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Just what I was wondering.
Well, it could also be that most of Tasmania is now in the public service, or in very highly paid…
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Douglas McGregor has been a massive disappointment. Not one of his predictions have ever come true.
She is like AOC.
Convinced people who talk about her are just frustrated that she won’t date them, and imagining rampaging maniacs outside her door waiting to attack her.
Morally unhinged, like our Russian Dr Strangelove.
What’s this about the Lib Senator being removed from the party room? Is this a “cunning plan” from the Libs? A “holier than thou” moment from Dutton et al – a “look at us, we’ve done the right thing so how about you do the same with Gallagher” moment, Luigi?
The Gallagher “affair” is about misleading the parliament and if the SFLs can’t get her on that then they should give it up altogether and get other jobs.
Innocent until proven otherwise again trashed. And the SFLs, again, have a “woman problem”.
Dutton is a first class fool for buying into the lies. Like his predecessor.
I often wonder how women are able to make men jump through hoops and debase themselves…it’s something that leaves me cold. Clearly some chicks get their kicks from it.
Tell me again how few sociopaths there are in our society.
It’s a political calculation.
Political pragmatics (“optics”) triumphs over principle yet again.
To gain Liberal pre-selection one has to have one’s spine removed.
*Hands forcefully on hips, squared shoulders, eyebrows drawn together so they almost meet*
It is not Misogyny! Its Mzzz Ogyny! Patriarchy!!!
Better skip the Claremont Quarter then if you’re ever in Perf.
Frighteningly Dutton probably thinks that.
Of course, now Labor will just say they were right all along because every Liberal politician is a rapist and so it is their solemn duty to accuse everybody associated with the party of said crimes.
I can’t describe just how stupid and evil this decision is. I honestly doubt the Liberal party can survive it. No man will ever want to join that party now.
I’ve tried not to dislike Senator Pocock but he’s really quite useless, actually worse than useless.
WATCH: Senator David Pocock scuttles Senate inquiry into ACT government’s forced takeover of Calvary Public Hospital
Senator David Pocock scuttles Senate inquiry
Catholic Voice Archdiocese Canberra & Goulburn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIaHvXuz_WI
Oh, Peter. Why not make the point that they are just allegations. Untested allegations. We cannot say Van has done any wrong until it has been proven. And if they won’t back it up, Van is the one being wronged.
The steady unravelling of Brittnah’s story and its being increasingly shown to have been a political con should give you a little courage.
Senator Van needs a Harley Davidson.
It doesn’t hurt. You can pick up a spare one in the Chairman’s Lounge before boarding QF1 to give a speech in London.
Are we sure ‘Po’ is not really his middle name?
A couple of obsrvations on my recent trip on the Newell:
The Gore Highway – Toowoomba to Gundy – is a goat track. Victorian roads I travelled on are second rate: there was a bridge on the Mjurray Valley “Highway” limited to 23 tonnes and so narrow only one vehicle at a time went over it. NSW roads are wide, smooth, and in good weather conditions, which I thankfully had, are superb and drive to the speed limit. There are a fair amount of roadworks around Moree, presumably flood repairs. Every little depression is signposted. In Qld, on the Cunningham Highway, there is a sign “80 k’s rough roads”. There was, and that was the extent of the signage.
Landholders on the Moree Plains seem not to think too much of the proposed railway line going across the flood plain.
It’s hard not to think that goods could be moved more efficiently by rail rather than in ginormous truck and two dog road trains. But, if it weren’t for the trucks, no doubt the roads would not be maintained as well as they are in NSW.
I saw some sort of solar power factory north of West Wyalong, with transmission lines going over the paddocks. There’s an enormous solar power plantation just north of Warwick; it would be less offensine south of the town in the scrubby land there, rather than in the once was productive land where it is.
I asked around for knowledge of VNI in Vic, to mixed results, either never heard of it, had heard of it but knew it was now going north before it hit them, to absolute suspicion of no consultation government action. If there are speakers available and speaking to Probus is considered worthwhile, two of the friends I caught up with are involved with organising speakers for their Probus groups.
I took the dog, which involved regular stops at local parks while I had a cup of tea and the dog got a break from the car. I had no idea there were so many whippet admirers. I had so many chats with people who would come up to me and say “oh, what a lovely dog!”
I have done this trip a number of times, in the heat and drought, or having to get through water south of Forbes or worse, detour. This time, particularly the trip back, the country looks great and the views were spectacular. Easy to see what drives the grey nomads.
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”.
This is sane and normal behaviour by an intelligent and well adjusted person.
No one would question the veracity of such claims unless they were a terrible person.
Are you doubting her claims?
Are you an awful person??
In other news…in the Qantas lounge sipping…rosé…and awaiting a flight to Cairns.
This trip we are doing a Phileas Fogg and Passepartout – Cairns via BNE, then off to Narita tomorrow. Final destination is LHR, but like Verne’s intrepid travellers it’s the scenic route.
I’m not expecting a sector by balloon, but I live in hope.
About 3-4%; the same prevalence as historionic personality disorder, as it happens.
Walks off whistling.
It got raped by someone looking at it.
Roger
You are normally a sensible and sombre fellow but that was champagne comedy.
Now it’s the national Liberals who are determined to commit political suicide. Labor close ranks around the mean girls and they take the word of Lidia Thorpe. I wouldn’t believe a thing she said, not even the time of day, I would have to check my watch.
