Open Thread – Weekend 1 April 2023


The Entrance of Christ to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Hypolithe Flandrin, mid-1800s

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Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
April 1, 2023 12:15 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 12:16 am

JUDGMENT DAY.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 12:20 am

‘Come with me, if you want to live.’

Rabz
April 1, 2023 12:20 am

And just like that, death duties and capital gains taxes on family homes are back, back baby, back!

Those staggeringly stupid communist b’stards. 😡

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 1, 2023 12:25 am

Deborah Ann Harry:

Blondie – Heart Of Glass (Moreno J Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j01OvE52Q-o

Rabz
April 1, 2023 12:26 am

Dim Chambers really does possess a jug eared adorned and very punchable visage crying out for the liberal and long overdue facial application of Neges’ beloved Lucille (repeatedly).

Three years of hitlerist insanity.

They will get theirs.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 1, 2023 12:27 am

This isn’t really a new thread, dover was just joking. April Fools!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 12:44 am

Big news coming from the NT later today, it is said by some.

Allegedly.

And apparently.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 1, 2023 12:48 am

via Zulu’s copypasta from Ye Olde Threadde:

[The InVoice’s scope ] would include matters ­relating to the conduct of elections, given the under-enrolment of First Nations people in our electoral system…

Wait what? Outback aboriginals are not even using the representation system we already have? Do ya think maybe they could get enrolled to vote and try that first before inventing an entirely new parallel representation system?
Throw it on the pile of fundamental problems with the InVoice:
1. It’s a new racist institution by design.
2. It creates unequal democratic representation for different australians.
3. BTW, https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/rowan-dean-we-dont-need-a-voice-because-we-already-have-one/
4. and now, indigenous people could try enrolling in the representation system that already exists which they are entitled to use but are not using.

The In-Voice can’t really be for mere representation because apparently the indigenous can’t be bothered to use the voting and representation process the rest of us use, and there’s already a National Indigenous Australians Agency to pick up the slack anyhow.
What is the InVoice really for?

Armadillo
Armadillo
April 1, 2023 1:09 am

This entire impeachment hoax is merely a distraction. It’s not going anywhere. It never was. It’s fake, phoney and false. It will get thrown out, or won on appeal.

Republicans need to “wise up” and ignore it completely. Trump included. Concentrate on what the Democrats are trying to hide would be my advice. And there is plenty of that. Bragg did what he did, because he was TOLD to do it.

There are “no accidents” when it comes to these freaks. Accidents happen afterwards (if you fuckup the instructions).

Rallies in “safe places” are the answer, not protests in enemy territory. You don’t walk voluntarily into a “kill zone”. That’s just fucking insane.

Every wave eventually reaches the shore.

Armadillo
Armadillo
April 1, 2023 1:20 am

I’m in “moderation”? Wow. This place quickly changed. Did Soros buy it?

rickw
rickw
April 1, 2023 1:22 am

What is the InVoice really for?

Destruction.

Armadillo
Armadillo
April 1, 2023 1:30 am

Destruction

It’s a classic “shakedown”. American leftist politics 101. Ask Joe and BLM.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 1, 2023 1:40 am

Good fun to be had by all. Audio is fat and juicy. Clever edit.

Bee Gees – Night Fever (Moreno J Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_F93ZQj3R0

Armadillo
Armadillo
April 1, 2023 1:41 am

The first hint of the Democrat influence in Australian politics was the “Kevin 07” campaign. Aussies never did politics that way previously. Young people on the streets in mobs with signs and T-Shirts and playing music. It worked.

Like putting a Christmas bauble in front of a Cat.

Armadillo
Armadillo
April 1, 2023 1:45 am

My first comment is still in “moderation”. Meh. I’m off.

Goodnight Tony N.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 1, 2023 2:17 am

Armadillosays:
April 1, 2023 at 1:45 am
My first comment is still in “moderation”. Meh. I’m off

It’s called being in bed asleep and dealing with it in the morning.

Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 4:21 am
rosie
rosie
April 1, 2023 4:28 am
Crossie
Crossie
April 1, 2023 4:40 am

Thanks Tom for the toons. Leak a bit disappointing today, I expected something more cutting.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
April 1, 2023 4:52 am

Powerline memes tomorrow should be a bumper edition.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 7:19 am

Leak doesn’t have to “like” Trump. His toon raises an interesting point about any supposed agreement though.

Not that anyone with such arrangements with the other side would try it on – they’d be “suicided”.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 1, 2023 7:36 am

It’s the people that don’t like Trump that have the character flaws.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 7:44 am

I must be flawed then, Anchor. There are certain things about the man that I like and others…not so much. I’m definitely not a starry-eyed Trump groupie.

Something I do like about him is his ability to polarise and expose – he’s like one of those flocking agents you put in the pool to clear it up. People you thought were okay suddenly reveal their true allegiances, like Pence for instance. And no one could have forced the media to expose their agenda and worthlessness as he did, just by existing.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 7:46 am

Labour maffs.
Probably borrowed Jim Chalmer’s calculator.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 7:48 am

Yes Calli it’s incredible how many who seemed ok to quite good exposed themselves.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 7:50 am

Trump was.probably as good as it can get and actually it was pretty good. Better than Howard phony.

Leon L.
Leon L.
April 1, 2023 7:51 am

Perhaps young Leak needs to have a read of this:
Former DNI Ric Grenell has a message for all republicans.

Grenell explains that every GOPe candidate should withdraw from the 2024 race, and immediately position their battlements in full alignment with President Trump.

We don’t need someone “presidential”, someone “nice”.
We need someone who will stand up and fight.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 7:52 am

What don’t I like about Trump? Not sure if I’d like to work for him.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 7:56 am

Big news coming from the NT later today, it is said by some.

I note that the Alice Springs footy comp has been shut down because of the lawlessness around the joint.
Link here

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:00 am

“I must be flawed then, Anchor. There are certain things about the man that I like and others…not so much. I’m definitely not a starry-eyed Trump groupie.

Something I do like about him is his ability to polarise and expose – he’s like one of those flocking agents you put in the pool to clear it up. People you thought were okay suddenly reveal their true allegiances, like Pence for instance. And no one could have forced the media to expose their agenda and worthlessness as he did, just by existing.”

Good comment calli, and I agree 100%. I would argue that Mark Latham is our Trump. Latham isn’t perfect however he also has the ability to polarise and expose, and I find that the very people Latham alienates and infuriates (a la Andrew Blot) are exactly the kind of people I want nothing to do with.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:02 am

Grate. Yet another “smoking ceremony” – this time for the Grand Opening of a new Harvey Norman store down the street.

Not quite the “Blessing of the Fleet”.

I wonder if they’ll have a sale of smoke damaged goods?

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:03 am

“We don’t need someone “presidential”, someone “nice”.
We need someone who will stand up and fight”

Agree, which I why I won’t put the knife in Mark Latham’s back.

This applies across the West…we’re in this dire predicament because people, particularly people on the right, have been far too nice for far too long. It is time to take the kid gloves off, put on the boxing gloves and start punching.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 1, 2023 8:06 am

We’re down the lowest part of New Zealand…weather has held good, although down on the Slopes Point marker yesterday it was blowing at about 70kph. Further south than Tassie’s most southerly bit of land, so I suppose it’s the furthest south on the planet we’ve ever been.

Here’s all of Mark Latham’s dust-ups over the years – and he’s doubling down and refusing to apologise.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 8:09 am

Budget emergency, what budget emergency? Hun:

The Andrews Government is paying bosses on its gold-plated major projects salaries of up to $780,000, at the same time as it slashes public service jobs due to a budget emergency.

