No, the tax on the rich funds services for the working class.

bwhahahahahaha…. can I have some of what he’s smoking?

The lightbringer* headed to Australia.

Monty must scold him for charging too much for tickets

*No JC its not Springsteen

The possum-skin cape looks like fancy dress.
Linda B., with her long blackened tresses, looked a lot like a North American native as she walked into a cloud of ceremony smoke.
Aborigine fatigue everywhere

America predicts war with China in 2025

The Chalmers ALP wants to destroy upward mobility. It is no longer a party of the working class.

Santamaria called it ‘this party of school teachers and left wing lawyers’. Labor without class : the gentrification of the ALP by Michael Thompson summed this up well.

The same group that have $90,000,000 a day spent on them are living in squallor and poverty.
And only more munni for the big men will solve it!

Remember, the 90M/day is not what is put in aboriginal pockets. cough public service salaries cough

And yet, most sportswriters – who the late Hunter S. Thompson termed “an army of drunken fascists” – detest sports fans and consider themselves superior.

The late crackhead that wrote for the sports section of the New York Times who once referred to flyover country as “the dance of the low sloping foreheads”. Credit where credit is due, there is art to that phrase but mainly; what Tom said.

Jussie was right.
Chicago is MAGA country.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fails in Re-Election Bid

In a stunning turnaround for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who won all 50 wards in her 2019 victory, the incumbent failed in her fight for another term.
The Associated Press declared that Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson have secured a spot in April’s runoff election. Ms. Lightfoot conceded the race shortly before 9 p.m.

@sarc

The month of March will give us the opportunity to celebrate “Blackout day” when they turn off Liddell power station.
Oh.
Now it’s April for just the first turbine.
The story is changing.
Go on, NSW government, turn them all off now.
I Ferkin Dareya.

$3 Million cap on super just creates a glass ceiling on the freedom working class people have to enjoy a well deserved, secure and entertaining retirement. It will be no more than a minor convenience to the genuinely wealthy who will find other ways to ensure they pay jug ears not a cent more. Instead of evening up intergenerational disadvantage, it entrenches it more while likely reducing the pool of available funds for super fund managers to invest. It’s a lose, lose, just so insane lefty ideologues can pretend the alp stands up for the working class.

The Frolicking Moll:
I was on 6 Panadeine Forte daily for chronic headaches due to a mismatch between anti rejection drugs. For 8 bloody years. The week I removed one of them (not an essential drug) despite warnings from my docs, the headaches ebbed and then stopped.
You’d expect that after 8 years of 180/240 mg of codeine daily I’d need a drying out period and I fully expected to go through an addiction withdrawal process.
None.
Which just goes to show – to my satisfaction at least, that when opiates are used to relieve genuine pain, the addiction possibility is often bullshit and an excuse used by some doctors who have a personal dislike for the stuff.

1 man, 1 vote, once. Africa

I haven’t looked at the demographics but given how long the one child policy has been going it can’t be long until everyone under 50 will be needed for full time care of old people.

The CCP has the luxury of being able to engage with creative solutions remember.

Cumulative inflation
From 1980 428.88%

Anti-lockdown mum TORN AWAY from toddler arrives in Supreme Court Avi Yemini

When you are relieved as a conservative party at retaining Caulfield and Kew, you’re in some deep shizen.

The upcoming NSW election defeat is going to leave the LNP out of government pretty much everywhere. And what’s this I see about them possibly ditching Bridget Archer in Tasmania? What a shambles.

Big_Nambas says:
March 1, 2023 at 12:58 pm

He also believes in the Climate Change Models and his own BS. Apparently, there is a vaccine for the MontyPox Virus. It’s called ‘Just Ignore’…………Seems to work a treat.

Yes it sure works for me, I have ignored all Monty posts for 6 months, improved my enjoyment of this blog a lot.

Agreed, despite what others say, I think, that if we all ignore him and ED, they will eventually either give up posting, or, for a little while, bombard the blog with numerous missives to show that they don’t care about a response.

Not true, they care, M0nty slowed down even on his own blog when responses dried up, don’t know the latest state as I haven’t visited for ages.

Dotsays:
March 1, 2023 at 1:26 pm
m0nty says:
March 1, 2023 at 1:00 pm

The Chalmers ALP wants to destroy upward mobility. It is no longer a party of the working class.

The Liars want an “aristocracy” of the university credentialled, taxpayer salaried, inner city dwelling, navel gazers on top of a mass of serfs (or, to use one of m0nty=fa’s words, plebs).

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 1, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

There is a big element of Abo fatigue setting in.

