“Disrupting the peace” is a very subjective term. I wish the coppers would arrest the many “locals” in Perth disrupting…
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With leaders like Bojo, no wonder Labour won a landslide. Can’t work out who is worse.
Yes, Biden, his people and Boris Johnson should be taken to the ICC and charged with war crimes.
First cataract op on right eye, perfect result. Second one on left eye in April – i have been left…
I remember once being told that Australians of Irish descent harbour bitter resentment against the English and spend many hours recriminating about the Irish famine.
This came as a surprise to me, as the only time it was ever mentioned in my family was after I read The Great Hunger, no-one in my family feels the slightest bit Irish, or English or Channel Islander.
Perhaps, like some American IRA supporters, there are such families carefully keeping the bitter flames alight, as I know some Greek descendants of survivors of the Greek genocide continue despise the Turks, though that’s more recent.
It’s pretty obvious for some people completely caught up in their borrowed victimhood too much will never be enough.
Re the Great Burning, did the Aboriginals thereby cause the desert which occupies a lot of Australia, or was the desert there already?
Patrick Bet-David Offers Tucker Carlson a $100 Million Contract (over 5 years).
PBD on latest Megyn Kelly.
Check out the Romotow T8 caravan valued at over $375K NZD
Living well doesn’t necessarily have to mean living large. At least, this rings true for the New Zealand-based architecture firm that built the Romotow T8 rotating caravan where they proved size doesn’t matter and functionality and design are everything.
After a decade of waiting since its first announcement, the Romotow T8 has since been plucked out of our sci-fi dreams and dropped into reality.
However, it does come with a hefty price tag. It’s currently on the market for an eye-watering starting price of $375,000 NZD (approx. $268,000 AUD at current exchange rates).
What is all the hype around the Romotow T8 about?
Designed by W2, the Romotow T8 pushes the boundaries of travel trailer design, marrying art, opulence, convenience and innovation.
It’s hard to believe you’d need to be convinced by its greatness, but just in case, we’ve rounded up some of its outstanding features to get you on board.
Take the sugar off the table.
Afaik only the Lib Dems & PHON have colour blind welfare policies.
Exactly.
And there was Monty pretending the TERF movement was merely a UK import and to be rejected on that basis alone.
Amazing hey roger.
I never would have thought echoing the words of Martin Luther King would have made me a racist RWNJ.
‘Fake Aboriginal identity’ film is banned
EXCLUSIVE
By MATTHEW DENHOLM
TASMANIA CORRESPONDENT
An Indigenous-made film about a white person who identifies as Aboriginal has been banned by the bodies that funded and commissioned it, over fears it could spark litigation and is “harmful”.
The short film, My Journey, by Tasmanian Indigenous newcomer filmmakers Nathan Maynard and Adam Thompson, was to be screened as part of a GRIT film festival in Hobart last weekend. Their “mockumentary” was pulled because of concerns held by the funding body, the Tasmanian Community Fund, and the commissioning body, Wide Angle Tasmania, that it could be defamatory and may cause community “harm”.
“I absolutely see it as political censorship,” Thompson told The Australian. “It is shocking …. essentially, they have censored it.
“It’s a contentious issue, but as Aboriginal people we have a right to tell stories and talk about things that are important to us as a community and that are affecting us as a community.
“And the issue is probably the most important issue that we have going on at the moment in Tasmania.”
Thompson would not reveal the plot, because he and Maynard are now planning to run their own screening of My Journey. However, he did not deny it was about a white person discovering their Aboriginality.
The number of Tasmanians identifying as Indigenous has grown from 36 in 1966 to 23,572 in 2016 and 30,186 currently. The state government has adopted policies designed to remove barriers to recognition as Aboriginal.
Thompson said the film was fictional and he did not accept concerns over possible defamation. However, Wide Angle chairman David Gurney said such concerns were based on legal advice.
Mr Gurney said the film focused on Smithton, in northwest Tasmania, and there were real concerns it could defame particular people. “The TCF was concerned that the film is potentially litigious and … harmful to a very specific community,” Mr Gurney said. “TCF asked them (the film-makers) to make some changes to the film, which they refused to do.
“So then the TCF instructed Wide Angle not to screen the film as part of the GRIT screenings.
“When that happened, we sought legal advice from one of Australia’s leading media law firms and we also received the advice that the film could lead to a defamation.”
The TCF, an independent body that distributes funds from the sale of a state-owned bank, had a policy of not funding anything that could cause harm.
“No one is disputing the broader issue that is being discussed in the film – it is an important issue – but … this so-called fictitious story is set in a very real, very small town,” Mr Gurney said. “The names in the film are very closely resembling people in that town. There are issues in that film that are very specific to that town. And we are talking a town of a few hundred people.”
The TCF confirmed it had raised concerns about the film. “These issues are for Wide Angle Tasmania to resolve with the film makers,” a spokesman said.
Maynard is no stranger to controversy, having recently called for expressions of interest from people of British descent willing to donate their corpse for an artwork.
Thompson said the film-makers had received approval for the concept and script from a GRIT steering committee. However, Mr Gurney said this was before TCF had alerted Wide Angle to potential defamation risk.
* From the Oz – which strangely has comments open
** Jackie Jacqui was contacted for comment
If borrowing victimhood results in $$$ then it will be borrowed and milked for all it’s worth.
Thanks for the DNA info. I thought there would be some persistent markers.
Tasmania is a good example.
Look at the accusations being made in the Lia Pootah link about control and access to legal funding.
People are pretending that the Voice is the end of a line, no it’s just a way point on a continuum.
more here
Dot says:
May 3, 2023 at 9:19 am
As for housing prices and taxation.
The average tax rate on building a new home in Sydney is 78.6%, and this is able to be paid out on an amortised loan, which can be paid off with your income which already has had income tax knocked off it.
Dot,
driving the 4WD around our neighbourhood yesterday (2 weekly run to circulate fluids and use brakes etc), yet again reinforcing view from 144 bus a couple a weeks ago the ridiculous number of utes with cones, barriers, towing electronic signs and lollipop signs –
Our area is nonstop additions/new builds after knockdowns and again yesterday non stop lollipop people around every building site – Concrete truck delivery – need Signs, Utes, Lollipop people
The additional cost is B’Ridiculous – Was this included in your 78.6%?
To will is human; to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of grace.
– John Calvin
Genetic?
Cultural I would agree with, and the impediment that kept them from developing further was the continent – which kept them nomadic and thus unable to accumulate the fruits of their labour and the leisure that would make possible to try doing things differently. It necessitated a rigid hierarchy within the group which would also prevent changing things up much because it would mean changing the roles, and also taking a gamble when the margins for error were very narrow. The sparseness of the population would have limited the cross pollenisation of ideas as well. I would expect that there might have been a few new ideas – a tweaking in the design of a boomerang, more effective shelter or clothing – that were then lost. We would never know. Some of the ideas may have been discovered multiple times.
Lasting innovation seems a product of settled and even town life. Australian conditions, despite Pascoe’s fevered imagination, thwarted that.
Snowy 2.0 faces further cost increases, delays
Angela Macdonald-Smith – Senior resources writer
Snowy Hydro has advised of a likely delay of up to a further two years for its troubled Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro storage project in NSW, and a cost blowout beyond the revised $5.9 billion estimate.
The latest delay looks set to intensify worries about the ability of the National Electricity Market to continue supplying reliable power as coal power stations accelerate their closure plans
The federal government-owned company said it is working to “reset” the timetable and budget for the project with key contractor Future Generation Joint Venture, controlled by Italy’s Webuild.
The reset “will ensure the critically important clean energy infrastructure project is placed on a robust and sustainable footing for FGJV to progress the schedule in a realistic and productive manner,” Snowy Hydro said in a statement on Wednesday.
It cited a number of factors driving the delays and cost increases, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on resourcing, supply chain disruptions and difficult geological conditions which have slowed tunnelling work at the site.
Snowy said it now expects “first power” from the project at the earliest between June and December 2027, but potentially as late as June to December 2028.
The full operation of all units will occur at the earliest in December 2028 but potentially as late as December 2029.
More to come.
Would it be a bummer if their outer body falls off, a la Men In Black, and you are holding an insect?
What if its a hot nekkid Scarlett Johansen??
Has its downsides though.
(I like this movie, once you get past the “oh no an art film” its very good.)
This scene was a ball tearer.
An unrelated tragedy unfolding is made worse just by her being there
I was gratified to see John Ruddick elected in NSW, dot.
