What is GAE? (just to help an uncool kid out here)
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Watch the Vic SFL’s fk this up, again.
Skippers would still be liable for negligence but many events on board (including being hit by a boom I expect)…
Chris instigated and led Parliament’s Modern Slavery Inquiry, bringing about Australia’s Modern Slavery Act.Chris was awarded Anti-Slavery Australia’s Freedom Award, and…
Humphrey, nowadays — sadly — the question you must ask yourself before you submit a reader contribution to the Paywallian…
One thing I didn’t mention yesterday about being in the garden is that the two Camelia’s I planted nearly ten years ago are thriving. They have tripled in size, they have glossy leaves and a very promising set of buds ready to burst forth when their time is due. They are grand old bushes-to-be, with the rock face as a backdrop, next to the fifty-year-old Monsteria Deliciosa. They will last longer than I will now.
A humbling thought.
“Craig Kelly being right about Covid treatments
Pauline Hanson was on Sky last night (Kenny) and said how she was right all along about Covid lockdowns and treatments, and yet she was censored and pilloried, as was Craig Kelly. Pauline also said to Kenny that she knew he and Sky were scared of having her on because they were fearful of upsetting the powers that be.
Hanson was right from the beginning, as was Craig Kelly, a man who should still be in parliament. He was treated disgracefully by his own PM and party, who chose to side with the left against one of their own.
Dot at 9:23.
Please essplain?
Camelias, plural not possessive. Gotta get it right as a memorium.
Odd, my first attempt disappeared into the ether, then reappeared after the second try.
De Santis, the Swamp Rethuglican candidate.
Not to mention the banning of the live sheep trade.
Labor governments have never seen an independently profitable business they don’t want to destroy.
Anthropolgically, comparing herders with hunter gatherers is a bit like apples and oranges.
Shame Sancho, Shame!
Twiggy is a master of grift. I don’t believe he really, truly believes in the climate con. I suspect he knows it’s all bullshit but he goes along with it because he likes having money thrown at him. And who wouldn’t?
Lost an “o” somewhere.
“Sancho Panzersays:
May 25, 2023 at 9:17 am”
Yep.
I reckon Forrest though if he moved first, he might get a technology he could sell and the upfront costs now will be less than being forced to change later on.
Multi-skilling.
I can detest Rolf Harris and Richard Neville in equal measure.
My Melbourne transport app tells me there may be delays this weekend in the CBD due to “protest work”.
FMD it’s now a job?
They should at least make the point that, unless the governments can guarantee that there will never be another pandemic, given the momentous social, economic, personal, and emotional upheaval from Coof that they should now look back and see what things worked and which things did not.
I know most of it was nonsense (restricting contact to the elderly and frail made sense, but not for robust young people), and the government will never admit to getting things wrong, but forcing them to admit they would do it all over again now that the paranoia has abated and we are picking up the pieces.
Sancho
And I can also detest Their ABC in even greater measure. Their hypocrisy on that specific subject is galactic in scale.
Absolutely amazing that men ‘fighting with shovels’ advancing in ‘human waves’ would have a better loss ratio.
VIKPOL glowies.
Do they get paid OT after 12 hours?
Regarding the Masai we had a talk at Rotary from a couple who do water projects in Kenya.They deal with one Masai guy who has 147 wives.He was his dads 70 th son.
Indeed. I remember when I first visited Mexico in the late 1970s, and it was a very poor country. Yet, the locals were cheerful, their children were clean and well fed, and substance abuse was not a major problem. Of course, things have changed somewhat with the drug cartels, but I suspect that for most ordinary Mexicans the value system remains.
Similarly, in Murray Laurence’s excellent book High Times in the Middle of Nowhere, which is about living in and travelling through India in the 1970s, he writes about how very poor white collar workers somehow managed to wear brilliant white shirts and spotless clothes every day, even though they lived in the equivalent of those Japanese sleeping pods.
Culture, culture, every time.
May 2022 :- “You get a $275 reduction! And you get a $275 reduction! Everybody gets a $275 reduction in their power bill!”
May 2023 :- “30% increase? Meh! Without us it woulda been fitty pussent!”
Not a word about broken promises out of their ABC.
Would or wouldn’t?
In any case, the enabling legislation is still there federally and at state level and no Liberal/NP opposition in the land has foreshadowed any plans to amend or repeal it afaik.
Hanson was right from the beginning, as was Craig Kelly, a man who should still be in parliament. He was treated disgracefully by his own PM and party, who chose to side with the left against one of their own.
I have to say – & Cats like Indolent & others will agree – it hasn’t been easy taking a stand on Covid & the mRNA vaccines etc in the last few years. It has taken its toll. But it’s like a lot of issues discussed on this blog – you can only stand for what your head (and your heart) tells you.
Vicki, I’d have to check our dates for our Kenya and Tanzania trip, 2017 I think, but it was relatively recent. The village was made entirely out of mud huts and even the chief’s hut, which we went inside had only a fire to cook over and very narrow one-plank benches to sit on. Sleeping was on the floor.
This group had cattle and money but deliberately lived traditionally while recognising their children needed modern education. The young men did one of their extraordinary high-jumping dances for us, with the highest jumpers attracting the most female attention as future husbands. The children were kept aware of their origins and culture, although many would go on have professional careers after university. Some would return to carry on the traditions. A very ordered society where the value of everything is known. I was assessed at being worth fifteen cows in a bridal exchange, a very good price, but Hairy thought I deserved more. 🙂
True.
The focus on ABC hypocrisy is warranted.
My issue was someone giving Rolf the same free pass as the ABC gave to Neville.
You would have to have been a Treasury climate modeller to have thought you would get a $275 reduction voting for Albo.
N=1 but I can tell you that this time last year our electricity bill showed we were spending $5.10 per day. Same bill period this week has us at $20.40 per day.
150% increase thanks to the morons in charge promising us all a $250 decrease in power charges. Yeah, right.
We’ve only used gas for cooking and hot water in the last two months – bill for 2 months? $1000. For two people.
They are utterly committed to destroy us and send us back to candles and wood stoves.
Bah! $375 reduction not $250. But what’s $25 between politicians promises and reality anyway?
Vicki, I’d have to check our dates for our Kenya and Tanzania trip, 2017 I think, but it was relatively recent. The village was made entirely out of mud huts and even the chief’s hut, which we went inside had only a fire to cook over and very narrow one-plank benches to sit on. Sleeping was on the floor.
Gosh, Lizzie – nothing has changed after all those years! I have the most beautiful photographs -which I refer to as “me and the Masai”! But it was the same – dirt floor huts, smelling of cow dung. They wanted us to try the mixture of milk & cow blood – but it was a “no thanks” from me. They were hospitable and very, very dignified.
Lizzie:
The housing they already have is better then a lot of Australians.
