Open Thread – Tues 11 April 2023


Passage of the Jews through the Red Sea, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1891

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 12:44 pm

Every single thing they write now gets CCed to the TGA and they’ve got the Power to suspend a GP forever.

How peculiar, I write sick notes regularly, yet report to no-one..

And since the TGA has no jurisdiction over Drs in this area I think its not inconceivable you are being a mong again.

What the TGA regulates

The TGA regulates the supply of:

medicines prescribed by a doctor or dentist
medicines available from behind the pharmacy counter
medicines available in the general pharmacy
medicines available from supermarkets
complementary medicines, these include vitamins, herbal and traditional medicines
medical devices, from simple devices like bandages to complex technologies like heart pacemakers
products used to test for various diseases or conditions (in vitro diagnostic devices), such as blood tests; and
vaccines, blood products, and other biologics.
and the manufacturing and advertising of these products.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 11, 2023 12:46 pm

JR

Maybe he should ask his mates the Chinks.

Maybe he already has? Maybe they told him to do something interesting but physically improbable?

rickw
rickw
April 11, 2023 12:47 pm

cities where there are high concentrations of both a particular ethnicity and illegal firearms, despite strict gun control laws.

It’s all a mystery to him.

Munty is as dumb as f’ck, give him a break!

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 12:51 pm

How peculiar, I write sick notes regularly, yet report to no-one..

Safety Reps don’t get to write Sick Certificates.

I’ve heard they do a lot of Bottom Kissing to hold onto their non-jobs, though.
Care to comment, er, Doc?

Johnny Rotten
April 11, 2023 12:53 pm

Ed Casesays:
April 11, 2023 at 11:55 am

This is absolute rubbish.
Homo Sapiens did not originate in Africa.

No. It was Aliens in flying saucers that visited Planet Earth and mated with the chimps and gorillas to produce people like you.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 12:53 pm

Did the number of “official” participants in J6 outnumber the number of Trump supporters?

There were more than two hundred Antifa, we know that from John Sullivan’s brother. Some were even in MAGA hats. Then there are all the alphabet agency glowies from Epps on down. The known number of them is increasing rapidly. At least fifty, possibly three figures. Certainly the group that actually entered the Capitol may well have had more agents in it than real protestors.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 12:57 pm

The electric Hummer weighs 9,000 pounds and its battery weighs as much as a Honda Civic.

A Concrete Truck is pretty heavy too, but the person driving that has a fair idea how much damage it can do.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 12:59 pm

Safety Reps don’t get to write Sick Certificates.

That would be an issue if that was my role.

I notice you skating over the TGA claim- sunk without a trace like a WHIIIITE SUUUUB back into the mists of your mongdom.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 1:01 pm
Crossie
Crossie
April 11, 2023 1:02 pm

And yet what you decide is going to determine our future.

“We shared with you our pain, but we also shared our hope, and if we don’t have that hope recognised, you are then damning us to hell, and you are going to kill a nation of people.”

One, these people are not fond of democracy while chanting it constantly.

Two, I thought their religion didn’t have hell.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 1:03 pm

Ukraine has been annihilated

Pretty mutual. Russia seems to be in defensive mode at the moment. They’ve just built a big trench system 80 km behind the front line. It’s visible from space. Not a sign of confidence.

Between the loss of interest by the West and the exsanguinity of the Russians it looks to me that the war will go into a 2014-style frozen stalemate soon.

Kneel
Kneel
April 11, 2023 1:07 pm

“I had no idea average EVs weigh about 2.5-3 tonnes.”

Remember the old “tanks”, like an EH or an XY? About 1.3 tonnes they were – a new Corolla weighs more!

The last of the Ford and Holden utes weighed 1.8 tonnes – utes!

Current model Landcruisers and similar sized 4WDs weigh well over 2 tonnes.

If you had a 150+kW engine in an old banger, it was a high performance car. Now it’s standard.
Has to be, they are pulling around such lard-arsed bodies (not talking about the passengers either).

Progress, see?

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 1:09 pm

Indolent:

REVEALED: The Real Reason Why Fake Woman Dylan Mulvaney Is Suddenly Everywhere

This reeks of the scam the Greens tried on about ten years ago – Is it still going?
A company was told to open it’s books to Greens employees to ascertain its adherence to Green policies. The company was to pay for all costs of this audit, and ALL the books were to be made available. If the company failed to comply with the audit requirements, they would be placed on a list of ‘environmental vandals’ (- my terminology) and consequences would flow from this.
Did I mention there would be a fee for this? $30k and up for smaller businesses.
We used to call this extortion but it seems like a great money spinner.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2023 1:11 pm

Ukraine has been annihilated

Pretty mutual.

Neither side has been “annihilated” (but it wouldn’t be surpising if they were felling less than chipper atm).

The leaked report simply contained a restrained assessment of Ukraine’s offensive capabilities come this spring in comparison with their successes last year.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 11, 2023 1:12 pm

Ok this has to be the most hard to understand rejection have had at the Oz. Under an article about Twitter.

“I recently got the blue tick and now able to post more words.
However a few days later the tick disappeared and says still being reviewed although still have the extra words.

Am happy to pay to support the platform now that there is more freedom to comment”.

Could the rejection reason be because promoting the competition? If you want freedom to comment Twitter is freer than the Oz. Although of course people can block you on Twitter.

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 1:16 pm

The thought of Perth City Council’s His Majesty’s Theatre Car Park collapsing under the weight of six floors of Teslas is certainly fun, except that I park there regularly.
So what does a Tesla weigh? The heaviest, Long-Range/Performance AWD : 4,072 lb (1,847 kg)
The lightest, Standard Range: 3,552 lb (1,611 kg).

Compare with the carpark’s usual diet, the Landcruiser (2,240 kg to 2,455 kg unloaded) and the Camry (1,500 to 1,655 kg hybrid) I am not terribly concerned.

Kneel
Kneel
April 11, 2023 1:25 pm

“We used to call this extortion but it seems like a great money spinner.”

“Nice business you got there – be a shame if anything happened to it.” – Anthony “Fat Tony” Capirossi (Sicilian ancestry, if I’m not mistaken).

The biggest players in this game are now “investment” companies like Blackrock – the “woke” management can not only drive your company by buying board seats, they can send you broke by selling off your stock if you don’t comply or have a bad “ESG score”. Banks too – they avoid investing in things like fossil fuels. None of them use their own money to do it – they just “manage” the investments of everyday people.
Unless and until someone sues and wins over failure of fiduciary duty, they’ll just keep going.

shatterzzz
April 11, 2023 1:27 pm

about acknowledging in our ­Constitution, the foundational document of our nation, that we don’t have a couple of hundred years of history, we’ve got 65,000 years of history and ­culture here in Australia – Tanya Plibersek

Soooooo. 64 800 years of nothing much to report and 200 years of documented history ..

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 1:27 pm

Cohenite:

The screech is going to get in: rub and tug has the muzzies onside; sheik shady alsuleiman and the rest of the bearded arseholes will strong-arm the million muzzies in this shit hole to vote yes.

Yep. The Muslims can see an “Islamic Voice” in their future.
In fact there is a “Voice” for everyone except white males, and we will be conscripted to fight for them.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 1:29 pm

Interesting comments about growing up angst.

Here’s a short list of growing pains for those of us from 60’s and 70’s:

– Vietnam War
– Cold War
– Ehrlich Population Bomb, famines everywhere
– IRA and ME (Black September)

Plus almost zero car safety, untreatable cancers whisking off many…many parents, armed robberies, child abductions, and…acne.

I think every generation has its burdens, I wonder if the present one is simply wealth and boredom and all the usual addictions.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 11, 2023 1:30 pm

Julian Leeser to resign from the Liberal Party’s frontbench over its position on the Indigenous voice to parliament.

See, Dutton? Making even this much of a stand is already paying dividends. You have already got rid of a petulant sop.

C.L.
C.L.
April 11, 2023 1:31 pm

Neither side has been “annihilated”

Wrong. The Ukrainian army has been annihilated.
Its remnants stagger on only because of Washington’s bankrolling and provisions.

Kneel
Kneel
April 11, 2023 1:32 pm

“…we will be conscripted to fight for them.”

Your grammar is suspect – watch the tenses!

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 11, 2023 1:33 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
April 11, 2023 at 1:01 pm
For Dot.

“Which was the style at the time”

LOL, featuring Grandpa Ed Simpson!

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 1:37 pm

The frolickingmoll:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-11/the-voice-no-vote-young-liberals-leader-considers-yes-vote/102206592
“Our people laid their soul bare to you and made themselves vulnerable in extending the hand to this nation and asking you to recognise us and to give us a voice.
“This country has criminalised our children, they are highly incarcerated, we are even locking up 10-year-olds.
“What a shame to this country.
“And yet what you decide is going to determine our future.
“We shared with you our pain, but we also shared our hope, and if we don’t have that hope recognised, you are then damning us to hell, and you are going to kill a nation of people.”

