2,081 thoughts on “Open Thread – Tues 23 May 2023”
I walked past the local bookshop this morning and there was the Turd’s latest extrusion where it belonged from the day of publication, in the remainder bin.
It would have been cheaper than buying firelighters but I wouldn’t have it in the house.
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I believe much of the Higgins stuff is due to it being in the ACT. It has all the bells and whistles of a full administrative State, staffed by cliques and maaates.
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Someone commented about housing developments above and I can’t recall who it was…
Three years ago I sat on an “executive committee” overseeing plans for the redevelopment of the old Subiaco oval site. Most of the meetings focused on how to incorporate songlines, indigenous symbols and colours etc… as we were redeveloping a sacred site. It was an agree-fest worse than their ABC.
I made the career limiting move of suggesting that, with the apartments being developed, we go out to Perth’s eastern burbs and get some indigenous families to move in to heavily discounted apartments.
I’ve never encountered such an awkward silence in all my life…
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Bruce O’Nuke:
Not a small operation, the salvage ship is enormous. Well if the Chinese are willing to poison babies with melamine to save some money on baby formula production you can see why they wouldn’t care about people who helped them defend against the Japanese. I’m disgusted.
The steel would have been especially valuable as it was produced before the nuclear tests and so wasn’t ‘contaminated’ by the fallout – making it valuable as Hell for the MRI/CT machinery manufacturers.
The bloody Chinese would be screaming blue murder if we did the same to one of their museums.
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“Not too much wrong with modern Australia that wasn’t exacerbated by Whitlam.”
Agree but there’s not too much wrong with modern Australia that wasn’t exacerbated by Fraser, Howard and Liberal inertia, passivity, torpor and laziness.
Just remember Fraser’s massive victories in 1975 and 1977, and he did nothing, and remember Howard’s win in 2004 when the Liberals won control of the senate.
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H B Bear says: May 26, 2023 at 11:42 am
it being in the ACT. It has all the bells and whistles of a full administrative State, staffed by cliques and maaates.
Would the functions of these cliques include offering maaates a chance to illegally use state powers and resources to carry out a personal vendetta against someone who’d pissed them off at work?
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The ABC has been slammed by two former employees over the systemic decline in the quality of journalism which they argue has led to the “debacle” surrounding Stan Grant.
Grant suddenly quit the public broadcaster’s flagship Q+A program last week arguing the ABC failed to support him after he was the subject of racial abuse over his commentary during King Charles III’s coronation.
But while the ABC has apologised to grant and launched an investigation, current and former staff are arguing the scandal represents a broader problem within the organisation.
In a scathing column published in the Sydney Morning Herald, ex-senior ABC journalists Stuart Littlemore and David Salter said the broadcaster had “catastrophically undermined its authority” by failing to draw clear lines between news and opinion coverage.
The pair argued the ABC was now essentially permitting its staff, and specifically its journalists, to air their personal commentary on digital outlets and “parade their egos on social media”.
“The ABC’s real problem is competence, or the lack of it, and a failure to recognise that staff cannot have a foot in both the fact and opinion camps,” Littlemore and Salter said.
Littlemore was the inaugural host of the ABC’s flagship 15-minute Media Watch program, while Salter was the show’s long-time executive producer.
The industry veterans said the ABC’s quality of reporting had slipped into “incompetence” and was “destructive of the reputation and value” of its journalism.
In a sharply worded rebuke of the “decline in journalistic standards”, Littlemore and Salter slammed the poor reporting and the culture of inclusivity and diversity.
“It’s largely an everybody-gets-a-go culture, where valued journalism is too often sacrificed to the self-congratulation of inclusivity and diversity,” they wrote.
“On the ABC News website, too few of the stories are authentic hard news. Instead, we get clumsily written commentary and ‘analysis’, clickbait puffs, crime stories of minimal news value and folksy features contributed by staff in the regional outposts keen for a national byline.”
“I made the career limiting move of suggesting that, with the apartments being developed, we go out to Perth’s eastern burbs and get some indigenous families to move in to heavily discounted apartments.”
There ain’t nothing like exposing progressive sanctimony and hypocrisy. When exposed, it doesn’t just drip, it gushes.
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Will
Aust is probably one of the few counties in the world where “windfall gains” such as from gambling, are not taxed as income.
The common law (with a couple of exceptions) has never recognised gambling wins as having the characteristics of income. It could never support the deduction of losses from actual income. It is a current fave of swampies who have made the existing miners of coal and gas richer beyond their wildest business cases by choking off new supply.
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This might sound strange, but if you want to look at the antecedents of a lot of current cultural icons, I suggest you check out an old RPG board game called Shadowrun as well as an (originally French) D&D style RPG game called In Nomine.
Why were they antecedents:
The Matrix having a virtual world overlain the real world (Shadowrun). Chaos magic in the portrayal of the demon princes Calabim, Kobal, Malphas and Nybbas (In Nomine).
Older people probably know older science fiction with a Matrix like concept; you could argue “perceived reality” stories like Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes or even The Time Machine.
Not too sure about earlier literature regarding chaos magic unless you consider the Illuminatus trilogy or even George Martin considering his characterisation of Littlefinger.
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Rosie:
Wilcannia?
The distances don’t add up – Wilcannia is just within the Sydney distance, but the Qld border is only 400k away IIRC.
Perhaps Menindee or Ivanhoe?
Even then, Brucken ‘Ill has a teaching hospital with all the services including surgical and renal that would be required in this case.
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unbelievably, is doing a degree in Environmental Studies, despite not believing in global warming.
Real environmentalism and belief in Global warming have nothing to do with each other.
The enviros who believe in global warming will generally champion other environmental polices that usually achieve the opposite of what they aim to do.
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Lysander at 11:46 – there is still some public housing up the top of Subiaco near Kings Park. That is close enough thank you. I think we get some public tenants in an old 1950s tower nearby but the nearby cop shop keeps everything in line.
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Winston, that’s why I was confused by the doctor’s geography lesson.
My take-away – the lot was confected bulldust.
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Calli:
Not buying the “remote” and shameful stuff. If I have to see a specialist, I have to drive down to Newcastle or Sydney. One hour or two and a half depending. No shame in that.
Same here – if I need a Cardiology review, it’s off to the big smoke. 1150k and the 380 just eats it up. And there’s a $300 fuel subsidy as well.
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I suppose it was sexier to have the thing in NSW than a place very far from help like the Kimberley or Gulf. Because…derrrrrr.
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“Real environmentalism and belief in Global warming have nothing to do with each other.”
Agree.
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A couple of Indigenes thought the lack of beggars on Rokeby Road and it’s proximity to the Subiaco train station presented an opportunity. Evidently not, they soon disappeared. Begging in the Western Suburbs is mainly done through crony capitalism.
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The next step will be to complain that they are shown no respect by an irate land owner…
The next step will be punishment for not groveling at their feet hard enough.
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Rosie:
I can think of a couple of Aboriginal entrepreneurs who appear to have divested from support everyone culture.
It doesn’t stop the demands, though, Rosie. And it doesn’t stop the violence that happens when the entire clan turns up for a ‘holiday’, and expects – demands – free tucker and room service from the hapless escapee. And God help the poor bugger who says ‘no’.
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Just remember Fraser’s massive victories in 1975 and 1977, and he did nothing, and remember Howard’s win in 2004 when the Liberals won control of the senate.
I’ve always seen those years as the wasted years, in this country.
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Rich List
Here are the West Aussies making the list of the nation’s 200 wealthiest people … and what they’re worth
Daniel Newell
The West Australian
Fri, 26 May 2023 7:33AM
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WA mining and agricultural magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest have cemented their spots at the top of the nation’s rich list, with both adding to their already significant cash piles over the past year.
But Rinehart remains a clear table leader over her iron ore rival, adding 10 per cent to her fortune to now be worth $37.41 billion, according to the Australian Financial Review’s list of the country’s 200 most wealthy people published Friday.
Forrest added 8.4 per cent to his net worth to take his total to $33.29b.
Combined, the pair now have a wealth that equals the annual GDP of a small eastern European or African country.
Perth-born founders of online graphic design unicorn Canva, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, came in at No.9 with a combined fortune of $13.18b, a drop of 4.6 per cent from last year.
Others to make the top 10 include:
Packaging king Anthony Pratt and Family (ranked third with $24.30b);
Property developer Harry Triguboff (fourth with $23.8b);
Clive Palmer (fifth with an impressive 21.1 per cent jump in his personal fortune to $23.66b);
Green energy advocate and co-founder of Atlassian Mike Cannon-Brookes (sixth with a not-so-impressive 31.7 per cent drop in his worth to $19.01b following a tech rout in the US);
Fellow Atlassian founder Scott Farquahar (seventh after his cash pile also tumbled 31.2 per cent to $18.16b);
Former Glencore boss Ivan Glasenberg (eighth with an 11.4 per cent jump to $13.6b);
And property developer Frank Lowy (10th with a small jump in his wealth to $9.33b).
WA businessman Kerry Stokes — whose Seven Group Holding has a majority stake in Seven West Media, publisher of The West Australian and thewest.com.au — added 6.6 per cent to his personal wealth which now stands at $7.45b, placing him 12th on the list. SGH also counts Boral Group, Coates Hire and WesTrac among its portfolio of investments.
Other West Aussies to make the grade included Angela Bennett, the daughter of prospecting legend Lang Hancock’s business partner Peter Wright, who is now worth $4.63b after an 8 per cent drop in her net worth. She came in at 20th.
Jack Cowin, the man who built his fortune on the back of humble beginnings with the nation’s first Hungry Jack’s store in Perth, was ranked 22nd, with his fortune falling 16.1 per cent to $4.3b.
LOL, I love it when we get these stories appearing simultaneously.
Maybe there will be not much snow, or maybe there will be a lot of snow. But I think I should be forgiven for my reflex distrust of experts saying the season will be “lackluster”.
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My take-away – the lot was confected bulldust.
the bit that lost me …………… Certainly, my First Nations mates
never, ever heard anyone use that term before ……..
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Begging in the Western Suburbs is mainly done through crony capitalism.
Oh, yeh HB… I have been a part of “that world…”
Blackburne’s “One” apartment development in Subi is evidence of that!!!
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Although HB – I have to congratulate Saffioti cos she’s been big on urban infill in the Western burbs and all the Western burbanites fu-king hate it. She’s overriding councils, making planning for infill easier, offering cash incentives to developers etc…
And the great thing is, Labor isn’t electorally interested in those burbs…. 😛
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There’s a bit getting through. Harder once you get into Nedlands, City Beach, Floreat and the like. I’m not really sure how you strike a balance in those older purely residential suburbs. Unless things change there won’t be many viable sites for a while.
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I wonder why in Dr. Shame’s small town there is no local willing to step in and drive the patient to Dubbo? Is River Town one of these aboriginal sink holes where no-one cares about their neighbour?
“It’s not the neighbours/families job.” That’s exactly what you will be told. “You speak the problem, the problem is yours, you must fix it.”
Aboriginal culture is toxic to Aboriginals and actively prevents any social advancement from the pre colonial days. They don’t just try and pull the wool over Whities eyes – they believe utterly in the community sharing, not my job, identify the problem then you must fix it, issues. These concepts are believed as surely as a Baptist believes in the Second Coming, as surely as a Moslem believes in their God is Greater, as surely as Sinclair believes the Bombers will always rise up.
The Aboriginal Culture and ours are incompatible.
Some of us may deny that fact, but there it is. Any attempts to merge the two cultures will only result in expensive friction and anger/violence/destruction. Individuals may survive and prosper but one of the cultures must disappear into the dustbin of history.
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Vicki
Cosy, warm feeling ideas of “return to country” but ZILCH understanding of what the long term effects would be in a changing modern country.
Correction, ZILCH interest in understanding …
Thomas Sowell has written much on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectual — Thomas Sowell the ntellectual giant surrounded by intellectual pygmies — one of my favourite Thomas Sowell quotes is this:
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
On a personal note – the stupidity and tyranny of know-it-alls has deeply affected our family life and the lives of countless families who have family members with severe disabilities Thomas Sowell also said :
that on issues ranging across the spectrum from housing policies to laws governing organ transplants intellectuals have sought to have decision-making discretion taken from those directly involved, who have personal knowledge and a personal stake, and transferred to third parties who have neither, and who pay no price for being wrong –
That is a perfect summation of where we are today because of course the cost, the price and the consequences are borne by those who have personal knowledge of, a personal stake in the issues but who have been excluded by the know-it-alls.
?There is a wonderful interview between Peter Robinson and Professor Thomas Sowell – the subject of the interview is: Intellectuals and Society.
It’s lengthy but worth every moment, and so apt in the tragedy being played out in the remote communities where our aboriginal brothers and sisters have been abandoned .
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ABC News up to it’s old tricks…”Six year anniversary of Voice proposal” ….”Twenty five years since first Sorry Day.”
Not news at all. Only mentioned for propaganda purposes.
Heroic milestones in Climate action get similar coverage.
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Individuals may survive and prosper but one of the cultures must disappear into the dustbin of history.
Well said. Does a Stone Age culture have any place in the twenty first century?
Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch are sponsoring at least three different upcoming Pride events despite backlash over the partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a social media influencer who identifies as transgender. Bud Light is listed as a sponsor on the Cincinnati Pride Parade website. Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which medically transitions minors, are both also listed. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri, where Anheuser-Busch is headquartered, the company is listed as the presenting sponsor of the St. Louis Pride Parade.
Apparently there’s a definition of insanity which is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
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But Rinehart remains a clear table leader over her iron ore rival, adding 10 per cent to her fortune to now be worth $37.41 billion, according to the Australian Financial Review’s list of the country’s 200 most wealthy people published Friday.
Forrest added 8.4 per cent to his net worth to take his total to $33.29b.
Combined, the pair now have a wealth that equals the annual GDP of a small eastern European or African country.
Get a load of the sheer incompetence and or mendaciousness of these so-called journalists.
They’re comparing the wealth these people hold to income. Wealth maybe derived from income but it is not income. GDP is derived from income , that is , the annual value added production of those “small countries.. These dickheads are comparing chalk and cheese.
For the comparison to be valid, they need to compare the annual income these two earn to the relevant GDP or the net wealth in these countries to Forrest and Gina’s.
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Bruce
They were getting pressured by the trans lobby for partially backing down. Now it’s just damage control.
Which they have completely stuffed up as well.
The Mulvaney thing was panned because it was aimed at sports fanatics and somewhat hilariously Mulvaney admitted he knows nothing about sport. From the outset AB In Bev were treating their customers with hostility.
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Does a Stone Age culture have any place in the twenty first century?
They’re comparing the wealth these people hold to income. Wealth maybe derived from income but it is not income. GDP is derived from income , that is , the annual value added production of those “small countries.. These dickheads are comparing chalk and cheese.
I think this is a psychological phenomena. If you conflate asset prices and income, you feel a lot better about yourself being on 120k and having 780k to pay back on a 900k mortgage. Even if people know the difference, it’s like a sideshow hall of mirrors for their minds.