Special exemptions from the state’s pay-setting tribunal have been secured in recent months to pay Big Build chiefs the mega pay packets, due to strict salary limits on taxpayer-funded executive positions.

Some of the biggest packages approved include almost $780,000 for the former head of the Major Transport Infrastructure Authority, Corey Hannett, who until recently was overseeing the state’s $100 billion infrastructure program.

Other super-sized salaries approved include up to $750,000 a year for the head of Rail Projects Victoria, Nicole Stoddart, and up to $620,000 a year for Commonwealth Games Organising Committee boss, Jeroen Weimar. (spit)

The packages approved were between $127,000 and $286,000 higher than the public sector salary bands usually available for such positions.

They’re also significantly higher than the salary and perks pocketed by Premier Daniel Andrews, which are worth almost $470,000 a year.

Documents obtained by the Saturday Herald Sun show that the Government made dozens of applications to the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal for pay exemptions in the past year.

Several positions at the $125 billion Suburban Rail Loop Authority were hiked above standard salary limits, while other projects with special packages include the Level Crossing Removal Project, the North East Link, and a regional rail upgrade program.

The remuneration tribunal largely blamed building sector competition for the inflated salaries, as well as technical skills required for some roles and a “current skills shortage for some specialist positions in the major transport infrastructure sector”.

The eye-watering wages can be revealed just days after Victorians departments and agencies were told to slash 10 per cent of their spending due to rising debt and interest rates putting immense pressure on the budget, sparking concerns up to 5000 jobs could go.

Premier Daniel Andrews and his team have softened the ground for a difficult budget, saying the state was in a different position than it was five years ago.

But insiders have expressed frustration that pet areas such as transport and health, along with key election commitments, have largely been spared from the budget’s Razor Gang.

One of the most controversial areas of the state’s infrastructure program is the Suburban Rail Loop, which experts have criticised for its immense cost.

Some of the SRL roles with salary exemptions include the rail infrastructure delivery director, who can be paid $425,000 a year – or $55,000 above the standard range.

The package director for SRL stations also got an exemption and can be paid up to $407,548.

But the biggest increase was for the executive general manager of rail and infrastructure delivery at SRL, which now nets up to $591,875 a year – up from $493,229.

Since 2015, the number of executives earning more than $500,000 has gone from three to 25.

Those earning between $300,000 and $500,000 have risen from 29 to 339.

Shadow Treasurer said Brad Rowswell said the figures showed the government couldn’t manage money and was out of touch.

“While hard working Victorians deal with a rising cost of living, the Andrews Labor Government’s hand-picked executives are taking home almost $500 million a year,” he said.

A government spokesman said the state budget would deliver on election commitments.

“Just as all Victorians are facing cost of living challenges with rising interest rates and inflation, the Victorian Budget will also take into account current economic conditions.”

Pesutto, is there a John Pesutto in the house?

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:11 am

“Better than Howard phony.”

Not as spineless and phony as those who followed him, Abbott (spineless), Turdbull (phony) and then Morrison (ultimate phony). And to be fair to Howard, under him we did have some good governance. Okay, okay, he made errors which we can see twenty years later but that old adage is very appropriate here, ‘hindsight is a wonderful thing, but foresight is better‘. I don’t know of any leader who has ever had much “foresight”.

There was one thing Howard was good at, he didn’t shy away from fighting culture wars, think his stance on euthanasia, the republic, ATSIC. He was a warrior compared to the current motley lot of Liberals and Nationals. I doubt very much, if Howard was leader, that the Liberals would be still vacillating on the Voice. They would have some out against it.

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:14 am

The weather has turned, my favourite time of the year has arrived…autumn. Tis cooler and the humidity has dropped.

Amen.

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:14 am

They would have COME out against it.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:17 am

The row first blew up when Latham objected to independent MP Alex Greenwich calling him ‘disgusting’.

That in itself is a lie. The “row” started long before the Twitter exchange.

These guys have been at each other’s throats for a long time. Culminating in the attack on the church. The Twitter stuff was instigated by Greenwich and was a vitriolic attack on Latham’s character. He thought he was safe doing that. He’d never front up to Latham in person.

A description of homosexual intercourse followed. Reeeeeee!

I’m fed up with po faced hypocrites pretending that the act is perfectly okay and to be celebrated but please…please don’t describe it. Much the same as abortion really.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:20 am

I wonder if Johannes is going to have a go at the Latham dustup?

His dad would definitely go there. 😀

mem
mem
April 1, 2023 8:29 am

Caitlyn Jenner has stirred the wrath of drag queen celebrities after the former Olympic champion publicly condemned the “radical rainbow mafia,” claiming it is engaging in the grooming of children and is using violence to achieve its political goals.

In an incendiary series of tweets on Thursday, Caitlyn Jenner didn’t hold back when calling the “rainbow mafia” “the worst thing that has ever happened to LGBT people,” and even “domestic terrorists.” Jenner appeared to be reacting to Monday’s shooting in Nashville in which a transgender individual gunned down six people, including three children, at a Christian school.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/03/31/caitlyn-jenner-radical-rainbow-mafia-has-hijacked-lgbt-they-are-domestic-terrorists/

Pandora’s box has been opened and not even Pandora can control it now. But credit to her this took courage, but even as she condemned she couldn’t help but try and seize the high ground.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:29 am

A song for today.

Just about everyone I knew had this album.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 8:34 am

Vicki Campion:

How do you make this work?

You do everything to shut down Australia’s steel, glass, aluminium and cement industries and lock up your forests so we can’t get timber. Then you import another 900,000 people over 18 months.

What will they do when they come in? Lie on the grass? Live in the park? Shelter under a bridge?

ABS data shows 87 per cent of migrants move to overcrowded Sydney and Melbourne.

It would be more intelligent to spread the population around, but putting a family home on a regional block is an environmental evil, the penance for which adds up to $350,000 in green tape.

The cost of building a house in Australia should be cheaper than in other countries because of the timber that we have in abundance, the steel and aluminium that we should make more affordably than anyone in the world with our coal and iron ore and bauxite, and bricks made from plentiful clay and heat.

With 26 million people in a country the size of Western Europe, our house blocks should be cheaper than anywhere else.

That they are outrageously expensive is due to one thing – government policy.

The federal government is borrowing $10bn for a housing fund for 30,000 homes when in the next breath, it used the Greens to pass a carbon tax making it more expensive to build a house.

Across Australia, state governments are locking up native forests, leaving the country 250,000 house frames short without planting an extra billion trees because we can’t cut down the wood we already have, based on this idea that if you harvest a tree, another tree never grows.

A natural forest would not exist in Australia if bush never grew back after being razed. Look at what happens after any bushfire.

Instead of conservative governments ratcheting this back, in NSW, former treasurer Matt Kean made this worse, locking out new housing outside the cities using green taxes under the guise of the Biodiversity Offset Scheme.

Country Mayors Association executive Craig Davies is fronting a review committee this month with a litany of examples where Kean’s BDOS is more expensive than the capital of proposals.

It’s single-handedly responsible for causing the loss of new family homes across NSW, student lodging in Moree, imposing a $1.375bn tax on the inland rail (up from $800m in October), and $1.2bn tax on transmission lines between Wagga Wagga and South Australia.

A small subdivision in Tamworth – one of the fastest-growing regional cities in NSW – worth $11.5m, was lost because the offset cost was $16.2m. What do you think was there prior? Remnant rainforest? It would have been a wheat paddock.

