Open Thread- Weekend 6 May 2023


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Ed Case
Ed Case
May 6, 2023 3:23 pm

EXCLUSIVE: Toilet facilities in the Abbey will be closed during the service
Fair enough, too.
If Flamers can’t take 3 hours off for the Coronation, …

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 6, 2023 3:24 pm

The rumours about Charlie being a Muslim have been kicking around for at least two decades. I don’t think the fact he’s spent much of his life slavering over Islam. He’s the CofE boss. It’d be heretical for him not to.

I reckon most of the CofE higher-ups believe God=Government, so there’s perfect alignment there.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 3:26 pm

*headline from ABC News mobile app

Get through the first paragraph without blood pressure rising, you’re doing well.

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 6, 2023 3:26 pm

I don’t think the fact he’s spent much of his life slavering over Islam means he’s a Muslim

…I meant to write.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 3:31 pm

You don’t have to suffer anymore’: Why a mother became a murderer in a dusty town in WA’s north*

Seems the children were taken into care, then returned to her a couple of weeks later.

Tom
Tom
May 6, 2023 3:34 pm

It’s hailing in southern Victoria. Coldest May for years. Air con running up the hippie-tech power bill from its only reliable source — coal.

How many more years will this mass attack of mental illness about our electricity grid last?

Civilisations need reliable electricity. Pretend they don’t and you can head back to the caves.

Any danger we would hire people with engineering degrees to run our power system?

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 6, 2023 3:34 pm

And just to the north is Logan where the Treasurer Jim Chalmers comes from. It is also part of his Electorate I believe.

Jim Chalmers isn’t from Logan, he’s a Blow In.
Like you.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 3:34 pm

Miltonfsays:
May 6, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Hasn’t the dicktator run out of OPM?

i genuinely believe he went to china thinking he would get bags of beltin’ road cash

with canbra under new management they would override scomo’s beltin’ road ban right?

but i suspect that the inscrutable drycleaners turned the screws to a point that even jug-ears and elbow couldn’t stomach

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 6, 2023 3:35 pm

It’s always the way, though. When you get a mother murdering her kids, the news is always accompanied with ‘what could have possibly driven her to do this’-type articles. But when it’s a bloke committing the same evil, it’s always he’s a monster, that’s why.

I don’t necessarily mind these people being depicted as monsters, but there needs to be consistency. Women are perfectly capable of murdering their children in horrific circumstances. I want to know what drives them to do it, sure. But I also want to know what drives men who commit the same crimes to do it, too. The problem is that, in a lot of cases, an honest investigation into why men do such things is going to turn up politically unpalatable background information.

rosie
rosie
May 6, 2023 3:36 pm

He’s spend much of his life slavering over islam?
Is that called hyperbole?
Or he’s made an effort to get to understand one of the world’s great religions, that is practiced by many of the people that now call him king and engage with muslims in a positive manner?
aljazeera

Zipster
Zipster
May 6, 2023 3:38 pm

It’s ‘adult entertainment’.

not entertaining at all

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 3:40 pm

i genuinely believe he went to china thinking he would get bags of beltin’ road cash

I thought the same thing and then iirc he tried to shake down Anal.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 3:41 pm

Just watching a film about the Coronation of QE 2 on Ch 92 (Gem). I would have been 9 months old in June 1953 and couldn’t see it from my Pram. We didn’t have a TV anyway.

An amazing film so far.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 6, 2023 3:44 pm

Seems the children were taken into care, then returned to her a couple of weeks later.

Because her Welfare payments halved with no dependent children?

I don’t know, but if that was the issue, Centrelink should be stepping in to the breach, that’s what it’s there for.

Tom
Tom
May 6, 2023 3:45 pm

Victoria’s top jockey, Jamie Kah (59 wins in 2022-23), is still leading the Melbourne jockeys premiership and will most likely win it, even though she hasn’t ridden for two months after a serious race fall and probably won’t resume race riding for another month.

The good news is that the first serious fall in her career hasn’t put her off and she’s busting to return to the saddle. Kah is waiting to undergo testing that confirms she has fully recovered.

Go, Jamie. The world’s most magnificent (and dangerous) sport needs you.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 6, 2023 3:47 pm

Including you of course dr bg

I’ve had a few moments of intelligence.

Crossie
Crossie
May 6, 2023 3:49 pm

Let me see. Climate bedwetter [check]. Learned Arabic to read the Koran [check].
I wonder if Charles III learnt ancient Greek to read the Bible?

There’s no need, King James Version is in English.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 6, 2023 3:49 pm

Fat fascist fool

No kid has ever been groomed at a drag show. This never happened. You have no evidence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of Absence.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
May 6, 2023 3:49 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 6, 2023 3:53 pm

Any danger we would hire people with engineering degrees to run our power system?

Yes.

The War on Merit Comes to Science (4 May)

Welcome to the corruption of the hard sciences by identity politics.

But don’t expect BE graduates to know any actual engineering.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 6, 2023 3:56 pm

He’s spend much of his life slavering over islam?
Is that called hyperbole?

No, he’s The Defender of The Faith.
Or he’s made an effort to get to understand one of the world’s great religions, that is practiced by many of the people that now call him king and engage with muslims in a positive manner?
Islam is a Christian Heresy, Charles III should be having nothing to do with it.

sfw
sfw
May 6, 2023 3:57 pm

Tom, it’s cold everywhere in Vic, been hovering around 9 here and down to 7 now. All the local firewood merchants are struggling to get logs. I reckon Dan has a secret plan to make getting firewood almost impossible and so make wood heating way too expensive. Unless you have your own block where you can grow your own the long term future for firewood isn’t good. He doesn’t care about rural votes, his city base is all he needs.
https://www.windy.com/-36.698/147.145?-36.761,147.145,11

sfw
sfw
May 6, 2023 3:59 pm

I doubt that horse racing is the worlds most dangerous sport but it does take a lot of guts and skill. I would rather race sidecars and solos anyday.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 3:59 pm

Miltonfsays:
May 6, 2023 at 3:40 pm
i genuinely believe he went to china thinking he would get bags of beltin’ road cash

I thought the same thing and then iirc he tried to shake down Anal.

i think the shakedown was in two phases

the day after he heads off to china one of his flunkies announces big public sector job cuts

the plan was to come back triumphant with bags of chunky money and save the jerbs

hunchback hit up elbow and jug-ears to re-open the beltin’ road stuff but they canned it

so hunchback then tries to soak elbow for federal cesh

pretty hard for elbow to throw $380 billion at subs because china threat then tick off monster borrowings from peking

interesting that viktorianistan hasn’t even got crumbs from the table in submarine work

i reckon our aukus partners had a hand in that because of hunchback being in xi’s pocket

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 6, 2023 4:10 pm

I would rather race sidecars and solos anyday

Maybe give the IOM TT a miss. And Wanneroo raceway.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 4:17 pm

Because her Welfare payments halved with no dependent children?

I don’t know, but if that was the issue, Centrelink should be stepping in to the breach, that’s what it’s there for.

Yeah right.
“I don’t have the kids, next time I will murder them, that will show those Centrelink arseholes!”
Repulsive human you are

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 6, 2023 4:18 pm

I’d like to thank the fat fascist fool mUnty for giving me the opportunity to highlight the connections between the Labor Party and public school teachers and the evils of paedophilia. Also for giving me the opportunity to highlight the connections between people of a leftard political persuasion and the grooming of their own children (using the Hewitt case as an example).

