Open Thread – Weekend 22 Oct 2022


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Dot
Dot
October 23, 2022 8:36 am

I have friends who work in grain trading, crushing, nut farms, olives, wineries etc.

The modern industries are very analytical.

It is up there with pharmaceuticals. The quality control for seed and fruit uses the same infra red tech to scan products. Those machines cost 160k brand new though. Virtually all grain receival sites have at least one.

duncanm
duncanm
October 23, 2022 8:36 am

Sancho Panzersays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:25 pm
Netball Australia is all that is wrong with sporting organisations in this country.

It takes some doing to push Rugby Australia into the silver medal position.
Also, I don’t think much of the $15 meg was going to trickle down to local Netty.

true – I can’t see much trickle down happening, but when the crime gang is running $2M+ deficits every year, they’re going to squeeze the plebians to plug the hole.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 8:40 am

Big Nambas:

Also I am not in the bush so no bushfire danger, and on top of the hill so no flood danger.
Contents insurance is cheap so went with that.

Let the story of Noah and his houseboat be a lesson to you all.
He thought he was above it all until he tore the Hull of the “Ark” open on Mount Ararat. I think he’s still on hold after trying to call his insurance company…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 8:41 am

true – I can’t see much trickle down happening, but when the crime gang is running $2M+ deficits every year, they’re going to squeeze the plebians to plug the hole.

That is more likely.
Stick the local netty players and clubs with rego fee hikes to fill the gap.
Which will be cross-subsidised by the local men’s footy club they are affiliated with.
Either that or Elbow-cash.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 8:42 am

There are women across the country who have been genuinely stalked, seriously and severely assaulted and threatened with death – actual, imminent death rather than ‘I will keeeel you’ from thousands of kilometres away – and who have overcome that. Made genuine lives for themselves and the people they care for, because they are truly resilient, strong and role models.

And then there is Erin Molan. A pampered drag-along child who got her breaks in the industry of her choice due to Daddy’s influence and surname. Who couldn’t sign up fast enough to be the token chick in a TV football program, who knew exactly why she was being paid squillions, and who believed the spotlight would be hers forever.

Who then decided that her opinion on subjects she had no expertise in mattered, and that she couldn’t be criticised because grrrl. She put herself on the highest pedestal she could find, and expected nobody to disagree with her. And then, with her profile waning, she used one of the Latest Things – ‘online bullying’ – to try and resurrect herself to critical acclaim.

The latest attempt is a piece in the Tele, where she manages to combine the release of her new project – singlets for babies – with the turrible turrible people who didn’t like her:

“When I was with The Footy Show, at one of my lowest points I remember thinking, I actually don’t know if I want to wake up tomorrow – and that scares me even saying it because I never envisaged anything that could put me in that position.”

That’s because you’ve never been in the real world, love. Go and chat with Pauline Hanson or Jacinta Price about being disagreed with, and see how far you get.

“But fast forward to now, where the messages I get from the most incredible people on social media lift me up and inspire me.”

Really. Go and see some of the abovementioned women in hospitals and in Struggle Streets everywhere, going without so their children can have shoes and food. There’s your inspiration, you unreasonable ungrateful media tart.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 8:42 am

Aren’t adverse reactions to the vaccines a separate reporting requirement?
It gets a bit confusing when you claim that adverse reactions to the vaxx mainly occur 1 to 3 days after, when so many people claim any health issue that occurs weeks months even a year or more post vaxx is caused by the vaxx.

They arent mutally exclusive – there was a huge spike in incidents 1,2 and 3 days post vax, but these obviously relate to immediate and direct effects (like dropping dead).

There are also a slew of long term effects (cancer, accellerated coronary disease, autoimmune illness etc) which obviously will take longer to show up.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 8:43 am

DrBeauGansays:
October 22, 2022 at 10:50 pm
If it was a frontier war, who won?

Not the indigenous. The “treaty” negotiation should start with our offer of terms. Those who wish to join with the modern world may do so on the same terms as any other citizen. Those who wish to live a “traditional” life “on country” are free to do so. Sign here.

Johnny Rotten
October 23, 2022 8:44 am

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

– John Knee Rotten

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 8:46 am

I went to the docs the other day, and I couldn’t get any Iodine on prescription. I believe it’s not available OTC.

You might need to do some calculations regarding ‘dose’ but Iodine is readily available as an antiseptic online, and probably at chemists – or, my faithful standby – at horse supply outlets.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/334288407727?hash=item4dd5244caf:g:hVUAAOSwxYxh3o8N&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4KXArBwmUqEJ%2BK%2BCmuUu%2FAAegl5u%2BfP4Anso7H8D12U3YZQ8ASYFDSqLLXhKueIFgcBl5q9TexWWVZYr4RA%2F19Lo%2Bk86eya6dXRjDKQksFXU09bIi2%2FIumkQbQEUsX8nLl8eJ18l37veG%2F4Phyj%2B3eUgypQxzob87wzE1Qx4AktP01jZPWi9ZtXnDB%2BNr9I6845Vw7Ju3g6ER%2BRAJF56SvEMGYNTVDHcLsQclrHlWjfIQt3nBZzMxwIein12BU8XgSmGgbDCDhqt6lHhGB%2Famqds57FgULnpnrZU1FoF9w2F%7Ctkp%3ABFBMmqy7moBh

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 8:46 am

KD, I get the feeling you’re not a massive fan of Erin Molan.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 8:49 am

Addit re Iodine:

we used to splash this very product liberally around inside the mouth in ENT surgery, and inside open body cavities during abdominal surgery, so I doubt its toxic at the right dose.

Mater
October 23, 2022 8:51 am

They arent mutally exclusive – there was a huge spike in incidents 1,2 and 3 days post vax, but these obviously relate to immediate and direct effects (like dropping dead).

There are also a slew of long term effects (cancer, accellerated coronary disease, autoimmune illness etc) which obviously will take longer to show up.

Thank you for doing what I couldn’t be bothered doing (again), outlining logic.

duncanm
duncanm
October 23, 2022 8:52 am

You rang the NRMA for a flat tyre?

Should have just pulled over and put on the hazard lights and stood beside the car. Some bloke driving/walking past would have pulled over and changed it for you in a few minutes.

this was Surry Hills, remember. Soy boy central.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 8:52 am

Makka:

So, it’s no Q E now, it’s “restoring financial stability”.
https://twitter.com/matthew_pines/status/1583597204425826304/photo/1
Clownshow.

It always was just another word for “Printing Presses go brrrrrrr…..”
Except only monetary geniuses can tell the difference. It’s a lot like the Kings New Suit. But with more spin.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 8:52 am

Winston – WARNING!

Do not drink iodine solution. The material that is taken in event of nuclear fallout is iodide, not iodine. Sodium iodide would be the best I suspect, in the right dose.

Iodine is used as a skin disinfectant, it’s likely to be very harmful if swallowed.

I know you know this but from your comment I felt I should warn people who may not realize the difference.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 23, 2022 8:53 am

There will not be any climate justice without social justice.
I’m guessing green dweeb’s Utopia would look like something
a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity*.
*H/T Neal Stephenson.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 8:56 am

You rang the NRMA for a flat tyre?
Should have just pulled over and put on the hazard lights and stood beside the car.

I was going to be a bit cheeky here, and mention that if you can’t change a tyre you shouldn’t have a driver’s licence. But I won’t.

Yet.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 8:57 am

Struth:

Death to traitors.
Death to genocidal maniacs.
Anyone got a problem with that?

I find your newsletter fascinating, and would like to know more.
Can you clarify on the method of execution?

duncanm
duncanm
October 23, 2022 8:57 am

There will not be any climate justice without social justice.

short and to the point..

Andy
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Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 8:58 am

johannasays:
October 23, 2022 at 7:33 am
Umm, it’s Surry Hills, it isn’t an area known for “blokes who can change a tyre”.

No, but there are bull dykes there who could hold up the car with one hand and change the tyre with the other. ?”

Not anymore. The bull dykes have all moved to the inner-west, suburbs like Newtown and Marrickville, Surry Hills is now uber trendy, all the things that once made it interesting are gonski, the Chinese, the shmatta factories and shops, and the grunge of the 70s, 80s and 90s are all gone, the suburb now filled with fashionable and expensive restaurants, cafes and boutiques.

m0nty
m0nty
October 23, 2022 8:59 am

My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat. Like every other industry at the moment.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 9:01 am

The point with taking sodium iodide is that the non-radioactive iodide in the pill competes to swamp out the radioactive iodine that is a fission product. The thyroid gland just loves iodine and the radioactive iodine will make a beeline for it unless there’s an abundance of normal iodine keeping it out. Thyroid cancer being the issue if radioactive iodine get into it.

JC
JC
October 23, 2022 9:03 am

Cassie

Queen street Woollhara used to be a great street for a short stroll. What happened to all the decent shops and stuff there.? Wifey would go up just to shop some Italian brand brunello or whatever with her pals in years gone by as there was an outlet.

