Open Thread – Weekend 30 July 2022


A Wet Road by Moonlight Wharfedale, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 1800s

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

1.8K Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 1, 2022 7:22 pm

Monty – We got the family tree, we got the DNA analysis. Senegal/Benin.

I love how lefties prejudge people without any actual data about them.

Zipster
August 1, 2022 7:24 pm

TOKYO — The U.S. military is moving assets, including aircraft carriers and large planes, closer to Taiwan ahead of an anticipated but unconfirmed visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The military was initially opposed to the speaker’s visit but now looks to be creating a buffer zone for Pelosi’s plane, in the case that she decides to go ahead with the controversial stop.

But with China threatening to take “actions” to counter the visit, tensions in East Asia have quickly escalated, perhaps against the will of both U.S. President Joe Biden, who was seeking to remove some tariffs on Chinese goods to counter inflation, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who faces a sensitive political season at home with his rule extension on the line.

A reporter for local network TVBS tweeted that the speaker is expected to arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday evening

m0nty
m0nty
August 1, 2022 7:24 pm

Next you’ll tell me you’re Irish so that means you’re the blacks of Europe.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 1, 2022 7:26 pm

Madness

Makes perfect sense if you want engineers who can only make boomerangs.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
August 1, 2022 7:26 pm

My mum’s mum’s side is an old Irish name, so we’re the-
DAMMIT MONTY

m0nty
m0nty
August 1, 2022 7:28 pm

Hey, you’re not the only one to remember The Commitments.

Megan
Megan
August 1, 2022 7:29 pm

If m0nty-fa genuinely believes this, he is stupider than even I could have imagined.

There is literally NO limit to stupid. It’s encouraging to see one such as MontyPox demonstrating this principle on the daily.

Reminds us of what we are up against.

Zipster
August 1, 2022 7:30 pm

Steve Hilton: Biden’s recession could have been avoided
Fox News host Steve Hilton blames President Biden for turning a strong, growing economy into a ‘weak, shrinking, stagnant one’ on ‘The Next Revolution.’

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 1, 2022 7:31 pm

Monty – You can’t have it both ways. Either you accept the Leftist model of who is a special person or you are cast out of the tribe. Under your rules I am a special person. Under my rules I am not a special person, because the tenets of the Bible are that all people are equal in the sight of God.

It does make for fun trolling of lefties, but apart from skin issues it doesn’t do anything. Which you could say about anyone with melanin enhancement. I prefer the “content of the Character” metric.

Roger
Roger
August 1, 2022 7:33 pm

Is Monash one of the c.40% of Australian universities which doesn’t require applicants for an engineering degree to have a pass in secondary school level advanced mathematics as a prerequisite?

Btw, my reference for this figure is the former Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel.

To his credit, he was concerned enough to write a report about it for government

m0nty
m0nty
August 1, 2022 7:34 pm

Yeah Bruce, I think the leftie rules are that the Senegal/Benin people have to accept you as one of their own. Which I doubt has happened, unless you sent away a form from the back of a cornflakes packet.

You’re a unique snowflake, Bruce. There you go. Now run along.

Zipster
August 1, 2022 7:40 pm

The USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy, and a strike group are currently there after they left a port in Singapore Tuesday. A Navy spokesperson confirmed the news but said it was a planned trip.

“I can confirm USS Ronald Reagan and her strike group are now underway, operating in the South China Sea following a successful port visit to Singapore,” Lt. Mark Langford said.

“As a matter of policy, we do not discuss future ship movements; however, I will add that Reagan is continuing normal, scheduled operations as part of her routine patrol in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” he added.

China has once again warned the United States against going ahead with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.

“Perhaps you missed our briefings in the past few days. We have repeatedly made clear our firm opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in a press conference on Wednesday.

“If the US side insists on making the visit and challenges China’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures. The US must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof,” he added.

shatterzzz
August 1, 2022 7:41 pm

Bit more on that Manly “pride” jumper .. reading elsewhere that that is Manly’s 7th jumper issue for the season .. what sort of idiot spends money on numerous “event” jumpers at around $150 a pop ..
Makes me feel humble .. I only wear one of two jerseys to “fitba” .. my “Eels” jersey dates back to 1994 and my Wanderers is season 1 (2014) .. “houso” cheapskate .. LOL!
Still got my North Sydney “Bears” one from 1992 and 7 different “toon” ones dating back to the 1970s (“broon” ale ones) ….

Zipster
August 1, 2022 7:43 pm

A lot of buzz was injected into the media sphere when former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed the neural language model built on A.I. called LaMDA was sentient.

Using machine learning and deep learning to build one of the most sophisticated neural networks, Google has made an impressive language model that can hold a human-like conversation that is natural and fluid.

Less people are aware of PaLM, another Google neural language model built on A.I. (maybe AGI or artificial general intelligence) that has greater sophistication and abilities than even LaMDA. I breakdown these two systems and how they work along with a rationale for whether or not they are sentient, conscious, both, or neither.

Bar Beach Swimmer
August 1, 2022 7:51 pm

Monty:
Brexit’s wording was even vaguer than the Voice referendum. It required the politicians to figure out what was in it.

Brexit meant getting out of the EU – lock, stock and barrel, what’s not to understand about that, either for you or the British pollies.

Apparently that’s the way to conduct referenda in Westminster democracies now, so why not the same system for the Voice?

So you’re happy with open-ended proposals because, as you see it, it’s been done before.

Message to Monty: not a good argument to win on.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 1, 2022 7:53 pm

Yeah Bruce, I think the leftie rules are that the Senegal/Benin people have to accept you as one of their own.

So you are saying, Monty, that lightish skinned people who claim to be aboriginal might not be accepted as actual aboriginals despite DNA, family tree and cultural evidence?

That’s very interesting Monty. I don’t think your position would go down well in the left side of politics. Some lefties might even call you racist for such a view.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 1, 2022 7:56 pm

CDC Declares Gay Orgies An ‘Essential Activity’

OK it’s the Babylon Bee but………..

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 1, 2022 7:57 pm

m0nty-fa, displays the ingrained hatred of the fascist left for the right every time he posts here.

Except when he is groveling for sympathy because his poor diet is causing him health problems.

And if he gave the matter any thought, MLK would despise him as a racist hypocrite who judges people by the colour of their skin.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 1, 2022 7:59 pm

m0ntysays:
August 1, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Monty – By Lefty analysis I’m technically black do you realize? My gt^5 granny was an African slave in Jamaica.

No.

Racist m0nty-fa rejects a line of reasoning he would not dare to reject if put forward by someone claiming to be indigenous.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 1, 2022 8:00 pm

Oh by the way Monty my family diaspora accept me quite well. I’ve been to Jamaica to meet many of them and had the luck to attend a family BBQ in Canada (I was in town for a met conference). A lot of Jamaicans are in Canada. We get on very well. Most of them are a lot duskier than I am, but some aren’t. I met one distant relo who lived on a kibbutz in Israel. My cousin who is a serious policy wonk is very dusky: it was fun because he was a kid when I visited then in Kingston, and we played cricket in their backyard. Cricket is a fine lingua franca.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 1, 2022 8:02 pm

Vickisays:
August 1, 2022 at 3:42 pm

On our family farm we also lacked electricity and had to read under kerosene lamps. My remarkable mother cooked on a wood fuelled stove, with no refrigerator to preserve food

Vicki,

Did your parents have a Coolgardie Safe?

as a 10 year old visiting a mate’s station mid 50s near Rankin Springs west of West Wyalong,

New meat needed, sheep hung up by front legs, throat slit, blood captured, gutted, skinned and meat put into a Coolgardie safe

Late 1890s Coolgardie safe invented

The Coolgardie safe uses evaporation to keep the food inside cool while protecting it from flies and scavengers. It was invented in the late 1890s on the Western Australian goldfields, an invention credited to a local contractor named Arthur Patrick McCormick. The Coolgardie safe was widely used in country areas well into the 20th century. (Image: Museum Victoria)

The Coolgardie safe was Australia’s precursor to the domestic refrigerator. The appliance consisted of a timber or metal-framed cabinet with open sides covered in hessian fabric. On top of the cabinet, a tank was filled with water and strips of felt trailed down from the tank to the hessian. Through a wicking action, water dripped onto the hessian, keeping it damp.

The safe was generally kept on a verandah or in a breezeway. As the breeze evaporated water from the fabric it absorbed the heat from the surrounding air and kept the contents of the Coolgardie safe cool. The feet of the safe were often placed in another tray of water to deter ants.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 8:03 pm

This must be one of the most cringe worthy and stupid moments in Australian politics. Race grifters go to grift!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFusSZYeJ4

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 8:09 pm

On our family farm we also lacked electricity and had to read under kerosene lamps. My remarkable mother cooked on a wood fuelled stove, with no refrigerator to preserve food.

People forget how recently this was, and they’re going to be shocked when we arrive back there shortly!

Mater
August 1, 2022 8:11 pm

Just catching up.

I feel somewhat vindicated now that Monty has spent the whole day demonstrating what I said about him.

Evil, with a light dusting of faux compassion on the outside.

Indolent
Indolent
August 1, 2022 8:12 pm

Surprising, when you consider that this is Twitter.

