Open Thread – Tue 26 July 2022


The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, William Turner, 1835

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caveman
caveman
July 26, 2022 1:36 am

Uno

caveman
caveman
July 26, 2022 1:37 am

My life’s work is now complete.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 2:45 am

Tree.

Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 4:05 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 4:31 am

As a moronic Tigers fan I believe this Manly situation was concocted by the NRL to take attention away from the controversy over Sunday’s game.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 4:53 am

Labor open to deeper emissions cuts in Greens deal

From the Oz.
Eat shit Teals.
Eat shit Australia.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 5:23 am

And it will help save the planet.
I hope everyone who voted for Planet Saving enjoys the fruits.

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 6:13 am

Quite a few of them will, rosie.

Spiv Central.

On another note, I am watching a series on Youtube called Wartime Farming about agriculture in the UK during WWII. It’s not exactly deep, comprising a bunch of people pretending to be farmers during the war, with the usual corny ‘humour.’ But, I have learned a few things, such as:

– Grain prior to the war was mostly supplied via imports from the US and Canada – not surprisingly, UK farmers couldn’t compete in their green and soggy land. Hence, they had to quickly tear up millions of acres of pasture and convert it to grain fields.

– Consequently, beef and sheep were regarded as wasteful use of land, and were slaughtered to make room. Meat rations came, and shrank and shrank and shrank.

– Pigs became haram because they allegedly ate the same type of food as humans. The pig population fell by more than half.

– However, you were allowed to be in a ‘pig club’ where a few people got together and raised a single pig on food scraps and whatever else they could find.

– Farm dogs were also slaughtered when they had no sheep or cattle to herd and there was nothing to feed them on. Not eaten, though.

– Foot and mouth popped up here and there but nobody seemed too worried about it, except on site.

– The red dye used to prevent military petrol from being diverted could be removed by filtering it through a loaf of bread (true, they did it on camera); and

– I recommend The Divine Agatha’s A Murder is Announced as a primer on how postwar Britons subverted the hated rationing.

They are very soft on the sinister Ministry of Food, it’s all ‘patriotism and fairness.’ In fact, the Ministry was a typical socialist outfit which actually reduced productivity, but that is a story for another day.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 26, 2022 6:18 am

Biden appoints pro-crime appellate judge – the stacking continues.
Powerline Blog
link

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 26, 2022 6:36 am

Brilliant summary of where US politics is at now, and has been over the recent past, with special reference to Trump and The Swamp, from American Thinker.
Link

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 6:39 am

Everybody and his dog plant avocados, with predictable results:

Smashed on toast, tossed in a salad, or blended in a smoothie; whichever way you eat your avocados, farmers are pleading for consumers to eat more of them.
Key points:

An oversupply of avocados in Australia has driven prices to a record low
Growers are struggling to meet the cost of production
Increased consumption and exports will be required to stop fruit going to waste

A new report by agribusiness bank Rabobank said Australian growers would this year produce 22 avocados per Australian, up 26 per cent on last year’s figures.

and

Avocado production has boomed in Australia in recent years with enormous growth between 2017 and 2019, the report said.

“Each year, during that period, over 1,000 hectares of avocado trees were planted, and [those] trees are still to mature and still to produce avocados,” Ms Piggott said.

“This year, we’ve seen a large increase, particularly in WA, with acreage maturing there.

“And for the next few years, we’re going to see that increase all across Australia.”

As I mentioned in my recent supermarket survey, they are now about a buck each. At this rate, they’ll be 25 cents in a few years.

Here’s the dirty secret about avocados. Years ago, I rented a house in inner Sydney which had an old avocado tree in the backyard. The soil was poor, it never got a scrap of attention, and it produced far more fruit than I and my friends, acquaintances and workmates could consume.

Good avo trees are indestructible.

A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money in the years ahead.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 6:40 am

Excellent artwork once more this morning.

Anchor What
Anchor What
July 26, 2022 6:44 am

World food production is under threat from the leftist climateers and globalist Malthusians. It was also a biblical prophecy and some of my Christian friends have been warning about it for a year or more, and laying down stock of non-perishables while at the same time building some self-sufficiency in food production at home.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 6:46 am

Real Deal, at 12.01 a.m. on the OOT:

David Warner has died.

Almost sent my heart aflutter. Then I realised that I don’t actually want the loathsome little ferret dead. Even crippled is going a bit too far – he’s midget, a leftie and a ranga as it is.

He can just go and work at a servo in Cobar for the rest of his days, standing on tiptoe so he can see over the counter. There.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 7:01 am

Paul Sorvino, long-time gangster actor and Goodfellas star dies in his sleep. A statement said there were no suspicious circumstances.

Ray Liotta died the other day. No suspicious circumstances, they said. Pesci and de Niro better keep their wits about them.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
July 26, 2022 7:11 am

Post War Britain food rationing. Churchill asked what all the fuss was about and requested to see what was being rationed to the population for a family of four. He looked at what was served up and saw no problem with the daily provisions. Until it was pointed out to him these were provisions for one month.

My father fled Britain as soon as he was old enough. He arrived in Australia having never seen first hand an orange nor banana. We really were the lucky country.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 7:12 am

David Warner has died.

He was an excellent Evil in Time Bandits. Always liked his work.

David Warner dead: Titanic and Omen star dies aged 80 as family say ‘We are heartbroken’ (25 Jul)

Not sure whether he ever played cricket though.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 26, 2022 7:13 am

Just listened to a BBC radio thing on vegan food. The contortions they put good ordinary basic products through to create eg vegan Camembert is ridiculous, expensive and wasteful imho. What’s wrong with eating a carrot? No, it has to be dehydrated, squeezed, combined with seaweed and salt and made to look like a chicken nugget before a veggie person will eat it. Thankfully, I suspect that energy prices will put an end to most of these factory fantasies.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 7:14 am

Joh, did they mention private Victory Gardens? Apparently they are becoming a “thing” again. From experience, home veggie and fruit growing is fraught – what the pests leave behind, the birds get.

Tolkien characterised post war Britain beautifully in his chapter “The Scouring of the Shire”, with its subsequent community decay and plethora of Rules.

Unlike the Shire, Britain used its dominions to feed the industrial powerhouse. Perhaps it was more like Isengard in that respect.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 7:19 am

Anchor, having a vast cache of food is fine…until the Gatherers and Redistributers come knocking. And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.

Mater
July 26, 2022 7:23 am

Anchor, having a vast cache of food is fine…until the Gatherers and Redistributers come knocking. And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.

You can be prepared for anything.
Most importantly, you must be prepared to defend your preparations.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 7:30 am

The Russian blacklist got decent coverage.
Ukraine released one on the 14th July but I must have missed the coverage.

https://unherd.com/thepost/ukraine-government-issues-blacklist-of-russian-propagandists/

For some reason Glenn Greenwald is on it.
Must be a mistake.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 7:32 am

The kiddies are revolting.