No, the CIE report, like the ones Peter Abelson made around the same time, were only looking at explicit and hidden taxes.
might be able this trouble in paradise
i post heaps of shit
when challenged i do the michael jackson moonwalk away from it
then i post more batshit crazy stuff
mong
Burned alive: How the 2014 Odessa massacre became a turning point for Ukraine
Clashes between opposing activists turned into mass murder. The perpetrators have never been punished
A long, but worthwhile read to understand why Russi has invaded Ukraine
From the Comments – Sums up the Hand of one of the Wicked Witches of the West from America
– SHOW over and over this tragic savage images over and over to NULAND and the whole US gang of other US politicians involved in this tragic events , that brought in power this cruel NAZI REGIME in Ukraine in 2014 ! The sad TRUTH !
Why did a “Nazi government” lose an election to a Jewish guy who called them corrupt?
Doja Cat made the song “Bitch, I’m a cow”.
It was a song?
“Return to the streets with campaigns of direct action?” More riots in Alice Springs?
Murdochs Spoke With Zelenskyy Weeks Before Firing Anti-War Host Tucker Carlson
BY TYLER DURDEN
Both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly before firing Fox News’ anti-war host Tucker Carlson,
who has repeatedly asked why the United States is sending vast resources to one of the most historically corrupt nations on the planet while neglecting its own citizens.
“Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this spring in which the two discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March,” according to Semafor, adding “The Ukrainian president had a similar conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on March 15, which Zelenskyy noted in a little-noticed aside during a national broadcast last month.”
As Semafor further notes; “The conversations came weeks before the Murdochs fired their biggest star and most outspoken critic of American support for Ukraine, Tucker Carlson. Senior Ukrainian officials had made their objections to Carlson’s coverage known to Fox executives, but Zelenskyy did not raise it on the calls with the Murdochs, according to one person familiar with the details of the calls.”
Weeks later, Lachlan Murdoch was credited with the decision to let Carlson go, according to the NY Times.
The decision to let Mr. Carlson go was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, and Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, according to a person briefed on the move. Mr. Carlson was informed on Monday morning by Ms. Scott, another person briefed on the move said.
Carlson, according to the report, has previously described Zelenskyy as a “dictator.”
Interestingly, on March 11 – right around the time of the Lachlan Murdoch call, Carlson suggested to Redacted host Clayton Morris that he could be fired over his anti-war stance.
“I’m saying what I really think and I think it really really matters and if I get fired for it, I don’t know what to say, I’m not going to change,” he said, adding that one of the top people he worked for at the network texted him to say “For the record, I really disagree with you on Ukraine!”
Stop thinking like a collectivist then.
Aboriginal communities are reisilient & diverse…Marcia Langton said so!
Dotsays:
May 2, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Gammage tries to imply in The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia that pre 1788 Australia had roads, cleared pathways and informal parkland style forest and grassland gardens.
There’s a long thread at Jennifer Marohasy’s blog on Gammage:
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2011/11/how-aborigines-made-australia-bill-gammage/
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Had a look at that Cohenite. 2011! Maharosey’s magical thinking can only have become worse since then.
She seems impervious to rational argument.
I think the real problem is to suggest it represented anything more than basic grassland management (a common problem with the noble savage). We used to burn the old spinifex paddocks to make room for the younger plants and make mustering easier. It was organised but I’m not sure it was imbued with spiritual or scientific thinking (at least when I was doing it).
Rosie – 7.49am
Yor take on this Aus v Tiawan, Vietnamm .
Meaasel, Mumps, chicken pox , whooping caugh are awful. I am happy they are under control and their severity is limited.
Also – from my inital question the locals in Vietanm also asked what is social security and unemplyment benefit.
Sorry, spelling. Marohasy.
Everyone has their blind spot. She seems to think that Australia was better “managed” by the Aborigines than the colonists. Everyone “manages” species into extinction. No environment remains static, even without human intervention.
We have a choice – we live in an environmental museum and starve, or we develop what we have and thrive and that comes at an environmental cost depending on the type of development and the degree of “thriving”. I really can’t see a third option. Perhaps that’s my blind spot.
If only the extinct megafauna could speak.
Prophetic 1992 Interview with Putin Mentor Anatoly Sobchak Predicts Existential Clash
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
2 MAY 2023
St. Petersburg’s first mayor and Putin mentor Anatoly Sobchak gives a sobering and darkly prophetic interview where he correctly outlines not only the injustice of Ukraine filching the land given to it by Russia after splitting from the USSR, but how Ukraine will now become a ‘time bomb’ as it arms itself for a future clash that would endanger mankind itself.
This is particularly interesting to me because I’ve mentioned several times before how people close to the geopolitical situation in the 90s and 2000s all predicted today’s events. Others who had only begun following the situation in recent years erroneously believed that the Ukraine situation had only begun to inflame after the various revolutions of the 2000s. For instance, the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, and even the Georgian Rose Revolution of 2003, which was linked in a general way.
But in actuality, the tensions and hostilities between Ukraine and Russia can be traced back to right after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Of course, most of us know that the tensions can really be traced back even much further: to the CIA Project Aerodynamic, for instance, which first began to establish radical nationalist enclave movements in western Ukraine, akin to the GLADIO network. (Here’s the paperwork on it from their own site)
Another Long and Thoughtful substack by Simplicius
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/08/cia-undermining-and-nazifying-ukraine-since-1953/
The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.
The CIA programs spanned some four decades.
Starting as a paramilitary operation that provided funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), all Nazi Banderists. The CIA also provided support to a relatively anti-Bandera faction of the UHVR, the ZP-UHVR, a foreign-based virtual branch of the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence services.
The early CIA operation to destabilize Ukraine, using exile Ukrainian agents in the West who were infiltrated into Soviet Ukraine, was codenamed Project AERODYNAMIC.
A formerly TOP SECRET CIA document dated July 13, 1953, provides a description of AERODYNAMIC:
«The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized».
The CIA admitted in a 1970 formerly SECRET document that it had been in contact with the ZPUHVR since 1950.
The OUN-B was the Bandera faction of the OUN and its neo-Nazi sympathizers are today found embedded in the Ukrainian national government in Kiev and in regional and municipal governments throughout the country.
AERODYNAMIC placed field agents inside Soviet Ukraine who, in turn, established contact with Ukrainian Resistance Movement, particularly SB (intelligence service) agents of the OUN who were already operating inside Ukraine. The CIA arranged for airdrops of communications equipment and other supplies, presumably including arms and ammunition, to the «secret» CIA army in Ukraine.
Most of the CIA’s Ukrainian agents received training in West Germany from the US Army’s Foreign Intelligence Political and Psychological (FI-PP) branch. Communications between the CIA agents in Ukraine and their Western handlers were conducted by two-way walkie-talkie (WT), shortwave via international postal channels, and clandestine airborne and overland couriers.
There was no chance of them fitting in those cardboard voting booths and holding a pencil. And look what happened!
From Rosie’s link to a piece in The Conversation:
This is a tale of culture contact, but the interpretations put upon it are not necessarily those as decided above. If we look at the settler accounts, we find that aboriginal people, often living with an uncertain food source in pre-contact times, especially when non-coastal, were very drawn to the much easier food sources provided by the cattle stations and missions. This was a very strong pull factor into unhealthy town camps, probably as much as any deterioration in their wide foraging ranges due to cattle ranging. This drift still happens today. Conflict as seen by the settlers rather than archaeologists, seems mostly to have occurred over aboriginal taking of cattle, which they saw as a boon to their own harder food source hunting. That they gathered around any station during cattle kills for station food indicates how prized the offcuts given to these people were. Young aboriginal women and men often went in a voluntary fashion to the employment offered on stations and also on missions; there was a pull factor in this, not in all cases a ‘seizing’ of young people, as the current (not earlier) aboriginal side now depict. The closing of missions and the ending of station employment (where whole families were cared for), derided by historians of the left, was a backward step in a slow acculturation process.
Now compare:
My paternal ancestors were Protestant Huguenot people from the low countries and northern France, who were driven by severe religious persecution and pogroms to Britain in the late sixteenth and throughout the seventeenth centuries. We are even now thankful to Britain for this refuge. Many had trades and some were agriculturalists, like my direct ancestors, who then suffered dreadful persecutions from British peasantry in the North around Axeholme as they accepted work for uncaring aristocrats and the King, draining fenlands in return for small-holdings of land. They were then driven from these earned lands by a peasantry displaced from these wider traditional fowling and fishing lands by the land grabbing activities of these aristocrats and the King. My immigrant ancestor’s small wooden homes were burned in 1642 by this angry peasantry, with people locked inside their houses, screaming to get out as they died, finding the keyholes to their locked houses plugged by with thick clay by the murderous burners. Those escaping the razing of their village found their wives and children were physically attacked and more of the men were killed. Thus my ancestors fled to refuges in Thornton Abbey, lower down the eastern coast of England, where they finally managed to settle. Some did well, some did not, and some ended up in Australia. This is my truth telling, my voice, but it seeks no compensation.
