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dover The piece says that Hayek and Mises didn’t like him. That’s good enough for me. 🙂
Bishop was a loyal Deputy PM. And would have made an excellent director at Greensill.
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A wet road… right? What have aboriginals actually contributed to Australian society? More than the Chinese, the Italians and the Greeks? A few religious rites, performed mostly by academics in graduation ceremonies, to celebrate the graduation of notably few aboriginals.
Nice pic, DB.
The Long and Winding Road.
Whoo. Back home, ears ringing and all abuzz after improv night in the shed.
Bloke was riffing through The Doors catalogue of cliches… gave it a bit of “The West is The Best- The West is The Best” awesome fun. He’s a deadly player, but as he works in environmental services, I didn’t think he had it in him. Awesome fun, quite a laugh.
It’s interesting to note how movies etc have made mention of viruses, vaccines and pandemics in the pre-Covid era. In the Netflix series Casual, season 1 from 2018, they briefly joke how no one in Los Angeles gets the shots. So much for the anti-vax movement there now. Oh how times have changed.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Thanks Tom, bit of a short list today?
Damon 12.28 . What have Aboriginals donated to society. Well there are are lives saved in bush fires if we dumped the the killer Green environmental practices of stacking up combustible materials to create infernos for the Aboriginal cool fire burn offs.
Damon 12.28 1. Providing useful idiots for demonstrations to fan Marxist chaos and misery, 2. Providing victims upon whom politicians can throw scraps of money to obfuscate political money laundering, 3. Votes for Labor Party.
Also, define an Aborigine.
Why would PLA Inc. do the Republic a solid?
Good point by John about define an Aborigine.
It seems PM going to announce the referendum is going to be a simple Yes or No question as to whether the Voice should go ahead. With no details of what that will entail.
Shouldn’t they at least work out the definition of Aborigine first so we know who the Voice will represent and who gets to vote for its members.
The current Aboriginal leadership seems overwhelmingly left leaning politically. If the Voice can have an impact on or even delay legislation you can guarantee it will not favour the policies of the right. If a Coalition Government is in power the Voice will in my view be another form of government opposition that will be weaponised against them.
If the Labor Government can’t tell us the details it is because they know we won’t like it. Don’t trust them.
Top Ender this is a project that could be given a run – do you recommend to write to the NSW Monster for Transport only or should it it also be the Monster for Transport in Victoria? copying in the Monster for Veterans’ Affairs (outer monstery Matt Keogh), the CEO of the Australian War Memorial – more letter-writing give the swamp something to do – now life is a little more under control I might start letter-writing again – thanks for the suggestion Top Ender
Teal disease spreads.
Because the Tories Weren’t Climate Crazy Enough! New ‘Conservative’ ‘Climate Party’ Launches in Britain (29 Jul)
Seemingly not satisfied with how utterly enamoured with the green agenda the Tory Party already is, the so-called “conservative” “Climate Party” has been launched in Britain with the reported aim of stealing seats from Conservative backbenchers who aren’t completely on board with the push for Net Zero.
The new party emerges onto the scene despite the Conservative Party’s almost completely lockstep approach to the Green Agenda, with both of the candidates vying to become the next leader of the party, as well as Britain’s next Prime Minister, openly declaring that they will back the current government’s Net Zero plan.
But this is seemingly not enough for Climate Party leader Ed Gemmell, who — according to an article by The Guardian published on Thursday — believes that Tory candidates for leader have not been enthusiastic enough in committing themselves to Net Zero.
Net Zero is not enough it must be Sub Zero! Or something. Someone should tell our Teals to lift their game.
born of the soil, son of the soil, will do me – I am an aborigine
If Albo is going to roll the Yes/No dice it is really an attempt to wedge the Lieborals to generate bipartisanship. Dutton should call his bluff and support No. No blank cheques for Albo and the Liars.
The Prime Monster of Australia is going on a walk – how many walks will it take to unite our nation, not divide it. Wasn’t it 22 years ago that Sir William Deane led the Reconciliation Walk across the Harbour Bride – wasn’t that symbolic of the goodwill – No? so more walks — well I guess like talk – walk is cheap.
A new book by an aerospace engineer and former US Senator on how the 2020 election was stolen – in great detail – and what can be done about it.
Paging Piers Morgan – and all the others in the complicit media who are in a similar state of denial about this.
I was born here, my parents and three out of four grandparents were too. That makes me at least as indigenous than a lot of people who merely claim one eighth aboriginal dna.
He has the power
Scott Morrison threatens tenuous Chinese relations with speech at Tokyo summit
“Anthony Albanese’s Indigenous voice: simple yes or no”
Firstly, this is Labor doing what it does best, deliberately trivialising the question in order to orchestrate an outcome they want.
Secondly, watch the emotional and ideological extortion begin. You think you saw ideological extortion during the SSM debate? LOL, think again and get ready, what we saw five years ago will not compare to what we’re about to endure. Anyone who dares question and/or critique the “Voice” will be smeared as a waaaaaaciiiiist including Aboriginal women like Jacinta Price.
Thirdly, watch the stupid effing Liberals cave, capitulate, wave their arms arounds and do nothing to fight this sinister nonsense. There are NO ideological warriors left in the Liberal Party, it won’t be a repeat of 1999 with the Republic referendum when there were men and women like Abbott and Bronnie Bishop, they’re gonski, Maggot Turdbull and Scumbag Morrison ideologically purged the Liberal party of all dissidents and fighters.
Finally, vote NO. I will be. I will not counter, not for one second, the scenario where Australians be constitutionally divided on race, meanwhile, of course, Aboriginal children and women will continue to be bashed, raped and murdered. But who cares about them.
Oh and lastly, I’m indigenous too. Where’s my voice?
“I was born here, my parents and three out of four grandparents were too.”
I was also born here…..as were my four grandparents and seven of my great-grandparents.
Me, my parents, my grandparents, six of my great grandparents, and at least one great great grandparent born here.
I suspect Albo will do the same with a republic referendum.
They can’t get the proles to say yes to the model they want so they’ll sneak it in after the fact with a “do you support a republic yes/no” vote.
How many generations back can we go? And more importantly, who fought and died for New VoiceLand?
I’m yet to meet an aborigine in favour of greenies. Fauxborigines on the other hand…
Poofta marriage was the model.
Who has more “ownership” of Australia?
Someone who is an eighth generation Australian who employs no one?
Or someone who came to Australia legally with little English but now employs 100 people?
Discuss.
Let’s ask the megafauna for their opinion on Aboriginal environmentalism.
How about someone who’s fifth or sixth generation and employees over 100 people?
Wikipedia changing the definition of “definition” is soooo 2022.
