Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem, Hugo van der Goes, 1475
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Open Thread – Tue 6 Dec 2020
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
- Bumtree #3
- Bumtree #2
JC, If Trump wins what is the most likely scenario for crude? We all think it’ll be “drill baby drill”…
Reading Brian VanDenMarks “Road to Disaster – A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam.” As the first U.S. Marines…
Is this the commenter “Ant” from back in 2016, BB? He didn’t like Trump much.
Roger I suspect, the Liars are beholden to the union funds, which are heavily invested in renewballs. They’re also in…
What virtue signalling stupidity looks like:
Solar “farm” being built in the space between lanes heading in opposite directions.
Why was that space there? My guess is that there’s a whole heap of services there and some room for road widening.
How much area is there? Bugger all. It has as much panel area as 20 Australian houses with roof top solar.
Just a stupid project but most probably built with stupid first worlders money, so who cares?!
The killer is that the stage and seating for the opening are already built, and is about 25% of the area of the actual farm. The farm itself is far from finished. The flimsy mounting structure is complete, but not one panel is installed yet!
The killer is that the stage and seating for the opening are already built, and is about 25% of the area of the actual farm. The farm itself is far from finished. The flimsy mounting structure is complete, but not one panel is installed yet!
The only Farms that I know of produce food. Never heard of a solar farm or wind farm. What do they produce? Sunshine and wind? Well, Mother Nature already produces that.
Whatever floats your boat, of course, but I see it as something like poofter bashing. You’ve got a sick pervert on your hands, and you keep smacking him, but it’s never going to stop him being a sick pervert. He’s made that way.
Incompetence or deliberate misinformation?
Deliberate misinformation. The whole thing has collapsed under the weight of its complete absurdity. Countries with a heavy reliance on tourism need the cash, they can’t afford to lock out a significant proportion of potential customers.
eg. Maldives doesn’t give a toss about your “vaccination” status.
These numbers are simply further confirmation that vax mandates were never justified, that any remaining vax mandates ought to be removed, and those stood down or terminated must be reinstated and compensated for the length of time they were kept out of work.
Yes, but there needs to be a third way. Straight up compensation. Who wants to work for a bunch of gutless cunts who couldn’t even be up front about intentions and options?
Go to your local MP’s office and look in the window.
Study how we (the Allied ‘we’) defeated Imperial Japan 1941-45. Your answer is there. They will hit us hard on the opening day. Surviving that shock still being able to hit back is the first step.
Such a war is won or lost in the vast sweep of sea between us and them. We would be forced to sue for peace (or surrender) well before we get to the point of “a Vietnam-style ground war in our own forests” because we are utterly dependent on maritime trade. geography dictates that what Australia did in WWII is what we have to do again, form a strategic-logistic anchor for the dominant maritime power, the US.
They are planning a ‘short victorious war’, they all do. We – the Allied ‘we’ again – turn it into a long war and we survive with sovereignty intact, although our current society will die, of course, as it did in WWI and WWII. What emerged after each of those wars was very different from what existed before the war.
meanwhile, pray it does not happen.
The only Farms that I know of produce food.
Yeah I know, I’m just trying to use common terminology, however stupid and deceptive it may be.
Who is behind the substation attacks?
These attacks are unclaimed which is not what you expect of terrorists. Possibly the actor is testing for a more widespread attack.
Dr Duk- pop quiz if you’ll help-
What’s the name of the treaty which prevents the skills loss and brain drain from developing countries into better-paying developed countries, specifically in the medical sector?
And yes, I’ve tried the googling but I’m flooded by endless pap and puff pieces on the WHO pandemic treaty… interesting but not what I’m searching for
Walli Dali, I could be wrong, but from memory that is somewhere in the International Covenant on Social, Economic & Cultural rights.
(though not on the surface, so hard to find)
Then again, I could be a country mile off track. It’s quite a while since I had occasion to do much reading on the more dry aspects of UN waffle.
Waffs
I think it’s called house husbandry and our betters want to put a stop to it. They say it’s very debilitating as it presents as a form of castration.
Look at Drills being up there with international treaties and agreements.
Here we were, thinking he’s just a run of the mill drunk impersonating Croc Dundee. Wow, who would’ve thought.
One thing I really don’t understand with the most recent Twitter revelations that the former crooked FBI attorney and until Musk fired him this week, why didn’t Musk get rid of him in the Twitter purge? Why was he still there?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
Thanx Tom.
Australia is quite defencible. If we had the will the means would follow.
Huh?
Does Australia need to be able to fight a Vietnam-style ground war in our own forests?
Here’s a clue:
Vietnam [was] covered in 100% humidity jungle.
We’ve got highly flammable eucalypt forests.
Why do I see Elmer Fudd every time Luigi the Unbelievable is shown in person or cartoon. Don’t the Liars have anyone that can speak properly.
The principle reason given for the trial not continuing was her mental health
There was a suicide attempt.
No doubt Higgins was getting death threats at all hours of the night.
… yet now she summons up the sane fortitude to declare she’ll enter the witness stand to fight against him.
No, she’s said she won’t leave those people who stood up for her in the lurch.
It’s the responsible thing to do.
My mother has contracted covid at her aged care facility along with a handful of other.
They’re all doing well and not particularly ill. Mum’s cranky at being kept isolated in her room as she likes to be on the common room watching the action.
Seems this virus has morphed into a mild cold that’s not even endangering the elderly like the earlier forms.
Ohhhhh, no doubt at all!
Where would the “woe is me” be without the mystery death threats?
Stop making shit up.
Looks like it, but you don’t want to get it at an advanced age. I think the issue is that it also hits people in different ways too. It’s a very sinister made-in-the-lab virus.
In the US, there’s currently a serious flu pandemic going around and quite a few hospitalizations.
No, no, no Gez, it’s the vax what done it!
All hail the vax!
I’ve seen the vaccines make the aged care residents ill.
The boosters put quite a few in bed for days, mum included.
Three Aussie blokes working up on an outback mobile phone tower – Macka, Mongrel and Bluey. As they start their descent, Macka slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly.
As the ambulance takes the body away, Bluey says “Well, bugger me, someone’s gotta go and tell Macka’s wife”. Mongrel says “Okay I’m pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I’ll do it”.
Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Beer. Bluey says “Where’d you get the grog, Mongrel?” “Macka’s wife gave it to me” Mongrel replies. “That’s unbelievable… you told the missus her husband was dead and she gave you a case of beer?” “Well, not exactly” Mongrel says.
“When she answered the door, I said to her ‘You must be Macka’s widow’”. She said “You must be mistaken… I’m not a widow”. Then I said “I’ll betcha a case of beer you are…”
United Nutters.