Don’t go there.
Thanks, I’ve crossed the place off my bucket list.
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Rosie:
I was reading an article about Wilcannia, average life expectancy is 37 for men and 42 for women.
That’s about half the national average, which suggests to me most people aren’t crowding doctors surgeries with chronic lifestyle caused health conditions.
I have to admit I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilcannia. The boss there was one of the best I’ve ever worked with – she was the only person who could ring me up on the boat and ask me to come back to work as she was desperate for nurses. Wilcannia was where I met the Child Bride, and many other significant events.
The issue with the average life expectancy is about refusal to acknowledge warning signs of illness, refusal to take medication, refusal to go to the regular clinics, and only turning up to the hospital when in dire need of medical intervention. Why is it so? Because it’s the hospitals job to cure the patient, not the patients.
This refusal of self responsibility is at the core of the Aboriginal health crisis and cannot be slated home to White Australia – even though it is.
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It was a great idea, but sadly the engineering couldn’t keep up with the demand.
Twitter’s head of engineering announced on Thursday that he was resigning, the day after the disastrous attempts to launch Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign on the platform.
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His company was left highly embarrassed by Wednesday night’s debacle, which saw Twitter unable to live-stream the audio of DeSantis’s campaign launch, and a hot mic discussion with Twitter’s owner Elon Musk and moderator David Sacks.
Musk and Sacks said the problems were due to ‘server strain’ and ‘melting the servers’, claiming that it was the largest event ever hosted online – but many pointed out that far larger events had been held without a hitch.
An initial 500,000 people logged on to try and listen, CNN reported; when the event eventually got underway, only half that number remained.
Happens all the time: unlike broadcast television the internet requires one for one provision of bandwidth to each customer. If you misread the interest from customers your tech will melt down. Which is what happened. Good on Mr Dabiri for doing the honourable thing. I hope someone immediately re-employs a guy like he seems to be.
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AB and Bud light do not like their customer base. The actually despise them. I think and trial separation is in order with a view to divorce.
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Anheuser-Busch
Forget all the tranny grooming crap, I have a simple question: How many cans or bottles of beer have a person’s face on it? Worldwide?
That’s why I plead with people who consider themselves progressive to identify clearly the line they won’t cross, even if the whole world turns against them. Otherwise you will be swept along into utter insanity.
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FLASHBACK: Dennis Prager warns Bill Maher about the trans agenda and gets laughed at
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I made the career limiting move of suggesting that, with the apartments being developed, we go out to Perth’s eastern burbs and get some indigenous families to move in to heavily discounted apartments.
I’ve never encountered such an awkward silence in all my life…
I live near there and cycled through over decades. In the 1980s or 90s the Labor Government smashed tories by adding social housing to Subiaco including along the railway reserve – approximately 100m from Subiaco Oval. Those now-old units were smashed and boarded up when I was cycling past maybe a year ago. There was a ‘traditional’ Coles trolley permanently abandoned on the walk/bike trail just there.
I have never heard of feedback for that project good or bad – just silent in the Post and public conversation generally.
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It seems odd the way Stan Grant has managed to capture so much attention for himself. Nobody would ever accuse him of being an intellectual heavyweight, his only contributions seem to be reading a teleprompter and engaging in some truly juvenile agitprop. It is pretty sad that something of that standard passes as being worthy of inclusion in the press.
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Chris – they held a series of “townhalls” at Bob Hawke College (ugh)… but I got out of that industry before it destroyed me!
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“and somewhat hilariously Mulvaney admitted he knows nothing about sport. “
Glad you used the right pronoun.
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SCOTUS doing the lord’s work again and continues to clip the wings of the administrative state.
The Supreme Court’s decision this morning in Sackett v. EPA continues a welcome trend of requiring that statutes have fixed definitions that do not allow for ambiguity at the outer margins — ambiguity that prosecutors and administrative agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, exploit in order to concoct crimes that Congress has not codified and to extend regulatory reach to places and activities jurisdiction over which Congress never vested in bureaucrats.
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Anheuser-Busch
I understood clearly how it came to this the second I read where the holding company’s marketing department is located.
It’s in Chelsea NYC, the most hipster neighbourhood outside of Brooklyn.
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How many cans or bottles of beer have a person’s face on it?
Did the bud Light cans actually have Mulvaney’s face on them or was it a special consignment just for him to make the advert with. I thought it was the latter but never really followed it up.
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Chris – they held a series of “townhalls” at Bob Hawke College (ugh)… but I got out of that industry before it destroyed me!
This Inquiry has more breaks than a politician’s promises.
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I dont know why we need to be sorry for taking children out of dangerous environs?
The ten year old girls, who contracted venereal disease, after being prostituted by their loving parents, to the crews of the North West pearling fleet would probably agree with you.
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BoN, I often see articles like that about the ski season, contradicting each other. We have had a great run of good ski seasons here, we’re well overdue for a bad one, when it happens the climate changers will be full on. There’s heaps of climate fanatics in ski areas, I’ve often spoken to them and they rave about climate change and how we’re all doomed. I then start moving the conversation to how good the skiing has been the last few years and then they start agreeing and talk about the great snow. Then I say well where’s the climate change? You just said that we’ve been having great seasons? They just say “It’s coming”.
I have even shown them pics of some of the really bad seasons long ago and say how that was 40 years ago and it’s better now, how can you be sure that climate change is real? The shutters fall and they just change the subject.
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The way the NSW Plod has handled the 95 year old being tasered will be a case study on what not to do.
They are jumping on every land mine possible.
If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be comical.
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I’m half expecting Rob Sitch to pop out & say “surprise, it was a spin-off from Utopia that got out of the lab, how could you think we’d taser nan”.
Razey:
This is the type of culture the overlords are imposing on us. Best not to deal with the Indian Hordes.
Why cheating comes naturally to Indians https://www.dailyo.in/variety/scams-nirav-modi-rotomac-fodder-scam-pnb-22537
This is why I do not trust Indians and refuse to do business with them. I’ve been ripped off a couple of times by them and have never forgotten it.
When I fill up at a servo, I now check behind the counter – if they’re Sub continentals, I go to the next one.
So why the fork are we importing the dregs of the world who have a culture that is utterly incompatible to ours? The only reason I can think of is their cultures are compatible with our illustrious leaders and to force ours to change for the worse.
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Oh shit.
In this video I discuss the recent news of Microsoft scanning messages in their cloud software for passwords to decrypt zip archives that are also sent through their cloud platforms so they can decrypt and scan those encrypted archives as well, this means that the spying present in Microsofts cloud software goes much further than we thought.
Microsoft Is Decrypting Your Files in The Cloud
Mental Outlaw May 20 2023
(Don’t put any entrepreneurial ideas on the platform at all!)
[BTW, the password is billgatesvisitedepsteinisland36times ]
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Sandra N.
@SandraHelena39
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What I personally think of Gonzalo Lira is irrelevant, I’ve been terrified to think of what he may be enduring under the tender mercies of the SBU. What have you done about the imprisonment of one of your citizens?
It’s been 2-3 weeks now he’s been in custody of the SBU.
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Interesting Dot – but I’m sure we all “sign up” to this when we read their 5,000 paged “terms and conditions.”
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Gonzalo Lira wasn’t very smart. He was already arrested once and let go, then to continue like he did on enemy territory, crazy.
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Microsoft Is Decrypting Your Files in The Cloud
Safer to assume that if it can be hacked it is being hacked and plan accordingly. What else are you meant to do, trust someone?
Ain’t multiculturalism just grand:
A man who allegedly captured an ibis in a Sydney park and hung it up to dry in his shower before attempting to cook it has been released from custody.
Tom Quach allegedly stuffed the animal in his backpack and rode a stolen bike to his unit in Sydney’s eastern suburbs before decapitating the bird and hanging it up on Tuesday.
The 60-year-old was confused about whether the birds, known affectionately as bin chickens, could be eaten in NSW, his lawyer said…….
The 60-year-old was confused about whether the birds, known affectionately as bin chickens, could be eaten
Tastes like chicken? I suspect my currawongs taste like cow, given how much of it they eat.
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Crux reports that a postage stamp created, with 45,000 printed, to commemorate upcoming World Youth Day in Portugal has been withdrawn within 24 hours as it shows the Pope and young kids standing on a statue in Portugal that celebrates Portuguese colonialisation…
I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
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Doc Faustus:
Unfortunately, although Ms Kumar and Ms Scothern may have saved lots of time, they have also missed the opportunity to apply critical thinking to their data sources and their topic – and perhaps pick up some knowledge that ChatGPT doesn’t think they need to know.
Yes, they miss the serendipitous nature of reading a book – picking up information that is connected to the subject but not covered in a search.
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Agnostic Warrior
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Only 2 years? There was literally no excuses for her. Both of them need to serve double digit years. Period.
Minimum 15 years.
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What happens when a desperate 17-year-old can’t find care and decides to self-manage her abortion? She is criminally punished and now faces jail time. This is the march toward personhood, folks, and it is terrifying.
Given the following,
Madison County prosecutors claim that, in April 2022, Burgess took abortion pills her mother ordered, gave birth to a stillborn fetus estimated to be about 29 weeks’ gestation, then burned and buried the remains with the help of her mom and another person. Burgess was 17 at the time, but was charged as an adult.
even 2 years seems lenient and unjust.
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Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.
I’ve just finished doing a first run of this week’s Speccie, which arrived this morning. It is chock full of tributes to Jeremy Clark, indicating just how many people, like me, turned immediately to Jeremy’s column as soon as it arrived in the mail. Damn whatever else was going on in the world, and who thought what about it, what was more important was seeing what Jeremy was making of it all in his neck of the woods in prose that took you straight there, into his life and most times in recent years, bringing me to the edge of tears glimpsed through joy. It is usually in life the other way around. How Jeremy did it is a mystery but we all know that is what he did. He got to you mixing the mundane with the sublime and you loved him for it.
But Rinehart remains a clear table leader over her iron ore rival, adding 10 per cent to her fortune to now be worth $37.41 billion
Gina has written a good defence of the mining industry in today’s Australian Spectator. Have a read – & comment (if you are a subscriber) if you agree with it.
She is one of this country’s greatest assets, in my humble opinion, and many love to criticise her.
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Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.
I have a soft spot for Indians. I worked for one many years ago – he expected a lot, but was supportive of hard working and conscientious staff. Husband also had dealings, as a property owner, with a high ranking Council engineer – & found the same – hard working and respectful of others who are honest and hard working. More recently, we had Indian tenants in one of our properties – my God the cooking odours were hard to remove – but they were nice people.
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If you must watch one thing today you must watch this Putin speech on the woke virus infecting the West:
Funnily enough, he says “this is not a new thing” and goes on “we tried this here, yes, in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks tried to destroy our heritage, families, traditions”
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She is one of this country’s greatest assets, in my humble opinion, and many love to criticise her.
I’ve heard she gives shitloads of money to charity but does it more privately than Twiggy…
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Firstly, David Martin was speaking to the EU Parliament, not the UN. But please to listen to it. He sets out blow by blow and date by date how and what has happened to reach the current state.
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The way the NSW Plod has handled the 95 year old being tasered will be a case study on what not to do.
The NSW Police Commissioner is a diversity hire.
What were you expecting? Competence?
Remember that self-important NSW plod chick-in-charge who went home while an islamic lunatic was was killing hostages in Martin Square?
Say no more.
Never forget that NSW plod is part of the public service and incompetence is therefore a key requisite for promotion.
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I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
Was it your birthday or simply British Empire Appreciation Day?
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I loved that Putin speech so much, I watched it twice!
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Dover Beach:
I just got an email from donor box. Are they the ones the cat uses for donations?
Just checking – I’m a bit leery of odd emails atm.
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Remember that self-important NSW plod chick-in-charge who went home while an islamic lunatic was was killing hostages in Martin Square?
She wasn’t the only one to do that, also the Premier (Mike Baird-time) & the Commish (Skippy-owny)
Bud Light To Sponsor Pride Parades Despite Ongoing Boycott (25 May)
I have seen on the intertubes that they have moved from a $20 rebate on a $20 case (which had to be applied for) to a $20 discount secured by a QR code at the point of sales.
People are characterising this as them giving it away but that is not right. Of the $20 retail price the brewery would have sold it for something like $10 with the other $10 being warehousing, distribution, etc.
For every $10 of the brewers sales they are paying $20. But it is apparently still cheaper than picking it up from everywhere and pouring it down the drain. (Well, there may be a hope that ‘giving it away’ might generate some goodwill – except everyone knows why they are in this particular pickle – contempt for their customers.)
Did Mark Textor go to the US and cough in an enclosed boardroom or something, infecting all those nearby with the idea that you can shit on your base with impunity while you sniff the arses of the mutts who hate you?
The Indian guy making his lunch preferences known in that initial eBay Sale Tuesday ad for noise-cancelling headphones where everyone in an open office is shouting has become something of a meme:
Heston Russell is selling “Not My ABC ” Bumper stickers…
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“They fight with each other, they’re disrespectful, they’re entitled”
A black Jamaican shop owner in Montego Bay shared secret eye-rolls with me after she’d had to put up with a particularly awful display of entitlement in her shop from a loud black American tourist.
Many Jamaicans, while being full of life and with a great sense of fun, require respectfulness in certain situations. A lot of them still attend church on Sundays all decked out in their finest.
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Vagabond:
It would have been cheaper than buying firelighters but I wouldn’t have it in the house.
I’d build an outdoor dunny just to use it as dunny paper.
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Lysander says:
May 26, 2023 at 3:10 pm
I’ve heard she gives shitloads of money to charity but does it more privately than Twiggy…
I’ve heard the same on a few occasions. I’ve tried to get a handle on the $ number but Gina is relatively ‘private’ and as her companies are also private, tracking down data is a challenge. Periodically, a few numbers come up but I suspect she gifts on condition of anonymity.
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The Guardian is already publishing gunk “how bad would a De Santis presidency be?”
The world (according to SBS) used to be “an amazing place”. Gateway Pundit:
1. It is now amazingly quickly going down the slippery slope to the new totalitarianism.
Biden Regime Lumps Christians, Conservatives, and Republicans into Same Category as Nazis in New DHS Anti-Terrorism Program.
2. Founder Stewart Rhodes Then Sentences Him to 18 Years in Prison for January 6.
3. Lawless NY Democrat Prosecutors Set May Trial Date for Bogus ‘We Build the Wall’ Charges Against Steve Bannon – Something He Was Already Pardoned For Back in 2020.
There’s heaps more about the USA being disintegrated, every day.
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Calli:
Winston, that’s why I was confused by the doctor’s geography lesson.
My take-away – the lot was confected bulldust.
Mine too – or at least confected by someone who was never there and who was too lazy to even look at a map and work out distances.
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Was it your birthday or simply British Empire Appreciation Day?
In a Herbert Pocket meets Emily Howard sort of way.