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And the voice will be either a pointless toothless clawless tiger or an undemocratic unfair power, either one only representative of left wing urban dwellers suffering only the disadvantage of their imagination.
Nothing else will change.
Bachata! NSFW
In addition to the simple Yes/No question, Uncle Tony is proposing the following wording changes to the constitution:
Going to be popular.
Lazy wedge politics.
Had dinner with a couple of mates in town from HK.
The way the Chinese are making it harder for non Chinese to conduct business is a real eye opener.
It’s not just westerners.
The amount of HK residents with Indian heritage leaving is pretty major.
They reckon within 5-10 years HK will be a generic Chinese city.
I’m not sure about that. I expect the pressure will be on to silence the No case. Can Mr 34% carry it off?
Industry profitability collapses by 70%! China’s real estate crisis is dragging down steel mills
The debt crisis in China’s real estate industry has not only spawned a large number of unfinished buildings or rotten tail buildings as they’re called in China, but the crisis has also affected its upstream steel industry.
People may have two general impressions of China’s steel industry. First is its size. It’s the world’s largest, scale-wise; second is its overcapacity. The latter is a headache for the world, as China floods the market with cheap steel it has shut down steel mills in other countries and left workers unemployed. For nearly a decade, the U.S. and Europe have been fighting the CCP over this issue.
Hi Tintarella….reporting in on that project.
I eventually spoke to Transport Management Centre NSW, who said yes, they have my query as to “where is the Sheean VC rest stop?” and they are “working on a response”. I guess wait a week and see.
I note – thanks also to Cat comments – that the rest stops on the Hume are for “the Australian Victoria Cross recipients from World War II onwards“. Seems to have been set up by “The Remembrance Driveway Council Ltd” who are a charity registered with the ACNC.
If you follow links etc you end up back in the NSW Transport people, but it does appear The Remembrance Driveway Council is a charity registered with the ACNC and is trying to raise half a million to build a small park on the Driveway to the Afghanistan VC blokes.
Interesting. I guess that means any park will have to commemorate BRS so that’s good. However I bet if his trial result is a negative it will go into a tailspin.
I guess too they will be in a quandary about Sheean seeing as he is WWII. The usual result will be that Transport NSW will say it’s the charity’s job, and they will say the reverse.
Maybe waiting a week or so and seeing how we go would be a good idea.
Probably inevitable. That timeframe is faster than I would have expected. A great loss of a great city.
Their view is China is not going to make a move on Taiwan until HK is 100% under the thumb.
Which is a few years off yet.
But who knows.
As one of the founders of the Constitution (and later one of the inaugural justices of the High Court), Richard O’Connor said this:
“we should be very careful of every word that we put in this Constitution, and that we should have no word in it which we do not see some reason for. Because there can be no question that in time to come, when this Constitution has to be interpreted, every word will be weighed and an interpretation given to it; and by the use now of what I may describe as idle words which we have no use for, we may be giving a direction to the Constitution which none of us now contemplate. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to see that there is some reason for every clause and every word that goes into this Constitution.”
Another founder, Sir Joseph Carruthers, said this:
“Now, the danger of a clause of this character, the meaning of which is vague, is that the future perhaps creates difficulties. The Federal High Court would wrestle with this clause to give it some meaning, the Federal Parliament would wrestle with it to give it some meaning, and we might have it tortured into an effect which this Convention never contemplated. No one can doubt that the language of the clause is vague and ambiguous. The Constitution should be so framed that he who runs may read, that there should be no pitfalls on account of ambiguous phraseology.”
No, this stuff is far too important for a blasé ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote, based on no greater detail than just a generalised brain fart from politicians.
HB Bear has it right when he suggests that this would be a blank cheque. The danger signs should be flashing in everyone’s mind.
The Aboriginals fought to get specific reference to them removed from the Constitution in 1967, because it was supposedly rascist (which it was, but to protect their culture). Now they want racially specific clauses reinserted?
Bloody hell!
So these Voices will be Properly Sanctioned Lobbyists.
Manly 7 denying reports they’ve relented.
“They won’t backflip on their beliefs”, a contact has told reporters.
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If you eat meat your urine will cause the end of the world.
‘Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.’ (27 Jul)
Once it enters the environment, the nitrogen in urea can trigger a spectrum of ecological impacts known as the “nitrogen cascade.” Under certain chemical conditions, and in the presence of particular microbes, urea can break down to form gases of oxidized nitrogen. These gases reach the atmosphere, where nitrous oxide (N2O) can contribute to warming via the greenhouse effect and nitrogen oxides (NOx) can cause acid rain.” … Patricia Glibert, an oceanographer at the University of Maryland, suggests consumers could switch to a “demitarian” diet—an approach that focuses on reducing the consumption of meat and dairy..”
Of course if you switch instead to a vegan diet all those beans and nuts will cause you to fart the world to death, since they say methane is as bad as N2O.
Sorry, punters. The establishment media, including The Australian locally, just doesn’t do stories that its staff don’t like, like the scandal over the ineffectiveness of Kung Flu vaccines and their danger to young people or the theft of the 2020 US presidential election, still the biggest sleeper story in US politics.
If you want real news and information, you’ll have to figure out who you can trust on the internet and go there (or watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News, who nevertheless still won’t touch the 2020 election fraud).
Journalism isn’t dead, but its heartbeat is barely detectable because 90%+ of journalists are happy being shills for Big Government and Big Pharma.
J-schools are turning out incurious conformists, not people hungry for information. The public’s eyes and ears they ain’t.
PS: Ruperdink Mudrock’s global media deal this year with Piers Morgan, which is said to have cost News Corp 50 million British pounds, has been an expensive disaster. Piers Morgan Uncensored has already been dropped from its 9pm weeknight lot on Sky News after less than three months because no-one was watching.
Mine go back to 1836.
And my grandfather didn’t fight the Japs so we could later privilege one group of Australians over another, to the point of granting them sovereignty.
Albo getting face painted yellow and so on, and pushing “the voice”…
rosiesays:
July 30, 2022 at 7:46 am
Me, my parents, my grandparents, six of my great grandparents, and at least one great great grandparent born here.
Wife descended from 1st Fleeter, my side since 1812, I am a youngster
Architecture history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMarFpUnXEw
Architect Reveals Hidden Details of Georgetown
I’ve never been to DC.
Apart from the inhabitants the place seems worth visiting.
Elon Musk flips bird at Twitter, files countersuit in legal battle
For those Cats having problems with the blog not refreshing I’m using a workaround:
1. Press ‘home’ button
2. Click the thread title link on the RHS sidebar list just below the Amazon Store button.
3. Press ‘end’ button
I’m finding that reliably gets up to date comments, including after I post a comment myself.