What a load of emotive cobblers. But I suppose if we do vote no, will that be the end of it?
Of course not – it will be the start of the next round of demands by the Communists.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 11, 2023 1:38 pm

I think every generation has its burdens, I wonder if the present one is simply wealth and boredom and all the usual addictions

In my day it was nuclear annihilation. I didn’t believe that scary garbage and I haven’t believed any of the succeeding scary garbage either.

It’s an IQ test.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 1:41 pm

“We shared with you our pain, but we also shared our hope, and if we don’t have that hope recognised, you are then damning us to hell, and you are going to kill a nation of people.”

Uh oh. They’re going full Sheriff Bart.

Never go full Sheriff Bart.

Zipster
Zipster
April 11, 2023 1:48 pm

Taiwan Responds to China’s Live-Fire Drills Around Island | China In Focus

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12:42 Tesla Expands in China as Apple Retreats
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15:26 Baidu Sues Apple for Ernie Bot App Copies
16:17 India to Become World’s Most Populous Country

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 1:53 pm

Vote yes, or the puppy dies.

Damon
Damon
April 11, 2023 1:56 pm

Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 11, 2023 1:57 pm

We shared with you our pain, but we also shared our hope, and if we don’t have that hope recognised, you are then damning us to hell, and you are going to kill a nation of people.”

What’s the Voice – the fourth, the fifth attempt at an Aboriginal voice to Parliament?

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 2:01 pm

Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

Good question, but the puppy is still depending on you to vote yes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 11, 2023 2:01 pm

This is absolute rubbish.
Homo Sapiens did not originate in Africa.

Groogs, have you been drinking the rohypnol again?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 11, 2023 2:03 pm

We shared with you our pain, but we also shared our hope, and if we don’t have that hope recognised, you are then damning us to hell, and you are going to kill a nation of people.”

We shared with you our entire civilisation, and you gained enormously, but the worst bit of our culture was exploiting the gullible and becoming a parasite, and you’ve taken to that like a duck to water. Well, some of you have. Which proves that being a total shit is quite independent of race.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 11, 2023 2:04 pm

Where’s our “Voice” on the destruction of our formerly good and affordable power system?

Johnny Rotten
April 11, 2023 2:05 pm

C.L.says:
April 11, 2023 at 1:31 pm
Neither side has been “annihilated”

Wrong. The Ukrainian army has been annihilated.
Its remnants stagger on only because of Washington’s bankrolling and provisions.

More of Colonel Macgregor for Dotty Dot of Dottiness to choke on as with more of her/his/its ilk –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk2BpUdJJF8

Johnny Rotten
April 11, 2023 2:06 pm

Anchor Whatsays:
April 11, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Where’s our “Voice” on the destruction of our formerly good and affordable power system?

It’s there with the “InVoice” so pay up now.

Bruce
Bruce
April 11, 2023 2:07 pm

“What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?”

Interesting question from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You would only do it once: The next round would go to the Chekists wielding grenades and automatic weapons.

After that, ALL bets are off.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 11, 2023 2:08 pm

Those other DNA sets that were here before the current crop of indigenes: as relayed by Rafe Champion the other day.
The many different races to have occupied Australia are scientifically proven by Dr Irina Pugach Dr Frederick Delfin, Dr Ellen Gunnarsdóttir, Dr Manfred Kayser, and Prof Dr Satish Kumar: Supported by research from Drs Norman Tindale, Joseph Birdsell, Peter Brown — and Professors Mark Stoneking, Allan Wilson, Alan Thorne, Colin Mackenzie, Manning Clark, Joseph Greenberg, Alan Cooper, Chris Stringer, and Dr Merritt Ruhlen. You cannot disprove their science.

With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.
https://cairnsnews.org/2022/09/07/aborigines-possibly-the-tenth-race-to-have-inhabited-australia/

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 2:09 pm

Kneelsays:
April 11, 2023 at 1:25 pm
“We used to call this extortion but it seems like a great money spinner.”

“Nice business you got there – be a shame if anything happened to it.” – Anthony “Fat Tony” Capirossi (Sicilian ancestry, if I’m not mistaken).

The biggest players in this game are now “investment” companies like Blackrock – the “woke” management can not only drive your company by buying board seats, they can send you broke by selling off your stock if you don’t comply or have a bad “ESG score”

don’t forget the grubbinment – they insist on opening your books to see what you’re doing about equalidy. Equal pay, hierarchy, etc etc. More invasive than the tax office.

Under threat of imprisonment.

Jorge
Jorge
April 11, 2023 2:13 pm

Andrew Neil has done just about everything in UK media. Editing, interviewing, chairing GB news, you name it.

Last night on Q&A he served it up to the Anglican bishop and the Young Lib (carefully selected for their harmless dorkishness) and toed the party line on the Voice.

I did enjoy a couple of moments of shining hypocrisy which he slipped under Tan’s and the audience’s not very informed guard.

The first was when he, from nowhere, thundered on about the subject of Catholic clergy sexually abusing children, and mentioning Boston. This from a man who gave a fawning interview years ago to Jimmy Savile and who some think may have run his eye over the Jeffrey Epstein menu. Wiki notes:

Neil has threatened to sue the American businesswoman and former lover of Boris Johnson, Jennifer Arcuri, over claims she made on Twitter linking Neil to the billionaire and child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, as well as other Twitter users who retweeted or endorsed her now-deleted tweet.[124] Neil denies ever meeting Epstein and argues he was put in his infamous “black book” by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer

He and Prince Andrew should get together, if they haven’t already done so.

And there’s nothing like a strait laced Scot denouncing sexual immorality while putting it about himself:

While at The Sunday Times in 1988, Neil met the former Miss India, Pamella Bordes, in a nightclub, an inappropriate place for someone with Neil’s job according to Peregrine Worsthorne.[27] The News of the World suggested Bordes was a call girl.[28] Worsthorne argued in an editorial article “Playboys as Editors” in March 1989 for The Sunday Telegraph that Neil was not fit to edit a serious Sunday newspaper. Worsthorne effectively accused Neil of knowing that Bordes was a prostitute.[29] He apparently did not know about Bordes,[28] which the Telegraph had accepted by the time the libel case came to High Court of Justice in January 1990,

In his favour, Neil appears to be a climate sceptic. Last night he launched into a criticism of the BBC for assembling panels where the six panelists all agree. ‘We are part of the problem,’ he (erm) ejaculated at the end of his little rave. The irony, like the hypocrisy, was lost.

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 2:14 pm

Damonsays:
April 11, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

Current thinking says no: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-study-of-aboriginal-australians-points-to-one-shared-out-of-africa-migration-for

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 11, 2023 2:28 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 2:32 pm

Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

From the link:

Once in Australia, the ancestors of today’s Aboriginal communities remained almost completely isolated from the rest of the world’s population until just a few thousand years ago, when they came into contact with some Asian populations, followed by European travellers in the 18th Century.

Indeed, by 31,000 years ago, most Aboriginal communities were genetically isolated from each other. This divergence was most likely caused by environmental barriers; in particular the evolution of an almost impassable central desert as the Australian continent dried out.

One Voice, is there?

Yeah righto.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Damon says: April 11, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

How dare you!
You are a bigot for mentioning Mungo Man – who is now securely buried where you cannot find him/her.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 2:50 pm

I’m not going to claim that a tiny group of pygmy people once living on a tiny part of the north Queensland coast, but does that change the historical record for the rest of the Aboriginal population that spread from PNG around the east and west coasts?

No, nor does it change the fact that the Stan Grants and Adam Goodes are indistinguishable culturally or in appearance from the rest of Australia.
Many many later arrivals are darker of skin and more culturally diverse.
Not making that claim for rural remote aboriginals, I suggest Stan and Adam make their homes in Wadeye for a year then come back and tell us how a ‘Voice’ will fix everything.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 11, 2023 2:51 pm

He (Ken Wyatt) was elected to be a voice for the electors of Hasluck.

Yes, thats the point, he was *elected* … who elects the new indigenous ‘voice’?

P
P
April 11, 2023 2:52 pm

Pope at Easter Urbi et Orbi

The Mass and “Urbi et Urbi” (from the Latin: ‘To the city and the world’) message and blessing went out live on broadcasts around the world. Over one hundred thousand people filled the Square and surrounding avenues, which were navigated by the Pope in the popemobile as he greeted them following the Mass.

As usual, the flowers donated by florists from the Netherlands appeared brilliantly under the mild Spring sunshine. Close to thirty thousand flowers adorned the square and the balcony of the loggia, recalling the theme of new life, hope, and joy at Easter.

A couple of pics in this article show the magnificent display of flowers.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 11, 2023 2:56 pm

You would only do it once: The next round would go to the Chekists wielding grenades and automatic weapons.