U.N. Chief Guterres Scolds Humanity as ‘Weapon of Mass Extinction’ (7 Dec)
“Humans, be ashamed. We are all party to a collective “weapon of mass extinction” only big government can challenge to end the planet’s “orgy of destruction,” the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday. … Nearly 200 countries have gathered for the December 7-19 UN Biodiversity Conference, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).”
More big government eh? This the a guy who oversaw a vote last week to condemn the founding of Israel as a catastrophe. I think we know where he’s coming from.
Ohhhhh, no doubt at all!
Where would the “woe is me” be without the mystery death threats?
Stop making shit up.
Uh huh?
Have a read of the insane rants against Higgins that have been published on this site, out in the open.
Do you seriously believe that there haven’t been threats made against Higgins, her family, and her associates by more sinister actors?
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
The ATO returned a tax return to a man in Broken Hill after he apparently answered one of the questions incorrectly. In response to question 23 “Do you have any dependents?” the man wrote “250,000 illegal immigrants, 100,000 crack-heads, 1.4 million unemployable moochers, 5,000 criminals in over 15 prisons, plus 350 idiots in Canberra, and the entire group that call themselves politicians”. On the returned form, someone at the ATO had attached a Post-It Note beside the question with an arrow and the words “Your response to question 23 is unacceptable”. The man sent it back to the ATO with his response on the bottom of the Post It Note “Who did I leave out then?”
By
forcingcoercing vaccination to such high levels, they’ve effectively got rid of any control group, by which we can make comparisons. Hence they feel safe to say, “The reason your mum isn’t in hospital, or dead, is the vax!”.I’ve got a family member who got Covid in one of it’s early variants. Unvaxxed, Aboriginal, very elderly, overweight, heart conditions, and a heavy duty diabetic (to the point of already being an amputee). 24 hours (max) of feeling lethargic and under the weather…that’s it!
Laughed it off, and still laughing at the “hoax”…but not the social consequences. She is, after all, a patriot who cares deeply for this country.
If the aged care residents are only getting mild covid maybe it’s because they’ve been vaxxed and boosted.
Extremely frail, now 93 year old, of my acquaintance living in aged care got mild covid months ago.
In a word, YES, until I see empirical proof.
Higgins hasn’t even made such a claim (and I doubt she’d be shy in doing so), yet you’re fantasising about it.
I’ve seen this tactic used far too often, even against myself.
still averaging 23 covid deaths a day in Australia.
I rest my case.
AbS stats claim in 81.6% of covid deaths, covid was the underlying cause.
TIME Names Zelensky Man of the Year as they Did with Hitler & Stalin
From Armstrong Economics –
“Time Magazine is so left it simply is beyond their imagination to ever just be down the middle. They have named Zelensky Man of the Year and he will start World War III while they also had named Adolf Hitler in 1938 Man of the Year and then had to cancel him in 1945 and let’s not forget Joseph Stalin.
They also named Greta Thunberg person of the year who was manipulated by Green Peace and Al Gore with the WEF and Schwab. Also, let us not forget Angela Merkel for letting in all the migrants which was a publicity stunt because she was getting bad press for oppressing Greece and refusing toe forget their debts as they did with Germany post-WWII. Let’s not forget Zuckerberg for creating Facebook to suppress the truth as he did with the Hunter Biden laptop to interfere in the 2020 election as Hillary accused Putin with her fake RussiaGate.
However, besides naming Biden personal of the year for probably being the most worldwide view of the worst president in history, they also name Joseph Stalin person of the year no doubt for his vison of a Communist Utopia. Even the NY Times championed Stalin and told Roosevelt this was the perfect economic model. Oh yes, there was also Charles Lindberg who went to Germany and became a test pilot for Hitler’s new planes.
So, the fact TIME choose Zelensky for Person of the Year is at least keeping to true leftist form with Hitler who began World War II and Joseph Stalin who killed 7 million Ukrainians. Perhaps Zelensky seems he wants to top Stalin’s record of killing Ukrainians since the US is will to keep sending mountains of cash to Ukraine until the last Ukrainian dies of the battlefield. Some even think Biden is happy to put Europe in the crosshairs so he can turn to Taiwan.
So all is fair in the leftist world where theory surpasses reality every time.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/time-names-zelensky-man-of-the-year-as-they-did-with-hitler-stalin/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Good to see that people can admit that vaccinating vulnerable people is saving many of their lives.
Far lefty Peru prez tries to declare a dictatorship, faceplants abjectly.
Peru President Detained By Police After Impeachment, “Coup” (8 Dec)
Rosie,
You are solid on most subjects, but in respect to the vaccines, your front wheel is stuck in the tram tracks.
Now that the high level FBI mole/rat at Twitter has been caught, does this prove to the slow children that Operation Mockingbird is real and COINTELPRO never actually ended?
Rosie is the Black Knight of Covid vaccine that doesn’t work.
Where would the “woe is me” be without the mystery death threats?
Standard “next move” when the narrative is slipping away from you .. sooo many “death threat” implications creep into the media coverage but very rarely any “actual” evidence revealed ……
Evil
White House slams Congress for move to rescind military’s vaccine mandate
The confected outrage now directed at Indonesia for its ban on pre-marital fornicating is, unsurprisingly, being greeted in this country by the usual howls, screeches, derision and sneers, but I shouldn’t be surprised by this, Australia is now so completely adrift from any moral and religious foundations, particularly around anything sexual. We now live in a society where woke corporations and government bureaucracies run a mile from mentioning the word “Christmas” yet the same woke corporations and government departments are proudly funding and celebrating a forthcoming “festival” of homosexuality in early 2023…it’s called “Sydney WorldPride”. Sydney is about to be awash in “Pridepox” and goodness knows what else. Only half a century ago, few even in this country would have blinked an eyelid at the Indonesian ban, such a policy was normal for our grandparents, in fact many if not most would have understood and accepted such a ban. It wasn’t too long ago that hotels across the West banned unwed couples, in fact there’s a very funny episode of Fawlty Towers that mocks such a hotel ban. Fornicating before marriage is actually prohibited in all three Abrahamic religions.
There are two points that interest me, the first point I find amusing, the second point is yet another indictment of our debased and hypocritical society.
Let’s start with the “amusing”. PM AlboSleazy the Slusher (because every word he utters ends up sounding like a verbal slush) won’t be rushing off anytime soon with his “partner” (my God I hate that term), “Jodie” (who once worked for an industry superannuation firm, of course), to frolic on a Bali Beach and in a Bali bedroom. I reckon the Indonesians should count themselves lucky here, they ain’t missing anything by banning such a couple. Jodie has been licking her lips for the last six months, and to be fair, who wouldn’t? However it’s nice that AlboSleazy won’t be able to cart her off to fornicate illegally at an Indonesian resort. I also suspect that Malaysia will soon follows this stricture on pre-marital sex.