They just see housing as a gift they don’t have to earn or take care of.
More handouts is not the answer – it just reinforces the idea that they are owed stuff because of the colour of their skin.
You should all say a prayer and word of thanks for the likes of Meryl Dorey and Greg Beattie in Australia and Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree overseas.
Would. Because they would refuse to rule anything out next time because it would mean admitting they did something wrong last time.
And both sides are equally culpable.
If true, this is gobsmackingly good:
One of the things I found interesting is that it builds on the brain’s capacity to learn and also to compensate for bits that are not working.
I really hope that this is a goer – would be life-changing for people who are paralysed.
Trump is just as big a ‘Swamp Creature’ as De Santis. Who employed John Bolton and appointed John Wray as head of the FBI?
In the end they all get the mud of the swamp on their clothes.
By the way if Florida is so bad has Trump left yet?
Believe that and I have a dacha to sell you Dover. The Wagner guys have improved their tactics but inexperience cost them a lot when they got that sector. Even Prigozhin admits they lost 20,000.
Wagner boss shamefully admits he has lost 20,000 fighters in bloody battle for Bakhmut (24 May)
I suspect it’s even higher than that. For a start it doesn’t count the regular battalions on the flanks, and who were trying unsuccessfully to close the supply route. Believing Russian bloggers is just as silly as believing Ukie ones.
True enough, Roger, but my point and that re the Masai was that no matter what the culture is, if it is not well integrated in itself and into the wider society then chaos will result. I don’t admire Masai culture, it is autocratic, misogynistic, gerontocratic and polygamous to boot, as well as being unimodal in production – everything revolves around cattle. However, they are moving into the modern world their way and their kids are not neglected or abused and have a future in modernity if they want to take it.
Hunter-gatherer cultures are harder, especially if they come ready-wrought with tribal antagonisms from endless skirmishes and vendettas. The old mission system which made a deliberate break and the cattle station system, which allowed the families along for the ride, both provided a form of assimilation. Assimilation was the best policy, but we are down the track on integration now, which is harder due to h/g’s lack of settlement (shut up Bruce Pascoe). Small group wandering over definite but contested ranges was the pattern of land usage. Settlement in viable towns and hefty education away from hunter-gatherer ways is the only sensible way out of the current morass. Get some housing in the towns and create some employment there; close down the remote ‘communities’ of squalor and drink and drug fuelled vendettas. That has to be the answer. Assimilation can begin once more.
From Phil Altman’s substack:
Through a Freedom of Information request, South Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antic has exposed the government’s attempts to censor Covid-19 related content and stifle public debate.
The document’s shocking revelations prove that the Australian Department of Home Affairs made more than 4,000 requests to digital platforms to censor all Covid-19 content. The Government essentially controls the main stream media by its sheer weight of expenditure on advertising – the main stream news media follows the Government narratives (or else). This is why there is, to a large extent, an undeclared ban on reporting vaccine deaths and injuries.
When a government clearly censors free speech and free thought on an issue as important as COVID, how can you trust them to tell the truth on any other major issue? Think global warming and The Voice.
Meanwhile this morning in the world’s most liveable city:
Climate protestors have shut down a major intersection in Melbourne’s CBD in the first of three days of planned disruption.
Around 100 Extinction Rebellion supporters marched down La Trobe St on Thursday morning, marching on Parliament Gardens, calling for the “strongest possible emergency action to avert the potential collapse of society”.
Marchers were met with a strong police presence.
An occupy event is planned near Princes Bridge tomorrow morning, with an evening bike gathering planned at the State Library. Another slow march on Parliament Gardens will take place on Saturday.
Yesterday, climate protestors caused traffic chaos in the city after a group blocked a major freeway exit ramp from the West Gate Freeway at about 8.30am. One person appeared to be locked onto a van blocking the road with a bike chain.?
Commuters are being warned to expect delays.
Small group wandering over definite but contested ranges was the pattern of land usage. Settlement in viable towns and hefty education away from hunter-gatherer ways is the only sensible way out of the current morass. Get some housing in the towns and create some employment there; close down the remote ‘communities’ of squalor and drink and drug fuelled vendettas.
Totally with you on that, Lizzie! But it means overturning the accepted wisdom of “return to country”. Nuggett Coombes and the ill informed do-gooders of the past (& assisted by the same mob today!) have a lot to answer for. But try getting that opinion published in today’s media!
Thanks. See my response.
And that was my point, among several other factors. The European encounter is just a much bigger cultural leap to make for a hunter gatherer culture than it is a more or less settled herder culture. Europeans can come to arrangements with the latter on land use, which in southern Africa did in fact happen with both thte Brits & the Boers. Whereas in Australia, once the Europeans started fencing off land, that was the end of hunting and gathering. After that point assimilation was the kindest policy.
johannasays:
May 25, 2023 at 9:56 am
Zulu villages in South Africa,… There is none of the squalor and hopelessness you see in local “remote communities” and the children are bright eyed, cheerful and proud of being who they are.
… Masai villages about which the same could definitely be said. The children also all go to school, proudly turned out in neat full British school uniforms that are washed in a stream and hung on bushes to dry and unlike the parents and themselves when at home, wearing shoes.
It’s the culture. Only the culture.
… Mexico in the late 1970s, and it was a very poor country. Yet, the locals were cheerful, their children were clean and well fed, and substance abuse was not a major problem. … for most ordinary Mexicans the value system remains.
Similarly, in Murray Laurence’s excellent book High Times in the Middle of Nowhere, which is about living in and travelling through India in the 1970s, he writes about how very poor white collar workers somehow managed to wear brilliant white shirts and spotless clothes every day, even though they lived in the equivalent of those Japanese sleeping pods.
Culture, culture, every time.
But, but, but what about the “beautiful culture” that some fractional indigene was promising to share with us? Shirley we should look to him for wisdom, not some bunches of furriners in Africa, Central America or Injia?
Free cars for everyone in the audience!
Gavin Newsom considering Oprah Winfrey to replace Dianne Feinstein in Senate: report (24 May)
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is being floated as a potential replacement for ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) should the 89-year-old lawmaker step down before the end of her term, according to a report.
Feinstein, who returned to the Senate earlier this month, has already said she will not run for re-election in 2024, but the Associated Press reports that several names including Winfrey’s are being discussed as potential replacements in case Feinstein retires.
I doubt the Dem machine would like that. For a start she has a working brain, unlike Mr Fetterman. And she’s been a successful businesswoman on her own right for a long time. On the other hand if Obama was first male black Prez then Oprah could be a not too bad first female black Prez.
Who did what? I expect stayed within the terms of their agreement prearranged with the head swampy. Too bad if you just want to get to work. Take the morning off. Grab a coffee somewhere, assuming they got to work.
Wear your 00s with PRIDE, Mother Lode!
