Open Thread – Weekend 1 April 2023


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

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Rabz
April 2, 2023 9:01 pm

Bernardi’s show on Sky some ditzy teenager is spruiking the Gliberal Party and that the young people are the future of the party. I would laugh but it’s too stupid to be funny

Crossie – if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry.

#idiocracee

P
P
April 2, 2023 9:08 pm

Rabz,
Thanks for last night. It afforded many an opportunity to enjoy themselves.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 2, 2023 9:10 pm

Black Ball

And still love when deranged Leftist runs down conservative teenagers in their car. Which you refused to condemn.

I had a long exchange with him at the Sinc Cat a few years ago, started IIRC in the context of Nazi atrocities (which I condemned).

While m0nty=fa was vociferous about the Nazi atrocities, he refused to join me in condemning the crimes and atrocities of communism,

Deranged leftist (of the fascist variety) sums him up well.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 2, 2023 9:10 pm

Wow Paul Murray in full kowtow mode.

Words fail.

Rabz
April 2, 2023 9:13 pm

Fatso Murray in full kowtow mode

Does he know any other?

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 2, 2023 9:22 pm

John Brumbesays:
April 2, 2023 at 12:52 pm
Boambee John – you cannot possible be telling us that people do not engage with Googlery.

But he’s a bad example. His intent is to have the blogs shut down.

This looks to have been stuck in moderation, check the spelling of your surname.

Agree re Dick Ed, but that is all the more reason to smack him down whenever he raises his head.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 2, 2023 9:22 pm

Reddit level retardedness

Oof.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 2, 2023 9:24 pm

Tomahawk brawl turns quiet Darwin suburb into ‘war zone’

EXCLUSIVE
By LIAM MENDES
Reporter
@liammendes
9:02PM April 2, 2023

Afrodite Larentzou feels imprisoned in her Darwin home after a pitched battle between warring families erupted in broad daylight outside her apartment on Friday afternoon.

More than a dozen men and women, with their children watching on, ran at each other in the suburban street wielding tomahawk axes and other makeshift weapons.

The single mother who lives alone with her two daughters – a six-month-old and a 14-year-old – is deeply afraid of speaking out after witnessing what she says was an “attempted murder”.

Video footage of the attack emerged as Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles told The Australian she did not believe knife crime had “taken a hold”, but believed the issues plaguing the Territory could be overcome.

Parliament last week passed new laws legislating a presumption against bail for violent offenders carrying certain types of weapons.

Ms Fyles acknowledged the NT was undergoing a “particularly challenging time” but said she was optimistic “long -term change will start to take place.

The comments came as the Territory government asked Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker to resign, indicating it had lost confidence in him.

The alcohol-fuelled violence that has engulfed Alice Springs in recent months appears to have spread to Darwin, with the latest outbreak taking place in front of Ms Larentzou’s apartment in the suburb of Moil – only 15 minutes from the CBD.

After posting footage of the “war zone” online, Ms Larentzou received threats and abuse – some witnessed by The Australian – from Indigenous passers-by.

Ms Larentzou, who left Greece for Australia six years ago, is also speaking out after the death of 20-year-old bottle shop worker Declan Laverty, who was allegedly murdered after refusing to serve an Indigenous teenager alcohol just over two weeks ago.

Her footage shows what appears to be a dispute between families who she believes live around two separate nearby parks. Ms Larentzou’s street is a common thoroughfare connecting the two parks.

As the yelling and screaming began, Ms Larentzou struggled to open the camera app on her phone – her heart was racing and her hands shaking.

“I was terrified,” she said. “They came out into the open streets in the middle of the day and tried to murder each other.

“Before I started filming, at least two men were on top of one man, and they had an axe up against his neck; I thought he was dead.

“I really thought they were killing someone, I’m surprised that nobody got killed.”

As she hit the record button, the group of about a dozen men and women, at least three wielding tomahawk axes, began trying to hold back others from attacking each other.

Shocked and some not-so-shocked locals watched on.

One older, white-bearded Indigenous man standing in the middle of it all appeared helpless.

As quickly as it started, the combatants dispersed, retreating to different parks while still yelling and screaming at each other.

But then some of the crowd noticed Ms Larentzou filming and not long after began hurling abuse at her.

“You f..king slut,” one said.

“This is our land,” another said.

Ms Larentzou retreated back inside her apartment where her children were, out of fear someone might throw an axe towards the balcony.

“They own this place, they do whatever they want, the really scary thing is that they have no fear about anything,” Ms Larentzou told The Australian.

“They live in the parks, you can see them all day here, but at night-time, after the shops close around eight or nine o’clock, you will see them and it’s like a party every night here.

Rabz
April 2, 2023 9:26 pm

Anytime, P.

Just glad people may have enjoyed it, although I was off figuratively sobbing into my amber beverages …

Anyway, here’s some exquisite young womanages wiggling their bottomses!

Dot
Dot
April 2, 2023 9:56 pm

Not exactly a ringing endorsement

“22 years ago, CHAMP, we couldn’t get that to work, CHAMP”

Once again, how does that make me a Nayzee – apart from Bruce’s stupid idea “if you only invest in what fascists let you invest in, you’re a fascist”?

Once again, tell me when NONE of you have an absolutely NO income, deferred or otherwise deriving from any subsidised industry at all (or any companies that went batshit crazy with subjecting staff to COVID lunacy) I will be lectured to on a pedantic, hare brained right wing political correctness.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 2, 2023 9:56 pm

here’s some exquisite young womanages wiggling their bottomses!

Some seriously shapely pieces of kit there, Squire!

cohenite
April 2, 2023 9:58 pm

Tomahawk brawl turns quiet Darwin suburb into ‘war zone’

EXCLUSIVE
By LIAM MENDES
Reporter
@liammendes
9:02PM April 2, 2023

Afrodite Larentzou feels imprisoned in her Darwin home after a pitched battle between warring families erupted in broad daylight outside her apartment on Friday afternoon.

After the screech gets in coming to your (rented) backyard.

cohenite
April 2, 2023 10:00 pm

I have a gut feeling about next Tuesday when Trump hands himself in. Another Epstein event. Talk of a court order banning Trump from commenting won’t be enough for the demorats.

Dot
Dot
April 2, 2023 10:01 pm

This is why the right is being raped by the left over and over again at the ballot box.

Me #1: Let’s have nukes. The case against coal is weak, we should do both. We should explore all of our land and seabed for minerals.

(Crickets, tumbleweed, ticking of a clock…)

Me #2: I also have shares in a lithium ore producer.

YoU’rE a NaZi!!!11

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 2, 2023 10:04 pm

After the screech gets in coming to your (rented) backyard.

For shame, don’t you know they are just exercising their culture? They carry weapons to demonstrate to their wives and children that they can protect those wives and children?

Bar Beach Swimmer
April 2, 2023 10:04 pm

Monty @ 6:52pm
Vaginas contain a lot of bacteria too. As do mouths and hands. Humans are gross, we carry many diseases and infect others regularly

Why single out the female anatomy as an object of disease and disgust and not the male organ, especially the way it’s used in homosexual sex? Why denigrate normal sexual intercourse in order to give succour to the “other side”?

May I remind you that unless born by caesarean section, your children were vagina births. Yet in referring that way to females, by implication you denigrate your children’s mother and every other female, your own mother included.

Just to clear up your obvious lack of knowledge. The bacteria in a vagina is there to protect the female body from infection, not cause it. The bacteria is lactobacillus, which grows inside the vagina, produces lactic acid, hydrogen peroxide and bacteriocins that do not allow other organisms to grow. Essentially, the vagina has a self-cleaning process.

Dot
Dot
April 2, 2023 10:05 pm

Please don’t encourage holophobia .

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 2, 2023 10:22 pm

cohenitesays:
April 2, 2023 at 10:00 pm
I have a gut feeling about next Tuesday when Trump hands himself in. Another Epstein event. Talk of a court order banning Trump from commenting won’t be enough for the demorats.