Schiff Takes Sunday Swipe at Roger Stone, Twitter Hits Back!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 1, 2022 8:12 pm

Vickisays:
August 1, 2022 at 3:42 pm

On our family farm we also lacked electricity and had to read under kerosene lamps. My remarkable mother cooked on a wood fuelled stove, with no refrigerator to preserve food

PS we had Kero Lamps early 50s in Cremorne to cover balckouts

Bluey
Bluey
August 1, 2022 8:14 pm

rickwsays:
August 1, 2022 at 6:50 pm
Legal action for this one?

I doubt it. There is a long and established pattern of forcing students to do “Reeducation” in order to graduate.

RMIT had a cute trick with their required additional classes to broaden the horizon of engineers in particular. The number of alternate subjects available and the number you were required to do meant that everyone had to attend at least on LGBTQI propaganda course.

One reason uni degrees are increasingly worthless, even in STEM.

132andBush
132andBush
August 1, 2022 8:15 pm

m0nty says:
August 1, 2022 at 11:50 am

The best thing about the Red Wave stuff

Yeah, about that. I hear that the close Senate races are tending to trend towards Democrats, as the GOP have put up a string of clowns who can’t campaign for peanuts. It might not be so much of a wave as you think.

Red tsunami confirmed.

Luzu
Luzu
August 1, 2022 8:20 pm

Haha, Monty!

Sucked right in. Bruce o’Newk is blacker than you! And suffered racial slurs.

So, please explain. Why would MLK find our Bruce to be a hypocrite?

Take your time.

I have heard of and seen stories of Aboriginal deprivation, not a single one of which will be altered or healed by the Voice. You must really hate Aboriginal people, Monty, to be continually advocating political ideas that prolong their misery.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 1, 2022 8:26 pm

… and the number you were required to do meant that everyone had to attend at least on LGBTQI propaganda course.

And to think I got a bit wobbly about a compulsory economic history unit as part of an 80s B Ec (not failed). Hopefully there are no compulsory pracs.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 8:32 pm

One reason uni degrees are increasingly worthless, even in STEM.

I read up thread about the declining mathematics requirements.

Our Czech Solid Mechanics lecturer used to bemoan our lack of mathematical prowess.

He said at the end of his first year of Mechanical Engineering in Prague, half the class was culled over their mathematical skills, downgraded to draftsman, technicians etc.

I think his first job out of University was doing cam and linkage theoretical design work for looms, manually. He said you had to walk the line between components breaking under the loads and then if you beefed up, breaking due to the increased acceleration loads. You had to do this analysis through the whole drive train.

Indolent
Indolent
August 1, 2022 8:34 pm

Gonzalo Lira

2022.07.31 More Deaths, Fewer Births

Take a look at the pinned comment.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 8:36 pm

Hopefully there are no compulsory pracs.

Fortunately no! The only reason this was tolerated was because there was a vague chance that there might be some female classmates!

132andBush
132andBush
August 1, 2022 8:41 pm

No it isn’t, you idiot. Privilege is about class, which by definition is a group concept.

I know Blackfellas who would take a swipe at you over a comment like that, Monty.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 1, 2022 8:42 pm

A quick survey of commenters.

Was m0nty-fa more or less hysterical about R vs W being overturned than he has been today in his demands for the introduction of apartheid in Australia?

Cassie of Sydney
August 1, 2022 8:49 pm

This is on Dover’s sidebar. As he does on many things, Gray Connolly gets it right.

“Remember that the Coalition had 9 years to enact religious freedom legislation and waited until the last moment to do so – and failed. I never want to read another word re Scott Morrison as some sort of Christian when his record was parlous & his partyroom a tealesque rabble”

Thank you Gray, a brutal and beautiful smack down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 1, 2022 8:59 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFusSZYeJ4

Senator Thorpe, your bum looks huge in those trousers…

JC
JC
August 1, 2022 9:03 pm

Monty – By Lefty analysis I’m technically black do you realize?

Oh God. This rears it’s head at least once a month.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 9:04 pm

as uni students are FORCED to complete new Aboriginal training course or they won’t get their degree

The new found and ever expanding taste for compulsion.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 9:06 pm

Senator Thorpe, your bum looks huge in those trousers…

She looks like Jackie Lambie, never go full Jackie Lambie!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 1, 2022 9:07 pm

Longish feel free to scroll.

My 2c worth on the committees set up by the voice all being publicly funded but no oversight. Doc Faustus touched on it and here in Townsville, TIAHS is a prime example of this. Publicly funded, dysfunctional, run for the benefit of a couple of families and with major irregularities in the management its finances. Beattie started probing it but backed off a million miles an hour, Bligh started to go there as well when there were various accounts of possible fraud with the same result as Beattie. Newman’s government didn’t even get going when it surfaced again. The race card was pulled at each stage and the shady dealings continue unabated. I have no confidence there will be any robust oversight of the financial management of any bodies that eventuate from any voice in the racially charged atmosphere we are currently experiencing. They will become voracious and opaque black holes for funding.

Secondly in the Townsville region there is not one person in the suburbs who hasn’t been broken into or had an attempt made by aboriginal teenagers. The place is littered with smashed up or burnt out cars, I noticed a new one this morning near the Holcim Quarry on the Bruce Hwy at Burdell. Still there this arvo but with the police stickers all over. Judges here are impotent and even they are finally also getting caught up but still hand out sentencing well below community expectations. Vigilantes are around I have seen them in action twice in my area but after 2 incidents where innocents were killed last year there has been a crackdown that has tempered their activity. I know people in Mackay and Cairns, apparently similar there as well just not as bad yet. The communities here are dysfunctional, broken and out of control.

Lastly, attitude. Seen it more than once recently and the other day on Charters Towers rd Hermit Park. Aboriginal woman walks into traffic with a young boy and expects them to stop to allow her to cross. Sooner or later one of them is going to get skittled, it has already happened without death a few months back when some youths tried the same trick out in Kirwan at night and a 4WD Landcruiser hospitalised 2 of them. There is them and us attitude but the more worrying thing is there is now a growing hatred of anyone not aboriginal as described above that I am also starting to see emerge.

There are a lot of good hard working people of Indig heritage out there and some of the biggest critics are these people. I have heard it, problem is we are listening amplified through the media, race bating rabble rousers with very little heritage like Thorpe controlling the narrative. The message seems to have moved from reconciliation to kneel and kiss the ring. If there is a reset we need it is the return to pragmatism, bad things happened but the modern generation bears no responsibility for those sins and we Europeans are here with as much right to the place as anyone of the previous waves of migration. My lineage goes back over 200 years that I know of. I think Paul Hogan’s analogy in Crocodile Dundee sums it all with the stupidity of winding ourselves in knots about “2 fleas fighting over the dog they are living on.”

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
August 1, 2022 9:10 pm

5 house Albo just said on TV that The Lodge was a step up from the housing commission house he just came from.

I shit you not.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 9:13 pm

Beer Tax increase, largest increase in 30 years. When are Australians going to wake up?!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jEB-E24Ac

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
August 1, 2022 9:17 pm

Beer Tax increase, largest increase in 30 years. When are Australians going to wake up?!!!

I’m sharpening my pitchfork as I write this.

Cassie of Sydney
August 1, 2022 9:22 pm

“JCsays:
August 1, 2022 at 3:27 pm”

JC….great comment, thank you. Your sentiment is shared by most of us here.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 1, 2022 9:23 pm

The Zelensky regime is trying to steal children from the Donetsk region. The goal is twofold: Leave the elderly for the Russians to deal with—and potentially sell the children to traffickers in the West.

I wish I were kidding—but that’s the word I’m hearing here in Kharkov

You know when the war’s not getting enough traction with the podcast grifter set, when they inevitably revert to child trafficking by tunnel elites. Riccardo, where art thou?

Naturally this is a Gonzo Lira piece, which makes me doubt he’s in Kharkov at all.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
August 1, 2022 9:23 pm

Welcome to Aotearoa? The Campaign to Decolonize New Zealand’s Name
Parliamentary committee could recommend vote among lawmakers or referendum to adopt M?ori name

Ms. Ardern welcomes the wider use of Aotearoa, but a formal name change isn’t being explored by the government, a spokeswoman for the prime minister said.

Cassie of Sydney
August 1, 2022 9:23 pm

“Rockdoctorsays:
August 1, 2022 at 9:07 pm”

Thank you, excellent comment.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 9:28 pm
P
P
August 1, 2022 9:29 pm

Tintarella di Lunasays:
August 1, 2022 at 6:09 pm

Back in 1949 (the first federal election I remember) Robert Menzies won with a full Protestant party bar one.
The Democratic Labor Party enabled Menzies to scrape in by a single seat in 1961 through preferences. I first voted in 1961 as you had to be 21 in those day to be able to vote so I do remember it well.
The second time I was able to vote at a federal election, State aid for Catholic schooling, opposed by Labor was to prove one of the decisive contributors to the increase in Menzies’s majority in 1963. I was at that time still a Protestant.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 9:32 pm

Carter Conlon’s sermon on the state of the USA and thereby The West:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgD6MS8vEYM&t=751s

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 1, 2022 9:40 pm

The message seems to have moved from reconciliation to kneel and kiss the ring.

There’s a display in my local museum on the injustices and wrongs done to the local Aborigines since British colonization. All was sweetness and light before the evil whitefella’s arrived. Reconciliation? Why bother?