All that would do is convert relatively predictable urban structures into rubble – which is *perfect* cover for setting up the next ambush. The allies found this out in a hundred places, perhaps most notably Monte Cassino in WW2.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 2:58 pm

If the infamous Cairns News are pushing a narrative.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
April 11, 2023 3:05 pm

All that would do is convert relatively predictable urban structures into rubble – which is *perfect* cover for setting up the next ambush. The allies found this out in a hundred places, perhaps most notably Monte Cassino in WW2.

Yes, people don’t expect to come under fire from a destroyed building.

Also, local knowledge of an area is invaluable when it comes to defending home territories.

U.S. found this out in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq….

Still haven’t learned.

Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 3:07 pm

“duncanmsays:
April 11, 2023 at 2:14 pm
Damonsays:
April 11, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Is there any DNA evidence for occupation of the Australian continent by other than aboriginals?

Current thinking says no: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-study-of-aboriginal-australians-points-to-one-shared-out-of-africa-migration-for

Thanks for that, interesting reading. I find it fascinating how humans populated the planet. I recently watched a Youtube documentary on the Denisovans, who populated parts of Siberia and East Asia. Scientists have found a bone belonging to a young woman who died about 90,000 years ago. She was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan. We also know that Europeans, Asians and Middle Eastern peoples have Neanderthal DNA, many Asians have Denisovan DNA, so there was cross breeding between humanoid species.

As for the “ghost people” of about 4000 years ago, I remember reading a few years ago that scientists and biologists are certain that a group of people, probably no more than a dozen, arrived on this land mass now named Australia from the subcontinent, most likely what is now Southern India or Sri Lanka, between 4000 to 8000 years ago. It was these people who brought and introduced the dingo…..and….the boomerang.

By the time the “ghost people” arrived, the Tasmanian Aboriginal had been cut off from the mainland, which explains why there were no dingoes in Tasmania nor boomerangs.

Human isolation doesn’t lend itself to civilizational or cultural progress, in fact such societies tend to stagnate and regress. I think we can be certain that Aboriginal culture, cut off for thousands of years from the rest of the world, remained stagnant. Now that stagnancy may not have been a bad thing, it probably helped them survive this hostile continent, but the isolation meant that they did not advance technologically, despite Bruce Pascoe’s profuse and imaginative lies.

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 3:18 pm

Cafe Hayek’s Quote of the Day

… is from page 194 of Thomas Cahill’s 2013 volume, Heretics and Heroes:

[T]hose with the emptiest heads often have the most to squawk about.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 11, 2023 3:20 pm

I can be told otherwise, but I struggle to see the relevance of the 65,000 years thing.

There’s no argument that the indigenous population was in place well before British settlement. But whether that was hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years makes no practical difference to the issue of why a racial preference in executive government should now be inserted into Australia’s ‘foundational document’.

The depth of prehistory says nothing about the desirability of formalising racism in Australia, or resolving aboriginal disadvantage in the current world.

And certainly not coming out of Plibersek’s mouth.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 3:23 pm

Plasmamortar:

That will change soon, the electricity shortages are coming…. :/

It will just be one blackout every month, then it will ramp up as the system slowly desensitises the peasants. Then it will be an hour every week. Then it will be rationing on a regular basis.
It’s how they roll.
*nudge nudge*

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 3:38 pm

The depth of prehistory says nothing about the desirability of formalising racism in Australia, or resolving aboriginal disadvantage in the current world.

Hear! Hear!

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
April 11, 2023 3:42 pm

It will just be one blackout every month, then it will ramp up as the system slowly desensitises the peasants. Then it will be an hour every week. Then it will be rationing on a regular basis.
It’s how they roll.
*nudge nudge*

Then what remains of your productive industry is made unreliable and consequently shut down (Alcoa has warned of this).
Your economy collapses as your remaining industries move offshore and major investors pull their money out of your country to seek better returns.

You then become Venezuela…

cohenite
April 11, 2023 3:49 pm

With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.
https://cairnsnews.org/2022/09/07/aborigines-possibly-the-tenth-race-to-have-inhabited-australia/

Lots of people before the current mob. Things started getting serious 47000 years ago when the first evidence of concerted human interaction with the Mega Fauna occurred. The current mob are relative newcomers coming no more than a few thousand years ago from Sri Lanka. They pulverised their predecessors, burnt the place down and finished off the Mega Fauna before degrading into a soon to be extinct race until salvaged by the English. They were the real invaders, ecoterrorists and have contributed nothing to modern society. But hey, lets genuflect to them and let them run the joint. Watching the big cities degenerate into hunting and gathering hellholes will be fun.

Alamak!
Alamak!
April 11, 2023 3:49 pm

It will just be one blackout every month, then it will ramp up as the system slowly desensitises the peasants. Then it will be an hour every week. Then it will be rationing on a regular basis.
It’s how they roll.
*nudge nudge*

Don’t forget the corruption and rent-seeking and trading of favours as Teals, Greens & other close comrades use the “fair, non-capitalist system” they enabled to avoid the economic & social chaos they put in place. Andrews attempt to cover his states crazy spending with Federal funds(a.k.a. taxpayers savings) is just the 1st example of how this will look at state level.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 11, 2023 3:50 pm

So this Leeser loser, why should we be upset that he’s outed himself as a …erm… well the word racist is correct here because the InVoice is a racist institution by definition and he apparently prefers to support it instead of toe the SFL party line.
Tell yer story walkin’, Leeserrrrrr.
Why did he ever join Labor Lite™ when he could have joined the real thing.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 3:52 pm

I was in Cassino in January though I didn’t get up to Monte Cassino because buses.
Monte Cassino was not being used as a defensive location by the Germans and the only people killed there when the Allies initially bombed it in the mistaken belief that it was being so used were Italian civilians taking shelter.
Sure the Germans then moved in to the ruins and defended their positions for several months. I suspect that was was as much because it was an advantageous location.
(The town below was utterly destroyed too).

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 3:53 pm

Lesser resigned from a cabinet position not parliament, didn’t he?

Speedbox
April 11, 2023 3:54 pm

Kneel

Re car power. The XY GTHO had 224 k/w in standard trim as did the Valiant Charger E49. My L34 was only 180 k/w in original road trim.

But back in the day, they were ‘Supercars’. As you say, today’s family cars have similar power to drag the weight around.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 3:56 pm

Min:

How much should we sue for?

Enough to have the buildings knocked down and replaced to spec.
About $10 million each.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 11, 2023 3:57 pm

Rosie
Yes, I don’t think I necessarily implied he was not an MP any more. He walked away from the “front bench” which I didn’t realise meant a cabinet position until you said it just now.
I assumed that meant he was not in the Liberal party any more, but that is apparently not so.

shatterzzz
April 11, 2023 3:57 pm
Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 3:59 pm

“Why did he ever join Labor Lite™ when he could have joined the real thing.”

I think that’s a question that should be asked of many in the Liberal party.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 4:00 pm

Cohenite, now we have the genetic history that seems to be incorrect.
In any case 4, 14, 40 thousand years I don’t care.
The vast majority of people identifying as Aboriginal are culturally indistinguishable from the rest of us.
The time for treaties etc was 200 years ago.
It’s too late.
The LNP comments that it won’t make an iota of difference to rural and remote community disadvantage and will just create another layer of Canberra bureaucracy are quite correct.
I’m sick and tired of people putting on the victim cloak and failing to take responsibility for themselves.
Not saying there haven’t been injustices and suffering but we can all look back one two three generations and find plenty of the same, and sometimes far, far worse.
Ending Aboriginal ‘communism’ would be a great first step to improvement.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 4:01 pm

Calli:

Have they rounded up the person who murdered these three women, or did they just melt back into the bushes?

Have they rounded up the person who murdered these three women, or did they just melt back into the Mosque? That’s their purpose – as a hideout of terrorists.
I’d love to see ground penetrating radar of every mosque in Australia and compare them with the original plans.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 4:02 pm

My point is resigning from the front bench is Protest Lite.

Vicki
Vicki
April 11, 2023 4:07 pm

I suggest Stan and Adam make their homes in Wadeye for a year then come back and tell us how a ‘Voice’ will fix everything.

That made my day. Crusaders like Stan & Adam have cast places like Wadeye out of their consciousness. Even if they know of their existence, I doubt if they comprehend what takes place in such communities. But even if they did – they would probably blame the white settlement of this country for corrupting the idyllic (which never existed) indigenous society.

P
P
April 11, 2023 4:09 pm

Gray Connolly
@GrayConnolly
·
4h
I am blessed that Julian Leeser is one of my close friends and one of the best people I have ever known. Julian is a man of great principle as well as great intellect, but always with the latter in service to the former. I hope parliament and government heed all of Julian’s words
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1645606466177605638

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 4:11 pm

The most interesting thing today is that there are now clear genetic markers for aboriginal DNA, last I looked Ancestry couldn’t look past ‘Melanesian’ but they’ve been able to drill down to Aboriginal/ Torres Strait Islander since 2020.