As for cheesecake, well, as a sensitive artiste; Oh! I can’t help myself…
SO THEN I GOT THIS IDEA ABOUT DRIVING A CHEESECAKE TRUCK!
24th May, what a wonderful day and night it used to be – Cracker Night.
Half day of school – 9 to 12. Concert in the morning and then home to build the bonfire.
Similar memories to here.
Just remember if they ever attack you, put the wagons in a circle.
per Control’s Manual.
M. Smart.
Agent 86
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I could say something racist, but I cannot afford to foil would be Australians with a fully manual Eaton Fuller transmission. They’re not cheap!
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Robert, it is, can you email what they said. Seems very strange.
Case against Bruce Lehrmann ‘very weak’: AFP Commander Michael Chew at Sofronoff inquiry
By Remy Varga
NSW Reporter
@RemyVarga
3:43PM May 26, 2023
AFP Commander Michael Chew says his personal view was the case against Bruce Lehrmann was “very weak” and he believed there may have been insufficient evidence but clarified he believed the case met the evidentiary threshold to proceed.
Mr Chew told the twelfth day of the Sofronoff inquiry he did not experience any direct or indirect interference from within the police force or externally, such as politically.
Mr Chew said he accepted he made comments to Detective Superintendent Scott Moller about “political interference” but said that was in reference to the intense media scrutiny and the fact the alleged rape took place at Parliament House.
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“I had no direct or indirect interference from any external or internal sources,” he said.
Earlier, Mr Chew said he sought to shield detectives from intense media scrutiny as they investigated allegations of rape made by Brittany Higgins against her former colleague Mr Lehrmann
Mr Chew said he sought a review of the investigation by senior executives of the AFP to assure them “political interference” or influence had no bearing on the investigation. Mr Chew clarified the “political interference” was federal government ministers commenting on the case in the media as opposed to politicians directing investigators.
“It was quite a unique case,” he said.
“The amount of external commentary because of where the alleged offence occurred created significant media interest and political interest… We had the Prime Minister commenting on it, we had senior government ministers commenting on it.”
As well, Mr Chew said, Ms Higgins had involved herself with the MeToo movement, which was gaining momentum and two government ministers, senators Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash, involved in the investigation as witnesses.
“It was that whole environment that created a situation where we needed to be thorough and transparent in the investigation but also have had a good decision making process,” he said.
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Wait until the Indian Hordes get here. Even the existing assimilated Indians wont want them. To much all at once is never a good thing. Sleazy has millions upon millions coming over.
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Chris
Government smashed tories by adding social housing to Subiaco including along the railway reserve – approximately 100m from Subiaco Oval
Not much diversity around Subiaco. The place has been gentrified to within an inch of its life. Plenty of good cafes within trundling distance along good bike paths so no complaints from me.
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Nah, I’m sure Kevin with the ulcer is real, it’s clearly somewhere in a five hour radius of Dubbo, even if it’s not Wilcannia. the Gulgong story he referenced is true
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Hmmm, interesting article about Nigel Satterley and the Perf’ “business mafia” in Teh Paywallian. Pretty close to the mark in my limited experience. Perf still a pretty small place in many respects.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: May 26, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Thanks, I’ve crossed the place off my bucket list.
You can still have it on your bucket list.
😉
As long as it’s the last item.
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“Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.”
True, the point however is that India is a low trust society at every level. Small numbers here can assimilate but bring in massive numbers and they will bring their low trust culture with them, once it’s established it will be almost impossible to get rid of.
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Don’t get me started. I cannot believe that the public are now being encouraged to “idolise” celebrities such as “Lizzo” who are morbidly obese. It seems only yesterday that “fat” was unhealthy. Yet these days TV commercials are replete with obese individuals being promoted as exemplars.
Sometimes I feel I am going “bonkers”, such is the cognitive dissonance overwhelming our lives.
Vicki, you are right, just saw an antiperspirant ad with a fat chick gyrating in an exercise class front and centre.
When thin models were required we were told how those images are dangerous and encourage anorexia yet here we are viewing images which by that logic are expected to lead to more obesity.
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I’ve heard she gives shitloads of money to charity but does it more privately than Twiggy…
That’s what I have also heard. Gina contributes – but she shies away from recognition. Twigs – on the other hand, needs to be adulated. Recognised.
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Dot says:
I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare asked:
Was it your birthday or simply British Empire Appreciation Day?
Dot did not give a straight answer.
See what I did there?
It took a while but I eventually discovered that pattern is the transgender pride flag.
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Was it your birthday or simply British Empire Appreciation Day?
I don’t remember the appreciation bit, when I was a kid we just called it Empire Day.
No idea what its official title was though.
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Sometimes I feel I am going “bonkers”, such is the cognitive dissonance overwhelming our lives.
You’re not bonkers. They are.
Stay away from loonies. Looniness is catching. They’ve already infected lots of people.
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Crossie
When thin models were required we were told how those images are dangerous and encourage anorexia yet here we are viewing images which by that logic are expected to lead to more obesity.
Groogs is full of renewed enthusiasm. He thinks he can get Mother on the cover of next year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. I’m not sure he is mistaken.
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Lizzo might be an okay musician but she’s unattractive and dangerously obese.
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It’s in Chelsea NYC,
The best part of NY.
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I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
Sounds like a Japanese dessert I recently had.
They really go overboard with the colours & presentation of their desserts.
I just got an email from donor box. Are they the ones the cat uses for donations?
Just checking – I’m a bit leery of odd emails atm.
en garde – on your mettle – or just simply beware.
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Like any culture, you’ve got your goodies and your baddies…
I don’t have anything in particular against Indians’ modhi operandi.
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Chelsea’s nice but not the best, Bern.
Chelsea Clinton?
Didn’t know you were that way “inclined” DB 😛
/jokes…
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Have a great weekend Catters… stay civil and play nice (unless Munted turns up of course, or Ed for that matter)…
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Have a great weekend Catters… stay civil and play nice (unless Munted turns up of course, or Ed for that matter)…
Im covering for those two 🙂
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I don’t remember the appreciation bit, when I was a kid we just called it Empire Day.
No idea what its official title was though.
Throughout my school days of the 40s and 50s it was always Empire Day.
The celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday on May 24 was renamed Empire Day in 1903 after her death in 1901. It was celebrated throughout the British Empire culminating in fireworks and bonfires in the evening.
Rosie, I have zero doubt about the poor man’s ulcerated foot and his need of medical care. What does switch my bullsh*tometer to the max is when odd “facts” are mixed in with highly emotive stories.
My take on it is that there is a melange of hospital stories mixed together into a heartrending Shame File designed to extract what exactly? Given the times, it will be two things – a “Yes” vote and more $$$$s. In other words, it’s moochaganda.
Hey, Muddy! Another word for the Catictionary.
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The Aboriginal Culture and ours are incompatible.
Some of us may deny that fact, but there it is. Any attempts to merge the two cultures will only result in expensive friction and anger/violence/destruction. Individuals may survive and prosper but one of the cultures must disappear into the dustbin of history.
RS, I don’t like the “First Nations” chances particularly with the influx of the 1.5 million subcontinentals in the next few years. I don’t think they will indulge them as we do once they become a huge and decisive voting block.
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moochaganda
Is this word you want Muddy to include, calli? Just in case I missed the significance.
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Ahhhh…cracker night. Unpicking endless Tom Thumbs to light and toss at my brother. Tying great bundles of tuppennies together, manufacturing a long fuse, burying the thing and waiting for the mine to explode. Or turning the Hills Hoist into a giant Catherine wheel – never worked but we tried.
And the penny rockets aimed at next door’s chook shed.
Horrible children. Good times.
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Moochaganda (n) – thinly disguised political urging with a side benefit of extracting additional taxpayer’s money
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Small numbers here can assimilate but bring in massive numbers and they will bring their low trust culture with them, once it’s established it will be almost impossible to get rid of.
I am not especially familiar with Indian culture, so I cannot say anything about its benefits and drawbacks. However, I agree that it is not a good idea to import other cultures en masse without a clear understanding of the potential consequences.
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Bought this album recently. Some very beautiful neofolk.
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There were accidents, some quite horrific on Cracker Night. As kids we were well versed in the dangers involved with both crackers and what to wear around the bonfires. There will always be those who do the wrong thing.
There were also complaints at a later date of take offs from Mascot being cancelled due to smoke pollution.
So began further restriction of what some of us regarded our rights.
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Future leader of the community spiel didn’t work….
Ezekiel Narndu, 19, sentenced to seven years in prison for Wadeye riots manslaughter
The teen who killed a man during unrest in Wadeye has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after his lengthy trial concluded at Darwin Supreme Court on Thursday.
Ezekiel Narndu, 19, was found guilty of manslaughter after throwing a steel bar that pierced through the skull of a 33-year-old man referred to as Mr Tcherna in the remote West Daly community on April 16 last year.
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calli AT 5;.24: Just upticked to bring you out of the dreaded zero.
The moron (stench -is that you trying ever so hard to be smart – or is it some other retard?) Whoever it is – STOP IT. It’s childish and you glean zero credence.
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I wonder if Hans Blix is going to write another angry letter.
Re. calli’s zeros. I have upticked heaps. I can’t believe we have such a cretin on this blog who is thus consumed.
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JMH, it’s just silliness, and it doesn’t worry me one iota. If I’m the object of juvenile malice, so be it. In the scheme of things…meh.
I wear my 000s with pride. It’s been a very long time since I fitted into them though! 😀
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As a contractor for thirty years I got ripped off A LOT. Especially when I was younger . Mostly it was over doing extra work for no extra money. I ended up in the Small Claims Tribunal 4 times. Each time I was “sued” because I basically walked off the job when confronted with extras for no extra money .
However the “best” ripoff was by an Indian fellow . I had all the materials on site when he declared he wanted the whole area raised by 200 mm and he would pay $500 extra and no more.
The $500 barely covered materials .
If I stopped work I would lose money, if I continued I would lose money
I lost money …
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Stan Grant fights back tears as he says ‘evil, vile, hateful abuse’ over ABC coronation coverage would not have happened if he was white
Stan Grant fights back tears at Sydney Writer’s Festival
The ‘evil, vile, hateful’ abuse levelled at Stan Grant after he appeared on an ABC TV panel criticising the monarchy during the King Charles III Coronation ‘would not have happened’ if he were white, he claims.
The Indigenous ABC star appeared at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Friday afternoon where he issued a withering assessment of Australia’s media landscape, after he stepped down indefinitely from Q+A on Monday.
Stan Grant fights back tears at Sydney Writer’s Festival
All together now: awwwww.
On his salary I could survive a few trolls.
He’d have fewer of them if he wasn’t such a snowflake.
Sue my arse off Stan, I have more dusky slave ancestors than you do son.
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JMH, it’s just silliness, and it doesn’t worry me one iota. If I’m the object of juvenile malice, so be it. In the scheme of things…meh.
I wear my 000s with pride. It’s been a very long time since I fitted into them though!
Juvenile malice it is, calli. It pisses me off because of the abject childishness. I would imagine Dover should be able to know who the retard is.
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The ‘evil, vile, hateful’ abuse levelled at Stan Grant after he appeared on an ABC TV panel criticising the monarchy during the King Charles III Coronation ‘would not have happened’ if he were white, he claims.
Has anyone actually ‘seen’ said abuse? Or is it just in the head of a ridiculously overrated ABC media petal?
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DrBeauGan says:
May 26, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Stay away from loonies. Looniness is catching. They’ve already infected lots of people.
Not wrong there, unfortunately.
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Why are these repulsive, spoilt cry bullies indulged?
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The Indigenous ABC star appeared at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Friday afternoon
The “Indigenous” ABC star appeared at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Friday afternoon.
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On his salary I could survive a few trolls.
He’d have fewer of them if he wasn’t such a snowflake.
Juvenile malice it is, calli. It pisses me off because of the abject childishness. I would imagine Dover should be able to know who the retard is.
Over two years of trying to scorch another woman both here and the other blog (on most days) and Karen Blix is now the most behaved little girl here demanding the blog owner accede to his demands. You gotta laugh.
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Top cop’s astonishing diary note about the Brittany Higgins’ case – where he writes that a detective thought some of her claims were ‘made up’ – surfaces at inquiry
AFP officer took notes after meeting with subordinate
Note offers insight into what detectives were thinking
Document was revealed at a Board of Inquiry hearing
By Charlotte Karp In Canberra For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 16:23 AEST, 26 May 2023 | Updated: 16:23 AEST, 26 May 2023
A federal police commander wrote a diary note about a meeting with one of his subordinates about Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, where he recorded being told: ‘Brittany maintains sexual assault but everything else, doctor… etc was made up’.
The document came to light during a hearing of a Board of Inquiry which is investigating the police and the prosecution’s handling of the case against Bruce Lehrmann, after Ms Higgins accused him of sexual assault.
Australian Federal Police Commander Michael Chew was questioned by Erin Longbottom, the counsel assisting the inquiry, on Friday afternoon.
The inquiry was shown a file note Commander Chew wrote on May 26, 2021, following a meeting with Superintendent Scott Moller about the investigation into Mr Lehrmann.
The diary entry featured handwritten scribblings under Superintendent Moller’s name – apparently his opinion about part of Ms Higgins’ allegations. It provided an insight into what some officers thought about the investigation into Mr Lehrmann.
A Federal police commander wrote a diary note about a meeting with one of his subordinates about Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, where he recorded being told: ‘Brittany maintains sexual assault but everything else, doctor… etc was made up’.
Ms Longbottom read a portion of the entry to the inquiry: ‘The note says, “Ms Higgins maintains allegations of sexual assault”, but then goes on to characterise things to go against her credit.’
She did not read the rest of the note aloud, but the entry was shown to the inquiry. It read: ‘Brittany maintains sexual assault but everything else, doctor… etc, was made up’.
Commander Chew was then asked why ‘so what’ was written in large letters in the middle of the page.
He could only recall that it was in relation to KPIs – corporate jargon for key performance indicators – and had no relation to Supt Moller’s opinions.
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Rita Panahi:
The fix is in.
The backers of the so-called “Indigenous Voice” are not content with the top end of town – including corporates, sporting organisations, celebrities, academia and the bulk of the media pushing the “yes” vote.
They want to fortify the referendum by using taxpayer money to push their agenda. If you’ve passed a TV or radio in recent days chances are you’ve seen or heard commercials that are meant to be impartial and purely information based, but are nothing of the sort.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney promised “neutral civics information”, but what we are seeing in TV and radio commercials looks like it’s been written by a pro-Voice campaigner.
Even the normally squeaky clean Australian Electoral Commission stands accused of underhanded bastardry in pushing the race-based referendum under the guise of lifting Indigenous participation in the electoral process.
Right now, the AEC is pushing ads that are meant to lift Indigenous representation on the electoral roll, however critics say the ads are a pro-yes vote in disguise.
“Australians are calling into question the independence of the AEC,” Nationals senator Matt Canavan said. “The AEC has to be beyond reproach … they have made a massive error here and they should pull this ad immediately.”
