another state funeral, this time for a former herion addict who claimed burglaries where rightful ‘reparations’.

I note the article notes that they have used his name and reproduced his image with permission from the family.

Frankly I think those prohibitions are just humbug. An attempt to hint at a spiritualism at once exotic and immanent to which we must be at pains to treat with reverence – a reverence the ABC and their fellow travellers would ever dream of extending to Christianity.

Anyway, main thing is this: The state funeral will use his name frequently. It will talk specifically about him and describe his acts in nauseating unctuous detail. I will bet there will be plenty of images of him, and his name will be put on a plaque and displayed prominently.

Does it sound like there is a profound religious objection to his name or image being reproduced?

Ed Case says:
September 26, 2022 at 6:33 pm

When was the last time Democrats attacked Wall Street?
During the FDR Administration?

Okay, that’s it. Get over to the dueling thread, you need a really good clip over the ears. Go on, go!

Your name is all over it, Walter. Get over there as it’s a meetup for the hubbies.

If you can hear the “dog whistle”, m0nty-fa, then you are the dog.

This.

Tutti frutti policy hub.

Frankly I think those prohibitions are just humbug.

A few years ago, there was a proposal for a public screening of a film made in an Aboriginal community in the 1930’s, in that community.

Someone raised the issue of the ban on showing the images of the dead.

The elders were dismissive. “Not worried about that. Be good to see the faces of the old people, and hear their voices again.”

Meloni sounds like that female French politician, at heart another anti immigration big government ‘workers party’.

The elders were dismissive. “Not worried about that. Be good to see the faces of the old people, and hear their voices again.”

They didn’t have portraiture or photography, so they would have had no reason to have religious scruples regarding them.

Wally Dalisays:

September 26, 2022 at 6:55 pm

JC, the stoush thread …

Bzzzt.
You need to go over there and say it.

[Duelling thread please]

There’s a very amusing attitude that begun to show up on this blog.

I post a comment, but don’t whatever you do disagree with me, or show me up in some way. It maybe a blog where my comments are vulnerable to criticism but not mine. You hear!

Bolta fuming about gutless conservatives. Apparently, a majority in every state approves rub and tug’s voice plan. I now identify as a proud dickasuckadicka man and my pronouns are fuck and whitey.

This is the Roundtable which caused Gonzalo Lira to be barred by Twitter. It was streamed live and then almost instantly removed by YouTube and he was suspended there for a week. It is now on Rumble and, sad to say, likely to have a far smaller audience which, of course, is the point.

The Roundtable #20: Brian Berletic, Dr. Peter McCullough

A very interesting combination of guests.

Women’s group agitates for trans inmate to be moved from female jail

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Angelica Snowden
9:43AM September 26, 2022

A women’s group is pushing for Victorian authorities to intervene and move a trans prisoner convicted of sex offences and with a “working” penis out of a Melbourne based female prison.

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has agreed to meet Corrections Victoria next month amid concerns raised by independent think-tank Women’s Forum chief executive Rachael Wong that the prisoner is currently at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre in Victoria’s west.

The latest development came after reports female prisoners at the jail complained the inmate who committed sex offences against females while a man has been moved to the female centre.

The Herald Sun previously reported inmates are concerned the inmate has a “working” penis and a history of violent sexual assault against a woman and a girl. As well, prisoners have been the victims of sexual assault.

Ms Wong, who has been campaigning for the prisoner to be moved, said she hoped the meeting will lead to the removal of the transgender inmate

A fine of $925 for that? You have got to be frigging kidding.
Forgive my Queen’s English please. This is insane.

To preserve the serenity, Bruce.

… with a “working” penis

Wouldn’t want to draw the short straw at admission time on that one.

A women’s group is pushing for Victorian authorities to intervene and move a trans prisoner convicted of sex offences and with a “working” penis out of a Melbourne based female prison.

One of the great ironies is that only members of the left who have stiff dicks are guys pretending to be sheilas.

Earlier, I mentioned the Atlassian suck piece in the Oz. Here it is for a laugh and some funny comments.

