Open Thread – Tues 13 Sept 2022
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Ex-digger RAGES over Australian officials trashing embattled war hero Ben Roberts-Smith and not giving him an invite to travel to the Queen’s funeral on Anthony Albanese’s jet: ‘It’s disgusting – trial by media’
Anthony Albanese, dignitaries and ‘everyday’ Australians on their way to London
Plane took off on Thursday night ahead of the Queen’s funeral next Monday
Embattled war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was not offered seat on the PM’s plane
He was personally invited to attend the funeral as a Victoria Cross recipient
MP Phillip Thompson slammed consulate staff who questioned the invitationI hope Ben Roberts Smith is awarded gazillions of dollars in damages, and certain prominent media personalities spend the rest of their lives cleaning lavatories.
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That was for Lt. Charles Windsor ex commander of HMS Bronington.
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I hope Ben Roberts Smith is awarded gazillions of dollars in damages, and certain prominent media personalities spend the rest of their lives cleaning lavatories”
I hope so too….but as for those “prominent media personalities”, they’ll just move onto their next victim, a person to smear, trash and defame.
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I hope Ben Roberts Smith is awarded gazillions of dollars in damages, and certain prominent media personalities spend the rest of their lives cleaning lavatories”
I hope so too….but as for those “prominent media personalities”, they’ll just move onto their next victim, a person to smear, trash and defame.
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Embattled war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was not offered seat on the PM’s plane
He was personally invited to attend the funeral as a Victoria Cross recipientSo assorted hangers-on, including the woman Albanese lives with who supports a republic, get a free ride while Roberts-Smith will have to pay his own way.
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Wow sleazy has to go to London on KC30. Why? Unless he’s grandstanding. Already snubbing request of the British to fly commecial air he doesn’t just take the normal B737 he has to take the biggest aircraft in the fleet.
I suppose when your giving half the South Pacific “leaders” a Oz tax payer “freebie” you need to impress .. plus the maaate-ship aspect will be noted in Beijing when the next round of “brown paper bags” are being allocated ….!
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WA cops quit: More than 140 cops leave WA Police in three and a half months, new figures show
Josh Zimmerman
The West Australian
Fri, 16 September 2022 9:48AM
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Josh ZimmermanMore than 140 cops quit the force in three and a half months and the total number of sworn officers has increased by just 50 since June last year — as an ongoing WA Police exodus scuppers expansion efforts.
The McGowan Government has pledged to add 950 frontline police above attrition in the four years to mid-2024 — a task shadow police minister Peter Collier insisted now appeared all but impossible.
The starting point was 6637 sworn officers in mid-2020, meaning to reach the target and deliver on the government’s 2021 election promise, the force must swell its ranks to at least 7587 by June 2024.
Some 290 police joined the force in the 12 months to June 2021 — taking the total headcount to 6927 — but little progress has been made since then.
In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey explains why the next WA cop you meet might not know how to use their taser.Answers to questions in Parliament from Mr Collier, provided by Police Minister Paul Papalia, reveal there were 6977 police offers on the books as of August 17.
That is an increase of just 50 over the past 14 months.
The same answers revealed 142 cops had handed in their badges between May and mid-August — an average of more than 40 per month.
Over that same period 157 recruits graduated from the police academy, meaning net growth of just 15 officers.
“Based upon the past 18 months there is absolutely no way on this Earth the government is going to achieve its promise of 950 additional officers above attrition,” Mr Collier said.
“They can graduate that many from the Police Academy but that becomes sheer folly if you’ve got another 1000 resigning at the same time.”
As revealed by The West, an undisclosed number of recruits who had not completed “critical training components” have been permitted to graduate from the academy and assigned to “administrative duties” while waiting to complete their training.
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A guy was boarding a plane when he heard that the Pope was on the same flight.
“This is exciting!” thought the gentleman “I’ve always been a big fan of the Pope. Perhaps I’ll be able to see him in person”.
Suddenly, the man realised his seat was right next to the Pope himself! Still, the gentleman was too shy to speak to His Holiness.