Rabz
October 23, 2022 9:04 am

Hang on to your wallets, Cats. Treasurer Dim Chambers has just announced that welfare payments will be $32 billion higher than previously estimated.

Can’t wait to see how many new and higher taxes we’re gifted with on Tuesday evening.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 9:07 am

Zipster:

In fact it is now mandatory that right gov use its power to roll back the suicidal course the left has put us on. After that it can revert back to a neutral stance, safeguards must be put in place to prevent a return to the left’s madness.

I hope you haven’t ruled out the helicopter option, Zipster.
That would make me sad.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 23, 2022 9:08 am

There’s no climate justice without social justice.

There’s no climate science without social science.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 9:09 am

After a quick search, I have found the following article on Iodine as a cancer preventative after radiation exposure

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356652/

Confusingly, it seems to use ‘Iodine’ and ‘Iodide’ interchangeably.

Do your own research: It doesnt apply to me as I dont have a thryoid, mine having hit the bucket 10 years back.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 9:10 am

Panahi on Outsiders, correctly explaining that right up until the exact second Gina pulled the netty cash because the players didn’t want it, all the posing and posturing about climate action was ‘consequence-free’.

All the mobile phones belonging to Netty Australia players and management (made with mining) must have been running white-hot yesterday.

Tom
Tom
October 23, 2022 9:10 am

Can’t wait to see how many new and higher taxes we’re gifted with on Tuesday evening.

No, Rabz. All Labor’s new spending will be financed by borrowings — that is, deferred taxation. Just like the Stupid Fucking Liberals.

bespoke
bespoke
October 23, 2022 9:11 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

October 23, 2022 at 8:42 am

There are women across the country who have been genuinely stalked, seriously and severely assaulted and threatened with death – actual, imminent death rather than ‘I will keeeel you’ from thousands of kilometres away – and who have overcome that. Made genuine lives for themselves and the people they care for, because they are truly resilient, strong and role models

This is why I have utter contempt for people trying to share the same space (identifying) with circumstances that have little resemblance to their own.

It is not empathy it is parasitic.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:12 am

I missed the start.
What is the iodine for?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 23, 2022 9:13 am

I asked the waiter for Iodine …

h/t Your red scarf matches your eyes.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 9:15 am

My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat. Like every other industry at the moment.

Look at the bigger picture: by accepting the government as your ‘health care partner’ all those years ago (they pay the bulk of your medical bills via medicare – yes, yes I know they steal the money from you first etc etc) you have accepted them as the prime decision maker in what that care entails.

This was brought starkly into view with COVID – because the Govt controlled health care funding, they control health care – in my case, it meant I COULD NOT WORK AT ALL – none of the institutions (public or private) would have me in their doors. Thus were all dissenting doctors voices silenced.

We would all have been much better off dealing privately, one to one, with our HCW, and the government having no visibility of it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 23, 2022 9:15 am

Good to hear about Gina withdrawing sponsorship from the netballers.

Not that I hate netball, I just hate people who accept a gift and at the same time make demands from the person giving it to them.

Odd that story cited last night said Gina reneged. Makes it sound like it was her idea.

But perhaps the most ludicrous thing was the demand that she apologise for what her father might have said. How can you apologise for something you didn’t do?*

They might have asked her what her thoughts are regarding Aborigines. It would be undignified but I don’t think the netballers have much dignity. But multi-generational sin?

*I realise that the ‘apology’ was not really about mollifying the molls with their hurty-feelz. It was about exercising power and humiliating Gina – like all those BLM dickheads in the states demanding white people fall to their knees in front of them and grovel.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 23, 2022 9:16 am

But I dined all alone.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:18 am

Panahi on Outsiders, correctly explaining that right up until the exact second Gina pulled the netty cash because the players didn’t want it, all the posing and posturing about climate action was ‘consequence-free’.

Been busy on soshul meeja.
Reminding people that the Netty chicks weren’t “taking a stand”.
They thought they could give Gina the virtual signaling middle finger and still pocket the cash. The “tainted” cash.
They just found out what a “strong, independent woman” really looks like.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 9:18 am

No, Rabz. All Labor’s new spending will be financed by borrowings — that is, deferred taxation. Just like the Stupid Fucking Liberals.

And, substantially, by money printing. The printing of money without having ‘worked it into existence’ constitutes counterfeiting, pure and simple. It steals value from existing $ which is why it is illegal (for anyone except the government).

Taxation is theft, and inflation is taxation.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 9:20 am

m0ntysays:
October 23, 2022 at 8:59 am
My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat. Like every other industry at the moment.

Does the co-op have a management board? You could run for the board, and assist with the management, using your economic expertise. With your help, perhaps the co-op could start paying patients to attend?

Or you could try to take some personal responsibility?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:20 am

JCsays:

October 23, 2022 at 9:15 am

I think the iodine is for Turtlehead. He’s worried because rural Queensland is a target hotspot if Russia flips out and nukes its enemies.

Nice piss-take JC.
What is it really for?

Crossie
Crossie
October 23, 2022 9:21 am

“But fast forward to now, where the messages I get from the most incredible people on social media lift me up and inspire me.”

I think that may have been the whole point of Erin Moran’s program. Brittney Higgins and Grace Tame were hogging all the spotlight and getting all the approval and she wanted some of it. She may have got some nods from the luvvies but at the same time she has irked normal people.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:21 am

Is the clotshot working for the ‘Juicers’ yet?

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 9:22 am

Calli:

Those times I’m just a potted palm sitting quietly in the corner.

Get a raincoat in case that bloke with the Chlorophyll Fetish turns up…

Struth
October 23, 2022 9:23 am

Choo Choo did not need to take it.
He got boosted.
He is obviously not with us anymore.
People like him made it harder for those that did not want the jab to resist.

Disgusting behaviour from an Australian man.
Or better described as male.

Karmas certainly a bitch, JC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:23 am

Oh dear.
The waiter has tripped and spilt my word salad.

Dot
Dot
October 23, 2022 9:24 am

Hang on to your wallets, Cats. Treasurer Dim Chambers has just announced that welfare payments will be $32 billion higher than previously estimated.

BuT tHeRe’S mOrE jObS tHaN eVeR!!1

JC
JC
October 23, 2022 9:25 am

Seriously I think he’s suggesting it’s for nuclear war. I guess that follows on from a Chinese invasion using chartered Singapore airlines wide body jets.

The shit you have to worry about these days.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 9:25 am

Confusingly, it seems to use ‘Iodine’ and ‘Iodide’ interchangeably.

Dr Duk – yes it’s a problem. “Iodine” refers to two things: the iodine molecule (formula: I2) and the element itself as a generic term. Iodide means the minus one oxidation state (formula: I-).

Chlorine and chloride are similar. Chlorine is a highly poisonous war gas and chloride in the form of sodium chloride is an essential nutrient.

Iodine (I2) works as a disinfectant by killing germs, which it does by oxidizing them. If you swallow it you are oxidizing your stomach lining, which I think will kill your stomach if you use a lot of it.

Iodide isn’t totally harmless but is added to table salt as a micronutrient. Indeed if you have no medical sodium iodide tablets around I think using iodized table salt would be pretty good, since you can tolerate a lot of salt and the contained iodide would also do the job in displacing radioactive iodine (I). However there isn’t much iodide in iodized salt, so NaI pills in the right dose are recommended.

Typically iodine in fallout is called iodine not iodide because the mass quantity is tiny, so it doesn’t matter what the oxidation state is. The toxicity comes from the radioactivity, which is powerful, especially if concentrated in the thyroid.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:25 am

Everyday, myself and the others accused of being nanna killers and conspiracy theorists are proven right.

Don’t worry man, the Juicers will be dead within 3 to 5. Those that don’t will be rounded up and put in camps. I better that Hunger Games again for a refresher.

Dot
Dot
October 23, 2022 9:25 am

People coerced into medical treatments get what they deserve?

Are you sure you want to compare this to the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem?

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:25 am

*watch

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 9:26 am

OK, confession time:
I once posted on the OldCat under the sock of “Winston Smiths Keyboard” and “Winston Smiths Mum”.
I thought I had fooled everyone, but JC was too clever for me, and sussed it out after a month of solid thought…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:26 am

Those eager to submit certainly did.

Yeah, maybe.
But I still got my boats.
Two of them.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:26 am

People coerced into medical treatments get what they deserve?

People didn’t follow the science, they followed the TV.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 9:28 am
Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 9:28 am

“And then there is Erin Molan. A pampered drag-along child who got her breaks in the industry of her choice due to Daddy’s influence and surname. Who couldn’t sign up fast enough to be the token chick in a TV football program, who knew exactly why she was being paid squillions, and who believed the spotlight would be hers forever.

Who then decided that her opinion on subjects she had no expertise in mattered, and that she couldn’t be criticised because grrrl. She put herself on the highest pedestal she could find, and expected nobody to disagree with her. And then, with her profile waning, she used one of the Latest Things – ‘online bullying’ – to try and resurrect herself to critical acclaim.”