Almost as good as the QandA @rseless chaps, but not quite the cachet of the bejewelled codpiece!
Full article from the Oz below. Comments have been cancelled after a few went up. Good luck with a fair hearing regarding any Aboriginal matters being heard in NSW Supreme.
A prominent NSW Supreme Court judge has accused a Nationals MP of racism over his opposition to an indigenous voice to parliament, in an extraordinary intervention that has raised concerns about the separation of powers between the judiciary and the workings of parliament.
In a highly charged email sent to Nationals MP Pat Conaghan on Wednesday morning, Ian Harrison, a judge with the NSW Supreme Court, described the federal MP’s views as “disgusting”, paternalistic and racist.
The email was sent in response to a speech to parliament Mr Conaghan had made on Tuesday night in which the member for Cowper had accused those attacking a ‘no’ vote on the basis it denied historical atrocities of being “recklessly dismissive” and would only encourage Australians to vote on emotion rather than logic.
Mr Conaghan, a former solicitor and police officer, told The Australian last night he had contacted senior counsel in NSW after receiving the email. He said counsel had expressed concerns about the constitutional ramifications of the correspondence by a member of the judiciary.
“I was astounded when I received it,” Mr Conaghan said.
“Everyone is entitled to their point of view but I found it extraordinary and when I received it my mind immediately turned to the separation of powers under the same constitution.”
The email by Justice Harrison, sent in his capacity as a judge, was dated May 24 at 8.54am.
A spokesman for the Supreme Court said Justice Harrison had sent the email, however, the Chief Justice could not be contacted for comment on whether the correspondence was appropriate.
In his email to Mr Conaghan, Justice Harrison expressed “dismay” at the MP’s speech, describing it as the “the lowest ebb in my day”.
“I appreciate that you are a member of Mr (David) Littleproud’s party, one of the first publicly to support the NO vote,” Justice Harrison wrote. “I despaired when he announced that decision, replete as it was with the perpetuation of institutional abuse of Australia’s First Nations people. You (sic) speech last night only increased my despair.
“I am not one of your electors so my opinion on anything has no direct bearing upon you (sic) electoral status. However, I was moved while listening to you speak to write to you now to express my complete sadness, not that you have predictably taken the stand that you have, but that you obviously do not understand or appreciate the depths of paternalism and racism that oozed from your words.
“Your argument is predicated upon the position that the Voice will add nothing practical to the lives of indigenous Australians.
“We can argue about that forever, but I will not do so here. However, what is so subtly disgusting about your contention is that it promotes the counterfeit spectre of harm to the Australian community while ignoring the immense and patently harmless symbolic benefit that recognition of the Voice will give to a long-neglected section of our society.
“There are no sleeping constitutional issues here. It is a simple matter of human decency. Your position, and the position of your party, is niggardly and cruel and mean-spirited. It is patently based upon a political stance that is indecent in its ignorance. May you live long enough, and acquire sufficient wisdom and self-awareness, to be ashamed of yourself.”
The email was signed: “Regards, Ian Harrison”.
Justice Harrison accused Mr Conaghan of lacking ‘human decency’ over his views on the voice.
Justice Harrison accused Mr Conaghan of lacking ‘human decency’ over his views on the voice.
Mr Conaghan is a member of the joint select committee for the voice to parliament, which was tasked with examining the government’s proposed wording of the referendum for a voice to parliament and executive government. It concluded that the constitutional alternation bill be passed without amendment, locking in support for the Albanese government’s proposed referendum question.
There were two dissenting reports, one from the Nationals and one from the Liberal Party.
Mr Conaghan on Tuesday night was one of a number of Coalition MPs to speak against the referendum bill. In his speech, he praised Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney for her “incredible initiatives” in indigenous-led health outcomes and other outcomes for indigenous Australians. His criticism of the bill was consistent with the Coalition position. “The beauty of our democracy is that we are able to respectfully differ in opinion when it comes to the methods in which our shared goals can be achieved” he said.
“Enhancements and changes to programs and initiatives can be swiftly made without a referendum on constitutional change that divides a nation along the lines of race. Enhancements and changes can be made without the delay that waiting for a referendum requires. Enhancements and changes can be made without the cost of a referendum.
“Positive steps can be taken without unintentionally encouraging Australians to have conversations that contain the words ‘us’ and ‘them’ in place of ‘one’ and ‘all’. “This bill conflates two entirely separate issues: firstly, recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution – a point upon which we all agree and that does not have unforeseen consequences; and secondly, support for a constitutionally enshrined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory body, a point that is a cause of concern for many.
“These two distinct and separate issues have not been made clear to the Australian public throughout this inquiry and appear to have been designed with that intent.”
There were others.
Sad. And evil.
Roger Waters dresses up as SS officer, compares Anne Frank to Abu Akleh in Berlin (24 May)
Roger Waters dressed up as an SS officer and compared Anne Frank to Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a concert at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin last week.
…
After an intermission, Waters walked on stage in a SS uniform as an inflatable pig with various words and symbols and glowing eyes floated over the crowd and banners in the style of the Third Reich but with crossed hammers instead of a swastika hanging from the ceiling. Waters proceeded to fire a fake machine gun toward the audience.
He won’t get the treatment that Dominic Perrottet got, for far less reason, because Waters is a lefty. I hate it when talented musicians go bad. Rolf Harris being the particular example today.
Lizzie
Deliberately choosing a traditional lifestyle by consenting adults, nothing wrong with that.
People even tried communism that way, only proving that as a social system it doesn’t work.
But I ask you what is “traditional” in living in the aboriginal settlements?
It is not lack of land they couldn’t wander about, after all they own 60% of Aus. according to a poster here recently. Sure Sidney and Melbourne is out at the moment, but who knows how long?
Let’s see how you should deal with Extinction Rebellion protestors.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-wSckXbfc
He didn’t stand a chance. ‘Indecent assault’ isn’t rape. Had he been a Pakistani Muslim gang member he would have walked. Harris’ real offence was being a white middle aged man and therefore guilty of whatever we say.
FFS
Wonder what Sidney would think about being owned and walked over but?
The leftist noise machine is being uncharacteristically incurious about a shooting at Perth’s Atlantis Beach Baptist College.
Update on Alleged “White Supremacist” Who Crashed U-Haul into White House Barrier: Sai Kandula Bought His Nazi Flag Online, Supports Eugenics and One World Order, and IS NOT A US CITIZEN
MSNBC’s Rattner: Green Provisions in Inflation Reduction Act Will Cost Hundreds of Billions More than Estimated, But That’s ‘Good News’
There are school shootings and then there are school shootings. You take what you want from them. Like any good smorgasbord.
Beer industry ‘in shock’ that Bud Light backlash continues as expert warns of supply shortages of rival lagers
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Anheuser-Busch has lost $15.7 BILLION in value since Bud Light stabbed their customers in the back.