I hope your hands were in your pockets and your boater was at a jaunty angle.
😀
teachers raised concerns about Hunter Valley bus driver it’s SMH and paywalled
Waistcoat and boater. Good to go.
I don’t see why any man would vote for them either.
If only a typo hadn’t entered in.
Flat cap weather here today, I’m afraid.
Seriously Dutton?
Richmond are going to play Marlion Pickett in a couple of weeks and he is actually facing criminal charges.
You bench this bloke who admittedly noone has ever heard of , as a result of some allegations ( yes allegations ) from Thorpe.
At this rate you will be caucusing with yourself until you expel yourself to the cross benches.
Just putting one on now as I have to trek into town, having unexpectedly run out of a key medication.
Safe travels, calli!
My missus is having surgery at Albury Private Hospital, lovely place and great staff. No covid crap of any kind, no masks, no signs, nothing. I mentioned a while ago that in Qld nursing homes there’s no masks, test etc. Meanwhile here in Vic I still have to test and wear a rag to see my mum and our local idiot Drs still have full masking and distancing.
Now you know why I’m so fond of all of you.
Pants might be optional…but preferable on a family blog.
Hollie Hughes sticks her neck out on Sky this morning to explain the geography of the Parliament House and how David Van is not guilty whatever Lidia alleges and Dutton stabs them both in the back. I keep telling you all, Dutton is not a Liberal.
Yep. If Dutton coached Collingwood they would be lucky to find 18 guys each week to put on the paddock.
It really strain gullibility to believe Thorpe was a victim. Belligerent and bellicose, opportunistic, destitute of any human refinement, firing off accusations against people like a howitzer and claiming again and again to be a victim in a voice that makes anyone in earshot freeze in terror.
We have seen quite recently what sort of a victim she is – when she swooped like an infernal demon upon women at a legal rally denouncing the intrusion of very confused (or malign) men in traditional women’s only spaces. Now, Lidia had not really been at the forefront of the tranny agenda – her area of activity was indigenous issues. So even on an issue which is secondary to her she still has allocated enough bile and venom to attack people and without restraint.
We saw the footage. We saw her charge in and abuse people, telling them that they had no right to be on that land, and when the police tried to pull her away (as much to her benefit than anyone’s because her unhinged fury given full rein might easily have led to a charge of assault) she thrashed about and stumbled in the muck. The she recounts the story as her having been attacked and the police beating her up.
No wonder she needs to go to Labor. Brittnah got a pay out for allegations that were played for full effect in the media. Lidia can make the same offer. All she need do is decide what price she will charge Labor.
Calli, wish I was there. Have a fabulous time and keep that travelogue running.
He clearly isn’t a fighter.
Which may be the same thing.
I see their ABCcess has only one sex scandal story on the headlines now.
St Brite Knees down the memory hole.
Dutton certainly froze in terror. Did someone say he used to be a cop?
The Liars usually provide the reasons for returning the Lieborals to government.
A party and party leader that refuses to stand up for one of its own will never stand up for those who vote for it.
That’s been the story of the Liberal Party since 2013. The Liberal Party is dead.
This is no great conspiracy but I reckon that Labor and Thorpe initiated yesterday’s claims against Van to take the spotlight off Gallagher. It’s worked.
Yes Cassie. And Sleazy’s distraction squirrel this morning about the Russian Embassy site.
This is a bikies moll putting on this performance.
Video at the link.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2023/jun/15/lidia-thorpe-says-she-was-followed-inappropriately-touched-in-parliament-stairwell-video
Addressing the Senate a day after withdrawing allegations accusing Senate colleague David Van of harassment and sexual assault – a claim he vehemently denied – Lidia Thorpe says she was inappropriately touched while in a stairwell in Canberra’s Parliament House. The independent senator says she was ‘inappropriately propositioned by powerful men’ and ‘cornered’ in a stairwell, and that ‘most of this was witnessed by … staff and fellow members of parliament’.
‘No one witnessed what happened in the stairwell as there were no cameras in stairwells,’ Thorpe said. ‘There are different understandings of what amounts to sexual assault, what I experienced was being followed, aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched.’ Thorpe said she did not make the incident public ‘because it was during the time Brittney Higgins had made her experience in this building public … but then yesterday I had to listen to a senator who has made me feel unsafe speak on how important it is to keep women safe in parliament’
Here she is in happier times.
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Did he? I recall headlines saying Putin welcomed the proposal while Blinken warned it could be stalling tactic. While Zelensky wouldn’t consider any proposal that involved a loss of territory. So the idea that any future failure, even discounting the failure of the Dec ’22 Russian effort, falls at Putin’s feet appears tendentious.
And if that’s the case, that several other men have “sexually assaulted ” her, then why aren’t they being named and shoved out of their political parties?
This whole thing stinks.
Don’t be distracted from or forget about:
The mean girls club and their alleged actions
The whole covid mis-management sh*t-show
the upcoming WHO plandemic rules treaty
the destruction of our electricity supply
the impending 15 minute city gulags
rapidly rising interest rates and inflation making basic things like rent and food less affordable for the genuinely poor
etc, etc, etc.
Squirrels can be amusing, but very distracting.
Teh Paywallian reporting Toto has entered the Brittany saga. Mind the cavoodle.
LOL!
Classic Projection.