Very well said KD. Molan’s narcissism is on steroids. Whilst I do have sympathy for the victims of online bullying, Molan’s attention seeking is actually counter productive for the issue.

It’s worth noting there’s a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson, like her or not, who has had to endure, for over two and a half decades, far more serious stalking, far more serious harassment, far more serious online and offline bullying, far more serious smearing, taunting and all round lies, heck, this same woman even went to jail on trumped up charges, thanks to the party that her father is a member of. Even just last Friday, a man in Melbourne was charged with (allegedly) threatening to kill Hanson. Unlike Molan, I’ve never seen Hanson perform theatrics about the attacks she’s had to endure. The thing is with Pauline Hanson, she’s one tough old bird.

Has anyone seen or heard Molan speak up for Hanson? No, didn’t think so.

Erin Molan is like her father, a complete lightweight.

Dot
Dot
October 23, 2022 9:29 am

People didn’t follow the science, they followed the TV.

The cops also beat down pregnant women and unarmed autistic people.

Never downplay the coercion, or fail to acknowledge the level of propaganda and media complicity.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 23, 2022 9:29 am

I suspect Erin Molan essentially craves admirers and not real friends if she gauges her mental well-being through the inane support of strangers.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 23, 2022 9:29 am

The “tainted” cash.

As Vespasian (purportedly) said:

Pecunia non olet

Money does not stink.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:30 am

The cookers and been fortunate that a fair few of the juicers have had nasty side effects. Imagine the extra shilling if there weren’t 100 x the qty of side effects of other vax’s.

Crossie
Crossie
October 23, 2022 9:30 am

Sancho Panzer says:
October 23, 2022 at 8:46 am
KD, I get the feeling you’re not a massive fan of Erin Molan.

Neither am I. Molan was frivolous when she used to be an occasional commentator on Paul Murray’s program so I didn’t have high hopes for her own program. I gave her the benefit of the doubt at the beginning and found that she picked stories that would have fitted on any Sky daytime program, in other words not worthy of nighttime programming.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 9:30 am

Don’t worry man, the Juicers will be dead within 3 to 5. Those that don’t will be rounded up and put in camps.

Whoa!
Things must be really bad in Japan!

Dot
Dot
October 23, 2022 9:32 am

Rich Piana died from vaccines.

He was vaccinating himself from weakness and metabolically safe muscle & cell growth.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:33 am

Mother Lodesays:
October 23, 2022 at 9:15 am
Good to hear about Gina withdrawing sponsorship from the netballers.

But perhaps the most ludicrous thing was the demand that she apologise for what her father might have said. How can you apologise for something you didn’t do?*

They might have asked her what her thoughts are regarding Aborigines. It would be undignified but I don’t think the netballers have much dignity. But multi-generational sin?

Despite her father’s views, Ms Rinehart has contributed to charitable work in Indigenous communities.

Clinton Wolf, managing director of the National Indigenous Times publication, wrote on Monday that the negativity towards the Netball Australia sponsorship was ‘hypocritical’.

Mr Wolf is a non-executive director of Indigenous children’s charity Madalah.

He said Ms Rinehart had come through with a ‘multi-year, multimillion-dollar funding arrangement’ for the charity after refusal from the Western Australian government.

‘Madalah is proud to say that Mrs Gina Rinehart’s companies are among Madalah’s most important sponsors and supporters,’ he wrote.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 9:33 am

“Queen street Woollhara used to be a great street for a short stroll. What happened to all the decent shops and stuff there.? Wifey would go up just to shop some Italian brand brunello or whatever with her pals in years gone by as there was an outlet.”

JC, Queen Street is still a nice street with nice shops. One of my favourites.

“Brunello” is now in the city.

m0nty
m0nty
October 23, 2022 9:35 am

JFC John, have a bit of self-respect. You are pitiful.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:36 am

Sancho Panzersays:
October 23, 2022 at 9:30 am
Don’t worry man, the Juicers will be dead within 3 to 5. Those that don’t will be rounded up and put in camps.

Whoa!
Things must be really bad in Japan!

Whao. Zing! I feel so humbled.

LOL

Your nothing but a low IQ Juicer.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:37 am

Dotsays:
October 23, 2022 at 9:24 am
Hang on to your wallets, Cats. Treasurer Dim Chambers has just announced that welfare payments will be $32 billion higher than previously estimated.

BuT tHeRe’S mOrE jObS tHaN eVeR!!1

Anthony Albanese’s government is set to copy Jacinda Ardern and deliver a ‘wellbeing budget’ – here’s what it means for your wallet

. Budgets typically track the health of the economy but from next week, the government will start keeping an eye on quality-of-life indicators too
. The first Albanese government budget will start monitoring education levels, health standards and the state of the environment
. With the global economy stalling and huge pressure to spend more on health and aged care, the first Labor budget in almost a decade has a lot riding on it

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 9:37 am

I contributed to Tim Ball’s legal fund and just received a delayed thank you note advising that he died on 24th September. He was a genuine scientist telling the truth so, naturally, he was treated exactly like Bill Leak. This is his web page.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:40 am

43 mins ago – 8.55AM
Inflation will be ‘higher and a bit longer’ than we would like: Chalmers

Inflation will last longer and be higher than many people would like, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says after repeating the official forecast for inflation to peak at the end of next year.

“We’ve got to level with people and say that, unfortunately, we think that inflation will be a bit higher for a bit longer than we’d like,” Chalmers tells Sky News.

“That’s because of a combination of electricity prices and energy markets brought about by the impact of the war in Ukraine. But also the natural disasters will have an impact too.”

“When it comes to that inflation forecast, there have been troubling developments in energy markets, obviously troubling developments in flood-affected communities, and that will push up inflation.”

Chalmers refuses to be drawn on the government’s pre-election prediction that power prices would be $275 cheaper under a Labor government.

“The modelling that that was based on goes to something which is broadly accepted right across the board, which is renewable energy is cheaper and cleaner energy.”

Chalmers has warned not to expect additional help with the cost of living when he hands down his first budget on Tuesday.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 9:41 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:42 am

53 mins ago – 8.46AM
Extending parental leave will boost the workforce: Chalmers

Treasurers Jim Chalmers says extending paid parental leave to six months will help boost the workforce.

“The key part is to get it to six months in a timed and targeted fashion and to get there in a responsible way to recognise that one of the big challenges that we’ve got in this country is we don’t have a big enough workforce,” Chalmers says on Sky News.

“And part of that is making sure that we can build a bigger, better trained workforce and so that people can earn more and work more is to get the combination of early education and paid parental leave.”

The government will assess couples on their combined income to be eligible for the paid parental leave scheme for the first time, meaning from July 1. 2023 a couple can opt to be assessed on a dual income threshold of $350,000, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 9:42 am

“I suspect Erin Molan essentially craves admirers and not real friends if she gauges her mental well-being through the inane support of strangers.”

Yep.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:43 am

Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine alters Human DNA

The Juicers know this. They followed the $cience.

Razey
Razey
October 23, 2022 9:45 am

Would-Be British PM Rishi Sunak’s Family Runs A China-Linked, World Economic Forum Partner Company Pushing Digital ID and Social Credit Scores.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/16/company-founded-family-of-uk-prime-minister-frontrunner-is-wef-partner-advocating-for-china-style-digital-identities-currency/

bespoke
bespoke
October 23, 2022 9:45 am

People didn’t follow the science, they followed the TV

Navigating though the grifters and cranks that used medical jargon to make themselves look authoritive made the search way more difficult.
Especially for people with a life out side the internet.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 9:45 am
miltonf
miltonf
October 23, 2022 9:47 am

Yes what a damp squib Molan snr turned out to be. A Clinton lover too iirc.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:47 am

America’s new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem
Sarah McFarlane
Reuters
Sat, 22 Oct 2022

U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s Russian.

That’s why the U.S. government is urgently looking to use some of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium to help fuel the new advanced reactors and kick-start an industry it sees as crucial for countries to meet global net-zero emissions goals.

“Production of HALEU is a critical mission and all efforts to increase its production are being evaluated,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said.

The energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine has renewed interest in nuclear power. Backers of smaller, next-generation reactors say they are more efficient, quicker to build, and could turbocharge the shift away from fossil fuels. But without a reliable source of the high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) the reactors need, developers worry they won’t receive orders for their plants. And without orders, potential producers of the fuel are unlikely to get commercial supply chains up and running to replace the Russian uranium.

“We understand the need for urgent action to incentivize the establishment of a sustainable, market-driven supply of HALEU,” the DOE spokesperson said.

The U.S. government is in the final stages of evaluating how much of its inventory of 585.6 tonnes of highly enriched uranium to allocate to reactors, the spokesperson said.

