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Well done Chris. Very happy to read you’re employed again. Satisfactorily by the sound of it.
There were a few familiar faces on that site, indeed..
Strange, the Townsville City Council mayor’s page doesn’t mention his time in the Army: https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/about-council/mayor-and-councillors/councillor-profiles/cr-troy-thompson
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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.
Tim Blair:
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Morten Morland.
Patrick Blower.
Morten Morland #2.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Thanks WD, BB and Tom. Full on economic sabotage in WA. Dept of Defense lawyers are the lowest of the low.
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.
Politics really attracts toxic trash imaginable- I suppose it’s the power to push people around and take their money.
Whims are strategies wearing lil’ black dresses.
Lovely painting dover, reminds me of the uniform my little sister used to wear when pulling beers at the pub she worked at when she was 17, yes, ’twas that long ago, hair was a little different and the decolletage was a little lower but very close, nonetheless
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.
The WA SFLs are probably on the blower to D Mulvaney to ask if he wants to run in the upcoming bi election.
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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
It does JC.
You wont be laughing when they come for your loafers.
Tassels and all.
Plenty of >1100m2 blocks in Perth’s most expensive suburbs.
But he’s not bi.
Are they holding any tacky-elections? Grotesque? Freak?
Mmmyes but is she any good? Daily Telegraph:
JC, it does not apply to blocks less than 1100 square metres.
Does it apply to public land, like streets?
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.
Any crown land has been subject to indigenous land rights and therefore heritage claims since Mabo.
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 …
Why is any Federal MP double-dipping in local gummint?
Geelong City Council has banned Australia Day.
Perhaps they should also forego their federal grants.
Does it apply to public land, like streets?
Some bloke in Canberra has excluded Marrickville “rub ‘n tug” from any 251 desires ….. LOL!
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.
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.
Paywalled at HS
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A labour hire firm at the centre of Victoria’s Big Build rorts allegations has been suspended from major rail projects amid an investigation into the sector.
looks like excess speed was the cause of the quadruple fatality in Hamilton
This is from Wally Dali at the top and may be reason McGowan quit, to avoid the fallout when the proverbial hits the fan.
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.
Anyone up for penalty points or arrest?
“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.
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.
“But I think conservative feel more confident and ready for a fight. “
It’s about time.
Caroline DeRusso is the new WA Liberals president so perhaps things will change. She doesn’t sound woke at all on Sky.
I want the squealing to be heard all the way here on the east coast.
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.
After having devoted decades to that Party, I can barely contain my emotions and desire to lash out.
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.
The Voice will stop this from happening, for sure. 🙁
Nurse Betty yesterday.
Can I ask politely … what the fck are you on about?
Have you taken too much iodine?
the mini police
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.
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.
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.
“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,
our future.
“The Voice will stop this from happening, for sure.”
Damned Quakers at it again.
AKA ‘the devils greatest trick was convincing people he did not exist…’
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.
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’.
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.
4. McGowan will be rewarded for his covert services to the ALP Central Committee and Committee for ALP Security.
Moral of the story for policewomen, your long hair will be used as a weapon against you.
I assume he is not receiving any direct payment for the trashy tawdry tome, but trust the great wordsmith to choose a phrase that all but screams “Any amount other than one cent.”
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.
Geez, Pogria.
Well I hope for once they put the blame squarely where it belongs: Colonialism and generational trauma.
Wally, last night:
Please, pretty pretty pretty please, let it be that all clotshot premiers & CHOs are having to live their lives in a similar manner.
Someone just showed me the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
With a tranny on the front who is past the uncanny valley.
I’m out.
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.
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)
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.
“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.
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?
If only it were so but I fear not.
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.
Please! Amish……
Is that really how Fitzsimmons writes?
Like every dinkum Aussie is a sentimental bloke?
Crikey
Isn’t he a product of the private school rugger elite himself?
“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
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.”
Daily Tele
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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But 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.”
Courier-Mail
A bielection in Rockingham means you’ve got a Ford AND a Holden parked on the front lawn.
Hmmm.
Some game company has produced LOTR based cards…and now Aragorn is Black.
Tolkien would be so pleased to see our current creative giants methodically working though his work and improving it.
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.
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.
From the Oz, on the issue of banning alcohol, while on deployment.