Davies points to Coleambally in Murrumbidgee Shire, originally planned to accommodate 2000 people in 1964. There are 1300 people now, and the BDOS tax to house another 650 is $24m for land that has been earmarked for homes for six decades.

The problem is the Teal/Green/Kean ilk foist these policies on towns they couldn’t find on a map. Coleambally is not the rainforested hinterland of Byron Bay.

It’s 38 days until the budget is handed down and the population forecast has changed to expect more immigrants after Treasury officials told the Economics Legislation Committee “Australia’s population and net overseas migration growth have picked up strongly” and “faster than expected”.

Yet, as of Thursday afternoon, our genius PM thanked the Climate 200 Teals and Greens for taking a bad idea and making it catastrophic, locking down a hard cap on coal and gas which are the major items making a positive change to reducing the forecast budget deficit.

You can only make affordable building materials with coal and gas generating cheap electricity to process raw products.

Under this week’s introduction of the Safeguard Mechanism amendments, those who process raw materials must slash their emissions 4.9 per cent every year or close up and leave Australia. They will probably do the latter.

According to ABS data released this week, there were three million permanent migrants in Australia who arrived in the 20 years to August 2021. Now officials are talking about another two and half Canberras’ worth over 18 months.

Where are we building for them?

Green taxes have forced more than $213m worth of new developments off the planning table in NSW, sending regional housing blocks up by $350,000.

Without massive construction cost inflation, you can’t have enormous population growth and puritanical “decarbonisation” policies.

We have a land rich in resources and so much space, but states and territories are strangling land supply for new homes, married to high-density infill policies that force families to give up backyards for concrete dog boxes while imposing green taxes on regional communities that cry out for workers and homes.

We have bound ourselves in anti-competitive green tape so the Teal/Green/Kean party posers can charter private planes to argue against natural gas and ammonium nitrate fertiliser in places they cannot even drive themselves to.

The question for them is how they plan to keep another 900,000 people fed, sheltered and warm while on the naive path of Australia’s minuscule contribution to global emissions. Something for them to ponder from their big backyards.

One point I have, why do we need any migration here at all? Unless they are skilled, like doctors or surgeons, don’t allow it.
We live in a true mongocracy

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:34 am

Gee those cute and cuddly drag queens aren’t very nice, are they?

Perhaps best to keep them away from small children. Who know what might happen if a little one steps out of line.

eric hinton
eric hinton
April 1, 2023 8:35 am

I wonder if Johannes is going to have a go at the Latham dustup?

His dad would definitely go there. ?

Indeed.
No offence intended.

Has anyone seen my husband?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 1, 2023 8:42 am

Corey Hannett.
That name rang a bell.
I know the bloke, he came from Navarre. There’s a Hannett road as you drive into town.
Navarre is a tiny town on the way from St.Arnaud to Stawell, heading south, or from Maryborough through Avoca to Stawell, heading west. They boast football and netball teams that regularly win premierships against much larger town teams. Corey is keeping up the Navarre overachievement spirit. A very nice lad and family from memory.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 8:46 am

It’s 38 days until the budget is handed down
Ms Campion reminds us which brings me to this from the Daily Telegraph:

Psychic healing, tarot cards, sound baths and crystal wand making are being offered to people on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The treatments range in cost but contribute to the annual $35.8 billion NDIS bill.

A News Corp investigation has found multiple businesses – some of which have been officially registered on the NDIS and audited – are providing a whole range of alternative therapies, funded by the taxpayer.

Many of these treatments are provided under the category of Innovative Community Participation, which has no price limits on what people can charge.

The NDIS guidelines state services provided have to be “reasonable and necessary”, related to someone’s disability, represent value for money and must be likely to be effective and work for the participant.

But there’s no definitive list of which therapies are allowed and which ones are not, leaving it open to interpretation.

One sector insider, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s basically a pub test and no-one is checking”.

A psychic medium, who offers NDIS clients “a new pathway to wellness through a variety of spiritual care services” said she has done everything by the book.

She paid $3000 through a third party to help her register as an NDIS provider and passed an audit, which cost her a further $850.

And, she has employed a company to do all her NDIS admin, because she doesn’t want to “get anything wrong”.

She said as a qualified holistic counsellor she uses a combination of psychic healing, tarot cards, crystals, runes, chakra, meditation and role play to help her NDIS clients, at a charge of $95 an hour.

She said someone made a complaint about her in December after seeing one of her business leaflets and the NDIS watchdog made checks and she was told she could carry on.

On Friday, the woman said she was informed on another complaint against her and had “made my flyer clearer – holistic counselling and meditation can only be claimed under the NDIS”.

News Corp found many other businesses offering similar services on the NDIS, including sound baths, which is a meditative experience where participants are “bathed” in sound waves.

Another business offers a $295 “NDIS supported workshop” making crystal wands.

The course host said crystals are “conductors and emitters of energy so they make you feel good”.

The woman behind the established business said the crystal wand workshop was a form of art therapy and a group social event. Also included in the session was equine meditation.

She said they have helped hundreds of people on the NDIS, as well as private clients, and people from schools and government agencies.

After News Corp pressed the NDIS watchdog and Minister Bill Shorten’s office several times for clarification on whether services like psychic healing are accepted on the scheme, a spokeswoman for the NDIS Quality and Safety Commission said “services such as psychic readings, intuitive readings and psychic healings are not considered reasonable and necessary”.

Mr Shorten has repeatedly vowed to clear up the mess left by the previous Liberal governments and make sure vulnerable clients get faster, fairer access to the disability supports they need.

He told News Corp he has asked the National Disability Insurance Agency to “scrutinise” the invoices provided by the psychic healer to make sure they comply and “I thank the media for bringing this to my attention”. (someone totally across their portfolio)

Article comes with a photo of Tits Shorten. With Albo, Chalmers and Bowen in the limelight, completely forgot about Tits’ status as the most punchable face.
Could’ve bolded the whole thing but FMD what a shitshow

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 8:49 am

“Pandora’s box has been opened and not even Pandora can control it now. But credit to her this took courage, but even as she condemned she couldn’t help but try and seize the high ground.”

Not “her”, and not “she”. Jenner is an adult human male who puts on a dress, Jenner is a “he” and “him”.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 1, 2023 8:49 am

Sorry.
Should have linked my comment to BB’s exec salary piece from The Hun.

MatrixTransform
April 1, 2023 8:50 am

so it’s official.

Solzhenitsyn, Orwell and Goebbels are getting the band back together

that fellow Trump IS a “wrecker”

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 8:50 am

Is he a discrimination specialist barrister who’s a tranny,
or a barrister who specialises in tranny discrimination?

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 1, 2023 8:51 am

Another crack in the dam wall at the Oz today:

A dose of trouble: Australians injured by Covid vaccines ‘forgotten’ Eighteen months after it was announced, a ‘simple and quick’ process for compensation is mired in confusion and obscurity.

So its gone from ending the careers of Drs who questioned the safety of the COVID injections, to front page stories about injuries from it…

When are they dropping the mandates and letting thinking health care workers back to work?

Tom
Tom
April 1, 2023 8:56 am

… which I why I won’t put the knife in Mark Latham’s back.

Anyone who doesn’t side with Mark Latham against Pauline Hanson is part of the problem.

Hanson has become the original Canberra grifter. If she wants to grow the One Nation vote, she should have her ear to the ground in NSW of all places — especially when it concerns the Greenfilth and Alex Greenwich.

