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I don’t know who he is, Lysander. What predictions has he made?
Vicki, does Prof Harris say anything about coccyx removal? From what I’ve read, and the epidemiology is limited, there are…
… economic complexity ranking …Que? And I would argue so what?
It is a certainty that Putin will test Trump’s resolve over Ukraine. This is because Putin will feel that Trump’s…
The Frollicking Moll:
Of course it is.*
Next problem you need solved please!
* “An overwhelming sense of self regard” will not be accepted as a valid answer.
As of July 2020, Grant is also a Senior Fellow at the Australian Department of Defence, multiple government and Defence Industry-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Bloody hell! .. where did I go wrong! .. I’d reckon from all my book “larning”, the internet and watching war movies I’d know as much, maybe more, about world/Oz military than sTan ..
It’s discrimination I tellz ya .. me a “proud” Geordie (Toon won 6-1 this morning lol!) but cursed wiv “whiteness” means I”ll never getz offered an ordinary “fellow” never mind a”senior” one ..!
So just like the toilet seat then?
If sTan is pulling 2 meg a year I’ll go jump. Even an ex Liar would struggle to line up that many QANGOs.
This bloke is a genius with the remixes and edits.
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Moreno J Remixes:
Adamski ft. Seal – Killer (Moreno J Remix)
Perhaps more dangerous if not more likely is that they can run a hostile takeover and start doing the ESG thing without you.
“Frontline wasn’t funny, but it was PC.”
I wouldn’t expect you to have squirmed about some of the parodies, but they were indeed very funny. The days of Monty Python, Stan Freburg, and Lenny Bruce. When rudeness, rather than vulgarity, was an essential component of comedy.
Half way through The Indigenous Voice to Parliament? The No Case, Peter O’Brien. Activists say The Voice must be enshrined in the constitution so it can’t be abolished. If you only need one reason to vote against it, there it is right there.
Beery:
Worse than pushing shit uphill. Again, they’re confusing equality with sameness. I mean, who on earth would marry their clone apart from Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull?
Beery, you rotten bastard!
I cannot – even in my most horrid dreams – waking up next to my clone.
It would be a race to roll out of bed and dive under it.
Only to meet myself under the bed.
I may have just invented a perpetual dismay machine.
Martin got heavily drawn into the political turmoil of the 70’s with The Dismissal and other associated craziness. As did we all, as marriages and relationships sundered. The eighties saw him falling apart more obviously. We had moved to the well-off suburbs by 1980, for I’d married Hairy by then and we were rethinking much of what we’d previously believed. At times though, like today, I still delve deeply into the memories of it all. Strange times abounded. Yet it all seemed so normal at the time.
The days of Monty Python, Stan Freburg, and Lenny Bruce. When rudeness, rather than vulgarity, was an essential component of comedy.
Huh?
What books have you been reading lately?
Lenny Bruce wasn’t even remotely funny.
As a matter of fact, Hannah Gadsby is funnier than Lenny Bruce, and she’s not funny either.
I went off them much before that , when I realised they were just gouging like crazy. A set of blades were 35 bucks? Give me a brake. I’m fact, a lot of guys left them for the same reason and their extreme gouging actually brought schik back to the market.
Anyone got a 3D printer? .. I’ve lost a chess piece (castle) from my Napoleon themed pewter set ..
need a look-a-like replacement .. white-ish ..
https://postimg.cc/SXNymzhw
Here’s 3 minutes of Lenny Bruce from 1965.
When was he funny?
They are forced to sit through the damn humbuggery. No one contacts an Aboriginal elder for their own sake. It is an unthinking tugging of the forelock by businesses and councils who don’t pay with their own personal cash.
Now paying respect is what the Voice is about. And respect, analogous to the protection of a protection racket.
A set of blades were 35 bucks
I’m one of those lucky (or unlucky blokes depending on how you look at!) never had much facial growth, just enuf to warrant a daily shave (every three dayz woud do but habit) so choice of blades ain’t a problem ..
I buy a 25 pack of generic razors for $2 from the discount store(s) and a razor, generally, lasts me, at least, 2 weeks so a year’s supply for $2 .. LOL!
Mother Lode
Now paying respect is what the Voice is about.
With emphasis on “paying”.
Linda Burney went on the record quite early in the piece as saying that, once the Voice was enshrined in the Constitution, “they won’t be able to get rid of it, the way they did ATSIC.”
That should have been blasted from the rooftops.
Much of Martin Johnston’s childhood would have been spent on Hydra among a community of artists and writers who’d come there from other countries.
One of my neighbours is from there, a concreter with his own business, nice house, boat and three sons with an attractive blonde wife. He grew up in an orphanage and came to Australia when not much older than a boy with no education and no English. After a few years here working hard he needed a wife so went back to Hydra and found her – selected may be a better word. He’s proud of himself, strong and informed about vaccine bullshit, currency collapse and the WEF. Wife is the same. She spoke up loudly when I was stopped from entering the church because not vaxxed a year ago.
Reading about poor Martin Johnston makes me think of my neighbour. They came from the same island with very different backgrounds. One flourished, one didn’t. Interesting to ponder why.
I cannot – even in my most horrid dreams – waking up next to my clone.
If you have bad sex with your clone have you?
Disappointed one person or 2?
Had sex or masturbated?
The only solution is to to where it will do the most good.
Hooray! Another episode of ‘Succession’ tonite. Something to really look forward to.
Robert Crampton in the Weekend Oz Review delights in the fact that he does not watch ‘Succession’ by saying ‘It’s fascinating how much charming, progressive, sophisticated people love watching despicable rich people behaving atrociously’. However he also admits ‘Succession is a bona fide hit, no doubt about it, as well as getting loads and awards and critical acclaim ..’ even though it’s overall market share in audience isn’t high.
That, he fairly claims, is because in essence it doesn’t attract the yoof. I’d add that it is far too psychologically in-depth for many yoof to enjoy although my 20 year old grandson and his female partner are exceptions. As James Delingpole has pointed out in the Speccie, ‘Succession’ looks as though it’s about high flying finance and real wheeling and dealing, but that’s not true. You don’t have to be any sort of finance or business whizz to comprehend what’s going on – it’s all about personality clashes and self-interest and power seeking and the powerful acting bad just because they can. Can’t wait till tonite for the next lot of it. Elizabeth Murdoch wears a t-shirt saying Team Shiv.
Not for me though. I’m Team Roman (the youngest brother).
I first saw Stan Freberg at the old Rushcuters Bay Stadium in 1955. He was the supporting act for Johnny Ray. From then on I was a big fan.
Stan Freberg – St. George & The Dragonet, 1953 Capitol record.
and on the flip side was Little Blue Riding Hood.
Hurling herself on the road in front of a column of aged vets marching under their old banners and flags, Lidia will be screaming about their privilege and how it is her land.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 24, 2023 at 2:24 pm
Me also. I’ve been buying froggy shaving stuff. Never bought anything but Gillette before then. Another example of a catastrophic advertising faceplant.
I will admit I feel a sense of ‘vengeful payback’ over Gillette’s lower sales volume and the write down of their value as a brand. To me, the ad campaign was insulting to their loyal customer base of whom the vast majority were good and decent men. I will not be lectured to by a razor blade manufacturer – and as I said above, it seems my stance is still supported by millions of other men.
