1,276 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 25 Feb 2023”

  1. I regard murder as the most serious violent crime. According to a stat, the aboriginal community is suffers a murder as follows:

    In 2011–12, Indigenous people comprised three percent of the Australian population (ABS 2009; ABS 2012) yet constituted 13 percent of homicide …

    it’s an old stat, but lets go with that.

    In Australia, the murder rate is.89 per 100,000 people.With a population of 26 million, that equates to 231 murders per year. Of those, assuming the aboriginal population is 3% (780,000), the number of murders would be about 30 per year. This means the murder rate is about 3.84 just in the aboriginal community.

    The homicide rate by country shows El Salvador with a murder rate of 61.8 per 100,000. If aborigines were ranked as a country, they would be in the middle of the pack. That’s not one of the highest.

    https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/homicide_rate/

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  2. I haven’t heard anything lately about this executive orders we are waiting on.

    It is a bit like an order I made through Menulog, where they kept moving delivery time later and later until they finally called and said the order would not be arriving because the shop was closing.

    When President did Trump maybe use Menulog?

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  3. As usual I’m ridiculously early for my train but baulking at paying €8.95 for a ham and cheese sandwich I have backtracked to a traditional bar where I’m having tostada con tomate and cafe con leche.
    Don’t know how much I’m going to pay though at the one near me it was €2.50.
    It’s good.

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  4. JC
    No-one cares about aboriginal on aboriginal violence.
    Only ‘deaths in custody’
    Ask Liedown Lidia.

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  5. I can’t understand why people on the centre-right are mad with Thorpe for interrupting the ‘Pride’ parade. Good on her. Would only those on centre-right show it no respect.

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  6. Thorpe interrupting the ‘Pride’ parade was very popcornworthy.
    I love left on left jelly wrestling.

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  7. Thorpe interrupting the ‘Pride’ parade was very popcornworthy.
    I love left on left jelly wrestling.

    Riddle me this one – had La Lidia been arrested for interrupting the “pride”, could she have been expelled from the Senate?

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  8. feelthebern says:
    February 27, 2023 at 8:05 pm

    Dover, please ban JC.

    Shyte, yes!
    That picture needs at least a week in the sin bin.

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  9. I probably shouldn’t have chickened out of going to Cadiz last night. There’s a direct train from Cordoba.
    Oh well, next time.

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  10. Good to hear from you, Rosie. Hope that lunch turned out to be as inexpensive as you’d hoped.
    It’s easy to get caught out when you don’t know a new place. What seemed like the last one can sometimes be quite different. Anyway, trust all goes well in your travels and that you are also in touch with home.

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  11. Anyway, trust all goes well in your travels and that you are also in touch with home.

    Second that one, LizzieB. Mme Zulu is dropping not so subtle hints that it is ten years since we have been to the Netherlands, and neither of us is getting any younger…

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  12. Bedtime here for me, Hairy and this silly cat who is still cross with us for going away.

    And here’s us with a trip to Bendigo in a month. Bendigo or the UK, it’s all the same to him.

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  13. Thankyou
    Facebook messages every day, sometimes video calls or old fashioned phone calls.
    I’ve set up a group so all my family can see where I am and what I’m doing.
    My Maltese sim has been the best.
    Same roaming rates in Spain as in Malta so still haven’t had to top up.
    And it was €4 for dos huge tostadas and a coffee.
    And the cafe con leche in Spain is way better than cafe latte in Italy.
    I really like Italy but I love Spain.
    It’s a bit hard to explain 🙂

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  14. Attapuss is a fine cat! My exploits of the day included getting newest kooka kid to accept food from my icky fingers for the first time, and also for a young blue faced honey eater. A twofer of firsts. It’s been a good day at the Cafe.

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  15. Riddle me this one – had La Lidia been arrested for interrupting the “pride”, could she have been expelled from the Senate?

    Bolt seemed to think so, Zulu, and was wondering why on earth she hadn’t been arrested for menacing a police officer, which carries a five year max prison sentence. One year and you’re out of the Senate.
    She’s got a lot of form already in doing arrestable stuff. Kid gloves for Blak Lidia though.

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  16. No-one cares about aboriginal on aboriginal violence.
    Only ‘deaths in custody’
    Ask Liedown Lidia.

    What if a non-violent resister gets murdered by another Aborigine in custody?

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  17. Add in QLD debt and WA public sector “entities” and we’re already up to 1200 bn AUD of debt.

    The sovereign bond rate is now 3.9%.

    Debt servicing is nearing the value of GDP growth. It may already exceed per capita GDP growth.

  18. A lazy trillion dollar (1,031 bn AUD) debt pile before other states and local government is included.

    How is this going to be paid off?

    inflation

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