Magnificent work by the Houghton. He rarely minces words.
Open Thread – Weekend 15 Oct 2022
- From darkness to the promise of light
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- The Sweetest Victory
Sounds like the fight was a lot of fun. Good on them. They made lots of money too, which isn’t…
Bruce, I remember that poor boy. So bloody sad.
😀
Some of the most memorable sporting moments in my lifetime were watching Mike Tyson in the 1980s You used to…
The suppurating carbuncle on the *rsehole of Australian politics.
Nothing, but nothing would surprise me.
Canberra, j’ismists & politicians. What a cesspit.
On Angela Merkel being a KGB/FSB asset…not many people remember that just after she became Chancellor she warned of Germany’s dependance on Russian gas and argued for diversifying their energy supplies. This was just after Russia had cut off Ukraine’s gas, which caused quite a bit of anxiety in the EU at the time. The plan she initiated was for German & the EU to have significantly weaned itself off Russian gas by 2020. In practice, however, she received little political or public support, so it never happened at the required pace, although the annexation of Crimea kicked things along a bit. On that at least she didn’t appear to be doing Russia’s bidding. People like Shroeder were much more engaged in that.
Generally, the prosecution must call in its case all witnesses whose testimony it knows could assist the jury and even if the evidence might be unfavourable to the Crown case. I suspect this why the Crown called Cash.
(This means that the defence, because it will be cross-examining the witness can ask blatantly leading questions, and the Crown will leave to attack the witness. This happened in the Pell case. The Crown called a priest, who was a long-time friend of Pell, who gave powerful evidence in his support. The trial judge then restricted the extent to which the credibility of the priest could be attacked on the ground of bias.)
They really wasted some good sheep country there.
I’m not sure what other options they had. Its not as if they could organise themselves into a massed army.
“Turnbull was involved.”
Would explain why it was such a fuck up.
must have been an after-lunch thing
“I presume that Niki was Savva.. known Lib hater.”
Which means Turnbull was involved.
I think they mean Nicole Hamer,can ex-staffer in Reynolds office.
Having said that, the media have been manipulating this from the get go. The Turnbull bio by the AFR journo details a fair bit. Again, what the hell is Maiden doing reporting on the trial today on news.com.au?
How many were babies?
How the heck is that a “free secondary school”? Given the wonderful teaching methodology they use, all Oz needs to do is copy her whole system including making it free.
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Professional flogger flogs floggingly…
Whole sharticle here..
The Australian War Memorial’s recent vague commitment to a “much broader, a much deeper depiction” of colonial violence against Indigenous people risks being compromised by an absence of detail and sound historical context.
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I agree, there needs to be a section devoted to the records of the inter-tribal wars and violence pre-contact.
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In late September Brendan Nelson, the chairman of the memorial’s council, said the organisation had decided on a “much broader, a much deeper depiction and presentation of the violence committed against Indigenous people, initially by British, then by pastoralists, then by police, and then by Aboriginal militia”.
Note: Nelson did not say the memorial was committed to a broader and deeper depiction of the “frontier wars”. That is because he and others associated with the memorial – while acknowledging frontier violence against Indigenous people by military regiments, police, pastoralists and militias – do not accept that the violence equated to “war”.
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Paul Daley wants to overthrow Mabo? Settled vs conquered Paul, may you get exactly what you want.
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Instructively the minister for veterans affairs, Matt Keogh, also chose his words carefully. He said: “I think it’s important to recognise that the war memorial already has some recognition of frontier conflict, and I’m aware that as part of the expansion program there will be some greater reflection on that.”
“I think that the recognition and reflection on frontier conflict is a responsibility for all of our cultural institutions, not just here at the war memorial.”
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Matt Keough is a low rent flogbag who should kill himself immediately to extirpate the guilt he feels. its only fair.
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No mention of frontier wars there either. The most interesting thing about Keogh’s remarks was his assertion that the responsibility for reflecting frontier conflict ought to be spread among the war memorial and other cultural institutions. While this is true, it seems to ignore the fact that all of the other major Canberra-based national institutions have for decades already significantly and meaningfully reflected the frontier wars and conflict against Aboriginal people, which killed by conservative estimate at least 60,000 Indigenous men, women and children, upon which the white Australian federation was founded.
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Gee what an awesome reason to desecrate the memorial: the other places in that wretched hive of scum and villainy have already done so.
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The plain truth is that the war memorial has long been the obstinate outlier in that space. It has pushed back under the directorships of Nelson (director for seven years before leaving and recently returning as council chair before outlining his departure at the end of 2022 to become president of weapons manufacturer Boeing International) and others, against widespread suggestions the institution ought meaningfully reflect, as part of its mandate to chronicle the Australian societal impact of warfare, frontier “conflict” and “war”.
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So the Australian war memorial, not the didjabringabongalong tribe memorial… Nelson should have called for the destruction of the memorial rather than its filthy co-option into the LARP-Originals hysteria.
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Nelson, current director Matt Anderson and the memorial more generally defend what they insist is a record of chronicling frontier violence by pointing to the institution’s collection of 63 artworks that reference the issue. But the truth is that few such items are often displayed and that merely having such works in the collection does not translate to a meaningful depiction of frontier violence, war or conflict (call it what you will – sound research doesn’t hide behind semantics!) in the context of Australia’s martial history.
Nelson had also consistently insisted that the story of frontier conflict was the duty of the National Museum of Australia, not the memorial.
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Id imagine the section in the AWM describing the uniforms, tactics and governing structures of the LARP-originals may be a little scanty given there werent any. The descriptions of the proud LARP-originals spearing isolated civillians might take a bit of working around as well.
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Precisely what the memorial intends to do in this space has been subject to quite some verbal contortion. As the Honest History organisation recently pointed out, Anderson, in his appearance on Rachel Perkins’ remarkable documentary The Australian Wars, said: “what we [the memorial] seek to do is to tell the story of frontier violence in the way in which it affected the men and women who joined the Australian Imperial Forces and went away”.