I can envision any number of members from both sides checking the corridors for her magnificent presence and scuttling back in. One way to prove it…sales spike in dentist’s mirrors.
The best Liberals (Antic) and those treated like crap (Van) should be wooed by PHON and the LDP.
If you can’t get assaulted outside a strip club at 3am you really need to give the game away.
.. so Van was the joker in the pack being kept for a rainy day distraction.
This Higgins/ALPBC matter has them rattled.
When going Greek happens every few weeks and you become obsessed with Oyzo, Monkfish and Homer.
“I’m advised that the action at the time that was taken was to the satisfaction of both Senator Thorpe and the Greens Senate leadership team. And I’ll leave my statement there.”
Dutton is a pussy. He will never grow up to be a Cat.
Dutton’s operation to remove his spine has proved successful. Stated ‘It was holding me back!’
Young Jellyback.
What about Marlion Pickett’s Right to the Presumption Of Innocence?
Does being a born and bred Australian disqualify him?
He does indeed have that right if he’s black, brindle, white or redhead.
Something which you have denied Bruce Lehrmann and now David Van.
Be silent.
What a word has escaped the barrier of your teeth!
duncanmsays:
June 15, 2023 at 1:40 pm
I have a feeling Thorpe is heading for some ‘well earned rest’.
She’s becoming increasingly unhinged lately.
No rest, keep her in the public eye until the InVoice referendum is over.
Like Knickerless, Thorpe should have gone straight to the Police asap if she had a valid accusation. Did they?. Did they heck.
No curiosity about the FB page listing actions by Labor MPs highlighted on Sky
“Pants might be optional…but preferable on a family blog.”
Callie crusades to ban H B Bear! Oh noes!
🙂
Here’s a little list of men whose reputations have been trashed by the left…
1. Andrew Laming
2. Alan Tudge
3. Christian Porter
4. Bruce Lehrmann
5. David Van
What do they have in common?
Apart from Tudgey, they’re all deadshits?
Dutton wasn’t told the story on Van moving his Office.
Now that he has looked into it, there are more allegations against Van Man.
He’s handled it very well, if Van is clean he can come back and if not, well, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke.
Here is what I don’t understand. If you a liberal, wouldn’t one avoid greens and ex-greens like the plague? Or at the least be careful in one’s dealings with them.
Good observation, Morsie – I’d never heard of Van the Man until the airing of Thorpey’s unhinged allegations last night on Sky.
As for Thorpey, I most certainly wish I’d never bloody well ever heard of her, either.
Thorpey’s unhinged allegations are such a transparent stunt and a trap, the latter of which that idiot Dr Mutton has blundered into without so much as a second thought.
As for feral parliament, it is infested with evil corrupt quisling whores and should be obliterated from the face of the earth. Nuked from orbit while in session, would be my preference.
Exactly, VT.
And if you were innocent, why would you agree to switch Offices.
I’d say Dutton put the frighteners on Van Man.
As for feral parliament, it is infested with evil corrupt quisling whores and should be obliterated from the face of the earth. Nuked from orbit while in session, would be my preference.
same with Washington DC
6 Foot 2 and 19 stone of an angry Peter Dutton mighta been a bit of a shock for the Lambie and Thorpey hasslin’ White Van Man?
It’s such a shame she’s not believed. She’s spent so much time and effort establishing her credentials.
Ed, just stop it. You are only embarrassing yourself.
The whole western political class has degenerated into the most repulsive, worthless and mendacious trash imaginable. If we were really democratic there would be no political class.
Absolutely preposterous horse sh*t. OK – let’s have the witnesses come forward to verify this fantasy land rubbish actually took place.
Oh, that’s right – they can’t, because none of it never happened.
In the meantime, Katy Galaga and various other labore lunatics are cackling away uncontrollably in the background.
ever happened, FFS …
In expelling Van from the party room Dutton is following in the illustrious footsteps of ….. John Passeto of Moira Deeming fame!
Just like the other fellow Dutton wants to show what a decent fellow he is as he hands Van’s head on a platter to Salome and Labor
Labor must be slack jawed with disbelief
I seem Birmingham and Photios trash are having their black hand dinner this Friday. The last time I thought there may be some chance of reforming the lieboral pardy – was the Warringah motion and we know were that went.
Thorpe should name the accused persons and witnesses within 24 hours, or get sued back into the swamp she emerged from.
Van and Antic deserve better and I make an unsolicited and unofficial invitation for them to sign up to the LDP.
In expelling Van from the party room Dutton is following in the illustrious footsteps of ….. John Passeto of Moira Deeming fame!
yes I thought that too- if that’s the level of loyalty to colleagues, it’s not hard to guess what they think of members (or former members)
China positioning re Palestine.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292561.shtml
Xi puts forward 3-point proposal to settle Palestinian question
Key point:
First, the fundamental solution lies in the establishment of an independent state of Palestine that enjoys full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders and with east Jerusalem as its capital.
Yeah, nah.
Dutton is following process and removing Van whilst the matter of the further accusations is addressed. A wise move given the left’s trickery. He has not “condemned” Van, far from it from my reading of the above statement. He is an ex-policeman and understands the value of following protocol.
mem
The correct protocol is to demand Thorpe to name all of those she accused and the witnesses and sue her if she refuses to do so – she has once again implied Van and abused Parliamentary privilege in a direct manner, not a tangential way.