This movement is POWERFUL.
In past 24 hours have had 2 comments rejected by Courier Mail regarding Aboriginal articles.
One related to an article where the Brisbane Mayor mentioned the three Brisbane Aboriginal groups. I pointed out a cinema had a sign saying land of the Turrbal and I looked them up. Their web page claims own all Brisbane land but only 50 of them remaining. I asked if Premier could confirm would be entering into treaty with them and discussing reparations. Also mentioned the Jagger disputed ownership of parts of Brisbane.
Nothing controversial as based purely on facts. Yet rejected. It reminded me of all my Covid vaccine comments rejected. I think it is obvious we are now in similar territory as nothing must detract from the narrative.
This is how the so called free press mould and distort the debate.
America’s biggest children’s hospital HALTS gender reassignment treatment for minors under new Texas law – as whistleblower slams pro-trans ‘activist’ doctors who ‘scare’ parents
By the way if you are in Brisbane and see any signs about Aboriginal land ownership in offices and shops etc make a post about which tribe. Could be interesting.
Burning down each other’s houses, in inter-clan feuds, does very little to help.
When will we learn that this disgraceful member of the judiciary has been stood down?
It will be interesting to see where the NSW Supreme Court judge thing goes. That is really Pat O’Shane and Magistrates Court stuff.
And don’t forget the cup of coffee.
Color me cynical, but why do I think that number will increase, several times over, when the subject of reparations is raised?
I’m putting this one here just because.
Ike and Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits (1973)
Vale, Aunty Entity.
And …
RFK Jr tweeting about making US elections bullet proof is not something I thought I’d see.
Tasered 95 woman, brown bread.
“We’re going to solve the nursing home crisis one way or another…..”
Commuters are being warned to expect delays.
Unless they sort this shit out themselves….
Re Queenslanders being shipped to sea-world.
Louis CK has a bit about fat people being sent to the zoo for an X-ray or MRI.
https://youtu.be/_bJ8Dak6UvI?t=151
20% of 50K is not 20K but 10K. As to inexperience, they are no more inexperienced than their opposing units, often better led, and with better fire support, so the loss ratio will be either similar or better.
Regular units aren’t Wagner.
The document’s shocking revelations prove that the Australian Department of Home Affairs made more than 4,000 requests to digital platforms to censor all Covid-19 content. The Government essentially controls the main stream media by its sheer weight of expenditure on advertising – the main stream news media follows the Government narratives (or else). This is why there is, to a large extent, an undeclared ban on reporting vaccine deaths and injuries.
1984 – Mong Edition
On the other hand if Obama was first male black Prez then Oprah could be a not too bad first female black Prez.
Michelle has her eyes on that prize.
Went to this last night, excellent:
https://astanaballet.com/en
Now that’s what I call “having a crack”!
Realistically, how would swapping the Wookie for Biden actually change anything happening in the US today?
Re the Rolf Harris issue: I didn’t follow the cases closely, but was surprised at the relative lightness of the sentence – given the media hype. It seems that the convictions were for assault, but not actual rape.
While not diminishing the betrayal of trust, it would seems that the media engaged on a pretty significant “pile on”.
Rolf Harris was a predator.
He preyed upon under age children.
It was non-consensual.
He should have been pursued decades earlier.
He should have been sent to prison decades earlier.
The people who enabled him &/or said nothing should have been sharing a prison cell with him.
Its a man baby, yeah!
Why are butch Lesbos so fugly.
Jorge:
Ridden hard and put away wet, as we horsie owners like to say.
Here we go again.
The proponents on one hand claim that it is ‘purely symbolic’, but on the other hand claim that it will deliver real benefits to Aboriginal people.
Which is it?
My opinion, FWIIW, is that the referendum will deservdly fail.
Of course, that will be used as evidence that Australians are terminal racists.
Barking Turd:
Steel knitting needles can be bloody lethal in the hands of a 95 year old…
I’m detecting a trend here.
dover – someome is messing with your upticks. I tried to uptick rickw’s comment at 11.31am and it went from 4 to 3.
Sad.
I see the BBC has weighed in on the Stan Grant affair.
The Australian media – including the ABC – is racist, apparently.
They’ve even found a couple of ex-employees that claim this.
One woman, of Lebanese ethnicity, reports that whenever a story about something bad happening in the ME came up, her colleagues would joke, “What have your cousins been up to now?”
The horror.
Of course, the BBC is impeccable.
One foot in the grave.
Inquiry into missing woman Melissa Caddick finds Sydney fraudster is dead but how she died still remains a mysteryI (Sky News, 25 May)
A coroner has determined conwoman Melissa Caddick has died after she vanished more than two years ago when it was discovered she had tricked investors and friends into giving her millions of dollars.
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Melissa Caddick, 49, vanished in November 2020 following raids by ASIC and the Australian Federal Police on her luxurious Dover Heights home in the city’s east. … A couple of months later, Caddick’s decomposing foot inside a running shoe washed up more than 450 kilometres from her home onto a New South Wales South Coast beach.
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She had left behind her keys, wallet, and never returned home. The mysterious disappearance of the conwoman has left the nation puzzled.
That coroner is quick! Presumably no female fraudsters have been seen in the last year or two hopping around on one foot. I don’t know if anyone is doing a fillum project but the whole story is very interesting. Might be a bit dangerous though seeing how weird her final exit was.
Rosie:
About 10 years ago I bought a small safe from the US. It arrived in a box with a shipping label attached to it.
The box was in a second box also with a shipping label in it.
Both boxes had been opened at some stage in the shipping process.
The inner cardboard box had details such as weight etc. The safe weighed 10.? kilos.
The outer cardboard box had similar information – weight etc. But the weight was printed as 20.? kilos
I hadn’t noticed the disparity until about a year later, but decided to let customs know.
And that was the last I ever heard of it – nothing, nada, nil. Just not interested.
“We’re going to solve the nursing home crisis one way or another…..”
They did pretty good with covid and the “vaccines”.
a long-neglected section of our society.
Yeah, $30+ billion a year of “neglect”.
Just re-reading that Twiggy interview. Australia is fu.ked.
Who would have thought Treasury selling wine with Snoop on the label wouldn’t have been a long term winner?
@sarc
I don’t disagree with you, Gabor. The settlements are a nightmare, the worst of traditional life and a lot of modern drug abuse. I would, as I’ve said, bulldoze them and move the people into town housing. Best we can hope for is that the populations there slowly move themselves into town, as they are starting to do now.
As for land rights, I disagree with the Mabo judgement and would repeal it if I could.
I certainly don’t want any treaties or reparations to be paid, just a reasonable level of assistance towards assimilation.