The fact that Russia has a monopoly on HALEU has long been a concern for Washington but the war in Ukraine has changed the game, as neither the government nor the companies developing the new advanced reactors want to rely on Moscow.

HALEU is enriched to levels of up to 20%, rather than around 5% for the uranium that powers most nuclear plants. But only TENEX, which is part of Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom, sells HALEU commercially at the moment.

While no Western countries have sanctioned Rosatom over Ukraine, mainly because of its importance to the global nuclear industry, U.S. power plant developers such as X-energy and TerraPower don’t want to be dependent on a Russian supply chain.

Jeff Navin, director of external affairs at TerraPower whose chairman is billionaire Bill Gates, said:

– CHICKEN AND EGG
– ALTERNATIVE SUPPLIES
– CLOCK IS TICKING

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 9:47 am

It’s worth noting there’s a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson, like her or not, who has had to endure, for over two and a half decades, far more serious stalking, far more serious harassment, far more serious online and offline bullying

Guy with last name Ibrahim was arrested this week for sending death threats to Pauline. Potential sentence 10 years gaol. It’ll be interesting to see what he receives.

Australian Federal Police arrest 27-year-old Melbourne man in relation to death threats sent to Senator Pauline Hanson (Sky News, 21 Oct)

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 9:48 am
Rabz
October 23, 2022 9:48 am

To the person upthread who asked – this has to be photoshopped.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 9:49 am

Oops, Cassie, I should’ve read your comment properly, missed that you mention the story.

Rabz
October 23, 2022 9:52 am

“Experts” now admit you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”

Hands up who didn’t twig to this as soon as the numbskulls started squawking about boosters?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 9:52 am

Jordan’s mysterious ancient ‘Khatt Shebib’

The accomplishments of ancient civilizations are typically woefully underappreciated because we stereotype them as primitives who only wore loincloths, and when we’re proven wrong by some impressive feat of engineering, we just make a ton of documentaries about extraterrestrial life.

Humanity has made enormous progress — especially over the course of the last centuries. However, there are still mysterious structures that we cannot fully explain. One of them is the Khatt Shebib wall.

An ancient wall that extended 150 kilometers (93 miles) in southern Jordan has left archaeologists with a series of mysteries, including questions over when the wall was built, who built it, and what its purpose was.

The Khatt Shebib is a mysterious linear stone feature that runs for 150 kilometers. The wall’s existence was first recorded in 1948, by Sir Alec Kirkbride, a British Ambassador to Jordan. While flying over the Ma’an district in the south of the country, he saw a “stone wall running, for no obvious purpose, across country.” A local inhabitant told him it was called Khatt Shebib (Shebib’s Wall).

However, the study leaves archaeologists with a number of unanswered questions: When was the wall constructed? Who designed it and why?

What the purpose of the vast edifice might have been still eludes scientists.

PeterM
PeterM
October 23, 2022 9:54 am

Leftist: CNN And MSNBC Do “Milquetoast Corporate Propaganda” — So Independents And Even Democrats Watch Fox News

PeterM
PeterM
October 23, 2022 9:55 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 9:56 am

m0ntysays:
October 23, 2022 at 9:35 am
JFC John, have a bit of self-respect. You are pitiful.

Can this be translated into something resembling coherent English?

Self-respect? This from an overweight front bar urger who wants everyone else to “fight nazis” or join a “war against Wussian imperialism”? But who hides away in fear of a germ for years?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 10:00 am

Speaking of lightweights. 24 hours, and this is the result:

It may suprise you to know I believe we should have a government that did as our government that does it.

Kamala Harris-style speechery.

I would also advocate for the death penalty for politicians that put themselves above the rule of law, our constitution and use armed police or the army to enforce their decrees.

Something. Vague, and not nearly enough, but something. Whatever it is, you can guarantee St. Ruth won’t be doing it.

I stood against the tyranny.

You will stand for anything that will have you (not the UAP, obviously) or anyone that will listen to you. If it wasn’t this it would have been something else. Painting yourself as a reluctant hero was just a side benefit.

That wordwall was brought to you, in its entirety, after being thoroughly vetted by Faulty.

bons
bons
October 23, 2022 10:05 am

Ms Cassie,
I’ve been meaning to ask.
Can you tell us how your native born Teal representative has reacted to Wong’s assault upon the beliefs of many of her constituents?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2022 10:05 am

Haha, Dan is frightening away renewables companies now.

“Private investors could face being squeezed out”: Fears Voiced Over Victorian Plans to Nationalise Green Energy (22 Oct)

Big government backfire – the People’s Republic of Victoria attempt to accelerate the green energy transition via direct public investment has spooked the renewable industry.

Never mention the N word in the range of hearing of a company boss, they tend to run screaming in the other direction.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 10:07 am

BuT tHeRe’S mOrE jObS tHaN eVeR!!1

Thats been true ever since being on welfare became a career. Indeed, by the look of some families, its now a multigeneration business.

Btw… just finalised my tax from last year – they cancelled my career last November, refused me access to super (too young), forced me to live on savings, and taxed the hell out of my paid out annual leave.

All up, my nemesis and business partner (the govt) adjudged their cut of all that to be over 6 figures. They are going to take a hell of a pay cut next year.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 10:08 am

the Juicers will be dead within 3 to 5. Those that don’t will be rounded up and put in camps.

Another six months’ worth of ammo, right there.

More idiocy from someone who, by the accounts posted here, was insulated against the stupid, stupid lockdowns. No home lost. No business destroyed. Just a perfect opportunity to mouth off about purebloods and nazis and ‘juicers’.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:08 am

“bonssays:
October 23, 2022 at 10:05 am
Ms Cassie,
I’ve been meaning to ask.
Can you tell us how your native born Teal representative has reacted to Wong’s assault upon the beliefs of many of her constituents?”

To her credit, she came out pretty quickly and condemned it.

rosie
rosie
October 23, 2022 10:08 am

From New England Journal of Medicine 19 October 2022
Myocarditis after BNT162b2 Vaccination in Israeli Adolescents

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 10:10 am

Bourne 1879:

Unless of course the people who approve the jabs, the TGA, are the same people supposedly monitoring the adverse effects. Might be a conflict of interest to actually admit there have been any. No problem admitting to the AZ jabs since no longer recommended.

The TGA, not having reported any adverse (deaths) effects from the Vaccine is now in the position that ALL their employees who have a reasonable chance of knowing about the disparity in results are now complicit in any further deaths.
Think about that, TGA employees.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:10 am

“My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat.”

Oh dear, you’ll have to cough up some dosh.

You’re such a parasite.

bons
bons
October 23, 2022 10:15 am

As I mentioned last night, I had to quit Erin’s ‘just add outrage’ off the shelf victimology rant.
The sad thing is that the underlying topic has genuine legs but not in relation to her. This was simply Wilkinsonian ‘look at me’. Disgraceful at best.
And you are correct that, other than segments promoting her Dad, her topics were invariably non-events extracted from the Tele.
Random thoughts by Barbie. Sad.

Mater
October 23, 2022 10:15 am

“Experts” now admit you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”

From Hansard – SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON COVID-19 (28 Jan 21 – Just days after Pfizer was Provisionally Approved)

Link: Here (If you want to feel sick to the stomach about the dishonesty and mendacity involved, read pages 26 thru 28)

Senator SIEWERT: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everybody. I think it’s afternoon there now. What’s the primary goal that underpins the strategy for the rollout of the vaccines? Is it herd immunity or, as the Prime Minister or the government said the other day, to prevent illness and death? What’s the primary goal?

Dr Murphy: Great question, Senator. At this stage, what we know about these vaccines is that the phase 3 trial data shows that they prevent clinical COVID disease and are particularly successful at preventing severe COVID disease. We don’t yet have data of any reliability on their ability to prevent transmission of the virus. There is always the potential that a vaccinated person could transmit the virus. We just don’t know. It stands to reason that that a vaccine that is successful at preventing clinical disease is likely to also substantially reduce viral load and have a big impact on transmission. The early phase of our strategy is focused around protecting the community—protecting our people who are more vulnerable to get severe disease and protecting our frontline workers from getting clinical disease. As we get more data about the impact of the vaccines—and we’ll get a huge amount of data from the US and the UK and other places on the prevention and impact on transmission—our ultimate goal will be to achieve herd immunity, if we can do that. Minister Hunt has been clear about that. That’s a longer term goal. It’s a long game and there are so many things we don’t know, such as the effect on transmission. We don’t know what the duration of immunity from these vaccines will be. Will we need additional vaccinations in other years? We don’t quite yet know how this virus might behave. It’s clearly not like a flu virus that mutates all the time and you have to have different vaccines, but we are seeing some strain drift.

And again, for the shills:

“It’s clearly not like a flu virus that mutates all the time and you have to have different vaccines, but we are seeing some strain drift.”

Mater
October 23, 2022 10:17 am

“My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat.”