House Staffers Arrested After Protesting in Schumer’s Office (25 Jul)

Six House staffers on Monday were arrested by Capitol Police after they staged a protest inside the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demanding he resume negotiations on a climate bill, Axios reports.

Staffers for five congressional Democrats, including Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri, Ro Khanna of California, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, were arrested after they refused to leave Schumer’s office, where they had been pushing for him to reopen negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on a bill to address climate change.

This is a problem for the elite Dems. They may not believe in Gaia but their party workers do – this was clear from Project Veritas doing separate undercover interviews of two Bernie staffers. Both were seriously crazy on global warming stuff.

sfw
sfw
July 26, 2022 7:34 am

Calli, for me the problem with growing your own is that you either get way more than you can possible use or famine. I can see how communal gardens can be a solution, having like minded people with a wide variety of crops around would allow for trade and reduce waste. I have two apple trees, a Granny Smith and a Red Delicious, in a good year I must get close to a thousand or more apples, there’s no way to use even a small fraction, so they just rot away, this area is full of similar trees, nobody wants them in season.

duncanm
duncanm
July 26, 2022 7:34 am

rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 5:20 am
I suppose the Victorian will save money ending a few CBD leases.
Sure, the Premier says he knows this will create “challenges” for CBD businesses but people are “happier, more efficient, more productive” at home.

so a large chunk of the Vic PS will now lounge about at home.

I hope the govt workers comp insurance is up to date. There’ll be all sorts of new ‘work’ injuries.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 7:36 am

Walmart drops 10% after market.
I think markets have to get their head around inventory build.
Bad excess inventory, food & women’s apparel.
Good excess inventory, guns & ammo & auto components.

Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2022 7:36 am
Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 7:39 am

As a moronic Tigers fan I believe this Manly situation was concocted by the NRL to take attention away from the controversy over Sunday’s game.

Nah…you can chalk it up to Manly’s spectacularly dumb marketing people who didn’t bother to consult playes over it because they assume everyone is on board with normalising sexual perversion.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 26, 2022 7:39 am

Avocados, like olives in the past, attracted the feel good investment class with the same results.

High cost plantings and long lag times to production kept the smashed Ponzi scheme going until the glut of production kicked in. Unfortunately long term growers are crucified along the way. They would have known this was coming.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 7:50 am

Headline in the Tele:

Monkeypox cases rise in Australia as WHO declares global outbreak an emergency

A highlight of the piece:

Infectious diseases expert Dr Paul Griffin said globally case numbers are following an “alarming trajectory”.

What’s alarming is that there isn’t a media campaign telling faaabulous interior designers and Canberra staffers to stop riding bareback with five other blokes at a time.

“Two weeks ago, we were below 10,000. Now we’re over 16,000. It is increasing in … case numbers around the world and it’s a bit of an alarming trajectory that clearly needs a response to try and slow that down,” he told ABC’s Radio National.

Here’s a response.

‘Attention poofs. Stop jazz handing, and making your problem everyone else’s problem. Sort it out yourselves without becoming the centrepiece of conversation for once.’

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
July 26, 2022 7:51 am

I hope the govt workers comp insurance is up to date. There’ll be all sorts of new ‘work’ injuries.

WFH in Melbourne my work required me to complete a check list and sign off a declaration my home was fully compliant with all building regulations and was a safe work environment. I have an older style house and have maintained to a reasonable standard but to be fully compliant would require $,000 . I promptly sat on the form until they chased me up…which they never did. Overreach by our legal department. But I knew they were covering their arses in case something happened and I needed to put a claim in.

Be interesting to see how the Public services are managing their way through this.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 26, 2022 7:52 am

Monkeypox is love, bigots.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 7:53 am

Manly’s spectacularly dumb marketing people who didn’t bother to consult playes over it

The marketing people are driven by money and social media. They assume everyone else is motivated the same way.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2022 7:54 am

Both were seriously crazy

Fixed it for you BoN.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 7:56 am

Re Manly, sponsors were told that the players were all cool with it.
Or at least some of them were.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2022 7:57 am

Monkeypox is love, bigots.

and gonorrhea is the glue that holds it together. Sorry.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 7:58 am

You can be prepared for anything.
Most importantly, you must be prepared to defend your preparations.

Agreed, Mater. Been there, done that. But I’m not prepared to be axed to death over a tin of soup.

duncanm
duncanm
July 26, 2022 7:58 am

Another one bites the dust

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2022 8:00 am

Not sure whether he ever played cricket though.

He did have some sandpaper so he may have.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 8:02 am

Apprehensive this morning.
Going to the dentist.
For some reason I don’t like two people shoving their fingers & probes in my mouth.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2022 8:05 am

he’s midget, a leftie and a ranga as it is.

Sounds like me without being a midget at 100kg and 187cm. I have other attributes you will find disdainful as well.

Crossie
Crossie
July 26, 2022 8:05 am

I have just heard Janet Yellen declare the recession necessary and appropriate. In other words, a recession we had to have. Who knew she graduated from the Paul Keating School of Economics.

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 8:07 am

I can’t comprehend how a business worth millions of dollars (Manly Sea Eagles) could have blundered like this.

Israel Folau was one man, and his courage is tops. But, in what universe did the intelligensia that run Manly imagine that their seven Islander players, devout Christians, would roll over?

Or, did they not even know that about their top players? Fuzzie Wuzzies, cheery chaps? What?

Sports administrators are the thickerati epitomised.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 8:09 am

Re Manly, sponsors were told that the players were all cool with it.
Or at least some of them were.

So not only are they spectacularly dumb but also liars or, at the least, dissemblers.

Is this common in marketing types, I wonder?

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2022 8:17 am

Anchor, having a vast cache of food is fine…until the Gatherers and Redistributers come knocking. And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.

The government IS your local crime gang … and district, and regional, and state, and national….

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 8:18 am

Very clever Spooner cartoon this morning. Cheers as always Tom.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 26, 2022 8:22 am

Bugger avocados.
Need constant water and fert, pick by hand, prune with chainsaw and FEL.
Not sure they’re much under any sort of monorail scheme, Gez. Not in WA at least, any reasonable plantation here has been put in by a single desk operation, and a farmer who has secured water, power and shipping routes.
Bloke this way sold out of his operation, which I think might have been the largest in the southern hemisphere, for megabucks, at the peak of the market.
I was having a casual chat and saying to him, “you know, your avos are in the same sweet spot which oranges once were in the southern US- easy to handle, long storage, supported by the health hype and menu setters- but beware the turning of the tide!!!! You might only have fifty or sixty years of this crazy ride left!!!!!!!”
Two years later, he was out, to the tune of $220m.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 8:23 am

Good avo trees are indestructible.
A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money in the years ahead.