Many Australians, of convict origin especially, but other more recent immigrants as well as the Irish in Australia, have a tale to tell. This is history. It happened, and the same stories told from various sides may differ. The urban peasants who killed some of my ancestors also had their view. Tell it from all sides, but then let it be. That goes for aboriginal people in Australia too. They are doing fairly well in the southern half of Australia now, given government largesse; it is in the North where recent well meaning policies have failed, due to their unintended consequences. The Voice though is a southern urban construction; it will not help where help is needed.
Vote No.
If all you wanted was a feed of kangaroo, aboriginal land management was fine. If you’re running billion dollar trade deficits with the rest of the world you need something different.
Senator Mitch McConnell Reminds White House of the Republican #1 Priority
May 2, 2023 – Sundance
The professional republican party is totally and completely disconnected from the average MAGA voter within it. Cue the visual demonstration from today:
Leader McConnell
@LeaderMcConnell@SpeakerMcCarthy
reminded everyone yesterday of his ongoing support for aid to Ukraine. Equipping Ukraine to defend itself is a direct investment in American jobs and our own national security. But at every turn, the Biden Admin has dragged its heels. @POTUS must get serious.
This disconnect between the republican establishment and the base voter has always been frustrating and annoying; but now they are taking it to entirely new levels of ridiculousness.
There must be multiple syphons and financial laundry operations from this Ukraine policy. Nothing else makes sense.
Seriously. Go ahead and tell me how the professional republican party is worth saving. I’ll be over here, supporting President Trump.
Also, there’s a Twit video of Mitch McConnell below (from today) that everyone must see. You tell me what’s going on. Something weird.
After spending several weeks recovering from a brain injury, this is Mitch McConnell today:
but i am an enthusiastic amateur coroner
which is why i sit on a branch like a ghoulish vulture waiting to gleefully jump on the death of anyone under 60 as evidence of whatever it is i am pushing
mong
@ Dot:
“COVID era law and regulation was an extreme move away from traditionalism in our English common law heritage back to 1215 and we were worse for it. ”
The ENTIRE caper was all about institutionally implementing something akin to the Napoleonic Code; i.e, presumption of guilt from the start.
This, as one would expect, leads to all manner of “interesting” legalist adventures, specifically intended to hugely expand the power of non-elected, unaccountable bureaucracies.
As Lavrenti Beria, one of Stalin’s most disgusting henchmen (see also Yagoda), said: “Show me the man and I will show you the crime”.
For those who think all those “emergency laws and regulations” are going to be discarded, you may also be interested in a couple of bridges.
That’s the same as what Fox was paying him.
Streaming technology has changed everything. For a talent like Carlson in a huge media market like America, offers need to start at $US500m p.a. to avoid being laughed out the door.
“Expert say”….
Conservative crossbench parties look set to benefit from Mark Latham and One Nation becoming increasingly marginalised in the New South Wales upper house due to his comments about homosexuality, political experts say.
The Minns government, the Greens and the Animal Justice party have vowed to not work with One Nation’s state leader following a graphic tweet Latham posted and deleted on 30 March that Greenwich described as “defamatory and homophobic”.
On Monday, Greenwich announced he would launch defamation proceedings against Latham unless he retracted his comments and promised not to make similar comments in the future.
Lets have a look at the “experts” named.
Dr Stewart Jackson
Dr Stewart Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, with a specialisation in Australian politics, at the University of Sydney. His broad interests cover the breadth of Green politics in Australia and the Asia Pacific, with a special interest in party development. These interests also extend to green political theory, particularly environmental feminism, and the intersection of social movements and parliamentary politics.
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Ben Raue
Ben Raue is an electoral analyst? and blogger who writes about elections in Australia at http://www.tallyroom.com.au He works as a data analyst at GetUp!
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Latham dishes some back..
Latham later tweeted: “I’m very sorry for saying I hate the idea of [homosexual sex]. Has it become compulsory?”
Quadrant has an article on the appalling perspectives on European settlement in Australia that are being taken currently by the taypayer funded Australian Museum in College Street, in Sydney. It includes removal of all statues of Cook, Macquarie and other key leaders of our past. A narrative of virtual genocide and certainly of anti-Colonial vitriol is being constructed for our children to learn and thus despise the country they were born in. A very one-sided approach.
Australia itself is under attack.
Give your kids Meccano instead.
Lego goes gender neutral: See what’s changing (Daily Terror, 3 May, paywalled)
ESG Much? LEGO To Launch Carbon Neutral Factory In Red-Leaning Virginia (21 Apr)
And give them a train set too, with steam trains not electric ones.
The rigidity of the culture meant that things were never going to get better, irrespective of outside influences. For example, many different tribes traded with TSIs and Indonesians, who were much more advanced in terms of technology and agriculture and animal husbandry, but there is no evidence that they ever adopted anything from the traders. This is unusual, as trade is usually a significant vector for economic improvement throughout history. They just weren’t having it.
Whatever the reason, this culture wasn’t going to survive intact once other countries discovered Australia. Cultural virginity was a dead duck by the end of the C18th.
I do wish some in the Aboriginal Nomenklatura had the honesty to admit it.
Henry Reynolds again being either deliberately deceptive or completely ignorant of the issues:
As it turned out, the Indigenous voice to parliament was “the most endorsed singular option for constitutional alteration”.
Henry quietly ignores the expansion from a voice to Parliament to a voice to Parliament AND the Executive, subject to the vagaries of the High Court.
He’s the official biographer of The Greens.
LOL.
It would seem Harvard’s standards are even lower than Macquarie Bank. That leaves only the UN, joining Helen Clarke.
but i am an enthusiastic amateur coroner
which is why i sit on a branch like a ghoulish vulture waiting to gleefully jump on the death of anyone under 60 as evidence of whatever it is i am pushing
mong
Disabled and LGBTIQ+ Victorians?
Talk about losing life’s lottery.
Even Rangas would be But For the Grace of Godding.
First Mission to Mars.
Comment in reply to above article;
Peachy Keenan
@KeenanPeachy
First all-female mission to Mars followed immediately by first all-male rescue mission to Mars 😀
It seems opening doors isn’t as marketable when you find members of the Opposition behind them. Doesn’t seem to present the same problems in defence matters. Guess that is the benefits of bipartisanship.
Just incredible that in 2023 we think its just normal for people to steal from stores unmolested and that if a citizen intervenes they should be charged.
This is the sort of unthinking crap that is currently polluting our educational institutions and our museums.
Daily Insight:
The US is about to end its Covid vaccine air travel requirements (finally). International air travellers will soon no longer have to show proof of Covid vaccination when arriving in the US, the White House says. The US will lift the requirement on 11 May, coinciding with the end of the coronavirus public health emergency in the country. Vaccine rules will also be lifted for federal employees and contractors. The US has one of the few remaining pandemic travel restrictions still in place. The lifted restriction will also apply to non-US travellers entering via land ports of entry and ferries. In a statement on Monday the White House said “we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary”. This change will allow Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, 35, to play at the US Open this year.
The Public Health Acts need to be repealed. They’re odious.
TheirABC has an article up about the engineering works for the Coffs bypass. A couple of international companies are doing the engineering, which involves tunnelling under escarpments and so on.
Imagine my surprise to find that it was illustrated with a photo of a woman wearing a headscarf (from Malaysia). Then, an interview with another female engineer – honestly, if I were a female engineer working on this project I would be offended by being treated like some sort of anomalous circus freak.
No interest at all in the backgrounds of the male engineers. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that at least some of them had interesting stories to tell. In fact, it is very likely. But no, The Narrative Rools, OK?
Why didn’t the elected Jewish guy stop the nazi militias from handing a Casus belli
to Vlad the Terrible?
Malcolm 2.0 pumped hydro project hit with new delays, cost blowouts
If you want to be afraid – realize the AEMO is counting on the Snowy hydro expansion as a key plank in firming energy supply.
However, the $5.9 billion project is already running behind schedule and mounting delays have contributed to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s worries about the east coast electricity grid’s ability to cope with the impending closures of several of Australia’s large coal-fired power stations in coming years.
Up to five-coal fired power stations, including the Yallourn generator in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, NSW’s Liddell, Eraring and Vales Point power plants, and Queensland’s Callide B, are expected to shut down this decade, removing 13 per cent of the east-coast grid’s generating capacity.
The new delays add to growing concerns across the industry about the risk of electricity supply gaps widening in the coming years. According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), gas in the market begin to emerge from 2025 – first in NSW due to Origin Energy’s possible closure of Eraring, then in Victoria from 2026 because of the closure of two gas-fired power stations in South Australia.
Stew Peters Show:
Out of 458 pregnant women more than half reported a serious adverse event.
Dr. Naomi Wolf is here to talk about Pfizer’s foreknowledge of baby genocide directly connected to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Pfizer fought the release of internal documents and asked the court to keep them hidden for 75 years.
