Bugger me! ( No, that’s not an invitation). No. 4

Well you could have stepped forward, but Fagan called your bluff. Hun:

Families at the centre of the Hawthorn racism scandal have released an explosive statement and revealed themselves for the first time describing their eight-month ordeal as a “s***show” that “none of us deserved”.

Premiership hero Cyril Rioli, wife Shannyn Ah Sam-Rioli, Carl Peterson, Jermaine Miller-Lewis and wife Montanah and former Hawks staffer Leon Egan say they have been “gutted” not to have had their stories heard by those at the centre of harrowing allegations.

And they are adamant that the three former Hawks staffers at the heart of their claims are anything but “exonerated”.

Three days after league chief executive Gillon McLachlan announced that the AFL’s independent investigation into the saga had been shut down and an “imperfect resolution” reached with the families, the group officially lodged proceedings in the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The group – which is adamant it “never asked for money” – say they are determined to ensure the “truths that they don’t want to hear” are heard.

“We are gutted that these so-called AFL role models weren’t prepared to listen to our truths (our truths are another man’s bullshit) through mediation,” the letter reads.

“We have always had the courage to listen to their truths too. That is our way.

“We were never scared of being named. We were never scared of what they would throw at us. We were worried about impacts on others. (is that why you didn’t go with Fagan’s legal process? Really?)

“It doesn’t change our truth. None of us deserved this public s***show – including them.

“But they have made their choice, and we will now bring them to a Human Rights Commission conciliation to listen to the truths that they don’t want to hear.

“And if they still won’t listen and learn then it will end up in the Federal Court where we will tell our truths (there’s those buzzwords again) in the witness box. But they will hear us one way or another.”

There’s more to the article but I will leave it at that. Includes some of the allegations like asking a player to have his missus terminate a foetus etc.
Now players, you had your chance to have your side of the story aired, you flubbed it. Go away.

Vicki Campion:

When will Anthony Albanese let his true colours show?

The Prime Minister pretends to be a republican but runs off with royalty at every opportunity.

He says we need to stop bullying, but he degenerates into name-calling when he has nothing else to say.

He persistently tells of his public housing upbringing but forgets his University of Sydney degree, spends more time in the billionaire Lindsay Fox-protected compound and on the private prime ministerial plane than in the Alice Springs battleground.

At least Zegna-wearing Paul Keating was proud of his head-kicking ways and didn’t pretend to be otherwise – unlike our chameleon shapeshifting Albanese.

He creates the image of the son who sympathises with struggling single mums, but how many of them are in private boxes at the tennis, walking red carpets, clinking crystal at the opera or drinking champagne inside the Bird Cage at Melbourne Cup?

Before he was PM, he was claiming flights at the pointy end of the plane, and chauffeured cars to events that he was gifted corporate tickets to attend, including semi and grand finals at the NRL and AFL, Australia vs India at the SCG, and Blues Fest. He is a moth to the flame of red carpets and events of more interest to the social pages than policy, and better than some members of the royal family at getting inside the palace.

Not enough to have tea there, he has invited King Charles and Queen Camilla, Prince William and Princess Kate to tea here. As constitutional monarchs, they hardly need the invitation.

He says he is staunchly culturally Catholic, with endearing memories of the Sisters of Mercy nuns that educated him at primary school, but he has almost had a Cistercian vow of silence when it comes to the ACT government’s forced acquisition of Calvary Hospital, founded by the Little Sisters of Mary, uttering not a syllable of support for them.

He is more worried about getting off-side with the Canberra Greens than standing up for the nuns that nurtured him in his early life.

While the Sisters of Mercy were teaching him, the Sisters of Mary cared for the sick in Canberra.

Barely a whisper has come from Albanese about the heavy hand of a territory government’s compulsory acquisition of a faith-based hospital, putting a chill through faith-based organisations across the nation as it is seen as a litmus test for what is coming their way.