If she can’t pay up, she can’t sit in the Senate. She represents no one and is a dead-set lunatic.
She represents no one and is a dead-set lunatic.
yep the scowl is hate filled and rather frightening
Unfortunately since Thorpe said she won’t report the matter to police there can be no process
they really do hate jo citizen
The Pali’s have rejected all five attempts at a “Two State” since the late 1930’s, while continuing to demand the total destruction of the State of Israel. What makes anyone think they are interested in one now?
So senator Lidia Thorpe says she will not go to the police or seek legal advice in relation to her allegations against senator David Van. Why would she when she can accuse anyone of anything and be safe in the parliamentary privilege?
I bet the know-nothing journalists are unaware of why she decided not to pursue the matter. I also bet they think she is being magnanimous.
If she can’t pay up, she can’t sit in the Senate. She represents no one and is a dead-set lunatic.
LOL
Have you looked in a mirror lately?
It is unfathomable that a feminist woman in the time of #metoo and #timesup would refuse to report several sexual assaults made against her by powerful men in one of our ruling parties, each with corroborating witnesses as well as ongoing sexual harassment.
I really hope Senator Van sees the best-qualified advice money can buy.
Unlike you, champ, Goodbye Horses wasn’t blaring at 110 dB.
Most frustrating is that it was so furcan easy for them.
Dont think (?) this will make much of a difference???…
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-moscow-now-has-free-hand-destroy-enemies-undersea-2023-06-14/
I asked that Russian Dr. Strangelove if he could please do both Washington and Canberra. A fair number of Americans and Australians would be grateful.
Unfortunately since Thorpe said she won’t report the matter to police there can be no process
The Senate can deal with it.
The Victorian Liberal Party strikes again, eh?
There is a funny side, ol’ Treehugger Van is sent to the CrossBenches with Thorpey and Lambie for company.
The Liberal Party’s Mal Colston?
Too early to go there.
It relates to a complaint from a private Christian school that the bus driver involved in the multiple fatal on Sunday was driving erratically and not paying attention whilst driving for a school excursion last Thursday and Friday.
I think it implies a bit of “show off” behaviour.
The fundamental solution lies in the establishment of an independent state of Palestine that enjoys a much larger border than that with Gaza, so more rockets and other belligerent attacks can be launched. It should be the West Bank, which was originally part of Israel but was taken by force by Jordan after the state of Israel was declared and endorsed by the UN.
Israel took it back in 1967, but all the nay sayers prefer to forget the history.
Hmm Ed your strike rate aint so hot.
Ed #1 – PELL IS GUILTY!!! (how did that work out for ya champ?)
Ed #2 – LEHRMAN IS GUILTY!!! (how’d that work out for ya?)
Ed #3 – VAN IS GUILTY!! (how do you think this is going to work out for you?).
Man, you’re wronger than pineapple on pizza.
Perhaps in the real world, but this is a workplace under the scrutiny of workplace relations, Equal Opportunity Commission and who knows who else, plus the Canberra media pack. In the same situation I would do exactly what Dutton has done. The Albanese government is getting stressed and pulling in favors. Dutton needs to keep it tight and follow procedure to the line. If he doesn’t they will go for him like a flock of seagulls after a soggy chip.
You’re thinking like Dutton, mem and you’re not necessarily wrong. I’m thinking like Senator Van ought to!
I personally disagree with this WHS approach to Parliament. Peter Dutton isn’t Senator Van’s “boss”. Dutton has the privilege of being put forward to the Governor General to lead a government, on the votes of Van and other LNPers.
On Palestine, about five years ago (or thereabouts) I met Bibi’s Ambassador. I forget her name but she had the most interesting stories about the Palestinians and how they can’t stand Hezballups terrorists, and that the ongoing bombing of Israel and digging of shitty tunnels was actually turning people off.
“They just want to live” was the remark that I recall.
Anchor Whatsays:
June 15, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Ed, just stop it. You are only embarrassing yourself.
He/She/It/Whatever doesn’t get embarrassment. Thick as Two Short Planks and with an IQ of Net Zero.
Sounds like softening up for a Taiwan invasion. Xi has stuck his toe in the Ukraine war, with a “peace offer” and now is doing the same with the Palis. Neither is credible nor with the remotest chance of success. But it regularizes the divine right of China to Taiwan through the “legitimate grievances” wheeze, which is why he’s doing it I think.
Lysander I’ve seen the same. They’re oppressed by the demagogues.
mem declared:
Would you say all policemen value following protocol?
Or is it simply most?
Where has this “APH stairwells have no CCTV” myth come from? Is it even true?
[Hi ASIO. I have a brilliant idea. I can also dropship you guys some cameras for a 90000% markup, cash credit card or BNPL.]
NutCase knows all about deadshits! Looks in the mirror, yep, the deadest of them all.
Did you not say here once that you were minding the home front whilst your wife worked?
I mean, that is fine by me.
Don’t really care how families arrange their business to juggle all that needs to be done.
But why would you be critical of others for doing precisely what you have done?
And personally, I don’t care if you did or you didn’t.
What you are saying is that fathers couldn’t stay home and raise kids.
A very similar abrogation of responsibility as we saw from Vladimir Titsoff.
Maybe the more correct response is “this is one product of parental neglect” without assigning it to the mother or the father.
Pwobyn seems to have had his goose cooked. Shafted!
