Open Thread – Tues 30 May 2023
2,102 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 30 May 2023”
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(too much typing for me to leave on the ol thread)
Everything you need to know about the WA Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, Dalí Edit-
1. Native Title Settlement is now Unsettled- any freehold title (above the 1100m2 Urban Voteherd protection) is vulnerable to an Aboriginal Culture claim. With no appeal. Forever.
2. Any use of formerly freehold land- building, digging, planting, clearing, riparian access- basically anything other than turning up a firebreak- may be stopped by the intervention of an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Corporation representative. No appeal. No compensation.
3. (it’s all appalling, but this one is quite sneaky) The power of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage is wielded by Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Service Corporations. There will be no overlap of jurisdiction between these ACHSCs, and their power will extinguish any subordinate claim of cultural heritage- or lack of cultural heritage- by any other group or individual.
4. The onus to check that any activity does not offend against ACH lies with the land user. The statute of limitations for apparent offences is 6 years.
5. Land users will be obliged to register their intent to do farm stuff with their local ruling ACHSC. There will be an “ACHKnowledge” website collating ACH protected site information, but it will not be considered comprehensive or reliable at any stage.
6. An ACHSC can issue a “stop work” order on any activity. There is no obligation to provide an explanation. Work can be stopped for up to 60 days. No compensation.
7. An ACHSC is not obliged to make any proactive efforts to identify cultural heritage sites within their Reichsgau.More-
-there is $80 000 in whitefella money available in seed funding to identify which warring extended family groups will win the gold rush to be an ACHSC
– there is another $200 000 in establishment grants for ACHSCs
– there are fines of up to $10 000 000 for offences against the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act. That’s right, ten million dollar fines.
– Fines garnished by the ACH do not go into WA’s consolidated revenue- they go into the accounts of the reigning ACHSC.To spell it out, there is a monetary motive for these ACHSCs to establish themselves, write and re-write their hidden rule books, police any perceived transgressions against them, fine the poor proles found wanting, and pocket the caaaaash.
This is the end of freehold title in WA, as far as I can see, as well as attaching a massive parasite on leasehold and crown land. Our once-constitutional and English common-law state has been eaten by corporations.
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Tim Blair:
Advertising is a challenging caper, what with all the focus group analysis, key demographic identification, investment return estimates and cocaine.
Even without any eastern suburbs happy powder, advertising can be complicated and confusing.
But for Australian ad agencies there has always been one quick, almost foolproof way to make everything just so much easier.
Simply take an advertising campaign from overseas and rework it for local consumption.
Readers of a certain age may recall, for example, stirringly patriotic television ads from the mid-1970s that depicted various Holden models interspersed with Australian images, activities and scenery.
The accompanying jingle still resides deep in the brain stems of every local TV viewer now aged 50 and older. Why, some of you are possibly singing it right now: “We love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars.”
The most expensive element of those obviously cheap ads was likely the well-deserved fees for champion voiceover man Ken Sparkes, but Holden’s pro-Australian campaign sure did deliver.
Boosted by pastry-and-gravy nationalism, the brand’s soaring ’70s sales continued.
Too bad the ad was originally from America, where it promoted Chevrolet – Holden’s sister General Motors brand. In the US, the jingle celebrated “baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet”.
That campaign worked in the home market, too. Of course, this all happened back in a time when advertising was a kind of cross between a trade and an art.
If you could write a decent slogan, craft a catchy jingle or cut a few creative corners by nicking a whole campaign holus-bolus from overseas, advertising was the game for you.
But times have changed. Any modern Australian ad agency tempted to duplicate recent US advertising examples would be wise to follow a different path.
The US isn’t giving the ad industry any more meat pies and kangaroos.
Instead, the US ad industry is evidently hellbent on destroying brands and ruining hard-won market reputations – all in the name of wokeness.
For decade upon decade, mega-brewery Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser Light beer outsold all others within the US.
Though unacceptable to refined Australian palates, Bud Light was America’s default brew – especially for blue-collar or rural drinkers.
Wrecking that brand would take some serious effort. But Budweiser did it. It went on a marketing mission to increase diversity and ended up in a beery bath of destruction.
Like those old Holden ads, Bud Light’s campaign of doom was extremely cheap to launch.
All it cost was whatever fee Dylan Mulvaney commanded. Can’t have been all that much, in the overall scheme of things.
This, believe it or not, was Budweiser’s plan.
It genuinely thought associating blue-collar Bud Light with Mulvaney, a gay man who wears dresses in TikTok clips and carries on about his “girlhood”, would somehow boost sales.
Initial push-back against Bud Light was largely dismissed by wokedom’s guardians. And fair enough, too.
Conservative consumer boycotts or demands have never been as effective, for whatever reasons, as boycotts organised by leftists.
Since a widespread conservative revolt against Gillette’s disastrous “toxic masculinity” campaign of 2019, though, something seems to have changed. Numerous conservative counter-campaigns worldwide are beginning to bite.
Bud Light sales took a hard initial hit, as most expected, but sales have declined further, as many did not.
“Sales of Bud Light continue to plummet, reflecting ongoing backlash to the brand’s decision to hire transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson,” the US NBC network reported last week.