Shortly after take-off, the Pope took a crossword puzzle out of his carry-on bag and began penciling in the answers.
“This is fantastic!” the gentleman mused “I’m really good at crosswords!”
It crossed his mind that if the Pope got stuck, he’d ask him for assistance.
Almost as if providence struck, the Pope turned to the man and said “Excuse me, but do you know a four-letter word referring to a woman that ends in ‘unt’?”
The three Cardinals behind, in front of and beside him shrunk down in their seats, as far as possible, all looking for something on the floor.
The gentleman was in morbid shock.
He couldn’t breathe.
He went within himself, thought deeper, longer for a plausible answer and after almost a minute, the dark clouds of evil parted in his mind and the sun shone in.
Turning to the Pope, the gentleman said with reverence and politeness “I believe, Your Holiness, that you’re looking for the word, ‘aunt.’”
“Of course!” the Pope mused, not taking his gaze off the crossword “You wouldn’t happen to have an eraser, would you?”
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the Magnitsky Act is the number one priority for Putin and his billionaire mates. He would stop the war in Ukraine tomorrow if it meant the West agreed to drop the Magnitsky Act.
One of the more amusing of m0nty’s big brain takes.
You know when someone says something that instantly reveals they don’t have the first fucking idea about what they speak of?
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Great monologue by Tucker about the rank hypocrisy of the elites particularly the obumas about illegal immigration. Now that De Santis has delivered some illegals to Martha’s Vineyard the bullshit is really flowing. Previously obuma’s hubbie had castigated whitees for white flight when the likes of the obumas moved into their neighbourhood which is why it was so noble of the obumas to move to a white stronghold like Marthas and why illegals coming to racist republican states like Texas and Arizona is part of that enriching goodness. But illegals coming to Marthas is like the holocaust because that is using illegals for political reasons.
As Gutfeld has said the shits of the left will always support their destructive policies as long as they only affect other people but when the illegals move in and when they start to get bashed, raped and murdered than and only then do the left stop their policies.
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The same answers revealed 142 cops had handed in their badges between May and mid-August — an average of more than 40 per month.
Over that same period 157 recruits graduated from the police academy, meaning net growth of just 15 officers.
This is what concerns me about law enforcement in this age of soft totalitarianism – how many of these coppers are quitting because they can no longer stand enforcing the regime’s diktats, and how many of the new recruits are signing up because they enjoy enforcing them?
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“LGB Alliance co-founder breaks down in court when asked to define ‘lesbian’
A co-founder of LGB Alliance was reduced to tears during cross-examination on the definition of the word lesbian on Thursday, prompting the court to adjourn, during a legal challenge to the Charity Commission’s decision to award charitable status to the organisation.
The meaning of the word lesbian has been analysed on several occasions during five days of court hearings triggered by a challenge brought by the children’s trans rights charity Mermaids.
Kate Harris and Bev Jackson, the founders of LGB Alliance, are two very brave women. Two years ago, these two women set up the LGB Alliance so as to distance themselves from the “T” and the “Q”. Both are lesbian women in their 70s, both are women who marched back in the late 1960s and 1970s for gay rights, both are women who’ve been strongly involved in gay rights and in the UK gay right’s organisation Stonewall but recently, over the last five years, both women felt increasingly isolated and marginalised from Stonewall because it has pursued “transgender’ ideology, or as I prefer to call it, “pervert’s ideology” (and that is more accurate). For their sin of setting up an exclusively homosexual organisation, they’ve been targeted by various queers, various perverts and creepy organisations like Mermaids and Stonewall. The thing is, none of this is funny, it’s sinister and creepy. You now have biological males, or perverts as I prefer to call them, who are cross dressers and who insist on calling themselves lesbians. Well, they’re not lesbians, they are creepy autogynephiles, men who get sexually aroused by donning female clothing (particularly things like knickers and bras) and they probably get even more sexually aroused by calling themselves “lesbians”. I regard many if not all of these men as dangerous, very dangerous.