I DO recognise that aboriginal people have had a difficult time under failed policies over the years in remote communities where they were herded and left to stew in cultural absurdities. Also that they joined into Australian life in many places as the lowest paid workers, often receiving considerable racial abuse. That said, many white workers were lower paid and received abuse for their ethnicity or religion, whenever it conflicted with that of the ruling powers. That’s the nature of the past, it didn’t have today’s approach to kindness and equality. It’s the past though and we can’t make amends to all for it. Doing so selectively for a few in our Constitution is wrong, because that is worded as a grab for power and huge financial and ownership changes at the expense of the mainstream workers of all backgrounds who have made this society and also of the powerless amongst aborigines. Vote NO, in spite of what well-meaning Judges say. They are the sort of witterers who have caused this problem.
Australia should follow the success of the US & have indigenous casinos.
As for the ‘settler wars’, these are debatable in extent and in effects, were skirmishes not wars, were common to all settlements of new lands in the nineteenth century and were certainly not a result of any government policy. Similarly, the Stolen Generation was not what has been claimed and seems to have been an attempt to ensure the safety, welfare and education of children. The term itself with the unfair implication it carries has had the deleterious effect of making welfare workers leave aboriginal children in the present day in situations of grave danger and neglect.
Perhaps Judges sitting on high may wish to reconsider their opinions, just as they are asking current Parliamentarians and the Australian population to reconsider theirs if they disagree with him.
Erm…always pay attention to the details, Gabor.
They have legal rights over and interests in upwards of 57% (and growing, as native title claims succeed) of the continent under various forms of title. Those rights and interests aren’t always exclusive; sometimes they co-exist alongside other interests, such as pastoral leases.
About 15% is freehold.
…disagree with them. It is more than one Judge who opines from on high about the voice referendum.
There are also judges, and other legal luminaries, who are strongly against the YES position, and for very good legal reasons.
Just happened again – a +1 turned into a zero,
Utterly puerile.
OTOH, here is a link to Tina Turner (then aged about 52) wowing the crowd and the musicians.
Sensational.
Simply the Best.
The uncharitable, like me, might say they already do.
Can beer convince Americans to drink recycled wastewater? (Phys.org, 24 May)
Bud Lite or Revival Lager? Decisions, decisions. Drink up!
Innocently, this can happen if the same person presses Like twice. I wouldn’t read malice into it automatically. And if it is malicious, it is puerile and not worth worrying about.
Thanks Johanna for the link to the Tina clip. I got quite emotional viewing it. She simply was “the Best”!
Wow, that sure escalated fast:
Tasering Gran: 2020 – 2022 = Gran is told she’s a threat to society, is endangering our “freedom” & the cop gets a Commissioner’s Commendation.
Tasering Gran: 2023 = Criminal charges laid, against the cop.
Robert Sewellsays:
May 25, 2023 at 12:07 pm
Barking Turd:
What if she just had a ball of wool in her hands from some knitting time? Would they phone plod because they thought she might strangle them?
Steel knitting needles can be bloody lethal in the hands of a 95 year old…
As could plastic ones!
Wow!
Thanks, Joh.
And what about their responsibilities?
And you know this because of your recent dinner parties? Attended by ‘legal luminaries’?
As usual, Lizzie is boasting and evidence is sparse, to say the least. Put up or shut up.
can’t be long before we here from that perennially persecuted (but strangely successful) ex-oil-rig worker, Yassmin whats-her-face. Is she still in the UK?
The cop made one mistake.
He should have used pepper spray and a baton, with the excuse that she wasn’t masked.
Jimmy Barnes & Tina Turner
Roger says:
May 25, 2023 at 12:38 pm
…after all they own 60% of Aus. according to a poster here recently.
OK, I’m baker not a lawyer, what does “legal rights over and interests in upwards of 57% ” mean in reality?
Can they dictate/permit certain use of said land, or restrict access?
Or what?
I’ll still enjoy Rolf Harris songs.
Once a girl knew, instinctively, how to deal with what used to be called “a dirty old man”; and didn’t need to have this type sent to prison. Probably most women could recall such a man, or two, who would be charged and gaoled today.
No man should kid himself that it was traumatic for all – there were many girls who giggled and tittered about such men, and what they regularly got up to, especially if they were in the entertainment industry.
As adult women, some might be cutting out their stories from today’s “newspapers”.
Jorge 10.44am
I agree
“If the right want to change the zeitgeist, if they [want] to claw back power and if they want to try and change things, then they need to… “
… stop being “moderate” and go on the attack!
Don’t just slow the left down, undo stuff.
Don’t just undo stuff, put the opposite in place.
And don’t stop to allow them to complain about stuff – get it all lined up and do it one after the other, until the left are reeling about the third thing and have forgotten the first thing! Bang, bang, BANG! Then keep going. Don’t stop.
In fact, go too far – the left will eventually get back in and undo it anyway, so who cares? And while they are busy undoing the excesses, they won’t have time to undo the good, moderate changes for the better.
If you can’t or won’t do it, then get the hell out of the way and let others who can and will do it take the spot.
reminds me of The Shark Arm Case
I saw evidence today where SnapChat’s AI interface was asked by a 13 year old girl about dating a man 18 years older. AI’s response was “it’s great that you’ve met someone.”
Next entry is “we’re going out of State and he’s taking me to a romantic dinner, we are talking about having sex”
AI’s response “that’s great, you should always choose your first time carefully but if you want to help the mood you should light some candles and have nice music on”
Once a girl knew, instinctively, how to deal with what used to be called “a dirty old man”; and didn’t need to have this type sent to prison. Probably most women could recall such a man, or two, who would be charged and gaoled today.
One New Years Eve my then boyfriend (& now husband) and I went with friends to celebrate at Kings Cross in Sydney. I was dressed in the (then) obligatory mini skirt – a leopard skin number, as I recall. As the NY chimes rang over the big crowd, I felt a hand creep up under my skirt. Instinctively, I turned and kicked the dickens out of a dirty old man who was having a grope. I was so mad I also kicked one of my friends by mistake – something he reminds me of to this day!
The old man disappeared into the crowd. But as well as having my dignity restored, I learned that you do NOT wear a mini skirt in a crowded venue. I tried telling my 17 year old granddaughter this lesson recently, only to me howled down that a woman has a right to wear what she likes.
Maybe. But common sense trumps principle on such occasions. But modern women won’t have a bar of that argument.
Vale, Tina. Two of her best:
Nutbush City Limits
River Deep Mountain High
Just ignore the unperson involved.
“There are also judges, and other legal luminaries, who are strongly against the YES position, and for very good legal reasons.”
Lizzie is correct. There are a few legal luminaries who’ve bravely stood up and spoken against the Voice, both here in NSW and in Victoria, and they are particularly aggrieved at how the various state law societies have decided to support the Yes vote irrespective of whether their members agree or disagree.
