Just checked my can of spray oil, it’s olive oil from Spain but packed in Australia.
Open Thread – Tues 6 June 2023
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
- Open Thread – Monday of the Angel 2025
- Between a rock and a hard place on May 3
- Open Thread – Easter Weekend 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 17 April 2025
I can’t understand the value add for a Hubbl over a chromecast 4K for google TV (wouldn’t waste time for…
Why do they need a replacement chairman for something that is defunct?
If he were still among the living this would definitely have brought him back to his blog.
Back in the day it would have been cheaper to give NO compensation.
1st – the lord be praised!
“Sleep it is a gentle thing beloved from pole to pole. ” Awaiting the soul sliding bit.
And in the famous words of Mrs Scum on election night…
“I don’t like darkies!”
“Who does!”
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe (Anti-Business Daily).
Steve Bright.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Matt Margolis.
Miranda Devine sinks Joe Scarborough’s claim nobody cares about ‘Biden crime family’ stuff
7 yrs of Impossible, Wild and Crazy Woodworking
Republican Margaret Gardner to be king’s representative in Victoria as governor
Australian.
Paywalled.
ENERGY
Power grid precarious as winter looms, warns EnergyAustralia
weed killers
Top 20.
😉
Ps: Nice, Dover.
Here you go Rosie:
Power grid precarious as winter looms, warns EnergyAustralia
• By COLIN PACKHAM
BUSINESS REPORTER
• 7:09PM JUNE 5, 2023
• 118 COMMENTS
Australia’s electricity network is precariously balanced going into a peak demand period, the head of one of the country’s biggest energy companies has warned.
Mark Collette, head of EnergyAustralia, said recent fossil fuel closures, including the shutting of AGL Energy’s Liddell coal-fired power plant, had left the national electricity system exposed, even though generators have fast-tracked maintenance to ensure no repeat of the coal power station outages that plagued Australia in June 2022.
“The dispatchable capacity is actually less than last year after the closure of the Liddell power station at the end of April. If there were outages or supply shocks – we notice them,” Mr Collette told a climate business summit in Sydney.
AGL Energy shut the last unit of the Liddell power station in April.
Australia is still reeling from the market suspension last winter when a spate of coal power stations suffered outages, forcing generators to turn to gas at a time when prices were at record levels to prevent blackouts. That in turn triggered a crisis that has led to higher household power bills from July 1.
Mr Collette is the latest executive to express concern about the capacity of Australia’s electricity network to manage the increased demand during winter and summer amid a rapid transition of the country’s fuel sources.
Coal is the largest source of electricity in Australia, accounting for about two-thirds of all power, but its role has waned significantly in recent years as fossil fuels come under mounting economic and social pressure.
“In preparation for every coal retirement, what I’d like to see is enough capacity to replace the services that coal provided. So far coal has been closing without the replacement being there,” Mr Collette said
The closure of coal power stations will help Australia – one of the world’s highest per capita emitters – meet its carbon emission targets. But industry executives have warned that new zero-emission sources are failing to keep pace with the closures of coal power plants and Australia is risking its energy security.
Unexpected coal outages this winter would put pressure on wholesale electricity prices, which will be key to determining how much prices rise in 2024.
The Australian Energy Regulator last month approved bill increases of about 25 per cent for households and businesses across the east coast from July 1, which it said was predominantly driven by the increased cost of generating electricity in winter 2022.
A global energy crunch – which pushed up the price of coal and gas – was the major driver in soaring generation costs in 2022. The price of coal has fallen significantly in recent months, aiding Australia’s electricity generators, but wholesale costs remain elevated amid a generation squeeze.
Queensland’s fifth-largest coal generator, state-owned Callide C, remains offline, while east coast gas supplies have been impacted by a series of outages at ExxonMobil’s Longford plant.
Federal and state governments have said progress is being made in increasing renewable energy generation capacity, which would decrease the cost of generating electricity during sunny or windy days.
However, industry executives have warned Australia is behind the pace in developing storage such as large-scale batteries and pumped hydro to compensate for so-called renewable energy droughts.
Mr Collette said there had been increased investment in batteries, but noted the systemic differences with coal.
“A coal power station would have a stockpile of a month, maybe two. A battery will have between two and four hours,” Mr Collette said. “In May you had a period when there wasn’t much wind. If you didn’t have coal there, it would have been a very different story.”
Over $120bn of spending is needed to finance new solar, wind, transmission and energy storage projects by 2030, according to the Australian government-backed Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
COLIN PACKHAM
BUSINESS REPORTER
West Australian also paywalled
trouble at mill
Thank you Beertruk
Australians need to be denser.
Thanks Tom
On This Day – 79 Years Ago:
Quite a few better men than me hit a beach in France.
The rot in America is not just deep, it is widespread. J. B. Shurk at American Thinker has an essay full of foreboding. When corporations and sporting bodies have knuckles under to the wokesters, the end is near.
“ Those of us watching the woke corporate titans, central bankers, and unscrupulous politicians destroy the West today know exactly who should be blamed for what comes next. Perhaps that is why they work so hard to divide and distract us.”
Our Descent into Clown World.
Oh good. Let Sydney be just like Mumbai, or HK. Something to aspire to.
Went to Sydney a week ago and had to run an errand at Schofields/Riverstone. Wall to wall dog boxes. Barely a tree, narrow access roads. One railway line servicing the lot. Tracts of urban bushland that once skirted the market gardens all bulldozed.
As we’re having fewer children (not less Guardian ignoramuses*) these vile excuses for houses, better described as “dwellings” must be for voteherds. There can be no other explanation.
If this is the better life they seek, they will be sadly disappointed.
* or is that ignorami?