The documents show they knew their shots were deadly to infants and made breast milk poisonous.
19% of the babies exposed to their mom’s vaccinated breast milk were recorded as suffering from 48 different categories of adverse events.
The documents also show Pfizer knew vaccine shedding was a danger to unvaxxed pregnant women through sperm from men who were vaccinated.
These documents are a smoking gun and show deaths and terrible side effects from the vaxx was not an accident.
They intentionally released a “vaccine” they knew would maim and destroy the world population.
Pfizer designed the shots to kill babies.
FDA & Pfizer Are Baby KILLERS: Pfizer KNEW Shots Caused FETAL DEATHS & SPONTANEOUS ABORTIONS
Need some women in headscarves on Snowy 2.0. God willing.
No decent Australian civil engineers left?
Sorry for a poor sentence construction here. To clarify, it was the existence of the missions and station employment that was derided by historians of a later age, who instituted pressure for their closing and for the introduction of new employment laws re the station employment. Station managers found that newer payment agreements meant that providing for the families, which had been part of the old agreement, was no longer financially possible, so the families drifted off; and so did the aboriginal workers who under the new system were not able to get leave for ceremonial purposes. Closing the largely benevolent missions, remembered fondly to me by old people in Broome just a few years ago, destroyed small and stable communities. These changes to the mission and station system were not a good thing for acculturation.
Nick Cave is going to the Coronation.
Naturally, this leads to meltdowns and “Nick Cave defends decision…” headline at the ABC.
Not a fan but I’m impressed by the quality of his F.U.
Well at least they have the addicts they can tax into oblivion..
Tobacco tax increase to raise $3.3b, more health spending in budget
..
Want an idea of the scale of vaping – and why its been banned??
The extra revenue will help cover a growing hole in expected tobacco taxes. In 2019, then-treasurer Josh Frydenberg forecast the government would collect $16.5 billion of tobacco excise in 2021-22. Instead, it raised $12.6 billion.
In the current financial year, the government is facing a $4.5 billion shortfall in excise compared to early budget forecasts.
How dare the peasants switch to untaxed vaping and rob us of $4.5 billion of their munni!!!
Disappointed to learn Kohinoor diamond will be removed from Camilla’s crown.
That rock has been stolen, re-stolen, looted, gifted and re-looted for several centuries.
It belongs to the King. End of story.
Gutless way to start an era.
Would be worthwhile litigating pro-aborts that promote abortion as a eugenic measure against children in utero with some sort of disability, i.e. Downs syndrome. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that doctors pressure parents whose children are identified as potentially having some disability to abort the child. Nothing indicates contempt as plainly as thinking and acting that this or that disabled child is better off dead.
Lefties a fun, and lefty Poms who think they’re experts on Oz are even funnier.
King Charles’ environmental advocacy may resonate with Australians: Kathy Lette (3 May)
Resonates, yep. You’re right about that Kathy, but not in the way you think. Resonates a lot with the word “idiot”. He’s a perfect gift to Fitzsimian’s bunch.
I don’t know who this dude is, but it makes sense to me:
The question is whether this will just enable small banks to be swallowed up by bigger ones seeking market share, even if it costs them in the short term.
As we know in Australia, lack of competition between banks keeps our deposits relatively safe from catastrophic events, but customer service a very low priority. And that includes some scammer getting into you account.
C.L.says:
May 3, 2023 at 11:59 am
You will be unsurprised to hear the gruinaid has a piece on how the 3 replacement gems are all “problematic”.
Anyway, Im sure it will be easy to return the gem to the Mhugal empires rulers…
Another piece on the history – not too bad till the last 1/3rd which just turns into the usual bash the whities crapola.
Too right!
Yuin & Japanese museum curator, visual sociologist, historian.
I wouldn’t romanticise station arrangements either.
People living on the land they had inhabited for centuries now taken over as cattle stations may have taken a different view of their ’employment’ status.
Maybe they were more interesting in maintaining their established lifestyles and didn’t see fit to prioritise their new landlords wishes regarding work.
A outfit or two, flour, sugar, tea and a bit of meat may not have been the generous recompense some imagine, and many were driven off when full pay became the law by managers on behalf of their absentee landlords.
There is nothing wrong with admitting there was injustice done.
That these paternalistic arrangements with no opportunity for education and betterment could not have continued on indefinitely.
No-one in power thought through the consequences, they just assumed the owners would switch to full pays but the market decided instead.
Putin has been attacking Ukraine since 2008. Just stop.
Because he is to Judaism what Daniel Andrews is to Catholicism.
He was chosen by the US State Department for a reason.
To gaslight critics of Ukrainian nazism.
Putin has been attacking Ukraine since 2008. Just stop.
Mostly peaceful attacks though.
Explodey but mostly peaceful.
The latest Baris and Barnes is interesting on the Trump/ DeSantis issue. They talk about RFK Jr, why Trump should always be saying positive things about RFK, etc. Key takeways: Trump/DeSantis contest has the potential of doing to the Republicans what Bush Sr/ Buchanan contest did in 1992 and that is split R vote for at least a decade (over 10% of those polled would not bother voting if Trump wasn’t on the ticket); DeSantis’s position in FL has less to do with DeSantis than long-term populist trends in FL; and that support for Trump is strengthening in key demos as well as key states like NV.
Highly recommended.
Since 2008? Is Georgia Ukraine?
“Because he is to Judaism what Daniel Andrews is to Catholicism.
He was chosen by the US State Department for a reason.
To gaslight critics of Ukrainian nazism.”
Correct.
Rather bizarre conspiracy theories being spouted here.
So Nuland got the 2019 election to a runoff and then rigged it for Zelensky?
Latham dishes some back..
Latham later tweeted: “I’m very sorry for saying I hate the idea of [homosexual sex]. Has it become compulsory?”
I remember Rex Mossop saying something similar along the lines of – “I don’t care what they (homosexuals) do as long as they don’t make it compulsory for the rest of us”. LOL.
What an insane mindset.
A question for anyone here with knowledge about cars. I have a flat battery. I unwrapped my new, you beaut battery charger to rectify the problem. I have used battery chargers before, know to place red on red etc. Read the instructions, they state that you have to place red on positive, fine, BUT, I have to clamp the black on an unpainted bit of metal on the body of the car. Having a Subaru, everything that is metal is painted and everything that looks unpainted is plastic.
Have been trying to get info online but no luck. When did this happen? I have always placed positive on positive and neg on neg. I am tempted to go the usual way but don’t want to damage the car of course.
Any and all information will be greatly appreciated.
Putin has been attacking Ukraine since 2008.
Since 2008? Is Georgia Ukraine?
And what has that Zelensky Clown been doing in the Donbas since way before Putin said -“Enough is enough” in 2021 AD. 2008 AD? Dotty Dot of Dottiness, get back in yer’ box.
Whoops. I mean 2022 AD.
Good Lord, News Corp’s leaking against Tucker Carlson couldn’t get any lower (but probably will). NYT has the latest leak — a message sent to his producer during the BLM/antifa riots in DC that includes the sentence “That’s not how white men fight”. Apparently that’s a manifestion of Carlson’s irredeemable racism. Yet the entire message (below) is rather noble in its sentiments:
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230503&instance_id=91635&nl=from-the-times®i_id=93733573&segment_id=131962&te=1&user_id=27e881ba23dcbbeb529db9a14e26b14b
Clogs to clogs in three generations. Watch as Lachlan makes it happen.
It isn’t. They are people on the margins that trust neither conventional R or D candidates.
Concern trolling about splitting the vote during primarys, lol.
Truly Macchiavellian, given that Zelensky was elected as a peace candidate and who was later, at the Normandy Summit in Octoboer, 2019, deemed too conciliatory to Russia in talks.
Should be OK if disconnected for the car. Take it out too.
After the pogrom against their village in 1642, my ancestors went from Sandtoft in the Isle of Axeholme to Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire, once on Thorney Island, where due to their skills Oliver Cromwell gave them a form of citizen status:
I have ancestors from my patriline buried in Thorney Abbey (above I said Thornton), whose descendants later moved to lands and a manor house with its own little church further down towards the Thames Estuary, where familial ties are still maintained (my great uncle is buried there amongst our ancestors, and my father’s brother was married there in the 1980’s). Burial sites cared for, and I am contributing financially to that as well as hoping to save the Church from closure by the Diocese, with some success so far. Huguenot names are often quite distinct which makes familial genealogical tracing at least back to the 1630’s and 1640’s in Britain relatively easy via Parish baptismal and death records.