Probably fair enough.
With your health concerns, you probably occupy three standard slots.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:17 am

“The sad thing is that the underlying topic has genuine legs but not in relation to her. This was simply Wilkinsonian ‘look at me’. Disgraceful at best.”

Well said.

bons
bons
October 23, 2022 10:19 am

Thanks Cassie.
Was it genuine or was there one eye on her sister’s customer base?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 10:20 am

Possibly the best first par of any story in the country right now. The Tele:

An Australian businessman who is locked in a multimillion-dollar divorce battle formed a romantic relationship with a lawyer on his case, but then sacked her shortly after she fell in love with him, a court has been told.

You just know this is going to be good.

The businessman, who cannot legally be named, told the court on August 22 he had lost confidence in his lawyer.

A month earlier the lawyer had dumped her boyfriend and sent the businessman a text saying: “I‘m going to say it, I am in love with you. I’ve tried to hold back so much you don’t know.”

Ahahahahahaaaaaaa snork snork cough haha.

The man told Justice Josh Wilson he became “concerned” the female lawyer was “not acting independently” and in his “best interests”.

He asked that the case — in which his ex is seeking to be awarded multi-millions in a court asset battle — be delayed to allow his new lawyers time to assess the evidence.

Now waiting for the chicky lawyer to pen a ‘My Soulmate Dumped Me’ piece for the ladypages.

Mater
October 23, 2022 10:21 am

(If you want to feel sick to the stomach about the dishonesty and mendacity involved, read pages 26 thru 28)

Apologies.
If you use their page numbering, it’s pp22-24

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 10:21 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 23, 2022 at 10:10 am
“My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing. They have us plebs over a barrel as demand is exploding and supply is flat.”

Oh dear, you’ll have to cough up some dosh.

You’re such a parasite.

Indeed, a total parasite.

Interesting use of “plebs”, though. Doesn’t that particular “pleb” run a small business, have a working wife, own at least one investment property, and claim to be “upper middle class”?

m0nty
m0nty
October 23, 2022 10:21 am

Oh dear, you’ll have to cough up some dosh.

You’re such a parasite.

I can afford it, Cranky. Others in the area might struggle. There are still some pensioners living around here from the old industrial days, it’s not all inner urban hipsters.

At some level it’s just the invisible hand of the market, but basic health care provision is not something which should be exclusively capitalist in a humane society.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 10:21 am

‘So, how did you two meet?’
‘In a divorce hearing at the Family Court.’

Oh, stop it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:22 am

My local health co-op is ditching bulk billing.

A co-op dependent on the taxes of others. Orwell would approve.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 23, 2022 10:23 am

Can I join your gang KD and Pancho, do I have to get jabbed? I’m quite willing to get it just so the Sneerer in Chief, aka ex-truck and bus driver of the ultimate ability has got someone else to attack. I guess I’m gunna die soon from being gassed at Wellcome Camp anyway. Do I get a uniform or is it just a lapel pin, these sort of things make a difference when wanting to join a gang. Do we meet in brick garages and if so does it have a roller door or the sliding wooden ones.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:23 am

Yep. The scroll list is getting longer each day.

rosie
rosie
October 23, 2022 10:25 am

“There are also a slew of long term effects (cancer, accellerated coronary disease, autoimmune illness etc) which obviously will take longer to show up”

A claim which you make with st ruth like certainty, but no actual evidence, obviously.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:25 am

mUnty is taking medicines off pensioners. For shame.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2022 10:27 am

Not the indigenous. The “treaty” negotiation should start with our offer of terms. Those who wish to join with the modern world may do so on the same terms as any other citizen. Those who wish to live a “traditional” life “on country” are free to do so. Sign here.

Was there ever an occasion when a race, conquered so utterly, after such an ineffectual resistance, tried to dictate terms?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:28 am

mUnty is a middle upper class pleb. As JC’s photo attests.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 10:33 am

Roger:

Anyone who believes that family, marriage and gender are “concepts” people can “own” rather than means by which God orders human life for the good is headed to a dark place. Once God’s order is rejected, they will inevitably seek to impose their own.

I gave you three dickless upticks under my 3 nom de blogues Winston Smith, Winston Smiths Keyboard, and Winston Smiths Mum.
Hugs.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:33 am

“Was it genuine or was there one eye on her sister’s customer base?”

Well, I’m a Bianca customer, love her clothes and love the clothes of her late mother. I don’t think Allegra is an anti-Semite, unlike some other Teals. She’s not sinister like those two in Victoria, the lard arse member for Kooyong and that vile member for Goldstein…the ex ABC journalist who, in 2017, when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, said that the decision was because of Trump’s “wealthy Jewish donors”.

Allegra is a vacuous lightweight who should not be in the position she’s in. However, I’ve decided she’s no worse than Karma Sharma. Karma Sharma pretended to be a Liberal. I suspect Karma Sharma has never read Menzies’ Forgotten People speech. Spender, unlike Sharma who, along with the other unlamented Liberal wets such as Zimmerboy, Foolinsky, Katie “I love Obama” Allen, and the execrable Fiona Martin, pestered Scumbag to adopt net zero emissions, pestered Scumbag to ban offshore drilling of oil and gas, and then crossed the floor to vote against religious freedom, will actually do less damage whilst in parliament than Karma Sharma.

johanna
johanna
October 23, 2022 10:35 am

rosie says:
October 23, 2022 at 7:41 am

At Crikey and paywalled, talking about the Canberra region and copayments
As inflation soars, a surge of clinics are turning to co-payments — while those that do offer bulk billing are struggling with staffing shortages.

My grab’n’go in Queanbeyan has now completely abolished bulk billing. It’s $60 a pop now.

I wouldn’t mind except that the Health Department has decreed that the pain medication I will need for the rest of my life can only be dispensed in monthly batches. So, once a month I have to pay $60 less rebate and waste my GP’s time for a prescription renewal.

Easy money for her, I suppose. But she has to suffer as well. She has to ring up some automaton in the Health Department every time, listen to varying amounts of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons before being connected to a dickhead who asks a series of formulaic questions before giving her an authorisation number. They might as well contract it out to a call centre in India.

The reason for this waste of time and public money is that a few shonky doctors are handing out prescription opiods like lollies. In the great tradition of socialist bureacracies, everyone must be punished. It’s much easier than actually tracking down the perps. Which, BTW, they have all the data necessary to do.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 10:35 am

J.R.

What the USA and Europe don’t really appreciate is that behind Putin there are all of those hard liner Communists from Soviet times. If Putin exits stage left then the hardliners will take over. So what then? Mayhem I would think…………….Putin won’t pull the nuclear trigger but others well might.

And that isn’t an illogical position to take.

Mater
October 23, 2022 10:35 am

I can afford it, Cranky. Others in the area might struggle. There are still some pensioners living around here from the old industrial days, it’s not all inner urban hipsters.

At some level it’s just the invisible hand of the market, but basic health care provision is not something which should be exclusively capitalist in a humane society.

Ironically, you making use of it (when you “can afford it”), has ultimately made it unsustainable and unobtainable for those who ‘can’t afford it’.

Welcome to the inescapable reality of your socialist ideal.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:36 am

“I can afford it, Cranky. Others in the area might struggle. There are still some pensioners living around here from the old industrial days, it’s not all inner urban hipsters.”

Then why Fuckwit, complain about it? You’re a hypocrite and a parasite.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 10:37 am

“Ironically, you making use of it (when you “can afford it”), has ultimately made it unsustainable and unobtainable for those who ‘can’t afford it’.”

Correct.

Zipster
Zipster
October 23, 2022 10:37 am

Inflation will last longer and be higher than many people would like, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says after repeating the official forecast for inflation to peak at the end of next year.

packet of trout that was $20 on special for $19 is now $25 on special for $23
whats it going to be next year, $30 on special for $27?

gov, what a bunch of fucking muppets

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 10:39 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

October 23, 2022 at 10:21 am

‘So, how did you two meet?’
‘In a divorce hearing at the Family Court.’

Well, as if it wasn’t messy enough, right, but you will not believe what happened next …

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2022 10:41 am

“Private investors could face being squeezed out”: Fears Voiced Over Victorian Plans to Nationalise Green Energy

Translation:

Underwrite our profits or else.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 10:42 am

GreyRangasays:

October 23, 2022 at 10:23 am

Can I join your gang KD and Pancho, do I have to get jabbed? I’m quite willing to get it just so the Sneerer in Chief, aka ex-truck and bus driver of the ultimate ability has got someone else to attack.

Well, I dunno.
I will put it to the next committee meeting but don’t rush out and buy the uniform just yet.
..
Who am I kidding?
KD is my sock.
He votes the way I vote.
Welcome aboard the Voyage Of The Damned.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2022 10:42 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:44 am

mUnty could afford private health cover. mUnty could have gone to Malmo. mUnty could have a real job and not rely on his wife’s earnings. mUnty’s entire life is a bigger fantasy than his football league.