The EV charade continues, with the privatised and increasingly woke NRMA magazine Open Road now extolling them. No worries, get your new KIA electric vehicle – set to replace the Stinger! – for just $100,000.
Jo Nova features some excellent “dishing the dirt” work by Mark Mills. The amount of ore that has to be dug up to produce enough lithium to make a heavy car battery is amazing. The CO2 generated before the EV makes it to the car lot is never mentioned.
https://joannenova.com.au/
Quite so. Those opinionistas who were “chilled” by BRS’s crusader breastplate need to take a stroll along Omaha beach and view the sand hills from the water. Their clearly active imaginations could get a real workout as to what soldiers might face in a war zone.
I’ve been to a number of battlefields, modern and ancient, but this was one where memory still walked. It might be the endless sound of the waves that holds it there.
Yep, just as soon as the populations are disarmed.
Which is unlikely. Especially in the US.
I once lived in a small house on what was known as Sugarloaf in Okinawa. One dug carefully if they wanted to plant a garden lest they meet an ancestor.
It’s not as if the looming energy crisis couldn’t be forecast! We have seen it coming for years, but the combined propaganda output by climate scammers world wide – assisted by idiot media – has impacted spineless politicians and stopped any meaningful countermeasures.
We have added no new dams, no new power generators in the couple of hydro-electric schemes, no new power stations attached to new dams. No nuclear because ooger-booger “waste” issues (a big nothingburger) or scary nimby “do you want a nuke plant in your backyard?” – no, just put them where you blew up the coal fired ones!
Virtue signalling Coles caught deliberately underpaying workers…again
I want to see executives in prison.
… but this was one where memory still walked.
General Patton knew that feeling well, and would take a detour to ancient battlefields whenever he could.
Mass immigration and modern education will see to that.
Oh…you meant suburban development. Silly me!
I’ve been watching Giorgia Meloni speaking impromptu in the Italian parliamant and interviews. The lady is impressive and takes no prisoners.
And Italian must be the most beautifully expressive language in the world! 😀
(Although Albanese could murder it if he spoke it!)
Yes, calli, the ruling elites of the West have (as they usually do) fallen into lockstep about policy, in this case population growth fuelled by immigration as the path to prosperity.
Look at this story at Breitbart:
and
The same stupid mentality rules in the US and Australia. Gross GDP, not GDP per capita, is their yardstick. Never mind quality of life, housing, infrastructure or even the environment, let alone social cohesion.
Since there is not popular support for these policies, they just lie and obfuscate and do it anyway.
To quote that great social commentator, Daffy Duck – ‘Desssshpicable!’
Are the wheels beginning to fall off the Albanese train?
Watching the clip of Plibbers on Channel Seven yesterday obfuscate around questions about her “relationship” with Da Knickerless was priceless. Plibbers, along with her comrades, has gotten far too used to soft questions from the media, and she doesn’t like it it when the questions get tough, as they did yesterday on Seven. Plibbers squirmed, her whole body tensed up and her lips thinned, it was sweet to watch, very sweet. You could see the anger swelling her her face and a smirk appeared, clearly designed to control her inner ire. Plibbers doesn’t like being confronted, but no one in Labor or the Greens do. I couldn’t help but note how Plibbers was at pains to stress how concerned she was about the welfare of Da Knickerless, at the same time she made no mention of Lehmann, and she said that she didn’t watch the Seven interview with Lehmann on Sunday night. I thought to myself, how interesting, in other words she had dismissed Lehmann long ago, and that told me that the member for Sydney had decided from the beginning Lehmann was guilty, guilty, guilty, coz da sisterhood, filled with rank scum like Plibbers, simply do not care about such quaint notions as the “presumption of innocence”. Fair enough, but as Plibbers is the mother of a son so, I hope one day her son is falsely accused of a serious crime.
I’ve said from the beginning that this whole unseemly spectacle was a political stitch up, a stitch up that helped to end the almost nine years of Coalition government. It may well have been abated had there been a Liberal PM with some balls to confront this, but alas no, luckily for the left they had the perfect PM in Morrison, a man who was always willing to side with his enemies if he thought it politically expedient, even against his own. So, Labor, the Greens, the left in general struck gold with Scummo. But the Wollongong pong was obvious to me from the beginning, it began , of course, with the always reliable Lous Nilligan’s expose in Four Corners in November 2020, which kicked off what would become a squalid summer of sexual scandals and “the Coalition has a women problem”. It was a perfect rout for Labor and the Greens, Morrison’s poll numbers were high, and Labor and their various comrades on the left were desperate for some ammunition to use against Morrison and the government. Smack bang in the middle was the unedifying Plibbers stoush with the suburban MP Craig Kelly in the hallway of parliament house over Covid policies. Plibbers, conveniently, had her faithful MSM dogs with her when she confronted “accidentally” ran into Kelly and then she called him a “nong”.
On Sky last night they played some of the tape of the conversations between Da Knickerless, her creepy Svengali partner, the Amphibian and her producer, which were recorded back in January 2021. I laughed out loud when the Amphibian casually dropped the names of some politicians she stated she knew personally, Sleazy, Turdbull and Plibbers (an unholy trinity if ever there was one), and the Amphibian appeared to be very sure that they were reliable aqueducts for her to pass information on. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, two of these aqueducts are annual attendees at her and her equally grotesque’s husband’s yearly January soiree at their mansion in Mosman. They’re all cosy, very cosy…..too cosy.
But back to “nong”, good word Plibbers, very prescient of Plibbers, except it isn’t Craig Kelly who’s the nong now, is it Plibbershit?
The Albo electricity plan in a nutshell.
Your house is in desperate need of new wiring but the sparkie puts fifty grand into wiring your garden shed.
“Quite a few better men than me hit a beach in France.”