The same group that have $90,000,000 a day spent on them are living in squallor and poverty.
And only more munni for the big men will solve it!

No amount of money, infrastructure, or social services will fix the problems of remote communities. It is like putting lipstick on a pig. At some point in the distant future Australia has to recognise that problem is remote communities.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 1, 2023 at 1:44 pm
He not only wants us to say that he’s a woman…he wants us to believe it too.

That’s the whole idea of normalisation. We must not only see but also believe.
Otherwise it’s feet stamping time because it’s not all working out the way it should.

The transgenders want you not just to tolerate them, but to celebrate their lifestyle, and, ultimately, they want you to participate in that lifestyle. See the reaction of “transwomen” (cocks in frocks) when lesbians refuse to socialise with them. HOW DARE THEY!

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fails in Re-Election Bid

LOLGF 🙂

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

Not that surprising. The potential damage to the blood brain barrier could go a long way to explaining the condition. The persistence of viral proteins mystifies me.

Others may seem rooted more in the body than the brain, such as pain and postexertional malaise (PEM), a kind of “energy crash” that people experience after even mild exercise. But those, too, result from nerve dysfunction, often in the autonomic nervous system, which directs our bodies to breathe and digest food and generally runs our organs on autopilot. This so-called dysautonomia can lead to dizziness, a racing heart, high or low blood pressure, and gut disturbances, sometimes leaving people unable to work or even function independently.

Central fatigue, where the brain mediates fatigue.

Just pinged off a letter to the bint who runs my daughter’s state school primary.education extension program. Well, she might not be a bint per se, but unless she can make some representations as to how and why she runs the boondoggle, I’m going to kick some shins.

Gday G- thanks for writing, and expanding on the concept of a signatory Code of Conduct.

Thanks again-
regards
W

*My instincts are that the book is not being studied as Eng Lit or Lit History at all, but rather studied as a meme, used as a phenomenon which then springs the kids in to pissweak posters, protests and plays.
I might have said it before- as far as I can work out, the program dredges schools for kids with genuinely upper edge ability, takes them away from their (admittedly missable) regular classes for a full day per week for two years running, and turns them into Tik Tok dimwits.

Janet Albrechtsen, today’s Oz, on the way in which the Courts can rule if the Voice gets up:

Has there ever been a more flagrant attempt to deceive the Australian people than the Albanese government’s effort to force-feed the voice into our Constitution?

Aided and abetted by an army of activist advisers and cheerleaders, Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney lead what can only be described as the great deception. The root cause of this deception is that the objective of this campaign is to enact a massive change to our constitutional arrangements, namely to begin the process of replacing our long-treasured sole and exclusive sovereignty of the crown with the form of co-sovereignty between the crown and Indigenous Australia demanded by the Uluru Statement from the Heart. This, in turn, is a first step to treaty and self-determination. This radical step could be implemented only by pretending the change was modest, encasing it with feel-good atmospherics, backed up with frequent browbeating.

What, for example, is law professor Megan Davis doing by demanding universities, including the peak body, Universities Australia, sing from her Yes song sheet? Universities are meant to encourage free thought, not foisted views, aren’t they?

The gamble by Yes activists that we would not look too hard at the proposed wording and its consequences, or stand up to bullying, has manifestly failed – to the point where even some voice supporters are now coming clean.

The result: the Yes campaign is now falling apart under the weight of its internal inconsistencies, dishonesties and division.

Lidia Thorpe ‘tells the truth’ about where the Voice to Parliament is headed: Rowan Dean
Sky News host Rowan Dean says he actually likes Lidia Thorpe because she “tells the truth” of where the Voice to… Parliament is headed. “That is why the left are trying to silence her and dismiss her,” Mr Dean told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “But she’s actually telling More
Who could forget that the Prime Minister’s much-quoted Calma-Langton report promised us, in section 2.9, that their Yes model would “reflect the need to respect parliamentary sovereignty and avoid causing unintended consequences. As a result, all elements would be non-justiciable, meaning that there could not be a court challenge”?

READ MORE: Vote on Voice not about me: PM | Recognise this – the voice is a bad idea on so many levels | Look for language all voice stakeholders can support | Narrow reform means voice vote without practical benefits | Conservatives eat their own words on voice | Rein in voice powers or open a can of worms

There was a time when many voice supporters recognised that non-justiciability was critical: to avoid opening a massive hole in parliamentary supremacy and creating a huge transfer of power from our elected parliament to unelected courts.