Getting jealous of Mark Latham’s popularity is on the train line to obscurity.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:58 am

Psychic healing, tarot cards, sound baths and crystal wand making are being offered to people on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Isn’t that sweet.

Try getting a cleaner for nonagenarians through My Aged Care.

On second thoughts, don’t even bother. It’s all a lie and attempting to get anyone to call back is bad for the blood pressure.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 8:59 am

If she wants to grow the One Nation vote

She should immediately remover her name from the party title. That is part of the reason people hold back.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
April 1, 2023 9:01 am

We’re down the lowest part of New Zealand…weather has held good, although down on the Slopes Point marker yesterday it was blowing at about 70kph. Further south than Tassie’s most southerly bit of land, so I suppose it’s the furthest south on the planet we’ve ever been.

TE, you can set yourself a challenge to go further south. Torres del Paine National Park in Chile (a truly spectacular place) is 51 South and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego is nearly 55 South.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 9:01 am

A musical genre about pick up trucks, unfaithful women and old dogs doesn’t have much going for it

This week, “A Hay Plains Truckstop Playlist”, music to listen to in thongs on the shitter. That should leave plenty of scope while getting the punters moist.

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:08 am
calli
calli
April 1, 2023 9:09 am

I’ve sailed past Cape Horn. Do I get the prize? 😀

Stark, rugged and cold. I was too much of a cheapskate to take the trip to Antarctica. The cost/benefit just didn’t add up.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 9:10 am

Gary Varvel #2

Love Varvel’s donkeys.

Luzu
April 1, 2023 9:12 am

Just putting a thought out there.

The very violent reaction of men who believe they are women to adult female human beings seems to be rooted in envy. Despite the adulation they receive for being ‘stunning and brave’, the victimhood which endows them with such moral authority, down to the very last of their XY chromosomes, they know they will never ‘be’ women. That the experience of womanhood goes beyond the surface and while it can be copied or imitated, it is only ever an act or adults playing a rather odd game of dress ups.

That is why women like Posie Parker cause them to lose all self-control. She simply says the part out loud that the rest of us are thinking: “You can wear a dress, pitch your voice higher, put on make up and pretend all you like. But you will never be a woman.”

Men who believe they are women envy those of us born XX. It is that very nasty emotion that drives the hate, anger and violence. Isn’t it kind of like Syndrome in The Incredibles? “Well, if everybody/anybody can be a woman, then nobody is”. Yes, I am paraphrasing.

And why is the question”What is a man?” never asked?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 9:13 am

I’ve sailed past Cape Horn. Do I get the prize?

Perth to Albany into a SW. Ended up with a couple of tonnes of ocean in the anchor locker. I’ll fold.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 9:15 am

I’ve sailed past Cape Horn. Do I get the prize?

No, but you do get rest one elbow on the table.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
April 1, 2023 9:17 am

No calli you don’t get the prize, I’ve been to Danco Island just north of the Antarctic Circle.

I a trip to the Falklands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula in 2018. It did make a big dent in my savings but it was a once in a lifetime experience. Setting foot on the continent was memorable but the highlight was being befriended by a juvenile elephant seal on a beach in South Georgia, I was standing in a group just having been briefed by the expedition team when the seal came flopping straight to me, I kept stepping back to take a photo and it kept following me, sniffing my wellington boots and ski pants. The other passengers were laughing and got some video of the encounter.

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:20 am
Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 9:24 am

Further to Latham’s tweet, why does anyone think, for one little moment, that Greenfilth, the MSM and all the rest of the mob would ever accept an apology? Here’s the thing, they won’t, and Latham knows this and it’s why he won’t say “sorry”, because all you’re doing is feeding the hungry crocodiles. What they really truly want is Latham’s head, served up to them on a platter. We know apologising doesn’t work, because the progressive scum have made it clear, time and time again, they don’t and won’t accept apologies. They refuse to forgive, forgiveness is simply not part of their pagan theology. Roseanne Barr knows this, Jeremy Clarkson knows this, and many others know this, you can profusely apologise a thousand times, yet it will make no difference, they the leftist mobs will still want to put the knife through your heart. Why? Because they want to silence their ideological enemies once and for all and those wimps on the right, such as Andrew Blot, are aiding them. Here’s the moral of the story, NEVER EVER apologise to the left.

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 9:26 am

“Luzusays:
April 1, 2023 at 9:12 am”

I can’t like your comment often enough.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 1, 2023 9:30 am

I can’t be bothered even watching Pauline’s “Please Explain” videos now. She’s dead to me.

Crossie
Crossie
April 1, 2023 9:33 am

TE, you can set yourself a challenge to go further south. Torres del Paine National Park in Chile (a truly spectacular place) is 51 South and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego is nearly 55 South.

I have been to Fairbanks, Alaska which is above 64 degrees north. Does that count?

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:35 am
mem
mem
April 1, 2023 9:36 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
April 1, 2023 at 9:26 am
“Luzusays:
April 1, 2023 at 9:12 am”

I can’t like your comment often enough.

Me too. So I’ve posted it again for the late arrivals.

Luzusays
Just putting a thought out there.

The very violent reaction of men who believe they are women to adult female human beings seems to be rooted in envy. Despite the adulation they receive for being ‘stunning and brave’, the victimhood which endows them with such moral authority, down to the very last of their XY chromosomes, they know they will never ‘be’ women. That the experience of womanhood goes beyond the surface and while it can be copied or imitated, it is only ever an act or adults playing a rather odd game of dress ups.

That is why women like Posie Parker cause them to lose all self-control. She simply says the part out loud that the rest of us are thinking: “You can wear a dress, pitch your voice higher, put on make up and pretend all you like. But you will never be a woman.”

Men who believe they are women envy those of us born XX. It is that very nasty emotion that drives the hate, anger and violence. Isn’t it kind of like Syndrome in The Incredibles? “Well, if everybody/anybody can be a woman, then nobody is”. Yes, I am paraphrasing.

And why is the question “What is a man?” never asked?

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:38 am
Crossie
Crossie
April 1, 2023 9:38 am

Here’s the moral of the story, NEVER EVER apologise to the left.

It never appeases the baying mob, only inflames them. They smell weakness and go for the kill. Latham’s best course of action is to say nothing, ignore the whole thing and move on.

Shame about Pauline though, she finally became that against which she fought.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
April 1, 2023 9:38 am

Well done Crossie, I haven’t been that far north. The furthest north I’ve been is the Helsinki suburb of Vantaa, which is a bit over 60 North. I think Lizzie might trump you though, recalling her trip to see the Northern Lights in Finland.

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:40 am

They’ll have us back to the horse and cart in no time.

EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:41 am
Luzu
April 1, 2023 9:42 am

Cassie,

Thank you for your encouragement.

I am not a feminist in any way. Coming from an all-girl family with a deeply unfeminine mother did for a time push me in the direction of seeing the battle of the sexes as something I had to participate in and win for the sake of other women.

But becoming a believer as an adult and receiving the incredible gift of two sons changed my perspective permanently. The incredible complementarity between male and female never ceases to delight and inspire me.

I intend to join any protest where I live that upholds the right of women to female only spaces, just as I will fight tooth and nail for men to have and maintain theirs. I have already begun to talk with the women in my workplace about what the trans rights movement will mean for them and their daughters.

And, Rabz, please don’t despair about young modern women just yet. I have a niece in her early twenties who has just turned her back on a life of drugs, promiscuity and alcohol. She has gravitated towards me recently and we spend a lot of time together.