Your comments about remembering insults is correct. I will not knowingly buy a Gillette product ever again. But it beggars belief that marketing departments are so insular that nobody queries whether a manufacturer should embrace the latest social media issue and use it to effectively denigrate their customers. Hasn’t somebody, anybody, got the guts to ask “Are we sure about this? “.
And despite Gillette’s apparent commitment to making men better, they initially defended the ad until sales began to really drop and then backed away. (Sound like Bud Light?) In other words, they jump on some social bandwagon right up to the point that sales fall…… demonstrating that their actual commitment was as shallow as the sentiment expressed.
They should be teaching the “Gillette controversy” in University marketing studies so those coming through can see the damage they can cause to their prospective employer.
Add to that, recent Bud Light and others. Going back a few years, who could forget the Nivea skincare ad that said “White is Purity”. FFS, didn’t anybody think this might be offensive to your non-white customers? Or Dove’s ad which shows a black woman removing her top to reveal a white woman underneath – the inference being that using Dove will bring out your inner whiteness.
Or just plain stupid like Pepsi saving the world via Kim Kardashian. What were they thinking??? There are lots of examples but I can’t help but marvel at the sheer idiocy that must run through some marketing departments.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 24, 2023 at 3:01 pm
Your reminiscences of the inner city 80s (they the Darling Harbour precinct was still a building site)) bringing back memories of my time as a gas meter reader for AGL .. I used to have Ultimo, Glebe, Wentworth Park and all those suburbs on my rounds .. never knew any of these folk other than by sight but their names and addresses were all part and parcel of my run sheets ..
Someone pointed out outgrew r that sTan’s wife is a dreaded oppressive whitey.
At first I thought, hey, maybe in the bedroom sTan likes to be dominated.
Then I thought that less probable. More likely is he sits on the bed whining and moaning about how unfair it is that his wife gets more from sex than he does, how she steals his space on the bed, and refuses to sleep under a blanket.
Sir Les would say, these poofters produced great work.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (Moreno J Remix)
Earlier today I watched a video wherein the author stated that in the USA there are 7 million men who are not working and have completely bailed out, hence not recorded as unemployed. A surprising percentage have college degrees, most are not married or never married. The trend has been steady since the 1960s. No clear explanation for it(perhaps, I became bored, stopped watching, and returned to reading).
Milton F:
My theory is that most of the issues confronting Western Society today derive from the socialist war against us they declared in 1917.
It has ebbed and flowed according to its needs, but since WW2 the campaign has continued to gain speed. A combination of Gramscian creeping/entryist socialism and treason from the now thoroughly penetrated political class has led us to this point.
There isn’t an institution that hasn’t been taken over, nor a social class that has been neglected in this ideological war.
I believe it will take a Chilean Civil War to root it out, but that’s beyond reach now as the Army which was forefront in that conflict has been subverted also. The Socialists learned that lesson well.
Not a popular opinion, but that’s what I believe. I won’t lift a finger to slow it down either because the lesson is going to have to be learned that Socialism/Fascism never sleeps.
The Phoenix cannot arise until the ashes are cold.
Hard to speculate on why people turn out the way they do Jorge, but I’ll have a go, having grown up on the LNS a few years after.
Martin probably wasn’t a good fit at NSBHS at the time he attended, which would have been his final couple of years at school. Uni probably a bit better, with a wider cultural mix. His mother topped herself when he was 22. Father died a bit later of TB.
Famous, bohemian parents, fractured childhood, living in a pure conservative white bread place like Mosman. Sure there were the odd few arty types around, but it was all pretty conventional. It may have been as simple as a fish out of water, or as complex as mental fragility passed from mother to son.
Your Hydra Grik was probably a tough type, given what those islands had endured not all that long before. You had to be tough and pragmatic to survive.
at the old Rushcuters Bay Stadium
Only ever been there once .. roller blade derby dayz way back in 1968 ..
sTan’s missus is a Trophy Oppressor.
“… I can’t help but marvel at the sheer idiocy that must run through some marketing departments.”
Oh, they make you wonder sometimes.
One I wonder about is the Nissan X-Trail – maybe I am wrong, but I always thought the original concept of that name was “Cross Trail”, not “Ex Trail”, but it is always and ever referred to as “Ex Trail”.
Another one – Viagra Soft Tabs. You didn’t really think about that one, now did ya?
LOL!
I’ve been to the shops, Net Zero. But you only get half a Beggin’ Strip this time. You’re getting fat.
Calli, don’t forget to only buy free-range, organic honey!
(yes, they actually label it so).
Basically, Martin Johnston’s mother was a slut who’d seduced an older creative type and destroyed him.
Irrespective of growing up around poofs from the theatre and other assorted degenerates, a good outcome wasn’t on the cards.
Dorothy Hewitt was another one, but not the only one.
Kendal Jenner. It was almost like a parody. You couldn’t really parody it, unless Chris Farley was still around.
I only buy barn raised honey.
I saw the execrable Diane “mongiest mong in mongiment” Abott in the UK got a spanking for claiming only skin color can make you oppressed.
I didnt realise the Gruinaid provided her a platform to do so.
Racism is black and white
Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller* people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It’s far more complicated”, Comment). They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.
It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.
Diane Abbott
House of Commons, London SW1
* You want the height of comedy then try and find an article on the gruinaid about “travellers” which has the comments left open.
They are masterclasses in “Im not a racist but Hitler was right about them”
Lashings and lashings of
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Its been about 2 years since they tried a roma article open for comments, and they usually shut them within an hour or 2.
Dot says:
April 24, 2023 at 3:55 pm
Oops. Yeah, Kendall. Should have checked – was going from memory. Yes, was just bizarre ad.
How so ? TB ruined his life. Losing virility robbed him of intimacy.
That ‘s’ word is so inadequate.
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2023 at 3:06 pm
The days of Monty Python, Stan Freburg, and Lenny Bruce. When rudeness, rather than vulgarity, was an essential component of comedy.
Huh?
What books have you been reading lately?
Lenny Bruce wasn’t even remotely funny.
As a matter of fact, Hannah Gadsby is funnier than Lenny Bruce, and she’s not funny either.
Well Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment. You are funny. Funny peculiar though.
interesting little straw poll
had our annual knees-up wit a group of uni mates and wives at one of their holiday houses in portsea
eight of us
it usually ends in a 6 vs 2 political barney over immigration, covid, climate, yada yada
this time not so
one strident declaration from avowed lefty that he was fkn sick of the voice and their abc bashing it and he was a no
with one wavering exception the others all declared they were leaning to no
next subject
titsoff trannies
that vote went 8 zip against
How so ?
Just read his ADoB entry.
Success followed success followed success until he met Charmain Clift.
Then he started doing it the hard way, for 23 years, then he died.
Yeah, he had some [financial] success late in life, but the lifestyle that Clift followed had long since just wore him out.
The fact that the MAJOR! Defence Review notes climate change as a significant issue for future Australian defence, clearly tells you its time to move to Diego Garcia…
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-review-warns-australia-is-not-ready-to-ward-off-a-major-attacker/
Cassie Of Sydney:
https://gigglecrowdfund.com/
Thanks – $000 sent.
I’d give more but it’s off pension week, and it’s not a competition.
had our annual knees-up wit a group of uni mates and wives at one of their holiday houses in portsea
Ankles behind ears is more fun.