God help us. I wonder what the funding source is.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/worlds-first-battery-tanker-slated-2026-sea-trials
A terrifying tale and jolly why you should have no other gods before the Lord.
Tlaz?lte?tl worship gone wrong.
When you don’t praise the sun.
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.
File under “No shit, Sherlock”.
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.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 30, 2023 at 9:56 am
Excellent comment Lizzie.
Snork, snork!
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.
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.
They don’t want your facts Zulu.
Their facts will do just fine.
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.
Tallulah has posted comments about the sound economic record of the Whitlam Government….
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.
Cassie and Zulu, it may well be that “Tallulah” and “Gosling” are the censors themselves.
It would be easy enough to do. And what better place for activists to infiltrate?
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.
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.”
Perkins to renounce MA membership over Voice stance
But, of course.
Do not forget when Tim Blair sprung ALPBC Mark Colvin’s son on his old blog. J’ismists are like onion weed. You will never get rid of them.
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….
Perkins is correct. Most sporting organisations are just Big Government whores turning tricks for funding.
Robert Sewellsays:
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.
Again, you cannot hate Western media, particularly, its ‘experts’, enough.
LOL
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.
Black Ball:
The Gillette ad was the straw that broke the back of Conservative Australia.
It has only gotten worse for the Left since then, despite JCs protestations that woke is at its peak, they continue to double down on pissing on conservatism and its values.
Target US is copping a hiding with its $10 Billion share down as of yesterday.
These would be perfect for the US southern border with Mexico. If drug runners are intercepted and they start firing guns to avoid capture, just amp up the power and start frying the bastards until they give up.
Zzzzzzzzzzzaaappp.
US Energy Beam Weapon – Active Denial System
Entropy:
My block is 2000m2.
If I was in WA, it seems to apply to me.
Yes?
Isn’t it possible they are given greater prominence because they draw in people and keep those people checking back to see what nonsense they have said in response to others?
I had a very strong sense that this was the case on Bolta’s blog before it set behind its paywall.
Look at how many pixels are launched by a single missive of Monty’s – and the more stupid the more it attracts.
I just say its weird that a Treasurer (and Premier) would quit in the middle of Budget Estimates when there’s only three weeks of that left and when you did a major reshuffle less than six months ago.
There are many other (unsubstantiated) rumours of his affair, the Left (who comprise over 65% of Labor MPs) faction getting angry with him and the CCC investigation into WA’s own “Red Shirts” activities.
Yes, there’s definitely a clickbait aspect in it Mother Lode. In free-flowing blogs, this will be apparent as in your observation.
However, if what we would call trolling and what others might see as fair comment is allowed to run rampant, the risk is losing censored legitimate contributors – permanently. It’s a fine line, like thread bombing.
I put that poorly.
One person’s troll is another’s reasonable commenter.
Seems like NATO wants another war in Serbia to flare up.
Sneakers departure does bear a more than passing resemblance to the disappearance of the Stairman some time ago.
Roger:
This will not end well.
Especially when the local land council tries to get what it thinks is its dues and gets turfed off the property, then returns with plod in tow to enforce the said ‘rights’.
Because that is exactly what this legislation will entail – police enforcement of the legislation.
The last departure like this was The Buzz after his drive home from Parliament House to Subi left the suburbs looking like the Kwinana motorplex on demolition derby night. No coming back from that one. Incidentlythe Buzz was in my (then) cafe with his mug on the cover of every Worst scattered around the place. Awks as the kidz like to say.
Who was “the Buzz”?
Cassie of Sydney:
No one is going to fight Cassie.
Except for the 3%.
well said
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ugandas-new-anti-gay-legislation-includes-death-sentence-for-in-some-cases
Beware the new Hi-Alanism… Or what Auron MacIntyre calls “the ratchet.”
To wit: Hi Alan, I’m a rusted-on conservative ringing in to say that Olden days ‘Pride’ was something we can all support… unlike this new evil trans stuff with children…
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1661958870221361152
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This nicely sums up the likely problem: petty grifting with consequences.
We’ve had a very similar system in Queensland under the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003. From my exploration industry perspective, irrespective of landholder approval, creating access roads and drilling/camp pads comes with a duty of care (backed up by chunky personal and corporate fines) to avoid damaging Aboriginal cultural heritage – however that may be defined from time to time.