Thank you KD.
They were the best.
June 6 ..Never forget …….!
https://ibb.co/YD6r5NJ
I don’t believe her. Same as the policeperson saying she didn’t watch the tasing bodycam.
Information is the lifeblood of these types.
As for the Mosman coven, they’ve all been palsy-walsy for decades as part of the republic push. Removal of the Libs was an entertaining and vengeful muscle-flexing exercise ahead of the main game.
It’s reported that Folbigg’s ex is not buying the new scientific evidence for a minute.
He’s released a statement that says the pardon does not change the verdict.
If the Voice doesn’t get up, then the republic will be back on the agenda. Trots gotta Trot.
I wonder about the Folbig pardon. This morning’s tv urging that “science will play a greater role in determination of cases” doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. It seems to orchestrated for my liking.
The past three years have made me very suspicious of white coats and their spruikers.
Bother
too
Reality of War. In this case, the Pacific war by writer Eugene Sledge.
The Old Breed and the Costs of War | Eugene Sledge
Calli, Mosman coven is a nice touch, will have to remember it. And being who they are I hope they have the same success with the gargle that they had with the Republican referendum.
Yep.
All the “top men/women”.
All, no doubt, fully credentialed.
GDP and unemployment rates are always taken in context by competent people.
The problem is you are not talking about competent people.
Cassie : re the “smirk” of Plibbers- for many years I have noticed that Labor women have a common habit of smiling when under attack. It is actually an aggressive act as they show their teeth in the process.
It is something they must learn from each other. I actually have a Leftist woman friend who was high in the education bureaucracy who does this “thing”.
Levi’s Woke Advertisement –
https://youtu.be/adPXDTvADD0
Re the Mosman “coven”: have never come across them. Most of my friends are Conservatives, though there are some inveterate old Lefties loyal to the cause. Even so, I know that the “doctors’ wives “ phenomenon is alive & well in Mosman.
A new OT, let’s hope sarcasm can make a come back.
As the inimitable George Carlin would say, “It’s a big club and you’re not in it.”
With regard to the Folbigg case, I would have stopped having children if two of mine died inexplicably. And what was the husband thinking after the third child death?
you wish
I see from the Janet A article on the other thread that even as Brittnah was seeking to use the media to make sure Lehrmann was deemed guilty before he even entered the courtroom, she was mortified to discover that the media was planning on using her – cobbling together more programs based on her original interview with Ms Pirate.
Is it still called karma if media exploits her at the same time she is exploiting them?
Anyway, it all rings a bit hollow (her complaining about her fragile mental state) when she and her boyfriend are also looking to see how could coordinate with the opposition to embarrass the federal government and perhaps set up financial benefit.
Vicki, I was referring to BandanaMan and his courtiers.
Like Wilkinson, I’m a Westie transplanted into the Lower North Shore. We aren’t all bad.
Just remember to pop some oak stakes and a garlic in your purse for shopping forays along Military Road. Just to be safe. 😀
Symbiosis gone rogue.
I hope she hasn’t spent all the money yet.
The NAAC begins its work on 1st July.
In a parallel universe Lehrmann would be in jail and Plibbers would be crowing about “proud of our part in holding toxic masculinity to account”.
But now they dare not speaketh Britnah’s name on morning teevee.
Imagine Britnah watching that.
Where did all the Grrrrl Power solidarity go?
She is toxic and they can’t find a barge pole big enough to push her away.
Well, yes.
Da Voice is tanking.
And the Britnah affair has turned out to be an exploding cigar which they paid $3 meg of our money for.
A republic isn’t even a big deal to me. There’s a few inoffensive and even sneaky ways it could be done.
*Nominate the heirs and successors of the monarch – randomly selected from the serving and last to current State Governors.
*Split up the sovereign and vice regal powers to the PM, cabinet, the Houses of Parliament singly and collectively and to the Chief Justice – possibly no President, no nominated head of State.
*Copy something else like the Irish model that’s close enough.
The fact that we have a right to trial by jury in the constitution that can be ignored procedurally and doesn’t apply to the States is alarming, along with modern legislative abuses like civil penalties and absolute liability offences. There are many other weaknesses. English legal scholar believed before ours was written that Parliament would protect our rights, after that and towards the end of his influential career he knew he was wrong.
We need to have an analytical discussion about our basic law. The Federal constitution was written as a colonial dominion.
A simple statement that s 92 must be read literally would go a long way. It would have prevented a lot of suffering of families during the last few years.
The argument that “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is beyond silly, the last few years should have disabused you of that notion.
English legal scholar, A V Dicey
LOL
I’m freeee!
Anchor Whatsays:
June 6, 2023 at 7:13 am
… but this was one where memory still walked.
General Patton knew that feeling well, and would take a detour to ancient battlefields whenever he could.
Looking over one (ancient and modern) battlefield in France, Patton stated that he could “smell the sweat of the (Roman) legions”.
The trannies ruined gay pride. US corpos are pulling back from pride month promotion.
“It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman legions. The Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn’t hold. They were massacred. The Arab women stripped them of the tunics and swords, and lances. And the soldiers lay naked in the sun. Two-thousand years ago. I was here.
You don’t believe me, do you, Brad? You know what the poet said:
Through the travail of ages,
Midst the pomp and toils of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon a star.
As if through a glass, and darkly
The age-old strife I see—
Where I fought in many guises, many names—
but always me.
Do you know who the poet was?
Me.
Britnah angry with Cane Toad?
Really?
Where exactly did she think the “culture of Parliament House” thing was headed?
Janet A is on fire with another article about Lisa suggesting she return her Logie.
Meanwhile the Pirate must be having fun on Twitter.
Money does not change people, people change.