I have done a very quick scan of the Defence Strategic Review. It will probably surprise few commenters here that the j’ismist reporting on the Review cocked it up when writing:
The DSR will call for a reduction in Australia’s infantry capabilities, including tanks,
The principal recommendation relating to Army is to develop an armoured brigade. The supposed infantry reduction seems to relate to a reduction in the planned purchase of IFVs from 450 to 129, sufficient only for one mechanised battalion, presumably for the armoured brigade. My quick scan did not notice any other proposed reduction in infantry strength. One proposal is to revive the former Ready Reserve Scheme.
Despite being an airman, Houston refrained from passing helicopters back to Air Force from Army. Somewhat surprisingly, he left the long range anti shipping task with Army.
I’ll try to go through it in more detail later.
Lysandersays:
April 24, 2023 at 4:17 pm
The fact that the MAJOR! Defence Review notes climate change as a significant issue for future Australian defence, clearly tells you its time to move to Diego Garcia…
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-review-warns-australia-is-not-ready-to-ward-off-a-major-attacker/
Yes, and we need missiles powered by renewables and elastic bands to defend the Continent now. No more of that Hydrocarbon stuff and the Enemy won’t use the stuff anyway. And as for Nuclear Warheads, well………………Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Marjorie T Greene is preparing for the worst; her new ad on Twatter.
I fear that our local oily rag group who were proceeding happily until forced by Council edict to integrate into the Local History Group soviet, will soon be defenestrated.
We restore engines and machines, we have no interest in Council community policy, only have meetings when there is an urgent need, refuse to have our Minutes perused and never ever intone ‘Acknowledgements’. But we run great training and mentoring programs.
Consensus is that the pittance of support provided by Council is not worth the pain of having to put up with their bureaucrats, LIBRARIANS, and project managers.
We will leave community fascism to the Family History, Community Garden and other groups who seem to thrive in the totalitarian ‘big fish’ sphere.
EG. A lady moron turned up a couple of Saturdays ago to review our ‘password policy’. No doubt she was on overtime. Why not just send an email which we can ignore? She was beyond prune faced when we announced that we run an ‘open information’ network providing unfettered access to our handbooks and manuals (most of which were probably acquired through non-compliant procedures; theft).
Our ‘network’ comprises two laptops with large powered USB hubs to assist downloads.
I doubt that anyone really knows where the club’s minutes and charter are located. Possibly in the lubricant shed.
Incoming anticipated. If we are booted we will happily move into someone’s shed.
Lysandersays:
April 24, 2023 at 4:17 pm
The fact that the MAJOR! Defence Review notes climate change as a significant issue for future Australian defence, clearly tells you its time to move to Diego Garcia…
Tha actual words are pretty bland, and much relates to the states not relying on ADF assistance after natural disasters, but having their own organisations ready to act alone.
Scummo endorses this recommendation.
Pleeeese. Save that for caravan parks on the Big Lap.
Agree BJ, but I don’t think it merits a mention in light of what is coming.
Oh, get your hand off it, Stan. Your ‘people’ never had a place in the world (nobody knew they existed) and the ‘sovereignity’ nonsense has been dealt with many times before.
I notice that common and well understood place names are now being adorned with alleged ‘first nations’ names. So, after decades of building up the brand name of, say, the Whitsundays, suddenly it is called gobbledygook.
Never mind the economy, it’s the Feelz that matter!
Lysandersays:
April 24, 2023 at 4:40 pm
Agree BJ, but I don’t think it merits a mention in light of what is coming.
Probably not, but obeisance must be paid to the new religion in order to get important things agreed.
The Vise (spelling intended) is the foundation for the establishment of a country within a country, acknowledged by the U.N. and similar organisations. The new ‘nation’ will be completely funded by its ‘birth mother’ (*Spit*) nation, and the elite of the former (and their extensive list of ‘consultants’) will be fully compensated by the creation of (non-functioning) departments/ministries of almost every type, with the exception of defense.
Bons it sounds like my sort of club, where do I join. I’m not the sort of person you would want, so likely to fit in. Social member of the Grampian Garage Nasties. If you want a poor reference contact them on Fantasy Football.Com.
Calli:
Why are all your upticks 0?
And why are so many of my quotes not appearing as quotes?
and…
sTan is drinking his own billabong water.
The High Court has already declared Australia was “settled” and not “invaded”. All we need now is a declaration that nomadic tribes with a Stone Age culture did not exercise “sovereignty.”
Winston, it’s my pet hound. He will widdle a couple of times on the Uptick button. He can’t help it. It’s reflexive.
A bridge too far for the High Court in the present climate I would say. Particularly in the light of some of the international law stuff around.
I don’t have instagram so I can’t confirm this but the claim here is:
Unspeakable evil if true.
G R.
Done. We will forward an application form if we can find one. Otherwise just turn up with your esky.
We may be irresponsible committee folks, but we produce outstanding stationary and donkey engine restorations.
And, nobody has ever had a tool stolen. Well, maybe borrowed occasionally.
Well, Dover, Haiti has a “do not travel” warning from Smartraveller.
There’s not much that people won’t do for clicks and views.
The High Court has already declared Australia was “settled” and not “invaded”. All we need now is a declaration that nomadic tribes with a Stone Age culture did not exercise “sovereignty.”
In any event. What is the aboriginal word for ‘sovereignty’ in 300 plus different Tribal languages please?
Hi Rover boy! Let’s go hunting!
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SHUT! IT! DOWN!
FIRE! THEM! ALL!
SALT! THE ! EARTH!
I was today years old when i discovered America had a
John Michael Greer is the author of over thirty books. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America.
Worth a read..
But he doesnt write a bad DOOOOM!!! article on the dedollarisation of the world.
https://unherd.com/2023/04/americas-empire-is-bankrupt/
In effect, the 5% of us in this country are going to have to go back to living the way we did before 1945. If we still had the factories, the trained workforce, the abundant natural resources and the thrifty habits we had back then, that would have been a wrenching transition but not a debacle. The difficulty, of course, is that we don’t have those things anymore. The factories were shut down in the offshoring craze of the Seventies and Eighties, when the imperial economy slammed into overdrive, and the trained workforce was handed over to malign neglect.
We’ve still got some of the natural resources, but nothing like what we once had. The thrifty habits? Those went whistling down the wind a long time ago. In the late stages of an empire, exploiting flows of unearned wealth from abroad is far more profitable than trying to produce wealth at home, and most people direct their efforts accordingly. That’s how you end up with the typical late-imperial economy, with a governing class that flaunts fantastic levels of paper wealth, a parasite class of hangers-on that thrive by catering to the very rich or staffing the baroque bureaucratic systems that permeate public and private life, and the vast majority of the population impoverished, sullen, and unwilling to lift a finger to save their soi-disant betters from the consequences of their own actions.
Unofficially and reading between the lines, one of Victoria’s top jockeys has been killed in a race fall at
Donald in central west Victoria. The meeting was called off after the fall in the first race.
Thankfully such tragedies are now rare, but the industry is in shock because a series of (mostly female) jockey deaths in recent years were thought to be aberrations that wouldn’t be repeated.
Ha ha. Good luck turning ALPBC Radio around. In Perf their last decent announcer died in the chair. A couple of others took the Quentin Dumpster long goodbye. Mostly replaced by producers, typically the problem at the ALPBC.