Dutton and Ley are laying a trap for Albanese in QT.
Obviously he was stupid enough to meet with Sharaz, it’s just a matter of whether they can prove it.
Perhaps the big payout was intended to keep Sharaz sweet too?
Dot
I ror (“lol” in chinese) at your ASIO comment but they prolly are here…. lots of white supremacists here ror!!!
That’s what Mother said.
Lysander I’m willing to cut NutCase a little slack, but pineapple on a pizza, never.
You’ll go blind!!!
Playing him like a Strad you could say.
He’s a cheapie.
Only been there since 2017.
Probably get out of it for 4-6 months pay, tops.
The galling thing for Pwobyn is that we will probably see Bawwie Scwotum and Red Kezza filling in for that role on juicy contract rates.
Pwobyn seems to have had his goose cooked. Shafted!
Good riddance.
However, he will get an extremely generous payout, plus a defined benefit and then peddle his guff at the Grauniad or Thursday Morning (Saturday) Paper. Weep no tears for Andy. Though he will be humiliated.
Pwobyn seems to have had his goose cooked. Shafted!
Good riddance.
However, he will get an extremely generous payout, plus a defined benefit and then peddle his guff at the Grauniad or Thursday Morning (Saturday) Paper. Weep no tears for Andy. Though he will be humiliated.
I stayed home and looked after our youngest, renovating our house. He loved going to bunnings. Trip to the playground before we left to make sure of no playing up. Not that any of our kids played up anyway. Made 200% nett. in 2 years. Beats working for a living.
Whoops.
No Quentin Dumpster Long Goodbye for you. Clearly not an Insiders.
APH stairwells have no CCTV
Awesome, someone in Parliament security just stroked out hearing that broadcast to the nation….
Another funny bit is it claims “lots of people saw it going on” yet somehow this house full of lawmakers all chose to stay schtum.
And if a robbers dog like Thorpe gets hit on then the Brite Knees of the world must be getting shagged senseless 24/7 by lecherous pollies.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
– Henry Kissinger
I don’t think Dutton did badly by cutting out the Van , There’s only about 7 days of sitting Parliament left why have such a distraction with Thorpe. Agree she is running interferance . Go to the cops.
The usual drumbeat for higher wages, because its working so well so far.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-15/exclusive-disturbing-number-of-australians-living-in-substandard/102484354
A single, low-income, full-time worker living in Sydney was deemed to receive $852 in total income, after tax.
That’s about 20 per cent higher than the minimum wage.
But that individual needed $945 for food, clothing, personal and household items, health, housing, transport, and an “austere” level of discretionary spending.
I dont suppose dropping tax by $100 will be in the mix of recommendations??
Pwobyn got onboarded after a weekly audition with Nana Hutchison (since retired) with Perf ALPBC Radio. It was as bad as it sounds. Good riddance indeed (with apologies to Sooky Sattler RIP).
Yet another conservative politician ends his career in disgrace. Are there any left?
Vivasays:
June 15, 2023 at 4:16 pm
In expelling Van from the party room Dutton is following in the illustrious footsteps of ….. John Passeto of Moira Deeming fame!
Just like the other fellow Dutton wants to show what a decent fellow he is as he hands Van’s head on a platter to Salome and Labor
I can solve the problem! “Peter Dutton touched me inappropriately in the Senate.” There. He should resign now because “the Vibe.”
It is an unfounded allegation and I withdraw it but there you go. That’s how it works right?
m0ntysays:
June 15, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Yet another conservative politician ends his career in disgrace. Are there any left?
There’s this bloke named Willie Shortone?
They are all garbage people who deserves ten times what they got.
mem says:
June 15, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Take this a step further.
Blindingly obvious that Labor has set Thorpe up to this – and engineered a flood of sexual harassment complaints against Van.
Unfortunately Van has a shadow following him. Woofing at Lambie, and whatever prompted him to move office to shut Thorpe up – both are going to be ginned up to ‘literally violent sexual assault’ status by Team Strong Labor Women and an enthusiastic media (it’s already happening in the media).
With this playing at 11 on high rotation, Dutton is never going to achieve any cut through in Parliament. Despite the growing pile of smoking guns, Team Albanese just has to play the “I’m not answering questions from a Party That Harbours Rapists” card, and the whole Brinny imbroglio will fade into the resulting shitstorm.
I really don’t think Dutton has any response option other than to can Van and call for police investigation and proper judicial process into any and all claims.
If they are real. Thorpe has already scuttled under a log on this – complainants without the benefit of parliamentary privilege can work out how brave they feel.
Canbra: Turd City shining bright.
I have found Lydia’s sexual harasser.
Staff reduction backlash
An excerpt from this article in The Catholic Weekly by Marilyn Rodrigues
Meanwhile ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith has faced a backlash over the government’s projected 15 per cent loss of staff at Calvary Hospital through the compulsory acquisition set for 3 July.
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation shared deep concern over the pressure that the takeover will add to an existing crisis, The Canberra Times reported.
“Staffing levels are so thin that even the loss of one nurse or midwife has real implications for a ward or clinical unit and that will increase the pressure on already existing staff shortage levels which are widespread,” said ANMF ACT branch secretary Matthew Daniel on 14 June.
“If we lose a single member of staff it could have real implications for some services.”
About 270 people out of 1800 Calvary staff are expected to not have transferred their employment over to Canberra Health Services by 3 July.