The UK organisations Stonewall and Mermaids are intent on silencing, squashing and destroying any dissenting views or any organisation that challenges it’s “transgender” orthodoxy, hence the court action to deny LGB Alliance “charitable” status. Also, Mermaids is a highly sinister organisation which is intent on grooming minors into transgender ideology (including surgical and pharmaceutical mutilation). Mermaids was one of the chief transgender groups advising the now discredited Tavistock Clinic. One of the heads of “Mermaids”, a woman named Susie Green has a “transgender child” (Green is probably a sufferer of Munchausen by proxy), anyway a few years ago she travelled to Thailand with her young son (who was sixteen at the time) and he was castrated…something she later boasted about on social media.
Enough said.
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the Magnitsky Act is the number one priority for Putin and his billionaire mates. He would stop the war in Ukraine tomorrow if it meant the West agreed to drop the Magnitsky Act.
Did dickless say that. The Global Magnitsky Act will be used to prosecute Trump on the basis of false evidence. The removal of the Sunset clause guarantees that. Once again a provision designed to capture corrupt creeps like biden will be turned on Trump.
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“As Gutfeld has said the shits of the left will always support their destructive policies as long as they only affect other people but when the illegals move in and when they start to get bashed, raped and murdered than and only then do the left stop their policies.”
Several of the Teal scum have advocated for the closing of offshore detention and have said our boat policies are “cruel” and people should be resettled in Oz. Fine, then bring them to Oz and resettle them in Wentworth, Warringah, North Sydney, Mackellar, Goldstein, Curtin and Kooyong.
I can hear the wails, the cries and the screeching already.
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Panzer at 3.46:
WTF?
How do you get 56,000 pages out of someone’s phone activity over a 6-12 month periodFirstly, it’s a Brittany so the traffic’s going to be yuugely yuge.
And it won’t be just phone calls. Texts. Insta. Snap. Bumble and/or a dozen other dating sites. App tracking and use. Internet searches and pages and sites.
Still, 56,000 pages does seem a bit steep.
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. Footage from Sydney street shows bizarre charging set-up for an electric car
. Raised issue about dangers which could cause dilemma for neighbourhoods
. Some streets don’t have garages while councils want to get rid of driveways
. Ben Fordham says authorities need to work out how electric cars will be chargedAstonishing footage has put a spotlight on the potential dangers of electric vehicles amid fears they could become ‘a lawyer’s picnic’.
An electric car parked on a street in Manly, on Sydney’s northern beaches, was spotted being charged by a lengthy trail of power cord.
The cable loops over the front fence, which snakes from the road up a driveway and into a nearby home.
The owner even kindly installed a hazard cover over the section of the cord running across the public footpath so locals don’t trip over the cord while walking past.
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As much as I loathe the Brisbane Bears/Lions, and also noting their success against Collingwood in a couple of Grand Finals 20 years ago, they simply must – must – flog those purty Geelong boys.
The runner’s already taken out hair product to Dangerfield twice.
Guaranteed every single lunatic between Warrnambool and Laverton and as far up as Colac has that stupid face paint on that includes whiskers. You know, so as to look like a cat.
The Lions battle tonight for the soul of a nation.
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rickwsays: September 16, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Looks useful:
I had a .410 revolving shot gun and they do have a bit of a design flaw: there is ALWAYS leakage of hot gases and burning powder from the small gap where the cylinder meets the barrel. Unfortunately (unlike with a handgun) – with a long gun, your face goes rather close to said gap and hot gases.
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The runner’s already taken out hair product to Dangerfield twice
the missus is still laughing at that quip
cos of the reno I’m stuck in the sun-room with her
the only room in the place that’s live-able right now
and Im stuck here with her and elimination finals voice-over on her mobile phoneworst time to be alive is when Collingwood has a stake in the finals
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Glutathione Restoration Improves Hallmarks Of Aging in Older Adults
Just today received my NAC from iHerb and this pops up in youtube feed. I’ve seen like material before and NAC is noted for boosting G.