In anticipation of ANZAC Day tomorrow, may I delicately suggest that amongst the many lessons to be learned from ANZAC Cove in 1915 is that it is never a good idea to sit around on your arse waiting for the government to tell you what to do.
https://youtu.be/IeAPkEl8hHg?t=479
A ‘special Indigenous Anzac Service’ for eight hours?
Every review never looks at previous reviews to see what changed and what didn’t. To my feeble mind a review is supposed to do this, but never does. It is who ever wants the review done announcing to the world that the last review was a falure, nothing has improved and won’t after this one, but we will look as if we are doing something. What’s for for lunch? Can we spin this out untill the next election so everyone will be thinking of something else we can review. Mont Python has nothing on government and their minions who think they are wearly wearly important. In fact impotent is closer.
One wonders how the ghosts of our departed indigenous veterans might feel, being separated in commemoration from the mates they served beside? Would the present advocates of segregation have had the guts to voice their beliefs (much less act on them) if the veterans they claim to represent were still alive, and in their prime?
You wouldn’t say Baz’s specialty is reading the room. I expect the Vic Park trannies still aren’t too happy with him.
JR the word fo sovereignty across the 300+ tribal languages is the same. Nunga Nunga Nunga. Which has 2 meanings. My Holden has run a bearing or I got nothing. Take your pick.
Official: jockey Dean Holland, 34, has been killed in a race fall at Donald in central western Victoria. Tomorrow’s Anzac Day meeting at Flemington has been cancelled as a mark of respect.
A reminder that horse racing is a very dangerous sport.
I thought the same Muddy. They are doing Aboriginal Vets A disservice. Probably even moreso as they were exempt. They did what they thought was right. Only to have their memory trashed for political gain. They died next to white diggers wearing the same uniform sharing the same thoughts for their loved ones. No special bullets for them, just the one with their name on it.
My new school’s ANZAC Day ceremony certainly felt like this today. The lady President from local RSL branch was the sole exception, reading the story of James Martin (died aged 14y 9 mo). I was supervising a class of year 9s watching a live feed. Some were mucking around and I managed to shame them when I asked how old they were… This boy went fought and died for his country and he was your age, and you find that funny? Would you do the same?
One factor being considered by the nine-person advisory group, which is spearheaded by the broadcaster’s head of corporate strategy, Jeremy Millar, is the failure to recruit fresh talent from outside the taxpayer-funded giant, which has left its airwaves dominated by “ABC lifers”, according to a well-placed source.
Come on down JJJ work experience kids!
Perhaps they might wonder why a series called “Stuff the British stole“* isnt rating its box off.
Or why giving over the airwaves to a fag and its hag to extoll the virtues of chestfeeding and other perversions each weekend isnt a winner. Perhaps to add extra grit to the shell you could have the fag hag have an annoying semi-Yank accent…
* Some of the “history” in that show would get a high school kid in the crap for shallowness.
Thanks for the link Cassie, I made a donation. It’s a good cause and I hope they win the case.
Gigglecrowdfund must be updated manually as their raised total didn’t change after my donation.
And I daresay, all of a common ethnic origin. We shouldn’t be shocked.
aka the winners of Journo lotto. Hard to wean them off that taxpayer tit, hence the need for the Quentin Dumpster long goodbye. Maybe I should submit a tender for the review? If Ray Martin hasn’t already got it.
“Gigglecrowdfund must be updated manually as their raised total didn’t change after my donation.”
Give it time, let me know tomorrow, and if not I will email someone and ask if there is something wrong. That platform has been built specifically for Sall and Giggle because, as I wrote above, she’s been banned/barred from GoF*ckMe and other far-left sites who prefer to side with perverts than with woman like Sall, you and me. But then, we all know what pervert apologists are like.
I’d like to see the hair sniffer on receiving end. Pilots would agree.
F35 Lightning low in the snow at the Mach Loop – 4K
I’d love to see an age/service profile of the ALPBC against any commercial rival. The place is a media Hotel California. Naturally “management” is utterly incapable of doing anything about it.
Extract from the Strategic Review.
The ADF needs a much more focused force that can respond to the risks we face. It
should be informed by net assessment and able to effect a strategy of denial.
To maximise the deterrence, denial and response options for the Government, the
ADF must evolve into a genuine Integrated Force which harnesses effects across all
five domains: maritime, land, air, space and cyber.
The ADF’s operational success will depend on the ability of the Integrated Force to
apply the following critical capabilities:
undersea warfare capabilities (crewed and uncrewed) optimised for persistent,
long-range sub-surface intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
and strike;
an enhanced integrated targeting capability;
an enhanced long-range strike capability in all domains;
a fully enabled, integrated amphibious-capable combined-arms land system;
enhanced, all-domain, maritime capabilities for sea denial operations and
localised sea control;
a networked expeditionary air operations capability;
an enhanced, all-domain, integrated air and missile defence capability;
a joint, expeditionary theatre logistics system with strategic depth and mobility;
a theatre command and control framework that enables an enhanced
Integrated Force; and
a developed network of northern bases to provide a platform for logistics
support, denial and deterrence.
More:
Defence’s current approach to capability acquisition is not fit for purpose. The system
needs to abandon its pursuit of the perfect solution or process and focus on delivering
timely and relevant capability.
Defence must move away from processes based around project management risk
rather than strategic risk management. It must be based on minimum viable capability
in the shortest possible time.
I bought a portable radio with a rechargable battery, able to charge from the mains, and with a solar charging system on top. It also works off two double D big batteries.
I was happily listening to it on rock n’roll WS191.7 while I was putting the third coat of paint on my iron marble top console we keep in the lobby. I noticed recently that it was rusting out badly as it can be damp in there due to a persistent leak no roofer can find. So I’d derusted it, undercoated it and this was the final coat going on fine with the radio blaring. Hairy asked me to use the portable so he could shut my choice of music station out.
Suddenly it gave out. I reset it noting some oil around the base. It went ok for ten minutes and then conked out again. Minus my rubber gloves, I now inspect it and oil is coming from the batteries. I open them and one of the batteries is in a very poor state of falling apart. The other seems ok, just grubby. The rechargeable one in a separate compartment is unaffected.
What has happened? Is this just a faulty battery (they are new) or is this something going wrong with the operation of the thing – does it toggle in some way between a mains rechargeable battery, solar power charging, and the two double D’s? How do I tell which one the thing is using? Does it matter?
Will it one day cause a fire?
And how on earth do our political betters think they are going to charge NSW on a great big battery when Liddell goes? Batteries are difficult things at the best of times. Even in my little radio.
I turned off the ABC and never turned it on again after Deveny told Tony Abbott about her abortion.
Another bit:
Deterrence is about compelling an actor to defer or abandon a planned strategy
or activity by having in place steps and responses to change its risk assessment
and, therefore, decision-making.
4.2 Deterrence can be achieved through raising the costs or reducing the benefits to
an adversary through denial, dissuasion or punishment.
4.3 Deterrence exists in an adversary only as a ‘state of mind’. This makes credibility
in deterrence especially important, while also making the success of deterrence
posture and effects very difficult to assess
I saw Barry Humphries show The Man Behind The Mask at the ICC Sydney in 2018. He was a bit frail but still superb.