She was not always known for her modest or feminine dress sense. But just recently, after a vintage clothing shopping trip together, she said “Aunty, I do love dresses below the knee, especially when they have a little frill at the hem”.

She has gone from resolutely declaring she hates children to preparing herself to be the best wife and mother she can be.

There is always hope!

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 9:43 am

and now President Trump

That’s Sheikh Trump, if you don’t mind.

Indolent
Indolent
April 1, 2023 9:45 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 1, 2023 9:46 am
Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 9:50 am

Crossiesays:
April 1, 2023 at 9:33 am
TE, you can set yourself a challenge to go further south. Torres del Paine National Park in Chile (a truly spectacular place) is 51 South and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego is nearly 55 South.

I have been to Fairbanks, Alaska which is above 64 degrees north. Does that count?

I’ve been to Bodo in Norway by rail. It is the northern most part of the Norwegian public railway system and is just above the Arctic Circle. There is even a sign next to the railway line on the way there stating ‘Arctic Circle’ as the train goes past. It was early September 1983 and it was already ‘farking’ cold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bod%C3%B8

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 9:59 am

It would be more intelligent to spread the population around, but putting a family home on a regional block is an environmental evil, the penance for which adds up to $350,000 in green tape.

I might add Ms Campion Teh Voice. If that gets up, expect more costs for er, consultations with the Aboriginal big men for any development to proceed. So add a ‘black armband’ cost.
So as I posted yesterday, the area around the 12 Apostles up to Ararat has been ‘given back’ under Native Title. If any migrant were to be settled there, already the dollars are raining down.
And as calli alerted us to this morning, a smoking ceremony for a Harvey Norman opening? Get the phuck outta here.
Australia, you are standing in it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 1, 2023 9:59 am

Did more people die needlessly from not having COVID-19 than having It?

By Editorial Board – The Washington Times

It’s no surprise that a lot of people are trying to push the whole COVID-19 experience down the memory hole. An inquiry seeking to establish what went right and what went wrong would probably prove embarrassing to too many people who are now near-mythological figures in the American culture canon.

Nonetheless, an accounting is in order.

The people responsible for keeping us safe and preventing the coronavirus from spreading got too much wrong for any of us to be satisfied with their performance. We need an investigation, not because we’re looking for a scalp or two to hang on the wall but because the next time something like COVID-19 makes its presence known — and there will be a next time — we need to be better prepared.

There’s a lot we need to do differently. We should encourage people to remain calm in the face of unfolding uncertainty and not to stay away from hospitals and doctors if they feel sick. During COVID-19, the media, U.S. public health officials, doctors and politicians did neither, thinking that would help contain the virus and keep it from spreading.

It didn’t, and according to a new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, it led to more people dying from things other than the virus than projected. Measuring the Death Toll From Non-Covid Causes, a study undertaken by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan and Rob Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, attempts to explain why the rise in deaths among Americans under the age of 50 was higher from non-COVID causes than from the virus itself.

It’s an astonishing conclusion drawn from a thorough examination of death certificate data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020 and 2021 that also includes preliminary data from 2022.

By measuring the excess deaths that occurred over the normal trend line over the specified period, Messrs. Mulligan and Arnott found at least 250,000 Americans died unexpectedly from causes not related to COVID-19.

Some might argue that’s an undercount but, staying with what the two were able to determine through their research, the largest rise in non-COVID deaths occurred among adults 18 to 44. Their death rate rose by 27% above the projected trend line, settling out at about 60,000 people. Alarmingly, Messrs. Mulligan and Arnott conclude that most of the excess deaths from the start of 2020 through the end of 2022 were not caused by the virus.

Instead, they say, the major forms of excess deaths for this cohort came from alcohol, drugs, murder and car crashes — all of which, except perhaps car crashes, might have surged through a population group not considered “most at risk” from COVID-19 because of the draconian lockdowns imposed throughout the country.

These researchers have uncovered much worth looking at. Aside from the impact the social isolation caused by the lockdowns had on mental and physical health, there’s the economics to consider.

According to them, nearly $2.5 trillion in foregone output and productivity were lost because of excess deaths not related to COVID-19.

Ominously, the two researchers predict those costs are likely to rise in the future because of the days of schooling lost to the nation’s children while schools were closed by politicians at the behest of the teachers unions despite the lack of any evidence it was better to keep children home.

The Mulligan-Arnott findings call into question the efficacy of global lockdowns as a strategy for dealing with pandemics in the future.

They suggest, as indeed people suggested at the time, the safer and more cost-efficient path would have been to protect those deemed most likely to die from the virus while allowing natural immunity to build as a result of exposure among those more likely to survive an infection.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 10:02 am

I’ve been to the North Pole.
And the South Pole.
Twice.
Shut up.

Rabz
April 1, 2023 10:06 am

Brazen liars – the ALPBC claiming without any shame, that NSW has just broken records for the hottest March since like, for evah.

Absolute bollocks.

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 10:07 am

Pelosi Declared Trump Guilty & It is His Burden to Prove He is Innocent

“For Pelosi to even say that it is Trump’s burden to now prove he is innocent is just an example of how the United States is crumbling into dust. Everything generations have fought and died for to protect American freedom is right there in her words fiction. The Constitution is supposed to be Innocent until Proven Guilty, and the standard of proof is BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.

This incident of Donald Trump illustrates how corrupt the grand jury system truly is and courts refuse to allow the public access to even how indictments are obtained. A prosecutor ONLY presents his facts that are cherry-picked. He has NO OBLIGATION to present any contrary evidence. The Supreme Court has held that it is not the role of the Grand Jury, but the jury at trial. I fully disagree with that ruling for the prosecutors routinely LIE to get indictments because they remain sealed and we NEVER get to see their lies. They can say anything they want and destroy a person’s life and then have ABSOLUTE immunity to do so.

Lawyers for decades have said a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich because the system is outright corrupt beyond compare. That phrase was first coined by a New York State Judge named Sol Wachtler (born 1930). Wachtler was the former chief judge of New York state who coined that term in a January 1985 interview with the New York Daily News‘ Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi. The relevant portion:

“In a bid to make prosecutors more accountable for their actions, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler has proposed that the state scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments.

Wachtler, who became the state’s top judge earlier this month, said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”

A month later, the New York Times noted that Wachtler believed grand juries “operate more often as the prosecutor’s pawn than the citizen’s shield.” This belief—that prosecutors can get grand juries to do whatever they want them to do is universal and if this is not seriously changed, we will see massive civil unrest tear the system apart limb for limb.

The “ham sandwich” term has been universally quoted among lawyers albeit the public perhaps did not hear it and are oblivious to the law. Tom Wolfe included the saying in the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.

“But mainly you used the grand jury to indict people,” Wolfe wrote, “and in the famous phrase of Sol Wachtler, chief judge of the State Court of Appeals, a grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich,’ if that’s what you wanted.”

There is way more than enough to indict Pelosi of fraud and her husband for all the inside trading that has been alleged against her. That’s enough to indicate her and then she should be declared guilty until proven innocent.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/pelosi-declared-trump-guilty-it-his-burden-to-prove-he-is-innocent/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 10:09 am

Sancho Panzersays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:02 am
I’ve been to the North Pole.
And the South Pole.
Twice.
Shut up.

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, you have been round the bend many times. Please stay there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 10:09 am

April 1st.
Armageddon for the first of the jabbed.
But, for me, so far, so good.
I intend to live every day as if it is my last.

shatterzzz
April 1, 2023 10:10 am

a smoking ceremony for a Harvey Norman opening? Get the phuck outta here.