If you are Indigenous Australian and do not receive this region in your DNA results, this should not subtract from your identity in any way. It’s possible, depending on how distant the Indigenous Australian ancestor is, that you share too little DNA with them for our DNA test to detect it

Best not to go there, right?
I wonder how many 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64s have been bitterly disappointed?
Ancestry Update.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 11, 2023 4:14 pm

Colonel C B

Why did he ever join Labor Lite™ when he could have joined the real thing.

Because the “real thing” is gradually descending into a cesspit of anti-Semitism?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 11, 2023 4:16 pm

they would probably blame the white settlement of this country for corrupting the idyllic (which never existed) indigenous society.

That’s the latest foul slur – everything was Utopia until the debbil debbil whitefella came…

C.L.
C.L.
April 11, 2023 4:17 pm

…Julian is a man of great principle as well as great intellect…

Not seeing any great intellect at work in backing apartheid and wrecking the Constitution.

johanna
johanna
April 11, 2023 4:21 pm

According to the Oz Clive Palmer thinking about campaigning for No to the Voice.

Read that. Clive makes the very good point that The Voice actually places a barrier between Aborigines and TSIs and their government. Instead of directly taking up concerns with their MP or the relevant Department, they will be steered to their local Voice ‘representative.’ Apparently this is what happened when the ghastly ATSIC was around.

Warren Mundine said he thought this was a very good point which had not previously been raised, and that he would like to investigate it further.

Clive has many shortcomings, but he is a good lateral thinker.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2023 4:21 pm

Seems like Leeser wants hopes the Voice will improve things for disadvantaged Aboriginal Australians.
Good for him.
I don’t, because I don’t think they will address the heart of the problem.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 4:25 pm

Its vitally important for the in-voice people that the Aboriginal “problems” are never solved.
Hence the wails and screams when King barney tried to shut some of the outstation camps 20 or so years ago.

a lot of iron ricebowls on the line if they ceased to be pits of dysfunction, superstition and unemployment.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 11, 2023 4:28 pm

Hence the wails and screams when King barney tried to shut some of the outstation camps 20 or so years ago.

All the fair skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance” protesting in Melbourne, provided a bloody good laugh!

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 4:29 pm

Gray Connolly not getting much love on Twitter:
I’m So Over This! ??

@ImSooooOverIt
Replying to
@GrayConnolly

Tell him we know he’s a fraud, and taking ‘gifts’ from the UN to push the voice – which is nothing but a land grab that will seriously effect the lives of our Aboriginal Aussies living in communities.
He’s just another #Traitor.
You need better friends.

Avi Yemeni also shilling for something something Womens Sport, but everybody has tuned out.

Figures
Figures
April 11, 2023 4:31 pm

Really depressing article on Jo Nova’s site about the increase in mental issues for young girls since 2012.Obviously exacerbated by Covid but huge increases before then.
Massive issues for society

Nothing to do with the 100 neurotoxic vaccines we give children today. Just like those neurotoxic vaccines have nothing to do with the explosion in autism in boys.

johanna
johanna
April 11, 2023 4:32 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
April 11, 2023 at 8:53 am

“Fewer than 20 people “

That many Liberal voters in WA?

The same story said that about 170 people came along to hear the No case presented by Senator Jacinta previously. Both events required tickets and some sort of payment.

It tells you something about the proportion of potential Liberal voters in WA, if nothing else.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 4:33 pm

Seems like Leeser wants hopes the Voice will improve things for disadvantaged Aboriginal Australians.

You believe that?
Leeser is a stooge for the U.N., I doubt he would even touch an Aborigine if the cameras were turned off.

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 4:33 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
April 11, 2023 at 3:07 pm

As for the “ghost people” of about 4000 years ago, I remember reading a few years ago that scientists and biologists are certain that a group of people, probably no more than a dozen, arrived on this land mass now named Australia from the subcontinent, most likely what is now Southern India or Sri Lanka, between 4000 to 8000 years ago. It was these people who brought and introduced the dingo…..and….the boomerang.

ah yes – they were also noted to be the distributors of 90% of Aboriginal languages. Seemed to move in from the NE, spread dingoes, boomerangs, language and common culture, then vanish.

Despite this, the tribes across Australia remained pretty much fixed in location for thousands of years before and after this event.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-study-of-aboriginal-australians-points-to-one-shared-out-of-africa-migration-for

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 4:36 pm

rosiesays:
April 11, 2023 at 3:37 pm
looks like she spent up big on renovations and decorating that were not ‘modifications’ and didn’t plan for interest rate rises, fortunately for her she can get $113,000 per annum of living expenses directly from the taxpayer and keep her house.

that’s a pretty flash house, but “Big canvases of her work fill the walls of her home and the shelves are full of books” , so we need to cut her some slack, mmkay?

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Sancho Panzer:

Stand or fall alert!!

And what’s your stance on the situation, SP?

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 4:39 pm

Leeser

yep – don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

I was invited to a round-table zoom call during lockdown with this bloke.

He refused to allow any pertinent questions (vaccine rules, lockdowns, state border closures * , etc), preferring to focus on NBN speeds and roads, FFS.

* – the bloke is supposed to be the constitutional nerd in the coalition.

duncanm
duncanm
April 11, 2023 4:42 pm

oooh — very sensible talk that this opens the door for Price to be s?hadow Indigenous Affair minister.

Come on down!

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 4:46 pm

Just because you’re friends with someone doesn’t mean they’re always right. It’s nice that Connelly is supporting his friend, but they are both wrong.

Too many people are basing their stance on a range of feelz and not reality. They seem to think it will all be different “this time”. If we throw enough money and resources at it “this time” it will all be made right. If we have enough bureaucrats and managers “this time” the money will get to the places where it’s needed.

It’s a charade. And a very cruel one.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 11, 2023 4:49 pm

The gall of the jug eared arsehat. That being Andrews, Hun:

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hosed down any hope of a budget bailout for Victoria, saying the federal budget is also “under pressure”.

Premier Daniel Andrews is reportedly lobbying the Commonwealth for more support, claiming the state was ripped off for almost a decade under the former Coalition government.

But Dr Chalmers on Tuesday refused to promise any special treatment for Victoria, adding many states and territories were facing similarly challenging times

“The combined pressure of increasing borrowing costs on $1 trillion of Liberal debt, combined with the costs of the NDIS, the health system, aged care, defence and in other areas is putting immense pressure on our budget,” Dr Chalmers said.

“So what we do is we work in a cooperative and collaborative way with Victoria, and with the other states and territories as well, to make sure that we are methodically working through these challenges in our Budget, (and) that we’re funding and providing the services that the people we represent need and deserve.”

Dr Chalmers said several funding agreements with states and territories were up for renegotiation over the course of the next year.

“We will work with the Labor states and the government of Tasmania to make sure that we’re doing what we can,” he said.

The Andrews government has repeatedly warned of the need to pay down debt, with the Herald Sun last month revealing a looming 10 per cent cut to the public service.

Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas, however, has ruled out any cuts to frontline healthcare in the upcoming state budget.

But Ms Thomas on Tuesday refused to confirm whether her Department would push ahead with plans to slash 10 per cent of the workforce, or if some healthcare programs were at risk of losing funding.

She also declined to confirm whether some community health programs would continue to be propped up with funding, but said frontline services were not at any risk of losing money.

She added that there would be no cuts to frontline roles, including nurses and paramedics.

“We will not be cutting frontline healthcare at all. That has never been what our government has done,” she said.

“Like Victorians right around the state, we’ve got our own budget challenges. Victorians expect us to care for their state budget the same way that they care for their household budget and that is by looking at all of our expenditure and making sure that it is meeting the needs.

“There are budget conversations under way and I’m not in a position to make any comments further on those other than to say that Victorians will continue to see record investment into healthcare.

“The healthcare of Victorians is utmost in our minds when we are making budget decisions.

“The budget is still being developed and I’m not privy to the decisions … but what I can be very clear about is that healthcare is a top priority for our government, and we know that we need to continue to invest.

“All of our election commitments will be delivered and we will continue to deliver the healthcare services that Victorians need and expect.”

Opposition treasury spokesman Angus Taylor said the May 9 budget would be a crucial test of the Albanese government’s fiscal responsibility.

Mr Taylor said it was important that essential services were funded appropriately. But the Andrews’ government needed to explain to Victorians “why they can’t fund them themselves”.

“Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will have to explain to Australians in every other state why they should pay for Victorian Labor’s decisions,” he said.

“The government must be clear that no state will be worse off to pay for a state Labor government’s financial mismanagement.”

Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier said the state’s embattled health system couldn’t afford any cuts.

“The minister needs to rule out these cuts so that no Victorian, patient or their family, will be worse off,” she said.

“This is a horror budget. There is no money. They have spent and wasted so much of the Victorian taxpayer’s money and now they have to cut services and that is going to impact on the delivery of healthcare services.