Just saw a clip of Gargoyles bitching about Barry Humphries.
Infantile Infanta.
I’ve always thought the final proposal scene in P&P (2005) was the best on celluloid but I’d forgotten the first proposal in Moonstruck: but this is a good suit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-1hP0LDAE
The DFR…
and
So doing both would require amphibious assault robots?
That should be FIRST proposal scene! it doesn’t work out.
Australia’s defence “strategy” is the same as NATO’s: let’s bludge off the Americans.
It works only when the US president isn’t taking bribes from the Chinese Communist Party.
Of course, for ideological reasons, the Australian news media has not informed the Australian public about the peril we now face as a result of the corruption in the White House.
A reminder: journalists don’t think or vote like the Australian public. They would be happy to ship us all off to a concentration camp with the Uygurs.
Terrible news Tom about Dean Holland.
What’s the point when they will again hire the same type of presenters as the ones that may be let go? It’s not like they will hire Alan Jones or Steve Smith.
Continuing the theme of travel warnings to muzzie shit-holes the latest from the whacky world of islam:
In Eid message, Biden boasts of ‘inter-agency task force with senior government officials to tackle’ Islamophobia (biden is a traitor no doubt and should be treated like one)
Speaking of traitors: Swedish telecom giant provided high-tech equipment to al-Qaeda in exchange for protection
UK: Muslim stabs wife to death after she refused to let him take another spouse women don’t just have to worry about trannies.
‘Sar tan se juda’: The resurgence of beheading culture in India
Jihad Watch
Yes, Dopey. He and his wife Lucy have three little kids. A tragedy.
The racing community will care for them, but never seeing your father again is heart-breaking for those kids.
ABC management don’t know much about modern communications but then I’m not surprised seeing as they have an octogenarian former magazine editor as the CEO.
These people don’t even know that audiences have moved on from radio to podcasts which they play via their phones while battling the morning traffic on the way to work.
Not even another COVID lockdown will save them as people like to listen to recordings when it suits them.
Will do.
Frank Elly was the quintessential ALPBC Lifer. Would make an excellent case study.
Phatty Adams is more mummified in his role than a few of his Egyptian artifacts.
The new book on Michael Smith News was done years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as0CJChknV8
Havent heard of this chap.
Seems quite a detailed and good look at why Russia is underperforming in the Ukraine.
hour long each
Spoiler: Because its politically necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5mTslkUBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i47sgi-V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz59GWeTIik
Am another who stopped buying Gillette due to their advertising.
Would have been buying their products for over 30 years.
All that customer loyalty gone due to wokeness.
Twilight walk with Cash.
——
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 67
The beauty of RN is most of its listeners don’t know how to change the channel.
After the smoking ceremony and the poor visibility it may take some time to make their way out of there.
Teh Paywallian Media Diary reporting Our Jessica has departed for the Commonwealth Bank. Another nail in the coffin of newspapers I guess.
I couldn’t even boycott them as initially I used the BIC disposable razors and now use Schick Intuition.
Jessica who?
I just read The Destroying Angel: The Rifle-Musket as the First Modern Infantry Weapon by Brett Gibbons .
WOW! After all these years, a book by a LOGISTICS OFFICER! He sees a systems approach to warfare, and instead of describing the rifle like all those artefact-focused books, he sees the effect on logistics, capability, senior staff thinking, a whole technological national approach to warfighting built upward from making the infantryman a trained thinking, skilled person not a drilled automaton commanded by his General, acting as part of that crossed rectangle representing his regiment on the battlefield map.
To me this should also illuminate our approach to ‘our’ cultural war. ‘An Army of Davids‘ made me think we could win some ground, by sharing ideas, blogging, writing where people of good will could argue together, building a win for classical liberalism in a 20th century way.
Yeah nah. We now don’t know how what we do might build to a win of even a small-unit action. How might we try to win if we were not all being individuals pointlessly roaming the battlespace like a computer gamer’s avatar?
Lizzie those Double D’s are boozzies not batteries.
I was hoping Peter Dutton would attend as the school is in his electorate, but he sent a rep instead.
Because the service finished 10 minutes early( eventhough it seemed to go on forever), I threw the floor open to questions from the kids. Why do they always carry on about a Pine Tree from Gallipoli? – quick discussion on battle of Lone Pine. Why do they play that trumpet music ?(referring to Last Post); That lady had a medal(ADM) , what is it for? Pass mine around ( I had it my bag in case I was supervising a year 10 or 11 class at the service, rather than a junior class watching the livestream) and explain what it is for. That soldier had a few medals, what were they for? I rewound the Livestream and explained how to “read” his uniform. He is a Major in 8RAR points to epaulet, cap badge and lanyard. He served in combat point to CIB and served in …… points to each medal, and this one is from the United Nations
It’s amazing how much we just assume kids know or are curious about.
Under the assumption you could always trust the Sheriff to be on your side, we acquiesced to a reduction in ability to provide for our own defence. In other words we became conditionally defenceless. Then when it was revealed the Sheriff could not be trusted, it did not matter that this particular individual would be gone in 4 years and was not a long term threat in themselves, it exposed a systemic weakness in our own independent agency which had to be stopgapped ASAP at a strategic level. The reaction of trying to gain our own defensive capability without fully relying on the Sheriff always sharing our values and priorities is considered all good by Defence.
So why is it that when individual citizens reach a similar conclusion about their own government, the analogous reaction is considered at least suspicious if not seditious and crooked? Why is it okay for the Commonwealth to be distrustful of Uncle Sam, but not okay for the citizen to be distrustful of the Commonwealth? Surely this is only a difference of scale?
Jessica Irvine. Ross Gittins protege.
Jessica Irvine was always an activist slut. Now she has just changed allegiance to the highest bidder.
Sorry I’m late.
Had to take the tyrannosaurus for a ride around the block.
Energetic buggers they are.
Dad joke, and one of the best:
Q: What was the name of the famous blind dinosaur?
A: Idontthinkitsaurus.
Excellent, Diogenes.
Helpful not just to kids. A lot of adults would benefit from your lesson. Should take it on the road.
Yikes. Remind me not to use Tom as a referee. Didn’t think much of her economics, although it fell short of Emmanomics.
A silent MCG. The leftscum white ant cowards who hate this country loathe the annual homage to our freedom.
Thanks. In that case no loss though I don’t want her at the Commonwealth Bank either as I bank with them.
And a view of the possible future where one race will be fighting it out to gain control of local “Voice” entities so that they can direct, influence and veto at the national level. Its only a matter of time and a “YES” before interested commercial groups, local and offshore, start to “invest” in various groups to gain influence. The structure and goals for the Voice naturally lend themself to influence peddling and possible corruption, even if majority of the selected Voice folks are honest …
Defence and climate change
5.2 Climate change holds a number of significant implications for Defence. The
acceleration of major climate events risks overwhelming the Government’s
capacity to respond effectively and detracting from Defence’s primary objective
of defending Australia. Climate events already place concurrency pressures on
the ADF and this has negatively affected force preparedness, readiness and
combat effectiveness.
5.3 Defence is frequently required to make large contributions to domestic disaster
relief efforts as well as support to the community, such as during the COVID-19
pandemic. However, Defence is not structured or appropriately equipped to act
as a domestic disaster recovery agency concurrently with its core function, in any
sustainable way.