Zipster
Zipster
October 23, 2022 10:44 am

Zipster:
I went to the docs the other day, and I couldn’t get any Iodine on prescription. I believe it’s not available OTC.

what you want is Potassium iodide tablets. like these https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/IOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets
no script required

everyone should have some on hand, because if you ever need it, it will disappear off the shelves faster than toilet paper in a pandemic.

Note there were B2 bombers at amberley this year, so in the event of a worst case scenario they will certainly be back.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 23, 2022 10:46 am

“I can afford it, Cranky. Others in the area might struggle. There are still some pensioners living around here from the old industrial days, it’s not all inner urban hipsters.”

m0nster just reiterated Tony Abbott’s premise behind a $7 co-payment.
Those who could afford it would make a contribution. Those on pensions or with chronic illnesses requiring lots of GP visits wouldn’t pay.
Well, thanks to the shrieking on m0nster and his lot in 2014, everybody now pays.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:49 am

Chalmers and Treasury must have the red pens out after what happened to Truss. I expect a lot fewer people at the MMT lectures now too.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 10:49 am

Boambee John:

Keep it efficient, don’t let the government take over, they will bugger it up.

Damn straight – you will have to add another zero to the costs, and then yet another to “flying in a culturally appropriate way”, and then for “Welcome to country” at each take off and landing.

johanna
johanna
October 23, 2022 10:50 am

Not anymore. The bull dykes have all moved to the inner-west, suburbs like Newtown and Marrickville, Surry Hills is now uber trendy, all the things that once made it interesting are gonski, the Chinese, the shmatta factories and shops, and the grunge of the 70s, 80s and 90s are all gone, the suburb now filled with fashionable and expensive restaurants, cafes and boutiques.

Leichhardt and surrounds were Bull Dyke Central when I lived in Sydney. At Belvoir, we got genuine bearded ladies to certain shows aimed at that demographic. And, they were proud of their rather straggly growth.

There were plenty in Surry hills as well, but I’m not surprised to hear that it’s now Yuppied. A friend of mine (a lesbian, as it happens) renovated and sold her three storey terrace for more than a million dollars profit some years ago.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 10:52 am

ZK2A:

It does only seem to run one – way, doesn’t it..

Ban me from walking Mount Warning, and I’ll ban you from walking into my shop.
I wonder how that will work out?
Badly, I suspect.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 10:54 am

How many people in Sydney could actually afford to buy the house they are living in today? Any guesses?

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 23, 2022 10:54 am

Anyone else have no problem imagining mØnty shoulder charging his way
to the front of a Wiggles concert give-away?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 10:57 am

KD is my sock.
He votes the way I vote.

Hey. HEY!

I abstained that time. It’s in the minutes. Ranga, don’t listen to him.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 23, 2022 10:59 am

Yeah right. Marijuana is again the WORST drug of all time.

Remember: GOOD drugs are coincidentally TAXED drugs.

The story is that BigPharma got into the Medical Marijuana Bidness
and engineered extremely addictive strains of the drug

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 10:59 am

m0nty-fa

I can afford it, Cranky. Others in the area might struggle. There are still some pensioners living around here from the old industrial days, it’s not all inner urban hipsters.

Yet you used the words “us plebs”, not “the plebs”. Backing off a bit?

bons
bons
October 23, 2022 11:02 am

Interesting Cassie. Thanks.
Forgive me for preferring to continue living in what must be one of the very few remaining boring electorates. It is a lot less stressful.
At the last Local Govt election, the Greens teamed up with the suddenly ‘climate crisis’ mayor.
They were a shoe in. Except, they weren’t. The LNP won.
“Settle down kiddies; the wealthy adults rule here”.

Leon L.
Leon L.
October 23, 2022 11:03 am

A story of vaccine injury by composer, and songwriter Tyson Illingworth from Queensland.

Safe and effective remains the mantra.
Many on this site won’t understand until they are personally in the same situation.
That is a tragedy.

With respect to the NEJM article posted above, Either COVID-19 Jab-Induced Myocarditis is ‘Mild’ or a Bunch of Physicians are Incompetent is worth a read.
I haven’t been to the supplementary appendices in the NEJM article, but that is where the information will be buried.

This preprint from Japan suggests myocarditis is a bigger problem than admitted.
Excess death rates in highly “vaccinated” countries is consistent with this.

We need to unite against the perpetrators of these crimes, not shoot messengers.

Cassie of Sydney
October 23, 2022 11:05 am

m0nster just reiterated Tony Abbott’s premise behind a $7 co-payment.
Those who could afford it would make a contribution. Those on pensions or with chronic illnesses requiring lots of GP visits wouldn’t pay.
Well, thanks to the shrieking on m0nster and his lot in 2014, everybody now pays.”

I remember the hysteria and howls from that first Abbott/Hockey budget, particularly over the perfectly reasonable Medicare co-payment. I also remember how Fatty Clive and his moronic senate mules such as the bush pig from Tassie eagerly joined in the leftist attacks on Abbott and the Liberal government and I remember how Fatty Clive said his moronic mules in the senate would vote against the Medicare co-payment. That was at the same time as Fatty Clive was an ABC fave, how the left loved him then, goodness me, he was even invited by Mark Scott to sit on the ABC table at the midwinter ball, I bet Mark Scott and Ita Buttrose have never invited Pauline Hanson to sit at the ABC’s table. But at the time Fatty Clive was on the side of the ABC and other progressives when it came to Tony Abbott and Fatty Clive helped participate in the instability against the Abbott prime ministership.

Abbott and Hockey caved (a mistake). They should have stared Clive Palmer and his moronic mules down.

Zipster
Zipster
October 23, 2022 11:05 am

New Boston virus
Dr. John Campbell

Please share this video, this research must STOP. Gain of function research in the USA today using enhanced potential pandemic pathogen (ePPP) research

cohenite
October 23, 2022 11:07 am

Gina’s a climate denier so that was one strike and her old man, never one to mince words, said this about the 3rd nation activists:

In a 1984 television interview, Mr Hancock made a shocking statement about Indigenous Australians.

‘The ones that are no good to themselves and can’t accept things, the half-castes -and this is where most of the trouble comes,’ Mr Hancock said in the 1984 documentary film Couldn’t Be Fairer.

‘I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem.’

Mr Hancock died in 1992 at the age of 82, and said Indigenous Australians who had been ‘assimilated’ should be left alone.

‘Those that have been assimilated into, you know, earning good living or earning wages amongst the civilised areas,’ he said.

‘Those that have been accepted into society and they have accepted society and can handle society, I’d leave them well alone.’

Well, sterilization is never a good idea so that’s a black mark; but everything else looks pretty sensible.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 11:09 am

Big Nambas:
I just sent an email as you suggested to Hancock Mining:

Thanks Gina, for your principled stand over Netball Australia. It seems to be a problem among a lot of people that as soon as they become an employee of an institution, they are able to set policy.
Then they get further up the management chain and spend their time not on the business and their jobs, but defending themselves against attempts by the Tea Lady Union to have input into where the company will dig holes to extract ore.
But if you’ve got a few bob to spare, my carpet is getting a bit threadbare and could do with replacing. Ta.
🙂 – That’s a smiley in case it doesn’t come out right.

I must admit I love the pink livery on the trucks…

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2022 11:11 am

At some level it’s just the invisible hand of the market, but basic health care provision is not something which should be exclusively capitalist in a humane society.

A modest co-payment from those who could afford it might have prevented this.

Now our public hospital emergency departments have up to 12 hour waiting times.

So don’t talk to me about what’s “humane.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 11:16 am

Rogersays:
October 23, 2022 at 11:11 am
At some level it’s just the invisible hand of the market, but basic health care provision is not something which should be exclusively capitalist in a humane society.

A modest co-payment from those who could afford it might have prevented this.

Now our public hospital emergency departments have up to 12 hour waiting times.

So don’t talk to me about what’s “humane.”

Given a choice between a “humane” society and paying to support one out of their own well padded pockets, leftards will always choose to keep their own money. Then whinge when things go bad.

Mater
October 23, 2022 11:17 am

Monty,

Here’s a pop quiz for you. Two questions only, shouldn’t be too hard.

1. If goods in a shop were given away free (ie. no price signal), would people:

a. Take nothing?
b. Take only what they need? Or
c. Take as much as they can carry, and come back for more?

2. Based on your answer from 1., is the shop going to:

a. Prosper?
b. Scrape through and provide a living wage to the owner? Or
c. Go under and fold, faster than Monty being asked to go to Malmo?

I’ll leave you to ponder why the public health system (and inevitably the NDIS) will fold or dramatically transform.

duncanm
duncanm
October 23, 2022 11:18 am

The poor down-trodden netballer who felt uncomfortable taking Gina’s cash
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hzhousewife
hzhousewife
October 23, 2022 11:19 am

Bulk billing appears to be going the way of the dinosaur.