This makes little sense at all, in my view. It is as nonsensical as the memorial’s attempts in the past to use the story of “Black diggers” (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have served Australia in the defence force) as some sort of fig-leaf for its intransigence on frontier wars.
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Or it could be that it has no place at all because the preponderance of “resistance’ falls squarely into the “war crimes” orbit. Spearing civilians male, female and kids is a war crime.
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I started writing about the memorial’s intransigence on meaningfully representing frontier violence as part of Australia’s military history well over a decade ago. I still recall the response I got nine years ago when I asked the memorial if, under then newly appointed director, Nelson, the memorial would consider depicting frontier conflict.
I got what might be called a “look over there”-type response.
Indeed, back then a spokeswoman responded that the memorial “holds a rich collection of material related to Indigenous servicemen and women from the first world war”.
“This includes embarkation information, prisoner of war records, Red Cross files, personal letters, service details, works of art, photographs and medals. We also have a significant project under way. ‘The Guide To Indigenous Service Collections at the Memorial’ will identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who served during the first world war and display records and collection material related to their individual service.”
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Thats because you are a cockhead Paul, they should have not even dignified your smearing shit with an answer.
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It is little wonder that right now, while the war memorial figures out precisely how it might chronicle frontier conflict or war or violence, it finds itself simultaneously challenged from progressives and somewhat besieged by conservative defenders of what many consider to be a “sacred” institution that should, they believe, dedicate itself solely to the equally sacred (and white) story of Anzac.
Apparently echoing Anderson from The Australian Wars, the RSL Australia president, Greg Melick, recently said: “While some frontier conflicts have been featured in Australian War Memorial galleries and touring exhibitions, these have been mounted to provide some context to the subsequent service of First Nations personnel in the ADF. The Australian War Memorial honours the sacrifice of those who have served our nation in armed conflicts and peacekeeping operations, and it is right and appropriate that this is exclusively maintained.”
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LARP-Originals are gifted hundreds of millions a year, fuck off and shit out your grievance therapy somewhere else
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So, any meaningful shift in the war memorial’s policy on frontier conflict under the Labor government will need to amount to more than acquiring and hanging new artwork in a dedicated space. It must memorialise those 60,000-plus Indigenous people killed on the frontier in the same way as it does the 100,000-plus Australian personnel who died on overseas operations.
In the words of Henry Reynolds, the living Australian historian who has perhaps done more than any other to reveal the extent of Australian frontier violence: “We will certainly know that we are entering a new era when a tomb of an unknown warrior is placed next to the grave of the unknown soldier in the Memorial’s inner sanctum.”
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That would be the Henry Reynolds of “the fabrication of Aboriginal history” fame, who was allowed to keep writing books secure in his uni position despite being caught out making shit up out of whole cloth.
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Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist, and has a right arm like popeyes and a penis like a calloused limp sad dishrag…
John Anderson interviewed her recently.
Thank you.
The only way the AWM could lose more credibility would be hiring Bruce Pascoe as a consultant.
apologies for the deviation down the rabbit hole.. you are correct.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/17/senator-linda-reynolds-accused-of-attempting-to-coach-defence-lawyers-in-cross-examination-of-brittany-higgins
First Nations people also used their deep knowledge of Country to aid them in battle – they had the home ground advantage.
They of course had a battle manual distributed across the entire nation: how to outflank the enemy; the use of reverse slopes, the importance of morale on the day of attack – all that sort of stuff.
The Duke would have been proud.
Is there an opening here for a Uncle Bruce Pascoe-style publication?
Undoubtedly. Frontier history is replete with accounts of small indig assault squads using LandRover 110s and cut-down Tojo technicals roaring in out of the sun at bedraggled settlers, and brassing them up with a box or two of .30 cal before pinching their tea and sugar and disappearing from whence they came.
Its not as if they could organise themselves into a massed army.
Meh, they would have used their Starlink terminals.
They invented it.
Elon stole it.
and has a right arm like popeyes and a penis like a calloused limp sad dishrag…
I’m jealous.
and has a right arm like popeyes and a penis like a calloused limp sad dishrag…
I’m jealous.
let me guess
a penis like popeyes and a right arm like a calloused limp sad dishrag?
KD, you forgot the comma between Marina and Go.
All good, duncanm.
I have no doubt the Miserable Ghost would have been in the loop.
The mycelium of the hideous network. All we see are the fruiting bodies.
From Michael Smith News
Some one is keen for good publicity
Thank you to reader Daniel who traced this first appearance of the photo in the Sydney Morning Herald – supplied by Brittany Higgins (Pty Ltd).
https://www.smh.com.au/national/cat-loving-coffee-swilling-karaoke-singing-thatcher-fan-meet-attorney-general-michaelia-cash-20210624-p5843e.html
From the Comments
– A bit slimmer then!
– The same photo appeared in the SMH a year ago “supplied” by Brittany Higgins.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/cat-loving-coffee-swilling-karaoke-singing-thatcher-fan-meet-attorney-general-michaelia-cash-20210624-p5843e.html
duncanm says:
October 17, 2022 at 5:21 pm
I think they mean Nicole Hamer,can ex-staffer in Reynolds office.
apologies for the deviation down the rabbit hole.. you are correct.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/17/senator-linda-reynolds-accused-of-attempting-to-coach-defence-lawyers-in-cross-examination-of-brittany-higgins
Reynolds also suggested to Whybrow that texts between Higgins and another former Reynolds staffer, Nicole Hamer, may be “revealing” to the defence.
What are they on about? If the prosecution has exculpatory information, they have an obligation to disclose it to the defence. Not to do so is a denial of justice to the accused. If Reynolds is aware of such information in phone records why is it “coaching” to make the defence aware of it?