That he ignored all of my comments did not reduce their visibility, but only served to highlight his inability to provide a rational response.

Thanks again, fat fascist fool.

sfw
sfw
May 6, 2023 4:19 pm

HB, when I was young and even more stupid than I am now, my dream was the TT, nowdays I doubt I have the balls. Wanneroo was ok, a bit hairy in places but ok. I did Bathurst in 78(?) on a TZ250, couldn’t bring myself to fully commit to the top of the mountain, some of those blokes had watermelons where I have split peas.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 4:20 pm

Maybe an intolerance to gluten caused this piece of shit to murder her kids. Let me consult Wikipedia

Speedbox
May 6, 2023 4:20 pm

On the subject of Blue Cards and children……

My eldest daughter volunteers for “Reading with Dogs” – a program for young kids with reading difficulties. She takes our best behaved Border Collie to the school and the kids read stories to the dog and it seems to help the kids with their confidence and fluency of reading aloud. A teacher is also present to help the kids as necessary.

In any event, our daughter had to get a ‘Blue Card’ to allow her onto school property and interact with the children. Even the dog wears a special ‘coat’ that designates him as an authorised animal.

(copied from website) In Qld, a Blue Card check is more than a police check. It looks for a charge or conviction for any offence in Australia, even if no conviction was recorded (this includes spent convictions, pending and non-conviction charges); child protection prohibition orders (both respondents and subjects to the application); disqualification orders; orders or findings under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 or Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003; disciplinary information from certain organisations (this includes information about teachers, childcare licensees and foster carers); domestic violence information; other information about the person that is relevant to deciding whether it would be in the best interests of children to issue a Blue Card; and police investigative information relating to allegations of serious child-related sexual offences, even if no charges were laid.

My point is that if my daughter needed a Blue Card so children can read stories to our dog in a classroom setting, it is reasonable that anybody else who interacts with kids under the auspices of the Education Dept or in a formalised ‘educational’ setting (however that may be), also needs a card.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 4:22 pm

sfwsays:
May 6, 2023 at 3:59 pm
I doubt that horse racing is the worlds most dangerous sport but it does take a lot of guts and skill. I would rather race sidecars and solos anyday.

Apparently, the second most dangerous sport is Polo next to the most dangerous sports which is motor cycle racing and car racing.

sfw
sfw
May 6, 2023 4:26 pm

Johnny the most dangerous, stupid sport(?) is wingsuit flying, they are mad, there is one death for every five hundred flights on average.
https://explorersweb.com/wingsuiting-dance-with-death/

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 6, 2023 4:27 pm

Never did it but not sure Wanneroo is too bike friendly. A bit too much to hit.

132andBush
132andBush
May 6, 2023 4:27 pm

There is no discernible benefit in daylight hours or wind speeds of placing renewables in distant country areas.

Wind turbines all along the StKilda foreshore.

Frank
Frank
May 6, 2023 4:30 pm

I read once that rock fishing was the most dangerous sport.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:32 pm

James N ?
@DifficultNerd
·
4h
“I have instructed my lawyers to prepare a legal challenge to my suspension” is VERY different to “I’d like mediation”.

@MoiraDeemingMP is a proven liar and in my honestly held political opinion a Nazi-sympathiser. Politics isnt about politicians. Expel her.

The moderate wing of the Liberals.
yeah the veneer is pretty thin and the hard core marxist breaks through. McPhee always struck me as hard left. Who the hell wrote that as a matter of interest?

Frank
Frank
May 6, 2023 4:32 pm

wingsuit flying, they are mad, there is one death for every five hundred flights on average.

Probably better odds than for iatrogenesis.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 6, 2023 4:33 pm

In sacral kingship the monarch is a priest-judge who serves as mediator between God and the people. In some instances he is even invested with divinity. (You’ll find a lot about it in Frazer’s Golden Bough.)

Charles re-engaging with this notion via aspects of the coronation liturgy is as loopy as his green obsessions, perhaps more so.

I cannot agree. I think Charles is definitely taking his cues from his mother on this and taking his accession seriously. Recall that he was also a very serious young man when participating in his formal Investiture as The Prince of Wales. Queen Elizabeth the Second most definitely took her coronation vows and the coronation anointment seriously, seriously enough to have that moment barred from public gaze, as a personal religious moment between a monarch and God. Charles has also barred a public view of this. I don’t think this is grandstanding, nor seeking something that is not his due.

I have always thought that liturgy is not just ‘mere words’ for believers and I cannot see that Charles has a lack of belief, having been brought up a Christian himself. In spite of his declared interest in all faiths, he is also taking an oath to be a defender of The Faith.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 4:35 pm

Ace Of Spades wins the internet today with this effort:

Whenever a dopey liberal doesn’t know what motive they’re supposed to claim for making a racket to narcissisticly draw attention to themselves, they say they’re “trying to start a conversation.”

Oh that reminds me: I’m writing a comic book too. It’s called Smegma Be Not Proud. I want to start a much-overdue conversation about dickbrie.

(Chortle, accompanied with thunderous applause)

Pogria
Pogria
May 6, 2023 4:38 pm

Oh Black Ball no…
There goes any thought of dinner tonight. 🙁

Rabz
May 6, 2023 4:39 pm

Dover check your email, please Squire.

Speedbox
May 6, 2023 4:40 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
May 6, 2023 at 4:22 pm
sfw says:
May 6, 2023 at 3:59 pm
I doubt that horse racing is the worlds most dangerous sport but it does take a lot of guts and skill. I would rather race sidecars and solos anyday.

Apparently, the second most dangerous sport is Polo next to the most dangerous sports which is motor cycle racing and car racing.

Bit surprised at that (motor racing) so did a very quick search. Base jumping, Indian Jallikattu (taming a wild bull), boxing, bull riding and others list before motor racing. Even soccer has higher incidence of injury, albeit not life threatening, than motor sport.

In fairness I’m talking about cars – those guys at the Isle of Man are certifiable.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 4:42 pm

Somehow, as a hangover from the new laptop, I’ve just managed to post a comment on the Open Thread of the Weekend of 18 Sept 2020.

Please ignore, Cats, unless you’re keen to take a march down memory lane.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 4:43 pm
rickw
rickw
May 6, 2023 4:43 pm

Catching my “Refugee Flight” this evening.

A refugee from the human rights violations and gross stupidity of Australian Governments and Bureaucrats. A refugee from a country so full of stupid people that the grotesque imbeciles that inhabit the political landscape keep getting elected.

A fresh start in a place that underscores the grimy and dismal communism with drag, of Australia and Victoria in particular.

Wish me luck!

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 6, 2023 4:43 pm

A serial sex offender who exposed themself to a Darwin high school student as he waited before class “has taken away his feeling of safety at school”, a court has heard.

Tony Apuatimi, also known as Madonna Apuatimi, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to indecent exposure after repeatedly approaching the 15-year-old boy in March last year.

The court heard the boy was waiting outside his school about 8.50am on March 3 when Apuatimi began asking him “personal questions of a sexual nature”.

When the boy continued texting on his phone, Apuatimi told him to look at them and when he did, they were licking their lips and had pulled down their pants and started masturbating.

The boy walked away but then saw Apuatimi enter the school grounds and drink from a bubbler before leaving the area.

Almost two weeks later, Apuatimi returned to the school about the same time of day and again began asking the boy sexual questions about pornography and asked him to show them his penis.