I am sympathetic to aboriginal desires to maintain links to their own heritage, and to be heard in their own narrative story, but just as I have to accept that lands have been lost and people have moved, or fled, in my heritage as the course of history has washed over the past, so do they. I’m also aware that a singular patrilineage is only one part of my heritage. The Welsh, the Irish, the ‘Saxon’, the Norse, the Ancient Briton, is in me genetically too. I like it that Jacinta Price sees this very clearly too, that she has European genes as well as aboriginal genes, as do most aboriginal identifying people today.
December, 2019
i am just putting it out for consideration
i am not an expert on ……
In Western Australia, at least, the station managers provided rations for the whole extended families. The station my mob were managing, employed twelve Aboriginal stockmen and provided such basics for eighty four of the extended families.
It certainly is. You can almost hear Tucker saying it, so strong is his personal voice in his opinions.
Lizzie, you may not be aware that c.57% of the Australian mainland is under native title (both exclusive and non-exclusive title) or held by indigenous people freehold. Coastal and land waters are next.
Bespoke,
can’t do it. I am not as strong as I used to be, plus it’s blowing a gale down here. Really don’t fancy trying to lift it out and carrying it into the shed. Thanks for the advice though.
“… I have to clamp the black on an unpainted bit of metal on the body of the car.”
The idea here is that if there is a spark when you connect the last “end”, it will be well away from the battery and hence any out-gassed hydrogen, thus reducing the risk of fire and/or explosion.
If you are connecting a charger, you can leave the thing turned off, connect it direct to the battery (no chance of any sparks), then turn the charger on – no sparks, no fires, no explosions, everyone safe and happy. Oh, and turn the charger off before disconnecting it, of course.
Yes sure. Nothing happened in 2008 to 2014 with Russian special forces. Just out of nowhere in March 2014, the Ukrainians started shelling separatists who instantly formed their own governments.
You would have had to eaten a rather large chunk of lead to believe this fairy tale.
It was known for much of the 2010s that eastern Ukraine was effectively lawless before any conflict formally started, as an effort to destabilise the legitimate government. Special forces worked with organised crime to achieve this.
Look at the vote in 1992 for GWB Sr. It was a disaster post-primary fight with Buchanan.
This isn’t going away. Haha.
“And people have by now figured out that Anheuser-Busch also owns the third-best-selling beer in the country, Michelob Ultra:
…
What’s worse for the brewer is that the negative trend appears to be spilling into other AB InBev brands: Michelob Ultra dropped 8% for the week ending April 22, while Busch Light fell by 8% and Budweiser dropped by 13%, according to Beer Marketer’s Insights.
As Anhueser-Busch faces the possibility of Bud Light (the country’s number one beer brand) and Michelob Ultra (number three) falling out of the top five, gay and trans blackmail organizations demand they double-down and put more of their money and futures at risk to Affirm and Validate the Aggressively Mentally Ill.
A-B is, as one industry magazine puts it, in “serious trouble.”“
So you have nothing at all to suggest that Russia was in Ukraine from 2008.
Sure it was.
Malcom Roberts:
We are winning. The truth always wins in the long run.
My address to a community event last week at Mudjimba on the Sunshine Coast.
My 1 hour speech to a town hall on COVID mismanagement
I have linked to that before.
My my how AEMO has grown.
June 20 – total current assets 427,134,000
June 22 – 1,830,073,000
Cash and cash equivalents
June 20 – 62,738,000
June 22 – 1,280,112,000
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks.
Excellent. Now stop buying Rolling Rock, etc.
I think it is more a matter of seeing how both sides of this culture contact may have viewed it, and also to recognise that what is seen as injustice now was not necessarily unfair in the minds of settlers, or even the aboriginal people, at the time. Everyone had to live under privations and harsh rules unless they were in a privileged elite.
This is something keenly felt by white working class populations looking back on their pioneering ancestry and occupations (wandering shearing and droving) in many Australian country towns even today (certainly this was expressed to me when I was doing sociological investigations in the 1970’s in country regions, which I later wrote up in a book). Aboriginal people were undoubtedly abused at times, and racism was endemic, but there were also many attempts to improve their situation. The later treatment of the missions and missionaries, given the excellent work they had done, was abysmal, for they were blamed for schooling and child-rearing practices that were common to most people in their days.
“Kneelsays:
May 3, 2023 at 1:04 pm
“… I have to clamp the black on an unpainted bit of metal on the body of the car.”
The idea here is that if there is a spark when you connect the last “end”, it will be well away from the battery and hence any out-gassed hydrogen, thus reducing the risk of fire and/or explosion.
If you are connecting a charger, you can leave the thing turned off, connect it direct to the battery (no chance of any sparks), then turn the charger on – no sparks, no fires, no explosions, everyone safe and happy. Oh, and turn the charger off before disconnecting it, of course.”
Kneel, that’s what I have always done before. For over thirty years. I have been wondering if the new instructions were along the same lines as safety warnings on things such as fly spray etc. You know, do not eat or spray on face. 🙁 Because we are all so dumb.
I laughed long and loud at that statement. What conservative parties? If they were they would be the government.
Some more about this. Any conservative parties, cross bench or otherwise, that work with Labor and the greens will not get voted in again.
Of course I know this, Roger. I keep a keen eye on Quadrant and am familiar with Windschuttle’s lead on these matters and on the falsification of aboriginal history and the damaging desire for ‘sovereignty’. I have always thought the (Melanesian) Mabo decision should never have been extended to the (aboriginal) Australian mainland.
I think that we have definitely done more than enough to satisfy any aboriginal heritage claims.
The voice will be a total disaster for Australia if it is ever passed by Referendum. It must not pass.
Voice, treaty, ‘truth-telling’ Australian Museum style, reparations, sovereignty and further territorial claims and separations over sea and land and airspace. No thank you.
It would have been better by the 1960’s to have funded the missions and stations to assist aboriginal people to integrate in situ there, rather than develop a new outstation movement which saw families leave stations for township fringes or outstations, both becoming sinks of despair where the families’ own young men could no longer provide for them as they were seen to do on the stations. Missions too were taken over by inept self-governing, and welfare dependency become the accepted mode of survival in all aboriginal dwelling places.
In the present day, I’ve said here and still say that provision of a form of supervised transitional housing near established towns is needed now to accommodate the growing drift to the urbanised life. That drift is a good thing, it is the future, if it is alcohol-free and accompanied by education and employment, which is the way to integrated assimilation. Trying to sustain unsustainable outstation communities riven by tribal vendettas is no way forward. It never was.
“Kneel, that’s what I have always done before. For over thirty years. I have been wondering if the new instructions were along the same lines as safety warnings on things such as fly spray etc. You know, do not eat or spray on face. “
I suspect so – much like the “Caution: opening door” (because, you know, a door that doesn’t open is really a wall, innit?)
Or “how to wash your hands with soap and water” signs that now appear in many places.
The one that gets me is “Deliberately concentrating and inhaling vapours can be harmful or fatal” – in other words, “Dis one gets you off, bro!”
You can’t make things idiot proof – people just become more idiotic.
Therefore, don’t even try – think of it as evolution in action. Or maybe a form of aversion therapy.
Both work – and for good reason.
areff’s quote makes me admire Tucker more than I did before.
Great bloke.
I’m pretty sure the aboriginal families who were forced off the stations, with whatever clothes they had, or not, on their back, to walk many miles to stand around in the nearest town might have thought being kicked off their ancestral lands for wanting more than a bit of pocket money, a set of clothes every year or so (for the workers only) and meagre rations very unjust.
Nor do I assume all station owners were de facto benevolent institutions for whom the welfare of their local aboriginal communities was paramount.
We are talking about 1968 here, not something that happened in the 19th century.
here
I have been thinking of ‘bumper sticker’ sorts of appeals re this Referendum.
IT IS BEST TO VOTE NO
LAST TIME YES, THIS TIME NO
VOTE NO FOR REAL CHANGE
VOTE NO FOR HELP WHERE ITS NEEDED
VOTE NO FOR REAL HELP
VOTE NO FOR NO MORE RACISM
VOTE NO FOR DEMOCRACY
and so on, for the message has to get out against very great funding odds.
pogria at 1309
this is where they are caught in a cleft stick of their own making
on the one hand is the growing consumer boycott
on the other hand is a noisy band of cocktail drinking activists
should be a no-brainer hey
but heres the rub
for individual execs the simple commercial decision to look after the customers could be career-ending
Trying to sustain unsustainable outstation communities riven by tribal vendettas is no way forward. It never was.
Absolutely Lizzie. The do-gooders in the 1980s had little real understanding of Aboriginal life and cultural dictates.
Many young blokes grew up on cattle stations, learned skills during station life and were able to eventually make a life in the towns where they eventually established families. There were many inequities on many stations, but the descent into the unbridled violence that you see today in remote communities was not tolerated.
+ they got time off for walkabout, for corroboree & for secret tribal business.
& so long as the required number of men turned up for work, it didn’t matter who came on any particular day.
