As soon as I mention the above, Ray Hadley plays the Yes, Prime Minister clip on his program.

Yes, I know. I’m listening to Hadley. Nothing much else to do, home sick with a cold.

It was eventually taken to VicPol, 29 years later.
They couldn’t find any evidence to substantiate.

VicPol forwarded the brief to the Office of Public Prosecutions, at that time, headed by a bloke called Cain – you may recognise the surname – they decided not to prosecute.

Victoriastan going swimmingly. Hun:

Police stations are closing at night as officers are diverted to tackle youth crime, with more targeting the menace than were assigned to combat Melbourne’s gangland war.

Force veterans warn the scourge is entrenched and Melbourne is “sleepwalking” into a future of residents “living in gated communities”.

More than 500 police hours a week are being consumed by specialist units proactively trying to curb the teens responsible for widespread aggravated burglaries and car thefts.

The effort to suppress the after-dark activity, which has increased significantly, is creating resourcing headaches for a range of other police sectors.

Some stations have been forced shut as police respond to youth crime incidents, with one senior officer saying it was a daily struggle for most to reach minimum service standards.

Uniformed officers working outside of the special patrols are constantly sent to attend youth crime-related matters such as abandoned stolen cars and taking victims’ reports. Local crime investigation units, forensics and dog squad officers are also called in frequently.

The air wing’s helicopter unit has become a key asset, tracking offenders when road units are unable to pursue due to the high risk of smashes. The targets are often inexperienced drivers in stolen high-powered cars, sometimes filming themselves being chased.

There are 10 officer shifts devoted solely to patrolling between 7pm and 7am as part of a merged southern, eastern and northern crackdown force.

Victoria Police said that in the past 11 weeks, those officers had made 190 arrests for aggravated burglaries and car theft – leading to a 40 per cent drop in offences. They had also collared 503 offenders not connected to the youth crime issue.

Despite heavy arrest numbers, some police fear offenders’ attitudes are entrenched.

“They know we’ll only chase them so far and (when caught), they’ll plead guilty and walk out,” one member said.

“We’re going to end up living in gated communities … This is happening every night. We’re sleepwalking into it.” That member said the youths came from various backgrounds and many were in state care, being looked after by case workers. “They can say ‘you’re not going out’ and they (the teens) will just say ‘get f—-d’,” he said. “They just do what they want. It’s not just a cops problem.”

The officer said the impact on rostering came on top of the organisation facing a high number of departures and a struggle to find recruits.

Police remain frustrated at the rate of crimes committed after offenders gain entry to houses through unlocked doors and windows. Figures from the Glen Eira, Bayside and Kingston municipalities in March and April revealed there was no forced entry in 70 per cent of home invasions.

Some police fear the youth crime menace has been around so long it is unclear what will turn it around. Aggravated burglaries by teens have now been a significant issue in suburban Melbourne since the middle of the past decade.

Police Association secretary Wayne Gatt said broader resource shortages were “crippling” members’ ability to keep stations open.

“Police stations should not ordinarily be closed and when they do this represents a reduction in services to the community,” Mr Gatt said.

“With nearly 1500 police away from work, 800 alone in unfilled vacancies, this is bound to happen. While this is unacceptable, it’s inevitable that we’re going to see police stations close at times.”

Mr Gatt said youth crime prevention, including initiatives that support young people at risk, was also crucial.

“Arresting offenders, irrespective of their age, for high-harm offending is important, but we all know that even if the matters proceed to court there is no guarantee police will not have to deal with that person again. Sadly, it is often the case that we do.

“This is why we always prefer prevention, deterrence and early intervention in the hope that the cycle of criminal offending is disrupted”.

Another seasoned officer said the main danger for the public started after a burglary was committed as the teens rocketed along freeways in their newly stolen prestige cars.

When caught, they were frequently released and offending within days, he said.

“This should not be accepted. This should not be the norm. How long do you give them to rehabilitate before they kill someone,” he said.

The officer said there were limits to what police could do and the threat of looming public sector spending cuts could worsen things.

The number of offenders in residential care was high and that it was an environment which often exposed them to bad influences, he said.

The investigator said it was not the fault of the services or their well-intentioned staff.

