anne Marie Nudjulu want to stop the violence, fix up their town and create more opportunities for young people. “We want to get everyone together and talk among ourselves, fix the problems,” Nudjulu says. “But I’m not sure they (the people who fight) will listen to us.”
Perdjert’s father, a Catholic deacon and cultural leader, was one of Wadeye’s most recognisable and respected leaders. In recent years the town has lost a string of elders. Middle-aged people such as Perdjert, thrust into senior roles, struggle to fill their forebears’ shoes. “I don’t know how to fix it. How can you put a broken glass back together? That’s how I feel. I’m trying my best to get to grips with this problem, with the fighting on my land.”
The Weekend Australian travelled to Wadeye by invitation and spoke to people after appropriate introductions. In an effort to minimise the risk of adverse reaction, a draft of this story was read to several leaders and community members, who did not express concern.
AMOS AIKMAN
NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT
What a Generation!
GENERATION MENTALLY ILL: 11% Of Law Students Had Suicidal Thoughts In 2021. What Can Law Schools Do?
“What is clear is that our law students need help,” the professors who oversaw the 2021 survey write in an article to be published in the University of Louisville Law Review [‘It Is Okay To Not Be Okay’: The 2021 Survey Of Law Student Well-Being]. “This is a particularly propitious time for various administrators and faculty and staff at law schools to invest more energy and creativity and resources in supporting law student well-being.”
Perhaps most startling is this data point, the article says: Nearly 70% of the law students thought they needed help in the last year for emotional or mental health problems. That figure is a big jump from the last time the survey was administered in 2014, when 42% reported thinking they needed help. …
Eleven percent of the law students had thought seriously about suicide in the past year, compared to 6% in 2014. Nearly 33% of the students reported they had thought about attempting suicide in their lifetime, up from 21% in 2014.
One could resort to the Old Lawyers Joke “What do you call 1,000 Lawyers at the Bottom of the Ocean – A Start”
or go to Shakespeare – “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – it’s a lawyer joke
As long as there are lawyer, there will be “lawyer jokes”. And lawyers will show how those jokes ring true by trying to explain how such lampooning really constitutes praise for their profession, thus by example justifying the jokes more than ever.
Repatriating those murderous stone age racist pieces of excrement would be a humanitarian and national security disaster – for this country.
Nice to see albonayzee becoming an absolute disaster as PM. No one could have predicted it, of course.
Panzer, where can one look up this chaps background ?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
July 16, 2022 at 7:01 am
I’m in here under fifty.
Well, it’s better than eighty!
Best wishes for the special birthday, Elizabeth. Hope the celebrations are memorable.
Whats the difference between a bottom dwelling scum sucker and a lawyer??
One is a fish.
Hate to disagree with Cassie, but if these ISIS creeps are not brought back to Australia then how will they be able to march in the ANZAC parade?
Don’t let us stop you. Think instead about how ending your pointless existences would work wonders for the klimate catastrophe and society in general. You’d also no longer exist on stolen land.
Bloody hell, barely scratched the surface regarding the multiple benefits that would accrue.
Twitter really sucks since the last update.
No-one’s tweets show up in your feed.
It’s full of ads & promoted tweets for things I have zero interest in.
It really demonstrates their data capabilities are awful.
David Hicks : bring him home.
ISIS brides : bring them home.
Assange : crickets.
Indeed, it is…he’s going to make Dutton look like a very credible alternative.
The worst possible scenario over the coming thee years is that Elbow just muddles through, loses his majority at the next election and is forced to form government with the Greens.
Can’t wait for the debate on the indigenous Voice.
Biden goes to MBS on his knees.
Please pump more oil.
MBS : No.
Oil rallies 2 bucks.
And/or the bloody performing teals, if any of them are re-elected.
If you can find a Quadrant article by Keith Windshuttle, entitled “The ABC and Corruption in High Places” from 29th June 2021 it refers to the father of Special K under the pseudonym “Master Joe”.
A enterprising Cat (not me) searched “Master Joe Melbourne” on news.com.au and got some interesting results.