The NT issued a “Licence to employ Aboriginal Labour” – without which one could not supervise Aboriginals, i.e. every station manager, every headstockman, etc had to obtain & retain that licence.
Lose that licence for an upheld allegation of “mistreatment of a native” & you became instantly unemployable in the NT.
We are talking supply and demand here. If the station owners weren’t prepared to pay the government mandated rates, and the aborigines were willing (even unenthusiastically) to work for the old rates, then it’s pretty clear that it was government mandates that caused the trouble. The fact that the government was well intentioned doesn’t justify its meddling. Economic incompetence carries a cost, one borne by the aborigines in this case.
that what is seen as injustice now was not necessarily unfair in the minds of settlers, or even the aboriginal people, at the time
Be settler.
Have basic tools, bit of stock and some rations to last a year.
No welfare, no savings.. zip.
Aboriginal tribe comes along and spears your livestock and conducts a “cultural burn”
Your solution is obvious
The complete ignorance of the life of “white” people around the same time is jarring.
https://pyrmonthistory.net.au/slums#:~:text=Sydney's%20slum%20districts%2C%20commencing%20in,%2C%20Alexandria%2C%20Waterloo%20and%20Botany.
But hey, lets focus on the wealthy large landowners and pretend that was the norm.
Lizzie, you may not be aware that c.57% of the Australian mainland is under native title (both exclusive and non-exclusive title) or held by indigenous people freehold. Coastal and land waters are next.
Roger, I think it may have been in one of Windshuttle’s Quadrant articles that it was surmised that sovereignty of native title may well be attempted over the whole of Arnhem Land. I don’t think that this is outside the realms of possibility.
If that happened, I could imagine that China may well present the titleholders with a proposition that could not refuse in return for a port or landholding of strategic value.
Zulu and Salvatore know their history when it comes to the actual circumstances of station life and the circumstances of Aboriginal stockmen and their extended families.
It is a pity that so few do.
Rosie:
T shirts ordered today.
Gez at 8.16:
Great post about a clearly great (yet unrecognised) bloke.
It reminded me of the last paragraph of the obituary I wrote for my old man in 2021, for his funeral in his (and my) small country town, and which I was prevented from getting to:
‘Salt of the Earth’ doesn’t even begin to describe these people.
NB: Andrews, I have not forgotten nor forgiven.
Have a look at my link.
There were at least two enquiries in the 1960s, and others in the early 20th century as well.
Nevertheless whatever happened right or wrong, there should have been direct compensation for pensions misappropriated or wages not paid.
The Voice shouldn’t be an additional redress for past wrongs.
(It’s interesting that the government was also concerned that the land in the Kimberleys was being leased for peppercorns and lease holders were not taking much care of the properties.)
I’m with Tony Abbott on the subject of the Voice.
Gawd almighty have a look at this arsehole. Hun:
Daniel Andrews has taken a major swipe at the Reserve Bank after it delivered its 11th interest rate rise in 12 months.
The Premier said the RBA’s strategy to combat rising inflation was failing and instead was leading to greater pressures on Victorian families.
“I don’t know that pulling this lever is necessarily delivering the outcome that the bank wants, and that’s to get inflation under control,” he said.
“I’m not sure that these interest rate rises are smashing inflation. I am absolutely certain that these interest rate rises are smashing families.
“I’m certain they’re creating lots of other problems. Many, many families are under enormous pressure at the moment.
“They borrowed in good faith with the expectation, and from no less of an authority than the Reserve Bank, that interest rates wouldn’t be going up. They’ve now gone up 11 times in 12 months.
“This is causing an enormous amount of pain. The problem with this policy level, the problem with these tools is you don’t know that you’ve gone too far until you’ve gone too far.”
Treasurer Jim Chalmers conceded the RBA’s shock move was a “brutal reminder” of the inflation challenge.
“I think that the rate rise is really a pretty stark, pretty brutal reminder of the difficult economic conditions,” he said.
“And I think people are broadly aware that we‘ve got an inflation challenge in our economy, people feel it every day.”
Mr Andrews said during a 2020 national cabinet meeting, state governments were told they would need to borrow money to avoid a 25 per cent unemployment rate.
He indicated that his government would not have borrowed as much money as it did at the time.
“The government of Victoria made decisions, but the advice that informed those decisions were very simple – you’ve got to borrow to get through,” he said.
“So of course we went and borrowed.”
Mr Andrews made the comments while attempting to deflect from Victoria’s upcoming horror budget which will be delivered on May 23.
“This is a very, very challenging budget,” he said, making reference to the need to pay back pandemic borrowings worth tens of billions of dollars.
It comes as leading finance expert Mark Bouris smashed the hike, arguing it was “completely unnecessary”.
“Wow, another 25 basis points – are they serious? … Do they want to break the backbone of Australian mortgage holders?” he said on social media.
“They’re saying inflation is still too high at 7 per cent … they’re saying that unemployment is still too low at 3.5 per cent … for me they should have just paused and waited to see what happens with the interest rate increases they’ve already jammed us with.
“This is going to cause something to break, from my point of view, and I think they’ve just gone way too far.”
Greens Senator Nick McKim said the government needed to step in to overrule the “terrible decision”.
“The RBA’s decision to raise interest rates again beggars belief and will smash renters and mortgage holders even harder than they were being smashed already,” he said.
“If Dr Chalmers refuses to act it will be a tacit endorsement of the RBA’s decision and will mean that he supports the rate rises.”
FBAA managing director Peter White said Australians were “sleepwalking into disaster”.
“Governments and lenders knew this was coming because the global indicators were there, but somewhere along the line there was a failure to prepare Australians who had become complacent after more than a decade without seeing any rate rises,” he said.
“We are sadly now seeing the results … it will take a combined approach by the government, lenders and the community at large to help people through this.”
Well, 3 arseholes. Andrews, Chalmers and McKim.
When you shut down the entire state over little more than a cough, what would you expect would happen? FMD
“but heres the rub
for individual execs the simple commercial decision to look after the customers could be career-ending”
Sancho, if they kill the company, there is definitely no career.
Here’s a bit more of what’s happening to AB; it’s known as the Halo Effect.
“During the controversy, sales have shot up for Bud Light’s biggest competitors, Miller Lite and Coors Light, Williams said. What is more, he is beginning to see what is known as a negative halo effect — other Anheuser-Busch brands are suffering because of the dispute.
“I also think that what’s happening now is that anybody that is a Bud Light drinker and switches to Michelob Ultra because they don’t want to be seen holding a Bud Light, someone down the bar is going to say, ‘Hey, buddy, that’s an Anheuser-Busch product you’re holding,’” Williams said.
The slowdown in sales of Michelob Ultra is of particular concern to Anheuser-Busch because it had been one of the fastest-growing brands on the market, said David Steinman, vice president and executive editor at Beer Marketer’s Insights.
…
According to Williams, the plunge in sales is hitting beer distributors especially hard, costing them millions of dollars every day. To stop the slide, Anheuser-Busch needs to cooperate with them and come up with a way to entice their former consumers back into the fold, he said.“
That was part A. Part B:
Daniel Andrews has declared “ordinary hardworking punters” don’t care about the speed that the government acts on implementing findings from a damning corruption investigation.
The Premier this week revealed his cabinet was yet to take any action on implementing any of the recommendations from IBAC’s Operation Daintree investigation, confirming the matter wasn’t raised during Monday’s cabinet meeting.
The investigation probed how improper influence compromised a $1.2 million contract awarded to the Health Education Federation, a division of the Health Workers Union, by Andrews government advisers.
Asked on Wednesday why the government hadn’t prioritised acting on the 17 recommendations, Mr Andrews said: “If you think that ordinary hardworking punters out there think that’s the number one priority, I don’t think it is.”
“There are many other things we need to get on with,” he added.
“I’m not here today to confirm that all 17 of them will be implemented.
“Cabinet will look at those matters … We’ll find a slot for that piece of work and we will do it and we will report progress when we are ready to do that.”
Asked if that meant integrity was not a priority for his government, Mr Andrews fired back: “I didn’t say that. You’d be wrong to interpret what I just said that way.”
The state opposition on Tuesday introduced a Bill to the parliament’s upper house which would request that the government immediately acts on the recommendations from the Operation Daintree report.
Opposition leader John Pesutto said there was “no justification” for the government to delay the recommendations.
Mr Andrews said he would not be taking integrity advice from the Liberal Party.
“Not now, not ever,” he said.
A fair dollop of khuntery involved here. And yet he is Premier. Victoriastan indeed.
Tom,
Tuckers $20m from Fox is probably his take home. Fox would also be paying for his team and production costs which would add a few millions.
The Daily Wire contract offer to Crowder was $12. 5m year but Crowder had to pay his team and production costs.