Not so any more. Now, Langton admits the voice is a matter for the courts. On ABC radio recently she said: “Why would we restrict the voice to representations that can’t be challenged in court?” Asked about whether High Court challenges could be used to delay government decisions until the voice had deliberated on the matter, Langton said, “That’s a possibility … why wouldn’t we want that to be the case?”

Many curiously minded and in some instances legally trained commentators have consistently warned the voice would be able to use leverage extracted by lawsuits to gum up the processes of government, and thereby hand vast negotiating power to the voice and its supporters. We were naysaid and insulted by a phalanx of activist lawyers. Constitutional lawyer Greg Craven said “this legal fright-fest is bizarre” as he assured us that the High Court would not, for example, impose legal obligations around consultation with the voice.

South Australia One Nation MP Sarah Game says the Liberal Party has been too busy focusing on the detail for… the Indigenous Voice to Parliament rather than the “principle” of dividing by race. “The Liberal Party have really been focusing on detail rather than the fundamental problem of principle

The gap between then and now is remarkable and of concern. Since then, former High Court justice Kenneth Hayne admitted the voice could be the subject of litigation, but he told us to trust the courts. Then fellow former High Court justice Ian Callinan confirmed the voice could be the subject of a decade of litigation. He appeared less trusting of the courts. Now, even ardent voice supporter George Williams has admitted what he should have told us upfront. “Courts will play a role in the operation of the voice,” he said recently.

Last December, Williams wrote: “There is no requirement the voice be listened to before a decision” was made. Last week, Williams admitted: “Courts may be asked to rule on the … the consequences of a minister failing to listen when the voice has spoken.”

Other leading figures in the Constitutional Expert Group such as constitutional lawyer Davis, as well as Craven, have also recently acknowledged what was long denied or dismissed – namely that the courts will play a significant role in determining the powers, processes and functions of the voice.

Why didn’t all these lawyers tell us this earlier? Why did this entirely logical consequence of a constitutionally entrenched voice have to be effectively flushed out of them? What else are they not telling us? Are they saving future surprises for us, to be revealed only if a Yes vote is successful?

Craven is at least honest about the political power handed to the voice by the possibility of lawfare. He now publicly admits to the legal issues rising from the voice. “Politically and practically, delay (from litigation) often means death to proposed action,” he conceded recently.

The Indigenous Voice to Parliament is not about recognition but power, says Sky News host Peta Credlin. “As you… know, this is not about recognition – I think almost all of us support some form of recognition,” Ms Credlin said. “This is about power – it’s about giving More
It’s high time the PM came clean, too, and admitted what Williams, Davis, Craven, Langton and a couple of High Court judges now tell us: the power of the voice, at law, to delay, hinder and litigate gives it a potent veto in practice.

Given the sudden shifts from high-profile voice activists saying one thing last year, then another more recently, we have every reason to ask: when will the con job on the Australian people end?

For many years, constitutional lawyer and academic Shireen Morris has assured us that “a First Nations voice was specifically designed to be non-justiciable”.

That became a fiction the moment the Prime Minister released the words of his Albanese amendment at Garma last July. Surely it is time that Morris too admits that non-justiciability is a myth.

Likewise, we could ask the well-regarded constitutional lawyer and academic Anne Twomey whether she has done enough to ensure the Australian people are fully informed about the legal impact of the voice on parliamentary sovereignty.

Perhaps most disappointing among this cast of Yes lawyers is opposition legal affairs spokesman Julian Leeser. If Noel Pearson is right that Leeser, along with Craven and other so-called constitutional conservatives, agreed the earlier wording on which the Albanese amendment is modelled, then Leeser has been guilty of naivety – at best.

Pearson is entitled to be miffed, and so are Liberals who are deeply opposed to a race-based constitutionally entrenched body that would up-end our governance.

Let’s return to the fundamental problem. This is no “modest proposal” but a carefully crafted attempt to replace crown sovereignty, the sovereignty of all of us, with the co-sovereignty demanded by the Uluru statement. Armies of activists and academic lawyers have been beavering away for years trying to find ways of inserting into our Constitution the wedge that leads to this co-sovereignty. Either Leeser is a fool or he understands this.

It has become crystal clear that deception, dissembling and intimidation have been key to the whole campaign. Now, with significant parts of the great deception exposed, unwittingly, by these same voice activists, we are entitled to ask: what more haven’t they told us?

When are the Vote No stickers going to appear?
So we can place them on the buildings of Corporates who want to sell Australia short?

CLOSE THE DOORS!!!
SET IT ON FIRE!!!