Ms Stephen-Smith said that recruiting and retraining midwives and nurses was a problem around the country, and that 15 per cent of Calvary’s workforce was a small portion of the territory’s total public health workforce.
She also indicated that religious symbols and iconography will be stripped from the hospital after the compulsory acquisition is finalised on 3 July.
Religious fixtures at the embattled hospital include a chapel, and at the entrance a large blue cross and stone statue of Mary and an infant Jesus.
“Iconography and its retention or removal is really a matter for Calvary at this point,” Ms Stephen-Smith said.
“Probably Calvary will choose to remove a lot of that iconography and if it is a public hospital it’s unlikely that we will have crosses above the door.”
She said a draft transition plan offered to Calvary is yet to be finalised.
Calvary has not indicated whether it will appeal the Supreme Court dismissal of its legal challenge to the ACT government’s takeover legislation but time is running out for such an option.
Fr Percy said that not knowing the reasons for the court judgement was “a real problem” as, without them, there is no right to appeal the decision.
“We have to acknowledge their decision but we’d like to see the reasons for their decision, that’s a perfectly reasonable request I would think,” he told 2GB radio on 13 June.
m0ntysays:
June 15, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Yet another conservative politician ends his career in disgrace. Are there any left?
Todays so called conservative politicians are all Left. That’s the problem.
Hey BON, I’m in close range of Cafe Bruce and have just encountered a flock of small all black parrots with a much more tolerable screech than corellas or sulphur cresteds.
Obviously not seen in the Deep South of Afdanistan so I have no idea what they are and my google-fu is has failed me. Any idea of the variety?
Calli, the reason most of them go undetected is that they are female.
The mailman’s camels have just delivered Robert Harris’s book “Selling Hitler – the Faking of the Hitler Diaries.” The evening will feature the new book, a log fire, comfortable chair, and a decanter of good single malt.
I doubt whether my decision to keep Sky’s Sharri Markson tuned in on my TV with the sound turned down will survive the next few months.
Markson’s idea of credibility is to seek the opinions of Phabulous Phil Coorey of the Anti-Business Daily tonight just before she interviewed SFL policy pouve Julian Leeser.
Like 99% of Australian journos, Markson is instinctively a lefty – a recipe for flushing your credibility down the toilet.
The Paywallian’s Simon Benson has credibility that Markson can only dream about because she keeps making disastrous errors of judgement.
Yes and because Labor are vulnerable on the Higgins payout, if Dutton puts a foot wrong following protocol it will be fired back at him. The thing is though, Ms. Lydia has previously fouled her reputation with public ( strip club abuses, bikie connections, uncivilised behavior etc) so the more this is touted as a gross misjustice the more people will laugh behind her back and Labor’s too. Plus if you suspect this is a load of cobblers then the more the whole “believe all women’s” movement is besmirched. If I was running women’s crisis centres or involved in women’s rights I’d be absolutely livid about the trashing of genuine legitimacy. Labor may find this totally backlash. A step too far.
Lidia is not going anywhere, she is having the time of her life.
Pwobyn really should have announced he was transitioning till these redundancies were over. It’s Xi’s own fault really.
Re. the Stunningly Incompetent Party:
How about replacing the benches in both chambers with individual rocking chairs, and giving each member a sippy cup?
I could drink 100 beers in a session and would still crawl drunk over broken glass to avoid the possibility of accidentally touching Lydia Thorpe or, horror of horrors, making eye contact.
These allegations are the most absurd I have ever heard in my life.
Labor may find this totally backlash. A step too far.
Hope so- would be good if it was to blow up in a similar way to the Higgins shit show.
According to Channel 7 news Dutton wants Van gone, not preselected at the next election. Trying to get rid of one of your own particularly in unfriendly to Liberals Victoria doesn’t sound like a prudent move, it’s insane.
Humphrey, the reason Andrew Pwobyn is being rissoled by the ABC is that he’s old Labor and all the cool kids who run the ABC workers collective are all Greens voters. Poor old Andrew is so last century.
These allegations are the most absurd I have ever heard in my life.
You need to get out more. There have been far worse allegations which have led to people losing their lives when they were innocent.
Trotsky would relate.
Well I’m sure that they got the briefing notes from leaky Labor early this morning. Either that or Photios thinks he’s a threat to his wind energy scam.
He would just waste his money. What’s said in parliament is untouchable. Why else do you think Thorpe is only making theses allegations in the senate? She is not stupid even if many others are, like Dutton for a start.
I would think anyone accidentally touching Lidia Thorpe would get a good belt around the ears. The lady doesn’t seem to be a shrinking violet.
Being cheap wouldn’t hurt. Keep one eye on the chequebook near EOFY.
I honestly can’t see how Sharri can survive at Sky “after dark.” She just doesn’t appeal to what “after dark” is trying to appeal to. Sure, she looked fabulous in that short, red leather dress but that’s about as far as I’d go for her “appeal.”
I was under the impression she said some of her later statements outside of Parliament.
Here’s a nice minimalist piece some Cats might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6Mzvh3XCc
Arvo Part: Spiegel Im Spiegel. Very easy listening.
Have a great night all! **blows kiss** (but not like literally cos that’d be sexual abuse)
Why am I not surprised that Amanda Stoker would ride to Lidia Thorpe’s rescue?