My second point harks back to a point I confronted my uber progressive nephew about two weeks ago, when we were talking over a family dinner about Qatar hosting the “World Cup”. I so delicately lectured him about some facts, firstly that Qatar should never ever have been awarded the rights to host the Cup, to which my nephew nodded in furious agreement, however I said that the fact that Qatar bans homosexual sex is not the reason why it should never have been held in Qatar. He stopped nodding in furious agreement. I told him that Qatar’s funding of terrorism and its treatment of foreign workers, who are no better than indentured labour, are much more valid reasons why Qatar should never ever have been awarded the Cup rights. And then I said to my nephew, in relation to Qatar’s Islamic proscribing of homosexuality, so what, I don’t care, I respect their laws. Who are we to lecture Qatar or any other country about their sexual mores? Isn’t that cultural imperialism? Isn’t that patronising? Isn’t that a form of racism? Isn’t that Islamophobia? He was nonplussed at first but then he slowly nodded in agreement and said “yes, you’re right”. To which I said…”yes I am”.
Who are we to lecture Indonesia or any other country as to its laws? Unlike here in Oz, Indonesia and other countries outside the “West” aren’t interested in committing cultural suicide. They take pride in their religion, their heritage and their broader culture. I admire that. Contrast this to Oz and across the West, all we’re doing now is trashing everything that made us great. It’s a daily spectacle of trashing, debasing, and degrading. But we shouldn’t worry too much, here in the West we’ll always have our sanctimonious hypocrisy and double standards to grasp onto, it’s about all we have left.
I’ve had a look at the ABS and, while there’s lots of charts and figures on Covid deaths I can’t see how many of those who perished were vaccinated/unvaccinated.
Perhaps I missed it. Anyone else see the breakup?
Might distract from the drag queen hour.
Kirk Cameron is denied story-hour slot by public libraries for his new faith-based kids book
American Girl blasted for girl’s guidebook pushing transgender puberty blockers as fix to body image issues
They are relentlessly continuing to turn the screws every which way.
Biden to require new federal buildings to slash greenhouse gas emissions
As Mater said, how do we know anymore? No control group exists.
In 2020 one of two people I know of who caught the original strain was undergoing chemotherapy for bowel cancer after just having surgery to remove it. He was also very overweight.
Nothing more than a runny nose.
The obvious conclusion to draw from this is Covid doesn’t kill even the most immune suppressed people.
Correct?
US Senator Ron Johnson Roundtable Discussion. This was streamed live yesterday.
COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries
Haven’t checked but it’s a given that the people decrying Indonesia for this law would be the same people all on board with the vaccine mandates.
Ed Casesays:
December 8, 2022 at 5:52 am
Australia is quite defencible. If we had the will the means would follow.
Huh?
Does Australia need to be able to fight a Vietnam-style ground war in our own forests?
Here’s a clue:
Vietnam [was] covered in 100% humidity jungle.
We’ve got highly flammable eucalypt forests.
Ssssshhhh, Richard Cranium. You’ll expose our top secret strategy to lure them deep into the eucalypt forests, then set fire to them and roast the lot.
Dickwit.
Ed Casesays:
December 8, 2022 at 6:05 am
The principle reason given for the trial not continuing was her mental health
There was a suicide attempt.
No doubt Higgins was getting death threats at all hours of the night.
Why would anyone bother (except those who supported her? Every time she opened her mouth she made a fool of herself.
… yet now she summons up the sane fortitude to declare she’ll enter the witness stand to fight against him.
No, she’s said she won’t leave those people who stood up for her in the lurch.
It’s the responsible thing to do.
So, nothing at all to do with wanting lotza munni?
Up early this morning and switched on the gogglebox to check the weather report. Ross Greenwood was interviewing Xi Xing Forrest about the renewables push.
The vile piece of excrement was very excitably informing Greenwood that there are literally Trillions of dollars desperately waiting to be invested in our ad hoc Green schemes. Every time he spat out something that was an obvious lie, his eyes would roam everywhere but directly at the camera.
The one time he stared right into the lens was when he stated that Australian’s Super Funds would be a wonderful resource for investment into Green Garbage. The push/fix has begun.
The slime was also pushing that “as a country boy myself”, I know lots of country people who are desperate for renewables. “It should have started decades ago”, was on high rotation throughout his speech.
Richard Cranium
Have a read of the insane rants against Higgins that have been published on this site, out in the open.
Perhaps you could link to a few? Criticism is not the same as “insane threats”.
PS
Do you seriously believe that there haven’t been threats made against Higgins, her family, and her associates by more sinister actors?
Spooks and Flamers?
Senator Johnson’s roundtable is over 2 hours long. I started watching for a while and simply could not stop. It is absolutely riveting.
Ha!
Because Team Brittany would not publish these threats to enlarge upon the stress the doughty little heroine is being forced to endure trying to win justice against stacked legal odds and malign forces.
This is a clear cut example of “projection”.
Indolentsays:
December 8, 2022 at 7:41 am
They are relentlessly continuing to turn the screws every which way.
Biden to require new federal buildings to slash greenhouse gas emissions
Why just the new ones? Turn off air conditioning and heating in all government buildings in DC first. Let Creepy Joe snuggle up with “Dr” Jill to keep warm in winter, and open the bullet proof windows to let a breeze in for summer.
“How couple’s dream Tesla roadtrip turned into a nightmare after they became stranded without a charger deep in the country – as a tow truck admitted even he couldn’t help them”
At least they were smart enough to rent one to see if they liked it before buying one.
Story here.
rosiesays:
December 8, 2022 at 6:59 am
Good to see that people can admit that vaccinating vulnerable people is saving many of their lives.
What a Load of rubbish. I am now age 70 years and never had the jabs or contracted the Virus. If anyone that was old had underlying health issues then they were on the way out anyway. Not me as I have this thing called a Top Notch Immune System and it cannot be replicated or copied. You just have it.
I didn’t think Higgins attempted suicide. She went AWOL and was found walking around in the rain.
Unless she was attempting Death by Weather Event.
Could anyone find out how many of the 23 Aussies who died yesterday from Covid were vaccinated? I looked in the ABS stats and there was nothing that I could find.
I can’t imagine why that information would not be forthcoming. Everything else seems to be.
For those who are interested in the ABS mortality statistics, there is an article worth reading here:
The Australian Bureau of (Lies, Damned Lies and) Statistics
Australia’s mortality statistics for 2022 are worse than the ABS is admitting to, so why are they tweaking the data – and where is the investigation? by Dr Ah Khan Syad.