Software giant Atlassian working with Droga5 on major global campaign

Atlassian is set to launch a major global advertising campaign as it attempts to turbocharge a five-fold increase in sales to become a $US10bn revenue business.

This will be the first global campaign to hero the parent Atlassian brand, in a departure from its existing model to promote individual products.

Working with Droga5 in New York, the $US37bn ($55bn) software company by market capitalisation will launch its campaign digitally at first, before expanding into other mediums.

Robert Chatwani, Atlassian’s San Francisco-based chief marketing officer, said while the firm had achieved exponential growth since starting 20 years ago, and now served 83 per cent of the Fortune 500 and the majority of the global 2000, this new campaign would build broader awareness of what the brand could do, particularly as major customers grappled with the digital transformation that had accelerated since Covid.

“We’re fortunate to have such a strong footprint among these large global enterprises, but many of them are going through massive digital transformation,” Mr Chatwani said on the sidelines of the HubSpot Inbound 2022 conference in Boston.

From its beginnings in 2002 with a tool to assist developers identify bugs in code, Atlassian has increasingly moved via acquisition to offer products for all types of knowledge workers to collaborate in a digital environment. The acquisition of productivity tracker Trello in 2017 for $US425m turbocharged Atlassian’s strategy to become a platform provider, able to offer a holistic suite of solutions. That has informed a shift in marketing strategy to make the brand more recognisable to key executive decision-makers.

“Our products are typically used for mission critical workflows, (such as) how engineering teams ship products, or how marketing teams build campaigns. Very often we will have hundreds, if not thousands of end users in a company, before it even grabs the attention of the C suite.

“So a lot of time in our enterprise sales is building an understanding and awareness of how our products are being used by these companies and guiding CIOs, CTOs, CEOs on how to better take advantage of that,” Mr Chatwani said.

“What we find is that the dialogue becomes much more strategic when we have a unified brand promise that customers can understand. And it’s even more important at the enterprise level.”

Mr Chatwani said the campaign would highlight Atlassian’s mission of promoting teamwork, specifically the concept that most of the world‘s innovation is not the result of sole genius, but as a result of teams coming together. The core creative inspiration is drawn from the company’s Australian roots.

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“One of the elements of our brand voice is practical with a wink. You should expect to see some combination of a little bit of humour and levity in that advertising,” he said.

True to its roots as a data-led organisation, Atlassian has brought Droga5 into the company to work with internal experts on the campaign creative. Mr Chatwani said it had deliberately built a diverse marketing unit, where data scientists interact with motion graphics artists, illustrators and designers across virtual teams.

“Some of the best creative ideas have come from what we call internal design spikes, where the creative team, the brand team, communications team, and maybe even somebody from product marketing, or the product team will work together with our agency,” he explained.

“It doesn’t matter where the idea came from, what matters is do we create an environment where great ideas can come to life? And what we find is a deep partnership with our agencies tends to get us to the best results.”

The company will apply a test-and-learn approach to its advertising launch, focusing its efforts first on the US market, then Australia, then in select markets across Europe. Its ambition is to greatly build the company’s user base.

“We have over 200,000 customers but we know globally there are a billion knowledge workers who could use our products. We’re spending a lot of time going to markets where we previously didn’t have a big footprint … so (we need to) build brand awareness internationally,” Mr Chatwani said.

Atlassian, which booked annual revenue of $US2.01bn for the year to June 30, spends around 15 per cent of its revenue on sales and marketing, about half of what a similar company would spend on promotion, according to Mr Chatwani. He puts that sales efficiency down to what marketers dub the “flywheel effect”, where the process of finding, engaging and delighting a customer is optimised at each stage using data.

It’s a model that is increasingly being adopted by firms looking to use their internal customer data to improve the value of their marketing spend. According to Rob Giglio, chief customer officer at customer relationship management software company HubSpot, better technology and more digital interaction has made that process easier, and more critical, in the past five years. Metrics like Net Promoter Score, which were important but crude indicators of the customer experience, are giving way to deep insights at each stage of the customer journey.

Mr Giglio, who previously worked at mass market consumer brands like The Gap and Williams Sonoma before switching to companies like Adobe and Docusign, said the best companies were increasingly investing in ways to harvest that key data, and were entering into something of a space race to win at it.