I don’t think Tucker can get $500m per year but could get significantly more than $20m. I think he could get enough that he could do it without worrying about whatever Fox owes on paying out his contract which I understand is about $30m.
How much would he get for a couple of books, particularly a tell all type.
PBD used the term “held hostage” by Fox.
PBD has a 1 hour segment on his offer to Tucker and it includes some of the more contentious clips such as Epstein was murdered, JFK assassination and Building 7 collapse.
The more Fox leak stuff about Tucker the more I support him and think less of the FOX/ News minions who are joining the pile on.
My brother in law’s family who had property interests in the north say the same thing about stockmen and their families being better off under the old ways.
Clearly the outcome of the changes have let to even poorer outcomes for many aboriginals, but it didn’t have to be that way, did it? The change could have been managed far better.
You can also read the 1905 Western Australia Royal Commission ‘The Condition of the Natives’ to get some insight into what was happening.
Pogs-
is it a battery charger or jump starter?
If jump-starting, the object is to arc the charge through the starter motor, hence most new vehicles will have a lug on the far side of the engine block to make the route.
Lizzie
On ne passe pas, They shall not pass.
Hi Wally,
battery charger. I also tried to charge my trusty old valiant but no-go. I even connected it in the usual way. I thought if something goes wrong, it won’t harm the old girl too much, unlike the Subaru with all the electrical gadgetry. It looks as though the brand-new-in a-box charger I bought a couple of weeks ago isn’t working.
I called a local and he dropped a couple of chargers for me to use. Fingers crossed. As soon as one of my cars is running, I will take the useless charger back to Bunnings.
You betcha. Now qwerties are arranging a boycott of Bud Lite for not being sufficiently woke:
Simultaneously boycotted for being woke and boycotted for not being woke enough. All of this could’ve been avoided if they hadn’t had a marketing lady with tofu for brains.
Best worked example ever for beer companies to stay right away from politics and just make beer.
You’d think if the Lizard People really wanted us to get excited about dumping cars for electric, they’d do something about the plunge in quality which has undermined the battery industry. Anything over 90 amp hours is getting a year and a half’s service at the most for me, at the moment, and that’s with every ute and tractor religiously under cover every night too.
And the price hike- had to buy for wifey’s Hyundai the other day- $250.
The Voice shouldn’t be an additional redress for past wrongs.
But thats 100%, rolled gold exactly what it is designed to facilitate.
Its seen as a precondition for a bunch of treaties.
Its seen as a precondition to a pile of GDP based % of munni.
Its seen as a step towards independent governance.
Its seen as a step towards claiming all land, mineral, sea or even airwaves (spectrum) above and beyond what private landholders can.
The left have gone from “Communism in one country’ to “Aristocracy by race” in the blink of an eye.
Sneakers trying hard to out-mong Andrews for waste.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/covid-rat-purchases-by-wa-government-slammed-by-auditor-general/102296896
She said what started as a $3 million spend on tests for health workers and returning travellers quickly spiralled beyond $440 million, “around twice the cost of the Bunbury Hospital redevelopment”.
“Public entities spent the equivalent of 10 per cent of the state’s 2022 operating surplus on diagnostic plastics without demonstrable evidence of clear, considered and coordinated planning or ongoing advice as to the necessity of the expenditure,” Ms Spencer said.
That’ll throw a spanner in ya shandy.
My local library giving away free RATs. Except you can’t even give them away.
Oh joy, oh bliss!
I’ve seen no trans hate, but a certain amount of objection to letting trannies propagandise children, and infringe on women’s rights.
The trannies prolly don’t drink beer anyway.
Insurrectionists occupy Texas State Capitol to disrupt vote on ‘gender-affirming care’ ban
Rosie, I well remember the debates around aboriginal full wage payments, as I was at university and deeply studying the aboriginal situation in Australia at that time. Vincent Lingari’s Gurinji’s strike for wage equality was strongly supported by me and others, although I think we had little awareness of how complex the familial situation was. I gradually became aware of it as I researched further and realised that our contemporary ideals were not necessarily helpful. Yes, we fought for and approved changes, and the 1967 Referendum was all about ensuring that the old pastoral system and other racial ‘protections’ were changed. Sadly, they were all changed in the wrong ways, with not enough oversight of pension payments, which allowed station managers to ‘rort’ them, although in their view they were most unfairly blamed for a condition costly to the stations that aboriginal people had self-selected to live in on the stations. tribal aboriginal people continued to self-select this mode when given European housing in outstations; they destroyed it. Cultural change must be led; this wasn’t.
My heart sank when I clicked your link and it came up with The National Museum of Australia for I knew what to expect, a social justice view on a very complex issue. Yep. That was it.
And I think he’s been trying to get away with it as I’ve noticed over the last month or two, every morning and every evening there are peeps at every train station in metro Perth handing them out for free (hardly anyone takes them lol!!!)
The Voice will fix it!
No, apparently large amounts more dosh needed:
Marcia Langton warns of ‘intifada’ in western desert
Indigenous leader Marcia Langton, has warned that there could be an “intifada” in the western desert area of Australia if conditions for Aboriginal people in the region did not improve.
Speaking at a conference in Sydney by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), she said problems in Aboriginal areas such as the western deserts and in Alice Springs were as a result of poverty.
Professor Langton, who is one of the architects of the proposed Voice referendum, said the problems in Aboriginal communities in Alice Springs because children were at risk “because of poverty and exclusion from the economy.”
Comments are not supportive
I can feel another Australia Council grant application coming on. A Big Sneakers composed entirely of RATs. That’s my afternoon sorted.
Maybe when they walk into town to shake things up, they’ll realise modernity is easier.
I don’t know. Why would urban dwelling be tough with subsidised rent and ample welfare?
Mal Turdbull, Banker (or with a W), financier, economist, business man and according to him , a smart guy. Said project Snowy 2.0 would cost less than 2 billion and be ready in 2023. Reality is 8 billion and still not finalized, and possibly ready in 2029, now I see why he was no good as PM.
Another question for me is how much free energy do you get for 8 billion?
Incidentally my Irish Great Great Uncle worked in Queensland iirc in the 1880/1890s before moving on to work in South Africa, returning to live with his niece, my grandmother in his old age.
He said ‘the blacks (in QLD) were treated very badly’ to quote my mother if stories my dad/granddad etc are going to be taken as objective truths.
Pogria:
The consumers in the US are fed up with being powerless against the corporations and others who have been telling them ‘take it or leave it’ for years now.
I think the whole Anhueser-Busch is now getting the head kicking that people want to give the LGBTQ+ movement, which has been giving them without allowing them any capacity for retaliation.
The bleed over to the Michelob brand was something I didn’t think would happen.
“The Consumer is King” motto didn’t arise by chance, and now the consumer mob is stirring. The disgruntled peasantry should never be disregarded.
Good luck to them.
Langton is a vile old racist shit.
Consumed by bitterness and envy despite being in the top %% of privileged people globally (by income)
Gorging itself on the hated white mans money, while flying business class in the white mans aeroplane, as she scoots to the white man university to lecture and pontificate on how much she hates white people.
A vile old mediocrity.
Marcia is one of the richest Anthropologist & listed on most popular Anthropologist. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marcia Langton’s net worth $5 Million.
Hahahah, unlike those people who call themselves “palestinian,” the Indigens can have all the western desert they like. They can have a big Western Desert Cake and march it up Parliament House drive and it won’t make a lick of difference. Ok.
i dispute that
running the qwerty line is stunning and brave even if it blows up a company
the blame lays with the redneck boycott
they stroll from the wreckage with an enhanced woke reputation and off to a bigger and better gig
otoh if they publicly drop the qwerty cause their career is in the toilet
shoulden be so but it is
Budweiser
Bud Light
Michelob
Stella Artois
Busch
Kona Brewing
Stella Jalisco
Landshark
Presidente
Hoegaarden
Shock Top
Babe
Cutwater
Hiball
Ritas
Nutrl
(she ain’t no perfesser) Langton, who is one of the architects of the proposed Voice referendum, said the problems in Aboriginal communities in Alice Springs because children were at risk “because of poverty and exclusion from the economy.”
How on God’s green earth would she know from inside her cosseted university bubble? How many more billions Langton you dried up harridan must be spent?
And when faced with a binary choice would prefer to see the country sink?
“running the qwerty line is stunning and brave even if it blows up a company
the blame lays with the redneck boycott
they stroll from the wreckage with an enhanced woke reputation and off to a bigger and better gig
otoh if they publicly drop the qwerty cause their career is in the toilet
shoulden be so but it is”
Sancho is right, accountability doesn’t matter to the woke left, there are almost zero consequences for their stuff ups and disasters.
Choosing Michelle Obama or Joe Biden over Meatball de Santis because you can’t get Trump is nuts.