I haven’t read up so I do not know if Dutton has the good oil on Senator Van. He better have if he’s prepared to banish Van from the Party room. Otherwise, Dutton becomes nothing more than a f/wit prepared to act on something the Thorpe thing vomits up – 3 years after the fact, as I understand. WTF is going on?
And thus to Labor’s mean girls rescue. Words fail.
Van is gone because he’s a groper for real.
SKY reporting that Amanda Stoker says he’s a hands on sort of guy.
Where do they find them?
Why didn’t Stoker drop him in it far earlier?
You’ve got to say, he’s a diverse groper.
Lysander, Sky After Dark is simply opinions for the non-left side of politics. Sharri Markson’s 5pm show is different: it’s designed to be a breaking news show that provides the talking points for later in the night. I hope you understand the difference.
The execution of the concept is more difficult now that the Murdoch sons have indicated they don’t support or understand their father’s fabulously successful business model and are too stupid to see it through.
Former Lib Senator Amanda Stoker just released a statement detailing a sexual assault by David Van in November 2020. Couple of bum pinches.
No doubt this is not the last incident that will come out. Why do Liberal politicians (and staffers) keep committing sexual assault?
I still want Lydia Thorpe to name her other abusers and the witnesses.
People are watching your comments monty. We know you would want this blog shut down. If anything bad happens, I hope you are thrown under a proverbial bus.
They have just handed Labor something to run on against the Libs at the next election. They will simply say Libs have form.
Oh – so Amanda Stoker has waded into the Van controversy. She, in my opinion, is nothing short of a bimbo and is no longer a member of Parliament, for obvious reasons.
Can any former soldier, police or even PSO/AFP spooks here explain to me the “APH doesn’t have CCTV in stairwells” nonsense?
[Hello AFP. I am willing to drop ship thousands of cameras suitable for CCTV to you at a markup of 90,000%.]
Can anyone explain the Van – Stoker interaction and the threat to “destroy” someone in the article I read around 5 PM?
Someone might have been making menaces or someone might have been intimidating/victimising a witness/fellow worker.
I seem to recall a NSW Opposition Leader resigning after sexual assault allegations.
Labor: well, that proves it, Liberals do have a women problem.
Amanda Stoker and Cory Bernardi symbolise what’s wrong with Sky News.
Punters don’t want to watch broken-down politicians. They want to watch people with fresh ideas like Tim Blair and Roger Franklin.
‘Back Up Plan For Jack Smith’ – Corrupt Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Floats More Serious Federal Charges Against Trump in New Jersey
Hi Megan! I sometimes see yellow-tailed black cockatoos – there had been a family which nested in the bush km away from me, but they’ve been pushed further away because their nesting ground is now four hundred houses.
The red-tailed black cockatoo are another type of black cocky. I don’t have any around here, but I think their range extends further south than the map at the wiki suggests.
They’re the two that I’ve seen. Other types are rarer.
The only black cocky I’ve ever been near is one who was on the shoulder of a lady at the local shopping centre. Seen them twice. They would just wander around doing shopping. The cocky was a red-tail and certainly bred by the lady. It was a fine sight!
The black cockies are even bigger than sulfur-crested cockies, so I have no idea what small black parrots would be. I have never seen a small black parrot in the wild. I’ve had natural mutant rainbow lorikeets though – they are an olive-brown colour.
illuminatibot
@iluminatibot
Parasites in just one grasshopper.
And Klaus Schwab wants you to eat them.
Don’t forget if ya enjoys ya fitba .. Socceroos v Argentina .. 10pm tonight on Paramount &, probably, one of TEN’s channels …
So apparently Amanda Stoker has now made claims against Van.
Was she jilted by the Liberals?
I’m betting Labor knew of these allegations and got Thorpe to make false claims. Labor finding even lower bottom of barrels than ever before.
Amanda Stoker now sports a deeply unserious hair style
Not much you can do when fashion turns against you. As I told my agent.
Mme Zulu advises that etiquette in her day, was any bottom pinchers got a slap across the face.
Release an album they said.
Why do men keep getting touchy with women?
It’s genetic.
No doubt this is not the last incident that will come out. Why do Liberal politicians (and staffers) keep committing sexual assault?
I’m not going to defend the libs dickless who have almost as little dick as you have but as for sex attacks and crap no one does it better than the liars:
1 Tits
2 rib and tug
3 Women in a closed social media group of 1,300 current and former Labor staffers say men in the party must be ‘held to account’ for their actions
Well, what can I say – an hour really is a long time in the stinking cesspit is that ozzie politics. In the time it’s taken me to get home from work and do a workout, that stupid useless bimbo Stoker has dumped on Van the Man, thus gifting some semblance of legitimacy to the unrelenting barking insanity of Hydia Thorpey.
If that neobrutalist windbag sh*tshop is as full of uncontrollable gropy sexual harassers as various imbeciles have been screeching incessantly for the last few years, then every single stinking politician in Scamberra must now be subject to 24/7 video surveillance.
There is no other solution.
BTW, great effort Giuseppe Prosciutto! The Victoriastanian Gliberals’ primary vote has now plummeted to 26%.
Magnificent stuff, you tin eared tone deaf utterly clueless moron.
Bit more looking gets me the glossy black cockatoo. Smaller, and fairly rare, but their range is the eastern coast. I’ve never seen any though.