I don’t reckon he will hand himself in….gut feeling. It is also a big test for Ronnie. If I am wrong, so be it.

We shall see.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 2, 2023 10:29 pm

Dr Faustus says: April 2, 2023 at 9:52 am

I was sent off to Colesworth this morning to buy a carton of crème fraîche. Imagine my surprise at being required to pay $5 for an essential item

This had to be sarcasm, surely.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 2, 2023 10:29 pm

Dice, is right on the edge from getting booted from sussietube.

All They Wanted Was The Right To Get “Married,” They Said…Which Has Led To This…

John H.
John H.
April 2, 2023 10:35 pm

It’s not a stupid question in the slightest and requires knowing nothing about your background.

Asking someone to give an account of an event in which they have absolutely no experience is asking for pure speculation. That is as dumb as someone seeking investment advice from me.

I was being precise. I said that disgust wasn’t always a matter of feelings. For example, torture, particularly of innocents, arouses disgust. Torture is objectively evil, it isn’t a mere subjective preference. I don’t think this is a coincidence.

Colonoscopies are disgusting, especially the night before. That we find something disgusting does not inherently mean it is bad. You chose to reinterpret the meaning of the word because I pointed out that policy should not be dictated by feelings. You are not entitled to post hoc change the meaning that was implicit in the context of the discussion. I referenced material that clearly was not about emotionality. I made that clear, you didn’t.

Latham was responding to a personal attack so I’m prepared to look past the vulgarity and the pearl clutching in the media. Alternatively, your approach will only elicit the need for PrEP, condoms, and the like. We’ve had four decades of tiptoeing and it has achieved nothing.

Latham has a history of vilifying people. He has gone from being a federal opposition leader to a state senator for a political party way past its prime. As in the past he has damaged his opportunity for influence. If he had learned to restrain himself he could have had a media career that would have made him much more influential and wealthy. My approach was about Latham trying to avoid his past mistakes and turn the discussion into one about free speech. He can’t even make up his mind. First he deleted the tweet and then states he will double down but won’t put up that tweet again. He doesn’t know if he is Arthur or Martha.

There were centuries of LGBTQi being vilified, tortured, killed, and ostracized. Obviously that didn’t work. There was no tip toeing then. What do you suggest, that we keep hurling insults at them?

cohenite
April 2, 2023 10:41 pm

He doesn’t know if he is Arthur or Martha.

What, he’s transitioning?

MatrixTransform
April 2, 2023 10:43 pm

Asking someone to give an account of an event in which they have absolutely no experience is asking for pure speculation

excellent intro
now, please don’t go on speculating yourself for several para …

oh FFS!

MatrixTransform
April 2, 2023 10:48 pm

and please note that the premise in the conclusion

… what a waste of pixels

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 2, 2023 10:50 pm

There were centuries of LGBTQi being vilified, tortured, killed, and ostracized. Obviously that didn’t work. There was no tip toeing then.

I dunno. When it was the love that dare not speak its name, we didn’t have nearly so much of it. Publicly, anyway.

Happy times.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 2, 2023 10:52 pm

Vaginas contain a lot of bacteria too.

Remember the late night exchanges on the subject of cunning linguists on Dead Cat?
Good times.
Not.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 2, 2023 11:21 pm

callisays:

April 2, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Thank you Sancho. I did wonder at his absence, but the comment over at C.L.’s had me worried.

I don’t like bannings and silencings.

Dover might clarify (if he can be bothered).
My memory was that a few comments were scrubbed for crossing the line, including some of his (and one of mine, believe it or not).
It seems he persisted and went into auto-moderation. Rare comments not containing vile abuse were released, but he’d have to wait and, of course, the majority failed the test and remained in limbo.
So, not banned.
Simply unable to function in a more generous and liberal than normal online space.
Probably the same IRL.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 2, 2023 11:32 pm

KD at 8:35.

I hope he told the grogan beside the roadhouse and pants out the window story there. That never gets old.

Well, those stories don’t get old, that’s true.
But they don’t pick up any credibility with each retelling, either.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 2, 2023 11:41 pm

Vaginas contain a lot of bacteria too. As do mouths and hands.

Rabz, look away now.
Almost everyone I know will shake hands with almost anyone else, except for the vet during calving season.
Some will tongue-wrestle another who hasn’t used the Colgate for two days.
Others would engage in cunning linguist with a lady marathon runner after the finish line.
But they all draw the line at bottom licking.
What does that tell you?

Gabor
Gabor
April 2, 2023 11:52 pm

Asking someone to give an account of an event in which they have absolutely no experience is asking for pure speculation. That is as dumb as someone seeking investment advice from me.

What nonsense, people opine on all sort of things, as far as I see it that’s all was asked.
If we can only have an opinion on something personally experienced or seen, then it would be a quiet and nice world to live in.

Boring too.

Crossie
Crossie
April 2, 2023 11:52 pm

ANZ bank is not the only one that has branches which do not dispense cash at their counters/tellers. Commonwealth Bank is another one. I went to their branch in Penrith Westfield shopping centre and when I asked to withdraw a certain amount I was directed to their ATM. When I explained that I needed a certain number of $10 notes I was directed to another of their branches that still had a full service. I just couldn’t see the point of having counters and tellers but no cash there. What was the problem? I had not heard that this branch was ever robbed to justify not having cash there but dispensing cash just outside their door.

rickw
rickw
April 3, 2023 3:50 am

Vaginas contain a lot of bacteria too. As do mouths and hands.

Munty please just post the video of you being f’cked up the arse by the milkman while wearing a dress and stuffing your face with Krispy Kreme…

Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 4:12 am
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2023 4:21 am

Thanks Tom.

Aston Martin………Oh dear.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 3, 2023 5:21 am

I think if I’d been voting in Aston I would have voted informal. It’s vomit making how people like Tudge get elected for 3 years and then piss off. Great Leak cartoon too thanks Tom.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 3, 2023 5:26 am

or not bothered to turn up at all- why should someone’s Saturday morning be interfered with because a pollimuppett had a dummy spit?

Robert Sewell
April 3, 2023 5:30 am

Dover Beach:

Latham was responding to a personal attack so I’m prepared to look past the vulgarity and the pearl clutching in the media. Alternatively, your approach will only elicit the need for PrEP, condoms, and the like. We’ve had four decades of tiptoeing and it has achieved nothing.

Yes!

Min
Min
April 3, 2023 5:56 am

When AIDS was first discovered in Vic in the 80s , psychologists were trained to teach gays to have safe sex . They needed to get message out fast. We were shown a video on what they did confronting to say the least .AIDS still about but the anti virals have them still not being careful . As there are bis about can pass onto other partners . Latham crude but health issue should have been focus.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 3, 2023 6:34 am

psychologists were trained to teach gays to have safe sex . They needed to get message out fast

Genuine questions:

Why was this task allocated to psychologists? Is there really that much of a link between the faaaaabulous interior designer lifestyle and the psych profession?

Shouldn’t that have been more of a GP arrangement? If at all?

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 3, 2023 6:45 am

I see Monty continues to drag this blog down.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 6:47 am

Victorian Psychopath Board: “This” is your new task to complete to be rewarded with resources.

Me: I’ll need a slab of Melbin Bitter.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 3, 2023 6:48 am

Karcher salesman might have been more successful. Great for cleaning shiite off stuff.

calli
calli
April 3, 2023 6:49 am

KD, I expect the info was disseminated throughout all appropriate areas of “health”. Although I doubt the nuns running the hospices would have been particularly impressed.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 3, 2023 6:55 am

I expect the info was disseminated throughout all appropriate areas of “health”

Fair enough calli. I do wonder, though, how this extended into the psych line of work.