“The challenge for us (as a community) is to prevent them becoming criminals,” the officer said.

“The kids don’t want to be there. The system creates these crooks. We (police) can’t keep up. There is no real meaningful engagement or structure to do anything about it. Everything falls to the police.”

Anchor Whatsays:
June 15, 2023 at 5:10 am
Media skewered for showing pictures of many boxes of “documents” when there was really only one!
Gateway Pundit

That’s just brilliant. This is so fu.ked. The people against Trump are so stupid but they have the msm on their side plus the ignorance and stupidity of the sheeple.

Not more photos of Brittany’s thigh please. At least not until after Friday night drinks.

“The challenge for us (as a community) is to prevent them becoming criminals,” the officer said.

If only they had families.

Just another night in Mogadishu on the Yarra.

Thanks John. Thanks Amanda.

Where would you start?

With 1788.

Why not respect Bill’s Presumption Of Innocence for a change?

No Labor politician should ever be entitled to the presumption of innocence – that’s a decadent capitalist belief.

At what point do the Coalition move to expel Thorpe from Parliament? May not succeed but it must be pursued.
Very hard to expel a member or senator.

Why? .. they got rid of “Dastardly” for doing what half the members of both Houses do and the other half wishing they could …….

Rob Collins excited to be hosting new doco The First Inventors for NITV and Ten
Clare RigdenThe West Australian
Thu, 15 June 2023 2:00AM
Hatz/Lisa Hatz Photography

Rob Collins is ready to set the record straight.

He’s fronting an extraordinary documentary, The First Inventors, leading a team of investigators who are uncovering the remarkable 65,000-year history of First Nations science, discovery and invention.

Over four one-hour episodes Collins teams up with traditional knowledge holders and scientists to reveal highly sophisticated and powerful ancient knowledge systems, in the process hoping to dramatically rewrite how most Australians view pre-colonial life.

It makes for powerful viewing.

“I’m a proud Tiwi man, and it’s a part of my identity,” says Collins, who, in the series, travels to his ancestral homelands, the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia’s tropics.

“I have family that are very dear to me on the islands.

“Seeing them and growing up around them, and being Tiwi myself, and the experiences that they’ve had and the challenges that they’ve faced — the opportunities that they’ve lacked — are all part of a wider Australian narrative that, frankly, doesn’t view their culture as anything of value to the wider Australian society.”

He hopes this series will help change that.

“There is incredible value to be gained in listening to First Nations voices, in respecting First Nations voices.

“There is genuine skill, ingenuity, knowledge, science, invention, daring boldness and courage in not only surviving for as long as they have, but thriving in this country.”

Collins said he didn’t know much about many of the things discussed in the series before shooting, and was thrilled to learn more.

“I’m 43 years old, so my generation grew up with a very European narrative in schools,” he explains. “The stuff we talk about in our series, I was just not exposed to as a child growing up, which is why I’m excited for the series because my children will now be exposed to it.”

In episode one, the series travels to Gunditjmara Country in south-west Victoria to visit the Budj Bim aquaculture system as old — and sophisticated — as any in the world.

“It was really fascinating to consider that the timeline of Indigenous inventions are on par with the rest of the world,” Collins explains.

“There are eel traps there that are at least 6,000 years old, putting them on par with Chinese aquaculture, which was once thought to be the earliest on Earth.

“I love those comparisons, because they give you a global perspective and a real appreciation and understanding for how ingenious Australia’s First People are.”

Collins is currently filming the second series of RFDS and will jump straight into filming the third season of Total Control with Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths when that finishes.

He’s on screens at the moment as Ron in Stan’s Ten Pound Poms, and will soon co-star with acclaimed British comedian Catherine Tate in Queen of Oz, launching next week on ABC.

foreign influence

Given how bad Ten Pound Poms is anything else he is in will be an improvement …..!

Very optimistic. But admirable.

Law students have always treated themselves with unjustifiable seriousness with their little bit of knowledge and super tanker sized egos.

Ahem, … Of course, in some cases it is warranted.

Say Goodbye to the America We Love

Her favourite Uncle Cletus should take her aside for a heart to heart discussion

Those perky parole conditions.