The Beer whisperersays:
June 15, 2023 at 6:54 pm
I think you’ve got it in one, Beery.
Hard boiled as they come. Un-shameable.
Again in the Qantas lounge and had the “pleasure” of sitting next to a couple of young government apparatchiks discussing some meeting or other. It was a river of unintelligible dribble, made louder by consumption of energising beverages. All about “navigating” and doing something “around the margins” and other Swahili bugmantalk with much finger pointing and motormouthing.
What a way to live.
Why do some women cheat on their husbands?
Oh, and I got welcomed to country too in Brissie. From what the hostie said, the elders past present and emerging could fly.
The mailman’s camels have just delivered Robert Harris’s book “Selling Hitler – the Faking of the Hitler Diaries.” The evening will feature the new book, a log fire, comfortable chair, and a decanter of good single malt.
His previous novel .. V2 .. is a sight better than some of his earlier military fiction , worth a read ……
It’s November 1944–Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany’s V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides of the hunt for the saboteur.
Their twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign, one of the most epic and modern but least explored episodes of the Second World War. Their destinies are on a collision course.
“On Palestine, about five years ago (or thereabouts) I met Bibi’s Ambassador. I forget her name but she had the most interesting stories about the Palestinians and how they can’t stand Hezballups terrorists, and that the ongoing bombing of Israel and digging of shitty tunnels was actually turning people off.”
Hmm, nup. You should watch Corey Gil-Shuster’s youtube videos. Gil-Shuster is an American Israeli, a professed “progressive” and “peacenik”…although he’s been somewhat bludgeoned by reality…and that reality isn’t pretty. He goes into cities like Ramallah and Nablus and asks ordinary Palestinians questions (he has an Arabic translator), such as “Does Israel have a right to exist”. More than a few of these videos are chilling, 97% of them don’t believe Israel has a right to exist, 97% of them think the Jews should be “expelled”….in other words “sent back to where they came from”. Golda Meir said it best about the Palestinians….
“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
Does the Belligerent One get 3 million too? I bet she wants it.
Helpful lass.
Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.
I know nothing about classical music, but … *deep sigh* …
(Some of the comments are poignant too).
Thank you.
“Former Lib Senator Amanda Stoker just released a statement detailing a sexual assault by David Van in November 2020. Couple of bum pinches.”
Firstly, pervert apologist, bum pinches aren’t sexual assault and can be easily dealt with by a good smack on the face.
Secondly, pervert apologist, you need shut your mouth, you happily support, as you’ve said on these pages, the bashing and assaulting of women whose opinions you don’t like.
PISS OFF GRUB.
Oh dear. Gillardian.
I thought Amanda Stoker was useless too, but she’s made up for it by naming Handsy Van.
I’d say he’ll resign shortly before the real ordure hits the cooling device.
Still, if Ed was a Groper, he’d grope Thorpey before he’d grope, say, Sarah Henderson …
But that individual needed $945 for food, clothing, personal and household items, health, housing, transport, and an “austere” level of discretionary spending.
Surprisingly they failed to mention that OAPs have to get by on slightly over that amount a fortnight ..!
I’d add the great Israeli statesman, Abba Eban’s comment “The Palestinians have never lost an opportunity to lose an opportunity.” Their wartime leader, the Grand Mufti of Jeruselum, visiting war time Berlin, given a guided tour of an extermination camp, and receiving a guarantee from Hister that, in the event of Nazi victory, “The Jews of Palestine will be yours.” was probably an extreme case.
PISS OFF GRUB.
agree- spiteful waste
of space
Does another woman want 3 million too?
Gee, it’s like handsy Lotto. Make a claim, press the button, receive money.
Tom,
Just chiming in briefly…
Murdoch provides day time media for those at home during the day (Leftards) and the Right for “after dark” (those who work hard, pay taxes, are forced at work to be welcomed to country etc…). I thought he was a capitalist as you want to provide appealing content to viewers who are watching at certain times of the day…
But since Tucker was fired I’m not so sure anymore.
On Sharri, she’s useless. Which is why she’s been given the Sky “twilight” a lot. Cos nobody is really paying any attention.
There has been far more Labor politicians and “staffers” who’ve been charged and convicted of sexual assault. Far more.
callisays:
June 15, 2023 at 7:03 pm
Did they actually fly and did you actually walk out?
**slot**
Yes, they demoted her to the third position on the Queensland senate list at the last election thus making her lose her seat.
It’s a #metoo Tsunami!
Anyone notice a pattern here?
Rukshan
Spare a thought for Lisa Wilkinson! Now she’s out to silence the media.
Just saw an ad on the teev for an audiobooks company.
The two headline ‘best sellers’ they advertised were – wait for it – Michelle Obummer’s memoirs and Ranga Harry’s self-pitying weepie, Spare!
Obviously a cut-and-paste ad from the US with overdubbed local vocals. Very common these days. I mean, how many African/white mixed race people are there in Australia? Yet, they pop up everywhere in ads.
Anyway, what marketing genius imagined that heaps of Australian punters would be queueing up to buy Michelle and Harry’s self-serving pap?
I predict sales in the low three figures. Not going to cover the booking fee and overdub costs for the ad.
Oh, and thanks all for the analysis of the latest Lidia tantie. Orders of magnitude better than anything we will ever see in the MSM.
Calli, happy travels. Do keep us informed in your usual succinct and pertinent style. 🙂