The AEC’s use of the slogan “Our Vote, Our Future” has also come under fire for being too close to the messaging pushed by the “yes” campaign. Support for the race based referendum is dropping, according to a number of recent polls, and it’s clear that many pro-Voice advocates are becoming increasingly nervous.
Apologies if posted but she nails it. Again.
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‘Truth is a Right Wing Concept’ | Melanie Phillips John Anderson
British journalist Melanie Phillips argues that we have slipped into an age of “cultural totalitarianism”. She bases this off a widespread societal refusal to listen to evidence, accept reason and consider dissenting views, which has the effect of reducing common freedoms for citizens across the Western world.
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For all the criticism of Andrew Forrest, when he set up his foundation, it was & remains the biggest donation in Australian history.
And he did not claim the tax deduction he was entitled to.
That saving was worth over half a bill to the Australian tax payer.
Australia may just have a glimmer of hope if it rejects Sleazy’s ‘Voice’.
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You gotta laugh.
Oh – my word, you do.
A shit-throwing ape enters.
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When looking at the Rich List published in the AFR, the secret of real wealth (for most of them) is to…..inherit it.
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i should have clarified: A shit-throwing Chimp!
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An employment activist has described a Centrelink worker who was allegedly stabbed in the back by an enraged client as being the person in ‘power’.
Phoebe Autumn, a disabled trans activist against Centrelink and an Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) supporter, has tweeted about the almost fatal stabbing of 55-year-old Joeanne Cassar in a Melbourne job centre.
Elijah Chase, 34, allegedly stabbed Ms Cassar after he was told to leave Centrelink’s Melbourne Airport West Westfield branch on Tuesday around 1.30pm.
Ms Cassar was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and Mr Chase was charged with intentionally cause serious injury, recklessly cause serious injury, reckless conduct endangering life, common law assault and use and possession of controlled weapon.
The stabbing has since prompted a safety review of Centrelink offices across the country.
Stan Grant fights back tears at Sydney Writer’s Festival
Jeebus. That should help tiny violin sales in Glebe.
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Why are these repulsive, spoilt cry bullies indulged?
To answer my own question, I think the Marxist establishment likes to rile ordinary decent people so when they fight back, or just express annoyance, the establishment can call them ‘racist, redneck, uneducated’ and deserving of punitive treatment. It’s been imported from the US I suspect like so many things that ail us.
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More Stupid Phucking Liberals noos:
LIBERAL state president Greg Mirabella has been subjected to a withering online attack by a senior member of the party’s powerful administrative committee.
Senior Liberals on Thursday lashed the scathing tirade by veteran Ian Quick, calling for him to be suspended for breaching party rules.
In a post published to his private Facebook page – that was shared widely by Liberals – Mr Quick wrote a top 10 hit list critiquing Mr Mirabella’s work since taking over the presidency in August.
The attack, in which he called for Mr Mirabella to resign, came just days after Mr Mirabella urged 400 members at the party’s State Council conference to stop airing the party’s internal feuds in the media.
It was posted hours before Mr Mirabella was set to chair a meeting of the admin committee.
“He is a well known trouble maker, but this is unprecedented,” one senior Liberal said.
“The admin committee should be seriously considering suspending him.”
Work to oust Mr Mirabella from the top job by a group of the party’s conservative members escalated last month following the party’s shock loss in the Aston by-election.
Mr Mirabella later told members the party was being crippled by a major brand problem that had made it unelectable.
“In the last 12 months the people of Victoria have made it perfectly clear that we are not electable,” he said.
“I think the major problem remains: us. Brand Liberal.”
In his 700-word missive Mr Quick accused Mr Mirabella of failing to assist the party’s state election campaign, and negatively interfering in the failed federal Aston by-election.
He also accused him of failing to follow party procedures, and criticised his refusal to conduct a review into the November election.
“Greg was the President for the final three months of the state campaign, but did not seem to positively contribute to the campaign,” he said.
“Issues brought up were not addressed, including the postal vote mistakes that cost us at least 3 seats.
“He also cancelled regular admin meetings during the campaign, and even told the media that admin had no place in the campaign.
“There was no State election review. Greg refused to have one, saying the problems were well known. I disagree, there were a number of different issues in the 2022 State Election and specific things that need to be investigated.
“Greg then wrote his own review of the State Election, not show (sic) to or approved by admin, and sent it to the Federal Exec.
“Greg took no responsibility for anything at the State Election, saying he ‘was a bystander’!
“This turns out not to be the case, as the party President he could have directed the State Director to do/fix things, and if that didn’t work called an Admin meeting to pass motions.”
Mr Quick accused Mr Mirabella of being overly friendly with the media, failing to intervene in staffing issues, and bypassing proper process.
“Greg keeps saying he is a ‘reforming President’,” Mr Quick said.
“Yet in nine months he hasn’t changed anything, or suggested any changes! He appears to still be just complaining – including in the media – of all our problems and saying that we are unelectable.
“But no solutions or way forward has been suggested as far as I am aware.
“Unlike a previous president, Greg isn’t using admin as a rubber stamp, but it is worse as he is just bypassing it and assuming he has the authority to do whatever he likes.
“I disagree; the President is the Chair of Admin, not a sole autocrat.”
Addressing the party’s State Council conference on Saturday Mr Mirabella said warring factions within the party had to stop airing their grievances publicly.
“There is a cancer in the Liberal Party, it has been there for a long time,” he said. (not you Mr Mirabella?)
“It is the propensity with which Liberals take their disputes, their grievances, their dislikes, to the media.”
Mr Mirabella said members generated tens of thousands of dollars worth of free advertising for the ALP through trashing the Liberal Party brand.
“This is a message that all members and all members of parliament must hear and must begin to act on. Now,” he said.
Another day ending in y. Liberals fighting each other. FMD
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Top cop’s astonishing diary note about the Brittany Higgins’ case – where he writes that a detective thought some of her claims were ‘made up’
Well knock me down with a feather!
We should ask her boyfriend about it.
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That saving was worth over half a bill to the Australian tax payer.
And the bastard’s support of alarmism and ruinables and opposition to fossils and nuclear will cost us about a trillion.
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Been spruiked for a while now.
Nvidia shares are up 27% in pre-market trading as the company last night reported Q2 revenue outlook of USD 11bn vs est. USD 7.2bn smashing even the most optimistic estimates for revenue highlighting an incredible jump in demand for AI chips as the AI race is on following the commercial success of chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard. The extremely high expectations for the future of Nvidia are clearly seen in its equity valuation which now owns the top spot in the S&P Index.
And the bastard’s support of alarmism and ruinables and opposition to fossils and nuclear will cost us about a trillion.
To date, he’s spending either his own money or Fortescue’s money on it.
Keep in mind, he owns a third of Fortescue & has never sold a share.
You might not like it, but it’s real skin in the game.
If I stopped work I would lose money, if I continued I would lose money
We have a piece of code that put on jobs when we are working for a 3rd party like a builder or their mechanical contractor subby .
I call it The-Bomb.
The-Bomb
– is hidden and can only be found if you’re as nefarious as I am
– has a future date: The-Date-of-Certain-Death
– has a Killing-Floor: on The-Date-of-Certain-Death everything on the Killing-Floor is executed
– turn off Network Services and Fieldbus communications?
– hide all the graphics
– delete the controller network?
– delete itself and reboot
– anything I want
It works like this:
even though, everything I install or supply remains my property until paid for
Im not permitted to go and un-install my stuff even if I’m not getting get paid
so, I simply set a Date-of-Certain-Death, drop tools and leave
when they call
I simply tell them that everything will be OK … as soon as they square up the account
saved our arses a couple of times
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When looking at the Rich List published in the AFR, the secret of real wealth (for most of them) is to…..inherit it.
Somebody’s got to earn it at some point. Lang’s estate wasn’t in great shape but I was told every train out of Tom Price was $300k I the bank. Don’t know how accurate that figure was.
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The first time the FFI will get taxpayer benefits will be from the co-investment in hydrogen if the government selects any of their projects.
Which is highly likely.
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JMHsays:
May 26, 2023 at 5:42 pm
Re. calli’s zeros. I have upticked heaps. I can’t believe we have such a cretin on this blog who is thus consumed.
I just upticked one of yours that had been zeroed.
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If you’ve passed a TV or radio in recent days chances are you’ve seen or heard commercials that are meant to be impartial and purely information based, but are nothing of the sort.
And these pro Voice ads are pretty damned professional! They smack of very EXPENSIVE and professional ad agencies.
The No citizen entity is really uphill in this battle.
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Lang’s estate wasn’t in great shape
Wasn’t it bankrupt?
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Another thing to keep in mind is that Fortescue has never imported labour.
Where as Roy Hill was couldn’t get enough of it.
Bankrupt is on the continuum of not in great shape. I think it was for what it’s worth. The other half of the iron ore riches are still waiting on the Supreme Court I believe. Certainly kept lawyers busy over the years.
I’m watching some garbage movie on Amazon.
Gerard Butler takes a bullet from an AK47 in the thigh, pauses for a second, then keeps on running.
Realistic.
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The AEC’s use of the slogan “Our Vote, Our Future” has also come under fire for being too close to the messaging pushed by the “yes” campaign. Support for the race based referendum is dropping, according to a number of recent polls, and it’s clear that many pro-Voice advocates are becoming increasingly nervous.
What is encouraging is that the comments I have been reading elsewhere run about 99% to NO. I hope this manifests at the time we have to put pen to paper.
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You might not like it, but it’s real skin in the game.
Twiggs gets about $2 bill PA in dividends and is worth about $30 bill. When the lights go out he won’t be in the dark; and his advocacy for ruinables has real impact. He has skin in nothing. And don’t forget the chunks are up him like rats up a shit stained Gucci, double breasted, Cashmere lined sports jacket; similar to what head prefect wears.
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Thank you, Boambee John.
I don’t think it would take an Einstein to work out who the morons are.
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Gerard Butler takes a bullet from an AK47 in the thigh, pauses for a second, then keeps on running.
Supposed to have been a former Selous Scout, who met Mikhail Kalashnikov after the bush war, in South Africa.
“Mr Kalashnikov, I consider your rifle a most inferior weapon. I’ve been shot seven times with one, and, if it was any good, I wouldn’t be here today.”
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When I look at the Rich List, Frank Lowy is the stand out.
Came to Australia with nothing.
Limited English.
Was a visionary.
Built an empire.
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Mr Mirabella later told members the party was being crippled by a major brand problem that had made it unelectable.
“In the last 12 months the people of Victoria have made it perfectly clear that we are not electable,” he said.
Well, yeah! Tell us something we don’t already know, Mr. Mirabella.
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“Mr Kalashnikov, I consider your rifle a most inferior weapon. I’ve been shot seven times with one, and, if it was any good, I wouldn’t be here today.”
If it hit the femur old mate would have been well oil beef hooked.
It may simply pass through muscle with “minimal” damage.
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…… we are not electable,” he said.
He means ‘we are too RW extremist and must go trans and green.’
Fool.
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Mr Mirabella later told members the party was being crippled by a major brand problem that had made it unelectable.
What did I write here a couple of weeks ago, to some objections?
The Liberal Party back room operatives are obsessed with “branding.”
They could just as well be selling ice cream, and hopefully soon will be.
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This is the full interview by John Anderson with Melanie Phillips I excerpted above.
I’ve got a lot of time for the Canva founders too.
Infinitely more than the Atlassian founders.
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feelthebern
When I look at the Rich List, Frank Lowy is the stand out.
Westfield and Newscorp are certainly among the few Australian companies to score big runs on the world stage. The Macquarie model was picked up elsewhere and the building materials guys have done well in the US at times over the years.
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Stan Grant fights back tears at Sydney Writer’s Festival
If Stan doesn’t get the Gold Logie we know why.
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Keran needs meds. When I see her name I’m reminded of the times she demanded I must stop responding to her abuse . You gotta a laugh.
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feelthebern says:
May 26, 2023 at 7:03 pm
When I look at the Rich List, Frank Lowy is the stand out.
Came to Australia with nothing.
Limited English.
Was a visionary.
Built an empire.
Bern, not sure if Dick Pratt was born here but his story is comparable.
Bern, not sure if Dick Pratt was born here but his story is comparable.
Agree.
Roger at 7.18 pm:
If Stan doesn’t get the Gold Logie we know why.
Got it in one, Roger. Can’t wait to see how the Tan b/s travels from now on. Momentum, momentum but I’m not sure this rubbish will see the week out.
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Maybe the cause of a teary eyed Tan is that the program he was hosting is a bust and if he didn’t do a sob story, he would’ve been fired.
With a move to Thursday night, an unpopular choice of host, and the ratings hitting rock bottom, Aunty looks for…feedback…
After a diabolically low 233,000 viewers nationally (165,000 5CM/68,000 Regional) for Thursday’s edition of Q+A, the ABC has moved swiftly to try to understand why the audience is no longer tuning in.
TV Blackbox has learned on Friday all members of the online feedback group “YourSpace” received an invitation asking them some very specific questions about Q+A including “What do you think of the host?” and “Is the show getting better or worse?”.
– Advertisement –
TV Blackbox understands the YourSpace surveys ask for feedback on a broad range of shows and topics including viewing habits, though until now the panel have never asked for in-depth feedback on a specific show as they have on Q+A. This is the first time they’ve asked direct questions specifically about a show and its host, and suggests the ABC is re-evaluating the future of the program that once helped set the weekly political agenda.
In 2019 Erin Vincent was appointed the new executive producer of the show after creator and founding EP Peter McEvoy stepped down. Vincent has a solid resume, working as Executive Producer on Insights and ABC Breakfast in the past, however the program has struggled since that time.
The program’s lowest ratings previously were 168,000 5CM from March this year after an episode hosted by Virginia Trioli. The week before was its previous lowest, with 175,000 5CM for an episode chaired by now permanent host Stan Grant.
The live panel show (which encourages live social media commentary) has seen its ratings crash after the move in 2021 from its flagship Monday 9:35pm spot to Thursday 8:30pm, and the revolving host role after original host Tony Jones was replaced by Hamish Macdonald who served from January 2020 and quit in July 2021 due to trolling from social media. The revolving trio of hosts was implemented as a result.
Last month Grant was appointed sole host after sharing the role with Trioli and David Speers for most of 2021 and 2022, and was pilloried on the very social media it courts for the decision.
Of the three hosts trialled the episodes with Grant as host were consistently the lowest rating of the three, however all would be considered low in comparison to episodes previously aired in the Monday night timeslot.
A very angry ABC has been in contact this morning to say:
Q+A’s average national audience is more than 500,000 viewers per program. Recently Q+A started an exciting new chapter, including moving to a single host with Stan Grant. As we said at the time, the team is continuing to explore ways to further develop Q+A, including how to get audiences even more involved.
TV Blackbox’s report of the audience survey is completely wrong. The ABC regularly asks questions about specific programs. These surveys cover a wide range of topics and are designed to help the teams to understand their audience perspectives and refine accordingly. Listening closely to the audience and public at large is at the heart of what the program does.