This is for PC & laptop users of course. I don’t know if phones or iPads give the problem.
If those are the intended words, you’d assume they are specifically chose not to frighten the sheep – after all, any real power the Voice might have would be the gift of parliament. And we can all trust the parliament.
Greens and Teals and Pococks
Right?
I suspect the Aboriginal Industry will be shitted too. Parliament can give; parliament can take away again…
How could that possibly be constitutional?
And now Labor Starts to Screw Australians – Wonder if the Youngsters understand it affects them?
Tax landowners to repay COVID-19 debt, ANU study says
A federal land tax of 0.1 per cent imposed annually on mainly wealthier and older property owners would be the best way to repay about $500 billion of government debt accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study says.
Other viable options are to reduce concessions for capital gains tax (CGT), introduce an inheritance tax, or a tighter means test for the age pension by assessing the value of a retiree’s principal place of residence, says an Australian National University research paper released to The Australian Financial Review.
The ANU paper sets an objective of over 33 years reducing federal government debt back to sustainable levels of about 30 per cent of GDP, after it blew out to more than 40 per cent, or $1 trillion, in the pandemic.
The least economically damaging way to raise more revenue to reduce debt would be via a flat federal tax on the unimproved value of land, said Robert Breunig, chairman of tax policy at the ANU’s Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.
Most of the government debt accumulated during COVID-19 came from lockdowns and other health restrictions designed to protect mainly older people who own most of the assets, such as property, he said.
“There is an intergenerational equity layer,” Professor Breunig said.
“Older people were most at risk at dying from COVID-19 and all this money we flooded into the economy has helped the asset holders who are typically older people.”
“So putting a tax on assets that are mostly held by old people is fair.”
“Otherwise, putting a tax on personal income puts more of the burden on young working people who are going to have to bear all this government debt going forward.”
The proposed federal land tax would raise almost $8 billion a year from a 0.1 per cent rate on the unimproved value of land – that is the value of property excluding houses and other buildings. Typically, this is about half the value of a residential property.
For example, a residential property with a house bought for $1 million would have an unimproved land value of approximately $500,000. Hence, a 0.1 per cent land tax would cost about $500 a year.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned in his economic update on Thursday that Australia has incurred “a trillion dollars of debt that will take generations to pay off”.
“We know that the debt burden left to us – the highest level as a share of the economy since the aftermath of the second world war, with deficits stretching beyond the decade – is growing heavier because the impact of higher interest rates on repayments,” Dr Chalmers said.
Labor ruled out imposing new taxes during the May federal election campaign.
The Rudd Labor government’s 2010 tax review led by then-Treasury secretary Ken Henry also proposed a broad-based land tax on property owners.
Another “reasonable” option explored by the ANU co-authors Trevor Rose and Professor Breunig was increasing the 10 per cent GST to 11 per cent.
However, this ranked behind the preferred option of a low, federal land tax, and the secondary options of including the principal residence in the pension assets test, introducing an inheritance tax, reducing the CGT exemption for the principal residence and cutting the CGT discount for other assets.
“Increasing the GST is not that different to increasing income taxes for working people,” Professor Breunig said.
“Older asset owners is who we want to tax.”
Professor Breunig said it was better to increase land taxes land because raising income taxes and corporate taxes would discourage work and investment in Australia.
“We tax income and endeavour too heavily, and we don’t tax land nearly enough.”
“Raising personal income taxes can lead to more use of incorporation and trusts and other tax minimisation.
“Land can’t shift overseas, and a land tax is difficult to avoid.”
At present, state and local governments impose similar land taxes for council rates, investment properties and business premises.
Professor Breunig said the imposition of a federal land tax could ultimately be used in negotiations with the states to eliminate their stamp duties on property transactions.
“The reality is the states are not using the land tax base effectively.”
The NSW government has explored phasing out stamp duties in favour of a land tax, but has so far limited the option to first home buyers. The ACT is about halfway through a 20-year plan to phase out stamp duty for an annual property tax based on the unimproved land value.
The ANU paper focuses exclusively on the revenue side of the budget to repay debt.
“This is not because we don’t think there shouldn’t be expenditure reductions as well,” Professor Breunig said.
Isn’t that nice of Professor Breunig living in the Teat Sucking ANU ACT Public Service Land causing a majority of Taxes
Pardon me if I’m repeating myself, but my commnets aren’t appearing.
Old and busted: carbin polushun
New hotness: Evil Nitrogen.
They reckon they’ve got the CO2 racket sewn up.
So now it’s time for the element next most vital to civilization, Nitrogen.
Unmentioned until SriLanka/Dutch farmers one month ago, Nitrogen joins the cacophony.
Sadly, the broader populace welcomes their own elimination.
Haber’s vision of death through chemistry is resurrected.
Tory contest: ‘Liz Truss also is woke, and I almost give up at this point!’ says Ann Widdecombe
Piers Morgan = human Myspace
ANU writes a juvenile paper.
Fucktards.
There is a US dress code for executions:
An Alabama reporter was forced to change her outfit while attending an execution after a member of staff at the Alabama Department of Corrections said her skirt was too short.
Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara had been set to attend the execution of Joe Nathan James Jr, in Atmore, Alabama, on July 28, when she was told her outfit was inappropriate.
James, 50, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 shooting death of his former girlfriend, Faith Hall, 26.
The reporter, from AL.com, claims that she had worn the skirt on more than one occasion to executions at William C. Holman Correctional Facility with no issues.
After she was forced to change into a fellow member of the press’ waders, the official at the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) reportedly told her that her ‘open toe heels’ were also inappropriate.
Shatara then had to run to her car and put on tennis shoes, before being allowed back in to continue to do her job.
Daily Mail
Yes well.
From Memology 101
Australian CHO Paul Kelly sez:
1. Vaccines don’t work against new variants.
2. Excitedly- there will be new variants.
BA Falcon Mk IV & V are known in the US as the “mail in ballot variety”.
https://youtu.be/FRoZqgiKc5U
I see them, Roger.
It’s a reverse Invisibility Cloak.
I just see any voice as a vehicle for the likes of Lidia Thorpe and the other radicals to preach hatred.
Looks like “the Chinese century” won’t see 25 years.
Still, they’ve done better than “the thousand year reich”, which lasted all of 13 years.
Chris Kenny in the Oz is wavering about “the voice”. He was a supporter for a fair while. Looks like he ‘s more than impressed with Jacinta Price.
Meanwhile, here’s Mark:
Mark Latham’s Outsiders
DON’T VOTE FOR A BLANK CHEQUE
Today Anthony Albanese is unveiling his referendum question to establish an Indigenous Voice, according to the Ulu?u Statement.