Gerry must have worked out “smokers” are tax deductable ..! he’s almost as good as “twiggy’ when it comes to tax payers money ……!
let’s remember .. someone’s gotta feed them horses .. LOL!

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 10:10 am

Brazen liars – the ALPBC claiming without any shame, that NSW has just broken records for the hottest March since like, for evah.

A rather fresh southerly blowing through here right now. But I’m not alarmed, it’s a low intensity cold snap.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 10:10 am

Wotten!
Still peddling the Utterances of The Criminal, Martin Armstrong?

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 10:11 am

Rabzsays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:06 am
Brazen liars – the ALPBC claiming without any shame, that NSW has just broken records for the hottest March since like, for evah.

Absolute bollocks.

It’s an April Fools Joke.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 10:14 am

It’s interesting that dickhead dan seems to have run out of OPM. I expect he’s asking his chicom pals for more.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 10:15 am

And as calli alerted us to this morning, a smoking ceremony for a Harvey Norman opening? Get the phuck outta here.

I don’t like gerry Harvey and that’s another reason not to shop there.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 10:19 am

Looks like we’ve bought a turkey.
Should’ve bought The Turkey.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 10:19 am

I was reunited with my luggage in Fairbanks. I had just spent three weeks living out of a roll-aboard.

You can get flights from Fairbanks into the Arctic Circle, which we did. Landed at a little airstrip and had lunch at a tiny settlement. Given the run down on what life was like during the long winter when the sun barely shines and chest freezers become redundant.

The scene from the plane was amazing. Some of my forebears, being typical mad people, joined the gold rush over there back in the day. I crossed the Yukon a bit more comfortably.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 1, 2023 10:21 am

It never appeases the baying mob, only inflames them. They smell weakness and go for the kill. Latham’s best course of action is to say nothing, ignore the whole thing and move on.

Lathams best course of action is to escalate.

Who was the US politician, when asked if he wanted to retract his claim that Obama didn’t love America, replied ‘no, I want to repeat it..’.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 10:23 am

Chuckle.

Sancho of the Antarctic.

What did you find there, did you stand a while and stare?
h/t The Moody Blues

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 10:24 am

Like a conditional apology, a forced apology isn’t an apology at all.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 10:27 am

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·
12h
‘Never apologise, never explain’ turns out to be right
@UnHerd

Correct and I’m very disappointed in PH. So Latho really does have the Trump effect.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 1, 2023 10:32 am

Your taxes at work:

Psychic healing, tarot cards, sound baths and crystal wand making are being offered to people on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The treatments range in cost but contribute to the annual $35.8 billion NDIS bill.

A News Corp investigation has found multiple businesses – some of which have been officially registered on the NDIS and audited – are providing a whole range of alternative therapies, funded by the taxpayer.

Many of these treatments are provided under the category of Innovative Community Participation, which has no price limits on what people can charge.

The NDIS guidelines state services provided have to be “reasonable and necessary”, related to someone’s disability, represent value for money and must be likely to be effective and work for the participant.

But there’s no definitive list of which therapies are allowed and which ones are not, leaving it open to interpretation.

One sector insider, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s basically a pub test and no-one is checking”.

NT News

bons
bons
April 1, 2023 10:33 am

Could Latham’s confronting the reality of perversion signal the start of a counter revolution by the solid majority against repression by pervert dictatorship?

shatterzzz
April 1, 2023 10:35 am

Luvvin’ all these comments from folk who paid to feel “cold” ..
I grew up in County Durham, England .. we called any days above 5C .. SUMMER ..! .. LOL!

shatterzzz
April 1, 2023 10:37 am

One sector insider, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s basically a pub test and no-one is checking”.

Can’t be right! .. it’s only this week that “bill” said he’s on the job and getting it all under control ..
He’s a pollie he wouldn’t lie, shirley? ……..

jupes
jupes
April 1, 2023 10:42 am

Mark Latham breaks his silence on homophobic tweet row as he REFUSES to apologise despite growing fury – as the outrageous flashpoints during his three decade long career are revealed\

Hahahahaha! Those “outrageous flashpoints” are comedy gold. I now hold Latham in even higher esteem.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 10:43 am

On travelling to be cold…off to the Northern Lights later this year. Arctic Circle, viewing guaranteed they tell me.

I will go out and may be some time.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 10:46 am

ABC:

Punjabi now Australia’s fastest growing language, prompting calls for it to be taught in schools

I can actually say hello in Punjabi, so there.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 1, 2023 10:47 am

The family, like race and religion, is the chief rival to the state

100% correct, and may I remind you of the corollary, as enunciated by Mussolini himself:

“Everything within the state, nothing outside of the state, nothing against the state….”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 1, 2023 10:49 am

I might add Ms Campion Teh Voice. If that gets up, expect more costs for er, consultations with the Aboriginal big men for any development to proceed.

Indeed, such is the bizarre inconsistencies of the modern mores where some cultures are deemed to demonstrate the maturity by the spirituality while our own demonstrates it maturity by rejecting it (a childhood infirmity we have outgrown), every little clearing or pile of rocks will be seen as equivalent to Chartres Cathedral – except still alive.

To many modern people places like Chartres are merely sepulchres to a now dead society capable of breathtaking art and architecture, but morally infinitely inferior to ours because pronouns and an enlightened sort of racism.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 10:49 am

Learn something new every day at the Cat.

I thought Punjabi was verbal martial arts.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 1, 2023 10:51 am

Should have put the GE/Rolls F136 engine in the F-35.
P&W seem to be living on past glories. Their large turbofans have had significant difficulties, as have those from Rolls. GE seem to be better.

Crossie
Crossie
April 1, 2023 10:51 am

Rabz says:
April 1, 2023 at 10:06 am
Brazen liars – the ALPBC claiming without any shame, that NSW has just broken records for the hottest March since like, for evah.

Absolute bollocks.

Of course it’s bollocks. I have not succumbed to dementia yet so I remember March and April 1999 being warmer than this year. I also remember a heatwave in March 1978 as I tried to keep my newborn daughter cool without aircon.

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 10:51 am

Sancho Panzersays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:10 am
Wotten!
Still peddling the Utterances of The Criminal, Martin Armstrong?

Stay around the bend. The S bend.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 10:52 am

I thought Punjabi was verbal martial arts.

No no.

It’s a variety of lettuce. Retails for $13.

Doggy
Doggy
April 1, 2023 10:54 am

Cassia, you are a typical misandris. I don’t think I’ve meet a female that likes Abbott. Grow up & except males for all their faults.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 10:54 am

Bus & train trips in Brisbane down c. 20% from pre-covid levels.

Seems a lot of people never went back to the office.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 10:55 am

callisays:

April 1, 2023 at 10:23 am

Chuckle.

Sancho of the Antarctic.

What did you find there, did you stand a while and stare?

To paraphrase the late Mr Packer, “I’ve been to the North Pole, and let me tell you, son, there’s f*cking nothing there.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 10:57 am

Eyriesays:

April 1, 2023 at 10:51 am

Should have put the GE/Rolls F136 engine in the F-35.

Sure thing.

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 10:57 am

shatterzzzsays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:35 am
Luvvin’ all these comments from folk who paid to feel “cold” ..
I grew up in County Durham, England .. we called any days above 5C .. SUMMER ..! .. LOL!

Even in the SE it was cold and we always stated the temperatures in F degrees as the bigger number made it sound warmer than the C degrees equivalent…………lol.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 10:58 am

Grow up & except males for all their faults.