Possibly taxpayers. Will an avo pull join the grape pull? In the US, I think Mexican crime gangs control supply from over the border.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 8:24 am

Beats riding on a flying horse.

El Al to operate direct flights from Israel to Australia – via Saudi Arabia (25 Jul)

Flight from Israel to Australia expected to take 15 hours, and if approved will make El Al the only airline to fly that route.

El Al Director General Dina Ben Tal Ganancia on Monday said that the airline will operate direct flights from Israel to Australia.

In her statement, made at a tourism conference, Ben Tal Ganancia said that the flights were subject to the approval of their passage over Saudi Arabian airspace, which El Al hopes to receive.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 8:28 am

Labor open to deeper emissions cuts in Greens deal

Time for one of those polls that asks ordinary Australians how much they are prepared to forego from ever tightening household budgets in order to save the planet, which is doing just fine, btw.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2022 8:29 am

Kellie-Jay Keen, like me a believer in human biology, like me a believer that females should have the right to their own safe spaces sans biological men hanging around, like me a critic of the ludicrous idea that just because some pervert calls himself a woman, it doesn’t make him a woman, like me a believer that only biological females give birth, like me is someone who doesn’t believe that “transwomen are women” yesterday received a visit from the Wiltshire police (she lives in Wiltshire UK). They had no warrant and Keen asked them why they were at her house and they responded………

“for being untoward about pedophiles”.

Apart from the fact that this is what happens when police are politicised, this is the dystopian reality of what is and has always been behind the whole sinister movement of LTBTQRSTARSE, we have been gaslighted, we have been coerced and we have been bullied into accepting perversion, it didn’t stop with SSM (which is why I voted NO), it will not stop with children being surgically and medically mutilated, it is about the sexualisation of children and adults having sexual access to children. Last week Twitter banned the word “groomer”, this week a woman is visited by the police for being mean about pedophiles.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 26, 2022 8:30 am

Maori-Warringah forgetting their Polynesian base is pretty funny.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 8:32 am

From the Oz report on the Manly Love Beagles jersey controversy:-

On religious grounds, the dissenting players have told their managers they will pull out if forced to play in the one-off jumper. That’s despite Manly’s major sponsor, Pointsbet, being a gambling company, while the stadium, 4 Pines Park, is named after an alcoholic brewing company.

What?
They are being criticised for not protesting about punting and drinking as well?

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 8:35 am

When you read books like Hollywood Babylon and its many updates, you get a sense of what happens in professional sport.

I was briefly employed by and became friends with a senior figure in the NSW Rugby League, himself a former player.

He was an interesting and affable character. One night after a longish boozy dinner, we were talking about very credible rape allegations regarding a player.

‘We have to fix it up. It’s part of the job.’

Anyone who imagines that professional sport is not like this is delusional.

sfw
sfw
July 26, 2022 8:37 am

At ‘The Spectator’ there’s an article by Bev McArthur, explaining why Andrews and Labor must lose the election. Trouble is that McArthur is a Lib pollie and not once in the article does she write about the failings of the Libs, either she really doesn’t know how bad the Libs are or she does but won’t admit it. Either way she’s not fit for power, just like her party.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/danistan-extending-or-exiling-an-era/

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 8:39 am

BREAKING

Dom Perrottet bows to calls to permanently fly Pride flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 8:39 am

Wally Dalí says:
July 26, 2022 at 8:22 am

Bugger avocados.
Need constant water and fert, pick by hand, prune with chainsaw and FEL.

Did you read a word of what I said?

Avocado tree in poor soil in inner Sydney, no care, fruited like mad.

Stop making stuff up.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 8:44 am

That’s despite Manly’s major sponsor, Pointsbet, being a gambling company, while the stadium, 4 Pines Park, is named after an alcoholic brewing company.

They’re Christians, not wowsers. The two concepts aren’t necessarily joined at the hip.

Some of the priests getting around in boyhood were the biggest pisswrecks going around, and didn’t mind a punt either.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 8:44 am

Stop making stuff up.

🙂

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 8:46 am

Paul Sorvino was in early seasons of Law and Order. Got himself written out because shooting outdoors was messing with his singing voice.
I liked him in that role.
83 year old dying in his sleep seems normal.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 26, 2022 8:47 am

There’s a huge difference between seed grown backyard avocado trees
and commercial plants.
One is all tree and seed, the other produces edible fruit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2022 8:48 am

Post War Britain food rationing.

Food rationing in Britain lasted until 1954 – rationing in defeated Germany had ceased some time before that……

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 8:48 am

They’re Christians, not wowsers.

A very strange non secateur to draw I thought.
Simply ignorance?
Or an attempt to paint the seven as just common or garden homophobes, and not true Christians?
It had a whiff of Bandana-Logic about it.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2022 8:48 am

Should Manly players have to wear the club’s pride jersey?
Yes 18 %
No 82 %
6839 votes

From the Oz this morning.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 8:48 am

BREAKING
Dom Perrottet bows to calls to permanently fly Pride flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge

About time. QANTAS isn’t there by accident.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 8:49 am

rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 5:20 am

The masks are really dropping off now arent they?
Highly credentialed mongs in the PS now exempt themselves from attending the office based on the “we are just as productive at home” story.
Without realizing the flip side of that statement, they are just as unproductive at work as if they arent there.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 8:51 am

Even the most rubbish inner city Sydney soil is no match for Perf sand (unless you’re in Botany sand belt).

I have had to change the way I fertilise and garden since moving here onto sand. The amount of organic material that has to be put in beggars belief, plus the absence of trace elements (especially manganese) due to mining. Also weird fluctuations in pH over the site. It just goes on and on. Rock minerals help, but they are expensive.

Avos love slightly acidic, clay based soils. I get why a Perth gardener would struggle.

Beertruk
July 26, 2022 8:51 am

Ooooo….top 100…

Bar Beach Swimmer
July 26, 2022 8:51 am

Tolkien characterised post war Britain beautifully in his chapter “The Scouring of the Shire”, with its subsequent community decay and plethora of Rules

Before Brexit, there was a great doco with limited UK distribution and could be also viewed on-line that put the case for the UK tossing out the EU.

The background to how the UK ended up in the great European bureaucratic purgatory of rule making showed that winning the war meant that the country lost the re-build.

Unlike Germany under Adenauer, the UK essentially retained all the heavy load of rules and more that were introduced during the war years because it could, and then post war added to them.

Germany, otoh, had to clear the decks and start over because it was destroyed. Quickly, it out ran the UK and became a manufacturing power. The film is called, Brexit: the movie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 8:52 am

The paleface/longnose/tax leach tribe assembles for action.

Serious question.
Is any of those assembled actually what (to use a haram wording) is considered a pure blooded Aboriginal?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 8:52 am

They’re Christians, not wowsers. The two concepts aren’t necessarily joined at the hip.