5.4 State and local governments, in partnership with the Commonwealth, must have
in place the necessary plans, resources and capabilities to deal with all but the
most extreme domestic disaster operations.
Get the state governments to do their jobs?
Lysander/BJ/et al:
We used to have a Civil Defence Dept and I had great enthusiasm for its writings.
The last I heard of it it had become a tent in the backyard of the NosmoKing Department of the PMs Department, slowly dying of neglect because it wasn’t considered ‘sexy’enough.
Interesting, because Civil Defence is ‘prepping’ on a national level.
Alamak!, that is mighty optimistic.
Strategy
A strategy of denial for the ADF must focus on the development of anti-access/
area denial capabilities (A2AD). Anti-access capabilities are usually long-range
and designed to detect an adversary and prevent an advancing adversary from
entering an operational area. Area-denial capabilities are shorter range and
designed to limit an adversary’s freedom of action within a defined operational
area. A2AD is often synonymous with long-range strike capability, undersea
warfare and surface-to-air missiles.
I dont recommend the qantas club on Diego…..
Force design
8.5 Maximising the deterrent effect and response options from ADF capabilities is
critical. To achieve the maximum benefits from our capability investments, the
ADF force structure must become not only focused, but also integrated.
8.6 The current joint force, namely the combined effect of Navy, Army and Air Force
working together, does not appropriately reflect the growth of domains. The
evolution to five domains – maritime, land, air, space and cyber – demands a
new approach.
8.7 The ADF must rapidly evolve into a genuine Integrated Force, which harnesses
effects across all of the five domains. The Integrated Force must be optimised for
National Defence.
8.8 In effecting our strategy of denial in Australia’s northern approaches, the ADF’s
operational success will depend on the ability of the Integrated Force to apply
the following critical capabilities:
undersea warfare capabilities (crewed and uncrewed) optimised
for persistent, long-range sub-surface intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance and strike;
an enhanced, integrated targeting capability;
an enhanced long-range strike capability in all domains;
a fully enabled, integrated amphibious-capable combined-arms land
system;
enhanced, all-domain, maritime capabilities for sea denial operations and
localised sea control;
a networked expeditionary air operations capability
an enhanced, all-domain, integrated air and missile defence capability;
a joint, expeditionary theatre logistics system with strategic depth and
mobility;
a theatre command and control framework that enables an enhanced
Integrated Force; and
a developed network of northern bases to provide a platform for logistics
support, denial and deterrence.
A constitutionally enshrined ATSIC. What could possibly go wrong?
Johanna:
I don’t think anyone yet realises how denigrating this practice is. A generation later, it will be just a word instead of a name with meaning. like snakeskin discarded in the old farm shed – devoid of all the stuff of life, an empty meaningless husk.
(There’s a word to describe it, but buggered if I can think of it.)
The TRUTH About Female Educators… | Jordan Peterson
Army priorities
8.28 Australia’s Army must be transformed and optimised for littoral manoeuvre
operations by sea, land and air from Australia, with enhanced long-range fires.
8.29 As a priority it must be able to provide:
a littoral manoeuvre capability by sea, land and air;
long-range fires, including land-based maritime strike;
air and missile defence; and
close-combat capabilities, including a single armoured combined-arms
brigade, able to meet the most demanding land challenges in our region.
8.30 Enhanced domestic security and response Army Reserve brigades will be
required to provide area security to the northern base network and other critical
infrastructure, as well as providing an expansion base and follow-on forces.
8.31 The land domain force structure design priorities must result in significant
changes to Army force posture and structure. Army’s combat brigades must be
re-roled and select capabilities postured in northern Australia
The reference to “littoral manoeuvre” has hints of the recent USMC re-structuring program.
Air Force
8.40 Australia’s Air Force must be optimised for all aspects of air warfare. The support
of maritime, littoral and sustainment operations from Australia’s northern base
network will be a high priority.
8.41 Air Force must be able to maintain:
a network of northern air bases with appropriate hardening and dispersal;
crewed and autonomous systems capable of air defence;
strike capability (maritime and land);
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance;
anti-submarine warfare;
command and control for integrated air and missile defence;
air-to-air refuelling; and
heavy and medium air mobility.
8.42 Air Force must increase the numbers of critical positions and implement a
scalable aircrew training system to meet aircrew requirements across the force,
commensurate with operational requirements.
8.43 Air combat crewing requires a new approach which is consistent with our
strategic circumstances. Air Force must develop a plan to increase aircrew
numbers to ensure that air combat and P-8 maritime squadrons have the
crewing to operate all available aircraft at high tempo. This will substantially
increase preparedness in the mid to long-term
When we had 20 P-3s, there was a target of 14 crews which never seemed to be met.
More:
8.70 Long-range strike and other guided weapons are fundamental to the ADF’s
ability to hold an adversary at risk in Australia’s northern approaches. To do this,
the ADF must hold sufficient stocks of guided weapons and explosive ordnance
(GWEO) and have the ability to manufacture certain lines.
Sounds to me like Allen had responsibility for running one quite minor promotion and slipped her man to girl trannie under the radar.
Anheuser-Busch confirmed Allen’s new duties in a statement to USA TODAY: “We have made some adjustments to streamline the structure of our marketing function to reduce layers so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brands activities.”
Air defence
8.76 Defence must deliver a layered integrated air and missile defence (IAMD)
operational capability urgently. This must comprise a suite of appropriate
command and control systems, sensors, air defence aircraft and surface (land
and maritime) based missile defences.
8.77 A short-range IAMD capability exists through Navy’s Air Warfare Destroyers and
Army’s enhanced National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.
8.78 Defence’s medium-range advanced and high-speed missile defence capabilities
should be accelerated.
The structure and goals for the Voice naturally lend themself to influence peddling and possible corruption,…
Ya think?
There’ll be no Service Delivery with The Voice, so how else can anyone get a quid outta it?
… even if majority of the selected Voice folks are honest …
What’s that got to do with it?
Geoff Clark types will get elected in the Regions, and if the Baksheesh doesn’t flow pretty freely, that Canberra rep will be living in hiding and wearing a suit of armour.
Location, location, location
10.1 We must posture for the protection of Australia and for integrated defence and
deterrence effects in our immediate region.
10.2 The key line of forward deployment for the ADF stretches across Australia’s
northern maritime approaches. Integral to this sovereign Australian posture is
the network of bases, ports and barracks stretching in Australian territory from
Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the northwest, through RAAF bases Learmonth, Curtin,
Darwin, Tindal, Scherger and Townsville.
….
10.9 Irrespective of this history, it is now imperative that our network of northern
bases is urgently and comprehensively remediated.
10.10 The priority for this network is the series of critical air bases. This series of
northern airbases must now be viewed as a holistic capability system and
managed as such by the Chief of Air Force.
10.11 There must be immediate and comprehensive work on these air bases
undertaken in the following areas:
hardening and dispersal;
runway and apron capacity;
fuel storage and supply;
aviation fuel supply and storage;
GWEO storage;
connectivity required to enable essential mission planning activities;
accommodation and life support; and
security.
Atsic was just a practice round. This time it will bugger up everything in Government & beyond. “YES” vote-willing.