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 1, 2022 9:47 pm

m0nty-fa disappeared quite suddenly. He was supposed to be looking after sick kids, not babbling hysterically here. I hope he remembered to feed them lunch.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 1, 2022 10:04 pm

WA Liberal Party votes to call on Federal Opposition to oppose Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Peter Law
The West Australian
Mon, 1 August 2022 2:11PM
Comments

Rank and file members of the WA Liberal Party have voted to call on the Peter Dutton-led Federal Opposition to oppose an Indigenous Voice to Parliament because there are already 11 Aboriginal politicians in Canberra.

There was strong majority support for the policy motion — put forward by the Fremantle Division — from the roughly 200 delegates at the party’s State Conference on Sunday.

It passed a day after Anthony Albanese unveiled the draft wording of a simple “yes” or “no” referendum question asking whether an Indigenous Voice should be enshrined in the constitution.

The motion compels WA Liberal Party state president Richard Wilson to now send the wording to all WA Liberal Federal MPs and Senators “as an expression of our firm position”.

It read: “The Liberal Party of Australia (WA Division) calls on the Dutton Liberal Opposition to oppose an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in light of the fact that almost a dozen Indigenous Australians have already made (it) into Federal Parliament on merit negating the need for arbitrary affirmative action policies.”

Ex-Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, the minister for Indigenous Australians in the Morrison government, was “disappointed” his own party had supported the motion, which he said was out of step with public sentiment.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 1, 2022 10:07 pm

The gene pool refines further (the Hun):

Extra signage and warning signs should be put up at the popular Instagram selfie spot in the Grampians where a mum plunged to her death while taking a photo two years ago, a coroner has found.

Deputy State Coroner Jacqui Hawkins also said the death of Craigieburn woman Rosy Loomba, who scaled a fence to have her photo taken in front of the idyllic landscape before slipping, should also serve as a “reminder” of the dangers of ignoring safety measures.

Put less signs up, I say. If you can’t appreciate that wobbling at the very edge of a 100-foot cliff for the benefit of your Insta story is a very poor risk versus reward scenario, the rest of the country’s better off without you.

Indolent
Indolent
August 1, 2022 10:09 pm

Fighting the Great Reset One Inch at a Time

This fight against Great Reset communism is a struggle that many Americans did not see coming. As such, they’re just now “awakening” to the massive globalist threat of the World Economic Forum’s planned New World Order. They went to bed one night believing that most Americans shared a common sense of values, an appreciation for American history, and a patriotic dedication to liberty and freedom. They rose in the morning to discover that their Founding Fathers were now considered racist; their education system could no longer distinguish boys from girls; the national security surveillance state monitored all their moves; and socialism had taken over the free market economy under the guises of central bank money-printing, unsustainable government spending, ESG manipulation of stocks, racial redistribution programs, COVID-1984 fear campaigns, and apocalyptic tales of “climate change.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 1, 2022 10:12 pm

Ukraine farmers begin a harvest like no other

From Dow Jones
July 31, 2022
5 minute read
24

Misha Ananenko was on a tractor near this Ukrainian village when a mine underneath him exploded, erupting the earth around him. He picked himself up, showered, had a shot of vodka and the next day went back to work. “Farming is always a struggle,” he said.

Winston Smith
August 1, 2022 10:21 pm

Old Ozzie:

PS we had Kero Lamps early 50s in Cremorne to cover balckouts

I had a couple of similar on the yacht.
Flickering lights and the sway of the boat on the old coal? anchorage way out in the Trial Bay Anchorage.
Heaven.

JC
JC
August 1, 2022 10:34 pm

Tough dude. Tough folks.

RIVNOPILLYA, Ukraine—Misha Ananenko was on a tractor near this Ukrainian village when a mine underneath him exploded, erupting the earth around him. He picked himself up, showered, had a shot of vodka and the next day went back to work.

“Farming is always a struggle,” he said.

But as Mr. Ananenko and other farmers start their first wheat harvest since Russia invaded Ukraine, their resilience masks big problems for the country’s globally important agriculture industry that are expected to last long after the guns fall silent.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 10:42 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

August 1, 2022 at 10:07 pm

The gene pool refines further (the Hun):

Extra signage and warning signs should be put up at the popular Instagram selfie spot in the Grampians where a mum plunged to her death while taking a photo two years ago, a coroner has found

I recently had occasion to read a Coroner’s report into a death which may have been accidental drowning but may also have been drowning with assistance.
A considerable amount of time was devoted to signage at the beach in question. Not whether or not there were warning signs (there were) but whether the warning logos and depictions were the latest approved version.
I shit you not.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 10:43 pm

JCsays:

August 1, 2022 at 10:34 pm

Tough dude. Tough folks.

RIVNOPILLYA, Ukraine—Misha Ananenko was on a tractor near this Ukrainian village when a mine underneath him exploded, erupting the earth around him.

The upside is, exploding mines cut down on ploughing time.

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 10:44 pm

A considerable amount of time was devoted to signage at the beach in question.

I wonder what spectacular act of driving incompetence led to wide load signs on field bins?

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 10:47 pm

The upside is, exploding mines cut down on ploughing time.

If it was in Australia, forget the shower and vodka, he’d be out there on his hands and knees with a cup trying to salvage the top soil.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 10:52 pm

I wonder what spectacular act of driving incompetence led to wide load signs on field bins?

Something bright and sparkly on the extremities is normally enough to alert me to the wideness.
The longness is of more interest to me when approaching from behind.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 1, 2022 10:53 pm

JC, what’s the best SIM card for use in the USA eastern states? Will be there for a month – landing at Newark. Grateful for your advice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 10:55 pm

dover0beachsays:

August 1, 2022 at 10:45 pm

Avi Yemini
@OzraeliAvi
·
2h
Karen in parliament today.

Horrible.

Who is that bint?

rickw
rickw
August 1, 2022 10:56 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 1, 2022 10:56 pm

I wonder what spectacular act of driving incompetence led to wide load signs on field bins?

The sort of driving incompetence that leads a moron to ignore “Sheep Ahead” signs because they were not commercially made – they were “A thumbnail dipped in tar” – plows into a mob of sheep, and cops a broken nose from the owner of the sheep, after some had to be shot….

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 10:57 pm

Forget 8-38 months to live.
I have it on good authority that Big Things will be happening in 10-12 weeks.
Very Big Things.
Yuuuuge.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:05 pm

Top Endersays:

August 1, 2022 at 10:53 pm

JC, what’s the best SIM card for use in the USA eastern states?

JC buys new burner phones every time he goes.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:06 pm

dover0beachsays:

August 1, 2022 at 11:02 pm

One of the Teal, Sancho. Monica Ryan is the beast’s name.

Oh.
The “great loss to the medical profession”.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 1, 2022 11:08 pm

Forget 8-38 months to live.
I have it on good authority that Big Things will be happening in 10-12 weeks.

Deluded fool.
The Exposé is down to its last HOURS – unless people unbutton their wallets.

Do you want this baby kitten to die?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:11 pm

Do you want this baby kitten to die?

SPLAT!
Ya got any more little cats you want dealt wif?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:17 pm

The Exposé is down to its last HOURS – unless people unbutton their wallets.

Like most scammers, the percentage hit rate would be low.
But once you cast the net wide enough you might make a tidy living.
I love the “Persian rug closing down sale” perennial state of urgency, and the air of guilt … “I have given up everything* to fight this battle for you. The least you can do is chip in a couple of bucks.”

* Everything = a shitty part-time job and four failing internet businesses.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 1, 2022 11:19 pm

SPLAT!
Ya got any more little cats you want dealt wif?

Monster.
And, if I may be so bold, a Whore of Socialism.

MatrixTransform
MatrixTransform
August 1, 2022 11:25 pm

I’m sharpening my pitchfork as I write this.

I’m cleaning the fermenters with oxy-per and polishing the still

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:28 pm

Monster.
And, if I may be so bold, a Whore of Socialism.

Present, sir!
By the way, “baby kitten” is an emotive tautology and holds no sway with flint-hearted socialists like me.

MatrixTransform
MatrixTransform
August 1, 2022 11:31 pm

Pretty obvious that that the mUntard doesn’t know anybody blacker than himself

Fucking tosser

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 1, 2022 11:32 pm

China’s military ‘will not sit idly by’ if Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan

China’s spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, said that because of Pelosi’s status as the “No 3 official of the US government”, a visit to Taiwan, which China claims as its own province, would “lead to egregious political impact”.

Smart lady.
She’s managed to turn a shitty political stunt into a diplomatic incident and blow a hole in the Democrats and the Biden Castration.

Emperor Xi will be smiling.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 1, 2022 11:36 pm

So the Black Lives Matter programme has been renamed ATSI Voices Matter and given a re-run in Australia?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 1, 2022 11:39 pm

By the way, “baby kitten” is an emotive tautology and holds no sway with flint-hearted socialists like me.

Spoken like a true Trotskyist.

Winston Smith
August 1, 2022 11:42 pm

A question for the chemists among us:
As a percentage, how much nitrogen is fixated by lightning as opposed to bacterial action and human production?
I keep running into vague explanations that – in essence – tell me lightning good, bacteria OK, human baaaad.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 1, 2022 11:52 pm

Smart lady.
She’s managed to turn a shitty political stunt into a diplomatic incident and blow a hole in the Democrats and the Biden Castration.

She wouldn’t be out of place on the Manly Sea Beagles board.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 2, 2022 12:03 am

Meanwhile, Lizzie and Hairy are unable to plug their phone into their new Beemer in order to listen to some muzak.