Again Michael Smith News
History repeats – from Punch magazine, April 1904.
Get your Glasses and Read the text at the Bottom of the Cartoon – Priescent for Today
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Joe wasted no time in sniffing his latest victim.
The fake news media pretends this isn’t happening.
The mainstream media supports this degenerate behavior.
Have you seen a video of Pedo Peter sniffing his next victim at Baskin Robbins in Oregon yesterday.
Reynolds – just about as useful as a prosecution witness as Minister for Defence.
Reynolds doesn’t seem all that smart.
Unfortunately you could say the same about 90% of the house & senate.
Why are you Digging up Reagan?
Even Dead He’s better than what we’ve got!
That Michaelia Cash has rat cunning.
Interesting, OldOzzie.
In 1904, China would have been seen as the “odd one out”. Four years after the Boxer Rebellion, still a mighty space to be carved up in the rush for “spheres of influence”.
Was the cartoonist looking for irony, using conflict between essentially Christian countries while a pagan country looked on and laughed?
which killed by conservative estimate at least 60,000 Indigenous men, women and children, upon which the white Australian federation was founded.
Even Henry Reynolds and the Newcastle Uni woman perfesser whose name escapes me didn’t come up with a number that high.
Where’s all the forensic evidence?
PS, I suspect that the “60,000”was selected because it is close to the number of Australians who died in WW I. Even the indigenous “industry” doesn’t have the gall to match the number exactly.
Similarly, when the period of indigenous occupation began to be extended in 1988, the 40,000 years claimed was suspiciously close the 200 (the then period since white settlement) simply multiplied by 200.
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Worked it out. The Russo-Japanese War. Fighting over influence in Manchuria and Korea.
Everyone had an axe to grind.
Rachel Perkins, the A.B.C and S.B.S. claim 100,000 dead men, women and children.
Were these 60,000 people murdered?
Inflation.
100,000 people.
Amortiser earlier.
.1 Sexual assault coppers are meticulous about protecting complainants identities; and
.2 People around politicians have a sense of “things the boss might not like to know” and avoid telling them.
Lyndall Ryan – on record as claiming “Historians are always making stuff up.”
She would certainly know.
I think she is their witness, so they won’t be “cross-examining” her.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
October 17, 2022 at 5:57 pm
Even Henry Reynolds and the Newcastle Uni woman perfesser whose name escapes me didn’t come up with a number that high.
Rachel Perkins, the A.B.C and S.B.S. claim 100,000 dead men, women and children.
Have any of them provided actual evidence?
It is surprising that the Defence does not intend to call Wilkinson who inserted herself into this exercise very publically and inappropriately and was obviously well briefed.
I should have thought that a hint of conspiracy would benefit the defence’s attempts to discredit the whole process leading up to the charging.
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“What we need is a small victorious war” Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Interior Minister, 1904.
A year later the Russian Empire nearly disintegrated in the 1905 Revolution, after they lost the small war. Perhaps if von Plehve had been serving instead in this century he might have called it a special military operation.
For shame – don’t you believe “Stories My Nanna Told Me?”
Cite you the case in Western Australia, where the “eyewitness” who “bin see the white police come out of the bushes, bin see the fires, me bin count the bodies” was eighty miles away at the time “Oh, no, we bin talk about it..”
Worth repeating.
Fatty O’Barrell lost his job over about the same value of booze that the four Ministerial guzzlers went through that night.
As well as filling them with expensive booze, I’ll bet the defence contractors filled them full of tales of woe about how they were being stiffed by the latest contract and really, really needed that next contract variation to go through otherwise jerbs in a marginal electorate might go.
And that story is then dutifully spouted around the Minister’s office until the next free piss-up.
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Exactly which conservatives did this?
Cory, you bastard! Front and centre!
One detail – IIRC it wasn’t the so much the state of the office that triggered the sacking (including her having a pretty good chunder) but the fact that they were there at all, i.e. in a secure area when they weren’t supposed to be.
Wrong.
Supposedly Brucie was sacked for demanding entry without his I.D., the second time that had happened.
Has Reynolds admitted intending to sack Higgins?
Security said she was absolutely blotto, plus it was a first offence and Brucie had previously gotten away with it.
Errr … no. The numpty appointed will be full bottle on ‘engagement’ and ‘consultation’ and all the rest of the buzz-words, but will do nothing about the appalling violence in NSW schools. In particular, there is a high school in a NSW country town (forget which just now) where the bullying and violence among students is so bad that parents have removed their kids and now send them to another school more than an hour away, or try to homeschool them – not easy at high school level, from scratch.
The teachers are not allowed to do anything – for example, they are not supposed to touch students, even if they are fighting – and the Department just issues platitudes.
The ‘behaviour adviser’ will no doubt come up with plenty more platitudes. Bad luck for the kids and their parents.
Fatty O’Barrell lost his job over about the same value of booze that the four Ministerial guzzlers went through that night.
No, he didn’t lose his job over the bottle of Grange.
He gave that as his excuse for resigning, that’s all.
Anyone going to the UAP launch in Vic?
It is surprising that the Defence does not intend to call Wilkinson who inserted herself into this exercise very publically and inappropriately and was obviously well briefed.
That would be risky if Lisa was a Hostile Witness, but absolutely nuts if she isn’t, because the Prosecution can have a go at her then, in particular why she put Higgins of the spot with the
He removed your panties?
question.
Incredibly, I think Groogs may be right. I’ll see myself out.
In the 1960’s, the period of indigenous occupation was 8 – 10,000 years.
Again with the panties? Groogs must have found a clean sock (no pun intended).
Seems Linda Reynolds partner was in court when Higgins gave evidence plus she was texting, from Rwanda, defence counsel suggesting look at texts between Higgins and another staffer.
Naturally the partner was not going to discuss the evidence with her !