Her gross failure to follow the advice of Reynolds and her Chief of Staff at the time, to take the matter to the AFP then is the cause of all of her current (and likely future) problems.

And profits. Don’t forget the profits. Costs are coming down the slope.

In episode one, the series travels to Gunditjmara Country in south-west Victoria to visit the Budj Bim aquaculture system as old — and sophisticated — as any in the world

Somewhere along the line the eels fell off.

Social housing in St Kilda. Street walkers AND drugs. There’s already a waiting list.

Yes this First Inventors show. Old mate on the advertisement sez the invention of aerodynamics lay at the feet of early black fellas in relation to boomerangs.
Now a lot of boomerangs weren’t designed at all to return to the thrower. Those light ones are useless to injure or kill kangaroos for instance. So much larger ones were used that had the sole aim to break a leg, and they most certainly didn’t come back.
I’d be asking the producers of this show how long this has been on the shelves, because it certainly looks like it’s been released to coincide with Teh Voice referendum.

Pity ,we used to brief Dreyfus,he was a very good junior barrister.

We can only speculate what went wrong.

Doubt we’ll see evidence of boiled eggs, let alone boiled eggs in milk bottles.

Making pharting noises, blowing down a hollow log, not enough?

Why does spellwrecker change eels to elks?

Obviously you’ve never worked in IT.

Read hardcopy Australian this morning.
Wow, Higgins could work for two years under the evil Empire but as soon as she decided to go full media she could never work again, just study and plan a career as a lawyer and act as some sort of women’s advocate.

Why does spellwrecker change eels to elks?

Because elks would be more astounding and, therefore, that is the story they want to push.

Auto-correct votes Green, but only because there is not a party further to the left.

Lidia Thorpe to make a statement on the alleged assault at noon.

Yep. As a witness Brittany seems “to require independent corroboration”.

The explicit comic book, Gender Queer, poses a severe threat to the safety and well-being of our children. This disturbing material is currently accessible by children in public libraries and potentially in schools. The content includes a graphic depiction of a sexual act between an adult male and a boy.

The Australian Classification Review Board (ACRB) is currently reconsidering the classification of Gender Queer, with a decision expected within the next two weeks.

Sign the petition:

Communications Minister, Ban This Filth!

thefrollickingmolesays:

June 15, 2023 at 11:29 am

Sancho
I saw a show on the elks (eels) thing where they breathlessly hyperventilated that “ enough dirt was moved to expand the area equal to an Olympic sized pool”….

Look, it’s an interesting historical artifact, but I think they are over-egging the pudding just a tad.
It is the technological equivalent of the ‘Merican Injun abattoir (ie stampeding bison over a cliff).

You’ll never become a cultural consultant with talk like that. Don’t call us,we’ll call you.

I drink red wine. Not too keen on the opera. I still think the ALPBC sucks balls.

NewsMax host asks why Trump’s indictment shows pictures of hundreds of boxes when the “crime” is based on 102 documents. He takes out a box and shows how small 102 documents are in a filing box lol!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDmx5TEvnw

The ABC is the pinnacle of public service journalism in Australia, and its last ‘not-for-profit’ breath should not be tied to the commercial system which feeds the advertiser

Did he just say SBS j’ism is compromised?

Arky – the blokes aren’t much better. This isn’t Saturday afternoon golf we are talking about.

Veteran broadcaster Trioli dropped a further 0.3 points to 7.7 per cent audience share in the most recent data survey, meaning she had lost almost half of her listeners in the past 18 months.

Presumably that wasn’t a KPI but I’ve never worked in radio.

Soviet-Nazi Pact?

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bill-gates-in-china-to-meet-president-xi-jinping-on-friday-sources-say/zujaoucfg

Holocaust survivor is leaving the Labor Party:

https://johnmenadue.com/heres-why-i-can-no-longer-be-a-labor-party-member/

(Due to upcoming conference where it is very likely the Left faction will get a resolution passed to recognise “Palestine’s” right to nationhood)

One more before I start work, a case of grin and bear it flogs! We know what’s best! Hun:

Residents across Melbourne’s west are being urged by the state government to work from home or travel outside busy times to avoid chaos on the city’s road and rail networks.