*accept*

Even spelling faults.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 1, 2023 10:58 am

I also note Knuckle Dragger that one can purchase a Cleveland Indians Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn shirt. Superb.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 11:00 am

Grow up & except males for all their faults.

The bloke was elected to lead the whole country.

Why should people accept faults that were entirely preventable, and which were also things he promised not to do before he got in?

This has whiffs of ‘but trying really hard’ and ‘stunning and brave’ about it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 11:01 am

Rogersays:

April 1, 2023 at 10:54 am

Bus & train trips in Brisbane down c. 20% from pre-covid levels.

Saving up for the ‘lympics.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:01 am

I can actually say hello in Punjabi, so there.

The only Indian I know is onion bhaji. The king of onion rings.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 11:02 am

one can purchase a Cleveland Indians Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn shirt

One can indeed. I noted this the other day.

Superb.

Yes it is.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:03 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:04 am

Early omens on The Chook’s Olympics aren’t good.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 1, 2023 11:04 am

Stay around the bend. The S bend.

I prefer the P-trap, but each to their own.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 11:06 am

The good news is the USN’s newest super carrier can now recover F 35s.
The bad news is it can’t launch them.
The follow on CVNs will come with a jet blast deflector which should make that possible.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 1, 2023 11:06 am

I didn’t think they had S-bends in Liverpool.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 1, 2023 11:10 am

Low CO2 causes warming during ice ages.

https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/46277/

Diogenes
Diogenes
April 1, 2023 11:10 am

Bus & train trips in Brisbane down c. 20% from pre-covid levels.

And CrossRiver rail has blown out another billion dollarbucks and 6 months.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:12 am

Early omens on The Chook’s Olympics aren’t good.

She’s canned the independent body that would have overseen the infrastructure build and put Deputy Premier & Doctor of Unionism Steven Miles in charge instead.

Maaate.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 1, 2023 11:13 am

Flying Duk mentioned the Weekend Australian’s article about vaccine injury and deaths. Page 18 Inquirer.

It is a good article covering plenty of angles. Same journalist who wrote last weeks article about Amy’s death by Pfizer.

Comments are open.

Timing is great as Federal Health Minister said the other day a big media campaign is about to start to promote latest booster.
Again good timing as in past few days even the WHO has said boosters not recommended for healthy under 65’s.

For the benefit of Rosie please note that all vaccine injuries and deaths and their associated problems are merely anecdotal.

Anybody still remember the bit where we were told by multiple politicians and senior medical people that if you take two jabs you won’t get the virus? Weird how we are now on No 5.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 11:17 am

I hope people are absorbing this lesson.

Yes and you’d almost think the filthy modonna slag was manufactured by the CIA.

Aaron
Aaron
April 1, 2023 11:17 am

If these modern Mengeles can do such wonders as changing a person’s sex, I presume for a male to transition, they remove the prostate and insert a womb and ovaries?

No?

Glorified transvestites then.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 1, 2023 11:18 am

She’s canned the independent body that would have overseen the infrastructure build and put Deputy Premier & Doctor of Unionism Steven Miles in charge instead.

Miles is as thick as THREE short planks. Maybe thicker.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:18 am

And CrossRiver rail has blown out another billion dollarbucks and 6 months.

She’ll have to mandate that public servants return to their CBD offices to make it viable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:18 am

Trump indictment suggests US justice system is less LA Lawmore Jackie Chiles and Seinfeld.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 11:19 am

She’s canned the independent body that would have overseen the infrastructure build and put Deputy Premier & Doctor of Unionism Steven Miles in charge instead.

‘Universities’ have a lot to answer for birm.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:22 am

She’s canned the independent body that would have overseen the infrastructure build and put Deputy Premier & Doctor of Unionism Steven Miles in charge instead

Infrastructure and the SES are giving the NDIS a run for its money.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 1, 2023 11:27 am

ABC:

Punjabi now Australia’s fastest growing language, prompting calls for it to be taught in schools

The ABC really is a mischievous little nest of vipers. This Punjabi thing is completely out of the blue. Just another little barb to pick at the fabric of society. The ABC will move on and find some other sociological trifle to be refashioned and recast as another reason why something that Australians do or place value upon needs to be rooted out so that, eventually, a field of choking socialist weeds can take root.

If Punjabi is a fast growing language it is because we are importing so many. So do we need to increase skill levels in the language? Well, no. We already have a language to communicate with them: English.

So what benefits would higher levels of Punjabi deliver? Do we need it for business? Diplomacy? Culture? No reason, except perhaps to promote the other cultures we are importing.

Notice there is no interest in teaching English to even a moderate level of competence?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:29 am

She’ll have to mandate that public servants return to their CBD offices to make it viable.

I think the jury is still out on CBDs. Had lunch yesterday with a partner of a major law firm who was thought he was doing well with most coming in 4 days a week now. I expect that will be something like the new norm. About 2 out of 8 in suits (not me pleasingly).

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 11:31 am

Chicken Tikka Masala

I believe it translates, “could you direct me to the Ladies’ please”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 1, 2023 11:32 am

Indolentsays:
April 1, 2023 at 9:35 am
The new blackshirts cum child molesters.

BREAKING: Trans activists storm Tallahassee Capitol to demand child sex changes be legal in Florida

Hmmmm. Not one, but two leftard insurrections in the US in less than a week. First Kentucky, now Florida.

Condemnation from the usual suspect in 3, 2, … Oh I know I am deluding myself.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:34 am

So what benefits would higher levels of Punjabi deliver?

Raise your probability of going to the correct Uber destination, finding out where your food delivery is and getting charged for the correct pump.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 11:35 am

So what benefits would higher levels of Punjabi deliver?

Higher marks for pupils who speak it in the home.

They don’t need to learn Punjabi, they already know it. If it is taught in the same way that English is not taught as a language but in terms of structure, literature and comprehension, fair enough.

This has been a lurk for a long time.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:36 am

So what benefits would higher levels of Punjabi deliver?

The rationale offered is, “Bringing that global competency and cultural understanding into our schools and our curriculums for our kids at a young age will demystify some of the myths and provide greater opportunities for our kids…”

As if our school curriculum wasn’t overloaded already.

But there’d be jobs for Punjabi speaking teachers, there’s that.

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:37 am

Raise your probability of going to the correct Uber destination…

I know enough Hindi to tell a taxi driver where to go.

calli
calli
April 1, 2023 11:37 am

Take out that second “not”. I need to either go back to school or to Specsavers.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 1, 2023 11:38 am

WTF does a just future mean for someone who’s mutilated their way into a dead end?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 11:39 am

This has been a lurk for a long time.

An BA in Italian is no preparation for Emmanomics.

Chris
Chris
April 1, 2023 11:42 am

The first hint of the Democrat influence in Australian politics was the “Kevin 07” campaign. Aussies never did politics that way previously. Young people on the streets in mobs with signs and T-Shirts and playing music. It worked.

Like putting a Christmas bauble in front of a Cat.

Oh, absolutely. That’s why the forces of Australian self-righteousness never, ever called shooters ‘rednecks’ from 1980 or 1996, or ran ‘freedom ride’ buses for the cameras in 1968, or protested the Vietnam War in 1971.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 1, 2023 11:43 am

Johnny Rottensays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:11 am
Rabzsays:
April 1, 2023 at 10:06 am
Brazen liars – the ALPBC claiming without any shame, that NSW has just broken records for the hottest March since like, for evah.

Absolute bollocks.

It’s an April Fools Joke.