“This is not the time to cut the health budget when there are so many Victorians and their families that are desperately in need of healthcare delivery.”

Who gives a flying fornication eh you jug eared imbeciles? It’s just other people’s money. FMD

rickw
rickw
April 11, 2023 4:50 pm

I’m not going to claim that a tiny group of pygmy people once living on a tiny part of the north Queensland coast

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/

The survival of pygmies in a heavily forested area would be consistent with what can be observed in Africa.

Pygmies would seem to only have any chance of surviving an onslaught by larger usurpers in forests.

Current Aboriginals are not The First Nations People. They may however have eaten The First Nations People.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 11, 2023 4:51 pm

oooh — very sensible talk that this opens the door for Price to be s?hadow Indigenous Affair minister.

Hardly seems a fair fight against Burney.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 4:54 pm

This site is garbage:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-study-of-aboriginal-australians-points-to-one-shared-out-of-africa-migration-for
European peoples, including Australian Aborigines [but not Torres Straits Islanders], never originated in Africa.
As a matter of fact, pure Aboriginal DNA is as far from the Races of Africa as it is possible to get.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 4:54 pm

Dr Chalmers on Tuesday refused to promise any special treatment for Victoria, adding many states and territories were facing similarly challenging times

About the only sensible thing he’s done. Andrews would only waste it anyway.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 4:56 pm

Wodger:

Ordering firewood today.

Still waiting on quote for fireplace supply & install. It’s been 5 months now.
Reminder email to sparkies about genset connection.
*crickets* But support local businesses exhortation in council newsletter.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 4:58 pm

Winston, I’m canvassing contributors for a cake stall. With that Gravatar, I assume your forté will be either strawberry scones or Victoria sponge.

Let me know if you’re interested. 😀

johanna
johanna
April 11, 2023 5:00 pm

When flagging the challenges facing the Victorian budget last week, Premier Daniel Andrews warned Victorians that the state’s tens of billions of dollars of pandemic debt that protected health and saved lives now has to be paid back.

‘Protected health and saved lives.’ The relatives of the people who died in nursing homes thanks to his policies must be seething.

AFAIK, Victoriastan had the worst death rate while spending the most (pro rata) money.

Meanwhile, I read in the Oz today (thanks, coffee shop!) that tobacco excise is expected to fall by $5 billion or more this year, even as prices rise. In a typical reversal of cause and effect, the Top Men conclude that it is the fault of evil black market tobacco and vaping.

Sheesh. The stupid, it burns. (h/t Anthony Watts)

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 11, 2023 5:01 pm

Aussie Cossack in Daily Mail now proving why he deserves to be in jail.

He is holed up in Russian consulate. His solution to his problem has been to read out list of names of Aussies fighting in Ukraine and suggest Wagner group capture them so can be traded for him. Even says some might not be captured alive.

Hopefully those people who hosted him on podcasts etc are now wiping their hands of him as he is a dangerous clown.

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2023 5:08 pm

Anchor Whatsays:
April 11, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Those other DNA sets that were here before the current crop of indigenes: as relayed by Rafe Champion the other day.
The many different races to have occupied Australia are scientifically proven by Dr Irina Pugach Dr Frederick Delfin, Dr Ellen Gunnarsdóttir, Dr Manfred Kayser, and Prof Dr Satish Kumar: Supported by research from Drs Norman Tindale, Joseph Birdsell, Peter Brown — and Professors Mark Stoneking, Allan Wilson, Alan Thorne, Colin Mackenzie, Manning Clark, Joseph Greenberg, Alan Cooper, Chris Stringer, and Dr Merritt Ruhlen. You cannot disprove their science.

With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.

Not doing yourself any favours by mentioning all those scientists and quoting a news article. The idea that anthropology cannot be questioned is historically suspect. We evolved in Europe from Heidelbergensis, then it became Out of Africa with no genetic input from others. Now it is at least Neandertals and Denisovans with evidence of other ghost populations. North America was populated 15,000 years ago but now there is evidence for a much older settlement. They keep pushing back deeper in time the development of agriculture and other technologies. The fossil interpretations are very problematic. How come no pigmy fossils if there were so many of them?

Paleoanthropology is fun but should always be regarded with deep skepticism. Using it for political purposes is nuts.

Rabz
April 11, 2023 5:09 pm

“The combined pressure of increasing borrowing costs on $1 trillion of Liberal debt, combined with the costs of the NDIS, the health system, aged care, defence and in other areas is putting immense pressure on our budget,”

The reference to the “$1 trillion of gliberal debt” is of course, a blatant lie, given labore had run up well over $400 billion of it before the gliberals were even elected. But the stupid forking gliberals did set themselves up for that sort of misrepresentation by ending up being even bigger squandermonkeys than labore – a truly herculean effort of which Goose Morristeen and Joshi Frydchickenberger can be rightly proud.

As for Dim Chambers, just cut spending, you irredeemable imbecile. It’s not rocket science.

Rabz
April 11, 2023 5:13 pm

He is holed up in Russian consulate

Awaiting a delivery of a “statue” of himself.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 5:14 pm

From the link Bourne is talking about:

‘The only way to leave here in light of Australia being an island is through a diplomatic solution. I know that Wagner group are capable of solving a range of problems even on distant frontiers.

‘Therefore I propose the possibility of a prisoner exchange so I am able to leave Australia and move to Russia where I could continue my service for the benefit of the Russian world.’

Boikov then said he had a list of Australians and New Zealanders fighting in Ukraine against Russia. ‘Some of them (200) have been killed. Some of them remain alive,’ he said,.

‘I appeal to you if you stumble across these people, please take them prisoner and contact the Russian Consulate to facilitate an exchange.

He then recites from a list of names running alongside him on the screen. ‘Of course I realise in the heat of battle it is not always possible to take them alive.’

This is exactly what I have been on about for the past two years or more. Exactly.

Halfwits, cloaking themselves in righteous causes – Boikov markets himself as an anti-vaxxer, but who really knows? – to pursue their own agenda.

It is Faulty-esque, and St. Ruth-esque, and it is also worth considering that like the first two, Boikov is another failed politician. The tragedy of it is that people backed him on one issue, knowing full well that he’s a bozo with ulterior motives – of which none concern the welfare of Australian people.

There are (or were) quite a few here who lionised this porky, beady-eyed self-styled crusader and publicity (read: subscriber) whore. Let’s see those people publicly condemn him now that he’s published a list of Australians fighting on the other team, and offering their heads in exchange for his freedom.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
April 11, 2023 5:15 pm

“This is not the time to cut the health budget when there are so many Victorians and their families that are desperately in need of healthcare delivery.”

Imagine how many Victorians he could have killed if he only had unlimited access to OPM.

Zipster
Zipster
April 11, 2023 5:33 pm

Swiss vaccination
Dr. John Campbell

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 11, 2023 5:33 pm

On Julian Leeser:

The Second Paragraph of the amendment locked in by Albanese/Greens/Crossbench:

The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.

Leeser on the Second Paragraph:

Leeser said the second clause, covering representations, raised three questions: Who could the Voice talk to? What could it talk about? What did it mean to make representations? The answers to these questions were currently unclear, Leeser said.

It wasn’t enough to say these questions would be dealt with later by legislation. “You can’t out-legislate the constitution,” he said.

“I raise these issues not only at a technical level, but a political one as well. Because this clause will be the rallying point for the no campaign.

“For those that want the referendum to succeed, it puts the broader constitutional question at risk.”

Not instantly clear then, exactly how he’s going to support the Voice without supporting the constitutional minefield that he himself identifies as being attached to the model Team Albanese is railroading for partisan political purposes.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 5:35 pm

Aussie Cossack story here.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 5:53 pm

Kneel:

“…we will be conscripted to fight for them.”

Your grammar is suspect – watch the tenses!

Huh?!. I genuinely don’t understand your criticism. What rule have I broken?

Gabor
Gabor
April 11, 2023 5:54 pm

Aussie Cossack

Interesting, silly man, just do the time and get over it, a lot of people would’ve had sympathy. Wasn’t D Hinch imprisoned for similar offense?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 5:57 pm

Nice tactics lady!

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson insists Senator Jacinta Price take over shadow indigenous affairs position (Sky News, 11 Apr)

Pauline Hanson has suggested Jacinta Price is the “obvious and only” choice to take over the shadow indigenous affairs portfolio, after Julian Leeser stepped down over his support for the Voice to Parliament.

Not only is she perfectly correct but it’ll be exquisitely painful for the Libs one way or the other. If they block Jacinta they will be raaacist and if they don’t they will have a very outspoken Indigenous Shadow Minister giving curry every day to the woke Voice weenies. Popcorn is going to be running short.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 11, 2023 6:01 pm

John H rhetoricalled:

How come no pigmy fossils if there were so many of them?

Hobbits! But then why no hobbit fossils in Australia, only Indonesia?
Only replaces one impossible question with another.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 6:01 pm

The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.