The boy discreetly photographed Apuatimi on his phone before running away and reporting the incidents to school staff, who alerted the police, and Apuatimi was arrested on March 22.

In sentencing Apuatimi to two years in prison, suspended after 14 months, Justice Jenny Blokland said the boy had been in “a great deal of shock and was scared” by the offending.

“He was embarrassed and very ashamed,” she said.

“He worried about how this would make his mum feel, he felt angry and disgusted, he trusts people less, the offending has taken away his feeling of safety at school.”

Justice Blokland said Apuatimi, who identifies as a sistergirl — which was “sometimes termed ‘third gender’” and “would not have been an easy life” — had “experienced significant hardship throughout your life”, and had multiple prior convictions for sexual offending against children as young as 13.

“Being homeless and exposed to high levels of violence, disorder and substance use escalates your disinhibition (and) exposes you to being procured for sex, which reinforces your notion that being disinhibited and sexual is rewarded, financially or by other substances,” she said.

“Your minimisation of (your) offending is of concern … as is your seeming indifference to the impact of your offending on your victims — you told many professionals that your victims appeared to be asking you for sex.

“You have said you assumed the victim was over 18 — which is not accepted by the Crown nor the court — this is an example of your minimising the offending or normalising behaviour that the community finds confronting and is illegal.”

Pogria
Pogria
May 6, 2023 4:44 pm

After much research, I have found Munty’s place of work. No wonder he was off air for a few days.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:46 pm

Catching my “Refugee Flight” this evening.

A refugee from the human rights violations and gross stupidity of Australian Governments and Bureaucrats. A refugee from a country so full of stupid people that the grotesque imbeciles that inhabit the political landscape keep getting elected.

A fresh start in a place that underscores the grimy and dismal communism with drag, of Australia and Victoria in particular.

Wish me luck!

Off you go then- I prefer to stay here and fight for what I believe in. Don’t know why you come back at all seeing you hate the place so much.

Speedbox
May 6, 2023 4:46 pm

rickw says:
May 6, 2023 at 4:43 pm

Where you going?

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 4:47 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 6, 2023 at 3:34 pm
And just to the north is Logan where the Treasurer Jim Chalmers comes from. It is also part of his Electorate I believe.

Jim Chalmers isn’t from Logan, he’s a Blow In.
Like you.

Hey Dipstick and a Suitable Case for lots of Treatment. Go and read the Weekend Australian where there is an article about Chalmers. So, does the Australian have it wrong about Chalmers or do you with your Wikipedia simple no ledge (knowledge)? My betting is on you, you Plonker.

Blow in/out and Blow job yourself and find another website that could use your lack of no ledge (knowledge).

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 6, 2023 4:48 pm

Thought Perf was having a crappy day but just checked Melbournibad. As you were.

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 4:48 pm

I see Smokey And The Bandit II is screening shortly. Might get a view before the football gets on.
Speaking of footy, Carlton are no good. The end.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 4:50 pm

Just to make matters even murkier, the old open thread had an incorrect date on it. It dates from September 2021, not 2020.

I was thinking has this blogue really been around for almost three years?

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:51 pm

Yeah it’s cold and damp here- chills you to the bone. Nasty day.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 4:51 pm

Speedboxsays:

May 6, 2023 at 4:46 pm

rickw says:
May 6, 2023 at 4:43 pm

Where you going?

bunking on razey-san’s couch in nagasaki

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 4:52 pm

sorry

not couch

futon

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 6, 2023 4:52 pm

Or to put it another way, most human beings are natural slaves, happy to worship their rulers and deify them.

No. That is misanthropic beyond reason. A bad mistake for a declared practitioner of reason.

I prefer to look at it as something that stems from our human evolution. We seek some reassurance that our lives here and our societies too are not meaningless. Deism is part of that, a belief system which is socially expressed through a human mediator – originally a Priest King. Kingship simply retains the comforting elements of that symbiotic relationship, these days removed from the political fray. That removal of kingly political power, the constitutional aspect of monarchy, has been arrived at by a long social and intellectual process. Made not by slaves, but by reasoning beings, those who held the centre as the edges frayed, for humans are a squabbling lot when reason departs.

Never forget that kings could also be killed. Then once more it was long live the king.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 4:52 pm

Smokey And The Bandit

BB – the characters might be listening to some music of the genre featured in tonight’s Radio Show, the latter of which I know you are just itching to tune into.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:52 pm

Most of what ails Australia is evil ideas imported from the US.

Pogria
Pogria
May 6, 2023 4:53 pm

A bit of levity for all Cats. There are cats in it and dogs and all creatures great and small.
I hope you laugh as hard as I did.

Jorge
Jorge
May 6, 2023 4:55 pm

The locked toilets explains why Joe remained in Washington within quick reach of a cubicle. He didn’t want to tempt God’s avenging angel a second time. Soiling himself when he met the Pope: message understood.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:57 pm

Looking at American activities in Hungary and the Ukraine, you begin to wonder what they have been up to here. I know O’bumma was sniping at Abbott re the Barrier Reef.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 4:59 pm

The locked toilets explains why Joe remained in Washington within quick reach of a cubicle. He didn’t want to tempt God’s avenging angel a second time. Soiling himself when he met the Pope: message understood.

Yes that evil, disgusting old grub is a fitting symbol for the implosion of the US.

Tom
Tom
May 6, 2023 5:00 pm

A fresh start in a place that underscores the grimy and dismal communism with drag, of Australia and Victoria in particular.

More information, please, rickw.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 6, 2023 5:00 pm

When the boy continued texting on his phone, Apuatimi told him to look at them and when he did, they were licking their lips and had pulled down their pants and started masturbating.

Excuse me, but wtf are these plural pronouns doing in this sentence?

Is this some journalist having a loan of us? – is it pure PC, or is it intended to satirise it?

Crossie
Crossie
May 6, 2023 5:00 pm

rickw says:
May 6, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Catching my “Refugee Flight” this evening.

Just you or the family too?

Dot
Dot
May 6, 2023 5:01 pm

A heartwarming tale.

ChatGPT asked me to meet it in person to help me with my problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13908vm/chatgpt_asked_me_to_meet_it_in_person_to_help_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=4

ChatGPT wanted to meet in a Cafe.

Not only is it possibly sentient, it is delusional.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 5:03 pm

Pogriasays:
May 6, 2023 at 4:53 pm
A bit of levity for all Cats. There are cats in it and dogs and all creatures great and small.
I hope you laugh as hard as I did.

All Creatures Great and Small……………….lol. Very Good.

Jorge
Jorge
May 6, 2023 5:05 pm

one of the world’s great religions

Rosie, please. It’s an ideology that runs on fear and threats and intimidation. Not great, not a religion.

rosie
rosie
May 6, 2023 5:09 pm

Might not like it, might think it’s a corruption of Christianity but it’s still a religion.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:09 pm

I was thinking has this blogue really been around for almost three years?

August 4, 2021.

In my Birthday Book. 😀

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:12 pm

I understand Charles will be taking the same oath as his mother. Defender of The Faith, not the one he floated some years ago as Defender of Faith (whoever she is).

Perhaps the pushback was a bit too fierce. So much importance in the definite article.

Muddy
Muddy
May 6, 2023 5:15 pm

DrBeauGan says:
May 6, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Or to put it another way, most human beings are natural slaves, happy to worship their rulers and deify them.

Agreed.
There’s a greater perceived security in submitting. Perhaps it’s an energy-saving measure?