– Bad Bunny
Sometimes you are convinced that God exists. A cousin, who made unbeievable amounts of money as a senior Danocrat and of course was granted access to the popular PS scam of redundancy just prior to retirement has started communicating with me after years of silence.
Silence mostly initiated by me because she is a classic Vic marxist public sector lawyer who sees no irony in her constant sneering at Queensland.
I am convinced that her recent communications are solely to show off the near constant luxury globetrotting that she indulges in since ending her career as a slug supplier or whatever it is that senior Dan lawyers do.
Her last communication gladdened the heart. She screamed about the increase in land tax on her maison secondaire at Bells Beach.
I’m like the cat who really wants to bight but holds back. I’ll take my time to compose a truly nasty response
If he should go down that path it would seal his political fate as one of the most inept PMs we’ve ever had.
Andrews knows how to destroy his enemies.
Fears Victorians will miss vital safety information have been raised over a Andrews government ban on all public sector advertising in major metropolitan newspapers.
Having seen the pix of “nickerless” strolling down the corridor in Parliament House looking slightly less inebriated to her statement it raises the question of why the security folk who saw this were never called to give evidence on her appearance thru their own eyes ……!
This, from Masefield’s The Old Front Line.
A different battle, a different memorial, but the same sad story.
Full text here.
It’s a miracle anyone made it off that beach.
Accuse her of defunding childhood gender reassignment surgeries that could end harassment of women by men (as they have been emasculated by going MTF) and would empower women as society would no longer discriminate against FTM “men”.
Think of me (or the Irish), poison that pen and report back.
Cassie, thanks for the post above. However, I would disagree with one point. Plibbers does not care whether Lehrmann is guilty or not. It would not concern her either way. It would be irrelevant to her.
I see the Ukrainian offensive has begun.
I am sure Russia will be well prepared behind the barricades of their fortress in Bakhmut… what’s that, they still didn’t take it? Oh boy.
And now Wagner has imprisoned a Russian officer and has forced him to confess to targeting Wagner troops in a hostage video. Things going well for the Russkies.
I suspect the Wagner head is trying to take out Putin.
To paraphrase the NRA, they’ll have to pry it from her cold, dead webbed hands.
I do.
The AEC needs to be informed of your change of residential address btw.
An anthropomorphic frog man baying for blood is positively Lovecraftian – beyond biblical terrors and tales of bigfoot and evil aliens.
But we’ve already seen that on TV for many years.
Or it could be the opposite, that Prighozin is Putin’s only competent military leader and Putin knows it. Not as if the MoD has been booking any wins lately.
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Why Hungary cannot be permitted to hold EU presidency
Comey Warns Trump Might Use the Constitution Against Him and His Corrupt Friends
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Britanny Higgins was just a useful idiot in Labor’s 2020 federal election campaign. If it wasn’t her that Labor’s media cheerleaders were using to attack the LNP’s re-electability, it would have been someone else.
The Higgins fiasco helped narrowly get the ALP over the line with the lowest primary vote in its history.
Britanny Higgins is the Stormy Daniels of Australian politics.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW – WHO is reportedly adopting the EU system behind digital vaccine passports to “better protect citizens” and “make travel easier” globally during the next pandemic, according to the EU Commission.
Ukraine has the most corrupt government in the world
Russia hit a NATO bunker in Ukraine
Wait until the fearsome Russian pincer gets going
Do you really think Ukraine destroyed that many ancient Russian tanks? Bless…
Russia will have thousands of T-14 Armatas from their “industrial cities”
The Guardianista (spit, spit) has some news that will make Putin fan bois rather upset.
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A Moscow-backed militia leader and Russian military bloggers admitted that Ukrainian forces had achieved a breakthrough in at least one point in south-western Donetsk. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had retaken part of the settlement of Berkhivka, north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, calling it a “disgrace”. Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that a 55-year-old security guard has been killed by a Russian attack on a business in Kherson, citing the head of the region, Oleksandr Prokudin.
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Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed leader in the occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast has rebuked those sharing information. He wrote on Telegram: “Friends, I ask you not to rush to publish news about the mass use of Leopard [tanks] on the Zaporizhzhia front. Wait for the official or at least video confirmation of their use by the enemy in our direction. Observe information hygiene!” Alexander Khodakovsky, the head of the pro-Moscow Vostok Battalion in the Donbas, had posted to Telegram to say that “the situation on Novodonetsk and to the left towards Velykonovosilkivskyi is difficult” and that “for the first time we saw Leopards [tanks] in our tactical area”.
(Remember these were the same tanks the Russians were going to blow to bits with their top-secret and advanced weapons made 60 years ago.)
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The truth is both of these countries are busted arse now and the best thing for everyone is a negotiated peace. There is a Cardinal from the Vatican visiting Kyiiiiv today and tomorrow.
Woops.
Britanny Higgins was just a useful idiot in Labor’s 2022 federal election campaign — not 2020.
It all depends where you draw the ‘energy box’: If you just draw it around the car, you can claim low emissions, if you draw it around the car AND the energy source (usually a fossil fuel power station), it aint low emission. If you draw it around the car AND the energy source AND the factory that built it AND the inputs to its production, it certainly aint green.
A different Ukrainian source:
https://uawar.net/stats
Tom, it’s interesting how the same text book is used over and over again.
Different players, same methodology. And it works.
Bored in Lossiemouth?
Take yer wee bairns to a fun and interactive show.
Anyone who spruiks electric vehicles is not an environmentalist.
Canberra Hospital Part III
Carnival of Clinical Care
Yes, folks, there were roller-coasters, lucky dips, bumper cars – clinical care at CH was like going to a carnival.