He wants the Australian people to give him and other Federal politicians a blank cheque: for the parliament in Canberra to be given power to determine the powers and role of the Indigenous Voice as it sees fit.
This could mean anything. Under a Labor Greens Government it could mean:
* winding back private property rights with an extension of Native Title under a rewriting of the Mabo settlement.
* a full scale Aboriginal Treaty the Australian people never agreed to.
* the rewriting of Australian history in our schools according to the Left interpretation of a vicious, genocidal nation.
* automatically moving Australia Day away from 26 January.
* a new Australian flag based on Indigenous design.
* increased Aboriginal welfare entitlements, further diminishing the pride and self-reliance of a once proud people, further entrenching their culture in welfare dependency, family violence, substance abuse and squalor.
* a repeat of the failed ATSIC body from the 1990s, which was riddled with nepotism, corruption and wasted taxpayers money.
The Albanese plan for the parliament to sort out all the Indigenous Voice details is a plan for unlimited power and radical reform.
This is a very dangerous time in our national history.
The Australian people should determine who is in our parliaments, like the recent election of Senator Jacinta Price, who has already spoken out powerfully against virtue signaling and in favour of practical solutions in Aboriginal affairs.
Jacinta opposes the Indigenous Voice and so should we.
Mark Latham MLC
In the same way Roe v Wade was constitutional. Because everyone will treat it as if it was.
A new way to change the constitution, by regulation! HC will lap it up.
Anyone still say that they’re not engineering a famine?
Billionaire-funded eco group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural America (29 Jul, via Climate Depot)
The American Prairie (AP), a conservation project in Montana, has quietly scooped up more than 450,000 acres of land with the help of its billionaire donors and the federal government.
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Opponents of AP have focused their ire in particular on one of the group’s chief proposals to release wild bison onto the property, giving visitors “a chance to witness the majestic species.”
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“We don’t think of it as non-productive use,” Geddes told Fox News Digital. “Those bison are playing very productive roles. It’s absolutely true they’re not a commercial livestock production, but they’re productive in the sense of what they do for that prairie ecosystem.”
“Yeah, some of that land is going out of production, but land is going out of production everywhere, all the time,” he continued.
It’s interesting that Shut The Gate against oil and gas development is now becoming Shut The Gate against agriculture and livestock production. Greens never stop, they just keep on coming like terminators.
Ah…in which case, note my report on the Manly 7 above, calli.
We await the next development, in which the players will meet with Ian Roberts to explain their position.
AEMO Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q2 2022 – 66 Page PDF
Wokeism is the next step of the war on those that refuse to accept the blatant cognitive dissonance of the left. Nowhere is this highlighted better than the left’s new mantra of diversity, inclusiveness and equity. This epitomises the cognitive dissonance of the left as a new reality that must be accepted by all. Equity is the idea of marxist sameness which is the opposite of diversity and inclusiveness is the glue that binds this cognitive dissonance, where people are forced to accept sheer nonsense as fact and reality.
We all know too well that this new mantra is entirely exclusive and will not accept anyone but pure true-believers in its ranks. It seeks to constantly redefine woke purity and exclude the unclean. Whether that is the un-vaccinated being excluded or those that won’t kowtow to the equity of perversion to moral behaviour, wokeness is anything but inclusive.
The left is on a path of destruction of the West in order to purge dissenters and build its gaian-techno-utopia.
Menzies in 1963 had government spending of around 20% to GDP for all levels of government.
We had a bigger military, well funded state schools and CSPs at university. We also had welfare, but not in the same format as now.
Anything exceeding 20% of GDP is wasteful for a social democrat.
The solution is simple: cut spending and cap spending to that 20% level. At the same time implement tax reforms and give real and significant tax cuts.
Our massive (all of) government debt could be paid back over two Federal election cycles if not one.
Interest rates wouldn’t have to go up much, an aggressive anti inflation monetary policy could be followed and at the same time, we could have realistic interest rates without sacrificing marginal borrowers.
This never used to be controversial.
The GFC and COVID made voters and politicians fall in love with vulgar Keynesianism and outright crap like MMT.
Top Endersays:
July 30, 2022 at 8:46 am
There is a US dress code for executions:
The Young Lady Reporter best summed by one of the Comments
It’s an execution, not a nightclub. She couldn’t wear that to work in an office. Have some respect for the somber situation.
Dr Faustussays:
July 30, 2022 at 8:18 am
In addition to the simple Yes/No question, Uncle Tony is proposing the following wording changes to the constitution:
There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The parliament shall, subject to this constitution, have power to make laws with respect to the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Apart from a nominal entry in the Constitution, the only difference between this and ATSIC is that if a notoriously corrupt “Voice” organisation is abolished by Parliament, something else (an aboriginal senator from the Northern Territory?) would need to be put in place.
But there was something else established to replace ATSIC (so forgettable I cant remember its title) to replace ATSIC. What happens to it?
I will declare that is unequivocally unconstitutional at the present time except in the Territories.
The only way the Federal government can do do is by egregious abuse of the external affairs power.
The long term solution is to claim your Aboriginality, even if it is ten generations back.
Quite so.
Parliament deciding the “powers” to be assigned to “The Voice” frim time-to-time surely equates to Parliament amending the Constitution.
Which is unconstitutional.
Liked Leak’s cartoon this morning.
I see even Michelle Grattan is wondering whether Chalmer’s foreboding rhetoric might lead to a loss of public trust in his abilities. That would be a shame, she laments, as he helped guide us through the GFC.
Ah…but the national bank account is not so healthy these days (thanks Josh!), is it, Jim?
Hillary had the dress code down pat.
You can’t be provocative in a pants suit unless you were Claudia Schiffer c. 1994.
You may want to verify this data on your own when no one else is home.
Google “Draft treaty 1988” – the “reparations” clauses make the Treaty of Versailles look benevolent.
Xi is getting angsty.
Xi Jinping: Chinese Citizens Must ‘Undertake Great Struggle’ as Economy Crashes (28 Jul)
When a Chinese dictator is forced to say something like this it usually means things are going very very badly.
Top Ender
I note – thanks also to Cat comments – that the rest stops on the Hume are for “the Australian Victoria Cross recipients from World War II onwards“. Seems to have been set up by “The Remembrance Driveway Council Ltd” who are a charity registered with the ACNC.
Apart from McNamara, that seems correct.
The job that David Evans had at the time, IIRC, was Chairman of the National Capital Authority. That probably gave him enough influence to get McNamara up. There are at least two other RAAF VCs on the Federal Highway section, Middleton and Newton. Hughie Edwards might also have one along there, but I don’t remember it.
I doubt that is real. If it was, and got implemented, we everyone is suddenly Aboriginal and…
The Hughie Edwards VC rest area is on the southbound off ramp to the Majura Parkway, just on the ACT side of the border.