Hey Rabz, the Sporty Beamer went beautifully up to Coffs to a resort for last nite and then sped into the Sunshine Coast for tonite, with radio our only musical show. My Android phone doesn’t fit into the provided phone slot so Hairy’s iphone has to be primed with music for the digital system to accept it. Duzzn matta anyway as neither of us has any tunes on these devices. I will get my son or nineteen year-old grandson to show me what to do to load up some music choices including transferring some fave CD’s to the iphone and working out if there is a way to connect my Android up to the Beamer system as well. There must be – bluetooth or something – as there is a USB port available.

Alternatively, I was threatening to Hairy on the way up to go to JB HiFi and purchase some miniature version of a battery boogie box so’s I could simply play my CD’s in the car without any new tech wizardry. He laughed of course, said I was a luddite and I said it was better than being too lazy to bother doing sorting out your iphone and leaving us to whatever the ABC served up on Classic FM.

Actually, as we drove into Coffs through the darkening bushland they’d served up Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, full of forboding and mystery and longings, like dark water swirling under moonlight, so I didn’t mind too much. Tonight we’re on Bribie Island t in an apartment oversupplied with two bedrooms plus a his-and-hers bathroom as well as an ensuite, overlooking a Sound of calm water with an occasional painterly anchored boat; on Wednesday we visit friends here and then hit the resort high life in Mooloolabah before going to Brisbane on Saturday to see our delightful grandchildren. Will try local radio for toons as we continue to hit the road in Queensland. ps. Hairy forgot his swimmers and his tablets, so it’s not just me. He has to see a doc here to get new scripts and then buy some new speedos.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 2, 2022 12:09 am

Do you want this baby kitten to die?

SPLAT!
Ya got any more little cats you want dealt wif?

Awww. And here’s me missing my little purry fur baby tonight.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 2, 2022 12:18 am

Plenty of red paint all over people in the Series 5 of Peaky Blinders. Big fight nite in the ring in this last episode of the series. The boxers smash into each other as the blood flows. Tommy is under threat of a killing yet again while Arthur gets garotted. No comforting kitty for me through it all. Hairy watches implacable as ever. Someone once said to me that in meetings he always had the best poker face that anyone had ever seen. Just like Tommy Shelbey, hero in this tale, who does a similarly good middle distance stare. The series has become more exaggerated, but somehow we suspend disbelief and enjoy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 2, 2022 3:17 am

Lizzie.
Motoring tip.
Both visibility and fuel economy will be improved if you remove the giant bow from the new car.

rosie
rosie
August 2, 2022 3:32 am
Gabor
Gabor
August 2, 2022 4:34 am

What happened to Tom?
Have to go to work soon.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2022 4:37 am

What happened to Tom?

Good question.

Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:46 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:47 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:48 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:49 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:50 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:51 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:52 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:53 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:56 am
Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 4:57 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2022 5:06 am

Thanks Tom. Better late than never. Hope UR OK.

There’s a storm in Perth, enough to wake me early. Or maybe it was a bad dream after drinking Bowen Estate cab. Sav.

Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 5:13 am

All good, Beaugy.
PS: Dover’s website is still having problems accepting cartoon URLs.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2022 5:26 am

Um Jason Clare posturing again? — Remembering that the Commonwealth government does not own one school or employ one teacher — but talk is cheap however, what the Teachers’ Union will have to say on this won’t be:

Pay rise of 40 per cent for top teachers to be raised at ministers’ meeting to fix staff shortages
The number of teachers in training had dropped 16 per cent over the past decade, according to federal Education Minister Jason Clare.?
EXCLUSIVE
NATASHA BITA
EDUCATION EDITOR
@natasha_bita
10:15PM AUGUST 1, 2022

Lawyers, engineers and IT experts would be parachuted into classrooms to address crippling staff shortages under radical reforms that include pay rises of up to 40 per cent for the very best teachers.

The federal government’s Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership has laid out a blueprint for fixing the teacher shortage by recruiting university-educated workers to earn while they learn on the job to teach school students.

The plan includes a six to 12-month “paid internship’’ for career-changers to earn cash while upgrading their credentials with a two-year masters degree in education.

The reform recommendations from AITSL – the nation’s official agency for education quality – will be the focus of an emergency workforce summit with federal Education Minister Jason Clare and his state and territory counterparts next week.

AITSL also wants to improve the quality of university training for teachers.

Mr Clare said ministers would “pick the brains’’ of individual teachers and principals invited to the meeting. “We’ve got a teacher shortage right across the country at the moment,’’ he told federal parliament on Monday.

“There are more kids going to school now than ever before … but there are fewer people going on to university to study teaching.’’

Mr Clare said the number of teachers in training had dropped 16 per cent over the past decade.

“More and more teachers are leaving the profession early, either because they feel burnt out, worn out, or for other reasons’’ he said.

Mr Clare said the federal government was offering bursaries worth up to $40,000 for the “best and brightest’’ school leavers to enrol in a teaching degree.

He said the government’s High Achievers Teachers program would encourage more mid-career professionals to switch to the classroom.

Jason Clare says ‘more and more teachers are leaving the profession early, either because they feel burnt out, worn out, or for other reasons’. Picture: Gary Ramage
Jason Clare says ‘more and more teachers are leaving the profession early, either because they feel burnt out, worn out, or for other reasons’. Picture: Gary Ramage
AITSL chief executive Mark Grant said the nation’s top teachers – recognised as “highly accomplished’’ or “lead” teachers – are now being paid up to 10 per cent more than other teachers.

But he said lead teachers overseas were paid up to 40 per cent more than their colleagues, to prevent them quitting the profession for higher-paying jobs in other fields.

Translated to Australia, a 40 per cent pay rise would involve a $50,000 bonus to boost teacher salaries above $175,000. “The biggest influence on student learning is the quality of teaching,’’ Mr Grant told The Australian.

AITSL will propose the higher pay for lead teachers at the ministerial roundtable, which will also include teacher unions as well as Catholic and private school organisations.

The AITSL proposal – including a plan to fast-track other professionals into classroom teaching – is based on its submission to the Productivity Commission’s review of the National School Reform Agreement.

“There is evidence that increasing the level of pay for high-level positions would make the profession more attractive than more expensive generalised pay rises,’’ the submission states.

“Australia is facing a critical shortage of teachers due to a number of factors including growing school enrolments, a drop in the number of individuals enrolled in teaching degrees, an ageing workforce and a percentage of teachers leaving the profession to embark on different careers each year.

“Clear action is needed to ensure that a career in teaching is an attractive one.’’

AITSL notes that only 1025 teachers – or 0.3 per cent of the workforce – have been certified as lead teachers.

It recommends that states and territories create more “master teacher’’ roles, modelled on Singapore’s high-performing education system.

“These teachers would retain a significant classroom teaching load, but also be responsible for coaching other teachers to improve practice, supervising pre-service and beginning teachers, and leading initiatives to improve pedagogy within and across schools,’’ it states.

“Their pay should recognise their expertise and reward them for taking leadership roles in the system.’’

AITSL recommends that professionals such as engineers, scientists, lawyers, accountants and IT workers be allowed to work in schools for six to 12 months in paid internships, as part of their two-year master’s degree in education.

“The implementation of paid internships or residencies encourages high-quality candidates to complete an ITE (teaching) qualification, reducing the financial disincentives of undertaking study, including a lack of income,’’ it states.

“At the same time, internships increase the time spent in the classroom prior to full-time employment.

“Structured time spent in the classroom supports the pre-service teachers’ skill development in curriculum delivery and critical skills including classroom management and student engagement.’’

AITSL also wants to set up a national board to review university degrees for student teachers, to ensure “quality and consistency’’ of teacher training.

The AITSL blueprint for reform coincides with action from the NSW government to cut red tape for teachers in the nation’s biggest schooling system.

An extra 200 administrative staff will be sent into schools in term four to relieve teachers of some of the paperwork that principals warn is causing burnout.

NSW will also release high-quality, sequenced curriculum resources to help teachers plan for lessons.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said the biggest tax on teachers’ time was sourcing or producing high-quality teaching resources.

“We want to ease that workload by providing online access to universally available learning curriculum materials they can draw from to free up lesson planning time each week,’’ Mr Perrottet said.

The Australian Primary Principals Association criticised the new national curriculum last week, declaring it was “impossible to teach’’.

The Australian Education Union has also blasted the curriculum, describing teachers’ workload as “excessive, unsustainable and unrealistic’’.

It says the two-year review of the curriculum, which had 20 per cent of its content cut in April, had failed to “declutter’’ the teaching document.

“Feedback from Queensland, which is the only jurisdiction to implement the Australian curriculum in full, suggests that the changes have not succeeded in this aim,’’ the AEU states in its submission to the Productivity Commission.

“The AEU has had numerous reports from teachers in Queensland that they are concerned about the workload implications of implementing the identified curriculum changes, and that there has been very little reduction of the cluttered curriculum, which is unlikely to improve student outcomes’’.