Notice on TV the interview with Elbo where he will not deny the plans to legislate the Voice if referendum does not get up. Not that evidence of poor faith in democratic process is really needed … but failing to follow the Voice referendum if it’s a “NO” is a pretty damning statement of how Labor views us all – just scum-with-a-single-vote to be ignored while they gather more power and $$$.
Bons:
Just where the Hell is this bloke nirvana?
I’m happy to suture that which needs suturing, bandaging that which needs bandaging, and amputating – without girlie anaesthetic – that which needs amputating.
Unless the absence of an address is a cunning way to keep the undesirable from the shed. In which case, I’m stuffed.
Calli, if memory serves, you vowed no more dergs after your little Westie went to doggy heaven. Now you have a pet hound?
Excellent if true. I suspect that you are a doggy person through and through. Have fun with your new boy.
Sufficient unto the evening are the word walls so far.
Maybe more later or tomorrow, or maybe not.
Beware people slipping a tranny in when people aren’t watching. Nobody likes surprises.
Are you talking about Angry Karen?
Spiky has admitted to being 19 weeks pregnant. She calls the baby ‘Parasite’ at present, but will think of another name later.
2023.04.23 American Censorship Increasing (The Slippery Slope Is Undefeated)
Common cold symptoms
UK government tacitly admits the COVID vaccines are killing working age people in the UK in record numbers
Get the feeling that Aboriginal affairs in Victoria are tightly controlled by a couple of families, starting to see the same names popping up over and over.
Incidentally as Aboriginal people continue to marry non Aborigines how generations are we from complete farce where Aboriginal people, in say, Victoria is more European looking than the majority of the population in 2050?
The Thorpes/Peppers intermarried several generations ago.
It’s interesting how many Aboriginal people converted to Christianity with great enthusiasm.
Nathaniel Pepper
Really?
When all current comedy is aimed at conservatives it is no longer funny even when it is funny. I refuse to laugh only at my side. When they make jokes about Albo and Labor, the Greens and indigenes I will give them kudos. Until then they are just abusing the designated scapegoat.
What is really egregious is that today’s comedians are all on one side of politics and assume that their side is perfect, they find nothing there about which to make a joke. If you can only laugh at your opponents you are not indulging in comedy but in warfare.
The reason that there are no conservative comedians is that they have simply been driven out of the marketplace, they have been silenced and dispatched to our version of a Siberian gulag, they have been deplatformed.
It’s a virtual hound, Delta. Annoying and amusing alternately.
No, I won’t get another derg. They steal my heart and then they go. My little Westie boy will be the last.
17 days of leave in your first six months in a new job?
Teal MP Monique Ryan ‘threatened to sack Sally Rugg four times in five weeks’
By DAMON JOHNSTON
Teal independent MP Monique Ryan threatened to sack Sally Rugg four times in the space of five weeks, prompting her chief of staff to become ‘‘very upset and distressed’’ and left ‘‘in tears’’, new legal documents claim.
The left-wing activist has lodged a fresh statement of claim in the Federal Court setting out the alleged termination threats and detailing a series of tense exchanges with the independent member for Kooyong.
The 37-page document lays down a timeline of the deterioration of the Rugg-Ryan working relationship, claiming one of the first flashpoints occurred in an email exchange on September 30 last year.
‘‘Dr Ryan informed Ms Rugg that ‘I feel like we have really dropped the ball on non-Twitter SM (social media)’,’’ Ms Rugg’s statement claims.
‘‘Ms Rugg stated that ‘we are exceptionally short-staffed and the consequence of this is that we’re not able to deliver the volume of work of a full-staffed team … we don’t have a social media manager, we are all doing our best!’’’
Later that day, Dr Ryan allegedly ‘‘informed Ms Rugg that, in her view, Ms Rugg was not working hard enough and kept dropping the ball’’.
Ms Rugg’s document claims Dr Ryan’s first threat to terminate her was on November 15, the second was on November 22, the third threat was on December 12 and the fourth was on December 21.
Ms Rugg details a Sunday morning clash between the pair, after Dr Ryan requested staff attend a 9am remote ‘‘Teams’’ meeting with only 20 minutes’ notice.
‘‘Ms Rugg complained that calling a meeting on 20 minutes’ notice on a Sunday morning ‘was not great’ and ‘not necessary’ and not conducive to a good workplace culture,’’ the document states.
On December 6, Dr Ryan is alleged to have ‘‘told Ms Rugg that she could not trust Ms Rugg to deliver the work required, that Ms Rugg was not working hard enough, and that Ms Rugg did not want to work on weekends’’.
Following the second termination threat, the document claims, Ms Rugg suffered ‘‘acute and ongoing distress, as well as fear and anxiety that her employment would be terminated’’.
Following the fourth, and final termination threat, on December 21, Ms Rugg ‘‘experienced acute distress and anxiety, and fear … she became so distraught that she was unable to continue driving’’.
Ms Rugg launched legal action against Dr Ryan and the federal government seeking a declaration that the teal MP was involved in contraventions of the Fair Work Act. She is demanding compensation and pecuniary penalties, and acknowledgment that the “unreasonable additional hours” constitute a breach of national employment standards.
In her statement of claim, released by the Federal Court on Monday, Ms Rugg states that while being employed by Dr Ryan between July and December last year, she regularly worked more than 65 hours a week, including weekends. On average, she worked 58 hours a week.
The document reveals she took 17 days of leave – sick, carer’s, annual and stress – and one day of public holiday leave.
Ms Rugg’s annual salary was $136,000, which means her hourly rate was $69, according to the document released on Monday.
The Oz with comments open, but not likely for long
She still got the silver centipede DrB?
I told my mum about that, she’s an artist.
She thought it was a cool as can be.
The Increased Death Rate Was Caused By The Vaccine – Ed Dowd
OK, I was only teasing. Personnel:
11.3 Defence must bring together the end-to-end people system for the ADF with the
aim of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, coordination and cohesiveness of
the force. Personnel management of the ADF must be optimised to realise
and sustain the long-term workforce requirements and to ensure that the
Integrated Force can be realised. ADF personnel management should be
centralised into a single integrated system incorporating the five domains, headed
by a Chief of Personnel reporting directly to the Chief of the Defence Force.
11.4 We believe there is a need for a comprehensive strategic review of the
ADF Reserves and reserve service as part of National Defence and in light of the
current strategic circumstances.
11.5 The transition to the Total Workforce Model has significantly improved the
utilisation of the reserve workforce. The ADF Reserves must not just complement
the total Defence workforce but also provide the expansion base for the ADF in
times of crisis. In order to achieve such an effect, Defence needs to investigate
innovative ways to adapt the structure, shape and role of the Reserves, as well as
reconsider past programs, specifically the Ready Reserve Scheme
Small towns going ballistic:
SHIT TOWN POWER RANKINGS 23/4/23
1. Sydney, NSW – Teenage dropkicks destroy school and kill hundreds of marine creatures; shitropolis loses status as Australia’s biggest city
2. Melbourne, VIC – Psycho mows down cyclist in hit-and-run; deer breaks into house and gets stuck; woman flashes tits and bum at girls on school trip; shitropolis now Australia’s biggest city but the extra bit is Melton
3. Hobart, TAS – Car rams police station, escapes before cops attend; elderly woman hospitalised after being struck by can of soft drink thrown by 13-year-old; drunk grub fined for pissing on floor of Macca’s
4. Yeppoon, QLD – Woman steals car with baby inside, returns baby then runs over two bystanders while stealing the car again
5. Alice Springs, NT – 5-tonne excavator stolen from work site
6. Rockhampton, QLD – Heavily pregnant girl among 3 teens arrested for ram-raids
7. Bathurst, NSW – Drunk gronk in G-string trashes rented apartment, throws wheelie bin and dildo at cars and tries to bite cops
8. Townsville, QLD – 5 kids aged 13-16 arrested after stolen car smashes into parked vehicle and 2 cop cars
9. Dubbo, NSW – 58-year-old suspended learner driver in unregistered and uninsured car tests positive for alcohol, cannabis and meth
10. Port Pirie, SA – Still shit
This from the DSR:
5.2 Climate change holds a number of significant implications for Defence. The
acceleration of major climate events risks overwhelming the Government’s
capacity to respond effectively and detracting from Defence’s primary objective
of defending Australia. Climate events already place concurrency pressures on
the ADF and this has negatively affected force preparedness, readiness and
combat effectiveness.