“As soon as you have a volume of interactions, or a volume of users, or a volume of customers, you can’t rely on human awareness to find the opportunities, you have to see anomalies in the data. Pretty much the only way to make that happen is automation.” Mr Giglio said.

Below is a sampling of the hilarious comments received

Rosemary McF

As with countless others I have heard the name Atlassian but really have no idea as to what they do or how any of it benefits me or any other Australian.
NannyState

Personally I hope they fail – too much woke at the top for me.
Peter

I’ve read this article and still can’t work out what it is they actually do.

kim

What – no green energy con jobs and nation destroying ideas then??

Peter1949

Is this similar to Inferior VHS out promoting superior Beta. Is Atlassian doing well due to their woke extremism.

hortangryman

Seriously, can someone tell me what they do or what they actually sell?

Stephen

well they have never posted a profit. so i guess the more they make the more they lose , yet the fools keep pouring money in .
i have a small business that has posted a profit for the last 36 years
would be very happy to let it go cheap at $55 Billion after all it does make a profit

evan

What do they sell? Apart from a lot of words.

Herp

For all of Atlassian’s hype and Concannon Brooke’s self promotion I don’t recall actually using its products. I keep thinking of all the other latest greatest things from Eron onwards that all ended up going one way
Andrew

House of cards with rising interest rates
james

Don’t trust him. He is a great mate of Albo’s. I always thought money with discretion was a humbling experience. Unfortunately, in this case it doesn’t work.
Robert

Great but does it make a profit?

There were in the trove of comments. People seem to really freaking hate those two dickheads.

Police from around Australia will meet to try address the recruitment crisis hitting forces across the country and to stop states from poaching cops from each other

Join the plod and taser your Mum. Put Gran in a chokehold.

Pelosi made a surprise appearance at a festival in NYC and the crowd booed

Consumer slaves?

Well, if you look at the WEF wish list, robotic slaves might be a better description.

Burney running the poisoned waterholes bullshit story as if it’s truth.

She ran all the tired old nonsense about Aborigines being Flora and Fauna before the 1967 referendum on the floor of Parliament, and got away with it.

Albo isn’t getting too much support in the comments..

240 Pound Plus-Size Model Scores Exclusive in ‘Women’s Health’ Magazine – Was Recently Refused Ride at Horse Farm Due to Weight Limit

She’s a looker; and she appears reasonably normal in that she doesn’t identify as anything other than a fattie.

Catturd ™
@catturd2
What a POS! Spends trillions everywhere but here. More scam money funneled to his friends. The corrupt, perverted Biden garbage family never disappoints.

Anyway, “Slianete’ to you horrible mob. The stock market may be at it’s lowest point in two years, but a man can still afford the necessities of life – like good single malt.

rootless cosmopolitans … financial speculators … hook-nosed goblins

Do you have links to where Meloni used these terms?

What am I saying, of course you don’t.

calli says:
September 26, 2022 at 4:19 pm
There is definitely a sense of a culture in decline here in York.

Sadly I noticed the same in Western Europe in 2019. In contrast, Eastern Europe was very vibrant and optimistic.

No modern Western government has dared implement full herrenvolk economics, but that is where the right-wing movement is headed if you listen to their rhetoric.

Let me understand your point here, Fatboy. A European country like say Sweden or Italy having essentially white indigenous- their new government are practicing economics because their constituency is white. Are you fat as well as color blind you XXXL sized idiot?

you have no idea what an fool you sound like do you?

Half past midnight, tanked and rearing to go. Thank God Fatboy is here to take the brunt of his awesome intellect.

Trickledown is real. How else would you describe a theory that posits that increasing the wealth of rich people will somehow increase the wealth of not-rich people?

No such theory exits, you pile of lard. It’s made up.

The only thing that comes close – even Krugman believes – is the marginal productivity theory.

Marginal productivity theory suggests that the amount paid to each factor in the production process is equal to the value of the extra output the factor of production produces

It’s how living standards have improved since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, you swine.

“Trickledown” is what the Left imagines the Right’s economic policies are.

Fighting against shadows of their imagination.