NATASHA BITA EDUCATION EDITOR
Natasha Bita is a multi-award winning journalist with a focus on free speech, education, social affairs, aged care, health policy, immigration, industrial relations and consumer law.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2022 5:35 am

I don’t know if this article by Janet Albrechtsen was posted over the weekend but here it is apologies if it was I haven’t been able to keep up:

Forcing opinions on to others creates division, not diversityJANET ALBRECHTSEN

12:00AM JULY 30, 2022
807 COMMENTS
Is there a roster on the fridge in the Peter FitzSimons/Lisa Wilkinson kitchen where the pirate and the princess decide whose week it is to show the world how dimwitted and divisive woke politics has become? This week, after seven players from the Manly rugby league club decided to sit out Thursday’s match rather than wear a pride ­jersey that clashes with their Christian beliefs, FitzSimons wanted to know: “What the hell is wrong with you blokes that you don’t get it? You are prepared to trash the entire Manly season on this issue alone? … For what? … Can we have a statement from the seven of you, to make clear your views, so we can all understand?”

The italics are his. FitzSimons may have fame and money, but credibility is proving more elusive. FitzSimons’s call for a statement from the seven players sounds like a new inquisition where heretics are called to account for their ­different views.

One word should do. Faith. The italics are mine. In the hierarchy of what matters most, these seven players have chosen their faith above a rugby game. In a free country, they get to decide that, and how they express their faith, and what values they prize ahead of others provided they are not harming others.

Can you imagine what the ­former Wallaby would have said if the Manly Sea Eagles had told its players a day or two before the game that for this week only they would be wearing a Hillsong-themed jersey and be required to listen to the Lord’s Prayer instead of a Welcome to Country?

The decision by the Manly players may disappoint, offend, even hurt the feelings of many people. But their decision to quietly sit out a game rather than wear a rainbow jersey that was not raised with players, but foisted on them, does not harm anyone. Just as FitzSimons has his own faith, secular and woke though it may be, the rugby players have theirs. Just as FitzSimons may not always be consistent in his beliefs, the rugby players may also pick and choose what matters to them.

The difference is that the Manly players, most of them Pacific Islanders, and Christians, are not using their platform to insist that others agree with their values. They are sitting out the game. We have laws, in the Fair Work Act, to protect employees from discrimination by their employers on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, marital status – and religion.

There was a very different reaction when AFLW player Haneen Zreika, a practising young Muslim woman, refused to play a footy game for GWS wearing a jersey that celebrated a pride round.

The head of the AFL’s inclusion policy, Tanya Hosch, said that “People of faith have rights as well”.

“We want the game to be inclusive; you don’t get to choose to just pick and choose who represents inclusion,” Hosch said.

Back then, there was no thundering condemnation from Fitz­Simons. Though disappointed, he pointed out that Zreika is “quietly declining to use her platform to promote a belief she’s not comfortable with”.

Did FitzSimons give the young GWS player a pass because she is a woman and a Muslim? Is targeting Christian players the last acceptable prejudice? It’s hard to follow FitzSimons’s logic.

Diversity and inclusion are fine ideals in a free and fair society. But diversity and inclusion become hollow ends when imposing one set of views becomes the means. It is the phoniest form of diversity and inclusion.

Perhaps we will find more common ground when we recognise and respect diversity, rather than compel people to celebrate it. Reasonably, people may not be interested in celebrating the religious views of the seven Manly players. Equally reasonably, some committed Christians may recoil at being forced to celebrate homosexual pride.

Building a deeper, quieter form of respect, rather than forcing players to wear a pride jumper, may prove to be a more effective way to build genuine inclusion. It is less showy, to be sure, and it is also a two-way street. This path may foster more unity, a lasting tolerance for others, whatever their sexuality, gender, skin colour or religion, in a modern liberal democracy.

One thing is clear. Forcing ­people to celebrate diversity by putting on a rainbow jersey is no way to build genuine and lasting respect.

Diversity and inclusion have become the weapons du jour to discriminate against others, harass them, and even sack people with different views.

For seven years, British woman Maureen Martin worked at an ­organisation that provided local housing. She was politically active during that time, unsuccessfully standing for parliament a few times. When she stood in the mayoral elections this year, she was given a full page in the local mayoral booklet to set out her campaign beliefs.

Apart from wanting to tackle knife crime and advocating for lower taxes for local businesses, Martin – a woman of colour – said she wanted to promote marriage between a man and a woman as the fundamental building block for a successful society.

Martin told London’s Mail on Sunday that she was subjected to a “Soviet-style interrogation” about her beliefs by her employer L&Q over three complaints, and then sacked. In a letter, L&Q claimed that she had expressed her views in an inappropriate manner, and it was “reasonable to conclude that they will have caused upset, hurt and offence”.

Martin is suing L&Q for discrimination, harassment, and unfair dismissal. The message from her sacking is if you don’t line up with the new orthodoxy, you can lose your job.

There are signs of common sense. Earlier this month, a British tribunal found that Maya Forstater, the tax expert whose contract with the UK Centre for Global Development was not renewed because she said that biological sex is immutable, was unfairly discriminated against for her views. This decision is a far cry from an earlier one where a judge found that Forstater’s views were “not worthy of respect in a democratic society”.

In a free society, there are a plethora of rights. The right to express one’s views. The right to exercise one’s faith. The right not to be harmed by violent speech. The right not to be defamed by speech. The right not to be offended or have one’s feelings hurt by someone else’s views.

That last one has been gifted in more recent years by government in various laws. Understandably, this government project to protect hurt feelings is the precursor to modern organisations promoting diversity and inclusion.

But no right exists in a vacuum, especially the right not to be offended. A free society comprised of myriad rights means that rights will, from time to time, clash. When that happens, the question is how to best balance these rights and settle conflicts. That necessarily involves making judgments about which right is more fundamental to a free society.

The right to express one’s views – which includes not wearing a pride jersey – is one of those core values because so much else flows from free expression. Challenging the status quo with open, even robust debate, has been critical to securing lasting social change. From cementing women’s rights, securing gay rights, combating apartheid, and, more recently, recognising trans rights, debate has been, and remains, critical. That’s why protecting the right to freedom of thought, and belief, is more important than giving precedence to the views and feelings of another group, even when that group is society’s newest oppressed minority. That way lies a society that polices thought.

When inclusion is used as a commandment to tell people in a modern liberal democracy what to think, it ceases to promote respect for others. For example, a Medicare form that expunged the word “mother” and inserted the words “birthing parent” divides society.

It is high time that sham forms of diversity and inclusion adopted by sporting codes, embedded into corporate Australia and most other organisations, were dumped. Instead, fostering respect enables society, and organisations within it, a rugby team included, to recognise difference without expecting people to celebrate it or agree with each other.

This won’t suit the virtue-­signalling zealots who are intent on forcing people to agree with their chosen moral code. But then again, zealotry, wherever it is found, is often the enemy of the common good.

JANET ALBRECHTSEN
COLUMNIST
Janet Albrechtsen is an opinion columnist with The Australian. She has worked as a solicitor in commercial law, and attained a Doctorate of Juridical Studies from the University of Sydney.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2022 5:57 am

The comments on Janet Albrechtsen’s article are not supportive of the woke foke: I think this comment sums up the rag-headed La Scimmia very well:
As someone wrote in this paper a while ago, FitzSimons realised long ago that he was never going to be the brightest one in the room. So he decided to be the loudest. Not having the skills to refute an opposing argument, he resorts to sneering, hectoring, and belittling. He personifies the intolerance he would have us believe he abhors.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 2, 2022 6:27 am

Um Jason Clare posturing again? — Remembering that the Commonwealth government does not own one school or employ one teacher — but talk is cheap however, what the Teachers’ Union will have to say on this won’t be:

So many issues with this, and it is obvious that they still think money will fix it

1. Only 2% have gone for higher registration … Reason for a mere 10k a year, you need to pay between 600 and 900 up front to have a portfolio assessed. It takes 2 years to put the portfolio together and you need to get the opportunity to demonstrate the higher level stuff so you can include it. Most teachers I know just couldn’t be bothered trying to fit it all in…either your home life suffers or your teaching does.

2. How will they identify the “best”? Those who can talk the talk(see point 1)?

3. Every school has a Head Teacher Teaching and Learning whose job it is to mentor advise etc etc

4. The reference to Qld and the National Curriculum. Wtf? We have a year and a half to amend programs before rolling out the curriculum(some subject areas 2 and a half). If 2 people working for a day per unit/subject/year level can’t sort it out, and another day for changing resources…

5. Don’t see how 200 admin staff will make a difference. They are not going to be able to relieve anything of what my admin load was when I taught in NSW, and that 200 is less than 1 per school, let alone one per high school or primary school.

6. Teaching has become unattractive/high burn out because of the behaviour of the kids. There are no effective discipline strategies that work without the cooperation of parents, and most parents will side with the kids against the teacher. The focus is on pushing them through. In NSW at least it takes 4 hours of. Deputy’s time to suspend a kid, and another 2 hours to process them back in. In Qld thanks to the human rights Act it is very very difficult to suspend a child.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 2, 2022 6:31 am

of the behaviour of the kids. There are no effective discipline strategies that work without the cooperation of parents, and most parents will side with the kids against the teacher.

Further to this think of the 11-16 year old kids who break into people’s houses and steal cars and joyride, not your nice middle class children and grandchildren.

Mater
August 2, 2022 6:43 am

FitzSimons wanted to know: “What the hell is wrong with you blokes that you don’t get it? You are prepared to trash the entire Manly season on this issue alone? … For what? … Can we have a statement from the seven of you, to make clear your views, so we can all understand?”

Ironically, it can be equally applied to the opposite side of the argument.

Mater wanted to know: “What the hell is wrong with you blokes [the board] that you don’t get it? You are prepared to trash the entire Manly season on this issue alone? … For what? … Can we have a statement from the board, to make clear your views, so we can all understand?”