Clearly Reynolds not on Higgins side.
We need a petition to call Lisa Wilkinson as a witness. Popcorn sales would go nuts.
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The Japanese in 1904 were as thoroughly unpleasant as they were forty years later. So the Russia-Japanese War was an eerily similar baddies vs baddies affair. We feared the both of them: the fort here in Ncl was originally built against the Russians.
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They need to start taking roll at the Brittany trial. No one in or out without ID.
Chronology peoples.
ScoMo made his apology in early 2022, some three years after “the incident” and one year after it became general public knowledge.
It may be very convenient for the prosecution to create a political conspiracy to “silence Britnah”, but they need to fucking prove it.
And even if they do, it adds nothing to the rape case.
Nothing.
It is more likely Elbow knew about it well before ScoMo did.
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One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus depot, started his bus, and drove off along the route.
No problems for the first few stops, a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well. At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six foot eight, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground.
He glared at the driver and said “Big John doesn’t pay!” and sat down at the back. Did I mention that the driver was five feet three, thin, and basically meek? Well, he was. Naturally, he didn’t argue with Big John, but he wasn’t happy about it.
The next day the same thing happened – Big John got on again, made a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And the next day, and the one after that, and so forth. This grated on the bus driver, who started losing sleep over the way Big John was taking advantage of him.
Finally, he could stand it no longer.
He signed up for body building courses, karate, judo, and all that good stuff. By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; what’s more, he felt really good about himself.
So on the next Monday, when Big John once again got on the bus and said “Big John doesn’t pay!” the driver stood up, glared back at the passenger, and screamed “And why not?”
With a surprised look on his face, Big John replied “Big John has a bus pass”.
“And even if they do, it adds nothing to the rape case.
Nothing.
It is more likely Elbow knew about it well before ScoMo did.”
Umm….correct. And I have no doubt that, just like with the Porter farce, Malturd also knew well before Scumbag did.
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Alexandra Marshall on Peter Dutton at The Speccie:
“Conservatives want Peter Dutton to succeed – they really do. I remember when Dutton led the charge against despised Turnbull. The entire blue ribbon base was waiting for him to assume his rightful place on the throne when suddenly Turnbull shoved Morrison in front of the cameras and that was that. Dutton is back, but he looks a bit like a puppy whose owners have taken him to the vet to get ‘fixed’ [Ouch! -R.]. He’s lost his lust for politics. If he was a true conservative before [Highly debatable -R.], he isn’t anymore. Everything’s gone a bit beige and ‘let’s just wait for more information’. He might have gone a step too far last week when he decided to copy Daniel Andrews and condemn Christian beliefs during a Sky New Australia interview [You think!?- R.]. Lad, this isn’t the way toward victory…”
Save yourself some future heartache & adjust your expectations downwards, Alexandra.
The ‘Pope’ worships Mammon.
Get your hand off it, dot.
Little, community based schools in Australia, the US and Canada were critical to kids in rural and remote areas learning basic and more than basic skills.
You need to read Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea.
There is a difference between regimented schools and other types of schools.
They are not all the same.
Recall that Mizzz Knickerless was a media adviser. So far in the trial her media know-how seems to have been missing.
Fukn bang. Smoking gun, right there.
This joker is really getting on my wick.
I can only imagine what he does to faithful Catholics.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
– Winston Churchill
I’m not sure when the actual cleaning took place with some reports indicating on the weekend.
Saturday morning.
If security had arranged cleaning on the weekend
Someone from Scotty’s Office ordered an Out Of Hours SteamClean with particular attention to removing any Frenchies from the area.
… then Brittany has certainly not made any complaints about sexual assault or rope. Preservation of the crime scene would have been the first priority.
Give yourself an uppercut.
The first priority is always the cover up.
<em> Brittany had just pulled herself together and went home.
She was so drunk she didn’t get up until 10 am and left at 10.30am.
Remember that the steamcleaners went thru that morning, so i’d say
about 5 seconds after Higgins left the cleaners were in there with the machine set at Defcon 1.
On Tuesday, Bruce is called in to face the music. The major issue being the mess the office was left in requiring extensive cleaning. Bruce gets the bullet.
You’ve just made that shit up.
He has cordial interactions with his “victim” prior to his termination.
Wrong.
She arrived while he was cleaning out his desk.
So then it’s Brittany’s turn to face the music. She’s for the high jump as well as she made the big mess. My understanding is that here she makes the rope allegation. The Chief of Staff takes a step back and Brittany holds her position.
So what?
Here it gets a bit murky. Cash has now testified that the first she heard of the rope allegation was almost 2 years later. Higgins had been shifted to her office but nothing was said to her by either Reynolds or Higgins.
Uh huh.
I understand that the cops were involved shortly after the event but she chose not to proceed with the complaint. Bruce was kept in the dark until 2 years later when a journalist sought comment from his new employer.
According to Bruce.
How does Cash not know about this for 2 years?
She likely did know, unofficially.
Her role likely was to make life so miserable for Higgins that she’d snatch it and they could re-employ Brucie.
Higgins is made of sterner stuff, though.
Basically, Cash is an idiot who owes her position to family connections, and Reynolds is similar.
Their only concern was the cover up [ and salvaging Brucie’s career].
Both outcomes were achievable, but not by clowns like Cash and Reynolds.
Erin goddamn Molan, 24/7 on Skah. Or so it would appear, sooking about people that didn’t like her on social media.
‘I’m resilient and strong’, she claims.
I have no idea what sort of contract she’s on or what she’s got over Skah management, but by Christ it must be significant.
We Are History was a good bbc show
So, apparently Julie Zemira….
1. Uber progressive princess.
2. ABC acolyte.
3. Former host of RocKwiz (disclaimer, I once liked RocKwiz).
4. Campaigner for the Teals (she launched Kylea STink’s campaign).
5. Hater of anything Liberal or conservative, she attended last year’s phoney fake March 4 Justice protest rally outside Parliament House.