Well, the US Navy hasn’t learned anything from the Bud “experience:”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/02/report-unable-to-meet-recruiting-targets-the-u-s-navy-is-turning-to-drag-queens-for-help/
Bupa is a local ad here in Oz that has lots of disabled people bouncing through the screen with various injuries. It only occurred to me last night, when paying more attention, the final person bouncing through is a drag queen. Why do you need one of those in a medical insurance ad?
Oh, right.
” …it won’t make a lick of difference. Ok.”
Sounds familiar…
Oh, I know…
“You know what I’m gonna do? I gonna buy me a 1962 Cadillac convertable – hot pink! With whale skin hubcaps and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights! Yeah! ” – Dennis Leary, “I’m an Asshole”.
Not that it matters much to me, but you really should cite things when you use them.
🙂
Dot:
(On the WokeBrewers Crash)
Excellent. Now stop buying Rolling Rock, etc.
Give them a chance to sack the entire marketing board and grovel at the consumers feet.
If they don’t, then we extend our boycott.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Snowy 2.0 is displaying a characteristic lack of Potential Greatness. It’s no Ozemail.
Kneel, Quod scripsi, scripsi
Kneel/Pogria:
The last Clinic I ran had a sign on the wall with cartoons showing people how to – I kid you not – shit.
One of the first things that I did was tear it down.
This is the kind of paternalistic rubbish that QHealth runs with because it thinks everyone is stupid.
Sadly, they were all changed in the wrong ways, with not enough oversight of pension payments, which allowed station managers to ‘rort’ them, although in their view they were most unfairly blamed for a condition costly to the stations that aboriginal people had self-selected to live in on the stations. tribal aboriginal people continued to self-select this mode when given European housing in outstations; they destroyed it.
Absolutely Lizzie. As someone else noted in an earlier post – most city folk don’t realise that the stations supported not just the Aboriginal stockmen, but the extended families as well. This continued well into the 1980s before the “return to country” (aka inappropriate buildings in remote communities) movement pushed by Nuggett Coombes & co.
So my Woodies are OK right?
Phrasing!
Lizzie:
I have been thinking of ‘bumper sticker’ sorts of appeals re this Referendum.
Get behind this woman – Joanne Hackett (?sp)
They are obviously making the judgement that the country is already sinking either way.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
They are not choosing either. They are saying the only candidate that will motivate me to vote is Trump.
Set that aside, if you are part of the RNC, if you ignore that voter you are nuts because it’s a reality that has to be accounted for when turnout is key.
Got wood?
That’s true and I have nothing against punishing parties, but Biden is senile and has the launch codes, on top of being very damaging.
A high risk, high reward maneuver.
Maybe.
Keeping Frontal Aviation at arms length and getting the heavy brigade
over the marshes and on to firm ground would be the trick.
Then it really could be tank terror time.
Not coincidentally, the Popovs have been squirting off a lot of decoy ALCMs recently.
“…Biden is senile and has the launch codes…”
Would he remember which line he has to read from the card?
Would you vote for Meatball, Dover?
I would, but I’d prefer Trump or Paul.
Black Ballsays:
May 3, 2023 at 3:39 pm
(she ain’t no perfesser) Langton, who is one of the architects of the proposed Voice referendum, said the problems in Aboriginal communities in Alice Springs because children were at risk “because of poverty and exclusion from the economy.”
How on God’s green earth would she know from inside her cosseted university bubble? How many more billions Langton you dried up harridan must be spent?
Enough to sate all of the urban indigenous “activists” for several lifetimes, then a few hundred thousand (in total, not each) for those on the fringes, as a token gesture from their urban “leaders”?
Oh dear, the great man (in his own mind) weighs in. Telegraph:
Kevin Rudd has warned the US and its allies have just five years to develop a military and economic deterrent that is powerful enough to convince China not to go to war over Taiwan.
In his first expansive comments on China since becoming Australia’s US ambassador, Dr Rudd said he believed President Xi Jinping was “not interested in a war right now” and that China was “actually not ready” to reclaim Taiwan by force.
The former prime minister instead pointed to 2027 as a crucial turning point, a timeline laid out by US intelligence chiefs and the Taiwanese government based on Mr Xi ordering China’s military to be ready to act by then.
Dr Rudd shared his analysis at a high-powered conference in Los Angeles, after Foreign Affairs Penny Wong last month decried speculation about Taiwan’s fate as “the most dangerous of parlour games”.
“There is much frenzied discussion in political and media circles over timelines and scenarios when it comes to Taiwan. Anyone in positions like mine who feels an urge to add to that discussion should resist the temptation,” she told the National Press Club.
Unlike the Australian government, US leaders have been far more willing to discuss when China could invade Taiwan, with former Obama administration official Michèle Flournoy saying on Wednesday that China had been “telegraphing their intentions” about 2027.
Dr Rudd, appearing alongside Ms Flournoy at a Milken Institute event, said he agreed with her assessment.
“We have this five years where there still is a risk of crisis, conflict and war by accident, so let’s work to build up as many guardrails as possible to reduce that possibility, while at the same time recognising that the challenge of deterrence lies again – as Michelle pointed out before – in the post-27 period,” he said.
“There are five good years to be used and deployed now to get that integrated deterrence equation right. But unless we are equally clear in our analysis about what actually finally causes Xi Jinping and the Central Military Commission and the People’s Bank of China to say, the risk of doing this is too great, then we will have failed the exercise.”
Dr Rudd shared similar views before he was tapped as the ambassador in December, including in a November speech in which he said the next five years would “determine the success or otherwise of US efforts to deter China from taking medium-to-long-term military action against Taiwan”.
As one of the world’s top China scholars, Dr Rudd has said the key reason Senator Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sent him to Washington DC was to deal with the challenge of managing China’s increasingly aggressive rise.
Vicki:
That’s an aspect I’ve spoken of before, to no avail.
China only recognises treaties and political facts that benefit it, hence you see her claiming territory on spurious legal grounds, to which she replies “What are you going to do about it?” Her claims to islands long considered other nations properties are examples of this.
So it’s Dr Rudd and Mr Xi, not President Xi.
Wierd! .. 4 x times I’ve tried to get a perfectly normal comment thru but each time it’s just goooone to wherever lost comments gooooooooo ..!
Black Ball:
Typical Socialist excuses – “Someone else’s fault”. “Look what you made me do”.
They never change.
would anyone notice if it took place or not?
Either:
a) Krudd is saying this because he’s been told to, or
b) he’s off the reservation already.
Probably the latter.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. lol!
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Because negotiations worked so well with Hitler and Mussolini!
Pogria:
Easy. Sack the entire marketing team and the board that passed the decision.
But they won’t do that, so every day the company gets sicker.
It won’t be long before the AB Board decides to amputate to save itself.
just looked at the odds on sportsbet
a) $250.00
b) $1.01
mong
Apparently there’s some fighter jet flying at 200 feet above ground making sonic booms around southern Perth burbs… I got nothing on flight radar… but multiple reports…
This is an interesting little take on the French being revolting (more than normal) I hadnt considered.
The public sees these reforms as a form of class warfare. This is because raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 only really affects those who started working earlier in life – that is, the working class. Under the old pensions system, most graduates – in order to clock up enough years contributing into the system after university – already had to wait until 65 to retire on a full pension. The burden of Macron’s reforms falls mainly on the least well-off.
In a purely class war way this makes perfect sense.
I started working at 15, many graduates wont start till they are nudging 25.
Yet I will be “allowed” to retire sometime after the sun turns into a small chunk of charcoal the size of a ford fiesta.
Ozemail was the most Sydney deal apart from getting a call from Richo before Offset Alpine went up.
link to last one
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/03/macron-is-waging-an-all-out-class-war/
As one of the world’s top China scholars, Dr Rudd has said the key reason Senator Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sent him to Washington DC was to deal with the challenge of managing China’s increasingly aggressive rise.
Sounds like Krudd wrote the press release.
Who cares?
If kevni thinks so, then it’s bad news for Taiwan.
The RoC will probably sink next Tuesday.
Marcia Langton warns of
‘intifada’ in western desert
I have asked the Oz how this is not extremist violent hate speech?
….and…rejected.
Seen here hard at work:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DYvwhUIlGA
Ah well, the low flyover was for the funeral of the last WA flight squadron officer in WWII.
Went for a walk at lunchtime, it’s a beautiful day here in Sydney, albeit windy. Walking back to my office, I spied a film crew interviewing a peewee of a man. I looked as I was walking and it was the grubby little cockroach, Adam Bumdt. He really is a little little man. I said loudly, “vomit”, and a man walking next to me said, “agreed”. I said to the man that I find it staggering that people, mainly in affluent areas, vote for the filthy little cockroach. He again said “agreed”.
Always nice to know that we’re not alone in our thinking.
Interesting choice “intifada”.