Let me say at the outset that the actual surgery, comprising two hours of fiddling around placing metal plates and screws into the humerus, seems to have gone well. No infection, the pain is subsiding quite quickly, with a bit more luck all should be well. Top marks to the orthopods.
The rest of the medical experience was very different, though.
For starters, because the surgery got cancelled two days in a row in the late afternoon, and you can’t eat or drink after midnight the day before, by the time we got to day 3 I had been on a crash diet for three days. I got one meal (dinner) per day and very little fluid intake. I doubt that crash dieting and dehydration are recommended precursors to orthopedic surgery, but that’s what happened and no attempts were made to counteract the effects.
Secondly, I constantly got conflicting advice from nurses about everything from medication to how much I should be moving around to the best sleeping position yada yada. It was a lucky dip. In the end, I just did what seemed best based on trial and error.
Similarly, depending who was on duty I either had to ask for (scheduled) pain relief or have it given to me long before it was due. The pain was excruciating, so getting it right mattered – a lot
In keeping with tradition, I was awakened throughout the night for no good clinical reason. For example, there is no need to wake someone at 5.30am to take their blood pressure – 7.30 is surely just as good. And why a drip had to be run starting at 3 am is beyond comprehension. My guess is that it is done to justify the existence of the bloated numbers on the night shift. It certainly has nothing to do with patient welfare, sleep being precious in that noisy and brightly lit environment.
Despite my telling everyone who would listen that I must not be given paracetemol, my discharge notes told me to take it three times a day when I got home.
Finally, the sling I have to wear day and night for the next six weeks is a size L for large. It is designed for a six foot bloke, not a petite woman. It slips and slides all over, and is very uncomfortable. Spoke to a woman about my size who used one recently, and she had the same experience, from a hospital in Sydney. Went to a local chemist which sells this kind of stuff, and they had a different type available, but it was the same size. It’s as though the TGA has decreed that all Australians have the same bodies when it comes to slings.
As the writers of Yes, Minister pointed out long ago, patients are at the very bottom of the hierarchy in modern hospitals.
How do you even begin to pronounce that?
The media’s attitude to Follbig seems rather different to their attitude to Lehrmann.
Where does this nonsense come from, why constantly harp on it, and why should we care?
Net Zero is a game a continental power like Australia should refuse to play. We can’t ‘import’ our energy and hence ‘export’ our emissions as others do in some hypothetical tallying system that fails all reason.
Even sensible energy CEO’s keep saying it, when it is clearly spurious and cutting their throats.
Per capita is irrelevant. Per square kilometre makes more sense.
Laura Jayes doing the daily “grill a Liberal” session with Speakman.
“Why can’t the Law keep up with the science?” she asks him, re the Follbig case. That’s after asking “why didn’t your mob do this?”.
If only the media were more up with the science rather than the fake science when it comes to the climate scam.
We saw the Russian offensive do two-fifths of bugger all, let’s wait until the Ukraine offensive is done and where the front stands.
Vellysilky, JC. Like favourite parts of a lady’s anatomy.
Thanks to Anchor What for posting it at 6.43am.
A couple of paragraphs on why spontaneous consumer boycotts are working now when they haven’t in the past:
Link.
Consider too that ’emissions’ include all sorts of things, including cow farts and farming chemicals.
Meat is eaten and hides are used in leather so there’s no ‘carbon decay emissions’ from dead cows. And pastures maintained for cattle don’t burst into regular high CO2 flames the way eucalypt forests do. That’s should you even accept the ‘science’ of CO2 driven warming, the evidence for which is negligible.
The ‘accounting’ system of net zero is bulltish. They’d have us eating bugs and loving it if they could. And driving around in electric cars fueled by wind puffs, using high CO2 production methods in China for all the boondoogle equipment – the solar panels, the windmills, the batteries for the cars etc.
What a crock of it.
I agree. Our problem is we’re a middling economy and signing up to net zero is the price of admission for a seat at the international table. I suspect the reason Morrison flipped is because he saw the sanctions and trade tariffs being loaded up for a recalcitrant Australia by the US and EU.
I don’t know the truth re Folbigg but it concerns me that her conviction became a fashionable cause to feminists (many of whom don’t rate infanticide as a big deal anyway), the ABC and the globally discredited Trust The Science brigade.
If scientists did enough testing they could find a “possibly” fatal genetic flaw in just about everyone.
Ergo: they found a rare genetic abnormality in two babies and a genetic problem in a third. That left number four baby which My Bathurst KC blew off by asserting that “the coincidence and tendency evidence which was central to the (2003) Crown case falls away.” In other words, with ‘explanations’ now provided for three deaths, the fourth can be regarded as a causal freebie.
Like I said, I don’t know the truth. I only know I don’t trust anybody at the intersection of feminism, justice and petitioner science.
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Would have saved a lot of lives and disruption if the West had been clear from the beginning that we would act if Russia invaded.
Instead of this on the fly bullshit that slowly entangled everyone into the current horror show.
These policies for dealing with Russia and China need to be bipartisan and clear to all, including the CCP and Putin.
Plus we need to abandon the green shite and put energy and industry policies to the fore.
Interesting clip on Twitter with the head of Ford, Jim Farley, explaining why conventional car manufacturers are in trouble, but Tesla isn’t.
Ford farms out the writing of software for such things as seat control and every other little thing in a modern vehicle to 150 different companies who don’t talk to each other. It says Ford on the car but it’s a dog’s breakfast. 150 different software codes, impossible to understand it all, requiring permission from companies like Bosch to play with – a nightmare. Ford now just beginning to write the electrical architecture of second generation vehicles for the first time. Car manufacturers now having to turn themselves into software writing. Never done any of this before. Tesla way, way ahead.