We have reached an age where believing is seeing.
We blindly follow the political science.
Everyone is an expert.
Most here don’t believe much that comes from our political masters, but hoover up the words of government bureaucrats without minimal scepticism.
In my general practice of 6000 odd mainly old folks, 1 person has died from covid.
Had a stroke at home. Admitted to hospital. Contracted covid in hospital.
Died from stroke. Covid death.
Just one death in our practice with covid (not from covid) and this is the most lethal plague in human history. Believe that if you must.
There are easily 5 “vaccine” related deaths in our practice and countless “vaccine” injuries.
Luckily everyone was vaccinated, or goodness knows what would have happened.
The conclusion from this recent BMJ article I linked to yesterday is prescient: Regulatory agencies should facilitate independent scientific analysis through open access to participant-level clinical trial data to allow risk-stratified and age-stratified risk-benefit analyses of any new vaccines prior to issuing recommendations.
This applies now, but was equally true in 2020.
The lie is to great to admit. They keep digging the hole deeper.
I suspect most covid deaths in Australia are now vaxxed people.
Only NSW seems to do an accurate weekly report which includes vaccination status
here
Ssssshhhh, Richard Cranium. You’ll expose our top secret strategy to lure them deep into the eucalypt forests, then set fire to them and roast the lot.
Dickwit.
Even better to train Salt Water and Fresh Water Crocodiles in the Far North to like Chinese Food. And train the Sharks as well. Also, give the local Abo’s a bit of a bounty and away we go. Simple stuff really.
If any manage to get though that lot then send out the snakes. There are plenty of them in Federal Guv’ment in Canbrrrrrrra.
My posts are disappearing into another dimension.
Fertility data is the next question over covid “vaccines”.
Swedish birthrate data – September update.
The Australian data basically stops in mid December.
More than 12 months since November data.
It is all safe and effective. Nothing to hide here.
Well, some of them.
Sorry Leon L but claiming to be a doctor on the internet isn’t good enough either.
I mean where in Australia could you be practicing that you have 6000 mostly elderly patients?
I have been forced into retirement by vaccine mandates.
Like Dr Duk.
callisays:
December 8, 2022 at 8:15 am
Could anyone find out how many of the 23 Aussies who died yesterday from Covid were vaccinated? I looked in the ABS stats and there was nothing that I could find.
I can’t imagine why that information would not be forthcoming. Everything else seems to be.
On average, over 350 people die a day in Australia. The number One cause is heart related. The number Two is Stroke related. The Virus is around number 20 or something like that. People, get real and get on with your lives. Eat well, maybe exercise your body and most certainly your brain and have Fun.
In other news, our local rag Port Stephens Exaggerator is about to close. Part of the Fairfax stable of local newspapers.
There was no leftie/green story that they would not run with and pump for all it was worth. Full throated support for renewballs and the suite of “environmental” idiocy.
And now it costs too much to print the paper. Can’t imagine why.
Bye bye.
an actual study on sperm counts pre post vaccine not idle speculation based on interpretation of birth rates.
My point about the vaxx and the “it could have been much worserer” argument is that it couldn’t have been much “worserer” for the 23 (presumably vaxxed) who carked it.
And the same today, and tomorrow.
As Mater says, remove the control group and you’ve got nothing.
Previously discussed
looks like Sweden birth rates have consistently declined by .26/.27% per annum for at least the last four years
It’s that time of year again – Idiot Councils Interfering Month:
A third council in inner-city Melbourne has voted to scrap Australia Day citizenship ceremonies and hold a “a day of mourning” instead.
The Greens-led Merri-Bek council has joined a growing list of Melbourne councils to dump Australia day celebrations after advice from its First Nation Advisory Committee led to a successful vote on Wednesday night.
Merri-Bek Council – which covers the inner city suburbs of Brunswick, Fawkner and Glenroy in Melbourne’s north – had previously attempted to stop Australia Day citizenship ceremonies.
Two other Greens-led councils, Yarra and Darebin, voted to discontinue citizenship ceremonies on 26 January in 2017.
In July this year, Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sally Capp also rallied for the city’s celebration of Australia Day to be reviewed, amid concerns the date is the anniversary of an “invasion”.
In September, councillors at the City of Melbourne called on the federal government to change the date of Australia Day – passing up more than $1 million in funding for events celebrating the day.
Matersays:
December 8, 2022 at 7:07 am
Rosie,
You are solid on most subjects, but in respect to the vaccines, your front wheel is stuck in the tram tracks.
I agree and I do hope that she has been jabbed. What a clot.
Of course not, no-one ever claimed vaccines that boost the body’s own capacity to fight a disease can do so against all odds but there is a substantial body of very good statistical information out there that suggests covid vaccines substantially reduce hospitalisation and death rates, eg Israel and the UK.
I’m glad the most vulnerable members of my family are vaccinated.
If you aren’t, bully for you.
Yeah, he bought a whole bunch of wind and solar farms yesterday.
Meanwhile renewables don’t seem to be as great as Bowen and Forrest claim:
Green Energy Construction Company Collapse Triggers Aussie Government Crisis Talks (6 Dec)
Crisis talks eh? Have fun with your new toy while you can Mr Forrest, before it goes bankrupt too.
The principle reason given for the trial not continuing was her mental health yet now she summons up the sane fortitude to declare she’ll enter the witness stand to fight against him.
If that happens she will be in store for a very unpleasant time unless the case settles out of court. Cross examination in civil cases where serious money is in play can be much more aggressive than in criminal matters where it’s merely someone’s life and reputation at stake. It’s the law of the jungle dressed up in wigs and gowns.
Bring it on!
I was indeed vaccinated and boosted in 2021 and have been saving my second booster for 2023 shortly before I again travell to Europe.
I have zero concerns about nonsensical hidden side effects that will suddenly manifest themselves years later.
As for those crowing about their indestructibility, good luck with your plans to live forever.
DBG sometimes when I go to post on my phone I manage to touch somewhere near the edge with my holding hand and the comment disappears. It doesn’t refresh just vanishes.
Thanks for the NSW stats link.
I notice that they now use vaxx + booster as a descriptor. It may be that a goodly proportion of that 24% were two dose vaxxed. In other words, the efficacy of the thing waned to the point of uselessness.
For the others, however many doses they had of the thing – they were completely useless. Why? Because they died of Covid.
Yes, you can add patient age and vulnerability into the mix, but the whole thing still comes up smelling of manure. This is what we ruined our economy and people’s lives over.
The govt can investigate the excess deaths without any worries, they have a scomo sitting on the bench and they can blame everything on him.
Funny thing, English.