Their ABC has a sense of humour? Who knew?

MatrixTransform
April 1, 2023 11:47 am

What they really truly want is Latham’s head

first they want contrition

and Latham is setting an example for all of us

the answer should always be, “you can kiss my arse before I’ll kiss your feet”

never negotiate with terrorists

Roger
Roger
April 1, 2023 11:48 am

Reading Anne Applebaum’s Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, about how the Soviets crushed civil society in eastern Europe in the decade following the end of WWII is instructive.

For example, at the end of the war women’s auxilliaries were volunteer charities assisting displaced persons with the basics of life. By 1950 their chief purpose was turning members into Communist activists and cancelling dissenters.

Anyone checked in on the CWA lately?

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 11:48 am

Back to Howard, a close examination of the years 1996 to 2008- the RET, mass migration, the ICC, the assault on properties rights, work choices, no action against the ABC left the country in worse shape. His attitude to Trump and his support for Trumble are two big give aways.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 11:50 am

Oh, absolutely. That’s why the forces of Australian self-righteousness never, ever called shooters ‘rednecks’ from 1980 or 1996, or ran ‘freedom ride’ buses for the cameras in 1968, or protested the Vietnam War in 1971.

spot on

Cassie of Sydney
April 1, 2023 11:56 am

Andy Ngo speaks to Laurence Fox re. the murder of Christian children and teachers in Tennessee….

“Andy Ngo: ‘Trans genocide’ is a lie”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiB4IweU05A

Fox, in his opening salvo, doesn’t mince words.

As I wrote the other day, and it’s why we’ve reached the situation with the Auckland happening, followed days later by the murder of Christian children and teachers in Tennessee, is because they’ve deliberately weaponised our compassion against us. It’s time stop being compassionate with freaks and perverts.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 1, 2023 11:58 am

BREAKING: Confidential Pfizer Documents confirm Graphene Oxide is in the COVID Vaccines & here is how to remove it from your body

An exceptional Exposé today.

– Discovering the Hidden Truth They Want To Cover Up that graphene oxide is used in preparing protein molecules for electron microscopy;

– Effortlessly extrapolating that to ‘graphene oxide is an ingredient’ in Covid Vaccines and is going to depopulate the world via ‘5G Radiation’;

– Explaining the use of dietary supplements and sport as a means of removing shards of graphene oxide from the body;

– Uncovering “orgone radiation”, first discovered in the 1930’s by Dr Wilhelm Reich and subsequently covered up by the US Government;

– Revealing a new type of protective cabinet to protect us from 5G orgone energy harm:

Today, instead of using sheets of steel and plastic we use a composite made from a blend of iron oxide, steel, brass, shungite and crystal powders encased in epoxy resin. The end result is a harmoniser that is able to transform the harmful wireless fields from cell towers, smart meters, smartphones, internet router and your television, into more beneficial energy for you and your plants and pets.

My only criticism is that the Exposé is telling us that today is the Last Day for donations – while promising further updates to this IMPORTANT STORY.

This sort of inconsistency might be picked up and used by Scoffers and mindless critics of True Science.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 1, 2023 12:01 pm

Regarding the Oz article about Vax injuries it looks like very few comments getting through.

Only 18 showing which is ridiculously low for such an article. Suggests they are suppressing them. Or could be other articles on such things as The Voice, Climate change and Latham taking up moderators time.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
April 1, 2023 12:02 pm

I wonder if Johannes is going to have a go at the Latham dustup?

Hope he’s got some brown pencils.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 1, 2023 12:03 pm

Absolute bollocks.

It’s an April Fools Joke.

Their ABC has a sense of humour? Who knew?

Just yesterday I predicted the death of the April Fools prank – drowned in the torrent of nonsense flooding the media.
Buy me a coffee.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 1, 2023 12:06 pm

Back to Howard, a close examination of the years 1996 to 2008 …

“This is not the droid you are looking for.”

cohenite
April 1, 2023 12:06 pm

I don’t understand any aversion to Trump. Much has been made of his alleged boorishness and buffoonery. I don’t see any of this. I have met him when he came to Australia in 1990s. He was concise, astute and over whatever brief of advice he had been given. Politically his achievements are nonpareil: he literally achieved world peace and unparalleled prosperity in the US. His other achievement for which he is persecuted, was turning the stone on the fetid swamp of US and Western society: that group of people who control society for their personal benefit and betray the wider interest and very structure of society. In short he revealed the traitors in our society. He opposed the self serving issues of this group: alarmism, social discord through racism, and the other woke perversions. He declared his enemy electorally was not the gutless RINOs or even the demorat idiots but the MSM. He was right. The MSM and the weaponised bureaucrats attacked and lied about him for his term; and still do it. If Trump is successfully, that is corruptly convicted that is the end for the West.

Here in Australia the best we have is Latham. He is secure for another 4 years but the attacks on him, especially from the so-called conservative media, shows that the opposition to the left is a veneer easily punctured. Bolt especially has been egregious; he is sanctimonious and lapses to this pathetic sense of decorum. Latham bluntly described the poofta sex act to a verminous creep who had been attacking him, supported the violent protest against him and caused the live abortion law to come into place, in itself a vile attack on womanhood, pregnancy and the family. The blindness of the people now attacking Latham from the conservative side shows why the left is winning: Latham will be cancelled and vilified because he spoke blunt truth; all while the left attacks conservatives, corrupts children and basic values.

Johnny Rotten
April 1, 2023 12:09 pm

Can We Really Last until 2032?

QUESTION #1: Martin,

Since Trump was already not guilty of having the affair (to which Stormy Daniels admitted never took place), does that mean that the New York Court has indicted him on the charges of “being blackmailed”?

DB

QUESTION #2: Bill Clinton committed perjury. That was legal grounds to indict him and remove him from office. Nobody wanted to indict Richard Nixon either. I can now see why Socrates is forecasting the collapse of the United States. I just realized that the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. What I did not know was it was only a vote of 12 and New York abstained. It seems like New York is at it again. Do you really think we can last until 2032?

ANSWER: “What Bragg has done is so undermining to the entire country and he has accepted money from a foreign power seeking to undermine the United States – George Soros. That is treason in my book. He is doing the bidding of a declared enemy against the United States and everything our way of life has stood for.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/can-we-really-last-until-2032/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 1, 2023 12:11 pm

As I wrote the other day, and it’s why we’ve reached the situation with the Auckland happening, followed days later by the murder of Christian children and teachers in Tennessee, is because they’ve deliberately weaponised our compassion against us. It’s time stop being compassionate with freaks and perverts.

I also think this Weimar republic style street fighting- the physical attacks on Trump supporters being just one example. Also going soft on real criminals and prosecuting people who defend their homes. All part of the marxist assault on society. We are at war.

Vicki
Vicki
April 1, 2023 12:13 pm

Anybody still remember the bit where we were told by multiple politicians and senior medical people that if you take two jabs you won’t get the virus? Weird how we are now on No 5.

Talking to group of friends this morning over coffee – amazing how most will not have another booster! They don’t go into detail, but they just shake their head if subject comes up. Probably linked to fact that many know relatives and others who have unexplained ailments.

The other thing I noticed was how sceptical they are becoming over GP advice. A couple have sudden heart related problems and are not happy with their concerns being either dismissed, or greeted with refusal to refer them to a specialist of their choice, rather than the GP’s. .

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 1, 2023 12:14 pm

BoM mantra.
Ohm….Warmer and drier than average for Autumn.
Walks out of the temple-cold & wet.

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