Can anyone find a Bible verse which bans punting or drinking?
After all, Jesus didn’t turn water into Fanta.
What does Titus say?

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 8:52 am

The Gardener’s Lament:

Sand = minimum backbreak, maximum heartache

😀

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 8:52 am

The Unions have jumped on the WFH bandwagon. Make of that what you will.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 8:53 am

Dom Perrottet bows to calls to permanently fly Pride flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Since they’ve decided building another flagpole is too expensive it would be fun to see them tie themselves in knots which flag is higher than which.

Do you fly the abo flag above the rainbow flag (thereby miffing qwerties)? Do you fly the rainbow flag below the Australia flag (ebil nationalism…)? You sure can’t have the abo flag on the same pole as the Oz flag, that would cause incandescent rage no matter whether on top or bottom.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 8:53 am

That’s despite Manly’s major sponsor, Pointsbet, being a gambling company, while the stadium, 4 Pines Park, is named after an alcoholic brewing company.

So they’re (this line has also been pushed on social media) trying to frame the players as hypocrites while pushing the rainbow flag on them in the name of inclusion.

Bar Beach Swimmer
July 26, 2022 8:53 am

Tom, Warren this morning.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 8:54 am

From mole’s link.

There are 11 First Nations members in the 47th parliament …

There’s your “Voice” then.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 8:54 am

I haven’t ventured into the cbd for a very long time.

abc on small commercial tenancies

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 8:57 am

Cheeri – uppi stuff Billie Jean live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOj_xsc-EBM

Outstanding.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 8:57 am
calli
calli
July 26, 2022 8:57 am

What does Titus say?

Good question.

Titus 1:7-9

7 Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8 Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

So…drinking alcohol is okay, just not drunkenness.

As for “dishonest gain”, you might stretch that to gambling because the “gain” involves no actual work. But it is a stretch.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 8:59 am

Perth sand has to be seen to be believed. My mates father owned and operated a sand pit in the middle of suburban Perth. They had a contract to take landfill from one of the largest LGAs for decades and still didn’t fill the hole. Yellow sand all the way down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2022 9:00 am

There’s your “Voice” then.

The argument is that those members are there to represent their electorates, not Indigenous people as such.

I’ll bet good money that the “voice” will be made up of what used to be rather rudely known as “air-conditioned Aborigines”, who have never set foot in an outback community, in their lives.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2022 9:01 am

Rationing in Japan post-WWII ceased before rationing in the UK did.

Beertruk
July 26, 2022 9:01 am

And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.

I thought they were one and the same.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 9:04 am

Calli – gardening in Perth is all about compost/organics and mulch. The sand also goes water resistant as well. Go figure.

Mater
July 26, 2022 9:04 am

Rationing in Japan post-WWII ceased before rationing in the UK did.

Were they allowed to drink irradiated milk? 😉

Franx
Franx
July 26, 2022 9:05 am

WFH (as distinct from being self-employed) makes the home less so since the home is under the scrutiny and mandates of some external organisation. The home is thus not far from being owned by that organisation, irrespective of whether the home is owned by the worker – or rented.
And to think, too, that WFH can mean and has already meant that the worker, never meeting with colleagues or setting foot in HQ, is forced to be triple jabbed.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:05 am

And then you can only hope they’re from the government and not a local crime gang.

The crims might at least be willing to negotiate.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 9:05 am

My mother remembers my grandmother having a suitcase full of hoarded food during the war.
If you wanted to make jam sugar was very precious.
we had a bit of rationing here too.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2022 9:06 am

Australian Defence Force spending $14m to buy uniforms from China

Despite being our biggest security threat, the Australian Defence Force is spending tens of millions of dollars a year buying our gear from China.

The Australian Defence Force is spending up to $14m a year buying uniforms and other apparel from China.

Despite being Australia’s biggest security threat, China makes service dress uniforms and ceremonial clothing including shirts, skirts, trousers and jackets for the Australian army, navy and air force.

Chinese firms also provide the Australian Federal Police, a key agency in countering foreign interference, with just over a third of its uniform and personal equipment.

Chinese companies are now selling the ADF sporting attire, non-combat footwear, wet-weather gear and general personal protective clothing including hi-vis vests, coveralls, safety goggles and gloves, the ADF has confirmed.

The imports, largely from Shandong province in eastern China, represent the biggest foreign input for defence clothing.

Australian-made garments make up 70 per cent of the total spend.

While 14 per cent of the ADF’s annual $90-100m clothing budget goes to China, Australia’s standard combat uniform across all three arms of service and the iconic slouch hat are two product lines required by the federal government to be made in Australia.

Herald-Sun

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 9:07 am

A disturbing little side note on monkeypox.

A new research paper on 528 monkeypox cases in 16 countries lays out that 98% of the people infected were gay or bisexual men, 75% of them were white, and 41% had HIV. No women were among the cases, and 95% of cases were thought to be linked to sexual transmission.

It appears that blokes who have AIDs are not only rooting a lot of other chaps, but doing so without taking precautions.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2022 9:07 am

Serious question.
Is any of those assembled actually what (to use a haram wording) is considered a pure blooded Aboriginal?

Linda Burney’s mother was Scots, Pat Dodson’s father was an Irish shearer….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 9:08 am

Were they allowed to drink irradiated milk?

Only if they cried while doing it.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:08 am

Rationing in Japan post-WWII ceased before rationing in the UK did.

Japan was occupied by the Americans.

Britain got a socialist government.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 26, 2022 9:09 am

Hmm Rosie.
I wonder when the central planners of the TaliDan regime will propose stepping in to buy the freeholds so the elites can continue to enjoy the fruits of Labor.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 9:09 am

Food in the UK is pretty precarious even without a war. Remember reading the label on some snow peas – massively overpackaged and flown in from Zimbabwe. Australian farmers market it ain’t.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 26, 2022 9:12 am

Oh FFS Johanna, back off.
I’m talking about commercially maximized production.
I had two trees grown from seed sheltered in front of the house, they were enormous and one of them constantly dropping fruit, surviving only on random chook droppings. But it’s delusional to think I could plant 1998 more alongside in an open paddock, leave them for five years and bank on the same results.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 9:13 am

Breaking news.
Commercial crops require fertiliser and pest control.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:14 am

The argument is that those members are there to represent their electorates, not Indigenous people as such.

Yet I’d wager not one of them doesn’t imagine they’re there to represent indigenous people.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 9:14 am

Read a good little book on rationing in wartime.
Boxed up now and cant remember the title.
Was quite clear on the corrupting and distorting effects on the general population as those who would never consider themselves crims found themselves dealing with them for a kg of pork chops.

The sheer number of petty empowered bureaucrats sent out to “manage” people were never going to just go away once the war finished.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 9:16 am

The sand also goes water resistant as well.

Happens here too. Hydrophobic – it actually repels water. You need a wetting agent (surfactant) to get the water to “stick” and it takes forever. Has something to do with ions and anions.