“According to data cited by the beverage industry trade publication Beer Business Daily, sales volumes of Bud Light for the week ending May 13 sank 28.4 per cent, extending a downward trend from the 27.7 per cent decline seen the week before.”
Budweiser’s attempt to repair its self-inflicted damage is hilarious. It’s gone from woke all the way back to “football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars” – or the US equivalents.
The first post-Mulvaney Budweiser ad showed true-blue Americans shaking hands, raising flags and drinking Bud Light on country porches with their pals.
It didn’t work. So Budweiser last week rolled out the big one – the marketing ploy that would fix everything. Bud Light is now sold in cans bearing the masculine, hetero logo of … motorcycle company Harley-Davidson.
They should have used Holden. We Aussies might have bought it.
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I’m sorry but I’m not buying the point that an aboriginal group is capable , through legislation, to remove land rights of another citizen. Malcolm Marrangobbi is not going to walk past Joe Blogs home in a suburban setting , think he likes the place, and decide to claim ownership on a whim.
That’s just not going to happen.
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JC, it does not apply to blocks less than 1100 square metres. That conveniently excludes the vast majority.
It does have the potential though to create serious problems for anyone doing anything on a block larger than that. You might have freehold, but an entity other than the government can limit, even control what you can do with it. That is the scary bit. A government has to give you just compensation. This legislation removes that. -
Mmmyes but is she any good? Daily Telegraph:
The tide is turning on the Liberal party’s long-running gender woes with NSW’s new senator-elect Maria Kovacic vowing to be an advocate for Western Sydney, women and migrants.
Parramatta businesswoman and former state party president Ms Kovacic defeated well-known former NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance on Saturday.
Her win is being heralded within the party as the biggest sign of change yet after an internal women’s movement made small strides NSW parliament.
But Ms Kovacic said while she will be a fierce advocate for women, she wanted party faithful to know she has won in her own right — and not simply because of her sex.
“I am someone who has advocated for my community for 20 years. I’m a board director … I’m an expert in governance and leadership. My personal history and my track record in leadership and advocacy speaks for itself,” she said.
“I want to see more women in leadership positions across our country whether that’s in business, parliament, sport. I want to see women succeed at every level.”
The crisis reached fever pitch in the NSW state election earlier this year when women, including former Minister Natalie Ward, were booted for lesser-known male candidates and an aspiring female candidate was told she should “settle down and have children” instead.
Party rules were since changed to allow Ms Ward, an Upper House MP, to become deputy leader.
Ms Kovacic said she will fight for all of NSW in her new role but her Western Sydney base will also remain a focus — with the cost of living crisis among her first priorities.
“People in western Sydney are struggling with higher prices at the supermarket. Literally not putting things in the shopping trolley because they can’t afford it,” she said.
Ms Kovacic, a first generation Australian hailing from Croatia, said supporting migrants was another priority.
“I’m looking forward to engaging on another level with migrant communities.
“They are a very important cohort in our community to understand.”
Charlotte Mortlock, founder of Liberal women’s community Hilma’s Network, said the senate result gave Liberal women something to celebrate “after a tough few years”.
“There have been too many impressive women before her that have not been selected, with clandestine or unintentional systemic and structural issues to blame,” she said.
“We are starting to gain traction in our pursuit to fix our women’s issue, and we won’t slow down.
“Providing sunlight to our obstructions is the only way forward.”
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JC
Like the transmission lines, the state governments are using powers under other acts to erode and interfere with your use of property.
To impose the restrictive jumbo jumbo of a culture driven by lore, rooted in nature, onto a modern and adaptive industry is to strangle future productivity.
You may not believe it’s possible. I didn’t think they’d be putting useless edifices of climate mania onto my property but that’s exactly what they’re doing.
The totalitarian powers that were used in covid have have given government departments a sense of untrammelled authority over private citizens and businesses. They are writing legislation to exercise that power in pursuit of nebulous social agenda reforms that coincide with political fashions. -
Ms Kovacic said she will fight for all of NSW in her new role but her Western Sydney base will also remain a focus — with the cost of living crisis among her first priorities.
They all come out with the same bluster before never being heard of again .. she’s about to become Upper House which meanz “faceless” ..
Thinkin’ on the “making changes” gals .. I live in FOWLER haven’t heard a squeak from our “independent” member since election other than she is still listed as an active member of FAIRFIELD City Council which I suppose is her better than Kenneally bit as Krissie would never have made it onto FCC …
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JCsays:
May 30, 2023 at 5:15 am
I’m sorry but I’m not buying the point that an aboriginal group is capable , through legislation, to remove land rights of another citizen. Malcolm Marrangobbi is not going to walk past Joe Blogs home in a suburban setting , think he likes the place, and decide to claim ownership on a whim.That’s just not going to happen.
Laughs maniacally.
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I’m sorry but I’m not buying the point that an aboriginal group is capable , through legislation, to remove land rights of another citizen.
Native title does not extinguish freehold estate but native title claimaints can argue that freehold was invalidly granted, meaning exclusive possession does not apply.
To date this argument has rarely been made, but with some indigenous folk becoming more aggressive in their claims and an activist judiciary I expect it will be tried more often in future.