Note from Rob McKnight: Using a national average and still only getting to 500,000 is desperate spin from the ABC and an attempt to change the narrative that QandA is failing – which it is.
Yes, the ABC does ask for feedback on its programs but our understanding is not generally through the method as described in Steve’s story.
As for the report being ‘completely wrong’ – are the numbers wrong? Is the ABC concerned about the numbers? Is the future of QandA under doubt?
These are the questions we put to the ABC that remain unanswered (except for a snippy response claiming our report was ‘wrong’):
Are the ABC concerned about the shrinking ratings for ABC, especially given Thursday night’s was the lowest ever?
Will the ABC be renewing Q+A for 2023?
Are the ABC happy with the performance of Q+A with Stan Grant as host?
Will the ABC be replacing Stan as host of Q+A?
That was last year, but it appears to show is terminal.
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Roger, Karen is agreeing with you.
Momentum, momentum but I’m not sure this rubbish will see the week out.
With such a topical/ephemeral book to promote, Stan has only a limited window of opportunity to exploit before its remaindered.
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Can’t wait to see how the Tan b/s travels from now on.
I’ll bet good money on another book.
Just watching the swans n carlton start ,the welcome to country spiel just said that the digiknees invented what is now known as AFL.
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Maybe the cause of a teary eyed Tan is that the program he was hosting is a bust and if he didn’t do a sob story, he would’ve been fired.
He’s got a new book out, JC.
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I’m not sure who would watch Q&A.
It’s not engaging or educational.
The only people who might find it entertaining are retards who watch to have existing views validated by the echo chamber.
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Another good one we have listened to tonight, which unfortunately we only have on CD.
I dimly recall the story of a woman who tried hard to like classical music. She had been taught at school to visualise what the composer was trying to get across, and it just meant nothing to her. Then one day she heard the Elgar ‘cello concerto, possibly the DuPres version, and said how much it affected her: “It was such a lovely sound, it made my tummy turn over.”
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The Wiradjuri journalist
Why couldn’t he be called journalist. This statement in its self is divisive.
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Roger,
He may have, but the regular earner – the show – is in shit creek. Not even lefties are watching anymore.
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Hamish Macdonald who served from January 2020 and quit in July 2021 due to trolling from social media.
Wait, what! Is Hamish indigenous, or is it the quality of the comperes that attracts the on-line trolling? Maybe it wasn’t really “wacist” attacks on sTan, just attacks on an inferior compere?
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rosie says: May 26, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Leah Torres got her medical licence back seven months later but thanks to Dobbs it looks like she’ll need to find new employment.
Rosie has linked a Guardian article, one with a most indignant tone to the headline;
She was one of Alabama’s last abortion doctors. Then they came for everything she had.
Wonder when we’ll see the following Guardian headlines:
She was one of Victoria’s last logging contractors. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Western Australia’s last Merino producers. Then they came for everything she had.
She’d spent a lifetime building a Northern Territory beef cattle export business, employing dozens of Territorians. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Australia’s last Olympic Shooting Medal contenders. Then they came for everything she had.
He was one of the Army’s last special forces NCOs. Then they came for everything he had.
She was one of Australia’s last independent long haul truckies. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Victoria’s last suppliers of rental houses to the poor. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of the East Coast’s last fishing boat owners. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of NSW’s last smashed avo cafes who took cash. Then they came for everything she had.
There you go Guardian j’ismists, stop the three monkeys act & write those stories.
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The missus has put this one on now—time for the spliffo!
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I’m not sure who would read New Catallaxy.
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Roger, Karen is agreeing with you.
Because I’m right…obviously.
😀
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Hahaha! The powers that be decided that the next Climapaloosa had to be held in someplace muslim. That has turned out to be Abu Dhabi.
So Abu Dhabi got to choose the boss of the Climapaloosa. And so they chose the head of, get this, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Is that awesome or what?
Over 100 members of the US Congress and European Parliament signed a letter calling for Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber to be removed as the head of the upcoming COP28 climate conference, Reuters reported on 24 May.
COP28 will be hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December and will center around efforts to mobilize $100 billion of public and private climate finance for developing economies.
Jaber, who heads the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and serves as the UAE’s climate envoy, was designated in January to lead the talks.
In the public letter, lawmakers, including US Democratic senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, voiced “profound concern” that oil companies would be able to “exert undue influence” on the climate negotiations.
Aching sides! Maybe, green peoples, unlike you the Arabs don’t think the world is burning up. And no they aren’t your friends even if you think they are. On the other hand any bunch who has Bernie Sanders and Fauxahontas supporting it is clearly on the right side of history. /s
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“He may have, but the regular earner – the show – is in shit creek. Not even lefties are watching anymore.”
Correct. The show has been floundering since Mr Jones took off to China with his missus. It was never particularly good viewing but Jones did try to keep some balance.
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He may have, but the regular earner – the show – is in shit creek. Not even lefties are watching anymore.
Yeah, I know, the timing is serendipitous.
I think the ABC’s ratings are tanking all over the shop.
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Can’t wait to see how the Tan b/s travels from now on.
I’ll bet good money on another book.
More left wing stocking filler fit for inflicting on those you hate at Christmas.
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Hugh:
Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.
That may be so, but if I refuse to interact with them then I reduce my chances of getting 0.9 of a litre of fuel when I am paying for 1 litre. I also reduce my chances of getting food from a hot box that has been a week past its use by date.
I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
I’d think it a fairly rational decision.
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feelthebernsays:
May 26, 2023 at 7:38 pm
I’m not sure who would watch Q&A.
It’s not engaging or educational.
The only people who might find it entertaining are retards who watch to have existing views validated by the echo chamber.
I think the ratings for the ABC tell the hideous story. Radio and TV at pretty much rock bottom. The thing is sinking into it’s own bile which is good. Too bad, the regressives in charge cannot bring themselves to pull the pin. We taxpayers must continue to suffer the ignominy of keeping the fetid swamp abomination gurgling.
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I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
Have you heard of the Normans, Angevins & Plantagenets?
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Friday fright night.
This reminds me of the tunnels under Rottnest Island. I will say the clip was rather unsettling, especially with what he found at the end. It’s enough to give you nightmares. The second viewing put a smile in my face but made me say oh shit! out loud.
Trump vs Kennedy, or better still, Trump AND Kennedy vs the rest ….
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Lizzie:
The Indian guy making his lunch preferences known in that initial eBay Sale Tuesday ad for noise-cancelling headphones where everyone in an open office is shouting has become something of a meme:
Perhaps the difference here is that I don’t watch TV that blasts me with “Such and Such are good people and you should ignore their real life propensity for ripping off people who think they are trustworthy.”
Hmmm?
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Both the Mirabellas have an uncanny ability to turn everything they get involved with to shit.
Sophie turned a rock solid Liberal seat into the model the Teals copied to take more Lib seats. Her husband has had a big role in turning the Vic Libs into the unelectable shambles that they now are.
How do these people get into these positions?
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The missus has put this one on now—time for the spliffo!
I bought the double album on vinyl from a second hand joint in Pitt St Sydney. Just the album cover art would be enough. Superb. But the music was even superber.
I gave away my turntable and records to a skint flatmate when I graduated and started to be paid actual money. Then rebought the double album on CD, which I still have. Easier these days to bring it up on YouTube though, although the sound quality isn’t as good.
I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
I’d think it a fairly rational decision.
Turtlehead can sniff out the owner of a service station as soon as he drives in. He’s like a beagle when it comes to service station ownership. He sticks his nose in the air and can smell the curry.
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Fair call Winston.
All I can say right now is: OOH LA!
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Seems like it’s drinks time for some, the gratuitous insults begin.
Robert Sewell = One of the few gems of wisdom that all long haul truckies know – “NEVER eat anything out of a food warmer at a servo”.
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Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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I do every day- bacon and egg wrap. Really hits the spot.
Watched on iview a few minutes of a recent Q&A episode. Oh My God.
It started with Stan Grant jabbering in tongues from amongst the studio audience – for a minute I thought I’d mistakenly logged in to some holy-roller website.
Then Stan switched to the language of the oppressive colonisers to announce that this show was being broadcast to us from the land of Witchetty’s tribe. Mmmm… not yet onto any actual current affairs content.
Fast forward to the first question: To some skinhead on the panel who wrote a book called “Trainspotting” (there’s a book about potting trains? Stan described it as a very “bleak” book.)
Despite being an actual citizen of the vile colonizing British, the author was for some reason shown a fair bit of respect.
The first half of the question was taken up with the questioner listing the lands he lived upon & acknowledging that tribe, or something…. no actual current affairs content yet.
Question was something about the Royal family & coronation, or something. Mr. Skinhead Train-Potter expounded on disparaging the monarchy and all pageantry ancillary to it, blah blah blah…. I was sorta zoning out when he said that the robes in which King Chilla had been clad were “ridiculous” (okay, his opinion, he’s free to have it) & that in North Korea you’d be executed for donning such garments.
The audience purred in agreement.
Holy Mackerel, an Australian audience just sided approvingly with North Korea!
Stan Grant: Excuse me, you were all just clapping & nodding in approval of North Korea executing anybody who wears a furry robe, as if that is the standard we should aspire to. Ask yourselves, do we really want to use the benchmark of what is acceptable in North Korea to govern our behaviour? Total silence.
A few minutes later Nove Peris-Kneebone (fresh from elocution lessons by the sound of her) rattled on disparaging the monarchy, her killer line, the zinger that proves the monarchy is bad, was; Jerry Seinfeld (an American comedian) once cracked a joke that was at the expense of the British Royal Family.
The audience guffawed their approval – this proved the monarchy must go.
At that point I closed the window & watched something on Netflix.
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Sfw
The hyperbolic loser made the following comment.
That may be so, but if I refuse to interact with them then I reduce my chances of getting 0.9 of a litre of fuel when I am paying for 1 litre. I also reduce my chances of getting food from a hot box that has been a week past its use by date.
I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
I’d think it a fairly rational decision.
Being a former cop, and occasionally reading the crap you post, I’m pretty certain you’re not very bright.
I’d wonder how many times would the turtlehead drive into a service station and immediately determine the site is owned by Indian folk and therefore won’t buy his usual 4 litres of 95.
You believe it, right? You believe he knows the ownership the moment his drives in.
It’s a gratuitous ugly comment you moron and it’s a lie.
I walked past the local bookshop this morning and there was the Turd’s latest extrusion where it belonged from the day of publication, in the remainder bin.
It would have been cheaper than buying firelighters but I wouldn’t have it in the house.
I believe much of the Higgins stuff is due to it being in the ACT. It has all the bells and whistles of a full administrative State, staffed by cliques and maaates.
Someone commented about housing developments above and I can’t recall who it was…
Three years ago I sat on an “executive committee” overseeing plans for the redevelopment of the old Subiaco oval site. Most of the meetings focused on how to incorporate songlines, indigenous symbols and colours etc… as we were redeveloping a sacred site. It was an agree-fest worse than their ABC.
I made the career limiting move of suggesting that, with the apartments being developed, we go out to Perth’s eastern burbs and get some indigenous families to move in to heavily discounted apartments.
I’ve never encountered such an awkward silence in all my life…
Bruce O’Nuke:
The steel would have been especially valuable as it was produced before the nuclear tests and so wasn’t ‘contaminated’ by the fallout – making it valuable as Hell for the MRI/CT machinery manufacturers.
The bloody Chinese would be screaming blue murder if we did the same to one of their museums.
“Not too much wrong with modern Australia that wasn’t exacerbated by Whitlam.”
Agree but there’s not too much wrong with modern Australia that wasn’t exacerbated by Fraser, Howard and Liberal inertia, passivity, torpor and laziness.
Just remember Fraser’s massive victories in 1975 and 1977, and he did nothing, and remember Howard’s win in 2004 when the Liberals won control of the senate.
H B Bear says: May 26, 2023 at 11:42 am
Would the functions of these cliques include offering maaates a chance to illegally use state powers and resources to carry out a personal vendetta against someone who’d pissed them off at work?
The ABC has been slammed by two former employees over the systemic decline in the quality of journalism which they argue has led to the “debacle” surrounding Stan Grant.
Grant suddenly quit the public broadcaster’s flagship Q+A program last week arguing the ABC failed to support him after he was the subject of racial abuse over his commentary during King Charles III’s coronation.
But while the ABC has apologised to grant and launched an investigation, current and former staff are arguing the scandal represents a broader problem within the organisation.
In a scathing column published in the Sydney Morning Herald, ex-senior ABC journalists Stuart Littlemore and David Salter said the broadcaster had “catastrophically undermined its authority” by failing to draw clear lines between news and opinion coverage.
The pair argued the ABC was now essentially permitting its staff, and specifically its journalists, to air their personal commentary on digital outlets and “parade their egos on social media”.
“The ABC’s real problem is competence, or the lack of it, and a failure to recognise that staff cannot have a foot in both the fact and opinion camps,” Littlemore and Salter said.
Littlemore was the inaugural host of the ABC’s flagship 15-minute Media Watch program, while Salter was the show’s long-time executive producer.
The industry veterans said the ABC’s quality of reporting had slipped into “incompetence” and was “destructive of the reputation and value” of its journalism.
In a sharply worded rebuke of the “decline in journalistic standards”, Littlemore and Salter slammed the poor reporting and the culture of inclusivity and diversity.
“It’s largely an everybody-gets-a-go culture, where valued journalism is too often sacrificed to the self-congratulation of inclusivity and diversity,” they wrote.
“On the ABC News website, too few of the stories are authentic hard news. Instead, we get clumsily written commentary and ‘analysis’, clickbait puffs, crime stories of minimal news value and folksy features contributed by staff in the regional outposts keen for a national byline.”
More at Sky News
“I made the career limiting move of suggesting that, with the apartments being developed, we go out to Perth’s eastern burbs and get some indigenous families to move in to heavily discounted apartments.”
There ain’t nothing like exposing progressive sanctimony and hypocrisy. When exposed, it doesn’t just drip, it gushes.
Will
The common law (with a couple of exceptions) has never recognised gambling wins as having the characteristics of income. It could never support the deduction of losses from actual income. It is a current fave of swampies who have made the existing miners of coal and gas richer beyond their wildest business cases by choking off new supply.
This might sound strange, but if you want to look at the antecedents of a lot of current cultural icons, I suggest you check out an old RPG board game called Shadowrun as well as an (originally French) D&D style RPG game called In Nomine.
Why were they antecedents:
The Matrix having a virtual world overlain the real world (Shadowrun).
Chaos magic in the portrayal of the demon princes Calabim, Kobal, Malphas and Nybbas (In Nomine).
Older people probably know older science fiction with a Matrix like concept; you could argue “perceived reality” stories like Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes or even The Time Machine.
Not too sure about earlier literature regarding chaos magic unless you consider the Illuminatus trilogy or even George Martin considering his characterisation of Littlefinger.
Rosie:
The distances don’t add up – Wilcannia is just within the Sydney distance, but the Qld border is only 400k away IIRC.