I can absolutely understand that GPs, rather than psychs, would have been given the nod to say things like ‘Tarp up gents, or you’ll find yourselves starring in a Bob Geldof clip’.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 3, 2023 6:59 am

Munster doesn’t drag the Cat down. He shows how pathetic the left is. Until conservatives get down and dirty, fighting the scum the same way, nothing will change. Enough of not wanting to go there lest we become like them. The time for being nice is long past.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 7:04 am

“Munster doesn’t drag the Cat down. He shows how pathetic the left is. Until conservatives get down and dirty, fighting the scum the same way, nothing will change. Enough of not wanting to go there lest we become like them. The time for being nice is long past.”

Yes, last week he was here mocking, sneering, jeering, and trivialising the violence in an Auckland Park against Kellie-Jay Keen and other women, implying they “asked for it”.

A few days later he’s here feigning outrage over Latham’s words against Greenwich.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 7:19 am

“Johannes Leak. Bam!”

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Bill would be proud.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 3, 2023 7:23 am

Cassie your Mother is real Trooper. She reminds me of my MiL. Close in age and doesn’t suffer fools either. I love how the left get all uppity when their arguments get thrown back. They really don’t cope. I used to think it was confected outrage but no longer. They’re used to everyone agreeing how wonderful they are no matter how ludicrous the ideas they have.

calli
calli
April 3, 2023 7:25 am

Leak has definitely nailed the Elbow caricature. Down to the Doc Evatt gravitas goggles.

Branco is the best of the Americans this morning. The UK guys seem a bit frazzled – perhaps they’re still trying to work out what the dickens is going on over there.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 7:26 am

After Aston, Dutton is “vowing to rebuild”.

Rebuild what? There’s nothing left.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 7:27 am

DrBeauGansays:
April 2, 2023 at 10:50 pm
There were centuries of LGBTQi being vilified, tortured, killed, and ostracized. Obviously that didn’t work. There was no tip toeing then.

I dunno. When it was the love that dare not speak its name, we didn’t have nearly so much of it. Publicly, anyway.

The lurrrrve that once dared not speak its name is now the lust that won’t shut up.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 7:31 am

“GreyRangasays:
April 3, 2023 at 7:23 am
Cassie your Mother is real Trooper. She reminds me of my MiL. Close in age and doesn’t suffer fools either. I love how the left get all uppity when their arguments get thrown back. They really don’t cope. I used to think it was confected outrage but no longer. They’re used to everyone agreeing how wonderful they are no matter how ludicrous the ideas they have.”

Correct. And guess what? When you stand up for yourself, you command respect. The Liberal Party of Australia, federally and in all states, could learn a thing or two from my mother. You don’t get upset, you don’t get emotional, you don’t allow them to bully you, you don’t turn the other cheek, you defend yourself and you throw it back. My mother is of a generation of Australian women they don’t make anymore. Very strong and formidable women.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 3, 2023 7:35 am

*another* crack in the dam wall at the Oz – the window is definitely shifting

Media to blame for Covid vaccines’ wall of infallibility
It may very well be that the vaccines did overwhelmingly more good than harm, but with proper media scrutiny the harms could have been less.

John Brumble
John Brumble
April 3, 2023 7:36 am

I see Monty continues to drag this blog down.

He’s the drag queen.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 7:38 am

John Brumblesays:
April 3, 2023 at 7:36 am
I see Monty continues to drag this blog down.

He’s the drag queen.

If it was for only one hour a week, it might be slightly amusing, but not all day, most days.

calli
calli
April 3, 2023 7:38 am

After Aston, Dutton is “vowing to rebuild”.

Rebuild what? There’s nothing left.

With the price of new building materials these days, he might want to think about a tour of the demolition yard. That’s where he’ll find the quality stuff his stupid party discarded so cheerfully.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 3, 2023 7:40 am

After Aston, Dutton is “vowing to rebuild”….. Rebuild what? There’s nothing left.

I would tell Dutton the same thing that I told Antic:

We *expected* to be screwed over by labour, but the Liberals also failed, utterly, to stand up for our human rights regarding COVID. I was in SA at the time and despite having a Liberal State AND Federal government, it made no difference.

I don’t care what you do or say from now on – the Liberals are dead to me now, and will *never* get my vote again – ever. The only way you could conceivably get my vote in the future is as part of a new, Freedom party.

calli
calli
April 3, 2023 7:42 am

Media to blame for Covid vaccines’ wall of infallibility

How nice. “Media”.

So fuzzy, so imprecise, so easy to say, Yes, yes! But it wasn’t us! Blame them!

I want a forensic hatchet job on the lot of them. Won’t happen.

Entropy
Entropy
April 3, 2023 7:42 am

Re the wriggling bottom girls.
I have a much higher standard of expectations for choreography. And as for those shoes! Shame, girls!

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 7:47 am

Kellie-Jay Keen appeared overnight on Andrew Doyle’s programme on GB News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuiy97tDl_c

Kellie-Jay is very much like my mother.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 3, 2023 7:49 am

The Liberals remain steadfast in their devotion to the Mark Textor doctrine.

And they earnestly believe the long succession of losses have all just been outliers.

Razey
Razey
April 3, 2023 7:55 am

I won’t vote for any political party who supports the alphabet perverts.

Pogria
Pogria
April 3, 2023 8:07 am

Yes, last week he was here mocking, sneering, jeering, and trivialising the violence in an Auckland Park against Kellie-Jay Keen and other women, implying they “asked for it”.

A few days later he’s here feigning outrage over Latham’s words against Greenwich.

Cassie, he made not a single mention of the tragedy in Nashville. Was off “sick” for a few days. For all his bravado, I venture even he has a line he will not pass, in public so to speak. Privately, he probably threw a drinks party for his Lego characters.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 3, 2023 8:13 am

Shouldn’t that have been more of a GP arrangement? If at all?

A simple advert saying:-
“AIDS can be transmitted through transfer of bodily fluids. The most common modes of transmission being anal sex and drug users sharing intravenous injections. Any other sexual activity where there is visible non-menstrual bleeding should be avoided.”
Instead they ran Grim Reaper adverts saying AIDS was an oversized bowling ball and it would kill everybody.
Not dissimilar to Covid propaganda.

Indolent
Indolent
April 3, 2023 8:18 am
Indolent
Indolent
April 3, 2023 8:19 am
Min
Min
April 3, 2023 8:21 am

Right calli , information had to be disseminated quickly . Back then I had gay clients as young men were coming out and coming to terms with their sexuality when it had been a sexual deviance and a criminal offence in the early 80s also , sorry can’t remember when exactly.
Issues of telling families , not being accepted Self worth and Self acceptance .

Indolent
Indolent
April 3, 2023 8:22 am
m0nty
April 3, 2023 8:22 am

I see Monty continues to drag this blog down.

Reality has dragged you down.

I am merely reminding you where you are.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 3, 2023 8:22 am

Their ABC having The Best Time:

Fears for the future of the Liberal Party as factional infighting blamed for resounding Aston by-election defeat

Political experts say the Liberal Party’s resounding defeat at the Aston by-election is a result of factional infighting and internal issues that have led to a “monumental shift” as voters abandon the Coalition in droves.

The article has something for everyone:

A picture of smug:

A decisive victory for Labor’s Ms Doyle in the formerly safe seat has left the Liberal party reeling.

A Zinger:

Former Liberal strategist Tony Barry made the comment that “the Victorian Liberal Party is where hope goes to die”.

An Expert:

Describing the weekend result as “nothing short of disastrous”, Monash University’s senior lecturer in politics, Zareh Ghazarian, said the Liberal defeat showed a “monumental shift”.

“People are abandoning the party,” he said. “They’re abandoning it at the federal level. They abandoned it at the state level … and at the by-election. We’ve seen the Liberal Party is in real trouble.”