We would use a word like ‘stable’ for Fairfax, which is careening toward oblivion hoping that it might occasionally be snared by the odd cash injection to momentarily slow the decline (but never arrest it).
Thanks, Grey Ranga. Dunno if that’s what’s happening to me.
Yet another very clear indication that Ed October is a knowledge-free shut-in attempting to project his extremely limited worldview onto a broader audience.
You won’t need it rosie. I’ve had three shots of the rubbish and Covid ran away from me in every crowded airport, railway station, pub, market and restaurant that I visited throughout Europe and GB.
Took a big snort of “First Defence” when the situation looked “iffy”. Like putting a roll of barbed wire up the nose. 😀
If you have a robust immune system, you’ll be fine. I’d be more worried about that crappy URTI that attacks you in-flight and won’t let go.
Great rant of the day Cassie !
No doubt.
Oh, hang on. That’s horseshit. If Brih-nee Commando had someone look the wrong way at her across the road she’d be screaming ‘Microaggression!’ into every available sounding board in the country.
If anything approaching an actual threat of any kind was made the Earth would have been thrown off its axis.
If people took one of the vaccines, and then stuck to the same vaccine for boosters, does that make them homovaxxual?
Are most people getting boosters heterovaxxuals?
Cheer up, it could have been much worse: The great shame of Kevin Rudd’s failed UN secretary-general bid.
I’m a homovaxxual.
If the thing kills me, there’ll be no ambiguity about which one dunn it.
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
‘Redemption and Suffering’: The Turbulent History of Moscow’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Warren Brown nails it today!
Apparently even terrorists are jacking up. Not being able to have a sneaky knee-trembler was the final straw for this one (the NT News):
Ladyboys protest marches will no doubt be imminent.
Did Forrest inherit money?
He doesn’t seem canny enough to have built his empire from scratch.
The truth about the latest scare – Strep A
It gives me a warm feeling inside to reflect on that horrid little runt of a man still being able to remember all the brilliant future he imagined for himself – a future which he was gladly going to achieve by trampling on the lives of other people.
He would still be able to remember his glory days when even his farts were feted by the press as fragrant, unlike the sulphurous chthonic emanations of HoWARd. The ground would spring forth new life where his feet stepped, and bright coloured birds would circle his head and regale him with song – each of them reverently pinching the cloacal sphincters to make sure no unsightly little white watery mistakes would mar the moment.
He would read paeans in the newspaper columns about the heights to which he would rise. Perhaps his one fear was that, like Alexander who wept that there were no more lands to conquer, so his own greatness might be constrained by the limits of this Earth.
Now no one gives a shit about the shit. When he speaks up people tell him to shut up and sod off.
Now he can spend all day stewing in his misery.
swedish birthrate data: september update
Presumably now, as a couple in Indonesia you have to show a marriage certificate in order to stay in the same bedroom.
Someone said Albo and the squeeze will have problems then. And the Wong chap and “wife”.
Rumour has it Malaysia is going to follow on.
Studies reveal a dramatic decline in Sperm Count that could threaten Mankind’s survival
Went out for a family dinner last last evening in the West Village. This arsehole walked past our table heading to a private function.
Beats an espresso.
Andrew Forrest’s private investment company Squander’n Energy…
I fixes it.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 8, 2022 at 7:38 am
The confected outrage now directed at Indonesia for its ban on pre-marital fornicating is, unsurprisingly, being greeted in this country by the usual howls, screeches, derision and sneers, but I shouldn’t be surprised by this, Australia is now so completely adrift from any moral and religious foundations, particularly around anything sexual.
We now live in a society where woke corporations and government bureaucracies run a mile from mentioning the word “Christmas” yet the same woke corporations and government departments are proudly funding and celebrating a forthcoming “festival” of homosexuality in early 2023…it’s called “Sydney WorldPride”. Sydney is about to be awash in “Pridepox” and goodness knows what else. Only half a century ago, few even in this country would have blinked an eyelid at the Indonesian ban, such a policy was normal for our grandparents, in fact many if not most would have understood and accepted such a ban. It wasn’t too long ago that hotels across the West banned unwed couples, in fact there’s a very funny episode of Fawlty Towers that mocks such a hotel ban. Fornicating before marriage is actually prohibited in all three Abrahamic religions.
cassie,
have a look at this young lady being interviewed re this
Australian tourists react to Indonesian sex outside marriage ban: ‘Terrifying – jail for sleeping with someone I don’t know’
if this is what Australian young males want – they have no taste??????
JC
Wow what a buzz! You must have been amazed! I don’t reckon I’d be able to pick him out of a lineup, so good spotting.
Thanks for sharing.
Who’s the most famous- or infamous!- person you’ve ever seen on the street there?
Some wits still survive in journalism…headline spotted:
‘Sussex, lies & videotape.’
British newspapers on the attack, it seems.
Remember, JC, he puts his trousers on like any other man.
Or maybe not.
Waffs. What brought on this outburst?
You never told us you were part Italian. Waffles Castrato is an unusual name combo especially the second name.
OldOzzie. It’s dark. They don’t care.
As for trampstamps, at least prostutiates put a value on themselves.
I can’t even spell it – how little I think about it.
prostitutes
The other thing might be some sort of STD.
I saw Trump a few times. The most famous…Jackie Kennedy, she smiled at me as she walked past in a restaurant.
Ender, I’m not so sure He’s very every short. He’d likely shop in the boys section.
Oh yes, indeed.
The consistent story from those who have the misfortune to know him well is: ‘Everything is personal with Kevin; he suffers in his jocks, he never forgets, he never forgives, he never lets go’.
That ex CNN guy looks too fat to shove. You could have tripped the bugger though and claimed “restless leg”.
Given that in NSW, 70.4% of people over 16 are at least triple dosed, it means that bolstered people are over represented (76%) in the Covid deaths.
La Niña is the Covid excuse bad planning.
A wet year is no excuse for the state of our roads. Many developed countries have many times our rainfall every year and yet manage to have functioning road systems.
Roads washed out at water crossings is simply because there are inadequate structures to cope with the volume.
In tropical counties the bridges look ridiculously oversized during the dry season but not in the wet. Seems our system is designed for droughts.
JUST IN: AOC Is Under Investigation By House Ethics Committee
forbes
Just trying to connect on a personal level, JC. Life’s too short.
Trump would have been a magic moment- what era was it, pre-TV, pre-POTUS or present day pre-comeback?
My most famous is Pope JP2, tho I had to go to his place to find him.
Are they still alive?
Now you’re just being irrational to defend your position.
The Bunter Hiden preferred versions being known as “prostatots”*.