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Uncle Colin’s regular per diem seem to have enabled him to update his props. Three weeks ago whatever he’s wearing around his shoulders made me think of the “tippet” which the Grandmother in Harp in the South used to wear when she wanted to impress; tonight’s version seems to be a quite luxurious number.
Oh, and go Lions!
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Oh, and if reparations are to be paid, shouldn’t only “full blood” Aborigines should be eligible?They’ve received reparations. Tabulate the costs of all the benefits, the luxuries and benefits of whitey civilization, that we have increased their lifespan, access to entertainment, free medical care, modern infrastructure and transport.
The owe us yet nary a word of gratitude. Fuck ’em the ungrateful bastards.
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The following appeared on @Slavyangrad Telegram channel:
This has just leaked on Russian networks. Keep in mind, that there’s not a single official source reporting this. But it has been picked up by various high-profile figures — get ready for some cocaine delusion, this is a good one:
Ukraine allegedly handed over its “peace plan” agreed with the United States to Russia — through Erdogan.
The conditions of Ukraine are as follows:
1. Withdrawal of Russian troops from all territories occupied by them after 24.02.2022.
2. Legislative transfer of all gold and foreign exchange reserves and seized assets of the Russian Federation and Russians as of 1.09.2022. The law on reparations must be adopted by the State Duma, and the Federation Council and signed by the President.
3. Additional payment of reparations of 200 billion euros within 25 years in equal installments.
4. Free supplies of natural gas to Ukraine for five years from 01.01.2023.
5. Holding a referendum on the status of Crimea no later than 011.01.24 under the auspices of the UN and international organizations.
6. Demilitarization of the entire European part of the Russian Federation with the withdrawal of all parts and connections beyond the Urals.
7. Legislative reduction of the Russian army to 600,000 people.
8. Admission of military observers to all military facilities of the Russian Federation, including closed research institutes and design offices.
9. Early elections of the State Duma with the full participation of international observers.
10. Early presidential elections with the full participation of international observers.
Within 12 months, with the full implementation of all items, the international community will begin to partially lift the previously imposed sanctions.
Immediately after the initialing of the agreement, the disconnection of banks from SWIFT, the ban on the sale of Russian coal, oil, and LNG will be lifted, flights will be restored and deliveries of vital medicines and aircraft components will be established.
At the insistence of the head of the U.S. State Department Blinken, extreme points on “extradition” of the Russian leadership were removed from the “peace plan”.
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The following appeared on @Slavyangrad Telegram channel:
6. Demilitarization of the entire European part of the Russian Federation with the withdrawal of all parts and connections beyond the Urals.
7. Legislative reduction of the Russian army to 600,000 people.
8. Admission of military observers to all military facilities of the Russian Federation, including closed research institutes and design offices.
9. Early elections of the State Duma with the full participation of international observers.
So, safe to say, 100% misinformation.
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Finally put together the Radio Show Archives* – here they are:
New Year’s Eve Dec 31 2021
February 2022 – Ozzie Classics
March 2022 – New Wave 1978-1985
April 2022 – Disco
May 2022 – The Sixties
June 2022 – Seventies Rock and Roll 1969-1978
July 2022 – Motown and Soul
August 2022 – Dub, Ska and Reggae
September 2022 – Live PerformancesRocktober 2022? Let’s have some suggestions, Cats.
*googles has been busy burying them – not happy! 🙁
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Nice digs. US$250 million? Far too expensive.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/central-park-tower-penthouse-lists-for-250-million-11663202931
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Dotsays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
John HFinally got on iHerb.
What do you think about octacosanol/wheat germ oil?
Know little about octacosanol. Studies suggests it improves athletic performance, might also help with cholesterol management, if it activates the development of brown fat as it does in rodents that will be a good thing. Unfortunately DOT there are very few clinical trials. That’s not uncommon, there is a bias against supplementation. That is strong in the USA, not so much in Europe, and while some doctors say supplements are useless surveys find medical people take supplements at surprisingly high rates.