Two well known NSW barristers, Clive Steirn and Louise Clegg (who’s married to Angus Taylor and is a prominent barrister), have spoken against the NSW Bar Association’s vocal support for the Voice. Lana Collaris, a Victorian lawyer, is on the record as saying that the Victorian Bar Council would “exceed its powers” if it made a public statement on the Indigenous voice to parliament. Ms Collaris appeared on Sky last week to speak about it. Former HC judge, Ian Callinan, is quite vocal in his opposition to a Voice.
However, those speaking up are still a minority, because too many are cowered by da Voice zeitgeist.
There was a supremely superficial examination of celebrity sleazebags on Chris Kenny’s show last night, just before I turned it off. Various characters such as Bill Cosbee** and Jimmy Savile were mentioned, as was the “hiding in plain sight” phenomenon.
It is simply inexplicable how Savile got away with it for as long as he did, even though some of his alleged victims were cadavers. I’ll never forget the footage (this is one for Vicki above) of Savile among a group of large group of school aged girls where is clearly groping the bottoms of most of the girls he’s surrounded by (the horrified looks on their faces was the giveaway, as was Savile’s monstrous leering).
The bloody BBC.
Johnny Rotten was one of the few to publicly denounce Savile, before it was ensured that the former didn’t do so again.
* The first LP I ever had was by Rolf Harris, gifted to me when I was about six
**Incorrectly referred to as Bill Crosbie
However, those speaking up are still a minority, because too many are cowered by da Voice zeitgeist.
Not dissimilar to the refusal of medicos to speak up against the novel and insufficiently tested mRNA vaccines.
While I can understand the reluctance to swim against the tide and especially to risk loss of jobs and income, but it nevertheless has diminished, indeed extinguished, my former belief in the bravery and independence of Aussies.
How times change.
Although the shopping bags did look menacing.
Apologise if posted but threat neutralised. Daily Telegraph:
Make him the commish.
Neighbours on the usually-quiet and leafy streets of North Willoughby told of their shock at the confrontation between NSW Police and the man in his 40s, who was gunned down on Alexander Ave before 12pm.
It is a real shock around here. I was eating an early lunch at home (Cremorne) & intermittently causing this blog while waiting to pick up husband from hospital, when I heard of the drama. Friend who drove through Willoughby around that time wondered why it was necessary to gun the chap down. Who knows?
“cruising “ this blog……..
The conditions claimed by Constable Frizzel as providing some evidentiary support to a rape allegation are outrageous. No wonder so many men appear to have been railroaded.
The conditions that she outlined proved that an outrageously inebriated woman fell asleep in a ministerial office.
Everything else that the esteemed Constable claimed was pure unsupported conjecture. It is as applicable to this very serious issue as it is to the case for the existence of Santa Claus.
All true. Amazing thread. People like this 10 years ago would have thought the whole idea of transgender absurd but tolerable, now they think it is common sense and to oppose it, wicked.
It’s not the clothes that caused the problem Vicki, he was there for the purpose.
I got ‘groped’ standing on a crowded red rattler on the way to school when I was eleven.
I’m not blaming my school uniform (which was purchased to last me through secondary school, tunic below the knees, jumper, blazer swam on me).
I was like a deer in the headlights, though when the train stopped and a passenger got out of their seat I leapt for it to get away from him.
Dover, we now know how the Nazis convinced normal Germans to slaughter Jews by the millions. The fact is 95% of people are gullible and stupid. A dangerous combination.
When the security guard asked Brittany if she wanted medical attention or an ambulance, she declined…..
Retired judge Nicholas Hasluck KC is another voice against the voice.
DeSantis likely gets no bump from his announcement overnight.
Just arrived back in Hellbourne. Was at Hobart airport and a boomer ask me if I was heading for Vic. I said yes, unfortunately. She replied, its not that bad. I retorted, it was a lot better. No further exchanges were had.
This male exploitation of young females “thing” is interesting & invokes a lot of disagreement.
Personally, and many may disagree, but I have always believed that much is simple biology. Men do tend to lust after young women. Wow – does anyone disagree with that? This is generally controlled by social convention and laws in general.
But this is something that all women, surely, recognise. I have never stood for unwanted or sleazy male contact. There is something, I guess, in my demeanour that speaks quite loudly of that general rule. As a result, I can honestly say, that in my personal and professional life, I have just not encountered sexism personally. I have always been respected, in particular, by professional male colleagues, and by male friends in general. So – with the exception of the sleazy old fellow – I have had nil unwanted overtures of that nature. It is a curious thing – in view of all the loud complaints of modern women – but there it is.
For what it is worth, I love men. I enjoy their company (dare I say – more than women??) & I particularly like the way their minds work . Maybe this is the source of that respectful relationship. Who knows? Mind you, some men do occasionally mistake this interest for something else – but that is quickly rectified.
Magilla Magied I believe.
Hunchback about to announce rent caps. Things gonna get hot this winter.
Not taking away anything from Twiggy and what he’s accomplished….but Twiggy is fu.ked , he’s full retardo on climate. He’s full on militant with his climate change beliefs. But guys like this could band together and force the issue to go nuclear and make Australia better but the Government money must be so sweeeeeeet.
A bit of history from here, only found out about her because an airport bears her name:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliya_Moldagulova
Magilla Magoo more like it.
Axle Magpie?
I don’t subscribe to the all men are potential predators narrative but is there a teeny tiny cohort out that prey on the vulnerable?
Oh yes, they exist.
Which is why I discouraged the young women in my family from putting themselves in vulnerable positions, alone, at night, in unfamiliar places.
In When a Plan Comes Together news:
NSW energy transition needs $10bn as delays strike
For those who may have forgotten:
Technical note: the correlation between the NSW Government summonsing “nearly $10bn in urgent spending” by the private sector and “electricity prices in NSW are indicatively expected to be in the lowest 10 per cent of the OECD” is very, very low.
It turns out that the problem is that nobody realised that farmers couldn’t be bought off for $200,000/km for transmission powerlines across their land – as per the Excel spreadsheet.
An AEMO Arts/Law graduate was unavailable for comment.
It is clear Rolf Haris was a groper but the list of charges against him were basically nothing burgers like grabbing someone’s bum in a crowd.
He lost a lot of points for screwing his daughters adult friend I.e over the age of 18.
Anyone else facing similar charges would have expected a bond.
Thorpie’s real aim – to be in the news once a fortnight….
The Territory’s police union has taken aim at a Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe’s “disrespectful publicity stunt” over Alice Springs funding.
Senator Thorpe stormed out of a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday after a scathing exchange with NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
The pair’s shouting match came after it was confirmed $14.2m of federal funding for high-visibility police operations in Central Australia was from the National Indigenous Australians Agency.