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This is the end of freehold title in WA, as far as I can see, as well as attaching a massive parasite on leasehold and crown land. Our once-constitutional and English common-law state has been eaten by corporations.
This is from Wally Dali at the top and may be reason McGowan quit, to avoid the fallout when the proverbial hits the fan.
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Another tool being used by the aspiring marxist state is to remove your legal protections and then use the law to prosecute you for non compliance.
There is legislation called the National Electricity Law (NEL) that was in put in place to regulate the behaviour of the electricity sector and protect the rights of citizens from misuse of power.
The Vic government passed orders in February this year to remove any right of landholders to appeal in court under the provisions of NEL in order to “fast track” the western link transmission line projects.
The order also gave the minister the right to approve any access to your property thar they see fit to pursue this project. They can also dictate that we accept any environmental or indigenous surveying of our properties without a right of refusal.
This is backed up by the coercive force of the state.
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“I’m sorry but I’m not buying the point that an aboriginal group is capable , through legislation, to remove land rights of another citizen. Malcolm Marrangobbi is not going to walk past Joe Blogs home in a suburban setting , think he likes the place, and decide to claim ownership on a whim.
That’s just not going to happen”
JC, pardon my skepticism. Prior to the enactment of SSM across the West, when many religious, conservatives and others on the right warned that SSM would open the floodgates to LGBTQI+ activists preying, targeting and grooming children, to the sinister hysterical and violent transgender movement, to drag queen story time, to ‘pronouns’, to the blurring and push to eradicate biological sex, to the growing movement for “minor attracted people”, such predictions were routinely derided, scoffed at, dismissed as hysterical and told “it’s just not going to happen”.
If five years ago some doomsday prophets had warned San Franciscans and other Americans that one day they’d be asked to pay slavery “reparations”, I have no doubts that those doomsday prophets would have derided, scoffed at, dismissed as hysterical and told “it’s just not going to happen”.
If you had asked a person just ten years ago if late term abortion, that is aborting a baby just before birth, would now be legal in NSW, such predictions would have been derided, scoffed at, dismissed as hysterical and told “it’s just not going to happen”.
There’s a Youtube clip of Dennis Prager on the Bill Maher show, from just 2019*, and on that show Prager warns about the “trans” movement, and so what happens when Prager rightly airs his concerns? He’s derided, scoffed at, dismissed as hysterical and told “it’s just not going to happen. However, to his credit, Maher now says that Prager was right.
When I now hear or read words such as “it’s just not going to happen”, I now know that it will happen. Please forgive me doomsday outlook but I think the scenario of “Malcolm Marrangobbi walking Joe Blogs home in a suburban setting , thinking he likes the place, then decides to claim ownership on a whim” will happen. However, when that scenario happens, I’ll try and steer Mr Marrangobbi to go walking up and down Wolseley Crescent, Point Piper, and then he can be as capriciously whimsical as he likes, in fact I’ll encourage him.
* We’re living in the middle of a cultural revolution and in cultural revolutions time moves fast and years become months and months become days. I remember reading years ago how many people who lived through the Russian, French and other revolutions often lost track of time and were later amazed at just how quickly things happened, because time becomes irrelevant, revolutionaries alter calendars, they get rid of years/months/days and they play with our notions of time. This is a long held and deliberate tactic of Marxist revolutions, to play with time, and so concepts previously considered radical and absurd just a short time ago quickly become entrenched and legalised, to the general dismay of the populace, but the populace have zero power. This is why my own prediction of legalised pedophilia is simply a matter of a few years away.
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Conservative consumer boycotts or demands have never been as effective, for whatever reasons, as boycotts organised by leftists.
My impression is that this is because conservatives are more pragmatic – or at least have not been blinded by ideology. They choose a product for practical reasons. So when a brand has done something distasteful conservatives have stuck with the product because the product itself had not changed.
They have also previously been fragmented, not really seeing themselves as a force, but instead as having to put up with progressive causes.
For many on the left – the young shouty aggressive hypocritical mob – on the other hand, a boycott has a different meaning. They boycott products they don’t even buy. They instead fire of a flurry of emails and cluster-bomb social media. They are able to whip up such frenzied activity because they are collectivists and actually experience near physical gratification from joining in their multitudinous campaigns. They don’t even understand how they work. They don’t understand that large businesses have been infested with soft-headed decision makers churned out of business schools who lack the entrepreneur’s intuition and insight, and instead think a twitter thread is the voice of their customers.
All the pussy-hatted BLM-fisted glass-jawed bullies know is join the campaign and find out afterward that have made some big business knuckle under.
But I think conservative feel more confident and ready for a fight. The Gillette campaign was a bit of a false start. Perhaps that first stirring amidst slumber which could go either way – wake up or sink back. But more recently the left have been pushing on all fronts and giving the right clearly defined causes to fight back. Then there was the Bud-Light folly which has been so satisfying because the right can see AB thrashing about desperately trying to win customers back. For most conservatives this is a revelation as to what they can do. Now they feel they don’t have to forgive people who deliberately shit on their values and concerns. AB is only sorry because of the financial backlash. No one believes there is any real contrition.