Comeuppance:

Prior to the by-election, Mr Dutton said the result would be a “verdict on the leaders, no doubt about that”. On Sunday, he accepted he had failed his own test and “accepts responsibility” for the loss.

Hope of Redemption:

He vowed to rebuild the party to “an election-winning machine by 2025”.

Fatherly Advice:

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews described the party as being “bitterly divided”, and “hung up” on issues that “real people are not concerned about”.

“I think people in Victoria, at least in Aston, have passed judgement on his leadership and what he offers, and it is a nasty brand of politics that is all about themselves,” he said.

“Whether its anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-Chinese people, the list goes on and on.

The ABC takeaway: The Liberals have until 2025 to learn to love longtime PicoPrep, colonic irrigation, and adjustable pronouns. The smoking crater of the Australian productive and social economy will fix itself with a little light taxation, some deft market intervention, and the promise of more windmills.

calli
calli
April 3, 2023 8:25 am

For now, Olivia’s parents, who live in the North West, remain in a nightmarish battle with her school, which, against their express wishes, now uses her new name on official school documents.

‘They even put it on the forms relating to a school trip abroad, even though it is not in line with her passport,’ her mother said.

I don’t get it. Why are these parents so supine? Why did they let it go on after that first phone call? The child is in danger at school. Remove her from the school.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 8:27 am

And they earnestly believe the long succession of losses have all just been outliers.

Listening to Dutton on early Green Left Radio News (now half) Hour formerly known as AM I’m thinking he is only 50:50 to get to the next federal election. Some of the pressure will come off when The Voice referendum fails.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 8:29 am

“I am merely reminding you where you are.”

Have you enrolled in a vagina awareness course yet?

Razey
Razey
April 3, 2023 8:29 am

Stuck listening to channel 7 on a boat. Lol. They just said that people worry about wage increase spiral. The gaslighting on the TV is unreal.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 3, 2023 8:34 am

Yes Textor essentially told me to piss off so I did.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 3, 2023 8:39 am

Minsays:

April 3, 2023 at 8:21 am

Right calli , information had to be disseminated quickly

Then run media adverts saying “dick in bum sans condom is high risk”.
Running it via psychs and GPs coupled with the Grim Reaper thing was an early attempt to stop homophobia (before it had even been heard of).
What about men in their 20’s and 30’s who never saw a GP or psych?
Homophobia wasn’t fatal.
AIDs was.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 3, 2023 8:39 am

Razeysays:

April 3, 2023 at 8:29 am

Stuck listening to channel 7 on a boat.

You’re sailing to Japan?

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 8:42 am

“Dutton is voing to rebuild.”

With the price of new building materials these days, he might want to think about a tour of the demolition yard. That’s where he’ll find the quality stuff his stupid party discarded so cheerfully.

call wins the blog today.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 8:42 am

calli

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 3, 2023 8:44 am

A man who doesn’t know what a woman is thinks reality is dragging Cats down…

Crossie
Crossie
April 3, 2023 8:45 am

The lurrrrve that once dared not speak its name is now the lust that won’t shut up.

It still dare not speak about what it is.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 8:46 am

‘Tarp up gents, or you’ll find yourselves starring in a Bob Geldof clip’.

The army has made directness an art.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
April 3, 2023 8:46 am

It’s now the party of flunkies, careerists and midwit managers who’s political ambitions are to be a member of parliament and get as far up the greasy political pole as they can.

You ask them why and the standard answer will be ‘I want to make a difference’.

If you ask them what difference they want to make they’ll either be lost for words or mouth some platitude like ‘a difference in politics’.

I’d wager only a handful of Liberal MPs and Senators have any clear policy aim attached to their glittering future career.

Trust me, I’ve seen it a hundred times. Most will not damage their political prospects by standing firm on a matter of policy principle.

That’s led the Liberals to the political abyss. Caught in no man’s land with an aging supporter base and little conviction in their parliamentary ranks

Some of them are now saying that the Aston result marks the low water mark and things will get better. They could be right…or they could be smothered in a fog of self-delusion.

The same self-delusion that saw they install the disastrous Malcolm Turnbull federally and sees them out of office in every mainland state of the country.

It’s not good enough for a political party to merely be the party against stuff. They actually need to be fighting for something other than the spoils of office.

I don’t know what the Liberal Party is fighting for anymore. It sure as hell isn’t the forgotten people. Menzies vision has been lost in a haze of Liberal mediocrity.

Until tomorrow.

Cory

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 3, 2023 8:47 am

‘Unacceptable incompetence’: CDC made dozens of basic data errors on COVID, epidemiologists find

It wasn’t a mistake…. Tess Lawrie

https://youtu.be/Uovtt7jMbZ4

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 8:48 am

Dr F

The ABC takeaway: The Liberals have until 2025 to learn to love longtime PicoPrep, colonic irrigation, and adjustable pronouns. The smoking crater of the Australian productive and social economy will fix itself with a little light taxation, some deft market intervention, and the promise of more windmills.

I assume that this is a parody, but with the degeneracy of the political left these days, it can be hard to tell.

Still, at least with the PicoPrep and colonic irrigation, their rectums (recta?) will be germ free, unlike their you-know-whats.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 8:50 am

I don’t know what the Liberal Party is fighting for anymore. It sure as hell isn’t the forgotten people. Menzies vision has been lost in a haze of Liberal mediocrity.

What was Australian Conservatives all about?

Australia One?

Was there co-operation between security services and major political parties? Did Turnbull give Bernardi a green light to catfish conservatives?

Cory
Gory
Story
Lavatory
Tory

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 3, 2023 8:50 am

‘We’re opposed to everything’: The ‘failure’ of the Liberals in elections

Not much of a Micheal Kroger fan, but he certainly hits the target here:

The Liberal Party’s “challenge” is to make people think their “best days are ahead of them” under a Dutton government, says former Liberal Party president Michael Kroger.

“There’s not a campaign that the left aren’t running to radically change our society – global warming, the Voice, a republic,” Mr Kroger told Sky News host Amanda Stoker.

“We sort of tended to … board up the old milk bar from the inside and we’re sort of opposed to everything – well what are we actually in favour of?

“What are the policies … that we’re prosecuting. I mean, Roshena Campbell had three things to run on – we’re opposed to interest rate increases, we’re opposed to cost-of-living increases and there was a road … that Labor defunded.

“If the Parliamentary parties, state and federal, do not have a grand narrative to make people think their best days are ahead of them, you will not win elections.”

“The failure of the Liberal Party across the country in the last ten years is a failure of thinking – no one’s done the hard thinking and prosecuted arguments to help us win elections.”

Not wrong there,
Inevitably, Peter Dutton is going to take the pineapple over this. However the intellectual vacuum that is the Liberal Party stretches waaay back behind him.

Looking in the rear-view mirror. What’s all that I see in the dust?

Morrison undoing the Constitution and handing out the grandkids’ future?
Jobson Grothe?
Is that Christopher Pyne unleashing his inner revolutionary?
Julia Gillard’s welfare policies mixed into Tony Abbott’s 2014 budget?
Tony Shephard’s National Commission of Audit?

The only reason the Liberals weren’t taken out the back of the shed by the electorate in 2016 was Bill Shorten.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 8:50 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
April 3, 2023 at 8:29 am
“I am merely reminding you where you are.”

Have you enrolled in a vagina awareness course yet?

Wouldn’t help, his head remains firmly inserted in his PicoPrepped, colonically irrigated, germ-free rectum, so he would neither hear nor see anything.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 3, 2023 8:53 am

3aw discussing the Porter Davis collapse and casting the runes for answers as to why such a big builder would fail. I think I know this one.
GOVERNMENT POLICY
Glad to help.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 8:54 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 3, 2023 at 8:44 am
A man who doesn’t know what a woman is thinks reality is dragging Cats down…

Come on m0nty=fa, prove Bruce wrong, define a woman. You are allowed to ask your wife for assistance.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 8:54 am

The Liverals need to promise cheap reliable power to underpin future prosperity.
That will require clean coal and maybe, in the future, nuclear.
Nothing else is good enough.
Give it two years and the renewal worm will turn.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 8:55 am

Dotsays:
April 3, 2023 at 8:46 am
‘Tarp up gents, or you’ll find yourselves starring in a Bob Geldof clip’.