Ms Thorpe said the funding was “disgusting” and described police as “the ones killing our people”.
NT Police Association acting president Lisa Bayliss said the Indigenous senator should publicly apologise for the “disgraceful vilification” of police.
“Senator Thorpe’s comments demonstrate a severe lack of understanding and awareness of the dire situation faced by NT police and the pressing need for increased resources and staffing,” Ms Bayliss said.
“The reality is the NT Police Force is critically under resourced and understaffed, making it exceedingly difficult for them to effectively combat the escalating crime wave which is plaguing the Territory.
“Our members strive, every single day, to keep our communities safe – while facing dangerous and volatile situations with limited resources.”
Ms Bayliss said the $14.2m – which will put an extra 30 police officers, 21 police auxiliary liquor inspectors and 10 security guards in Alice Springs – was “crucial” for police to effectively protect the community.
“Senator Thorpe’s comments not only highlight her ignorance of the harsh realities faced by the NT police force, but they also expose her disregard for the safety and wellbeing of the communities they serve,” she said.
“This is nothing more than a disrespectful publicity stunt, using the NT police force as a pawn for political point scoring to create further division in the community.”
Police Federation of Australia chief executive Scott Weber said Ms Thorpe’s comments showed “a complete lack of understanding and empathy” for the challenges officers face.
“Instead of attempting to score cheap political points, the Senator should take the time to educate herself with the realities on the ground, particularly in Central Australia, and the immense pressure under which the NT police forces operates before making baseless and misguided comments,” he said.
“NT police play a crucial role in protecting our community and fostering a sense of unity.
“They do an absolutely sensational job at keeping communities, right across the Territory, safe.”
Ms McCarthy, who is also Indigenous, shot back during the estimates hearing on Wednesday, defending the work of Territory police and need for the funding.
“You’re the one who brings disgrace to the Senate, to your people … how dare you,” she said to Ms Thorpe.
Both senators withdrew their remarks before Ms Thorpe walked out of the session, saying it was “an absolute disgrace”.
NT News
Interesting take:
The Voice of the Voice?
The ABC’s internal ombudsman finds that it’s coronation coverage did not breach it’s standards of impartiality:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-25/abc-ombudsman-findings-king-coronation-coverage/102392616
Quelle surprise, as Hendo would say.
What Frizell said was that Higgins’ nakedness was “some evidentiary support” for a finding of ultimate fact that intercourse took place. And so it is, but would have such low probative value standing alone that it might have been excluded on the trial. To have value it would need to be joined with other evidence to prove this fact. Higgins claim of having been penetrative could be added, and its force would turn on the jury’s assessment of her credibility. If the jury did believe her, there was really no need for other evidence. Note that the law did not require Higgins evidence to be corroborated.
The outrage of some bloggers here is beside the point. The critical issue was Higgins credibility.
On Rolf Harris, by the way, I recall reading at the time of his conviction a reminiscence by a woman from WA. She was about twelve and the great man was due to visit. But a presenter at the local radio station in Geraldton warned her to be careful because Harris was a notorious dirty old man.
I.e. people knew!
‘Am watching the livestream of the Board of Inquiry from Canberra. I realize that such inquiries need to be meticulous but today’s proceedings are moving very slowly indeed, with much repetition of questions . I guess there is no pressure to move forward briskly when you are a counsel being paid by the hour by the taxpayer or a counsel representing an agency such as the VOC, and see benefit in using up time praising the “good works” of your taxpayer-funded employer. The Police who have been in the witness stand for many hours at a time keep their answers short to a simple “yes” or “no” or “can you repeat that question”. But I guess this is how these things proceed. It is obvious that the DPP and the VOC are trying to expose the Police as being incompetent, insensitive, biased or in other words to shift blame but on the contrary the Police are holding up well despite some paperwork errors. The extraordinary amount of paperwork and consultation required to deal with such a case has been an eye-opener for me.
Target tries out for go woke, go broke…
Megyn Kelly slammed Target for launching ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits because women ‘don’t have penises,’ as the chain-store pulls Pride displays after backlash.
Kelly, 52, has joined in with the wave of others who have taken offense to Target’s new pride collection, especially the ‘tuck-friendly’ swimwear that can be found in the women’s section.
‘[Target] decided to willingly partner with this clothing manufacturer to make pride month gear that includes bathing suits that are quote ‘tuck-friendly’ that have extra material around the crotch, which no woman needs because we don’t have penises down south in Rio,’ she said on her show on Wednesday.
‘We don’t need extra material and we don’t need tuck-friendly, but the Target CEO is out there defending this saying: “Look, the extra crotch wear and the tuck-friendly bathing suits are important, that this whole line in the pride department is a good business decision. it’s the right thing for a society.”‘
Despite facing sharp criticism for the release, which also includes items for babies and children, CEO Brian Cornell told Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast he approved of the campaign.
Daily Mail
Dover, we now know how the Nazis convinced normal Germans to slaughter Jews by the millions. The fact is 95% of people are gullible and stupid. A dangerous combination.
I don’t think it was gullibity or stupidity that attracted folk to camp “work” .. it was, more likely, POWER, unbridled power! .. the power of life and death without any consequences to the wielder ..
We saw it , to a lesser extent, during the “lockdowns” when plod “thugs” were given carte blanche to coerce people .. most relished the “do-as-we-say-not as we do” authority and the added pepper spray/baton encouragement it entailed whilst the upper echelons adopted the “Nelson” eye approach ……
We also see it, regularly, with troughers .. whether they be enriching themselves or maaates or just downright incompetent ( ROBODEBT) .. they couldn’t care less attitude cos OPM and we-still-walks- away-wiv-an-exhorbitant reward ……..!
Thorpe wants to be the spittle that flies out when a voice is shouting at its angriest.
Sancho
My problem is how the court systems run now in the west.
1. The presumption of innocence is under attack in ways not seen until this decade and the last one.
2. “Child” complainants (who may be decades older now) and others for specific crimes, have rules about questioning them, vagueness is taken as a sign of veracity of claims of mistreatment, because of presumed proven mistreatment – reminds me of a phrase, more relevant elsewhere, the source rising above the stream…
3. How do you defend yourself against multiple claims of low level assaults decades later when neither party can verify there whereabouts but if you can and require the other party to do so, questioning the prosecution narrative is frowned upon and a lot of leeway is given for altering complaints (mid trial!) given 2.?
4. Then we have dangerous idiocy regarding probity as a function of judicial officer’s personal preferences, majority jury verdicts, police and prosecution coaching of complainants as well as playing silly buggers with charge sheets and indictments.
A fair trial may not even possible anymore (if it ever was).