A major new wave of disruptions will ramp up as part of the West Gate Tunnel works, prompting the government to issue the extraordinary stay-at-home advice.

An alert to residents warns: “Consider working from home between 23 June to 9 July during rail disruptions.

“If you need to be in the city, it will be quicker to travel on Monday or Friday when there are less people on the road and public transport.

“Consider leaving home earlier, or later from work to avoid the busiest periods.”

The travel turmoil will include the closure of two key roads:

• Dynon Rd in West Melbourne will close between Dryburgh St and the CityLink ramps in both directions from 8pm on June 16 until August 31. Motorists have been advised to allow up to 20 minutes extra for their journey and use detours such Footscray Rd; and

• The outbound entry from Geelong Rd, Brooklyn, on to the Princes Freeway will be shut until August 2.

Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll on Thursday defended the government advice for residents in Melbourne’s west to stay home during major disruptions, stating that the recommendation will make life easier for those who do not have the option to work at home.

Mr Carroll said the advice was to help reduce congestion on surrounding roads by freeing up space for those who needed to work on site.

“If you can work from home, please do work from home,” he said.

“We are trying to strike the right balance.

“That will also allow people that need to get to where they need to get to. Whether they are working on the Big Build, whether they’re working in a factory plant or a manufacturing plant to get to work in a timely and safe manner

“We also are very mindful of the inconvenience and do thank motorists, passengers and everyone out there that is affected for their patience.”

Mr Carroll said the government tried to spread disruptions out to minimise their impact but there were some times when larger shutdowns were unavoidable.

“A lot of this work is contracted and there is significant work that has to occur at the same time,” he said.

“There’s a lot of work that goes into it and a lot of co-ordination of contractors.

“Equally they need to work together on many occasions.”

Massive rail disruptions will also add to the havoc during the school holiday fortnight, from June 23 to July 9.

Trains will be replaced by buses on the Sunbury Line between Flagstaff and Sunshine or Watergardens, and also on the Werribee and Williamstown lines between Flagstaff and Newport or Williamstown.

Other planned works will result in bus replacement services being needed during the holidays on the Stony Point, Frankston, Upfield, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines.

V/Line services will also be affected, with coaches replacing trains on June 24 and 25 on parts of the Warrnambool, Swan Hill and Bendigo and Echuca lines.

The winter closures, revealed by the Herald Sun on May 28, come as Footscray Rd finally reopens on Thursday after months of closures in both directions.

Victorian Transport Association chief Peter Anderson said the industry was given short notice about the disruption to Dynon Rd – a vital freight route – and the ­impact could cost millions of dollars.

“While we support development, we don’t understand why its closure wasn’t better planned and communicated,’’ Mr Anderson said.

“It’s a closure that should have been at least a year in the planning. The consequences will be significant delays for operators moving freight in and out of the port.

“Such delays will inevitably see them fined by the stevedores for missing scheduled container delivery and collection slots, through no fault of their own. Over the six weeks, millions in revenue will be lost from fines, penalties, and a steep decline in operators’ ­productivity.’’

Mr Anderson said the higher costs to the transport industry would inevitably hit consumers through higher prices

Monash University senior journalism lecturer and Virtual Radio Ga Ga author Dr Andrea Jean Baker said there was an “underlying elitism” at the Melbourne organisation.

“There is an entrenched trope that ABC Radio Melbourne caters for the middle to upper classes who drink red wine and go to the Opera on the weekends, and I think it is partly true today,” she said.

I smell the launch of the Quadruple J network with Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Lydia Thorpe doing drive-time.
Or bicycle-time as it will be known on Quad-J.

Residents across Melbourne’s west are being urged by the state government to work from home or travel outside busy times to avoid chaos on the city’s road and rail networks.

The biggest of Big, Big Builds solved this by 2022 did it not?

There’s a picture in the Oz of Thorpe in a Senate committee with an indigenous flag sign in front of her.

It is captioned “We deserve better”.

Quite so.

I warned you that NATO troops will enter the Ukraine war. It would be the start of WW3 and lead to Nuclear war.

Yeah…nah.

That’s not what he said.