If some of those strong ladies who gave up their lives for vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to educate inner suburban boys in the 1970s were to return today, they would pull Anthony aside for a quiet chat on his poor marks on Calvary Hospital.

He tries to assuage empathy from his life experiences, but his log cabin story says more about his mother’s strength than his.

His introduction to parliament this year was a speech about “setting the standard”.

He wanted a “respectful workplace” that upholds “equality, fairness, decency and respect for all”.

Since then, he has met questions about his government with dismissive, shooing motions and sneers, goading jibes and name-calling that would be banned from high school debate.

“Respect for all” apparently only includes the Climate-200 funded crossbenchers and Labor.

It does not extend to Coalition women – who he recently referred to in the chamber as “lightweight” and “useless”, resorting to mansplaining to female former ministers about how government works.

Respect does not extend to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton who the Prime Minister has called, since his Respect at Work speech, “the old boofhead” – even though Dutton is seven years younger.

Given that he has been in parliament since last century, and a former leader of the house, if Albanese does not know what’s respectful, he should have some idea of what is allowed in the chamber and what is considered unparliamentary.

His slurs on Dutton bear a stark similarity to his jibes to Tony Abbott – of whom he repeated, “in your guts, you know he’s nuts” until the phrase finally made it on the banned list of unparliamentary expressions, a resource collated and used by Speakers since 2009.

It was deemed: “Highly offensive for the Leader of the House to cast a slur over people with a mental illness.”

Yet he is the first to run to the virtue police when he believes the slight is against him.

He was upset over “it won’t be easy under Albanese” which he saw as an attack on his Italian heritage.

But he thinks nothing of ridiculing campaigners for the No case in the Voice debate as “chicken littles” and claiming: “It’s only a matter of time before they tell us that the Voice will fade the curtains.”

With Albanese you can have everything: the feminist who mansplains; who speaks of a gentler parliament while delivering a dismissive, name-calling one; the republican taking pride of place at the royal coronations and swearing allegiance to the King; the beer-drinking battler who prefers a high-flying lifestyle in private prime ministerial planes than on the ground forming policy with the Aboriginal communities and single mums he claims to represent.

A chameleon can change colour but will never stop being a lizard.

A political animal can claim whatever you want to hear but will always be a political animal.

Truths. ?

feelthebernsays:
June 3, 2023 at 5:39 am
Perhaps the solution is to reduce both SASR and 2 Commando Regiment to subunit size, and be much more selective in recruiting.

The solution is to be more selective where they are deployed.

SASR is already highly selective in recruiting. Only about 10% (may vary) pass selection. I would add that the number of times they are deployed to a given theatre should be looked at as well.

And the sorts of missions they are sent on. Specialists in long-range recon, and staying undiscovered by the enemy, I thought the last thing they were supposed to do is be used to actually engage with enemy forces unless it was to perform a surgical strike.

Damn I hate our governments and the MSM.

It’s a mental illness.

Much like covid alarmism. Daily Telegraph:

The nation’s top doctor is urging Australians to get their Covid booster jabs and flu vaccinations as a fifth wave of coronavirus drives a significant rise in workers taking sick leave.

Covid cases were up 28 per cent over the past month and hospitalisations are on the rise.

But at the same time as cases have been rising, the number of people getting vaccinated is in decline – falling by 10,000 per week over the past three weeks – with 16.6 million Australians not having had a booster in more than six months.

The health system and workplaces are weathering an increase in sick leave as Australia faces a triple whammy of winter viral illness.

An Australian HR Institute poll of its members this week found 82 per cent reported an increase in employees taking sick leave.

One in three of the 200 HR professionals who responded said the uptick in sick leave use was “significant”.

The wave of sick leave comes as a new Australian study shows the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine plunges six months after the last vaccination.

Since the start of 2023, there have been more than 557,000 reported Covid cases nationally, and more than 2,600 deaths.