In practical terms this means employing someone identifying as having ‘appropriate cultural knowledge’ to walk the ground ahead of any surface disturbance and identify cultural issues that need to be protected. At (currently) ~$1000/ day + expenses.
So, it’s an expense. And, needless to say, the outcome depends on the individuals involved.
Usually it’s a perfunctory ramble, or a car ride – leading to a ‘just keep clear of the creeks’. In some instances I’ve had rather pleasant experiences with quite lovely people – often very practical and matter of fact.
But about 25% of the time it turns into some kind of irritating shit show: demands for stupid payments (‘I can do it now for $100,000, or you can wait for 6 months because sorry business…’); an agonising drawn out inspection process, every stone turned; a dispute over ‘custodianship’ (she’s not an AstraZenica woman, she’s just married to an AstraZenica man); or simple folkloric ‘tell the stupid white fellas any old bullshit’. And commonly an ‘after the event’ attempt at legal standover, leveraged on the penalties and imprecision of the legislation – ‘Whoever did your clearance wasn’t an appropriate AstraZenica person, and my client is concerned that you have breached your duty of care…’
Grit poured into wheels.
Cassie
I don’t have time to respond at length. I’ve been hearing about the reparations bullshit since the 90s. It not going anywhere and more importantly SF doesn’t have any money. It’s just crap being offered up by leftwing whites and entitled blacks.
There is one case for assistance/reparations and it’s in the form of education. The American unions are committing systemic racism against poor blacks and they’ve absolutely ruined recent gens. There is hope though. DeSantis has begun to institute a charter school system to help under privileged kids.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are sinking deeper into disarray, and the United States bears a significant share of the blame.
And an interesting point:
MercatorNet is proud to launch our inaugural Montgolfier Award for Sustained Hot Air, presented to the year’s outstanding virtue signaller.
Tenacious struggles against reality ought to receive public recognition
6. Essendon FC (Australia)
Who could forget the day Essendon Football Club sacked its CEO Andrew Thorburn? Not for calling abortion murder and gay sex a sin. Not even for his association with a church preaching those ideas today. Essendon sacked Thorburn for sitting on the board of a church whose online teaching archive contained decades-old sermons that contained tidbits to that effect.
Nothing proclaims woke virtue signalling like throwing a Christian to the proverbial lions.
5. Collingwood FC (Australia)
Not to be outdone, Collingwood Football Club this month splashed IDAHOBIT propaganda all over its social media. For the uninitiated, this tortured acronym has nothing to do with hobbits but stands for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Meanwhile, the same football club boasts as one of its principal partners Emirates, the state-owned airline of the United Arab Emirates, where homosexuality is a crime.
If we had a journalist corps interested in the noble calling of holding the powerful to account, there would be dozens of Perth journos scurrying around and working the phones trying to find the real story of why Australia’s most popular premier is packing it in at the height of his powers.
But they’re all coming out of journalism schools utterly uninterested in what’s really going on in the real world and instead using journalism to dumb down their audience with censorship and the latest ideological fads, like climate change.
The big story is that 99 per cent of “journalists” aren’t interested in the big stories.
John Brumble:
They will be identifiable by the BLM signs in the front yard.
Nah, they’re doing it themselves just as they’ve been doing for the last 1,400 years.
Report: Taliban Threatens to ‘Conquer’ Iran After Border Shootout (29 May)
100% percent Tom. McClown proved himself to be power hungry and a control freak by making himself both Premier and Treasurer and dictator during ChinaFlu.
He still had ~70% approval rating and likely would’ve won 2025 and 2029 elections. If “tired,” he could’ve let Treasurer role go or taken Treasurer and given Prem to someone else. No control freak lets go easily.
I call BS.
Cassie of Sydney:
Some of us did Cassie.
And we remember those who ridiculed us for doing so.
Taliban is now the world’s only terrorist organisation with its own air force, however rudimentary.
Really? The US has a large Air Force.
Report: Taliban Threatens to ‘Conquer’ Iran After Border Shootout (29 May)
Break out the popcorn.
Was it Bons who contributed the piece in the Beaufort Bomber?
Besides it’s hugely significant geographical significance and it’s recent windfall in Billions of $ in US weaponry, Afghanistan sits atop a wealth of various resources. No wonder the CCP are paying very close attention to the Taliban.
Cassie of Sydney:
The Referendum on the voice is a red herring. The States are already implementing it in an abbreviated form.