I had been a bit concerned this year as both my dentist and GP are retiring and being 70+, and an ex medical professional, I feel suspicious about current standards in both areas. Got to see new dentist recently, young, fit, tall Aussie bloke with a sense of humour and from what I could tell, very good skills. So OK there. Have seen GP for the last time, for some reason since we turned 70 he has bulk-billed both my husband and myself, although we have had no discussion in his office about this and previously we paid extra. Perhaps it is because we are now retired. I asked whom he would recommend I see in future and he explained that the group practice has just hired three new GP’s, all were educated in this district, hired in the hope they might stay around (country NSW). I did not let on that I know one of them, school friend of a daughter, lad (well over 30 by now!) who trained as a pharmacist and worked locally as such before completing medical training. If he passes muster next visit, he will be my new GP. Phew. After nearly 40 years changing dentist and doctor felt nerve-wracking. If bulk-billing is really an issue, talk to your doctor about it, mine had some discretion in his billing obviously. Group practice but independent, not a corporate.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 11:19 am

Sanch Panzer:

“The good news is, girls, there will be no Hancock Mining logo on the new uniform. There’s no room.”

Stolen.
First LOL O’ The Day.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2022 11:22 am

The poor down-trodden netballer who felt uncomfortable taking Gina’s cash

Described as a “proud Aboriginal woman.” Where did this trend come from, as describing all Aborigines as “proud?”

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 11:22 am

At some level it’s just the invisible hand of the market, but basic health care provision is not something which should be exclusively capitalist in a humane society.

Thus implying that provision of health care is some sort of right?

I subscribe to the ‘negative rights only’ theory – the contention that you can only have the ‘right’ to NOT have something happen. Eg, the right to not be killed, not be imprisoned without due process, the right to not have your stuff stolen (all ‘rights’ which the state reserves for themselves btw).

This is because ‘positive rights’ (eg the right to have a house provided, the right to a ‘living wage’, the right to ‘free’ healthcare) confer a negative obligation on someone else – if you have a right to ‘free healthcare’ – someone else has the obligation to provide it, which clashes with their right not to have their stuff (money) stolen.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 23, 2022 11:24 am

Johanna you’re being gamed by your doctor. Mine only rings up every six months.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 23, 2022 11:25 am

Sloths are truly deserving of their name. The are even worse than koalas for lassitude. You can see them in the trees of the Sloth and Other Animals Sanctuary. They look like those Monterey sea otters who float on their backs and use a stone to crack food with their front paws – except sloths have draping hair like an Afghan hound and aren’t busy like the otters. They simply lie on their backs with forked tree branches as support and with herculean effort they very occasionally paddle two paws on their chests as though drowning due to the very act of breathing in and out with their slow respiration. They come down from the trees once a week to wee and poo and sip a drink and like koalas they feed only on leaves from a specific tree. There are two species on show, two-toed sloths and three-toed ones. After counting their toes, the most interesting thing you can find out about them is that females only ever produce one baby over their whole lifetimes. They may mate only slightly more frequently than they gestate, but as as Hairy suggests, it wouldn’t be a fast or urgent process.

All of that said, their babies are extremely cute, little balls of mostly inactive downy fur sitting on their mothers’ tums. Those found with dead mothers are fed by a 10ml medicine dropper with a small teat on it. They suck very strongly and all the women, including me, were going gaga over them as we watched through an observation window. In an enclosure an attendant put down two infants on cushions for us to see them in more detail as they grow a little. One was flat out exhausted by being alive in sloth manner, managing only to open an eye, but the second one was making occasional attempts to fall off his cushion: in sloth terms, I’d say he’s hyperactive.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 11:26 am

I have a suspicion that the decline in bulk billing is correlated with the rise is doctors practice groups handling all the back office stuff. Load GPs up with a heap of red tape and ( like most people would) they happily pass it on at a cost.

Winston Smith
October 23, 2022 11:26 am

I cannot let this one past to the keeper, Mr ED:

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

Perhaps you could provide a list of the food sources gone extinct since we got to Australia.
I’ll do the same – All the megafauna that used to live here –

The diprotodon, one of Australia’s megafauna, may have survived on the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales until about 7000 years ago. As First Nations people have been in Australia over the past 60 000 years, megafauna must have co-existed with humans for at least 30 000 years. For social, spiritual and economic reasons, First Nations peoples harvested game in a sustainable manner.

If they harvested them in a sustainable manner, where are they now?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 11:29 am

No one talks about the diprotodon dreaming. #storiesmyauntiedidnttellme

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 11:31 am

“There are also a slew of long term effects (cancer, accellerated coronary disease, autoimmune illness etc) which obviously will take longer to show up” A claim which you make with st ruth like certainty, but no actual evidence, obviously.

Notwithstanding the growing pile of evidence that there ARE long term effects (eg the ~20% rise in all cause mortality and fall in birth rates in many western countries), how should I respond to this?

1) Fair point, if I am going to claim that unknowable, future risks might exist, years down the track, its only fair that I provide evidence of them, up front, at the start?

2) Absence of evidence (a point I am not conceding btw) is NOT evidence of absence.

Shall we put it to the vote?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 23, 2022 11:32 am

‘I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem.’

Water is trucked into Remote Communities, so I’d guess that is happening right now.
Also injecting girls with Depo Provera.
So while the Media focus is only on the horrors of the past, the present is pretty horrible too.

Jorge
Jorge
October 23, 2022 11:35 am

Natives ? Indigenous ? First Nations people ?

Wrong.

They’re Sri Lankan immigrants.

Immigrants like the rest of us.

JC
JC
October 23, 2022 11:35 am

Mater

No kidding, you should join the LDP. You’re well suited as almost every economic comment you make is free market libertarian/classic liberal. Join the club. It’s a small one but a club nevertheless

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 11:39 am

I have a suspicion that the decline in bulk billing is correlated with the rise is doctors practice groups handling all the back office stuff. Load GPs up with a heap of red tape and ( like most people would) they happily pass it on at a cost.

My experience as an anaesthetist in private practice was that charging the ‘government approved fee’ (ie the medicare schedule) barely covered your costs – practice expenses, continuing education, insurance (which cost me 30% of my gross billings btw!). GPs, for a long time, could either charge a premium and continue to spend the time required for a quality service (and increasing average patient co-morbidities means every patient is now a ‘long case’) or switch to formulaic 5 minute consults aimed at writing you a script and getting you out the door. Most chose the latter, as the COVID response showed. Hardly any GPs had the time to do anything but ‘follow the government (ie big pharma) guidelines and write you a script. None had the time to do their own research, and here we are.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 11:40 am

They simply lie on their backs with forked tree branches as support and with herculean effort they very occasionally paddle two paws on their chests as though drowning due to the very act of breathing in and out with their slow respiration.

Did any of them say:

‘Death, (hurrrr) to, (hurrrr) traitors?’

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 23, 2022 11:40 am

johannasays:
October 23, 2022 at 10:35 am
rosie says:
October 23, 2022 at 7:41 am

At Crikey and paywalled, talking about the Canberra region and copayments
As inflation soars, a surge of clinics are turning to co-payments — while those that do offer bulk billing are struggling with staffing shortages.

My grab’n’go in Queanbeyan has now completely abolished bulk billing. It’s $60 a pop now.

I wouldn’t mind except that the Health Department has decreed that the pain medication I will need for the rest of my life can only be dispensed in monthly batches. So, once a month I have to pay $60 less rebate and waste my GP’s time for a prescription renewal.

johanna

My Female GP’s Clinic is now $95 which I am happy to pay as they are excellent, but for renewal Specialists referrals and reissue of prescriptions it is only $30 and done over the phone with scripts faxed to Pharmacy and Specialist renewal referrals faxed to the admin

Tom
Tom
October 23, 2022 11:41 am

Abbott and Hockey caved (a mistake). They should have stared Clive Palmer and his moronic mules down.

For the entirety of his prime ministership, Tony Abbott was determined to prove to people who would never vote for him that he wasn’t who he had previously said he was and that he stood for nothing.

The result was the 2015 coup which delivered a progressive prime minister invested up to his eyeballs via his family in investment scams in primitive intermittent energy made popular by latter-day hippies who have no understanding of what’s required to maintain our standard of living, starting with cheap power.

Turnbull was the Nimbin/Byron Bay hippies’ man in Canberra and the enabler of our fascist economy where politicians direct private investment in an energy system fit only for a 19th century standard of living.

cohenite
October 23, 2022 11:43 am

Winston Smithsays:
October 23, 2022 at 11:26 am
I cannot let this one past to the keeper, Mr ED:

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

Perhaps you could provide a list of the food sources gone extinct since we got to Australia.
I’ll do the same – All the megafauna that used to live here –

The 3rd nations exterminated the Mega Fauna, the most unique set of animals since the dinosaurs, and the biggest man-made animal extinction event:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312577659_Humans_rather_than_climate_the_primary_cause_of_Pleistocene_megafaunal_extinction_in_Australia

The 3rd nations also burnt the place down and did their best to exterminate the other nations running around; and had one of the most patriarchal and oppressive society ever invented.