“So putting a tax on assets that are mostly held by old people is fair.”
Has the ANU[s] wankerdemic considered whether a tax aimed at older people might fall foul of anti-discrimination law?
And then we are back to QR codes to prove our social status in day to day interactions.
I’ve lived in Malaysia long enough to see this stuff in action. It’s distasteful.
we —> well
wee wells?
Thank god gnomes aren’t real!
One thing to look forward to, going forward, will be the exhibitions of 21C art documenting how artists got a handle on natural light again …. Constable c 2031, Outdoor dunny just before dawn. Pascoe, Bruce (attr) c 2033, Ochre mist rising off the Murray.
Ellen Walker
@Ellenwalker65
Chinese whistleblower Miles Guo: “Monkeypox is just an excuse! It’s the Covid vaccine disaster caused by the Covid vaccines!”
What are they afraid of – the condemned man might die with thoughts of lust on his mind?
believe in something, even if it wrecks everything
after all, it’s for their own good
If anyone in government is fudging figures on COVID, are they not bio-terrorists?
Imagine getting to be the judge or jury that puts away a scumbag like that imbecile and fascist pig David Elliot for life.
Massive, massive schraderboner right now.
Targeting older voters for revenue might not go down well with offspring in line for an inheritance.
Proposals like this crop up at least annually, but they never go anywhere becaause they are political suicide.
It’s not going to do much to improve “race” relations, that’s for sure.
And, among the indigenous. it’s not just Jacinta Price who fears that.
I’m a bit each way on this. On one hand there’s the usual ‘oh it’s the execution of a human being, the snuffing out of a life in the name of justice’ line that’s wheeled out every once in a while.
On the other, there’s something to be said for bringing in a handful of 25 year olds in G strings and heels so the killer can see them, and appreciate that he will never, ever, ever again get near one of those wonderful creatures before he goes zippity zap.
U.N. report confirms food shortages are necessary to create cheap slave labour
‘White people will be the first target’: South Africa’s Julius Malema warns of impending ‘violence’ because ‘the poor are getting poorer’
Um…Ellen
I got vaxxed.
I don’t have monkey pox.
A lot of monkey pox clusters happen near all male bath houses and nite clubs. Strange, not on forestry crews, road gangs or in NFL teams. Hmmm. A real mind boggler!
What a ridiculous tweet, really. 97% of ACT over 16 have had the vaccines. Why don’t we have hundreds of thousands of cases there?!
rugbyskiersays:
July 30, 2022 at 9:15 am
There are at least two other RAAF VCs on the Federal Highway section, Middleton and Newton. Hughie Edwards might also have one along there, but I don’t remember it.
The Hughie Edwards VC rest area is on the southbound off ramp to the Majura Parkway, just on the ACT side of the border.
Thanks, that is the one I thought was for McNamara, maybe I have been away too long?
Indolent how does food scarcity create lower cost labour? Also, why are you citing the UN?
Just the diplomat we need – to start WWIII
China Threatens to Shoot Down Pelosi’s Plane if She Makes a Stop in Taiwan
Root cause of totalitarianism is the reductionist mechanist ideology (Mattias Desmet & B. Weinstein)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
Heh.
How to confuse the radical left into confused silence: ask “What is an aboriginal woman?”
WATCH: President Trump SLAMS Crooked Maricopa County Supervisors Who Admitted To DELETING 2020 ELECTION FILES
Pope Francis is fulfilling a long-planned agenda to alter the Church’s teaching on life
John-Henry shares how Pope Francis is undermining Church teaching on life, a talk which he originally gave at a July 28 rosary rally in Quebec City for the pope’s conversion.
Electric Vehicles Cost More than You Think
New Zogby poll: 10% of Americans REGRET taking the vaccine
Zelensky Told Americans That His Country Should Be More Important To Them Than Their Own
29 JULY 2022
It’s understandable why people would be offended by a foreign leader telling them to place his country’s interests above their own and to not care about inflation. It’s beyond disrespectful after they’ve already suffered enough to help him. Zelensky isn’t ever happy, however, unless he hears about more wealth being redistributed from Americans to Ukrainians.
The megalomaniac leader of Ukraine told Americans that they should support his country more than their own, literally arguing that “inflation is nothing, COVID is nothing”, and that they should all continue sacrificing in order to help Kiev defeat Russia. This isn’t so-called “Russian propaganda” but a direct quote from the interview that Zelensky just gave to Piers Morgan. Americans will understandably be upset by it since he comes off as unappreciative of the tens of billions of dollars that they’ve given him.
In the eyes of the Ukrainian leader, nothing is more important in the world than his country, and those who disagree are supposedly doing Russia’s bidding. Nobody is allowed to claim that their country should come first since Zelensky said that Ukraine is fighting for everyone. The problem, however, is that many people don’t think the same way. Even among those who support Kiev, they’re rightly more concerned about more immediate issues such as inflation, COVID, their families, and whatever else.
That’s unacceptable for Zelensky though since the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) ongoing information operations aimed at portraying him as a “secular god” have clearly gotten to his head. He’s so tone deaf that he didn’t even realize how angry his Vogue photoshoot would make many Americans, who naively assumed that he was suffering alongside his compatriots and not living a life of luxury that’s presumably partially paid for by foreign taxpayers.
Westerners are making less than before as a result of the current recession and they’re struggling to keep up with inflation, yet Zelensky wants them to continue sacrificing in order to help his country.
Trudeau’s Government confirms the Quadruple/Triple Vaccinated have accounted for 90% of Covid-19 Deaths across Canada since the beginning of June
Blank cheque indeed. This smells a lot like the referendum fiasco, where people sort of went ‘ah, why not?’ when privately asked about being a republic.
Then all the freeloaders piled on with different versions of republicanism – each wanting the version that enriched them, specifically, the most.
Eventually the cries of ‘My version! No, my version!’ got so loud that ordinary punters woke up to the potential scamming and decided that until those people got their shit together, there’d be no republic for anyone.
kitten corner: recession
did i miss something?
The Texans have it right. Taking a human life, even though justified in the case of convicted murderers, is a weighty matter. That certain standards should be maintained not only befits the occasion, it also teaches that all human life should be treated with dignity, even that of a criminal about to be executed. Never was that lesson more needed than today.
Less of a global conspiracy to depopulate the world scenario.
More a rich greenies not giving a fuck about the poor scenario, and one in which they have considerable form.
Jab jab booster…………………………..just for Struth,
In a speech in the European Parliament earlier this month, German MP Christine Anderson described the coercion of people into taking COVID vaccines as the “biggest crime ever committed on humanity.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/member-european-parliament-labels-covid-vaccine-coercion-worst-crime-ever-committed?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=
I’ve been watching a bit of Tucker of late and he frequently implies that he doesn’t regard geriatric joe of the hairy legs as a legitimate president.