*H/T TFM
Recall that glamour ad for euthanasia out of Canada? Looks like the victim turned to it out of desperation because of the difficulty of accessing health care.
phht
walked past going to a private function?
… more likely that dining room was already full or arseholes
One of the ads currently running on 2GB mentions getting a booster to be up to date with the vaccine.
I would say that is now false advertising considering the booster was created well before Delta.
Apparently narcissism can come with a use by date for the practitioner. About the age of 40 it becomes clear that actually, you are not a god and the suspicion that the world has failed to make good on the promise of treating you as one is irrefutable. Crash, discombobulation and major depressive outcomes can soon follow. Academics (for example) can forestall the inevitable by surrounding themselves with a constantly shifting cloud of youngsters that are not wise to the game and provide for the narcissistic supply. Celebrities would be similar.
In Rudd’s case it would be so baked in that the crash won’t occur. Invincible ignorance would be my guess. Pity his poor family. Those that tell him to sod off would go on the list and the fact that it keeps growing with no revenge occurring would be airbrushed out of the picture.
Understandable, given the heart problems are strongly skewed towards men.
You can rest comfortably knowing that you probably won’t need a heart transplant later in life.
Waffs I lived for a time in Trump Tower in the late 80s as the firm had a company apartment there. I lived there for about 6 or so months and I’d see him coming in and out of the lobby. Not often though. He had his own elevator so didn’t mix with the riff raff. Would see the kids a lot messing around in the lobby.
I also saw him at functions when he was with the second wife.
I’m not sure if Jackie was the most famous or Maggie Thatcher. I had a political argument with Maggie.
Really though, it’s a compact place so you often see famous folks even just walking the streets.
Recall the Saudi arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi. I saw him once in Central Park.
During Gulf war 1, I saw Saddam’s foreign minister walking the street. Man, he looked vicious as he gave me a killer stare because he figured I recognized him.
re Mother Lode’s warm feeling
Can’t stop laughing
Australian’s Super Funds would be a wonderful resource for investment into Green Garbage
They’re already in it up to the funds’ necks.
I see the AMA is calling for masks to be mandated again.
Failure to do so is “political weakness” according to them.
Fascists in white coats.
Driving up to Queensland and back again on the very good dual highway system only one thing is lacking: vistas. Occasionally you get to see small amounts of pasture being slowly forceably ‘rewilded’ with even more trees and a very rare farmhouse, but mostly you are driving between an avenue of thick bushy planted trees. It is extremely boring so the only excitement entails overtaking at a higher speed already speeding trucks so you don’t stay in their exhaust and doing mind-improving mental arithmetic on your ‘average speed’ between the average speed cameras.
The bushfires of two years ago are now very little in evidence, as is the way with the Australian bush, new growth on the tops and trunks is everywhere and a strong undergrowth is building, building, building to await the next El Nino dry spell and flame up the trees again to germinate their seeds. This is what Australia does – it burns – and why on earth we don’t recognise that our ‘green’ forestation policies are simply getting ready to burn thousands of coal-fired power stations yearly worth of CO2 into atmostphere is quite beyond me. This is the CO2 contribution from fires that produces the non-anthropogenic proportion, i.e. the absolute major proportion of the CO2 produced on earth.
Except – in our case we are deliberately adding to it, in the weird world of ‘carbon accounting’ that we must live under as the insane climate modellers have their way with us. Plant trees for Oxygen, they bleat, forgetting to add that in the Australian environment all too sood wood either burns or decays into even more CO2. If they must fiddle with the land, let them recognise that pasture would be a better CO2 solution than creating massive fuel loads of wood. (and don’t let them get onto farting cows re pasture, btw, in a further insanity coming our way right now). Just forget about CO2 altogether, woodchip a lot of the gums and plant more and better longer lived shady European trees that do well here.
Rant over.
Why we have windmills and are getting moe. Too big to fail.
The government bailout will be awesome.
Which reminds me, what do you reckon the US would pay for NT and TAS? We could throw in SA for nothing to sweeten the deal.
Darwinian evolution in action.
‘MAGA’ Fund Outperforming Biden-Endorsed ESG Investments by Wide Margin (Newsmax, 2 Dec)
“Point Bridge Capital, a company that invests in Republican values and bears the stock-ticker name of “MAGA,” has been outperforming Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) funds endorsed by the Biden administration — by a healthy margin.
According to Bloomberg News, “MAGA” has produced gains at a rate of 15% higher than ESG funds, and 13% more than the ESG funds invested in the S&P 500 this year — the same ESG funds the Biden White House would prefer to headline Americans’ 401(k) investments.”
It’s amusing. As I said Twiggy should enjoy his virtue signalling while he can, before his green investments go bottom up. Which they will.
Speaking of which, numbers of elective surgeries in Australian public hospitals are at ten year lows as health bureaucrats continue policies designed to ensure adequate spare capacity due to covid.
The greatest drop is in NSW which is down 27% from pre-covid levels.
Just had first flight since the madness began, Melb Cairns. Melb 6C, Cairns mid 20s. Masks in terminals around 2 percent. The plane around 5 percent mixed bag wearing them families, people in their 30s and a few oldies, all Aussies.
Right about the trees Lizzie. We have good timber locked up in forests the size of countries that are inaccessible to most people (isn’t that wonderful) that burn with continuous monotony. Just as well bushfires don’t contribute to Climate Change. The lovely foliage that runs alongside most roads making them impassable when on fire just when access in needed most.
Suicidal?
No way, what I could see and hear about and from her, she is a cunning, grasping female.
Keep away from her, keep away, if you have any common sense.
Did Forrest inherit money?
He doesn’t seem canny enough to have built his empire from scratch.
His kidlets are green freaks; as is his missus. Plus, as his crashing of the press conference by Greg Hunt shows, twiggy is owned by the chunks.
Calli @ 8:50
Indeed.
Four shots in the space of 18 months.
At what point do people start thinking?
The Albanese Energy Fan Dance continues:
Anthony Albanese calling on NSW, Queensland to implement $125-a-tonne domestic coal price cap to reduce power prices
On our way down on Monday, after attending our eight-year old granddaughter’s ‘talent quest’ at school (best performers in our view, a female Chinese pianist and a female Indian dancer, in this very anglo school, including many boys) we set of at 10am and decided to only drive as far as Yamba. The aim was to have a quiet day and night there before doing the ‘big share’ (60 Hairy/40 Lizzie) of the 700kms after that the next day back to Sydenee. We pulled into an old-style motel with some quiet rear rooms and were transported back to life in the seventies in the yellow-brick motel style, although it had been renovated inside. It was so much like places where as a single mum I took my two little kids for cheap holidays; I sat in the morning in my spotted cover-all nightie eating my brekkie flakes at the table at the front, greeting occasional other travellers setting out earlier than us, and thinking that the configuration of the three low buildings, with a BBQ covered kitchen in the middle of the grassed triangle with room for running around would be perfect for any family with kids. To make life brimful of happiness, the day before being a hot summery 35 degrees, we were the only people at 4pm in the very large pool which was big enough to do some healthy laps and have a splashy frolic. Ideal.