The Miller-Lite joined in. People are getting the hang of this now. Despite the lies from the left conservatives are not demanding businesses go to war with the trannies and all. They would probably like to see it but that is something else. All they want is for businesses to leave the politics out. There was no need to suck up to that deviant little goblin Mulvaney and the cavalcade of cross-dressers. Until they did no one on the right asked AB or anyone else to take a stand and fight the fight. All they wanted is the beer.
Apparently that was at odds with company strategy.
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Leaked messages show Peter FitzSimons spun Brittany Higgins book deal news
By Noah Yim
Reporter
@noah_yim
5:03AM May 30, 2023Nine newspaper columnist Peter FitzSimons reportedly negotiated with Brittany Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, about how the outlets he worked for would report the six-figure advance Ms Higgins received for a book deal.
Screenshots published in the Daily Mail appeared to show a group chat exchange between Mr FitzSimons, Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz in April 2021, after the columnist said he had received communication from a Nine newspapers reporter about the size of Ms Higgins’ advance.
Mr FitzSimons had earlier volunteered to be a de facto book agent for Ms Higgins after she first came out with her Parliament House rape allegations.
“They clearly have a source from one of the publishers that didn’t get over the line,” a purported message from Mr FitzSimons read.
“They know little detail. But, much better that they break it than News Limited. It won’t have a negative spin.”
News Corp Australia is the publisher of this masthead.
The published screenshots showed continued dialogue.
“It might be good for me to background [the reporter] that you are committing a big chunk to Rape Crisis Centre?” Mr FitzSimons sent.
Ms Higgins responded: “Yes please. That would be wonderful!”
Mr Sharaz followed up: “Just make sure we don’t confirm the large advance. Don’t want them thinking you’re making millions etc?”
Mr FitzSimons said: “[The reporter] said to me, she believed it was $400K. I said, ‘Nothing like that!’ I will talk her down.”
The report said the exchange took place on April 13, 2021. The Nine newspapers reported later that day that Ms Higgins received an “estimated” $250,000 advance for her deal with Penguin Random House, and included the detail that Ms Higgins made a “contractual commitment” to donate half her royalties to the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre.
Details later emerged in court proceedings that Ms Higgins received a $325,000 advance.
The book, not yet published, is a memoir of Ms Higgins’ account of her alleged rape in Parliament House in 2019.
Bruce Lehrmann, whom she accused of rape, has repeatedly denied charges. The first criminal trial was aborted due to juror misconduct and the ACT DPP chose not to proceed with a second trial, citing concern for Ms Higgins’ health.
The Australian revealed earlier this year that Ms Higgins’ former boss, former frontbencher Senator Linda Reynolds, in whose parliamentary office Ms Higgins alleged Mr Lehrmann raped her, has written to Penguin Random House warning against any defamatory references to the senator in Ms Higgins’ memoir.
Mr FitzSimons, when contacted for comment, chose not to confirm or deny the published texts. However, he asked that it not be implied he made financial gains from helping Ms Higgins.
“Whatever you write, do not imply in any way that I made a cent out of helping them,” he told The Australian. “As I most firmly did not take a cent.”
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You have got to hand it to Photios.
He undemocratically imposed a hard left dragon on the Party’s Senate group and dressed it up to the submissive media as “Liberals addressing their women problem”.
They do have a women problem. Any woman who wasn’t a commo was destroyed by the Morrisson/Photios/Labor girls cabal.
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The tide is turning on the Liberal party’s long-running gender woes with NSW’s new senator-elect Maria Kovacic vowing to be an advocate for Western Sydney, women and migrants.
It may not be important but Kovacic has not been elected a senator, she has been designated. She has been elected within the party.
She already had a go and lost in Parramatta in the recent state elections which indicates Libs like losers. But never mind, none of that matters as long as she is female. For the record, if I had to choose between Kovacic and Constance I would choose her, Constance is just insufferable and worse, ineffectual.
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Nurse Betty yesterday.
Robert Sewellsays:
May 29, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Salvatore:
This is just you reframing something, again.
With that level of comprehension, you’d be mincemeat if you ever had to explain yourself to a board of directors.It’s a bait and switch technique he learnt from JC, who is a master at it.
It’s why I read everything he tries to take on with DB – you can see all the tricks he uses on us and DB just keeps pulling him up on it.Can I ask politely … what the fck are you on about?
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The slack J-school kiddies at the Paywallian were hours late — again — in posting today’s cartoon from John Spooner.
As good as Spooner and Johannes Leak are, the J-school kiddies regard them as tribal enemies, which is why they’re apparently given permission to be incompetent and not post their work on-time.
PS: the J-school kiddies at the Paywallian also regard the paper’s readers as ideological enemies, which is why readers are having such trouble getting comments posted.
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“bonssays:
May 30, 2023 at 8:46 am
How can the shop stewards not understand that their insane aboriginal legislation will definitely lead to violance.
Perhaps in the long run it will be a good outcome with current insanity being severely moderated.”Bons,
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“The Voice will stop this from happening, for sure.”
A child has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after they were allegedly assaulted by a man in the Northern Territory.
Police say the 26-year-old man was intoxicated when he assaulted the child with a blunt weapon in the small town of Tennant Creek over the weekend.
Damned Quakers at it again.
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They don’t even understand how they work. They don’t understand that large businesses have been infested with soft-headed decision makers churned out of business schools who lack the entrepreneur’s intuition and insight, and instead think a twitter thread is the voice of their customers.