Perhaps Menindee or Ivanhoe?
Even then, Brucken ‘Ill has a teaching hospital with all the services including surgical and renal that would be required in this case.
unbelievably, is doing a degree in Environmental Studies, despite not believing in global warming.
Real environmentalism and belief in Global warming have nothing to do with each other.
The enviros who believe in global warming will generally champion other environmental polices that usually achieve the opposite of what they aim to do.
Lysander at 11:46 – there is still some public housing up the top of Subiaco near Kings Park. That is close enough thank you. I think we get some public tenants in an old 1950s tower nearby but the nearby cop shop keeps everything in line.
Winston, that’s why I was confused by the doctor’s geography lesson.
My take-away – the lot was confected bulldust.
Calli:
Same here – if I need a Cardiology review, it’s off to the big smoke. 1150k and the 380 just eats it up. And there’s a $300 fuel subsidy as well.
I suppose it was sexier to have the thing in NSW than a place very far from help like the Kimberley or Gulf. Because…derrrrrr.
“Real environmentalism and belief in Global warming have nothing to do with each other.”
Agree.
A couple of Indigenes thought the lack of beggars on Rokeby Road and it’s proximity to the Subiaco train station presented an opportunity. Evidently not, they soon disappeared. Begging in the Western Suburbs is mainly done through crony capitalism.
The next step will be punishment for not groveling at their feet hard enough.
Rosie:
It doesn’t stop the demands, though, Rosie. And it doesn’t stop the violence that happens when the entire clan turns up for a ‘holiday’, and expects – demands – free tucker and room service from the hapless escapee. And God help the poor bugger who says ‘no’.
I’ve always seen those years as the wasted years, in this country.
LOL, I love it when we get these stories appearing simultaneously.
Here’s when Aussies should hit the slopes this winter as ski resorts prepare for a lacklustre snow season (Sky News, 26 May)
Mount Hotham gets winter preview with 12cm overnight snowfall (Sky News, 26 May)
Maybe there will be not much snow, or maybe there will be a lot of snow. But I think I should be forgiven for my reflex distrust of experts saying the season will be “lackluster”.
My take-away – the lot was confected bulldust.
the bit that lost me …………… Certainly, my First Nations mates
never, ever heard anyone use that term before ……..
Oh, yeh HB… I have been a part of “that world…”
Blackburne’s “One” apartment development in Subi is evidence of that!!!
Although HB – I have to congratulate Saffioti cos she’s been big on urban infill in the Western burbs and all the Western burbanites fu-king hate it. She’s overriding councils, making planning for infill easier, offering cash incentives to developers etc…
And the great thing is, Labor isn’t electorally interested in those burbs…. 😛
There’s a bit getting through. Harder once you get into Nedlands, City Beach, Floreat and the like. I’m not really sure how you strike a balance in those older purely residential suburbs. Unless things change there won’t be many viable sites for a while.
“It’s not the neighbours/families job.” That’s exactly what you will be told.
“You speak the problem, the problem is yours, you must fix it.”
Aboriginal culture is toxic to Aboriginals and actively prevents any social advancement from the pre colonial days. They don’t just try and pull the wool over Whities eyes – they believe utterly in the community sharing, not my job, identify the problem then you must fix it, issues. These concepts are believed as surely as a Baptist believes in the Second Coming, as surely as a Moslem believes in their God is Greater, as surely as Sinclair believes the Bombers will always rise up.
The Aboriginal Culture and ours are incompatible.
Some of us may deny that fact, but there it is. Any attempts to merge the two cultures will only result in expensive friction and anger/violence/destruction. Individuals may survive and prosper but one of the cultures must disappear into the dustbin of history.
Thomas Sowell has written much on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectual — Thomas Sowell the ntellectual giant surrounded by intellectual pygmies — one of my favourite Thomas Sowell quotes is this:
On a personal note – the stupidity and tyranny of know-it-alls has deeply affected our family life and the lives of countless families who have family members with severe disabilities Thomas Sowell also said :
That is a perfect summation of where we are today because of course the cost, the price and the consequences are borne by those who have personal knowledge of, a personal stake in the issues but who have been excluded by the know-it-alls.
?There is a wonderful interview between Peter Robinson and Professor Thomas Sowell – the subject of the interview is: Intellectuals and Society.
It’s lengthy but worth every moment, and so apt in the tragedy being played out in the remote communities where our aboriginal brothers and sisters have been abandoned .
ABC News up to it’s old tricks…”Six year anniversary of Voice proposal” ….”Twenty five years since first Sorry Day.”
Not news at all. Only mentioned for propaganda purposes.
Heroic milestones in Climate action get similar coverage.
Well said. Does a Stone Age culture have any place in the twenty first century?
Teaching moment lost.
Bud Light To Sponsor Pride Parades Despite Ongoing Boycott (25 May)
Apparently there’s a definition of insanity which is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
Get a load of the sheer incompetence and or mendaciousness of these so-called journalists.
They’re comparing the wealth these people hold to income. Wealth maybe derived from income but it is not income. GDP is derived from income , that is , the annual value added production of those “small countries.. These dickheads are comparing chalk and cheese.
For the comparison to be valid, they need to compare the annual income these two earn to the relevant GDP or the net wealth in these countries to Forrest and Gina’s.
Bruce
They were getting pressured by the trans lobby for partially backing down. Now it’s just damage control.
Which they have completely stuffed up as well.
The Mulvaney thing was panned because it was aimed at sports fanatics and somewhat hilariously Mulvaney admitted he knows nothing about sport. From the outset AB In Bev were treating their customers with hostility.
Yes.
North Sentinel Island
Don’t go there.
I think this is a psychological phenomena. If you conflate asset prices and income, you feel a lot better about yourself being on 120k and having 780k to pay back on a 900k mortgage. Even if people know the difference, it’s like a sideshow hall of mirrors for their minds.
Thanks, I’ve crossed the place off my bucket list.
Rosie:
I have to admit I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilcannia. The boss there was one of the best I’ve ever worked with – she was the only person who could ring me up on the boat and ask me to come back to work as she was desperate for nurses. Wilcannia was where I met the Child Bride, and many other significant events.
The issue with the average life expectancy is about refusal to acknowledge warning signs of illness, refusal to take medication, refusal to go to the regular clinics, and only turning up to the hospital when in dire need of medical intervention. Why is it so? Because it’s the hospitals job to cure the patient, not the patients.
This refusal of self responsibility is at the core of the Aboriginal health crisis and cannot be slated home to White Australia – even though it is.
It was a great idea, but sadly the engineering couldn’t keep up with the demand.
Twitter’s head of engineering resigns a day after platform’s disastrous launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement (25 May)
Happens all the time: unlike broadcast television the internet requires one for one provision of bandwidth to each customer. If you misread the interest from customers your tech will melt down. Which is what happened. Good on Mr Dabiri for doing the honourable thing. I hope someone immediately re-employs a guy like he seems to be.
AB and Bud light do not like their customer base. The actually despise them. I think and trial separation is in order with a view to divorce.
Forget all the tranny grooming crap, I have a simple question: How many cans or bottles of beer have a person’s face on it? Worldwide?
Every single time.
I live near there and cycled through over decades. In the 1980s or 90s the Labor Government smashed tories by adding social housing to Subiaco including along the railway reserve – approximately 100m from Subiaco Oval. Those now-old units were smashed and boarded up when I was cycling past maybe a year ago. There was a ‘traditional’ Coles trolley permanently abandoned on the walk/bike trail just there.
I have never heard of feedback for that project good or bad – just silent in the Post and public conversation generally.
It seems odd the way Stan Grant has managed to capture so much attention for himself. Nobody would ever accuse him of being an intellectual heavyweight, his only contributions seem to be reading a teleprompter and engaging in some truly juvenile agitprop. It is pretty sad that something of that standard passes as being worthy of inclusion in the press.
Chris – they held a series of “townhalls” at Bob Hawke College (ugh)… but I got out of that industry before it destroyed me!
“and somewhat hilariously Mulvaney admitted he knows nothing about sport. “
Glad you used the right pronoun.
SCOTUS doing the lord’s work again and continues to clip the wings of the administrative state.
I understood clearly how it came to this the second I read where the holding company’s marketing department is located.
It’s in Chelsea NYC, the most hipster neighbourhood outside of Brooklyn.
Did the bud Light cans actually have Mulvaney’s face on them or was it a special consignment just for him to make the advert with. I thought it was the latter but never really followed it up.
Good for you Lysander.
ZKTA – I dont know why we need to be sorry for taking children out of dangerous environs?
It still happens to this day. The Dept of Child Protection take a lot of kids out of dangerous homes to this day.
https://www.cjsinquiry.act.gov.au/public-hearings/livestream
This Inquiry has more breaks than a politician’s promises.
The ten year old girls, who contracted venereal disease, after being prostituted by their loving parents, to the crews of the North West pearling fleet would probably agree with you.
BoN, I often see articles like that about the ski season, contradicting each other. We have had a great run of good ski seasons here, we’re well overdue for a bad one, when it happens the climate changers will be full on. There’s heaps of climate fanatics in ski areas, I’ve often spoken to them and they rave about climate change and how we’re all doomed. I then start moving the conversation to how good the skiing has been the last few years and then they start agreeing and talk about the great snow. Then I say well where’s the climate change? You just said that we’ve been having great seasons? They just say “It’s coming”.
I have even shown them pics of some of the really bad seasons long ago and say how that was 40 years ago and it’s better now, how can you be sure that climate change is real? The shutters fall and they just change the subject.
The way the NSW Plod has handled the 95 year old being tasered will be a case study on what not to do.
They are jumping on every land mine possible.
If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be comical.
I’m half expecting Rob Sitch to pop out & say “surprise, it was a spin-off from Utopia that got out of the lab, how could you think we’d taser nan”.
Fear porn:
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/the-next-pandemic-even-deadlier-than-covid-is-coming-warns-who/news-story/20be6a458bf55b01143d752b2b0fa1d6
so, China has blown up a USS carrier in an online simulation.
Interesting…
I think we’ve found the modern Dame Mary Gilmore.
Now, redistill that wisdom into about three stanzas of 10 – 20 lines and it can be the new national anthem.
“No foe shall gather our graft and arse covering…”
Disease X is the WHO code for a disease caused by a germ that hasn’t even been discovered yet.
Oh do get fu#@ed.
In reply, the United States blows up Three Gorges Dam, in an online simulation?
That’s easy. The hard bit is to avoid Beijing glowing in the dark for the next 10,000 years.
Proof of malicious manipulation of data to support their agenda
Article by Bill Wyman:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/north-america/america-suddenly-feels-like-gotham-but-i-can-t-see-batman-20230524-p5datq.html
Yes, you think by the title it’d be about the massive crimewaves sweeping across regressive US cities?
Nope, it’s about how Trump is a loser and why DeSantis is the Republicans’ man (not that he actually provides any evidence, like, at all).
Flavonol-rich foods like apples and blackberries can lower chances of developing frailty
Mere Words Won’t Deter Corrupt Officials
Razey:
This is the type of culture the overlords are imposing on us. Best not to deal with the Indian Hordes.
Why cheating comes naturally to Indians
https://www.dailyo.in/variety/scams-nirav-modi-rotomac-fodder-scam-pnb-22537
This is why I do not trust Indians and refuse to do business with them. I’ve been ripped off a couple of times by them and have never forgotten it.
When I fill up at a servo, I now check behind the counter – if they’re Sub continentals, I go to the next one.
So why the fork are we importing the dregs of the world who have a culture that is utterly incompatible to ours? The only reason I can think of is their cultures are compatible with our illustrious leaders and to force ours to change for the worse.
4
Oh shit.
In this video I discuss the recent news of Microsoft scanning messages in their cloud software for passwords to decrypt zip archives that are also sent through their cloud platforms so they can decrypt and scan those encrypted archives as well, this means that the spying present in Microsofts cloud software goes much further than we thought.
Microsoft Is Decrypting Your Files in The Cloud
Mental Outlaw May 20 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICS5ut3itgk
(Don’t put any entrepreneurial ideas on the platform at all!)
[BTW, the password is billgatesvisitedepsteinisland36times ]
It’s been 2-3 weeks now he’s been in custody of the SBU.
Interesting Dot – but I’m sure we all “sign up” to this when we read their 5,000 paged “terms and conditions.”
Gonzalo Lira wasn’t very smart. He was already arrested once and let go, then to continue like he did on enemy territory, crazy.
Safer to assume that if it can be hacked it is being hacked and plan accordingly. What else are you meant to do, trust someone?
No exaggeration.
Brilliant thread replacing the words ‘trans women’ with ‘men’ shows what trans-activism is REALLY about
Ain’t multiculturalism just grand:
A man who allegedly captured an ibis in a Sydney park and hung it up to dry in his shower before attempting to cook it has been released from custody.
Tom Quach allegedly stuffed the animal in his backpack and rode a stolen bike to his unit in Sydney’s eastern suburbs before decapitating the bird and hanging it up on Tuesday.
The 60-year-old was confused about whether the birds, known affectionately as bin chickens, could be eaten in NSW, his lawyer said…….
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-news/2023/05/26/ibis-sydney-magistrate-accused/?breaking_live_scroll=1
There’s no real justice any more.
Biden’s DOJ drops all charges against Soros-backed Massachusetts DA caught lying under oath
Ek roll ap die vloor….
Tastes like chicken? I suspect my currawongs taste like cow, given how much of it they eat.
Crux reports that a postage stamp created, with 45,000 printed, to commemorate upcoming World Youth Day in Portugal has been withdrawn within 24 hours as it shows the Pope and young kids standing on a statue in Portugal that celebrates Portuguese colonialisation…
Some good news, at last.
Schumer rips ‘MAGA’ Supreme Court after 9-0 vote on EPA waters rule
The FBI Has Crossed The Rubicon
Cassie of Sydney:
Important question, Cassie – what sort of cheesecake was it?
This is how peaceful demonstrators are treated. Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison, wasn’t even there.
Second Oath Keeper sentenced to 12 years in prison for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
Doc Faustus:
Yes, they miss the serendipitous nature of reading a book – picking up information that is connected to the subject but not covered in a search.
Given the following,
even 2 years seems lenient and unjust.
Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.
Pity it’s not the whole interview.
Former UN Exec Dir Calin Georgescu: The Oligarchs Who Rule the World Use a System of Pedophilia
I’ve just finished doing a first run of this week’s Speccie, which arrived this morning. It is chock full of tributes to Jeremy Clark, indicating just how many people, like me, turned immediately to Jeremy’s column as soon as it arrived in the mail. Damn whatever else was going on in the world, and who thought what about it, what was more important was seeing what Jeremy was making of it all in his neck of the woods in prose that took you straight there, into his life and most times in recent years, bringing me to the edge of tears glimpsed through joy. It is usually in life the other way around. How Jeremy did it is a mystery but we all know that is what he did. He got to you mixing the mundane with the sublime and you loved him for it.
A speech to the UN parliament.