$154 bucks a nite. Excellent aircon, properly laundered sheets on a good bed, small kitchenette, and Sky News on the free to air (no Foxtel). We ate at the trendy Pacific Hotel bistro up on the bluff with one of the best views ever of the Pacific ocean and came back to our 70’s motel to watch Rowan Dean telling us that this sort of pleasure would soon be denied future Aussies via ‘restricted travel’ cities. Bummer.
Who’s behind the plot to overthrow the german government | DW News
Great Reset Plan by 2030: No Meat-Dairy-Private Cars, Little Clothing & Air Travel
Shopping tips Luigi never tellz you .. LOL!
Even tho I’m “houso’ I enjoy baking .. cakes, that is! and the way Woolworths price cake mix .. specifically, a brand known as GREEN’S .. the normal cost for GREEN’S assorted range of mixes is $3.00 a packet but every 2nd week they are on special for $1.60 a packet .. been like that for several months so if you bake you’d know when to shop & stock-up and let the casual cake mix shopper pay the off week excess …
Makes you wonder how good the profit margin is when they can do this .. regular?
Coles operate the same sort of bi weekly system but are a bit greedier they only reduce to $2.40 on their “special” week .. they also charge $3.20 .. normal ..!
Have some of you got bad gateway messages over the last hour?
Dover
Yes, but it seems OK now.
dover0beachsays:
December 8, 2022 at 11:02 am
Yep. Clear now – apparently. Desktop.
Laptop in my case.
At Tim Blair’s:
News Corp quitting the good fight, as usual.
Speaking of which, numbers of elective surgeries in Australian public hospitals are at ten year lows as health bureaucrats continue policies designed to ensure adequate spare capacity due to covid.
I’m 74 and was due for a hospital automated Cancer check-up as per my schedule around June .. never heard a peep out of them (Nepean) and this far past the date I’m not expecting too .. I’m not concerned as I’m having no health issues, Cancer or otherwise but wonder if they can skip me without them knowing my current condition) what is happening to folk who aren’t as fortunate …..!
Yes, Ubuntu.
Yes, I couldn’t get on at all. Had to reset website.
The Albanese Energy Fan Dance continues:
Anthony Albanese calling on NSW, Queensland to implement $125-a-tonne domestic coal price cap to reduce power prices
Seems odd, given the enormous bureaucratic brainpower that has been applied to solving the problem, that the usual Clown Circus is on full display – shoes flapping, ties spinning, wheeee, parp parp…
Obviously the politics is the hardest part. But Shirley they’ve got all the industry, legal, technical and commercial bits under control?
(Repost from earlier strangeness.)
shatterzzz – my understanding is most weekly specials are done with the suppliers cooperation as it can affect their pricing structure. Some suppliers refuse to allow their products to go on special to maintain margins, others are happy to do it week in week out to build market share and volume. Coca Cola got into a dispute with Colesworths some time ago but normal service soon resumed.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/the_coming_crash_of_the_climate_cult.html
Written by Viv Forbes , Australian and published in American Thinker. Well done Viv. great article.
Console yourself with the noble thought that you’re making way for non-existent covid patients, shaterzzz.
But seriously, will the sum total of deaths, ilnessses and misery caused by covid restrictions ever be tallied?
rosiesays:
December 8, 2022 at 8:41 am
Of course not, no-one ever claimed vaccines that boost the body’s own capacity to fight a disease can do so against all odds but there is a substantial body of very good statistical information out there that suggests covid vaccines substantially reduce hospitalisation and death rates, eg Israel and the UK.
I’m glad the most vulnerable members of my family are vaccinated.
If you aren’t, bully for you.
Yes and bully for me. They are not vaccines for a start. They are drugs and not very good ones at that. There are far better remedies out there but Big Pharma and Guv’ments colluded to prevent their use. My Top Notch Immune System and gut feeling told me not to take the jab(s). And, I never got the Virus either. The Common Cold yes and I get a Cold every Winter. That’s normal. What Big Pharma and Guv’ments did is not normal.
I see the AMA is calling for masks to be mandated again.
Good luck with that.. LOL! .. even out here in Fairfield, NSW it’s dropped to around 10% for both outdoors & shopping centres .. which in real terms meanz the SE Asian poulation is close to using up their already bought supplies ..
methinx .. trying to convince them to spend more on masks may be a losing battle .. LOL!
I’m still dark on Colesworths for (among other things) killing off cloudy apple cordial. Down to my last 5 bottles.
That motel, btw, was beautifully run and maintained inside and out to a ‘new pin’ standard. The gardens and walkways in particular were tended to within an inch of their life, against the surrounding backdrop of big gums and tall palms. The aircon was newish, smooth running, and the bathroom, a reno from about ten years back, was in good nick. The kitchenette still had those grey plastic D handles and a few chips on the bottom of the laminate cupboards, which all brought me out into a flood of nostalgia, as did the sliding bathroom door which fell of its bottom track if you pulled it over half and inch too far.
Even with inflation no employed family should be doing without a short holiday at these rates – in the mid-to-late 1970’s I was coping alone, no child support for two toddlers from ex (not mandated back then), with a mortgage of 13% capped and lucky to have that. Friends had 17.5%.
Sadly, I think this is a motel world soon to be lost by big development on its expansive site (not yet though, in Yamba). Currently under-patronised in its fifty rooms, it could be purchased by government as a migrant hostel. It would work well for that, and be a damned sight better than the wooden sheds and nissan huts we ended up in when my father moved us all to the outer western suburbs in early 1948 to try his luck there after Rolls Royce closed down the spitfire factory at Lidcombe, which was why he was sent as a foreman to Australia in 1945. The atomic bomb put paid to that job. We waited our time in that hostel and eventually got a housing commission house, which still stands today, one of the few still fairly unchaged.
Interesting to see who is still wearing masks. Old people – some of whom think the world is a scary place that is trying to kill them; a few schools kids – who think people don’t lie to them; and people who probably have worn a mask anyway – Asians, germophobes, Puddy etc.
Not a germophobe, by any means, but a new study based on swabs from self-serve checkout screens gives me pause…seems a lot of people don’t wash their hands after going to the toilet.
John Pesutto to be new Lib leader in Victoria. Hope he has more spine than the previous incumbent.
“News Corp quitting the good fight, as usual.”