If one wanted to be mischevous.

If the first act of the in-voice was to present something on the racist nature of parliament singling out the Aboriginal people to limit their appeals to the courts by their representative body…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 6:04 pm

silly man, just do the time and get over it, a lot of people would’ve had sympathy. Wasn’t D Hinch imprisoned for similar offense?

No, he was on parole for that already, which means he’s definitely going back to the bin for this:

Boikov was convicted in his absence in February of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to a 76-year-old man at a rally in support of Ukraine in December at Sydney’s Town Hall.

He posted a video to his since suspended YouTube channel after the rally which showed him in a scuffle with the man, who fell backwards down the stairs, and was taken to hospital with a head injury.

Boikov was at the time on parole, having served six months in prison last year for naming an alleged paedophile at an anti-lockdown rally in May 2022.

May last year was when the chest-pumpers were in full flight. ‘Stick it to the man!’, they said. ‘Go Cossack!’, they said.

Tipping it’ll be crickets now he’s called for the death of Australians so he can go to Russia and live there, the fat coward.

Razey
Razey
April 11, 2023 6:09 pm

Hopefully those people who hosted him on podcasts etc are now wiping their hands of him as he is a dangerous clown.

Wrong.

Aussie Cossak is on the right team. You arent. Ukraine is a proxy of HomoGlobo Western scum. Russia must, and will win. If that means destruction of the ‘West’, I welcome it.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 6:12 pm

Razey, why would you want to trade the life of other Australians for your own?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 11, 2023 6:15 pm

Aussie Cossak

The only correct response…

Just another blowhard.

Razey
Razey
April 11, 2023 6:15 pm

callisays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Razey, why would you want to trade the life of other Australians for your own?

Only the 5% who were brave enough to stand with me against government totalitarianism are worthy. The rest can get fukced.

5% is not enough to save Australia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 6:16 pm

why no hobbit fossils in Australia, only Indonesia?

The hobbits were homo erectus. I doubt they had sufficient sailing ability to cross the gap to Australia.

But it’s a fun thought that homo erectus could’ve made it here. That 65,000 would become 1 million. Here’s an artist’s impression of one of them.

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 6:18 pm

Aussie Cossak is on the right team. You arent. Ukraine is a proxy of HomoGlobo Western scum. Russia must, and will win. If that means destruction of the ‘West’, I welcome it.

FMD Razey, you talk like a clown.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 6:18 pm

Only the 5% who were brave enough to stand with me against government totalitarianism are worthy

Thanks Adolph.

m0nty
m0nty
April 11, 2023 6:22 pm

I think that is an admission that the ALP is not about fiscal rectitude and austerity. That’s Monty’s conservative side coming out.

The history of federal fiscal policy in Australia over several generations has been that Labor always taxes less and has lower deficits than the Libs.

The myth of superior Liberal economic management is long overdue for burial. Labor are the technocrats now. The Libs splash cash like there’s no tomorrow.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 6:24 pm

The history of federal fiscal policy in Australia over several generations has been that Labor always taxes less and has lower deficits than the Libs.

Jim Chalmers is increasing taxes on middle Australia in the budget, as per the recent strategic leak.
Monty, you are a lot of fun!

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 6:27 pm

Calli:

Let me know if you’re interested. ?

I like both, Calli.
Can you put me down for 4 lots of each?
Please don’t put cream on them – it goes off in the mail.

cohenite
April 11, 2023 6:28 pm

All the media chatter is that rub and tug and his fellow scumbags just need to explain the fu.king screech and any reservation amongst the punters will disappear. This is bullshit. Rub and tug has said all he needs to say. And what he has said is Uluru is what the screech is. And Uluru says 3 things: soil/land, minerals and sovereignty. That’s everything.

If the screech gets up the first legislation in any parliament will be taken to the HC for a clarification of the screech. The HC looks at context when interpreting whether legislation is ultra vires. That context includes not just the legislation but speeches made about it and political commentary. They will focus on Uluru. If rub and tug starts explaining he may vitiate the focus of Uluru. If he maintains his silence then all the HC will have is Uluru.

When the screech gets up rub and tug and that other commie skank marcia no welcome for youse finks langton will have effectively nullified parliament and democracy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 11, 2023 6:28 pm

m0ntysays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:22 pm
I think that is an admission that the ALP is not about fiscal rectitude and austerity. That’s Monty’s conservative side coming out.

The history of federal fiscal policy in Australia over several generations has been that Labor always taxes less and has lower deficits than the Libs.

LOL. Compare Whine Swine to Costello.

johanna
johanna
April 11, 2023 6:29 pm

The word history implies record keeping. Oral tradition these days is made up for the ‘humbug of the hour’. Those who have read sources of two generations ago know that it is pretty much ‘no correlation’ and therefore not history.

Quite right, Chris.

How often on the Antiques Roadshow do we find that the family legend is not true. It does not mean that any deliberate dishonesty is involved – human memory is well known to be inherently flawed – but it also means that it is not a trustworthy source on its own. That has been demonstrated in the remarkably few cases that have gone to the courts about the ‘stolen generation.’ Not to mention the results.

The proponents know that it is much safer to keep repeating the legend than trying to prove that it is true. Because it at least usually isn’t. But, admitting that Aboriginal children were neglected/abused is unacceptable to the narrative.

Any attempt to legitimise so-called ‘truth-telling’ needs to be seen in that light.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 6:29 pm

Only the 5% who were brave enough to stand with me against government totalitarianism

The fat Russian has suckered you, Razey-san.

Boikov was never about the people and their welfare. It was all about him, as evidenced by his latest squealing. The more discerning could tell earlier, when he was very clearly grifting – cloaking himself in popular causes to a) try and get onto the Parliamentary leather seats, and b) sponging cash off them for his podcasting.

To be clear – Boikov didn’t give a rats about you then, and he doesn’t now. Your pivoting onto Ukraine instead of matters relevant here is transparent as well.

Boikov will continue to fail you until you’re both in your cold, cold graves. But – please continue waving your little T-Rex arms and telling people you’ll do what you are clearly not prepared to do.

stand with me‘. If you stood for anything you’d have been living overseas for months by now. You just haven’t offered to trade your countrymen for the chance, as Boikov has.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2023 6:35 pm

Winston Smithsays:

April 11, 2023 at 4:39 pm

Sancho Panzer:

Stand or fall alert!!

And what’s your stance on the situation, SP?

Which situation?

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 6:36 pm

Only the 5% who were brave enough to stand with me against government totalitarianism

How exactly did you “stand against totalitarianism”? I’m keen to know.

And why does that make 95% of Australians unworthy of living?

That sounds a little…totalitarian…to me.

Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 6:38 pm

“Boikov then said he had a list of Australians and New Zealanders fighting in Ukraine against Russia. ‘Some of them (200) have been killed. Some of them remain alive,’ he said,.

‘I appeal to you if you stumble across these people, please take them prisoner and contact the Russian Consulate to facilitate an exchange.”

I’m intrigued…who gave him a list of Australians and New Zealanders?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m intrigued…who gave him a list of Australians and New Zealanders?

Zackerly. Is this list just laying around? Fat chance Ukrainians supplied it to him. Likewise our feds (assuming they’ve a – ha ha haaa – a clue)

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 6:40 pm

How exactly did you “stand against totalitarianism”?
And why does that make 95% of Australians unworthy of living?

Outstanding questions, which will not be answered.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 11, 2023 6:41 pm

That has been demonstrated in the remarkably few cases that have gone to the courts about the ‘stolen generation.’ Not to mention the results.

Twenty cases, of which ONE child was found to have been removed on racial grounds, and he was awarded damages, plus interest, for “false imprisonment.”

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 6:41 pm

I’m intrigued…who gave him a list of Australians and New Zealanders?

I have it on good authority, though speaking anonymously as they are not authorised to do so, that the Lord High Executioner has a little list.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 6:43 pm

Good news.

Razey’s starting a podcast. It’s called Aussie Samurai.

Big Tech will shut it down shortly, though, unless everyone buys him a coffee.

Subscribe now!

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 11, 2023 6:46 pm

The myth of superior Liberal economic management is long overdue for burial.

SloMo and Josh certainly didn’t do it any favours. Certainly up to and including Cuddly Costello the Lieborals had a clear advantage. The Liars are rarely in power long enough Federally to do long term damage although Albo might be an exception.

Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 6:46 pm

Is Boikov a flaming spook?

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 6:47 pm

OK, I bravely offer to swap Monts to the Ukrainians in exchange for Razey being released to Russia!
I am expecting change as a cash adjustment. Monts is worth at least $2.65 in raw elements, and despite his possibly negative value to the information economy that is $2.65 more than Razey’s ideas are worth.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 11, 2023 6:50 pm

Razey,
If you thought people like Aussie Cossack helped the anti Vax side then good for you. I guess that would make you a member of the Bosi fan club as well. Both unfortunately made the anti Vax movement look bad.