If they’re really doing it with private money and no regulation gaming, then so be it.
Oh wait, they’re not!
Some of my dear Christian friends were very worried about that, roger. So I told them not to believe everything the press says – it will be spun relentlessly.
So we prayed for them instead.
Totalitarianism hijacks this innate response by perpetuating this perception of danger (Q&A #134)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
a residential property with a house bought for $1 million would have an unimproved land value of approximately $500,000. Hence, a 0.1 per cent land tax would cost about $500 a year
Oh, f*ck off, you stinking profligate parasites. I already pay bloody land tax as it is, which the NSW government conveniently jacks up by a ridiculous amount every three years.
Here’s a novel idea, just cut spending, you vainglorious squandermonkey imbeciles. To cite the Bear above, you don’t have a blank cheque entitling you to incessantly waste other peoples’ money, you stupid communist bastards.
Completely and totally unrelated.
Mater says:
July 30, 2022 at 8:27 am
Are modern day politicians much dumber than those from around 1901 or are they super smart actors playing stupid for the plebs?
As an obligate carnivore, let me just say that there will be quite a shitfight if they come for my food…
Such as terrifying young Ozzie tourists driving around the Badlands at dusk. Witnessed in all their majesty indeed. One the few occasions I’ve ever thought my time on this planet might have been nearing its end.
The real cost of government is the cost of spending, regulation, deadweight losses of taxation and interest on borrowing.
It is easily over 55% of GDP.
Zippy, that enhanced tango routine was great. No need to label it NSFW.
I and twenty other women of a certain age keep ourselves mobile and happy by twice-weekly in-class performance of similar dance moves, done partnerless in class – for they are basic jazz and ballet techniques, emphasising ‘core’ strength. Lovely to see this young couple ‘integrating’ these moves in an – umm- redolant manner. 🙂
Rabz, with Fox News’s blessing, Carlson has assembled a major news-gathering operation within the network that can travel the world picking and choosing the stories it wants to make documentaries on.
Fox News is doing that because it makes good media business sense: Carlson is very thorough, he has a huge loyal audience, he rates well and the network has invented a whole new division (Fox Nation) that’s screaming out for unique content.
I don’t think Carlson will touch the 2020 election as a documentary subject until he can get more corroboration of the fraud from key players, but it’s still the top story in US politics as there are 70-80 million Trump voters whose voice at the ballot box was silenced by election cheats.
Rabzsays:
July 30, 2022 at 9:48 am
a residential property with a house bought for $1 million would have an unimproved land value of approximately $500,000. Hence, a 0.1 per cent land tax would cost about $500 a year
Oh, f*ck off, you stinking profligate parasites. I already pay bloody land tax as it is, which the NSW government conveniently jacks up by a ridiculous amount every three years.
Here’s a novel idea, just cut spending, you vainglorious squandermonkey imbeciles. To cite the Bear above, you don’t have a blank cheque entitling you to incessantly waste other peoples’ money, you stupid communist bastards.
Rabz for Commonwealth Treasurer. His initial discussions with Departmental officials would be a wonder to behold!
European bison released in the Badlands of Kent last week with exactly the same two rationales cited. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but those who are so inclined have no shortage of material to work with atm.
On This Day:
This is what you get when councils ignore rates, roads and rubbish while putting pride flags up everywhere and declaring climate emergencies.
LOL. Reminiscent of the Hierarchs’ enthusiasm for the “Great Journey” in Halo.
Tom – He will be under intense pressure from the RINOs in charge of Fox not to cover the story.
I suspect they’re very close to dumping Carlson, but dare not without an excuse they can get away with. Tucker knows this very well so he skirts the precipice as close as he dares, but doesn’t ever give them the casus belli they want.
There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The parliament shall, subject to this constitution, have power to make laws with respect to the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
So Parliament could legislate that the Voice will be such members of Parliament as have indigenous ancestry, and their powers will be those of a member of Parliament?
They won’t, of course, but this is obviously Kabuki theatre.
Parliament deciding the “powers” to be assigned to “The Voice” frim time-to-time surely equates to Parliament amending the Constitution.
Which is unconstitutional.
Alas, no. It’s not a unique concept.
Here’s part of section 7:
“Until the Parliament otherwise provides there shall be six senators
for each Original State. The Parliament may make laws increasing
or diminishing the number of senators for each State, but so that
equal representation of the several Original States shall be
maintained and that no Original State shall have less than six
senators. “
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the National Guard to be activated to help deal with the migration crisis in the nation’s capitol after Texas and Arizona launched an initiative sending asylum-seekers there.
‘The pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points,’ Bowser wrote in a letter to the Biden administration. ‘Our collective response and service efforts have now become overwhelmed.’
Whatever the temperature does humans will adjust naturally, as we always have!
Meanwhile
Garbage In, Garbage Out: 96% of NOAA Temperature Stations Fail ‘Uncorrupted Placement’ Standards
A study that investigated the placement of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations found that 96 percent of the facilities used to measure heat failed to meet the agency’s own “uncorrupted placement” standards.
Research for the study shows the 96 percent corruption is because the stations’ measurements are tainted by the effects of urbanization – or heat produced because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.
“With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.” Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts, who directed the study, said is the study announcement distributed to the press. “Data from the stations that have not been corrupted by faulty placement show a rate of warming in the United States reduced by almost half compared to all stations.”
err, thanks BJ. 😕
If the Defenestration of Prague gets your motor running, read up on the Sicilian Vespers.
They whacked 13,000 frogs within six weeks.
Zyconoclastsays:
July 30, 2022 at 10:11 am
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the National Guard to be activated to help deal with the migration crisis in the nation’s capitol after Texas and Arizona launched an initiative sending asylum-seekers there.
Meanwhile
Karine Jean-Pierre Says White House Flying Illegal Aliens All Over the US is “Different” Than Texas Busing Illegals to DC (VIDEO)
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday said the White House transporting illegal aliens all over the US is different than Texas busing illegals to DC.
“What’s the difference between Texas busing migrants to D.C. and the federal government flying migrants to, say, New York in the middle of the night?” a reporter asked KJP on Friday.
“It’s very different because we are not using migrants as a political pawn,” the White House spox said.
Apparently only the Biden Regime is allowed to bus and transport illegal aliens to various locations in the middle of the night.
It is to feed a hairy handed gent
Lately he’s been overheard in Mayfair
A Dr van Helsing signed off on the project.
While enriching themselves through various dodgy deals such as development approvals.