The army has made directness an art.

Flies cause disease, keep yours done up.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 3, 2023 8:55 am

As a follow up, it’s very fortunate that farmers generally enjoyed a couple of good years before the massive price surges caused by government restrictions and spending or we’d be up shit creek like the builders.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 8:58 am

Exactly.
Government regulation for new housing, not just 7 star energy is insane.
Meanwhile Bandt wants one million new homes, and we are apparently importing 600,000 more people.
Victoria is broke, where will the money for new roads, hospitals, public transport (that crazy cross town train), schools come from?
Uncle Xi?

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 8:58 am

“Whether its anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-Chinese people, the list goes on and on.”

Importing 600 000 Chinese Communist nationalists seemed such a good idea at the time.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2023 8:59 am

This is Important – I Have Been Warning – Ukraine Has Been Losing

https://youtu.be/bw1euDVn41Y

“You should listen to this carefully. The Neocons will have at least another 500,000 people’s blood on their hands. I have stated that Putin NEVER sought to invade and conquer Ukraine. It was also a Special Action only to free the Russian Donbas. The American Neocons are the ones who have been pushing this to defeat Russia. They never cared about the people of Ukraine. They have been used as cannon fodder. Perhaps as we enter the final days into the target of the ECM – April 10th, it will have this defeat to deal with. To all of those who bought into the whole Putin is just evil scenario, you better think again, why are you so easily manipulated by Neocon propaganda? Because this is not going to end.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/this-is-important-i-have-been-warning-ukraine-has-been-losing/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 8:59 am

It would be pretty funny to borrow from Xi then they collapse USSR style.

“Call in the loans? The PRC doesn’t exist anymore, nor does their currency”

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:01 am

“If the Parliamentary parties, state and federal, do not have a grand narrative to make people think their best days are ahead of them, you will not win elections.”

“The failure of the Liberal Party across the country in the last ten years is a failure of thinking – no one’s done the hard thinking and prosecuted arguments to help us win elections.”

Here’s a nice three word slogan for you to start with Kroger.

“The Forgotten People”.

Those who live outside the navel gazing bubble of the inner cities, don’t live off the taxpayer, are happy to do “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay”, and don’t want self-selected “elites” ramming their sexual and other fantasies down their and their children’s throats.

Enough for the moment, I’m sure others can contribute also.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 9:02 am

3aw discussing the Porter Davis collapse and casting the runes for answers as to why such a big builder would fail. I think I know this one.
GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Reserve Bank’s incompetent manipulation of interest rates has set up a boom-bust cycle. Government policies certainly haven’t helped.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 9:03 am

I have stated that Putin NEVER sought to invade and conquer Ukraine. It was also a Special Action only to free the Russian Donbas

Lunatic fringe, GRU twitter troll stuff. Look at a map of current deployments. How are Mariupol and Kherson in the Donbas?

. The American Neocons are the ones who have been pushing this to defeat Russia

Actually true.

Perhaps as we enter the final days into the target of the ECM – April 10th, it will have this defeat to deal with

Perhaps – funny how the forecasts made after the fact on the other hand have rock solid certainty.

“Oh no, that was a reversal”

Retard levels of cringe. Martin Armstrong should be on Reddit.

m0nty
April 3, 2023 9:04 am

Yes, last week he was here mocking, sneering, jeering, and trivialising the violence in an Auckland Park against Kellie-Jay Keen and other women, implying they “asked for it”.

No and no. There was no violence. I did not imply anything of the sort.

Stick to facts Cranky and change the tune, lest you transition fully to a Billy Bass singing fish, dancing uselessly on my trophy wall.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 3, 2023 9:04 am

define a woman

And no 99.9% is not a pass mark.

Keir Starmer says 99.9 percent of women ‘haven’t got a penis’ (2 Apr)

Sir Keir Starmer faced fresh ridicule on Sunday night after clarifying his stance on transgender issues by saying “of course” 99.9 percent of women “haven’t got a penis”. The Labour leader is under pressure to define his party’s position on gender identity following the fierce row in Scotland.

Sir Keir has also been warned by party strategists that he risks losing the next general election if he continues to face questions about how to define a woman.

Watching all the contortions these people put themselves through is fun.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 3, 2023 9:07 am

Enough for the moment, I’m sure others can contribute also.

Smaller Government and lower taxes?

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:09 am

Your loony tomato soup tosser has been charged with assault.
‘No violence’.

Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 9:10 am

Here’s a tip for Peter Dutton from someone who has spent a lifetime working in the media: the more hatred you get from journalists, the higher your primary vote in by-elections and general elections.

The media doesn’t speak for your voters. The media is your opposition.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:12 am

Fights continued to break out in the crowd, as counter-protesters ripped down the last fence that was protecting Keen-Minshull from behind.

No violence

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2023 9:12 am

Social Media and Device Addiction –

https://youtu.be/QugooaNRnsk

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:13 am

m0ntysays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:04 am
Yes, last week he was here mocking, sneering, jeering, and trivialising the violence in an Auckland Park against Kellie-Jay Keen and other women, implying they “asked for it”.

No and no. There was no violence. I did not imply anything of the sort.

Lying liar lying again. Try to broaden your sources beyond the fanatical fascist leftards.

Bar Beach Swimmer
April 3, 2023 9:13 am

SP:
Running it via psychs and GPs coupled with the Grim Reaper thing was an early attempt to stop homophobia (before it had even been heard of).

This is how those in charge think about us; the community. Rather than tell the truth, we are like children to them, unable to understand anything and base in our approach to each other.

So, the appeal is made to our emotions, which need either priming or subjugation, depending on the message.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 9:13 am

The press are the enemy. The press are the enemy.
The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy.

duncanm
duncanm
April 3, 2023 9:14 am

m0nty says:
April 2, 2023 at 2:00 pm

NSW One Nation vote in recent elections: 1.4%.

I thought you did, like stats ‘n stuff ?
https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/SG2301/LC/state/fp

5.2%

(oh – LDP @ 3.06%. Add those together and they exceed the green vote of 8.15%)

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:15 am

Oops, sorry, I forgot that m0nty=fa is one of the “fanatical fascist leftards”.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 3, 2023 9:15 am

Labor ran a dirty campaign.
That means they made Roshena Campbell the issue.

The Moira Deeming debacle helped Labor.
Was it really so important for Deeming to speak at a Rally on behalf of an AstroTurfed [and likely Spook directed] group of ratbags in the lead up to Aston?

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 9:16 am

LDP, SFF and PHON are a sizable chunk of the electorate in NSW.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:17 am

A group of 150 to 200, mainly women, are mobbed by 2000 trans activists, mainly men.
‘No violence!’ squeaks the resident relativist.

Crossie
Crossie
April 3, 2023 9:18 am

Meanwhile Bandt wants one million new homes, and we are apparently importing 600,000 more people.
Victoria is broke, where will the money for new roads, hospitals, public transport (that crazy cross town train), schools come from?
Uncle Xi?

Watch Andrews come back from China with the Belt and Road under his belt.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:20 am

Martyr Made ??
@martyrmade
·
5h
The other day, I said that these people don’t care if their foot soldiers kill your children, but I was wrong. They care very much.
Quote Tweet

Check the comment by someone who calls itself “Aunty Fa”. (Yuk, yuk, yuk, ain’t “her” pun on Antifa sooooo cute?)

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 9:21 am

“No and no. There was no violence. I did not imply anything of the sort.”