David Martin: Covid Is ‘Premeditated Domestic Terrorism’, an ‘Act of Biological & Chemical Warfare’
But Rinehart remains a clear table leader over her iron ore rival, adding 10 per cent to her fortune to now be worth $37.41 billion
Gina has written a good defence of the mining industry in today’s Australian Spectator. Have a read – & comment (if you are a subscriber) if you agree with it.
She is one of this country’s greatest assets, in my humble opinion, and many love to criticise her.
Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.
I have a soft spot for Indians. I worked for one many years ago – he expected a lot, but was supportive of hard working and conscientious staff. Husband also had dealings, as a property owner, with a high ranking Council engineer – & found the same – hard working and respectful of others who are honest and hard working. More recently, we had Indian tenants in one of our properties – my God the cooking odours were hard to remove – but they were nice people.
If you must watch one thing today you must watch this Putin speech on the woke virus infecting the West:
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1661911653691318273?s=20
Funnily enough, he says “this is not a new thing” and goes on “we tried this here, yes, in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks tried to destroy our heritage, families, traditions”
I’ve heard she gives shitloads of money to charity but does it more privately than Twiggy…
Firstly, David Martin was speaking to the EU Parliament, not the UN. But please to listen to it. He sets out blow by blow and date by date how and what has happened to reach the current state.
The NSW Police Commissioner is a diversity hire.
What were you expecting? Competence?
Remember that self-important NSW plod chick-in-charge who went home while an islamic lunatic was was killing hostages in Martin Square?
Say no more.
Never forget that NSW plod is part of the public service and incompetence is therefore a key requisite for promotion.
Was it your birthday or simply British Empire Appreciation Day?
I loved that Putin speech so much, I watched it twice!
Dover Beach:
I just got an email from donor box. Are they the ones the cat uses for donations?
Just checking – I’m a bit leery of odd emails atm.
She wasn’t the only one to do that, also the Premier (Mike Baird-time) & the Commish (Skippy-owny)
Unapologetic Jamaican Vacation Rental Owner Says She Will No Longer Allow Black Americans to Stay At Her Property: “They fight with each other, they’re disrespectful, they’re entitled” [VIDEO]
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/unapologetic-jamaican-vacation-rental-owner-says-she-will/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-05-25
Multiple Sclerosis after mRNA Vaccine (Mechanism Discussion)
A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE: Arkansas Man Who Trolled Nancy Pelosi by Putting His Feet On Her Desk During J6 Protests Sentenced to Over FOUR YEARS in Prison by Radical Judge
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/travesty-justice-arkansas-man-who-trolled-nancy-pelosi/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-05-25
For Cassie and Dot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w068PdDw0hs
You’ve been served!
(In the nicest possible way.)
I have seen on the intertubes that they have moved from a $20 rebate on a $20 case (which had to be applied for) to a $20 discount secured by a QR code at the point of sales.
People are characterising this as them giving it away but that is not right. Of the $20 retail price the brewery would have sold it for something like $10 with the other $10 being warehousing, distribution, etc.
For every $10 of the brewers sales they are paying $20. But it is apparently still cheaper than picking it up from everywhere and pouring it down the drain. (Well, there may be a hope that ‘giving it away’ might generate some goodwill – except everyone knows why they are in this particular pickle – contempt for their customers.)
Did Mark Textor go to the US and cough in an enclosed boardroom or something, infecting all those nearby with the idea that you can shit on your base with impunity while you sniff the arses of the mutts who hate you?
DHS funds program that classifies Republican Party as “far right extremist” organization with links to Nazis
You, me and lots of us Aussies, I expect.
The Indian guy making his lunch preferences known in that initial eBay Sale Tuesday ad for noise-cancelling headphones where everyone in an open office is shouting has become something of a meme:
“We should get Suchi, Carol.”
There’s even a t-shirt.
Heston Russell is selling “Not My ABC ” Bumper stickers…
A black Jamaican shop owner in Montego Bay shared secret eye-rolls with me after she’d had to put up with a particularly awful display of entitlement in her shop from a loud black American tourist.
Many Jamaicans, while being full of life and with a great sense of fun, require respectfulness in certain situations. A lot of them still attend church on Sundays all decked out in their finest.
Vagabond:
I’d build an outdoor dunny just to use it as dunny paper.
Lysander says:
May 26, 2023 at 3:10 pm
I’ve heard she gives shitloads of money to charity but does it more privately than Twiggy…
I’ve heard the same on a few occasions. I’ve tried to get a handle on the $ number but Gina is relatively ‘private’ and as her companies are also private, tracking down data is a challenge. Periodically, a few numbers come up but I suspect she gifts on condition of anonymity.
The Guardian is already publishing gunk “how bad would a De Santis presidency be?”
The world (according to SBS) used to be “an amazing place”.
Gateway Pundit:
1. It is now amazingly quickly going down the slippery slope to the new totalitarianism.
Biden Regime Lumps Christians, Conservatives, and Republicans into Same Category as Nazis in New DHS Anti-Terrorism Program.
2. Founder Stewart Rhodes Then Sentences Him to 18 Years in Prison for January 6.
3. Lawless NY Democrat Prosecutors Set May Trial Date for Bogus ‘We Build the Wall’ Charges Against Steve Bannon – Something He Was Already Pardoned For Back in 2020.
There’s heaps more about the USA being disintegrated, every day.
Calli:
Mine too – or at least confected by someone who was never there and who was too lazy to even look at a map and work out distances.
In a Herbert Pocket meets Emily Howard sort of way.
As for cheesecake, well, as a sensitive artiste; Oh! I can’t help myself…
SO THEN I GOT THIS IDEA ABOUT DRIVING A CHEESECAKE TRUCK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9inOtq0Ayek
24th May, what a wonderful day and night it used to be – Cracker Night.
Half day of school – 9 to 12. Concert in the morning and then home to build the bonfire.
Similar memories to here.
Did not know that
In December 2020 Georgia succeeded where police had failed. Brisbane terror suspect Raghe Abdi had cut off his electronic ankle monitoring device, allegedly murdered two people – Maurice Antill, 87, and Zoe Antill, 86 – and was later shot dead by police.
Two words spring to mind, Adam. The second is “Off.”
Cut and paste into the comment above completely failed. Not sure why. Made nonsense of my efforts but you’ll find all the articles at the link.
oh, deer.
She was supposed to have spent big money refurbishing two private hospitals, but, yes, she does give shitloads more privately then Twiggy does.
Afr, paywalled.
I though we were broke.
The Victorian government has quietly squirrelled away more than $75 billion in the budget to splurge on infrastructure and government agencies, without telling taxpayers what the borrowed money will be used for.
I have a soft spot for Indians.
You, me and lots of us Aussies, I expect.
Just remember if they ever attack you, put the wagons in a circle.
per Control’s Manual.
M. Smart.
Agent 86
I could say something racist, but I cannot afford to foil would be Australians with a fully manual Eaton Fuller transmission. They’re not cheap!
Robert, it is, can you email what they said. Seems very strange.
Wait until the Indian Hordes get here. Even the existing assimilated Indians wont want them. To much all at once is never a good thing. Sleazy has millions upon millions coming over.
Chris
Not much diversity around Subiaco. The place has been gentrified to within an inch of its life. Plenty of good cafes within trundling distance along good bike paths so no complaints from me.
Nah, I’m sure Kevin with the ulcer is real, it’s clearly somewhere in a five hour radius of Dubbo, even if it’s not Wilcannia.
the Gulgong story he referenced is true
Hmmm, interesting article about Nigel Satterley and the Perf’ “business mafia” in Teh Paywallian. Pretty close to the mark in my limited experience. Perf still a pretty small place in many respects.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: May 26, 2023 at 1:11 pm
You can still have it on your bucket list.
😉
As long as it’s the last item.
“Indians are not all bad. Sure, some are incompetent or lazy, but you could say that of any group. I know some Indians who are hard-working and nice people.”
True, the point however is that India is a low trust society at every level. Small numbers here can assimilate but bring in massive numbers and they will bring their low trust culture with them, once it’s established it will be almost impossible to get rid of.
Vicki, you are right, just saw an antiperspirant ad with a fat chick gyrating in an exercise class front and centre.
When thin models were required we were told how those images are dangerous and encourage anorexia yet here we are viewing images which by that logic are expected to lead to more obesity.
That’s what I have also heard. Gina contributes – but she shies away from recognition. Twigs – on the other hand, needs to be adulated. Recognised.
Dot says:
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare asked:
Dot did not give a straight answer.
See what I did there?
It took a while but I eventually discovered that pattern is the transgender pride flag.
I don’t remember the appreciation bit, when I was a kid we just called it Empire Day.
No idea what its official title was though.
You’re not bonkers. They are.
Stay away from loonies. Looniness is catching. They’ve already infected lots of people.
Crossie
Groogs is full of renewed enthusiasm. He thinks he can get Mother on the cover of next year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. I’m not sure he is mistaken.
Lizzo might be an okay musician but she’s unattractive and dangerously obese.
It’s in Chelsea NYC,
The best part of NY.
I had a lovely cheesecake recently served in a rectangle baking dish, two outer stripes of blueberry flavoured cheesecake, two inner stripes of strawberry flavoured cheesecake and a central stripe of plain cheesecake.
Sounds like a Japanese dessert I recently had.
They really go overboard with the colours & presentation of their desserts.
Evil.
Dover Beach:
en garde – on your mettle – or just simply beware.
Like any culture, you’ve got your goodies and your baddies…
I don’t have anything in particular against Indians’ modhi operandi.
Chelsea’s nice but not the best, Bern.
Chelsea Clinton?
Didn’t know you were that way “inclined” DB 😛
/jokes…
Have a great weekend Catters… stay civil and play nice (unless Munted turns up of course, or Ed for that matter)…
Im covering for those two 🙂
Throughout my school days of the 40s and 50s it was always Empire Day.
The celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday on May 24 was renamed Empire Day in 1903 after her death in 1901. It was celebrated throughout the British Empire culminating in fireworks and bonfires in the evening.
Leah Torres got her medical licence back seven months later but thanks to Dobbs it looks like she’ll need to find new employment.
Rosie, I have zero doubt about the poor man’s ulcerated foot and his need of medical care. What does switch my bullsh*tometer to the max is when odd “facts” are mixed in with highly emotive stories.
My take on it is that there is a melange of hospital stories mixed together into a heartrending Shame File designed to extract what exactly? Given the times, it will be two things – a “Yes” vote and more $$$$s. In other words, it’s moochaganda.
Hey, Muddy! Another word for the Catictionary.
RS, I don’t like the “First Nations” chances particularly with the influx of the 1.5 million subcontinentals in the next few years. I don’t think they will indulge them as we do once they become a huge and decisive voting block.
Is this word you want Muddy to include, calli? Just in case I missed the significance.
Ahhhh…cracker night. Unpicking endless Tom Thumbs to light and toss at my brother. Tying great bundles of tuppennies together, manufacturing a long fuse, burying the thing and waiting for the mine to explode. Or turning the Hills Hoist into a giant Catherine wheel – never worked but we tried.
And the penny rockets aimed at next door’s chook shed.
Horrible children. Good times.
Moochaganda (n) – thinly disguised political urging with a side benefit of extracting additional taxpayer’s money
I am not especially familiar with Indian culture, so I cannot say anything about its benefits and drawbacks. However, I agree that it is not a good idea to import other cultures en masse without a clear understanding of the potential consequences.
Bought this album recently. Some very beautiful neofolk.
There were accidents, some quite horrific on Cracker Night. As kids we were well versed in the dangers involved with both crackers and what to wear around the bonfires. There will always be those who do the wrong thing.
There were also complaints at a later date of take offs from Mascot being cancelled due to smoke pollution.
So began further restriction of what some of us regarded our rights.
Future leader of the community spiel didn’t work….
Ezekiel Narndu, 19, sentenced to seven years in prison for Wadeye riots manslaughter
The teen who killed a man during unrest in Wadeye has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after his lengthy trial concluded at Darwin Supreme Court on Thursday.
Ezekiel Narndu, 19, was found guilty of manslaughter after throwing a steel bar that pierced through the skull of a 33-year-old man referred to as Mr Tcherna in the remote West Daly community on April 16 last year.
calli AT 5;.24: Just upticked to bring you out of the dreaded zero.
The moron (stench -is that you trying ever so hard to be smart – or is it some other retard?) Whoever it is – STOP IT. It’s childish and you glean zero credence.
I wonder if Hans Blix is going to write another angry letter.
Re. calli’s zeros. I have upticked heaps. I can’t believe we have such a cretin on this blog who is thus consumed.
JMH, it’s just silliness, and it doesn’t worry me one iota. If I’m the object of juvenile malice, so be it. In the scheme of things…meh.
I wear my 000s with pride. It’s been a very long time since I fitted into them though! 😀
As a contractor for thirty years I got ripped off A LOT. Especially when I was younger . Mostly it was over doing extra work for no extra money. I ended up in the Small Claims Tribunal 4 times. Each time I was “sued” because I basically walked off the job when confronted with extras for no extra money .
However the “best” ripoff was by an Indian fellow . I had all the materials on site when he declared he wanted the whole area raised by 200 mm and he would pay $500 extra and no more.
The $500 barely covered materials .
If I stopped work I would lose money, if I continued I would lose money
I lost money …
Stan Grant fights back tears as he says ‘evil, vile, hateful abuse’ over ABC coronation coverage would not have happened if he was white
Stan Grant fights back tears at Sydney Writer’s Festival
The ‘evil, vile, hateful’ abuse levelled at Stan Grant after he appeared on an ABC TV panel criticising the monarchy during the King Charles III Coronation ‘would not have happened’ if he were white, he claims.
The Indigenous ABC star appeared at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Friday afternoon where he issued a withering assessment of Australia’s media landscape, after he stepped down indefinitely from Q+A on Monday.
Daily Mail
All together now: awwwww.
On his salary I could survive a few trolls.
He’d have fewer of them if he wasn’t such a snowflake.
Sue my arse off Stan, I have more dusky slave ancestors than you do son.
Juvenile malice it is, calli. It pisses me off because of the abject childishness. I would imagine Dover should be able to know who the retard is.
Has anyone actually ‘seen’ said abuse? Or is it just in the head of a ridiculously overrated ABC media petal?
DrBeauGan says:
May 26, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Not wrong there, unfortunately.
Why are these repulsive, spoilt cry bullies indulged?
The “Indigenous” ABC star appeared at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Friday afternoon.
Grant.
Over two years of trying to scorch another woman both here and the other blog (on most days) and Karen Blix is now the most behaved little girl here demanding the blog owner accede to his demands. You gotta laugh.
Rita Panahi:
Apologies if posted but she nails it. Again.
‘Truth is a Right Wing Concept’ | Melanie Phillips
John Anderson
British journalist Melanie Phillips argues that we have slipped into an age of “cultural totalitarianism”. She bases this off a widespread societal refusal to listen to evidence, accept reason and consider dissenting views, which has the effect of reducing common freedoms for citizens across the Western world.