There is NO acceleration or worsening of climate catastrophes. FMD I’m sick of this BS.
5.3 Defence is frequently required to make large contributions to domestic disaster
relief efforts as well as support to the community, such as during the COVID-19
pandemic. However, Defence is not structured or appropriately equipped to act
as a domestic disaster recovery agency concurrently with its core function, in any
sustainable way.
Just like they’ve always been required to do. It flooded every year on the East coast of Australia from 1949 – 1956 and the ADF were heavily involved every time while also having 18000 service personnel in Korea. That was bigger than anything the wankers are doing today.
5.4 State and local governments, in partnership with the Commonwealth, must have
in place the necessary plans, resources and capabilities to deal with all but the
most extreme domestic disaster operations.
WTF does that even mean? They give up and don’t bother with the real serious stuff.
The chunks must be reading this and cacking themselves.
Acquisition is always good for some criticism
12.1 Timely and strategically relevant capability acquisition is critical in the coming
period. Defence’s current approach to capability acquisition is not suitable
given our strategic circumstances, and there is a clear need for a more efficient
acquisition process. The increasing volume and complexity of capability projects
is overwhelming Defence’s capability system, its limited workforce and its
resource base.
12.2 Although the cancellation or postponement of projects in the IIP is made
extraordinarily difficult, little scrutiny is given to projects entering it. Defence has
had an over-reliance on bottom-up proposals forming the bulk of new entries
into the IIP, and a surprising lack of top-down direction or genuine
joint-assessment of pre-Gate 0 proposals.
12.3 Once projects have entered the IIP, capability managers have too much latitude
to make design changes, tinker with capability outcomes, and indulge in the
quest for perfectionism. These behaviours result in delay and strategically
significant capability outcomes not being achieved in a timely manner, or at all.
12.4 Clear direction from the Government and clear expectations placed on Defence
for acquisition and delivery are critical to resolving this issue. To achieve this,
in the first instance a threshold judgement must be made at the joint senior
level, and agreed to by the Government, on what minimum viable capability is
required and what is readily available.
12.5 When capability is readily available there should be an emphasis on getting it
into service without delay and achieving value for money. Defence must, where
possible, acquire more platforms and capabilities via sole source or off-the-shelf
procurement, and limit or eliminate design changes and modifications. When
subsequent design changes or enhancements to capabilities are proposed, we
recommend these be independently tested by sceptical and trusted advisers.
12.6 In our new strategic circumstances the focus must be on the capabilities of the
Enhanced Force-In-Being, with an emphasis on incremental upgrades through
the life of a capability rather than pursuing longer-term solutions.
WHO new powers concern
Charming.
I can’t stop thinking of how those women who apparently get pregnant for the purpose of murdering their babies in the womb use disparaging and even vile terms to describe their children.
There’s nothing edgy or cool about calling your unborn child ‘Parasite’.
Oi!
I represent that remark.
If you think you had a bad day…
“Pensioner urinating on a train track is killed by a flying cow that was hit by a carriage and flung 100ft through the air.”
If these miscreants had to work in order to eat it wouldn’t be happening.
It was written.
One thought.
An aim of the review is to make the ADF an Integrated Force. It took a couple of decades for the joint force to be put in place and accepted, how long will it take for the Integrated Force to become part of the ADF culture?
tom earlier
i reckon the ridiculous practice of training horses in the dark is over
report recently into court case over the death of a female jock killed after a horse was spooked on a training gallop in the dark
fkn mongs
“FMD I’m sick of this BS.”
You’re not the only one.
And when they are old and helpless what will they call other people’s children who will be employed to look after them?
Sorry, calli. My mistake.
Nothing nice.
Just more Canbra sludge.
My congratulations to Spikey. I hope she gets over the morning sickness soon and can enjoy her pregnancy. It gets better until the bladder tap dance starts. 😀
Watching 1917 right now. Don’t think I can go the distance. Just too horrible.
On This Day:
A momentous date indeed. Decent pic with Eric Bana as well, which gave rise to the famous quote:
Look. There’s no cash here.
Here, there’s no cash. Alright? Robbo?
Robbo: No cash.
Boambee John:
As I thought – a shopping list of capabilities which will be pared down to a level of strategic incoherency.
Three cheers for Master Beaugan Jr.
The meth’s kiss of small shit towns. I award them the critics choice award.
Err, Critic’s…
Now. THAT was shit!
Enhanced Force-In-Being
Mmm.
Yes.
The Force-In-Being surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.
But, beware the dark side!
Couldn’t he have just said “extant forces” with the same meaning?
Colonel C B
Established lingo, please don’t try to alter, it will cause years of confusion.
Can someone cut to the chase with the defence policy stuff?
Grandson no.2 due today. No sign. 2 1/2 hrs to make it.
Boambee John:
I’ve seen similar documents before. Reams of paper and buzz words, done up in pretty binders and being touted as “Disaster Plans”.
Not an ounce of hardware to back them up, nor is there any intention of supplying any.
The pieces of paper were the plan made whole – a miracle of transubstantiation where entire armies of skilled personnel and equipment would miraculously appear from nothing but paper.
Parliamentarians will wave pieces of paper and declare the physical will be made whole because “We have a Plan.”
We deserve the pineapple being prepared for us.
Dot
Those were some highlights, the full document is almost 120 pages, and is available online.
Having seen many of these, it is better than most, in that it accepts that there must be cuts at lower priorities, instead of trying to have it all, starting in Year 6 of the Five Year Program.
Doc Beaugan:
So the hormones are kicking in, Doc?
Dot says: April 24, 2023 at 9:24 pm
What? The MSM didn’t do that already?
Build ammo locally, buy long range missiles, keep our shipping routes with India/South-East Asia open by preventing China from capturing Singapore/Indonesia, and have amphibious assault capability to help achieve that.
I may have missed some bits.
More titles for the jaded which will be banned when the chunks take over!
Violent Surrender: however wrong it was Greta wanted him. But since the outcome was inevitable hers had to be a violent surrender lest the sin appear too great!
Village Madness: it took 24 hours to change Betsy from a small town, wide-eyed virgin into a thrill-seeking Greenwich Village hellcat!
Dyke Monger: a butch in heat, she went beyond normal lesbian pleasures!
The Sweet Pain: a novel of today’s young love; old enough to dare passion, too young to fear corruption!