Beryl Gladyschlocklian was eventually brought down by her erstwhile boyfriend’s corrupt dealings with my beloved local council – those dodgy deals were what brought Maguire to the attention of ICAC in the first place.
WH Response Is Beyond Pathetic After Chinese Threaten to Shoot Pelosi out of the Sky
That kind of threat against the Speaker of the House of the United States can’t be tolerated. I may not like Pelosi, but you even try to do something like that and you should get squashed like a bug with all the power that we can muster. Talk about a way to make Americans come together on the same page.
Americans from both sides of the aisle on social media came out to stomp this fool and tell China off for even daring to tweet this.
Hey
@TwitterSafety
@TwitterSupport
, just wanted to point this Tweet out that literally threatens the life of an elected official.
As of now, Twitter hasn’t whacked the tweet. President Donald Trump can’t tweet, but apparently, a CCP propagandist can threaten the Speaker of the House, and that’s just ducky.
So, what is the Biden Administration doing about such a specific threat against the Speaker? It necessitates a strong response that brooks no confusion that they would suffer dire consequences–and that even making the threat should have consequences.
Fox’s Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and her response was just pathetic.
She said that she couldn’t speak to Pelosi’s schedule, “We’re just not going to speak on her schedule.” She called it a “hypothetical.” “I’m not going to speak to a hypothetical,” KJP declared.
Are you kidding me? Maybe Pelosi’s trip isn’t determined yet, but the threat isn’t hypothetical. The threat is what’s being asked about. China just threatened our Speaker of the House, and you refuse to comment?
but KJP and Biden can’t get it together to even defend our interests? We’re not even talking about a 3:00 a.m. call; they can’t even respond appropriately in the middle of the day, when presumably he’s awake.
This is bad. This is a weakness on a level that’s hard to believe, and the Chinese will take note. That’s not a good thing, particularly for Taiwan. We saw Biden demonstrating that kind of weakness right before Ukraine was invaded.
Fact check: TRUE It is hard to rock a pants suit. Or pants for that matter.
Who ran amok in Kent!
I thought Musk was going to put a stop to this sort of blatant hypocrisy?
Apparently only the Biden Regime is allowed to bus and transport illegal aliens to various locations in the middle of the night.
This is not new. It was happening under Trump and likely before that too.
All aided by the NGOs and anti – American churches on the tax payer funded resettlement grift.
Note that China is ramping up the foreign policy rhetoric just as things start to go seriously pear-shaped at home.
I expect/hope we might see some scrutiny on who gets kept behind the velvet rope. Or my names not Bruce Pascoe.
Stop me if you’ve heard that one before.
That kind of threat against the Speaker of the House of the United States can’t be tolerated. I may not like Pelosi, but you even try to do something like that and you should get squashed like a bug with all the power that we can muster. Talk about a way to make Americans come together on the same page.
Pelosi and her ilk are enemies to the US people. For what ever reason, she cannot be voted out.
Xi is doing them a favour .
Think of an airborne version of lamp posts or defenestration.
“Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the National Guard to be activated to help deal with the migration crisis in the nation’s capitol after Texas and Arizona launched an initiative sending asylum-seekers there.”
I note that one of Svengali Simon’s Stepford Skanks, aka Princess Allegra, wants to ramp up our immigration programme, okiedokes, fine, then it must be on the condition that new immigrants are settled in the following electorates…
1. Wentworth
2. Warringah
3. North Sydney
4. Mackellar
5. Goldstein; and
6. Kooyong
It’s time.
Just got home from the hairdresser, I overhead one of the hairdresser’s say how he’d been to the Archibald and that he preferred those paintings over the old paintings at the Art Gallery because those old paintings are waaaaaacist.
You have a wonderful way with words, Cassie.
Lol. Did you ask how were they wacist?
Rabz says:
July 30, 2022 at 9:48 am
You might not think they have a blank cheque, but I’m not sure they see it that way, and they’re not generally receiving that message from the electorate anymore.
“Lol. Did you ask how were they wacist?”
JC….I just rolled my eyes.
Ahhhh-Ooooooohhh!
reminds me of a movie scene: woman visits prison in open toed shoes; told by the warder that this sends the inmates ape.
One of the great radio songs of the late ’70s.
Boat People for Kooyong is a great party for harvesting minor party votes.
Wait, I hear the LDP has been shafted of its rightful name, let the fun and games commence.
Werewolves of London …
AGL Windmills for Brontë Beach
I’d like to meet his tailor …
Mrs Beetroot has written a good piece in today Daily Terror…
“Vikki Campion: Thanks Bill Shorten, mothers aren’t ‘birthing parents’, they’re mothers
It took a moderate former trade union official to preserve the word ‘mother’ and bring some sanity to the ‘birthing parent’ debate. Bill Shorten sorted it like a boss. Maybe Manly should give him a call, writes Vikki Campion.
Why did it take a moderate former trade union official and ex Labor leader to show real leadership and shut down an otherwise bruising debate on whether we can use the word “mother” after birthing a child?
For every woman that has gone through the pain of childbirth, it is something we are owed.
Yet under the former Coalition government, a trial Services Australia form ended up replacing “mother” with “birth parent”.
Conservatives were cheering Government Services Minister Bill Shorten and scratching their heads as to why a Labor Minister had to fix a problem the Coalition allowed under their watch.
He reverted to the original form, which has three options, including “other”, where you write what you want to be.
In one swift move, it allows the less than 60 people who have transitioned and birthed to have their identity without forcing that same identity as “birth parent” on the hundreds of thousands of mums who want a card saying “Happy Mother’s Day” and don’t want to be recognised as clinical birthing objects.
Ideologically vapid platitudes start at the top, as demonstrated at Senate Estimates earlier this year where Australia’s top health bureaucrats were in contortions trying to explain what a woman was.
Job applications should be gender-neutral, but in the miracle of childbirth, let us have something as amazing as being a mother.
The good thing about the return to cabinet of long-time politicians such as Mr Shorten is that as they are elected by the people, they understand, as a Minister, they have the ultimate authority.
They are the boss.
Weak ministers are run by their departments. Strong ministers run their departments. In one fell swoop, Shorten showed respect for tolerance in making an administrative decision restoring a status quo that had existed for years and shutting down an otherwise acrimonious and pointless controversy.
A strong Minister is not ruled by a hidden subcommittee of factional warriors poking their ideas into a minster’s office that they would not dare ventilate on talkback radio in their local seat.
Many people in the former Coalition government thought this “wink, wink, nod, nod” to identity politics would save them and they are now looking for other jobs after being voted out in May.
So many in elected positions misunderstand this most fundamental thing about politics – that you don’t have to be popular, you have to be strong. The history of politics in all countries is written about strong leaders. Populists are often dismissed, disregarded and even discounted as pejorative.