6. Regular Twitter user and all round seweress, who once called Tony Abbott “a dickhead”.
7. Hater of Pauline Hanson (two years ago she joined in the lynch mob to get Hanson kicked off Nine).
8. Smearer of all things Christian.
9. Spent the last few years bagging News Corporation, agreeing with Kevvie and Malturd’s Murdoch and News Corp derangement and has joined in calls for a royal commission into News Corporation.
Well, in news just in, Zemira is off to work for Foxtel, in a revamped RocKwiz. It’s amazing what a little dosh can do….what a fucking hypocrite.
This Documentary looks like it has shades of a real life Spinal tap
https://youtu.be/Kg3osMG5yK4
Recall that Mizzz Knickerless was a media adviser. So far in the trial her media know-how seems to have been missing.
It’s an entry level position, degree required.
Higgins may have been prepared to take one for the team, but she wasn’t prepared to take one for the team and get sacked anyway for doing nothing wrong.
Ed Case says:
October 17, 2022 at 6:14 pm
One detail – IIRC it wasn’t the so much the state of the office that triggered the sacking (including her having a pretty good chunder) but the fact that they were there at all, i.e. in a secure area when they weren’t supposed to be.
Wrong.
Supposedly Brucie was sacked for demanding entry without his I.D., the second time that had happened.
Has Reynolds admitted intending to sack Higgins?
Security said she was absolutely blotto, plus it was a first offence and Brucie had previously gotten away with it.
Well, Ed, getting in without ID is ok because security allowed them in after verifying their ID. If it was verboten they wouldn’t have been signed in.
There would have been a big problem apparent when the Chief of Staff found the office needed a thorough cleaning. A big chunder will do that.
What needs clarification is when Brittany called rope. That may explain why she survived with Bruce already out the door.
Yesterday, Namibia beat Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup match.
Today, Scotland are about the beat the West Indies.
Richards, Greenidge, Haynes, Richardson, Ambrose, Holding, Marshall, Lloyd et al must be spinning at 8000rpm, dead or not.
Groogs knows steam cleaning.
Chronology schmonology!
Stop destroying my conspiracies with details! 😀
Drones seem to working over Kiev unopposed. Latest is that they took out the central exchange for power delivery, UkrEnergo.
The best thing about the show was the live performances…the house backing band was cracking.
Well, Ed, getting in without ID is ok because security allowed them in after verifying their ID.
Brucie didn’t have his Security Pass with him, that’s against the rules.
If it was verboten they wouldn’t have been signed in.
Security knew who he was, and while technically they coulda telt him to take a hike, good paying jobs for Single Mums are hard to come by in Canberra.
There would have been a big problem apparent when the Chief of Staff found the office needed a thorough cleaning. A big chunder will do that.
The reason Reynolds sacked Brucie is showing up out of working hours without his Pass.
That’s it.
What needs clarification is when Brittany called rope. That may explain why she survived with Bruce already out the door.
Higgins told Reynolds during the course of Higgins interview on the morning of March 26 2019.
Ask yourself this:
If Higgins had done something worthy of the Sack, no matter how trivial, why didn’t Reynolds sack her anyway?
The Rape allegation is a separate issue.
I can tell you it bothers me not at all because Big-nose Bergoglio is not my Pope – I continue to regard Benedict XVI as the Vicar of Christ on Earth. Big-nose Bergoglio is a faithless communist and media tart.
Ed furiously Feckulating itself blind.
I don’t think you get to choose, Tinta.
He occupies Peter’s chair, Benedict does not, by his own choice.
If so, likely a war crime.
Oh Joy!
Vlad is cutting the power for the mothers and kiddies in Kiev with Iranian drones.
What a champion bloke.
I don’t recognise Istanbul. It is Constantinople.
By the way …
A Schooner of beer in a Qld Public Bar just went up $2.80 …
to $10.
Cassie, never heard of the slag but your post sure makes me glad I gave up watching TV.
I was once an education reformer but have come round to Dot’s thinking that it is beyond repair.
The curriculum is bloated and boring. Teachers think they parents and the government think the kids are theirs.
Small cooperatives of home schooling with retired volunteers as support.
One for Tinta.
I have chosen and I will make my peace with the Almighty when the time comes.
Quite
Don’t understand, is Byzantium the place you’re meaning?
I think He’ll be sympathetic.
😀
Why?
I don’t recognise Istanbul. It is Constantinople.
Obligatory..
Thing is, once you start surveilling elected politicians, you are putting democracy in the hands of the tech oligarchs and the general principle of surveillance as being OK.
Should the Defence Minister, or indeed the PM, have everything recorded by cameras? If so, they will be holding their meetings in the nearest park.
The whole thing has been blown out of proportion, thanks to a certain person’s typical of her generation need for attention.
The teachers don’t think they’re parents Bespoke.
The foul little shits don’t evoke that sort of feeling.
Ed Casesays:
October 17, 2022 at 6:59 pm
I’m not sure when the actual cleaning took place with some reports indicating on the weekend.
Saturday morning.
If security had arranged cleaning on the weekend
Someone from Scotty’s Office ordered an Out Of Hours SteamClean with particular attention to removing any Frenchies from the area.
… then Brittany has certainly not made any complaints about sexual assault or rope. Preservation of the crime scene would have been the first priority.
Give yourself an uppercut.
The first priority is always the cover up.
Brittany had just pulled herself together and went home.
She was so drunk she didn’t get up until 10 am and left at 10.30am.
Remember that the steamcleaners went thru that morning, so i’d say
about 5 seconds after Higgins left the cleaners were in there with the machine set at Defcon 1.
Richard Cranium
And you know all of this how? Perhaps, contrary to your usual practice, you could provide some evidence?