In words and song — this one and this one — one expresses great romantic love and the other getting over a lost love realising Il Mondo (the world just keeps on turning – basically doesn’t care about your feelings)
Very nice analysis coming from your comfy lounge chair.
oops and this one
From the Beanie:
Corporations REMOVE Pride Logos As Bud Light Effect Sparks BOYCOTT PANIC, The Right Is WINNING
Elon Musk Warns LAWSUIT INCOMING For Woke Companies, Bud Light & Target After DESTROYING Stock Price
In the US, at least, it seems business, sporting bodies, and even the Navy (which just recently showcased in their marketing a sailor who goes tranny in his free time (or something like that)) are beginning to see the downside to licking the loose gelatinous sphincters of the QWERTY++@# crowd.
Better than “my side tried and failed, let’s call it a draw”.
Thanks Tinta!
Peace talks would be useless at this point. Russia is about to lose bulk territory, nice try at setting the borders at their maximum benefit but the Ukes aren’t stupid.
The Voice referendum will pass.
The Electoral Office will ensure its passage
The left has successfully marched through, Law enforcement, Judiciary, Health, Military, Public Administration, The Media, Business, Unions, Construction, the ABC, The Liberal Party, etc.
What makes you think that the Electoral Office is immune?
All the more reason to hope the Voice goes down; to end the AEC is corrupted with every returning officer in every state in on the deal nonsense.
Putting aside the question of guilt or innocence, I feel for the father of the children who does not seem to even register with the media who are falling over themselves to celebrate Folbigg’s release.
This poor man has never sought the spotlight and has, thankfully, remarried and fathered healthy children. The suspected genetic problem must have been transmitted (if indeed it was the culprit) through the maternal genetic transmission, because it certainly did not affect his offspring by his new partner.
The fact that they recorded only a 32% primary vote for the Liars in 2022?
Another thing to be grateful for, Ms Folbigg being past the age of child bearing.
I don’t know about this new science, I do know there are rarities among women who kill their born offspring.
Transylvania?
Vicki, the easy way to prove that is by doing the test on the mother herself.
If it isn’t done as a matter of “Science” then we know the whole lot is a house of cards with a different agenda.
Just remember to pop some oak stakes and a garlic in your purse for shopping forays along Military Road. Just to be safe. ?
Don’t worry about me, Calli, I can hold my own!
I had to laugh when, some years ago, a devoted local Leftie confessed that he “was worried” about me – having at long last realised I was a Conservative. I like to look at all sides of issues & it clearly confuses Lefties!
Westinghouse has announced a smaller version of its modular nuclear reactor that can power 300 000 households. It is expected to be on the US market at the end of 2027.
Ouch!
I think it’s time.
Janet Albrechtsen can now deliver the ultimate insult to Cane Toad …
“disgraced teen-mag editor Lisa Wilkinson”.
it happens
Fantastic news.
Reopen the coal fired power plants until we’re on cheaper and cleaner nukes. End all renewable subsidies now.
. From personal experience it is not, some within that slither are downright malicious.
Leftism is a locust plague devouring everything in its path. Lefties are locusts sheltering from the real world outside in a mindless, buzzing swarm.
We are going to certainly find out. This week will certainly be indicative.
“or is that ignorami?”
Every time I see a derivative of this word, it reminds me of a conversation between two characters in “Fat Pizza”:
“What’s wrong wiv you? Are some sort of ignoramus or somefink?”
“What’s one o’ them, mate?”
I wish I could speak Italian. In my late teens, I read John XXIII’s Journal of a Soul and was romantically swept up in his descriptions of the simple life in Sotto il Monte.
Mmm. A country life with Italian faith, food, a Sophia Loren wife and bambinos for whom I would dutifully toil. 🙂
Mr Santamaria – who pointed out that Italian Catholicism was “airier” than Irish Catholicism – was also a revered figure at home and I got to meet him when he was very old. He autographed a copy of his biography of Archbishop Mannix for me. A very small man with wise, lively eyes.
That Italian and that very tall Irishman saved the country from communist filth. Now, like turfed Barney looming anew behind bartender Mo, the filth are back.
By my back of an envelope calculations QLD could meet its domestic electricity requirements with modular nuclear for 1/10th of what our $62bn “renewables super grid” (which increasingly looks like a stampede of white elephants) is projected to cost. You could even double the nuclear budget to account for the contingencies of building large projects in Australia and still come out $30bn ahead.
“Mother Lodesays:
June 6, 2023 at 9:51 am
When corporations and sporting bodies have knuckles under to the wokesters, the end is near.”
ML,
Red Bull showed them the way three years ago. But did they pay attention? Noooooooooooooooo
Reap what you sow.
The per capita metric is a fig leaf for China – allowing it to build a coal fired power station every few days, while still keeping it nominally in the IPCC fold.
Its huge population denominator is its friend – just as our tiny population is shoehorning us into the renewable Turd World.
As mentioned above, there is no way that Australia could ever be allowed to flourish as the EU and O’Biden’s US commit electrical hara kiri.
Another thing not to be said out loud.
I’m not fluent, I should say. I can just follow what Ms. Meloni says but without subtitles I’d soon be lost. I wish we’d done Italian instead of French at school.
The West wanted this. They allowed negotiations in Dec-Jan 2021/22 to fail and thought that a heavy sanctions regime would precipitate Russian withdrawal in the event of an invasion. Everything since is consistent with that intention.
The big payoff would come at the backend – instead of paying away another $62 billion in 15-20 years to replace the worn out and outdated renewables, the nukes would be less than halfway through their design life.
Thanks Tom for that comparison though she truly deserves it. I hope Lerhmann gets around to suing her as well.
When you take everything into consideration ICE cars are greener than EVs which are even harder on the roads due to their huge weight.