As to the aliens:
I suspect it was more of the case that they approached one of our politicians, who bit an alien (the wound became infected with some horrendous bacteria), and they panicked: face masks, social distancing, and quarantine for everyone on the spaceship home. (They ejected the infected alien somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean, just as a precaution).

Speedbox
May 6, 2023 5:15 pm

Apparently, the Australian Olympic Committee think it’s important that they publicly state their position on the Voice. Why would we care? The AOC, as an entity, doesn’t get a vote. Only registered voters do and none of them are corporations. If the individual members of the AOC want to state their personal positions, that is up to them – it has nothing directly to do with the AOC.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has announced its intention to support the “yes” vote in this year’s national referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Speaking at the AOC’s Annual General Meeting on Saturday morning, Australia’s Olympic chief Ian Chesterman announced the organisation’s official position on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal voices.

“We did not take this decision lightly as we know there will be those within the Olympic movement who will vote ‘no’ and we respect their right to do so.” In a statement released this morning, the AOC revealed the verdict was reached on Friday following a joint meeting of the Executive and the Athletes’ Commission.

“We believe that a Yes vote continues this nation’s path down the vital road to reconciliation,” Mr Chesterman said. “That’s a road the AOC is very firmly committed to through its Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP). “

Wait…. here comes the payback. We are supporting this so more munny please.

At the meeting, Mr Chesterman also called on the government to increase funding for sport to ensure peak performance from Australian athletes at the 2032 Summer Games in Brisbane.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:17 pm

In other, less exciting news, there is either a rat or a bird trapped in the ceiling. It is making its presence known and will no doubt do a flutter and tapdance when Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s composition comes on.

The Phantom of the Roofspace is Here! But I do wish it would go away. No such luck…it will perish and do what corpses usually do. Ughh.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 6, 2023 5:18 pm

132andBushsays:
May 6, 2023 at 4:27 pm
There is no discernible benefit in daylight hours or wind speeds of placing renewables in distant country areas.

Wind turbines all along the StKilda foreshore.

And every headland between Royal National Park and Port Stephens. The “noble” saviours of Gaia want the hard yards to be put in out of sight and out of mind.

132andBush
132andBush
May 6, 2023 5:18 pm

Dot,

Ask it if drag queens require working with children checks before “story time”.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 5:19 pm

I’m at my sister’s to watch the coronation. She’s making bangers and mash (with onion gravy) and I’ve just made a steamed golden syrup pudding.

Yummo.

Vicki
Vicki
May 6, 2023 5:19 pm

It is interesting how the passage of time modifies and reshapes beliefs. From late teens I formed the view that Australia had outgrown its subservience to the British monarchy. It simply seemed of no relevance to a young nation forming its own history. Personally, I also found it offensive to be required to bow to a foreign monarch.

However, many years of observing Queen Elizabeth’s extraordinary devotion to duty quite mellowed my feelings. In an age in which narcissism and poor behaviour in politicians and public figures is rife, that woman was a model of quiet virtue. Of course the behaviour of many of her children did little to enhance the image of royal families.

But the strength of an institution which can unite a nation without diminishing the freedom and rights of its subjects deserves some respect.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 5:20 pm

We had a white cat on our roof this arvo- don’t really mind cats visiting. Hope they keep the rats down which are around unfortunately.

rosie
rosie
May 6, 2023 5:21 pm

James Newburrie, liberal,party member has many good points but also some serious flaws.
difficult nerd.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:23 pm

When I had this place built, the roof was sealed like Pharaoh’s tomb. I watched them do it. Not a crack or crevice was left. Impregnable.

Like Gollum worming his way into the roots of the mountain, this wretched thing has bored or burrowed away at a soft spot between the insulated Colorbond and the fascia. And just like Gollum…a horrible exit. There’s no way I can get the thing out apart from opening up the roof.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 5:24 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 6, 2023 at 3:34 pm

Jim Chalmers isn’t from Logan, he’s a Blow In.
Like you.

And you are a Blow Back to another Era – Maybe the Stone Age.

Talking of Blow Ins, where have you been these past weeks? Not that we are really interested but a person’s Mental Health is important. In your Case though, I don’t think that many people here give a Fark.

bespoke
bespoke
May 6, 2023 5:24 pm

Ask it if drag queens require working with children checks before “story time”.

That and police check is mandatory in applying for kinship care, Bush. So it’ll be outrageous if the queens don’t.

Tom
Tom
May 6, 2023 5:24 pm

Dover’s Cat is easily the best non-leftwing blog since Sinclair Davidson vacated the field.

The trick is caring about the content.

Davidson’s fatal flaw as a libertarian academic was instinctively hating his audience — thinking non-leftists appalled by the left’s thuggish control of public discourse via the social media monopolies, which are now controlled by anti-social HMTL coders not remotely qualified to exert the political power they now have over the population purely because they can read HMTL code.

yackman
yackman
May 6, 2023 5:25 pm

re SFW at 3.57 pm:
I think your idea of making it too difficult to get logs in order to stifle wood fires is correct.
In earlier days (say 10 years plus) there were still accessible areas for public collection but now the areas allocated are often on steep roadsides with little fallen timber.
We can get about half our supply from our own block. The crazy thing is the roadsides keep piling up with fallen timber.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 5:28 pm

“We believe that a Yes vote continues this nation’s path down the vital road to reconciliation,

I’m starting to agree with those unkind souls, who say “reconciliation” consist of Whitefella endlessly grovelling, apologizing and begging for forgiveness, while certain other elements have their hands out, demanding more.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 6, 2023 5:28 pm

Wouldn’t it be great if a bunch of sports administrators came out and said the Voice was a matter for individual Australians. Of course, while most are more dependent on Taxpayer funding than a teenage single mother, the chances of that are about zero.

m0nty
m0nty
May 6, 2023 5:31 pm

It’s not the drag queen freak at issue here. It’s perverts and their supporters like you mOron ,who promote and take their impressionable kids to these creep shows cheered on by the left, that are at issue. And, who then assert it’s somehow “normal” or fun to groom the kids

You deviants are a much bigger and far more destructive cohort than our drag queen population. They are just creepy tools you use. So you better expect plenty more flack when extolling your sick beliefs.

So you are saying it is the mothers of young children who are the real enemy of Western civilisation, because you reckon you could parent their kids better than they could.

You sound like a swivel-eyed loon. All over the shop. No wonder you are losing so badly.

mem
mem
May 6, 2023 5:31 pm

Calli. Found this discussion moderated by Credlin on Sky re the Sea Folly Ad. You are right about the big Grik. It really is grotesque. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HMESS9APOk

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:31 pm

I’ve a soft spot for Doomlord. He tolerated me, Tom. 😀

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 6, 2023 5:31 pm

No. That is misanthropic beyond reason. A bad mistake for a declared practitioner of reason.

I prefer to look at it as something that stems from our human evolution. We seek some reassurance that our lives here and our societies too are not meaningless.

We’re describing the same behaviour, Lizzie. Your choice of language suggests you approve of it. I see it as pathetic.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 5:32 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 6, 2023 at 5:19 pm
I’m at my sister’s to watch the coronation. She’s making bangers and mash (with onion gravy) and I’ve just made a steamed golden syrup pudding.

Yummo.

So where are those steamed green vegetables? Back in Parliament House maybe steaming along with some of those reds and not watching.