What’s the going price of a schooner of Toohey’s New down your way then?
Wars are won and lost on production. Whoever out produces will ultimately win.
I am hoping so, Roger
Sitting in the public bar at the Pineapple – Kangaroo Point.
Schooners $7.50.
Drinking a pint of Green Beacon pale ale – $9.50.
A schooner costs $10.
That means Ed will be spending $10 for a night out.
You might be a giant on the Cat, Mole, but I’m not clicking on your link.
I don’t want an earworm going around inside my head all week.
It’s threatening already.
High excess deaths in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCv_Wh5njM
calli says: October 17, 2022 at 3:52 am
> shot circadian rhythm.
> There’s a massive storm out to sea with lots of flashbangs
Are you sure you shot your circadian rhythm and not the Sheriff?
China’s Big Development Could Set World Up for Mark of the Beast
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We are done
Not me, ir. Close family and friends are worth fighting for.
correct
Is the old thief buying ice cream meant to be cute or something? Workshopped by old poo poo pants’s PR flunkies? Horrible, dirty, evil old man.
Dual-use facilities are fair game.
Didn’t shoot no deputy.
Not yet anyway.
I doubt it in this instance.
Serle’s Monash bio talks about the young Monash as a member of the pre WW I militia on exercise down at the entrance to Pt Philip bay. The big worry was a Russian attack. The fortifications at Point Nepean were erected with this in mind. Seems risible now.
It’s meant to project an image of a cool, fun kinda guy.
Teh Paywallian play-by-play reporting closing prosecution and defence arguments Tuesday.
How much is a shandy these days?
So then it’s Brittany’s turn to face the music. She’s for the high jump as well as she made the big mess. My understanding is that here she makes the rope allegation. The Chief of Staff takes a step back and Brittany holds her position.
So what?
You are a superb piss taker ed.
QR codes are ugly tools of the devil. They should be banned.
Conventional wars are, not insurgencies – the Viet Cong and the Taliban didn’t win by outproducing the West, they did it by outlasting them.
Alan Jones is selling his country pile.
Why?
Ask yourself this:
If Higgins had done something worthy of the Sack, no matter how trivial, why didn’t Reynolds sack her anyway?
The Rape allegation is a separate issue.
So you reckon entering the ministerial office, paralytic drunk and chundering all over the ministerial couch and floor is not worthy of a sacking? Bruce was sacked for half as much.
The question is did she pull the rope claim then and look for sympathy. It would appear so but only Reynolds and the Chief of Staff would be able to confirm that.
Something happened that kept her on when Bruce was removed. The rope allegation is not a separate issue. Logically it is central to the outcomes.
Meh!
Shack.
Dunno about circadian rhythms, unless they are variable.
Always been convinced that mine is 23 or 25 hours, or something.
I never get jet lag. During my working life, I was usually out of synch. Supposed to be bright eyed and bushy tailed when I could drop off in a few minutes, and alert and energetic in the wee smalls. It hasn’t changed.
My best job was one where I started at about 3 pm – I was always awake and doing then. When I had to start at 8 or 9 am, I was sluggish till about 11 am. Of course, I forced myself to perform, but it was always an effort. A big effort, like being woken from a deep sleep and asked to perform some delicate calculations. Adrenalin only. Fear, if you like.
I’ve noticed that ‘morning people’ are often rewarded because it allegedly demonstrates their moral superiority.
But, they never experience the insights, high and low, of the dark reaches of the night.
Damn straight. Infrastructure, regardless of type is a legitimate target.
Anything less and you start getting into our own Ronnie RAAF’s principle of ‘oh don’t destroy that bridge the enemy uses to get troops and artillery across the river on the off chance the native women want to carry water over it.’
1. Because Russia’s actions are illegal in the first instance.
2. Even if legal, if the attack “took out” a power plant, it is clearly not proportionate, because the plant produced electricity primarily for civlilian, not military use.
3. If 2 applies there is therefore no compelling military advantage to be gained by the action.
Therefore, likely a war crime.
Rogersays:
October 17, 2022 at 7:42 pm
By the way …A Schooner of beer in a Qld Public Bar just went up $2.80 …to $10.
What’s the going price of a schooner of Toohey’s New down your way then?
Time to learn homebrew. Beer is easy. Stay away from spirits until you know what your are doing.
Clearly being a controversial old Queer pays well. I need to talk to my careers counsellor.
A possibility given the timing.
How would they know for sure?
One factor might be that Lehrmann was more senior and it was his second breach of security procedures.
Well, yes, the timing of the initial allegation to the CoS, followed by a long gap before going to the cops does raise a lot of questions.
Which bit of the “controversial + old + Queer” formula needs work?
Six pack of Woodstock cans $25.
Oh look, Labor’s not even trying to hide it’s acceptance of Jew hatred and Jew haters….
“Leftwing extremist Jay Tharappel wins Labor membership
Extreme left activist and former Sydney University academic Jay Tharappel, who once wore a jacket bearing slogans that declared “Curse on the Jews” and “Death to Israel”, has been allowed to join the Labor Party.
Mr Tharappel, a fervid supporter of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Iran’s despotic religious regime, was granted membership of the NSW Labor Party this year, documents prepared for the party’s State Conference reveal.
Previously a tutor in human rights at Sydney University, Mr Tharappel has written approvingly of Stalin (“most of the claims against him are exaggerated or false”) and espoused the virtues of Kim Jong-un’s North Korea (“a highly organised, egalitarian and energised society”) after a sponsored tour of the country.
The 33-year-old is also a regular “political commentator” for Iranian state television.
In his submission to join the Labor Party, Mr Tharappel says he was previously a member of the Greens “but I literally never turned up to an event. I’ve given them $10 in membership fees.”
Under Labor Party rules a person applying for membership who has been “a member or active supporter of another political party” must provide further information to be considered by the Administrative Committee before a decision is made. It is not known if Mr Tharappel disclosed his political affiliations when applying.