The other grisly truth – ants. They love living in it and their activity not only depletes the soil of any organic material (which they steal) but they add to the water repellence through the chemicals they excrete. And when the organic material runs out, they start on the roots.

On the upside – I haven’t bent the tines on the border fork like I used to do in Sydney.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2022 9:18 am

Britain got a socialist government.

I’ve seen the Attlee Government described as the most fiercely Socialist that Britain ever had.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 9:18 am

No, it has to be dehydrated, squeezed, combined with seaweed and salt and made to look like a chicken nugget before a veggie person will eat it.

When my sister turned vegetarian she did so in an entirely unobtrusive way. She didn’t demand special treatment, gave us no lectures, has no problem with people turning up with meat dishes for functions at her place. In fact, she married a man who loves beef.

But I did used to enjoy teasing her at the way so many vegan types (of which she his not) labour and struggle to make their non-meat food look like meat. She did like the tofu patties – because they were tofu, not because they were fake beef.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:18 am

Food in the UK is pretty precarious even without a war.

15 days without rain is a drought in the UK.

Mater
July 26, 2022 9:18 am

Anyone seen Ed recently?
His stupidity is conspicuously absent.
I fear he might have snagged a couple of foreign hitchhikers (after the Covid drought) and is too busy working on them in the basement to bless this blog with his Google inspired insights.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 9:20 am

This food scare stuff is silly.
Haven’t Sri Lankans heard of uber eats?
Zero sympathy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2022 9:21 am

His stupidity is conspicuously absent

Pay that one, Mater.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 9:22 am

You need a wetting agent (surfactant) to get the water to “stick” and it takes forever.

Black and gold detergent is your (cheap) friend.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2022 9:23 am

Do you fly the abo flag above the rainbow flag (thereby miffing qwerties)?

Which raises a number of crucially important points:

When are we going to see a QWERTY Voice to Parliament?

And what about an Incel flag?
Or one for Sex Doll Enthusiasts?
Or solitary wankers?

Why are we not celebrating the way everyone goes about their intimate relationships.

johanna
johanna
July 26, 2022 9:23 am

Blockquote fail coming up.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
July 26, 2022 at 8:48 am

Post War Britain food rationing.

Food rationing in Britain lasted until 1954 – rationing in defeated Germany had ceased some time before that……

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
July 26, 2022 at 8:48 am

Post War Britain food rationing.

Food rationing in Britain lasted until 1954 – rationing in defeated Germany had ceased some time before that……

Yep, just like the bureaucrats said things like – great news – you are now allowed to exercise for another hour! Congratulations! How happy you must be!

British farmers suffered horrible loss of their many generational livestock and plant breeding work, thanks to the Minstry of Food.

Getting their claws off food production took a very long time.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2022 9:25 am

It’s a bit sad the full “pride round” concept might not make it in Rugby. The commentary would have been something else.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2022 9:27 am

Perth sand has to be seen to be believed. My mates father owned and operated a sand pit in the middle of suburban Perth. They had a contract to take landfill from one of the largest LGAs for decades and still didn’t fill the hole. Yellow sand all the way down.
About 1800 meters deep. There is a demarkation line through Perth. Yellow sand one side, with iron oxides in it and basically almost pure silicon dioxide the other side (white) with some organic impurities.

Daffy
Daffy
July 26, 2022 9:27 am

Heck, I hit the ‘report’ button thinking it was a ‘reply’ button to Rosie.
So my reply:
What is this ‘save the planet’. I wonder. It’s a way of diverting attention from the fact that the ‘planet’ is for people, otherwise it is meaningless. So…make life better for people? Well, we know how to do that: free markets, rule of law for all, governments not tinkering with things of which they know naught…and that’s anything important.
But the Greens and Teals, let alone the ALP and the Libs know none of this and want to destroy the peace, livelihoods and wealth of as many as possilbe.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 26, 2022 9:28 am

Anyone seen Ed recently?

Mother has allowed him to take the clothes peg off.
He’ll be back if Mother catches him touching his dirty bits and the peg goes on.
Again.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 26, 2022 9:33 am

Jab jab booster booster, hope I’m not boring you………………………

While the COVID-19 vaccines did serve to temporarily protect at-risk populations by boosting immune antibodies, a combination of vaccine durability challenges (e.g… the novel products waned in effectiveness over the months) and a rapidly mutating RNA virus have led to what still becomes a dangerous situation for the elderly and immunocompromised, even if they are fully vaccinated and boosted. TrialSite has reported on this phenomenon in Australia, where twice the people (mostly elderly) died in the first twelve weeks of 2022 than all of 2020 and 2021 combined. Given the majority of the population was immunized by the end of 2021, the vast majority of deaths in 2022 Down Under were fully vaccinated persons. This trend was observed in New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and elsewhere.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/bureaucrats-bombshell-as-dr.-birx-declares-we-overplayed-vaccines-only-hope-for-elderly-now-paxlovid-testing-ed750c81

Real Deal
Real Deal
July 26, 2022 9:33 am

KD
Paul Sorvino, long-time gangster actor and Goodfellas star dies in his sleep. A statement said there were no suspicious circumstances.

That is sad. His daughter was monstered by Weinstein. He recently had some brutal words for him.

Sorvino played a great gangster in The Rocketeer (1991). When confronted by Nazis he had a great line; “I may not earn an honest dollar, but I’m 100 percent American.” Underrated movie.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:34 am

Morrison absent from parliament.

In Tokyo for a speaking gig along with other ex-leaders such as David Cameron, Stephen Harper & John Key. To the best of my knowledge, none of them are still sitting members though.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 9:36 am

Given the majority of the population was immunized by the end of 2021, the vast majority of deaths in 2022 Down Under were fully vaccinated persons. This trend was observed in New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and elsewhere.

A recent German in vitro study found vaccine stimulated antibodies had all but disappeared after three months.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 26, 2022 9:36 am
Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 9:40 am

Test.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 9:40 am

Big_Nambas

Now come on… only nearly 1/2 of them also have AIDs as well.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 9:42 am

Happens here too. Hydrophobic – it actually repels water. You need a wetting agent (surfactant) to get the water to “stick” and it takes forever. Has something to do with ions and anions.

I thought it was something to do with bacteria and some coating they put around the sand grains. I’ve got a bottle of wetting agent somewhere and pull it out when it really gives me the shits. It’s worse under eaves and anywhere that doesn’t get natural rain. Everyone is using clays and bentonite now which wasn’t the case 20 years ago. There is a much better range of additives now.