ABC staff to take protected industrial action for first time in 17 years
Amanda Meade

The union says the offer must also include back pay to the expiry date of the previous enterprise bargaining agreement.

No. They’re people out there doing real jobs- otherwise the country couldn’t function.

I’ve been watching a gang of three blokes doing a re-roof next door. Terracotta tiles being replaced with colorbond. Hot, heavy and hazardous work, especially in the heat. Fortunately for them, the weather has been kind at 27 max. Even so…

Firstly, why are there no women up there doing the job? Surely they could do it just as well. Odd that.

Secondly, it’s a massive roof with many ridges and valleys, complex in the extreme. They are taking it in their stride and have stripped, rebattened and sarked about a quarter of it today. Plus sheeting it out and placing the caps. Poetry in motion.

A real job demanding real skills plus physical strength, agility and endurance. And real men, despite the sprinkling of tatts.

The Victorian election didn’t show Labor still has a strong grip on worker votes.
It did show that white collar, government or semi government employees voted with their wallets.
Bendigo and Ballarat are known as government towns are therefore safe Labor. Labor faced its biggest challenges in the true blue collar seats where the workers are mostly self employed or work for private industries.
Monty doesn’t do research but we knew that already.

Gabor

Not true, they care, M0nty slowed down even on his own blog when responses dried up, don’t know the latest state as I haven’t visited for ages.

Last time I looked, about a month ago, the discussion was a three way babble between m0nty=fa, Steve from Brissy and Homer Paxton. We’re not talking intellectual stimulation there.

Labor faced its biggest challenges in the true blue collar seats where the workers are mostly self employed or work for private industries.

Massive swings to the Liberals in the satellite northern and western suburbs… which are still Labor seats by 10-15%. Meanwhile, in the absence of a strong state Teal presence, Labor mopped up and consolidated their hold on sandbelt and other eastern suburban seats. This is despite the shelving of East West Link, which under other circumstances would have been a major vote loser for Labor.

It’s as if the Vic Liberals devised the exact strategy to minimise their seat numbers.

Cohenite:

Effectively the (GOP) House committees have no power to prosecute lying bitches like this arrogant slob because all they can do is refer her to the DC prosecutor who is a demorat.

They should bring them anyway, because at some stage the DC Prosecutor will not be a Democrat and the cases can be perhaps reviewed?
It’d be a great way to start rounding them up.

It’s as if the Vic Liberals devised the exact strategy to minimise their seat numbers.

Being Labor Lite does that every time.
Maybe if the Libs tried something different?
Like denounce net frigging zero and actually stand up against the green progs?

How about we all just wake up to the fact the government is too big, too powerful and too distanced from the citizens it is ruling over?
What we’ll do after that revelation, I’ve no idea.
Lying flat, anyone?
Walking away?
Just saying “No?”.

Calli:

We know why not. It would swallow up just about every arsk sitting on the treasury bench.

Taxes for thee,
But not for meee!

Winston, they’ve spent a fortune on trying to locate and fix leaks. Time to bite the bullet and change over.

Every so often, there’s a crack of a ball on the roof. There are some really lousy players out there.

Lizzie:
No. I’m not going to discuss this with you any more.
Your naivete may get you lots of hand pats and sighs about how difficult it is, and “we are hurting because we care so damn much.”
I’m not interested any more.

Can’t see how the escooter rider not wearing a helmet caused the accident. The insurers, will of course , try it on.

From yesterday but I have been in a similar situation. As a grad just out of uni, drunk driver hit my car in front of a cop car (Fortunately for me).

My insurance (Bomb insurance) had a clause about uninsured drivers. They casually waited for his conviction and nulling of his insurance then promptly hit him with the bill for my damage. That was well over 20 years now.

As Eyrie said they will try it on and unfortunately we are at a point where they just keep pushing the line because can, hey we are big and have better lawyers than you. Once used to be called unconscionable conduct. Then again Governments have been guilty of the same, Robodebt anyone…

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 1, 2023 at 3:59 pm
Perrottet is toast Cassie. He and Kean have infuriated the base,

yep – I’m afraid the NSW libs need a good kicking into the wilderness in the forlorn hope they find their roots.

callisays:
March 1, 2023 at 5:09 pm
Winston, they’ve spent a fortune on trying to locate and fix leaks. Time to bite the bullet and change over.

Every so often, there’s a crack of a ball on the roof. There are some really lousy players out there.

I once hooked a ball over a line of trees towards a nearby road. As I turned to my bag to get another ball, my playing group informed me that the ball had hit a passing car and bounced back onto the course.

The car just kept going.