Protection against death from Covid among the over 65 age group stood at 84 per cent three months after they had a booster jab, but fell to just 56 per cent by six months, research by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) found.

Alarmingly, nearly three million Australians aged over 65 have not had this year’s booster even though they are the group most at risk from the virus.

“They’re really vulnerable, vulnerability increases with age,” NCRIS researcher Professor Bette Liu said.

“This isn’t just having serious Covid, this is actually dying from Covid”.

Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly appealed to those in higher-risk groups to “top up their protection levels” with a booster shot, especially if it has been six months or more since their last shot.

“It is really important people understand that a Covid-19 vaccine booster will not protect you against the flu. And a flu vaccine will not protect you against Covid-19,” Pof Kelly said.

“They are different viruses – and you need both vaccines to protect you against both viruses. But the good news is that you can have the vaccines at the same time,” he said.

Covid is the most dominant virus circulating while flu cases are also increasing rapidly – up 66 per cent in NSW in the week to May 20 and by a further 36.3 per cent to May 27.

Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett said the XBB variants of Covid are now dominant accounting for 80 per cent of infections.

NSW government genomic sequencing shows the XBB 1.6 variant dubbed “Arcturus” is on the rise.

It has been associated with typical cold and flu symptoms as well as conjunctivitis, or pink eye but has not produced more serious illness than other types of Covid.

There were twice as many cases of flu in April this year compared to last year with 55,610 notifications reported so far this year.

The multi-pronged viral surge is putting huge pressure on general practice.

Healthengine data shows between April 24 and May 22, there was an 8.6 per cent increase in GP practice in-person appointments and a 25 per cent increase in GP telehealth bookings and requests for telehealth medical certificates.

Melbourne GP Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said he was seeing instances where almost every student on a school camp was infected with Covid.

FMD

Small day on the exchange today, Bern. WTF? It’s to figure out some of the crazy shit our brothers and sisters do in the former colony.

It used to be bad news was good news. Now it’s good news is good news?

Jobs Report Was Very Strong. Why Stocks Are Up Anyway.

Hiring was strong in May, but wage gains showed less inflationary pressure from the labor market.

While here we’ll be cycling 6+.

“6+” being nominal GDP?

Black Ball, is that Terry Mcrann. I’ve always found his writing style impossible to flow nicely or is that just me?

Milt

It’s not what he says, it’s how he says it. But yes, he’s generally pretty decent. I just find his writing style really taxing to read.

The exact multiples were debated but I remember an analyst putting out a note saying it was done at 27 times EV/EBITDA …

Ouch. Maybe for a crack wholesaler with good distribution.

yesterday Coles announced a 4.3% nett profit .. seems a bit niggardly ..!
In May, research conducted by investment bank UBS found the cost of food at Coles increased by 10.4 per cent in April, with Woolworths increasing by 8.7 per cent in April.

Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett said the XBB variants of Covid are now dominant accounting for 80 per cent of infections.

God help us…the epidemiologists are back.

Tape up your doors and windows, apartment dwellers!

I guess the media are not interested in why 16.6 m people have not taken a vaccine for over 6 months.

But that leaves around ~10 million people who have? I didn’t even know a 6th booster was even available.

This week Queensland in SOO .. 14 players on the field for 30 seconds .. “Oh! .. the horror fine ’em, ban ’em but stop ’em cheatin’” … FFS! ..

More grist for Queensland’s mill, Shatterzzz! 😀

Albanese’s first political mentor was Tom Uren, who’d been a minister under Whitlam, for whom Albanese served as a staffer in the Hawke government years. Uren was a strange case: a successful small businessman who joined the left wing of the ALP. He opposed the elevation of Hawke to the leadership. This is Albanese’s political DNA.

Get a load of this nice looking airhead. The oz did a puff piece on here. Abbie Chatfield, whoever she is runs some bullshit reality show.
She isn’t just a decent looker with a pleasant rack she’s not shy to tease with as the pose suggests. She’s also a property economist. Yeah really.