Yes pervert apologist, there was violence, women were punched.

I’ll give you this, you are a LIAR, your sole talent.

By the way, have you told your wife you’re a pervert apologist?

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 3, 2023 9:21 am

Fights continued to break out in the crowd, as counter-protesters ripped down the last fence that was protecting Keen-Minshull from behind.
Get a grip, grandma.
It was interlocking movable temporary fencing 3 feet high.

There were no “fights in the crowd”, it was a Kiwi day out.
It’s pretty miserable over there, you know?

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 9:22 am

I’ll repeat what I wrote earlier….the pervert apologist was here last week mocking, sneering, jeering, and trivialising the violence in an Auckland Park against Kellie-Jay Keen and other women, implying they “asked for it”.

No wonder he doesn’t like vaginas.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 9:22 am

If you add up the broadly libertarian parties in the last NSW election, it is the third largest after the ALP and LNP combined ticket.

Barkin’ Betty
IMOP
LDP
SFF
PHON
HEMP

Over 16% of the electorate back some sort of anti-authoritarian position.

Tom
Tom
April 3, 2023 9:24 am

The UK guys seem a bit frazzled – perhaps they’re still trying to work out what the dickens is going on over there.

Calli, British cartoonists are still living in the 18th century: they’re upset Britain lost the American war of independence and don’t understand what Americans were fighting for — i.e. liberty.

They’re disgusted by Donald Trump because he doesn’t behave like a reserved British gentleman.

The modern British media merely reminds Americans they had no choice but to break away from the mother country — the 18th century’s version of the Big Government nanny state.

m0nty
April 3, 2023 9:24 am

Have you enrolled in a vagina awareness course yet?

Yeah, it’s called a marriage.

You know what else is covered in bacteria? Penises. Seen one of those lately Cranky?

My point, among all the biology talk, is that pretending that homosexual sex is dirty and other types of sex are not is scientifically untrue. Bacteria are everywhere. Humans have systems to fight bacteria. It’s okay, don’t panic.

This is not a binary thing where cis are pristine and other types are unclean.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:24 am

Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:15 am
Labor ran a dirty campaign.
That means they made Roshena Campbell the issue.

The Moira Deeming debacle helped Labor.
Was it really so important for Deeming to speak at a Rally on behalf of an AstroTurfed [and likely Spook directed] group of ratbags in the lead up to Aston?

Shorter Dick Ed campaign philosophy: “Say nothing, don’t have any principles, don’t criticise Labor, let Labor or the media (same, same) veto your choice of candidate. It’ll all be sweet then.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:26 am

Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:21 am
Fights continued to break out in the crowd, as counter-protesters ripped down the last fence that was protecting Keen-Minshull from behind.
Get a grip, grandma.
It was interlocking movable temporary fencing 3 feet high.

There were no “fights in the crowd”, it was a Kiwi day out.
It’s pretty miserable over there, you know?

Another lying liar.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 9:29 am

The modern British media merely reminds Americans they had no choice but to break away from the mother country — the 18th century’s version of the Big Government nanny state.

Just don’t mention Abraham Lincoln, the New Deal & The Great Society.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 3, 2023 9:29 am

Victoria is broke, where will the money for new roads, hospitals, public transport (that crazy cross town train), schools come from?
Uncle Xi?

600,000 brand new – pristine credit rating government employees.
Lets say we can get 1/2 of them on the hook for $500,000 of dog box real estate.

Theres $150,000,000,000 of GDP/ economic stimulus right there.
Recession proof population ponzi.

This has been Austfailian bipartisan economic management for decades (at least back to later years Howard)

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 9:30 am

“Seen one of those lately Cranky?”

Yes I have, and the penis I see regularly isn’t covered in bacteria. Did your mother teach you basic cleanliness? Clearly not.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:30 am

My point, among all the biology talk, is that pretending that homosexual sex is dirty and other types of sex are not is scientifically untrue. Bacteria are everywhere. Humans have systems to fight bacteria. It’s okay, don’t panic.

m0nty=fa

You failed Economics and “studied” j’ism. I doubt that either course covered biology, so why don’t you do some self-education (that is NOT the same as self-abuse)?

Look up the difference between pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. Think about it carefully, then check up on the presence of pathogenic bacteria in faeces.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 3, 2023 9:30 am

The people the SFLs like to associate with aren’t the people whose votes they need.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:31 am

No one said that though you dissembler.
There are significantly higher risks of contracting aids and other stds through anal sex.
It’s a matter of fact, well documented in medical literature.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 9:31 am

“This is not a binary thing where cis are pristine and other types are unclean.”

Note the use of the word “cis” by the pervert apologist?

m0nty
April 3, 2023 9:33 am

the penis I see regularly isn’t covered in bacteria

Yes it is. Everything is.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 3, 2023 9:34 am

Ever been to NZ, cletus.
Obviously not.
It’s the most miserable, depressed, grey place in the world.

Anyway, One Nation didn’t run in Aston despite doing well at the 2022 Poll, so voters punished the Liberal Party for Latham’s abuse.

Coincidence that all this shit happened close to the ByElection?
Yeah sure.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:37 am

m0ntysays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:33 am
the penis I see regularly isn’t covered in bacteria

Yes it is. Everything is.

Pathogenic or non-pathogenic?

Are you a bacteriophobe, as Trump is alleged to be? Orange Man Good?

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 3, 2023 9:40 am

Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:34 am
Ever been to NZ, cletus.
Obviously not.
It’s the most miserable, depressed, grey place in the world.

Anyway, One Nation didn’t run in Aston despite doing well at the 2022 Poll, so voters punished the Liberal Party for Latham’s abuse.

Coincidence that all this shit happened close to the ByElection?
Yeah sure.

Suuuuure that happened, thank you Mr Photios for the insight into the latest excuses.

PS, kindly refer to me by my full title, that is Cletus the Illustrious.

And say hello to Homer, Grandpa Simpson.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:40 am

Ignore the red bacterial herring.
Not all bacteria is bad bacteria.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 3, 2023 9:40 am

Ponds institute flying the flag for pinching left over super after you die.
And increasing taxes on super.

Moreover, the report found that a large, and growing, share of these retirement savings balances was not spent before death.

“As debate flares about what the objective of superannuation should be, everyone seems to agree on what it shouldn’t be: a taxpayer-funded inheritance scheme. Yet that is exactly what super has become,” the report argued.

“Much of the boost to super balances from tax breaks is never spent. By 2060, one-third of all withdrawals from super will be via bequests – up from one-fifth today.”


Grattan’s first proposal is to lower the threshold and increase the tax rate on super contributions from high-income earners.

This would see anyone earning above $220,000 a year pay a 35 per cent tax rate on income flowing into their super account, as opposed to the current rule that imposes a 30 per cent tax rate on those earning above $250,000.

Grattan’s first proposal is to lower the threshold and increase the tax rate on super contributions from high-income earners.

This would see anyone earning above $220,000 a year pay a 35 per cent tax rate on income flowing into their super account, as opposed to the current rule that imposes a 30 per cent tax rate on those earning above $250,000.

When im elected dictator for life any flogbag calling for higher taxes will be granted it on an individual basis, for at least 3 generations.

m0nty
April 3, 2023 9:41 am

To be a bacteriophobe is to be ignorant. We live in a bacterial swamp. Our bodies are full of them, some even helpful.

That sort of phobia is at the level of neurosis. It makes little scientific sense.

Rejecting homosexuality because it is “dirty” is stupendously dumb. We are all dirty. If you don’t understand that, you are uneducated.

Min
Min
April 3, 2023 9:43 am

How will they get Chinese money in without belt and road ? Chinese govt gives hundreds of thousand to each migrant coming to Victoria or some such scheme.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 3, 2023 9:44 am

New roads

Six months after water damage to roads from rain last year there has been little substantive repair works carried out in country Vic.
-Wash aways not touched.
-Deep holes around bridges and culverts still there.
-Road verges with sheer edges not filled.
– Big dangerous potholes on highways with signage that doesn’t come close to explaining the risk.
– Rudimentary patching that fails to adhere and not filled enough to level the surface.
– Loose drift sand from gravel wash covering intersections and crossings.