Could there be a connection?
Who can say?
Every day a Teal voter dies.
Every day a Greens voter is born.
Tens or hundreds. Or thousands. Or millions, maybe. That’s not reporting, it’s speculation.
More accurate.
Keep in mind people lie to pollsters.
But your average Teal voter isn’t some youngster.
It’s the hormone replacement therapy set.
The Greens are coming for all political parties & alliances in Australia.
It’s the natural outcome from indoctrination.
I suspect their voters would have conniptions if they helped Snaggletooth get over the line.
Death taxes, anyone?
Sovereign citizens are up and about today:
JC, sounds like galaktoboureko. Was it covered in a light syrup? I love custard so it’s a favourite.
Thanks.
Just had a look.
Oh my.
Isn’t it Shine On & Co?
The Teals mobilised with great enthusiasm when SloM and the Lieborals were in power. I suspect it will be harder with the Liars on the government benches. This does not mean they are natural Liar voters.
Estate taxes are coming.
And über wealthy will not be impacted has it will all be structured to not impact them.
It will impact your middle class trying to give the next generation a better start than they had.
And a slice of the super pot too.
But hey, Australia has good weather & good food so don’t worry about the managerial class helping themselves to what you’ve built.
Calli, may I suggest “back into glowball warming” in your prediction?
‘bern.
Some say … that a further refined search for Master Joe Ballarat might turn up even more interestinger (?) results.
Eleven percent of the law students had thought seriously about suicide in the past year
Only of concern if it’s welders, concreters and machinists.
Nice to see albonayzee becoming an absolute disaster as PM. No one could have predicted it, of course.
Chauncey Gardener with artificial teeth.
It looks like the DeSantis executive order against PBM’s a few weeks back is already lowering the price of insulin in Florida.
How ever will Biden explain that away?
Greens policy for years.
Up to 300 people embarked on armed rampages causing significant injuries and property damage.
#TribalLife.
This is undoubtedly the coldest Sydney winter I’ve experienced. Currently eight degrees.
Thanks, gerbil worming.
Panzer, I’ve read enough & will leave it to others to go down that rabbit hole.
I just look forward to him being nominated for Father of the Year (is that still a thing?).
I remember Steve Vizard being awarded that before the…unpleasantness…
By 2040, a third of the Senate will be Green.
Saudi’s trying to keep a straight face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTpkdUPfwk
By 2040, a third of the Senate will be Green.
If most of the population of Melbourne starved to death what would the % be?
Thanks Rosie
Taxes on wealth (or other assets/stocks) rather than income (flows) would be a good thing. Unfortunately, like many of the changes mooted under the GST, we will end up with both.
Oh my indeed.
Of course, 7-Nilligan protrayed him as a cornerstone* of the community.
*I was going to say ‘buttress of the community’, but I am far too civilised for that sort of crudity.
Fnarr.
America, you must be VERY proud.
From the Comments
Political speedbump said…
I wish to thank the weak and woke industries and various attached minorities for totaly screwing the entire structure of society in you continued war against democracy and the idea of majority rules .
Your incessant rants and constant nibbling at societal norms ,completely enabled by a conga line off of suckhole politicions and inserted puppets within the Public service over decades have enabled your pissant crybaby approach to lifes challanges to appear to be dealt with more percieved importance than the vast majority. Who ,except within your own sad little world gives a f*ck about your weakwilled approach to anything remotely requiring a little intestonal fortitude .
I dont care how you choose to life your life , just live it and stop forcing your ideology down everyones throat like a friggin religon ,stop destroying the rest of society with your overbloated sense of “poor me” entitled bullshit .
Equality used to be fair and reasonable idea intended to better society progession , but it has been totaly hijacked by sad nutters ,the weak the corrupted and the connected for their own personal gains .People have been lifted to positions they dont deserve on merit , quotas have forced idiots and morons and gender benders to achieve high level jobs and public postions where they otherwise never had got past level one except for their whining and crying about their minority status. “Inclusion ” is now just a profitable industry alongside Charities the Indiginous and climate change .