Err- geographical location..
Well, it’s “heartening” to know the Taliban are the only terrorist force in the world with an airforce… thanks Biden…
This was the mentality Churchill faced in the Air Ministry in 1940 when he realised he had only a few months to get Britain ready for it’s biggest challenge, a Nazi air attack that is now known as The Battle of Britain. Churchill put Lord Beaverbrook in charge and authorised him to do whatever it takes. Beaverbrook sidestepped the usual authorities and engineers and went to the car workers of Coventry, especially the foremen, to get those Merlin engines made and installed and into the airframes. My father was one of those foremen Beaverbrook took on, men who had a practical engineering understanding and a working class work ethic but no formal qualifications. They were also unaware of conventions like meals with brandy and cigars, unlike some of the hands-off Oxbridge engineers expected to make the Spitfires work without having ever been near an engine. Beaverbrook decided this was no time for credentialism.
If only citizens had, like…a Voice to parliament!
Er, that would require redeploying said weapons away from tasing grandmothers, arresting 4’10” tall pregnant women, and doctors who prescribed ivermectin … not gonna happen.
There’s nothing abbreviated about it.
QLD public servants are already working on a reparations formula according to the relevant minister.
“All they wanted is the beer.”
The Bud Lite thing became “that’s the beer that gays drink” and despite what the left may think, the vast majority of men who drink beer (and esp. Bud Lite) are ordinary 21-35 year olds who want to be seen as “tough” “everyday” man and don’t want to be seen as effeminate, weak etc.
The best of the whole Bud Lite thing is this: it shows the right can and will perform successful boycotts – ones that cause actual financial loss to manufacturers. And Target’s LGBT+ kids lines (including more babies and toddlers, BTW!) has seen a similar backlash, with Target’s market capitalisation falling by $10B – ouch!
As the left moves further and further into ridiculousness, the average person is becoming more aligned with the right, and companies that need to make money are starting to notice. If you piss off 60% of your customers to salve 5% of your customers, and even half the pissed of ones stop buying from you, you just lost 30% of your sales. “Maybe we need to rethink this…”
Appalling. The basics of wealth and prosperity in the West has been, inter alia, private property rights. This removes them, almost totally. There will be no incentive to save and invest, or build wealth for future generations is this is used as a weapons, which it almost certainly will be. Australia, where virtually all wealth is generated by agriculture and mining, will become Argentina, or maybe Cuba.
State governments do not have to give any compensation. It is in the Commonwealth constitution, and only applies to the Federal government. State governments have absolute power over the serfs. Refer to the Kyoto land grab, and the National Cabinet that imposed lockdowns and mandates.
duk
Did you get this from Joe V’s writings?
Just wondering.
If so, thats a promising sign that the Ukraine war is coming to an end….
I suppose the Taliban know what the CCP does to the Uyghurs?
the media just exists to print press releases
Thinking about dad in those days sent me to listen again to some of Churchills wartime speeches.
His speech to the nation on the coming Battle of Britain put it in a manner we wouldn’t hear today:
Churchill was in no doubt that the morality on which democracy rested and thrived was a Christian morality and that the forces of Nazism were counter to that.
I don’t expect history teachers of today make too much of that particular aspect.
Though they should. Such a Christian call to arms would now fall on deaf ears.
ok, so its only a prototype, but still.
Length 140m
Capacity = 240MWh
A 15,000 DWT is about the same dimensions, and can carry ~440,000,000 MJ of crude (44MJ/kg), which is ~ 122 GWh. I’m assuming 2/3 of the DWT is cargo.
That’s almost 3 orders or magnitude more energy.
lol. ‘Light’ beer is gay enough without any extra help from prancing trannies and their girlhood.
Reparations and compensation paid to someone who had an Aboriginal great great grandfather..
I’m afraid we won the battle but lost the war.
Lizzie, I fixed it for you so as to fit the ABC website:
Lizzie, Bud Lite is a low-carb beer, not a low alcohol beer.
In Australian beer terminology it is a Heavy beer.
Take heart, Roger. The War is won. In a sense, the past two thousand years are a clean up operation with pockets of resistance.