My wife used to get propersals all the time at work, Vicki. Mostly by harmless old dudes but sometimes I I’d have go in to tell the groping ones to rack off.
mem – I have been watching a bit of the inquiry (till I lose interest). The oral examination takes place against the probably tens of thousands of pages of written evidence exchanged by way of affidavit and exhibits. Unless you are intimately familiar with it all (probably only a handful of people in the room) the importance of much of it will not be apparent. Barristers rarely (or at least should rarely) start a line of inquiry without a pretty good idea where it will end up.
Long standing friends of the family were at school with Rolf Harris. Girls learned early never to be alone with him.
My sense was that you almost had to assume intercourse took place to conclude that her nakedness supported her claim that it took place.
It could as easily ‘support’ the claim that she was dressed when Lehrmann left her and for some reason afterward she stripped down and fell asleep. Which, of course, is Lehrmann’s contention. And all either of these mean is that they don’t contradict what they claim.
Not being an expert in cases such as rape I would expect it was less common for a rapist to completely undress their victim. But I would speculate that, depending on motivations and delusions, some do.
Wot about Booomers?????
Boss says one age group of workers needs praise an extraordinary 156 times a year in order to feel valued
AFP Commissioner says Gen Z need the most reassurance
He said a study found they need praise three times a week
Millennials need praise three times a year and Gen X once a year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12122339/How-praise-Gen-Z-Gen-X-need-year-according-AFP-Commissioner-Reece-Kershaw.html
From what I heard today, the police were using a matrix diagram to try and tease out the possible pros and cons of evidence in the case. “She was naked”, was just one factor listed on the pro side. During today’s hearing the counsel for the DPP honed in on this and used the old tactic of, so you are saying this is conditional evidence of sexual intercourse. He was then corrected by Head Honcho, who said I don’t think you can say conditional, perhaps “support” and Counsel quickly changed it to “some evidentiary support” and quickly got Frizell to acknowledge this, which I think she was foxed into saying. And this will now be taken out context.
LOL
C’mon man, you know, the thing!
Johanna:
If Australians were racists, the Asian and African population would be shrinking as they left.
They are not, ergo, Australians are not racists.
mem – I got the impression there was a fair bit of fishing and muddying of the waters going on today. Don’t think that will fly with Sofronoff.
The fact that intercourse took place? No. Not by any means.
It is an extremely limited measure of support for an assertion that intercourse took place, and nothing else.
Holy shit.
Paralysed man walks again using his mind in wild medical breakthrough
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/paralysed-man-walks-again-using-his-mind-in-wild-medical-breakthrough/news-story/95f8c303316b396d8af4940cd920a4ce
I’ll still enjoy Rolf Harris songs.
Smooth Criminal is an awesome song.
But Michael Jackson should have still been put down.
There’s always a handful. The giant Spiderman net. Shoot the knives out of his hand. Shoot that moving target, but only in the ankle and away from a vein. Buy him a coffee.
Let’s see:
That’s why. Nobody should confuse this with Tasering a 95 year old who couldn’t walk unassisted. The people ‘wondering why’ should first wonder what this dude, mental or not, would have done to one of their loved ones standing next to him.
What Frizell said was that Higgins’ nakedness was “some evidentiary support” for a finding of ultimate fact that intercourse took place.
A chap I know used to have a habit of getting blind drunk then taking his kit off.
He grew out of it by his late 20’s but it was not uncommon for someone to cover him with a blanket after he had passed out naked.
Pretty sure that wasn’t evidentiary support of anything.
Zulu Kings and the larg extended family live in luxurious accommodation payed for by the state while the rest live in shanties .
What was that phrase numberwang used to say ‘joyful poverty’ or something?.
Don’t be foolish tourists, you are only seeing what they want you to see.
‘Cheerful squalor.’
It reminded me of that too. Idyllic poverty.
Another chap I know had a horrible habit of getting home blind drunk and wetting the bed…while his missus was in it.
That was evidence of him sleeping in the spare room for the next week.
Jeebus. Now Prof van Wrongselen has waded into the sTan Grant saga in Teh Paywallian. This is bigger than Ben Hur.
Who hasn’t taken a leak in a wardrobe?
Cheerful squalor.
Romani stocktake down Surry Hills way.
Near Central.
Pikey’s?
I ‘ate f*ckin’ Pikeys.
Cheers KD and rosie.
Ye like dags?
I know a cavalryman who went to bed rather the worse for wear. He woke up in the middle of the night, thinking he was asleep in the back of his APC, in the bush. . He walked out of the bedroom, and p!zzed in the potplants…
Bullet Tooth Tony : Oh I love this song.
I know a guy, who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy, who rooted a girl, who rooted a guy, who rooted a girl, who rooted Ben Barba.
Dot, that sounds like a Blur song.
Looks like QLD’s economy is slowing to a putter and may even go into reverse.
welcome back to the Dark Ages
James Joyce was your choice! What are ya, a wanker?
This could be the great fire of Sydney.
One way to reduce the amount of vacant office space.
Well I know a girl that rooted that guy.
(Bern – it’s TISM, I hope you’re indulging in peak sarcasm…you got me good.)
Ben Barba ended up rooting himself.
Knocking over the line of piss jugs is just the worst.
Truth be told.
My story is exactly the same as KD’s.
Agreed. Think he’s got a handle on their shenanigans. Counsel for DPP thinks he has scored a win though and the silly media will play this up. But alas, this is not the trial, it is an inquiry looking at whether due process was followed and if current due process is conducive to the practice of good law in our court system. I hope my confidence in Sofronoff is not misplaced.
What are the odds she implodes before her term is up and retires to attend to her mental health/family/her people’s real needs/insert here?
It’s worse when it’s done into the fresh ironing basket.
As rumour has it.
Sharri Markson’s 5pm hour on Sky News, which had been promoted as a news-breaking show (unlike the Sky evening shows, which are repackaged opinions), has become a dead loss.
Sharri’s lead story tonight is a run-of-the-mill police rounds story about a commercial building fire in central Sydney — that is, a story that would be lucky to make the top 10 stories on the 6pm network news.
I’ve switched over to SBS Food because it’s less uninteresting.
NRL:
Five teams are 1st on 16 points, three teams are 2nd on 14 points.
I wonder if this is a boring product for midwit Karens and soccer mums?
The only real differentiation in the comp is from 13th up until 8th.
You could rissole Dragons and Tigers, 1st to 7th is Premier League with three full rounds and finals for 1st to 4th with a tradtional format; and 8th to 15th plays a mid week comp with 20 minute quarters in regional towns. Fans will love it, bring back the 1990s!
Let’s hope my Dolphins gambit pays off.
Michael Smith has christened her “Hideous Lidia.” Pay that one.
Sydney man charged after allegedly threatening ABC journalist Stan Grant online
Not a StanFan, but never impressed with anonymous dickheads talking a tough game. This wanker will end up giving oxygen to the The No Argument is 100% Owned by Supreme Gay Grampians tendency.