As far as Ukraine v Russia goes it is baddie v baddie and I would consider myself neutral. No doubt the USA kept pushing Putin for years and plenty of dodgy things being done by USA there. I don’t follow it as much as some here but can see harming the West and probably helping Xi which is more of an issue for me.

So I guess you have no problem with him encouraging Wagner to capture or kill his fellow Australian citzens just because he was anti Vax. Glad we cleared that up.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 6:52 pm

Is Boikov a flaming spook?

Mrs Cossack is rather hot, if that counts.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cossack should have stuck to the livestream videos that brought him to public notice.
He did very well at them.

Though he wasn’t without Russian baggage even then.

He could have gone the same way as others who lockdown knocked around, eg, Avi Yemini, Rukshan Fernando, & some others whose name is on the tip of my tongue.

Alas he couldn’t control himself, & went full retard.
Now he’s gone full Dingo.

Why would Russia, or Wagners, give a stuff about him? They’re losing men every day. Why would they care about just one prick living the soft life in Australia?
The dickhead.

Chris
Chris
April 11, 2023 6:55 pm

Mrs Cossack is rather hot, if that counts.

At last, someone with useful knowledge. Onyer, BoN!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2023 6:57 pm

Sneak peek of Aussie Samurai’s first episode:

Oh, hello, American investor. I see you are interested in distributing Mr. Sparkle in your home prefecture. You have chosen wisely. But please – don’t believe me. Observe this commercial.

I’m disrespectful to dirt. Can you see that I am serious? Out of my way, all of you. This is no place for loafers! Join me or die! Can you do any less?

What a brave corporate logo! I accept the challenge of Mr. Sparkle.

Razey, I dub thee Mr. Sparkle forevermore.

Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 6:58 pm

Boikov does have one thing going for him, he’s not obsessed with “pedos”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 6:59 pm

Why would Russia, or Wagners, give a stuff about him?

Well he’s in their consulate, which means a delicate problem for the consul. Booting him out could produce global headlines and damage far in excess of Mr Cossack’s intrinsic worth. Keeping him there could also cause a lot of angst, like Mr Assange in his Ecuadorean basement. Painful choice.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 6:59 pm

Is Boikov a flaming spook?

You reckoned he was a Flamin’ good bloke when he was monstering Fiona Martin in a park.
So much for letting women speak, eh?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 11, 2023 7:00 pm

Bloody Tuesday. It always catches me out, especially when travelling. I’m not writing stuff to die immediately on the auld disappearing threat, so I take the liberty of reposting three comments here:

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 11, 2023 at 5:53 pm

Dunno about being Nazis, Cass. But Lordie enduring 4 freaking hours of that stuff should send you around the bend. German opera is cultural appropriation anyway. Opera should only be sung in Italian. ?

No, The Ring is high German culture, very special and definitely refers to something pan-European, the very ancient cosmology of the north-west European Bronze and Iron Ages. Linked also in common origins to the grander Indo-European cosmology of Crete, Greece and Rome. The music is what it is about as well; the story telling of a familial drama of the gods via musical motifs and huge rises and falls in emotions. They say you have to be ‘taught’ to love Wagner and to some extent that is true of The Ring, but it does grown on you, and Hairy has been an excellent teacher for me, with his intense musical background as a chorister. It’s been echoing in my head ever since.

Hairy now pondering (seriously, he’s so wrapped in this production) whether we should return to Bendigo in a couple of weeks for the second sitting to pick up the two operas of this cycle that we missed – ‘Seigfreid’, the tale of the saving of Brunnhilde, and the amazing feat of ‘Gotterdammerung’, the twilight of the gods. In Scandinavia, t’s icalled Ragnorok, their total final destruction; although one god Balder – a Christian concept perhaps – does emerge as a point of renewal. If we do I think we should fly rather than drive, and keep our driving spirits for seeing the grandies in Queensland soon.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:17 pm

It’s nice to be home. The Currawongs are singing themselves to bed in the dusk and Attapuss emerged from under our bedclothes where he has been pining, pitiful with little mweeps, so it’s not one of those long absences, you could almost hear him saying thankfully.

We did get to see the riverside beach at Wagga Wagga, so lovely on a startlingly cobalt blue-skied morning, no clouds, and the river gums drifting green above the milk-tea Murrumbidgee. We’d had a disagreement about which hotel to book – I’d wanted the smart newish International, and Hairy had wanted one on the riverside walk. He won, and we both agreed in the end that his choice was the better one. Obviously a very upmarket place in the 1990’s, still acceptably of quality and blissfully quiet unlike the other choices, our very large room this conference hotel backed onto the riverside walk, which we took as soon as we arrived.

The walk actually sits on top of a steep levee which raises the already significant riverbank even higher. We quickly worked out that the solid wall along the top of this levee was recent additional flood protection. Without the levee and this wall, which extends to the city beach, the flood waters would pile into central Mudgee as they used to do in the past. So much of the Riverina is a flood plain, where roadways have to be elevated, and where in the past, as in Maitland and places like Lismore up north, and parts of the Shoalhaven down south, floods were the norm. Droughts and flooding rains. How stupid was that young girl who drank the Climate Kool Aid re the ‘unprecedented’ Lismore floods and took down the City of Sydney believing it?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:45 pm

That link suggesting Calli and I resembled the Chaucer-reading ladies of medieval yore lamenting those danged new-fangled things like Gothic buttresses and commenting on how young the Crusaders looked these days – well, it made me laugh. While away I have been amusing myself with a book that is all about how one famous woman grew older and wiser in medieval times, with just the same sort of terseness in her approach to her world. The book, by Australian Karen Brooks, is called .The Good Wife of Bath’, published recently, and subtitled ‘A (Mostly) True Story’. It is loosely based on the bawdy character so denominated in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It romps its way through saucy tales of husbands one to five (in number if not content it has shades of my Big Sis’s marital trials), with poor Eleanor, a practical woman with a good business head, constantly betrayed in a man’s world by the desires of her queynte. Say it aloud, gentlemen, and it will emerge as a word with which you are familiar and which Dover does not permit here in its more Anglo-Saxon mode.

A book for female readers, and I warn you, it has some raunchy moments for the ladies.
Gentlemen however may feel themselves somewhat … umm … assessed.
Aye, so they may, the great gobshytes, Eleanor may well have opined.

Winston Smith
April 11, 2023 7:02 pm

Sancho Panzer:

And what’s your stance on the situation, SP?

Which situation?

flyingduksays:
April 11, 2023 at 8:27 am
To date in this country, protests have been largely half-hearted because the people living here are affluent enough (compared to most other countries) to ride out most things and still be alive at the end of it.

And thats the nub of it. To quote Adam Smith, ‘theres a lot of ruin in a nation’ and we wont have a ‘Sri Lanka’ moment until things get bad, very bad – power out, food supply short, unemployment everywhere and hyperinflation bad – at which point the man in the street just doesn’t give a fcuk about it any more and surrounds the parliament in the millions. That is when the security apparatus has to look out at an unstoppable mass confronting them and chose either

1) empty my mag then its all over for me
2) throw down my gun and uniform and go over to the people.

We have seen it time and time again, Ceausescu, Mussolini etc. Revolutions only succeed when the people have truly had enough.

Sadly, even when they do, they generally result only in the replacement of the old rulers with new rulers, when the real problem is the power of the establishment, not the people running it. The American Revolution would be one notable example, albeit it gradually foundered on the the rider ‘if you can keep it’

Eyriesays:
April 11, 2023 at 8:44 am
2) throw down my gun and uniform and go over to the people.
3) Use my gun on the arseholes behind me who put me in this position.

The situation that was being spoken about which you suddenly don’t want to talk about now that you’re being asked.
So easy to be the one demanding everyone else states their position, but rarely makes a stand themselves.

JC
JC
April 11, 2023 7:04 pm

Eddles

The Cossy has to be a flamer, no? Gotta be.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 7:05 pm

But, yeah, course he’s a Spook.
Can some non Spooky aussie run around for years filming the cops and giving them cheek without getting tasered and choked?

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2023 7:06 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:16 pm
why no hobbit fossils in Australia, only Indonesia?

The hobbits were homo erectus. I doubt they had sufficient sailing ability to cross the gap to Australia.

But it’s a fun thought that homo erectus could’ve made it here. That 65,000 would become 1 million. Here’s an artist’s impression of one of them.

Bruce nails it.
Why no erectus fossils in Australia? They reached as far as Indonesia and the Philippines.

Homo Florsiensis were isolated on an island and survived because of that. They were homo erectus and hence far below our cognitive abilities. If the finding of 130,000 years ago in Australia hold up, and I seriously doubt that, that would have to point to homo erectus populating Australia.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 7:06 pm

Well, he went to Cranbrook, Bear went there too, so the signs aren’t good.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 11, 2023 7:08 pm

So I guess you have no problem with him encouraging Wagner to capture or kill his fellow Australian citzens

Some of my fellow Australian citizens went and fought for Isis. And when they came back, we got nothing in exchange. I wouldn’t have missed them.