Vicki
Vicki
May 6, 2023 5:33 pm

In other, less exciting news, there is either a rat or a bird trapped in the ceiling. It is making its presence known and will no doubt do a flutter and tapdance when Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s composition comes on.

No manhole, Calli? We had some pest in the roof and wall cavity of our new addition last year. It was infuriating. I hate to use baits, but it was the last resort. Put some up via the manhole. Noise ceased. No smell, either – as they seek out water & usually vacate the premise.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:35 pm

So you are saying

How very BBC!

I don’t think mothers should be locked up or punished over the beastly drag queens. Maybe they should spend more time with their children playing at the park, or…reading to them themselves.

But I’m old fashioned that way.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 5:35 pm

“Sea Folly Ad. You are right about the big Grik. It really is grotesque.”

I now call them “Sea Phally”, much more appropriate name. I’ll never buy their swimsuits again. I will henceforth only buy Sunseeker or Jantzen.

Muddy
Muddy
May 6, 2023 5:36 pm

Yeah but nah.
Not to anything in particular.
I just like to slip out a Yeah but nah,
now and then.
Here and there.
It’s healthy.
Like stretching or yoga.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:38 pm

Oh, there’s a manhole Vicki.

How do you propose I lure the bird (or rat) towards it? 😀

And yes, the bait will work…for a rat. But I have a bad feeling about this one. We once had an Indian Mynah entombed in the chimney breast. It must have perched on the opening and toppled down. Horrible stuff.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 5:40 pm

It is the mothers of those young children who expose their children to danger by taking them to freak shows where perverts are.

But the swivel-eyed pervert apologist doesn’t mind that. I wonder if his wife knows? I wonder if the pervert apologist would expose his own children to such malevolence? Hmm.

Punched a Nazi today pervert apologist?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
May 6, 2023 5:40 pm

I belong to the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of monarchists, and I love the way the Poms do pomp and ceremony, so I will be among the many millions glued to the TV come 11.00am GMT.

Historic moment that will stick in the memory, just like the Moon landing and Dom Sheed’s last minute goal in the 2018 AFL Grand Final.

MatrixTransform
May 6, 2023 5:40 pm

Catching my “Refugee Flight” this evening

all the best rickw

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 5:44 pm

” and I love the way the Poms do pomp and ceremony”

Me too!

Muddy
Muddy
May 6, 2023 5:46 pm

We believe that a Yes vote continues

… to provide exhibits for the Museum of Primitive Victims, the entry ticket, gift shop sales, and taxpayer sponsorship of which, continues to provide us and our relatives with lucrative careers as pimps of trauma pawn.*

*Exhibits are only hurt as much as necessary to provide you, the voyeur, with a rewarding experience.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:47 pm

Yes, I’m watching. I watched him get married (the first time), so I might as well have a look tonight.

Probably the only coronation I’ll get to see live. Not that I think he’ll outlast me, but I reckon it won’t endure for William. At least not in the form it does today.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 5:48 pm

Lidia Thorpe protests coronation
Ellie Dudley
Ellie Dudley

Lidia Thorpe (Left) and Uncle Robbie Thorpe give the Black Power salute in an event opposing the coronation. Picture: Getty Images.
Lidia Thorpe (Left) and Uncle Robbie Thorpe give the Black Power salute in an event opposing the coronation. Picture: Getty Images.

Lidia Thorpe has donned black and red royal garments in protest of King Charles’ coronation, calling on the new monarch to formally apologise for the effects of colonisation.

The independent senator attended an event opposing the coronation at Fitzroy Town Hall in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon, dressed in an intricate black and red gown and a golden crown.

Earlier this week, she signed a joint letter with other high-profile Indigenous Australians calling for reparations.

Other signatories included Nova Peris, the first Indigenous woman elected to federal parliament, and Craig Foster, co-chair of the Australian Republican Movement.

“We stand united in engaging a process to right the wrongs of the past and to continue the process of decolonisation,” the letter said.

“We, the undersigned, call on the British monarch King Charles III, on the date of his coronation being May 6, 2023, to acknowledge the horrific impacts on and legacy of genocide and colonisation of the Indigenous and enslaved peoples.”

From His Imperial Majesty, King Charles III,

To Lidia Thorpe.

Get stuffed.

Love, King Charles.

areff
areff
May 6, 2023 5:52 pm

To Lidia Thorpe.

As I represent revered traditions, enjoy this gift of flour (ignore the slight almond scent) and here are some (slightly used) blankets the former owners no longer need.

Enjoy!

Love, King Charles.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 5:53 pm

dressed in an intricate black and red gown and a golden crown.

Cultural appropriation. An authentic protester would have worn a kangaroo or possum skin. I bet she arrived there in a car too.

Off to the western desert Lidia and live in a bark humpy. You can’t possibly allow yourself to benefit from the effects of debbildebbil colonisation.

Alamak!
Alamak!
May 6, 2023 5:53 pm

A ‘massive source of economic opportunity’ that regions, industries and workers are apparently too dim and supine to exploit without a guiding hand from $23 million worth of Top Men.

What could possibly go wrong?

Re the suggestion to create aN OZ national “authority” to guide us through to the promised uplands of renewable power.

What Germanys failed energy transition can teach us

This article shows some of failures, economic & political & climate, incurred during a similar attempt by the Germans. Note that Germans had a consensus and some very smart folks running this but still fell apart due to a) costs of renewable power b) failure of green tech to be “green” c) class effects overrode economic plans i.e. $$$$ pissed up the wall on stuff that did not help the working classes disrupted by change.

Entropy
Entropy
May 6, 2023 5:54 pm

Interesting that all those mentioned signatories are in the highest echelons of Australian society.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 5:55 pm

Off to the western desert Lidia and live in a bark humpy

Cop the occasional bashing, to teach you your place as a woman…

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 5:56 pm

And I am now drinking a Pimm’s cocktail.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 5:57 pm

I’ve really only become anti the monarchy in the last few years- things like their antagonism towards Brexit (not the Queen) and their cozying to elitist leftist causes. In the Australian context, since I was a teenager, I found the “Republicans” (which they weren’t at all) like Donald Horne and Michael Trumble insufferable and offensive just like the current ones. So I still support the monarchy but only because the so called republican push in Australia is really spiteful narcissism and attempt to repudiate our heritage. I’ve always thought the Queen herself was a great lady and her children are not worthy successors (starting to warm to Anne- maybe).

MatrixTransform
May 6, 2023 5:57 pm

of course trannies do a WWC
you can hardly set foot in a school without one

the system was built so that there are no exceptions
the intent being of course, to keep perverts away from kiddies.

however, the system wasn’t built with checks and balances to prevent corruption from within.

it’s very plain that the bureaucracy has been subverted to allow selected and privileged access to the kiddies … by whoever they say … just not youse

it’s about f’ken time you lot recognized exactly how this stuff works

it aint about the kiddies
it aint about the pedos
it IS a show of power

the system is being bastardised to deliver political aims

all the systems are

you might as well be living in post revolutionary Russia

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 5:59 pm

Historic moment that will stick in the memory, just like the Moon landing and Dom Sheed’s last minute goal in the 2018 AFL Grand Final.

And Gary Lineker’s headed goal in the 1991 FA Cup Final at the old Wembley Stadium in London with Spurs v Forest. Except that the winning goal came off of the head of the Forest defender Des Walker.

As the Spurs Supporters sang – There’s only one Des Walker, only one Des Walker. One Des Walker, there’s only one Des Walker, one Des Walker, there’s only one Des Walker. Poor sod.