Pascoe is as white as a lettuce and the only reparations should be from the nations to the Western society. No room for proud there.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
October 23, 2022 11:45 am

TrialSite recently reported that prominent London cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra went on the record that the COVID-19 vaccines need to be suspended until all the raw data associated with the products can be thoroughly analyzed. It turns out this eminent specialist was one of the first persons to take the full series (two doses) as well as serve as a key proponent, speaking about the importance of the product on Good Morning Britain. But something changed with the death of his father. A fit and active man in his 70s, Malhotra’s father died due to cardiac arrest shortly after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Malhotra recently published the findings of his investigation in the peer-reviewed Journal of Insulin Resistance. Now Malhotra advocates for suspending the mass vaccination campaign arguing that the evidence of effectiveness and true safety has been probably covered up by both manufacturers—Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna, and possibly the government. The doctor has gone on the record that he believes that the COVID-19 “mRNA vaccines likely accelerate coronary artery disease.” Ingraham calls it “a global scandal.”

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/a-global-scandal-as-laura-ingraham-of-fox-news-interviews-dr.-aseem-malhotra-1dcc4597

calli
calli
October 23, 2022 11:46 am

Defibrillators around cities in UK are definitely not “new normal”, they have been installed in those old red phone boxes for many years now. It’s an intelligent idea, like the oxygen tanks scattered prolifically around Cusco.

Another use for the boxes in smaller villages is as a lending library. I thought it was a great way to use the structures rather than tossing them out.

Another cute fact – Glasgow still has a number of Dr Who police boxes – used for coffee kiosks and snacks. Apparently they have massive foundations and cost the earth to remove (they were once used as temporary “cells” for crims awaiting transport to the watch house). So they kept four of them.

bons
bons
October 23, 2022 11:47 am

I’m fascinated by the quantity of sophisticated systems that ordinary countries have been able to donate to the Ukraine.
Not Oz though, other than some outdated armoured trucks the best we could offer is SLR’s and bush hats.
The decades long scandal of diverting the Defence budget to civil uses is once again revealed.
Luxury base building, scandal submarines, the world’s most expensive frigates, “fitted for but not with”, and who could ever forget the ‘over the horizon radar’ grift.
On top of the outrageous diversion of funds lies the prevailing Defence culture that has always actively opposed Defence obtaining genuine capability, especially land force capability – yucky.
Anyone who closely observed the Tiger and NH90 disgraces can attest that the US equivalents were never going to be selected. The leftist burezucrats and their submissive, passed over, uniformed acquisition staff were never going to allow it.
Cowardly careerist senior officers, politically corrupt Defence bureaucrats and ignorant woke idiot ministers who were often opposed to all things military, have placed us in mortal danger.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 11:50 am

Medicine is not really any different from any other good. If you do not allow the market to set the “price” ie supply = demand, then a range of other non price signals appear – waiting lists, doctor shortages … . As always the problem is that the patient is not really a consumer in any real sense of the word. Doctors groups and colleges are part of the problem.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 23, 2022 11:53 am

Ed Casesays:
October 23, 2022 at 11:32 am
‘I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem.’

Water is trucked into Remote Communities, so I’d guess that is happening right now.
Also injecting girls with Depo Provera.
So while the Media focus is only on the horrors of the past, the present is pretty horrible too.

Do you have evidence to support these assertions? Or is it all feeelzz?

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2022 11:54 am

Another cute fact – Glasgow still has a number of Dr Who police boxes – used for coffee kiosks and snacks.

So they’re biiger inside than they look then?

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 23, 2022 11:55 am

what you want is Potassium iodide tablets. like these https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/IOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets
no script required

1) Thanks Zip, I have used that company previously and they seem reliable
2) Thanks also B of N, for helping us clarify the Iodine/Iodide thing – obviously not something that stuck after my inorganic chem lectures!

johanna
johanna
October 23, 2022 11:56 am

Indolent says:
October 23, 2022 at 9:37 am

I contributed to Tim Ball’s legal fund and just received a delayed thank you note advising that he died on 24th September. He was a genuine scientist telling the truth so, naturally, he was treated exactly like Bill Leak. This is his web page.

Tim Ball was a mensch who finally won a court case, in Canada, against that parasitic worm, Michael Mann. The same Michael Mann who pursued Mark Steyn through the courts for a short blog post more than ten years ago – still stuck in the quagmire.

Tim Ball never got the court costs and damages awarded to him, because that drip of duckshit Mann was not resident in Canada, and he refused to pay.

I note that Mann was invited here recently to spruik his bullshit. He reminds me of Frank in American Pickers, but without the mathematical ability.

calli
calli
October 23, 2022 11:59 am

So they’re biiger inside than they look then?

It would appear so! The one up near the cathedral had a lady in it making coffees and a little counter for snacks. There was even a table and cafe chairs outside. Naturally, being a Dr Who fan (not WokeWho), I stood beside it decoratively for a photo.

custard
custard
October 23, 2022 12:00 pm

Trump announces he is about to sue the people behind the Pulitzer Prize

Robson TX

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2022 12:01 pm

Pascoe is as white as a lettuce

As white as Snow White’s bum……

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
October 23, 2022 12:04 pm

This Sports Environment Alliance NFP crew the whiny ex netty captain cum AFLW ‘star’ is an ambassador for essentially seems to be a fancy logo, website and annual awards event (from whence most of their income comes in sponsorship of or tickets to). The membership is all AFL clubs, ‘peak’ sporting bodies and local councils. Expenditure is mostly salaries and wages. Classic ‘green cladding’…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 23, 2022 12:07 pm

Apparently that heavy wind weather we experienced the other night was the beginning wind up of Hurricane Rosslyn, which became a Category 4 today. It’s heading now for Mexico’s Pacific coast, I hope not as far down as Puerto Rico and Panama.

Always danger somewhere near when you are away I find. Today we spent hours driving into the mountains of Costa Rica (the Rich Coast named by Columbus) to see the Sloth Sanctuary, crossing over some swollen rivers in deep ravines with only a small steel one-way bridge over them. I looked down and saw nothing but the edge of the bus and the woman on the other side said she saw the same. No barriers and quite a few ravines to cross like that.

Costa Rica has five million population, is very mountainous, and as tourism is the major export they have had a rough two years; but the place is still functioning quite well. A lot of remittance money from the US I suspect, as there’s only basic tropical agriculture here, nothing like the agricultural and industrial innovation in Guatemala. There’s no gold or silver or oil or rubber (Guatemala makes most of the world’s quality rubber for airline tyres), so the Costas are out on a limb but life is easy enough, things grow, and people seem reasonably cared for. Lots of US quangos I suspect too – the Sanctuary was full of young Americans there ‘helping out’.

Manyana time applied to our tour and I was getting concerned we might miss the ship’s departure time (as per the 42 held up by a landslide, which I found out today was on another Holland America ship) because Captains have to be like airlines and take timed ‘slots’ to go through the canal. I had a quick word to a woman doing some tour supervision, indicating that we would take a dim view of doing more ‘shopping’ if it made us miss the Panama (for the second time! When I mentioned the other cruise disaster where people missed it, she twigged that this tour needed to head off back very quickly if it was to get us there by 5.30 sailout. Panic stations of a sort, we dropped seeing some traditional painted wagon, because herding Americans in and out for photo ops would have taken 30 minutes more, and the driver went like the clappers down the mountains; we arrived in at 5.23pm.
Whew.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 23, 2022 12:09 pm

Chalmers said they’re spending $1.4 Bil on continuing COVID Response.

local oaf
October 23, 2022 12:10 pm

Pascoe is as white as a lettuce

Pascoe is as white as a polar bear’s ghost

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2022 12:10 pm

The membership is all AFL clubs, ‘peak’ sporting bodies and local councils. Expenditure is mostly salaries and wages. Classic ‘green cladding’…

The mafia were on to that long before the “environmentalists”.

bespoke
bespoke
October 23, 2022 12:14 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2022 12:15 pm

‘I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem.’

Water is trucked into Remote Communities, so I’d guess that is happening right now.
Also injecting girls with Depo Provera.
So while the Media focus is only on the horrors of the past, the present is pretty horrible too.

Thanks to the marvels of modern medicine, (including but not limited to the RFDS, cheers Gina!) the surviving fullblood ladeeees of the NT, WA, western Qld and northern SA are fanging babies out of them like 30mm cannon rounds out of A10 Warthogs.

Population decline is most certainly not on the cards.

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2022 12:19 pm

The membership is all AFL clubs, ‘peak’ sporting bodies and local councils. Expenditure is mostly salaries and wages. Classic ‘green cladding’…

The mafia were on to that long before the “environmentalists”.

Quite a racket…rules surrounding not for profit status clearly need a review.

bespoke
bespoke
October 23, 2022 12:19 pm

Watching Andor, painfully slow at times.

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