See how this works?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 6:46 am

What happened to Tom?
Have to go to work soon.

Yeah Tom. Jesus. People have to go to work.

Talk about insensitive. Next time be quicker with your free stuff, will you?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 6:47 am

On the subject of free stuff, Knight portrayed Lidia Thorpe particularly well.

Watching the actual footage though, I did think she was trying a bit hard to look like Kamala Harris.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 6:56 am

Thorpe is just applying for her next taxpayer funded role post politics.
Yesterday will go on her highlight reel .

Dot
Dot
August 2, 2022 6:57 am

Provoking people to be let in by the Capitol Police, who Biden wants to set up across the US as a second Federal Police.

Sounds legit to me.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 6:58 am

Further to this think of the 11-16 year old kids who break into people’s houses and steal cars and joyride, not your nice middle class children and grandchildren.

Dickless uptick.

Although to my mind, there’s no such thing as ‘joyriding’. It’s the wilful theft and destruction of what is, for most people, the second most expensive thing they will ever buy.

It can and does put people’s jobs at risk. They can’t get their kids to school. They can’t get to the doctor. They can’t get to the shops. It takes their mobility away, and thus their quality of life.

Very few people have public transport options within walking distance, and they shouldn’t have to because a) they’ve busted arse to buy wheels in the first place, and b) the filthy junior scrotes who do this have yet to work out that it is difficult to steal cars with two broken thumbs.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 7:03 am

Seeing a dishevelled Krugman “explain” to the US Sunday morning shows why the US isn’t really in a recession was quite sad.
Then I remembered Australia’s RBA chairman Philip Lowe completed his doctorate under Krugman.
Uh-oh spaghetti-o.

Anchor What
Anchor What
August 2, 2022 7:03 am

No evidence of election fraud?
Here’s why.
Election operative deletes voting records from Maricopa County machines before they are handed over to auditors! He had no authorisation to be in that room but knew exactly how to delete the info, according to a report at Gateway Pundit.

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2022 7:05 am

“FitzSimons “

The problem I have with the grotesque buffoon FitzSimian and his equally grotesque cane toad wife is that despite years of lies and all round buffoonery, neither of them have ever suffered any financial or professional opprobrium. In other words, they get away with it. Both are true representatives of the progressive elites in this country. Both are narcissists yet I could forgive them for this if either of them had a smidgen of talent however both are singularly untalented parasites. For them, it is always, “do as I say, not as I do”. For them it is always, “rules for thee but not for me”, and on and on the hypocrisy and double standards go. Last week FitzSimian was caught out yet again, his tirades against the Christian Manly Seven men as compared to his praise earlier this year of the Muslim Haneen Zreika woman when she refused to wear the “Pride jersey”. This is what FitzSimian said about Haneen, “she’s quietly declining to use her platform to promote a belief she’s not comfortable with“. My God, no such kind words for the Manly Seven. Pirate Man is an unashamed anti-Christian bigot. No wonder he and she mock, scorn and laugh at the rest of us.

I’m still waiting for Mrs FitzSimian to be charged. Last month, the narcissist, in order to gloat, prejudiced a looming rape trial which resulted in that trial being delayed….again. If that had been you or me, or a conservative media name such as Tim Blair, Andrew Bolt, Paul Murray, Peta Credlin, Alan Jones, Chris Kenny or some other, I can guarantee you that charges would have already been laid.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 7:06 am

Mr Panzer at 10.59 last night:

I have it on good authority that Big Things will be happening in 10-12 weeks.
Very Big Things.
Yuuuuge.

I have heard of this. Possibly less than 10 to 12. Solid mail, from a source that has never ever cocked up a Prediction of this type. Apparently everyone with a fitbit/smart watch will have their alarm times scrambled and ringtones swapped out for the Baby Shark song.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2022 7:12 am

Apparently everyone with a fitbit/smart watch will have their alarm times scrambled and ringtones swapped out for the Baby Shark song.

I’m OK. My smartwatch doesn’t have ringtones, it just vibrates when it wants to tell me something.

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2022 7:20 am

Yesterday, having viewed the juvenile stunt by the adolescent Thorpe* as well as the hectoring shouts by that utterly grotesque and hypocritical lard-arse member for Kooyong and what concerns me is not them per se, it is the fact that there are people out there who vote for them. I truly hope the voters of Kooyong are already having buyer’s remorse.

* Further to Thorpe, having seen her stunt yesterday in the senate, I thought of my grandparents and other long gone relatives and ancestors, some who fought for this country in World War I and II (my grandfather and great-grandfather), ALL who helped build this country and I became rather maudlin, because the reality is that this is Australia in 2022. It isn’t a pretty picture.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 7:20 am

Ahem (the Hun):

Indian authorities reported on Monday Asia’s first possible monkeypox death in a man who recently returned from United Arab Emirates.

The health ministry in Kerala state said that tests on the 22-year-old who died on July 30 “showed that the man had monkeypox”.

All right – I’ll say it. Did he die of monkeypox, or with monkeypox?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2022 7:30 am

Penis news:

A Kentucky swimmer has revealed the “edgy’’ atmosphere inside the dressing room when transgender swimmer Lia Thomas competed at America’s premier college competition, the NCAA swimming championships, recently.

Riley Gaines, who competed against Thomas, said there was “extreme discomfort” because swimmers were not forewarned the controversial transgender swimmer would be using the women’s facilities.

And:

“That’s not something we were forewarned about, which I don’t think is right in any means, changing in a locker room with someone who has different parts.

“So not only were we forced to race against a male, we were forced to change in the locker room with one … And so then we’re sitting there not even knowing who to talk to, who to complain to, because this kind of all happened behind the scenes and very discreetly.”

Behind the scenes. Discreetly. Quietly. Assumptions that nobody would dare complain. It seems to have been all a bit ‘birthing-person’-ish.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 7:33 am

Hitler’s Huber watch went for $US1.1mill (pre fees) at auction.
What kind of ghoul would want that?

Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2022 7:35 am
Helen
Helen
August 2, 2022 7:39 am

Yes Cassie. Captain shared the opinion that Ms Lydia should experience in full her preferred culture and go through the initiation experience of pubescent girls, of being gang r*ped after some helpful rough surgical intervention, being kindly ‘loaned’ to a visitor over night or even sent out to placate the warband that approached which also meant being gang r*ped. Then when older and useless, and a drain on the food supply, left behind to die.

He also mentioned ant hills … and other things but that will do.

Then she could also spend a few months in Yuendumu or Wadeye in an over crowded house with no lockable doors and her big mouth and see how she gets on. Lols, Big Brother in Black, it would be terrifying TV.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 2, 2022 7:48 am

According to the woman, her son is physically and sexually mature, yet socially incapable of naturally getting a girlfriend. Identifying as bisexual with a preference for women, the man also was open with his mother on the sex he wanted to experience, and the type of pornography he enjoys. The mother commended him for his sexual openness, citing fears of her son becoming an “incel” due to sexual repression.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 2, 2022 7:50 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2022 7:51 am

Watching the actual footage though, I did think she was trying a bit hard to look like Kamala Harris.

but did she cackle wildly

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 2, 2022 7:51 am

the juvenile stunt by the adolescent Thorpe

If the SFLs had any brains/courage/principled leadership, that footage would be on 24-7 replay.
Accompanied by commentary showing she only backed away from her original statement when reminded she would not be drawing a Senator’s salary until the correct words were used.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 2, 2022 7:52 am

FMD, there is no hope for Australia. (sorry I stuffed up my first poet today)

According to the woman, her son is physically and sexually mature, yet socially incapable of naturally getting a girlfriend. Identifying as bisexual with a preference for women, the man also was open with his mother on the sex he wanted to experience, and the type of pornography he enjoys. The mother commended him for his sexual openness, citing fears of her son becoming an “incel” due to sexual repression.

https://thepostmillennial.com/mom-buys-prostitute-for-son-as-healthy-way-to-channel-his-sexuality

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 2, 2022 7:59 am

‘It’s unimaginable’: Beyonce? wears Brisbane designer’s bodysuit

Brisbane designer Bethany Cordwell says she was contacted by the pop star’s team earlier this year. When she saw Beyonce? wearing her design on her album art, she couldn’t believe it.

That surprise must be similar to when the weapons designers at SAAB saw their NLAW being used in a celebrity war by a Ukrainian poser.

rosie
rosie
August 2, 2022 8:09 am

I know, the alpbc can set up the
Social Housing Superannuation Fund so people can ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and start the investment ball rolling.
First stop Wadeye.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 8:16 am

Now I’ve seen everything.
Today I’ve been alerted to a fellow who was banned for a few years from being a company director for not insignificant breaches of the corps act who is now the proud owner of an “NDIS consultancy”.

GOD.
BLESS.
AUSTRALIA.

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2022 8:17 am

““So not only were we forced to race against a male, we were forced to change in the locker room with one … And so then we’re sitting there not even knowing who to talk to, who to complain to, because this kind of all happened behind the scenes and very discreetly.””

In 2022 perverts have more rights than biological females.

rosie
rosie
August 2, 2022 8:18 am

I don’t think Monty is quite over his bout of covid.
His comments yesterday was pretty incoherent.
Only a fevered mind could think a voice bureaucracy is the final solution to Aboriginal disadvantage.

rosie
rosie
August 2, 2022 8:19 am

Once upon a time being Thomased was grounds for a charge of indecent exposure.

lotocoti
lotocoti
August 2, 2022 8:23 am

Meanwhile, in Holland, I gather the mayor of some town wanted to paint over a pro-farmer mural.
What would Barry Foster do?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2022 8:24 am

Monique Ryan, unmasked.