I not a great fan of antioxidants. High antioxidant intake can even impede the hormetic effect of exercise. Everyone knows about oxidative stress, few know about reductive stress. Too much hype and the studies haven’t supported the use of exogenous antioxidants but there is support for agents which promotes the body’s own antioxidants.
My view is that for those over 60 there can be value in judicious supplementation. By way of example, my sister and her husband, mid-70’s, excellent blood work, no medicines, no pathology, very active, and the husband is fitter and stronger than men 20 years younger. They have been taking supplements and carefully managing their health for over 30 years. It can pay off but we have to start at the latest in middle age and maintain the discipline. Too late for me, too long smoking tobacco. No regrets, don’t care, in fact I still enjoy smoking on an occasional basis, typically with the other type of smoking and a few wild turkeys.
I’m not a fan of the above journal DOT but if you go to pubmed and punch in “reductive stress” you’ll find studies pointing to it.
Here’s something weird I read in a review about antioxidants. Virtually all antioxidants, upon electron donation, become oxidants. Some can be regenerated in the cells through other electron donors. I don’t know the physiological significance of that but given the poor results from many studies on antioxidant administration I’m inclined to think the author might be onto something. The exception though is that for people past 60 there might be benefits because when glutathione and general antioxidant protections decline. That is even more true in conditions that generate oxidation events.
Wheat germ oil is a rich source of Vit E variants and related tocotrienols.
Walnuts are also a good source of E and T. BTW if you ever use an E supplement check the label carefully because often they high Alpha T content. Not good, too weak, go for the gamma variant. Stick to the wheat germ oil or walnuts.
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John H.says:
September 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm
Dotsays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
John HFinally got on iHerb.
What do you think about octacosanol/wheat germ oil?
Know little about octacosanol.
Tongkat ali is making the rounds. I rate it with SARMs.
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Demented is the new Baghdad Bob.
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cohenitesays:
September 16, 2022 at 9:55 pm
John H.says:
September 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm
Dotsays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
John HFinally got on iHerb.
What do you think about octacosanol/wheat germ oil?
Know little about octacosanol.
Tongkat ali is making the rounds. I rate it with SARMs.cohenitesays:
September 16, 2022 at 9:55 pm
John H.says:
September 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm
Dotsays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
John HFinally got on iHerb.
What do you think about octacosanol/wheat germ oil?
Know little about octacosanol.
Tongkat ali is making the rounds. I rate it with SARMs.v
Panax Ginseng gives T a noticeable boost, even in this old fart.
There is another T booster doing the rounds, I mentioned it some months ago. Many youtube muscle nuts found turkesterone to have a very noticeable effect. Be quick, methinks it will eventually be banned.
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The BBC has boasted that it triggered the removal of a Facebook vaccine injury support group with over 250,000 members. Are the injured no longer even allowed to talk to one another?
Sod that.
All my life I’ve been one of the privileged. Blessed with pale skin, blue eyes, blonde hair, a middle leg and all the sundry associated benefits.
Until I wasn’t.
To paraphrase Jamie Lannister: “I’d never given a shit about the downtrodden, until I suddenly found myself decreed to be one of them.”
Those braying the decreeing are existing on borrowed time.
To paraphrase KD, “Trust me on this”. 🙂
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An electric car parked on a street in Manly, on Sydney’s northern beaches, was spotted being charged by a lengthy trail of power cord.
Don’t have a link, but apparently there’s been one monumental punchup, in Manly, when someone found his neighbor had plugged an extension cord into an external power point, on his property , to charge said neighbors electric car….
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Going over tor Martha’s in an hour or so – will be on the lookout.
BTW, in Boston we went to a nearby store on the way home. It was a predominantly black area, and very down and out. In the supermarket was a woman on the checkout who was “just off the bus” said one of the nearby ladies, who was supervising her. She couldn’t give change properly even though the till said how much to give.