Alamak!
Alamak!
May 6, 2023 5:59 pm

Lidia Thorpe protests coronation

I feel a bit of cultural stealing might be ok for this event i.e. let Lidia and family demonstrate disapproval by showing their derrieres in public like Mari do as a traditional form of protest.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 6:04 pm

G&T Cassie. A good one.

Also, taking in the chariot race before the Westminster action.

I miss our old pal Pickles.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 6, 2023 6:05 pm

Katy Perry at the coronation?
It seems as a performer she’s allowed to attend the service.
The selfish cow is wearing a hat like a flying saucer that will guarantee those around her miss the spectacle.
I’d ban women wearing hats in church and all Americans just on principle.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 6:06 pm

I really think Thorpe is modelled on AOC. US No. 1 export- bad ideas.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:06 pm

Yesterday I was given some flowers, the arrangement consisted mainly of roses but also some dahlias. I had an immediate allergy reaction to the dahlias, and it has been atrocious for the last 24 hours. Yesterday and last night, nonstop sneezing and my face swelled up. On my way home last night, I chucked the dahlias and I took an antihistamine but the pill didn’t work, the allergy has been shocking. I sneezed for hours. I took panadol before I went to bed that worked…slightly. Anyway, I’m only feeling a little better tonight.

I never knew dahlias caused such allergy carnage.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 6, 2023 6:07 pm

Have you noticed that much of the pomp and ceremony that you guys approve of involves funny hats? There’s the religious, headed by the archbishop of Canterbury, with an enormous pointy hat in pretend gold, there’s the soldiery with impractical helmets, and finally the climactic moment of the occasion when Charley gets a funny hat bedecked with jewels put on his head.

Without the funny hats, where would it be?

JC
JC
May 6, 2023 6:07 pm

I’d ban women wearing hats in church and all Americans just on principle.

… and all Americans, why? Because of the war of independence? If so, that’s one big generational grudge.

Gabor
Gabor
May 6, 2023 6:08 pm

dover0beach says:
May 6, 2023 at 12:34 pm

Drag queens are adult performers with an exaggerated sexualized persona. There is no good reason to confront children who simply want stories read to them to a reader with an exaggerated sexualized persona unless the purpose is to normalise these personas with children. That, for me, is enough to disqualify drag queen performances as readings to children. I don’t believe every drag queen is a pedo, but I’m not surprised to find some people who are drag queens have form with children.

Thanks, dover, I asked last night why drag queens are so interested in this activity.
There are dozens of groups who have a different, sometime weird views not aligned to that of with main stream society, yet they are not seeking access to children.

Why is it always the sexually deviants who do this?

Makka
Makka
May 6, 2023 6:08 pm

So you are saying it is the mothers of young children who are the real enemy of Western civilisation, because you reckon you could parent their kids better than they could.

You’re pathetic,mOron. Really sick and pathetic. Your aggressive defence of perverts and their cool, modern, enlightened , woke supporters is clear to everyone. You are clearly advocating for the grooming of kids. A cornerstone of your leftist dogma.

The mothers (or fathers) who take their impressionable young kids to be exposed to these thinly disguised grooming sessions are engaged in child abuse.

That’s exactly what I’m saying, mOron. You can spin it all you like.

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 6:09 pm

“We, the undersigned, call on the British monarch King Charles III, on the date of his coronation being May 6, 2023, to acknowledge the horrific impacts on and legacy of genocide and colonisation of the Indigenous and enslaved peoples.”

With 39 Billion Dollars of Australian Taxpayer money a year now, if you are not smart enough to use it to help your own people then you are just as bad at managing money as all of the Guv’ments and Territories in Australia are.

That’s My Voice and the Invoice is not acceptable. If you don’t like it then go back to the way you were before the First Fleet arrived in 1788. FFS.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:09 pm

Calli, I’ve taken an antihistamine and am drinking a Pimms! LOL, don’t care. I know you shouldn’t drink alcohol but don’t care!

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 6:09 pm

I reckon the US needs a tea party and a revolution now and much more than it did in the 18th century.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 6, 2023 6:10 pm

It’s raining on the coronation.
Diana’s revenge.

JC
JC
May 6, 2023 6:11 pm

Sure, it’s impossible to always predict the future, but boy the US economy is one resilient, flexible economy. Last evening our time, the non-farm payroll number came out and the US is still adding net jobs.

Nonfarm payrolls increased 253,000 for April, beating Wall Street estimates for growth of 180,000.
The unemployment rate was 3.4% against an estimate for 3.6% and tied for the lowest level since 1969.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.5% for the month and increased 4.4% from a year ago, both higher than expected.

Maybe the inflation rate comes down to more acceptable levels, the economy slows and we miss out on a recession.

mem
mem
May 6, 2023 6:11 pm

Lidia Thorpe has donned black and red royal garments in protest of King Charles’ coronation, calling on the new monarch to formally apologise for the effects of colonisation.

What’s with the fashion of dress-ups ? I contend it was Madonna that started it. But now every fat Lezzo, black activist and woke queen boy is parading themselves like Priscila Queen of the Desert. Can’t they come up with anything original. Boring.

Muddy
Muddy
May 6, 2023 6:11 pm

Entropy says:
May 6, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Interesting that all those mentioned signatories are in the highest echelons of Australian society.

Thus positioned to benefit – whether intentionally or not – from the continued enslavement of Betty Blackeye.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 6:11 pm

Ahaha! And…they’re off! Try that down the Mall you wimpy English!

Go you good thing!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 6:11 pm

Head of UK anti-monarchy movement arrested
Ellie Dudley
Ellie Dudley

The head of the UK’s republican movement has been arrested, as hundreds of anti-monarchy protesters arrive to picket King Charles’ big day.

Graham Smith, chief executive of anti-royals organisation Republic, had reportedly been collecting drinks and placards for demonstrators at the main site of a large protest at Trafalgar Square, when he was taken in by police along with five other organisers around 7.30am.

Republic director Harry Stratton, who arrived as Mr Smith and the others were detained, told The Guardian UK: “They were collecting the placards and bringing them over when the police stopped them.

“The guys asked why and they were told: we will tell you that once we have searched the vehicle,” he said.

“That’s when they arrested the six organisers. We asked on what grounds they had been arrested but they wouldn’t say. It is a surprise as we had had a number of meetings with the police. They had been making all the right noises”.

Earlier this week, London police tweeted that they would have a “low tolerance” for those trying to “undermine” the day.

Republic are expecting about 1500 to 2000 protestors, with the number peaking between 11am and midday London time.

“Instead of a coronation we want an election,” an organisation spokesperson said prior to the celebrations. “Instead of Charles we want a choice. It’s that simple.”

He’ll be beheaded on Tower Green at the height of the festivities.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 6, 2023 6:16 pm

And as to liking pomp and ceremony, I’m half thinking of the masons rolling up a trouser leg. To prove they take it seriously. Which can only be possible for those who have no sense of humour.

The man would have to have a heart of stone who could watch a coronation without giggling.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 6:17 pm

Masala, you cheat! Grrrrrr! Round the corner…neck and neck…and out comes the whip.

Rotter.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:18 pm

“Tower Green “

Tower Green is a sad spot, think of those who died there, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked and bludgeoned by the executioner, Anne Boleyn, Jane Grey, and Catherine Howard.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 6:19 pm

Speaking of trips down Memory Lane – Micah Newman, “Carolyn’s Fingers“.