Zipster
Zipster
July 26, 2022 9:43 am

Apart from the fact that this is what happens when police are politicised, this is the dystopian reality of what is and has always been behind the whole sinister movement of LTBTQRSTARSE, we have been gaslighted, we have been coerced and we have been bullied into accepting perversion, it didn’t stop with SSM (which is why I voted NO), it will not stop with children being surgically and medically mutilated, it is about the sexualisation of children and adults having sexual access to children. Last week Twitter banned the word “groomer”, this week a woman is visited by the police for being mean about pedophiles.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Unfortunately it seems the conservatives are not up to the fight against the woke, globalists and gaians. Half of the conservatives are WEF grads or admirers and the other half are clueless. Unless a new party rises from the ashes of spineless conservatives then this will accelerate the downfall.

Mater
July 26, 2022 9:45 am

Sorvino played a great gangster in The Rocketeer (1991). When confronted by Nazis he had a great line; “I may not earn an honest dollar, but I’m 100 percent American.” Underrated movie.

It is indeed.
Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 9:45 am

I made a comment once before about the vegans and their children storybook attitude to animals.

Animals raised on farms live protected from predators, are kept healthy, have plenty to eat, and die as instantly as we can manage. The life of animals in the wild is one of being at the mercy of the elements, where disease or old age would offer a lingering painful death, where (were an animal capable of conceptualising it) their best hope would be the swift dissolution of having a predator snatch them suddenly and rend them to bloody pieces, to plow at full tilt into a window and break their neck (bird specialty), or tumble from a very high rockface and hope their braincase is dashed to pieces at the bottom.

Or, for those that venture near human settlements there is always the sweet kiss of steel from too unconcernedly meandering across a road in front of a car.

I was on my balcony the other day and saw that a magpie had entangled its head or neck in the bamboo of the property behind. Every once in a while it would flap its wings hoping to get it just right so it could escape. All around it other magpies (and miners and mynas and cockatoos etc) just carried on doing their thing. Darting too and fro, singing, screeching, looking for food, and so on. Well, birds are like that.

The next day the magpie was still there. Still occasionally flapping, but increasingly feebly. Next morning it was inert. Dead. Hanging by its neck.

Those two days would have been agony. Panic, fear, and frustration, and then hunger and thirst (and possibly choking) would have taken over. Two days to deplete the resources of the animal until it died.

If a person did something like that to an animal they would be sent for psychological tests. No human would countenance an animal being made to suffer like that. And yet nature does not bat a metaphorical eyelid.

I know* when I eat my eye fillet that the beast was likely nervous in the minutes up to the moment a steel bold stove the part of his skull in and annihilated its brain. Probably the best end an animal could hope for.

* To be clear, knowing does not mean I am thinking about it. I would say that I know how to drive even when I am not driving. IF I did think about the cow I would be thinking that it was a quick end. Just don’t want people thinking I relish the actual killing. Off to the psych if I did.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 26, 2022 9:50 am

In other AG news.
The general consensus in the grain trade is that Russia can’t be trusted to uphold it’s end of the Ukraine/Turkey deal.
The market can smell propaganda from a mile off.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 26, 2022 9:50 am

It is beyond belief that this could be the next leader of the free world, FMD.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1551234994911182848

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 26, 2022 9:55 am

thefrollickingmole says:
July 26, 2022 at 9:40 am

Big_Nambas

Now come on… only nearly 1/2 of them also have AIDs as well.

We were far to quick in developing a cure for AIDS.

Beertruk
July 26, 2022 10:01 am

Tim did say this:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Tim 5:23).

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 10:01 am

It is beyond belief that this could be the next leader of the free world, FMD.

The governmental response to covid across the Western world – with the exception of Sweden – suggests we were never as free as we thought.

calli
calli
July 26, 2022 10:01 am

I thought it was something to do with bacteria and some coating they put around the sand grains.

You’re right. Got my anions and cations mixed up with pH and fertility. And ants. Never ever forget the ants.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 10:03 am

Never ever forget the ants.

Any kind of ants? Or react-ants?

You need a pHD for this stuff.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2022 10:04 am

Climate bill update

Chris Bowen is giving an update on Labor’s climate legislation – with having the Climate Change Authority advise on how the government should approach its emissions reduction targets:

The Climate Change Authority to advise Government in an open and transparent way on future targets. The Climate Change Authority was set up by previous Labor governments to do so.

The Climate Change Authority should be a trusted voice to government in an open and transparent policymaking sense in the future.

It’ll also advise government again on progress, on complying with our targets and will do so in an open and transparent way and, of course, the legislation will require me and future ministers of the day to report transparently to Parliament on progress in targets and actions and policies adopted to meet them and what actions the Government is taking.

What is transparent is that the horrid little shit is setting up blame deflection for the coming disaster.

We are simply following the guidance of the trusted and widely respected independent Climate Change Aughority. Cold showers by candle light is a small price to pay…”

Real Deal
Real Deal
July 26, 2022 10:06 am

Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.

Absolutely true, Mater. She still looks great in Top Gun, but could probably do with about 3 or 4 more kilos. Great eyebrows too.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 10:09 am

“We are simply following the guidance of the trusted and widely respected independent Climate Change Aughority. Cold showers by candle light is a small price to pay…”

People might be beginning to rankle at governments farming out decisions to others rather than think (and take responsibility) themselves.

We might as well vote in the ‘experts’ and do away with politicians altogether.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2022 10:10 am

Liberal MP Bridget Archer willing to cross floor in support of 43 per cent climate target

“I haven’t looked at the detail of Labor’s legislation yet, and our party room hasn’t had the opportunity yet to discuss it, [but] ending the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from,” Ms Archer told ABC Radio.

Emblematic.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 10:14 am

Shorten must be seething – he had wanted to be known as ‘Climate Bill’.

Instead we get the blustering little gnome – the little kid at school who tries to make up for his diminutive stature by being always ready to fight anyone at the drop of a hat.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 26, 2022 10:16 am

These people are insane, clearly the end of the world is near,

https://twitter.com/i/status/1549524231469371392

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 10:16 am

Beertruksays:

July 26, 2022 at 10:01 am

Tim did say this:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Tim 5:23).

He goes on …
“But thou shouldst sup upon the wine with great restraint. And shouldst thou be enamoured of the racing beasts, thou shouldst exercise the wisdom of Solomon if thou places wagers upon these beasts. Particularly thou multi betting.” (1 Tim 5:24)

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 10:17 am

What is transparent is that the horrid little shit is setting up blame deflection for the coming disaster.

There’s an upside.

As a statutory body they can be sued for damages due to negligence.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 26, 2022 10:29 am

Jennifer Connelly at her prime, when she had a healthy amount of meat on her bones.

Absolutely true, Mater. She still looks great in Top Gun, but could probably do with about 3 or 4 more kilos. Great eyebrows too.