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 1, 2023 at 4:09 pm
CLOSE THE DOORS!!!
SET IT ON FIRE!!!

before or after they walk out? *

* NADT

So it looks like Bakhmut is strategic after all.

Yesterday Z was softening up the population for a withdrawal.
I suspect that will happen.

Ukraine Signals It May Be Forced to Abandon Bakhmut to Russians (1 Mar)

Looks like the Aussie unis are going to switch to issuing visa/degrees straight from India.

Charles Darwin University announces new Indian office

Charles Darwin University (CDU) has announced the opening of a new office in India during a trip to the nation with the education minister, Jason Clare.

It comes amid a drop in enrolments amongst Chinese students that has battered the university sector since the onset of the pandemic.

*Visas/residency
** Im sure this will work well. No-one in India will pay for a shonky “degree” and use it to get to Oz and a well paid job.

duncanmsays:
March 1, 2023 at 5:31 pm
thefrollickingmolesays:
March 1, 2023 at 4:09 pm
CLOSE THE DOORS!!!
SET IT ON FIRE!!!

before or after they walk out? *

My lawyer advises me I should probably not answer that question with invigorating candor.

H B Bearsays:
March 1, 2023 at 12:56 pm
duncanm at 12:41 – ditto the idea that an apartment building could support multiple charging points. The grid was never intended to support this type of use.

exactly HB.

Let’s take a small residential apartment block – a dozen or so units.

A dozen cars drawing 50kWh each overnight, each and every night?

You’ve already more than doubled the average household energy consumption (~40kWh/day).

Twiggy snorts a weird hallucinatory gas.

Australia must act or risk losing ‘great comparative advantage’ in renewable hydrogen, as US incentives suck in capital (Sky News, 1 Mar)

Australia has a limited time to capitalise on its “great comparative advantage” in the renewable hydrogen sector as Andrew “Twiggy” Forest reveals US incentives have “completely changed the landscape” for investment.

Meanwhile in the real world:

Evacuation order issued over ‘major hazardous materials incident’ at a chemical manufacturing plant in Banksmeadow (Sky News, 28 Feb)

An excavation order has been issued for residents within 800 metres of a tower following a “major hazardous materials incident” in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
…
With the structure vulnerable, the tower was feared to potentially collapse and land on a supply of highly flammable hydrogen being stored on semi-trailers on a nearby property.

Fire crews are planning to remove the hydrogen cylinders to eliminate risk to the public and have, therefore, issued the precautionary evacuation order.

Look for more flammable fun if Twiggy gets his way. Also hide your wallet, since he’s coming for it.

Predicted by Big Serge;

“Big Serge ??????
@witte_sergei
·
Feb 7
Bakhmut is functionally encircled. Russian forces have now physically cut all the highway links to the city, only a few rural roads now remain unblocked. Russia also continues to make advances on the Marinka, Kupyansk, and Lyman axes.”

__________________________________

Big Serge ??????
@witte_sergei
·
“Jan 31
“Buddy, this is the Bakhmut Boiler. None of us are going home.””

_____________________________________

Eat the damn bugs ADF peoples.

New Zealand-based business awarded $200 million Australian Defence Force contract for new ‘diverse’ combat ration packs (Sky News, 1 Mar)

Major General Bottrell added the ADF, which orders about 400,000 ration packs a year, “is committed to encouraging inclusivity and diversity”.

“These new Combat Rations support the varied cultural and religious needs of our modern Defence Force,” he said.
…
“And I want products Made in Australia to be recognised and sought after around the world.

I love that last comment since he awarded the new halal rat pack to New Zealand. Presumably they won’t have ghastly ham-n-egg in them at least, since that probably wouldn’t be sufficiently religiously diverse these days.

P.S. If people would stop quoting him I wouldn’t have to read any of his stupidity.

Pro-tip:
Avoid SpongeBob’s commentary.
You won’t be missing anything.

Twiggy snorts a weird hallucinatory gas.

It’s the smell of money. It has that effect on some people.

That’s the same “Twiggy, you know, yer mate Twiggy” who cut and run from the subsidy-soaked but obviously cactus SunCable brainfart, right?
…. when will the penny drop that he’s little more than a spiv?

The two are not mutually exclusive, Wally.

Ed Casesays:
March 1, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Leeser has been guilty of naivety – at best.

HeadTilty is now spinning the line that the People are Sovereign and The Voice means sharing Sovereignty with Aborigines.

Richard Cranium

No, sharing sovereignty with aborigines means that some of “the People” get only one vote, and some get two votes. This sounds like a racial preference system, do you support that?