Capitulating because a few perverts probably complained to the Press Council.
I’ve seen him described as a moderate, so I am tipping he will disappoint you lot immensely.
“I see the AMA is calling for masks to be mandated again.”
The AMA, a leftwing activist group that currently represents no more than 1/4 of GPs (if that), can go get fucked.
You should try to keep up with the science, nearly every day I read new studies and reports on the Vaccine and it’s effectiveness. Every day it looks worse and serious illness and death rates are lower for non vaccinated than for vaccinated. Of course you are a member of the church of mRNA, so truth is of no interest.
Thank you Cassie, pissed myself laughing at your last comment.
You might be horrified if you saw like swabs on your phone and keyboard. It’s not a big deal, don’t sweat it because this has been documented for decades and if it was a serious problem people would be dropping dead everywhere.
It isn’t just not washing hands, it is the manner of washing hands. Most people don’t do that right.
Yes I did.
The AMA are weirdos. They seem to hate the idea of happy, healthy people. I suppose it’s maintenance if the income stream.
Old people up here is masks too. Dirty, dingy things. They peer over the top of them with wary, frightened eyes.
I hate what this has done to the elderly.
Pesutto is wetter and more hysterical about the climate scam than the idiot he’s replacing. Even more than Matthew Guy, he’ll make the Stupid Fucking Liberals chase the support of Labor, Greens and Teals who’ll never vote for him even harder.
It’s a suicide mission because the SFL’s still don’t understand why they were decimated two weeks ago — that is, they believe in nothing and aren’t a viable alternative.
I expect Roger Franklin at Quadrant online will have more reporting about Pesutto in coming days and weeks.
I got a “Bad Gateway” on my iPad.
Pushed off and did some sewing. Don’t waste a moment, you don’t get them back.
m0nty says:
December 8, 2022 at 11:47 am
John Pesutto to be new Lib leader in Victoria. Hope he has more spine than the previous incumbent.
You don’t seem to read the comments here regarding the libs in general, but Vic-Libs in particular.
Nobody expects anything from them anymore, but supine me-too policies more left and green that labor.
General Mud.
Crashed just as I posted last comment. Didn’t like MAGA!
Whether it was something about the comment it didn’t like I don’t know, but it 504ed after I hit the Post Comment button, but only following a long delay. I didn’t think the comment went through but I see that it did. Then the site wasn’t accessible on either desktop or laptop, nor with different VPN IP addresses.
our mate Rishi Sunak on rewiring the entire financial system
… because something, something, climate
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1455827805858586624?s=20&t=nSyGE_g4rbx7ZMlTjUETnw
Sympathy?
A Libyan refugee faces trial in Paris this week after allegedly r@ping a woman at knifepoint after she hosted him in her home for several weeks.
The trial of Libyan refugee Samir L., said to be in his late thirties, began this week on Thursday at the Paris Assizes court, where he is accused of r@ping 33-year-old Sabrina C. in her own home.
The r@pe allegedly took place at the start of last year, several weeks after the French woman had met the refugee at a party and had taken him in after learning he had been living in a squat, Actu reports.
According to the victim, the North African later became violent after an evening of drinking alcohol and came at her with a pair of knives, tried to steal her phone, and then proceeded to beat her and r@pe her.
Following his arrest, another woman claimed the refugee had s3xually assaulted her on public transit as well.
Victorian values and a state of strata decay
Apartment prices are falling in Melbourne and rents are rising but recent revelations suggest investing there is far from a no-brainer.
Jimmy Thomson Contributor
There’s a tempting proposition around for adventurous investors; apartment prices in Melbourne are lagging Sydney’s by an average of $225,000 for a two-bedder.
Meanwhile, rents in the Victorian capital have gone up 30 per cent in the past year and, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, seem likely to rise even further due to a surge in population and an ongoing crisis in availability.
The Melbourne apartment scene seems very calm compared to Sydney’s, with its crumbling tower blocks and rambunctious Building Commissioner David Chandler having to keep everyone in line.
However, a veil has been lifted or, to be more accurate, the cladding has been ripped off and a very different picture of Victorian apartment blocks has emerged, backed by an open letter to the state government pleading for its agencies to enforce their own laws.
In fact, the perceived calm may simply indicate that little is being done to address serious and damaging problems in Victorian strata.
A recent ABC radio report revealed that the removal of flammable cladding on several high-rise buildings had exposed rotting timbers and building materials.
In some of the blocks, the damage was so extensive that remediation would cost more than the value of the units. How could this be allowed to happen?
One answer lies in an open letter sent to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Minister for Consumer Affairs Melissa Horne and the Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria, Nicole Rich from a group of strata residents.
They say trying to rectify issues in their building had convinced them that Victorian strata law, the Owners Corporations Act, was “defective and practically unworkable”.
They claim building management, including the owners’ strata committee, neglected the block, failed in their statutory duty to inform owners about decisions, denied owners their right to view critical documents and misled prospective purchasers about the maintenance and finances of the building while allowing their strata manager, an employee of a large agency, to continue working after he had been deregistered.
The result, was “almost non-existent maintenance including pest infestations, damp, and black mould so voracious it penetrates cupboards, clothes and furniture.” You can read the letter in full on flatchat.com.au.
If, as they state, the Owners Corporations Act is not being effectively enforced by the statutory bodies, with concerned owners being bounced back and forth between the Victorian tribunal (VCAT), Consumer Affairs (CAV) and the Dispute Settlement Centre (DSCV), the problems run deeper than one block with a dysfunctional committee.
Transparency is paramount in strata affairs, but the law decrees that owners may not attend committee meetings unless invited.
If a secretive managing committee can then flout regulations that require them to provide access to strata records, distribute accurate minutes and hold timely AGMs, then there is no oversight.
Thus, any group of self-interested owners, aided and abetted by complicit strata managers, can skimp on maintenance to hold fees (levies) at a minimum level and keep concerns about damaging water leaks, for instance, out of their strata records.
The low fees will help them get re-elected year upon year; the lack of accurate records will help them sell their units before the problems become apparent – perhaps due to cladding remediation, for instance – leaving the solution to the next owners.
The neglect in the letter writers’ blighted block may not be typical but, as the ABC report reveals, neither is it unique.
Prospective investors in Victoria need to be ultra-cautious. If your strata search reveals no records of any defects and therefore no repairs, be very suspicious.
Put your trust in committee meeting minutes and correspondence that show problems have been identified and dealt with. Anything less may be a work of fiction or a sign of wilful negligence.
The Vic loony left of the ALP kept Henry Bolte et al in power for decades.
History repeats. The SFL loony left will keep Andrews and his successors in power for a generation or two.
Or three.