If I wasn’t in media, I would probably still be working as … a property analyst. I did psychology for a year and didn’t like it that much. Then I did a degree in property economics and I liked it and you could potentially earn decent money in it. I was only a year or two out of uni when I applied for The Bachelor.

These days I follow the property market … only when I’m interested in buying something. I posted recently [on social media] about the housing crisis and someone commented ‘What are you now an expert in property?’ And I was like, ‘Actually, by definition, yes’. [My former career] comes in handy for making political commentary sometimes, understanding economics and property specifically.

What the hell is a degree in property economics? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Keating should be applauded for superannuation.

IMO jury is out on superannuation. Created 100s of ticket clipping opportunities. I’m not sure it will have that much impact on pension numbers. I expect it will be just another hollow log for government at some point in the future.

It took gold level Coalition tiredness, laziness, spinelessness and cowardice to gift this country the fraud from Grayndler.

Preach it. Albo might still be the worst yet.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

– Henry Ford

It took gold level Coalition tiredness, laziness, spinelessness and cowardice to gift this country the fraud from Grayndler. It didn’t have to happen.

Sadly, it did have to happen .. we voted for Luigi to get rid of BRADBURY ..
the same way we voted for BRADBURY to keep “oor wullz” out ……. Oz politics 101# ……

Johnny Rotten, good to see you are back.

Why is Sky televising Biden’s speech?

Catturd ™
@catturd2

Anyone who doesn’t step-in-line with the uniparty narrative must be silenced.

Hilarious. Unfortunately, the laughingstock is the so-called President of the US.

Meme TV
@MagaMemeWizard

Took me a bit but I FINALLY got the Earpiece Guy audio from Joe’s day today…

RECORDING: Texas teacher gives lesson on transgenderism, says Doctors can make a mistake when declaring baby’s gender

Greg Price
@greg_price11

This is footage that was shared with me by a South Dakota farmer named Jared Bossly, whose farm has been in his family for four generations.

That’s only because Howard was incapable of making the case for it in the Cabinet room.

Frazer was deadset against it. He wouldn’t budge. The argument at the time was that a material devaluation would hike import prices and therefore cause massive problems on the inflation front. This is going back a long time and my memory is hazy but I think they (libs) did devalue 10%, but it wasn’t enough and things began to worsen as the market believed they would have to go again.

Now you can have what’s called, an internal devaluation, by allowing real wages etc to fall while keeping the exchange rate fixed. Hong Kong is a good example of that in the past with the peg to the US dollar. But you need a very flexible economic system to allow this. We didn’t have that.

H B Bear says:
June 3, 2023 at 9:26 am

Super is just another part of the tax arb landscape.

At the risk of defending Treasury, from a macro perspective are the benefits outweighing the costs? The danger would be of course, giving people 10% increase in salary during their working lives they would just bid house prices up further.

Bear, you don’t see evidence of this in the Texas real estate market. There, a boom means more supply coming onto the market, by and large. We’re on the California system, which means demand is met through price hikes because supply is very restricted.

Median price of a house in Texas is

Texas $257,628

Median in California

California $708,936

What is it about Texas? Texas has never forgotten its frontier past. The Republic of Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836, and became the 28th state in the union in 1845. Since then, Texas has grown into an economic powerhouse fueled initially by agriculture (cotton, timber, corn), and by the 1920s, oil and natural gas. As of 2021, Texas surpassed the country of Brazil to become the ninth largest economy by GDP world-wide.*

Texas’s staggering growth of the past decade has not diluted the Lone Star State’s culture, which reflects values of rugged individualism, self-reliance, and the importance of lending a helping hand. The truth is everything really is bigger in Texas – the state’s land mass makes up 7.4% of the entire nation. Texas is home to the largest urban bat colony (Austin), the largest convenience store (New Braunfels), and the largest cowboy boots (San Antonio).*

The new migration

Texas also ranks first in another metric: the number of net domestic migrants (defined as the number of people moving in from other states minus those moving out).* Texans don’t leave Texas in record numbers. A 2018 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas study noted that Texas has the highest retention rate of any state, with 82% of people born in Texas still living in the state. That means about 3,800 more people move into Texas than leave – every single week. Texas is one of the most diverse states in the U.S. From 2015 to 2019, 40 percent of people moving to Texas came from other countries.The top three countries were Mexico, India, and China. The other 60 percent of new Texas transplants came from other states in the U.S.