Official Labor Party policy strongly supports Israel’s right to exist and condemns Assad “who routinely bombs, chemically gasses, and murders his own people”.
Asked by The Australian if membership of the Labor Party was at odds with his previously expressed political views, Mr Tharappel responded: “Not interested.”
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns declined to answer questions about why Mr Tharappel’s application had been accepted, or whether he supported it, referring inquiries to NSW Labor officials, who did not respond.
Mr Tharappel is a protege of far-left “anti-imperialist” academic Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney University in 2019 after a series of serious misconduct findings that included posting an image that featured a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag and sharing a photograph of Mr Tharappel – then one of his PhD students – wearing “Curse on the Jews” and “Death to Israel” slogans.
Dr Anderson, who once flew to Syria for an audience with Assad, has appealed his sacking through the courts.
Last year he conducted a vicious online trolling of Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert after her release from Iran’s brutal Evin Prison, pushing Tehran’s unsupported claims that Dr Moore-Gilbert was a Mossad agent. Dr Anderson, who was convicted in 1990 over the 1978 Hilton hotel bombing in Sydney but acquitted the following year, runs the Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, a network of pro-Assad and pro-Tehran academics, of which Mr Tharappel is described as an associate board member.
Mr Tharappel was investigated by Sydney University in 2017 after launching an attack against News Corp journalist Kylar Loussikian, who is of Armenian descent, as “traitorous scum who desperately wants a second Armenian genocide”. It is understood Mr Tharappel was found guilty of “misconduct” but not “serious misconduct” and issued a warning.
In 2020 Mr Tharappel tried to organise “a mass defection” from Facebook to the Russian social media platform VK, then complained bitterly when Facebook banned him and deleted his account for breaching community standards. “They didn’t even tell me what I did wrong. Not gonna lie, it hurts,” he posted on VK.”
Gosh, Mr Tharappel has a lot of “legitimate grievances”.
Well, I’m not from Sydney …
We could’ve done well with you on night shift Johanna.
How are you at running pilot plants?
I have magpie alarm clocks.
They arrive at 6am.
*Chanelling Marie Antoinette*
Let them drink champagne.
(In all fairness, the line about eating cake has been attributed to numerous people. There is also question over whether the alternative to bread was actually brioche, rather than gateau.)
Teachers are forced to do the job of parents by both parents and the govt. Believe me we don’t want the job. Our kids are hard enough.
This focus on war crimes and legalities is one of the main reasons the West is now militarily useless. Victory in war should be the number one priority. If victory requires a power station to be destroyed, then do it. Fuck the lawyers.
That’s great, but the real question is whether the bread, brioche or cake was gluten free.
BAM. 100%.
Luxury!
This is less than a month away…
Q
Shall we play a game?
[N]othing [C]an [S]top [W]hat [I]s [C]oming
NCSWIC
https://www.cisa.gov/safecom/NCSWIC
Who stepped down today [forced]? https://www.cisa.gov/bryan-s-ware
More coming?
Why is this relevant?
How do you ‘show’ the public the truth?
How do you ‘safeguard’ US elections post-POTUS? How do you ‘remove’ foreign interference and corruption and install US-owned voter ID law(s) and other safeguards?
It had to be this way.
Sometimes you must walk through the darkness before you see the light.
Q
Posted 12/11/20
Future proves past.
Then don’t.
Brioche is perfectly acceptable, although it doesn’t toast well in my experience. We all need a break from endless sourdough.
Again with this.
LOL. Says who?
The collective West can suck sour grapes.
3 litres of 8% clean spirit … $15
Re 1. Justice of war is independent of the rules in war;
Re 2. the target was a energy management facility that degrades the capability of the power system, which is increasingly devoted to military purposes in Ukraine. If the casualities are small and they make every effort to minimise them then that speaks against these actions being clearly war crimes.
Re 3. The compelling military advantage is degrading the ability to repair equipment, transport troops, conduct operations, etc. and they are clearly doing that.
..85% … not bloody 8 !
The USAF and USN bombed North Vietnam in order to destroy their capacity to supply their troops. Hit steel mills and power plants, amongst other things. MiG airfields and SAM sites (legit military targets) were off limits for a while.
War crimes are those actions taken by the losers which the winners deem “war crimes”.
The RAF couldn’t hit targets at night like factories so the plan changed to burning down the houses of the workers and killing them. The USAAF likewise couldn’t hit legit targets so simply burned down whole cities. I don’t remember any of those responsible standing trial.
Sadly most Cats don’t get this…
Were
Fiction
Another country
Another century or more
…and yet here we are.
What you are describing us closer to what is condsidered as “unschooling” nowadays.
I have nothing against that.
So you reckon entering the ministerial office, paralytic drunk and chundering all over the ministerial couch and floor is not worthy of a sacking?
No, but we don’t know for sure whether Reynolds was going to sackHiggins.
Bruce was sacked for half as much.
We don’t know that either, what we do know is that the SyeamCleaners were ordered in, with a brief to search for Frenchies and evidence of a party.
Was that order given before Higgins vomited?
You don’t know the answer to that, so I’m saying Yes it was.
The question is did she pull the rope claim then and look for sympathy. It would appear so but only Reynolds and the Chief of Staff would be able to confirm that.
Is tellingb the truth and looking for sympathy a Crime now?
Something happened that kept her on when Bruce was removed.
Correct.
The rope allegation is not a separate issue. Logically it is central to the outcomes.
Rubbish.
If Higgins had done something Sackable under the Rules, why chuck the Rules in the bin?
Whatever happened that Morning in the Ministers Suite isn’t Reynolds problem, so why did she take ownership of it?
Logic dictates that Reynolds was running an inept cover up.
The last thing she shoulda done is to put herself in a position where Higgins could tell her a Crime had been committed in her Offices.