Until retiring recently I worked in an academic setting for decades and saw the onset of the dumbing down in the education of the managerial class. For the last two decades every business degree had to have a unit on corporate social responsibility. It ostensibly covered issues such as not polluting, endangering or disadvantaging anyone in the course of your business. This slowly evolved into accepting every new social fad until most recently it even included units on how to be an activist. These graduates will infest the business world for decades more and cause mayhem.
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Nine newspaper columnist Peter FitzSimons reportedly negotiated with Brittany Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, about how the outlets he worked for would report the six-figure advance Ms Higgins received for a book deal.
We’ll know if he had a more direct hand by popping to the bargain bin at Dymocks and look to see if it has his style*.
See if all the Liberals are toffee nosed twats speaking in pinched clipped posh accents and are forever swirling glasses of cognac – even while walking on their way to a bar. They will consatantly snicker about how they are going to ruin Brittany’s life to put her in her place.
On the other side will be the plucky little larrikans who never say die (although they do pronounce things like “What is on the agenda to-die?”). A bit rough around the edges but with a keen nose for obfuscation and an unerring eye for detail. They will use words like ‘mate’, ‘cobber’, ‘razoo’, ‘fair dinkum’, ‘stone the crows’ etc with exaggerated abandon.
*The book, “A Commando in Parliament House”, will sell thousands of copies, but only 5 will be from retail outlets. The rest will be bought by councils, libraries (school and public), and HR departments because it is an ‘important document revealing the absolute bastardy of the Liberal party’.
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4. The onus to check that any activity does not offend against ACH lies with the land user. The statute of limitations for apparent offences is 6 years.
5. Land users will be obliged to register their intent to do farm stuff with their local ruling ACHSC. There will be an “ACHKnowledge” website collating ACH protected site information, but it will not be considered comprehensive or reliable at any stage.
6. An ACHSC can issue a “stop work” order on any activity. There is no obligation to provide an explanation. Work can be stopped for up to 60 days. No compensation.
7. An ACHSC is not obliged to make any proactive efforts to identify cultural heritage sites within their Reichsgau.This is actually, possibly a good thing. Bear with me!
If the High Court ruled against NSW in Kirk v Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales; that’s a good sign.
A (WA) State authority being legislated not to have to give reasons limits the (WA) State Supreme Court’s right to exercise judicial review. There is no blanket ban on privative provisions but the orders look prima facie like they are judicial functions; people lose rights as these powers are exercised. So there may be an issue of a non-judicial officer exercising judicial powers. They are private citizens so they cannot be disciplined like State employees as a matter of administrative law. If there is no scope for a merits review, there can be jurisdictional errors as well. In these circumstances, it is hard to see the privative provision being viewed lightly.
So surely those who drafted these laws had a clue???
Maybe I’m naive to think the High Court cares about precedent and principles.
Now to my final thoughts:
1. The ALP really don’t want the Voice, but they want to be seen to be supporting it.
2. Quigley and McGowan wrote some bad, unenforceable and divisive legislation in order to sink the Voice in WA, whilst appearing to be radical land rights activists.
3. If the Voice sinks in WA from these stinking laws, the No campaign only needs heavily rural QLD and migrant-centric, ESL-heavy NSW to say no. This could be pretty easy given Lidia Thorpe wants a treaty and is suing the Greens.
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Vicki says:
May 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
Great post Cassie re the speed of cultural and political change. It is the sheer mind blowing speed of these changes that is quite frightening. And you are right – historically, this is what happens when that critical mass of circumstances for change builds.We are battening down the hatches.
The same thing happened during late 60s and early 70s, it was not just the apex of the sexual revolution but a big shift in other social standards such as women joining the workforce en masse, testing out various educational theories and not to forget the start of the tech revolution. The filling three decades seemed to be reasonably quiet.
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Wally, last night:
Police chief told him quietly a while back that he had lost the support of the bobbies over the clot shot mandate, and while they’d never neglect a serious threat, he could expect to cop an egging before too long.
He right there and then engaged a private firm of SAS dropouts for round-the-clock armed protection, costing $30K per week. The kids hated it, no more mates dropping around without being searched. Young bloke dropped his phone playing basketball one night, nek minnit two cars swooped with tactical torches out because his GPS signal had dropped out.Please, pretty pretty pretty please, let it be that all clotshot premiers & CHOs are having to live their lives in a similar manner.
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pete of perth says:
May 30, 2023 at 7:15 am
Plenty of >1100m2 blocks in Perth’s most expensive suburbs.I want the squealing to be heard all the way here on the east coast.
Don’t be silly. Any organisation of that type (nothing to do with indigenous or not) knows which ones not to touch and which ones to touch aggressively.
None of the well-heeled will be touched so long as they follow the group-think. Yet watch what happens to the next right-of-Mao individual with property in Perth who steps out of line.
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‘the devils greatest trick was convincing people he did not exist…’
I thought this an amusing headline in a very blackly comedic way.
Designer of Satanist Apparel Says ‘I Don’t Believe in Satan’ After Target Pulls Brand’s Merchandise (29 May)
The designer behind the brand Abprallen claims she is not a Satanist following Target severing ties, despite the fact that the brand sells an array of items modeled after the Satanist figure Baphomet and writing about what Satan means in a post on Instagram.