And this:

California dreaming

Despite public proclamations knocking California by Texas leaders, the worst-kept secret in Texas is this – most of the domestic migration to Texas comes from California, 42 percent to be exact.* Attracting Californians is big business in Texas. Companies like Oracle, Jamba Juice, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Charles Schwab, Jacob’s Engineering, Toyota and Kubota Tractors have elected to move headquarters or build new plants in Texas, citing the business-friendly climate. In December of 2021, Elon Musk, the second wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes Magazine, and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, made good on his commitment to sell all his “earthly possessions … and move to Texas.” Musk closed the sale of his last California property remaining in his real estate portfolio. Musk’s breakup with California made headlines for months as he cited regulation, lack of affordable housing, and taxes as reasons for moving to Texas.

In a recent 2021 survey by Chief Executive magazine, American CEOs indicated the top three important considerations when evaluating an area to establish corporate headquarters. In order, they cited: tax policy, regulatory climate and talent availability. Texas ranked as the “absolute best “ for business, and California ranked as the “absolute worst” for business out of all 50 states in this CEO survey.

I wouldn’t choose to live in Texas as it sounds boring, but boy they’re attracting people in droves.

I don’t think there’s a Bud Light coming on, but you never know.

NEWS: Ben & Jerry’s cuts ties with Twitter and states it won’t return until it gives up its pursuit for allowing free speech on the platform.

They’re such fcuking arseholes. They don’t have to say they’re not going to advert in Twitter. They can just doing so without the fanfare.

Who owns Ben&Jerries as those two Vermont hypies sold out ages ago?

Unilever

August 3, 2000: Ben & Jerry’s becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever.

They can withdraw Mr. Roberts-Smith’s V.C. as though it was a Brownlow, for
‘bringing the game into disrepute’ which they, of course, can judge, given they are The Commission.

Iirc, no VC has been withdrawn/forfeited since King George V objected to exercise of that power. The Australian VC is awarded under royal letters patent. Would that King Charles might raise the same objection as his great-grandfather were Richard Marles to recommend Roberts-Smith forfeit his VC.

They’re such fcuking arseholes. They don’t have to say they’re not going to advert in Twitter. They can just doing so without the fanfare.

In the corporate world there is no point in being virtuous* if you don’t signal it.

* in the woke sense.

I now have a hankering for watching “The Pacific” – anyone know if its available on one of the free streamers (ABC, SBS, etc) ?

It’s available on BINGE .. tho a paying streamer you can get a 14 days free trial subscription..
enuf time to watch it .. LOL!

Musk’s tweet reminded me. He called it an awesome movie. I have a hankering to watch Office Space again.

JCsays:

June 3, 2023 at 9:56 am

whoops do so

And you reckon it’s hard work reading Terry McCrann.
Jeez.

2SM talkback running hot about BRS. Support for the big guy about 80% but quite a few arguing the shoebridge line, which incidentally the Taliban now supports.

One wonders, rather bitterly, if such ‘Brownlow’ withdrawal (it’s ONLY a medal, what’s the big deal?) would be contemplated if Mr. Roberts-Smith possessed melanin-privilege?

If there’d been “melanin” involved the entire case would never have come about .. no Oz media outlet would dare imply wrongdoing by any member of the “melanin” enhanced ……
On top of that valour medals are awarded for specific, heroic, actions in combat .. completely separated from any other part of a recipient’s service/behavior ……..!

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