Just saying.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 11, 2023 7:10 pm

They were homo erectus and hence far below our cognitive abilities.

Does this explain m0nty?

Cassie of Sydney
April 11, 2023 7:10 pm

“You reckoned he was a Flamin’ good bloke when he was monstering Fiona Martin in a park.
So much for letting women speak, eh?”

Dick Ed, he didn’t “monster” the unlemented Fiona Martin, former member for Reid. She was in a park supposedly to meet her “constituents”, and then she fled from one, Boikov.

So much for MPs listening to constituents, eh?

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 7:10 pm

John H., does the Wallace Line have something to do with it?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 7:10 pm

Lizzie – The cooler weather has added a sharpness to the appetite of Cafe birdies. The kookas have been very keen, and the currawongs are great fun. They sit and wait in a Port Jackson fig tree about 50m away in a neighbour’s yard. When they see me emerge from my doorway they take flight, like the black helicopters in Apocalypse Now, swooping head-on towards me at the Cafe in squadron formation. They then collect breakfast and return to the fig tree.

JC
JC
April 11, 2023 7:11 pm

Like our Bear? Our Bear who posts comments here went to Cranbrook? I would never have guessed he was a flamer, but there you go.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 7:15 pm

The cooler weather has added a sharpness to the appetite of Cafe birdies.

Same here. It’s Lord of the Flies time between the two Kooka youngsters. They really battle over the gifts of meat.

The sudden cold (expecting around 13C for a few nights) will take the frangipani leaves. This is good because it’s the first year without the dreaded rust. Hopefully the dearth of spores will bode well for next year.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2023 7:15 pm

Let’s see those people publicly condemn him now that he’s published a list of Australians fighting on the other team, and offering their heads in exchange for his freedom.

Who gives a rat’s? If they are fighting for Ukraine (or Russia) they are either stupid or they just love war.
No doubt , if caught, they will bleat about their circumstances and expect the Australian government to help them, at our expense.

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:16 pm
Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:18 pm
JC
JC
April 11, 2023 7:18 pm

WSJ ensuring it’s always reporting the most important news of the day.

Katie Holmes Still Doesn’t Understand Why Her Cashmere Bra Went Viral

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2023 7:19 pm

Aussie Cossack

Interesting, silly man, just do the time and get over it, a lot of people would’ve had sympathy. Wasn’t D Hinch imprisoned for similar offense?

He’s avoiding an assault charge. The alleged victim was a 76 y.o. man.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 11, 2023 7:20 pm

I see we’ve had another dose of Montynomics.
The fiscal conservatives of the Spring Street Soviet are now approaching the Federal government for debt relief.
Must have been those Libs ten years ago who pushed Victoria into such a parlous situation.
Dan’s a dead Mong walking.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 7:21 pm

No, I didn’t say Bear was a Flamer, I just said he went to Cranbrook.
As a matter of fact, it never occurred to me.

Boikov, though, he monstered Fiona Martin in her Electorate, following her around and behaving in a very threatening manner,
yet the Let Women Speak shill reckons that’s fair enough.
Fiona Martin isn’t a woman, eh?

m0nty
m0nty
April 11, 2023 7:22 pm

SloMo and Josh certainly didn’t do it any favours. Certainly up to and including Cuddly Costello the Lieborals had a clear advantage.

Costello was the start of the rot. We were in exactly the same position as Norway at the time, enjoying a massive resources boom through pure luck of geography. Norway nationalised the mines and built a humongous sovereign wealth fund. Costello pissed almost all of the windfall away buying votes.

Ever since then, each Liberal government has been less fiscally responsible than the previous one.

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:22 pm

Does this mean that Novak Djokovic can finally play his game without further political interference?

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv

JUST IN – U.S. ends “national emergency” over COVID.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 11, 2023 7:25 pm

No doubt , if caught, they will bleat about their circumstances and expect the Australian government to help them, at our expense.

170,000 Ukes are dead, perhaps 500,000 maimed, yet no Aussies amongst that number?
One thing for sure, Albanese isn’t going to say anything about it.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 11, 2023 7:25 pm

Dan’s a dead Mong walking.

yes looks like the Kirner moment will soon be upon us. Probably going to be a lot worse this time around.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
April 11, 2023 7:26 pm

The hobbits were homo erectus… Here’s an artist’s impression of one of them.

BoN, not to argue, but that is definitely not homo erectus. [insert joke here]

She was my first true lust. And handy for hiding tunnels behind, to boot.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 11, 2023 7:27 pm

I , for one, welcome our new Absolute Zero overlords.
https://mobile.twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1645186289933623296/photo/1

Totally eliminating all shipping and all mining of iron ore and limestone by 2049. What could go wrong?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 11, 2023 7:27 pm

Leeser supports The Voice – if by the voice you mean the little one that whispers in his ear telling him he won’t be the Member for Berowra if he doesn’t.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2023 7:30 pm

Costello was the start of the rot.

Quick Monty tell us how the Victorian black hole is the fault of Abbott and Costello.
We’re all ears, or other bits of anatomy.
Can a J curve save us?

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:33 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
April 11, 2023 7:34 pm

Leeser supports The Voice – if by the voice you mean the little one that whispers in his ear telling him he won’t be the Member for Berowra if he doesn’t.

you mean the NSW lieborals?

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:34 pm
Rabz
April 11, 2023 7:35 pm

This is good because it’s the first year without the dreaded rust.

Yes, noticed that with the Frangipani in the back yard. I’m still determined to rip it out this winter though. I’ll be cleaning up after the bloody thing for about the next month.

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:37 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
April 11, 2023 7:41 pm

That would be a shame Rabz- I love frangipani. Too cold down here for them I think unless I started a hot house.

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2023 7:41 pm

Hollywood Wokeness Takes Another Hit As the ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ Has Explosive Opening

This will serve as another benchmark for the studios to take note of regarding movie success stories. If they dispatch a woke agenda they manage to appeal to a broader audience. This also provides an example of how the social media pitchfork crowds are not nearly as influential as they pretend. Most often we see these calls to boycott items lead to little in the way of negative influences.

By stepping away from coddling the sensitivities of these cranks “Maverick: A Top Gun Movie” became one of the biggest releases ever. The rage from woke gamers over the recent Harry Potter video game release led to it becoming one of the biggest-selling games. Gradually we are seeing more companies coming to the realization that they do not have to cower to online ragers, they do not have to bend their knee.

2dogs
April 11, 2023 7:43 pm

The fiscal conservatives of the Spring Street Soviet are now approaching the Federal government for debt relief.

Time to enact the 2dogs solution for government debt:

1. Be a federation.
2. Federal government operating results, be they surplus or deficit, are passed on to the states each year.
3. An insolvency process exists for states.

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2023 7:43 pm

callisays:
April 11, 2023 at 7:10 pm
John H., does the Wallace Line have something to do with it?

Calli the Wallace Line is another interesting example of the problematic nature of these investigations. The Wallace Line doesn’t include The Philippines but Homo Erectus was there(Luzon, 50,000 years ago, but recent studies point to a possible 700,000 years ago!). The Huxley Line includes The Philippines. There is the Wallace Line, the Huxley Line, the Weber Line and the Lydekker Line. These all point to different faunal distributions but not in an absolute sense. I’m not confident these can be applied to human beings because we can populate almost any niche.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 11, 2023 7:47 pm

H B Bearsays:
April 11, 2023 at 6:46 pm
The myth of superior Liberal economic management is long overdue for burial.

SloMo and Josh certainly didn’t do it any favours. Certainly up to and including Cuddly Costello the Lieborals had a clear advantage. The Liars are rarely in power long enough Federally to do long term damage although Albo might be an exception.

Whitlam and his witless Treasurers did their best to do long term damage, but Cairns was too off the planet even for Whitlam.

calli
calli
April 11, 2023 7:47 pm

because we can populate almost any niche.

Thanks John H. All we need is the means of transport and something to live on when we get there.

Canoes/rafts for the first, failing a land bridge. The second – plenty here unless you’re Burke and Wills.

johanna
johanna
April 11, 2023 7:49 pm

Rabz:

You are murdering Frangipani? Why?

They are perfect plants for inner Sydney – need no care whatsoever, and produce beautiful blooms every summer.

And if you are determined to do this, what is planned to replace it/them?

Rabz
April 11, 2023 7:53 pm

Johanna – they are a pain in the arse. No leaves for about eight months of the year, just bare branches. Then they bloom briefly, before dropping all the leaves and flowers on the ground – or in this case, the lawn, which dies back if the leaves and other detritus aren’t cleared – every bloody day.

I’ve got a Photinia hedge growing up underneath it, which should be high enough by next summer to provide some much needed cover for the entire year.

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