Given the carnage he/it has caused I’d say that Satan probably doesn’t care whether he/it believes in him or not. Her mustache is a nice touch.
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“We are battening down the hatches.”
As am I. We lost the war, though the tragedy is we never turned up to fight the war. It’s over.
Perhaps the only glimmer of hope is if da Voice is rejected, however I’m not hopeful. I now await those usual suspects here to come and write that I’m being hysterical and hyperbolic. Here’s the plain truth, I’m not.
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6. An ACHSC can issue a “stop work” order on any activity. There is no obligation to provide an explanation. Work can be stopped for up to 60 days. No compensation.
Good luck telling someone going like the clappers to “get the crop” in that they’ll have to stop for sixty days with no explanation or compensation. Who thinks all this nonsense up?
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Now to my final thoughts:
1. The ALP really don’t want the Voice, but they want to be seen to be supporting it.
2. Quigley and McGowan wrote some bad, unenforceable and divisive legislation in order to sink the Voice in WA, whilst appearing to be radical land rights activists.
3. If the Voice sinks in WA from these stinking laws, the No campaign only needs heavily rural QLD and migrant-centric, ESL-heavy NSW to say no. This could be pretty easy given Lidia Thorpe wants a treaty and is suing the Greens.
4. McGowan will be rewarded for his covert services to the ALP Central Committee and Committee for ALP Security.If only it were so but I fear not.
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“She already had a go and lost in Parramatta in the recent state elections which indicates Libs like losers. “
No. She lost Parramatta in the federal election in May of last year. She went up against the fly in, Andrew Charlton, the multi-millionaire who pretends to live in an ordinary house North Parramatta but his wife and children are still shacked up in their twenty million buck home in Bellevue Hill. Charlton’s house in North Parramatta is simply a deliberate Potemkin illusion to enable him to give of the pretense that he lives in North Parramatta. It’s all a lie.
Parramatta is a winnable seat for the Liberals. They should have someone on the ground already, campaigning, but this is the NSW Liberal party
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NSW Premier warned not to let Eraring power station close without working alternative
Closing a major power plant without the back up to replace it will lead to power shortages and price rises, hitting industry and consumer wallets, a new report warns.
Coal fired power stations like the one at Eraring in NSW should not be allowed to shut until there is enough reliable generation in the system to pick up the slack and keep the east coast power grid from tipping over into crisis, a new report has warned.
Instead, a new report from the Institute of Public Affairs released on Tuesday claims governments need to intervene to prevent the closure of plants such as Eraring, warning that “no baseload power station should be allowed to close unless and until a like for like baseload replacement – be it coal-fired or nuclear – is ready to come online.”
According to the IPA’s analysis, renewable energy targets mean that other dispatchable base load power stations will also be forced to close sooner than anticipated or curtail their output, leading to higher prices and instability.
The report also notes that despite the optimism of renewables advocates, “the state’s entire network of large-scale wind and solar projects provided about the same amount of electricity” as Liddell in its last year of operation.
Pointing to projects like Snowy 2.0, which is massively behind schedule and over budget, the report warned, “not only will (renewables) projects not be built in time, they will be increasingly expensive which will simply add to energy consumer pain.”
The report also pointed to delays to the Kurri Kurri gas power station but added that “New South Wales’ only option is to rely on its network connections to Queensland and Victoria to import even more electricity”.
“But as Hazelwood’s closure showed, the integrated (east coast grid) also allows the export of reliability risks and higher prices to other states,” it continued.
“What is occurring in Australia has already been tried, and has failed, elsewhere. Germany and California offer sobering lessons for Australia on the risks of moving towards a higher level of dependence on renewable energy,” the IPA’s executive director Scott Hargreaves said.
“For too long Australia’s energy network has been used as an experiment by ideologues who want to impose their renewable energy dreams, without taking into account how we actually keep the lights on.”
ANU professor Tony Irwin warned that as a net importer of electricity, NSW would become even more dependent on other states to keep the lights on even as neighbouring states shut down their own coal and gas plants.
“You can keep edging nearer and nearer this cliff but eventually you have to do something else.”
Mr Irwin said that Australia should look at placing new small modular nuclear reactors on the sites of old coal stations as the infrastructure to connect them to the grid already exists and power station workers can easily be retrained to maintain a reactor’s turbines.
Premier Chris Minns did not rule anything out saying, “The proposed closure of Eraring in 2025 is a challenge for energy reliability. That is why all options are on the table when it comes to Eraring.”
“At the same time, our focus is on delivering as much renewable energy into the grid as soon as possible so we have affordable, reliable energy for NSW households and businesses.”
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Qld government stuffs it up again. Plus check out the poll:
Premier’s office sends ‘reply all’ email saying ‘standard response please’ to angry Townsville crime victim
The Premier’s office has apologised after being left red-faced by a reply all email fail involving a victim of crime seeking help. VOTE IN OUR POLL
In a leaked series of correspondence obtained by The Courier-Mail, a Queenslander who says they have had their home broken into for the fourth time in two years writes to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk requesting “please take action now”.