There used to be a certain reverence for doctors.

And village schoolmasters:

The village all declar’d how much he knew;
‘Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,
And e’en the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the parson own’d his skill,
For e’en though vanquish’d he could argue still;

How often have we seen that – even when bested in argument lefties go on and on and on, hoping to win by attrition. They have the feeling that regardless of merit, the last person talking is the winner.

Anyway, just musing out loud: most doctors, (GP’s actually) although trained in a scientific discipline, do not actually do science. When confronted by something they can’t explain they refer refer patients to specialists. Isn’t it similar to a car mechanic using a suite techniques and tools to diagnose a problem, and to decide upon a remedy.

Don’t get me wrong. This is not to belittle the importance of their work or the effort required to keep up with developments, just that it is not as scientific as people have got used to assuming. These GP’s would not be able to demonstrate or prove the science they rely upon, and could not come up with something new.

I suspect there are (low level at least) specialists in the same boat.

I see that Dr Monique Ryan (for a Ryan she is) is a neurologist – which is certainly a complicated study – and doubtless uses lots of machines and measures abstruse volumes and ratios and voltages all of which, when put together in an established way, leads to a single conclusion the same way that armed with particular latitude and longitude you can arrive at a single landmark. You don’t need to be a cartographer. Or a scientist.

The only reason this has pressed itself upon me is that we keep hearing from doctors on all matter of topics, and yet so often what they utter the most ineffable unscientific nonsense.

Dr Monique is no doubt a warmy, and would look down her nose with disdain at anyone pointing out the problems with the theory if they did not possess what she thought at least was a higher qualification, and thinks that she is rightly in the company of scientific giants when she agrees with the reports from the Klimate Kiddies at the UN.

And, of course, on Covid there is no way she will listen to anyone raising the many failed predictions and irreconcilable divergences between ‘da science’ Covid and reality Covid.

She is a doctor. Doesn’t matter what you say, she is a doctor. She is right by definition.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 2, 2022 8:25 am

rosiesays:
August 2, 2022 at 8:09 am
I know, the alpbc can set up the
Social Housing Superannuation Fund so people can ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and start the investment ball rolling.
First stop Wadeye.

I suspect that Their ABC’s Super Fund has a very healthy balance. The members simply need to indicate their investment preference to the Board. Social Justice investing, for them, not us.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 2, 2022 8:29 am

mUnty’s ugly character on full display yesterday.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 8:33 am

Comment, from the Oz, regarding Lidia Thorpe’s performance in the Senate.

Tetters
22 minutes ago
To all you Green voters, this is what you’ve got. To all indigenous people, this is your voice.

Helen
Helen
August 2, 2022 8:33 am

Those girls in the locker room should have walked out and left him to swim by himself.

calli
calli
August 2, 2022 8:35 am

lotocoti says:
August 2, 2022 at 8:23 am

Ahaha! Thanks for the memories. I’d forgotten that show and its great theme song.

I’m in Amsterdam in four weeks time. I might even report on what I see there – staying just off Dam square. Hopefully some big, burly farmers walking over a few little stick-bashy girly cops.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 2, 2022 8:35 am

Although to my mind, there’s no such thing as ‘joyriding’. It’s the wilful theft and destruction of what is, for most people, the second most expensive thing they will ever buy.

A) If you are referring to the house as typically your most expensive purchase, with a car second, you forgot one thing – the correct order is:
1) Government (taxes are generally higher than mortgage costs
2) House
3) Car

B) In the good old days, you got hung for stealing a mans horse – same should go for car thieves today.

Tom
Tom
August 2, 2022 8:36 am

Today I’ve been alerted to a fellow who was banned for a few years from being a company director for not insignificant breaches of the corps act who is now the proud owner of an “NDIS consultancy”.

Bern, it helps to remember that Australia has cured the need for accountability and justice by legalising corruption.

And no-one ever asks questions about corruption because that used to be the media’s job.

calli
calli
August 2, 2022 8:38 am

And no-one ever asks questions about corruption because that used to be the media’s job.

Selective. Exhibit A: John Barilaro

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 8:39 am

it helps to remember that Australia has cured the need for accountability and justice by legalising corruption.

How did Australia go bust?
At first slowly, then all at once.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 8:39 am

Daily Mail. Didn’t the Mandela Government abolish the death penalty for rape?

Eight models are gang-raped up to 10 times each at gunpoint while shooting a music video at a South African mine – prompting calls for sex attackers to undergo chemical castration

Shocking crime took place while filming gospel music video near Johannesburg
Eight models aged between 19 and 37 were gang raped up to ten times each
Police made mass arrests and 82 illegal miners are due in court today
South Africa has third highest rate of rape in the world and soaring crime stats
There have been renewed calls for convicted rapists to be chemically castrated

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2022 8:41 am

She is a doctor. Doesn’t matter what you say, she is a doctor. She is right by definition.

Always get a second opinion.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2022 8:42 am

There have been renewed calls for convicted rapists to be chemically castrated.

Why chemically? One snip would do it.

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2022 8:46 am

Eight models are gang-raped up to 10 times each at gunpoint while shooting a music video at a South African mine – prompting calls for sex attackers to undergo chemical castration

After which they can deport them. The accused are reportedly “migrants” engaged in illegal scavenging for gold in closed mines.

calli
calli
August 2, 2022 8:50 am

That was meant to read: the media are selective.

They are going after Barilaro, not because he’s corrupt, it’s because they can hook sitting conservatives into the net if they try hard enough.

It doesn’t matter if they’re guilty or not, any smear will do.

They got another one yesterday for “bullying”. Not a peep about Wong, Gallagher and Keneally and their antics.

But it’s different when they do it.

calli
calli
August 2, 2022 8:53 am

No one (apart from normal, everyday, law abiding citizens) fears the fourth estate any more – the object is to get them onside, and once onside there they stay.

Which simply means they are as corrupt as the people they “expose”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2022 8:55 am

Translated to Australia, a 40 per cent pay rise would involve a $50,000 bonus to boost teacher salaries above $175,000. “The biggest influence on student learning is the quality of teaching,’’ Mr Grant told The Australian.

This will be more attractive to people who want the money than to those who want to actually teach.

A crappy curriculum, all-pervading political conditioning, no discipline, lazy hostile parents who think sending their little rat-faced urchin to school everyday means said urchin should be a ‘straight’ A student with no fuss on their part, a minefield of race and religious and gender identities to be threaded through – and with more mines laid every time the ABC decides there are new injustices to champion, and the fear (much more so for males) that just one of your charges is malignant enough to point at you and say you touched them and it made them uncomfortable – career gone, possible charges laid, and everyone looking at you funny for the rest of your life.

Yup – this all adds up to ‘not enough money’.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 8:55 am

Important week for the world this week.
If Blake Masters doesn’t win the GOP primary in Arizona, the Thiel money will dry up.
The ending of de-banking & de-platforming is reliant on Masters winning the nomination & then beating Kelly in November.
Pretty big stuff.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 2, 2022 8:57 am

Comment, from the Oz, regarding Lidia Thorpe’s performance in the Senate.

Tetters
22 minutes ago
To all you Green voters, this is what you’ve got. To all indigenous people, this is your voice.

Surprise= nil
Outrage = nil
Exactly what it says on the package.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2022 8:57 am

So, did Lidia take the oath, and what did she take it on? Has she sworn loyalty to Australia and the proper discharge of her duties?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 9:01 am

Greens voters love what they saw in Canberra yesterday.
Every day a Liberal, National, Teal, Labor voter dies.
Every day a Greens voter is born.

Zipster
August 2, 2022 9:07 am

China releases new video of missile strikes as Pelosi begins tour of Asia
‘Outnumbered’ panelists discuss China’s threats against Speaker Pelosi over her expected trip to Taiwan. #foxnews

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2022 9:09 am

Today I’ve been alerted to a fellow who was banned for a few years from being a company director for not insignificant breaches of the corps act who is now the proud owner of an “NDIS consultancy”.

would a warning letter to the NDIA do any good do you think?

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2022 9:15 am

Has she sworn loyalty to Australia and the proper discharge of her duties?

Hasn’t she already admitted she doesn’t believe the parliament has a right to exist and she is only there to “infiltrate” the colonial project?

If only we had recall elections.

In the meantime, her showboating at least serves the purpose of alerting the general public to the agenda afoot to divude the nation by “race.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 9:15 am

So, did Lidia take the oath,

I think she affirmed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 9:17 am

Wasn’t it an offense, punishable by decapitation on the nearest hill, to mock either of Their Majesties, while taking the Oath to Parliament? Pretty sure I read that somewhere?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 2, 2022 9:22 am

rosie says:
August 2, 2022 at 8:18 am
I don’t think Monty is quite over his bout of covid.
His comments yesterday was pretty incoherent.