Don’t take your foreign policy ledes from Kim Dot.Com.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

– Sitting Bull

A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?

Answer: He’s bald.

It is really no different to what Mearsheimer was arguing in the video I posted last week.

I don’t recall Mearsheimer saying nuclear weapons were a gift from God.

And the Polish ambassador was misquoted.

Of course there’s a danger of escalation.

I thought the Chinese peace plan was actually quite good; a pity the Russians rejected it.

Yes this First Inventors show. Old mate on the advertisement sez the invention of aerodynamics lay at the feet of early black fellas in relation to boomerangs.

Boomerangs were also found in Europe, Egypt, and North America. It is likely their use died out because, for hunting, bows and arrows were more effective. In Tutankhamun’s tomb they found both returning and non-returning ones.

“There are different understandings of what amounts to sexual assault and what I experienced has been followed, aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched.”

Senator Thorpe doesn’t strike me as a shrinking violet.

I find it strange, then, that she would tolerate the alleged behaviour without taking appropriate action there and then.

The ring of truth isn’t there.

I can’t think of boomerangs without thinking of Russell Coight. Glenn Robbins finest creation.

https://youtu.be/Q-kPmnoKaxY

Mother Lodesays:
June 15, 2023 at 12:49 pm

Boomerangs were also found in Europe, Egypt, and North America. It is likely their use died out because, for hunting, bows and arrows were more effective. In Tutankhamun’s tomb they found both returning and non-returning ones.

I can’t wait to see the development of Mathematics.
The invention of the wheel
The development of Agriculture
The development of the Printing Press (the written word)
The development of Democracy
The use of Currency (maybe they had Barter)
No evidence of even a Water Wheel for energy
The development of weapons apart from spears, etc, when the Chinese had invented Gunpowder
The building of Buildings

This is not an exhaustive list. But I’m sure that SBS have done their research and are quite impartial on all of this (sarc comment).

I do not blame the senator who moved offices to get away from a fright bat one iota.

Hell, yeah. She is pushy and rude, with a stomping walk that can be felt through the ground – but more terrifying would be when stomping stops and shouting is stoppered, and you look up at see outside your door that hate-filled visage glowering at you for reasons that no mortal man or woman can discover, but which is able to melt plastic and cause paint to blister by its heat.

Thorpe explains why she didn’t go public with allegation
By Angus Thompson

Lidia Thorpe says she didn’t go public at the time because she didn’t want to detract from Brittany Higgins’ allegation.

Thorpe says she was afraid to walk out of the door of her office, and would open the door slightly and “check the coast was clear before stepping out”.

“It was to the degree that I had to be accompanied by someone whenever I walked inside this building,” Thorpe said in the Senate.
Senator Lidia Thorpe was emotional when she gave her statement today.

Senator Lidia Thorpe was emotional when she gave her statement today. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“That is how the Greens supported me and I thank them for that.”

She said at the time she thought the government recognised it as sexual assault.

“At the time, I spoke to the President of the Senate about it,” she said.

“I spoke to my colleagues about it. I spoke to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins.”

“At the time, I was convinced that the government believed me.”

“Moving the person’s office reassured me that they understood the seriousness of what I experienced.”

She said she didn’t make the incident, understood to have taken place in 2021, public at the time, “because it was during the time Brittany Higgins had made her [allegation] in this building public.”

“I did not want to have anything taken away from Brittany’s experience and her bravery in coming forward,” Thorpe said.

Colour me suspicious, but why do I have the feeling that Thorpe is looking for a compensation payout, large enough to retire on?

“Okay, so he’s [Trump] facing 37 indictments for basically not returning a library book?”

Nah – he’s in trouble because he returned some of what they asked for and some of it was “marked” as classified (doesn’t mean it was, just that it was marked so).
If he’d told them to pound sand and given them nothing, they’d have nothing to charge him with because they wouldn’t have a clue what he had, and no reasonable grounds for a search warrant (which was dodgy enough anyway – it appears to have been more of a general warrant, which is disqualified under the US constitution).
As noted, they have no recourse in criminal law to obtain it, nor any right to question his judgement of what is “his” instead of a Government record (as per case law in the Clinton sock drawer case, which was never appealed).