“I don’t feel safe in my own house,” the person writes in an email dated May 25.
“Madam Premier, when are you going to actually do something to stop this? Please take action now. The people of Queensland have had enough.”
The person also sent the email to a number of people including Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath, Katter’s Australian Party leader Robbie Katter and a number of Townsville MPs.
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664 votesBut a staffer, seemingly meaning to forward the correspondence on, then replies to everyone, including the crime victim, saying send “standard response please”.
The victim then also “replies all”, describing the response as “typical of a government that has lost touch with its constituents and voter base”.
“No doubt this was a clerical error that should have been received by one of your minions before they were to respond with contempt and arrogance that comes with being in power for to (sic) long,” they write.
“Those in your office (are) charged with keeping the public at bay, deflecting, hiding from and basically covering your head while it remains in the sand.
“Your response is typical of a government that has lost touch with its constituents and voter base. It reeks of distain (sic) and ignorance and a total lack of respect for any person who has been a victim of crime in Queensland.”
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Malcolm Marrangobbi is not going to walk past Joe Blogs home in a suburban setting , think he likes the place, and decide to claim ownership on a whim.
That’s just not going to happen.
Perhaps not quite like that. But the WA Act as outlined at the top of this thread leaves a very wide open gate for cultural heritage issues to become a big, deep and legal pot of money for grifters with the power to halt developments to put their foot on the necks of other Australians building and doing things, all across the State. The thing is that there is no real control over what is considered cultural heritage in a hunter-gatherer culture. Everything is up for grabs as sacred, significant, part of a song or story, or ritual, or whatever grifters wish to make up. This is an Act that any incoming and non-woke Liberal government (currently an oxymoron) should immediately repeal, and have a properly constituted and advised Heritage Commission to managed listed sites only.
I cannot see why aboriginal cultural heritage items have precedence over say, pioneering settlement heritage issues. There has to be some balance in all heritage matters.
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Sancho, last nite we watched the final episode of Succession, and no spoilers for you.
An astounding roller-coaster ride.
Shakespearian, we both conclude, tears prickling the eyes.
Apparently the internet was buzzing with takes on possible endings before last night’s release, and guesswork as to who might come out on top. I didn’t join in that, but something I said to Hairy beforehand did eventuate. But till you get there Sancho, my lips here are sealed.
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From the Oz, on the issue of banning alcohol, while on deployment.
Another Peter
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I don’t often agree with Jacqui Lambie but on this she is right on target. It is pathetic that we have now reached this stage. It shows a total failure of leadership, from the top down. Angus Campbell is a disgrace who is not doing his job which is to protect and support his subordinates. He should fall on his own sword first.In this instance we are talking about Australia’s longest war, with plenty of elite troops having to do multiple tours. This was because our mealy-mouthed politicians wanted to keep the body count down and committed our elite SAS and Commandos to tasks which were actually better suited to infantry battalions. Now expecting these guys to go down the two-way firing range and not being allowed to blow-off steam when not operating is just ludicrous.
Talk about destroying morale and making joining the army and sacrificing and striving to get into the elite units even more unattractive. These people are clueless.
To the troops out there – we thank you for your service.
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God help us. I wonder what the funding source is.
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A terrifying tale and jolly why you should have no other gods before the Lord.
Tlaz?lte?tl worship gone wrong.
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Sancho, I do advise re-watching the penultimate episode of this final series, ie the one before this last one, just to refresh yourself for the end.
It deals with Logan’s funeral, and all the key players and most of the hangers on are there to see the beginning of what was last night the end of it.
By this time you’ve got to know them all so well, their slippery totem-pole climbing and their falls. Humans are a funny mob like that. We invest so much into these hierarchies, into power and its mantles of privilege and authority. That’s why Shakespeare found Caesars, Kings, and Kingdoms such good materials. Families are always at the heart of these too. As in Succession.
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Have our Defence Department chiefs been drinking?
I do trust they will be issuing directions to our soldiers that in the unlikely event they ever find themselves involved in a real bloody conflict that may involve the possibility of death or extreme injury, that they are to submit applications in triplicate for the issue of weapons and ammunition at least 7 days before they return fire against an enemy they perceive to be attacking them, but only after the enemy has been identified and proven to be on the official government approved list of combatants.
Of course, any soldier wounded or killed in any conflift not officially sanctioned by the government will not be covered by any government insurance scheme and will of course be open to civil charges of murder should all the prerequisite documentation not be in place and approved by at least 3 superior officers 21 days in advance of any trigger being squeezed.
Gentleman’s rules will also apply so no food before the royal anthem please and jackets are to be worn over long sleeves until brandy and cigars are served after any repast.Snork, snork!
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The commenting system on the Oz, in spite of excessive moderation, is still one of the things that makes this paper worth the subscription.
I had a comment rejected for pointing out that the oldest, living culture was that of the San Bushmen, of Southern Africa, not the Aborigines, as Albo appeared to think.
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I’ve had similar things rejected, Zulu. Still, I enjoy reading the range of good comments that do make it though, like the ones you sometimes copy and put up here. It gives me hope that it’s not just on the Cat that there are like-minded people. In general, the MSM would have us believe that apart from the edges of the internet, people in general don’t turn to the right. The comments in the Oz suggest otherwise.