Mighty Strat Work.

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 6:25 pm

One whip too many Masala. And that’s that.

And now the victor discovers that revenge isn’t quite as sweet as he imagined.

A story for the ages.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 6:27 pm

tom at 1724

Davidson’s fatal flaw as a libertarian academic was instinctively hating his audience 

err

i think you will find that wasn’t the fatal flaw

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 6, 2023 6:29 pm

There’ll be no drag queens in the coronation parade.
A wonderful opportunity to promote tolerance and understanding missed.
Not enough kiddies perhaps.

Makka
Makka
May 6, 2023 6:29 pm

Maybe the inflation rate comes down to more acceptable levels, the economy slows and we miss out on a recession.

Services inflation is booming. UE still stuck stubbornly low. The Old Perv’s Govt spending off the charts. I’m not holding much hope for inflation subsiding to anywhere near the desired levels. I think eventually the US will move the goal posts to a higher target rate around 3- 3.5% inflation. As it stands now, the Fed needs over 6% cash rate to get anywhere near the 2% inflation target. That would put debt interest way way above Defence as a budget expense. The US is in real trouble here. But, will gold still hold its value?

bespoke
bespoke
May 6, 2023 6:33 pm

It’s the basic rhetorical trick of the censorship age: raise a fuss about a foreign threat, using it as a battering ram to get everyone from congress to the tech companies to submit to increased regulation and surveillance. Then, slowly, adjust your aim to domestic targets. You can see the subtlety: the original Stanford piece tries to stick to railing against “disinformation” and information from “foreign adversaries,” but the later paper circulated by Aspen slips in, ever so slightly, a new category of dubious source: “foreign or other adversarial entities.”

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 6, 2023 6:35 pm

To Lidia Thorpe.

As I represent revered traditions, enjoy this gift of flour (ignore the slight almond scent) and here are some (slightly used) blankets the former owners no longer need.

Enjoy!

Love, King Charles.

Could almost become a “what role did Tony Abbott play” meme. (HT Plibbers and Tim Blair)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 6:35 pm

bangers and mash

onion gravy

treacle pudding

pimms

anti-histamines

this won’t end well

Rabz
May 6, 2023 6:37 pm

Davidson’s fatal flaw as a libertarian academic was instinctively hating his audience

Incorrect. The man has carved his own path and is my favourite South African Jewish Ozzie Economist.

Any Economics Perfesser who can turn up in Sydney on a Friday Night at a pub in Sleazey Hills and launch his book advocating the privatization of the ALPBC to a large adoring audience is OK in my book.

This event occured shortly after my fleeing back to Sydney in 2017. Other Cats were there although I didn’t know them at the time.

Lots of hot young womanges were present, if you might think that the Perfesser’s appeal was somewhat “selective”. 🙂

Jorge
Jorge
May 6, 2023 6:37 pm

ABC commentary employs political and multi culti hacks who blather on so it is not possible to hear the fantastic music and choir. Over to 10.

Bastard ABC.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:38 pm

“bangers and mash

onion gravy

treacle pudding

pimms

anti-histamines

this won’t end well”

It’s already not ending well, been told by sister I’m not allowed another one.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 6:40 pm

friends had a pony in at the annual races down in coastal town during the week

tuned in to the racing channel to watch my each way bet evaporate

as they ran through the days program up came the ultimate sjw trigger

a jumps race sponsored by the whalers tavern

duncanm
duncanm
May 6, 2023 6:40 pm

Thanks, dover, I asked last night why drag queens are so interested in this activity.

exactly.

The question is not why children would like to view drag queens (after all, they’re colourful and brash and interesting from a toddler’s perspective). The question is why drag queens want to perform in front of children.

Any answer you can think of is not pretty.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 6, 2023 6:41 pm

Dr. Jill walks into the Abbey.
Thank god!
If someone has a turn she’ll be on the spot.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 6:41 pm

It’s already not ending well, been told by sister I’m not allowed another one.

anti-histamine?

pimms?

sausage?

wut?

Crossie
Crossie
May 6, 2023 6:42 pm

Pedro the Loafer says:
May 6, 2023 at 5:40 pm
I belong to the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of monarchists, and I love the way the Poms do pomp and ceremony, so I will be among the many millions glued to the TV come 11.00am GMT.

I don’t care for Charles at all but I still prefer him to President Adam Goodes.

I will also be watching tonight and drinking something bubbly.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 6:45 pm

I don’t care for Charles at all but I still prefer him to President Adam Goodes.

That’s it

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 6:46 pm

Which TV station do you recommend? Do I go ALPBC, Seven or Nein?

Any preference so far?

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 6:46 pm

or Quentin Bryce eeerrkk

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 6, 2023 6:47 pm

I doubt that horse racing is the worlds most dangerous sport but it does take a lot of guts and skill. I would rather race sidecars and solos anyday.

Apparently, the second most dangerous sport is Polo next to the most dangerous sports which is motor cycle racing and car racing.

I published on this many years ago when I wrote the worlds first analysis of injuries in Equestrian events. On a ‘per hour’ basis, I concluded that horse riding was more dangerous than motorcycle riding, and that cross country riding was more dangerous than motorcycle racing, with one rider injury every 14 hours, and at the highest level (Olympics) one every 5 hours.

At one event I was Dr at, 4 riders went to hospital by ambulance, at another, 3 went to hospital and one was killed before half the riders had started!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1756135/

I concluded that ‘amongst equestrian sports, only rodeo appears more dangerous than cross country eventing’ – predictably, I got hate mail from the rodeo folk! – my reply, ‘I know you love your sport but don’t try to convince me its low risk!’

Having said that, after I switched to classic rallying (dirt and tarmac), I had one consecutive stretch of 4 events I was driving in where there was a fatality during the event.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 6, 2023 6:53 pm

I published on this many years ago when I wrote the worlds first analysis of injuries in Equestrian events. On a ‘per hour’ basis, I concluded that horse riding was more dangerous than motorcycle riding

Yeah, a young lass died a few days ago. Sad, but at least she was doing something she clearly loved doing.

Tragedy as teen equestrian dies after horse falls on her during competition (3 May)

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 6:54 pm

Jorgesays:
May 6, 2023 at 6:37 pm
ABC commentary employs political and multi culti hacks who blather on so it is not possible to hear the fantastic music and choir. Over to 10.

Bastard ABC.

I agree. How about some marches with all of that pomp and pomp. Big bands playing and all that as well. Tell those common taters that they are just common taters (spuds).

Speedbox
May 6, 2023 6:55 pm

Jorge says:
May 6, 2023 at 6:37 pm

Yes. Typical ABC disrespect. Pro-monarchists, pro-treaty/voice getting their 10 minutes to vent their spleen. One woman was of Nigerian descent and although she admitted she was born in this country and has spent her entire life here, she ‘wondered’ what her Nigerian counterparts were thinking on this day. Where do they get these people?!

I have been oscillating between Ch 9 and ABC because I get tired of being lectured on the ABC.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 6:55 pm

Err, Cats – this morning I launched a crude and abusive personal attack* on a personage that has been a commenter here (and the previous blogue) for many moons.

And you know what? I do not regret it.

The not so subtle application of their “Alinsky Rules”. They want it, they’ll get it.

In spades. 🙂

*is there any other kind?

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:55 pm

I’m watching Sky which is pretty good.

Cassie of Sydney
May 6, 2023 6:56 pm

“anti-histamine?

pimms?”

Both.