I was going to do a quick interview for the Cat but Mrs TE dragged me away.
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13 years for pre-meditated murder….
After 13 years in jail for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell, Susan Neill-Fraser will be free within a matter of days.
The Parole Board of Tasmania is understood to have on Friday granted the 68-year-old grandmother parole, with sources suggesting she could be freed within days from Hobart’s Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison.
Her large group of supporters were jubilant. “It’s very good news – we’re obviously very pleased with the decision,” said Rosie Crumpton-Crook, of the Neill-Fraser Support Group.
“We don’t know the detail – just that she’s been granted it, which we’re very, very happy about. We are very relieved.
“It is great for her family to all have Christmas together. Our main priority will be to give Sue and her family some privacy while they get to know each other again.”
In August, the High Court refused an application by Neill-Fraser for leave to appeal the Tasmanian Court of Criminal Appeal’s rejection of her second appeal.
She is serving a 23 year sentence for the murder of Mr Chappell, a radiation physicist, on board their yacht, the Four Winds, on the night of January 26, 2009.
The case has been highly controversial, with Neill-Fraser maintaining her innocence. There were no witnesses to Mr Chappell’s murder, and no murder weapon or body were found.
Hobart Mercury
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Cold case acquittal: Jury unaware accused murderer stabbed another woman to death
Erin Pearson
By Erin Pearson
Updated September 16, 2022 — 5.27pmfirst published at 12.31pmA former hospital orderly who was found not guilty on Friday of murdering a nurse 36 years ago was previously jailed for killing another woman in similar circumstances.
Colin Earl Graham, 67, was acquitted in the Supreme Court on Friday of both murder and manslaughter over the stabbing death of Ina-Doris Warrick in her Ringwood home in 1986.
The jury returned its verdict after less than a day of deliberation, unaware Graham served 13 years in jail for the stabbing murder of Hilary-Anne Stevens in her Wheelers Hill home in 1999.
Warrick was 25 when neighbours found her on her bed with fatal stab wounds.
She worked with Graham at Box Hill Hospital and had shared dinner with him at a pizza restaurant in Ringwood before he dropped her home on the night of her death: March 21, 1986.
The prosecution alleged Graham followed her inside where he stabbed her to death on her bed. But Graham maintained he dropped the nurse home alive about 8.45pm and drove straight home to his wife.
Warrick’s neighbours found her body days later and called police. She was dressed in the same clothes she’d been wearing on the night of the pizza dinner.
Following Friday’s not guilty verdict, it can be revealed that Graham served 13 years in prison for the murder of 21-year-old Stevens in October 1999.
Stevens was stabbed in the back four times at her Wheelers Hill home in Melbourne’s south-east after going out for dinner with Graham.
He was released from prison 10 years ago.
During a public appeal for information in 2017, homicide squad detectives publicly revealed both women had died in similar circumstances.
Following calls from members of the public, police arrested and charged Graham with Warrick’s murder in November 2018, some three decades after her death.
He faced trial earlier this year, but a jury was unable to reach a verdict and a retrial was held this month.
The second trial heard that at the time of her death, Warrick was working casual shifts at several hospitals and living alone at a property on Oban Road in Ringwood, following the death of her husband from cancer in October 1985.
She was also in a romantic relationship with her married colleague and anaesthetist Gregory Stewart.
On the day of her death Warrick met with the anaesthetist at Box Hill shopping centre about 5pm where they shared a coconut bun, shopped and spoke about medical accounts before leaving separately.
At 6.45pm, Warrick returned home when her colleague Graham arrived unannounced. The pair left to have dinner together at a pizza restaurant before the hospital orderly dropped her home ahead of her nightshift.
She was due to work her first shift at Warringal Private Hospital in Heidelberg later that evening, but never arrived.
Neighbours found her a number of days later, lying on her back on her bed. She had been stabbed twice in the back with one wound puncturing her lung.
“She was still wearing the same clothes she’d worn earlier that day when she was found,” Crown prosecutor Robyn Harper said.