Interestingly, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese so far has enough confidence in his ministers that he expects them to make their own decisions in their portfolios.
He has not come into government as the lone ranger because he has a cabinet who has largely served over cabinet portfolios before and he respects them enough to trust what they do. Arming them with the ability to do their jobs, he has allowed himself time to represent Australia overseas without the same heat that was applied to Scott Morrison.
But he also hasn’t been haunted by miserable ghosts like Malcolm Turnbull polluting his every move. I could not have imagined Turnbull helping Morrison, the way Shorten did Albanese.
Once again we see an acknowledgement that the former “Liberal” government was useless, utterly useless, in fighting culture wars.
probably more, that’s only the immediate impact
you are forgetting the negative impact on initiative and innovation and investment, all of which reduces society’s ability and capacity to generate future wealth and prosperity, and will reduce living standards compared to what it could have been.
I hear that the French are going to be up against it power-wise this winter as well because they’ve delayed maintenance of their power generation because of COVID. It’s going to be a shit show in Europe.
Ah.
The old “one way ticket to Hawaii” trick.
Further to Vikki’s words…
“Many people in the former Coalition government thought this “wink, wink, nod, nod” to identity politics would save them and they are now looking for other jobs after being voted out in May.”
That many in the former Coalition government, aka Karma Sharma, Dr Katie “I love Obama” Allen, Rent Zimmerboy, Fiona “call the police on constituents” Martin, along with their grotesque NSW buddy, Matt Green Kean, actively participated in the smearing and denigrating of Katherine Deves, calling her a transphobe and bigot.
You know, there were some silver linings on 21 May 2022, Keneally’s loss and the mass execution of the aforementioned far-left progressives from the Liberal Party. Sure, there’s still some scum remaining, Birmingham, Archer, Fletcher and Bragg, but there numbers have been severely depleted and they’re wounded.
Vicki doesn’t understand how the parliamentary Labor Party is run.
The unions, via the factions in the caucus, determine who’ll get the portfolios and whether they keep them. Elbow, who is neither a Whitlam nor a Hawke, or even a Rudd, doesn’t have enough of a personal mandate to interfere too much without making destabilising waves .
It’s going to be a shit show in Europe.
Excellent. Sooner or later the cluebat of reality hits you over the head.
Shoot down Pelosi’s plane. I bet the Chinese could start a Go Fund Me to pay for the mission and missiles and get a bunch of Americans to donate.
Bourne1879says:
July 30, 2022 at 7:17 am
Good point by John about define an Aborigine.
The HC had a 3 point definition:
1 Self identification
2 Acceptance by the mob identified with
3 Blood connection
A recent case however has said blood is no longer necessary, only the first 2. In fact you can be adopted by a mob and by that act become a 3rd nations.
Sign of the times:
Sneaky Parents Dress Son Up As A Girl On First Day Of School So Teachers Will Show Him How To Be A Boy
Price for acceptance in the Kimberly’s was three cartons of V.B.
Laura Tingle thinks the change of government is a good thing:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/labor-first-parliament-week-shakes-off-decade-of-policies-/101283898
Well, fancy that! Whoever would have thought?
Until new monstrosities are built, they’ll have to stay in spare rooms, including studies, and loungerooms if necessary. Shared kitchens, the lot. And no keeping men at home. Trying to protect your womenfolk is racist.
“Maybe waiting a week or so and seeing how we go would be a good idea.” Thanks Top Ender for your response I will hold off my missive until you report further
Cheap renewables, Bwa hahahahahahahahahah
For years the average wholesale price was somewhere between $30 and $60 per megawatt hour for electricity on the Australian national grid. But for the entire 2,184 hours of quarter two this year, we were paying an average price of $264 per megawatt hour. It wasn’t just due to a couple of freakish spikes, instead it was a relentless burning average, like a lava flow arrived at your wallet.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/blistering-electricity-prices-it-was-the-quarter-the-whole-market-broke-and-australia-spent-12-7b/
Caught up with a friend who’s been living overseas for nearly a decade last night. He was talking about the mix of news services he listens to in the car, and he’d fiddled with settings with the result he got Australian news services.
Now I’d describe him as center left, and he was shocked how blatantly far left propogandist aussie news has got. Well, that set me ranting about pretty much everything from power supply to the useless liberals. He’s now very glad not to be living here but also a bit depressed about how quickly it’s gone to shit.
Love that track.
The American movie with that name was awesome also.
Saw it at the cinema when it came out in 1981.
Shocked my socks off in a fun way.
LaborLotto.
Albanese describes we Australians as having done nothing and betrayed the aboriginals for 200 years.
So there you go, no previous policy did any good, no previous referenda improved anything, no previous Big Sorry, no previous Land Rights, no positive discrimination in employment or education.
It has all been worthless until now – when The Voice will perform magic.
Sleazy on Fox in North East Arnhem Land spruiking the referendum question.
Pathetic theatre with gum leaves as the background and wearing a “cattle boy” hat.
Much angst at Twitter central.
Twitter Censors All Content From The Epoch Times (30 Jul)
Report: Twitter ‘Rudderless’ as Elon Musk Legal War Rages On (29 Jul)
Hopefully Elon does win control and fires these sludge critters out the door like SpaceX boosters.
Excellent. I’m in.
I’ll wave at ‘you lot’ from inside tent.
I might even tell you how it is, given I’ll soon have a ‘voice’.
Albo might take a while yet to fully fill Prime Ministerial shoes.
G. K. Chesterton….
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Think of these words whenever someone talks about the “Voice” or the “Republic”, because as with SSM, if Australians vote yes, there will be consequences and those consequences will not be benign.
posted without comment
In the coming years, is it likely that those with Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca on their resumes during the 2020-2023 period will find themselves red flagged and hard to find work?
Yep. He’s an onlooker. Mr 34% won’t be making any captains calls.
The Chesterton fence makes a regular appearance on the Econtalk podcast.
I’m more surprised at the fact they have a “cricket” stadium than the story! .. LOL!
T20 cricket match is rocked by bomb at International Cricket Stadium in Kabul after grenade explosion kills at least 19
A cricket match in Kabul was the site of a deadly suicide bombing on Friday, local reports stated. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated at least 19 were killed in the blast during the T20 match
Yuval Noah Harari’s Speech at Jerusalem Pride 2019
Wearing a T-shirt that reads “I’m a HOMO Sapiens”, Yuval Noah Harari gave this speech at the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance – in June 2019.
If he was a racehorse he would be in the float back from the yearling sales with the breeder on the phone to the abattoir. All PMs are untested on assuming office. Albo is probably the least promising of the last half dozen duds.