For all the criticism of Andrew Forrest, when he set up his foundation, it was & remains the biggest donation in Australian history.
And he did not claim the tax deduction he was entitled to.
That saving was worth over half a bill to the Australian tax payer.
Australia may just have a glimmer of hope if it rejects Sleazy’s ‘Voice’.
Oh – my word, you do.
A shit-throwing ape enters.
When looking at the Rich List published in the AFR, the secret of real wealth (for most of them) is to…..inherit it.
i should have clarified: A shit-throwing Chimp!
An employment activist has described a Centrelink worker who was allegedly stabbed in the back by an enraged client as being the person in ‘power’.
Phoebe Autumn, a disabled trans activist against Centrelink and an Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) supporter, has tweeted about the almost fatal stabbing of 55-year-old Joeanne Cassar in a Melbourne job centre.
Elijah Chase, 34, allegedly stabbed Ms Cassar after he was told to leave Centrelink’s Melbourne Airport West Westfield branch on Tuesday around 1.30pm.
Ms Cassar was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and Mr Chase was charged with intentionally cause serious injury, recklessly cause serious injury, reckless conduct endangering life, common law assault and use and possession of controlled weapon.
The stabbing has since prompted a safety review of Centrelink offices across the country.
Daily Mail
Jeebus. That should help tiny violin sales in Glebe.
Why are these repulsive, spoilt cry bullies indulged?
To answer my own question, I think the Marxist establishment likes to rile ordinary decent people so when they fight back, or just express annoyance, the establishment can call them ‘racist, redneck, uneducated’ and deserving of punitive treatment. It’s been imported from the US I suspect like so many things that ail us.
More Stupid Phucking Liberals noos:
Another day ending in y. Liberals fighting each other. FMD
Well knock me down with a feather!
We should ask her boyfriend about it.
That saving was worth over half a bill to the Australian tax payer.
And the bastard’s support of alarmism and ruinables and opposition to fossils and nuclear will cost us about a trillion.
Been spruiked for a while now.
And the bastard’s support of alarmism and ruinables and opposition to fossils and nuclear will cost us about a trillion.
To date, he’s spending either his own money or Fortescue’s money on it.
Keep in mind, he owns a third of Fortescue & has never sold a share.
You might not like it, but it’s real skin in the game.
We have a piece of code that put on jobs when we are working for a 3rd party like a builder or their mechanical contractor subby .
I call it The-Bomb.
The-Bomb
– is hidden and can only be found if you’re as nefarious as I am
– has a future date: The-Date-of-Certain-Death
– has a Killing-Floor: on The-Date-of-Certain-Death everything on the Killing-Floor is executed
– turn off Network Services and Fieldbus communications?
– hide all the graphics
– delete the controller network?
– delete itself and reboot
– anything I want
It works like this:
even though, everything I install or supply remains my property until paid for
Im not permitted to go and un-install my stuff even if I’m not getting get paid
so, I simply set a Date-of-Certain-Death, drop tools and leave
when they call
I simply tell them that everything will be OK … as soon as they square up the account
saved our arses a couple of times
Somebody’s got to earn it at some point. Lang’s estate wasn’t in great shape but I was told every train out of Tom Price was $300k I the bank. Don’t know how accurate that figure was.
The first time the FFI will get taxpayer benefits will be from the co-investment in hydrogen if the government selects any of their projects.
Which is highly likely.
JMHsays:
May 26, 2023 at 5:42 pm
Re. calli’s zeros. I have upticked heaps. I can’t believe we have such a cretin on this blog who is thus consumed.
I just upticked one of yours that had been zeroed.
If you’ve passed a TV or radio in recent days chances are you’ve seen or heard commercials that are meant to be impartial and purely information based, but are nothing of the sort.
And these pro Voice ads are pretty damned professional! They smack of very EXPENSIVE and professional ad agencies.
The No citizen entity is really uphill in this battle.
Wasn’t it bankrupt?
Another thing to keep in mind is that Fortescue has never imported labour.
Where as Roy Hill was couldn’t get enough of it.
Bankrupt is on the continuum of not in great shape. I think it was for what it’s worth. The other half of the iron ore riches are still waiting on the Supreme Court I believe. Certainly kept lawyers busy over the years.
I’m watching some garbage movie on Amazon.
Gerard Butler takes a bullet from an AK47 in the thigh, pauses for a second, then keeps on running.
Realistic.
What is encouraging is that the comments I have been reading elsewhere run about 99% to NO. I hope this manifests at the time we have to put pen to paper.
You might not like it, but it’s real skin in the game.
Twiggs gets about $2 bill PA in dividends and is worth about $30 bill. When the lights go out he won’t be in the dark; and his advocacy for ruinables has real impact. He has skin in nothing. And don’t forget the chunks are up him like rats up a shit stained Gucci, double breasted, Cashmere lined sports jacket; similar to what head prefect wears.
Thank you, Boambee John.
I don’t think it would take an Einstein to work out who the morons are.
Supposed to have been a former Selous Scout, who met Mikhail Kalashnikov after the bush war, in South Africa.
“Mr Kalashnikov, I consider your rifle a most inferior weapon. I’ve been shot seven times with one, and, if it was any good, I wouldn’t be here today.”
When I look at the Rich List, Frank Lowy is the stand out.
Came to Australia with nothing.
Limited English.
Was a visionary.
Built an empire.
Well, yeah! Tell us something we don’t already know, Mr. Mirabella.
If it hit the femur old mate would have been well oil beef hooked.
It may simply pass through muscle with “minimal” damage.
He means ‘we are too RW extremist and must go trans and green.’
Fool.
What did I write here a couple of weeks ago, to some objections?
The Liberal Party back room operatives are obsessed with “branding.”
They could just as well be selling ice cream, and hopefully soon will be.
This is the full interview by John Anderson with Melanie Phillips I excerpted above.
King Charles & the Future of Britain | Melanie Phillips
I’ve got a lot of time for the Canva founders too.
Infinitely more than the Atlassian founders.
feelthebern
Westfield and Newscorp are certainly among the few Australian companies to score big runs on the world stage. The Macquarie model was picked up elsewhere and the building materials guys have done well in the US at times over the years.
If Stan doesn’t get the Gold Logie we know why.
Keran needs meds. When I see her name I’m reminded of the times she demanded I must stop responding to her abuse . You gotta a laugh.
Bern, not sure if Dick Pratt was born here but his story is comparable.
Another good one we have listened to tonight, which unfortunately we only have on CD.
Bern, not sure if Dick Pratt was born here but his story is comparable.
Agree.
Roger at 7.18 pm:
Got it in one, Roger. Can’t wait to see how the Tan b/s travels from now on. Momentum, momentum but I’m not sure this rubbish will see the week out.
Maybe the cause of a teary eyed Tan is that the program he was hosting is a bust and if he didn’t do a sob story, he would’ve been fired.
That was last year, but it appears to show is terminal.
Roger, Karen is agreeing with you.
With such a topical/ephemeral book to promote, Stan has only a limited window of opportunity to exploit before its remaindered.
I’ll bet good money on another book.
Just watching the swans n carlton start ,the welcome to country spiel just said that the digiknees invented what is now known as AFL.
He’s got a new book out, JC.
I’m not sure who would watch Q&A.
It’s not engaging or educational.
The only people who might find it entertaining are retards who watch to have existing views validated by the echo chamber.
I dimly recall the story of a woman who tried hard to like classical music. She had been taught at school to visualise what the composer was trying to get across, and it just meant nothing to her. Then one day she heard the Elgar ‘cello concerto, possibly the DuPres version, and said how much it affected her: “It was such a lovely sound, it made my tummy turn over.”
The Wiradjuri journalist
Why couldn’t he be called journalist. This statement in its self is divisive.
Roger,
He may have, but the regular earner – the show – is in shit creek. Not even lefties are watching anymore.
Hamish Macdonald who served from January 2020 and quit in July 2021 due to trolling from social media.
Wait, what! Is Hamish indigenous, or is it the quality of the comperes that attracts the on-line trolling? Maybe it wasn’t really “wacist” attacks on sTan, just attacks on an inferior compere?
Rosie has linked a Guardian article, one with a most indignant tone to the headline;
She was one of Alabama’s last abortion doctors.
Then they came for everything she had.
Wonder when we’ll see the following Guardian headlines:
She was one of Victoria’s last logging contractors. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Western Australia’s last Merino producers. Then they came for everything she had.
She’d spent a lifetime building a Northern Territory beef cattle export business, employing dozens of Territorians. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Australia’s last Olympic Shooting Medal contenders. Then they came for everything she had.
He was one of the Army’s last special forces NCOs. Then they came for everything he had.
She was one of Australia’s last independent long haul truckies. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of Victoria’s last suppliers of rental houses to the poor. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of the East Coast’s last fishing boat owners. Then they came for everything she had.
She was one of NSW’s last smashed avo cafes who took cash. Then they came for everything she had.
There you go Guardian j’ismists, stop the three monkeys act & write those stories.
The missus has put this one on now—time for the spliffo!
I’m not sure who would read New Catallaxy.
Because I’m right…obviously.
😀
Hahaha! The powers that be decided that the next Climapaloosa had to be held in someplace muslim. That has turned out to be Abu Dhabi.
So Abu Dhabi got to choose the boss of the Climapaloosa. And so they chose the head of, get this, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Is that awesome or what?
Didn’t go down well for some obscure reason.
US, EU Politicians Demand Withdrawal Of COP28 Chief (26 May)
Aching sides! Maybe, green peoples, unlike you the Arabs don’t think the world is burning up. And no they aren’t your friends even if you think they are. On the other hand any bunch who has Bernie Sanders and Fauxahontas supporting it is clearly on the right side of history. /s
“He may have, but the regular earner – the show – is in shit creek. Not even lefties are watching anymore.”
Correct. The show has been floundering since Mr Jones took off to China with his missus. It was never particularly good viewing but Jones did try to keep some balance.
Yeah, I know, the timing is serendipitous.
I think the ABC’s ratings are tanking all over the shop.
More left wing stocking filler fit for inflicting on those you hate at Christmas.
Hugh:
That may be so, but if I refuse to interact with them then I reduce my chances of getting 0.9 of a litre of fuel when I am paying for 1 litre. I also reduce my chances of getting food from a hot box that has been a week past its use by date.
I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
I’d think it a fairly rational decision.
feelthebernsays:
May 26, 2023 at 7:38 pm
I think the ratings for the ABC tell the hideous story. Radio and TV at pretty much rock bottom. The thing is sinking into it’s own bile which is good. Too bad, the regressives in charge cannot bring themselves to pull the pin. We taxpayers must continue to suffer the ignominy of keeping the fetid swamp abomination gurgling.
Have you heard of the Normans, Angevins & Plantagenets?
Friday fright night.
This reminds me of the tunnels under Rottnest Island. I will say the clip was rather unsettling, especially with what he found at the end. It’s enough to give you nightmares. The second viewing put a smile in my face but made me say oh shit! out loud.
Take a look.
12:07
The Oldest View – Beneath The Earth
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/a-clarion-call-for-a-solemn-declaration/
Trump vs Kennedy, or better still, Trump AND Kennedy vs the rest ….
Lizzie:
Perhaps the difference here is that I don’t watch TV that blasts me with “Such and Such are good people and you should ignore their real life propensity for ripping off people who think they are trustworthy.”
Hmmm?
Both the Mirabellas have an uncanny ability to turn everything they get involved with to shit.
Sophie turned a rock solid Liberal seat into the model the Teals copied to take more Lib seats. Her husband has had a big role in turning the Vic Libs into the unelectable shambles that they now are.
How do these people get into these positions?
I bought the double album on vinyl from a second hand joint in Pitt St Sydney. Just the album cover art would be enough. Superb. But the music was even superber.
I gave away my turntable and records to a skint flatmate when I graduated and started to be paid actual money. Then rebought the double album on CD, which I still have. Easier these days to bring it up on YouTube though, although the sound quality isn’t as good.
Also extremely worthwhile are Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Turtlehead can sniff out the owner of a service station as soon as he drives in. He’s like a beagle when it comes to service station ownership. He sticks his nose in the air and can smell the curry.
Fair call Winston.
All I can say right now is: OOH LA!
Seems like it’s drinks time for some, the gratuitous insults begin.
Robert Sewell = One of the few gems of wisdom that all long haul truckies know – “NEVER eat anything out of a food warmer at a servo”.
Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
I do every day- bacon and egg wrap. Really hits the spot.
Watched on iview a few minutes of a recent Q&A episode. Oh My God.
It started with Stan Grant jabbering in tongues from amongst the studio audience – for a minute I thought I’d mistakenly logged in to some holy-roller website.
Then Stan switched to the language of the oppressive colonisers to announce that this show was being broadcast to us from the land of Witchetty’s tribe. Mmmm… not yet onto any actual current affairs content.
Fast forward to the first question: To some skinhead on the panel who wrote a book called “Trainspotting” (there’s a book about potting trains? Stan described it as a very “bleak” book.)
Despite being an actual citizen of the vile colonizing British, the author was for some reason shown a fair bit of respect.
The first half of the question was taken up with the questioner listing the lands he lived upon & acknowledging that tribe, or something…. no actual current affairs content yet.
Question was something about the Royal family & coronation, or something. Mr. Skinhead Train-Potter expounded on disparaging the monarchy and all pageantry ancillary to it, blah blah blah…. I was sorta zoning out when he said that the robes in which King Chilla had been clad were “ridiculous” (okay, his opinion, he’s free to have it) & that in North Korea you’d be executed for donning such garments.
The audience purred in agreement.
Holy Mackerel, an Australian audience just sided approvingly with North Korea!
Stan Grant:
Excuse me, you were all just clapping & nodding in approval of North Korea executing anybody who wears a furry robe, as if that is the standard we should aspire to. Ask yourselves, do we really want to use the benchmark of what is acceptable in North Korea to govern our behaviour?Total silence.
A few minutes later Nove Peris-Kneebone (fresh from elocution lessons by the sound of her) rattled on disparaging the monarchy, her killer line, the zinger that proves the monarchy is bad, was; Jerry Seinfeld (an American comedian) once cracked a joke that was at the expense of the British Royal Family.
The audience guffawed their approval – this proved the monarchy must go.
At that point I closed the window & watched something on Netflix.
Sfw
The hyperbolic loser made the following comment.
That may be so, but if I refuse to interact with them then I reduce my chances of getting 0.9 of a litre of fuel when I am paying for 1 litre. I also reduce my chances of getting food from a hot box that has been a week past its use by date.
I won’t do business with people whose culture permits them to lie and cheat, and has been part of their culture for centuries.
I’d think it a fairly rational decision.
Being a former cop, and occasionally reading the crap you post, I’m pretty certain you’re not very bright.
I’d wonder how many times would the turtlehead drive into a service station and immediately determine the site is owned by Indian folk and therefore won’t buy his usual 4 litres of 95.
You believe it, right? You believe he knows the ownership the moment his drives in.
It’s a gratuitous ugly comment you moron and it’s a lie.