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I’ve gone ballistic at the Oz. I note the Oz censors (and censors they are) allow certain trolls to run amok…these trolls are named “JohnT”, “Gosling” and “Tallulah”. JohnT and Gosling are allowed to spray up to fifty comments under one piece whereas my perfectly reasonable comments are rejected. So, now I simply post comments in capitals under the above trolls calling the censors a disgrace. I don’t care anymore. Of course my comments in capitals and bold are rejected. There is a big problem with censorship at the Australian.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
May 30, 2023 at 9:19 am
“She already had a go and lost in Parramatta in the recent state elections which indicates Libs like losers. “
No. She lost Parramatta in the federal election in May of last year. She went up against the fly in, Andrew Charlton, the multi-millionaire who pretends to live in an ordinary house North Parramatta but his wife and children are still shacked up in their twenty million buck home in Bellevue Hill.My apologies. Yes, it was the federal election and not the recent state election. Though Liberals can’t help emulating Labor a la Kristina Keneally being slipped into Sam Dastiyari’s Senate seat in 2018.
2018 seems like a century ago after the COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions and impositions.
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This should make you break whatever silence you think is keeping you safe.
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?Biden speaking privately to companies using their collective power to push LGBTI policy in business practices along with the United Nations & World Economic Forum:”You companies can do what we-government-cannot. You have to change the world on this issue.”
What is the PGLE?
Informative thread. Goes along way in explaining why companies would be prepared to anger a portion of their customer base; they are appealing to bankers and investors.
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Larry Perkins is spot on. No doubt a backlash against him will ensue.
Perkins is “incensed” that the organisation has taken a partisan position.
“Motorsport Australia, under the President and Eugene Arocca, the CEO, have got no right to suggest to anyone what Motorsport Australia thinks,” he told Melbourne talkback radio station, 3AW.
“It’s a subscription-based outfit, there’s no authority for them to try to gild the lily about what they’re doing, and I am just so anti that.
“I don’t mind them supporting a referendum [but] you can’t take sides in this.
“It’s a divisive subject before we even start. It’s divided now by race, it would do nothing for the Indigenous population at all, and be honest, they’ve already got say over almost everything that happens in Australia, and they can be elected like anyone else and indeed they are elected like anyone else.”
The six-time Bathurst 1000 winner added, “I’ve tried to contact them [on Monday] to let them know that this is what I will do [renounce membership] in protest of them taking this political stance.
“Motorsport Australia, for 70 years, has been a proud, non-political organisation, and anything to do with politics is banned on race cars, et cetera.
“But they’ve turned that over… What’s the next thing they’re going to take sides with? This is why I’m so incensed about it, and I’ve been a member for over 50 years.”
Perkins surmised that there are financial motives for Motorsport Australia, and other bodies, at play.
“I tell you, money talks all the time, and Motorsport Australia, I know, also gets some dollars,” he declared.
“That would have been discussed somewhere along the line or it would be on people’s minds.
“But, this being part of a political mob when these outfits have got no right to involve themselves in politics… Motorsport Australia certainly never sought any opinions from any of the stakeholders and I spoke to many of them today.”
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Carlos Saavedra is a vice president of brand marketing at Target and a treasurer at GLSEN. GLSEN focuses on getting districts to adopt policies that will keep parents in the dark on their child’s in-school gender transition, providing sexually explicit books to schools for free, and integrating gender ideology at all levels of curriculum in public schools.
But, of course.
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My rejected comment at the Oz, using a direct quote from Albo’s speech the other night:
Oh dear. “…we are one of the world’s oldest democracies”.
Definition: noun…a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
So exactly how did Aboriginal tribes have some sort of voting system?
Story: An Indigenous voice is our chance to grasp history
Have objected….
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Robert Sewellsays:
May 30, 2023 at 10:13 am
MiltonF:‘The Voice’ is not about Aboriginal advancement- it’s about social and economic disruption. Like everything canbra does.
Permanent revolution is the strategy of a revolutionary class pursuing its own interests independently and without compromise or alliance with opposing sections of society. As a term within Marxist theory, it was first coined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as early as 1850, but since then it has been used to refer to different concepts by different theorists, most notably Leon Trotsky.
Albanese was a Trotskyist at Uni and it looks like he hasn’t changed.
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“Expert” analysis in the West, ladies and gentlemen.
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“Just bomb Kiev” — Vladimir Putin, according to SkyNews expert’s gut-feeling-> Funnies explanation on drone strikes I’ve ever seen. I literally was laughing out loud in my house … LMAO
Again, you cannot hate Western media, particularly, its ‘experts’, enough.
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Tim Blair keeps an eye out for trolls on his blog, and then he deals with them. He doesn’t mind one or two but he never ever allows them to run amok, like the Oz censors do.
Before the election last year, there was a leftist commentator on Tim’s blog, can’t remember his name, however he was green left on everything, who made out he lived in the electorate of Warringah, forgetting that only a week or two before that comment he’d claimed to live in the electorate of Bennelong. Tim posted an amusing comment calling him out on this, pulling him up on it and asked if he’d moved in that week. Very amusing. Red-faced, this leftist commentator hasn’t been back. Good.
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