Bah, elbows are too pointy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 10:34 am

You’re right. Got my anions and cations mixed up with pH and fertility

Yep pH has a big effect on the availability of micronutrients. I’ve never worried too much about pH just assumed Perth tends to be alkaline and got on with it. Plenty there to keep you busy if you worry about it. My gardening philosophy is find tough plants you can live with and plant those. Am developing an appreciation for the differences and variety in gum trees at the moment. Not planting any though.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2022 10:36 am

“[but] ending the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from”

I think Ms Archer means…

“capitulating in the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from”.

Sadly the electoral carnage on 21 May missed a few….Archer, Bragg, Fletcher and Birmingham. Such a pity.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 10:36 am

Matt Gaetz Has Perfect Response to Reporter Asking About His ‘Offensive’ Comments Suggesting Women at Abortion Rallies Are Fat and Ugly (VIDEO)

Now this is how you respond to the lefty media.

A reporter asked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) about his comments over the weekend criticizing women who attend pro-abortion rallies.

“Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?” Gaetz said during a speech at a TPUSA event. “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”

“These people are odious! They’re like 5’2?, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortion’” Gaetz said.

A reporter confronted Gaetz about his comments: “Is it safe to say that, based off your comments, you’re suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?”

“Yes,” Gaetz said.

“What do you say to people who think those comments are offensive?” the reporter asked in a follow-up question.

“Be offended,” Gaetz said with a straight face.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 10:38 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 10:38 am

If you want to end the [ ] wars with your political opponents you are in the wrong business.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 10:40 am

rosiesays:
July 26, 2022 at 10:35 am
Land banking by big developers driving up property prices, report at the age, paywalled

The investigation by economic think tank Prosper Australia tracked 26,000 sales in nine master-planned communities, including three in Melbourne – Woodlea Estate, Atherstone and Manor Lakes, owned by developers Mirvac, Lendlease and the Dennis Family Corporation. The study found that over 9.5 years, only 23.8 per cent of sites released by government to these developers had been sold to home buyers.

Instead of land and housing prices falling as more land is opened up for development, prices increased by an annual rate of 5.5 per cent above inflation. This means families buying lots in these developments now are paying an average $194,000 more for a typical site than those who bought in at the early stages of the development.

Karl Fitzgerald, director of advocacy at Prosper Australia, said more than 110,000 approved sites had been released to developers nationally over the past decade, but only 26,000 sites, or fewer than a quarter, had been sold.

“The slower the sales, the more developers make,” he said. “We have been at this growth-at-all-costs mentality for a long time now and our report shows we could concrete over all of Victoria and still housing prices would increase because of the market power developers have to just halt supply at whim.”

P
P
July 26, 2022 10:41 am

The Catholic Weekly – Opinion – Dr Philippa Martyr – July 25, 2022.

The cutout Francis of the reformers

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2022 10:41 am

Mark Latham’s Outsiders

SPORT AND POLITICS DON’T MIX

Most people go to sporting events to get away from things like politics.
Politics is inherently divisive, with a range of strongly held views and voting preferences.
So when politics comes into sport it can never be ‘inclusive’.
Just look at Manly’s decision in the NRL to introduce a Gay Pride jersey for their match against the Roosters on Thursday.
The club never consulted with its players, many of whom are deeply religious (Christian and Islamic). Now seven are saying they would rather sit out the match than be forced into wearing a Gay Pride jersey that they do not believe in or feel comfortable playing in.
The 7 players have been excluded by the club’s actions.
The Woke Left want us all to express our pride in homosexuality and LGBTIQAP alphabet on a daily basis.
But why should footballers have to do this when it has nothing to do with winning footy games?
There’s a big difference between acceptance and the active promotion of sexuality.
There are thousands of political statements a football jumper could make, but all of them would be divisive and exclude certain groups of people.
Why not Pride in organic farming, veganism, climate action and an Australian Republic? Where are the jerseys for these ideologies?
The whole notion of turning sport into politics is ridiculous.
As the clowns running the Manly club have just found out.
Athletes are not billboards and none of the fans expect them to be.
The only way of being ‘inclusive’ and ‘respectful’ to all people is to stay out of politics and stick to conventional sport.
How hard is that?

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 10:41 am

You are right Bear.
I’ve put my miniature daffodils in pots near the front door, much easier to control and admire.
Acanthus is taking over the beds out the back.
I don’t mind.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2022 10:41 am

elbows are too pointy

Yep. Immediate red flag.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 10:44 am

Not quite a snap Cassie. Possibly a run though.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2022 10:44 am

Morrison absent from parliament.
In Tokyo for a speaking gig

What could that fool have to say that anyone would be interested in?

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 10:47 am

Good to see Dr Martyr put the boot in to the Plenary Council of Professional Catholics.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 10:51 am

ending the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from,” Ms Archer told ABC Radio.

You can’t end a war by embracing a lie.
Laws of nature will mug you in the end.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 10:51 am

Dover at 10:41 – spot on. Democracy in Australia is a series of lock step movements to the left as the Lieborals implement whatever changes the Liars manage to get through before they are thrown out again.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2022 10:52 am

Animals raised on farms live protected from predators

Free range chickens must nervously look at the sky for predatory hawks all the time.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
July 26, 2022 10:53 am

Sancho Panzersays:
July 26, 2022 at 10:16 am
Beertruksays:

July 26, 2022 at 10:01 am

Tim did say this:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Tim 5:23).

He goes on …
“But thou shouldst sup upon the wine with great restraint. And shouldst thou be enamoured of the racing beasts, thou shouldst exercise the wisdom of Solomon if thou places wagers upon these beasts. Particularly thou multi betting.” (1 Tim 5:24)

And “remember thou the words of our Lord that “the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down”, so make sure to include “destruction of the temple” in thine next multi”.

Arky
July 26, 2022 10:54 am

dover0beach says:
July 26, 2022 at 10:41 am
[but] ending the climate wars is really the perspective I am approaching this from,”
Notice how Liberals always end these ‘wars’ by giving liberals what they want.

..
A bit like your reasoning to the war in Ukraine.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2022 10:55 am

On Bridget Archer.

“I haven’t looked at the detail of Labor’s legislation yet, and our party room hasn’t had the opportunity yet to discuss it…”

But I’m going to support it anyway (because it’s a long time in Opposition and a career as a ‘Liberal the Left can deal with’ looks attractive…).

Failure on multiple levels.
The worst.

Tom
Tom
July 26, 2022 10:55 am

Democracy in Australia is a series of lock step movements to the left as the Lieborals implement whatever changes the Liars manage to get through before they are thrown out again.

I’d love to know what Sir Robert Menzies was expecting when he named his creation the Liberal Party of Australia.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 10:58 am

Soros Open Society Foundation Employee Brags About Having Sex with Multiple Men at Pride Event – Then Blames Government After Catching Monkeypox and Gonorrhea

A public health expert and director of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation told The Guardian how he had sex with several men during NYC Pride festivities. Then he blamed the government after contracting both monkeypox and gonorrhea.