At Uni I remember one of the English lecturers, a tough little bloke from a coal mining town in Wales, telling us he was embarking on learning Italian. His reason: he wanted to read Dante in the original.
It’s such a pity that, as Mr. Bowen says, they make no economic sense.
Bourne1879 at 8:22 am
J’ismists returning Logies at some point in the future throws the whole caper into jeopardy. Stone the flamin’ crows.
“To quote that great social commentator, Daffy Duck – ‘Desssshpicable!’”
More DD, with Bugs and Elmer, apropos given the pronoun crap:
After being shot, DD attempts to find out what went wrong by re-iterating the conversation”
…
BB: “Would you like to shoot me now, or wait till you get home?”
DD: “Shoot him now, shoot him now.”
BB: “You keep out of it, he doesn’t have to shoot you now.”
DD: “A ha! Pronoun trouble! It’s not ‘He doesn’t have to shoot YOU now’, it’s ‘He doesn’t have to shoot ME now’. Well I say he does have to shoot me now. So shoot me now.”
EF: shrugs and fires.
Sound familiar? What if: BB is played by leftist nitwits, DD is played by politicians, and EF is played by the courts. Life imitates art indeed!
Normal programming will resume in 3… 2… 1…
If Folbigg was a man and four children died in his care and custody there would be none of this activity.
Ignoramus is already plural.
Reports of Major General mUntgomery’s demise on the front line prove premature. Roger Moore will be pleased.
Janet A and Miranda D are the country’s most important journalists right now. Naturally, they won’t win a Wankley for anything they’ve done (not that they’d care).
How to remove the Pride flag on the taskbar in Windows 11.
In Reality Bites news:
Power prices to take years to fall and Albanese’s bill cut pledge at risk by lack of green energy
Oh, Good Lord, please, please stop.
But, but, but – what’s the payoff for Australia when power companies “come together on the solutions quickly“?
Too cheap to meter?
Shirley?
Ah. OK.
So, 18% returns in perpetuity…
Top Men applying the Heimlich manoeuvre on the Australian economy. Give what you can, while you can.
C.L., what is the best or best few books on Santamaria?
Janet Albrechtsen can now deliver the ultimate insult to Cane Toad …
“disgraced teen-mag editor Lisa Wilkinson”.
As long as we describe her husband as “controversial and divisive writer of airport fiction.”
Do yourself a favour: Go and google image search for “mental illness flag”
Oddly, there isn’t any ‘genetic analysis’ in the press of Folbigg vis-a-vis her father – a psychopath who murdered her mother.
And the danger of being in a collision with one. High momentum, longer to stop, bigger kaboom.
And I like ignorami. What’s the collective noun I wonder?
A stupor of ignorami?
“Janet A and Miranda D are the country’s most important journalists right now. Naturally, they won’t win a Wankley for anything they’ve done (not that they’d care).”
Yes, Janet A makes my Oz sub worthwhile, and I’ve finally forgiven Miranda D for her Turdbull love affair.
m0ntysays:
June 6, 2023 at 9:35 am
The truth is both of these countries are busted arse now and the best thing for everyone is a negotiated peace.
We saw the Russian offensive do two-fifths of bugger all, let’s wait until the Ukraine offensive is done and where the front stands.
Steiner’s army is sure to break through.
m0ntysays:
June 6, 2023 at 9:54 am
Peace talks would be useless at this point. Russia is about to lose bulk territory, nice try at setting the borders at their maximum benefit but the Ukes aren’t stupid.
Monty moist over a few tens of thousand more conscripts being slaughtered.
And somehow expecting whatever replaces Putin to be an improvement based on his last diabetic coma dream.
“I’m freeee!”
Captain Darling, is that you?
Quite. The apple doesn’t fall…
Good get CL.
In Choose Your Friends Wisely news:
The Festival of Disgusting People Doing Their Thang moves along.
Just catching up from a dog walk.
Cassie @ 07:25AM.
Lovely darts! Nailed the dealer’s missus.
Tomsays:
June 6, 2023 at 10:27 am
I like to look at all sides of issues & it clearly confuses lefties!
Leftism is a locust plague devouring everything in its path. Lefties are locusts sheltering from the real world outside in a mindless, buzzing swarm.
I see that one of our resident locusts has been buzzing a bit this morning. Something about a you crane.
Kneelsays:
June 6, 2023 at 11:12 am
“I’m freeee!”
Captain Darling, is that you?
That should be Captain Peacock. Darling was in Blackadder in WW1.
Maximum Leader stacks the shelves:
In the trough and larfing at all the ridiculous Little People.
A look inside the Channel 10 Teh Project sausage machine proves as sickening as it threatened to be. Prof van Wrongselen is best to be freed from that feminine toxicity.
Besanko’s judgment is imminently appealable. As I said he uses double standards in respect of the witnesses. Against BRS they were noble despite being paid for by nein (the afghan ones along with their extended families) and having a proven track record of animosity towards BRS after BRS had dressed them down for dangerous neglect in battle conditions (The SAS guys). But those for BRS were categorised as unreliable because they had their expenses paid for.
The most egregious fault though is Besanko’s description of BRS as unreliable and worse: Besanko said this:
The applicant (Mr Roberts-Smith) has motives to lie, being a financial motive to support his claim for damages in these proceedings, a motive to restore his reputation which he contends has been destroyed by the publication of the articles and significantly, a motive to resist findings against him which may affect whether further action is taken against him.
This is absurd and grotesque. What other motivation would a person have who thinks they have been defamed other than to restore their reputation and receive damages. Every one who brings a defamation claim must be disbelieved if Besanko is correct.
And payment for witness expenses and prepping them is de rigueur preparation for hearing.