God give me strength .
Didn’t she say he was some sort of social worker or parole officer or something?
I guess I’d think twice about breaching parole if I was going to cop the cat ‘o nine tails.
Can you provide a link or more info? Curiosity is getting to me.
Taxes on wealth (or other assets/stocks) rather than income (flows) would be a good thing.
err, how exactly? OK – if it hit mongrels like politicians then fair enough (that piece containing the revelations about how many properties labore pollies own did somewhat elevate my blood pressure). But as someone noted above, these imminent wealth taxes won’t be structured to do so – it will be saps like us that cop it in the neck (again).
There are enough bloody taxes as it is. The size of government needs to be wound back so it can “strangled in the bath”, so to speak.
This monstrous criminal profligacy must stop.
Is this Master Joe or am I meant to be looking at the Wing Chun Kung Fu web page?
https://leatherati.com/news-from-down-under-whats-happening-in-australia-a-look-at-melbourne-966e0ae28992
Therapeutic Albanese’s not gonna engage in Australian politics from O/S. Won’t be doing much PM-ing then.
Antonio Montana
@dnforca
The last thing #planeboy needs is a question about struggling Aussies while sipping cocktails in Fiji ???
It’s almost hilarious watching the ALP’s left wing (almost all of whom vote #1 Greens) devouring Elbow’s prime ministership with all the loony positions they’re now forcing him to take.
Imagine if the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals were even half-competent: the Elbow regime would be a one-term aberration from the Australian long-term preference for non-leftist governments.
Could be, Elon.
Could be.
SEVEN Aboriginal communities have chosen to remain as dry areas following a controversial decision to overturn a longstanding ban on booze sales for more than 400 remote communities.
This Sunday, alcohol will legally flow into previously dry communities across the Territory for the first time in 15 years.
The changes come as a result of the Associations and Liquor Amendment Bill 2022, which passed through parliament in May despite outcry from Aboriginal medical groups, legal advocates, social services, and the NT Police Association.
Communities were given the choice to ‘opt-in’ to a two-year extension to their dry community status.
On Friday, Liquor Licensing director Philip Timney declared an extension to alcohol bans for the Bagot, Bulman, Jodetluk, Knuckey Lagoon Indigenous Village, Palmerston Indigenous Village, Railway Dam, and Weemol community areas.
NT News
They might shed some support by then if the kidz can’t charge their phones and e-scooters reliably.
Rabzsays:
July 16, 2022 at 10:27 am
This is undoubtedly the coldest Sydney winter I’ve experienced. Currently eight degrees.
Thanks, gerbil worming.
Frost on rooftops north of Sydney and south of Newcastle.
bern
I remember Steve Vizard being awarded that before the…unpleasantness…
Remind me?
There’s a couple of clues there, starting with it sounds like something monty might write.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2022/dont-trust-the-myths-of-biology/
I looked. Eeeeeew!
Now to delete my browsing history.
Cool day today. Top of 27.
I’ll spend it outdoors anyway.
Stolen.
I know, right?
It’s like squishy road kill.
You don’t want to look but you can’t take you eyes off it.
Tulsi Gabbard: Biden is leading us closer and closer to the brink of a nuclear war with Russia. #FoxNews #TheIngrahamAngle
Must be at least a 50:50 proposition once Albo is actually required to start governing. R-G-R started with more goodwill (and seats?) and barely fell over the line for a 2nd term with the help of cowards and quislings.
The only “unpleasantness” I recall is a suggestion of insider trading whilst he was on the Telstra board.
can someone translate?
But more importantly – how did the rest of the dinner party go?
Reminds of that graph that plots number of commies thrown out of helicopters on the x axis against increases in GDP on the y axis. The inflexion point being where helicopter fuel starts to pay for itself.
This is undoubtedly the coldest Sydney winter I’ve experienced. Currently eight degrees.
Thanks, gerbil worming.