Who lived in the dams in the Ruhr or in a ball bearing factory, or the MAN engine factory?
Who lived in the oil fields in Ploetsi?
You have posted a lot of pro post Weimar German government bullshit here lately.
Just asking.
correct
Rules of war are good. They benefit both your civilians and soldiers. But, like anything, they can be abused when people engage in lawfare.
Pretty cool that Elon’s adding a donate button to Starlink.
It allows others to have skin in the game.
Or not.
It is better for your enemy to write condolence letters to the next of kin than you to write them.
Tax payers are already ‘donating’ generously.
Little known fact. Agatha Christie loosely based the character of Hercule Poirot on Groogs and an unknown 4th Stooge.
.. and there’s the inconvenient art evidence.
Very early: 40k bp
Bradshaw / Gwion Gwion: 20k bp to ~ 5k bp ?
Current more like 15k bp
USD holders are paying.
Bond rates are topping out at 4%, the US Treasury and Fed are probably using an intermediary, cash rates are going up but inflation is not being arrested…
They’re monetising the debt.
I would have thought the Hunchback the 4th Stooge, or is that Sutton.
StarLink is excellent
The IDF so far have not done this in Gaza, Lebanon or Syria even though they’ve had abundant provocation. Perhaps it isn’t such a good strategic action? The Israelis from long experience are exquisitely aware of the cost/benefit of such things. Which suggests Vlad has made a mistake.
Teachers are forced to do the job of parents by both parents and the govt.
Teachers aint forced to do jack shit.
The pressure push comes from Lizard People like Gillard who want children shucked off to their learning camps at the age of three, and they shovel money, resources, stress leave and content partner corporations at them to lubricate the transfer. Stoopid dependent parents then learn over a mere generation that it’s a given, as is a twenty year armchair ride ending in a social work qualification, which then feeds grey matter back into the soylent mill of the education state.
…
Wally’s three cardinal concepts of education-
1)-kids should apply themselves to work which aren’t their interests
2)-kids should get along with other kids that aren’t their friends
3)-kids should defer to grown-ups who are not their relatives.
…
If your school looks like frustrating any of these three- as in, contrary to 1) it shirks the work, contrary to 2) the difficult kids run amok, contrary to 3) the teachers are incapable of commanding a classroom- get your kids out, you’re wasting their time.
…
The other edge of the cardinal points, to melt a few metaphors, is that if you have not prepared your kids to face up to these realities on day one, then you have failed them. And three fucking years old is too young to hand them over.
Razey, taxpayers are contributing nothing to Starlinks donations to Ukraine.
They’re not Raytheon.
It’s a racket.
Don’t be surprised if there will be degrees for farmers, truck drivers and bar staff in the future.
All real jobs, but they don’t need a degree…yet.
Someone is profiting off this. Typically, those ostensibly opposed to profit.
“The IDF so far have not done this in Gaza, Lebanon or Syria even though they’ve had abundant provocation. Perhaps it isn’t such a good strategic action? The Israelis from long experience are exquisitely aware of the cost/benefit of such things. Which suggests Vlad has made a mistake.”
Umm…..I remember when the IDF bombed Beirut Airport. They were certainly aware of the “cost/benefit” of such an action.
3. Former host of RocKwiz (disclaimer, I once liked RocKwiz).
I preferred Spicks & Specs.
I met that Myf bird at a work gig a million years ago.
She was hosting a trivia night.
Had a chat with her, seemed genuinely pleasant.
“Early childhood education” is just another label applied to the destruction of the family for the greater good. No wonder Gillard is front and centre.
My mate had a huge crush on Myf Warhurst, until married he dreamed of dialling in double JJ drunk; and to declare what a nurturing, goddess mother body she possessed.
Just make sure you’re comfortable playing on that team.
Otherwise the sex may be one helluva shock – please research this career move very carefully.
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Dot, that is disturbing on at least 3 levels by my current reckoning.
I am fairly comfortable about working in radio.
Never seen Rokwiz, was unaware of this show’s existence (then again, this could be a trick question, clearly I need to increase my ABC viewing)
Sorta like Annabel Crabb, who seems so lovely on “Kitchen Cabinet” then posts on social media stuff that’d make Stalin jealous.
Julia Zemiro behaved herself impeccably on that “Home Delivery” show, where celebrities drive with her in an old car to visit their almost forgotten childhood home.
Then, you see her unhinged twitter output.
Twitter has been excellent for shining light onto these whackjobs.
And 5th Stooge.
Spooko and Flamo.
Conversely this sort of thing gives the enemy a casus belli. Ukraine appears to’ve struck at Russian power infrastructure yesterday in Belgorod, which while close to the front is well inside Russia proper.
That represents a very interesting equation. Putin has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons to defend the Motherland. Which Belgorod is definitely a part of. But by attacking grid infrastructure in Ukraine he’s also given just cause for Ukraine to do likewise in Russia. Which it appears they’ve now done. So does Vlad use a nuke because Ukraine has done this? If he does it looks like total overkill. If he doesn’t he looks like a big talking loud mouth. Either option is bad, which is exactly the sort of dilemma a cluey general staff would want to impose upon their opponent. Very Sun Tzuish.
Perhaps Vlad is taking the view that the Uke’s will LARP any attacks regardless, so might as well make them count?!
Magpies and currawongs start just before first light here, and the cockies join in when the sun is coming up. Various parrots and others in between.
The cockies are busy feeding their chicks just now, so are not out and about. Later in the year, they are louder than a jet plane overhead at 500 feet. Ouch!
Literally painful.
How can Russian drones be hitting Kiev ?
That’s a long way to go & not be intercepted.
I met that Myf bird at a work gig a million years ago.
She was hosting a trivia night.
Had a chat with her, seemed genuinely pleasant.
Was she D or F cup?