This matter turned on the witness testimony. Besanko as demonstrated bias towards the witnesses. That would be the cornerstone of any appeal.
m0ntysays:
June 6, 2023 at 9:54 am
Peace talks would be useless at this point. Russia is about to lose bulk territory, nice try at setting the borders at their maximum benefit but the Ukes aren’t stupid.
MontyPox Virus as a Military Strategist, you get a Net Zero which is probably your IQ anyway. The UKR is on the ropes.
I think the Amphibian of Mosman should bury her head in some Mosman concrete, permanently. Surely, surely, after this she has zero credibility? Nothing can mask the stench that emanates from her, I’m reminded of a dead frog in a Mosman pond letting off decomposing gas. She is utterly disgraceful. The revelations prove, once and for all, what a poisonous toad she is.
Then again, she’s of the left so she’ll always be given a “get out of jail free card”, but the whiff, the smell, the poisonous bouquet of decomposing gas will always remain around her.
Compare and contrast:
The buzzing swarm of unthinking stimulus-response leftist activism doesn’t INTEND the Venezuelanisation of the entire world. The gods of the copybook headings will however deliver it, over the leftists nitwitted bleatings.
If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
– Pele
Looking forward to video of Game Changers stiff-arming their way
through junk yard relics and scattering Moscow’s shovel wielding Zeks to the four winds.
Elbow better pull his finger out. The Ukies will need those Aussie Abrams in theatre
if the ceremonial torching of St Basil’s Cathedral is to happen before the summer rains.
She is well on her way to following Alberscreechi into well deserved obscurity. Commercial TV doesn’t really care so long as you deliver the ratings – Exhibit A Andrew O’Keefe (insert possibly defamatory character description here). Mrs Pirate Pete’s star was already on the slide before Brittany’s panties hit the floor. Or didn’t, as the case may be.
Mr Santamaria stayed with my family on a couple of his forays into the wilder West in the later 1960s. Dad was state secretary of the NCC at the time.
he wanted to read Dante in the original.
Clive James did likewise for the same reason
Disappointed the process lacks the simple elegance of
Depo headlight removal.
Of course. I believe her. She boasted to Higgins that she would, and named names, yet she didn’t contact them after all even though on first name basis with all of them.
Boastful, big noting, lying….or did she talk to them and now all are being vewwy vewwy quiet?
It’s all such a mystery.
Haha gold!!! Plimer on hydrogen energy madness!!!
Dover, Ross Fitzgerald’s The Pope’s Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split and Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man and Mr Santamaria and the Bishops are enough to be going on with for background, family life etc. Not necessarily great for who he really was, though. I have a lot of respect for Fitzgerald – a Labor historian but a true one of the old school.
I don’t think Henderson entirely gets Santamaria and it’s true to say the mercurial Santamaria didn’t want to be got. Hendo can be a miserable prig when dealing with caginess – which he chooses to misinterpret as inconsistency.
Thank you!
Dude!
CL
There are vids of Card. Pell speaking Italian at some Vatican gigs. His pronunciation was absolutely perfect.
I worked with a bloke who had been an “Industrial Grouper” – he copped a bashing with an iron bar, and lost his front teeth.
I got the same spiel last week from a public announcement on a Skybus from the airport into Melbourne.
“Never ceded” is another way of saying everyone who is not abo doesn’t belong here. Cringeworthy and racist rubbish.
Dover
Bobby San was really good on the anti-commie and social stuff. Just ignore his economic stuff as it left a lot to be desired. No kidding, skip and chapters dealing with economics.
Captain Darling, is that you?
This Captain Darling?
They couldn’t defend that “sovereignty.”
Slim Cognitosays:
June 6, 2023 at 12:20 pm
Professor Margaret Gardner’s first utterance as Victoria’s Governor-Designate has been to declare that Indigenous sovereignty of the land in which she now represents Charles III as King and Sovereign, was “never ceded”.
I got the same spiel last week from a public announcement on a Skybus from the airport into Melbourne.
“Never ceded” is another way of saying everyone who is not abo doesn’t belong here. Cringeworthy and racist rubbish.
When the push comes for the non-indig to give title of everything they own to the local Indig Land Council, the principle should be “last here, first to hand over”. That should discourage future large scale immigration programs.
I suspect it’s going to be difficult to tell in real time. The Ukes are putting the word out bigly that loose lips sink ships, so it looks like news from the front will be incomplete and probably garbled. The fog of war has descended.
As with all the many skeletons jumping out of the renewables closet, the issues to do with hydrogen embrittlement etc are well known – at least to people actually working with hydrogen – and have been for years.
Industrial hydrogen transport and storage on a bulk scale is nothing new – been done since town gas was invented.
The metallurgy, fabrication and finishing of steel used in hydrogen pipelines and containers has been steadily refined and improved and is readily available technology. The trouble is that it is very expensive compared to the technologies used in natural gas (methane) – particularly in respect of fabrication and surface finishing needed to ward off embrittlement and hydrogen corrosion.
Add to that pressure limitation and the specialist world of issues around tiny molecules escaping through threads, valves, and seals – and hydrogen starts to become a very, very costly materials handling exercise.
With, as Plimer notes, a significant safety burden waiting for when things go wrong.
Naturally the Top Men planning Australia’s Hydrogen Economy Powerhouse future are using assumptions and cost estimates based around natural gas infrastructure.
After all, basically, it’s all just gas.
It’s amazing how insane things are getting. Get a load of this:
Nearly 30% of people under 30 support government surveillance cameras in every home: poll (5 Jun)
Thirty percent of young people want to be watched by Big Brother. That is the most out there example of Stockholm Syndrome that I’ve seen in my entire life.
Gardiner- just another Marxist don.
Town gas! Progress!
That should be captain, darling.