Same in the north as well. Yesterday morning into single figures again. Cold snaps usually come in ebbs and flows at this latitude however this year it has just stuck around.
Personally, over it. Bring on the transition back to the wet season.
Steve Vizard is best remembered for giving us Darryl the gay airline steward…
Titania McGrath can lift the most world-weary soul with “her” wonderful writing.
no.no. you are just not interpreting the numbers correctly, it’s the warmest winter ever!
That “nothing to do with tits” column is one of her best.
She left a napkin over her glass for the rest of the dinner.
governing? he was told it was just a little gardening
Elbow was elected unopposed and can only be deposed if 75% of the caucus agree to a spill.
Will be interesting to see how much of that caucus capital he expends during his first year.
Brisbane’s Cameron Smith, who leads the British Open (-13) by three shots after a 64, made 253 feet of putts in his second round – a record since the PGA first began compiling the statistic 20 years ago.
There was the constant ribbing of Jennifer Keyte for that supposed ER admission which is not very me too in hindsight.
My Cat-fu is broken this morning.
Having tried twice to link to a story or copy/paste it with no luck whatsoever, I’ll just write it.
The headmaster of SHORE in Sydney was dismissed yesterday.
You don’t see that happen too often in the rarefied atmosphere of GPS schooling.
If he keeps going with “the voice” there won’t be much left.
you mean it can get worse then the destruction of the agricultural industries, independent trucking industry, oil and gas exploration and production industries, electrical generation industry, incentive destroying taxation and regulations on, almost, everything, and confiscation of wealth in super accounts and deceased estates?
The other thing that’s going to put pressure on local members is cost of living.
Elbow will be arguing for special priveleges for a minority while the majority are watching their living standards contract week by week. And there’s no evidence yet that he’s aware of the poor “optics” that will ensue. Good.
Give it time…
He may have wanted them to some actual work rather than preening over their illustrious history.
Never, ever get the Old Boys off-side.
No. These are taxes on production. There should only be taxes on consumption.
It would create more state dependents.
My boss is already selling off land. Not long before he has to let me go if this keeps up.
How did this piece in the perversity of the Andrews government’s stance in energy ever get past the censors in the ABC politburo?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-16/energy-crisis-and-victoria/101220006
Presumably they were preoccupied with putting out the deranged ‘think’ piece in the fascist racist misogynistic American religious right which holds that the Dobbs judgement is part of a nefarious fascist theocratic conspiracy to undermine democracy. How dare they let elected legislatures decide instead of unelected judges?
If you listen to the arguments of those that claim there is no clear answer, they are the same as those applied to marriage. Oh, you say: a woman can get pregnant, what about this woman here that cannot get pregnant. Analogue: marriage is about procreation but, look over there, a married couple that is infertile. And so on. What you find is they trade on particular instances that depart from the normal case and claim that because of these departures we are unable to recognize a normal case. And yet they require the normal case in order to recognize the departures/ anomalies. It’s nominalism through and through.
by 2040 we’ll be half way back to the stone age
note how the globalist work on 10 year plans as opposed to the 5 year plans of communists. suppose its a bigger playground
What’s the difference between a skunk in the middle of the road and a lawyer in the middle of the road? There are skid marks around the skunk.
Why do psychologists prefer lawyers to rats for their laboratory experiments? Because there are some things a rat just won’t do.
I’ve just returned from my Pilates class and on the way home I buy a copy of The Oz. The front page has a big picture of two of the children of the ISIS brides, a little girl and a little boy. Instead of being moved and filled with compassion, I am reminded of the scene from Game of Thrones when the warlocks seek revenge on Daenerys Targaryen and send a warlock disguised as a child to kill her.
Am I cruel by not being moved by the plight of these children?
“It’s the hormone replacement therapy set.”
Correct. I know because I’ve had two confrontations with one of these ghastly women who I’ve basically had to tell to fuck off, pardon the language. And there are plenty of similar women in Woollahra and Paddington, very well off women who don’t give a rat’s arse about anyone and anything west of Sydney’s CBD.
No.