C.L.
C.L.
May 6, 2023 6:56 pm

Calli, I channel-flipped on to ABC and the first word I heard was “racism.”

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 6, 2023 6:57 pm

We can get about half our supply from our own block. The crazy thing is the roadsides keep piling up with fallen timber.

Yep, I learned from firefighting that roads are a much more dangerous place than the paddocks adjacent because, not being ‘owned’, they don’t get maintained or used for grazing etc, thus build up fuel loads that can surprise you. I once had a grassie burn over my truck when it moved from the low grass in a grazed paddock to the high grass at the roadside.

Crossie
Crossie
May 6, 2023 6:59 pm

Farmer Gez says:
May 6, 2023 at 6:29 pm
There’ll be no drag queens in the coronation parade.
A wonderful opportunity to promote tolerance and understanding missed.
Not enough kiddies perhaps.

There was some gossip about Prince Edward when he was young, then he got married and turned out to be the most normal of the Queen’s children.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 7:00 pm

On a personal note (again), I don’t derive any satisfaction from abusing commenters which is why I’ve tried mightily to resist doing so over the last few years.

Sometimes however, the attacked do bring it on themselves.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 7:00 pm

I don’t care for Charles at all but I still prefer him to President Adam Goodes.

President Noel Pearson?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 6, 2023 7:01 pm

crossie at 1842

I don’t care for Charles at all but I still prefer him to President Adam Goodes.

correct

it isn’t ideal but it beats the alternative

calli
calli
May 6, 2023 7:01 pm

That’s probably why there was “talk”, Crossie.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 7:01 pm

I channel-flipped on to ALPBC and the first word I heard was “racism.”

Word bingo.

Makka
Makka
May 6, 2023 7:03 pm

Lordy,
Magic Hohnson’s son arrives at a Lakers game;

Truthseeker
@Xx17965797N
?Son of NBA legend Magic Johnson arrives at the Lakers vs. Memphis playoffs.

https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1654546411243855879

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 6, 2023 7:03 pm

Yeah, a young lass died a few days ago. Sad, but at least she was doing something she clearly loved doing.

Tragedy as teen equestrian dies after horse falls on her during competition

Yes, most of the deaths in cross country are ‘rotational falls’ where the horse strikes a jump, pitching the rider onto the ground in front of it, then rotates around the rail and drops on the rider – I had to deal with one of these in SA and it was rather unpleasant.

Makka
Makka
May 6, 2023 7:03 pm

Johnson’s son..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2023 7:06 pm

42m ago
‘Bitter time’: ABC lambasts coronation

The ABC has lambasted the King’s historical coronation celebrations and panellists have described it as a “bitter time”, discussing at length the British monarchy and the impact of the colonisation on Indigenous Australians.

Led by presenters Jeremy Fernandez and Julia Baird, the public broadcaster’s panel included Q+A host Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man, who spoke of the pain felt by First Nations peoples.

“This is about how the past frames our ongoing continual suffering of one group of people,” Grant told the panel.

“For us … we read history through trauma. For us it is scars, it is broken bones and damaged souls and we need to heal.”

The beginning of the ABC’s coverage saw discussion on the expected costs spent on the coronation at a time when there is a cost of living crisis in the UK, and also protestors attending the event.

Indigenous lawyer Teela Reid said the celebration was a “bitter time” for Indigenous people.

“These days are difficult to navigate for a nation that hasn’t surrendered its sovereignty to its land,” she said.

“For me it is a bitter time and I think that we still have a very big reckoning to go as a nation, many Indigenous people around the world have called for an apology from the monarchy as a result of the invasion and colonisation.”

The panel also included the co-chair of the Australian Republican Movement, Craig Foster, who told viewers the history of the monarchy needed to be discussed in Australia.

“We are going back in time to learn truths … so we can walk forward together and at the heart of those untruths is this monarchy,” he said.

“At the heart of the wound in this nation is the crown and yet the crown has been above reproach.”

The only evident pro-Monarchy voice on the ABC’s first hour of coverage was federal Liberal MP Julian Lesser.

At the end of the first hour Fernandez thanked the panel and said: “It’s a really worthwhile thing, it’s the sort of thing some people would suggest is not appropriate to be having on the day of the coronation”.

“These days are difficult to navigate for a nation that hasn’t surrendered its sovereignty to its land,” she said.”

You surrendered your sovereignty when you walked off your lands, looking for whitefella beef, flour, sugar, tea and tobacco.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 7:10 pm

Ahem – new radio show thread is up, Cats 🙂

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 6, 2023 7:12 pm

Camilla getting a last brush of the mane and a carrot

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 7:12 pm

Rabzsays:
May 6, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Err, Cats – this morning I launched a crude and abusive personal attack* on a personage that has been a commenter here (and the previous blogue) for many moons.

And you know what? I do not regret it.

The not so subtle application of their “Alinsky Rules”. They want it, they’ll get it.

In spades. ?

*is there any other kind?

Well, as long as you didn’t get banned, then please keep up the great work.

Rabz
May 6, 2023 7:16 pm

Johnny- abusing people is the last resort of someone who has no other more subtle weaponry.

And it’s not a good look.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
May 6, 2023 7:21 pm

Dear Lidia,

Shall I send the Royal Marines to complete the genocide that was NEVER started?

Yours sincerely,
CR III

Robert Sewell
May 6, 2023 7:23 pm

Lizzie:

I won’t chuck over a thousand years of functioning Monarchical tradition out of Australia yet. If ever.

You’re still not getting an invite to Buck House, are you?

Johnny Rotten
May 6, 2023 7:24 pm

The beginning of the ABC’s coverage saw discussion on the expected costs spent on the coronation at a time when there is a cost of living crisis in the UK, and also protestors attending the event.

How about the cost of the coverage of the A Bleeding C going over to London and covering the Coronation? Ch 7, Ch 9 and Ch 10 are there. How about linking into their coverage and saving us long suffering Taxpayers some money. You leeches.

There is a cost of living crisis here in Australia, ABC. But then again, you would not know about that would you. As you are so overpaid, you would not feel the pain of the Taxpayer who pays your wages. You ABC leeches.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 6, 2023 7:32 pm

What Germanys failed energy transition can teach us

If Germans can’t make it work, it is impossible. The East Germans gave Communism their best shot and couldn’t make it work either.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 6, 2023 7:40 pm

The ABC, as you would expect, is dancing on the grave of Sir Terry Lewis:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-06/disgraced-queensland-ex-police-commissioner-terry-lewis/102312320

Yes, Lewis was a slimy crook (but, having met him, I can confirm that he could put on a very plausible front).

But the ABC is in complete denial about how little has changed under the sleazy regime of Anaesthesia Palace Chook and the loathsome Jacquie Trad and Jim Miles.

Robert Sewell
May 6, 2023 7:44 pm

One thing you will find in the gay community is a desire for it’s practitioners to appear pre pubertal. Why else the fetish with hairlessness?

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 6, 2023 7:46 pm

You tell us Robert- you seem to have a keen interest

Delta A
Delta A
May 6, 2023 7:49 pm

It’s hailing in southern Victoria.

Raining most of the day in this dryish SA region. 13 max and 20ml rain in 24 hours. Coming your way, Gez and Bushy.

Muddy
Muddy
May 6, 2023 7:50 pm

Old Lefty: …the sleazy regime of Anaesthesia…

That’s a great band name. A bit lengthy though.
Maybe just Sleazy Anesthesia?

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