Just distracted as he filled out the application to get his $750 covid cash.

sfw
sfw
August 2, 2022 9:24 am

Re Doctors, the way the system operates is designed to make them a living. My left knee is a bit dodgy, doesn’t hurt but can’t take a lot of weight, it just slowly folds. I can’t go straight to a knee specialist. First I have to see the GP at $80 a pop here, I do get something back but not much. The GP will push and prod and ask a few questions, if I’m lucky he will send me for a scan straight away, if not he will insist that I use some medicine that will not do anything and come back in two weeks. Either way I’ll end up getting a scan eventually, when the scan results come back I’ll pay another $80 for him to give me a referral to a specialist. It’s crap but there’s no way to short circuit the system.

Haven’t seen a Dr since wuflu began except when I ended up in hospital after the second jab with terrible flu like symptoms, and I don’t want to see one now. Looks like I’ll be forced to sometime this year to see about the knee.

Re the hospital, I was pretty crook, went to the local emergency twice, they made me sit in the street until they tested me, the test was negative so they let me in. I had two more visits and all they did was test me for wuflu, when it was negative they just sent me home and said take panadol, even though I was so weak could barely walk 10 metres. Bunch of useless pricks, took me weeks to recover.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 9:27 am

Puh-lease.
Alerting the NDIS to anything dodgy is a fools errand.
The last thing a taxpayer funded body wants to know is something in their universe isn’t up to scratch.

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2022 9:28 am

I can’t go straight to a knee specialist.

Otoh, if GPs didn’t act as the gateway to specialists the latter’s rooms would be clogged up with hypochondriacs and people with genuine issues would be waiting even longer to see one.

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2022 9:31 am

The last thing a taxpayer funded body wants to know is something in their universe isn’t up to scratch.

It wouldn’t take much effort for the NDIA to uncover such.

Just head down to the local library, for starters, and see their clients abandoned by their “carers”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 2, 2022 9:32 am

Amazing how the US finds these durka durka terrorists just before an election.
I wonder when we’ll see a Zero Dark Thirty puff piece style movie dropping.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 2, 2022 9:32 am

Lawyers, engineers and IT experts would be parachuted into classrooms to address crippling staff shortages under radical reforms that include pay rises of up to 40 per cent for the very best teachers.
The federal government’s Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership has laid out a blueprint for fixing the teacher shortage by recruiting university-educated workers to earn while they learn on the job to teach school students.
The plan includes a six to 12-month “paid internship’’ for career-changers to earn cash while upgrading their credentials with a two-year masters degree in education.

Sounds like what was done in WA 1969 -1970. Had an engineer mate who did that and knew a chick who was a psychologist who changed to teaching.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 9:33 am

Oh, and as for Adam Bandt “Always was, Always will be” -when G.S.T. is raised to 15% to pay the cost of reparations, will you still say the same?

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 2, 2022 9:34 am

Winston, regarding production of NOx every lightning strike allegedly produces thousands of tonnes. There are lightning strikes all the time (see ITCZ).

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 2, 2022 9:35 am

The last thing a taxpayer funded body wants to know is something in their universe isn’t up to scratch.
CASA and ATSB spring to mind.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 2, 2022 9:42 am

Europe’s looming coal crisis

A shortfall of the fuel would be particularly painful for Poland and Germany.

Move over gas — there’s a new energy shortage in town.

As Europe faces its worst energy crunch in decades amid the war in Ukraine, national capitals have been scrambling to shore up their gas reserves ahead of the winter. But another fuel could also soon be in short supply: coal.

Although the highly polluting fuel has earned pariah status as the EU looks to slash emissions, consumption is on the rise as a number of countries, including Austria and the Netherlands, either switch old coal-fired plants back on or boost existing capacity to save on gas.

The problem is that the EU will soon be deprived of its biggest supplier: The bloc slapped sanctions on Russian coal in April, forbidding further imports starting August 10.

That means the 2 million tons of coal it is set to receive from Russia this month will be the last such shipment, said Alex Thackrah, a senior coal analyst at the market intelligence firm Argus Media.

Add to that serious logistical challenges in sourcing and transporting the fuel from elsewhere, and “it’s certainly going to be a challenge to get enough coal this winter,” he said.

Indonesia, South Africa and Colombia are all potential suppliers, but EU countries will face “extremely high prices” due to the particularly high-calorific type of coal normally used across the bloc, according to Thackrah. Coal prices on the API2 Rotterdam hub, a European benchmark, hit $380 per ton last week, already a more than fourfold increase on this time last year.

The EU will also face “stiff competition” from players such as India and South Korea, which have existing coal supply agreements with many of these countries, said Mark Nugent, an analyst at the shipbroker Braemar.

Logistical issues risk complicating matters further.

Arky
August 2, 2022 9:43 am

HIMARS.
Everyone wants them now. Estonia, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia
Well done and God bless Lockheed Martin.

C.L.
C.L.
August 2, 2022 9:44 am

Thorpe is not even an Aborigine.
I do feel sorry for many racially mixed people. Specifically, the ones who seem to have started hating themselves for not being entirely white from a young age.

Zipster
August 2, 2022 9:52 am

Tame: “Willie Jackson says…we’re in a consensus-type democracy now, we’re not in a majority anymore”

PM: “If you’re suggesting that we are undermining democracy…”

Tame: “You’ve just said democracy is democracy & by most people’s definition of democracy, one person, one vote”

Tame: “If everyone has ownership of these assets, why isn’t everyone represented in the same way on those boards…when it comes down to the representation on these boards, the truth is the structure at the moment, some would argue, gives Maori disproportionate power”

watch the whole thing

the indigenous “voice” in NZ. coming to Oz

Zipster
August 2, 2022 10:02 am

The White House warned China to tone down its rhetoric on Monday in regards to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi potentially visiting Taiwan, underscoring that there was no reason for Beijing to escalate tension.
Despite Beijing seeing the visit as highly provocative and an uptake of Chinese military presence in proximity to the island, the White House emphasized it was ultimately Pelosi’s decision whether to travel to Taiwan or not.
The White House and State Department are both considered to be opposed to the trip.
“Put simply, there is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit consistent with long-standing US policy into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby explained.
“The speaker has the right to visit Taiwan,” he told reporters. Kirby went on to say the United States “will not be intimidated” from continuing to move freely in the Pacific region.
However, he stressed that US policy had not changed toward the self-governed island, emphasizing that the US will continue to recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.
“Nothing has changed,” he said. “There’s certainly no reason for this to come to blows.”

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 2, 2022 10:03 am

Coal prices on the API2 Rotterdam hub, a European benchmark, hit $380 per ton last week, already a more than fourfold increase on this time last year.

Coal is dead, right?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 2, 2022 10:04 am

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the bitter feud between Neil Mitchell and Dan Andrews – as radio king explains WHY he launched an extraordinary on-air attack on ‘the worst premier in Victoria’s history’

. Victorian Premier Dan Andrews no longer speaks with radio host Neil Mitchell
. The broadcaster recently called Andrews the worst premier in the state’s history
. Mitchell says Andrews is a ‘one-man band’ who rules his cabinet through fear
. He reckons Andrews became increasingly autocratic during Covid-19 pandemic
. Mitchell expects Andrews to win the November state election for a third term

Franx
Franx
August 2, 2022 10:04 am

HIMARS
The Russians want them, too, for purposes of obviating Lockheed Martin.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2022 10:05 am

Thorpe is not even an Aborigine.

From memory, her claim to being “Aboriginal” is based on her great grandmother’s Aboriginality.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 2, 2022 10:05 am

Rogersays:

August 2, 2022 at 9:28 am

I can’t go straight to a knee specialist.

Otoh, if GPs didn’t act as the gateway to specialists the latter’s rooms would be clogged up with hypochondriacs and people with genuine issues would be waiting even longer to see one.

Correct.
Some people love a visit to a specialist because they are … well … special.
And their ‘very rare’ complaint becomes fodder to bore dinner party companions with.
I get it for first off referrals.
However, it is a pain when the specialist himself/herself requests a regular review ad infinitum, but the GP is reluctant to issue a single lifetime referral.
But I don’t totally blame the GPs. Medicare seems to jump on “unnecessary referrals” from what I can gather.

rosie
rosie
August 2, 2022 10:05 am

From your twitter link Zippy
“Grampa Yodavy ?
@GrampaIvy1
·
Jul 29
Replying to
@mediaspotnz
Imagine being so stupid that you listen to one of the biggest Covid grifters on the planet.”

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 2, 2022 10:10 am

Coal is dead, isn’t it?

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/might-be-more-coal-burned-in-2022-than-any-other-time-in-human-existence/

Coal use likely to set new 8 billion ton record this year (and next year too)

How’s that transition going then?

The IEA reports that the stranded dead asset is probably about to hit an all time record high:

For 2022 as a whole, we expect global coal demand to increase by 0.7% from 2021 to about 8 billion tonnes. This would match its all-time peak reached in 2013…

Worldwide coal consumption in 2021 rebounded by 5.8% to 7 947 million tonnes (Mt), according to our data, as the global economy recovered from the initial shock of the Covid pandemic and higher natural gas prices drove a shift towards coal-fired power generation.

Current coal price tonight: $407.90. Also almost a record. So we have highest volume at the highest price, and people want you to believe that no one wants coal.

China burns 53% of the world’s coal:

  1. Indolent March 28, 2024 11:08 pm Some appalling grammar in that article. In relative terms what happened with that ship…

  2. About 1995 years ago Pontius Pilate asked “what is truth?” A belief is true if the universe doesn’t hurt you…

  3. About 1995 years ago Pontius Pilate asked “what is truth?” Seems like a very relevant question today. Have a good…

1.8K
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x