Regarding the battery tanker, you just need to look at the board to see how pie in the sky it is. Apart from the bloke pushing his own batteries, there’s not a practical engineer amongst them.
https://oceanpowergrid.jp/
* techpreneur
* biotech
* battery manufacturer
* finance and payment systems
* environmental NGO and advisor on ‘environmental strategies’
* banker
* lawyer
A question for those who think the example I gave on the subject of land rights.
I presume the law wali posted last evening has been passed. Why hasn’t Malcolm Murrabaggasha taken Joe Bloggs home sitting on a block of 1100 square meters ?
What am I missing here that when there’s free money on the table everyone immediately develops 150 IQ?
Indeed, but not by us.
Churchill was over-egging it a bit, not that I blame him.
Not racism in the Greens? The good, the holy, the saintly Greens?
That’s almost 3 orders or magnitude more energy.
I wonder how much of the stored energy on board is used to move the ship to its destination? Even worse, as it is delivering energy to an energy deficient destination you’ll most likely need to power the entire round trip on the stored energy on board.
Help us but we’re wasting investment on REALLY dumb ideas.
An even better dumb idea. Launch the batteries into high Earth orbit and use solar energy to recharge them then have them re-enter and land on Earth.
JC – the law Wally is referring to comes into effect on 1 July.
Some draftpersons I’ve spoken to, about this ACH law in WA don’t think it’ll last two years…it’s that bad.
Define “racism.”
I cited an example from an ex-ABC employee that appeared in the prog-left press in the aftermath of the Stan Grant matter.
She was Lebanese and complained that whenever something bad happened in that part of the world her ABC colleagues would joke, “What have your cousins been up to now?”
Is that “racism” or just an attempt at office humour in poor taste?
Will be interesting to see what mea culpas issue forth from the Greens.
People also need to get a perspective on things like social media. Social media has very good but in some ways quite terrible qualities.
The good thing is that the bad stuff we never saw or read about before is no longer being filtered by the corporate media.
We witness or read about it almost in real time. Bad stuff being done by an entitled minority in the US is shown in all its glory.
The bad is that at times, some of it is out of context and used for propaganda purposes by unethical people.
It can also energise folks into thinking the world is going nuts. The unfortunate thing is that folks who aren’t able to distinguish can be psychologically drawn to this. We see obvious examples of this right here on this blog with some calling for mass murder etc.
Just be careful.
They sit on not much actually. The geology is scrunched up sedimentary rock with no volcanic systems to speak of, so not a great deal in the way of metals. Not much in the way of oil and gas. A lot in the way of imagination and wishful thinking. They have some, but so little that no one has been very interested. And their one single paying resource, heroin, is being undercut by China via fentanyl. The place is a useless hole.
Okay, then we should be seeing action on that front from the moment the law comes into effect, right?
At what point would say.. what time period… would you give when you no longer believe it will have the impact some are predicting?
A week, a month, a year, decade?
Steve Trickler:
The very next thing the drug runners will do is park a bus full of kiddies, kittens and puppies in the area, lock the doors and film the exploding bodies.
The Democrats will spread the film across the entire interwebs whilst squealing how horrid the US is for defending their borders.
We have no idea that the Civil War with nonstate actors is continuing.
Because the beaurocracy hasn’t been set up yet. The WA govt has put out them chum to get interested parties to apply to be the bodies which will take Joe Bloggs home.
Hopefully the lawfare will last year’s
Journalism is a misnomer, they have and continue to be trained to be activists. Mainstream media are just the vehicle for what they want to do.
Though he doesn’t realise it, Albo has put into motion actions that will put an end to this. His immigration numbers on steroids will bring in people who will resent being the subjects of Aboriginal Brahmins. When the masses get naturalised and start voting I am confident that they will have very little sympathy for the indigenes.
From 1 July, indigenous groups will be able to form Local Aboriginal Cultural Heritage (LACH) Groups that are recognised by the Minister and assigned to oversee various geographic regions. If you live in that region and you want to undertake any works on your (private) land you need the consent of the LACH. You can’t get a LACH out once to do an entire audit for all time. It’s, every. single. time. The fee they charge is set by each LACH. There is no oversight from the Auditor General, Crime Corruption Commission nor Ombudsman. The LACH’s decision is also final and there is no appeal.
JC- with deference- read my post again. It’s not the whole 115-page document from the (post-facto) “co-design” workshop, but everything I put out comes from it, or comes from answers to questions put from the floor.