In the same time, farmers have repaired deep tracks and bog holes over vast areas of the state in preparation for cropping.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 9:45 am

The Reserve Bank’s incompetent manipulation of interest rates has set up a boom-bust cycle. Government policies certainly haven’t helped.

Nah. Banks (and the maaates) have pushed all the risk onto builders (most of whom are undercapitalised). Something will have to change. Politicians aren’t helping, as usual.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 9:47 am

Dr mUnty is in.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 3, 2023 9:48 am
Delta A
Delta A
April 3, 2023 9:48 am

No and no. There was no violence.

What about the thug who punched that 70yo woman in the eye*. Is that not violence?

*IIRC, it was dover who posted the footage a day or so after the debacle.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 3, 2023 9:50 am

BTW
We repair bog holes- we don’t have sex with them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 9:51 am

The people the SFLs like to associate with aren’t the people whose votes they need.

Just what I was saying at the Weld Club over Friday lunch.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 3, 2023 9:51 am

How will they get Chinese money in without belt and road ?

Please – use the correct terminology- its Bat and Toad.

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:53 am

Homosexuality comes with a much higher risk of stds and other diseases because of the particular sexual activities in which they engage.
Modern safe sex practices, vaccinations like HPV and monkey pox etc have somewhat ameliorates those risks.

But don’t let facts get in the way of your feel.
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men

rosie
rosie
April 3, 2023 9:55 am

I suspect that the punching incident at the Let Women Speak rally will lead to another assault charge.
Someone on twitter claims to have identified the perpetrator.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 9:55 am

Bugger, I quite liked this soundtrack (to a flawed movie)

Enough with the buggery already.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 3, 2023 9:59 am

Rejecting homosexuality because it is “dirty” is stupendously dumb.

Um, Monty…

House Republicans accuse NIH of ‘stonewalling’ on ‘supercharged monkeypox experiment’: GOP lawmakers want NIH to turn over documents and information on monkeypox virus research they say could make the virus deadlier (1 Apr)

“Based on the available information, it appears the project is reasonably anticipated to yield a lab-generated monkeypox virus that is 1,000 times more lethal in mice than the monkeypox virus currently circulating in humans and that transmits as efficiently as the monkeypox virus currently circulating in humans. The risk-benefit ratio indicates potentially serious risks without clear civilian practical applications,” the Republicans wrote.

Given that Latham’s description is quite accurate, if earthy, and that monkeypox is almost exclusively passed on by men having sex with other men, this is a curious project. I wonder if someone at the NIH wanted to selectively exterminate gay men? That’s what you could logically infer, although given the medical agencies seem to’ve gone nuts lately I don’t think logic much comes into it these days.

On the other hand I have no other idea what on earth they think they’re trying to do.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 3, 2023 10:00 am

Indigenous icon Yunupingu dies aged 74

By Paige Taylor
Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
9:53AM April 3, 2023
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Yunupingu, the clan leader whose advocacy for Indigenous rights spanned seven decades and 16 Prime Ministers, has died on his country in northeast Arnhem Land.

Yunupingu – the Gumatj leader’s surname and the only name by which his family now wishes him to be known – was surrounded by close relatives at his house at Ganyangara during the last weeks of his life. He was 74.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the tributes on Monday morning.
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“Yunupingu walked in two worlds with authority, power and grace, and he worked to make them whole — together,’’ he said in a statement.

“What he could see was not the reinvention of Australia, but the realisation of a greater one.

With his passing, consider what we have lost. A leader. A statesman. A painter. A dancer. A singer and musician who always carried his father’s clapsticks and felt the power they carried within them.’’

The PM went on: “Yunupingu understood a fundamental truth: if you want to make your voice count, you have to make sure that it’s heard. He made sure with the sheer power of his advocacy for land rights. He made sure when he helped draft the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, which delivered such a powerful message that resounded within the walls of the nation’s Parliament. And he made sure when he took part in that masterclass of concise and — he hoped — unifying eloquence, the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

“Our hearts go out especially to the Yolngu, the Gumatj clan, and the great Yunupingu family.

To all who loved him, to all who were moved by him, to all there who have gazed out to where the Gulf of Carpentaria meets the sky.

“We will never again hear his voice anew, but his words – and his legacy – will keep speaking to us. Yunupingu now walks in another place, but he has left such great footsteps for us to follow here in this one.’’

He was born at Ganyangara on the Gove Peninsula in 1948, after missionaries established themselves on the lands of 13 clans who identify themselves collectively as Yolngu. His brother was the late Dr M Yunupingu, lead singer of Australia’s pre-eminent Aboriginal band, Yothu Yindi, and the first Indigenous Australian to become a school principal. Yunupingu’s father was the leader of the Gumatj clan and a warrior, Mungurrawuy Yunupingu.

Yunupingu dealt personally with every Prime Minister since Gough Whitlam, who had met Yunupingu’s family in northeast Arnhem Land when he was a pilot in World War II. Yunupingu advised Malcolm Fraser on Australia’s first Aboriginal land rights laws and played an important role in almost every development in the Indigenous rights movement since he was a teen. He was twice chairman of the Northern Land Council, named a National Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia and Australian of the Year in 1978. In 1999, Yunupingu and his brother Dr M Yunupingu established the annual Garma festival, now Australia’s largest celebration of Indigenous culture and a key forum for discussions on Indigenous policy and politics.

Yunupingu’s landmark speech calling for constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians at the University of Melbourne in October 2007 coincided with the beginning of bipartisanship on the issue. John Howard went to the election a month later promising a referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution. He lost the election and in 2008, Yunupingu presented new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd with a petition calling for constitutional change that would give Indigenous Australians a rightful place.

A decade of work on recognition led ultimately to the call for a voice and Yunupingu supported this as a form of recognition that is meaningful. At his annual Garma festival in 2019, which then Prime Minister Scott Morrison did not attend, Yunupingu asked then Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt to change the constitution “and make it a real law for Yolngu and Balanda (non-Indigenous) people”.

Disappointed by the promises of successive prime ministers – in particular Bob Hawke’s failure to strike a treaty – Yunupingu said that if the Commonwealth did not come up with a way to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution, his people would throw the document into the sea.

“We will dismiss the Constitution … we thrown it out of Australia into the saltwater,” he said.

“It will be wonderful. The Yolngu people will stand on the land and see if that document will float away into the ocean. That’s what is going to happen.”

Yunupingu was 15 in 1963 when he helped draft of the historic plea against the first mining on Yolngu land, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions signed by his father and his father’s brother, Djalalingba Yunupingu. Yunupingu was with his father when he met then Prime Minister Robert Menzies, whose cabinet had just made the decision to approve leases for the bauxite mine.

Yunupingu later recalled how his people learned of the mine from Harry Giese “the so-called protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory” who stood on a 44-gallon drum at the Yirrkala airport to give the news to a gathering of Yolngu including him and his father.

“A mine will be built here at Yirrkala, he tells us. It will mine the dirt that we stand on – our soil,” Yunupingu wrote in an essay in The Monthly in 2008.

“Giese talks for 20 minutes, then he gets in his car and drives away. This is the first mining agreement on the Gove Peninsula”.

Yunupingu had returned from two years at Methodist Bible College in Brisbane when, in 1968, he acted as a court interpreter for his people in their case against the mine, called the Gove Land Rights case. The Yolngu lost in 1971 but it led directly to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, the nation’s first Indigenous land rights law.

Yunupingu was a small child when he first met Europeans. His ability and willingness to explain the Yolngu world to outsiders helped make him a potent advocate.