Sebastian outright admitted that he was aware that “monkeypox was an emerging issue, especially for gay men.” And yet, he had sex with multiple men anyway because he believed that the number of cases in the city was not very high.

“I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men – but I was also under the impression that the number of cases in the city was relatively small,” Sebastian told the Guardian. “What I didn’t understand was how absolutely dismal testing capacity was: at that point, the city only had [the] capacity to process ten tests a day.”

“I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued. I had a high fever with chills and muscle aches, and my lymph nodes were so swollen they were protruding two inches out of my throat,” he added.

Instead of taking responsibility for his own irresponsible actions, Sebastian blamed the government for how poorly it has handled the situation.

This whole thing just feels like a huge failure that should not have been allowed to happen, especially not two and half months into the outbreak. If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it. I know several people who are just sitting at home in agonizing pain because they’re not getting the support that they need.

I’m pretty worried that we’re close to the point that this is going to be another endemic disease, especially among gay men, if we haven’t passed that point already. I’m worried we’ll be stuck with it forever.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 10:59 am

I always take “Destruction of the Temple” in one of my multis.
Big odds, but when it comes in … oh boy!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2022 11:00 am

People might be beginning to rankle at governments farming out decisions to others rather than think (and take responsibility) themselves.

Oh yes.
It is now the standard MO.
All sides.

The swine have all watched Yes Minister ‘courageous’ episode.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 11:01 am

Is a warm inner glow really worth it?

Legislating the 43 per cent emissions target buys a whole lot of trouble for the same result.

Juith Sloan

Behind Oz Paywall

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2022 11:01 am

Free range chickens must nervously look at the sky for predatory hawks all the time.

They don’t have to worry so much about foxes etc – protection is not perfect but it is better than they would have had in the wild.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2022 11:07 am

First time voter seeking fatherly advice…

“Dad, what’s the difference between the Liberals and Labor?”

“Oh…about three years, son.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 26, 2022 11:13 am

Latham says politics and sport don’t mix.
Guess who agrees with him?
From the Oz.

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten said the debacle was a “great shame” and should not have reached this point.

“Politicians should stay out of sport so I will adhere to that advice. It’s a shame it got to this” he said.

“On one hand, you will have a lot of young gay people saying do we have to validate our existence again? On the other hand, these players strongly feel their view and their supporters miss out.

“How did it get into this? How did the club allow this train wreck to occur? And that’s (what) I think is the great shame.”

“I am going to back … my admonition that politics and sport don’t mix.”

An insipid defence of religious freedoms, to be sure.
But can you imagine Short’n saying that during the SSM debate or the Folau drama?
Their polling in outer suburban marginals must be red-hot against the gay/tranny push.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 11:18 am

Tucker Carlson: Conviction Of Steve Bannon Is An “Escalation,” This Is About Sending Political Enemies To Prison

Tucker Carlson reacts to Steve Bannon’s conviction and voices his concerns over the practices of the January 6 committee on Friday’s broadcast of FOX News’ ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’

Full printout of the Discussion follows

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 11:22 am

How To Erode the World’s Greatest Military

Alienating half the country is not a wise strategy of military recruitment.

By Victor Davis Hanson

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2022 11:24 am

“Former opposition leader Bill Shorten said the debacle was a “great shame” and should not have reached this point.

“Politicians should stay out of sport so I will adhere to that advice. It’s a shame it got to this” he said.

“On one hand, you will have a lot of young gay people saying do we have to validate our existence again? On the other hand, these players strongly feel their view and their supporters miss out.

“How did it get into this? How did the club allow this train wreck to occur? And that’s (what) I think is the great shame.”

“I am going to back … my admonition that politics and sport don’t mix.””

Firstly, this is better than nothing, I’m no fan of Shorten but at least he’s willing to speak up. He may have won the 2019 election if he’s spoken up like this more often.

Secondly, where is Dutton? This is manna from heaven for an opposition party.

Thirdly, if the Liberals were still in power, we’d probably hear nothing from Morrison and the likes of Karma Sharma, Katie “I love Obama” Allen, Fiona “call the police on constituents” Martin and Rent Zimmerboy would be calling the players refusing to wear the jerseys “transphobes” and “bigots”.

Finally, what sayeth Matt Kean?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 11:24 am

The 2nd coming of Peanut Head? Yeah, the focus groups must be running hot. Could there be a 2nd Golden Rule? Those ungrateful married pooftas.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 11:25 am

The study found that over 9.5 years, only 23.8 per cent of sites released by government to these developers had been sold to home buyers.

Yep, land banking needs to be taxed more aggressively.
And there needs to be some form of use it or lose it provisions.
Or there needs to be a revenue share agreement between the seller (the taxpayer) & the developer if the land is banked for over 10 years.
Some of the wealthiest families in Australia made their wealth by land banking.

rosie
rosie
July 26, 2022 11:26 am

Why do homosexuals need constant validation of their existence?
Because they know there is something wrong with their lifestyle (see monkeypox man anove) and getting everyone to ‘valididate’ them will somehow make it right?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 11:27 am

The tax base in Australia could be taxed so much more efficiently but it always comes back to dud ideas.
Tax income less.
Tax assets more.

Arky
July 26, 2022 11:28 am

I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991

..
We’re in the middle of a hot proxy war with Russia.
It doesn’t matter how you personally “view” them. They are the enemy.

caveman
caveman
July 26, 2022 11:32 am

Dom Perrottet bows to calls to permanently fly Pride flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Should have read Dom bends over…..
Salute to the cock in ass.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 11:32 am

Arkysays:
July 26, 2022 at 11:28 am
I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991

..
We’re in the middle of a hot proxy war with Russia.
It doesn’t matter how you personally “view” them. They are the enemy.

Arky, just Curious – Have you been to Russia?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2022 11:33 am

feelthebern at 11:27 – preach it. It may improve as Boomers die off. Inter generational stuff is only really getting started I feel.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 26, 2022 11:33 am

Whenever I hear raise income taxes or tax the family home or “windfall tax” it’s just code for taxing people out of social mobility.
Tax lazy assets more.
There are no assets more lazy than banked land.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2022 11:33 am

Free range chickens must nervously look at the sky for predatory hawks all the time.

Fascinating evolutionary response: every native bird species knows the noisy miner alarm call. They either take off to cover or if larger start looking up to the sky. It’s amusing when a bunch of magpies or cockies start looking up in every direction, I can’t help doing the same.

Introduced indian mynahs don’t have this response. They never learn it, either. It’s scary how many generations of Australian birds must’ve occurred for all of them to be attuned like this.

Chooks, being effectively an introduced species would be the same – blithely unaware of the noisies’ warning call.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 11:34 am

A lot of ‘honest US citizens’ think Joe Biden is one of the best presidents in the country right now

We’re not sure which is more pathetic: proclaiming that Joe Biden is “one of the best presidents” in the country right now, or copying and pasting it into your own tweet.

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