Law has been passed AFAIK, comes into effect July 1st.
…
After cooling down a bit, I’m angrier at the corporatization and power grab side of things more than anything. Farms will continue, mines will continue- rent-seekers are not so dumb as to hobble the industries they need for the spondoolas, but they’ll ram their blood funnels in for sure, and there’s sure to be some conspicuous prosecutions and crippling fines around some activities. (The Juukan Gorge demolition by Rio Tinto- carried out while Aboriginal board members and Traditional Owner workmen were literally standing right there ticking off items on the checklist- was mentioned time and time again.)
The ACH is not intended to promote employment, or closure, or disclosure, or any environmental outcomes. I’m convinced that it is designed to install a class of immovable administrators who will use their token Aboriginalness to prosecute the Global Trotskyist agenda of ending private property and accelerating de-industrialization. The impoverishment and cultural dumpster fire is not really of primary interest to the Sauron-like forgers of this cl#sterf#ck, Ben Wyatt and Mark MacGowan– let alone the Robert Brophos, Geoff Clarkes, Megan Davises and Noel Pearsons of the incoming ruling class, but I’m sure they’ll be amused by it in a detatched way.
That’s a risible amount of stored energy. A tonne of coal produces about 2.5MWh of electricity, so that ship is carrying the equivalent of about 100 tonnes of coal.
Since it has an electric drive which takes the stored electricity it wouldn’t be able to sail very far before it used up every MWh in it. Crazy.
A LACH may also take up to a year to make a decision.
Lysander, thanks-
readers please replace my ACHSCs with LACHs.
Acronym was given the light n breezy verbalization as “larks”, effort from the floor to instead pronounce it “latches”. I blame that confusion and late nights for my tardiness.
Don’t worry about it.
In the car heading to the Big Smoke and the fkn stupid TeeVee bint on 3AW spilt large numbers of beans before I could hit mute.
No vague hints.
She started a blow-by-blow replay of events.
Typical 3AW.
They say words like “streaming service” but the codgers don’t get what that actually means.
Indeed Wally – and impacts any land 1100sq metres or larger – so possibly even some larger metro blocks (where, say, someone might want to put a pool in their backyard)….
Its ridick
Slippery lower case bureaucracy in action.
A report on rural radio covered the VNI West transmission project just finished.
A development officer from the Gannawarra shire (Kerang) was interviewed and spoke in favour of the line because of all the renewable projects they have in pipeline.
He stated that the power system in their area was built in the 1960’s and sorely needed an upgrade. This is a startling claim since I attended a meeting where AEMO representatives were part of the panel and they were directly asked if the proposed 500 kva line would hook into the local sub stations to boost the regional grid – the answer was no.
In our case it would require Powercorp to spend the money to put in the equipment needed to feed the local grid. The project does not involve upgrades in its plannings or costings.
Of the 500 submissions sent to AEMO:
491 – were opposed
8 – neutral
1 – supportive.
That 1 was the Gannawarra shire and they tendered that submission on the basis it not be made publicly available.
Uncommonly well said!
Wally
I never doubted the integrity of what you posted. My issue is the extremity its of interpretation .
There were laws protection aboriginal “culture” approximately 25 years ago on Victorian rural property. I recall my father having a small entanglement then.
After all those years of being condemned by the likes of the Greens and the ABC for our ingrained racism it turns out they did not have the moral superiority from which to speak.
In actuality I expect that the real issue is that neither the ABC or Greens (if it is possible to imagine them as two separate entities) have not benefitted from self-reflection to see that it is not racism within their concentric circle-jerk, or abroad in society in general.
Quite simply equal opportunities do not mean equal outcomes. You can be sure that, while they proclaim quotas elsewhere, within the upper echelons of those two organisations is more like a gladiatorial contest – and they are content with that.
Okay then, so it’s about restricting use and full on confiscation. That’s not exactly the same thing, but still it’s quite terrible.
Like the local businessman, who replaced a culvert on his land – facing a $20,000 fine and nine months in tronk?
JC – that’s correct and what also used to happen in WA is that the State would approve various works on behalf of the indigens.
Now that power will be devolved to LACHS.
Even if you want to dig a hole for a fence post ffs…
Journalism is a misnomer, they have and continue to be trained to be activists. Mainstream media are just the vehicle for what they want to do.