He was dedicated to education and economic development for his people. As chairman of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, he oversaw the establishment of an unconventional junior school in Gunyangara, a partnership with Barker College, Studio Schools Australia and Melbourne University that blends the Australian Curriculum with traditional Yol?u teachings. Though the school has been open for less than two years, early results are promising and show students are building their English language skills with a foundation in Yol?u Matha.

Yunupingu also established businesses on Yolngu land that employ Yolngu people, including a cattle station, a nursery, a timber mill and the Gumatj-owned Gulkula Bauxite Mine which is the first Aboriginal owned and operated mine in Australia. In 2022, he entered a partnership with NASA to open a space base on Yolngu land.

P
P
April 3, 2023 10:08 am

Mobile phones will be banned in all public schools across NSW from October.

Good. I hope this is taken up by the Catholic schools.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2023 10:09 am

Rejecting homosexuality because it is “dirty” is stupendously dumb. We are all dirty. If you don’t understand that, you are uneducated.

Playing in the dirt is not dirty. But having the Milkman with his unprotected c@ck shoving it up MontyPox’s bum is. Whether MontyPox is wearing a dress or not.

cohenite
April 3, 2023 10:10 am

Barkin’ Betty
IMOP
LDP
SFF
PHON
HEMP

Over 16% of the electorate back some sort of anti-authoritarian position.

If LDP, SFF and PHON combined they may get somewhere but that is the problem: too many rugged individuals wanting to oppose the lefties their way instead of swallowing their pride and combining forces and maybe taking one for the team. One thing the left do well is tribalism. And every day of the week a tribe of retards will beat a good single man.

In other news:

Gone with the Wind is slapped with trigger warning by publisher

Clark Gable was deemed to be too handsome and could possibly turn some trannies back from their exalted path of dicklessness.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 10:11 am

Nah. Banks (and the maaates) have pushed all the risk onto builders (most of whom are undercapitalised).

That’s a consequence of interest rate manipulation. Artificially low interest rates over stimulated the construction business (the “boom”), with builders borrowing to expand and service the growing market. Then interest rate hikes exacerbated the covid linked supply chain crisis and the associated unforeseen expenses involved in completing those projects brought about the bust.

It’s not only our central bank that has been on board with this, of course.

Warwick
Warwick
April 3, 2023 10:13 am

Avid reader, seldom poster here. I must have had a fever dream last night. I dreamt some fat hopeless clown attempted to compare the hygiene of the vagina with the anal passage and declared them “Same Same!! (But different!). I woke up this morning and knew it was a dream because nobody would be that stupid………………………………….
I note the Melbourne F1 GP, proudly underwritten by LGBTQREWS++ supporter Daniel Andrews, also had an enormous amount of signage of advertising by Aramco. Largest company in the world and owned proudly by a country that will put homosexuals and trannies to death.
There is a jarring inconsistency here, I think. Hopefully Monty can explain.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 10:15 am

“I suspect that the punching incident at the Let Women Speak rally will lead to another assault charge.
Someone on twitter claims to have identified the perpetrator.”

Correct, but it’s good to know that the pervert apologist doesn’t mind it when women are punched and harassed.

He clearly doesn’t like vaginas, according to him, we ask for violence.

Dot
Dot
April 3, 2023 10:15 am

I’d swallow my pride for a viable right wing party than can eventually win government.

…and no, it cannot be a repeat of the Gliberal Pardee.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 3, 2023 10:17 am

Me thinks munty is keeping nut case in his basement and telling him it’s NZ.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 3, 2023 10:17 am

‘He said I had spoken truth’: PM’s tribute to icon
Joanna Panagopoulos
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Anthony Albanese has spoken of the last conversation he had with senior Indigenous leader Yunupingu, who has died aged 74, after he revealed the wording on the voice last week.

“I spoke to him on the day in which we announced what the referendum question would be, on the Thursday afternoon. He was surrounded then by his close family … and it was a great honour for me to speak to this at that time.

“He said I had spoken truth, which was very important to him … He had been let down so many times,” the Prime Minister said.

Albanese spoke the truth? Seriously?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2023 10:18 am

Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2023 at 9:34 am
Ever been to NZ, cletus.
Obviously not.
It’s the most miserable, depressed, grey place in the world.

Really? I will be in Queenstown NZ in late May. Not been there for 20 years now and it should be good as you and MontyPox Virus won’t be there. No queens allowed apparently.

m0nty
April 3, 2023 10:20 am

Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv
Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky killed in blast at St Petersburg cafe. This is him after Putin signed a decree on annexation of Ukrainian territories: “That’s it! We’ll defeat everyone, we’ll rob everyone, we’ll kill everyone. Everything will be the way we like”.

Good to see Russia lose another genocidal maniac.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 10:21 am

Roger – I can’t see fixed price building contracts surviving for much longer, at least in the residential building area. Insurance is the next problem area. HIH isn’t around this time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 10:23 am

No doubt the RBA “free money” period brought things to a head.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 3, 2023 10:24 am

Who knew voters want you to govern rather than go to raves?

Finland prime minister ousted, conservatives win tight vote (2 Apr)

HELSINKI — Finland’s main conservative party claimed victory in a parliamentary election Sunday in an extremely tight three-way race in which right-wing populists took second place, leaving Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party in third, dashing her hopes for reelection.

Well at least she’ll have more time to party now.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 3, 2023 10:26 am

Sir Keir Starmer faced fresh ridicule on Sunday night after clarifying his stance on transgender issues by saying “of course” 99.9 percent of women “haven’t got a penis”.

Lest anyone think that cultural warfare is a sideshow, a right wing howl of despair into the darkening night, remember that is being systematically deployed as a mainstream political weapon by the progressive Left:

“I think people in Victoria, at least in Aston, have passed judgement on his leadership and what he offers, and it is a nasty brand of politics that is all about themselves,” he said.

“Whether its anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-Chinese people, the list goes on and on.

The reason that LGBTEtc issues are waving their Pom Poms in everyday faces is precisely because it has been weaponised by arsewipes like Andrews and his media enablers.

Most people in the real world are not really engaged or concerned with psychosexual matters; but transsexualism and poovery has always titillated on the margins.

On the political battlefield however, the technical contradictions of alt-sex provide media-ready embarrassment sound bites from dissembling ponces like Keir Starmer, or a heavy weapon to punish political opponents stuck to the Queer Tar Baby.

All while Rome burns.
Identifying as Top Men.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 10:27 am

NZ is 1950s Britain with better skiing. Just as Hillarys is 1980 Britain with sun and beaches.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 3, 2023 10:28 am

I think you’re wrong about not having Women like your mother Cassie. My son’s wives are like that. The best thing is with children they are turning conservative. Their friends are the same. There is hope, it may be all we have. The Kittahs are in much the same vein.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 3, 2023 10:30 am

Nicola Sturgeon was the Icarus of tranny politics.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 3, 2023 10:30 am

“I spoke to him on the day in which we announced what the referendum question would be, on the Thursday afternoon. He was surrounded then by his close family … and it was a great honour for me to speak to this at that time.

Albanese’s sincerity would choke a brown dog.

Roger
Roger
April 3, 2023 10:32 am

Roger – I can’t see fixed price building contracts surviving for much longer, at least in the residential building area.

Cost escalation clauses will be added, giving the builder an out.

Cassie of Sydney
April 3, 2023 10:32 am

“Rejecting homosexuality because it is “dirty” is stupendously dumb. We are all dirty. If you don’t understand that, you are uneducated.”

Hey pervert apologist, I’m not dirty, you might be, but it’s evident you weren’t taught cleanliness, among other things.

You are really are a pitiful disgrace.

m0nty
April 3, 2023 10:33 am

What about the thug who punched that 70yo woman in the eye*. Is that not violence?

One extremely grainy three-second video is not proof of anything. Needs a lot more context.

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