“She had not commenced changing into her nurse’s uniform. She’d not even removed her high heels.”
The day after their shopping trip Stewart visited the nurse’s house. Finding no answer at the door, he left a note under the door saying “knock ’em dead at Box Hill tonight” where she was due to work.
He returned the following day and went inside, where he found the 25-year-old dead on her bed. The court heard he did not report what he saw, instead fleeing in his car before turning back around to retrieve the handwritten note, throwing it out the window as he drove home.
Stewart eventually told police he’d found the body, but not until March 28, two days after he first spoke to them about her.
During the trial, the jury was told three people had told police Graham who had admitted to killing the nurse.
Following eight days of evidence, he was found not guilty.
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Jury unaware accused murderer stabbed another woman to death*
The jury** returned its verdict after less than a day of deliberation, unaware Graham served 13 years in jail for the stabbing murder of Hilary-Anne Stevens in her Wheelers Hill home in 1999
Ina-Doris Warrick
Hilary-Anne Stevens
Gillian Meagher
Remember their names, peoples, because no obnoxious screechy inner city collectivist hypocrite will.
Mere Eggs on collectivists’ great big new monstrous totalitarian society Omelette. When there are no rules, let alone any attempt to enforce them, (unless they’re invented and enforced by the latest “big man”), this is what happens.
*They would have been hectored incessantly by the JuRdge not to go attempting to unearth any details of the accused dirtbag’s past.
** Braindead uninquisitive imbeciles.
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A quick travelogue before the thread ticks over to the weekend.
The lakes are unique and lovely. They are split into two sections, formed at different times in the earth’s history. The upper ones are dolomite, the lower limestone. What intrigued me was the tufa separating the lakes like dams – it is growing. It is also deposited on anything submerged – a boat sits at the bottom of crystal clear water, slowly being encased in rock.
The weather held off for the entirety of the walk of around 10kms, so we got to see the milky green of the lower lakes and contrast with the jade of the upper ones. The big waterfall was running, but not at full bore due to the drought. What intrigued me was the change in vegetation over the demarcation line with birch switching to beech and conifers. Lots of long streamers of tassel ferns and club mosses on the falls, full of tiny crystal droplets. There was a perfect photo around every corner.
When they feel able, Cats must visit this place. Europe has a marvellous built history and art and culture, but natural beauty is there too.
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I forgot something. Fish.
The clear water makes fish spotting easy. Unfortunately the lakes suffer from a familiar problem – carp.
However, they have pike. This predator can control the fingerlings. I saw one today, my very first. It was pretending to be a branch, very still in the water with one fin gently keeping it in line with the bank. It saw me watching from above but its real quarry was a chance shoal of tiny fish.
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Last one and I’ll stop thread bombing.
Nice story emerging from the UK. The queue to pay respects to Her Maj now lying in state is now 14 hours long and wends its way across the Thames at Lambeth and around to opposite the Tower. Anyone who know London knows it’s a looooong queue. Along the way, they have snacks and loos and entertainments of sorts and everyone is being well behaved.
David Beckham hopped on the end and joined it. He may have reached Westminster hall by now. Or not. Either way, it was a bit of a thrill for the football fans.
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NSW Health aims to clamp down on sexually transmitted infections (STI) with boosted prevention, testing and treatment while lifting equitable access to health services.
The strategy’s focus on equity comes amid concerns over the growing disparity in STI notifications between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, especially for syphilis.
Part of the strategy includes eliminating congenital syphilis – when a baby is born with syphilis from an infected mother.
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An electric car parked on a street in Manly, on Sydney’s northern beaches, was spotted being charged by a lengthy trail of power cord
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callisays:
September 16, 2022 at 11:39 pm
A quick travelogue before the thread ticks over to the weekend.
The lakes are unique and lovely
See.
I furken toldya.
No cascadin’ water, duzzen matter.
Of all the places in the wide world we have visited, Plitvice Lakes are up there.
The crystal clarity of the water and the almost primeval rock formations are something to behold.
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