I don’t know if others have noticed – but the teenyboppers who masquerade as journalists these days often can’t detect contradictions in the very news stories they are delivering. We see it all the time.
This morning, a caption on a story even displayed an uncorrected misspelling. It is pathetic.
Salvatore:
If it’s not XXXX Bitter, it’s not beer.
Replaces 1972 Aboriginal Heritage Act.
Indeed, eclipses it. Puts into an evolutionary accelerator like in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3.
The LACHS can also declare ANYTHING sacred in the area which incurs greater levels of compliance for any proposed works or can stop works before they start, forever.
LACHS: “Red dirt is sacred”
Farmer/Miner/Prospector/Tourism Operators: “Ok, well I’m done.”
Hence Iowahawk’s legendary observation, “J’ism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
I sense there’s a whole lot of pillow covering going on currently regarding McClown’s “unexpected” departure.
On Tim Blair.
I haven’t read him for a long time because Tele paywall, but I seem to remember he didn’t just give trolls a clip.
He sometimes took over the moderation of his own blog and have no doubt he would have moved on moderators who were Green-Left filters.
They are all over at the Oz now.
Bruce – the numbers are SO bad, that I wonder if that 240MWh is the ships own capacity?
No doubt.
But we need to be wary of the “Dan Andrews is hiding out at his mother’s farm, protected 24/7 by Soggies, is having facial reconstruction surgery and is moving to Uruguay” type stories.
once you start blaming racism for your own inadequacies, you’ll see it everywhere.
It can also energise folks into thinking the world is going nuts. The unfortunate thing is that folks who aren’t able to distinguish can be psychologically drawn to this. We see obvious examples of this right here on this blog with some calling for mass murder etc.
JC, I can appreciate what you are saying. On the other hand, this blog is not short on intellect. Most bloggers are exceptional critical thinkers – in my humble opinion. On any level, I believe it can reasonably be deduced that we are watching a massive global realignment on many, many fronts. And it is happening with speed. It helps to be forewarned – although I am under no illusion that we are all tiny specks on the spectrum. Cheers.
As opposed to greenfilth members who incessantly purvey racism, such as the Faruqi creature and the recently departed Thorpey.
J.C:
Examples from the original post, please. With context, and not just references to what you think the author said.
Thanks, Lysander. Your fixing is so true of today, and that is such a horrible thing to contemplate.
Should do wonders for “reconciliation” in rural and regional Western Australia.
Amber Jade Sanderson has won the ballot and will be the next WA Prem.
(She is an awful person and is further Left than Dan Andrews).
We’re in for a rough time.
“Journalism is a misnomer…”
Not really.
We’ve always had reporters and journalists. The former are a disappearing species, the latter are a growing monstrosity.
Hint:
Reporters report what happened – who did what, who said what, this is what we know.
Journalists cite reports and then opine on what they cite.
A reporter might say “Police estimate at least 10,000 people turned out, and it turned into what looks like a riot, with hundreds of shops damaged at least ten buildings set on fire.” while a journalist might say “These are fiery, but most peaceful, protests”.
“…but most peaceful…”
Bugger. MOSTLY
I remember he once admonished the moderators on his blog, all but stating he was sick of having to go back and trawl through the rejected comments to post ones that should never have been rejected in the first place. He also once told me about his “nuclear option” for persistent trolls he’d had enough of.
Now? I ditched my Oz subscription about five years ago over that very issue. It’s also worth noting that wankers like Jack the Insider and Perfesser von Wrongsolen (although evidently not Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly) moderate the comments on their respective pieces.
Yes, we are, Vicki. It sometimes feels very 1930’s to me, especially after the Covid experience, with the example of how quickly populations can be drawn into supporting appalling totalitarian acts and edicts. And then there is the geopolitics of rising and falling nations, the slow eddying away of the tides of the West that have kept us stable since the Second World war.
I’ve just finished watching a Jordan Peterson video on the demography of decline – as women have fewer children and the reproduction rate plunges. It’s not plunging in the second and third world as much though – mainly in the capitalist and democratic West. Just another concern to add to the growing list of changes out to bite us. The better news though is that China is also demographically wobbling, part of their one child policy and some other family unfriendly things they do.
Migration into the West will help to allay the demographic bomb, but it won’t do much for cultural continuity or any certainty in electoral blocks keeping democracy on track.